#Naomi Fairchild

[most-datable-datable-bracket]

ROUND 2 MATCH 24

Shane propaganda:

“He starts out at rock bottom, hating his life and hating the player/farmer, and throughout the course of the game and after developing a friendship with the player, he gains clarity and becomes a better version of himself, trying his best to quit his addiction to alcohol, becoming a better godfather to Jas, and realizing that he has value and that, even though life is hard, there are people around him that love him and things to look forward to. Eventually he falls in love with the player and turns his life around, not changing his personality but becoming a better version of himself— still playful, still a little messy, and still the same chicken lover than we fell for. He quits his dead end job at the supermarket, JojaMart, and dedicates his time to the farmer and his growing family, as well as his pet chicken Charlie and at taking care of himself. The player doesn't "fix him", rather gives him a wake up call at the lowest point of his life, helping him become brave enough to take the first and hardest step to seek a mental health professional and better his alcoholism and depression.”

Naomi propaganda:

“Mechanic and nerd. Extremely adorable. Nuff said.”

[candlecoo-sideb-art]

Some more Magnus Archives characters

Part 1 

[carterlivingstone]

i came here in fact just to post this

[surra-de-bunda]

Naomi Campbell with Francesco Scavullo photographed by Fairchild Archive during the annual Costume Institute gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (December 1990). This was Naomi's first Met Gala.

[merelyroleplayers]

Nominate Merely Roleplayers in the CRIT Awards 2024

The Creator Recognition in Tabletop RPG Awards are open for nominations until the end of May, and lots of our stuff from the past year is eligible!

You all got us to the final ballot in 2 categories last year – thank you again, it was incredible to hear the words "Merely Roleplayers" read out alongside so many luminaries of roleplaying and storytelling!

Could we make it 3 this year?

Could we even make it to a win??

At this nomination stage, you're free to nominate whoever and whatever you like in each category. It's free choice, not multiple choice. Then people/things with enough nominations get put on the final ballot for everyone to check out and vote on.

Most of the categories ask for a link or social media handle to help the CRIT team vet nominations. Plus, I know from filling out my own nominations how hard it can sometimes be to work out what actually falls within the eligibility period (which this year is 1 Jan 2023–29 Feb 2024 – RPG vendors please put the publication date on the game's page!!).

So here's a handy list of what we've done that came out in that period, the categories you could nominate them in, and the relevant links and handles:

Best of Actual Plays

Best Series

Vigil: The Great Fire https://foggyoutline.com/roleplayers-episodes/category/The+Great+Fire

Vigil: Chief/Exec https://foggyoutline.com/roleplayers-episodes/category/Chief%2FExec

Vigil: Fear Itself https://foggyoutline.com/roleplayers-episodes/category/Fear+Itself

(and in the Studio...)

Falling Cadence https://foggyoutline.com/roleplayers-episodes/category/Falling+Cadence

The Queen's Dead https://foggyoutline.com/roleplayers-episodes/category/The+Queen%27s+Dead

The Office Party https://foggyoutline.com/roleplayers-episodes/category/Office+Party

Best NPC

Any and all NPCs from the above 6 productions, including 2023 nominee Ernest Bering, Agent of DoOm...

It's up to you to decide, based on his actions in Vigil: Fear Itself, whether oor Ernie belongs in this category or in:

Best Villain

Any and all villains from the above 6 productions, including Ada Lovelace (Great Fire), Max Dashwood (Chief/Exec), Morrigan the War Chieftain (Chief/Exec), the Harlequin (Fear Itself) and (possibly, as above) Ernest Bering, Agent of DoOm.

Best of their Games

Best Game Master | Indie

Matt Boothman https://www.instagram.com/merelymatt/

Josh Yard https://www.instagram.com/merelyroleplayers/

Best Player | Indie

Ellie Pitkin https://www.instagram.com/merelyroleplayers/

(plays Persephone 'Percy' Byron in Great Fire and Camilla Parnell in Falling Cadence)

Dave https://www.instagram.com/merelyroleplayers/

(plays Mick Mason in Great Fire and Josh in Office Party)

Strat https://www.instagram.com/merelyroleplayers/

(plays Brier in Great Fire and Jerome Picklepants in Office Party)

Chris MacLennan https://www.instagram.com/merelyroleplayers/

(plays Kincaid in Great Fire)

Natalie Winter https://www.instagram.com/winternatters/

(plays Gwynned in Chief/Exec and Bess in Office Party)

Marta Da Silva https://www.instagram.com/nanaluvren/

(plays Harper in Chief/Exec)

Josh Yard https://www.instagram.com/merelyroleplayers/

(plays Jinny Greenteeth in Chief/Exec)

Vikki https://www.instagram.com/merelyroleplayers/

(plays Renko in Chief/Exec and Cadence Fairchild in Falling Cadence)

Alexander Pankhurst https://www.instagram.com/apankhurst/

(plays Graham in Fear Itself and Reginald 'Skinsy' Skinner in Falling Cadence)

Chris Starkey https://www.instagram.com/merelyroleplayers/

(plays Cameron Jarvis in Fear Itself and Neville Flounder, aka the Living Shadow, aka Night Gannet in Office Party)

Ellen Gould https://www.instagram.com/merelyroleplayers/

(plays Jess Butterworth in Fear Itself)

Helen Stratton https://www.instagram.com/merelyroleplayers/

(plays Stella Sylvester in Falling Cadence)

Fiona KT Howat https://www.instagram.com/unspeakablyfiona/

(plays the Skeletal Duchy in The Queen's Dead)

Naomi Clarke https://www.instagram.com/naomithinksit/

(plays the Draugr Earldom in The Queen's Dead)

Best of Podcasts

Best Podcast

Merely Roleplayers https://www.merelyroleplayers.com

Best Podcast Host

Matt Boothman https://www.instagram.com/merelymatt/

Thank you! Can't wait to see who gets nominated this year!

[bone-apple-teeths]

forget jon and martin making an appearance im manifesting michael shelley in the magnus protocol manifesting joshua gillespie in the magnus protocol manifesting agnes montague in the magnus protocol manifesting gerard keay manifesting nathaniel thorp manifesting graham folger manifesting mike crew manifesting naomi hearne manifesting simon fairchild manifesting john amhurst manifesting breekon and hope manifesting helen richardson manifesting jordan kennedy manifesting eric delano manifesting mikaele salesa manifesting oliver banks manifesting adelar

[alightinthelantern]

Books read and movies watched in 2024 (January-June): Should you watch/read them?

Poetry:

In the Next Galaxy (Ruth Stone): No

Selected Poems (Mark Strand): No

In the Dark (Ruth Stone): Yes!

Response (Juliana Spahr): Yes

The Unicorn (Anne Morrow Lindbergh): No!

Everything Else in the World (Stephen Dunn): Yes

Words Under the Words (Naomi Shihab Nye): Eh

On Love and Barley (Matsuo Basho, trans. Lucien Stryk): Yes!

The Transformation (Juliana Spahr): No

The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches (Matsuo Basho, trans. Nobuyuki Yuasa): No

The Book of Taliesin (anon., trans. Gwyneth Lewis & Rowan Williams): No

What Love Comes To: New and Selected Poems (Ruth Stone): Eh

Face (Sherman Alexie): NO

No Surrender (Ai): Eh

The Summer of Black Widows (Sherman Alexie): Yes!

The Afflicted Girls (Nicole Cooley): Yes!

Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande (Jimmy Santiago Baca): No

American Smooth (Rita Dove): No

Elegy (Mary Jo Bang): No

Angel (Giles Dorey): NO

Collected Poems (Paul Auster): Eh

June-Tree (Peter Balakian): Yes

We Must Make a Kingdom of It (Gregory Orr): Eh

Only as the Day is Long (Dorianne Laux): No

Grace Notes (Rita Dove): Yes

Bathwater Wine (Wanda Coleman): Yes

My Soviet Union (Michael Dumanis): No

American Milk (Ruth Stone): Yes

The Drowned Girl (Eve Alexandra): No

A Worldly Country (John Ashberry): No

The Complete Poems of Hart Crane: No

One Stick Song (Sherman Alexie): Yes

If You Call This Cry a Song (Hayden Carruth): No

Doctor Jazz (Hayden Carruth): No

The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart (Gabrielle Calvocoressi): No

And Her Soul Out of Nothing (Olena Kalytiak Davis): No

Prisoner of Hope (Yvonne Daley): No

The Other Man Was Me (Rafael Campo): No

My Wicked Wicked Ways (Sandra Cisneros): No

On Earth (Robert Creeley): Eh

Genius Loci (Alison Hawthorne Deming): Eh

Science and Other Poems (Alison Hawthorne Deming): Eh

Voices (Lucille Clifton): Yes

A New Path to the Waterfall (Raymond Carver): Eh

Where Shadows Will (Norma Cole): No

The Way Back (Wyn Cooper): No

A Cartography of Peace (Jean L. Connor): No

Minnow (Judith Chalmer): Yes!

Postcards from the Interior (Wyn Cooper): Yes

Natural History (Dan Chiasson): Eh

The Ship of Birth (Greg Delanty): Eh

Madonna anno domini (Joshua Clover): NO

The Terrible Stories (Lucille Clifton): No

The Flashboat (Jane Cooper): Eh

Book of Longing (Leonard Cohen): No

Streets in Their Own Ink (Stuart Dybek): Eh

Different Hours (Stephen Dunn): Yes

I Love This Dark World (Alice B. Fogel): Eh

Baptism of Desire (Louise Erdrich): Yes!

The Eternal City (Kathleen Graber): Eh

Monolithos (Jack Gilbert): Yes

Crown of Weeds (Amy Gerstler): No

Blue Hour (Carolyn Forché): No

Place (Jorie Graham): No

Meadowlands (Louise Gluck): Yes!

Dearest Creature (Amy Gerstler): No

Loosestrife (Stephen Dunn): No

Little Savage (Emily Fragos): Yes

The Living Fire (Edward Hirsch): No

On Love (Edward Hirsch): No

Human Wishes (Robert Hass): NO

Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest (B. H. Fairchild): No

Sinking Creek (John Engels): No

Alabanza (Martín Espada): Yes

Saving Lives (Albert Goldbarth): No

All of It Singing (Linda Gregg): No

Green Squall (Jay Hopler): No

Tender Hooks (Beth Ann Fennelly): No

After (Jane Hirshfield): Eh

Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty (Tony Hoagland): NO

These Are My Rivers (Lawrence Ferlinghetti): No

Fruitful (Stephanie Kirby): No

Jaguar Skies (Michael McClure): No

Song (Brigit Pegeen Kelly): No

Roadworthy Creature, Roadworthy Craft (Kate Magill): No

Life in the Forest (Denise Levertov): No

Viper Rum (Mary Karr): No

Questions for Ecclesiastes (Mark Jarman): No

Brutal Imagination (Cornelius Eady): Yes

Alphabet of Bones (Alexis Lathem): No

Handwriting (Michael Ondaatje): No

Sure Signs (Ted Kooser): No

Sledding on Hospital Hill (Leland Kinsey): No

Between Silences (Ha Jin): Yes

House of Days (Jay Parini): No

Bird Eating Bird (Kristin Naca): Yes

Orpheus & Eurydice (Gregory Orr): Yes

Another America (Barbara Kingsolver): Yes

Candles in Babylon (Denise Levertov): Yes

The Clerk's Tale (Spencer Reece): Eh

Still Listening (Angela Patten): Yes

A Thief of Strings (Donald Revell): No

Wayfare (Pattiann Rogers): No

The Niagara River (Kay Ryan): No

The Bird Catcher (Marie Ponsot): No

Easy (Marie Ponsot): No

Human Dark with Sugar (Brenda Shaughnessy): No

Chronic (D. A. Powell): No

Novels/Fiction:

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (Yiyun Li): No

The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories: Yes

Movies:

What Dreams May Come (1998, Vincent Ward): Yes

The Cat's Meow (2001, Peter Bogdanovich): Yes

The Birdcage (1996, Mike Nichols): Yes

The Color of Pomegranates (1969, Sergei Parajanov): No

The Eve of Ivan Kupalo (1969, Yuri Ilyenko): Yes

And here's my 2023 list!

[best-magnus-archives-character]

Closed the nomination form! I made a list with all nominations by category! I'll accept suggestions of stuff to move around (change a character from minor to one of the other lists, but not the other way around cause the minor list is long enough). The Main Character list is a bit awkward with 18 characters, but I'm not really willing to move any away from it even if people might disagree? Unless I see a very strong argument.

the only nominations that didn't get in were the artifacts, since people voted for those to have their own poll later on!

So here's the 3 lists I have under the cut!

Main Characters 

Jonathan Sims

Martin Blackwood

Timothy Stoker

Sasha James

Basira Hussain

Daisy Tanner

Melanie King

Georgie Barker

Elias Bouchard

Jane Prentiss

NotThem/NotSasha

The Distortion

Nikola Orsinov

Peter Lukas

Gertrude Robinson

Jonah Magnus

Gerry Keay

Annabelle Cane

Minor Characters with Major Impact 

Michael Shelley

Adelard Decker

Michael Crew

Oliver Banks

Jude Perry

Simon Fairchild

Robert Smirke

Mikaele Salesa

Agnes Montague

Simon Fairchild

Jurgen Leitner

Julia Montauk

Trevor Herbert

Mikaele Salesa

Breekon and Hope

Mary Keay

Minor Character

Joshua Gillespie (MAG 002)

The Admiral (Georgie’s Cat)

Major Tom (MAG 016)

Helen Richardson (MAG 047) 

Karolina Gorka  (MAG 071)

Graham Folger (MAG: 003)

Alexander Scaplehorn (MAG 054)

Jordan Kennedy (MAG 055)

Hezekiah Wakely (152)

The Piper (MAG 007)

Gabriel/Worker of Clay (MAG 126)

John Amherst (Corruption Avatar)

Naomi Herne (MAG 013)

Amy Patel (MAG 003)

Werewolf/Hunt Avatar (MAG 031)

Alfred Breekon (MAG 096)

Alexia Crawley (MAG 110)

Emma Harvey (MAG 167)

Elias Bouchard (original)

Evan Lukas (MAG 013)

Laverne (MAG 136)

Callum McKenzie (MAG 125)

John Haan (MAG 072)

Tom Haan (MAG 030)

Jonathan Fanshawe (MAG 127)

Fiona Law (MAG 167)

Spider on the wall (MAG 038)

Leto (MAG 184)

Nathan Watts (MAG: 001)

Sebastian Skinner (MAG 087)

Carlita Sloane (MAG 033)

Erika Mustermann (MAG 034)

Jan Novak (MAG 034)

Piotr Petrov (MAG 034)

Pavel Petrov (MAG 034)

Fulan Al-Fulani (MAG 034)

Juan Pérez (MAG 034)

Jane/John Doe (MAG 034)

Lee Kipple (MAG 042)

Robin Lennox (MAG 100)

“John Smith” (MAG 100)

Celia/Lynne Hammond (MAG 100)

Brian Finlinson (MAG 100)

Carlos Vittery (MAG 016)

Francis (MAG 172)

Wilfred Owen (MAG 007)

Father Edwin Burroughs (MAG 019)

Maxwell Rayner (MAG 002)

Rat from the Bone Turner’s Tale (MAG 017)

Sergey Ushanka (MAG 065)

Angela (MAG 014)

The Anglerfish (MAG 001)

Jan Killbride (MAG 106)

Natalie Ennis (MAG 025)

Alfred Grifter (MAG 042)

Benoît Maçon (MAG 102)

Dr Lionel Elliot (MAG 034)

Rosie Zampano (MAG 192)

Manuela Dominguez (MAG 135)

Petite Scarabée/Little Beetle (MAG 102)

Sarah Baldwin (MAG 001)

Agape (MAG 153)

Monster Pig (MAG 103)

Callum Brodie (MAG 173)

[john-bracket]

Significant Jother Prelims!

The prelims for Jacket 4 will come in two waves after the winner’s bonus poll ends on Sunday, so get your votes in there.

First, there will be the prelims to decide between love interests for Johns/Jacks/Variants who had multiple submitted. There are eight of those matches, and they will be released throughout the day on Monday, July 10.

Then, there will be the prelims to decide which single nomination significant jothers will make the bracket. If a nomination was submitted multiple times as the only love interest, they are already in. There are 11 polls of four significant jothers, and the winner of each will make the bracket. Prelims were seeded by submission order, and those polls will be released throughout the day on Wednesday, July 12.

Match-ups below the cut!

Monday Match-ups: Who shall win the jand?

Prelim #1: Martin Blackwood (11) vs Georgie Barker (1) for Jonathan “Jon” Sims (The Magnus Archives)

Prelim #2: Jason Mendoza (5) vs Derek (1) for Janet (The Good Place)

Prelim #3: Mercymorn (2) vs Alecto (1) vs Augustine (1) vs Mercymorn + Augustine (0 but throuple rights) for John Gaius (The Locked Tomb)

Prelim #4: Zatanna Zatara (2) vs King Shark (2) for John Constantine (DC)

Prelim #5: Nisha Kadam (2) vs Moxxi (1) for Handsome Jack (Borderlands)

Prelim #6: Brad Majors (2) vs Frank-N-Furter (1) for Janet Weiss (Rocky Horror Picture Show)

Prelim #7: Shayera Hol (1) vs Mari McCabe (1) for John Stewart (DC)

Prelim #8: Rafael Solano (1) vs Michael Cordero (1) for Jane Villanueva (Jane the Virgin)

Wednesday Match-ups: I don’t have a funny name

Prelim A: Phryne Fisher for Jack Robinson (Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries) vs Kitty for Johnny Thirteen (Danny Phantom) vs Marguerite Baker for Jack Baker (Resident Evil) vs James “Jamey” Emerson Fletcher for Mary “Jacky” “Bloody Jack” Faber (Bloody Jack)

Prelim B: Naomi Herne for Evan Lukas (The Magnus Archives) vs Pete Tyler for Jackie Tyler (Doctor Who) vs Agnes Montague for Jack Barnabas (The Magnus Archives) vs Eric Bittle for Jack Zimmermann (Check, Please!)

Prelim C: Anna Bates for John Bates (Downton Abbey) vs Rose DeWitt for Jack Dawson (Titanic) vs Wendy Torrance for Jack Torrance (The Shining) vs Samatha Carter for Jack O’Neill (Stargate SG-1)

Prelim D: Joan of Arc for JFK (Clone High) vs JFK for Joan of Arc (Clone High) vs Elvira for Don Juan (Moliere) vs Pocahontas for John Smith (Pocahontas)

Prelim E: Penta Roujeat for Jack Wright (Namesake) vs Jethro Bodine for Jane Hathaway (Beverly Hillbillies) vs George Jetson for Jane Jetson (The Jetsons) vs Peter Parker for Mary-Jane Watson Parker (Marvel)

Prelim F: Thor for Jane Foster (Marvel) vs David Read for Jane Read (Arthur) vs Marla Singer for Jack/The Narrator (Fight Club) vs Sophie Aubrey for Jack Aubrey (Master and Commander)

Prelim G: Jay Nakamura for Jon Kent (DC) vs Satinder Hall for Ivo Keys (Shaderunners) vs Edward Rochester for Jane Eyre (Jane Eyre) vs Co Bao for John Rambo (Rambo)

Prelim H: Rosemary for Jack/Raider (Metal Gear Solid) vs Vriska Sekret for John Egbert (Homestuck) vs Maddie Fenton for Jack Fenton (Danny Phantom) vs Minnina for Jonathan Ratker (Dracula Starring Mickey Mouse)

Prelim I: Clary Fairchild for Jonathan Christopher “Jace” Herondale (The Mortal Instruments) vs Marisol Garza for Jonathan “Jon” Cartwright (The Shadowhunter Chronicles) vs Jo Lupo for Zane Donovan (Eureka) vs Robert Martin for Janet van de Graff (The Drowsy Chaperone)

Prelim J: Rebecca St. Claire for Jack Secord (Warehouse 13) vs David for Giovanni (Giovanni’s Room) vs Lucy Moderatz for Jack Pullman (While You Were Sleeping) vs Petra Solano for Jane “JR” Ramos (Jane the Virgin)

Prelim K: Scott Summers for Jean Gray (Marvel) vs Hessa for John the Baptist (The Wife of John the Baptist) vs Helen Wick for John Wick (John Wick) vs Patrick Bateman for Jean (American Psycho: The Musical)

[hydralisk98]

"Visionary Avant-Garde" (2023-12-18.1)

Klara "Olive" Kér

25yo young adult woman, neat mental health, great physical shape, fast & flexible physiology, strong work+life balance, University A++ history doctorate graduate, Lepio, Shoshoni Union citizenship, 5'8", 144lb weight, INTJ-T personality, ASD & ADD, multilingual, public library volunteer, Lisp programmer, philosophy + mathematics & overall great generalist learning skills, socio-economics, VLSI hardware & data engineering mastery, autonomous multimedia integrator, politically active as Geo-Syndicalist, game modder, museum curator / tech preserver, encyclopedic van vagabond, human computer, manifestation tutor, Ava my social assistance android servant, great cartoonist, grand strategist, photographic memory, libre tech stack, chronokinesis, retrocognition, true polymorph, 480-600 years lifespan, Infernal & Celestial linguistical understanding, large modular home domain fully her own, contemporary mainframe, LTO tape storage, fast symbolic computation hardware, M3 iMac, RTX 4090 + RISC-V AMD 7900X3D computer, Pinephone Pro Explorer Edition, Genius, wise rulership, Gratis Libre Open Source Soft-warez Lisp toolbox (probably akin to Vim & Emacs...), libre cyberware, libre biomoddings, life scripting / journaling / gratitude, mindfulness, happiness, wisdom, documentative writing creativity career...

Twelve figures to aspire towards:

Christopher E. Lee

Nicky Case

Ken Thompson

Richard Stallman

Tom Fulp

Pedro II of Brazil

Sherman Fairchild

Naomi Wu

Hedy Lamarr

Nicole-Reine Lepaute

John McCarthy

Klára Dán von Neumann

How I imagine Shoshona, my black Angora housecat.

Fashion: Hoof shoes, turtlenecks, earmuffs, gauntlets, black lipstick eyeliner, face masks, retro grunge-y + light academia solar oxymoron of a style.

Neue Georgism (as in ecology & less taxing) + Old-School Syndicalism from the later 1910s;

Autonomous within the assembly cooperative group that are Symbolics and Pflaumen (DEC / Digital Equipment Corporation 2.0 )

Before I forget, here's a preview of how I imagine Ava.

[tmisaccidentreportbook]

MAG021, Freefall

Case #0022010, Moira Kelly Release date: May 26, 2016 First listen: 16th October, walk into work. Out in the countryside with nothing but farmland and a big ol’ sky with the sun coming up.

…. The sky just… ATE A DUDE FAM!… What am I meant to do with that!?

The Vast is a strange one for me. I am a country girl first and foremost, I love being need the sea and I get antsy if I go too long without seeing the curvature of the earth or at least a decent horizon line. Having said that, if I spend a second too long thinking about the emptiness of space and/or the deep ocean, I will stun lock myself. The Vast and The Buried have a profound effect on me in different directions because they just. Don’t. Care.

This statement has a bit of a different tone that I don’t think we’ve heard before. It’s a statement of someone recounting what I am going to call the inciting incident that happened to someone else. Why Moira was there to see the event and have that encounter with The Vast as a witness, she was essentially collateral in her son's story. It could be argued that Timothy Hodge of MAG006 is doing something similar, relaying Harriet’s ‘mugging’ by The Flesh Hive that led to her death, but there’s a different weight to this, this isn’t recounting something told to you by a near stranger. This is a mother mourning her son in a state of fear and confusion. I think it’s also one of the first statements that deals with a grief like this.

Yes, Naomi Herne, I said that with a full chest.

- But I think Moira's opening passage of the statement does give an indication of what she is dealing with. She says it ‘doesn’t make any sense’, that it makes her ‘head hurt awfully’ whenever she tried to think of it. Psychologists and other specialists, please chime in, but I’ve given to believe that PTSD can induce headaches. Although Moira's encounter was with The Vast, by proxy, I think the confusion and grief could play her more into the hands of The Spiral or The End. She does ask if she’s mad, doubting her own mental faculties as she appears says ‘it can’t have happened.’ However, as she describes her life, I think she’ll be picked up by The Lonely not too long after the loss of Robert.

- I had a look for Althorpe, Lincolnshire, as I grew up on that side of the UK and I was at a weird little border between 3 counties, Lincolnshire being one of them. Turns out, we’re at almost opposite ends of the county. But like Robert, I spent a lot of my childhood in the wild places, fields rather than woods and alone rather than with friends. waves a hand to aggressively bat away the looming spectre of Peter Lukas

- I’m looking at this kid and I can’t help but think he and Mr Timothy Stoker would have gotten on like a house on fire. Adventure holidays, and yes, I subscribe to the kayaking agenda, volunteering with charities.

- ‘...to the point where I wondered where he was getting the money...’ I would not be the first to draw connections between The Entities and how they can be allegories for capitalism and systems of oppression, but The Vast and Simon Fairchild in particular, are held in a certain light in my mind in connection to late stage capitalism and mega wealth. I have a whole essay on it that I’ll write one day, it’s currently a voice memo in dodgylogic’s inbox. But I think the sinking of time and money into this lifestyle, much the same way Laura Popham did with caving in MAG015, means that a potential victim is less likely to walk away before they’re primed for harvesting. The fear probably tastes different if it’s a seasoned pro having their world, the world were they’re competent and comfortable, betray them.

- I have absolutely no idea how long it takes to become a ‘fully qualified skydiving instructor’ and I think this is either a case of ‘I’m over thinking it’ or ‘yes kid, it’s painfully obvious, everyone had worked that out’ but they way he talks about the company and the job before he reveals he’s qualified… I’m reading it as the company approached him, recruited him and put him through the training. So they’re going to be a sense of commitment and obligation there on his part. They’re moulding him to be prime for the picking.

- ‘After that, I didn’t see him much. He was home for Christmas and Mother’s Day, if I was lucky...’ Feels like The Vast is pulling him one way and The Lonely pulling her the other.

- ‘Before he’d said anything I took him inside, sat him down and started to run a hot bath. Whatever had happened, I told him, could wait until he’d gotten himself together.’ Bless this woman, best mum.

- So Fairchild is supposedly doing this jump ‘in memory of his wife.’ I mean, obviously a cover, but do we ever hear of Fairchild actually having a wife or is this just an unpleasant little detail seeing as Moira had become a widow recently and was about to lose her son?

- I don’t like Simon. I hate pretty much all the Avatars with a few exceptions, but I don’t hate them equally. I do not like Simon Fairchild. I don’t like how he’s smiles and jokes and is all personable just before the act. I don’t like how we see in a later statement he can turn tempestuous when he’s defied. I don’t like him.

- Do we actually ever hear from Harriet Fairchild again? And actually, while we get Harriet Fairchild, Robert’s colleague and presumably the Fairchild representation in the business, we don’t get a confirmed connection between her and Simon in the body of the statement do we? Robert doesn’t know Simon as a Fairchild. For all the good it would do him.

- ‘Enjoy sky blue’… Well, that’s not ominous at all. The grammatical delivery just makes it all the more threatening.

- After his moment of dizziness, what if he’d sat down and not jumped out the plane? Would he have returned to the airfield as the plane just continued on, or was it already too late and was he stuck up there until he leapt?

- It’s hard for me to describe what I think I’m feeling when Robert describes that the ground is gone but I think it echoes in the realisation that Earth is gone in MAG057. It’s one of fear, but the fear is that of such a terrible loss, rather than fear for my own person. It’s a loss of everything that was. I’m not sure I can explain it well presently.

- Even though Moira ‘wasn’t sure (she) believed all what he was saying’ she still has the utmost care for her boy, looking after him as best she can. She asks ‘him how long he’d been falling’ and I love that there’s no ‘how do you think you’d been falling’. She doesn’t demand evidence or explanation.

- Harriet is an interesting one to me. We hear she was ‘surprised by how long it had taken him to get down’, but she is a Fairchild. Do the Fairchilds operate as a clan the same way the Lukas’ do? Is it just Simon who has any real power and the rest rally around? Has Simon cultivated a family as a cover, impact on ageing be damned? Does Harriet even know she’s feeding people to her weird Grandpa’s weird god?

- ‘I tried to talk him through his problems and his feelings...’ Moira tried, bless her. And she was making the same mental connections as any reasonable person would make in her stead.

- This statement just makes me so sad. This mother was doing her best to comfort her child after he’d been through a horrific ordeal she couldn’t understand. He was back recovering in the family home. She planned a calm and wholesome outing for the pair of them. I could be coaxed out of so many a terrible situation by my mum suggesting a walk and a picnic. This statement stings because it feels like such a violation of trust and an invasion of known and well trod territory; a career that Robert loved and was excelling in, a grassy beauty spot near the family home. Wide open spaces speak of opportunity and room to grow and change and I hate Simon Fairchild so much for robbing folk of that joy.

- ‘That last hour was one of the happiest I’d ever spent with my son.’ weeping

- ‘…he just screamed and pushed me away.’ I’d like to think this was an act to try and save her and draw whatever it was away. I hope it was. I can’t be sure.

- And the sky… ate him. Whatever had happened in Doncaster had followed him to his mother’s. It hadn’t struck in the moment or as he was reeling from the encounter, it waited until he was recovering, until the fear had receded, before moving in to strike. It was a waiting game. It had hunted him. Any time he was under the open sky, he was fair game.

- And so Open Skydiving never existed as an operating company. The Fairchilds, like the Lukas, seem to have a handle on business and corporations, so it’s just a shell company or front or whatever the correct term is. This leads me to believe Robert was recruited by them and the training was done in house, forging documentation and licenses as to not get governing bodies involved. Robert probably couldn’t believe his luck. Not long after graduation in the late 90s, and he’s recruited into a job and field he’s passionate about, the company sees to all his training. I can’t help but draw on the ‘army recruiter at a high school’ analogy I had a while back, I wonder how much of the decision was steered by the presence of student debt and slim job opportunities.

- There are new paper mentions about Open Skydiving a few years before the event takes place but the Archivist doesn’t divulge any details.

- ‘Tim really outdid himself here.’ I’m so proud of him. The Assistances are such hard working beans, I love them. They do such a good job.

- ‘In fact, for the four years prior, it’s hard to find any evidence for Robert Kelly’s existence at all.’ Open Skydiving just… housing and moving him. Walking larder, keeping him close.

- And in comes Martin.

[most-datable-datable-bracket]

ROUND 1 MATCH 48

Loren propaganda:

“She's a strong amazon princess who can kick your ass ❤”

Naomi propaganda:

“Mechanic and nerd. Extremely adorable. Nuff said.”

[filthy-reckless-rp]

Birthdays:

Hi friends! When you have a sec, please do double check if your characters birthday is below - if not, send it over whenever you're ready! <3

Paige

Jesse Walker - 26th January

Sapphire Vandervort - 13th December

Logan Hunter - 14th February

Emmeline Fairchild - 7th November

Tessa Cooper - 11th November

Nicholas Vanderbilt - 20th June

Nate Archibald - 5th April

Vanessa Abrams - 19th February

Samuel Watts - 25th April

Lili Mahdavi - 3rd May

William Huntzberger - 31st October

Isabella Coates - 12th March

Georgina Sparks - 8th November

Spencer King - 29th January

Frankie Vives - 22nd February

Jamie Park - 23rd July

Lola Mercado - 3rd July

Andrea Trang - 1st December

Kayleigh

Isobel Prescott - 27th May

Dean Dawson - 18th September

Alex Vandervort - 10th April

Scarlett Vandervort - 10th March

Jake Hunter - 3rd June

Freddie Redlynn - 1st January

Gunnar Avery - 2nd August

Felicity Sanderson - 13th November

Jenny Humphrey - 2nd July

Caisson Andrews - 3rd October

Julian Donovan - 21st February

Tripp Vanderbilt - 1st June

Ruby Reyes - 19th December

Nilay Levent - 23rd October

Mahesh Chopra - 22nd February

Ryan

Serena van der Woodsen - 14th July

Ceren Çelik-Montgomery - 25th October

Jo

Phoebe Walker - 1st May

Naomi

Baby Beaumont - 24th October

Francis Coates - 10th May

Veronica Ravenwood - 10th May

Peter Vanderbilt - 10th April

Kelly Xu-King - 25th October

Latife Levent - 23rd October

Louise Thomas (Bass) - 1st April

Lauren

Rose Haven - 9th August

Oliver Andrews - 19th May

Addison Sherwood - 17th February

Evelyn Nicholson - 19th March

Benji Howell

Jason Walker

Layla Vandervort - 20th December

Rylea Palmer

Lily

Aaron Vandervort - 21st October

Meredith Park - 8th March

Cristian Diaz

Blair Waldorf

Sarah

Bethany Levesque - 1st July

Jackson Cohan - 2nd July

Michelle King

Joey

Juliette Vanderbilt - 5th August

Sienna Haven - 23rd February

Zeke Lopez - 18th April

Adriana Ramirez - 9th September

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