Thirteenth Spell

[courageous-wit.livejournal.com]

[filtered from: First Gen, their allies/affiliates, any person who would use this information for ill, etc]

While I was on the expedition, I learned a lot of things about this world. But there are still some unanswered questions. I've read through the journals but I would like to hear first-hand accounts on certain events.

I heard that something happened to certain residents during December of 2009, and that in January of 2010 there was a sudden surge of residents arriving at the castle. If anyone could give me details surrounding the events from these two times, I would appreciate it.

Comments

yay :D

[courageous-wit.livejournal.com]

Oh, you were here, Doctor? I would love to hear about your experience!

like he wouldn't say something!

[cricketycricket.livejournal.com]

Well, truth be told, it was all rather unsettling from the start... things from previous excursions and events started appearing all over the castle in random places.... the most startling example was a New York City taxi cab lodged in the middle of a flooded stairway, but the others were just as odd and out of place, if not all as inconvenient.

....and then there was that strange, invasive feeling of contentment ....

[courageous-wit.livejournal.com]

I'm assuming these things disappeared, since I haven't seen any New York taxi cabs around.

[cricketycricket.livejournal.com]

They did, yes ... though, so did everything else, for a time. But I'm getting ahead of myself ...

[courageous-wit.livejournal.com]

Yes, of course. Please, go on.

[cricketycricket.livejournal.com]

After all of that appeared, the castle started decorating itself for the holidays, but... something else came with it: a very strong feeling of comfort, of belonging; almost like the polar opposite of homesickness. Given that I haven't really considered anyplace in particular home for centuries, save the TARDIS - which I already had - it wasn't difficult for me to realize that the castle was trying to pull some wool over our eyes. It was almost as if it wanted us to consider it our home, rather than all the places we were originally from...

[courageous-wit.livejournal.com]

[she frowns, taking all of this in. She will try not to interrupt him again]

and I'm tagging all this from a smartphone, even

[cricketycricket.livejournal.com]

It didn't stop there, though. Those of us who fought it - well, outwardly, vocally? It was almost as if the castle threw a sort of tantrum. Almost as if it thought we were ungrateful. So... one morning, we woke to find ourselves a castle divided. Dozens of people were packing up bags of belongings and leaving to live in the town... but it was as if they'd been brainwashed. They spoke to their friends like strangers, insisted that they had always lived here, and that their place was in the City Royale with the rest of the townsfolk.

[the only sign that this is a difficult part to recount is in the fact that he pauses]

They stayed that way for days. Living out lives as though they'd never fought their own battles against the castle. I don't entirely remember how it started, but that's when things took on a sort of snowball effect. Someone went to town and forcibly dragged a friend out beyond the Dead Zone.... and the effect wore off.

At the same time... well. You're aware that any cosmetic damage done to the castle will repair itself over some degree of time, I should think?

amazing <3

[courageous-wit.livejournal.com]

[this is exactly the sort of information she was looking for after her experience in Libet. She's also very glad that the journal is taking all of this down so she can read through it again on her own time]

Yes, I've heard that. And I heard that people tried to destroy the castle, but it repaired itself.

[cricketycricket.livejournal.com]

Yes, exactly. All the items started appearing on New Year's Day .... and over the following weeks, everything escalated. I made a list of everything on this page (http://paradisa.livejournal.com/10391157.html), as a matter of fact. Everyone started to move out exactly a week later (http://paradisa.livejournal.com/10402549.html#comments)...

[pages flip] I called a meeting for everyone to discuss what happened ... it took a few days for all the plans to take root. Cagalli lost her temper and fired a cannon into the castle wall ... and that was the start of it. Once we realized the damage remained ... people started demolitions (http://paradisa.livejournal.com/10420192.html#comments).

Only... by the next morning ... it was all back as it had been. And we were all catapulted two weeks backward in time. Quite a rush, really, completely unexpected.

[courageous-wit.livejournal.com]

[naturally, she bookmarks the pages so she can go back and read them more thoroughly later]

Doctor, you were on the latest expedition, correct? What was your group doing?

[cricketycricket.livejournal.com]

Oh, didn't you know? We're the ones who got the subway train going!

[courageous-wit.livejournal.com]

I mean... before. When we first got split up. My group had to solve different puzzles.

[cricketycricket.livejournal.com]

Yes, precisely ... our puzzle was repairing the train.

[courageous-wit.livejournal.com]

Maybe we all had to go through different kinds of puzzles.

[cricketycricket.livejournal.com]

That seems to be the consensus, yes ... considering what Rin told me she dealt with.

[courageous-wit.livejournal.com]

Oh! Rin was in my group, I think.

[cricketycricket.livejournal.com]

She mentioned something about a key shaped like a bug - do you remember that, at all?

[courageous-wit.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. Everyone was squashing the bugs so they could find the key.