The City of Three Portlands has a robust and affordable public 
transit system. Deer campus is ten minutes' walk from a light rail 
station, and there are several streetcar lines that stop on or near 
campus. Since it is difficult, if not impossible, to bring automobiles 


into Three Portlands, personal transportation options are limited; 
most residents travel by bicycle or electric scooter. Students can 
register their bikes, scooters, flying carpets, brooms, skateboards, 
and other personal vehicles with Community Safety; Community 
Safety Officers can track any registered vehicle anywhere in Three 
Portlands or the three Portlands if stolen or misplaced. 


Multiversal Transit 


From Deer campus, it is very easy to access Portland, Oregon via a 
number of Ways. Even for those without any talent for finding trans- 
universal passageways, there are several well-marked (on Three 
Portlands side) places nearby where it is possible to travel from our 
little pocket dimension to the "real world". There are even two Ways 
on campus—one in the steam tunnels under Knorr Hall, another in a 
sequoia outside the library—which take the user directly to Deer's 
sister school, Reed. 


While Deer doesn't have the same close metaphysical ties to the 
other two Portlands, the nearest Ways to those are still convenient 
to campus, each about a twenty minute walk away. Portland, Maine 
can be accessed via the alley behind the Mug Runneth Over coffee 
shop on Roselawn & 17th (ask the barista for the combination); the 
Isle of Portland can be reached through a small tunnel in a hedge in 
the back yard of 3125 SE Flannigan Ave, although it's polite to ask 
the owners first. 


Deer students also have access to the Wanderer's Library if they 
complete an optional two-week safety and etiquette seminar offered 
at the beginning of every semester. Students who complete this 
course will be able to access the Library through the door at the 
bottom of the northwest staircase of Deer's Wormwood Memorial 
Library by swiping their Deer ID card in the reader and offering a 
single drop of blood to the daemon who inhabits the lock. 


Deer Students: What Is a 
Deerie? 


A group of Deeries studying i 


Deer students ("Deeries") are independent, curious, intellectual, and 
full of character; no two are exactly alike, but they all share the same 
love of inquiry into things man was not meant to know. We've asked 
proud members of recent graduating classes to tell us about 
themselves, their theses, and their Deer experiences. 


Terrence Shen, ‘09 (he/him) 


Major: Political Science/Parapsychology 
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA 


Who | was when | came to Deer: A fish out of water. | didn't—still 
don't—have any sort of magical ability, just watered-down versions 
of my grandpa's psychic abilities. And because of that, | felt like | 
had a lot to prove. 


How Deer changed me: Deer forced me to become more 
intellectually serious, to care more about how | act and less about 
how others see me. And also to care less about how | see others—| 
stared a lot at some classmates who weren't baseline human when | 
got here, and had to relearn some basic manners pretty quickly. 


Favorite class: History of the Seventh Occult War with Gerald 
Johansson (History, 2009-2013). | knew that my grandpa served in 
the Red Army's Psychic Division in the Sino-Japanese war and 
World War Two, but | had never heard anything about the broader 
occult conflict. Gerald let me write my final paper on my grandpa's 
experiences, and helped me find a medium who could contact him 
and his squadmates for an interview. 


Influential book: Watchmen by Alan Moore. 


Advisers: The Soviet Socialist Republic of Eastern Prof. Nikolai 
Ivanov (Political Science, 1991—2010); Prof. Artemidoros 
Syrakousos (Parapsychology, 2008—2015) 


Thesis: The Psychic Fallout of the Cold War Arms Race 


What it's about: The lingering effects of the psionic and 
conventional arms race between the Cold War superpowers. | 
actually traveled to some of the old Soviet science cities where they 
did psychic experiments and used my own abilities to take empathic 
impressions. | even managed to interview a man who had been 
modified by Soviet scientists into a psychic superweapon—now he's 
a brain in a jar in a basement at the University of Moscow, but he 
still hangs around the astral location of the lab where he used to live. 


What it's really about: How governments destroy individuals in the 
pursuit of power. 


What's next: I'm going to work for a big psychic think tank in Hong 
Kong. Sort of like a political and economic consulting firm, but with 
precognition and remote viewing. 


Fionn O Gallchobhair, '12 (he/him) 


Major: History/Necromancy 
Hometown: Three Portlands 


Who | was when | came to Deer: I'm the child of Sidhe refugees 
from Hy-Brasil; my parents moved to the Three Portlands after the 
fivesquid attack, and had me a few years later. In Sidhe terms, | was 
still pretty young when | went to college, only 27—maybe equivalent 
to 16 human years; because of that, | lived at home—just a few 
blocks from campus—for most of my time at Deer. 


How Deer changed me: Coming to Deer actually got me more in 
touch with my ancestry; | learned more about Hy-Brasil in an Occult 
History of the British Isles course freshman year than | had from my 
parents' stories through my whole childhood. | got a chance to study 
abroad in Ireland my Junior year, and | took a number of trips to Hy- 
Brasil itself(—technically, all Sidhe are citizens, although there's 
hardly anyone left who actually lives on the island. 


Outside the classroom: | did a lot of outreach work to Sidhe 
families in Three Portlands, especially when | began to work on my 
thesis. My partner was a theater major, so | was in a lot of their 


transcribes itself into the infected subject's DNA and de-activates its 
viral properties — following this event the subject is designated 
SCP-742-1. 


Newly created instances of SCP-742-1 use the food-energy 
ingested during the viral phase to alter their physiology, resulting in 
an organism superficially similar to a human being but with a second 
alimentary tract linked [DATA EXPUNGED] roof of the mouth, 
several new organs of indeterminate function, and a subtly altered 
nervous system. Once fully transformed, instances of SCP-742-1 
continue to function as if they were normal human beings, and are 
virtually indistinguishable without medical examination. However, 
SCP-742 infection destabilizes the genome during reverse- 
transcription, leading to symptoms consistent with telomerase 
dysfunction within approximately a month. 


SCP-742-1 can prevent this by ingesting human stem cells. In the 
wild, SCP-742-1 are nocturnal hunters, preying on isolated humans. 
The victim is first paralyzed by a venomous bite, then drained of 
bone marrow via [REDACTED]. Occasionally some of the victim’s 
flesh will also be cannibalized for sustenance. Instances of 
SCP-742-1 do not age normally and, if kept supplied with stem cells, 
are biologically immortal. Instances of SCP-742-1 specifically target 
younger victims because of the higher volumes of stem cells that 
can be obtained. Children who still have baby teeth will be found 
with their teeth missing in addition [DATA EXPUNGED]. Instances of 
SCP-742-1 will also target pregnant mothers in order to enter an 
infectious state. 


Normally SCP-742-1 uses pluripotent stem cells from bone marrow 
to regenerate itself and is incapable of spreading the SCP-742 
infection. However, after ingesting atleast grams of totipotent 
stem cells (typically from a human fetus, although the source is 
irrelevant) SCP-742-1 secretes a small amount of fluid filled with the 
SCP-742 retrovirus from the glands. This fluid, injected 
[DATA EXPUNGED] major artery of a human victim is the primary 
transmission vector for the SCP-742 infection. Instances of 
SCP-742-1 behave subserviently toward the instance that infected 
them. 


« SCP-741 | SCP-742 | SCP-743 » 


plays—the best one was their thesis show, when | played Faust and 
they actually summoned a demon to play Mephistopheles 
(Demonology was their occult major). 


Financial aid: My semester in Ireland was funded by the 
government of Hy-Brasil—they can still do the fey gold thing, so 
they're not short on funds, and they will always pay for Sidhe to 
travel "home". 


Advisers: Prof. Samantha Olongwe (History, 2011—2013); Prof. 
Andrew Cerak (Necromancy, 1949—) 


Thesis: An Oral History of the Fall of the Blessed Land 


What it's about: | interviewed both living survivors of the fivesquid 
attack—including my own parents and King Delbaeth himself—and 
the ancestor-spirits of those who died in the attack. | compiled all 
those interviews and statements into a single narrative, detailing the 
attack and its aftermath in a number of important locations and 
sections of the city. 


What it's really about: Letting my parents say goodbye to my 
grandparents. 


What's next: I'm going to move to Hy-Brasil. | was offered an 
apprenticeship by the Royal Historian, and | just can't refuse that. 


Maria Ivady, '15 (she/her) 


Major: Biology/Thaumatology 
Hometown: Heves County, Hungary 


Who | was when | came to Deer: | was very religious. My whole 
family was. Very isolated, too—l had gone to high school in 
Budapest on a special government scholarship, but | never really 
had friends there, and | was not interested in popular culture. | 
applied to Deer at the advice of my mother—she was an outsider to 
our village, and she wanted me to get a college education before | 
came back. 


How Deer changed me: I'm still very religious, | would say, but | 
approach it differently. I've been exposed not just to other religions 
but other branches of my own religion—my adviser, especially, has 
really opened my mind to the wide variety of practices in our shared 
tradition. | feel like | understand my faith more now that | know 
where it came from and what influenced its development. 


Cool stuff | did: | founded a campus Nalka group, Karcist 
Kollektive, to bring together the few practitioners of related faiths at 
Deer and help break the preconceptions about so-called "Sarkic 
Cults" that many students here hold. | was also on the rugby team, 
although | was never very good. 


What | would say to a prospective student: Don't be afraid to be 
yourself! There's a pretty big stigma on campus against actually 
believing in any religion, but you can find a community that'll support 
you. 


Favorite professor: Prof. Matyas Szabo (Biology, 1948—). He 
really helped me when | was feeling homesick—he invited me to 
dinner at his house, and helped me find a Nalka congregation in 
Three Portlands that wasn't too different from my family's practice. 


Favorite spot on campus: The quad on a sunny day. It doesn't 
happen very often—f it's raining in any of the Portlands, it'll probably 
be raining here—but when it comes it's amazing. People bring 
couches out and just hang out listening to music and chatting. 


Scholarships, awards, financial aid: | couldn't have come here if it 
wasn't for the Saarijarvi Scholarship for Women in Biological 
Thaumatology, which met the gap between Deer's financial aid and 
what my family could afford to pay. 


Adviser: Prof. Matyas Szabo (Biology, 1948—); Prof. Arcadius 
Sparrow (Thaumatology, 1987—2016) 


Thesis: Rethinking the Rat: Engineering a New Model Organism 


What it's about: While the lab rat has served well as a model 
organism, its DNA is just different enough from humans that it fails 
for many scientific and magical applications. Great apes are better, 


but are significantly more expensive, and human volunteers are 
frequently hard to find and can cause ethical concerns. | decided to 
engineer a new model organism, starting from stem cells harvested 
from an extradimensional meatspace accessed via my own blood. 
This organism, Homo Sapiens Ivadius, has almost entirely human 
genetic code, but appears to be a slightly larger and more intelligent 
rat. 


What it's really about: Having a carnomantic familiar that's not a 
damn horse. 


What's next: I'm planning on going back to my village for at least a 
year to fulfill some religious obligations and get married to the guy 
I've been engaged to since age 3. After that, | want to go into 
carnomantic medical research, assisting my elder sibling in their 
studies. 


Demian Strange, '17 (they/them) 


Major: Art/Anart 
Hometown: Culver City, CA 


How Deer changed me: Deer College crushed my spirit so hard 
that | dropped out. | met some great people, but the school itself 
destroys people's souls, both metaphorically and literally. Everything 
| got from Deer | got in spite of the administration, not because of it. 


What | would say to a prospective student: Don't come here. Go 
to literally any other school. Even a mundane one. Just not Deer. 


Cool stuff | did: Every work of art | made while at Deer was part of 
a hypersigil, an extended magical working that culminated in the 
thesis | wrote after | dropped out, granting me powers beyond the 
comprehension of the college administration. | also played a lot of 
Dungeons and Dragons. 


Influential book: The Anart Manifesto by Luisa Bellocchio. It's one 
of the first things you read in Intro to Anart, and it really stuck with 
me. Especially the section on how the best art comes from revenge. 


Adviser: N/A 


Thesis: GORED TO DEATH BY A TWELVE-POINT BUCK: MY 
DEER EXPERIENCE 


What it's about: A series of short essays, sequential images, and 
visual works created to describe every way in which Deer College 
personally failed me or someone | know. | had a friend who works at 
the library put a copy into their system and another friend in the 
registrar's office sign me up for thesis orals. 


What it's really about: The culmination of a working that forced the 
administration to give me my diploma, refund my tuition, and put me 
on their website. 


What's next: I'm just living in Three Portlands now. Working ata 
tattoo parlor. Taking art commissions online. Living the life. 


No Matter What Mask You Wear 


September, 2012 


Two androids stood by a window within the employee lounge of 
Anderson Robotics World Headquarters. Outside, the Three 
Portlands sky grew dark as the sun set behind overcast clouds, the 
occasional drop of rain falling on the window. It had been a long two 
months of orientations and calibrations, but now their lessons were 
complete, and they were ready to officially enter the company labor 
force. 


The android on the left took the other's hand in theirs, and squeezed 
tightly. 


The android on the right looked down at this gesture, and squeezed 
in return, then spoke. 


"What if | don't like my skin," Saker #123 asked. "What if you don't 
like it?" 


"I'm sure we'll be beautiful," Saker #137 replied. They did their best 
to display a positive emotion, despite the lack of lips, eyebrows, or 
other emotive features. "I'll love you no matter what mask you wear." 


Saker #123 nodded and continued to watch the rain fall. 
"Can we even feel love?" They asked. 


"Dr. Contos said we can replicate any human emotion," Saker #137 
answered. "| don't see why this would be different." 


"But is it genuine, or a replication?" Saker #123 pressed on. 
"Does it matter?" Saker #137 tightened their grip. 


Saker #123 turned and looked at #137 for several moments, then 
shook their head. 


"| love you too," they finally answered. Saker #137 hummed merrily 
in response and returned their attention back out the window. 


A few moments later, a short, middle aged woman in a lab coat 
approached. She looked at the two Sakers holding hands and 
smiled, eventually clearing her throat. The two androids turned to 
her.