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 As the weeks pass, the oddities continue sporadically. The coral fish sometimes make symbols, the sharks sometimes watch him, and the seals will behave strangely at irregular intervals. Jack deciphers the first symbol, and it seems to be “Life.”  As the weeks pass, the oddities continue sporadically. The coral fish sometimes make symbols, the sharks sometimes watch him, and the seals will behave strangely at irregular intervals. Jack deciphers the first symbol, and it seems to be “Life.” 
  
-==== Monday, December 14th, 2009 ====+===== Monday, December 14th, 2009 =====
    
-[[wod:mage:pcs:talia]]’s office is undergoing an end-of-year audit, but she’s not worried. Other than her mileage receipts, her books are straightforward and clean. However, one of the auditors, [[wod:npcs:atticus|an older white man with craggy features and wearing an expensive, hand-tailored suit]], gives her the creeps.  She heads out to do her job, as the holiday decorations need to give way to First Night preparations. Talia checks out the various plant beds and covers those than need covering. However, in Wharf District Park across from the Boston Aquarium, she finds something very strange: a bright, tropical purple flower of unknown genus in one of the beds. She eyes it with confusion, as she knows she didn’t authorize this planting – or any flower like this. She carefully removes the plant, and finds an extensive root system. She re-soils the plant bed and eyes the unknown specimen; she has no idea how a tropical plant just appeared in the dead of a New England winter, or how it developed such a root system when she’s positive it wasn’t here last week.+[[wod:mage:pcs:talia]]’s office is undergoing an end-of-year audit, but she’s not worried. Other than her mileage receipts, her books are straightforward and clean. However, one of the auditors, [[wod:characters:atticus|an older white man with craggy features and wearing an expensive, hand-tailored suit]], gives her the creeps.  She heads out to do her job, as the holiday decorations need to give way to First Night preparations. Talia checks out the various plant beds and covers those than need covering. However, in Wharf District Park across from the Boston Aquarium, she finds something very strange: a bright, tropical purple flower of unknown genus in one of the beds. She eyes it with confusion, as she knows she didn’t authorize this planting – or any flower like this. She carefully removes the plant, and finds an extensive root system. She re-soils the plant bed and eyes the unknown specimen; she has no idea how a tropical plant just appeared in the dead of a New England winter, or how it developed such a root system when she’s positive it wasn’t here last week.
  
 After finishing the rest of her rounds, she returns to the home office and runs into the creepy auditor again. He eyes her unpleasantly, and Talia responds with a rude gesture as she passes him. She enters her office and sets the unknown plant down. She then starts researching it, and then loses track of time. She’s still going when the night janitor taps on her window in concern, and with a shock Talia realizes it’s just about midnight! She heads home, managing to catch the last train out to Somerville; she lives close to Davis Square. The next three days pass, with Talia getting more and more obsessed with identifying this damned flower, but she keeps coming up dry. By Thursday afternoon, she makes the conscious decision to step away; she has work to do that she’s been neglecting.  After finishing the rest of her rounds, she returns to the home office and runs into the creepy auditor again. He eyes her unpleasantly, and Talia responds with a rude gesture as she passes him. She enters her office and sets the unknown plant down. She then starts researching it, and then loses track of time. She’s still going when the night janitor taps on her window in concern, and with a shock Talia realizes it’s just about midnight! She heads home, managing to catch the last train out to Somerville; she lives close to Davis Square. The next three days pass, with Talia getting more and more obsessed with identifying this damned flower, but she keeps coming up dry. By Thursday afternoon, she makes the conscious decision to step away; she has work to do that she’s been neglecting. 
  
-==== Friday, December 18th, 2009 ====+===== Friday, December 18th, 2009 =====
    
-Talia arrives at work to find the creepy auditor is prowling the office. She ducks inside her lab to avoid him and then grabs her kit to head back out into the field. She does her rounds, but when she gets to Wharf District Park and comes up to the spot where she found the purple flower on Monday, she is stunned to see another purple flower in the same spot! She swears and starts working, but looks up to see another figure approaching. [[wod:npcs:shepherd|It’s a young man with pockmarked skin bundled up in full winter gear]], which Talia finds odd until he starts speaking with a thick Georgian drawl.  The transplanted Southerner is clearly unused to New England winters, and is concerned she’s vandalizing the park! She assures him that she works for the conservancy and is merely transplanting a flower that won’t survive the cold.+Talia arrives at work to find the creepy auditor is prowling the office. She ducks inside her lab to avoid him and then grabs her kit to head back out into the field. She does her rounds, but when she gets to Wharf District Park and comes up to the spot where she found the purple flower on Monday, she is stunned to see another purple flower in the same spot! She swears and starts working, but looks up to see another figure approaching. [[wod:characters:shepherd|It’s a young man with pockmarked skin bundled up in full winter gear]], which Talia finds odd until he starts speaking with a thick Georgian drawl.  The transplanted Southerner is clearly unused to New England winters, and is concerned she’s vandalizing the park! She assures him that she works for the conservancy and is merely transplanting a flower that won’t survive the cold.
  
 The Southerner watches intently as Talia works, but she realizes he’s genuinely curious, so they chat a bit and she explains her procedure as she frees the plant. Once she finishes, he waves goodbye and moves off. She packs the second plant away and finishes her rounds. When she returns to her office, she stares at the empty spot where the first flower was. After confirming no one went into her lab while she was gone, Talia places the second flower on the shelf where the first one sat – and is overwhelmed with the feeling that this is the exact same flower.  The Southerner watches intently as Talia works, but she realizes he’s genuinely curious, so they chat a bit and she explains her procedure as she frees the plant. Once she finishes, he waves goodbye and moves off. She packs the second plant away and finishes her rounds. When she returns to her office, she stares at the empty spot where the first flower was. After confirming no one went into her lab while she was gone, Talia places the second flower on the shelf where the first one sat – and is overwhelmed with the feeling that this is the exact same flower. 
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 Salt water pours into his helmet and Jack panics! The sharks reach him and each grab a limb. Jack prays for a quick death, but the sharks rotate, so Jack is facing down, and then they dive! Jack sees an ancient tower half-buried in silt, and then the sharks release him. Jack then feels the gills on his neck open to admit water – and then he registers the fact he has gills. The sharks circle above him, so Jack swims into the tower. He sees glyphs scrawled into the rock all over the place, and identifies the symbol for Life. He sees the other symbols and realizes the symbols represent various ocean-going animals – but more importantly, they represent the very concepts of those animals.  He stares in wonder as he floats within the tower, and then the octopus joins him and gently pushes him to a blank spot on the walls. He sees names half-encrusted with silt, so he reaches out and puts his finger on the stone. It gives, and he scrawls his name. In that instant, Jack Awakens – and finds himself back in the octopus tank in the Boston Aquarium!  Salt water pours into his helmet and Jack panics! The sharks reach him and each grab a limb. Jack prays for a quick death, but the sharks rotate, so Jack is facing down, and then they dive! Jack sees an ancient tower half-buried in silt, and then the sharks release him. Jack then feels the gills on his neck open to admit water – and then he registers the fact he has gills. The sharks circle above him, so Jack swims into the tower. He sees glyphs scrawled into the rock all over the place, and identifies the symbol for Life. He sees the other symbols and realizes the symbols represent various ocean-going animals – but more importantly, they represent the very concepts of those animals.  He stares in wonder as he floats within the tower, and then the octopus joins him and gently pushes him to a blank spot on the walls. He sees names half-encrusted with silt, so he reaches out and puts his finger on the stone. It gives, and he scrawls his name. In that instant, Jack Awakens – and finds himself back in the octopus tank in the Boston Aquarium! 
  
-His boss [[wod:npcs:george|George Ducharme]] is staring at him quizzically on the other side of the glass, but the crowd of people next to him is watching intently. Jack ascends and climbs out of the tank. He strips out of his suit and meets George; he claims he spotted the octopus acting strangely and wanted to do a visual check. George nods as they walk into the breakroom, and Jack is hit with sudden insight: he knows the other man will be dead from lung cancer soon, and can see the lump growing! Jack sits down, and George notes he looks feverish. Jack claims he needs a few moments to catch his breath, so George leaves. Jack groans and then has another flash of insight: he can sense the microorganisms all over his body, working together in a harmonious micro-ecosystem.+His boss [[wod:characters:george|George Ducharme]] is staring at him quizzically on the other side of the glass, but the crowd of people next to him is watching intently. Jack ascends and climbs out of the tank. He strips out of his suit and meets George; he claims he spotted the octopus acting strangely and wanted to do a visual check. George nods as they walk into the breakroom, and Jack is hit with sudden insight: he knows the other man will be dead from lung cancer soon, and can see the lump growing! Jack sits down, and George notes he looks feverish. Jack claims he needs a few moments to catch his breath, so George leaves. Jack groans and then has another flash of insight: he can sense the microorganisms all over his body, working together in a harmonious micro-ecosystem.
  
  
 ==== Gloria Awakens ==== ==== Gloria Awakens ====
-Christmas week brings in a rush of business on top of [[wod:mage:pcs:gloria|Gloria Webb]]’s headaches of moving the store and planning a reopening sale for January 2nd. By mid-morning, Gloria is flagging, but luckily her Dunkin Donuts hookup, the pierced employee [[nwod:npcs:sharp|Amanda]], swings into the shop with coffee and food. Gloria thanks Amanda profusely – after she downs half the coffee and becomes human again; Amanda gets the employee discount and no judgmental looks. There is a lull in business, so Gloria leaves [[wod:npcs:jill|Jill]],  her head clerk, in charge for a few minutes while she slips into her office for five minutes of peace, quiet, and food. +Christmas week brings in a rush of business on top of [[wod:mage:pcs:gloria|Gloria Webb]]’s headaches of moving the store and planning a reopening sale for January 2nd. By mid-morning, Gloria is flagging, but luckily her Dunkin Donuts hookup, the pierced employee [[wod:characters:sharp|Amanda]], swings into the shop with coffee and food. Gloria thanks Amanda profusely – after she downs half the coffee and becomes human again; Amanda gets the employee discount and no judgmental looks. There is a lull in business, so Gloria leaves [[wod:characters:jill|Jill]],  her head clerk, in charge for a few minutes while she slips into her office for five minutes of peace, quiet, and food. 
  
 As she eats lunch, Gloria boots up Netflix on her computer to watch another few minutes of the classy British detective show she’s consuming in tiny chunks. The show is all posh and no sex, just as Gloria prefers. She thinks to herself, “The Internet is not for porn,” but then the main character in her show, a dapper British man with an impressive mustache and wearing fancy clothes and a bowler hat, turns to her on the screen and replies, “Of course the Internet is for porn!” Gloria slaps herself to wake up, and then she hears the British detective – behind her. She turns to see the character standing in her office, and he crisply informs her, “Come with me. I have something to show you.” As she eats lunch, Gloria boots up Netflix on her computer to watch another few minutes of the classy British detective show she’s consuming in tiny chunks. The show is all posh and no sex, just as Gloria prefers. She thinks to herself, “The Internet is not for porn,” but then the main character in her show, a dapper British man with an impressive mustache and wearing fancy clothes and a bowler hat, turns to her on the screen and replies, “Of course the Internet is for porn!” Gloria slaps herself to wake up, and then she hears the British detective – behind her. She turns to see the character standing in her office, and he crisply informs her, “Come with me. I have something to show you.”
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