Artwork stash

## Description

Howard Kearns and Bret Bryne find out while going through Alice's papers that she has a storage room. When they open it, they find that Alice had stashed away a large volume of artwork and media of all kinds.

Bret described it as:

> The picture flipped, and I could see the scene of an organized — not surprised, given it was Alice’s place — storage space, filled with boxes, crates, and similar shaped things, all draped in a variety of drop cloths.
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### Contents

A different points, Bret describes various items in the artwork stash. The majority of the stash is painting, sketches and writing. Still, it contains other items as well, as Howard Kearns goes on to describe:

> Alice has paintings, sketches, wood carvings, porcelain work, ironwork, comics, and dozens of other things.  All of the show images or scenes that … well, look like something you have shared with me.
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### Dead People

In Book 1 - Ogygia, at one point Bret says the following about the artwork:

> *Chasing down more of the artwork had led to a disturbing list of dead people who made fascinating art.  Plenty of them was alive, and I had a long list of fake accounts talking to the few who would respond over the Internet.  Not a lot of leads there yet, but I had hope.  Same for the ones that were dead.  Some of them died in various bizarre ways, too.*
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Its hinted at but not really stated that Ogygia was the source of the many bizarre deaths, as they used the artwork and writing track down people using the broken Eschatos Diagram of Earth's Realm.

### Siobhan Schuster

Private detective who helped Alice track down and acquire many of the pieces of artwork.

### Realms Depicted

* Waterworld - Also called the Blue Realm or Ocean Realm. Mentioned in Book 2 - Nephele and is covered in several chapters in Book 3.
* Ooxactua - Mentioned by Monty St John at an author meet & greet as the painting talked about in Book 1 - Ogygia, as the first painting they reveal in the storage room. The reference is below:

> It was a crate, or the skeleton of one, wrapped around a framed painting.  That didn’t intrigue me as much as what the painting depicted.  Even though the thin paper cover made it a bit blurry, I would recognize that nightmarish shape anywhere.  It was exactly what I had described to Alice a few years before she died.  A horrible flash that I didn’t care to remember but had felt desperate to tell someone about so it would quit eating at my brain.
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* Adjutant's Realm - The second piece of art revealed in the storage room depicts a colossal stone temple with a star shaped like a compass rose on top. In the same author meet & greet, Monty St John indicated this belonged to the Adjutant's Realm, something that would be revealed in later books.
* Mermaid's Realm - Another piece of art revealed in the storage room shows scenes from this realm. Howard Kearns & Bret discuss this:

> *... an ethereal landscape, mist lingering over water, hints of shapes in the mist.  The layering of the oil, the shapes it made, and the presentation gave it a sense of music, of a beckoning that was luring you into the watery depths ... I remember the day you described this picture to me.  That you had a flash about being seduced by mermaids and that the mermaids had drawn you into the mist and the sea.  It stuck with me.  I dismissed it at first, but then I saw the moons reflected in the mist.  Like you described, one of the moons was odd-shaped, with a circling of asteroid fragments from an old wound that formed an octahedron shape*
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