Chapter 7: Snakes and Ladders

Saturday Morning: Overcast and grey, malaise and unhappiness seems to have come over the city  

Recap

  Mora: -Staked out Helix lab in the Industrial district -saw Dr come out of Helix-she knows he has something to do with what happened to her -has a vision of darkness and a mouth swallowing her, blacks out -wakes up on same dock by the lake that Alberts body was dumped -with 3 items: 1. Name tag Mary Jane. 2. Burger Maiden wrapper. 3. Tooth   4:00 Dee was at March Hare’s Lair and got the tag of the March Hares Network Still have a key Flicker has info for you   Eugenia - no longer has Socially conspicuous status Has 2 clues about Aegis Security and Helix Labs connection   5:40 Francis gained an unexpected Ally, the person he saved at The Wild Hunt Has a strange scale that he and Kit found in the tunnel 3 clues that he picked up by talking in the bars to the prison guards   Kit was cockblocked by Kat’s Mom Has 1 clue about Capricorn Park Backpack full of Academy Discs   8:40. End of recap  

9:50 Eugenia and Felicity

 

Excalibur goes to talk to Felicity

Brownstone residents are 1. Felicity/Emma 2. Raven/grandma. 3. Nona’s ghost 4. Unknown

Felicity looks tired and run-down,

Eugenia asks Felicity to look into Babette and reported info about the Camlenn family

Felicity asks about Francis and Eugenia explains that he’s a good man but troubled and has regrets.

21:00 Mora goes to Scorchrain

 

Mora goes to Scorchrain to talk to Flicker

recently had a break in, but windows broke from inside weird, right?

Dr Jennifer Smith, Medical Surgeon, employed by Helix, but works at St Sanctuary Hospital

Got her right out of medical school, approx 10+ yrs ago

Oracle at the hunt told Mora that this woman is connected to her somehow

There’s no pics of Dr Jennifer Smith

29:43

  Dee talks about her dream about Archaeology hunk  

32:00 Francis and the Bar

 

Francis’s learns some things from talking to the guards at the bar

Prison was pretty good, Helix was there for some reason but they left recently and things have gone downhill

Warden now has his “special” group of guards that seem to get different assignments

Prisoners of note- very popular city council member murdered his entire family a few years ago. It was all over the papers. Guards say they can’t touch him

Quiet Guy- 6’7” guy who’s always been there no one knows why

39:50. Francis Heads to Dees shop

 

Establish that Dee sleeps at the store and Michel has already opened the store for the day

Francis knows him as Miguel ______ from growing up together

Dee sit’s with coffee for 5 minutes while Francis waits- it’s awkward and unimportant to the story but I think it would be a funny scene.

Francis tells her about His and Kit’s adventure at the school.

Goons and the weird lab in the school

The Tunnel had a dead end 1 way, the other way was cold and dark

Francis Glowed so they could see but he didn’t sparkle

Kit seemed like they were in a trance and they found this scale

54:00

description of the scale as bagel sized

Kit felt really COLD when they touched it

Mora never showed up

Wanted to wait for backup

58:00

Dee investigates the scale, definately not human made

She licks it- feels cold dark place, nothing, go to warmer place and concludes that the snake like creature is real

Maybe Kit responded the way they did because they’re more tied to the mystical?

1:08:00

Dee describes the scale to Francis and they discuss the snake visions they had

1:11:00 Kit vs Ikeda House

Kit, looks at phone for messages from Kat, none

Aunt Thea is struggling with a cough , Kit sneaks out

Kat’s house seems to be changing because they peer in the window of Kat’s room and it’s actually Tomah’s. They fail to find Kat’s room

Tomah’s in the backyard having battles with imaginary friends

Kit plays with him and tells him “you die and then I get to eat you” is not what the good guys would do

Kit gives Tomah’s a secret mission- keep an eye on his brother and tell Kit if anything changes with him, signed Firefox

 

1:29:50 “The Burger Maiden longs for your touch”

Mora goes to Burger Maiden

Burger Maiden history is given- Used to be everywhere 10-15 years ago they started shutting down

Are there any left you can’t really remember but yes there is one in Cross End

Mora is not hungry

Dead eyed teen behind the counter

Seems familiar she orders a soda then leaves to go home

Back at her apartment she checks her gun and it was not fired last night

1:39:00

Mora calls Francis, they catch each other up on the previous nights events

Discuss Mora’s snake vision

Mora doesn’t think her events of last night have anything to do with the bigger snake problem

Dee asks Michel about snake visions and finds out he didn’t have one

1:47:00

Dee suggests the 5 of us should get together and go down the tunnel

“There’s a giant hole in the city and I want to find it”

Discuss the different locations - bridge, PS192, construction site, Prydwin vaults,

Dee overheard a couple investors complaining about the construction site that’s how you know that

Big sidetrack about Monster Fucking

1:52:00   A Train in the Basement?

an apartment building that has had a lot of calls to the police lately complaining about loud noise, sounds like a “train in the basement”

Francis remembers one of the guards saying that it sounded like a train wreck down in the basement

“Crunching” sounds in the tunnel

2:00:00 Crew Meeting at Dee’s

the entire crew arrives at Dee’s, the rest of the episode is basically everyone sharing everything they know and discussing further steps. There’s some good dialogue so it’s worth a listen, but not much new happens

Eugenia’s famous “who wants to die” monologue

Kit gets scolded

2:06:00

“investigation is different than pitching ourselves against a giant snake”

Flicker- windows were broken “out” at scorchrain

Mora shares her blackout

2:14:00

Eugenia gets her 2 clues from Flicker about Aegis and Helix

Helix is independent from Aegis

Aegis is a subsidiary of Pendragon- owned by Caliburns

Aegis does security for New Lab in the Industrial district, but NOT for Helix HQ

There’s a small, old Helix location in Cross End, Aegis is still providing security but the lab is not actually active?

Burger Maiden

Mora doesn’t remember anything beyond a couple years ago

2:20:00

Francis talks about prison, and locations of the snake hole seem to be a line that leads to the prison

Kit “there’s so much bullshit in this room right now”

2:25:00 Dee, what do you know about ancient snakes? Every culture has myths about giant snakes Gates of Babylon was less about the people than a gate for Tiamot to proceed through- hunky archaeologist theory 2:39:00 snakes often associated with immortality but usually associated with life or death 2:45:00 Eugenia and Dee were at school at the same time when the big scandal happened to Dee May have been a settlement 200 BC that claimed to have seen Niddhaugr Crew discusses “Ratatosk” and that’s the word Kit heard in the tunnel Ratatosk is the squirrel that runs up and down the world tree in Norse mythology