Otherworldly Adventures (2020)
(Duck’s notes: Due to the different plot threads, I’ll be using different colours to mark them. The main plot (investigating Julia’s sigil, Bad’s poems and finding the Antekeys) will be in black, investigating Kay will be red, Mrs. Lludd will be orange, the Third Vision + Kansai’s lore will be yellow, Mrs. Hickes will be in green, Ojai’s fires and the Regents + notebook will be blue, Mr. Cowon and Mrs. Visago will be purple, Ms. Entwistle and the Astoria base will be pink, the Japanese monsters will be grey, the Otherworld investigation will be brown, the Necropolis siege will be in bolded red, Mrs. Brown will be bolded orange, Mrs. Morrison will be bolded yellow, 512’s powers will be bolded green, and the Elder incursion will be bolded blue why are there so many plot threads i wanna die)
(also read Cafe Crisis before this lmao)
- BCO01 - 1/1/20: Firstly, apparently the Deep Corp 23 aren’t around anymore - makes sense since we did get a receipt from Manager 0 back in Cafe Crisis but good to know. Anyway, Manager 3 and Manager 7 (J.L. and Julia respectively) as well as Employee 71 (Victoria, aka T.C. 224) are still heading over to investigate Mrs. Kay and learn some more info about the Otherworld. Also, neither Astoria nor the police have reached Kay yet, strangely.
- C-BCO02 - 1/2/20: Manager 7’s arm markings (the weird sigil) started glowing when the three of them met Mrs. Kay, and that seemed to pacify her somehow. After that, it stopped glowing and Kay was back to being aggressive, but only really hostile to Manager 3. Also, Kay’s claws seem to have a ‘polished silver’ appearance, though it could be a mythological metal e.g. orichalcum.
- CD-OWE01 - 1/3/20: Manager 0 leaves a receipt. He finds it possible that Manager 7 is an ‘Otherworldly 8’, and theorises that her arm markings are a manifestation of the Blight, similar to his eye. He decides to ask Manager 5 (Jericho Myerscough) - also linked to the Blight - for more information, as well as one of the still-living Princes of Hell.
- LEP01 - 1/4/20: More Coraniaid show up trying to search for Mrs. Lludd and free her. Employee 17’s currently dealing with it. Also, 17 (Felix Blackwood) tries to investigate how the Otherworld monsters are showing up, theorising that maybe they’re linked to ley lines.
- C-QZBEB04 - 1/5/20: Employee 161 (Jenny) gets a reply from Nom De Plume, namely John Doe (aka Mevon or Nine), saying that they’ll send ‘Raven’ or ‘Moreau’ to investigate the Otherworld using their time travel books (or whatever it is those things actually do)
- QZBEB05 - 1/6/20: 161 gets another message from Nom De Plume. (this is conveyed in CaD-lingo, so I might get something wrong) basically the info they gave the CaD is that ‘America’ - the Flipside - is generally bordered by ‘Canada’, namely ‘Ottawa’ - the Otherside. However, they’ve started to see ‘Quebec’ - the Otherworld. Here the location analogy falls apart because apparently the Otherworld is ‘making its way across North America’ right now. ‘Now’ being spatial or temporal is currently unclear, but it’s likely temporal. So basically, for now, the Otherworld is crossing into the general ‘North America’, i.e. the Other/Flip sides. Nom de Plume are going to time travel ahead to see if it’s still there in the future. I think.
- DBT01 - 1/7/20: Manager 4 (Julius Mendoza) takes Employee 116 to go investigate Mrs. Hickes (the Nandi Bear). She’s also been spotted by Astoria.
- C-TCR01 - 1/8/20: Employee 35 finds a charred message in the mail saying ominous threats like burning in fire and brimstone. It’s seemingly addressed to ‘J’, which doesn’t really mean anything since all the Managers’ names start with J (except for Mammon).
- C-TCR02 - 1/9/20: Employee 62 (Mike/M.J., or Manager 62 from T.C.) runs the message through an Otherside Scanner. The writer is probably Miss Ojai, a former follower of Satan who was (presumed to be) killed fighting the Second Cafe. Somehow, she’s back, so no lighting fires since her main thing is fire manipulation and teleportation. She’s weak to water, though.
- DBT02 - 1/10/20: Employee 116 (T.C. 3311, or Travis) and Manager 4 return from dealing with Hickes. ‘Little Z’ - Employee 611, or Zach/T.C. 11411 - also showed up. Anyway, Hickes is apparently pretty dangerous and eats people. The three of them have her under control and are trying to find out which Plane Hickes came from.
- CD-BCO03 - 1/11/20: Employee 53 (Amber/T.C. 53) meets Mr. Smith (Goibniu), a Celtic counterpart to Mr. Gehrels (Daedelus). Gehrels apparently requires specialised Otherside tech to contact. Anyway Sir Kay (the Arthurian knight) beat Mrs, Kay by just dipping an iron shield in aluminium so there you go. There’s also someone called ‘goose egg’, whoever that is.
- C-BCO04 - 1/12/20: Employee 71, Manager 3 and Manager 7 kill Mrs. Kay. Upon her death, Manager 7’s arm starts glowing and she starts speaking weird stuff, so yeah, she’s probably linked to the Otherworld.
- LEP02 - 1/13/20: Employee 44A (Nicole Langley) is rather annoyed at the Mrs. Lludd infestation problem. There’s apparently an unknown bug spray which can repel them, though its ingredients are unknown.
- DBT03 - 1/14/20: Employee 611 (Zach) is quite sure that Mrs. Hickes came through the ‘Italian Pass’ portal to the Otherside, generally linked to the Esterskald. So 611’s going to try and get there to send her back.
- CD-QZBEB0 - 1/15/20: Manager 6 has been working to try to get Third Vision with Manager 1 (Jennifer Hepburn) and Employee 161 (Jenny W.), with Manager 1 trying to experiment with her natural Second Vision and 161 contacting Rem Lazar and Nom De Plume. 6, on the other hand, is trying to divine answers. She got something referring to Gaelic cosmology, and some cryptic studd talking about how the Ouroboros is linked to the Otherworld. Technically it’s a Plane of the Otherside since Belphegor rules it, but in reality it’s more of the ‘center of everything’. Generally the only beings there are reptilian, so 6 suggests finding Mr. Kansai, aka Daichi or Quality Control from the Other Cafe.
- DBT04 - 1/16/20: Mrs. Hickes has been successfully sent back to the Esterskald. The only two oddities were that Hickes seemed almost Hauntaurskaldian - is it leaking into the Esterskald? and a weird symbol which im not gonna post cause it takes up too much size, but it’s a circle divided into 6 sections like a pizza. there’s an eye/oval shaped thing below, with a curve similar to a U on top.
- C-TCR03 - 1/17/20: With Mrs. Kay dealt with, Employee 71 decides to start looking into Ojai’s letter. So she did some checking, and there was some of Ojai’s fire near the Cafe. The main thing to note is that there was Black Blood - agreed on by the CaD and Astoria as SUPER illegal. 71’s currently monitoring the Black Blood until a Manager comes around to retrieve it, then call in Astoria’s X-Ray division to clear it up.