week twenty-six
week of march 20th

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Where eldest Night
And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold
Eternal anarchy amidst the noise
Of endless wars and by confusion stand
- John Milton
::If there is one thing Chicago despises, it is a revelation ( Read more... )

week twenty-five
week of march 13th

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"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."
- Galileo Galilei
::Some of Chicago's citizens have now been trapped in the city for over half a year. To make matters more depressing, the rainless storms do not let up this week and despite the attack on Millennium ( Read more... )

week twenty-four
week of march 6th

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"The world is not respectable: it is mortal, tempted, confused, deluded forever..."
- George Santayana
::While the rain has let up, the sky still booms and flashes with thunder and unnatural lightning. Attacks on Chicago's citizens by various supernatural creatures are almost guaranteed when one steps out of ( Read more... )

week twenty-three
week of february 27th

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" Be careful of selfish motives.  You can mistake them for principles and end up dying for them."
- Robert Brault
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The skies are still foreboding and gray, crackling with thunder and lightning. On some days, it rains while on other days, it only looks as if it appears a storm is on the way. Regardless, Lake ( Read more... )

week twenty-two
week of february 20th

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"I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago...I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages."
- Rudyard Kipling
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The storms continue throughout the week along with the constant highs and lows in the temperature - the Windy City is in serious danger of flooding. There is ( Read more... )

week twenty-one
week of february 13th

"Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him."
- Henry Miller
The temperature continues with its constant highs and lows, and perhaps it is because of this unnatural flux that a storm front moves in from  on the afternoon of Valentine’s Day. By the ( Read more... )

week twenty
week of february 6th

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"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
- Eden Philpotts
::Chicago finally seems to settle down after the previous weeks of chaos. The battle between the families of the White Court appears to be taking place behind the scenes and the various creatures that lurk ( Read more... )

week nineteen
week of january 30th

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“Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it."
- Fulton Oursler
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Chicago is not a city to stay calm for long - while the weather has died down from the snowstorms that battered the city for two and a half weeks is gone, it seems as if the vampire courts that lurk around the edge of the Loop ( Read more... )

week eighteen
week of january 23rd

“Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret of the past and fear of the future.”
- Fulton Oursler

The sun rises on a new day - literally. After two and a half weeks of blistering colds and winter storms and time repeated on an infinite loop, the calender finally seems to move on. But something is ( Read more... )

week seventeen
"january 16th"

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"Time does not change us. It just unfolds us."
- Max Frisch
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It is week two of the January 5th loop. The weather continues to be horrible in the late afternoon and evenings, and despite where your characters are when the night ends, they wind up right back in the same spot the following morning.

The nightmares continue ( Read more... )