week sixteen
"january 9th"

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"War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
::The nightmares progress - you will hear a female voice in your dreams pleading for help. Those who have an affinity with the supernatural will not notice anything different from their dreams other than the voice while anyone without will catch ( Read more... )

week fifteen
january 2nd

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"I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?"
- John Lennon
::The first week of the New Year starts out gray and frozen - the windchill often lowers the ( Read more... )

week fourteen
december 26th

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"A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness."
- E.M. Forster
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The week after Christmas is a quiet one for Chicago. Nicodemus and his lieutenants have once again vanished to some unknown parts of the underground, and the Christmas tree that replaced Buckingham fountain has ( Read more... )

week thirteen
december 19th

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"I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all...we are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent."
- Taylor Caldwell
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Just when it seems that you could possibly begin to predict what Chicago throws at you, something else occurs that does not add ( Read more... )

week twelve
december 12th

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"The key to change is to let go of fear."
- Roseanne Cash
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Three full months since the first arrivals entered into the strange mimicry of Chicago, and the illusion starts to repair itself from the weather disturbances of the previous week. With this shift also comes a change in territories, it seems - the Red and Black ( Read more... )

week eleven
december 5th

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Some say the world will end in fire
Some say in ice...
- Robert Frost
::Snow continues to fall on Chicago, and for the first time in nearly three months, the illusion wavers. Some of Chicago's "citizens" vanish into the ectoplasm - a substance created when reality harshly coincides with beings from the Nevernever. But ( Read more... )

week ten
november 28th

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"O innocent victims of Cupid,
Remember this terse little verse:
To let a fool kiss you is stupid,
To let a kiss fool you is worse."
- E.Y. Harburg
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The holiday season has finally arrived, and with it, snow - lots of it. When your characters go to sleep Sunday night, Chicago is its normal, blustery self save for a few light ( Read more... )

week nine
november 21st

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"'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall."
- William Shakespeare
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It's a week of activity in Chicago, even after the return from the ghostly plane, there is still much work to be done. After two weeks of silence, the man with the rope, better known as Nicodemus, begins appearing in more public areas of Chicago. ( Read more... )

week eight
november 14th

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"Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements."
- Harry Houdini
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Along Chicago's historic Gold Coast are lined mansions and condomeniums, fanciful homes to the wealthiest of Chicagoan society. This neighborhood of never-ending green lawns and glass-and-brick facades also provides ( Read more... )

 week seven
november 7th

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"It is the calm and silent water that drowns a man."
- African proverb
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The first week of November brings an Indian summer, and also a period of peace and quiet. After the retrieval of the Statue of David, it seems as if the mysterious captors have decided to give your characters a bit of a respite.

Still, there are reports ( Read more... )