Backstory100 MKRP
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Pages 76 to 80
Page 76
Homer Net's House
- JONJONAUG visits, but leaves before his knocking is answered.
Clinic
- Sage is concerned about some kind of blade. He's also talking to someone else about there troubling dreams.
Freek's Home
- Atescu, Nasoj, Kraggi and Grim are talking.
- Nasoj, Freek's neighbour, leaves soon.
- The conversation then turns to pets, Gal-Zaborian state finances, Felina and ancient history.
Vor's Tower
- Lora returns home, gets dressed, then head back to town to find Ann.
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Ann's House
- Lora arrives, to return a towel, and is answered by KF-Ann. They start talking about Chuck, Gal-Zabour's Minister of Finance, who happens to be visiting. And a cat.
- Rose joins the conversation at the door, by apologizing to Lora about a previous argument, which is promptly accepted.
- Lora then asks about any local shrinks.
- Lomgren finishes cleaning up and also heads over to Ann's, joining in the conversation on arrival.
About Town
- Bob finishes searching the Town for the Town Hall and finds it doesn't have one. This bothers him, as he believes Keb, who will be arriving soon, will do something stupid as a result.
Park
- JONJONAUG, is wandering around, bored. He decides to return to his lab.
TF Shop
- JONJONAUG returns home and begins working in his lab. Soon, after many explosions, he emerges with a pair of Levitation Boots and uses these to fly around town.
Clinic
- Sage gets another patient, Belle.
Page 78
Ann's House
- JONJONAUG flies over and joins the conversation there.
- Lomgren recognizes him from the tour of the TF Labs, a few days ago.
- Lora is informed about the town's clinic.
- Suddenly, Lomgren is Pounce-Glomped by a wet Sanchay.
- There's a Tasteful Curtain going on between Ann and Rose-KF.
- Lomgren manages to free himself from Sanchay, who then dries herself doggy style.
- JONJONAUG is confused by the two 'Anns'.
- Lomgren and Lora comment on the gathering crowd and perhaps though should disperse a little, though JONJONAUG is more concerned about the two Anns.
- JONJONAUG lands.
Clinic
- Belle informs Sage that she's been having weird dreams, waking visions, hallucinogens and bouts of hysteria. Sage is concerned about this becoming an epidemic and that the cause is paranormal. He does not tell Belle this, however, instead asking for some more details.
Page 79
Ann's House
- JONJONAUG has explained to him the nature of the two Anns.
- Lomgren announces he's planning a party.
- Lora says she needs to head off to find a shrink.
- Rose then leaves them all on the doorstep, so she can put the towel away.
- The conversation then turns to Ann-KF worrying about the Resurrection Machine creating duplicates. JONJONAUG looks uncomfortable, because he made it. Ann-KF assures him that he'll fix it himself.
- Rose knocks on the bathroom door, where Ann and Rose-KF are showering. Both respond. Rose tells them about the crowd gathering. Ann says she's busy. Rose says Lomgren is there. Rose-KF says she's still busy. Rose then drops the towel off in the bedroom, before rejoining the front door crew.
- Rose then informs everyone that Ann is unavailable. Lomgren says fair enough and says he'll be at the book store. JONJONAUG gets excited at the mention of a book store, to the point that he can't wait for a responce, so flies onto Ann's roof to search for it.
- Rose and Ann-KF go back inside, closing the door and everyone moves off.
Page 80
Ann's House
- JONJONAUG notices the book shop from Ann's roof, but is disappointed because it appears to be closed.
- In Ann's house, Rose and Ann-KF start discussing what to do. They both go to the bedroom to play with yarn balls and catnip and is soon joined by Rose. A yarn ball brawl soon results. This ends up with them both entangled, with obvious results.
Bakery
- Bored, JONJONAUG walks to the bakery and has a chat with Kasumi for a bit.
Freek House
- Kraggi's notices that the pies are ready, so Atescu gets the them.
- The first pie is divided up and Kraggi ends up with nothing, so he tries to beg some of Grim, who wanted over half.
- JONJONAUG has randomly flown to Grim's roof and overhears Kraggi talking. He decides to prove he's a nice guy, so flies off.
Bakery
- JONJONAUG returns to the bakery and buys a lot of pies.
About Town
- JONJONAUG leaves a pie on every doorstep with a note, before knocking and flying off. This done, he takes a mid-air nap somewhere.
Pages 81 to 85
Page 81
Clinic
- Belle tells Sage that her nightmare involve her finishing move, Hell's Invitation, being used on her.
- Sage diagnoses the problem and recommends therapy.
- Belle isn't so sure, saying that she now knows how horrific her technique really is.
Freek's House
- Freek gives Kraggi a quarter of the second pie.
- Grim, starts to flirt with the squirrely one to get some of that pie too, but the pie is too good.
- The conversation turns weird.
Book Store
- Lomgren is getting ready to open his store. He makes various measurements, then out.
General Store
- Lomgren arrives. There, after a little haggling, he orders the stuff he needs and leaves.
Page 82
Freek's House
- It soon becomes obvious that Kraggi and Grim were quoting lines from Space Oddity as grim brakes out into actual song, using a spoon as a microphone.
- Eshli joins in starting with her favourite line, "She knows".
- When the song finishes, Freek asks Atescu WTF? but she doesn't know the name of the song.
- Both Kraggi and Grim are horrified by this and offer to lecture the pair on what they're missing. They decline. However, in turns out that Kraggi is equally ignorant of 23rd century music, which Grim will gladly educate him on.
- Kraggi and Grim go downstairs together.
Page 83
Freek's House
- In the basement, there is a Tasteful Curtain between Grim and Kraggi.
Clinic
- Sage now realizes that Belle is feeling repressed guilt over inventing such an evil technique and this is causing the bad dreams. Unfortunately, this is an issue Belle must come to terms with herself, either by dealing with the guilt or by stop using the technique at all.
Ann's House
- Ann and Rose-KF finish 'cleaning' and leave the shower and get dressed, the former in her 'Frisky Kitty' t-shirt, the latter in the others uniform. While talking, Ann decides to play a prank on the other two 'Anns', who doesn't know about Rose-KF.
- Rose-KF walks into the bedroom and impersonates Ann while Ann hovers by the doorway.
Book Store
- Lomgren does as much as he can for now to get the place ready. He then heads home, bored.
Page 84
Ann's House
- In the bedroon, Rose-KF (still pretending to be Ann) comes under the influence of the catnip the others had been using.
- Outside, Ann grumbles at the mention of catnip and takes off her shirt to cover her face.
- Ann, walks into the bedroom and closes the catnip jar before putting it away.
- The two tied-up 'Anns' do a double-take, but quickly figure out what's going on.
- Ann scolds Rose-KF for mucking up her prank, who defends herself by saying that's her first experience with the nip.
- Ann frees the others by cutting the string with her claws.
Lomgren's House
- Lomgren gets home and notices the pie left on his front doorstep. He takes it in and puts it in the fridge, then notices his list of party preparations. He begins to check that too.
Freek's House
- In Grim's bedroom, the CD ends and the Tasteful Curtain lifts.
- Grim then quickly gets a CMD from upstairs, before returning. She uses this to give Kraggi a 'Male Love Machine' form and the Tasteful Curtain descends once more.
Bob's Truck
- Keb arrives.
- Keb and Bob talk.
- Bob heads towards the Rex and Keb prepares to build a house on the fountain.
Homer Net's House
- Homer returns home and collapses straight into bed.
Page 85
Ann's House
- Rose randomly pins Ann's tail with her claws, causing Ann to cry out in pain.
- Rose-KF tries to help Ann, but falls over, landing on the imprisoned pair, which is enough for Ann to free her tail.
TF Shop
- JONJONAUG is back in his lab. One explosion later, he's starting to get some success with his latest invention.
Freek's House
- Kraggi and Grim have fallen asleep from exhaustion.
- A little while later Eshli walks in, looking for a CD. She wakes Grim to ask her where it is, then asks what where they doing in bed together. Grim tries to pass the buck to Eshli's father, but little girls with awkward questions aren't so easily thwarted. Kraggi tries to fob her off with a lie about music sounding better in bed, while naked, but Eshli doesn't believe him.
Bakery
- Lora finishes shopping and leaves.
Clinic
- Lora heads over to the clinic and inquires about free psychiatric therapy. She doesn't get a direct answer, but is told she can wait, which she does.
Pages 86 to 90
Page 86
TF Shop
- JONJONAUG tests his new inventions, a belt and robe combo that grant the wearer invisibility, intangibility and flight.
- There's a knock at the front door. Which he answers, while still invisible. However, it turns out to be Scribble, who can see such things anyway and actually says so almost straight away.
- JONJONAUG calls Scribble James and invites him in, giving him a key to open all bar the restricted doors in the house.
- Scribble points out that James is his father and that he's here to offer JONJONAUG some of his power.
Freek's House
- Kraggi pretends he actually believed his lie with his whole heart, which explains his behaviour. This is bizarre, but it's Kraggi, so Eshli believes him and leaves.
- Grim suggests Kraggi wear pyjamas if he still wishes to stay the night.
- Kraggi and Grim both don night attire.
- It soon comes apparent that Kraggi is upset about how bad a lie he tried. In fact, he starts to laments that even after 200 years, he still acts like a babbling idiot most of the time. Grim comforts him, saying that goodness of heart is what truly matters, and then they embrace, each lost in their own worry and brooding. Kraggi, hoping that Grim won't die like so many others in his long life, and Grim hoping that Kraggi won't leave her when he discovers the truth about her past.
Ann's House
- Ann notices the air seems to be clearing, so takes off her improvized face mask and suggests the others use the shower.
Lomgren's House
- Lomgren finishes his preparations for the party.
- Lomgren heads out so he can deliver the invites.
Clinic
- Belle has been silent for several minutes, causing Sage to become concerned and inquire if she's taken any drugs, to which she says she was meditating.
- Belle suddenly says she's been called away and gets teleported off.
Page 87
Wiki Notes
- First appearance of Kitty, Kirk and Ollie and Mel King.
TF Shop
- JONJONAUG seems intrigued by Scribble's offer and asks for more details.
- Scibble says he's offering Scribe Magic, which is apparently absolute control over Essence.
- JONJONAUG asks if he could get it tomorrow, as he's tired and wants to go to bed.
Clinic
- Sage checks to see if he has any other patients and sees Lora in the reception area.
- Sage asks Lora, to step into his office, which she does.
- Lora nervously tells Sage out her name, then begins the session.
Post Office
- Lomgren arrives, doesn't see anyone, so rings for service.
- Kitty appears, soon followed by the rest of the post office crew, all in a state of dishevel.
- After some confusion, Lomgren arranges to have his invites delivered. He then pays and leaves.
Grocery Store
- Lomgren arrives, buys two large bags worth of groceries, then leaves.
Ann's House
- Rose-KF says she doesn't need another shower and wouldn't want to leave out Ann anyway.
- Ann is quite empathic that they won't be having a foursome and leaves to get some air.
Page 88
Wiki Notes
- First and possibly last appearance of Monk-E.
Ann's House
- As Ann is leaving the bedroom, Rose-KF reminds her that she's naked, so Ann quickly grabs a uniform and gets dressed.
- The Frisky Kitty Brigade decide not to risk showering while on the nip, but to go out and eat instead.
- Everyone gets ready to leave.
- Outside, Lomgren arrives at Ann's front door and stops for a breath, as the groceries are heavy.
- Suddenly, a strange man, standing on two hand-feet at the end of tails, appears and offers to help.
- Lomgren is obviously taken aback, and nervously declines.
- The strange man seems disgruntled by this, but introduces himself as Marcus, or Monk-E and Lomgren returns the greeting.
- Monk-E again asks if Lomgren wants help, and after getting politely refused again, he leaps off and starts jumping from roof to roof.
- Lomgren watches Monk-E go, wondering who he was.
Clinic
- Lora reveals that she's narcoleptic and has been having weird dreams.
- Sage says he can proscribe medication for the first, but needs more details for the latter.
- Lora then explains how the dreams almost seem like memories, but are of situations she was never in. This, combined with her blackouts, is really troubling her.
Freek's House
- Grim reveals that when she was still male and an Author, she had made many Mary Sues, that he had to have put down.
- Grim breaks into tears and sobs into Kraggi's shoulder, who tries to comfort her, despite not understanding her words.
Page 89
Ann's House
- Outside, Lomgren has gotten his breath back but, he now realises that picking up both bags without dropping the other will be tricky. He decides to leave one behind, grabs the one with the most perishables, and runs home.
- The Frisky Kitty Brigade leave the house, noticing the bag and Lomgren entreing his house.
- The FKB decide to take Lomgren's bag to him.
Lomgren's House
- Lomgren finishes packing away his perishables and heads out.
- The Frisky Kitty Brigade arrive at Lomgren's doorstep.
- Lomgren and the FKB meet on the doorstep.
- Lomgren thanks the FKB, takes the bag, then does a double take as he realizes there are 4 of them, which breaks his brain a little.
- The FKB try to explain why there are four of them, which doesn't help, so they just give him his groceries.
- Lomgren formerly invites the FKB to his party then closes the door.
Freek's House
- Kraggi suggests they go to sleep and Grim agrees.
- The rest of the household are busy at their own recreations, whether reading, typing or listening to music.
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Lomgren's House
- Outside, as the Frisky Kitty Brigade are heading off, Ann-KF stumbles slightly, is caught by Rose-KF, there's a flash of light and now there both in the same body.
- The FKB discuss WTF just happened.
- Rose-KF somehow manages to manifest in a ghost form, then re-materializes her body.
- Rose-KF quickly dresses while the others shield her from view.
- Inside, Lomgren finishes packing away his groceries, then goes to bed.
Freek's House
- By midnight, Freek tells his daughter, Eshli, to go to bed, as she was still listening to David Bowie.
- Freek meets Atescu in the kitchen while getting a coke, tells him what going on, then returns to his room.
- Atescu decides to be a little mischievous and tucks Kraggi and Grim in.
TF Shop
- Scribble ignores JONJONAUG's last comment and pulls out something that looks like a cross between a CMD and a Megaman Blaster. He calls it a Scribble Cannon, but says he needs a few components to complete it.
Clinic
- Sage believes Lora's problem sounds like a form of Self-Hypnosis that causes her blackouts to prevent painful memories from emerging. He says that the easiest method would be to directly search her mind, for which he needs permission.
Diner
- Sanchay walks into the Diner. She's lonely and wants someone to talk to, so sits down at a table and waits for people to turn up.
Pages 91 to 95
Page 91
Lomgren's House
- Outside, with Rose-KF now dressed, the Frisky Kitty Brigade discuss where to eat. They decide on the Rex and head off.
- Inside, Lomgren wakes from a nightmare. Noticing that it's only 7pm, he decides to read the book that Grim gave him.
- After 15 minutes reading, Lomgren puts the book down, and he decides to head to the Rex for some food.
TF Shop
- JONJONAUG asks what Scribble needs to complete the Cannon.
- Scibble tells him it's Untainted Jusenkyo Spring Water.
- JONJONAUG agrees to try and find some, so he opens a portal and leaves Mossy Knoll.
- Scribble gets a massage that they'll need a cauldron's worth of the water, so he opens his own portal and follows JONJONAUG.
The Rex
- The Frisky Kitty Brigade sit down in their favourite booth and start looking at the menu.
- Lomgren arrives and gets freaked out as seeing the FKB triggers his nightmare again.
Page 92
Wiki Notes
- The Underground Bunker first appears.
Bob's Truck
- The next morning, Bob awakens to a pounding. Both in his head and on the door to his caravan.
- Bob answers the door and finds an excited Keb.
- Keb tells Bob that he has moved an entire cold war era Soviet mini-city, complete with Eldritch Horrors sealed away in the lower regions and a missile silo, and installed it beneath the fountain. They go to explore it.
Underground Bunker
- After looking around the safe areas, Bob and Keb decide to go for breakfast.
- On the way back up, Bob complains about the stairs, so it's at this time that Keb tells him about the lift. However, they didn't take it because the missile's fin gets in the way. They climb out of the hatch and head towards the diner.
Diner
- Bob and Keb arrive and order. During breakfast, Keb tries to put Bob off his food, but fails.
The Rex
- The previous night, Ann and Rose notice Lomgren come in, so greet him.
- Lomgren returns a stammered greeting.
Clinic
- Lora is very nervous about the idea of Sage entering her head. She starts to babble about funny monkeys wearing hats, which causes her to start dowsing off to sleep.
- Sage, worried by this, makes sure Lora doesn't fall asleep and says he needs to look now.
- Lora gives permission, but then suddenly sit up and clutches her head in pain.
- Sage quickly enters his patient's mind and finds a very strong barrier. Carefully, he weakens it so that it'll slowly erode, releasing the memories over a series of days. He then returns and tells Lora of this, only to find her still in pain. He says that this is probably a result of the treatment, but if the pain persists or the memories become overwhelming, then she should come to him immediately. He also recommends she sleeps for the rest of the day and says he's done all he can for now.
- Lora thanks him, then leaves.
- Sage realises it's late, so finishes for the night and heads to the Rex.
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Vor's Tower
- Lora arrives and finds two bills, Lomgren's invite and a returned letter waiting for her. She then heads inside, has a bite to eat and goes hunting for a book.
Freek's House
- The following morning, Kraggi and Grim wake up.
- Grim heads to the bathroom to shower.
- Kraggi heads to the shower to make pancakes.
The Rex
- The previous night, Ann-KF asks why Lomgren is so surprised at seeing them.
Page 94
Freek's House
- The next morning, Eshli can be heard singing.
- A hologram of JONJONAUG appears to Grim And Kraggi and explains certain dangers in the forms they're using. These dangers include permanent personality alterations and the desire to procreate becoming compulsory. They both ignore the message.
- Kraggi finishes making the pancakes just as Eshli walks in. She leaves the song unfinished, which the Kraggi takes as an invite to join in. Unfortunately, this annoys Eshli, whop snaps at her 'uncle'.
- An atmosphere ensues, with Kraggi glumly finishing of the breakfast and Eshli, after a few minutes, starting up another song.
- Grim arrives, apologizing about Eshli.
- Grim and Kraggi eat breakfast.
The Rex
- The previous night, Sage enters. He looks around, sees a few drunks, Lomgren and the four Anns, then sits down.
- A minute later the penny drops and he walks over, bluntly asking why there are four Anns.
- Ann-KF answers, saying that one's an dimensional alternate and two are him, duplicated due to a malfunction with the Resurrection Machine.
- Ann then adds more detail by pointing out who's who.
- Lomgren, who's still standing there, seems slightly relieved upon hearing the explanation, but only slightly so. He tells the Frisky Kitty Brigade that he had a nightmare about them.
Page 95
Freek's House
- The next morning, Kraggi and Grim talk over breakfast.
- Eshli joins them a little later, after sees finished her tributing. After eating a pancake, she rushes off to her room, saying it's her 'Devotion Day', so will be there a lot that day.
- The love birds then finish eating.
- Grim gets dressed while Kraggi has his shower.
- While Kraggi is getting dressed, they decide to check on the diner
- On the way out, they overhear Freek and Atescu discussing Eshli's music obsession.
The Rex
- Previous night, Sage appears to understand the situation now and hands everyone else a business card, saying they might be needing him. He then returns to his table.
- Ann-KF says she won't be needing it, but puts it away anyway.
- Lomgren then relates his nightmare in detail, explaining that it involved hundreds of Anns, all staring at him, who then slowly combined into one.
- Ann says she doesn't understand what's so scary about the dream, though it was odd.
- Lomgren agrees and says it's probably a sign that he's subconsciously not comfortable with Death actually walking around.
Pages 96 to 100
Page 96
Wiki Notes
- First appearance of De Spectre.
The Rex
- Rose-KF tells Lomgren's comment that their presence makes him effectively immortal.
- Lomgren admits it's silly and apologises again for interrupting their meal.
- The Deaths say they haven't ordered yet and invite Lomgren to join them, which he accepts.
- Ann-KF then invites Lomgren to visit the Deathmanse afterwards, which he also accepts.
- They then discuss what to eat, deciding on BBQ chicken wings, with a side order of bread and milk to drink.
- The waiter appears as if by magic, takes their order, then ghosts away.
- Ann-KF and Lomgren discuss how creepy he seems.
Grocery Store
- The next morning, Kraggi and Grim decide to take a detour via the Grocery Store, so they can expand their Diner's menu.
- They discuss what each can cook as they browse.
- When they go to purchase their goods, Grim asks to open an account for the Diner and discovers this comes with a massive discount, so she immediately piles on more stuff.
- Kraggi then helps her carry everything over to the Diner.
Page 97
The Rex
- Previous night, the Frisky Kitty and Lomgren talk about the upcoming party. Of course, Twister is brought up.
- Suddenly the food is there and the waiter quietly walks away again.
- They all eat, but Ann is having trouble with the spiciness.
- Lomgren asks whether he should have any TF food at the party and Ann replies as long as it's labelled, then downs half her milk in one go.
- Ann grumbles the the rest of the FKB don't seem to be having this trouble with the spice.
- Lomgren asks if the Deaths just look like Ann, which would explain the different spice tolerance, but is told that they are physically identical.
Diner
- The next morning, Bob and Keb finish breakfast and leave. As they walk, they discuss what to do about the trapped Horrors.
Page 98
The Rex
- The previous night, the conversation about how comes only Ann can't eat spicy food, when all the Frisky Kitty Brigade are physically identically continues.
- Ann decides she can't stomach any more, so goes to wash up.
- Her remaining wings are devoured by her 'sisters'.
- Sage is thinking aloud what to order when he's startled by De Spectre, causing him to fall off his chair.
- Sage gets up and makes his order.
- As Sage is sitting down again, his sandwich is in front of him and the waiter's voice is behind him.
- Sage spins and grabs the man in anger, but De Spectre simply laughs and escapes while Sage blinks.
- Grumbling, Sage sits and eats.
Diner
- The next morning, Grim and Kraggi arrive at the Diner and open up.
- Grim puts up a help wanted sign.
Bob's Truck
- Bob and Keb are still discussing there situation, ie, living right above trapped unspeakable Horrors. They decide to bring in some experienced help ASAP while also inquiring about town if any of the locals have appropriate experience. In the meantime, however, they'll be needing headphones to drown out the wailing.
Page 99
The Rex
- The previous night, Lomgren reminds the Deaths that they were going to show him around their house. He also asks if he can call them anything other than Death, to which they simultaneously reply Knave.
- Ann returns, having failed in finding the bathroom, so Lomgren asks the waiter for a napkin. Unfortunately, Ann's sisters clearly want to lick her clean themselves, and Ann doesn't have what it takes to resists a trio of puppy dog eyes from her own face. This, of course, surprises, and probably slightly arouses, Lomgren.
Page 100
Wiki Notes
- The PC Xiao first enters the RP.
The Town Square
- Midnight, Xiao suddenly appears, completely naked. Looking around and seeing no one, he quickly hides behind the pub. There, he finds a potato sack to cover himself, before heading towards the clothing store he spotted earlier.
Clothing Store
- Xiao enters and buys some clothes on credit.
The Rex
- Earlier, Lomgren suggests that perhaps Knave is too tired to show him around his house.
Vor's Tower
- Lora is having an odd dream.
Bob's Truck
- The next day, Bob finds his invite for Lomgren's party. He sets aside some clothes for it and then leaves his caravan to find Keb.
Underground Bunker
- Bob and Keb decide to begin exploring the safe parts of the silo.
