Series 1

Theme Song:
Back to Avalon - Heart

Cast:

Sally Ginnie Ryan Elle Matt

Forgive me I can't stay here anymore I'm leaving with the tide This evening another breeze blew round my door and stirred me up inside I'm breaking out of this tired old spell I braved it out long and so well And the phoenix flies straight and high back to Avalon Now I'm on my way back where I belong, gonna go down with the sun Back to Avalon

Where I'm going all my demons disappear I'm leaving them behind I'm traveling way up on the atmosphere cause I made up my mind. Gonna find my love Gonna find my life, gonna look them so deep in the eye And the phoenix flies straight and high back to Avalon Now I'm on my way back where I belong Gonna go down with the sun Back to Avalon

Nobody knows what's inside my head or down this road Oh I know I'm going home And the phoenix flies straight and high back to Avalon Now I'm on my way back where I belong Gonna go down with the sun And the phoenix flies straight and high back to Avalon Now I'm on my way back where I belong Gonna go down with the sun, back to Avalon.

Timeline:

Sally, Ginnie, Ryan, Matt, Elle. - Someone who looks a lot like Jez walks through our world and asks Sal and I as a favour to drop off a wooden box with a couple of bits in it to a random pub outside Stoke called the Rising Sun. Jez vanishes; we see nothing of him for a few days. Checking back on the pub, the parcel hasn’t been collected. Sal and Ginnie do a day trip to go collect it again and try to find out anything else we can about where Jez might have gone. The box contains an amulet and a weird 18in maglite looking thing. Sal is holding the amulet as we walk across the car park. - We are in World #2. - We end up in Arran because of stories Jez has mentioned about the game, and find Penny there (‘there’s always a Penny on Arran’). She sacrifices a maid for the answers to a couple questions, and we leave promptly. This is where we are told that Jez is in Hela's Realm. Which, btw, we now have earth for as Sally jumped us there accidentally very recently and Ginnie snaffled some earth. Maybe. It may be the Ash Of The Dead. Sally is fairly sure she can still work with Ash of the Dead. Although she's not sure if she should. - At that point we didn’t assimilate. I remember this mostly because we wound up in strange world where everything was slightly more formal – there were no abbreviations of names – and James was married to Ginnie. We found this out rather awkwardly when she called him, pretending to be his wife, and discovered that this world’s Virginia was standing next to him. - Ginnie Clairved for Jez at some point and got monsters sent after us when whoever we were looking at threw a few coins down and sent them on to eat us. This was Jez-and-Simon via Rifts; they came by afterwards to ask if they could drop us off anywhere as an apology. We refused. Quite vehemently. It went badly. This was almost certainly pre-MattMatt and may or may not have been pre-Ryan. - Sally, in the middle of Arran, wishes desperately for some kind of support. She _gets_ Ryan. Be careful what you wish for. It may not come true and instead you get practically the reverse. - We assimilate as vampires early on, and become Oprichnina. This is icky, and we discover how scary they are. Slightly more scarily, we end up having to jump worlds in front of them to get away, and NCD figures out how we did it, borrows Kevin-the-Mage and brutalises him till he helps them. This means that there are technically a small posse of world hopping Oprichnina out there still. - We had a few series of vamps - from Opri to Sabbat to Cerise-and-Bridget-et-al... - Around this time we get our first huge sum of money - around £20k - thanks to the very very stupid vamp in the casino. He was a Brujah, botched hideously, and managed to persuade himself that we were obviously friends of his boss. Ryan gambled some, Ginnie cheated mildly; we were using the Stoke point to cross a lot... - We’re all assimilated into vamps; Sally turns out to have Elder Potence. It’s always fun to find this out when you’re slamming on the brakes... car goes byebye, and our trail of trashed hire vehicles/premises begins. This is the same world in which Ryan tried to go for Chiroptean Marauder and instead discovered he had protean and could turn into a bat. A small, cute bat There was an incident in the steppes somewhere where Ginnie finds she has Chiropteran Marauder while trying to work out how to Astrally project. Same world? Trying to get hold of an animal to feed off of, realising I have Species Speech. Likewise, a moment of someone having Earthshock unexpectedly. Small crevasse appears in front of the herd of deer/moose running at us... It was after Sally accidentally teleported everyone to Siberia whilst trying to meditiate in a faerie glade in Stoke. We found this out when we accidentally stumbled in through a portal in Siberia (don't ask. just don't. It involves Shadow Step, fairies and some rather dippy meditation techniques. :P) and were still assimilated from the last world - into a 6th gen Kiasyd (Sally) a 5th gen Giovanni with Thaum (Ryan) and a 5th gen Tzimisce (Ginnie). We were then immediately confronted with a caern of elder werewolves. It was by merest fluke that we managed to say something that stopped us being killed there and then - we managed to blag the rest of the night off to prepare for single combat. As assimilation appears to happen in our sleep, we dozed off in the faint hope it would help. We woke up as Lara Hepburn-Carter approximately six months after Xander's birth, a Nagah (Ryan) and a particularly badly ronined Khan with cool scarification that tells a story carved down most of her left side, starting at forehead and working down. On the down side, it seems to say something about 'Evil evil evil, cast out and evil, jump on her head if she ever appears near any healthy, clean-livin' groo-folkses'. Sal-as-Lara got Alexei (who appeared because we in our previous incarnations Clairvoyanced him till he spotted us and tracked us - thank several different types of gods for Corax curiosity...) to call Resolution and tell him he was babysitting Xander. Which, you know, very friendly. :P - Sally, Ginnie and Ryan were on Arran when Matt got added - an Xbox controller is sadly abandoned in a gorse bush. - Fairly early on we encounter a world in which we encounter a Harlequin-alike Jez type person. He does us a favour, but we end up owing him. I think the debt was primarily Ryan related, but I can't remember much more. We world hopped by accident, leaving us unable to pay the debt. Sally vanishes off for a while and ends up in the Underworld with a bunch of Australians. She accidentally gives a small fragment of her soul to Jason Chappel/strange Australian Necromancer. Ryan takes this as a mild betrayal, especially when Sally comes back and continues to refuse to let him feed from her. I remember briefly visiting Marvel-verse, relatively early on - we saw a flaming guy flying through the sky, and I asked someone if it was the Human Torch, and they said it might be, but they thought the FF was off world at the moment.

- Post-Gehenna Italy World. Huge volcano, all dark, very grim. Everyone worshipped vampires. Ryan is Embraced by some kind of rather scary Methusulah whilst we were trying to infiltrate said church. Ryan is alarmingly unmiserable about this. We found a guy who spoke French, and worked out we were a few leagues from Rome. Then we had to work out how far a league was... - Aberrant-verse the first time round – Ryan’s a vamp (assimilation from the previous world that hasn’t worn off yet) and eats someone in a bar. We leave precipitously. (suspected Aberrant cos there was someone flying?) No – Ryan was a full time vamp now. It was after post-Gehenna Italy world. - Anita Blake world - mostly memorable only for the fact that our _underwear_ assimilated! _Underwear_. Ginnie found herself in a purple silk thong instead of sensible black cotton from M&S and insisted we leave!

- OldCamWoD-verse - we met the Office of the Justicar. Sally ended up in a car with a large black panther resting its chin on her knee looking at her thoughtfully.

Oh, and remember the snowy Canadian wastelands? That was early on - that was whilst we were in J&S's place in Acorn Walk. That was, I think, the WildCards universe? Sally accidetally teleported MattMatt to the Wilds of Canada. We managed to get there to pick him up, but then got put in a mental hospital where Ginnie melted the mind of a nice hospital orderly, showing that she had Psychic Assault for the first time. We managed to jump away from there, to a house belonging to our alternate selves where we defrauded ourselves, and then got picked up by a special forces team who seemed to expect us to be prepared to parachute jump out. We managed to escape without making that jump. However, our luck was not to last! As a note, in this world Ryan had a passport which stated that he was a vampire. - Mr Pink and the HALO drop into Vietnam in mechs. [It was Mr Rose, thank you very much, and I think that was somewhere around Thompson's world. I remember the mech thing being played out in your living room in Acorn Walk] - There was another Disastrous Moment of Damage shortly thereafter, that left Ginnie in bed with a broken arm. Ryan then frenzied on Ginnie, killing her, and forcing Sally to drain Arran dry and kill its harvest to save her. - Elle creating a Dragon on the roof and Thompson kicking us out after one of Ginnie's more hideous tact-breaks. This was after Ryan had been properly Embraced and was a vampire full time. That’s why we had to put him in the cellar. It’s also where he developed that weird combo discipline that the Tphennis had, after getting involved with them. However, we had to flee before they had taught him how to use it. - Ryan being a necromancer and Matt being a fire mage. [Was that the same time or different to the one where we were all different types of fairy; the svartalfr and so on? It involved a large mirror that we saw things in...?] This was actually the same world as the world in which the Boy Was Afraid Of The Dark. Ryan managed to pull off being a Necromancer, but was secretly a vampire. I think it was before the Tower, because MM was assimilating. This is also the world where we had to cut ourselves to get blood into a bowl for Ryan to drink and he complained about our unwillingness to let him induce the Kiss. There was a boy there who Ginnie changed the memory of so he remembered being in the dark and not being overwhelmed by his fear. Jez implied strongly that Ginnie had then Doomed him to Doom by making him brave enough to become a hunter... That was also the world where Ryan Embraced that poor girl who always wanted a Prince to come and rescue her, and she turned into a Banshee. Then later we slowly burnt her alive, in an attempt to do the right thing. It’s actually one of the things I feel worst about. Fading Suns the first time, when we landed on Holy Terra and I assimilated as Ekaterina Decados, about the same time that in timeline Aidan Aderyn was negotiating with Prince Hyram to sell him a Lost World in return for being a Count and half the Jakovians in the known world were looking for Ekaterina to find out what she had to do with this. We met Alyssa Van Gelder, and then got told by the Decados Ambassador that he was shipping us off to Hyram RIGHT NOW. We then had to somehow get into a flitter in broad daylight, tried to get Ryan to walk out there shielded only by a parasol (one of our more epic bad ideas) at which point he frenzied, killed one of the nice guards (whose weregild then got stuck on Ekaterina’s account, which I’d forgotten about and may mean that she kills Sally/all of us if she ever gets her grubby little paws on us. That’s got to be a deadly insult in FS world), and broke Ginnie into little pieces. Ginnie got stuck in a bacta tank, and we ended up trying to world hop from a flitter, about 40’ up in the air. It was Sally, Ginnie and Ryan at that point. Ginnie didn’t die, but did end up naked on Arran. Gods, and we wonder why House Aderyn hate us!?!?! Ginnie was Aliana at that point - right at the start, we were in Aran and Ginnie flung light sabre into the water for some reason and had to dive for it. Sally was carrying the light sabre as a flux sword at this point, and Ginnie was wearing amulet while in a coma in bacta. - In Montaigne with vamp-Ryan; the Porte mage prisoner we un-blindfolded and let escape by accident; Ryan tasting the blood from the rip in space left by Porte and promptly frenzying; Ginnie heading him off at the pass and surviving long enough for Sal to dump us all into the ocean. This was shortly after the pony-trekking-across-the- moors-for-weeks incident that means that technically Ginnie's _capable_ of riding... Sally also feels really bad about the nice Eisen who died trying to slow up the Montaigne who were pursuing us there. As a note, this is also the point where our good intentions got a lot of people killed and Sally’s Humanity began to haemorrhage as a result. The jewellery we bought from the woman in ...Stoke, possibly? Thatchanged colour/gemstone when Sal got Pyerem. We ended up back in that world, and with that woman, who looked funny at the jewellery, saying that she'd never made any in that colour, but it looked like her work... Sapphires to emeralds, in fact. - I can't remember if this was before or after the Tower, but we did at one point get an overnight train from Edinburgh to London. Sally decided to experiment with weather magic and ended up lightning striking the train tracks. Ryan then decided to try and mend said train tracks with some kind of matter magic (I think this might have been his natural pre-vampire intended magic power) and melted the train. We wound up stranded in the middle of nowhere, in the rain. The Tower: we were trying to get to the 19th world we'd been to (I _think_ Thompson was c. world 16-18ish?) and ended up here instead. Elle, Mattmatt, Ryan, Sally Ginnie. That's where we earn Antonio Villanova's undying emnity. And btw, I think his wife is still out there. PYFC collected her and handed her off to Corporation Assamite our Employers... This is also where Ryan decided he wanted to become an Antediluvian. After this, we no longer assimilated for the rest of this season - we were fixed in place as who we were. We land on a WoD ‘verse. All the antediluvians begun to wake up due to Ryan’s presence. This is where we learn that having an active antediluvian about may be complicated. We end up on a boat being slowly drawn towards Ennoia, I believe, just before we somehow jump worlds. SLA-verse; and Ryan went into uber blood form to kill the Frothers who were about to kill us whilst I drained Ginnie's life force to get us off world? We survive about 2 minutes; end up in Aran. Ryan may have Embraced me at this point...? Either that or Sally destroyed Aran's harvest for the next year to bring me back to life, for which I am ETERNALLY GRATEFUL. - Ginnie ends up in hospital, in a coma of some kind. Sally heals her by draining the hospital garden, and whilst she's there makes the doctors sing theatre songs to power her magic, out of sheer malice. This starts a theme of malicious sing songs. We meet the Zodiac fairly early on. For some reason (probably to do with us being a) rude b) a security breach or c) blunder-y-in-their-territory-y) they attack Sal and Ginnie. Sal is unconscious, Ginnie manages to link to _something_ while hanging onto Sally's amulet and DESPERATELY HOPING to get Away. We get Away. Ben's walk through was upstairs in QoD court, and was after Sally summoned a waterspout to take us to shore from being stuck in the ocean - I think we landed in Australia. Matt assimilated into Resolution at that point - Matt's first frenzy! Ginnie remembers being Cerise at this point. We realized we were in Australia where all the spirits were angry with us, panicked and Sally called Cloud, who managed to get us Moonbridged out of there. Ginnie accidentally offended Jez's Elder Silent Strider (Alexei's son, Cloud's twin - FAMILY OF DOOM). ﻿﻿Sally traded info for the evac and as a result sung like a canary re: Carver and some of her more dubious activities. Ryan got picked up by the World Hopping Oprichnina at the airport, and is currently being held hostage. They want Sally, who they think they can use to track Nikita. They have a mind messed Kevin-The-Mage with them who they are using for magical purposes. Ginnie is no longer a vampire, but instead appears to be Ginnie-Pre-Mysterious-Tower which is possibly good. She has psychic neem back, anyway. Sometime in the early years, we're vamps (this happened -a lot-). Sally's spirit goes missing from her body. Elle tries to bring it back, and ends up creating a faux-Sally that's relatively mindless out of wind and water. Matt uses Valeren to bring her back in. Sally thinks this was after the Tower, as it wasn't Valeran, per se, MM was using, but rather a manifestation of his weird healing neem he got from the Tower. The time when there was Ryan in a cauldron of blood and something Obtenny. He vamped there... Ginnie was spending time as a quasi-Trujah at that point, IIRC. Elle learning to make Gates; from UK to the Black Forest. The time we were in a world where there were Things in the night – Devlin Waugh may have been involved – and we were on Arran, being herded in the dark by Things. Ryan made vampiric cows. - Dying in the void of space after Elle tried to open a door back to Holy Terra after being in FS-verse; some of us were in prison for reason of being filthy psychics and we were trying to get out. We’d already accidentally hauled Xan Kovell over to us briefly... End series 1