Season 3

Protagonist: Ford Corvin
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==Season 3 Story Synopsis==
When Ford had rescued his father from the exestential depths of Pandora's Box he was made aware of the plot of, first, Chronos and, then, Chaos to reorder the world with their fury because of his diplomatic work to see that the Pantheons became friends.
Once aware of the plot Ford called his House to a meeting at the Corvin Treehouse. Most members were present as they discussed the threat they face, while Hope asleep above thier heads on the first floor.
Athena approached Ford and said that there were distant, legendary whispers of a magical artefact- a weapon so powerful that it could stop the Primordial's threat. It was chalked up on the board first (before the question of what to do with the heart of Erebus, and of waking Hope)
When Ford travelled with Simon Prince to visit the House of Albion in London he evaded an attack from Chaos and received intel from Britannia's Star Chamber. The intel, provided by the Albion's God of Spies Sir Walter Raleigh, revealed that King Arthur was searching for the same legendary weapon that Athena spoke of. The trail ran dead when they discovered he was last seen boarding a ship with a bearded man.
Ford sought to find Poseidon, figuring him as the person to have last seen Arthur to pick up his trail. He was advised by Athena to write a letter, put it in a bottle, and launch it on the sea. Ford, while recording the first week of his Easyman film, was shooting a scene on the beach and received a reply from Poseidon- a letter in a bottle. The scene was caught on camera and used in the film to advance the plot.
==Season 3 Episodes==
===Season 3 Episode 1 - Orientation Day AKA The Terminator Episode===
1996, Portland, Oregon.
Ford’s neighbourhood in Portland Oregon was very like The Goonies neighbourhood, he lived in the smallest house with Abby.
Ford was at home working on his cartoon strip syndicated to a couple of local papers, sitting in the window seat of his bedroom.
The bedroom had odd echoes of Fionn’s room.
Some objects in Ford’s room, a replica Predator skull, plaque of Eagle Scout badges, Distinguished Service badge for a daring rescue led by Ford, saving some other scouts from a flooding cave, a standard issue pr 24 Tonfa Police Baton.
Awaiting some pie from one of the families of the kids he saved.
Ford felt a strange itch across his chest, as though an old wound agitating.
The doorbell called Ford downstairs, he went to answer. A man outside who looked like kind of a jag-off. Massive baggy jeans, jersey, headphones. Bag from Mr Wangs.
He’s listening to nu-metal.
Abby rang, reminding Ford to read the various college Prospectuses, Prospecti?
Arranged in a fan but also what she said was ‘a very special book’, on the book cover Ford saw:
“Reasons I would want to go to college if I decide to go”
Ford wrote:
“Meet some interesting people”
“Meet smart chicks”
“Learn Esperanto”
“Maybe Take An Art Class”
Small gazebo in the garden.
Abby came home and they laid out chinese food and chatted about his college possibilities. She asked how his strip was doing: Easy Man - Adventures of a slacker superhero, who solves a lot of problems via just ‘Takin’ it easy, man’. His outfit is ratty jeans, purple converse, t-shirt and a flannel shirt worn around the waist that sometimes billows like a cape. Often pictured wearing a Deadbeats T-Shirt.
Ford said it was going pretty well and he was thinking of introducing a couple of fun new villains to round out his ... he faltered and Abby said "It's called a Rogue's Gallery".
Power went out, by candlelight Ford’s eye drawn to a very important picture from their lives. A police officer, taken in the 70s. The brim of his hat obscuring his eyes slightly, giving him kind of anonymous, indistinct features.
Ford could see Abby was sad, he asked her about it and she said she was thinking about his father again.
She said “let me tell you his story.”
“Your father was the kindest, most upright and dedicated police officer on the force. He was a good man, that’s why I fell in love with him.”
She hesitated then.
“Your father... he was working in Seattle at the time, walking the beat, uniform, truncheon, walking the streets, that kind of thing. He got a call about a disturbance by the old Opera cinema. A family, a very rich family had all gone to the movies that night. They didn’t want to take their car home, they wanted to walk the streets. These aren’t people who usually walk the streets at night. They wore pearls, nice clothes, the kind of thing that you and I would never be able to afford.
“They took an alleyway. Sunny Lane, an ironic name for a dark alleyway, a single light that would come on and off at random. They came across a man, deranged, they didn’t see him because he was lurking in the shadows, could have been a street person, they never found him. I never found him.
“He pulled a knife on them, started asking them for their money. These rich folk, they never gave up anything in their lives, they refused. Which is about the time your father arrived on the scene. He had a good eye, like you. In a different life he might have been an artist, he was going to night school for it. So he had a good eye. As that light blinked on and off he saw what was happening, saw the blade and he intervened. First of all he tried to talk them down, this family were real proud, arrogant considering the circumstances. This man, the madman, he wouldn’t be talked down to. Your father gave him a chance. Said ‘give me the knife, chalk this up as one of the worst experiences of your life and walk away’. The family turned on your father. Started pontificating about crime in the city. Tensions rose, without warning the man stabbed your father. He fled, the family they went and called an ambulance. I heard one woman stayed at his side the whole time, one of the daughters. Blood loss was so great that it was critical.
They took him to the hospital, they stabilized him and he remained in a coma. For two months. I visited him every day, took you along with me. And one day the hospital called and said they had some good news, he was speaking. I was working my first day at the TV station but I went right over there. I went right over and it broke my heart, he mentioned something about a scrapbook. Something he was working on, that he really wanted to show you. He told me that when you were this age he wanted you to have something. And I leaned in and he told me what it was and his ecg started to read funny. I ran for a doctor and left you in the little seat facing him. When I came back he had passed.”
Ford had heard parts of this story but never those final words about the bequest.
She said she needed a smoke and went out to the Gazebo. Apate had a hookup for weed out at the studio named ‘Monster’, whose first name was Herman. Ford brought the stash out to the Gazebo for a mother and son joint.
“Ford, he wanted you to have this.” She reached into her pocket and pulled out what Ford could see by the light of the moon was his old service badge.
She said “I see exactly what I saw in your father in you. Never doubt it, whatever may happen in your life. You’re a natural sherriff, a lawman.”
“I know the neighbours talk about us getting high out here, say some pretty shitty things. If it weren’t for the cave episode I don’t know if we could even be living out here. So if things ever get hairy and you doubt yourself like your father did - he doubted himself a lot at times, he was doing the right thing, he saved that family, all of them - and I went through a long time hating that family. But they’re not the people who killed your father. But you’ve got to make up your own mind about that.”
She said she couldn’t help but blame them and Ford said it wouldn’t get them anywhere but it was easy to feel that way.
The lights came back on.
She walked back inside, Ford could see the mysterious constellation that he’d always been fascinated by and felt a connection with. With his keen imagination and artistic temperament, he had built an image of two individuals, their hands almost touching palm to palm.
Ford stood there a while between the darkness of the sky and the light of the house, a binary sunset moment.
He finally went back inside to shower.
Singing Rooster by Alice in Chains.
The power dropped again and the water was suddenly freezing.
Ford stepped under again but he was able to see the temperature now and intuit that it was about to get cold again. He dived back out of the way, then saw a face in the mirror. It was looking around the room and soon began to come out of the mirror.
T-1000 face.
It disappeared when lights came back on.
“Huh,” Ford said, mild but perplexed.
Ford got out of the shower, put a towel around himself, gathered a couple of things and went out to the hall towards his room. The lights went out again. From a mirror at the end of the hall he could see the figure from the mirror slowly wagging its finger from side to side in the universal symbol of mild rebuke.
Ford felt his legs start to dematerialize, he tried to keep walking but they were both heavy and absent at once. Then a sense of pain and great energy thrumming through him, driving him to one knee. He suddenly materialized in a graveyard, his hand that had been resting on the wall was now resting on a gravestone.
The wallet with the badge was in flames. The badge was burnt, half charred half more bright than ever.
Ford’s first comment “Come on, man.”
Looking around he saw a hand-rolled thin cigar with Maybelline cherry lipstick on it.
He folded the wallet, put his coin, zippo and the cigar into it, put the wallet in the waist of the towel, badge out.
He saw an old beer can, ‘84-89 budweiser.
Fresh flowers around a freshly dug grave, 1987. Ford accepted without difficulty that it was 1987.
By flora he knew he was still in the pacific northwest.
Ford only mostly awake, quite alert but the fight computer doing most of the heavy lifting.
Heard thoughts of a man named Steve thinking of going to the Half Moon. He immediately placed the source, a car about a quarter of a mile away coming over a ridge.
Ford hailed the car when it got close enough, saw Steve’s trust level only at 50%, he said “I guess someone left me out here,” giving a friendly self-effacing chuckle, causing Steve’s trust level to raise to 82%.
Fight Computer as Ford was looking at Roadhous sign with its missing E: it determined ‘Negligence, not European’.
A motorcycle with a Remington sawn-off shotgun. Readout on FC about ballistics of the shotgun and ‘Nice Wheels’.
Steve took Ford to The Half Moon
Ford ordered some Key Lime Pie from Job Woodstock.
Key Lime Pie - Fight Computer warning - Addiction Likely
Ford looking over The Deadbeats, X-Ray of Eddie showed his metallic composition and his energy readings off the charts.
Deadbeats talking about their new album, codename Constellation.
Ford used a pencil to quickly sketch his favourite constellation onto a Half Moon Diner napkin, complete with his interpretation of it.
A very beautiful woman entered, immediately Ford’s readout suggested that she’s not wearing perfume, she just smells like perfume.
She was ordering food and had an empty purse, no cash. She was thinking Eenie, meenie, meinie, Mo. At that moment Ford said ‘Mo’ too, perfectly in time with her as their eyes met.
She said can you help me out, Ford said “Well I don’t want to brag but I recently came into some money, and I've got almost twenty dollars left,’ and held up a ten-dollar bill, snapping it gently.
She asked his name, he said Ford, she said where is it from and Ford said “there’s a lot of stories about it but I don’t have time to tell you all of them.”
She left.
A stranger said “Good work, not everyone can pull off that look, I guess ladies like a man in uniform.” (QUOTE!)
Ford was invited to join a card game, a friendly game of poker. He managed to shut out his mind reading to avoid cheating but his natural incredible luck and his canny abilities of bluffing and reading his opponents made for easy win after easy win. They were playing for low stakes and Ford intentionally pushed the stakes lower as the game went on, so that even at the end nobody had lost more than a couple of bucks.
One of the players bowed out with good-natured exasperation, saying “Well, I’ll be keeping my daughter away from you. Kat will not be coming under your sphere of influence.”
Ford met Eddie, realized finally who he was, the leader of The Deadbeats, who Ford grew up listening to.
“You know, your album The Campfire Sessions would have been the makeout soundtrack of my eighteenth summer if I’d made out with anybody that summer and not just had mono.”
Eddie invited Ford to a Deadbeats gig in a couple of days.
Met War in Half Moon, War gave him clothes.
Told Ford this town needs a protector and since he doesn’t see anyone else around, Ford is it. But he’s weak, he needs training, he needs some working on.
War took him to a farmhouse.
“House rule for you Ford, the bike is mine.”
War set a fire in a circle of rocks using a few phone books and Gasoline. Lit a cigarette, threw his lighter onto the fire to light it.
War said
“Your name is Ford, there’s more to it though. You got a surname. A proud name. Corvin.”
Ford: “I feel like somebody just walked over my grave.”
War: “Your name is Ford Corvin. The son of The Godkiller.”
Ford: “The What?”
War - “You heard me. Your father, Fionn Corvin made it his mission to correct a rotten state of affairs. Celestially, that is. I’m here to help you. I’m here to help you get vengeance.”
Ford: “On who?”
War - “The men and women that took your father’s life. Your father moved to this hamlet a couple of years ago. He comes from a proud line of warriors. He in turn didn’t have a father, just like you. At least he thought he hadn’t. You see, when your daddy was born, a very twisted man tried to trap him. He sent forward The Fates. Your grandfather, trying to protect your father, well he had to do what was only right, he killed two of them. But your grandfather was feelin’ a bit cut up about this. He went to parley with this twisted old fuck. Found himself caught in a spider’s web. See the fella told him he’ll forgive him if he’ll agree to be chained to a rock for a thousand years.”
Ford- “A thousand years?”
War- “Ford you don’t believe a word I’m saying, do you kid.”
Ford- “I believe every word you’re saying, I can tell the truth from a lie.”
War - “Your father tried to save your grandfather. Turned out it was just a dick slingin’ match between Zeus and Erebus, that was the man who started this whole thing.”
Ford - “The Twisted Old Fuck.”
War- “Yeah. When your father got the job done, he got stabbed in the back. An old friend I used to ride with. His name is Death.”
Ford could see the flames reflecting in War’s irises as he said the name and called up his past.
War- “Zeus and The Olympians, they were too proud to step aside. Your father fell on his own sword for them.”
Ford- “You mean Death killed my father?”
War- “I don’t know if your father is alive or dead. He tried to save The Olympians, proud awful gods they are. I’m here to give you an option. I’m here to train you up. There are places where you’re needed. Someone with your heritage, who knows, maybe you’ve got the same skillset as your old man.”
Ford- “What skillset was that?”
War - “Killing. Dirty, bloody killing.”
Ford- “You mean my father was a killer?”
W- “Yeah. But they had it comin’ ”.
Ford asked questions, War answered, filling in more and more of a story that seemed to Ford to say that all his father’s trials began with The Olympians and his growing up without his father lay at their door.
War speaking of Zeus:
“He coulda stopped it on a dime, Ford.”
War told Ford some of the Olympians are in this town.
War gave Ford a scroll - a Clearwater Community College enrolment form.
“All it needs is your John Cusack.”
“One of them is out there at the college, hiding in plain sight. Goes by the name of Ms Prudence . Campus Counsellor. Don’t let the name fool you, it’s really Athena. She’s part of that motley crew. She’s the first.”
War gave Ford a drink of Styx Water. Ford saw War’s weakness. A bad knee, Ford could take it out and War would be vulnerable, he saw it all play out in his mind’s eye. War saw him seeing it.
War told him to go out back, there’s a chest buried.
Ford dug out a long chest with his bare hands. A metal box with a padlock on it.
Painted in red upon it it said: “To never needing these again.”
Ford used Telekinesis to tear the lock away easily.
Inside the chest he found a chain with a sickle on the end. A variety of other weapons.
Ice dagger.
Sword and bracers made by Brighid.
War said if he wants more answers he’s going to have to defeat him.
Ford bluffed him, seeming to run in blindly but stepping aside at the last moment to deliver a powerful strike. With War off balance, Ford struck him again as he was reaching for a throwing knife, under the arm, knocking the knife away and stunning him.
“That’s right kid, use it!” War called out and Ford hit him twice more, using the flat of the swordblade and its hilt to batter at his defenses.
Then War stood, saying “Ah, like your mother, Deception. Don’t you want to defend your mother?” Taunting Ford and blinding him with anger, he charged him.
- pause
====Episode 1 Part 2====
THREADS
Ford 1996 - 1987 “WTF?”
How did Ford come back in time?
T-1000
Birthrights - War is fuelling Ford’s need for vengeance
Only name War has given Ford is Ms Prudence
Minor Threads:
Go Undercover?
Deadbeats Concert in a few days
Ford wants to talk to: Eddie Eckstein and Aphrodite
Episode Continued:
War knocked Ford against the tree then threw him into the fire, Ford barely avoiding it.
They traded some more blows, eventually War got the upper hand and caught Ford with a powerful kick.
War knocked Ford on his back to see a spider and Scorpion fighting on the ground beside his face.
War: “It’s in you, I can see it.”
Ford: “What is?”
War: “A bit of everything.”
With that War sat down to talk again.
War says about Whiskey: The Loa built a whole house around it.
Yankees too, he said and spat on the ground.
Tuatha De Danaan - Celebrated many of their finest battles to a drink.
Whiskey knows its aspect. And when it knows it, other people do as well.
War is disapproving of Easy Man, Ford's Comic strip
Ford, trying to make a good impression on his new mentor and influenced by him said: “Well, you know. Everybody has to grow up sometime, right?”
This made War show just the slightest trace of sadness, though he nodded agreement.
War: Suppose you got questions.
Ford: What’s my dad like?
War: Pain in the ass.
(In this moment War was vividly remembering Fionn kicking him against a power junction box and electrifying him)
A Pause.
But he got results.
He led this party, they were a bunch of irregulars. Wearing Friendship Bracelets.
Above all: he was misunderstood.
War: And how did I find you.
I had an important job to do someplace else. A war, in Tartarus.
Last time I saw your dad, I promised to protect a portal between there and here.
I kept that promise. For a while at least. Forces of Tartarus were always trying to get through to earth. We’d beat them, they beat us, we go forward, we move back, again and again. So eventually we just kept to the prime order of keeping things from going through that gate.
Started looking around and remembered what those Seers say about you, Warchild.
Warchild: “What do they say?”
War: “Mixed. I think you take after your old man, misunderstood. They say you might have it in you to wage the greatest war the world has ever seen. Some of them have said you’re a god damned harbinger. Others, well they got a cockamaimie story about you bein’ a child and all. Peacebringer.
Ford: “Well, I guess the world has never seen a war where The Olympians got wiped out.
War: No they have not.
Ford: So they’re half right.
War: They told me that when that constellation out there looked especially bright you’d be back. They didn’t say where but they didn’t have to. Where else would you be.
F - This place does feel familiar... like -
W - Like home?
F - Yeah.
Things learned in fight:
Natural ability to take punishment, great dexterity, immunity to Fire, weapon of choice
W - I gotta train you up and then take you down there. Tartarus. Morpheus is not the most natural of leaders but he’s the head of the house. Before you go askin’ , Gramps and Gramma, they’re down there too.
Ford- Who?
War tells Ford the entwined history of Lucifer and Morrigan.
They’re down there in Tartarus now.
Ford asked why:
War said: Lucifer’s always been in the wrong place at the wrong time. When he pulled up that boulder he opened the portal and nobody knows how it’s closed.
Ford: So he feels responsible for it.
War: He calls it - well he calls it nothin’. But Morrigan, I heard her once on the battlefield, she called it Erebus’s last petty undertaking.
Some Seers and Historians say... They call you his Grandson.
War: that story of the moirae. Splooged blood all over you and called you his.
Ford: That’s horrible. Well, he’s no relation of mine.
War: There’s a scare story among the troops down there. They say on the most quiet nights, you can hear a ghostly voice, crying your name.
Ford Corvin. I don’t care what name you were going by, Humperdinck, Hawks. This is your name. This is your father’s house. -War points at the treehouse.
They say your father kept a book, wrote odds and ends in it. I never saw it myself. Story goes that your mother before she left, with Eddie’s help, she gave it to one of the House members.
The House, they’re rudderless right now.
Ford: Maybe I could meet some of them. Maybe some would help with what I have to do.
War: Some of them travelled with him. Only one of them was brave or vain enough to go. A girly-man. Goes by the name of Simon Prince. He’s missing.
Last I heard he was taken by Pirates
F- Sorry?
War - Last I heard he was taken by Malaysian Pirates.
F- In Malaysia?
W- Somewhere in the Indian ocean.
War - The Dodekathaeon. These are your Father’s enemies.
These are the men and women - I refuse to call them gods - who walk among us now.
Ford plans to deceive them and destroy them, but he’ll take his time.
War - When I came into town I could smell something in the air. Aphrodite is in town
From what I’ve heard, she’s your main problem. War taps on Hera’s name.
Rumour is she’s more powerful than ever. She’s the most pragmatic one amongst them. She accepted her new fate, learnt to deal with it real quickly. She was the one that named your father. She knows a threat when she sees one.
Ford: This is going to take time
W- Any more questions?
F- None. I need to get my head around this.
W- Well you can think and train at the same time.
Training montage - Ford fighting War, War having different spirit apparitions, as though Ford was learning from many teachers.
A lot of it sparring and fighting, Ford starting to find styles that he likes.
War puts up a direct challenge to Ford’s fighting style when Ford starts to pick one, War fighting in a barbaric and unpredictable manner, there’s some rage.
War is showing Ford: If you just go further with your rage, this is the way to go.
Three days and three nights of this.
Ford asking about Fionn’s Squad
F- Barbie?
War just smiles, “I won’t have a word said against her. She’s the reason why I’m standing today.” QUOTE:
War - I’m going to go find Aphrodite
Ford- I better go down to the college to enroll
War - I’m not your father.
Ford - Yeah.. but... like, are you going that way?
Ford’s Look: Clunky Combat Boots, very faded blue jeans, grey tshirt, blue and white flannel shirt around waist.
On the way to the College War stopped at the top of a cliff to show Ford a vantage point of the whole town.
The abandoned carnival, suburbs, Clearwater High, main street, Half Moon, a radio mast. All dotted with Douglas Firs, a real lumber community. A wonderful smell, refreshing after the hours and days of battle-practice.
W- Down there is a hive of mediocrity and ego.
War’s Ben Kenobi moment, pointing at Clearwater Community College
Ford shrugged. “I dunno man.”
War- What?
Ford- Well... I haven’t been down there yet.
War called him a smartass.
w- you know what you’re getting into?
F- yeah, enough to keep quiet and figure things out. They won’t see me coming.
w- yeah, you look gormless enough.
Clearwater Community College campus is quite large.
A number of cars already there. An eco-friendly (modest) small car with ‘how’s my driving? Oh, that’s interesting, call me” - with a phone number
Dean Pelton written on tax disk.
Fight computer picks up bumper sticker and name on tax disk.
Pulling in and out of nowhere Ford can see a sports car screech around and park.
It’s a very flashy number, a red Ferrari.
About to park and another motorcycle gets in the way. A leather jacketed dude, on the back of his jacket he has ‘The Cicadas’ written on it.
He turns around and drops shades
“Sorry about that, didn’t see you there.”
Ford: “Jeez with eyesight like that you shouldn’t be driving so fast.”
War pulls out a boot knife and tears through the guy’s tires
“Didn’t see you there. And I’m not sorry.”
As Ford walks in he hears a radio announcement going out over the campus.
“Okay little freshmen and freshwomen meat, you are being added to the grinder of Clearwater Community College. Enjoy your stay in These Hallowed Halls, established 1974, and in honour of that I give you: Some Joni Mitchell.”
War gives the innocent redheaded guy a look, who holds the door for War to walk in to the main building with ford.
Ford looks at War as if to say “I thought you said you’re not my dad.”
War gets info on Athena’s office:
Fourth Floor, third door, Ms Prudence.
“See you back at the Farmhouse.” Muttering, almost saying again “Not your father”
People staring at Ford and War
Ford turns as though mildly, pleasantly surprised and says “hi”
People are stupified with charm
One young woman standing there - Lana Lowe. She just looks at him. And there’s something in just staring at her that to Ford, it’s like he’s looking at her on film.
QUOTE
Lana - You got a name, stranger?
Ford - Leans on Coke machine, causing free coke, takes a drink, says “Sure do, stranger.”
Lana - you enrolling today?
Ford - Yes I am
Lana - Maybe you can show me the way
Along the corridor they see a kid in an old Clearwater High letterman jacket. He’s taking water from a water fountain. (It’s Troy!)
Troy and Ford share a friendly look, then this guy - Johnny- comes up and stands beside Troy -you’re never gonna believe what happened to me, somebody trashed my wheels.
Troy - That’s terrible! maybe I should go fix it!
Lana - You don’t talk much
Ford - Well, I already know what I have to say.
They pass some blinds and they perfectly catch her eyes letterbox style, Noirish.
Lana - I’m Lana. Lana Lowe.
Ford - I’m Ford Hawks.
Lana is somewhat charmed by Ford shaking her hand. “Hawks. How cinematic.”
Ford is delighted at this, a girl who knows who Howard Hawks is.
They get to the enrolment line, they find a young woman -Ira Spengler- handing out home made invitations to ‘A super kickin’ party.” Eight o’clock, or Nine for the fashionably late.
It’s quite indicative of people’s characters. Some take it, some throw it in the bin.
Ford shook her hand and said of course he’d be there. Told her he’s new in town and she’s very welcoming, which made her blush.
Lana leaned into Ford’s ear and said “that’s sweet of you”, which Ford interpreted as ‘that’s not in any way cool’
Ford looking at The Fey Twins, they pulled a joke, acting as though they’re going to swivel their heads around.
Lana - Oh please, I could do better Exorcist.
Ford - Yeah. But there’s only one of you.
Lana - This is taking too long.
She took out a cigarette, Ford lit it without looking, she leaned in for the light, raising a foot behind her as though being kissed.
Lana blows a perfect smoke ring “You just put your lips together and blow”
A couple of people join the queue behind them.
A young woman wearing sort of a leather jacket, trying to look cool. Beside her a young man in a velour raspberry coloured suit with gaudy neon green shirt opened way down, not much chest hair but a lot of gold, and beside him is a harried looking older man. Having his back used as support to write on the enrolment form.
“Master Saperstein I would have expected you to have completed your enrolment form before now.”
The young woman said “Where’s Troy? And for that matter, where’s Johnny?”
QUOTE:
Kat looks at Ford, lowering her glasses. “That’s not my butler”
Ford says “That’s incredible, that’s not my butler either.”
Kat laughs and Lana laughs loudest and says “Oh Ford you’re so funny.”
A thin, refined young man rounds the corner, “Well, what a delightfully eclectic gathering."
He gives Ford a look and gives a smile. Dale Carnegie.
Dale says “Who’s this mr special gentleman?”
“Nice to meet you Dale, you don’t have to call me mr special gentleman, you can call me mr special Ford.”
Dale shakes Ford’s hand and looks in his eyes, a huge sign says EGO in his eyes.
Dale - (noticing Ford’s scrapes from training with War) You do anything besides get into fights?
Ford - I sew a little, I crochet, smoke cigarettes, drink whiskey, hang out in halls.
Dale asked Ford where he’d be this evening, Ford said he’d be at the totally kickin’ party that Ira was throwing.
“No you’re going to be at The White House, isn't that right Lana?”
Lana said “I hope so” and gave a devastatingly demure look.
Twins get separated by queues, one steps into the other queue and loses her place just so they won’t be separated.
They start and finish each other’s sentences.
they only take as long as one person.
Kat - Oh hey Johnny (All eager and odd)
Johnny- Kat. You’re not wearing that jacket right.
Kat - Thanks Johnny
Johnny- Not a Problemo
Lana says “Chat and Cutter” and Ford gently said Janowski (guy at the back) was saving a place behind him, Johnny went there.
Ford filling in a form
“You’re awfully late”
She says “I’m gonna have to put you in... Room 17.” (Margo Martindale)
“We recently had someone who needed to move on.”
Ford feels a form like he’s being watched. A person who’s just standing on the edge of the corridor.
At this Ford can see a flash of maybe black hair and the figure is gone.
Ford passing The Radio Shack on The Quad.
Heard Troy calling into the radio show as ‘Roy’ talking about Johnny calling him a little greasemonkey
He passed Mercy, she was looking out the window and he was looking in, kind of walking sideways so he could keep looking at her, entranced.
Mercy - hey you, what’s your name.
F- Ford
She asked where he was staying, he said The Bradbury
“Not on the second floor by any chance, is it?”
The building is a bit Exorcist-y and Omen-y
The Bradbury
office for guard, no guard
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A cold shape in room 17, seemed to go off the balcony
coin op tv, old rotary payphone
paintings on wall
portrait of a man - recent painting - maybe amateur - Something about the eyes, a little off. It’s facing the bed.
Slightly worrying man appeared, Jim Carrey type
He said oh you're the new guy, Ford said yeah, I guess the previous tenant had to go.
The neighbour said "Yeah, he had to go right off the balcony! Hahahahaha nawwwww I laugh as a coping mechanism, it's very sad."
Thome Thcramby eggs for my new favourite roommate
Freddy - old tenant of room 17
‘Freddy wasn’t a good friend. To good friends.”
Ford went to sit on balcony
in near distance could see a train of cars, all black
one in the middle is a stretch limo
Ford decided to help Ira give out flyers
Limousine - from within exits James Gandolfini.
“Hey numbnuts get outta this vehicle”
“That ain’t no way to talk to someone, show some respect. Why do I gotta go to school, I got plenty of education in me”
Eric Stoltz called Ford and Ira - orientation tour
Kat
Troy
Jean-Ralphio
Cadbury
Johnny
The Fey Twins
Three new people Ford hasn’t seen before
Two of them in Centurions letterman jackets
One of them ‘thoughtful’ jock, the other a heavyset powerful darkhaired guy, on his arm is a very pretty valley girl.
rolf’s tour
don’t sit at that table, it’ll come down on your knees, loose bolt - fight computer recorded this as an environmental advantage
Kat - Me and the guys were wondering... well, thinking if you’d like to join the team
Ford- Oh, you’ve got some kinda team going?
Johnny gives Ford a look that says ‘danger. Perceived threat: using people’s natures against them.”
Johnny is a crappy replacement alpha that has snuck into Fionn’s place
Rolf’s tour - football field, what can I say about it, there’s a grassy knoll
FC - Warning, Ambush Point
Tunnel under ground, bridge sunken into ground
Rolf says they call it
The Tunnel of Love
Don’t take the short cut at night
If you’re gonna fight, fight here, people are tryin’ to hackeysack.
And a bike shed is meant for bike shedding.
Going through tunnel
heard Ira eep
Looked around to reassure her and Twins gone. Saw scarring from something like Ford had caused when he came through.
Twins hanging from ceiling, gave Ford a pretty good jolt
Ira is in The White House
Colonial Style Mansion exactly in the style of The White House
Rolf threw the rule book
Vinnie was going for it, Valley Girl climbed his back though and jumped into the air, catching it.
Second house:
A southern colonial, plantation style. bunch of guys out on the porch
A very young-looking girl swinging on the porch, Maybelline Miss Cherry lipstick
Third house
Home of The Centurions! - According to Vinny
He puts up a fist, valley girl follows, Jordan Swan too but out of a sense of duty by the look of it.
Last building.
The Old Place
Rolf says it’s trashed, seen more parties than any of them
Squat, political activist’s centre, cinema venue
place got torched on bonfire night
Ford: I like it
Kat: Me too
Johnny: It’s a shithole needs to be razed to the ground
J-R - I don’t see it-
Ford- Interrupting JR- Not yet
Kat: you are going to make it at 7 right?
Ford- I wouldn’t miss it
Rolf’s tour
cafeteria
don’t get the meat loaf, don’t get the chicken giblets, watch out for gravy on tuesdays
Tater tots are rockin’
that’s the lucky machine, spits out two cans, that’s the other one, it’ll eat your money
This is the games room,
Troy: it’s got outrun, asteroids, it’s got Double Dragon!
Ford- I used to love this when I was a kid
They’ve been playing Double Dragon for a long time
Ford and Troy got joint first places - TRY & FRD
throat clearing not from Rolf but from Wallace Shawn. Mr Goldman
Econ 101-
Ford and all of study group even Cadbury
Large Ampitheatre, Mr Goldman leading the class
In the crowd Study Group beside Ford, Johnny down the end staring at Ford
Valley girl - Portia Floyd
Test at end of week - if you do not pass this test, I will never admit you into Econ
“Hey, this guy talks a lot don’t he?” Bacchus
Bacchus eventually moons and gets thrown out
Mr Goldman’s numbers are a little off
“I’m sick and tired of this dog and pony show”
“What did you say? Who are you?”
“Prince. Simon Prince.”
Prince’s lecture
“Only two things you gotta know in this world. Supply and demand. If you’ve got a supply, you better have a demand for it.
It’s like Indiana Jones teaching a class, the girls swooning
Someone shouts “How’s the Rio?!”
Prince leans his hand on the board for a moment and softly says “Class Dismissed.”
Prince said he wanted to talk to Ford, said they’d be seeing a lot of each other
Ford said “really?” kind of skeptically
Prince said “Look, every couple of years I meet someone who changes my life so let’s skip the flirting and get to third base.”
Simon Prince - “Ford, I’m your Godfather.”
Prince went on world tour after Tartarus
Wound up in Pirate Waters, about to do a deal with the chinese
Prince talked pirates out of taking him hostage in 24 minutes
became new captain
drifted too close to American waters
Got in a little trouble with American coast guard
mutiny -tossed overboard
The Rio she’s out there somewhere
“Her name is rio. And she dances on the sand.”
Prince is here because the ivy league sniffs out international piracy
F- I want to make some changes
Prince- why does that send a chill down my spine
f- was my dad like this?
p- more than you’ll ever know
that caused a silent moment or two
Hours in jacuzzi hanging with Prince, hearing about The Rio, that time they ran out of moist towelettes etc
out in corridor - people looking at Ford suspiciously
he’s wanted by the cops
Ford elects to make it right to the interview
Oranges or M &Ms
Johnny very resistant to Ford joining
Fey Twins interview - joking around about their freaky sameness, they’ve got a sense of humour
A figure passing the door, shine of a badge on his chest
Ford talked to him but he just wanted to warn about a large man with a gun on campus who arrived on a motorcycle
Met Talos, badly banged up and maybe dying
Talos made Ford hook him up to a projector
The projection shows date of Ford’s birthday
Talos shooting shell after shell at oncoming soldiers
Talos looks beside him. Beside him is a tall, messy haired Goth individual and a red-haired demon woman
Morpheus protects the woman with a glance, making the soldier walk off the roof of the building
Lillin returns favour by grabbing a soldier about to stab Morpheus, kissing him, he falls down dead
He can see a badass woman and a young man in a wheelchair shooting bow and sniper rifle into the crowd, taking out officers
Next we see a powerfully built man wearing knuckled bracers heavily surrounded, he makes mincemeat of the entire crowd
An angelic looking man runs and dives across battlefield, picks up Ivan on Fionn’s command.
Ford sees his father for the first time. A strange powerful redskinned figure gives Andrew a suspicious look, Andrew disappears with Ivan.
Now he sees his mother, she is as he last saw her, unaged.
She looks at Fionn, his eyes go wide, he shouts some orders and they make their way to the half moon diner. Leviathan, Fionn, Apate.
Talos records this with heat signature vision.
Apate is placed on one of the tables. A signature comes up on the screen saying Programmer. Ford can hear Talos’s breathing becoming more strained.
There’s a sudden incredible cold signature on the building. The figures are barely visible as heat signatures now.
Slowly and surely Fionn and Apate deliver a new heat signature, it shines brighter than any of the others.
The heat signature goes brighter and brighter, Ford can see tendrils of darkness seeping up, seeming to infect the infant’s being. The seeping seems to reduce the shine of the heart, again and again.
Now a tremendous battle in Tartarus. The T-1000 from the shower. During the battle Ford can see it slip out the portal of Tartarus.
Talos getting weaker. Fionn asked if he could help
Talos had him open back of his head
Love mode: “I tried to protect you”
Drunk woman: Happy Birthday Mr President
Ira’s party - a wonderful space, roaring fire, relaxing decor, good tunes
Kat wanted to talk to Ford
Saber rattling
Ford - if I rattle my saber I’ll find an entertaining way to do it and it’ll be for a good reason
Kat laughed and said “You said Rattle Your Sabre”
Ford looking over at Mercy all Dreamweaver style
Lana threw a Martini in his face and said “when you know what you want, come tell me”
Chrissie Hynde -
am I a woman - y
am i famous for being in music - y
am i white - y
am I from new york - N
Am I blonde - no
am I janice joplin - N
am I in rock’n’roll -Y
am I gonna use my fingers? - y
Ford -
am i a man - y
am i an actor - y
am i in movies before nineteen sixty - no
Have I ever been in a movie with gene hackman - Y
Am I christopher reeve - N
Am I scary looking - no
am i a leading actor - y
am i tall - y
am I warren beatty - N
am i associated with comedy- no
Ford was totally, totally stuck
It was Harrison Ford
Ford hung out with Mercy, dancing and talking until late, finally he offered to walk her home. She asked him up to her room and he agreed, she had to go up to clear the way as she’s sneaking him in, he waited downstairs and then heard the familiar footsteps of Tartarus.
Threads-
who is the girl in the Maybelline Miss Cherry lipstick?
MAJOR
Overcoming/Defeating/Understanding Tartarus
Speaking to Athena
Talos’s Memory
Mercy Storyline
Minor Threads
Rivalry with Johnny
Roommate/Neighbour
Lana and Dale
General Flirtation with Lana
And by...
Simon Prince’s loss of the Rio Subtitle: “A Captain Without A Ship”
Now Econ 101 teacher
====Episode 1 part 3====
While waiting for Mercy, Ford heard the footsteps of Tartarus. He turned just in time as Tartarus launched at him, spiked arms coming for him. He stepped aside but still got cut, Tartarus's spike viciously cutting down the side of his chest. They had a titanic battle, Ford using spiderman moves like jumping and clinging to the wall. Tartarus pulled out the junction box, sending electricity arcing up the cable towards Ford, who was blasted with cement pieces as he dived out of the way.
Mercy looked out to call Ford and Ford reacted on instinct, pulling Tartarus into shadow, re-materializing on the roof of The Bradbury. Ford threw Tartarus off then jumped after him, swinging down so that as Tartarus tried to rise from falling three storeys, Ford was swinging by and kicking down onto him with both feet. They went right through the pavement into the basement. Ford used his Darkness power to create an obsidian box, placing Tartarus in there and sealing it.
He returned to Mercy's place, the building had lost power when Tartarus attacked Ford so she had candles lit.
Mercy’s ceiling has the constellation in stars
Ford’s Toast - “To all the things you can only see in shadow”
Mercy - “I used to be called Mercedes. And when I was Mercedes, I was a - don’t let any of the feminists hear this - A B.I.T.C.H.”
M - You know what I learned? In my senior year I was so busy trying to solve people’s problems that I kinda maybe flunked out of school? So… I hit the road. I did Volunteer work in Mexico, a very brief time in what I thought was a pleasant collection of people who turned out to be a Doomsday cult, and partying. Oh, the partying. Ford, you should have been there.”
The great Meatloaf once said: “If life is like the road, then the soul is the car.”
Enrolment form - tell me about yourself section - Mercy wrote about her experiences. She wrote a personal statement par excellence. “What I learned about life from a life on the road.”
A figure in the trees, it drops. A flash of blonde hair.
Ford looks at the figure thoughtfully, takes a drag. Thinks “I’m sure it’s got nothin’ to do with me.” - Passes Mercy the joint.
Mercy feels she’s being watched- she describes it as the face in the window.
Ford - what does it look like?
Mercy - like me. it was something I had to overcome. it was halloween night. almost two years ago. I was told this truth and it was really hard for me. Since I was a little girl I always had this dream. I was in my bedroom and there was a face at the window. And I was so frightened to look at that face that I’d pull the covers over my head and shriek into my pillows. When I heard that truth I realized what I had to do. So I went upstairs and I found a bed and I went to sleep. And when I was asleep I heard this banging sound and this time the face in the window was banging to get in. It started to scream, louder and louder and I ran downstairs and opened my front door and I saw it - me - and first it took out a knife and it tried to stab me but I stared it in the eyes and I said I am not afraid. And then it took out a gun and it shot me and the bullets did nothing. I reached over and I whispered ‘forgive yourself’ into her ear and I woke up… and heard my then boyfriend finish what he had started in the bedroom next door.
Tartarus is a place of darkness and it fed Erebus and his sons and daughters.
They used to call me Mercedes and before that they called me Eris.
My name is Mercy Fabray. Last name Fabray, first name Mercy.
Mercy- Look around and tell me what is the most valuable thing in this room.
Fight Computer tells Ford that it’s the superior speaker in the wardrobe closet.
Mercy said "Snuggles?" and Ford instantly agreed only to see a snooty white cat walk in, answering to the name.
QUOTE: Ford said "Oh hi Snuggles, your name just created a really disappointing misunderstanding."
They put on some music, Ford chose Echo and The Bunnymen. They danced some, laughed around a little and at a moment where they were dancing only inches apart, Ford kissed her. She responded a moment and then pulled away.
Ford: "Hey, you don't have another cat that you could call in here right now called 'misread signal kiss attempt,' do you?"
She got up to change the music to something a little less romantic and they hung out and talked til very late.
Eventually she lay down on the bed fully clothed. Ford lay down with Mercy, he didn’t know if she was awake or not as twenty minutes passed and he stared up at the constellation on the ceiling.
Mercy whispered Goodnight to Ford, the next thing he heard was knocking
“Housekeeping?”
Mercy hits radio and accidentally plays “magic moments” while trying to find snooze button. It's the Dean, telling Mercy she's late for her show.
Here are the available classes some of which are Compulsory
Econ 101
Art - Practical and Theory
Journalism - that’s a class that doesn’t come in for a couple of weeks
Computer Science -
Phys Ed -
English-
Film Studies -
There is no Esperanto class - YET
Maybe Astronomy, Psych, DANCE!
Look for the day - Slightly torn-up slightly too-small Superman t-shirt, very faded blue jeans, combat boots.
Ford has two minutes to get to class, it’s a five minute walk. So he strolls. a janitor accidentally cuts the power in the lecture hall, this is fixed, then there’s an abortive fire drill, then finally when everyone’s filing in, Ford arrives.
Ford takes a seat at the back.
Beside him is an empty space. Lana takes her seat.
“I dropped my pen”
Ford reaches and gets her pen for her, then she walks around to the head of the class, where she's the teacher's assistant. From the top Ford sees a strangely Herzog figure with a pipe, patches on elbows.
Lana in a tight skirt, Ford feels his ribs poked/chops busted “Why I say these are the best seats in the house” - Bacchus
Teacher - What is man - man is images und desires und dreams.
He plays a clip of Fred Astaire
“24 frames a second and every one of them a kodak moment.”
“There is a cinema - Pure - the human body.”
The rest of the class is just watching Fred Astaire dancing, a beautifully quiet moment.
“I do not believe in magic but I believe in the illusion of magic”
Lana hands out viewing list:
Mr Engel: “this is your curriculum. Study it, watch it, enjoy it. It’s what they’re made for.”
Lana says there’s some here she hasn’t even seen
Ford says he hasn’t seen Cabinet of Dr Caligari
She says “Oh, that one’s about an insomniac.”
Ford and Bacchus shake hands.
“I’m Ford”
“Bach… uh, right back atcha”
“But hey ah, let’s loosen up these stiffs”
Bacchus spikes the water fountain
Dean takes a few drinks and is immediately blasted
The Centurions storm down the corridor in a V-formation
Riding the shoulders of one of the guys with a jacket with a red back, number 13- the Jersey Devil. On his shoulders is Portia.
The Innocent is called Felix Underwood, Ford saves him from being engulfed and then walks to class with him.
Ford has Econ next
He enters to find something a little off. He’s late for this class. It’s like, he had to think about getting here a lot more than before. He eyes Felix suspiciously.
Prince says he needs a demonstration model and picks Ford
Prince demonstrates jerky customer
Ford eventually throws him out
Prince takes this as a perfect answer
QUOTE: “Ford Hawks here is a perfect illustration of the point that if you own your own god-damned cheese shop, you don’t have to put up with any shit.”
“did you learn anything today?”
“Well I learned uh…… nah I didn’t learn shit. But I had a really good time.”
Prince invited Ford by to visit the old place, the new old place. Going down on Embassy Row.
Lunchtime
Johnny is at the head of the Study Group table. He was annoyed at Ford 'chickening out' of their fight, which he declared loudly but Ford didn't really mind. Johnny then said enough of this bullshit we're going to have a real fight. Ford said do you mean some kind of namby pamby slapping each other until one of us cries, or a serious mano a man duel?
Johnny said a duel, definitely.
Ford said great, if it's a duel then as the challenged party I get to choose weapons and I choose Double Dragon.
Johnny: (Standing) “It’s ON! Troy! Prepare my sweatbands!”
Ford: (Standing, speaking in a mild tone) “I love Double Dragon!” As they played a little and the co-op nature of the game revealed itself:
Johnny: “Wait, we don’t have to fight for this at all! You’re trying to teach me a lesson!”
Johnny- as he was losing he started abusing all of Study Group, calling Kat a feminazi, saying nobody cared about Cadbury's world war 2 stories.
After the battle
Prince - “Here’s your cut.”
With the 200 dollars, Ford figured that was plenty for a Study Group picnic.
Ford incurred a favour with the kitchen staff to cook some delicious chicken fingers
Kitchen staff is looking for a hookup
Kitchen staff may be on leave from local prison
Troy says he stopped growing up for a year or so, a fog has been lifted
Troy- Never thought I’d be here. I didn’t think I’d make it here.
Troy - can I tell you something, it may sound crazy
This guy we used to know, he told me this thing about people’s nature
He said everyone’s got this special thing inside them, it kind of steers them
And what I think? I think if you don’t know what it is but you let whatever’s inside you steer you, it’ll take you right back to the source.
Kat- Guys, I think I’ve got it this time. We set up a Sorority
Ford - Yeah, we’ll set up the abandoned house and we’ll all live there.
Kat was a bit taken aback at Ford leaping onto it and really tried to get on board, not wanting her activist cred to be shown up.
Scene Change-
Ford on his way to The Dean’s Office
He sees Ms Prudence’s door
Goes in to say hi.
Athena told Ford that she loved Fionn like her own and he could have been hers. She said he should have been hers.
QUOTE - Ford said -with some regret- that it was good to see she could hurt, he had worried the gods did not feel. From the stories of The Olympians interacting with his father he thought the only things they felt were Pride and Fear.
She started a story
It was 1965. Belphegor wished to talk to Hephaestus about a project of his, a chair. Some kind of contraption that would support him and ease him after doing whatever it is that Belphegor would do. He sent emissaries, a message to my owl. I relayed the message to Hephaestus. He said he doesn’t trust those - well. His language got a little bit coarse. He blamed the fires of Hell for his crippled form. Someone must go, it would be impolite not to return the message. I went. Leviathan’s gate was opened and I passed through via Tartarus. It would appear that the great prince of Sloth had slept in the morning that we were due to meet. A different man met me at the shore. Another prince. His name was Lucifer, and would I come this way?
He made the arrangements for the meeting, ensured that I was quite relaxed and made to feel at home. But there was a weariness in his voice, a dull pain behind his eyes.
We got down to business. Lucifer said he would act in Belphegor’s place and discuss dimensions and cushioning and the more he spoke the more complications I threw up. I talked about the impossibilities of this design, the dimensions, the mathematics, we debated on issues of engineering, physics, soon our competitive natures drove us to debating about philosophy and man. And I told him that I was quite tired of him and if he could show me to my quarters I could resume the conversation the next morning. We had that conversation, and the next, and the next, and the next. He confessed to me on the twenty-third night in a moment of heartbreaking loneliness that he did not have the heart to rule, no matter what the cost.
It was too great a weight on his…well, soul.
I told him I had similar doubts about Olympus and my master. I told him of the release of Leviathan’s gate. The other one. The one to the earth realm. At that time it was quite impossible for him to leave. Yahweh’s curse and Leviathan’s envy that all should suffer as he does kept that gate quite shut. Except he met me. He said that he would follow me. He would come and we would make a life together on earth.
And shortly thereafter he met your grandmother.
I am a wise woman. It did not take me that long to understand that I was alone.
There was a pause.
Then she continued:
I always treated him like my son.
Athena says
Ares is paranoid. He is overcome with rage. I will not tell you where he is because I have no doubt that you will find him.
She explained Artemis was unlike any other Olympian: She fought by Fionn's side in The Tartarus War which is more than even Athena did.
Athena quickly intuited that Ford was planning vengeance on The Olympians. Ford explained somewhat coldly that he had not decided the fate of some, but at least half would have to die. Athena looked stricken and said her office was closed, she left.
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PAUSE!
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Morgan’s favourite Beats:
Mercy Scene
Cheese Shop
Memorable Quote : Prince’s “End Scene”
School Stuff - Classes are fun
Conor’s Favourite Beats:
Mercy Scene
Athena Scene -
Ford saying it’s so Greek
Threads:
Mission against Olympians
How did Ford get here: Note: Miss Cherry Maybelline
Dealing with the embodiment of Tartarus
‘The Johnny Situation’
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====Episode 1 - Part 4====
Athena left Ford alone in her office
Dean - stinking drunk - came by and asked Ford to come to his office
“When two hothead stags are saber rattling on Double Dragon.”
“I was hoping to talk to you, Man to Dean”
Dean sexually harassing Ford and offering a deal where he could sub contract to renovate the old dorm house but must take a ‘physical sciences’ class, a ‘movement’ class… he’s going to have to Dance.
Ford dropped by the radio station, Mercy asked him to pick up a record for her, he went by her place and met a spooky peroxide-blond man named Andrew Anderson who said he was looking out for Mercy.
Dean gives Ford a brief with a load of regulations that have to be fulfilled
Steps:
1. Register as an actual company - perhaps ECON 101 style?
2. Need to legally prove capable of fulfilling the contract. Must have a crew of individuals with specialities. Need digging expertise. Need a carpenter. Need a joiner. An Electrician. A mason. A painter-decorator.
3. As both registrars of the job and as the business, need to raise cash to pay the entire company, the registration fees, 170,000 dollars. Thing is, once you raise that sum of money, you stand to earn that sum of money.
Mercy asked Ford to get a record she forgot at her place.
“Ok for all you music fans out there, we’ve got some special guests this weekend. The Deadbeats play the quad. And The Centurions have a mystery gig.”
Ford strolling to Mercy’s Apartment, passing Jean-Ralphio and Cadbury. Cadbury trying to tie Jean-Ralphio’s shoes but he’s squirming because he’s checking out ladies and calling out his number randomly to them.
Suddenly see three women. They’re in the part of the quad nearest the path Ford has to take to Mercy’s building.
Bulletproof Bangs
One of them draws Ford’s portrait in chalk. He’s a figure with a big happy sun behind him, staring out into darkness and looking out into the stars.
Another gets down and takes the black charcoal and creates a black hole that swallows up the stars.
The third one looks, says “It’s definitely got something.”
As Ford is about to open door of Mercy’s room a figure steps out of the darkness.
A man with peroxide-like blond hair. White shirt, long coat, jeans, combat boots.
Andrew: “Heard about you. Some kinda badass.”
Ford: “You sure you heard about me? Sounds like you heard about someone else.”
Andrew Anderson said he was looking out for Mercy.
Later that evening -
Ford in his apartment and he gets a phone call.
Ford - Nyeeellloooo?
Lana - Is that how you answer your phone? Lana asked him to go to the gig in The Quad together, Ford said he might see her there but he can't go with her because he's 'got a lot going on right now'.
Lana hung up, Ford cursed himself.
Ford bangs his head against the wall
QUOTE - Banging on door - “Keep it down in there PTHYCHO!”
Ford met psycho neighbour in the hall, he was a little peeved with Ford for not spotting him for his run, he was supposed to time him and because Ford wasn't there, he ran forty miles.
Ford went to Quad to see The Deadbeats
There’s a long dance recital by the dance troupe - all women- it goes on a long time.
Ford tells prince he’s going to join the dance troupe.
Prince - “Why would you wanna do a social suicide mission like that?”
Prince insisting Ford comes visit him at his new place tonight after the show.
Ford bonding with other Deadbeats superfans at the front of the gig.
After a couple of hours, Job steps forward and announces a new song.
They play a pretty slow epic, there’s something a bit different about this one.
It’s a new sound, it’s a bit of a departure. Some of the crowd don’t get it but Ford totally loves it.
Gig ends around midnight.
Eddie makes robot noises as he lifts Ford onto the stage.
Eddie asks about cool after parties, says Ford should lead the way.
Eddie and Job met War.
Eddie: We’ll find the new sound. -gust of wind- It may be in the halls of Valhalla itself but we will find it.
Eddie, Ford and Moose all have kegs on their shoulders.
They get to the porch.
A young woman is coquettishly swinging.
Ford says “Well. Miss Cherry Maybelline. Got room for some crashers and some beer?”
She opens the door for them, they lose sight of her as she enters. The place is massively full, the party is really hopping. They see a woman getting onstage. The woman is not unlike a 70s prime Tina Turner.
She talked Ford into singing, he rocked Fortunate Son, then asked him to duet Proud Mary.
Offstage, she said he should come upstairs and see her soon, then walked away.
Johnny insisted on fighting Ford
Ford just evaded, hands behind back.
Johnny tried a taunt “I banged Lana last night” but Ford just shook his head sadly.
Ford just uses blocking and evasion and tripping to make Johnny defeat himself, revealing Johnny's tendency to make a high girlish scream whenever he falls over.
A door open upstairs
red light, it’s hot in there
A woman steps out from behind a screen
She’s an older woman, darker
Nina Simone -
Older women are not loved. young men like you are always loved.
please sit, you make me nervous
Ford- Nobody ever told me that before
“He didn’t like you. Doesn’t like your face, doesn’t like your name, doesn’t like your mother or your father.”
He talked to Legba and Legba opened the portal. He was tricked, had too much rum.
He went looking for you. Someone put you away. Different place, a different time, but he found you. So he brought you here to play with you.
This is a warning for you. He will find you. He is after you.
Ford thanked Erzulie for looking out for him, she had been at the graveyard that night to protect him.
Came down from the room and saw Job and Eddie jamming with the musicians of the house.
Heard an “OH MY GOD” from the Centurion’s house area.
There’s a Toga Party going on. Building is lined with torches.
The Beastie Boys are the mystery gig of the night. They’re playing You Gotta Fight For Your Right (To Party)
Ford saw Johnny talking to a suspiciously familiar and rather terrifying cop.
Master Plan - Pool, Pyrotechnics, deckchairs, a flaming torch, back of the stage
Ford and Tartarus fought, Tartarus managed to wound Ford a few times, he cut him badly across the abdomen, gave him a bullet wound across the ribs. Ford impaled Tartarus on the back of the stage with a piece of stray scaffolding, then ripped out a thick power cord and started using it to fight Tartarus, plunging the live wire into the rends in his metal form.
Eventually Ford knocked Tartarus into the pool and threw the cable after him, frying him.
Tartarus death throes: Dean, The Rolf, Lana
Jordan came out to check on Ford, burned his hand on some of Tartarus's residue, the metal staying in his palm. In his concern for him, Ford accidentally healed himself.
Walter Pratt - fellow Centurion
Walked over with Study Group to look at the burnt out building
Took a walk around the building. Ford’s fight computer already taking notes, building an idea of what it could turn into.
Kat is impatient to get out of Jean-Ralphio’s place. Ford offered her to move in with him, he’s got two beds. She said could they have a slumber party? Ford said of course.
Ford went to see Prince at his new house, a skeleton of a reconstruction of his mansion in Season 2. Kind of a second Death Star vibe.
Prince’s toast: “To missing a lot of your birthdays.”
Prince took out a box, in it is a finely crafted- by Brighid herself- handgun that fires paintball pellets.
Prince’s rundown of Ford’s enemies:
In Hell:
Mammon. He tricked me before.
When I went to see Brighid she told me the situation with the Fomori had gotten out of hand.
I was doing a TV spot over in Japan, there was a situation there... (Prince did not elaborate further)
Whole study group is there for slumber party
Ford fell asleep
Suddenly he’s in Tartarus. He can see Morpheus on a balcony overlooking carnage
Looking at the sky he could see a great dark hole opening
It reminded Ford of the drawing by the Seers
Ford raised a hand to Morpheus, Morpheus raised a hand too.
Episode ends.
Threads:
Baron Samedi brought Ford to this time
This caused the Constellation to shine and it summoned War
Talos followed Tartarus to Clearwater
Defeat of Tartarus - what does that mean
What is Morpheus’s Vision/The Seers Drawing about
Building a house
Back to Metalverse Seasons
===Season 3 Episode 2 - The True Death Of Pecos Bill ===
Season 2 Episode 2 Redux
MAJOR THREADS
Revenge: Athena on one side, War on the other
Study Group - setting up the construction company
Previous events:
Mercy called Ford over to guest on the radio show because her guest pulled
out.
Mercy challenged Ford to The Movie Game
Ford won the tickets, he asked Mercy to go see The Princess Bride with him.
Ford has to go to his first English class.
Hosting the class is:
Jim Osterberg . Plaid shirt, tweed jacket, hair behind his ears.
He says take a look around because statistically some of you will be
inspired and write a book of your own, a nice opposite to the standard
lecturer opening.
He invited a local author to come in and read from a book she wrote
herself. It’s a children’s book but you could learn something.
Barbie Hudson wrote a book called “My Favourite Raven”
It’s doing really well. It’s a story about a Raven who’s not like all the
others.
Ira Spengler is there too, she wanders over to Barbie and she’s completely
in awe. She has her own copy that she asks to be signed.
Lana came over to talk to Ford
They talked about cynicism vs hope
Ford went over and hugged Barbie and said he liked her bracelet - said his
dad had one just like it.
Barbie warned Ford: “I saw the way you were looking at her” about Mercy
Barbie told Ford Mercy is his aunt.
She laid out who his family is and how Mercy is Apate’s sister.
Ford went to Mercy to tell her the news from Barbie. They decided to have a
drink. They tried out the situation as a phone call from Ford to Mercy's
'Oh Mercy ' show, this led to Ford stating a little more clearly that Mercy
had blown his mind from the first time he talked to her. They didn't really
resolve anything. They decided to drink more. Ford was drinking an amazing
concoction just called 'Alcohol'.
They decided to go to the movie
QUOTE:
“Well, we could take a taxi to the movie because you’ve just had half a
shot of 96% proof alcohol, and I have just had seven and a half shots of
96%, so I think I’m probably now germ-free… but I may be in no condition to
drive.”
Sign opposite The Half Moon Diner - Coming Soon: The Heavenly Bowl
Mercy asked Ford if he’d thought about how to raise money, he said maybe
some kind of fundraiser or a festival
Mercy told Ford about Maria’s Drive-In
A film festival
Maybe around Halloween?
Mercy said one of the greatest mysteries to her was about these woods. What
they are, what they hold. She said she had a theory: Maybe they were
Erebus’s? Maybe he planted them himself.
Mercy and Ford had a long conversation about what he may be planning, he
asked her not to ask him about it because he couldn't lie to her.
He promised her he is really who she thinks he is, really trying to make
her understand that she knew him
"Just know that I really am who you think I am. You know who I am, you know
me. Everyone else, they've got all kinds of wrong ideas, but you know me."
She kissed him then, the kiss was one of those passionate end-of-the world
kisses. Ford's powers spiked a little as he was swept into the moment,
streetlights dimming all over campus but particularly where they were,
placing them almost in shadow.
She said she'd see him tomorrow.
Episode open
Ford in his apartment, half asleep.
It's the middle of the night, darkness before the dawn.
Ford hears hooves crushing down on red, red rock. Climbing up a path that
twists around like a column into the sky, growing wider and wider like an
inverted mountain.
The hooves hit a puddle and set it on fire.
A dark-brimmed man sits on the back of the horse. It arrives at a white
endless waiting room. Flourescent lights shining overhead. As the horse
makes its way through this pristine environment it cracks the tiles beneath
its hooves, shattering them into cobwebs of cracked marble.
Two soldiers up ahead dimly look at this approaching figure
A shot cries out
It hits the wall, through the belly of the first, ricocheting to strike the
other through the eye, they both drop.
The horse continues.
“I’m comin’ to get you you son of a bitch”
BANG BANG BANG on the door.
Mysterious neighbour asking Ford to spot him as he runs. Neighbour says
'you can watch from the window... I do... what? Nothing!" And then he's
off.   {C}Ford agrees, wandering out to the balcony to watch.
Kat stands, stumbles over to Ford, slaps Ford’s cheek, trashes his meagre
possessions, slaps him again, says goodnight and goes back to sleep.
Ford watched from the balcony as his neighbour ran, saw Lana across the
way, drinking a cup of coffee and smoking cigarettes, they kind of watched
the dawn together, though as far as he could see Lana didn’t know he was
there.
Kat came back with breakfast and Ford’s hammock, which she had torn down
and thrown out the window in the night.
Kat said she had to learn to cook when her mom left. Ford was torn at that,
because verily it was the worst breakfast he had ever tasted but he didn't
want to hurt her feelings.
Kat said she'd checked the postbox, gave Ford an exasperated look when he
remained blank at that, told him where the postbox was. Ford said "I'm new
in town, who's going to send me letters?"
She dropped a large pile of mail in rebuttal. Lot of letters addressed to
Ford, some a few days old. Ford has been at school about a week now.
Ford’s Mail:
Letter from The Dean: welcome to school etc, opening dance, two tickets
inside, whole prospectus and reading list.
Letter from someone called Steve: Ford remebered him as the guy who gave
him a ride into town.   {C}"Hey Buddy, it's Steve, you probably don't remember me, I'm the guy that
gave you a ride into town. Hope you made it to college alright!"
Three curiously embossed cards: Manila envelopes with gold trim with the
Prince seal on them. Increasingly passive aggressive invitations to visit
him.
Final note: “You remind me of your father.”
Big ass dossier.
Addressed to: Ford, Foreman.
It’s everything Ford needs to put together the company. Already
highlighted, marked, underlined and generally calligraphied document with
‘you sign here’ almost in Prince’s condescending/affectionate tone. Notes
like “this is a lot flim-flam”, turns into a fiscally conservative
manifesto.
Kat: Major in Politics and a minor in Women’s Studies
Or a Major in Women’s Studies and a minor in Politics
Kat:
There are two sides to any one person. Their major and their minor.
War and Kat butted heads a little.
Demeter - opened a restaurant in town, The Heavenly Bowl
War: That Hussy is in town as well, the maneater.
Your father lived in a lot of places. A farmhouse, the suburbs, a cave and
a god-damned castle in Hell. There’s one place he was most at home.
War delivered a last letter
Blue envelope, presidential seal. Star in the middle. A time.
War speaking on Athena:
Don’t take her off your list. She’s the reason your father is in all this.
Ford: is she?
War: Like a puppet on a string.
Econ101 with Prince
Ford being asked to go over the notes Prince gave him.
Ford turned it into a narrative, a story of all the characters involved.
Ford can see Jordan Swan flexing his hand as he listens, but he’s trying to
concentrate
Prince: What’s the moral of this story?
Dale Carnegie says: The Moral of the story is Avoid The Tax Office
Ford said the point is people are the best and worst thing about all this.
Prince said the point is Don't let the unions screw you over.
Ford said what if you're someone the unions don't want to screw over? What if you're the guy the unions want to work with? You have to pay people more -depending on their circumstances- the less
they want to do the task you're contracting them for. You have to create a reward that's separate from the task, to get people to
do it for you. But what if you're building something and you can get people
on board and suddenly the task and the reward are the same thing and
they're all linked to you? That would be loyalty.
Kat was delighted with this speech, stood up and started singing
-incorrectly remembered lyrics for- The Internationale.
Kat is worried about Study Group -
Troy is going through SOMETHING
Jean-Ralphio has regressed to the state of a petulant child, he actually threw a pretty cool party but it was a while ago.
Kat asked if Ford could ‘bring some of that speechifying to Study Group’
Ford and Kat went on a tour to find an office for their company.
Found The Old Student union,dusty, in poor repair but Ford thought it had
potential.
Ford saw fire in the distance, smoke that led along the old winding road
towards Corvin Farmhouse.
QUOTE
Ford followed the smoke trail with his gaze saying "But that would lead it
back... Home!"
He rushed to the treehouse using the shadows to travel.
Fire licking the tallest leaves of the treehouse, the treehouse itself is
on fire
Ford trying to save things
Saved:
A Map of some strange location
A number of personal artifacts, some records
Deep within, Ford can see a book, singed at the edges.
Went to Demeter’s restaurant The Heavenly Bowl
Primordially homely furniture and atmosphere.
Ford went to her place and the food was incredible but had something like a
supernatural sedative in it. She was very insistent about him eating more,
which made Ford suspicious.
When they discussed the events such as The Tartarus War, she said she
watched and saw Fionn moving through Tartarus 'Like a chess piece'.
Ford had a growing feeling that The Olympians just sat back and watched
while Fionn got bloodied on their behalf again and again, that feels more
sinister now as someone like Demeter kind of openly describes it in those
terms rather than the head in the sand attitude Ford had expected or even
hoped for. (Ignorance is far more forgiveable somehow than knowing they
were sending his father out to possibly die for them again and again, all
while condemning him publicly) {C}Ford went to see Mercy, she is certain he doesn’t have to go to war but his
certainty is waning all the time. They said they'd meet later to talk.
A caller said his friends call him Bill and he’ll kill them all. Ford knew who it was then and said into the microphone "You know where"
Ford went to the old farmhouse
A piece of parchment held to a tree with a knife: the names of all of House Corvin.
Pecos Bill has become a vision of pure terror, if Ford could feel such a
thing.
His face scorched, tight tendons stretched across his his skin, his skin is
barbecued. Hairless. His eyeballs are completely black.
QUOTE
"Pull Iron Old Man and let’s see what happens"
Pecos Bill drew first, shooting right through Ford’s hand before he could
even reach his gun.
Ford drew with his other hand, shooting Bill high in the chest, spinning
him around. Bill spun and with his back to Ford he shot twice through his
old duster, hitting Ford in the belly and the chest.
Ford fell to his knees, he could feel he was close to bleeding out.
"That was easier than I expected," Said Bill with a dark chuckle, spurs
clinking as he advanced on him for the kill. Ford rolled back at the last
moment, grabbing his gun from where it had fallen behind him and shot Bill
twice, once in the heart and once through the forehead.
Bill tumbled to the ground, his hate-filled eyes still on Ford he tried to
reach for his gun but his arm became bone and the bone became dust. The
last thing to go was his skull, his eyes boring into Ford's until the last
moment.
Ford woke in a hospital. He was thirsty and wanted a cigarette and he
couldn't find the nurse's button so he just pulled off all the electrodes
monitoring him. The flatline brought a roomful of doctors and nurses.   {C}"Hi, does anyone have a cigarette and maybe a drink of water?"
A nurse handed him a drink of water as a doctor said "You can't smoke in here".
They asked who to call for next of kin and Ford croaked "Mercy".
He then heard Simon Prince insisting on being allowed in, loudly proclaiming he's his godfather.
Ford saw his hand was bandaged, remembered it being shot and wondered if
he'd lose it. He started to telling Prince that he killed Pecos Bill, he
shot him down without hesitation but he broke down into tears. To his
surprise, Simon Prince hugged him. Ford drew immense comfort from it.
Prince said it was water under the bridge and he was going to make sure he
didn't lose the hand. He went out to argue with the doctors.
Mercy arrived, Ford was glad to see her but he was worried. He told her he
wasn't sure how much of him survived the fight with Pecos Bill. He said
he'd killed him and never had a doubt when he was doing it. He asked her if
it was possible that he wasn't a man at all but just a machine. He talked
about how the Fight Computer gave him information on how to kill anyone and
everything he looked at, without rest. She put her hand on his chest and
for once the readouts faded and he was at peace. He fell asleep, they took
him into surgery.
Ford didn’t lose the hand, the bullet left a scar through and through but
left shards of metal in there.
Mercy was there when he woke, to take him home. He said they were overdue
for a talk so they went for a drive.
They were edging up to talking about what they had to talk about when they
almost had an accident, Ford grabbed the wheel and wrenched it to safety,
the car spun around a couple of times and came to a halt in the middle of
the street. Mercy took Ford's face in her hands and they kissed, making out
on main street in slightly obstructed traffic for a long time. Her elbow
kept hitting the car horn but neither of them noticed.
They drove to the old jump point that Eddie Eckstein had used so many
times, parked there to talk.
Redux of the Oh Mercy call-in, this time Ford taking the call. Ford largely
suggested this to milk her for compliments.
Mercy - For the first time in a long time I feel like I can let myself go
with someone, and I’m hungry for that feeling.
As they talked more though it emerged that she couldn't put aside how wrong
it felt to be involved with him and Ford eventually asked her that flat
out, was it something that no matter how good it made her feel, she could
never actually feel right about it? He already knew the answer.
He told her he loved her but he would continue to love her even if not
romantically anymore. They could still look out for each other and be there
for each other.
Then abruptly he said he had to go, kissed her cheek and got out of the
car, walking through the woods.
Ford walked all night, broken hearted, amazed at how quickly he'd fallen in
love and how quickly it had come to this.
When he came home, he found another letter with the presidential seal. In
the dorm were Study Group in their entirety. The Fey Twins looked up as he
entered and he told them it was nice to see them. They said it was nice to
see him too, then said they were going back to sleep and lowered their
heads in perfect unison, seeming to immediately sleep. Ford went to his hammock and fell into a deep sleep himself.
Episode 2 pause
Episode 2 continued
Ford woke to find himself on a street with magnificent grey buildings.
On a wall he could see a place where a banner may once have hung. Steps
leading upwards.
Ford started walking up the steps, blinked and he was walking down them. An
escher-like trap that Ford recognised could keep him forever. He saw a
hidden stair off the steps and stepped right off... onto another step which
led to a winding path up a mountainside, eventually leading to a door in a
citadel.
Ford walked confidently and without doubt, expecting the doors to open for
him. They unerringly did and Ford walked into the throne room of Tartarus.
A chair turned away, it came about and Ford saw Morpheus. He looked serene
but Ford could easily sense the distress beneath.
Morpheus asked if Ford got his warning - the dream of Pecos Bill.
Morpheus has received a message that Lillin is concerned about The Belph.
Belph may have been signing papers without reading.
Lillin believes an element may have helped Pecos Bill escape.
Fionn’s cold blooded killing of Bill created a Hate Demon and Ford’s killing of him just sent Bill back to Hell to stew in Hate again, readying to return.
Morpheus said “There is one that can help you. The Bard, Eddie Eckstein. He can take you back to your time to find your mother.”
Morpheus asked about Mercy, the usually unflappable Ford became uneasy and spluttered somewhat.
Morpheus: “Sometimes I feel like I am walking in on something.”
Ford: “When you enter dreams?”
Morpheus: “When I enter her dreams.”
Ford asked if he could help Morpheus
Morpheus told him he’s still a little wet behind the ears for that.
Morpheus: “Your friends miss you, they have each dreamed about you since
you’ve been away.”
Then Ford woke to Jean-Ralphio about to throw water on him
Kat said Ford has more post
Simon Prince’s letter:
“You are cordially invited to the fashionably late party. Theme: Safari
(Casual). I want to congratulate you on setting up your company.
Ford brought Troy to the company’s office, found it’s been outfitted by the
others.
Troy showed Ford a letter he’d received, with the same location but a
different time from his own.
Ford says there’s something inside him, it’s been troubling him for some
time.
In the tunnel Ford could see a cigarette and somewhere he could hear spurs
He walked into the tunnel, a red light came on, the floor Lynchian zig-zag
of black and white.
Lana touched Ford’s side and he had a pain in the pit of his stomach, she
said “You’ve got heartache”
She took his hand and he winced at the pain, she said “You’re not sure.”
Talked to Johnny, Johnny said 'so they're yours now' talking about Study Group. Ford asked Johnny why he even wanted to hang out with them as he clearly didn't even like them. Johnny just said something about who else was going to do all that stuff for him?
Talked to War, he was impatient for Ford to get to work on his vengeance, felt he was letting time waste.
Ford went to The White House party, there were various potential initiates.
Dale: A toast! To old friends, and new.
Dale invited Ford and Troy to join, Ford and Troy changed into robes and
went down a batcave pole to a marble cave.
Made them cut their hands
“We must stain the trampoline”
When coming down from the Trampoline, Ford could see some others there
For one, Uncle Sam
Also a Native American looking fellow wearing Manifest Destiny era US Armyuniform
uniform
Sam said “Welcome to the patriots”
“Why even President Reagan is a patriot. One of my own.
Ford asking Sam about Pecos Bill. Sam said he’d been jealous of Fionn’s reputation as a killer and he’d come for him. He said though, that he was a good man once. He had dreams. Ford asked what kind of dreams and Sam said a little wistfully that Bill wanted to lasso the moon and put it in his pocket.
Ford: What turned him?
Sam: His hatred of others.
They showed Ford the bones of Cochise, Sam was very proud of this trophy and he nodded to Bre’er Rabbit, saying he couldn’t have done it without him.
Ford freed Cochise with his own blood, allowing him to take a spectral form. Ford asked Cochise to spare Sam and Bre’er Rabbit and the others, Cochise reluctantly agreed.
Ford and Troy decided to leave, taking the box with Cochise’s remains with them.
Sam: And what of you Irregulars?
Troy: I don’t care if you can double bounce down here, we’re from a sorority
and we’re called The Irregulars.
Smoked peace pipe with Cochise
Troy passed out
Ford saw Mercy and the others down at the car park
Mercy - Kat thinks that I am a… well, she would never use the word.
The Study Group and Mercy told Ford they were going to the treehouse to repair it.
Kat is a natural at all this building
Troy works with great enthusiasm and he’s even faster than Kat. The twins just kind of clown around, but they explained to Ford that’s how they help and it is, they’re good for morale.
Bill arrived on his Nightmare, Ford told the others to stay around the treehouse and wait.
Ford went unarmed this time, walking around to the entrance to Corvin Farm, where he’d faced Bill before, where his father had faced him too.
The horse snorted, creating a gasoline flame. Bill had come back from Hell even stronger than before, he had less flesh, his bones were ridged and jagged, he had grown new shark teeth.
He dismounted to fight, Ford was unwilling to fight. When Bill went for his gun Ford stepped in, putting his hand on Bill’s to push the gun back in the holster, his other hand at Bill’s neck to hold him at bay while he talked.
He told him he couldn’t do this again, he’d have to sit this dance out.
Bill asked what he meant, Ford said his father had met his hate with hate. He admitted with some shame that he himself had met Bill with hate in the moments when they were both shooting. But he couldn’t do it anymore, he couldn’t meet his hate.
Bill said in that case there was no stopping him. He sent his Nightmare to strike the tree, knocking people out of the tree house. Ford caught The Twins, Jean-Ralphio, Kat, then when Mercy was about to fall into the flames he sent a line of darkness and travelled along it, catching her before she fell and stepping out of a shadow portal with her and returning to face Bill.
They grappled again, Bill said again that he couldn’t stop him.
Ford said:   {C}I know I can’t stop you, even if I killed you you’d come back stronger, right?
Bill: Yeah, and stronger and stronger every time.
Ford: Right, you’d come back more miserable every time. And you’d eventually kill me, then you’d kill my friends, then you’d kill other gods and one day there’d be nobody left who could bring you peace. You know I talked to Sam. He told me you were a good man once. You were the God of fucking Cowboys, that’s one of the coolest things I could possibly think of. You weren’t always like this. So I’m going to say something you maybe didn’t expect to hear from me: Please.
With that, Bill became suffused with light, a strange blue glow that Ford recognized as coming from his own form. Bill’s features reformed, the jagged bones returning to human form, his skin covering his flesh again until he died, but Ford knew he was dying in peace.
  {C}Study Group and Mercy saw it all.
Ford sat on the steps of the porch and wept for Bill like a loved one.
Mercy stepped forward and said “I love you too” and kissed him in front of
everyone.
===Season 3 Episode 3: Fama===
Episode 3
{C}Ford starting to wonder if he can take vengeance on The Olympians that
doesn’t involve violence. He was intensely troubled by his talk with Athena in her office, seeing her cry she just seemed like a woman in tears and the idea of vengeance seemed suddenly petty and vindictive. Also since then he’d spent a lot of time around Mercy and he found her presence calming and inspiring, she helped him think in non-violent terms.
Couple of days after Episode 2
Ford sleeping in his Dorm, he has a dream where he sees Lillin sitting on a
throne, talking with advisors.
She announces that the threat of Pecos Bill has ended but people are to
remain vigilant.
Ford wakes to the sound of a Phalanx of Centurions marching by.
Centurions shouting “Sourface, Sourface”
Ford said mildly “Kat has a beautiful face and you know it, now move on.”
Vinny and Kat both shake their heads.
Kat: I can fight my own battles
Ford: Fighting your own battles is cool. Finding battles where there aren’t
any is not cool. And being ungracious to your friends is uncool too.
Kat: Ford you don’t understand, the guy is such a chauvinist pig.
Ford: Ok, what’s the deal there?
Kat and Ford argued, Kat stormed out.
Alex the neighbour came by, Ford caught him taking pictures of the room.
Alex invited Ford over to his room at ten pm that night.
Ford borrowed Kat’s radioactive warning orange cardigan, walked out without
a care in the world. Birds singing, sunniest day he’s seen in Clearwater,
not a single shadow seems to be cast today.
Someone hands Ford a cup of coffee, another person hands him a donut, a
young man and woman put out a collection jar for a student fundraiser, Ford is broke but discovers a lost twenty in his pocket, puts it in their jar. “This puts us over the top!” They high
five.
The Bulletproof Bangs greet Ford, he passes their graffiti which looks a lot
brighter.
Passing Lana, doing her nails. ‘Hi Lana, is that cherry bomb explosion?” He
says looking at her nails.
“Ford Hawks you are shameless.”
“Yes, I, am.” Ford says with a smile, walking past.
“See you in film studies!”
{C}“Yes, you, will.”
{C}He saw a poster for Gem, the Mall and Campus tour.
Ford has to go see Alex, go to the Fashionably Late Safari Party AND now see Gem.
“Gosh, my datebook for this evening is overflowing!”
Ford then makes his way into Film Studies.
Ford gave a speech about The Bride of Frankenstein
He centred on the Bride’s tragedy in that nobody cares what she wants. She’s beautiful mysterious, but everyone just wants to turn her to their needs and never asks for a moment what she wants. He looked in Lana’s eyes as he finished, addressing her.
Lana left, walked out as he spoke.
Engel asked if he could talk to Ford man to man.
Far be it from me to name names but my assistant has been a little sloppy. Ford asked Engels to give Lana another chance, said that here in this magical place of Clearwater he could think of no-one that more truly lived like cinema.
Engel told Ford that today is his last day to declare his major.
Ford declared Film Studies and Music
Ford bumped into the Dean
Dean said “This is a disaster, classes are in recess until 4 pm. Three
letters. GEM.”
Ford picked up Lana’s books and went looking for her.
{C}QUOTE: {C}Ford showed up at the dance studio for his first dance class. {C}Dance Instructor - highly critical of his motives. She asked what fraternity he was pledging with to come here on a dare.
Ford said “It’s a sorority, and I’m here to DANCE!”
{C}Ford did a Singin’ In The Rain performance, including props in the room, even roping in some of the girls to act as the cop and the puzzled man who he gives the umbrella to.
Ms Ouspenskaya gave a stern look but finally said “You are now a part of Rainbow Rhythms.”
Met Kat outside
Ford: “Oh, did you see me and the Rainbow Rhythms?”
Kat: “That’s… that’s what you’re called?”
Ford: “Yeah, that’s what we’re called! And I’m in.”
She asked if she could buy him a treat to make up for being a jerk earlier
{C}Ford told Kat about his lonely existence in High School
{C}Kat said:
Senior year. Mr Hendersen said he wanted to talk to me. He said I was the
best student he’d ever had. And because of that he needed me to partner up
with this new kid. A total… Vinny. Vinny De Luca. But everybody called him
Vinny De Puka because he and his buddies were always drunk, at keggers,
throwing stuff off bridges. But he head the run of the town because he was a
football hero. So he was going to coast on my glorious 4.0 gpa? And of
course when he found out… he made a big show about it in front of his
friends. Anyway we hated each other. His idea of the joke is of the pull my
finger variety. And I kept on working really hard just to get him to work.
Until one day he gave me such a chronic migraine that I couldn’t study. And
you know what he did? He still came over to my house. Took out the books by
my bed. He held back on the jokes and all that stuff, I started to think
he’s not such a bad guy. We might even do pretty well together. So in order
to be nice I invited him to one of Jean-Ralphio’s parties, the one that I
was talking about. And I kind of maybe had a little too much to drink.
Because, and I don’t remember any of this, but I’m dancing on tables and…
I’m really enjoying myself. Vinny says ‘Hey Kat. You’re not a Sourface at
all.’ And we maybe kind of made out in the back garden. And it all happened
so quickly that I started to overthink things and I said ‘What happens on
Monday’, and he said ‘Well that’s our study night.’
I said you know what I mean and he said I don’t care what anybody else
thinks.
Yeah… but someone must have found out or said something, someone to someone
else and so on and before I know it, Vinny is avoiding me in the corridor
and he can’t even look into my eyes. I call him thinking he’s just shy and I
call him but just get his answering machine.
I got distracted by all this and fell behind on my projects, then things got
into this really passive-aggressive thing. He was ashamed of me.
I told him in a message if I don’t see you on Monday night, I’m going to
have to go to the principal and file an official complaint about you. He
doesn’t show up and I go and make a complaint. Then he makes a complaint.
But rules are rules and we have to give the presentation and if there is one
thing I taught him about that project it was “My Very Educated Mother Just
Served Us Nougat.”
He wanted to distance himself and just made a joke of the whole thing.
Me? Looks like the Ivy League is a little out of my league. Dropped my GPA
and a black mark on my academic record. “Does not work well with others.”
Ford said well, at least here she got to be his friend and friends with the Study Group.
Kat said Ford will need a disguise until Prince’s party
{C}New Impersafation: Swindon Ponsonby-Sloane
Gem singled out Ford in the crowd, Ford hammed it up a little, Courtney Cox style, she brought him up on stage and they danced together, the crowd lapped it up. At the end she kissed his cheek and they lost it. He climbed down into the crowd again and they stared at Ford, started coming towards him, Ford and Kat made a bit of a run for it, ducking into a building with Ford’s shadow powers.
People were outside, wandering around calling his name.
Jean-Ralphio is basking in Ford’s reflected fame
Ford went to see Alex at his room, Alex was dressed exactly like Ford
earlier in the day.
Alex: “So we’ve really got to talk about her.”
Ford: “Why don’t you start.”
Alex: “I think she’s really cramping your style?”
Alex P Keaton. He has a tattoo of Ford on his chest.
{C}Pause Session
Ford went to see Gem, she said she was Fama - From the Romans
Thursday October 5th 1987
A message all the way from there to September 15th 1996
A rumour that will take years to circulate
It will begin in the Sahara desert. Originating as a thought, an idea on the
wind that comes to a shepherd. He will pass it to his tribe, they will pass
it to their enemies, it will travel down to Kenya, across to Buenos Aires,
it should snake its way through Machupichu, a team of geologists will take
it from the panama canal to San Francisco, from there it’s just a hop, skip
and a jump to Portland.
And through all these degrees of separation there shall be no interference
with that message. It will take nine years but it will reach that special
someone.
{C}Ford said he would deliver the message face to face instead... {C}She offered a new bet, if he revealed his true self before all by the end of the day, she would give him a powerful truth. If he failed, he would forfeit a flask, given to Fionn by Dionysus himself, a flask that would turn even the worst quality liquor into the finest booze imaginable.
{C}Ford went to visit Simon Prince
Prince all off-balance because it’s a social call
{C}Prince said he feels guilty about something
A letter to “El Diablo Blanco ” from Consuela, his former maid
{C}They decided to go to Mexico for Spring Break... and they will be taking The Rio
Ford showed Prince his blue skin, Prince said it suited him.
{C}“Oh and Ford? Read Chapters 7 through 9.”
Kat called Prince’s place to say Jordan had come by saying something about
“Favour for a favour.”
Colomboing
Jordan:
Our mascot, something terrible has happened. Some of the guys went to
Eagleton last night to take the Eagleton Angels lamb.
{C}Jordan said they need a cheerleading squad.
{C}Ford talked the Rainbow Rhythms into helping out cheerleading. They went in full dance clothes: Ford was in light grey man-dance-pants, a bright purple sleeveless t-shirt that doesn’t come all the way down and a bright purple headband... and bright blue skin. {C}Ms Ouspenskaya gave them a giant Rainbow Rhythms banner that they could run through onto the field. They danced to Maniac, with excellent running-on-the-spot and deadly serious expressions that cracked up The Centurions and gave them a huge boost to morale. {C}They even did some real dancing, with impressive displays of acrobatics. Ford exited the field with a Rainbow on each shoulder.
At one point the ball is taken from Vinny by number 14 of the Centurions, the fastest sprint Ford had ever seen, Ford wasn’t sure it’s a man. {C}The Centurions trounced The Eagleton Angels. {C}War is in the bleachers with Ford, at a certain point Ford noticed War was distracted, watching one player - Jordan Swan.
QUOTE {C}A crack of lightning sets fire to a bush
Ford: “Someone’s a bad sport…”
Ford got to see number 14 of The Centurions, detected through the helmet that it was Portia.
Dean: “You let your true colours shine. I’d rank that as a B? …Plus?”
Fama and Ford went to his office to talk so she could share the truth with
him.
Fama: Your father was stained with the blood of the Moirae. And his father,
seeking peace with the perpetrator went and attempted entreaty. This had the
horrible consequence of seventeen years in Tartarus.
The official story goes that it was Erebus who was responsible. He concocted
the plan to enslave your grandfather and make your father his own. This is
only half the story.
When your Grandfather was released from Hell he had made a solemn promise to
elope with Athena. He did not fulfil this promise. He got distracted. Athena
waited for him and waited and waited until the great Goddess of Wisdom was
heartbroken. She returned to Olympus and swallowed her emotions.
Her sister, Aphrodite, seeing the great turmoil in Athena but not knowing
why she felt this way promised to relax her with her ointments, unguents, to
turn her great pool of wisdom into a bath. Athena took to this like a swan
to water. As she bathed in those waters her cares and her emotions bubbled
to the surface. She began to cry. Her tears mixed with the water of wisdom
and love. A single tear hit the water and it rose, a bubble of thought, a
plan to revenge her heartbreak. Escaping idly as a moment of great anger. A
way to throw Lucifer into the deepest, darkest pit of Tartarus, to bind him
to the rock of Sisyphus. A passing thought, no more than that. But a thought
that was in her heart nonetheless. It rose and gently glided out the halls
of Olympus, it floated its way down to Earth and snaked its way down to
Tartarus.
It burst on the shoulder of Erebus.
{C}Fama asked Ford how the story made him feel
He said, “Very sad. Want to get a drink?”
Ford and Fama went to get a drink. El Plonko Diablo, the very worst thing they could find in a liquor store, they had fun finding it, then they tested out the flask and of course it was incredible booze. {C}They drank a while
{C}A limousine arrived, but it wasn’t for Fama
{C}Ford went through it, the portal led to Olympus
{C}Two Centurion guards saluted Ford as he approached
Everything is brocaded with gold, purple, leopard print, black leather
couches, lots of vinyl.
Jupiter was very welcoming, incredibly alpha male friendly
Mercury is there, Jupiter told him to scram
A maiden brought Ford a cigar, she looks like a hooters girl with vaguely
Roman touch on her t-shirt.
Jupiter made a promise to Ford “I ain’t gonna fuckin lie to you, not ever.
My word is my bond.”
Ford became emotional and asked “Do you promise?” {C}Jupiter and Ford traded a promise to always be completely honest with one another, a promise of great weight to Ford.
{C}Ford said they treated his father like a dog.
{C}Jupiter:
You and me, we’re the same. Immigrants, outsiders. Fuckin Irregulars, you
know what I mean?
Ford said he’s thinking of a vengeance that would force The Olympians to
acknowledge that he is not a savage. He wants to bring the truth out into the light.
Jupiter asked a favour: Bacchus is down there and he can’t get any respect. Ford said he’d look in on Cupid too, he and Bacchus are apparently roomies.
Favours: Swan owes Ford.
Ford showed up for the Safari party still blue
Lana: That was the goofiest thing I’ve ever seen in my life
Mercy: That was the best thing I’ve ever seen in my life
Ford responded to both these statements with an equally pleased bow of thanks.
{C}Mercy said “We need to talk, oh god I hate those words.”
They went to the edge of the pool to talk.
She asked if he wanted to go steady, maybe PG-13 steady, he said he’d love to.
Things to do:
Gathering information about The Olympians
Getting ready for Film Festival
Big Halloween Party
More Rainbow Rhythms
Ford guest-hosting Oh Mercy
Episode 3 Ends
===Season 3 Episode 4 - The Haunting of The Fey Twins===
Mid October
The leaves are fallen, Fall has come
In the intervening time:
The Treehouse has been recreated
Ready to start work on The Sorority House itself - Bleak Hall.
Team to work on the house
Study Group, Jordan Swann, Walter Pratt
Ford has read the entire Architecture section of the Library but turns to Jordan Swan for practical applications of this knowledge.
Jordan said sometimes they would break a bottle over the foundations
Ford broke a bottle full of wine from the flask of Dionysus
Troy said it’s a little lonely at Jean-Ralphio’s mansion so could he crash
at Ford’s for a while? And he doesn’t want to leave anyone out so maybe Jean-Ralphio
too and The Twins.
Walter does magnificent work on clearing and landscaping the grounds.
A hedge grotto, secret grotto, Walter somehow hits a secret hot spring for
soaking.
One or more twins pushed Ford in while he was dipping a hand.
Ford made everyone get in the grove springs with him including Walter and Jordan
Jean-Ralphio said these people are Normies (People from outside Study Group)
Ford said we don’t exclude Normies
Kat said they should have an open-door policy, the House should have one
spare bedroom, Ford said he loved the idea.
Ford and Mercy’s dating involves a lot of stargazing
Ford and Mercy had a date at the Drive-In
Ford’s major and minor: Film Studies and Music
Opening of Episode Proper
Ford going to Fritz Engel about creating a film festival
Fritz said “You will announce it to the class? Here, you will need this,” He
gave Ford the storeroom key for the AV equipment. “Make me proud.”
“Oh and Ford? This is the kind of initiative that could earn you a TA
position.”
Ford went to the AV Room to take the lay of the land.
Dusty room, a single bare bulb, canister after canister of film, some VHS,
even more Betamax, an old editing desk, lights, some cameras, some sound
recording equipment, an old clacker-board.
Ford blew the dust from the Clacker-board to see what was written on it. It
says “The Stranger” on it.
Ford cleaned up a little, moved some things around, saw some fresh film
canisters. A very dusty-looking canister amongst all the fresh ones. “The
Stranger.”
Ford put it into one of the projectors to play, sat down to watch it.
Almost like a home video, it’s kind of a really bad ‘don’t talk to
strangers’ kind of story about a bunch of kids in a playground. They come
across a really inviting stranger who gives them games to play, it’s all
pretty predictable. There’s a really badly acted scene between an eighteen
year old who’s trying to pass for fourteen and a seventeen year old who’s
trying to pass for thirty, the dialogue is terrible, in the background next
to a tree is half a figure. Quite a chilling image but it only lasts a few
frames then it’s gone.
Lana came to the door.
Ford was kind about the film
Lana said you’re very charitable but I’ve told you that before
Ford: “I think you said I was sweet, but you don’t still think that do you?”
Lana: “I’m still making up my mind.”
Ford got a nosebleed, Lana watched the film but the figure didn’t appear
that time.
Ford came back to the dorm to find The Twins jumping on his bed, they said
they were testing the springs.
They asked why he had a nosebleed.
Ford told The Twins about what he saw in the film, they both let out a
ghostly moan and ran from the building.
They went to the car park and huddled there, Ford followed, a car appeared
The Twins asked their father if they could stay with him for the night
because they don’t feel safe at the dorm
{C}Ford came back and watched Young Frankenstein with Study Group
Knock at the door after ten minutes of the film, it’s Mercy
Mercy: “Hi guys, Hi Kat,”
Kat: “Hi….Mercy…”
Ford and Mercy sat holding hands under a blanket through the movie
Will Save: Ford succeeds, Hero Point! He can’t help but think about what he
saw. It’s like a red button that he shouldn’t press but he can’t help but
think about it. A nosebleed came almost immediately.
Mercy came to the bathroom when Ford had a nosebleed.
She said she’s really proud of him.
Mercy: “Kat Hates Me”
Ford: “Is it from your past?”
Mercy: “I think she’s projecting.”
Mercy asked if he regularly gets nosebleeds.
Ford said something happened but wouldn’t talk about it until he figured out what was going on.
Mercy said “Well you beat Fionn for being enigmatic.”
Kat: “My dad has met someone new. This woman.”
Ford: “Okay. And this woman is… somehow…”
{C}Kat says the woman is a gold digger, she’s twenty years his junior, she’s
practically my older sister.
Asked Ford to come to dinner with her father and his new romance tomorrow
night.
Ford asked Kat why she doesn’t like Mercy so much.
Kat: “I’ll skip to third. I may be jealous of her experiences.”
{C}Kat is intrigued -and appears highly entertained- that Ford is involved with Mercy
Kat said if Ford has women trouble she could give him some insight
Ford explained it’s complicated between him and Mercy {C}She said it’s always complicated {C}Ford said yeah, but it’s REALLY complicated
Kat: “They’ve probably already made a blanket fort out there.”
Ford and Kat went out, there wasindeed a blanket fort covering the whole
dorm room now.
Kat finally making an effort with Mercy, Mercy is very magnanimous about the
whole matter.
They end up talking about her father’s new romance “She calls herself Sindi
with an S and an I.”
Ford fell asleep eventually
Found himself in the park where the film was made.
He could hear the swing blow in the wind, the merry go round creaking.
The tree is nearby, Ford drawn to it walked towards it
A figure stepped out from behind it
Baron Samedi
Every Saturday night is The Baron’s night
Baron Samedi told him he himself couldn’t stop the creature, it’s a protector of The Loa that simply destroys any threat and once someone becomes aware of it and starts thinking about it, it zeroes in on them too.
He said he’d see him at the Halloween party and said they should play a game of cards soon... for birthrights. Baron Samedi will be offering Pandora’s Box.
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The Twins told Ford “We don’t want to happen what happened before”
Ford asked what happened before
When we were younger we didn’t see much of our father but when he was around
he was the sweetest person. He would get into trouble. One night there was a
fire outside, someone had burnt words into the garden. One shall be taken,
the other shall be left.
We kept seeing a man - something- awful thing, it began to haunt us. We grew
closer because of it. We thought we were losing our minds but it was real
and it was more real the more we thought about it. It got so we just wanted
it to come to end it. We thought we were being brave. We invited it into our
home and it took our mom. They said we were crazy. We went into a ward. We
escaped. We lived on the streets, resolved never to think about it again. We
went west from Chicago, went as far as we could. To Clearwater. We thought
it was gone forever. Our new father found us, he was lonely too - not as
lonely as us - he took us in.
Ford stayed the night with the twins, watching over them through the night, he wrapped them all in a blanket and they fell asleep one on each of his shoulders.
Their father has some paint on his shirt and on his fingers
He let Ford look through his paintings in his basement studio
Some are for tourists but there’s also his own
His own are much wilder, more vibrant in colour
As Ford looks through them he can see they’re quite fantastical, quite
abstract
Paintings of individuals
A painting of a couple, middle aged, both with long dark hair, Ford
recognized them immediately as Lucifer and Morrigan.
Ford saw the image of the figure in the painting, started nosebleeding
Went to fight the tally man, Ford used an abandoned shack and covered it in charcoal and chalk images of the tally man himself and of Ford’s black hawk figure.
The Twins arrived, they said they wanted to stand by Ford for the fight, but he managed to get them to agree to wait outside the shack.
The shack darkened, tentacles appearing at the windows and Ford knew the Tally Man was there. Ford stepped in, he was quicker than his opponent and drew his Colt .45, specially modified by Brighid to fire paintball pellets... and that’s exactly what he did. He shot The Tally Man dead centre in the forehead with a bright purple paintball, not harming him in the least but to Ford’s mind, rendering him less frightening, a little ridiculous.
The thing slashed at him with arms that ended in scythes, Ford getting cut sometimes, knocking aside the blades other times. An uppercut sent the creature flying through the wall and right out of the shack. Ford picked up the shack with the Force and threw it, but the thing’s spidery quickness allowed it to skitter out of the way.
The Twins called for Ford to step aside, and hand in hand they each blasted the thing with Fire.
Ford walked towards it but started to hear screams, realized it was The Tally Man’s victims, still trapped inside him. He reached out, using the Force to begin to tear the thing’s ribs open to try to free the victims. {C}It thrashed and tried to cut him but he kept going, forcing it open more and more until the last of the victims escaped and the thing was powerless and died thrashing disgustingly as Ford held it down with the Force.
Ford went to dinner with the Berkowiczs, Larry joked that Ford had broken the one rule of the Berkowicz household: gotten to know his daughter.
After dinner, Ford went for a walk with Sindi, out to the garden.
Sindi/Aphrodite’s hand trembled when she knew who Ford was.
{C}Ford asked Aphrodite why Athena let Jenny be captured and kept til Fionn
saved her
{C}Athena spoke to Aphrodite about Fionn. She was so distracted and upset that
before she knew it her daughter was taken. She treated Fionn like a son
{C}Aphrodite said the story about Hera was a lie, she is on her deathbed.
Aphrodite promised she was honest in her feelings for Larry Berkowicz and Ford told her the price of remaining in this town was honesty. She said without hesitation that she was ready.
Ford and Mercy went back to her place to get high
Ford fell asleep in her bed, woke in a funhouse with vivid purples greens and reds
Baron invited him to the game, Ford was reluctant but Baron’s sense of fun kind of won him over a little. The Baron also thanked Ford for taking care of The Tally Man, he had been thought unstoppable.
Episode 4 close
{C}____________________________________
The Olympians lost the box?
When Fionn impersafates it is a new nemesis. When Ford impersafates it is an
amusing new acquaintance.
===Season 3 Episode 5 - Vengeance===
Episode 5
{C}20th October
{C}Projects at the moment:
Film Festival
House Founding
Mercy Storyline
Vengeance
Check in on Bacchus
October 20th
Ford was in English class
Ford hasn’t done his English homework, largely because he kept reading
Frankenstein again and again.
Mr Osterberg asked Ford to present his paper, Ford said he didn’t have it because he’d been reading the book but he agreed to speak.
He talked for a long time about Frankenstein, focusing on how modern kids could relate to the monster because they knew what it was like to be alone, to long for their parents presence. The revelation that the monster learned to speak by watching families was what Ford closed on, how that monster had learned so much about the world by watching families of people he didn’t know, much like kids growing up watching TV.
Eddie came to see Ford
Eddie said to Ford that he’s been a pretty shitty friend. Ford asked if he could help him find his mother, Eddie said that’s exactly what he came for.
{C}Eddie tried to send them back through time but his amps blew, Ford ended up falling down the
ravine
James Mason character showed up and told them Eddie would never travel
through time again
Ford and Eddie picked themselves up after he left, went to Bleak Hall, took a soak in the springs.
{C}Eddie said if he can’t play the music of the ages anymore and he can’t play
the new sound, then The Deadbeats are finished.
Eddie explained that the new sound will influence Asgard.
Freija has been keeping Eddie updated about life in Asgard
Eddie says
“I’ve seen some positive changes up there man. They hosted this fighting
competition, not really my thing but Freija thought it’d be a great
opportunity for Ivan to prove himself up there.”
Odin has been asking other houses about their destruction myths. Maybe this
is an in, maybe it’s a new direction.
Ford laid out his thoughts
“Gods that are slaves to their aspect are worst
Gods that can defy their aspect are better
Gods that can define their own aspect are best”
Ford said he’s a “Child of the revolution”
Ford: “Revolution is in my blood.”
Eddie: “Course it is man, surrounds you, protects you…”
{C}A woman is walking towards the house
Ford came out of the hot springs in a towel, walked around to see her taking
in the environment. She’s dressed slightly ZZ Top video, heels, hilariously short skirt.
She rang the doorbell, Ford said hi.
{C}She’s very inclined to innuendo.
She is of house Azatlanti
She makes 1,000 innuendo remarks during the visit
Asks if she is the first woman in his room, Ford conceded that actually yes, she was.
She says ceiling is very boring, it’s the most important view in the room.
She asked him about his relationship with Mercy, he declined to go into any details.
There is a club in town, a seedy place. It has no name, no sign. I’m sure
you will find it.
She said “A blessing on your house? Say the word.”
Ford said he couldn’t refuse an offer like that.
She pulled a nailfile and cut her hand and down her wrist, rubbing the blood
deep into his sheets.
She said they were eager to see him at the club
War came to visit
{C}He says shit has gotten real.
{C}He has a location for Zeus, Hera, Ares and others. Ares is preparing for
war, he’s making huge gun orders, readying to come for Ford, calling his Scions to him.
{C}Ford told the story of Muramasa and Masamune
Study Group and the construction folks showed up, Ford asked War to help
with the building and he did.
One final slate, people looking around to see who’ll place it.
{C}Ford looked out to the quad for strangers and saw Felix Underwood, who agreed to help put up the last slate.
{C}Ford passed a bottle of booze from the flask of Dionysus around, then
smashed the bottle over the doorway of Bleak Hall.
Met Alex P Keaton, he’s still dressed like Ford, he’s growing out his hair (at an absurdly fast pace)
Things in Ford’s room:
Cheap Bass Guitar, Projector, Screen, many bean bags, an old beat-up desk
for sketching and meetings, Womb Chair, hammock.
A corner is semi-circular with a balcony all around
Invites
Ira Spengler, Felix, Jordan, Vinny, Rolf, Lana, Rainbow Rhythms,
Ford goes off to invite people to the party but has to go to acting class
first.
In the room there’s a single light on the stage, a glass of water beside a
high stool. Upon that stool is Mr Swindon Ponsonby-Sloan:
{C}Days of Our Lives 82-83
Supernatural Hospital Based Drama
Lana: this guy’s such a windbag
Ford: Aw, I like him
Lana: Oh, that’s sweet
{C}Ponsonby-Sloane picked Ford, asked him to do a Chicken
Ford gave it everything, Ponsonby-Sloane called more up to the stage
{C}In Acting Class: Troy, Lana, Ira, Jean-Ralphio
He had them all be chickens, said: Disaster strikes, a nuclear armed missile is about to come and blow everything up
Troy freaks out, various of them all ran around panicking. Ford continued to peck at the ground as before.
F, F, F, F, B, A+ (for Ford)
It is said that the great Marlon Brando was asked to do the same thing and
Brando did the same as Ford here, realizing a chicken would have no
conception of the meaning of a nuclear strike.
Ponsonby-Sloane is interested in contributing to the film festival
Went to see Bacchus, invited him to the party at Bleak Hall
Bacchus wants to bring Cupid with him to the party
War wanted to train so he brought War off to the outskirts of campus.
War helping Ford get toughened up
“If you’re gonna go around hugging people you gotta expect the occasional
kidney punch”
He spread his arms for a hug
Ford went in, War punched him in the kidney, then an uppercut, smashed a
two by four on his face. {C}It went like that for a long time, Ford taking quite a beating but War actually teaching him, not just punishing him. He helped him condition himself to ignore pain, grow tougher.
{C}At the small welcome party:
{C}Ira showed up, asking after Study Group but mentioning Jean-Ralphio in a slightly breathless voice
Prince says it’s payday, 170,000
Ford took Jordan to his office to pay him
Jordan is suffering since his hand was injured, dark thoughts, physical and
mental pain
It’s making him feel like lashing out
It was him that slaughtered the mascot, he hardly knew himself.
Ford and Jordan vowed to help each other out as though they’re each other’s
sponsors.
Ford played Purple Rain
Ira is asking about Jean-Ralphio
Jean-Ralphio says he’s in love with Norma the Normie
Jean-Ralphio knocked over a bookcase, asked Ford to take responsibility for
it
J-R went to talk to Norma
War called Jordan upstairs, he went up with him.
Kat and Ford went for a walk and talk
Kat found out Women’s Studies - is in fact domestic pursuits, The Dean’s idea of women’s studies include sewing, embroidery, baking.
{C}Dionysus came to the party, Ford was extremely starstruck.
He played Fantastic Voyage for Ford and asked him to pay mind to the message.
{C}Said he’d try to help with Ares, try to prevent bloodshed
Ford and Dionysus jammed a few tunes, Ford got to play the bassline to Ziggy Stardust among other tunes.
{C}Mercy came to the party
She asked “Can we just keep doing this?”
Ford asked if she was asking him to keep doing it or asking him if it was possible, she said maybe both.
Mercy sees these Options:
{C}Option 1 we keep doing this
{C}Option 2 we realize we can’t go further and we just take a step back
{C}Option 3 Mercy says Ford could see other people
{C}Ford said he could never even think of option 3. They hung out in his room, smoked a joint, she fell asleep on his bed and he just lay back to sleep beside her.
Ford woke to hear a woman screaming inside the main campus building. He stood and walked into shadow, appearing in a corridor nearby.
She’s screaming “I’m not responsible I’m not responsible,” running and
slamming doors behind her. Steady boots are decimating the doors behind her.
She falls to the ground Terminator 2 style when she sees Ford, her hair is
loose and her glasses are broken, she’s slightly bloodied.
Ford saw Ares approaching to kill her, Ares didn’t see him. {C}Ford reached to take her hand, she flinched in fear but he took it anyway, transporting her to the tree house to talk.
Ares said he wants to kill Athena, he blames her for everything that
happened.
Ford asked what Ares said
Athena said Ares said:
That I am the reason we’re down here and for that reason I should be killed
Ford: Why did you never stand by his side, ever?
Athena: Because I was ashamed
Ford: What’s that worth?
Athena said: If I could have done things differently I would have. I know that now. I know it.
I would have given my soul.
Athena: I don’t deserve to live
Ford: Everybody deserves to live
Athena: Your grandfather and grandmother they are down there they kill day
after day because of me. Your father is lost to you because of me.
Athena said Zeus would have as quickly killed her as Erebus killed the
Moirae or sent the Oneroi to their deaths.
Ford took Athena on a walking tour, telling the story of his battles with
Pecos Bill and his turning from killing to Hope.
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TALK TIME!
Surprises for Morgan:
It’s no wonder that Fionn felt so at home with Deception because he was
attracted to her Truth
___________________
War got Ford on Walkie Talky first thing in the morning
He said it was time to go to the house. {C}Ford agreed, readied one of the jalopies so he’d have a ride. Turned out it was a beautiful but rundown ‘57 Buick.
War wanted to attack the house from the back, Ford said no, he was going to walk to the front door.
Athena elected to come with him, War said he’d go around the back of the house and if Ford was in trouble he’d make his move. Ford called him on the walkie talkie to ask him again to avoid bloodshed but the radio was off.
Ford parked and started walking down the long country driveway to the farmhouse. Snipers appeared on the roof, Ford saw a laser dot on his chest and a moment later he sensed the approach of a bullet, long before the shot sounded. He raised a hand and for the first time simply stopped the bullets with ‘The Force’, letting them fall harmlessly to the ground in front of him.
More of them loaded up though, six snipers all aiming at Ford and Athena so Ford created a solid wall of Obsidian, moving it forward with The Force, seeing through it with his x-ray vision. They moved slowly, bullets and even some grenades blasting but failing to penetrate the thick wall.
Scions started appearing to fight, Ford disabled them without injuring them, giving them no more than stunning strikes to vital points. Athena turned four of them away simply by saying “Think about what you’re doing!”, which caused them to develop Metal Gear Solid style question marks above their heads.
Finally Ares stepped out. {C}Ford tried to talk to him, saying he was here for the truth, not to fight. Ares was implacable, he and Ford fought.
Ares in full Spartan battle armour, Ford in old jeans and a tshirt and converse, but with his bracers, inherited from his father, made by Brighid.
Ford refused to engage lethally so he continually hit Ares with stunning strikes, all the while trying to get out of the way of Ares’s sword. Ares was so resilient that Ford’s strikes seemed to do little, all the while he was lashing out with his sword. At one point he cut Ford across the ribs and the impact itself had him coughing blood. He fell to a knee but Ares stepped back, pacing like a caged tiger until Ford found his feet. {C}Ford had been planning a trick gambit but he realised he wanted to just fight Ares toe to toe, perhaps as a way to honour Ares for letting him stand.
Ford sustained several wounds, Ares was dazed a couple of times but seemed unharmed otherwise. Finally Ares drove his sword right through Ford’s side, Ford caught his wrist to trap the blade in himself and with his other hand struck Ares first over the heart, then in the side of the neck, knocking him unconscious.
{C}Standing over the fallen god of war, Ford said “No-one has been hurt, I’m here in peace. May I come in?”
{C}Zeus asked if he could be alone with his wife in her last moments but Athena walked in and Ford followed.
Ford tried to heal Athena, enduring great pain as a result, but she could not -perhaps would not - be healed.
Hera said:
Heartbreak will make you do terrible things. He broke my heart so many times
I wanted to see the world burn. I wanted to see it all end. I am a shrewd
woman, far smarter than she is, she said pointing at Athena.
I let it happen, all of it. Until I didn’t want it to happen anymore. I
changed my mind. I’m done with this world and the next. I don’t want to be a
god. It’s torture. You hear me? An eternity of this. Oh, let me off. I’m
sorry that I’ve dragged you all into this mess. I shouldn’t have taken it
out on anyone.
How do you kill a god? Only with a Godkiller. I’m sorry Ford, for what
happened to you, your father and your grandfather. May you forever curse the
name of Hera.
Ford: No - {C}He was going to say more but she spoke:
Hera:
I think it is better to be a mortal than a god.
And with those words she died.
Athena pledged her loyalty to Ford, said that no matter what, from this point on he could call on her and she would stand by his side through anything.
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MEeting:
Ford and Jordan: it’s like a partnership
Possible Squad Thoughts So Far:
Obviously Prince has to captain The Rio
Study Group are at least possibles
Athena - partly to show respect for her promise
War - He’s like Ford’s Leviathan
Hera was tired of being an immortal and wanted it to end. She decided that
being a god is draining. To maintain that existence in utter unhappiness is
awful. She envied mortals.
What makes her so villainous was she had such a death wish that she would
involve so many people in this, she would put Athena through the torture of
thinking she was to be held responsible for this. Zeus’s position was that
he had to save face, it became sabre rattling.
Tracking the Pantheons:
Tuatha are on the ascendant after throwing off the shackles of Yahweh
Hell - Something’s happening down there
Tartarus -
Romans - high on the hog
Amatsukami - A rise in some underworld activity there
Questions:
How did Pecos Bill get out of Hell
How did Baron Samedi get the box
How did Tartarus himself get out of the box
War is drinking Styx Water…
__________________
Ford at PL 15
Powers?
Light?
Dimensional Pocket!
Mental Immunities/ Nullify
Light Power?
Morgan thinking:
1. Some kind of power for using the pacifist aspect
2. Some kind of ranged attack, a ranged version of Stun
Later maybe PL 16 - mind control negation aura
Episode 5 Ends
===Season 3 Episode 6 - The "Oh, Ford" Show===
Picking up directly from end of Episode 5
Ford very Romeo is Bleeding, driving along beside Athena in his jalopy, cigarette hanging from lip as he steers with one hand and staunches the bleeding in his side with the other.
{C}Athena - You look like you need the hospital.
Ford - No, it’s too much attention
{C}Athena - I wonder where Hermes is.
{C}War pulled up next to them at an intersection, he was dour.
Ford: I know this isn’t how you wanted it to go down, but you stood by me
and that means something.
{C}Athena said they should get back to Campus... Ford looked down at his bloodied form.
Ford said I might stop and pick up a fresh shirt
Athena warned him off a dry clean only shirt
Ford said he doesn’t trust dry cleaning
Athena explained the dry cleaning process in detail, it was quite boring but Ford found it oddly endearing
{C}Bleak Hall Setup:
Bleak Hall has a Garage with built in Shop
Meetings take place in Ford’s room
A conservatory/ green house area
Ford gave Athena a tour of the house
Athena was deducting who built the house, who has been there
Bacchus has been here - you can tell by the joints here
Ford showed her the conservatory and it made her cry
She said “I miss him so much, Apollo, his influence has been here.”
Athena asked who found found the hot springs
Ford said a friend
Athena said he must have great wisdom
Ford said yeah I think he does
Athena: I’m curious about these - gesturing to some of Kat’s handiwork
She said there’s magic that makes the place more libidinous {C}Ford was worried, like, is this some kind of mind control?
{C}She says: No, nothing more than a slightly aphrodisiac mood
Ford nodded {C}Athena: like romantic music and wine
Ford: Like a Prince album
Ford explained he got his friends to help build the house and they all live
there
Athena said: I am humbled by you Ford, you have created a mixed house. A house where the sons and
daughters of other houses can stay together.
Athena offered guidance as a payment of her debt
Ford said I appreciate your advice and input but my house is done taking
guidance
Then he took her hand
{C}Troy came into the bathroom to be sick but offered to talk. Ford got out of the shower to chat, Troy asked:
You saber-rattling with Johnny Again?
Ford laid out everything about Aspect for Troy
Jean-Ralphio didn’t come home last night
Ford asked how is Ira, Troy said she escaped from the bathroom by knotting towels and a shower curtain.
Ford was awfully sad for leaving poor Ira to her fate, Troy gave Ford a calming moment by laying a hand on his shoulder. Ford was immensely relieved.
Mercy asked Ford to ‘Be the father of her baby’
Massive spit-take
She means her show and Snuggles
Snuggles, her treats, her diabetic shots
The rules for caring for Snuggles are practically Gremlin
Mercy’s tour
Music
Advertisements
Announcements
Put up a poster or two - Ford will put up Boys Don’t Cry
Metal at Midnight is at 11pm - scheduling issue, the Dean is stonewalling
Ford’s Playlist
Cure
Smiths
Prince
The Replacements
Bowie
Echo and the Bunnymen
The Deadbeats
The Tokyo Deadbeats
{C}QUOTE {C}Ford’s intro
“Boys Don’t Cry...but sometimes they do. I’m Ford, Mercy is away but I’m here to give slightly less insightful answers to your questions so start calling.”
Dean came in, gave Ford the announcements
Tainted meat in the school cafeteria - “get the word out on this Asap - as quickly as possible”
Dean:
Someone is announcing a Film Festival, I thought it would be nice if they
would put the proceeds to charity, a local education facility that could do
with some maintenance work…
Not to forget that awful thing that happened a couple of weeks ago - That
wall, the drywall, the vending machine.
Mr Corvin, I’ve noticed that you’ve set up your house, so you’ll be ready
for your inspection later.
There’s a political rally later, paperwork has been done, nothing I can do
to stop it. Some radical on campus.
Ford asked one of Prince’s admirers to do him a favour, deliver a note
warning the house they have between 3 and 5 to clean up before Dean’s
inspection.
Ford opened the lines and got his first call
Troy, shamelessly calling to publicize the Halloween party
Ford quite firm on one issue: No Scabs - everybody wears a costume
{C}Time: “Eight ‘til triple-question-mark”
{C}Ford advised everyone to cease eating cafeteria food AQAP
Casser called and said he’d be at the Halloween party
{C}Erlich Cartmensch called the show saying he was the best of friends with
Fionn, Ford checked Fionn’s Sketchbook for a quote but said he was welcome anyway.
{C}Someone called the show, he said his name is hard to say, said you can just
call him An Interested Party.
{C}People of my age they have great trouble dealing with these problems
But I have Hope. Yes Ford, I have Hope. I believe that Children are the
greatest asset of this world, they will shape this world. Deal with all the
problems that we face.
{C}He said he’s left a message in Ford’s Bathroom
{C}Ford next played Changes by Bowie
Saw Bowie himself, they talked about the end of the Olympian situation, Dionysus was sad about Hera but glad the matter had been resolved otherwise peacefully.
Ford went to bathroom, saw the toilet bowl has a light deep down in it, like a well.
“that’s a terrible way to leave a message!,” Ford exclaimed mildly, “I’m not
putting my hand in there,” then he closed the door.
{C}Kat is extremely put out that the campus has a ‘radical’ according to the Dean. {C}Kat: “If any radical behaviour was going on, I’d know about it.” {C}Ford: Kat are you concerned that someone is engaged in some unsanctioned
radical activity?
Kat: Yes I am
Rally is in an hour
Ford observing sees just one man in the quad
Black turtleneck, all black clothes, black blazer. Something very humble about his look though
He says his name is Marx
{C}He asked for Ford’s help with an announcement
CCCCP - Clearwater Community College Communist Party
{C}He asked Ford to help with his rally, play music for it etc
Ford said he can’t be part of the rally, he’s not into politics, but he will let people know where
and when
Vladimir Marx - he was appreciative of Ford’s reaction, said that was very reasonable of him. He quizzed Ford about his belief system somewhat, Ford found he was always -even if indirectly- talking about Communism but Ford didn’t mind as he wasn’t pushy.
Ford invited Vlad to the party but he is serious about the No Scabs -everybody wears a costume rule
Student who delivered message came to see Ford
“You’re in my econ class, aren’t you? and you know Simon Prince… oh that’s
cool… my name is Quendra? With a Q?”
Ford: {C}Simon Prince is a magnificently complicated man
He’s a magnificently complex man
He’s many-layered, many-faceted
Quendra: Yeah but is he seeing anyone?
Cut to previous scene
Prince in hot tub with Ford, going melancholic for a momet: “I’m married to the sea.”
Quendra: Can I use your bathroom?
Ford: No. Uh. It’s weird in there
Ford got a call to the station
Jordan called, he said he slipped last night
“I was with your friend and we were hanging out, we were talking, he
asked me if I wanted a drink and he said I’ve got one I’ve got a beer. He
said it’s a pussy’s drink. He gave me this bottle -
Ford: I know it
Jordan: And it made me think dark, bloody thoughts, maybe worse than ever.
Jordan said he’d lost his sobriety chip, Ford said no, this is day 1 so he gets his day one chip. {C}They resolved to hang out that evening and stay in close contact.
Ford announced the rally
Kat - who is this guy?
Ford - Vlad
Kat - I doubt that’s even his real name
Ford - Yeah, probably not… KAT
Ford - His name is Vladimir Marx
Kat - that’s convenient
Ford - it’s incredibly convenient because he’s actually a communist
Kat - WHAT
Blaine, Dale and Johnny there with rotten eggs
Ford used the force to smush their egg bags against them
Vlad finishes his speech, a couple of people politely applaud
Kat is beyond sour-faced at this
Phone rang - private line.
The interested party saying Ford had not visited yet, they would create a
more agreeable portal.
Steps leading down with troughs on either side, leading to a corridor,
through a stone mouth. Ford emerges in a dense rainforest.
Birds overhead seem to show the way.
Warriors emerge from the trees to watch Ford, but they fall to their knees
and prostrate themselves on the ground as he passes.
The building is an Aztec pyramid, 1,000 steps
At the top of the steps is a throne room, Khan is there
He said it’s right that they fell to their knees as Ford is royalty, a god.
Asked Ford if he’s met any Seers, people who know The Truth
Ford talked about the nature of Truth a little
“Allow me to blow your mind. What if I were to tell you that you only know
your side, you have not yet been exposed to other truths. The door you
passed through, that has been prophesised. Meeting my men out there. They
have waited a lifetime for that to happen.
A man with brilliant blue skin. The Warchild. Your birth was no accident.
The Atzalanti. We are one of the oldest houses. We have foreseen this day,
millennia ago.
Tell me Ford, did you ever find out the story of your birth.
The child is born within a day in a facsimile of his home. The son returns
to earth as a man. It is a glorious story.
Ford thanked him for the compliments but wondered where this was going.
By now it is prophesized you will have questions.
An image of yourself, with the sun on one shoulder, darkness over the other.
What you know is just the prologue to the story of your own life. You have
questions… well you should.
There is one missing element. When the great emperor of Darkness died. And I
say great for that is how he wished to think of himself. His death came with
a clause. A murderer would be unleashed. A god that represented his domain.
Driven, thoughtless, he had no need for thoughts. One passion consumed him.
The death of The Godkiller. Owing to a celestial joke, your father became
quite unobtainable. So Tartarus went to the closest thing it had: the child.
He found you and you fought. And how did that feel?
Ford: I was new. It was mostly instinct.
H:
It resides deep in you. The ability to let blood, to vanquish your foes.
When you slew that god, you broke the seal.
Ford: Which Seal?
H: The great black hole. Tremendous power. It could wipe houses from this
earth. And take us close to Purification.
{C}It needs feeding. It is weak. It calls closer. It demands retribution.
F: Retribution?
H: Tribute.
You are still a child. It has been prophesized you would harbur feelings of
peace. This is not your destiny.
Ford rejected the story and left, politely thanking H for the food and drink.
{C}In order to distract the Dean, Ford and The Rainbow Rhythms recreated Romeo and Juliet via Flashdance, with lots of cold buckets of water. (These were all thrown at Ford) {C}A final bucket of water represented Romeo’s death.
Maria Ouspenskaya:
Dean, when he walked through that door, I did not see the dancer that stands
beside me now. He is a Rainbow Warrior.
(Ford stood tall and proud at this)
There’s a car parked in the drive, it has an official looking seal on the
side of it, and Federal Campus Inspection logo on the side of it.
{C}Mr Atherton comes out, he is conducting the surprisingly official investigation.
Jean-Ralphio won’t wake up, he passed out just after getting home. {C}After some brief panicked discussion Ford decides to use The Force to puppet Jean-Ralphio, covering him in sunglasses, conducting a written conversation with a bandage around his neck. (tonsilitis flare-up)
J-R’s room - loud, zebra print, geometric prints
Troy’s room - sports themed
Kat’s room - shelves of books that haven’t been opened, room trying to be
ascetic
{C}Ford’s room - corner. Across the way is Kat’s, then Troy, Jean-Ralphio, then
across from JR at the other corner front is The Twins room.
Twins Room - perfectly mirrored {C}Mr Atherton is a scion of Hades, he passed their inspection and even gave his father’s regards.
Mercy returned from her trip. Ford had time to play one last song so he chose There Is A Light That Never Goes Out.
Mercy started talking, Ford could feel where it was going so he took her hand and walked through a shadow portal to an empty farmhouse on the edge of the woods beside Corvin Farmhouse where they could sit on the porch and talk. He explained: “Conversations like this tend to leave a shadow on a place, better not to have it in a place that’s dear to you.”
Mercy’s story
When I was travelling on the road, I as in Albuquerque and I had no money
and I needed gas, this very kind woman said oh let me get that.
I said Jenny Swanson?
And she said Mercy Fabray?
I asked her what she’s doing and she said it’s complicated
I asked how and she said let me show you
She led me out to this black van with red detailing
She’s riding with these three guys, MIT never suited her, her mind was
elsewhere. And so she was going from town to town solving people’s problems.
I said what was it that inspired you to do this?
She said it was a breakup that she had with Fionn
She said it was a complicated relationship, the loved each other very dearly
but they had a very silly falling out, she regrets it, she knew Fionn
regretted it as well, they resolved their differences, they resolved this
problem, they agreed to be friends but that was kind of impossible for them
because they kept on relapsing. Until one day she received a letter from MIT
and it looked like it was a passport away from the problem. So she accepted
it, she told her father, she met with Fionn and they had this expression,
‘The Belgian Goodbye’, it means you say goodbye but - well the Belgian
Goodbye for them was kind of final.
What I think we need to say is goodbye to one thing and we’ll leave the
light on.
Ford and Mercy were both saying the same thing throughout: That they loved one another but each of them felt that it was wrong to keep the other from finding a love they could fully commit to.
Mercy said she didn’t feel like going back to the station again. She looked over towards the drive-in and asked if he felt like watching a movie.
They watched Casablanca together at Maria’s Drive-In
Episode 6 Ends.
===Season 3 Episode 7 - Halloween Part 1===
{C}Episode 7 -
{C}Ten days since the breakup {C}Ford has spent most of this in his hammock with the curtains drawn in his room, skipping class. He’s accepted visitors, saying things like “Come, enter my fortress of sorrow” with a kind of self-puncturing gentle humour.
In the intervening time Ford wrote Mercy a letter telling her he wants her
to find someone and be happy with them, she couldn’t be happy with him and
she deserves to be with someone.
Ford has gone through a bit of an inactive phase for a few days
This is another test for his aspect of Hope, though he’s hurting he just tends to think that maybe tomorrow or the next day this will get better and eventually it will be okay. This attitude sees him through.
During this downtime, Ford has been writing his manifesto
He found the first of the Fionn tapes which helped him to put things in context
Ford says a hidden aspect of The Tartarus War is : “A theological debate played out on a battlefield”
Friday, October 30th
Shadowed room, creak of a hammock, slow, thudding footsteps. Ford calls out
“Does anyone know where I could find a Superman costume?”
Manifesto title: “Free Will, Even For The Gods”
Kat asked if she could read it
{C}Kat loved the manifesto, she said it blew her mind
Household Dynamic
{C}Ford and Kat are kind of like the parents
Ford asked if everyone had their seatbelts on
Then Kat got in and asked and they all groaned, Troy called her the worst
Kat complains she’s always the bad guy
Shopping list
food
beverages
Jean-Ralphio insisted on condoms
plenty of gift bags
Costumes
Kat: We’ve got an hour
Everyone is given tasks, Ford somehow manages to Tom Sawyer every single task out of his care and goes off to wander and enjoy an hour’s recreation time
Ford is seen later with a slurpee, wearing a ‘I ate the big burrito!’ t-shirt over his Swindon Ponsonby-Sloane sweater-vest disguise.
{C}Ford walked into the costume store in disguise and asked if they had a Superman costume
{C}Costume shop girl immediately saw through him and said he shouldn’t go as
Superman. Ford said it’s okay he’s going as Bizarro.
She said she has a talent for seeing people’s Aspect
Ford saw Lana at the costume store, they each agreed not to peek at the other’s costume, she will come to the party.
{C}Ford found a perfect Bizarro costume
Kat is annoyed that everyone’s keeping them waiting, she’s waiting in The Green Zone as the time is up.
{C}Ford agreed to find the others, partly to make up for clearly having done nothing during the hour.
{C}Found Troy, ended up playing Contra with him for ten minutes before he
remembered he was supposed to be gathering people.
Found The Twins playing with illusions, changing people’s foods. Ford attempted to look disapproving but he was kind of fascinated. He told them one more and then they could go.
Ford squeezed a series of ketchup and mustard bottles with the Force, to their delight
The Twins then made a ‘merry christmas’ banner fall along with illusory confetti, making people exclaim and shelter their food before it disappeared. They then said “We’ve had our fun.”
Jean-Ralphio was hitting on a pretty girl who worked in a clothes store, using some very confident pickup patter that made Ford grimace, though he did acknowledge he had at least progressed beyond just declaring his phone number to random girls at varying distances.
{C}Ford coached them all to say sorry to Kat, she was sourfaced but quickly admitted she couldn’t stay mad at them.
Bleak House Halloween Setup
Haunted House Look
One room is an egyptian tomb
Garage is Frankenstein’s Laboratory
The Kitchen is done like The Slaughtered Lamb
Shining style maze complete with Fake Snow and footprints
They’ve Kubricked the corridor and the rooms have room numbers: Ford’s is
237
Big bathroom is in Frank Lloyd Wright style
Polystyrene gravestones leading up to the house
A bedroom in the style of a bedroom in Dracula’s Castle
Lower floor is haunted carnival/spooky circus
Basement is an Indiana Jones style with fake traps
Attic is a kind of untouched spookiness, portraits of members of the house
in 1820s clothes
Fake newspaper clippings from a hundred years ago, stories of disappeared youths that match the description of the housemates
Invitation: missing persons posters, sex male/female, age 18-??? etc
Last seen: ???
Next seen at: Bleak Hall, Halloween Night
Midnight of October 30th:
All the work is done
It’s Devil’s Night
Everyone’s up in the attic, arranged in a slightly pentagonal form, they’re
all drinking by candlelight
Troy asks: What’s the scariest thing you’ve ever heard? I’ll start.
Troy’s Story:
One night this couple driving along the road. (Kat: Which road?) (Troy
struggled but finally said it was Fornby road) There’s this couple, they’re
into each other. It’s their third date, they’re thinking let’s push things a
little and let’s take this to a different gear. (Kat: Ok we got it, we’ve
got the metaphor)
Ok so they’re driving along, they decide to pull into the old lookout point.
They’re both making small talk but they both know what’s gonna happen.
Then he has to go out.. I mean, he has to make a number two.
(Ford loses it at this point)
So he says hey don’t you worry, I’ll be back. She’s all like oh Brad, little
old me, I’m just a lady left alone in a car on Lookout Point. But he leaves
her alone -he REALLY needs to go- he leaves her all alone. I believe she was
a… well, you know, like they have down south.
She says ooh it sure is spooky here. Then she turns on the radio and plays a
tune… a jazzy melody.
Then she starts to hear a drip, drip, drip
Steady sound, there’s a roll of thunder and a crack of lightning and all
that, and then it happens again, and again, and again, until someTHING drops
onto the roof of the car. She screams (Troy does a girlish scream) She grabs
the door, checks that it’s locked, but then another thing drops, then
another, then another, all onto the roof of the ceiling. She gets real
scared so she decides to make a run for it. She runs away from the Car as
fast as her little southern legs will take her. She looks behind… what would
she find: diarrhea covered her car. It was everywhere.
(Kat: What?)
You see the man climbed a tree but he really really had to go.
(Kat: That’s the worst excuse for a - )
No no there’s a twist… the car was a reeennnntallllll
Kat’s Story:
One day in a town not unlike this one, a young woman started her first day
in a new factory. She does excellent work. Better than most of the guys
there. People start to say oh you’re a natural! But they’re not saying that,
they just give looks.
She wants to be employee of the month.
Works reaaaaally hard all month.
That’s when it happens. They get their paychecks. She gets 40% less than a
man working in the same conditions.
{C}QUOTE
Ford: That is both a terrible set of working conditions and a terrible
story.
Jean-Ralphio:
Amateur hour is over, let a pro step in. So there’s this girl. There’s a
guy, let’s call him Jason-Rombard Silverstein. He’s in school, it’s his
first day. He gets a lot of women, like all the time. He’s had to
disconnect his phone, it’s a horror story. Anyway, he’s in… say business
studies. Then he sees her. He can have any girl in the school he likes, like
any one. He sees her, a mousy little number. His buddy says stay away she’s
a nerd. He’s not frightened of nerds, you know they say nerds are hell in
the sack. He’s making moves on her, she’s impressed, he’s irresistable. Then
real blase like he says let’s stop the foreplay let’s make this happen.
Prom night, you and me, we’re going. She practically loses it, she’s so
excited. Night of the prom, great music, great conversation… it’s like a
movie.
Everything is perfect.
She’s all made up now. But you know, she had a natural confidence before,
anyway.
And of course, prom king and queen is announced, mainly it’s him, but she’s
made a tremendous effort and it’s great.
Then he drives her home like a real gentleman… she says the most magical
words.
My parents are away for the weekend.
He parks around the corner because some girls lie and parents come home
early. He doesn’t want to get caught out.
Then he goes to the door, he’s got breath spray, trojans in his pocket. And
you know, like downstairs? No problems there.
He goes in, conditions are perfect, lights are low, there’s music…
She’s so frisky she wants to do it in the living room, windows open.
Girl, you gonna take me to school, he says, two can play at that game.
Things get nteresting, very interesting, he doesn’t wanna get too interested
too soon.
Clothes come off, she’s beautiful, like a walking coke bottle.
She says let’s see what I’m playing with, he says alright girl, jockeys come
off, trojan goes on.
(Kat: this is the most horrible story I’ve ever heard. Ford: Well, it is
KIND of horrifying)
Kat asks him to cut out the details
Jean-Ralphio says I have to tell the whole story.
Then they’re doing the deed and he feels something growing from inside her.
And then he feels his johnson being ripped off.
Then she stands and says “Look at you, you’re nothing.” And that’s the end
of the story.
The Twins:
Once upon a time in Chicago there were two girls. Called Sandy and Mandy.
They were best friends and they did everything together. They loved to go to
the museum, art galleries, they had one painting that was their favourite.
It was a landscape of a beach with some trees. They visited this painting
any time they felt sad. One day they went to the museum and they saw this
painting but it was different, they both noticed it at the same time. There
was a figure standing in the background. Because they had seen the painting
so many times they knew it was new.
They told the security guard that someone had painted something on the
painting, he got a curator and they came back… and it was gone. They thought
the girls were crazy, or just stupid girls. So that night they kept on
thinking about the painting and they saw it in their dream and they had the
same dream, this time they were in the painting, the figure came closer this
time. They woke up and they thought about it, wanted to stop thinking about
it, but that just made them think about it more. The more they thought, the
closer it got. Until one day they saw words burnt into the grass on their
front lawn. One shall be taken and the other shall be left. It terrified
them. It was the worst thing in the world they could possibly imagine.
Then their mother was gone. Because of that they blamed themselves. They
were orphans then. Everyone said they were crazy, some even thought they did
it. They were put in an institution. The food was so terrible there,
everything was so grey that it changed them forever. So they decided to run
away. But when they ran away they kept running from thoughts of this thing.
They even lived on the streets until a kind man took them in. They made lots
of new friends.
(They stopped, looking to Ford. Ford got up, sat behind them and put his
purple blanket over their shoulders)
Then their new friend helped them. Because when it caught up with them, he
stood beside them and made it ridiculous. Then they saw their mother again
but she had to go away. And it ended happily ever after.
{C}Ford told a story of Fionn and Apate at the Halloween party
They decided to camp in the attic
Late that night:
Kat: you awake?
Ford: yeah
{C}Kat: Was your story true?
Ford: Yeah. It’s how my dad met my mom.
Kat: Ford? Is their story true too?
Ford: Yeah.
Kat: Ford? Don’t you think it’s scary that it’s 1987 and women still don’t
get paid as much as men?
Ford: I think it’s a god damned disgrace.
Kat: Goodnight Ford
Halloween:
Sky is foreboding with black clouds, everyone slept in quite late
Ford hears a radio in his bedroom go on as his alarm. He hears Mercy’s voice, she talks about how today is a very special day and wishes everyone a spooky one. {C}She publicizes the greatest party on campus tonight The Bleak Hall Bash
Ford went to talk to Jean-Ralphio, found him surprisingly sedate and sad
{C}Jean-Ralphio said
Cadbury fell over the other day. He was complaining about something, a pain
in his chest and I had to help him up. That’s why I was scared last night.
Ford and he talked about how now might be the time for Jean-Ralphio to start looking after Cadbury.
{C}7.30pm
Preparation time
{C}Kat’s costume - corset, old style dress with hoop skirt.
Suffragette sash
{C}Her hoops blocking door, Ford lifted the side of her dress to let her
through
Kat: You’re turning this into a sexy halloween costume! You’re despicable.
Jean-Ralphio -
He’s in a chair, turns it around, he’s in a dashing tuxedo.
His Sean Connery is excellent.
The twins have Kubricked.
Troy is in a near-perfect Aliens-style space loader, Kat helped him build it.
{C}The Deadbeats pretended to be scabs, they’re just in black jeans and leather jackets... then they put on black wigs: they are The Ramones
Next to arrive:
The Mighty Thor - He’s dressed as the marvel Thor {C}He said “you’re wondering if it’s real aren’t you?” {C}Ford said maybe, pretending to play it coy but unable to stop staring at Mjolnir. {C}“Accept no substitute,” Thor said, tapping the hammer’s head and creating a small thunder roar.
Sif - dressed as Barbie, complete with drawn-on joints
Sif recognized Ford as “the dreaded Bizarro Superman,” Ford was delighted.
Thor said they read the comics at night before bedtime, Sif said she reads them to him.
Two small men come into view, both coming from opposite sides, looking at
each other.
It’s R2 D2 and Wicket
R2D2 - Lugh
Erlich is Wicket
Brighid is here as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
50s Housewife - Dark wavy hair, quite booby - Nyx. {C}She and Ford greeted warmly and she went into the party, casting a mildly suspicious look at Brighid.
A yuppified individual, bearded, with cellular phone. “Bubbe, pleased to be
here,” It’s Vioar.
A man with an athletic vest, shorts, white sneakers, with a long pole for
vaulting.
Baldur. He asked there’s anything he can do to help.
Another tour truck, out of which:
Dressed all as ghosts, Japanese ghosts, The Tokyo Deadbeats
Ryu warned Ford he might get a static shock shaking his hand, he did but it
was fine, it added to his costume.
Sif comes out, “What turn should he take on Dupont?”
Ford gave directions.
Sif: He’s such a proud man. (Raises phone) Odin? (then an argument)
{C}A woman with cigar, Groucho moustache, dark curly wig, glasses. - Athena.
{C}A Scarecrow, holding hands with Dorothy flanked by the Tin Man and the
Cowardly Lion
Behind them a whole retinue of monkeys with wings
{C}Cowardly Lion - Walter
Scarecrow - Vinny
Tin Min - Jordan
Dorothy - Portia
Erzulie - Tina Turner - Beyond Thunderdome
Baron Samedi appeared leaning against a tree.
Ford: You made it!
Baron Samedi: Oh I made it Fionn… Ford… Oh I knew that would be a problem.
{C}Samedi thanked Ford for taking care of ‘that problem’
He said as thanks he had a gift: a bottle, black with XXX across its label
Ford said as long as it’s not styx-water he’ll be delighted to drink it, Baron said he’d just have to see, Ford said he’ll drink it anyway.
Baron Samedi: Patted a box-shaped lump in his pocket - Maybe we will play some cards!
{C}Fritz Engel arrived, in his usual clothes. Ford blocked him but he had a
fake glasses nose combination. {C}Kat awarded Mr Engel the worst costume of the evening prize.
Prince has a stain on his shirt. Ford eventually guessed he’s in character as a slob who spilled on himself. “I’m the guy who wishes he was Simon Prince.”
Ford heard a bola swinging, looked up to see Catwoman. Billow! He was immediately impressed with her svelte Catwoman style.
Krampus and Krampette dressed as Santa and Santa’s Little Helper {C}Ford confided in them that he absolutely cannot wait for Krampus this year.
{C}Leviathan arrived in fedora and trenchcoat {C}“Don’t give me any reason to think you’re not the SOB I think you are.”
Two hippies make their way up the path
Long blond braided hair, flowers woven in. He’s wearing a sheepskin vest, flowing, almost Rainbow Rhythms pants. She’s dressed as a flowerchild. {C}Ivan and Freija
A formation of Black Limousines
Guards dressed as Roman Soldiers come out.
Jupiter is dressed as The Godfather.
Mercury is dressed as a wizard, via Mickey Mouse.
Juno - Morgan Fairchild - dressed as Cinderella
{C}Mars - dressed as Robert DeNiro in Godfather Part 2
Gave Ford a gift, wrapped in a flower box. Said he’s pleased with Ford because “You made my father happy, that makes me happy with you.”
Farrah Fawcett - “You must be Ford Corvin,”
Ford: “If you say so, then I must be,”
Venus: “Sweet. Look but don’t touch.”
Ford: “Hey, same goes for you sister,” backing away as though to evade her grabby hands.
{C}Another woman steps out.
She’s got a mohawk shaved on either side, dressed as a punk.
Sigourney Weaver - Diana the Huntress
{C}Minerva - Meryl Streep - “Your hair has been shocked.” {C}Ford explained it’s alright, it was by a friend.
A man half in Samurai armour, half in a robe. At his side is another man,
blond hair, very very blond.
{C}Raiden and Susano-O
Susano-O - A Ronin
Raiden - Rutger Hauer
David Bowie is Jareth from Labyrinth
“I see we’ve got some cats from Japan”
{C}Ford hears a clatter of glasses behind him. The twins have dropped their
glasses and they’re staring at… the trousers.
The Dean screams DAVID BOWIE!
He’s dressed as a sexy devil.
Bowie: “Dean, eh? You’re doing alright for yourself.”
Dean fainted.
{C}QUOTE
Ford says: “David Bowie makes Deans of us all.”
{C}Kat: We forgot coasters
Ford: Did we?
Kat: I’ll try to enjoy tonight if you do me a favour. If you try and enjoy
yourself too.
FDR - Cord Van Graff “And you… must be the teen pregnancy.”
Still wearing his friendship bracelet.
Cord
Hard to distinguish yourself these days. When your father was in town it was
kinda special to be special, you know what I mean?
They talked about the death of Talos.
Cord asked if he could have his CPU, Ford had been saving it for him.
Cord - “To my son. And your father.”
Ford - “And my brother.”
Cord had an arrowtech box to accept Talos’s CPU.
{C}Kat wanted to talk to Ford
{C}Ford: come up to my office
Kat thinks Ford should be moving on and finding someone
Ford: Are you saying that I’m young and free and single and I’m at a party with many of the most beautiful and in all ways exceptional women in the entire universe and maybe I should at least consider my options?
{C}Tokyo Deadbeats are going to play
{C}Sif is going to play the harp
Then The Deadbeats
Then it’s Open Mic
{C}Eddie has just seen Freija and they’re catching up
{C}Ford says he has to show Eddie something - The Manifesto
Troy passes Raiden, Raiden touches Troy’s suit and the arms and legs
pinwheel, Raiden lets out an incredibly dirty laugh.
Ford showed Eddie, Ivan, Freija the manifesto.
Freija: We should take this to Asgard. The only resistance we shall meet
will be Odin and Sigrun.
Ford: I just want to get the idea out there, let people do what they want with it.
Leviathan: You know it reminds me of a speech I once heard, down below.
Better to stand in hell than kneel in heaven, that whole deal.
Leviathan
You know who really rides my ass? It’s this kid. Shock of black hair. Gloomy
way about him. Like a man who… kind of, insubstantial. He uh… he’s governing
down there, sitting on the throne. I don’t see it with him, he’s uh. He’s
not really uh,
Ford: A Soldier?
Leviathan: Yeah, he’s more of a dreamer, like yourself. But y’know. He helped out, sure
sure he helped out. Won’t take it away from the man. There’s just somethin’
about the man… I just can’t help but feel suspicious.
Leviathan is willing to drink, bond with Morpheus
Ivan has been looking at the ground, he then looks at Ford, gets up and
excuses himself, walks away
Ivan walks to the kitchen
Nyx and Sif are talking pleasantly in the kitchen
Ivan: You beat him
Ford: Yeah
Ivan: (A pause, then sincerely) Good for you. Better you than him. But still, it’s weird.
Ford said it’s hard for their kind because their fathers don’t get old, they’re around and still relevant even as they try to make their mark in the world.
Ivan proposed a toast to The Olympians
Ford hesitated but joined him in the toast
End of Episode 7 Part 1....Part 1.
{C}__________________
Session Ends
Ivan is glad Ford is alive
Emerging Arcs
Getting over someone
Ford is thinking about his code and pacifism and aspect, how that translates
in relationships with other pantheons
The Olympians maybe failed because they were so doggedly about one thing
The Olympians are an example of how things can turn in on themselves
The Irregulars - an International House
The Aesir
Olympian
Corvin
{C}Ford’s pacifism/hope being tested again and again
Ford fought Ares, this gives him a certain authority when he speaks of
peace.
{C}___
{C}Episode Continues:
Things Ford is Doing
Want to talk to Troy about manifesto
Watching the door for Mercy
Ford went to check on Troy but went via the front door.
Ford went to talk to Billow as she was resisting theft, he appeared beside her without her noticing but she didn’t flinch.
“Oh, thank goodness, a distraction”, she said as Jokul Frosti arrived.
Billow got stuck to Jokul Frosti when she greeted him, her lower lip stuck to his cheek where she’d kissed him hello. Ford dipped his fingertip in peach schnapps, ran it over her lip, freeing her. She wryly accused him of trying to steal first base, but thanked him for the assistance. {C}The Twins appeared behind Ford on the top of the stairs, pointing at Jokul: “Scab…” They intoned. {C}Ford took him to the Scabs Re-Education Centre {C}Jokul Frosti refused to put on a costume (Even his Jedi ghost costume) which Ford suggested.
Ford said he should come down to the awesome party {C}Jokul said “Send out the word, there is un awesome party in this room and anyone who wants to join would be welcome.”
Ford saw Johnny in the distance {C}Johnny: I’m here to relay a message - No Yankees will attend this party
{C}Banana Republic general type guy as guest, arrives in a super muscle car humming with deep bass
Raiden - “Ford Corvin, there is another scab here tonight. You will not like this, it is that impossible individual, the lord of the seas and the rain and thunder, Susano-O.” {C}Brought Susano-O up to the Scab Re-Education Centre with Jokul, though had quite a time getting him to agree to go there.
Ford went downstairs to see Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe arriving: Larry Berkowicz and Sindi/Aphrodite
Was chatting to them when he heard a shout “Simon Prince you are impossible!”
Kat has determined that Prince is another Scab {C}Ford: “I don’t know what disappoints me more, that you tried to trick your way in here pretending not to be a scab… or that you actually spilled something on your shirt.”
Larry: Sindi has a daughter… well, a stepdaughter… well it’s complicated, well it’s not complicated. But she’s a very lovely young woman. Barbie!
Barbie is Beau Peep
Barbie and Kat talking, Kat ‘pulling a Leviathan’, she isn’t outright hostile but she isn’t managing to be friendly.
Jupiter wants to introduce Ford to The Family
Ford notices: they’re all talking to each other, great familiarity, some tension from people like Mercury, but on the whole there’s a closeness that strikes Ford as proper family.
Jupiter - You got a real pick’n’mix thing going on here tonight. {C}Sweetcheeks! Front and Centre.
Mars greets by tipping his hat, hanging back a little {C}Jupiter calls him “My fuckin’ eyes and ears” {C}Between you and me, if anybody gets any wild ideas out here tonight, you ain’t gotta worry about it.
Mercury - all insecure about his illusions and his standing
Venus - Asked a favour, wants to put her act on stage - Ford immediately agreed
Diana initially refused to shake Ford’s hand
Jupiter: Hey! Braniac! *Clicks fingers* Brainiac!
Minerva impressed with how quickly Ford managed to arrange the party, said he was a quick thinker.
Jupiter: Family eh?
Ford: You’re blessed
Jupiter gave Ford a gift - Spear and Gladius on Olive Branches
Jupiter hugged Ford and said “I’m real sorry for what happened to your family and I will do everything I can to see you reunited. But until then you’ve always got us.”
Ford: “And you’ve always got me.”
Ford can hear bubbling of Jacuzzi, out of earshot of it but Ford’s ears can pick it up. {C}Magnificent stage, huge garden almost size of football pitch {C}Deadbeats tuning, sound check
Sound desk is its own little island
By this stage a lot of people are there, some faculty members, many randomers of student body
Jupiter asked Ford what were Hera’s last words
Ford sadly recounted the tale.
Jupiter - Hera had the world and she gave it all up {C}Ford - She did worse than that, she tried to burn it down
{C}Jupiter said he looks at the garden and sees potential, said he wants to do Ford a solid
Jupiter removed his jacket, got down on his knees and began to till the land with his bare hands
Other Romans came by to do the same, all gathering to help.
Minerva’s costume: Inspirational speaker with Mic {C}T-shirt Can we do it? (Back: of course we can)
Barbie asked Ford if she could talk to him a minute {C}asked him to put out his hand {C}friendship bracelet
Barbie spoke of breaking up with Biff {C}Barbie asked Ford to talk to Kat for her
Carrying friendship bracelets: How do superman and bizarro get by without pockets?
Ford nabbed Kat and Leviathan, delivered the opening of a speech to them both, talking about Barbie to Kat and Athena to Leviathan, looking at them both as he talked about how it would mean a lot to him if they could try to treat her better, it’s his party and if he says she’s alright then maybe they could give it a try out of trust for him? {C}Kat opened up a lot about how it was difficult to suddenly have Sindi in her life. {C}Leviathan opened up about how he still feels the loss of Lilith and has never really recovered. He can’t help but blame Athena for helping Lucifer leave Hell, which put Lilith on the throne, which put her in harm’s way.
Rainbow Rhythms arrived, they’re totally in Saban Power Rangers style costumes corresponding to their colours... except Bonnie Dankbars, she’s wearing a magenta t-shirt and some jeans, it’s very half-ass.
Bonnie implying Ford is hardly in costume {C}Ford asked if they think he wears a Bizarro costume every day? {C}Ms Ouspenskaya - “It looks like your pajamas” (This caused Mary-Jane to hide her eyes) {C}Ford - “Not yet they’re not!” He said delightedly {C}Ms Ouspenskaya is dressed as an Amazon warrior
Every time thee Rainbows talk they lift the visor
Delivered Bonnie to the scabs room
Simon talking: “so you’re telling me, you’ve got no investments, your stock portfolio is nonexistent, good god man what are you even doing at this party?”
Jean-Ralphio says Susie Trachtenberg is coming
Says he has a feeling Troy is in trouble
Cadbury - wearing a lab coat with Q on it.
Ford saw a desperate-looking Troy being talked at by Ogoun {C}Ogoun - ‘the most boring man at this party’
Ogoun asked Ford to show what hiscar could do- Ford jumped the Ravine, entertaining him greatly
Ford set up Eddie to deal with Ogoun’s boringness, left the scene with Eddie blowing Ogoun’s mind with engine knowledge.
Ford tried to talk a sad-looking Lana into coming to the party, meeting her on the balcony of The White House, she said she’d see him Monday.
Got back, crowd has grown significantly
Ford gave a speech about how there’s a lot of Halloween parties and whoever came here chose this party so he thanked them {C}The crowd cheered, Ford stagedived, found himself crowdsurfing for quite a long time {C}Study Group beaming beatifically at him
Tokyo Deadbeats played The Last Ninja, huge neon sign with their names
“Pass me over that way I haven’t said hello to Steve yet!”
“Steve I’ll always remember you!”
Mars threw Ford in the air, Poseidon caught him and spiked him, threw him in the air again
Ford narrowly avoided landing on Tin Man, got to talk to Vinny a little {C}Vinny expressed solidarity, said Jupiter had talked to him about Ford joining the team and he should think about it.
Ford can now see The Romans have grown apple trees on the land, these sudden, perfect groves of apple trees {C}He ran to the scene and encountered Minerva, lifting her in the air and spinning her around, saying thank you. {C}They had a brief moment where he had finished spinning her but was still holding her aloft. He paused, then carefully put her down. {C}She said “You should try one,” quite cool and self-possessed as she gestured towards the apple trees, then stumbled very slightly as a high heel went awry while she was walking away. This caused Ford to very quietly say “aww,” utterly charmed.
Ford went to Raijin and spoke of Ryu, he said he’s incredible {C}Ryu hit a couple of bum keys, Raijin stamped the ground amplifying the music, inspiring him to create the greatest solo he’s ever played.
Ford got Verklempt at this.
Tokyo Deadbeats, very multimedia, action movies, ninja and samurai movie clips playing behind them.
Thor and Sif watching Eddie and the others proudly
Leviathan - A toast {C}Groucho - I thought this was a party, what is it a retirement home?
Leviathan actually laughed
Athena- Tried to take off groucho glasses to talk seriously {C}Ford - no scabs!
Athena thinks Leviathan blames everything on her
The Talking Beer - A beer that gives the holder the right to speak
Modi is MIA and Leviathan hasn’t figured out how to tell Eddie yet
Sif played heavenly music
Cranky Odin got out of a taxi
Eddie: Have you got an office or some place we can go?
Ford: Oh of course, where are my manners?
Eddie, Freija, Ivan, Ford go up to Ford’s room {C}They asked if Ford could try to talk Odin around, get him to read the manifesto. Ford was reluctant but eventually agreed:
“Alright. Let’s rock this old man.”
{C}Ford having Odin involved in changing up the party, asking how a party in Asgard should be held. {C}Odin said they would need Mead and an open fire with a roast boar. Ford created a fire pit, Brighid created a flame that would not die out, Eddie rode to Asgard for Mead, Odin disappeared for a minute and came back with a Boar.
Hip flask from Bacchus - A kind of purple liquid, Ford shared it with Odin and then Cochise’s pipe too, they got fairly well blasted.
Odin - a toast to your house, may it live long and survive Ragnarok {C}Ford - and yours {C}(Paragon moment! Odin was moved by
Ford had a long talk with Odin in the hot spring in the garden
Susie arrives in a nurse outfit! Jean-Ralphio slips and tears his jacket
Mercy arrived, asked Ford why his Bizarro costume was soaking wet {C}I had to man I was getting stoned with the Alllfather-SCAB! (As Ford suddenly realized Mercy was not in costume) {C}Forgot Cochise was in the box!
Ford to Mercy: What are we doing?
Ford took Mercy to the Scabs Re-Education Centre
{C}Mercy - Wonder Woman {C}Susano-O - Ghoul
{C}Andrew Anderson came in…
Bonnie - “Sucks to be you”
Ford confessed to Prince he thinks Bonnie is attractive, Prince was skeptical {C}Ford said “Oh yeah, like, I like hanging out with jerks sometimes”
The Rio is held by a dread pirate {C}“As Warchild as my witness, I will recover The Rio from Dachimawa Lee….”
Prince - a hat, cravat, cadet-stripe
Ford: “You may pass.”
Odin said the twins give him hope
Ford came downstairs with the twins seeing a woman {C}ZZ Top style, supershort skirt, slightly implausible cleavage, pink hair piled high.
“Hey Ira. I dig your hair. It’s huge.”
Lana showed up in jeans and a t-shirt and scuffed high-tops. Ford accepted that for her, that was a costume.
Lana offered him a drink, made it for him, threw it in his face “Old habits die hard”
Lana: “What isn’t false is I’m hearing some incredible harp music from your back garden. And I’m with the stuffiest people who are talking about being senators and congressmen, movie stars, they’re looking at me and they’re expecting me to say yep, right there with you.”
what are you gonna do? {C}And the words just didn’t come to me and I couldn’t think of any lie to tell them. {C}You know… every day I kind of wear a costume.
Lana gave Ford a letter
{C}Ford {C}This is a hard letter to write. {C}You’re the closest thing to a friend I’ve ever had and I’ve just got to ask you… (pto) {C}Do you like me? {C}Yes {C}No {C}Maybe
Ford turned out the lights and just relaxed a while lying on his bed after reading the letter, looking up at the star patterns on his ceiling.
Ford overheard low tones of a quiet and personal conversation from somewhere in the house
Andrew: I need Mercy {C}Mercy: Andrew, I’m always here for you {C}Ford (alone in his room): That’s not what he means! {C}Then Ford heard them embrace. He lay back, opened Dionysus’s hip flask, took a long drink. “Here’s to you two,” He said sadly but not without warmth.
Odin read the manifesto in the bathroom. {C}“My thinking has been so uptight about Ragnarok”
Ford’s letter to Lana
Lana, {C}The first time I saw you I thought you were one of the most wonderful things I’d ever seen and I was absolutely, disastrously drawn to you… and so I held back, out of concern that no-one I was this attracted to could possibly be what I thought they were.
I enjoyed your company just the same, always assuming you found me amusing and entertaining, assuming you maybe even started thinking of me as a friend but nothing more.
I fell in love with someone else, that’s a harsh truth but there it is. She and I didn’t work out but I’m still getting it together after all of that and that affects everything we’re talking about.
I shouldn’t presume to tell you what you need, right? But in me you have a friend who cares about you, genuinely wants to know you as a human being and wants to look out for you. That’s all I can offer, it wouldn’t be right to offer more, even as honesty makes me admit I still think you’re beautiful, charming and a mixture of enigmatic and vulnerable that’s incredibly appealing.
If I hadn’t been such an idiot the first time I saw you and assumed what I assumed, I don’t know what would have happened. The time was wrong and as it stands all I can offer you is friendship, I won’t build in some maybe, I respect you too much for that. If you’d like to be my friend I’d be honoured and so very glad to call you my friend too.
Your friend, (If you’ll have me) {C}Ford Corvin
________________________
Ford came downstairs to give Lana his letter, accidentally leaving his room as a scab because he’d changed out of his soaking/freezing Bizarro costume. {C}Towel, blue skin.
Ford overheard Nyx and Erzulie talking, Erzulie Danto said she’d seen Nyx’s eyes straying, contradicting Nyx’s claim she’s in mourning.
Jean ralphio sees Ira “who’s that?” While putting on shades specifically so he can lower them. {C}Ira responded: Your first dance
Lana’s hair falling out, revealing scarred scalp
Lana’s mom is Columbia - Goddess of the Silver Screen {C}“I’ve inherited so much from her… so much. Most of the time I’m the apple of her eye, I light up the screen, the world. My dad, well he’s son of Persephone. When I get really nervous and in the winter or the fall I become really ugly…wither…like a pretty flower.
So stupid. I just got really excited and nervous when I wrote that letter.”
Ford talked to Lana some but she asked to be alone.
Kat drunk and sweet
Ford saw a terrible, terrible thing with Nyx and Baldur in his room. It caused him to weep and be violently ill all at once. He’d barely had time to clean up a little when The Dean came to talk to him about the date raffle.
{C}Ford said to someone ‘oh yeah! The raffle, I wonder if I’ll win a date with anybody - DAMN! I forgot to get a ticket!” {C}They gently called him a bonehead and said he was in fact the prize.
Dean: I had to bump up the prizes, you’re first second and third prize {C}Ford - “well, in for a penny… in for a dean”
First winning ticket: 1828 - Billow {C}Billow - hope dinner is included {C}Dean - dinner is included {C}Ford - oh, cool
1819 - The Dean
{C}666 - Magenta - Bonnie “You’ve gotta be fucking kidding me”
{C}1 - Crickets {C}Ford gave a half-joking half-heartfelt mini-speech about how “hey y’know, if you’ve won and you don’t want to go on a date with me that’s okay but I’ve got feelings too damnit”
Kat has won… they determine it’d be weird, with a lot of pauses and then either Kat or Ford muttering ‘it’d be weird’, Minerva calls them both crybabies and takes the ticket, Ford is delighted but tries not to be too obvious about it.
{C}Athena - “Ford… something is happening in your living room”
“I heard the Baron, gloating about the box”
Athena - I must warn you, the poker game of the gods, they are the most devious and conniving of entire pantheons
Ford - My mother is the goddess of truth and it’s my party.
{C}Ford made his way towards the door and then saw Zeus in the corridor.
Jupiter incensed
Zeus - I came to make amends {C}Ford - put my father in front of me {C}zeus - I cannot do that {C}Ford - then whatever you have to offer falls short but I’ll listen anyway
It is about your father and where he is now. With the fall of Olympus your father was contained, along with the sustaining force of my home, the very air, Aether. In an act of unprecedented courage and bravery, he prevented the wanton slaughter of the Olympians. He followed Death who sat on the throne of Apollo and Aether himself into that void. The box was closed, your mother was distraught, shellshocked. When she left, she and I were on other sides of this earth. I held the box and honestly I wanted to see the back of it all. A totem of my failure as a leader. I had lost everything that was dear to me. I relinquished ownership of the box, entrusted it to the only man noble enough to hold up his head amongst the Olympians, Poseidon. He took it, reluctantly I might add. He swore, promised to protect it. He sailed the high seas where he spends most of his time, tending to the waves. A common thief crept aboard his vessel and tried to steal the box. A tussle broke out between my brother and this waif and in the struggle the box was lost overboard in the deepest of the deepest oceans. Some say it swept into the halls of Atlantis, if you can believe the fools. The box was lost. Until it showed up, finally, in Haiti, on a Saturday night. The Baron has called finder’s keepers on it. Covets it more than any object in his possession. But it is far too important to be held by a madman like him.
I deliver the most pressing, urgent moral to this story: The only way to save your father is by holding that box and entering it.”
{C}Ford had Zeus swear that he would renounce all claim to Olympus, in front of the Romans, in the interests of peace.
Zeus said he would fade away now, out of memory and hopefully cease to be {C}Ford said he wouldn’t speak ill of the dead but it made him sad that Hera died rather than try out being a mortal. He also said Zeus’s wrongdoing would go uncorrected if he were to die now, he should stay alive to make amends. {C}Left Zeus with the manifesto.
{C}End of Episode 7: Halloween 1987 Part 1
===Season 3 Episode 8: Halloween Part 2===
{C}Ford saw Krampus looking at Zeus with his wee beady eyes, hissing slightly as Zeus left. {C}Ford sidled up to Krampus and Krampette and murmured that Zeus may well be due a visit this year, they were delighted.
Romans celebrating, Minerva looked over at Ford and raised a single finger with a smile
Vinny - Shouldn’t you be in the scabs room? {C}Ford - I’m on it!
Ford talked to Jordan out in the Gazebo, about a project like an ampitheatre on the edge of town
Ford said he almost slipped and killed Zeus
Jordan asked if he thought it could be used for good, this dark power they both had {C}Ford said he thought it could, it’s power and energy and that can be directed
Jordan confided: The Centurions were trained like an army
Nyx leaving with Baldur, heavily pregnant {C}Ford put his hand on her belly {C}“With the gods as my witness on Halloween night, I bless this child that they may be free to choose their own fate, be lucky and have Hope.”
{C}Ford then saw Superman arriving {C}Swindon Ponsonby-Sloane - wants a favour to pay for Ford’s theft of his identity.. a script worthy of his talents
A new figure showing up, making her way up the driveway {C}Burlesque costume - Ms Mee
Ford overheard Swindon muttering “Why won’t she be mine?”
Kat has a slapstick moment, knocking over all kinds of things with her voluminous dress {C}Vladmir slips, then she catches him like she’s dipping him, drops him as she shouts “FORD!” {C}Kat also pointed out Ford is a scab right now.
Ford went back up to the Scabs room to change {C}Two-Face - Black and white suit
A man in a white suit, but when he turns, from behind he’s a man in a dark suit, it is Janus.
Ford heard from downstairs… “Rosie?” {C}Rosie the Riveter is right there
Larry saying she has some nerve showing up here
Ford - *Points* SCAB! (Right over the family drama occurring)
Ford offered Larry a cup of joe, they went to the Egyptian room to talk
Dionysus is there with Ghanesh
Larry talked about Rosie leaving him
Rosie came down dressed as a croupier {C}She asked if she could see Kat, Ford told her he thought it was pretty shitty showing up for that tonight... but he went and got Kat and had her wait in the gazebo, sent Rosie out to see her.
Hero Points: {C}Scene with Odin, resolving that {C}Negotiating territory between Romans and Zeus {C}Navigating the very difficult territory between Leviathan and Athena {C}Shouldering all these responsibilities at the same time as being a magnificent host {C}Inherited father responsibility
Mercury announcing the games begin - Ford notices as he plays with cards 3 more aces than there should be {C}Ford plans as stake: Corvin Land - The Treehouse etc - won another Hero Point!
Swindon - said Ford has a tell, the way he says Hi? Sometimes his voice raises in pitch in times of stress and/or bemusement.
Athena offered a rundown on the other players
Be Warned: They play for keeps
The Baron - there is something very unusual about that man. I understand the logic of stepping in there and putting an end to the charade before it even begins but he has brought with him
Ford feeling energy, sensing Aspects, Athena asking him to search his feelings
Ford: The Loa is being ridden
Jupiter says no change for the Romans, Ford and he had a long talk about it, Ford felt they were actually on the same page: The Romans have a great relationship with their Aspects. {C}Jupiter said he fears someday losing it, if that happens, his family’s loyalty would stop them taking him down so he asked Ford to promise to do it. Ford couldn’t promise but he said he’d always be around to make sure it didn’t happen.
Jupiter- now go down there and claim what’s rightfully yours {C}Ford - and whatever else they’ve got
{C}Poker Table: Baron Samedi, Mercury, Raijin, Vioarr, Rosie, Lugh
Vioarr sits beside Raijin
Lugh stepping out of R2 D2 costume
Rosie steps in - Isn’t this a sight for sore eyes?
Baron enters pre-emptively gloating
Stakes:
Lugh - A ring size box, inside this box is a joke so potent, so miraculous, that it has the ability to defuse any situation, any conflict, be that by means of a deep hearty laughter or a laughter induced heart attack.
Vioarr - Prized weapon. Boomerang with sharp edges. The double cross.
Raijin - Lightning in a bottle. I concentrated on this for seven years.
Rosie - The ultimate toolbelt.
Ford - A perfect obsidian replica of House Corvin
Mercury - The cape of Illusions
Hades - Dealer
5000 gold coins each as chips, but only playing for stakes.
{C}First hand: {C}Ford sm 40 b 51
Ford wiped Vioarr out of the game first hand, largely because he didn’t like him
Viorr grabbed bottle, Hades gave it a tug, didn’t let him take it - drinks for players only.
“God damned Ford Corvin” Vioarr was saying as he left, talking to someone in Asgard via mobile phone.
Lugh tried to draw Ford out with questions about his lady troubles, Ford answered honestly and unguarded but gave absolutely nothing away about his poker hand.
Ford had a terrible hand next time, played a little to get people to bet high, Rosie went for the bait and put half her stake in
Raijin betting high too, Ford folded when betting got high and Rosie won the hand.
SM 43 - bluff 47/55
Ford saw through Raijin’s ‘drunken’ bluff and cleaned him out
Ford accidentally insulted Lugh causing him to remove himself from the table
Next hand {C}Ford bluff 43 SM 49
Mercury respects Ford’s ‘How about that next hand’ attitude
Mental note - lose cape of Illusions to Mercury later
After the break: {C}Ford 49 Bluff, 47 Sense Motive
Ford didn’t wipe out Rosie yet, kept her in the game as a way to draw out The Baron.
Ford won the poker game {C}Got the box, Samedi struggling to give up the box. Ford took it, saw The Baron fall back clutching his chest, obviously in great pain. Ford leaned down and took his hand, gripped it tight a moment and then helped him up, walked him to a chair to sit, saying {C}“It’s going to be okay, Baron” {C}Baron said he would have given the box back but he was compelled to keep it, he apologized to Ford {C}Ford said it was alright and that he understood
Athena: {C}Box has complications to open {C}It requires a key {C}Ford - “You’ve gotta be fucking kidding”
Ford came out, campfire sessions playing
Ryu and Raijin talking
Jokul Frosti, Krampus, Krampette all together, Krampette asleep with legs kicking. {C}Jokul Frosti is constantly making ice around himself
Larry, Sindi, Barbie. Sindi’s head on Larry’s shoulders, she’s wearing his jacket. Barbie has nodded off too. Chester is grazing in the middle distance.
Odin is excitedly talking with the Aesir. Stoner circle where Freija, Ivan, Thor and Sif are bouncing around ideas, Odin is rapt.
Dionysus is signing autographs for the twins
Minerva gives a brief applause and mouths ‘nice party’, Ford bowed his head in thanks
Study Group - all hanging out together
Poseidon - apologized for losing box {C}Ford said he had nothing to apologize for and thanked him
Erzulie gave Ford a thumbs up of thanks, Baron drinking heavily beside her, looking shaken but already recovering
Ms Ouspenskaya said they should end on a dance {C}Mary jane suggested something pleasant {C}Vivian loudly decried NAY {C}Ford suggested a Metal Waltz. Vivian said she’d be taking that pretty dirty and Ford said there was room for that. {C}Eddie played a metal Viennese waltz
Ford danced briefly with Mercy (he tried to avoid her but couldn’t as everyone was passing partners) {C}She said Andrew needs her. Ford said he understood, and he wasn’t assuming that she and he were together now... but if something like that happened, it was okay too.
Eddie asked Ford to sing the last song of the night.
Ford sang a very heartfelt rendition of Just Like Heaven
{C}End of Episode 8
{C}Back to Metalverse Seasons
===Season 3 Episode 9 - A Love (Detective) Story===
The party went on for two more days after Halloween
{C}3pm, November 3rd
Ford woke, alarm clock making horrifying noises - Ford hits snooze button, puts his arm over his eyes {C}“Aughhh, someone put a voodoo hammer-curse on my skull…”
Ford has an emotional hangover as well as alcohol and drugs hangover.
Ford’s various costumes littering the room, his Bizarro costume, his Two-Face costume, Shepard -esque prothean flashbacks of costume changes: Doused in paint, caught fire…
“Where’s the Dean when you need him?” {C}“I never would have been vain enough to go for that Tarzan costume if I’d been sober.”
Someone in Ford’s bathroom, Ford was forced to be sick via his shadow power - into the woods. {C}Ford went to the bathroom down the hall to shower
Ford came down to kitchen, Kat is there, slightly zombified, cooking stuff
Kat says they’re out of coffee
Ford goes to get some coffee dressed only in a towel and dark glasses, blue skin.
Ford sees paintball impact somewhere, notices sand bags piled up outside Bleak Hall
Mercy on the radio saying there aren’t many survivors left {C}Community Gazette - Just one headline, Stop The Madness Please, signed Craig Pelton, Dean.
Ford can’t remember how he ended up in one half of a Giraffe costume {C}Mercy said they were the last ones left alive... She couldn’t shoot an unarmed man. She glanced at the gun on her desk and patted the gun in her lap. {C}Ford had unconsciously prepared a Die Hard gun taped to his back, he leaned one way for the gun but then dived the other, drawing and firing:
“All I wanted was a god damned cup of…” *paintball paintball paintball*
Mercy: “You missed.” {C}“I don’t lose in Poker and I don’t miss in Paintball” {C}Mercy - How do I look? {C}Ford - You look beautiful but you’ve got paint on you. {C}(QUOTE!)
Dean - Centurions thought it’d be a great laugh to have an impromptu paintball event {C}“they were slapping those balls one way and another… in people’s faces…” {C}Ford- Phrasing!
Hope you’re ready for mid terms tomorrow {C}but tomorrow’s saturday! {C}why are the beautiful ones always so dumb… tomorrow is Friday, Ford, Friday!
Ford returned with large pot of coffee, sat with Kat and Troy.
Kat had made a hangover remedy that made them all instantly kind of conscious, though Ford’s memory didn’t completely come back, he remembered something: He had the spent the night with someone at some poitn over the course of the three days of the party.
Kat got a panicked look and invited Ford to the kitchen to help find spoons for porridge.
Kat said she knew two things
1. All I know is that you and I… uh... uh. {C}(Ford shook his head emphatically)
2. I know what I know, but do you know what I know. {C}Ford- No {C}Kat - I know that I slept with someone that I regret
Kat said maybe Ford and one of The Twins {C}Kat - You kind of maybe had a sleepover in their room. And I don’t think both of them were there? When are they ever apart?
Kat - Despite the fact that he is the grossest man on campus... {C}Ford - Bacchus?
Ford said he could never look at her or Prince the same way again, then told her to relax, he’s kidding, it’s fine. She said it’s not fine.
Ford - “Kat you’re not thinking about the most important part of this. How does it affect Ford? {C}And I’m okay with it.”
Kat decided to determine via equation who Ford had slept with. {C}She demonstrated her own first: {C}Socially minded working class champion + alcohol - defenses = ended up with capitalist pig {C}The absolute opposite
Optimism + Alchohol - Defenses = Bonn1e D4nkbars? (Running out of letters by this point and using the occasional number)
Troy came in, Ford didn’t tell him about Kat and Prince, but did confide about his own concerns
Troy thinks maybe - Susie Trachtenberg
Ford put together a different equation for himself: {C}Vulnerability + Alcohol = Pretty much anybody(s)? {C}Jean-Ralphio came in
Troy - Ran away so he wouldn’t blurt his secret
{C}Ford asked Jean-Ralphio if he’d seen Susie Trachtenberg {C}He saw her sent to the Scabs room by Kat because “There’s nothing scary about a slutty nurse”
{C}What outfit did Susie come back in? {C}Half a Giraffe
{C}Ford and Troy had a very emotional conversation about Apollo
They talked about Apollo, Troy’s secret identity, how that’s a bit like superheroes
Troy said he guarded over Ford as he slept during Paintball
Ford asked if Troy saw who was in his room, Troy went upstairs and Ford followed, finding a note in his room.
{C}Note: {C}Sorry I had to run. Great night…
List of people I think it would be fun/funny if it was:
{C}Ford Quote: Man, this Pandora’s box has caused me to open a Pandora’s box!
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Episode Title: A Love (Detective) Story - Contd
{C}Inspecting note: Compliment slip from a Jewellery counter at the mall {C}“Troy? Put on your pants, we’re going to the mall.” {C}Camera pulls out, Troy has been without pants this whole time.
Ford puts on Fedora and trenchcoat, Troy puts on a Bowler hat.
Troy’s notes
We may go to the Chinatown of Ford’s mind {C}Going to play Double Dragon
Bonnie Dankbars {C}Janice Dough {C}Maria Ouspenskaya * (Weird)
Susie Trachtenberg
{C}The Twins
{C}Possibly visit Costume Store - Did Ford buy the Giraffe? Did someone else?
Went to Jewellery counter of the store, managed to charm the lady behind the counter while asking about the compliment slips, she brought out Susie to talk.
{C}Ford takes a long drink of his slushee, gets brain freeze, finds himself in the frozen scabs room
Ford casually disrobing and walking around singing Loving You
Susie Trachtenberg joined him in the high notes as she came in
They form a giraffe!
Susie Trachtenberg - “You know Eddie?”
Susie told Ford about the high school battle of the bands
She was in band with Simon, Blaine…
Ford: “Let’s hotbox this Giraffe!”
5, 422 boxes sold by Susie
Susie tells stories of The Guides
Dereliction of Equipment
Ford and Susie shared stories in the giraffe
“When did I lose it?” {C}What {C}Badge Fever
Susie says she feels at home in the woods
When she’s alone out there she plays the flute {C}She thinks of being a ranger
They went upstairs together - presumably to nap
Susie said Ford was right, there are dozens of programs
{C}Who is this MRX? {C}Maybe Mr X
Troy - was it her? {C}Ford - Inconclusive. But she’s awesome.
{C}Troy - Okay who’s next on the list? {C}Ford - Well we should take a trip to Rainbow Rhytms
Ford and Troy showed up, Ford went in alone. Put in a chair, light shining in his eyes in the dark room.
{C}Ford notices sheet of paper from Bonnie’s bag with Ford’s handwriting on it.
Ford interrogated by Ms Ouspenskaya
Bonnie gone into changing room
Troy said they were pressed for time so Ford knocked and then strode into the girls’ locker room {C}Bonnie called him a pervert and threw a towel at his face, which he kept there to preserve decorum while they talked.
Bonnie gave Ford a big sheaf of paper {C}it says Bonnie Dankbars and Ford Hawks
Ford finds himself back at the party, it’s the third night now {C}He’s in his room, box on the shelf. He’s in a Tarzan costume by now, sitting on the edge of the bed and staring at the box.
Red Kryptonite Moment - Ford suddenly lunged for the box, it was like he was pulled to it. He resisted grabbing it, but Bonnie Dankbars walked in to find him lying stretched out on the ground, a hand extended up towards the shelf.
{C}Bonnie picked up the box {C}Ford took it and couldn’t let it go, Box taking effect on him
{C}Effects of the box: {C}When he fails the save it makes him want to kick ass, unlocking the WAR part of Warchild {C}Makes him want to let blood {C}Makes it hard to resist anger
Ford- What are you drinking?
Bonnie- I don’t expect you to have it
Ford - (passing a little too close to her as he walked to the bar) Try me
{C}She said she has a dark side
Ford said let’s go for a ride
This is where I like to go when I want to think - Clearwater Cemetary
Bonnie led the way to a grave- “My father is here, don’t ask me how but I know”
Her father, Hades
Bonnie - You’re all relaxed and easygoing but sometimes you look doomed, I like that about you
Bonnie - I deal with my pain by making other people smile
She said that maybe they dance so well together because they both have a very troubling dark side.
Bonnie and Ford had a very heated dance.
Ford comes to in locker room, alone.
Ford goes back to the canteen with Troy
Twins dropped their pens
Troy said Mirella looked a little weirded out or something
Twins handed Ford his copy of Frankenstein
He read it to take his mind off things -
As he read, he realized he read this aloud very recently
Ford in Twins room in Zorro costume, reading them Frankenstein as a bedtime story
They seemed to fall asleep… but Ligeia opened her eyes, looking over at her sister to make sure she was asleep then got up.
Ligeia and Ford went for a walk, Ford putting one of his jackets over her shoulders
Walked down the country road
Ligeia talking about how she’s starting to feel a little different from Mirella
They walked to an empty field and Ligeia had Ford sit beside her, pointing out towards a space, where with her illusion powers she drew a beautiful vision of what the ampitheatre might be. {C}She’d overheard him talking to Jordan about their common problem of a dark secret {C}Ligeia said she likes Ford because he is a twin, he’s like twins in one person. {C}They kissed, then went home, Ford invited her to spend the night in his room, she agreed but his vision ended with the door closing.
Ford came back in the canteen.
Movie amnesia as a result of drinking concussion
Conclusion: A whodunnit… I did it, but to whom? (QUOTE!)
Study Group all walking out, Ligeia gave Ford a smile, Mirella tugged her hand.
Ford went back to Bleak Hall with the Study Group. {C}Kat said in a strained voice: “Oh look we have guests!”
Bonnie Dankbars is there holding the script, sitting beside Susie Trachtenberg. Twins came in and sat down too, so Bonnie, Susie and Ligeia were all kind of in one shot.
People said ok lets all sit in the parlour {C}Ford: When did we start calling it the parlour?
{C}Ford tense.. then relaxed: How’s everyone feeling? {C}Bonnie - Oh I’m just fine {C}Susie - Swell
Kat - Something’s not right here
Ligeia - Everything’s fine
Ford - So.. mid terms, huh?
Susie - I don’t have mid terms {C}Ford- But you’ve got a lot of work to do {C}Bonnie - Yeah, and me and Ford have extra-curricular activities… the script you know {C}Ligeia - Ford studies with the Study Group
Ford got up to make a cup of joe, retreating at speed to the kitchen
Mirella - Came into kitchen - she did something without me {C}This made Ford feel a stab of empathy, he pulled her into a hug and they talked about Mirella’s fears that things might change {C}Ford said he didn’t want to lose things as they were either, they were so lucky to have a group of people all caring for each other like this.
She left and Troy came back in, he asked Ford of all the three events, what meant the most to him? {C}Ford nodded and said it was the talk with Ligeia.
With that he realised he hadn’t actually gone through with it with any of the three of them.
Ford: It’s like the ultimate WhoDidn’t… Me! (Quote!)
{C}End of Episode
{C}Ford and Ligeia - Buddies, but the kind that if everyone else is asleep and they’re the last two up, there’s a 40% chance that they’ll make out
Ligeia said she likes Ford because he is a twin
Between episodes:
The dates have been postponed, everyone sat Mid-Terms
Back to Metalverse Seasons
===Season 3 Episode 10 - The Big Belph===
Threads: Started the Ampitheatre, put the foundations out where Ligeia took Ford to
November 15th
Kat and Ford returning from working on the Ampitheatre
Prince is waiting for Ford
This came in, it came from some Vioarr - it came with a note. (Film Canister)
Reclaiming the Rio - Complication Island off the coast of China Coincides with some kind of tournament
“Some sort of Sabre-Rattling exercise”
“A very important date is coming up”
“Thanks-Receiving”
Doorbell
A silhouette of a woman wearing a cloak
She identifies herself as Agony
“Princess of hell, Lillin, needs you”
Went through the portal at Corvin Farmhouse
Emerged in Limbo
When Lucifer vacated his seat he entrusted Lilith. Her rule was shortly lived.
When your father came - he cleared the way for Lillin to take that place
She is an… inexperienced leader
“You are not properly attired”
Ford turned blue but he’s so paragon these days he glows
A Vorcha type guard - asks some question of Agony
“The guard… he was asking if my wang is blue as well? People always wonder that”
“You have a sense of humour and no tact Ford Corvin, it will serve you well here.”
Hell is in crisis though you wouldn’t see evidence to see it
Lillin is very trusting of individuals
Like?
Servants of the banished prince of greed, Mammon
She has deigned it merciful to accept their word of truce
There is talk of a coup
Lillin is always supported in her clemency by the prince of sloth belphegor
Proserpine says Belph is useless - he has been asleep on his throne for three months
Three boobs woman - “Eddie Eckstein would love that”
Fourth circle: What once was greed is now sloth
She says some are not impressed with the stories of Ford’s exploits
8th Circle: in front of a Citadel
The Sisters are all in a great row in front
Guards part, doors open Classic Corvin style
Inside, Lillin is sitting on a high throne, Lillin wearing a black cloak with a tight white collar. Cloak extends high above her and flows down the steps. Her hands meet in her lap. A black crown of thorns with a purple diamond.
Proserpine is beside her
Lillin gave an enthusiastic greeting
Furnishings by the great Quarina herself
They are the great Belph’s personal guard
Anything for the great son of Fionn
“Well, I believe my father is great, but as for me it’s too early to see.”
Proserpine keeps me on my tasks and my duty
The Yuppie
A Hatchet, A Drill, A Nail Gun
Ford and Lillin had a talk about the fate of the Yuppie
Make Han Solo joke at some point to Princess Lillin
Lillin thinks to make Leviathan proud would be to be a great leader
Lillin is madly in love with Morpheus
Lillin wants to put out a call for musicians
You don’t carry any weapons
you like to dance - love it!
and you’re about people coming together in unity
Lillin - ulterior motive with the concert
The Belph -
Lillin’s plan - a concert so loud it will wake him from his sleep
Lillin misses The Squad
Bands to invite
Eddie The Deadbeats
The Tokyo Deadbeats
Dionysus
Casser
Lillin’s List
The Wailing Orchestra
Choir of the most Damned
Soloist - A Torture artist who elicits the most blood curdling of screams
A trio - they make enemies of everyone they come across - “Sounds like my dad”
Diviest bar - a figure thrown across a room, hits a wire mesh, lands on a table
Ford uses The Force to summon three chairs
Three dudes - One has two heads, four arms, looks like a mean asshole. Another is as thin as a rake and has hand that come out with thousands of sharp fingers, third one is ‘my friend doesn’t like you’
Ford made one knock another out
knocked out the rakefingers dude
Shark tooth woman told Ford The Hellcats could be found at Armageddon
Wall to wall with people
What sounds like a Buzzsaw on stage, someone is playing a Buzzsaw against sheets of metal
Gal Friday -
Rider -
Gal says she wants to defeat The Deadbeats in a musical battle
Ford spoke in The Belph’s ear but to no avail
Ford spoke to Proserpine about helping Lillin grow rather than making her rely on her counsel all the time
Ford asking Proserpine what went wrong
Deadbeats arrived
Proserpine super hitting on Eddie all over the goddamned place
Lillin expressing concern about the other Deadbeats not being gods
“I don’t mean to toot my own horn or anything like that, it doesn’t come naturally, but I’m kind of the god of Innocence”
“So it’s just a sabre rattling match between us and a bunch of chicks”
Ford - Well hopefully Dionysus - knock knock
Ford Roadies it up for The Deadbeats and Dionysus
Keith Richards there
Misery in Hell is service to Yahweh
If you inflict misery on another in Hell, you are about the work of Yahweh
Setting up recording equipment - “This is a live album I wanna own”
“Gal, you are gonna have to play the fuck out of this gig to justify your personality.” *Claps hands* “Alright everybody, have a good gig!”
David Bowie comes out first, backed by The 27 Club
Bowie - How we all doing tonight… are we in the service of Yahweh?
Crowd- Fuck no!
Hellcats and The Deadbeats arguing about who goes on first
Ford said Hellcats haven’t earned it yet, so they have to go on first
The Hellcats first song: “Yahweh Can Go Suck My Cock”
They’ve got three chords, it is what it is, they’re all kinds of loud {C}But Ford catches something in the midst of it, they have talent.
They played an epic ballad to Fionn
It’s a simply told story about the stranger who comes in, he’s a nobody, earns their respect, leaves all too soon.
“The Ballad of the Liberator”
This touches a lot of people within the crowd
Eddie starts with a knee slide
The Deadbeats set kind of picks up where The Hellcats left off
Their sound elevates and feels really fitting for this space
Eddie is talking about Grendels, battles in Asgard, weddings in Asgard, standing on the prow of the mighty Rio
“Time to bring out the big guns” They play 3000 guitars
Ford - What’s the best way to say Fuck You to Yahweh?
It’s to have a good time in Hell!
The crowd went so wild that Ford knew in that moment that Hope can live in Hell
Eddie asked Ford to pick up a bass
Job comes forward
“Hey everyone… it’s Job. House Corvin… and a Deadbeat. I don’t want to inflict sucky music on you, it’s the last thing I wanna do. But me and the guys have been working on something… hey, if you wanna talk through it? Give you a chance to get to know each other better.”
Lillin says Belph’s matriarch Quarina has talents with spells, arcane, as old as Hell itself, some say older.
Her plan:
Ford sees The Matriarch Quarina and takes her spell to shrink to the size of an Atom and help The Belph in his unconscious.
Eddie says it’s awesome what Ford is doing
If he ever needs a squad he’s there
Dionysus - Can I talk to you seriously for a moment?
“I’ve always been on Humanity’s side, always. They make sense to me… they give me Hope. Zeus and I never saw eye to eye. He was always mocking my costume changes. {C}I’ve always been the entertainer, the one that sings the song as the war goes on. Being here tonight in front of this crowd, makes me realize I could put my music to good use like your friend the valiant Skald Eddie Eckstein and his merry band. Didn’t Eddie travel with your father when he went to Tartarus?
Told Ford to ask him, Ford asked and he said he’d travel with him.
Ford instantly super high
“why’s everybody standing around? That’s better, take a load off”
You look real far out
“I’m not real far out, it’s just perspective fucking with you!”
Episode Continues:
Ford stands in a forest of hairs, boulders of yellow earwax
Qarinah accidentally blew smoke into the ear
Ford had to make a run for it, like an Indiana Jones moment
The sound near the eardrum is painfully loud, Ford put some black rough silk in his ears.
Ford webslinging around the inner ear
Hero Points:
Tough Paragon Choice - Let Yuppie Free
Convincing Lillin to remove some of the trappings of her title
The inspiring act of Hope in Hell
Leap of faith, trusting Qarinah
Jumping into the bloodstream, avoiding sharp white blood cells, riding a subway-like sensation towards the brain
A huge drop but Ford likes rollercoasters, he just shouts yaaayyyyy! The whole time.
Negotiating rapids
Ford made it to the cranium
Chose to enter Right side of brain
Ford saw Belph’s third eye
Pulsing bright then dark, dark intervals getting longer
Ford passed into the mind of the Belph
Ford sat down on an incredibly long escalator ride, listening to Creedence playing
Eventually made a pillow, lay back napping slightly during the ride
Ford heard a voice - Qarinah telling him the spell only lasts six hours
Escalator ends in a long fall
Ford realized he could kind of swim through the air to control his descent
He lands in glittering Los Angeles
Convenience stores, hammock shops, bedding stores the side of large warehouses
People are walking around in flip-flops, drinking cups of tea and coffee in very relaxing clothes
It’s a lovely place
A stranger stops to give him a ride
Drops him at The Easy Sup
Ford looking through the book
Belphegor, El Belpherino, His Belphness…. Belph, The
Will Save! Fail
Great cup of coffee, it’s a great cup of coffee, Ford is super relaxed and taking it easy
Takes a while to get back to the task at hand
Ford called The Belph, left a message and said he’s going to come by.
Someone in the cafe gave Ford a bit of a look.
Someone with black eyes
Then Flo the waitress, staring at Ford
Trucker - What about a tip!
Ford - Coffee’s expensive here, right? True what they say about LA
Ford Tubjaxxed him to the ground and left
“Okey dokey then”
Ford ran, broke handles off a skateboard, protected coffee with webbing, webbed to a car, rode it to 220 La Juarta, the address of The Belph.
Door is locked, bars are on the window. Ford didn’t want to break his way in.
There’s a broad chimney, Ford used it to enter the house
Place has been torn apart
A figure walking past the windows, Ford could make out a hat. He could hear Spurs.
In a mirror Ford could see a bushy moustache
Initially suspicious of Ford but calmed when he said his father was a friend of The Belph’s.
-Are you an active man?
You got another name you go by?
Warchild?
That’s a little proactive…
Well, sometimes I go as… Easyman?
- You got an illness inside you boy
The Cowboy says you gotta strike a balance
Cowboy deputized Ford
Ford wore his badge on his hip
“I think it’s about time I let you get back to your invetigation”
Clue searching:
Buried deep beneath old papers (largely just newspapers) - A dust-laden copy of a bowling schedule
Also: a missing rug.
A repo docket -
In a long mirror, Ford could see an image of himself that gives Ford a very sleepy look
Ford gets a menacing yawn from Easy Man reflection
“Nice duds, dude, and nice try.”
Easy Man is all black white and grey
Police Station
Desk Sergeant is all aggressive and angry
Made cop with billy club knock himself out
“Stop hitting yourself…”
X-Ray the lock, instantly worked out which key
All cells empty except the last
Belph has turned the bedding into a hammock
Belph - I don’t believe in anything anymore
Ford - Belph… you mean you’ve become… a nihilist?
Ford and Belph had a bit of an Aspect-Off
Ford’s Hope won out over Belph’s Sloth
Standoff with cops
Ford spread his hands “let it go guys”
Enough people think it has to be a terrible place that it is terrible
Battle with The Yuppie
“All is lost… there is no Hope in Hell”
“In a very literal sense … you’re wrong. I’m right here, man!”
What have you got that can beat Hope?
How do you think I got in here? {C}I dunno, duplicity?
The Stranger is changed into Easy Man
Ford to Easy Man - “I feel like you’re losing focus, Man”
“I think you could use a sharper pencil!” ATTACK
I might have to redesign you, don’t you think you’d look better in Blue?
Do you even understand the character?
Belph banished Mephistopheles
Ford talked to the Belph about changing his circle of Hell, making it beautiful like Belph’s version of LA
Belph concentrates, falls back out into his chair
Entire domain is created in the style of what’s in his head.
Belph, you mind if I get a bungalow here? I’d really like to spend some time here.
Far out dude…
Neighbours!
They walked out to the beach, to find Natural Sunlight in Hell
Fionn + Leviathan
Ford + Belph
Hell thought: Irony is that the things that make life hard don’t have to exist in Hell. Poverty, want...
Episode 10 ends
Threads:
Big thing - Athena is working on a key for the box
Situation with Asgard - Inspiring Odin etc
A Miracle in Hell - and the aftermath
Leviathan and Morpheus - Lillin and Morpheus
Situation with Jordan - Ampitheatre project
Ligeia - buddies who may or may not make out
Mercy - and her relationship? with Andrew
Simon Prince - Recapturing The Rio
ThanksReceiving
A Date With The Dean
Ford hanging out in Hell for two weeks, he super misses everybody
He has lovely souvenirs - “Oh I got these in Hell”
Belph missed chance to help Fionn - he can make it up to Ford
Squad Vision: A Ragtag Bunch of Charming Layabouts
Ford wants to look in on Lana
“Hope’s a girl’s name, you can call me Warchild”
Re-do the scene with H
Get Cochise permanently out of the box
Subtle Changes:
Conversation with Odin
Relationship with The Romans
Morgan sees it: 80% Superman 20% Batman
RETCON - Leslie Knope was at the Halloween Party and she was a huge hit
Both want to do more with favours
As Ford’s reputation grows, he becomes more and more of a Godfather
Back to Metalverse Seasons
===Season 3 Episode 11: Inaugural Clearwater Film Festival===
Ford spent a month in Hell
Comes home in cutoffs, HeLL A tank top, flip flops. He’s got a healthy tan, he’s grown a beard.
Pass-Throughs are given a place to stay at Bleak Hall, instituted by Kat trying to out- manoeuvre Vladimir.
First, Ford gave Troy a HeLL A t-shirt.
Ford’s present for Jean-Ralphio - A beautifully made pocket watch, from the finest watchmaker in Hell.
Present for Kat - a set of awesome overalls with ‘Hell’s Belles’ on the back, that kind of greaser aesthetic - She sourfaced a lot over it. Ford owes Kat a favour because he missed the cleanup. (Or Tom Sawyered the cleanup depending on who you talk to)
This week: Ms Me doesn’t know jack about women’s studies. If Ford can convince her to talk about something vaguely political in there, Kat says they’ll be square.
For both twins: An ancient spellbook of Qarinah’s
For Mirella - Magical Puzzle Box, it requires both intellect and actual magic to solve.
For Ligeia - A book of antihero folk tales of Hell , when you touch the illustrations, you get to see the image as it was imagined by the artist.
Lillin started baking and cooking more, she ended up starting a coffee shop type deal, she makes amazing desserts, little home made bars. Hell Candy - Snake Kisses, a cobra head with a sideways kiss
Twins found an inscription in the book from Qarinah “To the great Qarinah, your night and the medicines inspired me to stand up, Signed: The Morning Star.”
A demon with horns concealed in Flock of Seagulls hair delivered Troy’s present:
For Troy - An Arcade Cabinet, The Hardest Game In Hell
Perfectly White, Gold Trim, Cardinal Purple buttons (precious stones) They hurt the hand a little, joystick is slightly thorny sharp looking cross Biblical Font: Yahweh… The Hosts of Heaven
Ford calling out: “Thanks Stinky Pete!”
Everyone loved their gifts
Then Ford notices a man from a spare room, looking quite drifter-esque, bearded, cap, plaid shirt
Ford holiday snaps - Ford on human trampolines, Ford talking to Proserpine, helping out in Lillin’s coffee shop, Finally a picture of Proserpine in a ridiculously metallic bathing suit
Drifter Steve - really Dale, dropped a few bon mots, challenged Ford for the Film Festival
Kat thinks Dale wants to be Ford’s nemesis, Ford thinks this is a wonderful idea, he’s highly flattered.
Troy- “He’s like the Lex Luthor to your superman!”
Ford (And simultaneously The Twins) - “Or The Riddler to my Batman!”
Spent the evening with The Irregulars
Nailing down the rules for the film festival
Jean Ralphio First time, you wanna pop the cherry right, don’t wanna make any schoolboy errors Good time, let’s have fun.
Everyone will help everyone else out
Twins ask will there be a competition Ford said maybe a judge like Leslie Knope, they said maybe an Audience Award, Ford said that’s a far better idea.
The Twins very affected by the story of wanting to do festival at drive-in because Fionn wanted to do that for Maria
Jean-Ralphio - Starring in a film with a Duo… it’s a scary movie… I can’t say more.
Troy - Space Ninja Wars!
Kat - thinks Lizzie Bradbury has the best lines but can’t imagine playing the part due to its ‘partial nudity’
Late that night: Ford reading Qarinah’s book to the twins, the twins recite along with him and manage to conjure a sort of light spell on the lamp, it pulsates with a really warm lava lamp feeling
Ford’s direction for pronouncing some of Qarinah’s spells: : “Just try to imagine that your tongue is forked”
As Ford is singing and getting out of the shower, he sees wings silhouetted against the moon
An Eagle which comes and lands on Ford’s arm, leads Ford to Cochise’s box
Suddenly Ford can see through the Eagle’s eyes, he can see Cochise’s Aspect like a colour surrounding him
Can see Ford’s own Aspect, radiating blue, brighter than anything he’s ever seen
Looking at The Eagle, Ford knew that to free Cochise he must put his hand on the box and give him Hope.
The Broken Gate - part of the campus that has a chainlink fence that lifts and then a steep little incline, with 39 steep steps leading to the woods
Cochise sighted on an innocent young doe Cochise killed the older deer, said there were two choices, kill the young or kill the old He killed the older, letting the young see the hunter and know to avoid him
Cochise - I have been dead for over a hundred years. Before I kill The Yankees, I will help you with your quests.
They smoked a peace pipe together, Cochise said they are now bonded
Eagle flew off, over the woods, Ford still able to borrow its senses
It came down to a runoff of some kind of concrete water pipe, leading into a kind of darkness Ford followed the eagle down the pipe
Pipe opens onto a magnificent rainforest
Ford just in a towel, wandering through the forest
Many people in the trees, they all kneel as Ford passes
H - “You look famished” Ford - “Well, whatever you’re having…” H - “I wasn’t talking about food, I’m talking about knowledge.”
They call Fionn: The man who marched into Tartarus and walked out a God.
H says “A child conceived on a battle field and born on the battlefield, driven from pillar to post by love and hate, a child of truth and righteous killing. A man lost in time returns to the past beset by an unthinking creature, the boy stares down doubt and kills for the first time. When he kills that thing it will launch a new age. An age of purgation directed at the impure.”
Ford- Who’s that though?
H- Those that will never learn
Ford - Like?
H - The Mad, The Damned, The Marked. Beings incapable of seeing, inflicting their cruelties on the earth. Already, you have your doubts
H- They call you, in the songs, The God of Inspiration.
H says a killing is prophesized The sons and daughters of the Tuatha - they will lose many of their own but mostly they will do a lot of killing The Fomori driven back until they too are all but decimated Then finally The Tuatha will eventually completely wipe out The Fomori
Ford on subject of Lugh, says it annoys him when people are rude but are themselves thin-skinned.
H says Ford inspires him
H advised that Lana is hurt by the curse because she lets it hurt her
One of H’s legs is wooden with feathers
On subject of Time, what time to bring Fionn to see Apate, H said ‘trust your instincts’
H wants to avoid bloodshed too, like Ford Will you kill one to save hundreds of thousands?
Ford thinking about discrediting Lugh rather than trying to reason with him “A politician without power is just another citizen” H is kind of in awe of Ford His name is their word for Tomorrow Ford’s Inspiration, his Hope, the Atzlanti are inclined to worship him as a God
_________________
Ford returns home at dawn
The Eagle takes flight sometimes, showing Ford things
The Treehouse The White House The Centurions House The Plantation Bleak Hall
Ford hardly ever gets any sleep over the next few days as he’s always riding The Eagle’s senses.
Ford decided to make everyone breakfast, went downstairs, put on a pot of coffee...
Fell asleep at the kitchen table
Kat woke him at 3pm Ford - Did you enjoy the breakfast I made you? Kat - The Burnt coffee? I smelled it and it woke me up. Ford - You’re welcome!
Swindon was very upset that Ford missed acting class
Ford says this now means he’s difficult, like Brando. Not as good, but similarly difficult.
To-Do: Talk to Ms Mee Talk to Swindon Talk to Lana Kat says Ford will have to: Pull a lot of favours, get audiovisual club stuff before everyone else Maybe pull in a favour from the Amateur Dramatics society
Lana - lit only by a Pomegranate scented candle sitting in a tv chair, wearing a hood like she’s dressed as Erebus for Halloween
Ford’s thought: “Aww… that’d be a brilliant costume though”
On the TV is a home movie, Lana just a couple of years younger She’s going into an acting class and in the acting class she stands around incredibly goofy until she takes to the stage and does her scene and it raises the hairs on Ford’s arms
Her skin is drawn and very white, a vague blueness to the cheeks She doesn’t look old per se but she looks kind of vampirically different It comes with a kind of tinge of menace about it
Ford asked by Fritz to help out with the teaching assistant spot because Lana has resigned Ford agreed but as ever, as a temporary measure.
Got key to AV club equipment Got Lana’s homework and brought it to her every day for the next few days
Ford breezes along towards the AV club, calling in and incurring favours as he goes, brokering favours between different people to get what he needs. Effortlessly building a web of favours. Max Fischering the situation.
Managed to recruit a full amateur dramatics crew Talked a lot of people into being extras
Went to see Swindon Ponsonby-Sloane, he was frosty with Ford for missing class
Totally motivated him by showing him the script and letting him get into the villain character of Leeland Welles
A young woman with a librarian look fell into step with Ford, started giving him messages. Ford didn’t bat an eyelid, immediately reacting like she’s his assistant.
Troy wants to talk about his “Space Ninja Wars Thing” Ford is cast as his twin brother Kat has passive-aggressively passed on a note that she requires nothing from Ford as she has the truth on her side Simon Prince sends his apologies that he can’t be here this entire week He’s shooting a film Codename: Agent Argonaut Jean-Ralphio says that he’s shooting on location and he hopes he can see Ford sometime this week but that’s debatable because “When you’re striking gold you don’t stop to ask questions” The Fey Twins - They’re not going to make any film, they’re just going to help out for everybody’s film, they can do the special effects. They’re calling themselves ILM Industrial Light and Magic.
Ford listened to all of this and then turned to his new assistant: Ford - What would you like? Assistant - (Taking off glasses, looking at Ford seriously) A Three day weekend
Cheryl - Carol - Ford’s Secretary
Ford’s Projects: Pre-Production has already begun on The Brothers Bird
Ford gets Verklempt at Bonnie’s script Everyone moved by this “I’m sorry, but sometimes people amaze me… like you’re all doing now. Could someone get me a cup of coffee?” Ford is handed four cups of coffee
Cheryl led Ford out to his trailer It’s like a rockstar on holiday
Ford has to cameo in a couple of people’s films
Ford’s Call Sheet: A call to be the snooty butler in a scene - in Jean-Ralphio’s movie
Several days of work with Troy on his movie Space Ninja Wars - Kat as sexy space princess
The Brothers Bird
Shooting the scene in The Elysium, casino and bar. (This was achieved by knocking out the wall from Ford’s old dorm room into the empty room next door and renovating the place)
In the scene Harry Bird cashes in the money he was going to use for a down payment on his house for chips, to infiltrate a casino. “Right then, chips on the table were worth more than a roof over my head.” Fey Twins on stage, doing magician tricks while dressed as magician’s assistants.
Bet on Ralphie Sevens, big payday
Twins creating flowers out of thin air, a rain of them, one catches one in midair and presents it to the other
Scene continues in a dorm room broken through The Twins drug Ford’s drink, unfortunately Swindon is so method that it’s about 95% Horse Tranquilizer and 5% Bourbon.
Ford dives out window, falls down Fire Escape… cracking his head on an iron railing, he’s not badly harmed but it adds to the confusion he’s already experiencing from his advanced sleep deprivation.
In Asgard they’re calling Eddie The Roadie
Eddie giving Ford a tour The Chasm, Eddie once thought it was the source of his powers “Is that the remains of a maserati down there?” (There is a single fresh rose resting on the wreckage)
The Pine Barrens - Ford got out to have a look at the Gazebo
Dupont- The Bermuda Triangle of Clearwater Driving through it, radio picks up some kind of crazy signal The signal has been present since Ford arrived
The Lighthouse Still manned A lonely, lonely man stands against the elements and shines his light on the water. They say they created that thing when there was a Spanish Galleon - it spilled its treasure throughout the bay
Funfair Docklands
Chinatown - two intersecting streets By Nick at Night studio Nick invited Ford to publicize the film festival, Ford said a few words and got along well with Nick.
Eddie took Ford out into the woods and told a story “The Blue Woman’s Well”
Blue Woman’s Well Eddie played a song and told a story Ford as a baby with Apate out by the well Lowered into the well His father’s voice, telling him not to be afraid, to learn to live with the darkness, take it in.
Ford went to see Ms Me, asked her to play Laura Lane
Then led to Simon Prince’s film, a series of interviews, all people interviewing Prince. Ford asked him if he’d ever wanted to be a different person Prince said yes. He also asked Prince what was the most important thing he’d learned in the last couple of years, he said you make yourself happy by making other people happy.
Ford and The Rainbow Rhythms filmed their short: “Seven Shades of Kick” and the performance was magnificent, The Twins made an actual rainbow appear when they all did their synchronised kick.
Kat struggling with the semi nudity of her role and grumbling about having a slit in her skirt Troy taking to the role of Ned very comfortably, his chemistry with Ford is dynamite.
The end scene of The Brothers Bird was filmed and everyone found it uplifting
Session Ends
Session Resumes
Lana came to class with a wig and makeup, but she took up her teaching assistant position and helped out during the class.
Time to go to the editing suite
Lana and Ford stayed behind after class to talk.
Lana - You know why they like you, don’t you? Your friends. You long for something and when you don’t have it, you throw yourself into other people’s characters.
Lana says: Kat, a militant feminist With Kat Berkowicz you become a some might say charming individual who meets her at every turn and always has her back. You can withstand anything except Boredom and your threshold is way lower than you show. When Kat goes into a long and boring anecdote, you’re amused and humour her every time.
“You’ve got to know what to cut out”
Or your adventures with Troy, the boy wonder. Well that’s really nice too, it’s very sweet. You get blitzed on slushies and throw things from bridges, go swimming in the campus fountain in the depths of November, or your all-night slumber weekends, or your Double Dragon adventures…
You’ll put up with the worst German Techno noise that emanates on a white label from Berlin, from Jean-Ralphio, who says his man in Europe has been speaking highly of this track. A cocktail in your hand with the name of a sexual act so deviant that men have been imprisoned for even contemplating them.
Ford - I’m just gonna say that tastes almost exactly like you’d imagine. (QUOTE!)
Lana - And with the twins… you indulge a spooky magical realm of mystery and joy.
And Mercy? Why, it seems like you share the same DNA.
And you indulge my flair (Pulling back the wig to show scarring) and, well, we both make the camera light up.
With that she said she had to go
Lana - You dropped your pen
Ford - (Muttering) I’m talking about being lonely and now I’m reduced to dropping my own pen?
Ford made his way to the edit suite
Saw a golden-canary power suited, shoulder padded, accessorized heels, smart looking glasses, she turns around and it’s Minerva.
Pickups are needed on various films.
Cheryl is nearby with notebook and pen:
Ford - I hate taking my own notes
Minerva asked about Seven Shades of Kick Montage is weak, too short, no sense of progression
Minerva produced 36 Chambers of Shaolin, Ford was awed by this
Snooty Butler - Studebakington - A needlessly obtuse play on Ford’s name.
Minerva sees Mel Brooks angle
What does Studebakington dream of? He’s only ever had a snooty master
She wants a better Studebakington - Ford will put some humanity into the character
The Brothers Bird
Seven Shades of Kick
Scene in The Boobs
Space Ninja Wars
Perform Check 52/60 for Brothers Bird
Seven Shades of Kick 52/60 - Kind of a Gene Kelly level grace, virile and manly but not bullshit or posturing
Space Ninja Wars - 58/66 (natural 20!) - There won’t be a dry eye in the house
Story is pretty Star Wars, about one brother played by Troy who is raised as a Shepherd who has to raise space sheep who produce electricity, which is what people wear most of the time. Trouble comes to his town and he flees and finds the old hermit who tells him that he is not just a space-goatherd/shepherd, he is the heir to a great dynasty and he has a brother who is kind of spoiled and full of himself, very Han Solo type individual who he joins forces with as he goes to claim his identity, they get swept into a far bigger adventure. They land on each planet and have a boss battle. They stop at Mars and Venus, Pluto, Jupiter, each one has an adversary. Until a highly charged emotional scene where they have to fly through the sun, they’re needed out in the galaxy, they’re told if they are not pure they will burn up in the flames. Ford’s character, nameless throughout the entire film is revealed to be called Icarus, they both decide to fly through anyway. They come out the other side.
Finished viewing Space Ninja Wars in the editing booth, Cheryl is crying. “Will there be anything else sir?” “Ford, and no.” She falls into a chair and falls asleep, Ford puts his jacket over her and heads out across campus.
Public liability contract, requires an asset of over 100 grand, only collateral Ford has is The Farm. He’s almost about to sign over the farm but then noticed it’s all for a pickup on The Boobs, they want to go out with a great stunt.
They want to use The Chasm/The Bluff…
Ford refused, it’ll have to be shot on the backlot “God damn those Boobs”
A crowd of watchers saying things like “I heard he’s never refused a request before!”
Ford - “If you never ever say no, it starts to have a little less weight when you say yes.” (QUOTE!)
Johnny - “Oh I’m swell, I made me a film so good it’ll blow everyone else out of the water.”
Maybe Johnny could be shady informant who used to work with Harry’s brother, he thinks he might have ratted his brother out, tempered with what do you know. Johnny agreed as long as he doesn’t have to be in costume.
“You two wild stallions want to go toe to toe with each other, it’s written all over the screen!”
Ford - I don’t know what that means
Swindon - The parry and thrust of the rapier
Johnny - Not my scene, teach, not my scene.
Ford talked Johnny into trying again, this time the scene has something about it.
Ford perform check: 55/63 for the ladies
The scene really pops, maybe the box was making it all a bit too aggressive the first take.
Ford reshooting with Ms Me Entire sequences, for purposes of economy there’s virtuoso tracking shots that take thirteen minutes: Ford exits car at police block, starts walking, tracking shot down the street, already formulating an opinion about the town, a closeup on a newspaper, then comes back to see Ford looking at the address and then there’s a clever wide shot on Ford outside the address, that’s when he comes across Kat Berkowicz’s Lizzie, takes Ford right up to the club. Turns to night halfway through, he finally sees Laura. Ford Perform Check: 58/65 for the ladies
Some subjectivity: Laura is so much warmer when alone with Harry, is that Harry’s perception or is she just far more vulnerable in those moments?
Reshoot of The Boobs - 52/60
The ongoing joke about Space Ninja Wars is that everything, even the early scenes are just a little bit awesome, Troy’s awesomeness can’t really be contained. It starts at 11 and goes up.
Finally, Ford headed home, planning to go to sleep now, then wake up in the late afternoon, a few things to do
Met Lana, she’s upset about not having made a film she’s already shot some stuff, it’s reaction shots with looks of disgust, fear, shots of people partying
Lana - her new favourite film is The Elephant Man
Bride of Frankenstein influenced script:
Lana describes:
“About a woman who is created by very unusual parents, she’s stitched together, she’s born as a woman and not a child, she sees this world outside her house and she wants to be a part of it because they’re having so much fun and slowly she thinks about going there. But in the meantime her parents -it’s revealed- have done this kind of thing before and they’ve created a wild man who’s tortured because he feels so alone. And he’s out there in the wilderness terrorizing the people. In order to calm down the beast she is to be betrothed to him, penance for the town’s suffering. She is led to him and she’s repulsed, she’s never seen anything so horrible in her life because all she’s ever seen is everyone else and everyone else is happy, joyful even. She runs away she runs to the town because things are perfect in the town and she wants to be perfect.
“When she goes there she sees her looks of disgust and hate, it’s really ugly. They turn on her, they bully her, the crowd is turning and they recognise what I am, something that is to be afraid of and just when they are going to riot and cast her bones to the ground, the wild man returns and pushes them aside. He takes her up in his arms and they go back to the house. She has fainted, when she wakes up she sees the wild man isn’t a wild man, he has learnt to read. He asks her, please turn over. She looks in the mirror and she accepts herself.
Ford’s perform check: 56/64 FTL (For The Ladies)
Film Festival is a way to celebrate the inner self of each character.
Ford takes the position that the story isn’t over until they walk out of the house together.
The Baron shows up while they’re working that night. He strikes Ford as a very compelling father/mad scientist type His acting is very Vincent Price, Cesar Romero, introducing a bit of fun into quite a dark story
The mad scientist can’t see his creations as anything but beautiful
As they work on the film it becomes funnier and funnier, The Baron keeps on doing really goofy improv, he’s way off script, he’s Christopher Lloyd tripping, giving Ford The Swivel Eye
The blooper reel will be a prized thing. It’s maybe the most fun Ford has had making a film. It very quickly becomes a kind of love letter to Young Frankenstein, it’s really, really funny.
Ford’s perform check: 57/65 FTL (For The Ladies)
The crowd scene is a scene of fierce pride. She can’t do the scene, she’s afraid of facing the crowd. Ford helps her feel beautiful, then they have a searing kiss.
She improvises the scene, they come out hand in hand...bow...and dance. The Wild Man’s dance is initially fierce and confrontational, it then becomes more enthusiastic, eventually he’s more giving than he was ever capable of being in words.
They danced out of the shot all the way to the tunnel. Ford- Didn’t we dance here before? Lana - That was a long time ago. Ford - We dance way better now.
What film meant to Ford - having fun with his dark side Ford and Lana had a singalong of “If you like-a me and I like-a you”
Lana called in the favour Ford owes her, one kiss, not a screen kiss.
I probably shouldn’t be telling you this… All I know is its title, he locked the house down like it was a presidential assassination attempt. What I managed to glean is that his film is called Dinner with Friends.
Pull out to medium shot: Ford is in romantically torn rags, Lana is in revealing Bride of Frankenstein outfit
Next day, Ford wakes late in the afternoon
Setup for awards ceremony - drive-in feel while covered by a giant tent
It’s got to have waitresses on rollerskates Ms Me is taking duties, she does the work of a battalion of waitresses
Ford and Troy worked to create the giant tent, like Ford is creating and Troy is painting it.
It reflects light like mica, it has a slight glittering quality that Ford didn’t anticipate. It’s far more glamorous and hopeful and proud than even Ford had felt capable of.
Post -credits scene: Snooty Butler released from hospital, gets caught on ties to the car, catapulted across the chasm. They actually found the scene had quite a lovely pathos.
Pushed for time, Ford took Dupont as it’s only 3 minutes instead of 10. Cheryl on the radio - ‘Check in, Crew”
Reflex save! It’s like the road snapped, like a rubber band, something formless, something deep.
Cheryl Kitty - Fell, about to lose an eye, Ford steadied the wheel with a foot, caught her
The ground tried to swallow the Winnebago, had to ride on two wheels to avoid falling into the chasm.
Rear view mirror seared by proximity to the chasm
Ford’s maxed-out Paragon made him able to completely ignore the mind-control attempt
Walkie Talkie called, James Mason saying he’s glad he didn’t get lost
He said something foreboding and then “Over Ford, Over”
Ford - (Helpfully) “When you’re finished, you say Over And Out”
Ford made it back just in time!
Kat is wearing her Hell’s Belles overalls She at all times has a bandanna, sometimes on a wrist, sometimes on a leg, or as a neck kerchief, it’s red. Kat asked where are the films They’re in the RV
James Mason was in the film stock, knocking things over, ruining scenes, Ford blew him out of the frame
Black limousines arrive
Local reporter asking for an interview
Ford saying he has the help of The Irregulars
Picture of Ford and Jupiter with their arms around each other’s shoulders, appearing in local paper and becomes a beloved picture Ford has framed.
Kitty says Ford has a lot of calls
Ford is called up for the keynote speech
He sees all the cars gathered, thinks of how this was his grandmother’s land, then his father’s,
Study Group is all in formalwear, Troy in a pure white suit, Kat in her overalls
Swindon is in a cravat
Ford has to introduce the special guests
He’s given cue cards with their details
First is David Lynch
Ford - oohhhh … who made this happen? Ford gave Kat a kiss on the cheek and the crowd went woooooooooooo
Ligeia gave Ford a Knives Chau seeing Sex Bob-Omb look
Ford introduced David Lynch, Ford - It’s always a pleasure to meet a former Eagle Scout DL - That’s the reason I’m here, Ford
David Lynch is inspired by the Douglas Firs, the fine pie and coffee. “You are good people, in Germany they would call you GutenVolk.”
Ford let David Lynch introduce the first film:
Cops-esque footage, “step out of the car! Step out of the car!” Cops on a highway, starting to surround an ice cream truck. Tense moment as they get to the opening, a figure appears covered in ice cream, cones on his fingers
A voiceover - So how long have you been doing this? Bubbe when are you gonna wise up. Aw you know I’ll never wise up, it’s in my genes A frozen part of Alaska, a documentary about Loki He escapes, he gets caught, he escapes again, he gets caught again, endless iterations of he’s constantly on the move, always in and out of trouble. It ends with the interviewer’s voice: “You ever gonna grow up?” Loki turns around and says “I don’t think I can but I’d like to.”
Ford went to the twins and put his arms around them as the film played, they all held close through it like an ordeal but it was powerfully moving too, Ford found it quite beautiful.
Ford has to introduce next guest:
The Dean He comes out in a very costumey coat and tails with top-hat, super glam “You’ve all earned a three day weekend. And I’m hoping that Ford has earned the day off: with the delightful dance-action extravaganza, Seven Shades of Kick”
Dean said why don’t they skip to the chase, he and Ford had their Date in a jalopy watching the movie.
The film has a lot of incredible sexual tension between Ford and Bonnie, occasionally edging into inappropriate territory. It’s very, very sizzling indeed, the Dean was a little overcome. At The Rainbow Kick he passed out altogether.
Ford - thank you for a lovely date Dean - *under his breath* Joke’s on you funny man, you’re going to be the captain of my dreams tonight.
Ford thinks - gotta warn Morpheus, don’t come to Clearwater tonight, you don’t want to see this...
Ford went to see Rainbow Rhythms: everyone huddles in for a everyone to lift each member
Next Guest: Simon Prince Comes out to “He is a he is a PRINCE AMONGST MEN” Prince has a very Robert Evans vibe
“I’m delighted and ashamed to be here. I’m delighted at the great company, a wonderful host, some of the best god damn chicken wings I’ve ever contemplated eating in my god damn life. Of course I didn’t touch them but they smelled better than most. But I’m ashamed, I wanted to present an action extravaganza: Agent Jason Argonaut, a Platinum Agent, inspired by true events, about a man who has to take the law into his own hands, shake up the system. He’s partnered with a wild man, someone who doesn’t know how to not break any rules. Well, uh, my director and I we got about twenty minutes in the can. We uh… well… you’ll see for yourself.”
Saw Billow stealing a plate of treats Followed, she’s jimmying into a car she didn’t buy a ticket for
Camelot Productions A very James Bond silhouetted, lots of falling women silhouettes, women dipping into jacuzzis, theme song is a string-laden rocking song by The Deadbeats. It’s an ode to Agent Jason Argonaut.
Smooth beautifully cool action scene, Prince quite obviously a little coked up, he takes the secret files ‘Don’t mind if I do’
He’s partnered up with some dude who’s playing Fionn, it’s C Thomas Howell The story closely mirrors Clearwater Vice, writ large A lot of manly tactical discussions in the hot tub between Prince and C Thomas Howell
Soft rock scene, Prince with a saxophone C Thomas Howell character is drinking wildly and howling at the moon
Voiceover - This remains the highlight of the footage that we managed to get in the can before production was beset by myriad problems. Cut to mockumentary style footage “What’s this I asked for fifteen speed, this only has two speeds, sleeping and dead. How am I supposed to get my jet on in this.” Pull back to Prince in Jacuzzi
Talking heads - “I care deeply about the project, it’s close to my heart.”
Talking head with Ford Ford- let’s say I ask you for one piece of advice. You to me, what’s that advice. Prince - Know thyself
Cut to Prince saying “That guy is a fucking asshole” pointing at C Thomas Howell
Prince - “Sayonara, asshole” - gunshot, credits.
Billow talks the whole way through the movie Ford horrified, but he had a good time anyway
Ford goes up to introduce the next guest
Prince- he really was an asshole Ford - No kidding, did you not see Soul Man? (Forgetting he’s holding the microphone)
Ford introduced Leslie Knope
Leslie - “You’re all as special as that extra dollop of whipped cream.” (A chorus of ‘aww’ ) “I’m really excited to present to you the premiere of… Troy Donaldon’s… Space Ninja Wars.”
Movie starts The Fey Twins have done incredible effects, it’s like a couple of years ahead of its time. It’s like T-1000 technology in 1987.
Audience favourite so far - Rainbow Rhythms
Space Ninja Wars has already sidelined it, it’s more concentrated, a less diffuse love, a more concentrated experience.
Everyone cries at the end of Space Ninja Wars.
Minerva gave Ford an agent card
Minerva wants first dibs on the film
Soundtrack by the Tokyo Deadbeats
Ford takes card “This sounds like a lot of fun but don’t think you can get away with completely professionalizing our relationship - we’ve got a date coming up.”
Minerva becomes adorably goofy
Next guest: Woody Allen
“So um, ok I’m here, in Clearwater… very unlike New York, although you’ve got a lot of pigeons here. And of course when a very charming young man called me to his office and said he had a proposal, a film, a sophisticated comedy of manners… Dinner with Friends… like life. I’m thinking that it might be a great film, I don’t know, it might be terrible eh, he’s a smart young man, I don’t know if he’s a modest man.”
Dale Carnegie’s
Dinner with Friends It’s arty, kind of a Whit Stillman film, very dialogue heavy, all about characterisation, the verisimilitude of entertaining some impossible guests -the character’s friends- it plays like a very dry piece, gets a little ooohhh as someone discusses their distrust of Picasso, there’s a long scene of one-upmanship, it ends with Dale saying something very clever.
Ford watched the movie with Study Group Kat is groaning a lot but there are funny moments
The Fey twins
Ford goes to introduce the next film
Guest speaker is Swindon Ponsonby-Sloane Here to present a film by Johnny Cicada
Johnny not present, no film presented
Ford went and found Johnny, talked him into letting him show the film
The film: Black and white, Johnny on screen smoking. “This is real life, I’ll show you how it is.”
Title comes up, “The Drunk” Footage of a man, bearded, kind of wild-looking, follows him at a kind of disrespectful distance as he buys liquor from the store. It’s next picked up as he’s in Clearwater Community College Campus on a bench, drinking and ranting and raving. “My kingdom… my kingdom…oh for nothing.” He pounds on one of the tables, it doesn’t bend or splinter. The man walks off. A voice can be heard, mockingly asking. “Hey, for the camera, who are you?” “I’m Zeus.”
The film was ugly, cast a bit of a pall over the crowd.
Ford - “Let’s move on, we’ve got a lot of good stuff tonight.”
“Our next guest is William Shatner” He comes out to RocketMan. He introduces a wonderful project:
“The Boobs: Scared Shirtless”
A mid eighties comedy about an accident prone man called into an office where Cadbury plays the role of a lawyer who is handling the inheritance of an estate, where he will inherit a fortune on the condition that he can spend a weekend at Boob manner. Rodney Boob and Jr Boob are met by a butler, Studebakington.
It’s full of wonderful, goofy crass great fun stuff. The moral of the story is that The Boobs come to realize who they are, the ghosts teach them about themselves, they end up having a big party with ghosts at the end of the film. And at the end they’re told to inherit the fortune they have to go to school. To Be Continued
Post-Credits scene, the glorious return of Studebakington, huge applause for the clearing the chasm stunt.
Ford called on Minerva to introduce his film
The Brothers Bird It turned out really well, it has some touches that are telling of it being a first film, the crooked FBI agent is a little hammy, a lot of goofy touches. Ligeia comes in to watch with Ford at the scene where The Twins come on stage.
Ford and Ligeia ended up making out in the car while the movie was playing
Kat and Walter scene is great, really funny
Swindon Ponsonby-Sloane delivers a surprisingly powerful speech, playing it very big
Lana’s film is next, Lana has crossed out Fritz Engel and written in David Lynch to introduce.
It plays really funny, the audience cracked up. Turns out to be a laugh riot interspersed with serious/ moving moments.
Audience Choice Voting -
The Boobs - not much beeping, people are afraid to say they liked it.
Code Name Argonaut - Beeped for by hardcore Prince fans
Seven Shades of Kick - lots of contenders
Loki - voted for by Ligeia and Mirella and Ford
Dinner with Friends - close to Rainbow Rhythms in votes
Space Ninja Wars - a cacophony of classic car horns
Kat’s film - A story about a working class pretty in pink esque girl, works in Shop, she gets a scholarship to what used to be an all-boys school. She gets swept up in a dance class but she turns her back on it because it’s too snooty and she does breakdancing. It’s filled with painfully on-the-nose dialogue. Painfully hectoring monologues.
Lana’s Film - Gets a lot of votes … maybe not enough
Minerva says Jupiter wants to invest a couple of million
Jupiter is over talking to Columbia
After party was lovely!
Ford returned home. Passed by The White House and visited Lana
Told her her movie was David Lynch’s favourite by far
Let Lana see a tape of highlights of the festival. Lana so excited to see it that she wanted to see it again, fell asleep watching it. Ford sat with her til dawn, then carried her to her bed, left her with some blankets over her.
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===Season 3 Episode 12 - Cain===
November 26th, Thanksgiving/Thanksreceiving
In the meantime Ford told Ligeia about making out with Lana, it went better than he could have imagined, they ended up making out.
Ligeia is now able to create material, she was making glasses of drinks, it didn’t taste great, Ford funnelled it through Dionysus’s flask and it was delicious.
They’ve done lots of work on the Ampitheatre, creating a dome, Kat often using her powerloader
Ford dragged Jordan to an Addiction Anonymous meeting
It’s held in a community centre, coffee, cookies, donuts, a circle of people.
Jordan told Ford in the car that he’s back to Day 1. “Remember that fight scene we had? I got in a hit, you got in a hit, sent me over a table, I got right back up and took you out the window. I was supposed to be knocked out but I felt something. My hand. It tensed up.”
Jordan said they shouldn’t go to the meeting. Ford and him took a drive out to The Lighthouse
Jordan continued: “I was real angry that I was supposed to stay down. I just left, walked straight out into the woods and something took over. A need to kill.
Jordan showed how he can concentrate and make his fingers turn to long sharp blades.
He saw a deer and was about to kill it when a woman walked by. She said she’d been tracking what I’d been doing, told me not to even think about it. She raised a gun. I couldn’t fight it. She shot at me, a flare. It blinded me and the deer got away. I stumbled home.”
Ford - And the woman?
Jordan - I let her be.
Ford told the story about rage like a big dog. If you ignore that big dog it will eventually turn on you. If you give it no control, free rein, it will eventually turn on you. But if you let the dog know you’re in control and you give it exercise at the right times, it can be loyal. Jordan was quite inspired by this.
They went and got coffee and donuts, drove out to the old mooring station for The Rio.
They talked about women and men, Jordan pronouncing that it’s pretty much the same shit. Ford joked/admitted about his tendency to be interested in impossible women
Jordan - Sounds like you’re taking it easy by being hard on yourself
They saw a figure stumbling along. Simon prince in embroidered, stitched dressing gown with SP filigreed across the breast.
Prince invited them back, Jordan demurred
Prince led to a fairly magnificent boat called the “Seaward”
Ford: Kat says Dale wants to be my Nemesis.
Prince - I see you’re getting very close with The Romans. A little godfatherly advice. You should watch yourself, they’re making a lot of allies.
Ford: If my friends make friends with strangers, that only makes things better.
Prince: You’re probably right. If it weren’t for your father I wouldn’t be the man I am today. In approximately twenty-two hours I anticipate having a thanks-receiving. This is a very important night for me.
Ford agreed to host Thanks-Receiving at The Ampitheatre.
Ford went home. Troy is now very high fivey with people, people are asking Troy to re-show the movie, show the director’s cut, have a Q&A etc.
Bacchus is talking to Columbia about getting The Boobs released.
Mercy has put on two pre-recorded shows in the past week. She’s usually quite diligent in her way.
She said sorry she didn’t make it to the Film Festival, she has a situation on her hands. It’s Andrew.
Ford- Is he okay?
Mercy - It’s touch and go. Very touch and go.
Ford walked her there.
Mercy says Andrew has hit Rock Bottom
Andrew says he likes that he’s cool now.
Andrew says It’s a cross to bear, getting expelled from Heaven’s… Heavenly Host.
Andrew says he has a new mission, joined someone who is putting a squad together, “new faces”
Ford hears footsteps outside, slow and methodical Andrew “That’ll be him.” A man with a black mark on his forehead.
Ford on Hell - It’s like the worst breakup and they just won’t stop going on about their ex.
Walked out with Mercy, sharing the flask as they walked through the woods
Mercy says- Andrew is getting a little crazy. Cain is very persuasive. He’s got a whole motorcycle gang of them. I call them his Lost Boys. There’s something unusual about them.
Ford - Like what?
Mercy - Like they don’t have a reflection.
They went to Mercy’s place to hang out
“I always thought in another life that I was a princess… of laziness. I could swan around and do whatever I wanted. Everything was taken care of and all I had to do was enjoy myself. I would have it a lot when I was a child. It’s the only thing I really remember about my childhood.”
Ford showed Mercy the Eagle, looked at Mercy through its eyes. Saw her bathed in kind of a wondrous glow but dep at the centre a darkness. Very small…
Mercy says: “But you’re the real thing, a prince... no, you’re The Duke of Laziness, The Lazy Duke”
Ford called Cheryl to take a note- possible comedy short: The Lazy Duke
Ford on Athena trying to open the box: “She needs redemption and there could hardly be a project better suited so it all kind of fits together.”
Mercy called Cheryl pretending to be Ford and ordered grilled cheese sandwiches, Cheryl arrived sixteen minutes later even though it was two am.
Ford, Cheryl and Mercy sat around smoking joints and drinking, Ford as ambassador for/exception to the rule of men.
Ford went home and slept in a hammock in The Twins room Slept until that evening
Ford: When wearing his dusty paint specked clothes he gets +2 to social rolls with locals.
They all have New Troy construction t-shirts, they’ve had a few job offers now.
Ford flirting with the local ladies whenever they’re working on their homes
Kat says Ford has five callls
Mrs Henderson - Mrs Gregg - Mrs Johannsen - There are others. Malls are the most destructive force in western culture Moles? Malls Malls?
They were constructed because there were shops and then that was for women, theyre to keep women busy. Ford - I kinda like the mall, it’s got that great costume store - Kat - So we have to shop organically, it will only cost eight hundred dollars more from now on.
Bleak Hall films has had some investment Kat says Ford has a letter from the bank A very small private bank called Elysian Bank
Jupiter has deposited in Ford’s account, Ford realized it’s a mistake and made a phone call to apologize.
Jupiter says it’s no mistake: Fifty million dollars.
They go to the ATM Max Withdrawal, 600. A 50 dollar bill each.
They go to ThanksReceiving at The Ampitheatre
The wait staff are in nautical uniforms
Inside, Simon has a magnificent ice sculpture that dispenses booze
Jordan said the wait staff are actual naval officers
Prince’s intro theme plays -
Prince asked Ford to keep an eye on security
Ford noticed a dusky latina looking woman with a nameplate ‘Erikson’ which didn’t seem right, he asked her for a drink, she made him a Martini and threw it in his face, tried to draw a pistol!
Ford stopped her from drawing a tranquiliser pistol, grabbing her wrist and disarming her, then danced with her Tango style, bringing her to talk to Prince.
She is Consuela!
Ford told her that she is the only thing that troubles Prince’s conscience.
Ford paid for the catering and for the drinks as Prince had told them they should do it ‘pro bono’.
Ford paid for it all and then put up a sign with a sweet little cartoon: “Drinks are free, tips are optional” with tip jars still out on the counter.
Cheryl told Ford there’s some people at the doors, they don’t look very nice
Found Prince with a dart sticking out of his belly having chatted with Consuela
Cheryl warned Ford that the motorcycle guys had arrived
Cain steps out, he holds a glass and taps it with his fork for attention
He says they are at a place of worship, empty worship like they do every week on Sunday. He said nobody in Clearwater is going to church anymore. Ford cleared his throat, smiled and waved a hand saying people could disregard that from Cain as it was incorrect.
Had a talk with Cain. Ford said Cain caring this much about Yahweh is far more powerful than a roomful of people mumbling half-believed prayers but he was unmoved.
Cain tried to push Ford, Ford let him trip and fall, leaning aside at just the right moment and angle that Cain actually had a bad fall and was stunned.
Ford leaned over him and quietly said “That was nice Ford”
Cain shouted: “I don’t want nice Ford!”
Ford and Cain faced off in front of Cain’s crew. Ford said they had traded one unforgiving, harsh, vengeful old man who would punish any who did not bend completely to his will for another man just like him. One of his men, Benny, walked away.
Athena said she can’t open the box She created the key once, it’s still around Lucifer’s neck, she no longer has the power because she can’t recapture the emotions she had when she first created that key.
Athena started talking about how she isn’t doing well on the project and sounding very down on herself, Ford interrupted her:
Ford charmed Athena - 62! Athena is suddenly charmed! (MGS Indicator style) He danced with her, talked about books and movies, didn’t let her talk about ‘work’ for the rest of the evening
Prince gave keynote speech saying they are all here to shower him with thanks
Kat refused to give thanks
Prince says “Kat, you’re sinking my ship.”
Ford agreed to go with Prince to get The Rio back
Ford talked Study Group into joining the trip on the boat.
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===Season 3 Episode 13: Dachimawa Lee!===
Episode Begins:
On the way to the boat, Ford called Cheryl to accompany them.
The Seaward is vaguely Hawaiian Tropics themed
Outdoor jacuzzi, even though it’s a little stormy outside
The Twins in black and blue harlequin patterned one piece swimsuits
Cheryl gets in the Jacuzzi on Ford’s insistence but doesn’t change, gets in still wearing a blouse and formal pants
Jean Ralphio - We’ve gotta spend our remaining 48 million on one of these Ford - Remaining 48?
Prince says they have to find WenLing
Hu island, the Rio is docked there, it’s a port for pirates and vagabonds. It has never seen a European extracted adventurer
They dock in Hawaii
Ford’s Shopping List Leis, hawaiian guitars, mugs, t-shirts,
Sporting Goods supply store: Troy is getting lots of tactical watches, wetsuits, snorkels
Very Arrowtech/Archer It’s private military grade equipment
The Mansion from Magnum PI, rundown and must be kept in original condition, on a lot of land.
Put together a feast in the garden of the mansion
Prince is concerned about the potential state of The Rio, Ford tried to prepare him that it would be rough.
Ford and Kat super drunk and high
Ford - Got joint from a guy (Passes amazing local weed to Kat) Kat - (Impressed) I’’d like to meet him Ford - I’d like to meet him again because we didn’t really talk (QUOTE)
Kat - I worry abut them, they have even less experience than me
Ford - Who? (Inadvertently being kind of obvious that he’s incredulous that anyone has less experience than her)
Kat- The others
Ford suggested Kat use the robo-walker, she’s really good with that thing. He talked through how The Twins were blooded, they’d fought The Tallyman with him, Troy was very powerful as he’d discovered his heritage, Jean-Ralphio... well.
Kat felt better after talking to Ford
Ford took The Irregulars through a little training on the ship during the journey.
Illusion training for The Twins
Mirella is better at illusions Ligeia is better at fire
Target practice for Troy
Kat punctured the hull by accident while trying out the loader Crew member said she Berkowiczed the hull Ford wondered where the crew member had even heard that expression, he said he’d heard it in LA.
Irregulars Power Levels, all PL 12
Troy is more attack and reflexes/defense than damage and toughness
Jean-Ralphio - it’s hard to know where his powers lie, he’s definitely physically very limited
Kat is all damage and toughness, low attack/defense +2 higher damage and toughness inside the loader.
Twins maybe the weakest of all, quite frail though capable of powerful forcefield.
Special moves
Kat - Toughness and Damage are +2 in the loader Kat’s special move is a charge
Troy - Light powers, a dazzling attack,
The Twins - Their Specialty is to create a larger forcefield
Jean-Ralphio remains an enigma
+1 for 3 rounds for Group Awareness
Ford + Troy Twin Ninjas Power Special Move Ford’s Darkness Control followed by Troy’s Dazzle Blast
Prince says the Amatsukami and Celestial Bureaucracy are fierce enemies, Amatsukami/Japan invaded China in WWII
Ford dashed to the ship’s library at the last minute to learn Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese) and Japanese
Landed on the island, asked for papers, Prince bribed three million dollars
Brought into government building, a very serene-looking young woman
She led him into a government building, it morphed into the halls of the Celestial Bureaucracy Guan Yu, the Jade Emperor called Ford ‘The Great Pacifier’
Sun Wukong is causing problems in the middle realm
Asked him to put on the crown of Sun Wukong
Guan Yu says Sun Wukong needs a mission
He says there is a presence on earth, unlike anything ever seen before “A presence, it represents disorder.”
Prince getting super impatient nobody is talking about The Rio during this meeting
Guan Yu said Dachimawa Lee is not a pirate king but a demon of the waters
Wen Ling is very surprised at Ford’s not very Monk-Like existence as she and Ford travel down the river together.
Ford subjects her to seven minutes of stream of consciousness discussion of his personal life, failing to notice her lack of contribution and increasingly shellshocked expression as he yammers on:
(The following takes place over several minutes, Ford occasionally pausing to breathe deep and trail a hand in the water lazily.)
“And Lana! Well... she’s a fireball. Complicated, witty, beautiful - even in her form that she thinks is freakish, if you ask me. She’s got a whole Bride of Frankenstein thing going on which is really haunting I think. The Twins! That was confusing at first, how do you pick a favourite! And the answer is you don’t, even though sometimes I make out with one of them, I still totally love both of them equally. I mean they’re like my sisters you know? Not when I’m making out with Ligeia, then she’s like my buddy, but y’know, my super hot buddy that wants to make out with me, when -you know what? When I say it like that it sounds awesome, am I right Wen Ling? You must be thinking ‘Jeez, why is Ford so confused, he’s got it pretty good’, and damnit you’re right, I know you are. I guess I’m pretty happy, all considered, I have good friends, I know some incredible people... I told you about Minerva? Oh no I didn’t, yeah she took Kat’s ticket, uh it was like a date raffle deal- Oh, Kat is my best female friend, so obviously we couldn’t go on a date. I love Kat in a genuinely platonic way. But well, if we went on a date we might get all relaxed who knows what could have happened and if we woke up in bed together I think it’d be really weird... though I don’t know how the nevernude thing would affect that... agh! Look, Wen Ling, whenever you meet Kat, it is IMPERATIVE that you don’t tell her about me spazzing off for that last bit there. So yeah man, Minerva, well, what can I say about Minerva? She produced The 36 Chambers of Shaolin! I mean, that’s the single greatest montage movie of all time! She’s my producer/agent for Bleak Hall films too but we’ve still got a date coming up. Am I crazy? Yeah, I mean, I dig that she’s this virgin goddess, it’s like part of her deal and all... but... I dunno, I mean it’s not like I’ve ever rattled my sabre, right? Well, I mean I’ve never rattled it WITH someone. That analogy gets confused when you try to extrapolate it doesn’t it? Oh and I’m really, really good friends with her dad.”
Took the boat down a river, inland into the island
Several minutes silence
Ford got super bored and tried to talk to Wen Ling again Ford asked what she liked in life: Wen Ling: Serving the emperor, it is very prestigious and a great honour Ford - wow, very far away (Ford mistranslating far out)
She says ‘far out’ is like the teachings of The Buddha
Ford wanted to sample the pirate party, Wen Ling is not into that at all
She says Ford will have to pass for one of them
Ford asked if he could join the tournament without killing, they said no, so he said he’d just come in and play cards instead
The inside of the compound is quite shanty-town, quite Mad Max
Centred around a hole in the ground about fifty feet deep, covered over with wire mesh A cage of death
Seeing some non-humans, Ford immediately blued
Met a stranger called Don Diego, a suave gentleman who asked if Ford would be ‘Blaying’.
Don Diego wished Ford well and Ford wished him the same
Erebus appeared, pulling his face open and sticking out his tongue at Ford before laughing and walking on.
Don Diego and big red dude went down into the pit
Erebus over on the other side of the pit, watching, Ford went over and said “Hello, Sun Wukong?” And he shook his head, turned into Zeus.
Don Diego defeated the red guy but put a shotgun to his spine and said ‘bang’ instead of shooting.
Sun Wukong challenged Ford that he could not dance
Then they fought, Sun Wukong outclassing Ford but Ford getting in some good shots here and there
Hero Points: Accepted Favour
Ford - would you stop slapping me? Monkey - would you stop having a face that needs slapping?
Looking at The Rio through binoculars
One of the outdoor Jacuzzis has been replaced with huge guns
Easily fifty or sixty of them, maybe a hundred.
Ford’s plan
Fey Twins make submarine with illusory torpedo
Ford covers the place in blackness
Troy hits with a dazzling blast
And they recaptured The Rio!
Prince left The Seaward for Dachimawa Lee, they even had a party aboard The Seaward to celebrate the awesome fight that had no casualties.
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Threads -
Athena and the logic key around Lucifer’s neck Locating Lucifer Squad Stuff - At half point of the season going up to the very point Fionn built up towards Squad Members - Who to take? Morpheus’s Rule/ Leviathan
The Box
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===Season 3 Episode 14: Pandora's Box===
Downtime
Glorious return of The rio to the port of Clearwater
Prince has invited local media
Ford disembarks the ship in a New Troy t-shirt with powder burns etc
Prince has his crew dispense drinks to the crowd “I’m feeling magnanimous”
Prince nodded to Ford to speak - Ford addressed the press, ended up reminiscing fondly about the pirate adventure
Prince asked who Ford would bring on the trip to Tartarus:
Ford - I’m gonna need a charming bunch of ragtag charming layabouts
Prince- you said charming twice!
Ford - It’s a long boat ride!
(QUOTE!)
Ford’s Squad Ideas
Original Squad:
Cord unavailable
Barbie - She and Kat may play off each other well
Billow - Maybe?
Brighid - Will come and help
Artemis and The Amazons - They are off training Scions
Simon Prince won’t even entertain the idea of mentioning Pele’s name
Ryu is a possibility -
The Amazons are now drill sergeants for Artemis
Talos is just a cpu in the care of Arrowtech industries now
Biff is now living a normal mortal life
Lillin - She’s passing through Hell anyway…
War is already down there
The Squad
The Irregulars
A Roman
Dionysus
Eddie Eckstein
Lillin
The Belph
Proserpine
Wen Ling
Sun Wukong
Brighid
Ryu
Barbie
Billow
Scenes: Eddie, The Romans, A visit to the Hudson household, a call to the Tuatha for a heads up to Brighid, Dionysus, Hell people will be possible on the way,
Another possible squadmate: Jordan
Mercy
Prince has a few things to do
Ford has patented a Strawberry-Blueberry-Pineapple margherita (Kat calls it a Diabetes)
Flashback - had a rollicking party with the pirates when they presented them with the Seaward, congratulating each other like a post-game party.
Prince handed Ford a dossier for squad building, complete with his notes on ‘Assets’
Ford went to The Cave first
Eddie said of course he’d come, Job wants to come too, Ford said yes immediately
Talked to Jordan who said he’d come along, get some exercise for that dark side.
Kat is heading out to foreman the repairs on The Rio
She says she’s going to “Berkowicz the situation”, Ford found this sweet and didn’t say a word about it.
Ford then took the limo to the former Olympus. It has grown in stature since he’s seen it
They went out to a kind of Sicilian villa, looking out over the vineyards
Jupiter himself said he’d accompany Ford’s Squad to Tartarus
Jupiter says they have a couple of things to discuss
When Ford gets Fionn out of the box, Aether will come too, with him comes The Olympians power
Jupiter asked if Ford would mind doing him a favour:
Bring Vinny, his son.
Ford said he’d be glad to.
Jupiter says he has a philosophy:
“You take one moment in every day and you breathe deep and you think, this might be my last.”
Jupiter asked Ford to dinner tonight.
Jupiter asked how Ford’s doing otherwise, they had a chat.
Asked if he’d like Ford to put in a word on his behalf with the Yankees, Ford said he’d appreciate it but don’t ruin his own friendship with them over Ford.
The Romans:
Jupiter
Minerva
Vinny DeLuca
Ford’s next meeting, looking for Zeus.
Found him hung over and still a little drunk
He was bitter
Ford told him if he doesn’t keep his word, he’s going to be put in the box.
Ford next went to see Mercy
She’s talking to Felix Underwood
She then played The Clash - Lost In The Supermarket
Mercy asking if Ford has met anyone, she was with Andrew before he left.
Mercy wanted to chat with Ford about his ‘romance options’, Ford said that was super weird.
Eddie tells Ford that in his absence he should deputize someone to protect Clearwater while he’s away.
Ford went to see Rainbow Rhythms
Asked Bonnie to look after the place, left his half-burned badge with her. She was oddly touched.
Went to see Barbie, asked if she could accompany him
She said she’d do anything for Ford, same as for Fionn
Ford trying to figure out how to summon Dionysus, they’ll throw a party the night before they sail.
Ford is called to work with New Troy construction on the rebuild of The Rio
Kat is in her Loader and Rosie and John Henry Irons are there
Ford wonders: Did Jupiter call them or did they come of their own accord?
John Henry and Eddie get on like a house on fire
Ogoun inspires Eddie to create a special defense system at the front of The Rio
Cannons, a wall of speakers/amplifiers for Eddie
Ford’s Improvements - outdoor jacuzzi should be larger
Electro-Canons powered by Ryu
Asked Brighid to work with The Twins to work on a Forcefield for the ship (Will need occasional recharging)
Later in the renovations a military vehicle pulls up
Out gets Brandon and Cord Van Graff
Cord is teaching Scions with Artemis
They loaded Talos onto The Rio as a temporary measure
Ford went to dinner with The Romans
Jupiter asked how Ford thinks his father will feel when he hears all about him.
Ford hopes he’ll feel he has been continuing his work.
Jupiter says:
Full discosure Ford… I kinda had a bad dream last night. I was not myself, doing things I would never dream of.
Vinny wants to make it back for the next game, Ford had Cheryl take a note to that effect.
Minerva came over,
“I have a little confession to make, I’ve been very busy, getting things done.”
Whose idea do you think it was to make the orchard?
Whose idea do you think it was that Ligeia took a little midnight stroll?
Minerva- Ford offered her to be his Executive Officer
Tried to cry but her tears won’t come.
Next day, day before launch.
Giving the Rio a last inspection
Training area has a complete forge, it’s both more opulent and more battle-ready
Lana came by to visit, she and Ford ended up watching her film in The Rio’s cinema
Troy told Ford people are arriving, Ford made his way out with a big gulp of Dr Pepper to go greet them
Study Group arriving with Eddie, Job, Mercy
Jupiter has just pulled up, he gets out with cases of equipment, Minerva and Vinny with him
Jordan making his way up
Barbie comes up on her bike, cards in the spokes
Brighid is there and Casser is with her
Sun Wukong and Wen Ling arrive together
Simon Prince has created name badges for everyone, it’s a “Hello my name is” party
Dionysus came along as the party began
Athena came along and asked to join, Ford agreed
Ford asked Athena to work on War strategies to minimise bloodshed
Kat came by:
“You just missed Monkey King slapping a drink out of Jean-Ralphio’s hand.”
Ryu showed up, he said he has waited for this day for a long time. He brought a friend.
Susano-O, he has a proposition
Susano-O and Ford went to talk privately
“Ford, I am masterless. I have a disagreement with my family. My mother and father battle daily I would ask… I will come to Tartarus with you as a favour and as an ask, you help me restore the name of Izanami.
Ford asked him to teach him the sword
“I have an interest, but I am no swordsman”
Susano-O “Then I have an interest in making you one.”
Athena has rounded up the support crew which she has identified as:
Job Woodstock - Athena says he is a walking forcefield. Anyone that would travel by his side would be protected.
Barbie - Of course.
Dionysus - He has ways of overcoming fear, he can put steel in these great men and women. Make things better.
Mercy - Most remarkable of all. She is very talented.
There are others, potential candidates but I would need to socialize some more.
Minerva came in -
She’s identified a lot of good lieutenant material
She sees a lot of potential in that ‘Kat Berkowicz’, someone who gives orders very easily
Eddie when he’s not rockin’ out, he’s rockin’ out with subtle commands, people respect him.
And seeing how you and Troy get along, you two should stick close together
Ford - We have a special move!
Minerva - Sun Wukong, if he doesn’t slap us all into submission before we get there, he’ll be a great general.
For the meeting Cheryl is taking notes, Ford realized he couldn’t take her to Tartarus and told her she had to go back to Clearwater. She said she thought they were going to Tartarus, he said yes he is. She said ok so she’s ready to go. He said no, she’s goig to Clearwater, she asked him why he wasn’t going to Tartarus like he planned, he explained she was going to Clearwater and he wasn’t taking her with him on the trip.
She was very upset “SAY GOODBYE TO THESE!” Waving notebook and pen
Ford called her on the radio when she was thirty feet away, asking her to take note of his idea for the Bleak Hall logo before films:
“Spooky picture of Bleak Hall, we get closer, a flash of lightning... then we get close enough to see silhouettes inside of people having a rockin’ party and laughing it up... BLEAK HALL FILMS, bam.”
Ford’s inspire check for The Squad:
60 (68 for the ladies)
Billow shows up “Alright alright I’ll come along”
At the party, Troy and Athena have a heart to heart.
At Troy’s openness, Athena weeps over the loss of Apollo
Apollo forms a very trusting bond with her
Ligeia and Mirella are absolutely crazy about Sun Wukong and he’s terribly fond of them
Wen Ling is constantly trying to restrain Sun Wukong from his madness. She and Mercy get along very well.
Mercy ends up spending the majority of her time hanging out with Job Woodstock and Eddie Eckstein.
Eddie and Ryu hang out a lot together.
Barbie and Billow get along fabulously, they travel in a bit of a pack with Barbie, Billow, Brighid and Casser.
Minerva and Athena have a healthily competitive relationship
Jupiter is constantly kind of “can I get you anything”, always concerned that everything goes off without a hitch
Susano-O is quite a lonely dude, Ford left Jordan talking to him
Dionysus brings everyone into The White Room, asked for requests
Ford asked for Kooks and Dionysus said it was a very apt choice, we’re all someone’s Father or someone’s Son.
Dionysus and Ford start off the night’s Karaoke, the night passes this way
Susano-O gets super into Karaoke, he’s a bit of a hog actually
Squad layout
Minerva - Executive Officer
Kat - First Lieutenant (Ford’s Go-To)
Sun Wukong - General
Athena - Military Advisor
Eddie - Sergeant
Simon is of course captain of The Good Ship Rio
Ford and Troy - Twin Ninjas
Ford asked Jupiter if he’d take a Sergeant position where needed
Sergeant of The Adults
Eddie can take care of ‘The Pups’
Ford called The Eagle to perch on his shoulder and went to the prow with all his officers
Ford opened the portal, The Rio sailed through
A party meets The Rio at the dock in Hell.
Proserpine carries word from The Belph, he set an alarm, he will be here momentarily.
Lillin is to make a diplomatic mission to Tartarus
Proserpine and three of the sisters will be Lillin’s guard
Lillin arrives in a carriage escorted by Agony
The Belph arrives, complaining about sand in his toes from hanging out on the beach
Ford says when they get back he has two fans that really want to meet Qarinah
Lillin and The Belph have joined the party!
Qarinah gives The Belph a satchel full of supplies
Proserpine and three of the sisters including Agony all come along.
Belph - Hey uh man, I’d like to sail by the new realm
Barbie taking pictures, they take a big group picture of the whole group on The Rio in Belph’s new realm. Ford saved this picture.
“New Angelinos” - The Belph’s realm
The Rio sails through the gates of Hell into Tartarus
Tumultuous seas
Ford assigns Susano-O and Billow to steady the waves for The Rio
A mercury-looking rain falling, Susano-O casts some protection overhead, throwing clouds out of the way above. There is too much storm power though
Susano-O comes up on deck, leaps off the prow, transforms to his true form and eats the storm
Troy - I think we’ve found our villain for Twin Ninjas 2…. Space Ninja Wars the…
Ford - The Dragoning?
Troy - Get out of my head!
Jupiter calls Ford to inspect as people are arming themselves.
Wen Ling is in ‘Alternate Costume’
Brighid asks her if she requires anything, it’ll be very cold out there
Wen Ling says “No, it’s a good thing!”
Troy has a hoodie lined with the material he and Ford created for the tent.
Barbie has a HeLL A t-shirt under her tracksuit, it’s Kat’s, Kat wanted her to wear it.
Kat- Can we talk?
Ford- Sure! (Casually disrobing and getting into the tub)
Kat sourfaces but eventually gets in the tub in her Hell’s Belles overalls
Kat is afraid she’ll Berkowicz the situation
She talked about her vision that the Rio would sink
Ford said she’s not a Cassandra, nobody listens to a Cassandra
“Why are you wearing a towel, we’re in Tartarus!”
“It’s very comfortable!” (and later) “And I didn’t pack enough pants.”
Proserpine - “You know Ford, your father was quite a ladies man. He rode, they say, with an honour guard. I am entrusted to protect Lillin… but my sisters are at your command.”
Jean-Ralphio distracted Brighid so much she hit her hand with her hammer
Ford took the damage, withstood it
Jean-Ralphio apologized for the distraction
Sun Wukong is down in the war room, boasting about his many accomplishments
Athena points to a different path through Tartarus
A part known colloquially as The Maze
Ford - Between you, Minerva, me and The Eagle, we can find our way anywhere.
Athena says that those that fail it are driven mad.
Minerva says Athena is super uptight
Minerva says Beads are going to be big next year
Bees?
Beads!
Beads?
Yeah!
Minerva says ideas can be used for fun. Ford says yeah, they both agreed that sometimes it might be nice to have a partner.
Called Troy
Billow to protect beneath the waves
Brighid to maintain shields
Ford and The Twins worked together to shade the Rio in illusion
Ligeia had a plan to create a copy of The Rio that will be sunk by enemies
Ford creates a canopy of super-thin stone that is harder than Titanium to protect from the mercury rain.
The Maze
Seven choices at each turn, they fork into a seemingly infinite number
Minerva suggests second turn, Athena recommends furthest on the right
Ford determined straight ahead is the only way to go.
Ford said that he believes Athena and Minerva could complement each other’s powers
Ford into intercom - Cheryl, could you find me some pants- god damnit!
Ford ran to his room to put some pants on
Mercy was there, Hero Point moment as he had already discarded the towel before he got in
Ford confessed he had forgotten to pack pants for the trip
Mercy had gotten Kat to give her some spares when they were going out so he could have a spare drawer in her place. She had taken the liberty of bringing them and putting them in his cabin.
Ford put on some pants and an Easy-Man tshirt
Mercy said he’s not ready yet, she brushed his hair back, he went blue
Rapids struck, they fell into the bed together, had a bit of a moment, people kept calling Ford on the intercom so he gave a few commands then turned it off for a while.
Jupiter arrived banging at the door though
Ford was even mildly impatient “What?!”
Jupiter was wounded and said he didn’t do nothin’ wrong and Ford immediately apologized.
They reached Dark Clearwater, troops were massing there to attack The Citadel on a second front.
Brighid, Simon, Casser, Jean-Ralphio,
Ford had an idea for a battle cart, four-sided, hollow inside, Kat and Eddie made it.
Belph, Barbie, Mercy - Ford asked them to work together to create a pacifying aura
Hero points: Father, House Corvin, Study Group, The Squad, One for pacifist approach
Two Artillery guns:
Ford and Eddie each threw one of them in the air, smashing them together so the munitions exploded in midair.
Susano-O distracted momentarily, got badly stabbed. Ford took the damage for him, hurt but staying on his feet, Susano-O rejoined the battle.
Made it through Dark Clearwater
Ford using his webbing powers a lot to control crowds.
they approached the Citadel
Eddie using Magnetic Control to disarm massive amounts of enemies, even pulling away their battering ram.
Ford stood on the battlements and called out that he offered peace but those that came after him offered death.
Many fled
Eddie and Ford and Troy dazzled them, Ford hit with webs, Eddie disarmed,
Ford grew more walls to push them back, more fled
Twins put forcefield to protect Ford, even stopping a missile
Susano-O slaughtering the troops, Mercy jumped out to stop him
Ford put up a wall to protect the troops, called for the rest to be allowed to flee with their lives
Ford greeted by Morpheus
Ford went to build walls all around the citadel
Lillin got out of the turtle to see Morpheus
End of battle, Ford has a bullet wound, a bayonet-wound.
Mercy gently making fun of Ford’s need to keep working on it even now
Lucifer and Morrigan pinned down
Garus, god of age, advancing on their position
they went to the tunnels to find Lucifer and Morrigan
Troy said if he knew Fionn was going through this the whole time he’d have given him a hug
Kat saying she likes the rig, pity she hasn’t had a chance to use it so far
Eddie and Job talking to Dionysus - Eddie asking, ‘how do you do it man?’
Job asks ‘Yeah, what’s the secret?’
Dionysus - Secret to what?
Job - Reinventing your sound every couple of years
Dionysus - Well, my young musically talented fellows, I’m just inspired by the people around me
Had a discussion with them about the new sound, Ford suggesting it’s just overthought
Agony told Ford she loves how he’s managed this so far
Minerva interrupts all conversations saying there’s something not right here, she senses a trap.
Jordan turned to Tartarus and attacked Ford, he missed, Ford knocked him out
There was distrust aimed at Jordan after that, Ford tried to reassure him, Mercy walked ahead with him.
Morrigan didn’t believe Ford was really Ford
He convinced her by telling her he had created the film festival because he knew his father would have liked to do that for her.
Athena to talk to Lucifer
Morrigan said she was sorry for coming into Lucifer’s life at the time she did
Lucifer said his treatment of Athena was his greatest shame
Athena hesitated, Ford took her hand and gave a brief squeeze
Athena told them that it all came about as a result of her thought
Ford said she hadn’t told the full story and explained how it was brought about by Hera
Morrigan on Jupiter:
Jupiter and I… well, he saw me one day, said he wanted to take the subway. He usually had his car take him places. He saw me and liked what he saw, I was having kind of a crisis of confidence and he seemed like a bigshot. He comes back the next day, this time I know it wasn’t my fevered imagination that he was noticing me. He comes on with these lines, like how you doing, and some real creeps wanted to cause trouble and he shooed them away. So I give him my number and it’s a fake number, local pizzeria. He goes to the pizzeria and finds out I’m a customer, gives a full and detailed description, talked them into giving my address. Saturday night he’s there at my door with an extra large pizza exactly how I like it. Well, he’s charming and has a way of making you feel like you’re everything in the world. I open the door, soon enough we’re sitting and talking and eating pizza… well, I just thought he was a pretty cool guy.
Something small happened and he called by a couple of times, I could see he was hiding something. My clairvoyance at the time was not what it had been or what it is again now. I said to him right, I see what’s going on here. You’re the big shot, comes over at unusual times and how could I be so blind… I’m just your Hell’s Kitchen bit on the side. To his credit he immediately put on his wedding ring and said that was true and the whole thing was two weeks.
Last thing he said when he left was he just couldn’t help himself with someone like me.
He told me his real name. A couple of months later, well…
Ford - There was this other dude, kinda tall, great hair…. I think I’ve heard of him.
Ford told Morrigan about his relationship with Jupiter
Brought her to meet him, she greeted him as Tony
Then brought Morrigan to meet the others
She enthusiastically greeted the sisters of the whip
Eddie and Job - She said she knew members of House Corvin would be here and thanked Eddie for saving Apate
Morrigan greeted Mercy asking which house she was from, Ford explained (pained) that she was Apate’s sister.
Jordan Swan - Morrigan told him not to worry, if he is here then there is hope.
Morrigan - And who’s this goofy blonde? Minerva
“Pleased to meet you, goddess of… giving Ford ideas.” Because she can read Ford like a book. A cheap, filthy book.
Morrigan regarding Study Group a little bit like they’re cosplaying
Jupiter has gathered some equipment from the others to give to Lucifer and Morrigan and their crew.
Athena said she had to redefine herself, she was going to try to come out of this cave as goddess of Redemption. If she didn’t make it... leave without her.
Ford sat down to wait.
Barbie came out to wait with Ford for Athena
Barbie said - Ford? I’d rather die in this cave with everyone here than to turn my back on anyone.
Mercy showed up too, with Jordan.
Enemy forces getting closer.
Troy came over the radio, saying they weren’t leaving.
Everyone waited, nobody would leave
Morrigan and Lucifer came barrelling in, saying the enemy thought they were inside this mountain, so if Ford used his power to take them out of it, they would all flood pointlessly in here.
Amongst the attackers, riding a horse is an ancient Mickey Rooney figure
“Go on, get in there and kill the youth out of them!”
Ford went to find the others, pulling them through shadows
Ford used Shadow Portal to bring everyone through to The Citadel
They returned to wall Garus and his army into the mountain
They gave them the option to surrender, they refused. Decided to leave them in there a few days and offer again then.
Back at the ship…
Simon Prince is sitting in the jacuzzi, Casser is playing some music, Brighid is doing some fire shots
There’s a bunch of soldiers there, Simon is debating economics with them.
War is among them
They saw the boat, said they’d play along, make ‘em feel like they charmed us, then they did.
Arrived back in Clearwater
Athena wished Ford luck in the box, then Barbie helped her off ship
Dionysus - Ford, that was a cakewalk. If that’s a mission, count me in for all of them.
And Ford? Can you tell those loveable lunkheads, the sandy haired jewish gentleman and the innocent with eyes like a beagle… tell them… think about your session musicians. Think about who’s on your band. That might be the source of the problem.
Oh and ah, Ford? Let me know if your father has an eyepatch.
Minerva - Well I guess that was our date-
Ford - How about next Friday night?
Ford asked Vinny to look out for Jordan
Ford passed Dionysus’s message to Eddie and Job
Casser and Brighid arriving to be permanent members of House Corvin
Ford called Cheryl to let her know he was okay
Listened to The Killing Moon with Mercy
Ford placed the song on repeat again and opened the box with the key Lucifer gave him
Dived into the box.
The world around him was madness, filled with fear and madness and unspeakable things.
He fell, passing through madness of wars, saw Achilles fighting Hector, both World Wars, killing throughout the ages.
He could see little glimpses of hope.
Until finally he hit the ground with a thud.
Faced with a maze. It is deceptive and infected with madness
Turning a corner, he saw his father.
Fionn had difficulty accepting it was really Ford, he convinced him with the story of the film festival too and they embraced as father and son.
Ford asked about the other two in the box
Fionn said there were three others
Hope, Death, and Aether. He said Death has the other two hostage.
Fionn -
When I got dragged down here I thought I was the only one. You know along with the other two. But she’s here too. Ford, there are things out there.
Fionn said when he dreams, it’s like he looks down from the stars, that’s how they dream down there. He can see a darkness coming, it feeds on hate, disorder.
This box, our fighting in it, it’s all a cruel joke, the last place people would look for Hope. That’s what I’ve realized. I can see it in your eyes, you learned a lot quicker than I did. Hope can destroy Chaos. It’s the only thing. We’ve gotta get her out of here.
They talked as they walked, catching up.
Fionn - You know, I never had nightmares, after I defeated Icelus. Funny thing is though, there were times I’d feel something, like a nightmare. I think it was my conscience. All that bloody killing… and for what? Separated from my wife… well I was gonna ask her. I heard what people were saying around the school
Ford- cord calls me the teen pregnancy
Fionn - course he does. (And then, under his breath) Buttface. Nah, I once went on a drive. To clear my head. I got talking to this homeless fella. He didn’t have any legs. I sat down beside him, smoked a couple of cigarettes, got to know his name. People don’t realize that you never quite leave the battlefield. You know what I mean?
Ford - I think so.
Fionn - So we talked and he said that he’s got PTSD. The more he started talking, the more it started making sense to me. Called himself damaged goods. It was like I was staring into a mirror. That’s what I want my goal to be when I’m gone from here. Get some peace. You know what I mean?
Ford - Yeah, that’s what I’m about.
Death on his throne
Fiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn….
Fiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnn….
So the pantomime continues. You go and grab Aether, run away, then I chase you and I get Aether back and the whole darn thing just keeps repeating itself.
Ford- That sounds terrible.
Death attacked ford after Ford freed hope and Aether
Ford defeated him, placed him in a stone box but then opened it partway to talk.
Ford- What do you want?
Death - Eternity
Ford - And what do you want to do with it
Death seemed disillusioned with how trapped he was, everything but him dies. Ford said Hera died, he tried to heal her but he couldn’t. He said Death could die if he wants, but how about: knowing he could die, he just try out some stuff, see what’s good out there in the world?
Ford talked Death into accepting Life, as he can die any time he wants.
Ford carried Hope (as much as he could, actually) and they left the box.
Ford stood over Hope upstairs of the Treehouse, Mercy chided him about how she’s pretty and told him he can’t just stand over her all night waiting for her to wake up.
Mercy “If you just keep watching her-”
Ford “She won’t boil?”
Mercy “Exactly.”
Back to Metalverse Seasons
Season 3 Episode 15- Just Like Old Times
{C}After returning from Pandora’s Box, everyone slept in the treehouse
Fionn’s Raven returned. Fionn looked into its eyes, saw an image of a windswept cliff on the outskirts of Clearwater
Craggy rocks, crashing waves, a jaguar cougar bike, a woman in a hoodie and leather jacket and dress, carrying a child. Eddie is arguing that she shouldn’t leave but with a look she convinces him and he plays music of the ages.
Fionn left a note for Ford saying that he’d be back, he just has to get right about a lot of things.
Fionn told Mercy he feels like a Soldier back from the war and a murderer just out of prison.
Mercy says she sees something different, a loyal protector, a trusting soul and a good friend.
Mercy said she’d like to help him, she wants to use her power to help others more, so far she feels she’s mostly used it to help herself change.
Mercy said Job hit rock bottom when Fionn left
Fionn and Mercy talking a little about Ford, she said she knew the first time she saw him that he was special.
Mercy told a story of being on the road
She kept having this thought on the road, this taste, the pie. Calling her like a siren. She’d go to all these places and try the pies and none of them tasted the same. She came back and said I’m only in town for just one bite then I’ll be on my way again. But I stayed.
Clearwater Community College: Fionn says this place looks alright
Mercy: Jupiter is a very nice man, he is… well, client confidentiality
Mercy said Jupiter wanted Ford and Fionn to come to dinner, Fionn was very interested in doing this. He wanted to spend some time with Jupiter, thank him for helping his son.
Fionn and Mercy went by Bleak Hall to see Study Group (As he called them, though now they were generally known as The Irregulars).
Fionn upon seeing The Fey Twins: aahh those are different twins. (He was always a little afraid of Twins)
Kat was enthusiastic about Fionn’s return, he could take some catch up classes, enroll, become a part of Study Group again... Fionn was touched but saddened and tried to let her down gently, this wasn’t really his generation anymore.
Jean-Ralphio - casually really pleased to see Fionn
Fionn went up to the Attic to talk to The Twins
The Attic has a lot of memorabilia of The Irregulars
programs of film festival
their missing persons awards
Barbie’s photographs taken in Hell
Press cuttings of when Ford was mentioned from the football game
The document that incorporated New Troy Construction
Pictures from Halloween
Pictures from founding the house
Fionn told them how sorry he was about Loki
they offered him a tour of the Attic
“This is a photograph of when we were in the registration line, we took it on the sly.” {C}The photograph captured a lot of the cast of Season 3.
They showed him Johnny, who took Fionn’s place “Oh, you mean the grouchy asshole place?”
The first inaugural film festival, held at Corvin Farmhouse.
Fionn said he can’t wait to see the movies, he hasn’t seen one in just a shade over twenty years.
The Twins showed him scenes from a movie, one doing projection the other doing sound.
They showed him Loki and Vioarr’s film
They said they’d forgive him on one condition, that he’s a good father to Ford.
Fionn went to recover a little and sat in The Scabs Room. His own cold presence echoing that of Jokul Frosti, little tendrils of ice radiating out from his chair on the floor.
Fionn came downstairs to see Troy and Mercy and the others talking
Fionn agreed to meet Mercy at five pm
Fionn got a tour of The Rio MKII from Prince
Had a hot tub meeting
Fionn told Prince he heard he’d been a good godfather
They reminisced about the many legal battles they’d had
Prince: well you did pass the bar
Fionn: I was first in the state, well I took the test illegally, but that’s not gonna come back and bite me on the ass
Prince: There’s work that needs to be done. I need the services of a very talented artist to create the logo for Bleak Hall films.
Your son has some dates coming up
“Plural?”
“A couple of ladies and a Gentleman”
Fionn did the animation for Bleak Hall Films Logo
People were charmed by it, which was a bit of a revelation to Fionn. He realized these animations would stand on their own, independent of people’s opinion of him.
Fionn went to see Zeus at the old theatre
Fionn used cold to chill their beers but could feel Zeus’s fear
Zeus tried to help Ford, he was too late for The Rio
He went to Tartarus in a small boat and saw the effigy of The Rio
He says he crossed the barren wastes of Tartarus like a walk of penance, a walk of shame. Until I came across a most curious sight. A boy. Striking lad. Fair of hair and skin, playing. Outside the halls of the citadel. Said he was running away. I counseled him to return to his mother. He agreed. Dawn is his name. He told me that your son had left and so I was to make the return trip as alone as I came.
Fionn and Zeus had kind of a meeting, came to something of an understanding.
Fionn had a long session with Mercy, talking through a lot of his guilt and feelings of despair at what he had become.
Met up with Job, spent a night hanging out like old times
They discovered The New Sound, Fionn helped them get there. It’s a kind of more mature but optimistic metal sound, the genre is almost named after the first song: “It’s not over yet”
{C}Fionn tried to step through the portal but was struck by James Mason, who told him he could not let Fionn return to 1996 and ‘restore order’, he couldn’t let that happen.
They fought, Fionn seeming to gain the upper hand but Mason just turned to dust where he lay, telling Fionn he would be seeing him again soon.
Fionn at last stepped through the portal, finding himself on a suburban street. He knew which door to go to, rang the doorbell.
Apate answered in mortal form, hardly aged since he last saw her.
He asked if he could come in, she was curious/suspicious but when she saw his split lip and cut forehead she allowed him in. He went right through the house out to the gazebo, she made a crack about hey make yourself at home, but sat with him to patch him up as they talked.
He wasn’t sure how much to tell her without seeming crazy and driving her away. At a certain point as they talked he realized she had recognized him and was drawing out the moment, enjoying it.
They flirted around the subject of who he was and why he was here until he proposed marriage to her, she accepted but on the condition that once per year they must decide whether they want to stay together. She said this was because “Fionn Corvin without conflict is like a bird without wings.”
Fionn Corvin without conflict is the raven without the hunt.
{C}Apate agreed to return to 1987 with Fionn.
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{C}Episode 15 Continued
Ford: {C}Wakes, sun pouring in through a window, Ford trying to lie in the shade as much as he can. {C}Sun coming through the slats of the roof
Almost angelically behind this light is Hope, laid out on the bed, hands across her chest. She is a vision of sleeping beauty.
Ford was so dedicated to watching over her for the night that he slept in a chair, reading The Count of Monte Cristo to her until he finally drifted off. Some flowers by her side, Cheryl was unresponsive must have been out of range, blocked by Dupont. Ford actually went to his car, drove out to the local convenience store, then instead, inspired by Hope he had an almost Jimmy Stewart zeal for life, running past the convenience store, stopping in the woods to pick wildflowers.
Monkey slapped Ford’s head, he was a bit wounded about not being taken to Pandora’s Box
{C}Thursday 8th December
Ford at English class, gave impassioned speech about Winnie the Pooh
Expression 55/ 63 for the ladies
Portia called to talk about her favourite child’s book {C}She tottered slightly on her heels, people laughed, Ford let out a slight “hey” {C}Vinny stood, glowering over the whole room
{C}Ford on Spring Party “Clear your Friday Night, Theme TBA”
Bonnie: “This place is ridiculous, everyone here is in love with you.” {C}Ford (Mock seriously): “EVERYONE, Bonnie?”
{C}Ford saw tv cables leading towards the cafeteria. Local newswoman.
{C}Ford at makeup “How do you want it?” {C}Ford “Makeup? I dunno... natural? Like, none? How is that?”
{C}Mindy Roman (Pronounced Romain)
{C}Campfire Sessions cover: bonfire with the faintest outlines of people
{C}The Dean mildly panicked, tacitly acknowledging to Ford that this has all gotten out of hand
{C}1. Billow {C}2. Bonnie {C}3. Minerva
What’s your perfect Afternoon?
1. Visit to a museum {C}2. As far away from a stage as you can get me {C}3. Asked Ford to describe his perfect afternoon
{C}4. Blow off a day’s plans and call someone to come over and make out and listen to records instead
{C}Question 2: {C}What’s love?
1. The shiniest ruby in the treasure chest
2. “Are we really going to do this? This is beneath you.” {C}Ford: “Love isn’t beneath me, love is above me, something to aspire to.” {C}Bonnie: “It’s so easy to say that when everyone gives it to you”
3. Love is hard
Question 3:
 If love is a song, what is it?
1. Something from the old country. 99 Luftballons
2. Something by the Smiths. There is a light that never goes out.
3. TBA, want to play it in person.
Question 4.
The Dean:
A walk on the beach and some mexican food followed by a quick michael bolton concert
2 - second one, maybe I’m with a friend
3 - Anything by Kenny G
Study Group came to talk to Ford
Kat offended at the format of the show
Troy wanting Ford’s help to learn to talk to girls, get out of the Friend Zone
Ford confided he doesn’t really believe in the friend zone.
First Date:
Ford and Billow breaking into a gallery together
Billow asked Ford if he believes there’s someone for everyone
Billow: My family thought it’d be kind of a good idea that I do this
Ford: Go on a date?
Billow: Yeah. Well, specially with you.
Ford: Cool! Why?
Billow said her family is really glad that she and Ford are friends, they admire House Corvin.
Ford left Billow home
Ford strolling home bumped into The Deadbeats.
While Ford has been out they’ve been asking all kinds of questions
Troy, Jean-Ralphio: When is he coming home, can we stay up late?
Kat: You’re in love, right?
Ford: That’s ridiculous, she’s unconscious.
Kat: Right, because then you wouldn’t have the perfect audience, someone to listen to your stories, and...
Ford: What do you mean?
Fionn’s To-Do List (In and out of order)
Find my wife and son
If Apate will take me back, spend the rest of eternity making her feel like she made the right choice.
Get to know my son.
Teach him to throw a ball.
Go see Job. Smoke a joint, watch a John Carpenter movie.
Have a cup of coffee and a slice of key lime pie in The Half Moon Diner
Take a walk around Clearwater
Read all the books. See all the movies.
Drink a beer and watch the sun come up over Clearwater from the Treehouse
Get right. A lot of people to get right with:
Medusa’s Daughter
Eddie Eckstein - I killed Loki right in front of his eyes
Nyx. I slaughtered most of her family.
Odin. I never really stood in front of him and asked forgiveness for taking his son from him. I need to go and do that.
Morpheus. I killed his brothers and he became my ally -even joined House Corvin- anyway, that showed incredible bravery and generosity of spirit.
See The Squad again, make sure they’re all alright. I owe them and I always will.
Finish what I started in Hell. 
Jam With The Deadbeats again
Go Trampolining with my family
Have a drink with Simon Prince on the deck of The Rio
Talk to Mercy
Bring House Corvin together for real, lead the House into peace.
Make peace with the other pantheons
Build a monument to The Tartarus War, the fallen on both sides. A war like that must never happen again.
See Lucifer and Morrigan.
Have a big family dinner for the first time, three generations of House Corvin.
Find a new protector for Clearwater
Find a quiet place to be with my wife and son, if Apate will go with me, somewhere I can get it together.
Become the God of Killers. Even Killers deserve someone to turn to. The reluctant killers will be closest to my heart... but the others are my people too, whether I have liked that or not over the years.
Retire. Find a way to fill my time. Maybe make things with ice. Sculptures, structures. Making those things helps me be stop thinking, sometimes. Or lets me think.
RESUME:
Kat is heading off to sleep, Ford realizes he’s alone
Mirella interrupted Ford when he was about to go through the closet to visit Hope
She still has nightmares about what the Tallyman burnt into their garden: “One shall be taken, the other shall be left.”
Mirella says she sometimes thinks about the aspect thing he talks about
Ford and her ended up making out
Mirella asked him if he heard something.
Ford had Deja Vu, he told Mirella, she was totally offended.
Ford left, wondered if The Twins had somehow caused the feeling
Went back to his room, Simon Prince was there
Prince revealed Wenling is there to observe not only Monkey but also Ford and House Corvin
Prince even asserted Monkey and Wenling could be agents of chaos/order.
Prince described The Rules
1. Stop look and listen
2. Be wary of strangers.
Think about the people who didn’t arrive at your party
Prince suggests there may have been another meeting of houses that night
Ford admitted he made out with the other twin
Prince said
Jesus christ, that’s the third rule. You know within five minutes whether twins are into it or not.
Ford on Huitzilopochtli: I think he’s pushing me towards a seventy thirty split
Prince - Better hope nothing has happened to The Deadbeats
Deadbeats arrive at Bleak Hall
The Eagle observes Moose and Ford can hear crashes, wildfires, ships being sunk, trenches, it’s up to 11.
Job said: Everything seemed to go wrong, amp blew, hi-hat loose, pizza delivery man buzzed just as they were about to get into the zone. It happened all night until finally Eddie says we gotta get the metal to us. So we went out to the Lighthouse, waited for the light to hit us. Eddie said when that light hits...scream the primal scream.
So we all did and we felt the spirit move through us. But Moose... well Moose hasn’t opened his mouth since that happened.
Cheryl said she’d done some reading, she and Ford pored over charts and saw that Cronos, Chaos and Gaia are the precursors to The Olympians
My father killed his son... he’s also my great grandfather but... I think he’s chosen to be a dick about that
This is a fucked up crazy insane first volley of a family feud
Ford’s plan: He’ll give Job some of his Luck, The Irregulars will look over The Deadbeats for the evening, protecting them from misfortunes of various stripes. They rent an eighteen wheeler so that The Deadbeats can jam at the old carnival so they’ll be at the bottom of the ferris wheel for Ford’s date.
Cheryl telling Ford to be careful tonight
Ford Quote: “What could possibly go wrong? I’m just fucking with you. I know shit’s going to go wrong, but we’ll be fine.”
Ford has to get ready for his date. Nick Cave look, black suit white shirt, thin black scarf.
Bonnie lives at 111 Needlefield Street
The house is a bit spooky, door is answered by a seventyish scary old lady, a touch of the Chloris Leachman about her.
“I’ve heard about you”
“and yet you let me in”
(Nothing)
Ms Drakulitis
Bonnie dressed High Goth (Goth Ceremonial, Goth Pilgrimage)
Driving along, passing some cornfields. Poking their heads out from the tops of some of them, the battered hats of some straw scarecrows.
When they stepped into the top of the carousel, Bonnie saw the preparations and fainted.
She came to and they had dinner, she was surprised at how he’d chosen things she liked.
Bonnie said
“I didn’t want to burst your bubble but there was someone in town last week and I asked him to leave. And well, he left, but something in his eyes told me he might not be away for too long.”
With that Ford saw a man looking like Tony Todd with a sickle for one hand, standing on top of one of the other ferris wheel cars
Ford stepped out into darkness and as he freefell he made a portal and jumped through it feet first, landing beside the man.
He said his twin brother had brought Ford back from 1996 and he had killed him for the secrets.
He wanted to fight, Ford said they could meet at mightnight to fight but could he leave for now as Ford is on a date. His name was Kalfu.
Ford and Bonnie danced in the centre of the carousel
Danced to She’s Lost Control and Danse Macabre
Ford felt like they’d really tapped into that dark side they both share
During her time looking after Clearwater, Bonnie found a bunch of bodies on the outskirts of town by a farmhouse, males in tactical gear. She informed the police, it was pretty awful.
Ford walked Bonnie to the door of her car
Ford had a deja vu of the feeling of all the women he’s had flirtatious encounters with 
A little montage of these moments, someone features quite prominently: Mercy. But it’s starting to get drowned out with the many moments Ford has had with Minerva... he’s getting ideas.
Ford uses his portals all the time, largely out of laziness. He drove through one to The Cave.
Job found a gold dollar, then won seven thousand dollars on a triple cherry scratch card.
The words Triple Cherry made Ford look at The Twins and blush furiously for the first time anyone present had seen.
The cave is not as urban a location as many others
Next to a couple of buildings but backing onto a road that leads to another part of town through some woodlands
To the back of them is a large cornfield with a very old gas station
Kalfu arrived at midnight, Ford went out to face him. Since Kalfu had challenged him Ford had brought his stone-made white paintball guns with blue roses, Kalfu sneered and said this was no duel though. Ford was on the roof, Kalfu on the road by the cornfield. He called Ford down, Ford stepped through portal and stood facing him.
Kalfu summoned six scarecrows with sickles, Ford webbed four of them immediately, then knocked the head from one with the heel of his palm and cut the other in half with a reversed chopping motion, finishing by striking Kalfu with an incredibly powerful stunning blow to a nerve cluster.
Kalfu smiled, showing no sign of being affected by it. “We all have our immunities,” He said before trying to amputate Ford’s arm with his sickle. He missed, Ford took a swing at Kalfu and missed his ribs, Kalfu cut Ford up along the abdomen, a shallow cut with his sickle.
Ford tried to bluff being wounded but it wasn’t his night and Kalfu saw through it, so instead Ford used the force to strike Kalfu, sending him flying through the air and through the wall of the gas station.
By the time Kalfu was standing again Ford was in front of him, hitting him with an uppercut that broke his jaw and sent him flying through the window. Kalfu struggled to rise, found his feet and Ford slammed his fist down, bringing his force power down onto Kalfu like a hammer knocking him out.
He woke him encased up to the neck in a six by six block of marble. Ford asked him to surrender, Kalfu said “this isn’t going to end” and Ford shrugged casually, said “Ok,” and put Kalfu in Pandora’s Box, placing it back in his pocket.
He started to hear The Deadbeats capturing the sound, saw a portal opening and was going to step through. James Mason showed up though, saying well done and he hoped The Deadbeats had opened the right portal.
Ford said “I’m sure it’ll be fine” and walked through, finding himself in a cave.
He saw Cord Van Graff and Barbie looking exhausted and terrified at the edge of the cave while Fionn was battling Phobos in the centre. Finally Fionn cut the head from Phobos.
James Mason arrived, asking if Ford liked the view. Ford commented that it was certainly historic. 
Yes, Mason agreed, this was the first time someone killed a god.
“He’s so young,” Ford remarked sadly
“He was, upon a time,” James Mason replied.
Next he took Ford to Hell to see Fionn and Leviathan killing Asmodeus and Satan.
Cronos was disparaging of Eddie’s opening portals.
Cronos's objection to Eddie's use of Metal to journey through time reminds Ford of older generations trying to ban rock'n'roll in old movies.
Cronos said that he and his siblings raised Ford
Gaia provided the land Ford grew up roaming
Cronos looked out over Ford like a hothouse flower
Chaos stood back to let them have their game
Ford said he’d correctly guessed who Cronos was the first time he met him, though admittedly later doubted himself.
Cronos said now Ford realizes he’s not the butler and he won’t make that mistake anymore.
Ford said Cronos had revealed something interesting: He cares what Ford thinks of him.
Ford reunited with Apate and Fionn.
They discussed Cronos, Fionn asking if it seemed he was a threat.
Ford said that he didn’t want to make the mistake of Cain and Andrew Anderson who hate Yahweh so much they define themselves by him. Instead he would prefer the family and House Corvin go on as they are, growing closer, getting stronger and not treating Cronos or anyone as an enemy so that one day if Cronos does become a threat, by then they’d be strong enough to brush him aside without bloodshed.
They agreed that sounded like a plan.
A couple of days passed, Ford ended taking a walk around Portland a couple of times. He hung out at the coffee shop a couple of times, getting to know the wait staff better, learning how to make a latte. 
He remembered the girl he had a crush on, Janine, was usually in the coffee shop on Fridays.
He showed up on Friday and there she was, ordering a ridiculously sweet coffee, Ford ordered the same. They talked briefly, Ford easy and confident now where before he had been too nervous to talk to her.
He gave her the drawing he’d made the last time he saw her, one of his best. They remarked that they were like ships in the night and said their goodbyes but Ford felt good rather than sad.
After she left he started to hear victorious twanging of guitars and realized the portal must be re-opening. He stepped through his own shadow portal to the house, emerging from 1996 back to 1987 with his parents.
RESUME session
Ford stepped through the portal with his parents
Ford introduced:
Everyone, this is my family (Gesturing to his parents) and Mom, Dad, this is my family (Gesturing to The Irregulars)
Went to The Treehouse because Apate wanted to see House Corvin
Casser, Mercy, Simon, Agony and The Sisters
Ford heard the tweeting of birds upstairs
He found Hope, lit by a cascade of moonlight, birds have nested over her abdomen
Ford came back down, Eddie told Ford that Fionn had called a meeting, he has some kind of announcement.
Fionn spoke, talking about a more peaceful direction for House Corvin, officially placing Ford as the Envoy. As he spoke, looking at them all gathered he felt like he was at a welcome home from prison gathering, couldn’t shake the feeling.
Prince and Fionn went to soak in the hot tub, Prince is interested in getting into Bleak Hall films.
Fionn found out Ares tried to kill Ford
Fionn went to find him, gave him a brutal beating.
Ares claimed he was only protecting his family but Fionn called him a liar
Ava came to tell Ford that Fionn will be moving down to Hell, she’s very pleased about it. Ford asked The Sisters for the fifth time to confirm that definitely none of the three of them slept with Fionn back during those wild days, they messed with him a little but then admitted that no, none of them did.
12 bodies that Bonnie mentioned- killed by Ares? But they are the scions of Ares.
Cronos - worked with Chaos to to undo Eddie’s work
Ford told Apate that Jupiter's friendship really helped him become optimistic about the gods
{C}Jupiter invited Fionn, Apate and Ford to dinner
Jupiter was saying to Ford he hates advertising interrupting stuff, The Superbowl takes way too long.
Ford’s idea, Jupiter should buy up all ads for the Superbowl and just promote one business venture, for a brief minute at the beginning and the end, otherwise it’s ad-free. {C}Superbowl - no ads “We think you’ll like how we think, like it’d be nice to watch this superbowl without ads”
Ford and Minerva went away from the table together, they’re both feeling very guilty about their date coming up, what with Jupiter being so protective of her.
Ford tried to kiss Minerva and actually fell over, bewildered.
{C}Ford on the ground after Minerva went off to the bathroom: “Well, that was weird, probably doesn’t mea- awwww” as he sees Mercury
Mercury warned Ford about keeping hands off Minerva
Minerva returned, her and Ford went back to the table, Ford realized that he was repelled by her eternal virgin field.
{C}Jupiter and Ford both have their picture framed
Jupiter explained his favourite word {C}This -the bread- is Pani {C}Co-Pani, where the word company comes from, sharing bread
Vinny very hurt by Jupiter saying he never thought he’d have a son he could be so proud of, gesturing to Ford.
Ford talked to Jupiter about Vinny and Mercury, he said they have to prove themselves to get his respect.
Ford said even the greatest men need opportunities to prove themselves, the greatest man who ever lived might not seem to amount to much if he is untested
Jupiter said Vinny will go everywhere on Ford’s missions
{C}Resuming episode:
{C}THREADS
{C}Ford has met Cronos, he has told Ford that Ford was grown like a hothouse flower in 1996
He said he has corrected some of Eddie’s time travel shenanigans
Cronos, Chaos and Gaia are known as The Primordial
Papa Legba had brought Ford back from 1996, Kalfu tried to kill Ford after killing his brother, Ford brought him to The Loa
Ares: Did he kill 12 of his scions?
Fionn gave Ares a terrible beating.
What is Zeus doing? {C}He did actually try to help Ford {C}He met Dawn {C}Dawn may or may not have been running away, Zeus convinced him to return home
{C}Hope is asleep {C}Death is awake and around
Aether? what’s he doing?
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Resume Episode
Ford spending the night in the spare room, once Ares’s room
{C}Doodlephone - planning date
Jupiter came in, Ford confessed!
Jupiter has been building bridges. Yankees. Celestial Bureaucracy.
Jupiter asked if Ford ever thought of cementing his alliances
He gave Ford his blessing to marry Minerva
Venus came by, she showed Ford the dust from the tree that was once Apollo’s throne
{C}Ford took Minerva to the beach of Los Angelinos
{C}Minerva says “You should never swim for 45 minutes after eating”
“You know you should never play chess for an hour after eating?”
Demonoid looking types came running to save Ford and Minerva
Demon version of Bodhi, with a friend who has blue hair, Flea-like
{C}Knight Rider? That was me. The A-Team? You’re looking at her. {C}Airwolf...
Ford and Minerva joined Bodhi and his friends for the beach party
{C}Trampolined
Then went to the Cafe
They drank a couple of Black Magics
Finest Asgardian water, it’s a palate cleanser. With just a hint of the tuatha’s shamrock, gives it a peppery taste.
Fish of the seventh sea of the damned for starters. Deadly to mortals. ( “Caution: if not already dead or a god, please do not order” )
“The Friendship Bracelet” - Individually woven strands of Pegasus Hair each infused with the flavour of the squad that went to Tartarus.
{C}Minotaur Steak braised in Hell Berries
The Beef-Eye is not in season
Ford elected to Lady And The Tramp some pasta with Minerva
Minerva was intrigued that Ford can’t lie
{C}For Dessert Ford ordered the Cake of a Thousand Sins
{C}Ford went to feed Minerva a forkful of cake, the bench gave way and Ford fell. {C}Minerva tried to Feed the fallen Ford a forkful but the sharp fork shaved a furrow through his beard.
Ford came home to 15 messages from The Dean, panicked and getting more panicked as time goes on.
Ford shows up soaking, in a towel, for his date with The Dean
The Dean was tremendously drunk, Ford took him home and put him to bed.
End of Episode 15
{C}Back to Metalverse Seasons
===Season 3 Episode 16 - Krampus has been Drinking===
{C}Ford and Troy talking in Bleak Hall as it snows outside.
{C}Troy: You know what I really don’t like?
Ford: “Yes, I do. When people pretend to be nice but they’re really being mean, you hate Irish Coffee because it ruins two separate things.”
{C}They went out and made Snow Angels
{C}Ford thinking of some Maritime Trampolining either in New Angelinos or Hawaii
Troy: Had an idea. Build an observatory on campus
They chatted, but Troy mentioned he’d been going to see Hope and he thought she was really special. Ford immediately got weirded out and upset and found an excuse to get out of the conversation.
Ford’s winter look: Jeans, workboots, New Troy Construction t-shirt, plaid shirt worn open, scarf.
Rainbow Rhythms ambushed Ford
Ford pelting first Vivian, then Janice, then Janice again
Ford was destroyed by a shot from Dale
{C}QUOTE {C}Ford’s Eagle cried {C}Dale: How is the bird? {C}Ford: Well, very well. {C}Dale: Have you named it? {C}Ford: No, because it’s a part of me and that would be like naming my wang.
Ford is the only student at class with Fritz Engel because it’s a snow day... until Lana comes in
Fritz talking about how empty classrooms remind him that we all must go {C}Seeing students arrive, grow, leave
{C}Ford told Rainbow Rhythms they should do It’s A Wonderful Life as a dance piece
They told him he’s late for Drama
Swindon told a story of putting a lime between his buttocks as part of an ‘acting lesson” {C}at one point he told me squeeze, and i squoze
{C}Ford: How’s your slushie? {C}Troy: Pretty good, rainbow special {C}Ford: I got mine with marshmallows, but I’ll be honest, it hasn’t worked out
{C}Ford was upset that Troy liked Hope too, feeling the only option was to walk away. He became more and more morose and withdrawn as the day went on.
Ford went to the Belph’s new realm to find some peace, ended up talking to Proserpine on the beach.
Proserpine said that action is what truly feeds her, she needs to be out there in combat. Peace is a lovely ideal but she doesn’t enjoy it, she enjoys being in the bloody thick of it.
Proserpine depressed Ford far more
Ford met Mercy, she tried to talk to him but he wasn’t willing to talk {C}She gave him a pamphlet, something she had written
“How to get out of Rock Bottom”
Ford carefully folded this pamphlet and put it in his pocket without opening it.
Went for a walk, went to the waterfall, spent the night sitting by its side, watched the sun come up over it.
Ford was woken in the night by an intruder
Went downstairs to see Krampette, crying and singing the Krampus song
“Krampette, are you okay? What happened?” {C}“I don’t want to talk about it.” {C}“Oh...what a fucking relief... let’s get us a drink.”
“Shouldn’t you be making merry with your friends?” {C}I don’t want to talk about it {C}-good, I don’t want to hear about good times {C}-I’ll drink to that
Krampus is missing. He vanished.
{C}Ford drinking Schnapps straight from the bottle
{C}Trying to follow Krampus’s trail but it ran cold
She asked Ford to help terrorize
Ford asked who’s on the list {C}Dale, Lennon,
On subject of Lennon {C}“I heard he hit on my mom once. Not. Cool.”
He has also acted against you. the Rainbow Rhythms, he has been sleazing them all
“I have heard he plans to pass the rotten apple amongst them. He eats his apple and he works his charm and he slips a seed into each of their mouths. He will give them 48 hours of illness.
{C}Also on list {C}Simon Prince
{C}Ford agreed to help out as Krampus but said they’d need a costume: “Two bottles of schnapps and four days without shaving is no disguise”
First on list -
Simon Prince
Purple Dye, Cold Hot Tub and Vinegar Scotch
You will be the example that I spend the rest of the night trying to recreate, and though I shall not, the memory shall be a bittersweet joy. The tears of the others shall be a balm to the agony I feel at leaving your sorrow behind.
{C}Prince confessed some wickedness
He made a move on Consuela and then had her deported
Ford threatened him with a frog bite
He talked about Kat Berkowicz, corrected ‘Krampus’ about her name
“Until tomorrow night, Prince, my sveet Prince.”
Ford went and terrorised Dale
Dale’s confession:
I turned my back on one of my own {C}Put through the papers to have her expelled from Clearwater Community College
Ford encouraged him to go further
{C}Blaine said that Mercy made him who he is
Sometimes the advice is better than the man giving it, but it is still good advice.
{C}At the end of the night Ford found that Krampus was just hanging out boozing with Father Christmas. Krampette convinced Ford to go see Troy.
He went to his house and saw that Troy’s little sister is in a coma, so of course that was why he needed Hope so much. Ford brought the girl to wakefulness and left the family to celebrate.
came back home, talked to Kat
Jean-Ralphio came downstairs {C}So did the twins
started giving gifts
Jean ralphio got Ford a doodlephone
{C}Twins got Ford a card and a present {C}scratch card: triple cherry
box: count of monte cristo first edition
{C}troy’s present: {C}Susano-O will be the dragon
Rainbow Rhythms Present: {C}A typewriter, to work on the scripts
Fionn and Apate got Ford a book: {C}Gave it to him at the senior prom do-over {C}A bound edition of the manifesto {C}Fionn said a great man wrote it and if the plagiarism can be excused, accept it as a gift.
{C}End of Episode 16.
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===Season 3 Episode 17 - The Age of Metal in Asgard===
{C}Threads: {C}Hope is still asleep but her her effect is growing more potent around her, more wildlife, more flowers growing around her.
Aether - What’s going on with him? {C}Death - Ditto
Venus had showed Ford the tree of Apollo, sending ash around Olympus {C}Jupiter encouraged Ford and Minerva {C}Sent her down to be Roman ambassador to Earth
Classes finished for winter break
Mrs Drakulitis / Bonnie’s landlady - English 201
Dead bodies of Ares’s scions
Zeus is at his own rock bottom
Episode Begins
Bleak Hall ignored New Year’s Eve
Ford went to party for fifteen minutes around ten pm, then spent the evening with The Irregulars {C}“Bleak Hall doesn’t observe New Year’s”
Now into 1988
{C}Ford having a lazy winter break, holding court at his home in a robe or towel and giant polar bear slippers
“He’s generally out of the towel by about seven or eight pm” out of the towel and into his robe
Ford is doing Ava’s hair, sitting on a recliner
Reggie Funkhauser, the confused-looking guy. (Has two brothers, one parent and he enjoys: shop, macaroni and cheese)
Reggie needs to get Fridays off for the new semester, turns out over 200 people require similar favours.
Catlike, the sisters leave Ford weapons like dead birds
Over 200 people want help with their schedules
214 Favours Accrued
A falcon arrived at Ford’s window with an invitation to Odin’s new pad (pad is italicized)
Ford is going to be away for a couple of days
Prince has an epiphany that this is the perfect strategy, there is no sexier word in Hollywood than No. Reject all ideas and tell people to resubmit them when Ford returns.
{C}Ford gets word that Death has not left Corvin Farmhouse yet
Fionn and Apate have agreed to spend a couple of days at The Treehouse to look after Hope while Ford is away.
Went to visit Hope: {C}Wildflowers are now growing through the tree and over the walls, covering her. Ford did some light pruning.
Death is having some trouble adjusting to life on the outside, he’s kind of institutionalized. Ford talked to him and they had a couple of beers, Death walked to The Roadhous to hear some music.
{C}Ford went with The Irregulars heading to Asgard
Walked along the Rainbow Bridge
Odin’s new throne: Beer hall meets rehearsal space
Odin is wearing a cutoff leather jacket, denim jeans, red bandanna, his black eyepatch now has a hand gripping a battle axe emblazoned on it!
{C}Odin says there is business to attend to {C}He has an announcement. {C}There is an empty space amongst my ranks. My house is down since the death of Loki. I wish to coronate this new age in Asgard. Eddie Eckstein, I want you to become that man. That god. You will be my Skald.
Odin asked for help getting his people up to speed
{C}Ford’s attitude: If any culture can defy Ragnarok it is the mighty Asgardians
Odin: An open hand, not a clenched fist. And how can you play the metal without an open hand
Ford was led through the halls, met Baldur. {C}Baldur hasn’t been able to meet his son yet.
Ford brought to his room, a little more hair metal posters than he might approve of, worryingly it seems Odin’s embrace of metal hasn’t been very discerning yet.
Ford asked Baldur to go talk to Troy, as son of Apollo Troy has some stuff in common with Baldur
Ford talked to Ligeia about what happened with Mirella but they didn’t get much time to talk, Eddie came to bring Ford to the big meeting
Ford greeting The Aesir {C}Odin, Thor, Sif, Vioarr, Freya, Freyr + Gerd, Odin’s Wife Frigg, she’s looking a little out of place amongst all this. Baldur, too.
{C}Eddie played the new sound for Asgard, all present were affected. {C}Odin proclaimed him the new god, the Skald.
Sigrun was dismissed as captain of the valkyries, Ford concerned that this was a mistake, Odin is trying to force metal (and faux-metal) on Asgard rather than letting people make their own minds up.
Ford spoke to Sigrun, she is unhappy lately, feeling like she is wearing a costume. She doesn’t like the music Odin has introduced her to. Ford played her some real heavy metal and put in a red herring, a track by Whitesnake. She took it out of the tape player and stomped on it.
{C}Session Pause
{C}Retcons
Serpent of Midgard talk never happened
{C}Resume:
{C}Odin has given his word that Asgard and the Aesir will stand beside House Corvin
Ford explaining that he believes this friendship is metal in a way that is hard to define
Odin saying lets have a massive drinking session for the night
Sigrun serving in the main hall, when she’s not doing Valkyrie work she serves beer and mead
Irregulars all drinking, Twins are sober though. {C}Kat is further down the table, pretty hammered
She’s getting teary about Bleak Hall
{C}Ford was dosed with some Styx water
He went on a bit of a rampage, smashing pillars with his bare hands
Sigrun finding an enemy down in the basement looking like a dude from Kiss
Ford went down to confront him, the opponent caused the cellar to seem like a constellation of stars, with the pinpricks of stars turning into stalagmites to stab at Ford and Sigrun, Ford used The Force to batter him unconscious, far less merciful than normal as a result of the effects of the Styx water.
Assailant identified himself as Constellation, of The Strayers {C}Constellation: I have people on my side, you don’t know who I have- {C}Ford: I just buried you halfway through that wall. Who do I need?
Sigrun said that eighteen moons ago there was to be a wedding in Asgard. Erebus arrived, it was said that he brought some refreshments. Many barrels down in the cellar, styx water.
{C}Constellation: Just half a glass and you went ape in Asgard {C}Ford: Imagine what I would have done to you with a full glass
Constellation and his accomplices planned to go to Jothnot to wake the serpent of midgard.
{C}Ford and Sigrun went to Jothnot {C}Took refuge in a cave to get away from the screaming winds. {C}She told him she had not been further than this cave
Ford talked to Sigrun about killing, said he thought it was debatable whether he had killed a god or not: Tartarus had no persona. Perhaps that is the extreme end of the scale: a god that is nothing more than its Aspect.
Sigrun said the serpent of midgard is said to be over a thousand metres long {C}Steps of Desperation {C}top of the steps: Guardian Drum, sounded to summon the beast {C}Three Strikes is what it takes to rouse the serpent
{C}Ford and Sigrun talked for two days {C}She finally fell asleep {C}Ford watched over her as she slept
A disembodied voice addressed Ford
Hello Ford, we haven’t met before now {C}Ford: Well there’s nobody standing in front of me so I’d have to say we still haven’t met
{C}Ford theorizing that Chaos and Cronos cannot work together for any extended period of time
Sigrun: They make strange bedfellows {C}Ford: Clearing throat: Uh.... there, a ridge. {C}Sigrun: Then that is the way we will go to raise the snake. {C}Ford: You’re killing me here.
The valley leading to the steps that lead to the drum is a morass of mud, even a god is exhausted by the time they traverse it.
Ford carried Sigrun through the Valley as he was unaffected by the obstruction
Chaos talked to Ford, said that if he knelt before him and then went out in the world and denounced his manifesto, he would take him on as a protege. Otherwise he would bring terrible disorder to every house. Ford said “Fuck your offer” in a cordial tone.
Ford killed the serpent in a mighty battle, Sigrun warning him at the last moment that it must be killed by dropping the hammer of the drum on it.
Trapped the Strayers in the box
Emerged to the gatehouse
Ford had a sign saying ‘Kick Me’ on his back
They returned to Asgard to see explosions everywhere, Sigrun wondering if they are too late. Ford soon recognized the explosions as pyrotechnics though, it was a massive rock gig.
Duet with Sigrun, playing with Eddie: The Metal Of Asgard
Baldur asking Ford to be his wingman
An invitation to Dinner in Tartarus
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===Season 3 Episode 18 - Dinner With Friends (In Tartarus)===
{C}Dinner with Friends (In Tartarus)
First day back at Class after winter break
Cadbury has been around a lot, he seems quite lost since Jean-Ralphio has not been calling on him
Ford convinced Jean-Ralphio to have Cadbury around a bit more, maybe with some give and take: Sometimes have Cadbury doing things for him but maybe sometimes do something for Cadbury.
Simon Prince has rejected the first distribution deal offered by Columbia
{C}House Corvin meeting: {C}Leviathan, Morpheus not present
Mannannan’s cup is used as the gavel or sceptre of House Corvin’s meetings
Each member drinks from the cup before they speak to the group
{C}Ford speaking to the group
Let them know that The Aesir will stand beside House Corvin
Proserpine asked who is in front then
Ford explained about The Primordials but he is not overly worried
Mercy suggested drawing a peace summit amongst the gods {C}“We face this thing together because unity will keep us strong”
Apate talking about the invitation to dinner in Tartarus
Apate says Dawn is already grown, Morpheus says he’s a bit of a character
Casser mentioned the situation in Ireland
Cup passed to Proserpine: She reports if Tartarus and Hell are unified it will have great ramifications. Lillin will become queen of Tartarus for Morpheus is King. This will create a complication in Hell. She may have to make a choice between the two.
Prince: We have a great distribution deal on the cards. The release of Twin Ninjas, starting small on 230 screens, with 1500 screens should the first week be positive.
Ford mentioned possibly offering Athena a place {C}Prince is opposed to her being suddenly goddess of redemption
Ford said a god choosing an aspect can be more an act of devotion to an ideal than a statement of mastery.
Ford suggested to Fionn possibly ruling Hell
{C}Woke next morning for class, 11 am class.
Mercy on Radio: telling people to cheer up about returning to class “Who knows, maybe you’ll meet that special someone in class” {C}Ford: (thrusting hands in pockets, hunching shoulders) Christ I hope not
Ford met bulletproof bangs {C}They drew on the ground {C}two figures, man and woman, then they blacked out the woman. Ford could see that the man and the woman were holding hands at one point
Vinny and Portia looking over their schedule in the quad
Vinny asked to talk to Ford in private {C}Ford had guessed that Portia was an Olympian
First class with Alan Partridge
{C}Kat has renamed The Rig: No longer Betty... {C}It is now called The Suffragette
Let’s hope by next week there’ll be working AV equipment {C}Ford: There will
{C}Session Pause:
{C}Morgan’s Notes: {C}This Arc is about the emergence of Chaos, Ford’s relationship to The Primordials and Ford’s embodiment of Hope
To Do List
Look into the tree of Apollo, can Troy help? Maybe Troy and Baldur together? {C}Can pantheon unity reverse the pantheon war.
Talk to Ares about his scions.
Check in on the Zeus situation, if he hasn't already talked to Athena, get that happening. Maybe she can help him out of rock bottom.
Forgot to induct Brighid to House Corvin
Talk to The Irregulars, make sure they're not still uncomfortable, they saw Ford's dark side for the first time after all.
Ford's attitude for the peace summit is that it should be easier to create peace among the gods than among mortals, as the gods are above squabbling over oil and such things. He acknowledges there is still plenty for them to fight over, but he believes it can all be overcome.
Check in on Jordan
Get Cupid training with Monkey and Rainbow Rhythms. Also with Susano-O, this is a good reason to delay trip to Japan: Ford will first learn about the Amatsukami from Susano-O.
Ford is uncomfortable keeping people in Pandora's Box. What's the alternative? (It's turning into a bit of an Arkham Asylum possibility actually)
If Andrew can be found, get Fionn talking to him
Morgan’s suggestion for the front -part of this game: Just do the to-do list
Episode Resume:
Ford went to see The Irregulars to talk to them
Jean-Ralphio being measured for suit by Cadbury
Kat working on The Suffragette - putting final touches on the graphic, it’s slightly WWII bomber art, like a tattoo on the shoulder
The Twins are in their room reading
Troy playing Heavenly Host 
Ford asked Troy if he was okay having seen his dark side.
Troy said nothing to worry about, when the sun shines it casts a little shade.
Jean-Ralphio - on way to meet Ira’s mother.
The Invitation is in honour of Dawn, latest addition to the house of Erebus
Nyx is listed as the host
Ford knows a number of people are invited: Baldur, Ford, Apate, Fionn, Mercy, that’s all he knows of just yet.
Cupid is in a dorm with Bacchus
Cupid worried he’ll look ridiculous
Ford stripped down to his Dance Clothes
Cupid struggled but he made it through the class
Bonnie agreed to take a room in Bleak Hall
Helping her move, strange moments with Mrs Drakulitis
Bonnie chooses a large room, almost akin to a ballroom
Ford picked up five fullsize key lime pies to bring as a gift
Ford asked The Twins to come to Dinner in Tartarus with him
Portal to Tartarus is in the back room of The Half Moon Diner
Scary eccentric coachman gave them a ride to the house
A strange topiary of warriors and creatures - creatures from myth
A thin mist at ground level
Nyx sent Momus to keep Ford and The Twins company while they waited in the parlour
Ford: What do you like doing?
Momus: A lot of things, I like to pick the wings off flies, criticize staff, you know, fun stuff. Spend time with Mother... but she has less time for me now.
Baldur arrived, affable and nervous about seeing Nyx again
Fionn and Apate arrived
Leviathan and Mercy arrived later
Everyone went to the dining hall, Dawn finally entered
A young man of indeterminate age, perhaps fourteen to seventeen
Ford and The Twins walking through Tartarus, Ford thinking he sees/hears something that could be Erebus but it seemed to be just a shadow
Baldur trying to interest Dawn in hanging out, throw a ball or see a movie
Dawn: I don’t really care what happens to other people
Nyx wanted to address everyone
She regretted being unable to stand up for Apate to Erebus
Nyx said Erebus loved drinking Styx water more than life itself
Fionn went outside with Leviathan to fight and talk, they resolved the matter that he will give his blessing to Lillin and Morpheus.
Ford went to the men’s room but met Erebus out on a balcony
Ford and Erebus spoke of Chaos
Erebus wants to rest
He says there is something very precious to him. It is large and strong. 
If Ford can give it to him, he can rest in peace.
Erebus says he feels sorry about one thing: Painting Fionn as some kind of rebel
Mercy: A family is like a cult. If you don’t agree with the outlook of the cult...
Ford: Your cult has more runaways than acolytes
Mercy and Ford met in the bathroom and had a long conversation
Ford spoke about Empathy and what it means to him
Ford heard a scream and went to find Momus screaming in the kitchen, he had severed his hand trying to cut a slice of secret pie.
Ford healed the damage but it just closed the stump.
Mirella came in and started licking Ford’s wound from healing Momus, Ford got infected with Stix, they both went a little wild and ended up doin’ it in the kitchen.
Mirella covered Ford’s mouth and told Styx that there was an altercation in the kitchen
Nyx concluded that Momus must have bravely defended everyone from whatever attacked in the kitchen.
Leviathan: I don’t know how I’m gonna break this to Crojaw
Ford and The Twins got into the Carriage
Ligeia still swollen around the mouth, Mirella and her reading their books together.
Coachman: You got a wound
Ford: Well, it’s second hand
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===Season 3 Episode 19 - The Albion===
Big things happened in Ep 18
Ford given the chance to set Erebus at rest (Ford wondering if he could give Erebus the chance to repent for his murder of Apollo)
Momus lost his hand
“You think I’m not independent do you mother?” (Raising hand over his head, chopping down to cut his hand instead of the pie)
Episode 19 Begins
January 9th
A couple of days have passed since Dinner in Tartarus.
In that time Bonnie is kind of the shutaway, rarely seen.
Jordan came to visit Ford.
Ford was in towel time, reluctant to answer the door until he saw it was Jordan
Jordan confessed he almost left town
He’s been going for walks to clear his head, once or twice he’s had blackouts
Ford asked how long they last
Jordan said when he wakes up he’s usually at the side of a road or in the woods
Ford: Do you have blood on you?
Jordan: No. But sometimes it’s like I’ve cleaned myself as well. I once woke up beside the stream and some of my clothes were wet.
Ford and Jordan had a long talk about The Styx and their inner darkness
To-Do List
Tell The Truth to Ligeia
Talk to Athena
Talk to Troy/Jupiter
Ford went to talk to Mirella to see if she was okay with telling Ligeia about what happened.
Ligeia told Ford that maybe she just reached out to the closest person
Ford was hurt by this but she was very understanding about what happened with Mirella
Ford went back to his room, Prince came by, told him he needed him to go to England and intercede with Brittannia who was cutting Twin Ninjas to shreds.
Ford went to see Athena
She agreed to go see Zeus
Ford and Prince and Cheryl flew to England to meet with The Albion
Cheryl doing an introduction to Albion with dossiers
Led by goddess of nation and country - Brittannia
There is an upper house and a lower house
Brittannia’s right hand man - Sir Walter Raleigh, God of Spies and Exploration
Some infamous Figures also sit in the house of Lords: Including Robin Hood. He stands for their god of justice.
Minor House/House of Commons
Guy Fawkes - it would appear that every deck has its joker
Then the newly inducted god of Rock - Nigel Tufnel -the god of the thin line between clever and stupid
Byron Tell - God of Bohemians
Alan Partridge - God of Light Entertainment, some derisively call him the god of cheese
Ford’s password with The Sisters to show he’s not kidnapped and/or under coercion: “Whipping”
Ford had an acid flashback
Sees Prince as Richie Rich
Prince gave him a drink
Ford thought it would be a cauldron
During his flashback he experienced a moment of clarity, realising Ligiea had said what she said to protect herself
Ford thinks Giselle is a Deer
Asked her how she can fit all her hooves in the car
Prince: That’s a sexual harassment suit waiting to happen
Ford: Dude, I wouldn’t hit on a deer.
Ford stopped at a tourist shop and bought fifty red buses
Ford introduced his friends: Cheryl Prince and Kitty Kitty
Byron thinks Prince is a dealer, asked about his wares, Ford handed out red buses, everyone started licking them.
Ford starts shrinking: He reassured people that if he entered their minds he wouldn’t do any harm
Ford leapt onto the coffee table and climbed into a London Bus, propelling it around with his telekinesis
Chaos arrived
Said one reckless act you regret for your entire life
Ford said lately his biggest regrets are the reckless things he didn’t do
Ford to Chaos: I don’t want to destroy you. I just want to render you irrelevant. And I will.
Danny gave Ford a giant Camberwell Carrot
Ford wants to reduce Order and Chaos to things that happen in the background and nobody particularly has to worry about them.
Ford was taken to be outfitted by The Bohemians
Three piece dark blue pinstripe suit, Boys Don’t Cry t-shirt, blue scarf and matching blue shoes.
The Star Chamber
Combination Command Centre meets living room meets a fun interpretation of a war chamber, a lot of mahogany, green baize, table lamps. A large map of the world stretching over the houses. The names of the countries are not corresponding to their literal names, they’re named for their houses instead.
Met Robin Hood - he flirted outrageously with Cheryl Kitty
Britannia arrived with her advisor Sir Walter Raleigh
Ford agreed not to release Twin Ninjas in the UK
Britannia’s spies have discovered some things
Ford laid out House Corvin’s attitude to alliance and friendship
They have reason to believe there is an artifact out there
The only individual that knew of its whereabouts is lost to them
King Arthur, the oldest member of The Albion
It was said that King Arthur took his last known voyage from a dock, a large bellowing fellow took him on his journey.
Ford said Poseidon, they all sighed in relief and frustration and chagrin
Ford explained his beliefs about Empathy to Britannia and The Albion
They agreed to friendship, Ford said he’d talk to her about Twin Ninjas again in three months when the rest of the world had declared the film a work of love and compassion.
RETCON: Ford drove the London bus through his hand
Ford went on a pub crawl with Byron Tell and Nigel Tufnel
Ford finds out that indeed there is an upper house and a lower house. The Lords have been around for centuries, the peerage. Headed by Britannia, formerly headed by King Arthur.
To The Bohemians, Britannia is like Margaret Thatcher. They call her The Iron Maiden.
Way back when, it was King Arthur and Boadicca. The one man they really trust among the lords is Guy Fawkes. How did he get his place in the Upper House. Maybe history got it wrong with him?
The Lower House were mortals raised.
Ford went drinking with The Lower House before returning to Clearwater with a ferocious hangover.
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===Season 3 Episode 20 - Hope===
Threads
New Manifesto possibility: Ford on Empathy?
Hope to wake up soon
Talk to Jupiter/ Troy
Ford hanging out with Jupiter for a lot of evenings on a purely social level.
Ford discovers that once upon a time Jupiter was birthed as the son of a Commoner. He wanted to prove his worth by raising through the ranks of scion, becoming a god and leading a pantheon. He was a pickpocket, a labourer, an engineer, a soldier, a prisoner. He calls it his vacation, he walked a lot through life.
Jupiter’s father was a very kind man, there is some sense that this is where some of Ford’s great respect for Kindness comes from. Maybe Jupiter feels that Ford’s journey mirrors his own.
Ford returned from Albion at dawn, hung over and exhausted
Many letters and notes, he fell into bed and found messages on his answerphone
First was from Huitzilopochtli saying he wants to get in touch
2nd - Ford are you home yet, I really wanted to talk. -Ligeia
3rd - 
4th - 
5th- 
All Ligeia.
Ford went into The Twins room, Mirella was out and Ligiea was asleep
He woke her, they talked a little and then she stiffened, used magic to destroy his answering machine.
She confided that when he and Mirella were in Tartarus, she knew what happened and felt some of it, even kind of felt like it had passed between the two of them.
Ligeia said that Mirella is spending a lot of time with Bonnie lately
Ford woke and received a note from Athena to visit her in her office
Athena said that Aether has returned to The Olympians
She brought Ford to The Theatre. Zeus is there, building work is going on. Beside him stands Aether.
Zeus requested the use of The Theatre from Ford as protector of Clearwater, Ford granted it.
Zeus: I have come to learn the ways of man
Ford: As everyone should
Zeus said Demeter will be staying there, as will Aether
Zeus said Aphrodite is lost, she has turned her back on her husband and has fallen for a mortal.
Athena will always be my daughter
But Ares... 
With that Ares appeared, walking along the aisle
Ares breathed in near Aether to regain power
Becoming like a Minotaur
Zeus said breathing in around Aether is a test of humanity
Ford suggested that Athena should take the step, it could be a useful step in her transformation.
Athena was afraid but she went to do it, she fell still afterwards, not breathing for thirty seconds. Finally she took a huge breath, a white light emitting from her, burning a hole through the roof.
She said “I just thought of other people.”
Ford offered the help of New Troy Construction, Zeus thanked him but said no, he has his own projects now.
Athena said she would like to think she had some part in the change in her father
Ford said good, it means she’s already at work.
INSERT SCENE
Fionn in Carriage with Leviathan, he vouched for Athena and Leviathan reluctantly agreed that Athena should be allowed to join House Corvin
Cut Back to Ford in Half Moon with Athena
Ford on his aspect of Hope: It’s something I want to be but at the moment it’s something I do.
Ford said his responsibility is the million little choices he tries to make towards what he’s working towards
Athena said that is close to The Loa’s thinking
She said The Loa say the world turns on the beat of a butterfly’s wings
Athena asked how Ford feels about the various names people call him
The Blue Wonder, Easy Man, The Rainbow Warrior, Warchild, The Monk
Athena visiting The Treehouse: She said she’d like to try something, it might take her a while.
Athena said she would like to try to help Ford wake Hope
Poseidon - Ford said the sea gives and takes away, it makes sense that Poseidon should come up whenever artifacts are discussed.
Ford asked Athena to work with Walter Raleigh/Albion
Athena wrote up some objectives on the chalkboard in the treehouse
1. Wake Hope
2. Erebus/Artemis - The Heart. Rest or memento mori.
3. Poseidon/Arthur - Artifact - Black Hole.
Athena said lets get started
Ford asked if she knows how to contact Poseidon, she said she does know and pointed to a bottle
Sisters tend to pour their wine into bowls and put the bowls on the ground
Job shocked but Eddie inspired, noodling on a possible new song: “Lick from the bowl” is one possible title, eventually turned it to “red milk” a dirty blues-metal song.
Ford threw a bottle via portal into the sea, out beyond The Rio. He saw the bottle taken by a strange current.
Athena said that amongst the gods Erebus was always amongst the pettiest. He treated his daughters and his wife abysmally.
He was as Steve would say a real jag-off.
Athena said that “Clearwater has its Father’s Day. It is customary at Clearwater Community College to invite a parent or grandparent to accompany you to class for a day.
If you could stand his company and then gain insight into his mind. Something like a battle of wits. If you could record the moves he makes, they will betray his emotions.”
Athena left to give Ford some time alone
Mercy arrived 
She’s excited:
Cord is riding around in a van with Jenny Swanson
“Your father once told me that Cord told him when there were some complications that he really dodged a bullet. I guess it ricocheted.”
Mercy had Ford shine to light the way as they went out into the garden where a large patch of flowers are growing
“You know what these are? Cuttings I took from around Hope.”
Mercy asking Ford if he misses music from The Future
She wanted to hear some of it but Ford’s version
Ford played Jeff Buckley’s Last Goodbye for her (63 Perform Check!)
Mercy sang along, teamwork bonus! +5, total 68.
By the end of the song, Ford felt enlivened, he was glowing brighter than ever.
In that moment he felt like he could do anything. He stepped through a portal into Hope’s room. 
He softly said “Hey... wake up.”
She made a soft sound, he knelt beside the bed and took her hand.
He felt a calming, euphoria turning to calm as his head and his heart went into greater alignment.
Hope woke
She ate and ate
Ford showed her the film he made
She asked things names
Steve - changing a tire for some tourists
Job - God of Innocence
Ford explained to her that Job, Simon Prince and him were all part of House Corvin
He told her this was a treehouse, she was excited and wanted to climb the tree. She started climbing and the tree was flowering to mark her passage.
Took Hope to see Bleak Hall
Troy is in the parlour, in a smoking jacket, he’s got a packet of candy cigarettes, listening to an audiobook,
Ford’s Shelf
Sea Shell from the birth of New Angelinos
Hope nonplussed at the blessing on Ford’s room
She is extremely excited by the Clearwater Community College prospectus
Ford brought her out onto the balcony to show her the campus and she started singing.
From this Ford understood: She’s been asleep for a long time but she still had dreams, she wanted to see things and do things and experience life but it was always just a dream. And now it is just over that field.
Ford went to see The Dean, told him to fill in the forms for Hope as being a Finnish exchange student.
Prince came to see Ford while he was napping, they talked business
Prince suggested he put on some pants
Ford: Ok, one more cup of coffee and then I’m putting pants to the top of the agenda.
Kat says Mrs Drakulitis is giving a lot of homework
Ford went to wake Hope
Hope chose an outfit
Red Doc Martens
Silver Leotard
Leather Jacket 
Fedora
Hope running up to people and declaring: “I am ham from Fuinland!”
Ford brought Hope with him to Astronomy class
Consulted Mr Grainger about plans for the observatory
ford and hope brought into the chess challenge
Hope plays four people: first one she just moves their pawn back, next one she
Ford next
15 - 59/67 diplomacy
3 -- 46
7 -- 53
16 --- 58
Ford won three of the matches but only via charm.
Ford and Hope went ocean trampolining
Everyone is at the treehouse except Brighid and Athena, they’re upstairs
House Corvin meeting
Ford opened up the idea of talking to Artemis to return Erebus’s heart
Welcomed Athena and Brighid to House Corvin. They cut their hands, Fionn used his ice powers to freeze their blood into the permanent ice surface of the table. 
Ford took their hands and healed them both.
When new members join, they all drink from the goblet and swear to look after each other like family.
Hope hugged Death and survived
she asked him what was his name
He said his name was Death
Ford said not anymore
Ford shook Death’s hand
Fionn shook his hand too
Death and Fionn went drinking
Proserpine: He has been robbed of something
Ford: You can’t rob what somebody doesn’t want
Proserpine: (Nodding) He gave it up
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===Season 3 Episode 21 - King Arthur and the Temple of the Djinn===
Episode 21
King Arthur and the Temple of the Djinn
Threads:
Waiting on word from Poseidon
Researching Erebus’s heart
About a week has passed
Ford looking to bring Troy and Baldur to Olympus to help heal Apollo’s tree.
Talked to Jupiter, he said the ash teaches him humility. He scrubs and cleans it himself.
Jupiter had a senior moment that scared Ford, he was giving him a pool table, carrying it out of Olympus and he paused, looked at Ford, said “This for you?”
Ford talked to Minerva
She said once he’d asked where he was and where were his chains
She reassured him, he has been having those senior moments for thousands of years, they come and go but don’t get any worse.
Minerva and Ford talked about Twin Ninjas
Her idea is a midnight movie
“The midnight movie you’ve been waiting your entire life to see”
Big red stripe diagonally piercing the image, saying Banned in the UK
Threads/Plate Spinning
Talk to The Loa
Talk to the Devas
Cement things with Celestial Bureaucracy
Carry out the mission to The Amatsukami
Go to Ireland and try to broker peace
Ford’s overall rolls for the creation of Easy Man - The Motion Picture:
Directing: 54
Performing: 57/65
Minerva messes up and orders the wrong equipment so we only got half the work necessary done
Simon came through with the paperwork, freeing Ford from the Tax Office
Ford’s reaction to these delays is “we can use this as rehearsal time”
A swimming scene, Ford received a note from Poseidon, he improvised as though it was a dirty letter from a villain that he has a certain chemistry with.
Prince said one of the most significant days of his life was when his father took him to be measured for his first suit
Prince said he wants to talk
“I’ve got to stop creating you in my image”, referring to things like the Econ 101 class. He said Ford is now a man.
He said Ford could be a little more forthcoming with compliments though.
Ford and Prince talked about Hope
Prince asked if Ford had looked into her Genealogy, Ford said nope, no way, nope, because Ford is terrified of discovering she is some form of relation.
The boat was engulfed in a dense fog as they sailed out towards the meeting point specified by Poseidon.
Prince tried to raise the canopy, accidentally turned on radio
Heard voice “Ford, Ford” then static
Prince asked Sun Wukong and Wenling to watch The Rio
Ford and Prince boarded the galleon
Ghost Pirates! Zombies meshed in mist and fog
Pirate Captain sent an evil parrot after Ford’s Eagle
Ford: Fuck it up!
Ford defeated the pirate captain and put him in the box
In the box:
Strayers of the Path, The Admiral
Admiral said that Poseidon was in a box down on his way to the bottom of the ocean, he had launched the box overboard when Ford boarded.
Ford went down to rescue him
Poseidon told the story of his capture
Prince going to send Sun Wukong and Wenling away so they will miss the meeting
Ford asked them where they stand on the issue of the Primordials
Wenling said that the alliance between Cronos and Chaos is a perversion of order and looks to bring terrible chaos, so they are opposed.
Ford said they were welcome to stay and they did.
Poseidon said Arthur came to visit him asking for help with his voyage
Arthur seeking an artifact: The Great Shield. A shield of ultimate protection. Impervious to all manner of physical attack, psychic power and the aspects of the primordials.
Many myths of its creation. Some say it was wrought by Gaia as a failsafe should humanity rise and seek to define themselves.
Poseidon: The one that I choose to believe - for it is true - it was of the first people. The great kings of Atlantis. The mermen and mermaids.
Poseidon feels a kinship with Atlantis as an ended civilization.
He says that those who are at sea away from their families will always be under his protection.
Poseidon believes Atlantis created this great shield and did not have the time to use it.
Poseidon says: King Arthur is a noble sort, always looking out for all houses.
The last I knew, I left him at a port in Cairo. It was rumoured that the shield was at rest in the wastes of the Egyptian sands.
Travelling via The Rio to Egypt
Ford making lots of calls back to Clearwater co-ordinating Easy Man, many calls to Hope, Ford is a bit needy about her and she is about him in turn.
Ford hears that Death is kind of living it up, he has a new lease of life, he’s living pretty hard.
Went to visit Huitzilopochtli
He has sacrificed his own men for information, Ford asked him not to anymore
H says the changes in Asgard and Clearwater and Hell are divine
He says Ford is magnificent and will be quite safe in the great reckoning
Ford asked where he stands on the question of the primordials and their desire to wipe everything away and start again
He said there is no stopping them but he can defy them, stand face to face against them
H says the Black Hole Sun has arrived, it is the blackness in the sky. It has not yet dawned. 
He says there is still time to go from one house to another, effecting change, recognizing magnificence where it exists and lamenting it where it does not.
H: I remember the first image I had of you. It was simple but striking. An olive branch was held in the hand of this very simple figure, outstretched like a weapon. And gripped in the other hand a spear, sharp to the point and ready to strike. If I have read this image correctly it would suggest a harmony of the 50/50 kind.
Distillation of H’s words: Magnificence is survival.
They returned to their journey after the conversation, Poseidon’s power makes it seem The Rio is riding an endless wave.
Prince wanted to enter a regatta, Ford reluctantly agreed. With Poseidon’s help they easily won, Prince helicoptered himself to land to accept the trophy and pose for pictures and then they were off again.
They sailed through the world and into myth, the Sphynx stopping them but allowing them to pass when they completed the riddle of Man.
Prince said it was a laughably easy riddle, but he and Ford in discussion decided it was most likely more of a welcome to Ford.
Ford dressed rather Indiana Jones for going to land
First they went for a drink, they met a knight called Salazar
He led them to the house of Bastet, who advised them to go to the temple of the Djinn, but warned that they would face many traps.
They journeyed through the desert, were ambushed by sand monsters in a field of wrecked WWII planes. At one point Prince dived for cover on top of a plane, into the cockpit, accidentally starting a propeller which Ford knocked several sand people into.
Housekeeping
Arcs: 
1-5 - Vengeance
6-14/15 - Rescue
15- 20 - Waking Hope
21- Facing The Primordials
Conor’s Feedback:
Shorter episodes
A cool idea/concept is better if done quickly
Scene resume:
Retcon - Salazar is badly wounded but still alive
Ford testing the way in by rolling a large rock using telekinesis
while rolling over a newer tile, the rock triggered a trap dropping several ceiling stones
Ford tried to heal Salazar, he got a sort of shock of pain and purple smoke came from his hands, Salazar said it was Chaos magic
They ran down a passage covered in bugs
This more or less unmanned Simon Prince
Next passage was covered partly in vines
A path across the darkness, illusion making it appear to be nothing but blackness
Ford noticing Salazar having a touch of violet covered eyes
They used sand across the path to see where the path was
Salazar dematerialized
They were harried by the Djinn as they tried to cross the path
Woke Arthur.
He was a friendly, grizzled old man who consistently took Prince for a young woman.
Had to choose from a range of shields, Arthur chose wrong and it put him to sleep.
Two shields stood out: one like a portcullis tapering off into tridents, Fight Computer says this would be an underwater shield.
Another shield is a garland of flowers dripping off a piece of tough-looking driftwood
Ford felt this suited his own attitude to facing The Primordials and chose it.
The way opened for them to leave peacefully and the other shields decomposed.
They returned to The Rio
Sending Arthur to the jacuzzi
Prince said to Ford “You still don’t get it”
Ford found him possibly crying
He started the propeller and it dispersed the sand people, did he hear one word of thanks?
Ford said well done and thank you, Prince accepted this.
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===Season 3 Episode 22 - Gender Diversity Day===
A little time passes
Beginning of February
There are some thoughts that the shield itself may be enough to stop The Primordials. Athena in particular is an advocate of this.
Ford’s Directing & Performing Checks for Easy Man: 60, 56, 61
To -Do List: 
(Some of these may be forgotten from previously)
From December: Troy wanted Ford's help figuring out how to talk to girls
Fionn: As lord of Satan's realm, the circle of Wrath, it's time to make some changes.
The Peace Summit!
Go to Ireland
The death of Ares's Scions
Check in on Cupid's training
Visit The Amatsukami
Find out about Erebus's heart
Write the new manifesto/ manifesto Appendix on Empathy
Fionn has transformed the circle of wrath.
It’s like Washington State: it is the only place in hell that rains.
The Soulgaze - 
When you face Justice in Hell you must face Fionn and Apate goddess of Truth and look Fionn in the eye.
Zeus has reconstructed the Theatre. 
He has managed to assemble a great wealth of people his way.
What he is creating is kind of a sense of family and unity and drawing together.
Zeus is trying to look out for his sons and daughters
When visiting, Ford sees Portia there
Zeus is putting out feelers to Hermes and Hephaestus
Demeter is staying with Zeus along with Aether. Aether always within arm’s reach of Zeus.
Ford ‘doing the rounds’
Retcon threading through Season 2: Morrigan’s work with Arrowtech isn’t just accounts, she is involved in developing tech.
Ford very devoted to Hope
No longer flirting with every woman he meets, in fact he never flirts anymore
Ford is introducing Hope to lots of pop culture, often three movies at a time, also playing Clue. She always wins.
Troy played The Mad Monk in Easy Man
Ford went to talk to Troy
Troy says he feels like he’s really coming into his own.
He can feel Spring coming, Winter receding
Troy has a tryout for The Centurions
Ford and Hope tend to spend the night having miniature adventures, going for walks, going through portals to different parts of the world.
Ford went to bed at dawn, slept comfortably. However the bedspread upon waking is different.
Ford wakes in the body of Kat Berkowicz
Kat’s day
Women’s Studies Presentation
Huge Protest about Battery Hen Eggs used in Canteen
Ford went to talk to Troy
Walked him to the football field
Vinny wanted to talk to Kat, he apologized profusely for the way he acted when he and Kat were lab partners, he said he’d been a pig.
Ford as Kat had to go to Women’s Studies class. He gave the presentation she had planned, he had to choose a title: On Their Own Terms. He talked about the greatness of seven women, trying to speak mostly of their achievements and excellence rather than purely looking at context, arguing that sometimes that’s just reinforcing or giving weight to the stereotypes and prejudices, defining everything in terms of them.
Bonnie asked Ford as Kat if Ford and Hope were together, Ford said he’s not sure, Ford is trying to give her some space. Bonnie remarked that maybe Hope doesn’t need that much space. Cut to Hope peering in the Dean’s window where Kat as Ford is in a meeting.
Ford as Kat told Ms Melia that it’s cool she’s made such an effort to do this women’s studies class right, when she could have just coasted along. After all this isn’t what she signed up for either.
He had to also present Kat’s big protest, she was planning a massive protest against the use of battery farm eggs in the canteen. Ford as Kat had Reggie Funkhauser go and get some scaffolding equipment, then built a rudimentary scaffold putting forty students packed together and on top of each other. He gave an impassioned speech and eventually had most of the campus chanting: Eating These Eggs is Wrong! (This was after Reggie Funkhauser exclaimed this spitting out his egg muffin)
The Dean was upset and brought Ford as Kat to his office, Ford noticed some differences: the lollipops on the desk were not on offer, for one.
The Dean had spent eight times more on last week’s Dia De Los Huevos celebration than it would cost for a year’s free range eggs but he was unapologetic, saying if you know a cheaper way to throw this party, let me know. 
Ford as Kat suggested some fundraisers: early screenings of Bleak Hall Films and competitions to see who could win spots as extras for future films.
Ford talked to Kat, she was having an exhausting day playing him. She said she thinks Hope really likes him.
Ford as Kat had to go to a poetry reading. Kat’s poetry was perhaps what he would expect, rather earnest and fervent politically charged and quite bad.
He delivered the hell out of it though, leading Sebastian, the leader of the clique, to invite Ford as Kat back to his room. Ford was pretty creeped out and unsure how to proceed, he decided Sebastian was a douchebag and left.
Finally heading home, Ford as Kat got nabbed by Simon Prince for a ride home. Prince asked what those voicemails Kat had left meant. He said he was being open and unambiguous for once here. Ford felt terrible about not being able to address any of this.
Ford got home and he and Kat returned to their own bodies.
Ford and Kat talked about hanging out with Prince after Ford admitted about the ride home. Ford asked her how Prince made her feel, what she thought of their time together.
He told her she was very beautiful, he’d been looking at her reflection all day. She said Prince wouldn’t say that, she’d like a grand gesture from him like he’d make for other people.
Ford told Kat that whether it’s Prince or not, she deserves to be with someone that makes her happy.
She said Hope had let something slip that made her think she was interested in Ford. Ford asked what it was and Kat said he should get it from Hope instead. She handed Ford a note from her.
The note was an intricately drawn picture of Hope and Ford together with a question mark.
Ford went downstairs, Hope picked up a lamp to examine when she saw him. He took her hand, leading her upstairs.
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===Season 3 Episode 23 - The Shield===
Main Plot Threads:
Ford has The Shield of Protection
Training with Susano-O
Fomori/Tuatha Situation
Erebus’s Heart
Another week has passed
Second week of February
Athena wants to meet to discuss the shield
Ford expecting Susano-O soon
Working towards release of Twin Ninjas and the completed Easy Man Motion Picture
Continuing to be a cheerleader for Cupid, supporting him in his training
Meeting with Athena:
Athena says she has put her mind to this question and the results are inconclusive
She says question is: is Gaia in league with Cronos and Chaos
She spoke with Poseidon - He believes the shield of protection was never an item that Gaia created, he believes that
Athena has spoken to Hope. She said it was enlightening. Hope says the shield, if deployed, will close the black hole. She subscribes to the belief - and it seems to be fervent - that this artefact is indeed a failsafe against The Primordials. Hope said this war need not happen at all.
Athena’s theory: Gaia has created the shield as a failsafe.
Athena’s recommendation is to deploy the shield.
Ford went to talk to Hope
She is certain the shield will work
Susano-O arrived for Ford’s training
He’s skeptical of Ford’s help
Susano-O told the story of Izanami and Izanagi
Izanami was scarred giving birth to her last sons (Metal, Clay and Water)
After she had given birth to the great islands of Japan she was deformed
She fled and asked Izanagi never to look at her
Susano-O says he caused this
Susano O - D you know why it rains, Ford? 
Ford - No
Susano O - I will tell you someday
Ford’s questions for Susano O
1. Do you believe this conflict between them has any merit?
S- I don’t know
2. Ar any of Susano-O’s siblings sensitive to her suffering?
Susano believes his mother needs to see some kindness
Susano O’s training: Can go allout and still only lose 4 def
Ford called a meeting for all of House Corvin to be present for his trying to use the shield
A sort of rainbow effect took place, The Shield gaining weight and solidity. Ford and Hope walked out onto a new balcony that Fionn built of Ice as they walked uptwards towards the black hole. Hope supported him and then the rest of House Corvin stood behind him, pushing, he asked them to lend their strength.
Ford and Hope declared their love for each other for the first time.
Closed the portal with the shield
Fionn said they had to have a huge celebration
Ford had a long talk with Mercy. It was poignant as always, she confessed how deeply she had fallen in love with him but also seemed to be getting ready to move on.
Hung out with Dionysus, talked about their shared sense of having grown up as mortals and having remained connected to mortals.
Talked to Jordan
Saw Vinnie over working with Troy teaching a Centurions-specific drinking method
Talked to Lana. She said it’s been a long winter but she’s ready for the change of season and took down her hood, no longer hiding.
Saw Kat throw a beer in Prince’s face
Ford asked if Prince thought Kat was beautiful, he said yes when she’s not covered in grease, channelling Princess Leia a bit.
The Deadbeats played a new song, The Treehouse
Hope came and put her head on Ford’s shoulder. Ford looking out over the faces of those present could see a little of the influence of his and Hope’s aspect.
Saw Brighid looking up adoringly at Job on stage
Lana smiling out at everyone, looking incredibly hopeful
Jordan looking moved by all this too
Troy came forward with the rest of The Irregulars, forming a tight crowd around Ford and Hope
The Twins said they feel like they can do anything now, Troy is feeling ready to score a thousand touchdowns, all the Irregulars are in good shape.
A sense that everyone is turning a page, people are enthused about the future
Hope: What now?
Ford: Whatever we like
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===Season 3 Episode 24 - Camping ! (The Labyrinth)===
Threads
What might have changed
Jupiter is increasingly making Earth more awesome by his power. At one point Ford is watching TV with The Irregulars and comes across an anomaly that there are no ads on the big game, no ads on the midnight movie, Ford thinks “That magnificent bastard”
Britannia - She waited and there was a clamour amongst Albion to see Twin Ninjas released in Britain too and then allowed the release
Asgard has completely changed. It is now truly about what Eddie always hoped it would be about. Odin is traveling around Earth more, going to gigs, enjoying himself.
Tartarus - Morpheus and Lillin’s wedding coming up
Hell - Fionn has transformed his realm completely. Mammon’s realm is open to those who are not comfortable with the changes in hell.
Cupid- he has regained his old form and has a new surety to who he is.
Some time has passed
The Observatory has been created.
Troy is now growing more powerful
Episode Begins
Ms Drakulitis is someone that Ford just rubs up the wrong way
She is constantly creating extra work for Ford to a ridiculous degree, often leading to collateral damage of the entire class getting huge homework assignments.
Troy is in some kind of relationship with Jessica, she is having her do her laundry and various errands.
At Ford’s suggestion they went on strike about workload in English, they did three times the reasonable amount of homework and stopped there (Which was about two thirds of what she’d given).
The next morning though, Mrs Drakulitis was sick and missed class.
This meant a couple of days off, they went camping.
Twins brought heroic dose of Smores
Jessica wore heels - had to borrow boots from Kat
Ford sang The Outdoor Type then pointed out deer passing behind him
Troy and Jessica last two up as Ford and Hope got the message and left them alone.
Everyone disappeared
Ford and Hope went searching, found a kind of Labyrinth of evil trees and bushes.
Hope: why would someone make a maze out here?
Ford: I’ve always wondered why anyone would make a maze anywhere
They could hear the baying of a beast of some kind as they made their way through the maze.
Ford fought Ares the Minotaur, broke off one of its horns but didn’t kill it, put him in the box.
Ford: That was Ares
Hope: Ares is a man
Ford: (Sadly) He was never a man...
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===Season 3 Episode 25 - The Trial of Jordan Swan===
Now into early March -
Ford went to the theatre space to see Zeus
Brought Ares out of the box, Zeus said he would confine Ares and take responsibility for him.
Zeus says he is at peace with himself and the world now and peace is what he wants.
Dean is on the phone for Ford to do the ad for Clearwater Community College.
Kat says around campus they now call Ford and Hope ‘The Wonder Couple’.
Ford’s improv roll for ad: 64/72
Cafeteria Scene
Observatory
Blue makeup for Centurions 55/63
“Learning”
Dorms
And Great Entertainment!
End scene, Ford got Verklempt talking about the college 64/72
The ad featured a great deal of Ford and Hope clowning around at different locations, it ended up accidentally being a bit of a time capsule of the love between them at that time and place.
Huitzilopochtli called Ford to come and talk.
He spoke about the need for the great war that had been averted, how there had been a purpose to it.
Huitzilopochtli: Take this fruit, if it is not eaten it has not served its purpose
Ford: Thats why it sucks to be fruit
Jordan came to talk to Ford, saying he had slipped up badly, he was the one that killed the men out at the farmhouse
Ford said he should stay at the house in the spare room and he and Hope watched over him as he slept.
Hope went to get film reel but “it’s in the treehouse” and it was raining outside. Ford created a portal to let her reach through for the projector.
Ford and Hope watched over Jordan for many hours, letting him sleep.
Ford and Bonnie talked, she discovered that the bodies of Ares scions were murdered by Huitzilopochtli.
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===Season 3 Episode 26 - The Battle For Hope===
Ford went to see his father, very angry at the betrayal of Huitzilopochtli. He was genuinely unsure what to do and presented the case to Fionn. Fionn told him not to kill Huitzilopochtli no matter how tempted he might be.
Went to see Zeus and found Demeter was murdered - choked on hardened fruit seeds, like the fruit Huitzilopochtli had been showing Ford the last time they spoke.
Gathered Ford’s Squad and House Corvin all together to discuss the situation
Gathering forces
Proserpine will get reinforcements from Hell
Eddie said there’ll be help from Asgard
Dionysus suggested having Ares come along.
Priorities on the board:
1. Seal Huitzilopochtli’s realm
2. Meet with Quetzalcoatl
3. See each realm protected
4. Information: Who are his allies and enemies
Minerva and Athena will work together on plans
Brighid talking about Bracers MKII for Ford
Measurements needed, Job will have to be measured too.
Pass a couple of days
Class with Ms Drakulitis
She’s being a jerk and being mean about The Sisters showing up with Ford
Ford intuited that she is loveless, causing him to have some small degree of empathy for her.
He wrote a big rant in his pop quiz about A Christmas Carol, particularly how Scrooge had given up on love and warmth and as a result lived in a way that would deter any love and warmth from entering his life
She gave the paper an A+
Ford used his Emotion Control to bring her some hope and clarity.
Using the emotion control he got a little feedback: She lost a loved one, a dashing young captain in WWII
Tlazoltéotl said that H wants to meet to cure Jordan
Ford told her of the murders, she did not know about them. She said that Huitzilopochtli always mocked her, saying she is a creature of filth, devoid of magnificence.
She realised his offer to cure Jordan was just so he could get to him to kill him and hopefully re-open the portal.
She is not interested in returning to the realm of the Atzlanti, Ford said she was welcome to stay in Clearwater and would be treated as an ally.
She said she will be staying at The Roadhous
“If you need me I will be at the men’s bathroom”
A report from Odin by way of Eddie
Odin wants to meet, it’s serious. Ford put everything aside and went straight there.
Odin has bad news.
Huitzilopochtli has told Hel that when the time is right they will strike.
Ford advised Odin to keep his forces to protect Asgard rather than sending them to help vs Huitzilopochtli.
Quetzalcotl came to see Ford
He started by apologizing for Huitzilopochtli’s behaviour, he does not speak for all of the Atzlanti
He sent his compliments to Dionysus on the quality of his wine.
Q said that even he requires a sacrifice once a year, likened himself and his sense of being cursed to a vampire.
Huitzilopochtli drinks the blood of thousands of warriors, his favourite vintage is the dishonoured warrior
Ford asked how he would class dishonour
Q said he is a mass of contradictions. To him it is dishonour to kill women, children, civilians.
However he whispers in the ears of mortals to cause carnage.
H would seek to make a dishonoured warrior of Jordan.
Q has tried to face H but he can’t go to the same lengths that H will and has been outclassed. 
Q thrives on creativity, he wants his sons and daughters to live the greatest lives possible, achieve wonderful things as individuals or as society.
Q has been a nurse in Peru, a poet in Argentina, always trying to offset his barbarism
“And my own ambition is the creation of great golden ages”
H is not alone. At his side he has two others. Tezcatlipoca and MICLÁNTECUHTLI
Tezcatlipoca god of night and smoking mirror - god of fate and discord. He shows the future in the smoking mirror, distorted with his own particular outlook. Terrible prophecies but infected with the misery of his outlook and the pessimism of his views. He is the one that has been the closest advisor to Huitzilopochtli.
“Beware of his eyes. They are like the Jaguar. Cold, golden. He is the man who is considered the brains of the operation. He is not much of a fighter, he misses his right foot. He is Trouble with a capital T.”
And the other, MICLÁNTECUHTLI, god of the underworld.
“Do you watch horror films Ford? Then you know those moments when a villain is to appear the strings will rise, telling you to avert your eyes behind your raised hands. I recommend you do the same with this god. Thin like a skeleton. Black hair that dances with the light of the white stars. Hands like claws, enough to rip the soul of a man from his body. His liver hangs from his abdomen. That is his weak spot.”
Q says Kalfu was working with Huitzilopochtli even back when he tried to kill Ford.
Q- Beware the four spears that Huitzilopochtli carries. He is a man who considers himself an artist of war. And it sounds like he means to paint with your blood.
Q- Be wary of traps, be wary of bait.
Q - the greatest satisfaction he would get is to see you dishonoured.
Ford guessed that H had wanted to force him to kill Jordan, believing Jordan to have killed the others.
Hero Points:
1 for knowing that H is preparing by sacrificing
2 House Corvin Business
3 Role as Envoy (Multi-Pantheon)
4 Betrayal
5 Erzulie
6 The Weight of Prophecy
Erzulie arrived wounded and Ford healed her.
Ford saw they had been in an endless debate about Kalfu
A great many warriors came in and Erzulie was stabbed as she saw Kalfu taken away
Kalfu showed no remorse for his wrongdoing and cursed Ford’s name a thousand times over
Job came in, saw Ford was wounded, asked him to sit down 
“I’m sure they did the best they could...”
Ford “Speak. Now.”
Job: “They took Hope”
Ford just looked around and said “Everyone ready to leave? Good. Let’s ship out.”
2 hero points for healing Erzulie and Hope lost
Portal to the ship
Minerva and Athena coming along first to talk at the same time
Minerva says: Soon as we get there, the very second we appear it is kind of on
Ford: That it is
Ford remembered The Sisters and asked if they are wounded
Ford healed Ava
Troy has outfitted himself with a cape made of the fabric he and Ford made together
Prince led Ford to the conference room but they were alone
Prince said about two years ago his father gave a great talk when they went into Tartarus
“Your old man he gave a great speech here about two years ago.” He said to Ford to speak from the heart
Ford went and spoke to the gathered Squad but his speech was very short.
He had some injuries and some blood on him and said “Look at me, see how I am bloody and wounded but unbowed. That is Hope. This is a rescue mission but we’re also fighting for the very idea of Hope.”
Eddie has spoken to Asgard, they are under threat and cannot lend their forces
Clearwater is under the protection of Bonnie (Ford has given her the badge)
Proserpine says she will need to go and see to Lillin’s troops
Zeus is joining, he said he suspects Jupiter will be put out by this news
Ford: No. No he won’t, not today.
Jupiter brought Ares the Minotaur and Ford agreed to him joining.
Barbie, Brighid, Simon Prince staying on board The Rio, so is Casser
Apate will ferry the wounded back to The Rio and Barbie
Eddie, Brighid and Kat have created moveable fortifications
Twins and Apate all working on Forcefield to protect the group
Job in the centre of the group, his protection radiating out
Ford is looking for Belph to use his object disintegration on The Ziggurat
Agony, Ava, Selina, The Irregulars, Jupiter all clustered around Ford
Athena and Minerva keeping an eye on the flow of the situation
Vinnie and Jordan are at either periphery of the Fighting Wedge
The Weapons of Mass Destruction are Sun Wukong and Susano-O and Zeus
3 Hero Points from Dionysus’s inspiration
Barbie took another group shot photo
Ford spoke to the crowd of soldiers to plead they not allow themselves to die as pawns
Ford, Mercy and Fionn all used their emotion control powers (Fionn 39, Mercy 34, Ford 38)
Thousands fled, shaking their heads as though shaking off a strange dream.
Twins and Casser are using Forcefields to protect the ship
Susano-O, Zeus and Sun Wukong came out on deck
Ford started with a Force Blast - sending three hundred troops flying, uprooting trees
Apate smiled
Jean-Ralphio said - Well your mom seems impressed
Eddie and Ford alternating using blasts to clear the way of trees and vegetation
Vinny got injured, Apate took him to the ship. She created an illusion of him that the soldiers jumped at, then she deposited him on the ship.
Left the fortification
Ford saw booby traps ahead, he and Eddie tested and found pits with spikes
Ford paving the road ahead with his stone creation.
They saw Susano-O fall, hurt
Apate, Troy, Jean-Ralphio, Kat went to get him to safety
Kalfu and a lot of soldiers arrived
Ford and Eddie blasted them back, knocking Kalfu off his feet
Ford knocked Kalfu out and put him in Pandora’s Box with little ado.
The Twins grabbed Ford’s shoulders on either side shouting “Get up those steps!”
Two explosions struck on either side, The Twins created a barrier to protect against it
Ford created white marble steps and ran up them, a little above but parallel to the steps of the Ziggurat. Warriors tried to board the steps but mostly slipped off, The Twins keeping Ford clear of the rest.
Ford, The Sisters, The Twins, Job, Mercy, Fionn, Jupiter all landing on top of the Ziggurat.
Fionn 
Jupiter hovering like Storm, creating massive lightning bolts. He draws his hand back and each time, it creates a lightning bolt
In the distance, Ford could see Ares charging through. He got overwhelmed, Ford used a low-level telekinetic blast to knock all the soldiers back from him
Ford entered the temple. The ground slick with sacrificial blood
Ford fought the Soul Reaver god, bluffed that he was affected by his eyes power
Defeated him using his weak points
Ford advancing ahead of the others, the sisters called out “You’re a fast worker Ford...”
Ford fought Tezcatlipoca
T raked his claws along Ford several times before Ford caught him by the back of the head and slammed his head into his Obsidian Mirror three times until he was unconscious.
Ford saw Jordan starting to waver, he used his emotion control to give him clarity and Jordan stood firm, continuing to watch Ford’s back.
Ford entered the room to find Huitzilopochtli surrounded by hundreds of warriors
Huitzilopochtli brought out Hope’s lifeless body.
Ford said he had killed an innocent, Huitzilopochtli said Hope was not an innocent because she was on Ford’s side.
Huitzilopochtli taunted Ford, when he started to say something about the sound Hope made as he murdered her, Ford ran forward and started striking him.
They fought back and forth viciously, H with spears, Ford with bare hands. Instead of his more typical style of stunning strikes, Ford struck him brutally again and again.
Ford shattered his left knee, broke his right arm, cheekbone, jaw, many of his ribs.
H: “I’ll never concede”
Ford, speaking so coldly it had a slightly cruel, mocking tone: “We are men of action... Why would I need you to concede?” Before striking him again.
Eventually Huitzilopochtli lost consciousness and Ford put him in Pandora’s Box.
Ford carried her body out of the Ziggurat, Jupiter stepped in front of him and Ford said “The mission is over. And I’m not talking. We’re going home.”
Ford carried Hope back to the ship without a word, the ship took them home to Clearwater.
Ford couldn’t speak or engage with anyone, when the ship docked Apate came to him, he couldn’t speak but he hugged her.
Ford had a strange moment of paralysis and indecision as he realized he had no idea how to bury Hope.
Ford brought her to lay out on the bed in the treehouse.
He stayed with her from Dusk, she woke before dawn and said that her connection to him would keep her here for one more day.
They went to see The Centurions game
Ford in a tuxedo, Hope in a tutu.
The Centurions had an incredible game, Troy scored touchdown after touchdown
Vinny and Portia came out in front of Zeus and Jupiter, the two fathers were uneasy but agreed they made a cute couple.
Ford and Hope went for one last walk around the the campus, then went to the dance.
Mrs Drakulitis saw Cadbury and said “...William?” Cadbury said “...Mary?”
Ford and Hope went for a walk through the town
Met the Deadbeats and heard a new sound of theirs: Grunge, a la Black Hole Sun.
Met Steve, he offered them a ride but Ford said they would walk this time. They had to give his car a push.
Hope said never underestimate yourself
Ford thought “But I overestimated myself, I thought I could keep you safe.”
Ford and Hope went to the waterfall to say goodbye.
There was a ceremony a couple of days later where Ford gave a eulogy for Hope. He walked out of the ceremony after saying his piece and wasn’t seen in Clearwater again for six months.
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