Timeline

This timeline is a list of events where information is available. Unfortunately some dates are vague, but have been placed relative to other events where possible.

## The Golden Age

* **1937**: Oscar Waters' trip to Paris
* **1938**: Quicksilver Theatre performs Wingbeats on American soil for the first time. Starring Oscar Waters (The King), Patricia (The Queen), Alice (The Dancer), and Mark Sollinger. Mark becomes Dromen

## Pre-season 1

* **Sometime before 1948**: Cassandra Wall starts her private collection.
* **1951**: The Vos family/Baas builds the Visser building.
* **Sometime before August 1980**: LMG initial incursion into The City. The fire in the sky, Thomas escapes into our world, found by Jonathan. Jonathan seems to be working for Ms. Cassandra Wall at this stage.
* **1980, August**: Benjamin meets Thomas.
* **1982, probably around August**: Thomas leaves to return to The City.
* **Sometime after 1986**: First audio tape from The Private Collection of Ms. Cassandra Wall.
* **Sometime after 1989**: Unspecified Gregory Baim incident at Wall Manor.
* **1990:** Nicholas Waters and Static Man are born.
* **1990**: Samuel moves to Visser.
* **1992, August**: Melody Pendras and Alexa Kesslen start dating

## Melody's Tapes (1994)

* **February 2nd**: Melody Pendras, consent to be recorded.
* **February 17th, 4:32 PM**: Tape starts South side exterior, Melody then steps into Visser for the first time to begin her survey. She checks out the basement and first floor before meeting Jacob Lester on the 6th floor.
* **February 20th, 6:40 PM**: Taken on the 6th floor. Melody interviews opera writer Tamara Morris, and listens to her work.
* **April 1st, 01:05 AM**: Taken in the 14th floor hallway. The tape here damaged .
* **April 3rd, 2:40 PM**: Taken on the 16th floor. Melody talks with Jacob Lester about the Historical Society.
* **April 12th, 6:31 PM**: Taken on the 12th floor. Melody interviews Jesse Lewis.
* **April 13th, 5:48 PM**: Taken on the 6th floor by Jesse Lewis. He eavesdrops on the meeting between Samuel and the Historical Society, but is found out and is never seen again.
* **May 5th, 11:21 AM:** Security room, 1st floor. Melody interviews "John Smith", Visser's security guard.
* **May 17th, 12:14 PM:** Taken on the 2nd floor. Melody wanders around hoping to record the Visser song, but with no success.
* **May 22nd, 6:29 PM:** Taken on the 5th floor. Melody interviews Joshua Martinez and Victor Rivera. Victor cannot be recorded, but the tape contains Joshua's interview.
* **June 3rd, 2:50 PM:** Taken on the 7th floor. Melody attempts to record the Visser song again with no success
* **June 11th, 2:33 AM:** Taken in the equipment room. The tape here is damaged.
* **June 16th, 4:33 PM:** Taken in the Lobby. Melody's last heard attempt to record the Visser song. No success.
* **July 23rd, 5:13 PM:** Taken on the 6th Floor. Melody interviews Craig Simmons, who cannot see faces.
* **August 19th, 5:23 PM**: Taken on the 8th floor. Melody interviews Chris, who has been involved with making drugs from paint found in Visser.
* **September 9th, 10:05 AM**: Taken on the 16th floor. Melody confronts Samuel for the first time and demands answers.
* **September 9th, time unknown**: Taken in the boiler room. With the help of Victor, Melody sabotages Samuel's attempt to sacrifice Iris Vos, and in doing so causes the collapse of the Visser Building.
* **September 9th, time unknown**: Visser 911 call.

## After Visser

* **1994 (likely mid-late September)**: Davenport meets with Iris Vos to discuss the collapse of Visser and retrieve Melody's tapes.
* **Sometime after 1994 (probably after 1995)**: Second audio tape from The Private Collection of Ms. Cassandra Wall.
* **Date unknown, within 5 years of Ms. Wall's second tape (tape dated after 1994) and just over 5 years since the unspecified Gregory Baim incident (incident occurred after 1989**): Cassandra Wall is taken by The Curator.
* **1995**: Michael Waters leaves his wife and son.
* **1997, August 3rd, 5:15 PM**: TOC Tim interviews the traveller, Beth.
* **After August 1997, before May 24th 1998**: LMG acquires its former competitor TOC in a hostile takeover.
* **1998, May 24th, around 2:00 PM**: Chad interviews Tim at TOC.
* **Before August 1998 probably mid/late 90s**: Chad meets and questions The Representative of The Curator. At this point, The Cult is an issue for LMG, and is already leaving strange voicemails.
* **1998, before August**: Chad contacts Carl regarding The Radio Station.
* **1998, before August:** Chad interviews Alexa and meets an untimely demise. Alexa joins Melody in The City.
* **Unknown, likely 1998 or early 1999**: Vining Towers is taken into The City.
* **Not long after Chad's death (likely late 1998 or early 1999)**: Vining Towers meeting/conference call 5802.
* **Sometime after 2005, before 2017**: Morgan gets stuck in Black Top.
* **Sometime between 2010 and 2017**: Melody's interview with Violet Vos.

## Season 1 - 2

* **2015, March 7th**: Daniel Powell arrives at a remote archive to begin his new job, cataloguing Archive 81, and gives verbal consent to be recorded at all times.
* **Late December 2015 or Early January 2016**: Samuel achieves apotheosis and The Visser Portal opens after Dan finishes listening to the tapes. Dan sends Mark his audio and goes into hiding.
* **2016, April 6th:** Mark begins releasing Archive 81 in an effort to get more information on Dan's whereabouts.
* **After the portal opens, before August 2016**: Following events are undated but in order.
	+ Kevin is approached by Davenport to be part of an expedition into The City.
	+ Caroline Levi convinces Kevin to sabotage this expedition as retaliation for the death of his son.
	+ Caroline is abducted by LMG.
	+ Kevin, now in the city, sabotages the expedition.
	+ Gina Tores, an employee of LMG, and her husband, Tony Tores, are abducted, tortured, and murdered by The Cult in retaliation for Caroline's abduction. They leave evidence of this in the form of a voicemail for LMG.
	+ LMG creates a fake ad as part of a ritual.
	+ Rat replaces Caroline's fingers and scrapes out her soul, turning her into an empty conduit for LMG middle management to use.
* **Between June and September 2016**: Real Life Reimagined (RLR) podcast publishes the Lost Radio Station episode. It is unclear when the interviews were recorded.
* **2016, after August 10th**: Mark gets involved with The Cult.
* **2016, after August 10th**: Rat and Suit pass through the Visser portal and stay in The Outpost.
* **Sometime between August 2016 and before January 2017:** Season 2. Dan is kidnapped, brought to The City, and modified by LMG.
	+ Season 2 takes place in The City. As time runs differently there, it is difficult to date, but within The City, the events take place over the course of 9 to 12 days.
	+ If we assume season 2 is a broadcast being intercepted by Dromen, it would run from January to May of 2017.
	+ If we assume Dromen takes the audio directly from the master tape, then it is finished before January 18th of 2017.

## After Season 2

* **2017, sometime after January, several months before the ██████ ritual**: The Cult closes the portal to The City.
	+ If we assume season 2, as a podcast, is the ritual to close the door, then this May 24, 2017.
* **Late 2017, November or December**: Chris and Nicholas perform the ██████ ritual. Dan arrives back home.
	+ Events of season 3 seem to take place over the course of 17 to 22 days.
* **Early-Mid 2020 (2 years, 3 months after completion of the ██████ ritual)**: Left Of The Dial
	+ As Left of the Dial takes place in The City, it's not known how much time passes on Earth, but within The City, the events seem to take place in the span of about 3 weeks.

## References

1. ↑ 21 - The Golden Age, Part 1
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 22 - The Golden Age, Part 2
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 04 - A Collection of Disparate Strangeness
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 05 - A Spider in a Web
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 15 - Aurora, Cello
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 18 - Collection, Composition
7. ↑ 23 - Anoint his forehead with rabbit's blood
8. ↑ 34 - Trucker's Atlas
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 03 - A Story In Cycles
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 11 - Body, Recorder
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 01 - A Body In A New Place
12. ↑ 02 - A Night At An Opera
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 07 - A Face in a Crowd
14. ↑ 06 - A Conversation Without Record
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 08 - A Chemical Experiment
16. ↑ 09 - An Implosion of an Idea
17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 10 - The Ending, Perhaps
18. ↑ 29 - A secret that will make the other think less of you
19. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus\_A330
20. ↑ 24 - Sleep on a pillow of swanfeathers
21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 13 - Song, Doorway
22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 22.3 16 - Vines, Contest
23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 12 - Fly, Honeypot
24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 35 - When The Open Road Is Closing In
25. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Pacifier
26. ↑ 30 - Lay a tarp upon the ground
27. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20160415151113/http://www.archive81.com/
28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 28.2 28.3 17 - Reflection, Retaliation
29. ↑ 19 - Escape, Birth
30. ↑ 30.0 30.1 30.2 20 - Portal, Ending
31. ↑ 27 - Mix the crushed lead with three drops of your own blood
32. ↑ 28 - Exist in the place you are currently occupying
33. ↑ 33.0 33.1 34 - Trucker's Atlas
34. ↑ 33 - The Passenger