Season 4

Protagonists: Ford Corvin, Utah
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==Season 4 Story Synopsis==
==Season 4 Episodes==
===Episode 1 - A New Semester ===
Utah woke, stiff from many years sleep. 
He felt like he was carrying six solid months of pure physical pain.
First channelling of Han Solo: “I feel terrible”
He found himself in a very simple room 
Wearing the clothes he wore the day he died.
His pistols missing. “Hope my god damned hat’s at least here.”
The room was very warm, he felt like maybe he was down Mexico way.
He felt like maybe the lacerations, the burning oils were just madness, a fever dream. He didn’t die at all, someone must have snuck him over the border, maybe someone cut him down.
He felt a red-raw rope burn that seemed to have just happened yesterday.
He examined his reflection in the mirror “Well Utah, we ain’t pretty so... we better be tough.”
He made his way out into a hallway, saw a door with WC on the end.
The WC utterly clean. “This ain’t like no goddamn Mexican convenience I ever saw. Must belong to the god-damned president of Mexico.”
He saw a bathtub with many oils and unguents and chuckled, reassured “Oh, I’m in a whorehouse”
He was reminded of a story told him by a French whore of Louis the fourteenth, she claimed to be descended from one of his concubines.
He accidentally turned on the shower. 
He eventually got under there and even soaked in the tub
He went downstairs, a beautiful rug caught his eye. It reminded him of something that belonged to a supposedly Persian man from Connecticut, second generation arab-american.
He saw two three foot tall metallic things. 
Between them a strange contraption. 
Some messing with it and he played some Creedence, found the sound agreeable.
He heard a fridge “Has this damn fool got a steam engine in his kitchen?”
He ate and drank his fill from the fridge
Utah: “Well, I better get outta here before El Presidente gets back” but then he tried another door, a very pleasant garden with a washing line, some sheets drying in the sun.
He saw a path and walked down it. He saw it backed onto another path and in the near distance he saw a huge sign: another painting, a billboard with some kind of advertisement. An advertisement for a surf shop. An image of a strange looking thing: someone with off-red skin, yellow eyes, hanging ten on a wave, giving thumb and pinky salute.
Prices are in time rather than money.
He saw some surf-demons passing.
At one point they exclaimed, using the word: Yahweh!
Utah told them he had no problems with his Jewish brothers and sisters
They asked him if he could ride nightmares
Utah told them he had a terrible nightmare
They told him Hell wasn’t always great like this 
You got yourselves a new Presidente?
Rex and Lo 
She offered a hand, Utah said “Hand Kissin’s for fancy-men” and just shook it.
Utah upon noticing everyone’s unusual appearance down here: What is this, Dia De Los Muertos or somethin’?
Utah went to the front of the line for Lillin’s and as it was his first time there, they were able to cut line and all three had a meal.
Utah asking about The Outriders 
Lo: “You mean a person like you? I’ve never seen a person like you.” 
Utah: “Darlin’, nobody’s ever seen a person like me.” 
Rex: “You totally just fed him that line.”
Utah: “One of the philosophies of the road is you make friends where you can” 
Drinking tears of the Pegasus “That’s some sweet tequila”
Rex: you’re new-old? 
Utah: I almost made it to 21
Upon hearing the year, he took a drink to Constance “Here’s to you Darlin’, I forgive you”
Lo and Rex told Utah the house he woke up in was his. When he said he was leaving, they admonished him not to be a stranger.
Lo - Don’t break my heart Cowboy 
Utah - Darlin’, that’s all I’m good for 
Rex - You keep feeding him lines!
Lillin getting into her car with Utah - Buckle up 
Utah - (Checking fly) Oh I’m terribly sorry
Utah “The house I woke up in was like the fanciest whorehouse I ever saw”
Belph told Utah there are problems on Earth, related to Utah
Belph: “I think you and he go back. He was up there too, he’s a cowboy like yourself.”
His name is Welby.
Belph says Utah isn’t the only one on Welby’s shit-list.
Only one of his pistols remained
Belph talking about how powerful Welby is 
Utah: What’s his skull made out of? 
Belph: Same thing everyone’s skull is made out of 
Utah: (Patting his holster) Well, then I think we should be allright.
Welby is annoyed, some lady folks upstairs, one of them communicating with the dead
She heard from some of his victims -she was comforting them- supposedly
Her name is Bonnie
Belph: “Dude...” 
Utah: “I look like a dude to you? You people got everything all backwards.”
Belph walked Utah to the hell gate, stopping to get milk, paying the barter with banter.
Utah walked through the portal from Hell to Clearwater.
Cut to Ford
Ford got a ride into town from Steve
He couldn’t quite go into Bleak Hall, went to Dean’s office instead 
Dean fainted
The Dean didn’t use the new ad with Ford and Hope, he said some things you hold on to.
He saw a young woman struggling with a locker, he helped her, she double taked at the sight of him
Verity le Bon
Eagleton “They’ve got an aggressive recruiter over there... Hans or whatever?” 
She said his name is Leopold.
Ford brought her to meet The Rainbow Rhythms 
She was unsettled at the sight of Vivian Bang running up to Ford and throwing her arms and legs around him in excited greeting.
Ford accidentally traumatized her with his non-whispering:
“That new girl is called Verity Le Bon. She’s super uptight! So go easy around her, she’s all repressed and so on. Though I guess you never know, right? With oppressed people. I’m not saying that this is definitely preacher’s daughter syndrome and she’s actually a massive dirtbag waiting to happen, but anyway.”
Ms Ouspenskaya said she’s going to take things up a notch
Ford said Fuckin A
She said “Well perhaps your mouth could get a little cleaner and your dancing a little dirtier”
Ford and Bonnie procrastinating, finding reasons not to go back to Bleak Hall
Mercy invited Ford in to the radio booth but he refused, wasn’t ready
Bonnie said there’s a couple of new houses
One: Glory Heights. Super Christian.
Bonnie said Kat had sidekicked for her a few times.
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Back to Utah!
He emerged through a portal just by the Roadhouse
Got into a barfight with eight dudes, one was defenestrated, one ended up with a knife pinning his hand to a table.
He took the keys of the bike belonging to the guy who tried to stab him.
Death: Thought you died 
Utah: Yeah I did, but it didn’t take.
Death ‘showed’ Utah how to ride
Named the bike Lucille
Miss Woodstock “D? The usual?”
Death advised Utah to enroll in the college
Back to Ford!
Ford spent a couple of hours at the treehouse
Finally went to Bleak Hall. He knocked on the door, unsure.
Kat let him in, hugged him and welcomed him home
She told him about her relationship with Prince
Troy says Sideburns are Slap Bass for the Face
The Twins have a new experiment, they are doing ‘science experiments’ and using all kinds of illusion magic. For instance: fire that only burns you if you believe it will.
Ford told the twins he couldn’t sleep in his room, they already had his hammock ready in their room. He climbed into the hammock, read some Northanger Abbey to the twins and they all took a nap.
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Session pause
Session Resume
Utah riding into campus to enroll. Full of young people who look to him like they’ve never had a fight in their life.
Utah remarking on Dean’s one-word name. 
“You a cowboy? You don’t look like a cowboy.”
Utah registered pretty painlessly and easily
Went to the student union to ask about Bonnie
Went out into the quad, heard Mercy say “Well, yee-haw”
Mercy said the carnival sounded like the past 
Utah said “well Darlin’, anything that ain’t happenin’ right now...” 
Mercy - Isn’t that the truth.
Utah: had a disagreement with some gentlemen out at that German place
Utah telling Bonnie the story of how he came to be back on earth: 
“Now you’re getting interesting” 
“Darlin’ I walked in here interesting.”
Bonnie initially thought Utah had found her diary and read it, used things he’d read there to try to charm her.
Bonnie: I can be pretty charming myself 
Utah: You should show me sometime 
Bonnie: Touché
Bonnie said she can commune with the dead, sometimes she’s the only face they’ve seen in a hundred years
Utah: That can’t be easy.
Bonnie: You’ve got a lot to learn 
Utah: Don’t we all? 
Bonnie: Some of us more than others. I’ve got things pretty much figured out. 
Utah: Well have you now?
Bonnie: Have you got plans after this is all done? 
Utah said he’d hit the road 
Bonnie said : this isn’t an invitation, but this place might be a good place for you
Utah gave her an infuriating look like she’s coming on a little strong
He went out to practice shooting and had a moment of enlightenment, entered bullet time for the first time.
Utah found a note telling him to meet Bonnie in the graveyard. 
He saw gravestones of those born and died during the time he’d been gone.
He made his way down to the mausoleum she was at her work in.
You fancified city son of a bitch, draw your gun or die empty handed
Welby and Utah stood on main street in Clearwater on that rainy night.
Welby: Have you made peace with your maker? 
Utah: Boy I am my maker
Welby said when the clock strikes three, we draw.
“Always wanted to face you again.” 
Utah: (Wryly) “I’ll bet you did”
Welby went for his gun a few seconds before three but Utah was faster, putting two bullets through his forehead between the time Welby drew and before he had time to so much as level the pistol.
After the showdown: 
Utah: you take care of yourself 
Bonnie: You too. I suppose that’s all you’re good for.
Utah said look, this ain’t my war, I’ve got my own things to see to. 
Then he rode off.
Utah rode off to Hell to finish Welby
In Hell he saw Welby on a Nightmare, readying to ride up to Earth again. Utah overtook him and spun the bike around, stopping seventy feet in front of Welby. As he got closer, Welby’s eyes widened in surprise at the sight of Utah... then they drew their pistols.
This time Welby managed to get a shot in, putting a bullet through Utah just beneath the collarbone. Utah put another bullet in him, right in his forehead. A dry, hot wind rose in Hell, blowing away Welby’s remains into nothing.
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Ford woke in The Twins room in the middle of the night, they were asleep. He went downstairs and made a giant sandwich, listened to the radio very low, Mercy’s overnight mix.
A letter arrived with the Yankee presidential seal and addressed to Ford.
Dale sort of welcoming him back with a return to hostilities.
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===Episode 2 - Applications ===
Arc thoughts:
A nice opening arc for both characters 
One is about learning from UTah’s perspective, to maybe give himself over to this place a little, to falling in love with this location. 
For Ford it’s about rediscovering that. Regaining his former self but the story is honouring the change he’s gone through.
Episode opens
Ford has spent a couple of days largely keeping to himself or within Bleak Hall
A lot of casseroles and invitations without pressure all arriving at Bleak Hall for him, treating him a little like the widower.
Ford has still been sleeping in The Twins room in his hammock.
Simon Prince came to visit Ford
Simon told Ford there’s been a lot of changes
Prince is here as a student this year
He said Easy Man did really well and Ford was missed at the premiere
The school is now one of the most prestigious performing arts schools in the state.
“Speaking of Student Bodies: Well Ford maybe you should take a seat...” 
Prince ‘revealed’ to Ford that he and Kat were together. Ford didn’t tell him Kat had already let him know. 
Prince said he would always be there for Ford but he had to think of Kat now: “I have to be the best god-damned Prince I can be for her.” 
Ford was touched by that, thinking Prince was growing up before his very eyes.
Ford said he hasn’t checked in with Cheryl yet.
Prince looked up at the ceiling, lowering his shades. “Simon.. what do I say...” Ford realized he was talking to Simon LeBon.
She has another employer
Ford guessed... Dale.
Ford: Have they made any movies together? 
Prince: They’re in preproduction 
Ford: (Choked up) Oh she loves preproduction...
Permit me to take off my friend shades and slip into a pair of my godfather chinos...
They’re making a dramedy, High Society. 
Ford: Dramedies are often an excuse to make a comedy that’s not that funny
Dale’s card: 
Dale Carnegie, Witticist
But Prince has good news:
They’re building another floor
Additions to Embassy Row: 
Glory Heights
There’s another place. 
That’s what they call it. The Other Place. 
Ford - From Albion?
Prince - No. Rumour is it’s a place that’s been inspired by your work. It is not only individuals who have been brought by the performing arts programs but your writing on aspect has started to open some minds.
Prince says some Envoy meetings may be required too.
Glory Heights - The God Squad
Prince said on the subject of a whole house influenced by Ford’s ideas, and the loss of his assistant Cheryl: You don’t let something like that slip through your fingers
Ford - You’re right. I am going to put some pants on and really think about this.
Ford asking the group how they’d like to do the interviews for a new Study Group member. 
They want to do group interviews and vote democratically.
Kat’s style has increasingly changed towards Rockabilly
What are we looking for:
Ford says someone with a good heart
Prince dropped by dossiers 
He conducted briefings
ONE
Florence ‘Flori’ Dizzia - 
Age 19 
Was in university in California, read The Manifesto, dropped out and reapplied here. 
Interests: Ultimate Frisbee, Sandwich Making, 
She is known to be an incredibly lazy person
Prince: She’s mortal but she’s come into her aspect. She’s a god-damned slacker. 
She’s good with languages. Spanish and German. 
A bit of a people person.
Mirella: Kind of stepping on your toes there, eh Ford? 
Kat: She’s blonde. I’m blonde, so are the twins, so that’s a lot of blonde.
Ford: one of the great things about takin’ it easy is that nobody can ever step on your toes by takin’ it easy.
TWO 
Jules Q Blank 
Not a lot is known about him. 
I did a search of the records, they didn’t throw up very much. 
He’s here doing media and cultural studies. 
When I dug a little deeper: Well. It feels kind of odd to say this. He was in the military for a spell. He went missing. 
Seems like a decent enough fellow. Self-deprecating sense of humour. Bit of a question mark.
Mirella likes him “He has kind eyes”
THREE 
Ariel Lockhart 
A very interesting case. 
A daughter of Poseidon. 
She’s half Atlantean 
Poseidon with the help of Aether has allowed her to walk on land. 
“It’s a miracle. He was quite inspired by...” 
Studying Geography as a major 
Prince says everything is new to her she’s only been landlocked for a few months
Ford: She’s kind of a...
Prince and Troy both had trouble grasping the meaning but nobody else did.
FOUR 
Lana
Ford went to surprise Jordan, their call scheduled for the usual time, Ford showed up as a surprise.
Ford admitted to Jordan that he thinks a lot of people are expecting a man who may not exist any more.
Lana said to Jordan: A promise you make yourself is as important as a promise you make to someone else.
Jordan said he will be the god of Perseverance 
Ford likened it to Fionn and Mercy and “The Godkiller needs Mercy”, now that Ford was having a hard time with his own aspect, struggling to maintain it, he said “The god of Hope needs Perseverance”
Jordan told Ford he had kissed Dale
Ford returned to Bleak Hall for the interviews
Flori was late though, they went to the next person, Jules
Interview start
Ford: What do you like?
Jules: Like to read, like movies, music... well... I’m describing a human being. 
I like to travel but I like coming home as well.
I think what I’m really missing is familiarity. Like having people around me I can grow to know.
Ford liked Jules a lot, overcoming his initial hesitation to bring another handsome man into the group.
Jules had dropped out and joined the Army but he went awol a few months ago when something happened that made the world feel different. Ford thinks it was the closing of the black hole portal.
Ariel arrived. 
She made Ford very sad with her combination of very pretty, redhead, innocent, fish out of water.
Asked what she liked: She said new experiences, she’d always dreamt of being up here. She’d heard wonderful things like people can walk and run and.. Ford said “And trampoline” 
Ariel said “What is Tram... trampompoline?”
Ford started crying at this, reminded powerfully of Hope
Had Kat finish the interview.
Florence finally arrived, her car sputtering
She apologized for being late, she slept in. 
Ford was still disappointed in her for this, she explained that her aspect of Slacker sometimes pulls harder than she can. 
She admitted she had one big goal. “Riding this thing to the end, taking this as far as my spirit can take it.” 
She wants to be around good people, she has an abiding faith that people are there to take care of each other.
They said it is both like esperanto and like the opposite of esperanto.
Lana 
Said she has spoken to Mercy about what she was going through, what happens to her during the Winter. She suggested a girl’s night, she took me to Hell, to the Belph’s realm. 
Went to a beach party. I was still wearing my ‘cloak of shame’ and this frisbee came flying out at me and I reached out and grabbed it and... I fell, I’m not a very good catch. The hood fell, it was the last thing I ever wanted and I felt.. well you know how I felt. A really curious thing happened. All these people there, they look a little different as you all know. They all took a really sharp intake of breath and they were speechless. I wanted to get up and leave. But they said they had never seen someone so beautiful in their lives. I felt like I hadn’t heard anything like that in a long time. I realised people have different standards and I felt really good.”
“I feel stupid, which is ironic because I want to stand for something. I want to stand for Confidence.”
The time came to discuss the applicants with the rest of Bleak Hall. Ford started by saying “I didn’t meet anyone tonight that I would be comfortable saying no to.”
Bonnie actually agreed with Ford when she came in.
Ford asked her why she seemed marginally crankier than usual, she said a wannabe cowboy had annoyed her. Ford said, what like a cowboy who’s really from New Jersey? She said no he’s from Utah. 
Ford said oh, well I guess it’s impossible to be a real cowboy now, in this century. He’s trying to recreate something that can’t be recreated.
They all ended up drinking all night.
Ford slept in The Treehouse, unable to face his room.
Got up to tell people the news that they were in.
Flori came in first.
She said she’d heard some crazy things about Ford as The Warchild but didn’t really know much. 
Ford explained the truth about the first fight with Ares: she’d heard that he just stared him down and put him to sleep. Ford explained it was a little rougher than that. 
He gave Flori his room, but moved his bed out due to the blessing.
Ford then told the rest of them who all arrived together that they were in.
Ariel fainted, Ford caught her and couldn’t wait to get his hands off her.
Ford brought a bunch of flowers and a beautiful pen with “To Cheryl, I can’t get anything done without you - Ford” and a leather case for a notebook.
Ford and Dale were a bit arch together
Ford accidentally admitted to Dale that he thought Dale was a charming nemesis. Dale was touched and they moved on as quickly as they could.
Dale brought Ford to the upstairs drawing room to meet Cheryl. 
Ford gave her the gifts and apologized for leaving her. She asked him to promise never to walk out on him again, he swore on his name and his Aspect that he would never walk out on her again.
Dale was still in the room, the script pages for his new dramedy on the table.
Ford: Let’s go before neither comedy nor drama occur.
They left, Ford impulsively carrying Cheryl down the steps of the White House.
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===Episode 3 - P's and Q's ===
Ford in second year:
Film Major, Still taking Construction as a minor. 
Dance program becoming more of a big deal.
Other Classes: English, Astronomy, Acting Class.
First class: woodworking/carpentry.
Centurions have already thrown their first party.
Ford and Kat walking to class. 
She’s reading an RSVP for a date night with Prince
Ford: So he’s keeping things interesting with date nights and he’s also doing you the courtesy of giving you something to complain about? He’s a keeper.
Teacher is a bearded man in a wheelchair with one popping eye and one beady eye 
“The name’s Maxwell. Maxwell MacDougal. And before you ask, I’m in the condition you see me in owing to an accident. 
I was on the seventeenth floor of a skyscraper. A great piece of masonry fell and crushed my legs. I was working with some real fools, didn’t know what they were doing. Any project requires a great amount of trust and co-operation. Find a partner. Buddy up!”
Ford and Kat partnered up.
Teacher asked if Ford had ever been Skydiving, Ford said yeah, kinda, well, yeah. 
The teacher said if he’d thrown himself out of a plane he’d know 
Ford said well not from a plane.
New faces: 
A young man, very blond. Sweater vest, a chain disappearing into the sweater vest.
Ford couldn’t bring himself to lie and just said he had done some jumping from great heights with his girlfriend into water.
Adam admired Ford and Kat’s work 
Ford returned the compliment, Adam said he was flattering him, Ford said “No, I never flatter anyone” and Adam sensed his sincerity
Adam said it must be difficult, keeping to this principle of honesty. “The road is testing, challenging.”
The teacher said “Oh, there’s always one!”
Walter is at the back with Felix as his partner, Felix making the project a mess.
Ford and Kat went to join the others at the cafeteria.
Ford helped Flori slackify her class schedule
Ariel has taken every class going
“I don’t want to miss anything” 
Ligeia pointed out that she might miss a lot by only being in class all day.
Daisy invited Ford and Bleak Hall to a ‘social’ at Glory Heights.
Daisy accidentally let show that she was having troubles with her class schedule 
Ford helped her with it.
Daisy extremely enthusiastic about them coming to the social
Ford and The Irregulars worked out some more stuff towards covering for his Truth problems, when he makes his face that says he’s about to spew truth, they interrupt.
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Cut to Utah
It’s been a while, Utah spending time enjoying himself down in New Angelinos. 
A day up here is a week down there.
He caught and broke in the Nightmare that had been ridden by Welby.
Womanized heroically, enjoying many brief encounters.
Living in The Belph’s realm, a few doors down from him in his little house.
Utah was returning home from a ride down the beach and found one of The Sisters was at his house. 
Flecks of steel running in warpaint-like lines over her cheeks.
She introduced herself as Ecstasia, said she’s here on business.
Ecstasia: There’s something that requires your attention. A delivery, a bundle of soul contracts. You would be required to return to Earth. The Lord Marshall would like to see you.
Utah took her to his bed and then to his horse, riding to see The Lord Marshall.
Fionn’s Realm: 
Washington state on an epic scale, very beautiful, quite stark in places. 
Each season is only a couple of weeks long
Utah led to wait in the mural room of The War in Tartarus
Ecstasia talked him through the mural 
Leviathan, former prince of Envy, now god of Sergeants 
Freija former Valkyrie, all through the different faces he saw there.
Led into Fionn’s throne room
Fionn asking if Utah is familiar with “Women who uh... for a price... would be company...” 
Utah: More than most, I’d say 
Apate: Fionn... Skip to the end.
Fionn wants Utah to return soul contracts to a house on the edge of town, many women there.
Fionn noticed that one of Utah’s pistols was scoured
Utah asked if they knew a gunsmith, they recommended him one to have his gun cleared of Welby’s markings.
Utah asked if there’s anyone up there who’s likely to interfere 
Fionn: There are these fuckers, they’re called soul collectors. Despite the changes down here, they go about their business up there. They’re like Reapers. They harvest and collect souls.
Utah went with Ecstasia to have his gun renovated, then went through the portal alone on his motorcycle.
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Return to Ford
English Class 
Mrs Drakulitis expected but instead Mr Osterberg 
Mrs Drakulitis is on a world cruise
He asked people to suggest genre pieces, such as Science Fiction 
Ford suggested Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Mr Osterberg asked how was everyone’s summer, Ford was silent and busied himself taking notes to try to deflect attention.
Ford noticed a new student across the way, kind of jock-like
Osterberg called on that new guy “I had kind of a life-changing experience but I’m not really ready to talk about it.”
Troy gets up next. “I had a pretty awesome trip, I went to New York” and he told a charming, rambling story.
Class ended, Ford decided to finally go and see Mercy.
Ford told the story of his acid flashback in London
Mercy spent a lot of time in New Angelinos during the break
Mercy took Ford’s hand, he felt something profound in him move.
Ford felt for the first time in nine months, some kind of solace, comfort. An ease that had been so alien to him during that time.
Ford hugged her and she whispered a song in his ear 
A kind of sweet folk song
Mercy has been spending some time with Ira 
She’s nervous about her mother about her mother Betty Ross
Ford said goodbye to Mercy, kissed her cheek but with that precarious corner-of-mouth action.
Ford went to Glory Heights, now rather high from smoking Hell-Grade Weed with Mercy.
He portaled into a bush slightly, emerged with some leaves in his hair and one sticking out of the neck of his t-shirt.
Daisy brought Ford in, led him to the living room and went to get him some apple juice.
Verity asked about Ford’s left hand, he explained it was from Pecos Bill’s silver bullet.
Verity asked if he got into a fight, Ford said usually he’s a peaceful kind of guy.
Verity tried to tell Ford he’s got some leaves/twigs on him, Ford thought she was proposing a magic trick and would pull something behind his ear. 
“It’s not a magic trick, Ford -” 
“-Ok ok, ILLUSION then, sorry.”
Ford told Daisy that Verity might be joining Rainbow Rhythms
Daisy asked if she looked alright before answering the door and Ford said honestly and reflexively she looked beautiful.
Ford looked at Verity and said he has to answer things truthfully, she can’t know what that’s like 
Verity said “I do, more than you’ll know.” 
Ford said “Well I... more than you... never mind.”
Troy brought a house gift from Bleak Hall - A bottle of The Dagda’s whiskey 
Daisy was taken aback but then said maybe they could use it for toothache. Ford suggested using it in cooking.
Ariel asked about what Verity liked about dancing 
She said she likes the joy it brings others.
Verity went to talk to Ford individually, asking that he avoid politics and religion during the dinner.
Ivy shook Ford’s hand, turned it over “Stigmata?” 
Ford said “It’s asymmetrical I’m afraid” 
Ivy: What’s that smell? 
Ford: Holly? Or weed? 
Ivy: Weeds don’t smell.
Kat: You know it’s funny: Ivy... Holly in Ford’s hair
Kat went to brush it away, they fumbled, Ford stumbled and almost knocked over a decorative plate
Daisy serving soup 
Any allergies? 
Jules - Can’t have peanuts or papaya
Ariel - I don’t eat fish
Adam about to say grace, Verity said “Adam, not everyone is a believer”
They went out to another room to say grace.
Ariel: We would give thanks before eating, but just to the seas 
Ford: I had a feeling you guys would be hippies
Ford having a very uncomfortable dinner in Glory Heights
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Cut to Utah
Rode to a big country house, mansion-like. He was led in to meet the madam, who introduced herself as Betsy Ross.
She was surprised to hear he was here on business from Hell, saying none of her girls would be foolish enough to sign contracts for their souls.
The girls came forward though, saying these men had shown up and made them sign. 
They were upstairs right now, led by The John.
Utah walked to the top of the stairs and called out for them to come out. The John asked why they would want to do that, Utah said it would give them better odds.
They instead stayed in their respective rooms.
Utah ran out on the first floor roof along the windows, firing through one window to shoot down a reaper, then diving through another to cut one down with his knife.
He heard Betsy shoot one of them on the stairs with he Winchester, he shot another down as he kicked in the door of the room Utah had dived into. The man started swelling unnaturally, Utah dived into the bathtub for shelter just before he exploded, spraying black blood everywhere.
The John was last, Utah heard him outside but he didn’t come into the room. 
Utah ran and dived out the door into the corridor, firing both pistols from midair, putting a bullet in The John’s heart, throat and forehead, his signature method of being certain of the kill.
When it was done, Utah and Betsy had a few drinks together, talking and getting acquainted. She told him there had once been a god of cowboys called Pecos Bill. Utah said “Well how about that, a god just for us Cowboys...” 
Later in the evening Betsy brought Ford out so the girls could show him their appreciation. 
A great deal of drinking, card playing, boozing. 
By the end of the night Utah was dancing on the bar with two of the girls, wearing only his hat and boots.
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Back to Ford, ending the dinner without any major incidents. 
He and the rest of Bleak Hall’s residents walked home, spent the rest of the evening socialising.
Back to Metalverse Seasons
===Episode 4 - The Spider Treasure of Xerothix (aka 'Ligeia's D&D')===
Episode 4
Mid October
New floor is built, Ford is in a new room one floor up on the opposite front corner.
October 16th, Saturday
Afternoon, some people arrived, Ariel called Ford down
Vinny and Alex
Vinny invited Ford to a Centurions party. 10:30.
Alex invited him too. 9:00
Simon Prince came by, inviting Ford to a Jacuzzi Shindig - midnight.
Kat wanted Ford to keep her company because she is horrifically hung over from her date with Simon Prince.
Flori said the Twins had a surprise planned for tonight, Ford said he had to be at the party by 9pm.
Flori: Ligeia is really excited about this 
Ford: Could she be excited between seven pm and eight fifty five pm
Mirella led them up to the as-yet unused room upstairs.
Ligeia is upstairs at the head of a very long table in a dark room
She revealed a game screen, dice, character sheets, she is going to start running a D&D game.
Ford agreed to be The Bard
Frofarr the Bard 
He has been in a terrible accident so he has lost three fingers on one hand 
But that never stopped him and he plays a magical lute. (+2) 
Special abilities include Silver Tongue. One effect of the spell he was cursed with is he sometimes gets Fat Tongue.
The adventure is called “The Cave Of Xerothix”
This adventure takes place in the magical kingdom of Ashalon
Troy: Muscles the brave. Barbarian.
Ariel: This is so exciting! I’m playing the fair maiden and dancer Belladonna. She has powers of healing.
Mirella: I’m playing Jinx. She’s the magic user. She casts all sorts of magical and mysterious spells.
Flori: I also wanted to be a bard. I used to be in a band. Renny Flagstaff
Jules: Thief. He’s on the run. He stole something important, he lives kind of a shady life. He’s good at breaking into things. Killian.
Lana: I’m playing... The Shapeshifter. Zara. Mysterious woman from a distant land who holds all sorts of secrets and has the ability to change into any other person. On the condition that she’s seen them.
Kat: The Amazonian warrior, engineer and activist Tina.
Bonnie: Beatrix. Wizard. “A dark wizard. She can do really cool shit.”
You all meet the night after a terrible shipwreck.
Some of you have washed up upon the shores of the port town.... (Long pause to look it up) Called... Mermania.
Tavern - The Honest Courtier
A mysterious stranger offered to buy them all a drink. Everyone agreed to try the drink but Bonnie was very suspicious and said they were fools to drink it.
Ligeia said the others were unaffected so Bonnie finally agreed Beatrix would try the drink.
Beatrix the surly is poisoned.
They were told the antidote was across the water in a strange land, in the cave of Xerothix the giant spider.
Frofarr - Well everyone knows that spiders love treasure.
Tina wants to stay in the city to do her activism work, particularly concerning gnomes, should they be serving food and drink? Are they being oppressed?
Frofarr - The spider-treasure should go a long way towards righting these wrongs.
A nameless ship, Ariel wants to name it Friend-Ship.
The only thing that will protect their return voyage is the sceptre of the old king.
Flori - Don’t look at me, I put all my points into charisma 
Frofarr- Well it shows, darling
Flori - Frofarr.... (Blushing)
Frofarr and Renny used their music power as twin ninjas to inspire during a battle with a giant octopus. 
They defeated the octopus and sailed across the water
The Swampland is magic, you only sink if you think negative thoughts about sinking. 
Everyone passed their saves but then Bonnie said Beatrix would definitely be thinking negative thoughts because she’s in a swamp, this meant that Muscles who was carrying her sank into the swamp.
They had to climb up to the cave, Bonnie carried by Tina the Amazonian Engineer and Activist. Tina fell to her death but Bonnie survived.
They eventually defeated Xerothix.
The mysterious stranger showed up at the cliff’s edge telling them he was an agent of the evil emperor, here to get the old king’s scepter so that the emperor could rule for a thousand years.
Frofarr threw his lute at him, beaning him on the forehead and knocking him off the cliff, losing his wondrous lute forever.
The party agreed to distribute the spider-treasure via an activist group with an interest in gnome-welfare, in memory of Tina the Amazonian Engineer/Activist.
Ariel said it was a wonderful game and it was very novel to have the villain among them the whole time. All eyes turned to Bonnie.
Alex’s party 
A weak-willed member of the chess club, an elderly woman from the chinese laundry, an impatient pizza delivery guy.
Ford finally told Alex that he can’t make friends by making people uncomfortable like this.
He went to The Centurions party, it was a nightmare, people had started drinking early and were messy and obnoxious. Ford used his Calm power and things got a little more easygoing and enjoyable. Vinny thanked him.
Ford went to Prince’s new old place, he revealed a giant hot tub that could fit a whole party full of people. He said he’d realized something though, sitting in that hot tub alone he felt like he’d made a huge and expensive mistake. 
Ford got the hint and went outside to convince everyone at the party to get in the tub.
Ford to Cheryl on radio 
Now if you’ll excuse me I have to go and talk to a party full of people and convince them to take off their clothes.
===Episode 5 - The Abyss===
October 23rd.
Ford wakes on an overcast, grey autumn afternoon. Someone has left breakfast for him.
It’s with a note: initial FD. 
A delicious sandwich.
The Twins talking about “Whenever one of those women is here, it’s bad news”
Ford overheard and asked “what women?”
They said The Sisters, one of them is here to see him.
Selina came in and told him she is here on business, The Lord Marshall requires some assistance.
Selina became awkward once all the official talk was done.
Ford asked what was on her mind, she said 
Failure, what else? 
She said she had never failed before
Ford told her about Hope telling him he underestimated himself but he felt that really he overestimated himself, he thought he could keep her safe.
They travelled through Hell, she kept close, as though communicating that she once again has his back.
They reached Fionn’s Realm, seasons change so fast that Spring was becoming summer as they walked.
Fionn’s throne room, Fionn very tense under his friendly manner 
Ford put a hand on his shoulder and lent him some calm and hope
A beach party in New Angelinos went south 
A succubus called Nanny Knox spiked the bonfire with purple smoke, “deadly nightshade”, seven people died.
They asked about Pandora’s Box 
He said he’s carrying Hope’s murderer in the box
Fionn and Apate want Ford to go into the box and restrain Nan Noxi by fastening her to one of the pillars of Pandora.
Ford getting a feeling that Hope and her body are incomplete, Ford had a vision that a lock of her hair was taken before her death.
In the vein of the time Ford played a song with Mercy and had the strength to wake Hope: 
Ford knew that this lock of hair would help him grow the Garden of Hope
Ford took The Sisters into Pandora’s Box with him
Ford set out the rules again: “I like to do things without killing but if any of you is in real danger, kill to save each other. You are worth far more than anything in there.”
Who’s in the box anyway?
Huitzilopochtli, now crippled - (Ras Al Ghul) 
Kalfu - Kind of a Candyman, urban legend Voodoo character 
The Strayers 
Tezcatlipoca -- Kraven the Hunter 
Miclántecuhtli - (Scarecrow) 
The Pirate Emperor - “The Admiral” 
Mephistopheles (Ford’s Riddler)
Ford and The Sisters entered Pandora’s Box, Ford remembers the way through the maze.
Met The Admiral, he wants a drink
He says a lot of sabre rattling down here, everyone jockeying for position.
The Admiral offered a deal: let him out of the box and he’ll give Ford warning of what’s ahead.
Ford agreed to let him out but furthermore, he owes Ford a favour.
The Admiral says the box has an abyss, like the cave from Empire Strikes Back. 
It’s a place of wrestling with one’s aspect.
The box contains fragmentary echoes of lost civilizations 
Even hints of the original supercontinent
They found a rough-hewn version of Huitzilopochtli’s Ziggurat
Had The Sisters fasten The Crone to one of the pillars of Pandora
Heard the collection of Villains approaching, Ford’s Rogue’s Gallery
Huitzilopotchli still gloating about murdering Hope and Ford sparing his life
Ford said he was using The Abyss as a threat and a source of power. He said there was no need to threaten him with The Abyss, he would go willingly, would Huitzilopotchtli join him?
Ford and he agreed to go into the Abyss
H went first, Ford turned to face the crowd and said “Well, that was easy... nah I’m just kidding I’m going in too.”
Falling through the abyss Ford could hear voices and music from throughout his life
Ford found himself in his bedroom in 1996
He felt as if he’d woken from a dream. As though everything that happened in Season 3 was all a wild daydream because it’s all so strange. 
He knew better though, that he was really in the box.
He looked in the mirror, he was free of scars. Thought he knew it wasn’t real, it still felt like kind of a relief.
Abby came to talk to him, she rejected his words of optimism
She tried to convince him he should stay home, he can’t face other people
Girls whispering mean things about Ford as he walks 
“Man, in the future, I don’t know how easy I have it.”
“There’s the doofus, he’s the most uh-uh-uh-unconfident man in town.”
Ford ran his hand through his geeky hair, ruffling it a bit
“Ohh he’s wearing his hair differently...” More mean laughter
Ford shrugged and said “Yeah, I kind of like it like this, it’s less uptight, right?” 
Will save DC 30
He went to The Blue Room, found it’s a kind of a heightened version of its original self. 
People are impossibly cool, total disregard for those outside this social stratum 
People are incredibly funny, witty, clever
He pushed the door where he should have pulled, people looked up amused, he went with it and continued pushing, bracing himself against a wall, pushing with his foot... 
finally he said “But how did all these people get in there?” Causing some laughter. 
He then finally pulled open the door, said quietly to the waitress “You know, that’s a fire hazard, a door that won’t open like that.”
Ford’s old nemesis, a carbon copy Kurt Cobain, talking about how failing to pay the rent on his storage unit meant his jagoff landlord would burn his paintings, Janine comforting him 
Ford realized he didn’t hate this guy anymore or even care about him. He disappeared.
Ford talked to her, at first she was very discouraging, almost cruel 
He said his job is to think everything is going to get better, which brought him a moment of clarity.
They had a do-over and it went really well
Ford woke lying on the grass of the green between Bleak Hall and the Campus
Bleak Hall was in flames 
he ran to it, broke in the door with a wave of his hand 
inside, an entirely different building
He could hear people screaming from inside bedrooms “Oh god the door is locked, why would someone do that” 
He opened the doors with his power and heard laughter
Then he heard Hope’s voice, weakly calling for help.
He ran into the room and the flames were gone, she was ringing a bell, saying she was hungry.
She and Ford talked through things and he said it was only H’s fault that she died
She said he has to remember that
He looked out of the house, standing on the balcony he could see Huitzilopochtli howling in pain as he faced The Primordials and was speared by thousands of soldiers.
Ford went down to speak to him and said H defined himself by his ‘Magnificence’, his military might. Defeated by Ford, he now had nothing left to define himself by.
Ford emerged from The Abyss glowing brighter than ever, having reached a new height of power.
Mephistopheles called upon the other gods to attack Ford
Ford’s calming presence and his power defused their aggression.
Miclántecuhtli threw Mephistopheles down into the abyss
Tezcatlipoca said “My Clan... I hope to see you again” and ran and jumped off the edge of the pit.
The Strayers edging back: “We will see what you come up with.”
The Sisters and Ford walked back, they could hear a drunken and incredibly foul-mouthed shantee
An echo of Ford making The Tallyman ridiculous
Ford brought The Admiral out with them, he said he would like to sail the waters of Hell.
Selena and Ford shared a moment, he told her he had a vision of Hope and realized that only Huitzilopochtli was responsible for her death. She tearfully asked if this meant that she didn’t fail Ford and Ford said she never had, nor would she.
Returning home, Ford saw people’s reactions to him were powerful, he was now more charismatic than ever.
Kat said it was good to have him back, for a while there it felt like he was only at 80%.
Back to Metalverse Seasons
===Episode 6 - Halloween 1988===
Ford spent a few days in Hell, now driving back to Bleak Hall on October 30th.
He saw the house had a spooky facade a little like walking into a mouth.
It has a bit of a feel of a fairground spooky house.
The Twins , Kat and Cheryl all affected by Ford’s heightened charisma.
The Twins costume: A suit made up to make them seem like conjoined twins 
they want to do a Victorian freak show vibe. 
Lana going to do the transparent lady.
There are old handbills for Dr Lazarus Miller's medicine show with Utahonthem. 
Met Flori, she’s made an adult size romper suit. The hands are helpless.
Re-Caught Ariel - this time he enjoyed it far more, though Ford still keeping things strictly business, even when Ariel got a bit starry eyed when he caught her.
Ariel wants to go to the party as a Farmer’s Daughter.
Night of the party 
Lana did incredible work making Ford into a human jigsaw of tattoos.
Jordan arrives as Klaatu.
Portia at the door with a worried Vinny 
She is dressed as Betty Ross 
Vinny is dressed as the Hulk. 
Accidentally bought military grade green warhead paint.
Sif is dressed as a figure skater alongside Thor, also figure skater.
Ford taking polaroids of every guest as they arrive in costume
Odin’s costume - He’s Jimi Hendrix 
Ford convinced Odin to go as Freddie Mercury instead.
Saw a woman in a Venetian mask and elaborate dress, didn't recognize her.
Kat was bearded lady, she was afraid Prince would be an assole about it. Ford bet her one favour that within five minutes he would make it clear that he liked it.
He arrived, saw her and walked away immediately. Ford said give him five minutes.
Ford was upstairs chatting to people, saw Simon Prince come out of scabs room wearing a dress. Trying to hurry him downstairs, Prince stalling and chatting so that it’s close to the five minute mark.
Ford finally got him down in time, had to give him a gentle push so he fell down the stairs to land in front of Kat.
Jules has gone as the knife thrower, his hands bandaged.
Jupiter arrives with the family
Eddie says Job finds it hard to close the deal even though Brighid is totally into him
Ariel’s costume is a bit more Daisy Duke than hayseed farmer’s daughter 
She danced up and down with excitement, causing jaws to drop at the bouncing effect 
Ford gave her the martini Lana had given him (in a glass rather than airborne) and explained this to Ariel, who threw the martini in her own face, causing Lana to say “Oh pulleeeeze” as she wandered off.
Doorbell - Captain Cole, USMC. 
Ford was asked directly if Jules Q Blank lived here and couldn’t help but answer honestly 
He asked Captain Cole to come back in a couple of days and somehow managed to get him to agree to this, truthfully telling him he would spoil this party, Ford’s first ever opportunity to see his father on his birthday.
Mercy said Lana may be kind of jealous. She said Ariel’s innocent jumping up and down may be playing a role, ‘the ingenue’ but she said she’d reserve judgement until she meets her.
Ford said she seems very observant but... well, could someone be quite observant and also oblivious? Mercy patiently regarded him but didn't point out the oblivious parallel with himself.
Baldur is a fancy cowboy
Larry and Sindi Berkowicz are both Elvises
Ford went to talk to Lana, she said yes she still had feelings for him but she would put them behind her, she was getting ready to move on with her life. They spoke about more film ventures.
Lana and Ford horrified Dale by putting a hand through the hole in her belly.
Ford about to warn Jules about Cpt Cole, decided not to, Jules thought he was just cockblocking him by asking to speak to him and walking him away from Mirella.
Ford talked to Ivy Gilette, she’s a sunday christian with severe preacher’s daughter syndrome. Ford thought she was pretty cool, she asked him to keep their secrets, she wouldn't reveal to anyone that he was The Warchild and he wouldn't reveal to anyone that she had been at the party. He didn't mention that he had no real secret in his identity, it was kind of an open secret.
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Episode resumes Thursday 26th July 2012
Ford banished from his room by Simon and Kat, he went looking around for new faces
Bumped into Jupiter in his Sumo costume
Jupiter and Ford talking at length about improving the world
Jupiter is of the opinion that The Gods should not make their arguments into Mortal problems
Jupiter’s advice: 
Not all the shit you see is anybody’s fault 
However when the Gods do cause problems, there should be accountability
Ford offered others to sign too
All of Jupiter’s family, sans Mercury
Signatories:
Romans get on board 
House Corvin
Raijin
The Deadbeats
Mercy says it’s going to be a good year, she can feel it
Dean: since being made dean of the year I’ve got a lot of Heat, with heat comes fire... how can I extend this metaphor? 
Ford: You want to throw money in this fire. 
Dean: I want to throw alot of money into this fire.
Dean asked Ford to go for President of the Student Body
Kat refused a ticket for the Date Auction
Belph wants to introduce Ford to someone
He and Qarinah are warning Ford of many acid Flashbacks in the future
Ford called to pull out tickets for the “Second Annual Date-a-Thon.”
Eloise - Erato - first number out of the barrel - 271
Ford and Eloise flirting for a good ten minutes when she came on stage.
1094 - Ariel (Ariel caused groans from the crowd with her “Date? What’s a Date? I’ve never been on one of those!”)
Fionn and Apate’s wedding
Ford created The Forest of Hope
While there, he felt something like an echo of Hope’s presence. It made him feel he was on the right track, like he is truly continuing her work.
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Bambi and Salome wanted to go to the Halloween party. 
Riding along Embassy Row, seeing a lot of spooky business.
Utah met Bonnie at the party
Utah says it’s a sin not to enjoy yourself 
Bonnie asked if he’s calling her a prude 
Utah said “I may not be calling you a prude,” -Steps in closer, lowering his voice “but you are a sinner.”
Bonnie challenged Utah to a drinking contest
Bonnie: I think you’re scared of getting close to someone 
Utah: I haven’t had enough to drink to answer that honestly
Utah said he would answer a question every time Bonnie took a drink for these last few rounds
“What is your relationship to these two girls?”
“We take care of each other. We found each other. We’re all broken in some way or another, we take care of each other and try to ease the pain.”
Bonnie said that was actually kind if nice.
Proserpine saw Utah doing his card-throwing
Proserpine says she thinks The Yankees might be in league with Yahweh, asked if he would be interested in helping to get some information on that.
Utah said that he knew his own kind when he met them and Proserpine was one. Proserpine said that Ford was fond of saying that the gods could forge all kinds of mutually beneficial alliances but still nothing like that was as precious as friendship. She and Utah vowed to be friends with this understanding.
Session Paused
Session Resumed
Ford banished from his room by Simon and Kat, they had gone there for a quiet refuge and makeout room. He made them promise not to do anything that would make it impossible for him to ever sleep in there again.
Ford went looking around for new faces.
Bumped into Jupiter in his Sumo costume, Jupiter and Ford talking at length about improving the world.
Jupiter is of the opinion that The Gods should not make their arguments into Mortal problems.
Jupiter’s advice: 
Not all the shit you see is anybody’s fault 
However when the Gods do cause problems, there should be accountability
Ford began The Concordwhichproposedthegodsundertaketokeeptheirownproblemsanddisputes from interfering with mortal life anywhere on earth. 
Offered others to sign too:
All of Jupiter’s family, sans Mercury
Signatories:
Romans get on board 
House Corvin 
Raijin 
The Deadbeats.
Mercy says it’s going to be a good year, she can feel it
QUOTE: 
Dean: since being made dean of the year I’ve got a lot of Heat, with heat comes fire... how can I extend this metaphor? 
Ford: You want to throw money in this fire. 
Dean: I want to throw alot of money into this fire.
Dean asked Ford to go for the position of Head of Entertainment.
Kat refused a ticket for the Date Auction
Belph wants to introduce Ford to someone, Utah.
He and Qarinah are warning Ford of many acid Flashbacks in the future
Ford called to pull out tickets for the “Second Annual Date-a-Thon.”
Eloise - Erato - first number out of the barrel - 271
Ford and Eloise flirting for a good ten minutes when she came on stage.
1094 - Ariel (Ariel caused groans from the crowd with her “Date? What’s a Date? I’ve never been on one of those!”)
Fionn and Apate’s wedding
Ford created The Forest of Hope
While there, he felt something like an echo of Hope’s presence. It made him feel he was on the right track, like he is truly continuing her work.
UTAH:
Bambi and Salome wanted to go to the Halloween party.
Riding along Embassy Row, seeing a lot of spooky business.
Utah met Bonnie at the party
Utah says it’s a sin not to enjoy yourself
Bonnie asked if he’s calling her a prude
Utah said “I may not be calling you a prude,” -Steps in closer, lowering his voice “but you are a sinner.”
Bonnie challenged Utah to a drinking contest
Bonnie: I think you’re scared of getting close to someone
Utah: I haven’t had enough to drink to answer that honestly
Utah said he would answer a question every time Bonnie took a drink for these last few rounds
“What is your relationship to these two girls?”
“We take care of each other. We found each other. We’re all broken in some way or another, we take care of each other and try to ease the pain.”
Bonnie was surprised and said that was actually kind of nice.
They curtailed the drinking competition when Utah volunteered to show Bonnie his card-throwing.
Proserpine saw Utah performing and came over to chat to him after Bonnie went inside to get an early night.
Proserpine says she thinks The Yankees might be in league with Yahweh, asked if he would be interested in helping to get some information on that.
Utah said that he knew his own kind when he met them and Proserpine was one. Proserpine said that Ford was fond of saying that the gods could forge all kinds of mutually beneficial alliances but still nothing like that was as precious as friendship. She and Utah vowed to be friends with this understanding.
===Episode 7 - The Muses===
November third
Ford wakes a little earlier than usual on the day of the first of the fundraiser lottery dates.
A huge pile of memos greets Ford, he has them floating around him as he showers and gets ready.
Memos:
Simon Prince had done all paperwork for Ford’s application to run for Head of Entertainment. Deadline approximately a month
Arrangement of the dates.
Eloise
Ariel
The third name made Ford panic and fall out of the shower, he fell right out through the wall into the hall.
The third name is Ivy Gilette, who had left the party before the lottery draw even started selling tickets.
Cheryl had something to say about Ariel. She thinks Ariel is very full on and there’s something of an act about her quest for attention. Ford took Cheryl for a walk in The Forest Of Hope.
Cheryl on the subject of how well Ariel was vetted before joining Bleak Hall: “Simon Prince is a wonderful man in many ways but sometimes he doesn’t pay due dilligence. He just coasts by on the fumes of his... cologne.”
What if Ariel is not Poseidon’s daughter?
Ford spent an afternoon at the office
Last meeting: Columbia
Made a deal in which Ford gave her 15% of Gross to distribute the film.
Ford went to his date with Eloise, on the way he picked fresh flowers from The Forest Of Hope.
Barely saw a glimpse of Arabella being robed by the others, The Muses are comically unconcerned about modesty.
Isidora sang “He brought you flowers on your first date”
Arabella and Billy staring at Ford
Billy spilled a whole can of paint on Ford, they insisted he disrobe so they could launder his clothes for him, soon he was in a towel, wandering around chatting to the various muses.
Melpomene/Melanie is moved by the tragedy of Ford’s paint-splattering
From the top of the stairs, gazing through the railings is Little Miss Spacecamp, Ford went and chatted to her, said he would like her help with something Astronomy-related at some point soon.
Melanie is very moved by Ford’s widowhood
Ford showed Clio his natural form.
Clio said he is truly remarkable in more ways than one.
Ford offered his help in any way they needed it
Clio: You are so open and so honest and yet you are an enigma, Ford. You are an anomaly, born outside of history, sheltered in the future, but a prisoner of your past.
Clio says that they had left Olympus five years before the fall. They had already lost one of their number, Calliope.
Once upon a time Zeus saw a satyr here on earth, he regards them as Titans. Eresias was his name, it is claimed that -and it was true- that he had found a flute, discarded by Athena. Athena, quite the perfectionist, didn’t regard it as worthy of her talents. But it was quite worthy for it made the most beautiful of music. Really, my sisters, they would love to hear it. So this Satyr with his flute, he played such sweet music that it drove Zeus insane with envy. The gods themselves they also experience Hubris.
Eresias played this flute and it drove Zeus to despair to think that this -and these are not my words but his own- ‘how can that vile goat-legged titanspawn produce such pollution to my ears.’
Zeus sent the most supplicant of his sons, a child of Leto, the twin of Artemis, Apollo. To challenge the Satyr in music. Whomever could play the most sweet notes on that flute could do to the other whatever he liked. Eresias feared Zeus and his wrath and knew if he refused to take part...
Apollo in his weakness and perhaps his eagerness to please his father agreed. A competition was set, Eresias and Apollo were to play on this flute and they were to be judged by an “Independant Panel”.
He chose the muses.
Clio said they were weak too.
When Apollo was clearly losing, Zeus gave Apollo a look and he added his voice, singing the sweetest thing they had ever seen.
Eresias tried to speak but Zeus silenced him.
Clio dropped the apple and fell to the ground in distress at this point, her perfect memory forcing her to relive the moment as she spoke of it. Ford went to his knees and pulled her to his chest, let her cry against him and talk.
She said she had thought she saved the lives of her sisters, what was the life of one titan?
Apollo was granted his wish and with Zeus breathing down his neck he chose to flay Eresias. The skin was torn from his muscles and his muscles were torn from his bones. The Muses left Olympus that night.
Later, The Muses described a visit from a familiar face.
They had a “gentleman” come by with some facile excuse. He claimed he required some sugar, with a certain poison on his lips. "Before we knew it he had voided his lunch on our pristine hallway and we politely showed him the door."
Blaine.
Ford invited Aurora to help him create constellations in The Forest Of Hope sometime.
Eloise: Is there anything you don’t do well?
Ford: Well... I’m not so great at humility.
Eloise wept
Zeus only ever created me and my sisters to be monuments to his magnificence. Empty vases to be whatever he wanted us to be. Whatever people saw in us, our job was to inspire.
Ford and Eloise spent the night together in The Garden of Hope.
Post-Episode Notes:
Clio hates Zeus
The Muses came to Clearwater to be inspired themselves.
Clio knows a lot about Ford in terms of recorded history but his time-displacement makes some of her records fuzzy. But otherwise, she pretty much knows everything about The Olympians.
===Episode 8 - Recommencement===
Threads -
Election
Sexy Car Wash
Ford Dating
Ford Playing The Field
The Dean delivered Utah an ultimatum to pass his courses, he would have to take catchup exams. Utah wasn't really interested enough to bother with all this but The Dean mentioned that his assigned tutor would be Bonnie Dankbars so he agreed to pass the exams.
On the cards is Utah meeting Death and/or War
Utah meeting Yankees
Ford must sort out situation with Jules.
Episode begins 3rd September 2012
Ford walked Eloise home to Iota Zeta from The Drive-In
Florrie and Kat suggested Ford get changed as his jeans are a bit Labyrinth, they were severely shrunken by the laundry at Iota Zeta.
Ford found everyone holding a kind of all night vigil as the Colonel is coming in three hours to pick up Jules Q. Blank.
Ford called Jupiter, he got Ford a number for The Yankees. One of the numbers for Mt Rushmore.
Ford called Uncle Sam.
Uncle Sam said he had a philosophy: “We are a very hospitable house. We accept all comers if they come in peace. Pecos Bill, he lost sight of this, he regarded immigrants as interlopers but we are a nation of immigrants. Why, Clearwater is an example of this great melting pot. I hold myself proud in the knowledge that we are strong in our differences and we are tolerant of all. As such, the military of this nation is comprised of many houses indeed. As long as they play fair, well I let them get on with it. Many houses fight for the soil of America and her interests.”
Uncle Sam said Ford should speak to Zeus. Jules Q Blank was a son of Ares.
Ford spoke to Zeus about clearing up Jules Q. Blank’s legal problems, Zeus agreed to take care of it.
Broke the news to Jules, Jules said he had been on the edge of hitting the road before now.
Colonel Cole showed up to hand Jules his discharge papers.
“That man wears the HELL out of that Army uniform,” Ford said.
Ford to Kat: “I don’t have time for your lectures, I need to get some sleep, I have a busy day tomorrow, I’ve got a sexy carwash to organize.”
CUT TO UTAH
He stays out at Sweet Home
Dean has come to see Utah
Utah “Y’all know anything about the Civil War?”
Dean “Well I’ve done some re-enactments, but who hasn’t?”
Bleak Hall door opened by Troy
“You’re a cowboy”
“Yessir I am”
“Are you from the past?”
“Yessir.”
“Awesome!”
Utah's courses: English, American History, Circus Performance, Ancient Languages
Utah and Bonnie did a study together, they bonded as she explained about Oscar Wilde to him
Bonnie: What time is it?
Utah: We’ve still got time.
Utah used his powers to extend time that evening.
Utah told his story to Bonnie
Cut to FORD
Booked The Half Moon Diner to have a private sliece of pie with Ariel
Prom-themed party at The High School
Ariel on dancing: I love having feet!
They invited other people to come along
Ford organized Sexy Car Wash with Jordan, Troy and Jules Q Blank. Kat showed up to protest it but once she saw it was the guys doing it she wasn't sure how to disapprove. When members of Glory Heights showed up to protest, Kat stood on Ford's side.
UTAH -
Blitzes the exams having had Bonnie’s help
Utah asked Bonnie to wish him luck, they kissed.
Ford at Sexy Car Wash
Ivy Gillette showed up and told Ford that she didn’t put her name in the box for the date raffle
Dale: I’ve come to know you from afar, I’ve studied your ways.
Ford: Thanks!
Dale grimaces
Back to UTAH
Met Death and War at the Roadhous
War wants to get The Horsemen back together
Death is out
Utah is in though
Utah went to see Bonnie and she had brought Flagstaff to see him. He spent a couple of hours talking with Flagstaff, he said he was content down in Hades's realm, Utah shouldn't grieve for him anymore.
===Episode 9 - Election 88===
Tuesday 4th September
Threads:
Ford still has to create the starry sky in The Forest Of Hope.
Ford’s movie to come out soon.
The Election
Ford’s Continuing Love Affair With The Muses
And Also With Everyone Else Who Crosses His Path
Pass two weeks
Ford hanging out with The Muses. Just finished the game of Charades
Haven’t yet spoken to Aurora or introduced Arabella to Rainbow Rhythms
Ford brought Aurora to help him create the night sky in The Forest Of Hope
The Rotunda at the top of Ford’s Cabin opens like a lens aperture
Ford created statues of House Corvin to show Aurora his loved ones
Simon Prince’s constellation is the most busy
Job’s is just a single star but it’s the brightest in the sky
Apate and Fionn’s constellations meet, both a complex mix of light and dark
Hope is a gently luminescent orange star, visible even during the day
All of House Corvin represented, many of Bleak Hall (Twins, Kat, Troy)
Aurora suggested they add her sisters
Arabella - a constantly moving star
Melanie - far away, but bright enough that it draws the eye
Billie - getting in the way of Arabella, tripping her up occasionally
Isidora - A presence seeming to draw the other stars closer together around her
Clio - Aloof
Eloise - Her own belt, smattering of stardust in the sky, leaving a vapor trail, always bringing other stars into her orbit
Rosalind - The light should always be like a spotlight on where her star resides, but dark around the edges. She can be closest to Melanie.
Calliope - Close to Eddie Eckstein
Aurora - Ford created a small star that grows brighter once it is observed for a while
Aurora: “My blessing is that I have inspired mortals to look up into that sky and to travel, to the moon.”
Aurora warned Ford that there is a league of Eloise's exes.
Ford returned with Aurora and found all the sisters in the hall peeking out the window
Eloise: “How did he find me? If he sees Ford he’ll go crazy!”
Ford: “Oh there’s a visitor, I’ll get it.”
Ford opened the door to see a man on a Unicorn. Frank “The Tank” Torc.
It’s a horse with a superglued horn
Frank is a scion of Uncle Sam, he plays in the Majors
“I came here to do this, I wrote you a motherfuckin’ poem.”
Frank hit Ford with a glove, then punched Ford in the stomach. Ford was unmoved but said he felt like Frank had proved his point so they didn’t have to fight anymore.
Frank said “Don’t hold back on me, don’t be like her.”
Ford punched him in the chest, moved by his speech, sending him tumbling back to land on his boombox, breaking it.
Ford tried to help him up and he batted the hand away. Frank said it would make him feel a lot better to punch Ford in the face so Ford agreed.
Frank got him pretty good and split his lip.
The Muses reminded Ford he had forgotten to put a star up there for himself. He placed a small blue star near his parents.
Ford spent a magical evening with The Muses, he made night and day repeat several times throughout the evening.
Next day:
Ford running late to Rainbow Rhythms as he was showing The Muses
Ford also canvassing a little, asking large groups of people what they would like to see here etc
Ford and Arabella had a tryout, they danced together. It was wild, powerful, a little bit sexy. (Performance 60)
Dale has The Debating Society, The Model UN, The Fencing Club,
Music Festival
Annual Film Festival
Halloween Parties
Ford and Dale both went on Mercy's show.
Dale played the card of the underdog, painted Ford as the elite. He took a lot of shots at The Dean, implying The Dean paid an inappropriate amount of attention to Ford. Criticized Ford for playing the field.
Ford didn't respond in kind, only speaking about election issues. When Dale kept pushing Ford said the reason he would never get involved in mudslinging is if both parties in an election indulge in it, the voters can't win, whichever way they vote they get a mudslinger.
While Dale was playing up his man of the people angle, Ford mentioned that Bleak Hall was always open to visitors, even had a spare room for anyone who needed a place to crash for a while. He asked if Dale had ever considered doing anything like that with The White House and Dale said he would start doing that now.
Reno Raynes arrived after the debate, told Ford he was here on a spirit quest.
They had a fight, Ford knocked him out with a stunning strike
Reno tried to lasso ford and ride off with him, Ford caught the rope and Reno flew off his bike
They reconciled easily enough, Ford explained he knew Reno's father, Ares. Reno became slightly starstruck/intimidated when Ford mentioned his father was Fionn Corvin.
Eloise wanted to brief Ford about the others
Eloise said there was an experimental phase
She had a thing with Suzuki Yamaha, Scion of Raijin
She had a “January December” relationship, she said he was the January, she was the December. He had a way about him that was very sweet, she said.
Agent Trent Walker.
Election Montage:
The Clearwater Community College Trumpet has called Ford “The Facilitator”
Ford organized a giant festival party, every kind of entertainment possible
Arabella inspired the crowd to dance it up, everyone
Agent Walker showed up and challenged Ford to a dance-off.
Ford asked Tippi to be his partner as she had felt sidelined lately and had never had a duo dance with Ford in Rainbow Rhythms. Eloise danced with Agent Walker, they were the clear winners. Ford was very moved by this.
Eloise and Agent Walker left together.
Melanie offered Ford comfort and they went to the gazebo, he was so moved by the dance that he got tears on her shoulder. His tears moved her so intensely that when it was done they shared a couple of cigarettes.
Ford to Melanie:
“Sometime we should open a bottle of wine and I’ll tell you about my adolescence...” (Whispering) “It was a trainwreck...”
Ford decided that the Clearwater Festival Of The Arts should be a yearly tradition.
Ford and Dale had a discussion the night before the election, Dale said he regretted the mudslinging. He also said that he had enjoyed connecting with people more openly during the election while he was playing up as a regular guy.
The day of the election, Ford arrived with his fly undone but nobody had the heart to tell him.
Ford won the election
Dale made a concession speech that was both humble and magnificent.
===Episode 10 - All I Want For Christmas Is You===
THREADS
Ford’s movie to come out
Ford’s Continuing Love Affair With The Muses
(And Also With Everyone Else Who Crosses His Path)
Utah to see Yankees
Utah still to decide whether to ride with War
Utah vs Bonnie
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.
A thick blanket covering Clearwater and the campus.
Worst/best year of snowfall.
Ford has set up a Ski Village on the edge of campus in his capacity as Head of Entertainment. He's not particularly interested in skiing but a few students requested it so he made it happen.
Jupiter came to see him
They went to the Garden of Hope
Jupiter had a favour to ask, he wants to get Athena’s pool working
Ford showed Jupiter the night sky in the Garden of Hope, he became verklempt.
Returned from the garden, asked Kitty to be his date for the premier.
Ford saw a car getting stuck in the snow, the engine quit
An older woman in her late thirties leaning under the hood to check the engine
Ford tore his a sleeve off one of his thrift store plaid shirts to use for help repairing engine. Given the freezing temperature, she looked at him in surprise at the gesture.
Ford said: “I know what you’re thinking, a shirt like this must be priceless... but I have others.”
Professor Hardy : Chemistry and moonlighting as Computer Science
Professor Hardy brought Ford for some hot chocolate at Max’s
They had a flirty conversation about how they couldn’t afford to flirt.
She said she had to go and grade papers, she would be grading at 23 Mulberry Avenue, the doorbell doesn’t work so it would be necessary to go around the back and knock.
Ligeia is sad that she isn’t getting much time with Mirella lately
Ford went to Professor Hardy’s house, he brought a bottle of wine and some key lime pie. They had a wild evening -the wine was untouched and the key lime pie ended up with an assprint on it- and then she kicked him out to get back to grading papers.
CUT TO UTAH
Utah and Betsy taking a road trip to Mount Rushmore
Betsy’s truck is called Dave
Utah got to meet the Yankees
Bre’er Rabbit all sneaky
Columbia easily flattered
Paul Bunyan very excited to meet Utah
Johnny Appleseed
Johnny Appleseed: “You got a full name Utah?”
Utah: “Yeah.”
“You ever use it?”
“Yeah.”
“What is it?”
“Utah.”
Rosie shook his hand properly as did John Henry
Johnny is responsible for the growth and the tending of the lands of America. Tending to the soil, sowing crops.
Rosie stands for the oppressed
Father Christmas
Betsy and The Yankees had a big meeting, asking Utah to give them a moment.
Betsy was upset because Uncle Sam asked her to “Stop being such a fucking whore” and close up her house.
Utah and Betsy were both fuming, they went home and got shitfaced.
Back to FORD
Ford went with Athena to set up the pool for Jupiter
Ford and Kitty arrived with Jupiter, Juno and Athena to the premier of The Ones We Love.
Ford and Jupiter photographed with arms around each other’s shoulders as usual.
Ford had a conversation with Professor Hardy, she was a little awkward at the personal nature of the film.
Lana, Bonnie, Ariel, Ford and Troy all playing foosball
Ford went for a walk with Flori.
Flori confessed she was a preppy honours student type growing up
She had a vision at the beach, a man swimming at high speed through the waves
He emerged covered in seaweed, a man with a massive beard
She asked the man what was the secret of life
He said that there was no secret, he was at home
She realized she needed to find something she loved doing
Ligeia came to Ford’s room to talk when he finally went to bed.
She crawled into bed with him and he read A Christmas Carol to her, she admitted she had made a wish to have her sister back.
They went downstairs a couple of hours later to find a new person, Sunny Fey.
Sunny was Ligiea’s imaginary friend when she was lonely away from Mirella at any time growing up. A perfect double of herself.
Ford told Sunny she was a Christmas Miracle.
They settled on a theme:
“Sweet, Spooky Christmas”
Mirella took the creation of Sunny surprisingly well
Krampus: “It has come to my infinite attention that you have made this year’s wicked list”
Ford made the wicked list by not doing anything wicked, thus snubbing Krampus, which is quite wicked.
Krampus talking about The Other Place
Wesley Payne - In anger or some sort of cruel joy he burnt the car of an old teacher of his.
Cynthia Purvis - She put itching powder in the entire attendance of the end of year dance at her previous school
Zach Squire - He once stole ten dollars from his father’s wallet.
Jay Balaban - He wrote a furious screed as to why someone had completely misunderstood the thematic concerns of the novel Dune. Und he posted said screed in plain sight of all his dorm mates to humiliate his rival.
Ford went to The Other Place
Met Zach Squire, son of Steve!
Two guys came downstairs, gave Ford a totally Children of the Damned vibe.
Turned out to be Wesley Payne and Cynthia Purvis. Often known as "Purvis And Payne"
Wesley Payne was born in 1970 in a little town called Centralia. He was adopted, when he was five his father had an accident. Thresher accident. When he was seven, his mother must have mistook medicine for an alcoholic drink. The medicine however, must have been poison of some kind. From there he went from foster home to foster home. Misfortune following him like the bubonic plague until he was deemed unfosterable.
Cynthia’s Story: Cynthia grew up on the bad side of town. There were peepshows and stripclubs everywhere. But it was okay, this was in Pennsylvania too. She eventually left her family and moved to Disneyland where she had a very nice time and then she came here.
Jay: Mostly talked to Ford about different science fiction shows/writers.
Zach is here because his father Steve came home from a party one time with a copy of the manifesto and told Zach he should really check it out.
CUT TO UTAH
Betsy was down about Yankees so Utah brought her a bottle of moonshine, they chatted and she made peace with leaving them.
Utah went to see Bonnie, gave her a locket as a gift and confessed that his first experience of stopping time was when she smiled during an argument and he couldn’t bear for the moment to end.
They spent the night and the following day together.
Utah told Bonnie he was going to ride down to Tartarus, she asked him to come back.
BACK TO FORD
Christmas Eve
Ford hung out with Flori
Received a present of an ass-printed key lime pie with a note saying “Miss Me?”
Ford went to see Professor Hardy and spent the day with her
Dean got Ford a collage of all his events of the past year
Everyone showed up for the Christmas Party, Ford and Dionysus duetted “Baby It’s Cold Outside.”
Simon Prince announced he was liquidating his assets and starting The Kat Berkowicz Trust
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Looking Forward To:
Doing more Mentor Stuff
Utah going to Winter
Utah Rides
Utah Refuses The Yankees
Ford and Professor Slimcalves
Ford Teaching
Ford in Japan
Ford in Ireland
===Episode 11 - The B7a1ne Game (aka 'Blaine is Really an Appliance')===
First day back after the New Year
During the break the Muses around a lot more at Bleak Hall
Ford returned to a golden period with Ligeia and Sunny, reading to them at night.
There is talk around campus of entertainment industry agents coming to visit, spurred by the college’s new reputation as a performing arts school.
Opening weekend of The Ones We Love: 5.2 million dollars, next week that climbed, then at 12.5 million.
Entertainment Agent called Rex Johanson is apparently in town and he’s going to come by the school
First computer science class
Professor Hardy says the most important computer ever created is The Enigma Machine
Ford went to Rainbow Rhythms to practice, danced with Arabella
59/67 perform roll.
Ford and The Rainbows did Romeo and Juliet
Bonnie as Juliet very quietly accidentally said Utah’s name at the end as Juliet took her own life.
Johanson gave them all his card
Prince and Ford talked about possibility of Prince being Ford’s agent
Ariel is excited, Johanson saw her and offered her some modeling work.
It will be for a billboard, she has to put on sunscreen. Ford decided he would go along to supervise.
Ford talked to Prince, he said he is going to sell The Rio
Simon Prince has replaced his car with a secondhand VW Bug
Next day, Ford was at the beach with Ariel as she was being photographed.
The photoshoot was perfectly professional, Ford wasn’t given cause for concern at all.
Next Computer Science class - Ford on the way there, sees Lennon
Ford and Professor Hardy got talking at Ford’s meet and greet with the faculty
Professor Paul Kristofferson - personal enrichment professor (Sieze The Day guy)
Ford said he would enrol in his class at the earliest possible opportunity
Ford had a joint with Professor Osterberg
Went to Professor Hardy’s house to talk in more detail over wine
Professor Hardy’s Story:
“His name was Robert and he was a professor before I became one. We dated for seven years and he was my best friend. When I first saw him I didn’t think he was very handsome at all. My friends were trying to set us up and I said “Him?” He had a weak chin and glasses and what little hair he had was very ginger.
My friends were insistent and they insisted he had a great personality and to shut them up I said I’d go on one date. It was a wonderful date and the more I saw him the more handsome he became.
One year rolled into another and we had a fight and -it was stupid really- I think it’s what really pushed him over the edge to leave on a research project. He left and he never came back.
I tried to call him and I got him once and we apologized, both of us, he was the first to do so even though he was completely in the right. But it was the last time I spoke to him.”
Ford told her about Hope and they spent the evening together after that, drinking wine and watching TV.
A couple of days later
Simon now has a week’s beard growth
Prince has seen Ariel’s billboard
Ford saved Blaine Lennon from a burning car wreck
Hospital Receptionist when Ford brought Blaine in: I’m so sorry, is he a good friend?
Ford: No, I can’t stand that guy.
Ford went to talk to Ariel
CUT TO UTAH
Utah was outside a cinema where he caught a movie with Bonnie.
He saw Johnny Appleseed and a woman on a motorcycle was speeding towards him, he walked Johnny out of the way at great speed, she rode on.
CUT TO FORD
Ford is a bit drunk, he’s spent three hours creating new drinks, naming them and then drinking them.
A dark roll of thunder, an almightly electrical shower, the heavens crackle with lightning, power outages around town.
Ford sipping a “Merry Gentleman” that he had been making.
Ford went to talk to Suzuki in The Garden of Hope
She has heard a rumour that not all of the yankees agree with Yahweh
Currently there is no way to directly challenge Yahweh, he doesn’t come out of his realm, his base of command.
Historically, it has been about individual characters doing terrible things.
When she talks about millions dying, it’s about conflicts that he stirs.
Ford asked her not to lose her temper and use her powers in town limits, saying this town had a hospital.
Suzuki apologized.
_________________
Ford returned to Bleak Hall from The Garden of Hope
Jupiter called to say Ford's account is being accessed by every cash machine in town
With Jupiter’s permission, Jay Balaban accessed Elysium Bank to trace the attack
Saw list of names of Roman Scions.
Tony Danza is a Roman Scion
b7ai9e
“Blaine”
Jay: “How the fuck is he doing this? It's like his intelligence is inside the machine!”
Ford: “You know his name always sounded like an appliance.”
Ford had to go into the Computer World
Blaine - “You could have been my wingman”
Ford - “In that analogy, being the better pilot... I don’t think that would be appropriate.”
Blaine ran Ford through a gauntlet of video game worlds, Mario, The Last Ninja, Space Invaders
Ford replaced Blaine’s high scores on his own machine
Bla
Bla
Bla
“Bla, Blah, Blah...” Ford said and then replaced it.
For his favour, Jay asked if Ford could keep Purvis and Payne busy
The Dean has a reservation for two at “Le Fancy Garcon” in town.
Date with The Dean, took him home to 22 Mulberry Ave
Ford heard someone in the shower while putting The Dean to bed, realized The Dean in fact does not live alone!
===Episode 12 - The End of War===
Jay asked Ford to keep Purvis and Payne busy
Ford has proposed that Bleak Hall and House Corvin build a new ship
Simon Prince is going to be thowing a goodbye to the Rio party.
Open on UTAH
Utah returned to the town of Winter.
Little touches of modernity, neon signs, gas stations, it seems more dead than he ever remembered it.
Nothing so populous as he remembered it.
A tire swing hanging from the hanging tree, the rope tied in the indent where his own noose had been tied.
The Hanged Man wanted to merge and give him power
Utah agreed to merge in order to give him peace
They engaged in psychic battle, The Hanged Man first opened with a reliving of the beating Utah took before they hanged him
The Hanged Man brought out the mix of fear and hate that his father had for him.
Utah won by exposing The Hanged Man to the sense of love in his life, his new family and his hopes for his relationship with Bonnie.
Utah burned The Hanging Tree and left Winter
CUT TO FORD
Ford on his way to The Rio
Kat can’t believe this is happening but she wants it to go smoothly
Ford said he’d have a rum with Poseidon, Prince said “I thought you’d be having a diabetes”
Poseidon asked how Ariel was doing, Ford was very relieved that he knew who she was.
Poseidon said he had a confession to make.
He lied about Ariel. He found her on the beach washed up, he revived her, she looked so vulnerable. He tried to find out where she may have come from but there was no identification on her.
He tried to find her family or friends but he could not. She woke up and didn’t know who she was.
Ford told Ariel the truth.
She found it very difficult, she said she wanted to go home
Ariel took a taxi home
War rode up
Ford “I’ll have one last Diabetes then we’ll hot tub this thing and then I’m... moving on.”
Athena spoke to Yahweh when she was first trying to find a way out of Hell for Lucifer
He told her that Hell was his prison and none should leave.
She discovered that Lucifer’s pride was what kept him in Hell
He swore to serve her and was thus able to leave.
Utah said goodbye to Bonnie
Ford heard Bonnie say “I love you” to Utah as they sailed into Tartarus, Utah didn’t hear it.
Met Nemesis in Tartarus on the edge of Dark Clearwater
Nemesis is on her way to the wedding of Morpheus and Lillin
She has crafted a ring, it will give him form. Enable him to kiss the deadly lips of Lillin without harm.
Ford told her it was a beautiful gift
War gave a briefing.
Right now one of the largest battles in the history of Tartarus.
Lucifer, Morrigan, Leviathan all out there.
Thanatos has warped his already corrupted soldiers. One thought fills their mind: Death.
Morpheus rode out with War, Ford and Utah.
A couple of days on the road and War and Ford got talking alone.
War said:
We used to be Yahweh’s messenger boys. But we went freelance.
“That fuckin’ asshole, he’d always threaten to unleash us amongst the mortals. But he never did. He kept threatening to do it and we got tired of waiting.”
An ambush by The Ceres
Utah shot one down, they all descended. Utah was slashed across the chest and knocked to the ground. Ford smacked two of them together knocking them senseless. War shot one out of the sky with an arrow through the mouth. Morpheus made the last of them have a dream that it was falling.
Riding through Tartarus, Ford saw the devastation of the war.
War told Ford that when Ford was just a little baby he traveled the earth, talking to seers.
They saw a dying soldier, he had nothing but blackness and death in him from the effects of Thanatos’s conditioning. No thoughts, only a mindless anger and pain. Ford killed him, believing it to be an act of mercy.
Thanatos possessed the body, told Ford that he grew in power every time Fionn killed a god.
Morpheus fell as they rode down a cliff. Ford healed him but his bike was destroyed.
Morpheus formed a new dream-bike and they rode on.
The four of them rode through the Valley of Screams
Utah faced Anaplekte, the god of quick and painful death. He shot it down as it sped towards him, even after death it kept coming with one last swipe of its claws but Utah caught the charge with a boot to the chest, sending it to the ground.
The mist of death appeared behind War and stabbed through his back, causing him to fall from his bike.
Ford used a force stun to knock Cere out of the sky, it fell with such force it created a crater and a shockwave
Ford knocked Stygere so far back it embedded in a mountain
Utah strode off to destroy Stygere, he put his signature three perfect shots to forehead, throat and heart as it was digging itself out of the mountain.
Ford went to check on War and had a brief exchange with him before he died.
The death mist tried to ambush Ford while he was leaning over War but Ford bluffed he was unawares until the last moment, turning and punching it and sending it into the crater.
As it fell down the crater, Ford grabbed it and threw it down with all his strength, knocking it unconscious.
At the moment of turning to punch it, Ford had been tempted to use lethal force, his darker side responding to the death of his friend and waking his killer instinct.
He placed both surviving gods in the box.
Ford created a temporary tomb for War.
As they rode on they met Oizys of Misery.
She asked in what spirit they had come here.
Ford said they were just here to close the portal and put an end to this.
She said there had been enough Misery.
Ford faced off with Thanatos who had become obscenely powerful. Ford defeated him.
At the end Ford went eyeball-to-eyeball with him, exposing him to his Hope aspect and Thanatos was overcome with wonder.
When Ford emerged from the Mausoleum, white flags started to rise from all over the opposing army.
Morpheus and Lillin went to marry in private, Oizys tried to murder Morpheus but Lillin kissed her, killing her.
Ford found Robert Applebee and reunited him with (Professor) Veronica Hardy.
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ARCS / THREADS
Building the Ship
Freeing all of Hell - a lot of good work to be done.
Dismantling Yahweh’s influence
End of the war in Tartarus.
Lillin and Morpheus are now bona fide king and queen
Ford is single
The Rio is gone
With Sunny we have a return of the Effects Department of Bleak Hall Films
Ford as teacher (Flori, The Other Place, Clearwater High
Things to think about: Ford as a mentor, Hell (Gotta have a Hell episode),
===Episode 13 - Centralia===
Episode Open:
Ford drunk at the kitchen table, surrounded by the remains of many Merry Gentlemen.
In a drunken haze, a mix of celebration and melancholy
Ford found in his pocket a pack of cigarettes that had belonged to War.
He took one out and lit it, looking out at the dark before the dawn.
Among the dark, black and violently purple sky, Ford saw a ray of light. Magnificent wings beating.
Ford said “Oh fuck,” then a few moments later “I wish I had wings...”
The Angel was Gabriel, he introduced himself as The Voice of God.
Ford corrected him “Voice of Yahweh, you’re talking to a god right now.”
Gabriel said that Yahweh had seen all Ford’s accomplishments. Said Ford has walked a very difficult path
He asked what Ford’s heart’s desire was. Ford said it would be for everyone to have Hope in their hearts and reason to do so.
Gabriel says that Ford has lost a lot and has a hole to fill 
Gabriel told Ford that his diplomatic efforts to avert wars would lead to greater trouble down the path.
He admitted Yahweh hates Lucifer.
After Gabriel left, Ford went back to the kitchen
Kat sleepwalking, she woke and chatted with Ford.
She has spent her entire life trying to get people to listen to her but now she’s feeling smothered.
People call Kat and Simon Simkat
Bonnie talked to Ariel, gothified her.
Ford talked to her, she was not only gothified, she had painted her whole room black.
He told her she could do anything, if this was what she wanted that was cool.
She asked for his help removing the black paint, she said it was depressing.
Troy: Jay is like you with women if it never worked.
Ford playing coach to both Flori and Troy.
Flori asked Ford to be her mentor, Ford sent her off for eggs and spoons but she didn’t come back
Ford talked to Lana, she showed him Variety and The Ones We Love closed at $42M
She’s interested in putting together a vehicle for her and Ford, Ford said he'd be very into that.
Dale told Ford he has convened a group of interested parties united by their rivalry with Ford
They call themselves The Congress
Flori came back to ask Ford for more training
Ford took her to the Half Moon
They talked about Easy Man and aspect
Ford went for a wazz and heard a voice whispering in his ear
“Everything you built has been made on sand and I will burn it to the ground.”
Ford shrugged and resumed singing “Loving You”
Came out to the diner to see Flori looking out the window at smoke on the horizon
Ford and Flori went out there and saw a great booming fire
The ground itself is smoking, trees are catching fire from the roots up.
Ford put fires out with portals from the sea
It occurred to Ford that Centralia had come to Clearwater
Brought Flori to The Other Place to talk to Purvis
Zach had a beer.
Purvis told the story of Centralia.
A fire blazed through the coalmines under the town. It was said to be an accident but Purvis said he thought he knew the truth.
Before he left, Purvis traveled down into the depths and it seemed like something was living down there. He said its home was invaded. A ouija board told him that the thing came from the gates of hell.
He believed “it must have burrowed beneath the soil of Centralia for it could not stand the sunlight.”
Ford fought Centralia, it tried to burn him but as a member of Lucifer's bloodline he could not be burnt.
When he defeated it, it self-destructed rather than letting him take it alive.
===Episode 14 - Mister C===
Today is job fair day, Ford has forgotten of course
Kat: Hey Ford are you ready for the first day of the rest of your life? The big day?”
Ford: “Fuckin’ A man, totally. Right on!”
Kat: You have no idea what I’m talking about.
Ford: No I don’t, no.
Everyone bursting into the job fair day enthusiastically, Ford went out for a refill of his coffee.
Nancy in the canteen: Ford, you do know we don’t have a refill policy don’t you?
Ford: Well, I didn’t even get this cup of coffee here, if we’re going to get down to it.
Troy got his job at a fitness centre, Kat is working at the office for the logger’s union.
Kat warned Ford if he doesn’t hurry up he’ll be stuck somewhere very like this.
Mercy is working at the radio station
Flori is working at the local animal shelter
Ligeia and Sunny have a gig working for a place that makes monster effects for b-movies.
Mirella has changed her look, it’s a lot more rock’n’roll, black lipstick, hair dyed dark
Mirella - assistant DJ, Jules will be a bouncer at the Noir club
Ford was approached by the headmaster of the high school - Principle Arthur Henrickson
Utah gets hired by the local gun and ammo store which has a shooting range
Simon Prince tried out his speech on Ford, a speech to Kat saying he loves her.
Ford got a Clark Kent look going for his first day at school
Principal Hendrickson gave Ford some information:
Mrs Smedley had “What we call in the industry a complete nervous breakdown.”
Mr X and Ms Y had a bit of an inappropriate relationship
PA announcement saying Spring Dance and Big Ice Hockey game coming up.
Taylor Fontaine - Jock kid
Greg Addidas - Greg Addidas
Zachary Cash -
YELP
Donnie Sempel
Mallory Styles
Missy
Marley
Job Woodstock
Scarlett Dorfmann
Ford went with Job to smoke a joint and take a tour of the campus
Job’s rundown
Greg- an alright sort, class clown
Zach - I don’t like him
Mallory and the M’s - Pot Stirrers
Donnie Sempel - keeps to himself - I think he sells weed
NERD ALERT- Yelp (Screech)
Scarlett Dorfmann - real quiet chick. She’s a funny one. Never really opens her mouth... Hidden behind those glasses and that lisp.
Job: You wanna see something cool?
Ford: YEAH
Job: Follow me to the men’s room.
Job: This is a very special room for me. Back in the day I came up with some of my best thinking in here, you know, thinking of licks and shit?
Zach: “Just having a conversation in the men’s room?”
Ford: “Yep... as are you Zach.”
Riley Bergen - Lisa Kudrow type
For second class Ford gave a very impassioned speech about Ophelia and got verlkempt
A lot of sniffles from the adoring front row, but Mallory said “Oh my god he’s crying”, drawing disdainful looks from the Three M's.
Ford went and got stoned and drank beers again with Job after school at Bleak Hall
Next day, first class was fine. Second class was pretty good, Ford talked a lot about procrastination vs cowardice. He talked about how in adolescence we live in fear of being thought to be afraid.
After class Scarlett came over to ask about classwork.
Ford had incredible tooth pain, Scarlett offered to take a look, said her dad was a dentist
Ford went to the dentist who found fairies in his mouth
Dale told Ford that The Tooth Fairy is one of his Congress
Ford went to class the next day
Taylor has perfectly white hair, he is a beautiful adonis like figure
Donnie Sempel is kind of a Jesse Pinkman type
Taylor and Greg getting into some kind of argument in class.
Ford asked Mallory what she thought about Laertes and Hamlet
She said they were a couple of dumb oxen for not talking it out
Ford defused a fight between Taylor and Greg, someone had been spreading a rumour about Taylor and Ford convinced them to cool it, that it was unlikely the rumour came from Greg.
Ford had an acid flashback and became tiny up on the roof.
The Tooth Fairy showed up and announced he would be Ford’s Nemesis. Ford grew back to normal size though and The Tooth Fairy shouted SCRAM.
Ford talked about The Great Gatsby
Mallory invited him to a party
Ford got fairies in his ears and had to destroy the bathroom getting them out
Grading papers
Mallory gives brief answers that are so brief and direct that they don’t really show engagement
Taylor Fontana is probably dyslexic- it looks like he did a lot of work on it. He shows signs of engaging and some understanding of the work.
Scarlett Dorfman - beautifully crafted essays that go on and on and never end.
Greg Addidas - Straight b student. Coasting along with a really good brain. Really entertaining, a lot of funny allusions, great jokes, a lot of interesting weirdo stuff in there.
Zachary Cash - He’s smart, it’s an excellent essay.
Yelp - Awkward, but quite good work.
Donnie Sempel - No sign of his work.
Job Woodstock - B-, a lot of effort.
Ford called Zeus, Taylor's father to talk to him about Taylor’s dyslexia
Job told Ford that Zach has said he will reveal a secret about Taylor at the party
CUT TO UTAH
Utah is finishing cleaning guns at the range
BACK TO FORD
Scarlett is worried that Yelp won’t stop being her shadow
Ford at the party talked to Taylor, he told Ford he was gay. Taylor was a little insecure about it and Ford reassured him it wasn't a big deal, one of his best friends was a very brave man who was gay too.
Ford talked to Mallory, she explained she was a nymphette and tried to seduce him, he refused with some difficulty and she said she would combine with the other M's and get Zack horribly drunk and stoned so he would be too out of it to make any attack on Taylor.
The Dance
Mallory arrived with Yelp which made Ford immediately verklempt.
Taylor arrived with Greg (Greg: Hey, I landed a great date!), this made Ford even more verklempt.
Scarlett wasn't going to go in but Ford convinced her to, had one very chaste dance with her.
The students convinced Ford to bust out his Robot and it was a legendary occasion, (performance roll 61/69).
The students all hugged Ford to say goodbye and he said he would be back to see them, but otherwise they should come to the next big Bleak Hall party.
Back to Metalverse Seasons
===Episode 15 - Girls' Night Out===
THREADS
Spent quite a bit of time with The Muses
Not much socializing with The Rainbow Rhythms
Simon is building himself up to declaring his love
Kat is unknowingly shying away
Ford’s relationship with Mercy - Eyes across the room
March 20th
Ford has been on Fordstock a lot - it has supplanted building the boat a little bit.
Ford was horribly bored trying to do paperwork at 2 am. Frustrated, his attention wandered and he found himself gazing out at a red light coming from a room in student accommodation, Mercy’s room.
He saw a male form doubling over with laughter as he passed the window, leaning down to put on a record.
Ford went back to paperwork, was disturbed by the thud of an apple hitting his window.
Went out to see, caught an apple in flight, took a bite
Ford slightly prince-ified in that moment somehow. Simon Prince was down there, wanting to talk. Ford and he spoke, he said he was going to declare his love for Kat.
Prince: did you feather your hair?
Ford: Not intentionally
Prince lost his confidence at the last moment so Ford ended up playing Cyrano to Simon Prince/Kat Berkowicz
I see a lot of myself in you Ford
Compliment Duly accepted
Prince and Kat ended up arguing, Ford pointed out to Prince it may not be all a bad thing, maybe it’s a return to conflict which is a part of their original dynamic
Next Day
Janice came over to invite Ford to the girls’ night out.
The Rainbows all live over in Paradise Palace, Mercy’s building
Kitty: I’ll be over in eighteen minutes
Ford: (Still intermittently Prince-ified) make it eighteen and a half, you deserve a little time off.
Job wandered by Ford’s room and he was superbly awkward, obviously had something to hide, Ford didn’t push him on it.
Kitty came over to pick up Ford, she noticed the orchard had changed, grown wilder. Ford decided he liked the new look.
Driving to the tax office with Kitty, through what looks like a nightmarish wood of evil trees.
A beautiful redhead in a green dress and red heels flagged Ford down to hitch a ride.
Tempted by her to beautify a park but instead went to the meeting in the Tax Office because Ford didn’t want to leave Cheryl hanging.
Mr Wendy, the civil servant, took them through the paperwork required for Fordstock but assumed they wouldn’t have the one point five million dollars required as a security deposit. Ford had the cheque ready.
Ford and Kitty went back to her place to drink some wine and celebrate.
Kitty’s building: Peacock Towers
Kitty’s place: Scrubbed within an inch of its life, gleaming, not a speck of dirt
Abbatoir curtains
Her apartment is an incredibly clean and space-economised version of Kat and Ford’s dorm
Kitty’s room across from Mercy’s in the other building. Ford saw Mercy laughing delightedly in conversation with someone. He closed the curtains to give Mercy some privacy but also not to have to see any more.
Ford brought Kitty along to his girl’s night out.
Bonnie oddly frosty to Ford:
scene splice!
Ford at home two weeks ago
Heard someone going into Ariel’s room
Through the door he heard a swish of chiffon and the sound of singing “goin to the chapel and we’re goin to get married”
Ford went to investigate, Bonnie came out in one of Ariel’s pretty chiffon dresses, mortified.
They vowed never to speak of this again
Ford and Vivian’s flashback
Vivian’s stuff tumbling out of her locker
They had a chat, her father wants her to take over the family business, Bang Box Manufacturing Factory.
Ford said her father must want her to be happy and if she took that job she couldn’t possibly be happy, she resolved to tell him so.
Talked to Mary-Jane, she had a gift for Ford:
Eddie and The Deadbeats recorded an album in the fifties called Hammer And Tongs: New Licks from ‘55.
Ford’s aesthetic for the night: Joker-esque suit and naturally blue look.
Went to the Stardust Club, Ford blagged their way in but was mistaken for Baron Samedi
Met Mallory and the Bees on the way in, they came along.
Ford and Tippi had a chat about her proposition from Zeus, the redhead came over and said “Stay away, he’s mine”
Ford had a danceoff with the redhead, surrounded by vines of her own making on the dancefloor. She identified herself as Fuschia Flytrap. She kissed Ford but he resisted the magical effects.
Death and Janice had a bit of a moment.
Ford took Mallory home, she was getting sick and he made a portal so she got sick in the bushes outside Bleak Hall instead of in the club, then walked her through another portal to his room so he could change and take her home. The extra portal set her off again and she decorated his sink.
When he returned to the club, The Rainbows all gathered around a booth to ‘dish’. They wanted to know about the redhead (many groans and raised eyebrows at her name, but Ford said he liked it) but then sensed he was interested in someone else. He confessed that he had been thinking about Mercy a lot lately. Cheryl Kitty said that Mercy had been acting like kind of a dumdum around him, which was usually a clue. Ford said look, she’s with someone these days anyway but the Rainbows corrected him, the guy in her room was just Jordan.
Kitty confessed (indirectly) that she had a bit of a thing for Jessica
As they were all leaving, Ford mentioned this to Jessica who was immensely flattered. Jessica revealed Zeus was up to something with Aether, she likened it to doping.
Ford went by Mercy’s room after saying goodnight to the Rainbows, Kitty disappeared into Jessica’s room with her.
Mercy said Ares told her she reminded him of someone, a daughter of his
The ruiner of cities, books say.
Mercy, Ford and Jordan had a good time but when Jordan got up to leave Mercy insisted he stay, saying he shouldn’t stay in that place of his with all those cockroaches. Ford at that point got up to go and Mercy said he could stay, he said “I’m fine, I don’t have any cockroaches. And I’m not a fraidy-cat.”
Ford returned home but he was just in the door of his bedroom when he heard a shuffling of footsteps out in the hallway, unfamiliar and furtive. As he opened the door he heard Kat saying “Go, quickly, before someone sees you!”
There in the hall, half-dressed was Jay Balaban. Kat was standing in the doorway of her room, looking stricken with guilt.
Ford said “Jay, what are you doing here?”
Jay said: “I’ve just lost my virginity.”
Ford: “To whom?”
Jay froze under the interrogation but Ford looked at Kat’s face and turned, walking out.
He walked for a couple of hours but ended up going down to Hell to see Fionn and Apate. He didn’t tell them the nature of his upset but they all had a meal together and watched a couple of John Carpenter movies.
===Episode 16 - Hopestock===
Retcon: Athena fixed Jupiter’s BoobTube but didn’t speak a word doing it
S4 E16: Hopestock
Ford wakes up age 16 in his 1992 bedroom in Portland, Oregon.
Posters on his walls in 1992:
Pixies, B-52s, Nirvana, The Deadbeats (The Purple Album), Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Bowie, Blondie, They Might Be Giants
From the liner of The Deadbeats’ Purple Album: An image that reminds Ford of Bonnie Dankbars
16 year old Ford’s clothes embarrass current day Ford
Ford realized he was slouching, straightened and saw in the mirror that he grew into his full sized self
Bonnie Dankbars calls Ford’s shirt-around-waist his “ass cape”.
As he put on his shirt he felt like he was girding for war, then everything went dark. 
He went Blue, the light emanating from him. 
A voice sounded, it sounded like his own: “Nothing but potential.”
Met War, sharpening a hand scythe
War said he’d been a difficult Student, Ford yes but he’d learnt a lot from him. War ended the conversation by going back to what he was doing. 
Ford walked away but said “Thank you.” 
As he left War he heard him whisper: “Thank you.”
Met Simon Prince: “Jesus Christ, what took you so long.”
Prince says there’s two types of smarts 
There’s book smarts and then there’s street smarts 
Prince said there’s a saying, the shogun who does not train his samurai so well that he could easily surpass him is not worthy to be a shogun. 
Ford and Prince left together
Ford then saw Mercy across the courtyard of Clearwater Community College, on the way to some entertainment he had organized
He got swept up in people asking for his advice, making him Max Fischer 
He had to struggle slightly to make his way to Mercy
Mercy asked if she could join Ford in his efforts to create Hopestock
Ford passed Fama as he went, they shared a glance, she looked a little mischevious
Dionysus said on the subject of his invitation to Hopestock: “Well, I’ve always been at every party.” 
Ford: “I think this will be a good one.” 
Dionysus: “Maybe I could rope a few people in.”
Ford noticed a slight look from Mercy but Drebined it
Jupiter asked if The Congress had broken The Golden Rule, Ford said he thought if they were going to, they’d be nemesising someone else.
Jupiter said a wise man said “You treat the people you know best. They invest in you, they have to put up with your nonsense. They’ve seen you at your worst and your best. Thick and thin.”
Ford and Jupiter had a friendly debate about how trusting Ford is 
They took a photograph together and in the flash, Ford was no longer there.
Now he stood in the darkness of The Abyss. Rotted fruit everywhere. Sitting on almost a ziggurat of the fetid fruit, was Huitzilopochtli. 
Ford said “You don’t have a place here” and the mound crumbled to nothing.
Met Jordan on the way to Mr Kristofferson’s support group meeting
Ford: if everyone’s looking out for number one, nothing ever changes 
Jordan: If you’re always just looking out for number one and only for number one, a lot of number two builds up around you.
Ford met The Belph on the beach, they chatted in their relaxed way, Mercy was nearby. 
Mercy told Ford they should break the glass ceiling and Ford nodded and shrugged, raising his hands. It was a gesture of great power, negating the very idea of that limitation.
Ford created a miracle that cut through some of the threads of fear that come from Yahweh down to the Yankees, particularly towards The Loa. Ford could hear a sound like millions of piano strings being cut and changed, the so-called music of the spheres changing.
Then Ford woke up. 
Stillness for the briefest second but then car alarms, radios, dogs barking a quarter of a mile away. 
The shaft of light illuminating his bed made Ford realize the miracle had blown the roof off above him. 
Slightly Back To The Future-esque coin spinning on a night stand.
Ford got up for the morning, sang That Ol’ Black Magic in the shower at high volume.
Ford’s voice so loud that the song reverberates through the pipes and throughout the house. He could hear other house members singing along with him, a collective pleasant sigh as he finished.
Kat came to talk to Ford, she wanted forgiveness but they argued. She pointed out she had done so much for him, he said it was vulgar to point that out. He said it was far too soon for her to just come in and demand forgiveness, she left angry.
Ford went to see Simon Prince. 
Prince said that Kat left him a voicemail. He played it for Ford. It was Kat calling from the hallway of Bleak Hall, telling him they were over. She thought she put the phone down but she didn’t hang up properly so the rest of the message, she could be heard giving Jay Balaban instructions on how to go upstairs quietly.
Ford, Mercy and Jordan went on a road trip to visit some of the many artists Ford wanted for Hopestock.
Ford and Mercy and Jordan arrived in New Orleans during Mardi Gras. 
Ford noticed a kind of fraternity and sorority of men and women around him.
Saw newspaper headline: Keith Richards Arrested
Went to the police station: M Emmett Walsh type layyyyyzeeeee police officer. Ford blagged his way in, managing to do so without lying by saying he was here to represent Mr Richards.
Keith said he had had the misfortune of insulting the most powerful man in town. A Steven Seagal. 
Steven Seagal agreed to release Keith, largely on the strength of Ford’s invitation that he play at Hopestock with a good slot.
Adding to Hopestock: 
Steven Seagal 
John Lee Hooker 
BB King
Rock Tent 
Blues Tent 
Dance Tent 
Jazz Tent
Ford bumped into BB King, chatted about the possibilities of the festival 
Ford saw some figures approaching, among them Momus, leading a group The Knights Of Momus, actually a regular part of Mardi Gras.
Ford, Mercy and Jordan went to Seattle, to a coffee shop Ford used to go to in 1996
Convinced Nirvana to play, though they didn’t really believe Ford would send someone to pick them up. To convince them he called Kitty and had a limousine deliver a fruit basket and some booze inside eight minutes.
The Pixies agreed easily, they felt like they’d played a terrible gig but Ford made them hopeful.
Mercy says to get an audience with Prince, first you must summon Prince. That means making a phone call. 
Prince invited them to a pool party over the phone. 
Ford zipped back to his room to pick up a suit
Payne was outside Bleak Hall, he said he missed Ford’s presence 
Ford gave him a slight touch of Hope and told him to hold onto the feeling and spread it around when he got back to The Other Place
At the pool party they had waffles and Prince said he needed some sleep. 
Ford and Mercy almost had a moment in the hallway of their hotel. Ford asked her to wait in the hall and tried to get a harebrained scheme together of having Dave Gahan sing “But Not Tonight” down the phone to her but the phone rang out. Ford went back out and told her he had no reason to make her wait, just wanted her to wait out in the corridor for a while. A loophole of Ford’s inability to lie is sarcasm or irony but only when it’s extremely obvious.
Went to New York 
Met up with Bruce Springsteen - he said he’d get some other people involved too 
Bob Dylan will come along to see what the eighties version of Woodstock looks like 
Also Blondie, Talking Heads
Went to London for Depeche Mode. Still unable to get Dave Gahan on the phone, they went to his house. There was no reply at the door, a single light was on upstairs. Ford went around the back, found the door open and went inside. Mercy followed, the bedroom door was locked and loud music was coming from inside. Worried now, Ford kicked in the door and found him lying on the floor, unmoving. He laid his hand over his heart to try to heal him and kick-started his heart. As he woke, Mercy put her hand to his forehead.
Ford returned to Clearwater, his command tent all set up.
To commence Hopestock Ford gave his speech
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Fionn stood waiting with Apate. The air felt a few degrees cooler around him and only Apate stood close, her hand in his. Surrounding them were gods -those of House Corvin and others- and a host of musicians, from living legends to future superstars. A lot of them were looking around at each other, as though they couldn’t decide whether to be more surprised at finding themselves here, or these others around them. The first act would go on soon and the four-day festival would begin. But for now they were all waiting, they had come here for reasons as diverse as themselves and perhaps they still waited for a tone to be set.
Ford came backstage, sauntering along like he hadn’t a care in the world. When he came to the raised platform in front of those gathered, he stepped lightly onto it as though he meant to walk right across it. He paused halfway and turned enough to see the crowd, gave a slight feigned look of pleasant surprise and said “Hi.”
It wasn’t that funny, such an old joke. A few friends of Ford’s in the crowd groaned but a lot of people laughed because the gesture had a strange puncturing effect on the tension. Others laughed because Ford’s natural obliviousness was such that it wasn’t unimaginable that he would momentarily forget what today was about. Ford’s manner was as though he had turned to see a gathering of friends like any other afternoon and that made it feel as though it could be just that. The atmosphere subtly changed with that and Fionn marveled at his son’s power.
Ford was dressed in some old jeans with paint and plaster stains, workboots and a New Troy Construction t-shirt that had several rips and tears, the larger ones mended but some small holes remaining. The bracers Brighid had made him made the outfit just that little bit more rock’n’roll. Not everyone immediately noticed the clothes though. His skin was a deep but light blue, even his hair was a dark blue. He was suppressing his aura of light but even with that he looked like a god. His arms showed evidence of many battle scars, at odds with his gentle manner.
To Fionn’s eyes, his son really did look like the God of Hope, but he thought anyone who had a clue what they were about would sense that thrum of power, a touch of danger, the sense of incredible resolve. Ford was morally opposed to using his godly ability to influence emotions but these days some of it seemed to seep out regardless, anywhere felt just a little more hopeful in his presence.
Ford smiled at the lameness of his joke, giving a couple of apologetic glances to those who had groaned and then turned to face the crowd.
“I’ve been thinking about the sixties. Everyone makes fun of the decade because people were always talking about about changing the world back then. Making fun of it misses the point. In the sixties, they did change the world. It’s just that we let it change back. People are so embarrassed about that time now but the sixties isn’t an embarrassing lesson about delusion, it’s an embarrassing reminder that we almost got it right for a while there. We can’t bear to look at the innnocence and optimism of that time because we don’t have the courage anymore to match it. So we turn away and talk cynically about it, like the adolescent embracing cynicism to ease the pain of life’s first disappointments, the loss of childhood’s innocence and of optimism as a natural outlook.”
“Innocence takes a great deal of courage to hold onto.”
No introduction to speak of, he got right into it like that, his heart on his sleeve as always.
“I can’t begin to tell you how beautiful it is to see you all gathered here. It makes me believe more strongly than ever that anything is possible. That the potential for surprise and wonder in this world is infinite.
“Woodstock came at the end of a decade that was blessed with a lot of hope and a lot of positive change. This, the Festival of Hope or Hopestock, it’s coming at the end of a dark decade. In the eighties we’ve been taught to look out for number one, to fear the return of the reds under our beds. We’ve been taught suspicion, we had to relearn it after the brief surge of Hope in the sixties. We’ve been taught not to trust. I believe distrust and despair are siblings and they’re both equally opposed to Hope.
“This is more than a music festival, this is an unexpected explosion of beauty in a dark time. When this started, I had hardly anything but hope. I hoped I could talk all of you into coming here, that it could all be organized, that we’d pull it off. I try to be hopeful all the time but I need to recharge my batteries sometimes, I need to see things that remind me that Hope isn’t just a coping mechanism, it is a perfectly valid - I believe the MOST valid - worldview. Looking at you all here is doing my batteries a whole lot of good.
“I think we’re all here because we believe in the power of music to inspire and we all want to give a gift to the world. This weekend will be broadcast all over the world and we’ve given the rights to any TV station that wants to show it for free, on the condition they don’t interrupt it with advertising. By doing this we’ve invited millions - billions- of people to be here with us for this.
“We are about to do something unique. Who could believe that an event like this could spring out of nowhere, all of us could be gathered here like this just because some people dreamt it up? Something like this happening is a surprise, a little shock that proves the world is capable of surprising you. Let’s show them out there, let them feel how unique this is. Let’s show them -remind them- that beauty and hope are never that far away in this world.”
The crowd applauded and as Ford stepped off the platform Fionn put a hand on his shoulder and said “That was like listening to your grandfather.” 
Ford smiled -actually glowed a little- at the compliment and said “Well it’s the family business, right?” 
Apate said no truer words had ever been spoken.
RETCON - Ford said the Berlin Wall was going to come down soon.
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Bowie went out on stage first to kick things off with Heroes
The Bulletproof Bangs came to give Ford “a warning” 
Ford said that from now on he only wants to hear their prophecies if there’s any chance at all of them containing information he can act on.
They drew Clearwater with a large dark wall at the side of the image 
They said the party could be the greatest that Clearwater has ever seen. But a darkness will come and swallow all. They said to beware the great dark wall.
On the blackness they drew one simple house
They said a deadly enemy will arrive, that Ford either does not know yet or may already know. They said it is likely an enemy from within. 
They said if this player succeeds, only one house will remain.
They had a vision of a wall that would sweep over Clearwater and it would only leave one house in its wake. 
They said that perhaps what this wall is could be despair. 
At this point there’s a man on stilts walking past Ford, a pinata of candy exploded over Ford’s shoulder. 
Ford declares “so you’re saying you need someone like me on your side”
The Muses came by, they are very enthusiastic about Hopestock and they will wander through the crowd creating inspration.
Sunny and Ligeia, Ligeia went to create illusions but Sunny couldn’t help 
Ford talked to her and comforted her about not being able to do that stuff, she said she had been hiding it because she didn’t want to let Ligeia down.
Ford went to talk to Troy, he couldn’t talk him out of taking Zeus’s pledge with Aether so instead said he would support him in whatever he did.
Clio and Ford talked outside a Tattoo Tent. She asked Ford if he had any tattoos, he said he was covered in scars and always getting new ones so there didn’t seem much point, and besides what colour scheme would go well both with his blue skin and his ‘normal’ skin? 
Clio didn’t quite buy that. 
Ford asked if she had any tattoos, she said no. Ford asked if that was because she was the one that recorded things, not the canvas. She said no, she was the canvas but not a painter. 
She said it was frustrating for the Muses sometimes that they only inspired others, they never got to create anything. 
Ford said it might sound funny that he created stuff all the time, but if he could inspire the Muses he would consider that one of his greatest works.
At that, Clio asked Ford to tattoo her 
She asked him to write on her back: 
“Tomorrow” 
In typewriter style. Super neat, very bare and simple.
While talking to Clio, Ford noticed buds growing on the ground
Session Pause
Threads
Eddie is excited 
Simon seemed to have returned to himself when Ford bumped into him at the preparations for Hopestock. 
Clio said The Muses are restless
Reaction to Hopestock: Bus Stations all over the country are running emergency services to Hopestock
New York Times front page: What Is Hopestock?
Ford being asked to choose next musical act, he put Nirvana on next.
At the moment the crowd went wild for Smells Like Teen Spirit, Ford ran over the stage and dived. He surfed over Iggy Pop and David Bowie, eventually got put down at the back.
Ford bumped into The Dean in the crowd 
He’s wearing ripped short shorts and a ladies cut rock shirt. He and Ford went for a walk, stopping at a Costume Tent to meet The Dean’s sister. Ford was expecting a tiny woman with a pointy face and an Anne Heche short haircut.
Instead at the Costume Tent he saw a woman who looked like a supermodel, six feet tall and implausibly beautiful.
Priscilla Pelton and The Dean commented that Ford didn’t have a costume, he said they could help him pick one. The Dean said “Iggy Pop?” Ford conceded he loved Iggy’s look and asked if they had any silver pants. Priscilla led the way to a Silver Pants Section and Ford got changed.
Priscilla Pelton - Quite an event you’ve got here Ford 
Ford: Oh this? (Gesturing around vaguely at Hopestock going on in all directions as far as the eye could see)
Went to dance with Priscilla, Jordan tagged along. The Deadbeats came along to lessen the cockblocking effect as much as they could.
Eddie eventually used magnetic powers to pull Jordan backwards away from Ford and Priscilla to give them some privacy as they walked off together.
Ford and Priscilla went back to her tent, she gave him a head massage
After he returned the head massage, she said “Foreplay is over” 
Ford waited patiently for the other shoe to drop. She looked at him quizzically after a while and eventually he said: 
“Oh, I’m waiting for you to say something innocuous that will contradict that first part.” 
She didn’t so they spent the night together. The next morning The Dean showed up, trying to come into the tent to talk to her. Ford had to portal out of it, back to his own command tent.
Ford had breakfast with Keith and Bowie. 
Went for a walk with Bowie afterwards, saw that the buds had grown even higher, blossoming, opening up.
Ford confessed to Bowie that he wants to heal Freddie Mercury
Bowie said that he doesn’t often talk about his problems to Ford 
He said “in our time together Ford I’ve learned some things. I’ve always been content to sit on the sidelines. Gods will play their games and man will suffer. What is another gods influence on this realm they call earth? I’ve tried to maybe make some kind of difference though Ford, through my music, which has eluded me of late. I need you as much as you need, well, the people around you.”
Bowie: Forgive me Ford for what I’m about to ask you. Ford Corvin, will you help me break up the Stones?
Ford: ...Yeah.
Ford felt like Winston Churchill in that story about letting Coventry be bombed.
Ford saw the flowers had bloomed even more, they have blue bulbs and petals
Bumped into Simon Prince, he was acting very much like himself
Talked to Kat, confirmed that The Boss is coming. Kat realized Ford had gone out of his way to recruit Springsteen for her sake.
Simon Prince came up to Ford asking if Ford had talked about Kat. He was all sad and still obsessing over Kat, apparently there’s an imposter.
Ford confronted the upbeat Prince and he refused to admit he was a double until Ford asked what he said when he became conscious after the operation on his hand. 
The imposter turned to Job, then eventually Lana. 
Lana said she had been impersonating Prince as a project of method acting. 
Ford said if The Congress had done this it would be a pretty cruel joke but a friend doing it was far more fucked up.
Bumped into Jupiter and The Romans 
Juno is looking a little frosty towards Jupiter
They had some candied apples (from Ford’s orchard of course) and talked about how Juno is jealous. She saw Jupiter asleep in front of the pond (The Boob Tube) and Athena was displayed on there. Jupiter maintains he was only checking in on her like anyone else but Juno wouldn’t listen. 
Ford made the point that there is a thin line between love and hate so Athena being a former enemy, Juno might be feeling a bit insecure about it. 
He tried to make a comparison about having a rival like Fuschia Flytrap but got sidetracked a bit and admitted that maybe they actually had flirted quite a lot.
Ford warned that romance could be summed up with the phrases “Why, he’s the most impossible man I’ve ever met!” and “Damned if she ain’t the most ornery woman I ever saw.”
Jupiter called Mars to help with security
CUT TO UTAH
Utah has had a pretty uneventful night. 
He was walking with Bonnie when Mars came over to say he’d been sent to help. Utah gladly accepted, Bonnie was not impressed and stormed off. 
Utah remarked to Mars “Damned if she ain’t the most ornery woman I ever saw.”
They saw Lana and Prince talking, Prince asking her to continue impersonating him
Lana spoke to Utah and said she had to report the incident. She said Ford had made her feel very bad about it.
Lana asked Utah and Mars to take Simon Prince on a ride along in their golf cart
Utah told Prince he’s been drafted 
Prince asked if they’re socialists now 
Utah said historically it was said to be the Socialists that opposed the draft. Asked him if he’s going to go to Canada? 
Prince: Never (Showing a bit more fire)
Utah, Mars and Prince in a discussion about women
Utah using time powers to direct traffic
Prince said he is sad because he really feels the need to feel needed. 
Utah said if you want to be needed, be useful. 
You gotta have apples so if people want one they come to you.
Giving Prince a pep talk about standing on his own feet
CUT TO FORD
Talking to Steven Seagal, he wants to bump The Stones and take their Saturday night slot on the main stage. Ford said that wasn’t the deal, they agreed on a good slot.
Seagal challenged Ford to create a perfect steak 
(56 roll)
Ford's new power, substitute any skill with will save
Apate slightly tipsy took Apate's arm to go for a walk 
She says she has heard wild and scandalous rumors that reached her even down in Hell that he has become a womanizer to rival his father’s old reputation. Ford said that’s mostly exaggerated but admitted he was interested in a specific person right now, but it was someone that it just wouldn’t work out with as she was hung up on something. Of course, he was talking about Mercy and her concerns about being technically his aunt, though they’re the same age.
Extra Band - Radiohead
The Stones invited Ford up on stage, he did a duet of You're So Vain with Mick Jagger (Ford got 76/84, highest ever!)
Jagger announced it was their final gig and dedicated Wild Horses to the people of Clearwater.
Ford and The Rainbows did backing for Gimme Shelter
Kitty stepped on stage as Ford was performing to show him a fax, saying "The Wall, it's coming down."
Ford went to the microphone to announce it. Afterwards he leaned into the mic, seemed to look into the eye of every single person in the audience as he said "Anything is Possible"
Ford jammed with The Stones for Sympathy For The Devil
Elvis Costello took a step out, Ford hadn't expected to see him there
Jammed Every Day I Write The Book with Eddie
Polyhymnia and Terpsichore came to sing backing vocals
Elvis Costello looked at Ford and Mercy and said 
"Be a gentleman, the lady clearly wants to dance."
Mercy dances like Molly Ringwald in The Breakfast Club
Ford and Mercy had an incredible dance on stage.
Bowie came on stage to play Oliver's Army
________
In a wooded area beyond the stage, Nirvana were playing at a campfire, doing some Nick Drake covers and the like. Ford sat down with Jordan and Mercy, Dale came over to talk to Ford. They walked a little way off into the woods and Dale said there had been a lot of internal arguments in The Congress over whether to attack Hopestock or not. 
He said orders were orders though. 
Ford asked whose orders and Dale said The Voice, then said he’d said too much. He started walking away and Ford thanked him, Dale turned back with a smile and said “As I said Ford, orders are orders. Gentleman, don’t bruise up his face too much.”
At that, something resembling a suit of power armour jumped down off a tree branch and he and Ford commenced to fight.
________
Ford and Mercy went for a walk, she was asking about Prince and Kat breaking up, Ford was reticent
Mercy went to get drinks, Ford sat on the grass to watch over the campfire. 
Dale arrived,
He said he’s taken to calling Ford The Composer
Dale said there’s a danger a revolutionary will become the establishment
Dale says before a couple of decades ago, Clearwater was the home of ordinary people
Dale says he knows Ford better than any of The Congress
Congress voting on whether to interrupt Hopestock
The Baron was quite content to just enjoy himself
Dale says he knows all Ford’s facets 
On stage, at parties 
And then there are other times. It only comes out once in awhile.
Ford: Well, we all have our weaknesses 
Dale: Go easy on him
After defeating The Gentleman, Ford saw it creating a printout
Ford got a 58 to improve The Gentleman 
Gave him a walking stick weapon 
Ford created a bowler and top hat too
Gave him a stunning shock attack 
A repulsor beam 
Ford thought “Aw you could totally fit a sound system in here”
Ford could create a portal leading to a black hole with perpetual power
Ford dresses him in one of his old t-shirts and some of his old jeans
Went back to meet Mercy
She says “we’ve got a lot of strategizing to do”
Two days and one night left
Mercy found an eyelash, put it on his fingertip to make a wish. He silently wished for the return of Hope, though he didn’t believe she could ever come back.
Jordan explained he and Eddie talked for three hours
Mercy said she and Lana were refused to one of The Hellcats’s gigs
Ford stopped to talk to Kat 
Got her a get out of jail free card 
A couple of beers from El Cerveza Del Casa Del Diablo
ford and Kat had a talk sitting on a porch seat on a hill overlooking the stage while The Las played
Ford and Kat had a talk, hanging out much more like they used to
CUT TO UTAH
Still riding around with Simon and Mars
Betsy talked Utah into playing some music
He sang his signature tune and eventually picked up the guitar from her, using a bullet to play slide. 
34 Roll
Utah explained his views on Communism to Betty
CUT TO FORD
Simon and Ford went riding in a Golf Cart 
Prince drove into a river
Talking about what to look forward to 
Prince said he has troulbe thinking of things
Ariel says “Like the dean says, there’s always something to look Ford-ward to.”
Ariel says whenever she’s down she likes to sing this song: 
Moon River (Audrey Hepburn version)
Ford left them together
Pixies went on stage 
Ford introduced them, calling for Dave Lovering to sing
Dave Lovering sang Debbie G 
Lana seemed to have a moment of clarity 
Ford went to her, she left but dropped a page 
A conversation between Ford and Gabriel, almost word for word, not quite
Saw Prince and Ariel together
Agony and The Sisters came over
People often mistake The Sisters for German Techno Chicks etc
Dean showed Ford LA Times - 
Looking back over his work 
“Snooty Butler Organizes Hopestock”
Flori is extremely agitated 
“they’re here”
Giant trash man
Baseball Head Mascot
Zblonkars- Ford’s fictional alien race who live on Zblonkornia
Bomb in the doodlephone with some kind of toxin
Ford takes a vial - I’ll analyze this later, I’m sure I can figure out chemistry
Flori on sisters: “.... …. Luxemburg?”
Ford and Flori: Green Arrow Black Canary
Priscilla put out that Ford bringing someone else to costume shop
Next Band -
Mercury himself
setting up lights
The Sisters call Ford with a cat hiss
Biscotti and Trash God arriving
Sound desk - michael bay
Fuscia and the baron also arriving
Ford portaled in front of Biscotti’s van, it drove into him and almost cleaved in half. Biscotti punched him in the knee, making him fall to the ground cursing a blue stream. Ford threw the van at TrashMan, Flori kicked Biscotti in the knackers, the explosion of TrashMan showered Biscotti and he was neutralized.
Next The Baron and Fuschia Flytrap. Ford went after The Baron, who had released a gas that gave fifty people around him green hair, so he was hard to spot. Ford called out “Baron!” and The Baron turned saying “yess?” and Ford flew at him to tackle. He missed, The Baron attacked him with some kind of airborne mix of things like chilli powder, gunpowder, green and purple magic dust. Ford in turn whopped The Baron with a bunch of blue Fordalias, knocking him back. 
Morrissey came over to say hi and Ford chatted to him mid fight, The Baron took another shot and Ford knocked him out. The Baron called out “Catch me before I fall” and Ford caught him, telling Morrissey he couldn’t wait to see him live.
In the sound control booth, Ford saw Agony get blasted out of it at great height, he dived off Fuschia’s platform to catch her, then portaled into the control station.
Jack Hollywood had Ava and Selene cornered, they had bombs stuck to them. he held two detonators in his hands. He revealed he had done effects on countless hollywood movies but Twin Ninjas blew his mind.
Ford used a sheet of paper to cut the two wires of the detonators and The Sisters subdued him. Ford continued chatting to him about movies, then got him to agree to defuse the several light bombs he had planted that would blind people for two to three days.
Ford healed Freddie Mercury
Ford and Troy went to see Ryu, he unveiled his amazing work on the soundtrack for Twin Ninjas 2: the Dragoning
DAY 3:
Press Conference
Clearwater Community College Pioneer
Jupiter and Juno talking, Juno in floods of tears
Jupiter said he had intel for Ford
He is concerned about Zeus’s plans 
He said there is a line between hopeful and stupid
Zeus came to talk to Ford
Ford and Jay talked, Ford reassured Jay they were cool
Sound failure while Anvil on stage
Ford went to convince The Muses to take the stage
Fionn on Ford’s kids: “You know uh, Ford loves those goofy bastards.”
Fionn convinced Death to come and meet Greg, Janice’s son.
A meeting was called with many musicians, chaired by Dionysus. He said it would be a terrible shame not to combine all these talents and see what happened.
What resulted was a performance on closing night featuring many of the musicians who had showed up, bands forming of people who had never played before, breaking up and reforming with new members. The evening was interspersed with little human moments, musicians chatting between and even during songs. It turned out to be a stunning, unforgettable night.
Ford and Mercy hanging out listening to Depeche Mode
SCENE CHANGE
Meeting 
Mick, Keith Dionysus,
Everyone else arrived while Ford chatting to Dionysus
Freddie 
Dave Gahan 
Morrissey 
Nigel Tufnel 
Pixies
One empty chair
crazy jamming!
Saucy Jack - Spring Heeled Jack
Ford duet with Kim Deal
Ford went to the advice booth
Dan, asking how he can top this all off
Fordalias are now up to upper thigh level
People wearing flowers in their hair, on their hip, in their pocket, they always only take one
Sunny - came to advice booth
Went to mixology tent to find Ligeia
Went to drink the barrel of booze at the tree house
Cocteau Twins playing on stage
Fordalias growing everywhere, surrounding Corvin Treehouse. There is now a path of a very different kind of flower leading to the steps. 
Black flowers with a little twist of white in them. 
Where it goes from the Hopeful to the 20%, they take on an awkward grey area that is almost tim burton-esque spirals of blue and white black and white etc.
Fey Twins Booze is incredibly powerful
Sunny dropped a blue petal into it
Sunshine lollypops and rainbows 
drunken rollerskating
hero point bump into leviathan
Leviathan asked if he could go on stage
Bonnie smoking and saying Utah is impossible
Jupiter came to apologize, brought a basket/hamper of gifts 
===Athena on stage 
Jupiter staring rapt at her===
Ford on stage with everyone brought the night to a close
__
Major Threads 
Ford’s clean energy 
Zeus/Troy situation 
Ford on the world stage 
Congress - opportunity to crash a party 
Ford as mute henchman
Sunny and Ligiea- working so well together 
Simon and Ariel?
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===Episode 17 - Spooky Weekend In Tartarus===
Threads
Free Energy
Troy 
Lana
Nyx situation
Guests
Mercy
Momus
Apate and Fionn?
Dawn
Ford
Games night at Bleak Hall
Kat came to see Ford, he’s acting like a 19th century malaria victim
Ford had fallen asleep in his chair reading Bonfire of the Vanities
Everyone gathered for Game Night
Ariel is punching something into a pager
The board game Clue is in Ford’s Bubble
Mercy came to get Ford, Ford turned back to the group and confidently announced “Col Mustard, in the Library, with the Candlestick,” only to be reminded that he had already been eliminated from the game two rounds ago.
They went to Tartarus, the spooky carriage driver told them of The Beast of Tartarus, a red-eyed thing that legend has it may once have been a dog belonging to Erebus.
Apate
Dawn
Momus
Nyx
Hemera - Nyx’s sister, Day.
Krojaw is there, he wants to go out on a shooting expedition. Krojaw was a surprisingly likeable fellow, quite macho but decent, Ford thought. 
Krojaw’s gun had been tampered with to explode, Ford caught it in time but didn’t tell anyone else about it.
They broke after hunting to all go and freshen up, Ford and Mercy went to their shared room. On the way they heard an argument between Dawn and Nyx. Dawn was incensed with Nyx for throwing herself -his words- at Krojaw.
When they returned for dinner, Lillin informed them it had to be eaten under a veil, so delicate was the steak. Ford however recognized a tattoo belonging to Krojaw and called out not to eat, too late to stop Dawn who had already taken some, he began to vomit.
On the balcony:
Ford
Ford’s investigation notes:
Momus didn’t have the dexterity to rig the gun by himself
However when Ford threw him a paper, Momus caught it easily with his left hand
Investigating Krojaw’s room
Found two whiskey glasses
One of which has a slight sparkly lip print
Fingerprints on spines of books, both Krojaws and a woman’s
Also a gift, placed on top of the unpacked bags.
“To a real man of action.” In Nyx’s hand
Bed looks turned-under made like by a military man.
Book opens secret passage
From corridor saw a chink of light - it looked out into Dawn’s room.
It looks like the door is quite regularly used.
Path leads to an antechamber that opens out onto the moors themselves.
About a hundred yards from the house.
A number of footprints and blood. No signs of struggle.
Krojaw was dragged, there are a set of footprints. A large woman’s size shoe or perhaps a small man’s shoe. Perhaps a size 7.
The tracks lead to bushes at the side of the building.
There, Ford finds scraps of Krojaw’s clothes, the evidence is whomever did this did it very quickly.
There is quite a bit of blood everywhere, perhaps they didn’t have time to clear their tracks.
Signs of something like a wheelbarrow... or maybe a serving trolley. Wheels are two sets of narrow tracks. These lead right to the kitchen door.
The tracks are of a slightly raised heel.
A hastily buried pot, where the body was cooked outside.
Went to the kitchen to check
A slight handprint, just the heel of a right hand. 
Investigation of the serving trolley: there must have been a little cooking oil/grease on the handle. 
Everyone changed their clothes during the three hours.
Went searching rooms for any grease/cooking oil
A little grease on Dawn’s room door
A little microscopic speck of it on Hemera’s en-suite bathroom
In Ford and Mercy’s room: There is a bloody knife left hidden in the wall, behind the passage.
This blood is not Krojaw’s. Both Nyx and Hemera had gone. 
Ford started to tell Mercy his plan but they got sidetracked and ended up finally relapsing.
Ford went downstairs to announce his findings, bluffing that the guilty party was Nyx. He asked Hemera if she would willingly execute her sister in whatever manner required and she said yes she would. Ford threw her the tampered rifle and she refused to fire it.
He announced she was the murderer but she adamantly and confidently said she did not do the killing.
Mercy called Ford for a sidebar and they went out one last time, finding evidence that The Beast must have killed Krojaw. Following tracks, they found they led to a cave where The Coachman had The Beast. He had agreed to the murder because he wanted to see daylight in Tartarus.
Hemera finally admitted to her crime and tried to flee but Momus killed her with a thrown knife.
He then proclaimed he was ready to go to “army” and would be joining the court of Hell... as Fionn Corvin’s jester.
Retcon - there was no murder, just a spooky weekend.
THREADS
The AntiChrist that was promised
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===Episode 18 - Congressional Hearing===
Having been given a letter printed on stationary from The Rio, Ford felt invited by Dale to attend a meeting of The Congress.
Ford’s persona for the evening was GRANITE, a near-mute hulking mass seemingly made of stone.
Mascotti went to the quarry, excavating for what he thought would be an artifact of great power. The pick hit Granite and Granite stood. After some brief standoffishness, Granite agreed to enter Mascotti’s employ.
Props
Picture of Ford
Film canister of Ford and Granite fighting
Business Card: GRANITE
GRANITE 
Toughness: 28
Defense: 14
Vehicles at the dock:
Schoolbus
Ferrari
60s Concept Car
Simon Prince 2 hosting, looking very “Classic era Prince”, listening to Hungry like The Wolf etc.
Ford saw the whole congress for the first time
Dale
Gentleman
Trash
Fuschia
Baron Samedi
Dr Evil looking guy - large doc ock hands - Professor know it all
Pimply teenager - sullen - Acne- god of teenagers
Guy in beekeeper outfit - with bellows gun - Frederick Pitt and the swarm - DAN!
Professor Know It All asked Granite if he were formed from Magma.
Magma
Magma
Magma
Mascotti called Granite Bonehead
Granite responded: Granite Head
Prof  refused to get in the tub. Ford thought: - electronics - no water
Prince - He who shall remain nameless... stole my life
Trash - I am here to turn Clearwater to an empire of Trash
Fuschia - Here to seduce young Ford and return Clearwater to nature
Prof - here to take control of that college - Ford has grown into a teacher
Acne - Everyone 13-19 are mine. 
Baron - Just here for shits and giggles
Tooth Fairy - here for Ford’s teeth - ford flinches
Frederick Pitt- here for a cure
Hero point- flinch
Hero point- Granite accidentally went straight to the meeting room, revealing he knows the way
Giselle- prepare the film room
Father Stone figure, The Bureaucrat
Granite’s movie - reduced them all to tears
The Bureaucrat- meeting bumped in favour of Ford, having waited months to see The Celestial Bureaucracy
Granite flinched at mention of Acne attacking the kids, he gave them all Acne so they missed Hopestock.
The Voice - suggests Blaine as new member
Votes for Blaine - Acne, Prof
Another potential hire: Bullet Point
Bullet Point votes- Acne, Fred, Prof, Mascotti
Granite votes- Fuschia, Simon, Baron, Bureaucrat, Dale
Fordalias - Fuschia likes them, Prof suggests study them
Granite’s plan
LEARN
and then?
USE
and then?
Triumph
The Voice then announced to them that their enemy was among them. 
INIT 49
Ford used Darkness to even his odds.
Mascotti knocked through floor by Granite’s fist on top of his giant baseball head
Prof grappled with his mechanical arms, Ford pulled him down to smack his head on the table.
Frederick Pitt called out his warcry: COVERED IN BEES! 
Granite dodged the area attack, - redirect
COVERED IN BEES - tooth fairy
Granite charged the gentleman, took him out
Trash attacked, Ford used telekinesis to throw him at Frederick Pitt, there was a lot of splashback (Dale was soaked) and the bees were enraged by the trash.
Baron with joy buzzer got Granite
Ford used area telekinesis to stun them all
Prof falls
mascotti crashes through a deck chair
Teenager trapped in basketball net
Knocked out the baron
Ford had a drink with Fuchsia and Dale, Simon Prince 2 asked him to leave, The Voice had bought him this ship fair and square. Ford had to agree that was a reasonable request.
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===Episode 19 - Burning Down The House===
S4 E19 - Burning Down The House
Passing some time
Last week of May
Ford’s invention: GMM - Gravity Manipulation Machine.
How does the GMM work:
By charging atoms with the same energy found in a black hole, a far smaller version of that effect is created. Their gravitational power outputs a great deal of clean, safe energy. The GMM contains and converts this energy. Even if someone tried to blow up a GMM, the most that would happen would be gravity warping slightly in the area around the explosion for a few seconds until the atoms dispersed and naturally released their energy.
Ford and Mercy hooking up away from the eye of Jordan Swan
Troy has been pushing himself to the limit
Ford spending a lot of time with 
Kat
Fey Twins
Having a science evening with The Twins.
Analyzing the phial that Ford found in the command tent
River of the styx water was one of the elements, giving a blackish purple quality.
Black and purple, elements of blood red
With the Styx water removed, the phial turned a dark bloody red.
Ford thinks of infection or... possession
A tortured face on a tadpole-like being- Souls in torment
Ford released the phial in Garden of Hope
A scar as it burnt his chest, the mass flew through The Garden of Hope burning and melting all in its wake until it ran out of energy. Standing in place were ten thousand souls, seemingly encased in stone.
Ford said “You’re free here” and they simply stood straighter, shrugging off their confinement.
A bearded man asks: Is this heaven?
Ford said it was the realm of the God of Hope
They tried to start worshiping him, Ford discouraged this and instead said if they wanted to thank him, they could try to live with hope and love as their guiding concepts, doing no harm to one another. He said that they could never give thanks to him by hating anyone.
Ford’s scar is on the Dean’s special place
Returning to The Twins, the second order of business was a cure for Frederick Pitt
Ford felt he could cure him himself.
Night’s work done
Adam from Glory Heights came by to tell Ford that there is a house of ill repute on the edge of town, he wants to give the women a choice: “Repent or go to jail”
Ford decided to let everybody act informed but on their own behalf
CUT TO UTAH
Utah learned the law
Girls want to stand with Betsy
Utah came up with idea of Consulate
Ford organized it with Jupiter
Bonnie had a drawer for Utah
Procession: Adam, Verity + Daisy, Buzz, Moses
Bonnie came over, they had a blazing row.
The officer came and declared Sweet Home outside US legal jurisdiction.
Adam fuming
Utah pointed out that he has anger in his heart
----
CUT TO FORD
Ford in support group with Jordan and Professor Kristofferson
Anything people do that doesn’t harm anyone isn’t really wrong
Prof Kristofferson - Negative Freedom?
Utopian science fiction?
I don’t know about fiction but I would like it to turn out utopian...
Ivy tells Ford - Glory Heights are pissed
She has beenpicking Fordahlias
Ford’s grade- principals office
Dr Berger - from MIT - loves the GMM
Everybody is cramming for finals
Garden of Hope - most contemporary person there is from the 60s
Ford creates GMM prototype
By end of this week is Zeus’s gathering
Ford says he’ll let someone else throw the party for the end of the year.
Ford and Bleak Hall roaming through parties
Ford and twins made lollipop in a glass
Ford sobered and accompanied Troy to the trial of Aether
While waiting, Ford saw Taylor coming in and sitting in the crowd. Ford gave Taylor a look, pleading not to do this, so he left.
Troy was greatly empowered but it seemed hollow to Ford as it came from Aether.
Ford returned home a little bummed out and was chatting with the others when they heard an explosion, then: Fire in Glory Heights.
Ford dived into the flames and rescued Verity, Buzz and Moses. Daisy took flight and rescued Adam. When they came to the ground, Adam revealed he had machine parts under his skin and ran, Daisy going after him.
Verity said this was their punishment for sin, this was no place for their kind. Ford said that of all people she should know better and she said “Screw you and screw this place,” leading Buzz and Moses away.
Ivy was devastated, falling to her knees to pray for forgiveness. Ford put a hand on her shoulder and said that any deity that would retaliate against her like this was not worthy of worship. She looked at the flames and stood, raising her fist to the sky and screaming:
“Fuck Yahweh!”
There was a flash of light - like a temporary sun
Ford went to look - found Zeus out cold in the woods
Ford tries heal zeus -toughness 37
Zeus had been hit with a Gladius, but it was an intentionally non-lethal blow.
Ford followed the trail of scorched trees and found Troy sitting in a clearing beside the horribly burned corpse of Mars. 
Zeus had called to Troy to protect Aether and in his panic, Troy’s power exploded out of him, killing Mars.
Ford brought Mars to Jupiter and told him what had happened. Jupiter agreed not to retaliate but asked in return that his son’s killer be exiled so that he would never have to see his face again. Ford agreed and went to Troy to tell him. Though the request came from Jupiter, the episode ended with the knowledge that the one exiling Troy was really Ford.
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===Episode 20 - Ford Has A Bad Episode===
RETCONS - 
Spooky weekend in Tartarus, no murder
Momus still becoming Jester
Pick up End of May
Ford feeling quite apart from people as a result of exercising his authority in such a painful way: banishing Troy.
Setting up a library in Garden of Hope, Ford has been there for two weeks on earth but in The Garden of Hope it was almost six months.
Ford returned to Clearwater, he was away for his birthday on 1st June.
Empty campus, feeling a bit Omega Man as he walked around. 
Broken glasses on bench
Newspaper Stories: Fall of Berlin Wall etc.
Mental Note: Learn German, vacation there
Newspaper: surprising amount of “good news”
Kat found Ford sitting on a bench reading the paper, readying himself to face the others.
Present from Kat - a ring, rough-made.
Susano-O reconciled with his mother
Fomorians and Tuatha no longer at war
Kat says everything is getting far better, they can bring back Mars, they can bring Troy home, everything can be perfect.
Ford said: “If everything is perfect, hope is meaningless.
Hope is a response to the imperfection of the world.”
Ford has a thought: What if he never climbed out of the abyss?
He checked his pocket for the box. At finding pandora’s box is just a child’s toy block: “Touché, psyche, Touché.”
Ford went to lie down upstairs in his room, woke in a padded cell.
A doctor came in to talk to him, explaining Ford is deluded and thinks he can jump through portals throughout the world and turn his skin blue just by thinking about it.
“That imaginary doctor is right about one thing: I’m fucked up right now.”
One day Ford examined himself, finding all his scars. 
Ford went blue, went out to the doctors lounge.
He walked out of the hospital, was confronted by a figure he did not know, who told him all this was a waste of time, he was crippled by his doubts now and they both knew it.
Ford grabbed him by the throat and choked him out without much further violence.
He woke in his bed in Bleak Hall, Mercy had been watching over him.
Pandora’s Box was gone, Ford went to The Rio to face Congress to see if any of them had taken it.
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===Episode 21 - Reign In Hell===
Reign In Hell
Fionn on the throne, one leg hooked over one of its arms, sitting through court.
Throb - Sister of the Whip, more lackadaisical than the others about formalities. She and Apate get along well. 
In Hell they don’t tend to use honourifics like “your highness” “my liege” or “your grace”, they are more likely to call Fionn simply “King.” The accepted salute is to throw up devil horns.
Beelzebub requests an audience, he has been living in imprisonment. Throb dragged in his mobile platform with some strain.
Beelzebub through his translator S’tarv requested greater rations. Fionn said “We all saw one of the Sisters Of The Whip dragging Beelzebub in here, ever her considerable strength was taxed. Or do you seek to imply that the sisters are weak?”
Furious back pedaling from S’tarv on Beelzebub’s behalf.
He knows whereabouts of mother of  The Anti-Christ That Was Promised. Fionn is keen to learn more about this even though Ford has said he doesn’t believe the prophecy.
The mother is held by Verrin - demon of impatience. 
Apate told Fionn that the prophecy as it stands is a lie, Fionn said that’s alright, they need to go investigate anyway. Also, Verrin is gearing up to challenge Fionn and it will be useful public relations to show up there by surprise to take the challenge to him.
Apate gearing up for war, Fionn was putting on his own armour but he got distracted, his wife dressing for war is like saucy nightwear to someone else. Afterwards, they dressed again, both in armour now.
Flying hand in hand from the castle for a while, surveying the changes in the kingdom until they reached the realm of gluttony. It was like entering a giant aesophagus, they landed to walk.
Fight with doughboys.
Fionn and Apate, like lovers out for a stroll. Hand in hand, walking through peril as others walk through a scenic landscape.
Arriving at the citadel, Fionn used his fear effect on 666 demons, they fled.
Fionn and Apate went into the throne room.
Verrin - dark Willy Wonka
Apate spoke for Fionn as he stood silently: Any who intercede are treated as challengers in turn.
Centipidus! A minion of Verrin, a horrible twisted form made of many humans. Fionn slew it with some pity.
Verrin ran and Fionn chased him, Verrin stumbled and sat against the battlements, threatening Fionn with his sword-candy-cane. Fionn offered Verrin the opportunity to throw himself on his mercy, otherwise his body would hit the courtyard stones six seconds after his head. Verrin drew his sword and said the blade inflicted such pain and harm that even a god would be paralyzed by it. Fionn whipped his chain sickle and knocked it out of his hands. 
He decapitated Verrin, with a deft flick of the sickle he sent the head tumbling to the flagstones, counted to six and then tossed the body after it. “Another promise kept,” Apate heard him murmour as she came up to the roof.
The roof was a trap and started to collapse, Fionn took wing. There was a bell-shaped cage at the top, Apate warned Fionn that the prisoner was in there so he flew in, saving conjoined twins.
Fionn’s scythe is cursed to always be returned to him. It had fallen into the wreckage but a demon handed it to him, his expression blank and intent until he had gotten rid of it. Any who pick up Fionn’s scythe are cursed to have no other purpose but to return it to him until they place it in his hands.
The conjoined twins are called Desdemonia
Desdemonia - 
Mephistopheles fathered children with her
Satan took them all
One of them became Mammon’s ward
He became ambitious
Satan promised him Lucifer’s seat
She called him The Voice
One of the portals out of hell - covered by a fine electric web
Court
Fionn
Apate
Belph
Lucifer
Morrigan
Leviathan
Proserpine
Leviathan - “that slug licked his lips at my daughter”, referring to how Beelzebub had licked his lips when Lillin was put on display by Mammon. Apate explained that Beelzebub had been licking his lips in anticipation of her cooking.
Fionn said if he had a daughter, anyone who licked his lips in her presence would have no lips to lick... but he said in this case he was inclined to free Beelzebub and put it up to a vote. The council voted and agreed.
Fionn declared he would return Beelzebub to his realm for a year. The conditions were that he must make the place hospitable to visitors and use the power of plenty there to feed all his subjects and send surplus throughout Hell, feeding the entire place. Beelzebub agreed.
When it was time for Beelzebub to be dragged out, Throb coughed and looked at Fionn saying “Bathroom break?” Fionn agreed and nodded to S’tarv to drag his master out. It was rather laborious and took a long time. 
Eddie’s song: RÜLE in HELL
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