FREEDOMFALLER

FREEDOMFALLER is the 11th episode of Season 1 and is the Season Finale. The Premise of the episode is the Statue of Freedom located on top of the Dome of the US Capital.

## Overview

The story of FREEDOMFALLER is split between six parts, the first four parts being set in the 1850s describing the creation of Freedom and her tumultuous journey from Rome to America. Part five is set in the Early 1860s and is a Memoir written by Philip Reed describing the casting and installation of the statue, and part six jumps forward to January 6th, 1977 during a Riot at the Capitol caused by the Anti-Dean Association.

### PART I: SCULPTOR

Part One is comprised of Telegram Excerpts from 1858 between Four Men: Architect Thomas U. Walter, US Army Engineer Montgomery Meigs, Sculptor Thomas Crawford, and Inspector Alfonso Zaffino.

**Telegram Excerpts**

**[June 1858] Washington, DC - Washington, DC**

Walter: “Liberty must stand on the Capitol Dome.”

Meigs: “Yes, I will find an artist to bring the statue to life.”

**[June 1858] Washington, DC - Livorno, Italy**

Meigs: "Will you provide a design for the Statue"

Crawford: "Most Certainly"

**[June 1858] Washington, DC - Livorno, Italy**

Meigs: “Freedom III will do, but change her cap.”

Crawford: “I will not remove the cap and begin to cast.”

***Six Weeks Later*** **[May 1858] Livorno, Italy - Washington, DC**

Crawford: “Freedom is difficult to cast, apologies for delays.”

***Three Weeks Later* [April 1858] Washington, DC - Livorno, Italy**

Meigs: “Is Freedom on her way?”

**April 1858 Livorno. Italy - Washington, DC**

Zaffino: “Inspector Zaffino speaking, Mr. Crawford has passed away, Monarca will receive Freedom, Expect arrival within a month”

### PART II: DAUGHTER

Part Two is comprised of pages from the journal of Nina Crawford, the daughter of Thomas Crawford. The Dates of the entries spans from April 5th to her presumed death on April 29th, 1858. The Journal was discovered, along with her remains, in an off-shoot of St. Michael's Cave, Gibraltar. While the Text and Illustrations were written by Nina, The text is translated read by an Italian Student (Giorgia Pellicciaro) who was living in Gibraltar at the time.

Nina describes in that the sketches papa (Thomas) draws of Freedom are beautiful and asks if he could make a statue of her. He only responds with a smile and a simple yes before returning to his drawings. When he leaves for the studio on the 10th, Nina asks if papa is working on her statue, he only smiles in response before leaving. Three days pass and neither she nor her mama (Louisa Crawford) have heard anything from. Nina isn't that concerned as this happens frequently because papa likes to work for long periods of time, her mother on the other hand is very concerned. One night after tucking her daughter to bed, Mama leaves for Crawford's studio in Rome. Two days later, Mama returns and goes straight to her bedroom and locks herself in. The next morning, Inspector Zaffino arrives asking about Papa's whereabouts, Nina tells him about her mom and Zaffino he heads to her mothers room. Soon more men show up and her mother (who was crying) started yelling "*SHE HAS HIS EYES! SHE HAS HIS EYES!*". This sudden turn of events scares Nina and causes her to run away.

As she runs away, she remembers overhearing that Freedom will be shipped to America on a boat named Monarca. Thinking here papa might be there, she heads to the Docks. After reaching the docks, she finds the ship anchored and discovers some crates near by that contain parts of Freedom. She hides in an empty crate hoping to be taken to where papa is, noting that she felt his spirit around the statue. Her plan to stowaway aboard Monarca succeeds, although she is trapped in the crate as it is tied down with rope. After two days trapped within the box, a very hungry Nina escapes the box after hearing crates being broken and the rope holding her box snaps. After stealing some bread and fruit from above deck. Nina finally gets a proper look at the statue . . . and it's not her papa, But now she understands what her mama was yelling about. Freedom has her papa's eyes.

After her startling encounter with Freedom, Nina spends a few days avoiding the statue while trying to hide from the Crew. On the 24th, she thinks a crewmate has spotted her and with no other options, Nina hides in the same empty crate she stowed away on, hoping that neither the crew nor Freedom find her. She decides she won't write as much until she reaches land to avoid making noise.

The last recorded entry is in the 29th of April, Nina recounts how Freedom took her from the ship during the night, and carried her through a jungle cutting down trees at incredible speed whilst running. Although she couldn't see much in the dark, she could clearly see Freedom occasionally looking at her through it's Metal\*\*\* eyelids. Before long they jump down into a Deep cave, where the statue lets her down, it then starts a fire by hitting it's arms against a rock. As she is writing she notes that Freedom has been sharpening it's sword for hours, yet it keep it's eyes on her the whole time.

### PART III: CAPTAIN

Part Three takes place during the Ship portion of Part Two. As the name implies, this is an exert taken from Captain of the Monarca's Log. Surprisingly, this portion is rather short compared to the the other parts as it only encompasses the Monarca's Journey from Italy to Gibraltar\*\*. The Excerpts are read to us by the Monarca's Captain (Sergio Farina) himself.

**Excerpts from Captain's Log**

***[19th April]***

*Six crates were loaded at dawn. They are heavy, each contains a part of a large sculpture. Inspector Zaffino told me that it is the Goddess of Freedom. Each crate was fastened down with ropes in the storage room, No sliding is possible. We left at Noon, A Crew of Five\*, Two Mates, One Cook, and myself.*

***[21st April]***

*We are behind schedule, the ship is much slower than expected. Octavio found Two Large holes in the storage room this morning, Boxes were untied too. Crew was quiet about it, I suspect is was the result of horseplay among the younger mates. Holes were plugged with tar, I expect to land for repairs soon.*

***[24th April]***

*Crew is tense, Nicola and Pietro saw a stranger wandering the decks last night. We searched and found nothing. Large holes were found in the Storage Room, boxes were untied again. There's a lot of water in ship, we are moving slowly.*

*I don't have any explanation for the Damage.*

***[26th April]***

*Pietro and Tommaso saw the stranger again, another ship turned up nothing. Three more holes found in the storage room. Crates were also found untied. We moved the six crates to the Deck to prevent water damage*

***[27th April]***
*I saw the stranger on the deck last night. They were trying to enter the crate, they ran when they saw me. They were not found during a search.*

***[29th April]***

*We landed in Gibraltar at dawn, the ships took hours to steer into port. There were many, many holes in the Storage Room. Each one allowed enormous amounts of water enter. Without the tar, we would've sunk in three days.*

*We opened the Crates for customs officers.*

*They were empty.*

### PART IV; COMMISONER

Part Four is a report Written and Read by the then Gibraltar Commissioner of Police Henry Morgan. Aided by simplistic visuals, the report is a recount of the events taking place during an Investigation on the 29th of April, 1858. (Side Note: The machine used to record the voice of Commissioner Morgan is unknown as the first proper voice recorders weren't invented until the late 1870s)

The report starts off by stating the reason Morgan and thirteen other officers were at the Rock of Gibraltar to investigate numerous reports of strange occurrences happening on the Rook causing landslides and raising tensions in the surrounding communities. One of the civilian reports, Morgan noted, described it as the work of a "Gigantic, Crazed feller".

When they began investigating the Rock, they found a newly forged trail through the dense foliage up the mountain. The trees along the path were found to have been cut down with extreme precision and with such speed that the stumps were still warm to the touch and some fires were even present along the trail. After spending some time Hiking up the trail and putting out the fires, they stumbled upon a deep crevice in the ground. After fetching more equipment, Officer Hadley volunteered to descend into the Crevice. After climbing down for some time, Hadley shouted in fright and urged the rest of the officers to enter.

Upon entering the cavern, they found out why Hadley was spooked by. In the center of the cave stood a "Tall, Greco-Egyptian statue of a woman" (Freedom), in front of the statue were a set of human remains "Flattened like a set of clothes." and a hollowed out torso of skin stretched 1/4 of the way up the statue, the sight of which slickened some of the officers and they promptly left. After cleaning and removing the statue, a journal was discovered in the cave and at the time of the report, was still being translated. Unsettlingly, the sword on the statue matched the cuts found on the trees. Despite the implications of these discoveries, the Gibraltar Police Force officially concluded that the trees were knocked down by Gale-force winds.

*After the statue was returned to port she inexplicably came to life and slaughtered countless people in a conflict with the Police. Traumatized by the massacre, Henry Morgan retired from the GPF a year later, with a noted detail from his recurring nightmares being the eyes of Freedom.*

### PART V: CRAFTSMAN

Part Five is a short Memoir written by Phillip Reed, a slave at the time of the Capitol's Construction, who was put in charge of the Final Casting of Freedom. The memoir is narrated by Baldwin W.

The story begins with the Arrival of the Monarca, the ship that was carrying freedom. Once the Ship had fully docked and the Cargo hold was open, Government Officials, Engineers, and Soldiers were shocked to discover instead of Crates containing pieces of the statue, they found a *"Tall wounded woman, donning a Bronze Helmet, dressed in a robe, and clutching a sword and a Damaged Shield."*. Reed overhears a conversation with the Monarca's Captain, where he informed officials about a violent Conflict that took place in the Port at Gibraltar. With this information, Reed comes to the conclusion that Freedom craved liberty so badly that she tried to take it for her self. Her attempt failed however, and she is dragged of the ship in chains.

Eventually Reed, who was put in chare of final casting after the previous manager went on strike, was ordered by the Government to remove the Skin from the statue and retrieve the Plaster Base within her. Philip is reluctant to do so, but since he is only a slave, he must comply and thus begins the gruesome process of peeling away the skin from the statue (Reed does not disclose what the reaction freedom had to this procedure, so it's unknown if she screamed in pain or remained stoic the entire time). When he is finished, all that remains is the Plaster model of Freedom motionless and without life. There is a slight time jump as Reed gazes upon the Completed Bronze statue, believing that Freedom is not dead, but merely asleep, and that she will someday reawaken.

### PART VI: SCULPTURE

Part Six is the final section of the Episode. This section jumps forward to Contemporary times about 113 years after the statue was installed, to January 6th, 1977. We are presented with an front-page article from *The **New** Delaware Journal* (At the time of FREEDOMFALLER's release, it was theorized that the NDJ was puppet organization after the Delaware River Journal was shut down). The article in question details a riot taking place at the US Capitol Building (similar to the one on 01/06/2021 in our timeline) caused by the *Anti-Dean Association* which resulted in the ADA storming and breaching the Capitol.

While the text extremely blurry and hard to read, a member of the Mythos Discord were able to transcribe the text into a more readable version. *(This expert is incomplete and once finished, the Article will be updated.)*

***WASHINGTON D.C. --*** *Shortly after a protest in front of the White House early Tuesday afternoon, hundreds of members of the Anti-Dean Association forcibly breached the U.S. Capitol. House Representatives and Senators who had been in for a Joint Session of Congress were evacuated to a secure room before the Intruders entered. The members repeatedly chanted “TWIN DEAN IS LYING” in reference to a conspiracy theory perpetuated by the ADA as an undeniable fact.*

Accompanying this text is an image of the Statue of Freedom atop the Capitol Dome, Smoke appears to be emanating from the statue's base and a brief description gives context for the Image.

***FREEDOM FALLS** -- The Statue of Freedom is shot down by ADA gunfire (Shown Above)*

After this, we are shown two clips of footage taken the Day of the Riot, One is presumably from an NDJ journalist outside the Capitol and the other is from a member of the ADA inside the Capitol. The First clip is from outside the building focusing on the Dome. Just as the camera zooms in, a series of explosions (ADA Gunfire) happen at the base of the Statue of Freedom and the podium collapses forward, sending Freedom hurtling toward ground. A loud crash is heard as she has Fallen head-first into the Capitol Rotunda.

The second clip begins at the Entrance to the Capitol Rotunda, the footage is shaky but we are able to see Freedom's Head and Cap poking out from behind the Doorframe. Then suddenly she moves out of view and a Woman's scream is heard before a loud thud cuts her off (presumably she was killed by Freedom). Grotesque stretching noises are heard as Freedom is transforming, presumably tearing and stretching the woman's skin. As the footage shakes again, Freedom reappears in the same spot. However she looks far more Human, the video ends as she looks around . . . and spots the cameraman.

## Archivist's Note

-In the captain's log, Freedom is humorously included in the official crew count (5). However, only the four human shipmates are listed by name.

-To minimize geographical disorientation, the Monarca's route was simulated with a contemporary map from our timeline. The modern-day borders of European countries are widely known.

-In regards to Freedom's "metal eyelids," as mentioned in Nina Crawford's journal, it is believed that the child was unfamiliar with the term 'plaster' and instead named the most durable material she knew of: metal.

## Actors & Writers

Nina Crawford voiced by Giorgia Pellicciaro

The Captain voiced by Sergio Farina

Commissioner Morgan voiced by Lev

Philip Reed voiced by Baldwin W.

"Freedom" written by C. Forbes