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Persons Of Interest Board

By O5-10

[Line break because it's long]

Seymour Snapdragon - Cunning and charming, he founded the Snapdragon Smugglers and currently runs it. Through his crafty ways the Smugglers have risen to the top of the anomalous black market, and he's willing to trade anything for the right price. Moderate threat to the Foundation.

The High Priest - The standing leader of the Church of the High Moon. He leads the sacrifices and ceremonies to their figure of worship, who happens to be O5-4. Has effectively enslaved the nearby village of [REDACTED] into joining. Threat level fluctuates.

Father Proctor - Leader of the Children of the Deep Woods. A kind and brawny man, he worked the fields before he was called to serve. Now he leads his flock/children in maintaining and worshiping the forests, for that is the grounds of their sacred one, O5-4

███████ █████ - The current principal of Brunshire Academy for the Anomalously Gifted. A well-to-do man, it seems that he was involved in the appearance of the time wrym that has forced the academy into a continuously looping year. Currently not a threat.

Madame Chrysanthemum - The leader of the Flora Fighters, she was the leading figure of the group until MTF unit Omicron-5 took her out, and the group was defeated. may still be alive and regrouping the GOI. Threat level high.

"Yam" - A young man with reality-hopping abilities who speaks only the word "yam". Is no threat to any reality, and all things considered, is quite pitiable Currently at Site 230

Uva - a grape nymph and right-hand woman to Madame Chrysanthemum. She tries to keep the peace and please her superior, but its hard with someone as quick to anger as Chrysanthemum.

Lady with the Cart - One of the few benevolent POIs, she appears to those in need and provides aid. After saving their lives, she vanishes without a trace. Might be associated with the Curious Caravan. No threat to the Foundation.

Ringleader Regina - The current leader of the Troupe of Shadows. Malicious and cruel, she desires nothing but to further her own gain, willing to resort to kidnapping, brainwashing, and forcibly anomalizing anyone that gets in her way. Threat level high.

Synt@x Err0r - The current leader of the Neon Nightsticks. Under his command, the former anomalous hack and gaming group turned into anomalous thieves and cybercriminals. Has a past with O5-10, and constantly tries to convince him to rejoin. Threat level moderate to high.

HakerWoman35 - Current right-hand to Syn. Hates the group and is hated in return. Leads the doxxing squad and has made the most attacks against the Foundation, but is thwarted by Ten at each turn.

Bertha Teca -Librarian and Head Author of the Talvania Author Society, she has changed the group to be more open to newer genres and styles of written works. However, she still leads the group to commit atrocities in the name of writing. Hates Shuichi with a burning passion. Can be negotiated with, earning her a mild threat rating

Lily Teca - Daughter of Bertha Teca and leader of the AP Literature club. After being almost kidnapped by the Gallery a La Mort, she began to slowly turn into a living book, slowly losing her mobility and willpower as the affliction crept on.

Shuichi Ouma- A kitsune yokai and the High Leader of the Mystery Masqueraders. He seeks to transform everyone into animals and animal human hybrids, to create a "utopia" where he and his followers will reign. Has a past with O5-4. Due to his known deceit and trickery as well as his powers as a yokai he is a high threat, but must be brought back alive, as per Four's orders.

The Host - The right-hand man to Shuichi. One of the first to be transformed and one of the cruelest. He wears a bunny mask and dresses similar to that of the rabbit from Alice in Wonderland. He hosts tea parties with his victims where they have a chance of survival against him. He has an inuman leap and bite force thanks to his lagomorph part of him

The Zodiac Assassins - A group of enforcers of the Masqueraders, these fourteen assassins are at Shuichi's beck and call. They are all different in their approaches, fighting style, mannerisms, and leniency. They should not be engaged with unless there is no doubt that the fight is in your total favor.

Luke & Letif Rangel - These brothers run the Horror Havocs, and wish to see the world shiver and shake in fear of the monsters in the anomalous world. While they run a small group, they have the wit to make them a threat. Still marked as an average level threat primarily because they're only active in October.

Leonidas Sethos - The leader and founder of the Cult of Nodalise, his goal is to break down the world through chaos just so he can rebuild it in his own visage. He leads his group through the darkness, playing the long game in setting up members everywhere he goes. Moderate threat.

Lillian - The kindhearted Owner of the Shaper's Suite. SHe had opened the anomalous hotel to reality-benders in need of a safe haven. She also acts as the leader of 25 other shapers, who seek to protect and bring back reality-benders from going extinct. No threat.

Dimitri Polar - Aspiring photography teacher and most prominent student of the Worldwide Photography Co. Is known for his ability to bring objects outside of photographs, allowing him in some cases to bring them to life. No threat to the Foundation, but must not end up with any evil groups.

Grandmaster Silas - Whether or not they're a specific subgroup of the Sarkic Cults, one thing is for sure, and that's that Silas runs the Devourers of Flesh. He promotes the idea that the next evolution of the world must be achieved by the consumption of flesh, and the extermination of those who resist to partake. Recent activity has boosted him to a moderate threat.

Mark Mosura - President of the West Virginia Bug Committee. He has turned a group dedicated to catching and examining and learning about entomology into one dedicated into summoning Mothman. Mild threat, very unhinged.

"Mr. Jacket" - On the surface, this kind man runs the big bank at the heart of West Virginia. In reality, he is the Bee King, a Bee humanoid who wishes to coat the world in honey and rule it. He wants to summon Mothman explicitly for this reason

Grammy Long Legs - An elderly lady usually seen knitting in public. She does this to mask that she's actually a spider-person, and that she's usually webbing up human flesh during her knitting sessions. She desires the Mothman to make the world a feast for her alone.

Scorpion Siblings - The guards to Mark Mosura. Quiet, effective, and glowing in the dark, they serve to ensure Mosura's survival and success in the summoning of Mothman. No way to change their goals unless they fail them.

Arien Amani - Thought to be a son of the Collective, Arien Amani leads the Dream Walkers, appearing in dreams and making them follow him, by sending them into a comatose state. Average to moderate threat, very elusive.

Uranus - Runs the Bear's Belly Bar. He ended up on the Foundation's radar after the drinks served to Agent [REDACTED} transformed him into a fish which they mounted on the wall and rigged to sing. Despite the ferociousness and cruelty he is known for, he (for the most part) treats his workers like family. Average threat to the Foundation.

The Great Collaborations - A set of living art in multiple mediums that were exclusive in that they were worked on by two or all three siblings. This granted them extra abilities and the ability to think and talk on their own. One of them, "Easel", is in Foundation custody, and admits that it's better than being with his siblings.

Velma Valdiva - The Host of the AG 'N' G Inc. channel. Has a creepily wide smile, and seems to not really care that every contestant on her shows get violently murdered. She reminds staff of a certain SCP...

Geordi Applegate - Young adult "currently" attending Brunshire Academy. A loner, his company seems to be exclusively his ventriloquism puppets. Perhaps befriending him with another student could open him up...

Victor Viscovian - An escaped student of Brunshire Academy and the co-leader and male lead singer and back-up guitarist of the Cacophony Symphony. If you have to meet one of the members first, stay away from Victor. He unnaturally good charm could end up with you ending up dead before you can ask for his autograph.

Clover Strimling - Despite being in her early twenties, she is the godmother of the Cracked Clubs mafia, and has been working towards this even before she escaped the Brunshire time loop. Rumors are she's related to an important member of the Foundation

Hades Kalliope - Owner of the Hades Hotel, they strive to keep the Hotel in working order and a spotless public record, even if that means torturing, killing, and trapping nosy people that wander in.

Amanda Whoolery - Current leader of The Cinephile Club, and an escaped student of Brunshire Academy. Obsessed with the idea of making a movie to revolutionize the box office, and will use her anomaly if she has to to achieve it.

Maddie Chirban - An escaped student of Brunshire Academy. Blessed with the anomaly that is a nigh-indestructible body, she willing pulls off horrifically dangerous stunts. Thankfully she's more interested in movies than chaos.

Symon Zain - An escaped student of Brunshire Academy that landed The Cinephile Club in trouble after he attempted to sue DC for the Music Meister Batman episode, on the Foundation that it was ripping off him and his story.

Jack Royal - Related to an old teacher of Brunshire and a former teacher of Kretchmar College, Jack Royal decided to make rich quick by tricking people into gambling it all away. In his casino you have a 99% chance of losing it all and more, but there is a slim odd that he will make sure you get everything you deserve.

Old Man Whittaker - Despite his name and appearance, Whittaker has a tight fist wrapped around the illegal moonshine business in America. Do NOT let his offer of a free swig entice you. If need be, threaten him by mentioning his granddaughter, Brunshire's own Veronica Whittaker, who is a trapped student.

Ava Rutledge - Leader of the Black Bullet Barrage motorcycle gang and an escaped student of Brunshire. She rarely speaks, often using her authority to intimidate others into doing what she wants. Don't underestimate her speed and resourcefulness, we've lost too many men from it.

I'll add more if One can provide me with some info --Ten

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lightraker · 7 years

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Divided-Back

It is a common cry among my GCSE students that they wish they could just ask the poet what the hell they meant. I always roll my eyes at this and tell them that it doesn’t matter, that it wouldn’t help, that their own interpretation is the most important thing. Well obviously that’s a load of nonsense. And so I come to this entry fully armed from a night in the pub with Langley himself. The author is dead? Long live the author!

There are two main keys to this poem. One is the Edgar Allen Poe short story the Purloined Letter. In that story a detective, Dupin, finds a stolen letter (containing compromising information about a lady). The police search everywhere including sticking needles into the cushions of the man’s house. Dupin finds it “hidden in plain sight” on a card rack in the room. Dupin went in covering his eyes in green spectacles pretending he had weak eyes. He then comes back the next day to retrieve a snuff box he had purposefully left behind. He arranges for someone to fire a gun on the street outside. The robber is distracted and Dupin retrieves the letter.

There’s an interesting extra detail which is that Dupin swaps the letter for a duplicate he has written. This ties up nicely with the set of poems “Of those from the ships”.

The second key to the poem is that Divided-Back is a term for a postcard and this poem is, and I know you’ll all be very excited to hear this, Eric’s most Derrida-influenced poem. Having no intention of ever reading a word Derrida has written, I’m just going to make some stuff up about what I think Derrida might have said. And my understanding is that this is very much in keeping with Derrida’s ideas. (Ha ha, just a little post-structuralist joke). Derrida writes a book called “La carte-postale: De Socrate à Freud et au-delà”. You can never have a private language because language itself implies a third party. Words get their meaning from how others use them. The postcard is symbol for the lack of privacy. There’s also some stuff about how it’s really the reader who writes the postcard. In this book, he writes an analysis of the Poe short story (The Purloined Letter) critiquing Lacan’s reading of the story. Last night in the pub I wrote down: “Lacan you never arrive at the other. Derrida: the letter has always already arrived.” So that clears that up!

Eric was saying that the first three poems are about the couple. In the next three, there’s a third party involved.

Here’s a very simplified summary of the four sections: 1, Eric writes a postcard where he tries to genuinely say a loving message. 2, things and people get in the way of us understanding the meaning. 3, the loved one sees through all this and “gets” the postcard. 4, unbothered by intermediaries, Eric declares his love.

Ok. Into the poem:

You’ll notice the layout of the poem apes the way the back of a postcard is divided into two. We might perhaps also think of the separation of the couple that the postcard is hoping to bridge.

“I shall be under the clock”. The titles of the sections comes from a Victorian manual on how to write postcards.

“We meet in white frame”. In a postcard you’re constrained, restrained, can’t think (write) outside the box.

“Block out” - either layout print in blocks or cover up / censor.

“Victorian lilac or green issue” types of early postcard printing.

“two pints of stout… donkey ride” - classic seaside postcard image.

“I do wish you were here” - the writer struggles for authenticity, stuck using clichés and other people’s words (Derrida), but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t “mean” it. Sometimes the truth is staring you in the face (Poe).

“held up to her light” - as if looking for invisible ink.

“no secrets” - a postman can read it.

“empty places” - description of a postcard or many other things.

“write-aways” - original name for postcard

“post-haste” - the origin of this phrase is that it “haste, post, haste” was an instruction that used to be written on letters.

“double-impress” - the letter writer who makes a carbon copy before sending it (eg Kafka). When thinking about the third person added to this couple, we might think about us, the readers. These “secret” poems or letters or cards are being written with an eye to a broader readership. Like a Shakespeare sonnet, or any published love poem, they’re not really being written to be read by a single private loved one, are they? And in that way they’re like postcards.

“drop-sink… fugitive ink” - technical printing terms.

“Impossible synchronicities” - you don’t write a postcard and have someone read it at the same time.

“in plain view… sticks the wall” - Now we’re into the Poe allusions.

“passes show… overseer… orisons” - we also get some Hamlet allusions. Although Hamlet is, according to Ophelia, “the observed of all observers”, he still says he has stuff that isn’t in plain sight (“passes show”). It is Polonius who reads through Hamlet’s love letters to Ophelia. He is the third observing party. But does the “overseer” have a good look or overlook the crucial detail?

“dead letter” - unclaimed or undelivered piece of mail.

“ghosts that spook the posts” - Ghosts makes us think of Hamlet. His father’s ghost is a message for him to read. But also Kafka described his love letters as ghosts.

“tea leaves… apple peel” - this is the idea again that unlike the straightforward message of “wish you were here” which means what it says, these are messages that people have to interpret in complex mystical ways.

“turn and turn again” this is a Iago reference. Again a messenger that you cannot trust.

“grus aus” - a misrendering of “greetings from” in German. A “gruss aus postcard” is a type of old postcard.

“foxed” - as well as meaning tricked, this describes a corner of a piece of paper that’s turned up.

“that would scan” - Hamlet says this when considering killing Claudius while he’s praying. It sounds OK but it isn’t enough.

“each cushion is needled” - now we’re back with Poe.

“you sit behind green glasses” - after the incompetent police officers, the third party, the loved one comes in who sees what is in plain sight.

“gently take what they mistake” - Theseus says this about Bottom in Midsummer Night’s Dream. So although Eric’s writing is all bumbling and full of mistakes, a wise and noble reader is able to see what he means. (Wordsworth speaks of “gentle reader”).

“I didn’t hide it, so you couldn’t find it” - the Poe character escapes detection at first precisely because he didn’t hide the letter.

“I didn’t hide it so you couldn’t find it” - I hid it so you could find it!

“Come round for your snuffbox” etc - this is what Dupin does in the Poe story.

“Poins… Turpin”. Poins is a character in Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 who gives misleading messages. Turpin is of course the highwayman who got in the way of the post.

“I love you” x3 - hoping for authenticity from the ultimate cliché?

“If looking liking moves” this is what Juliet says when her mum tells her that she should like Paris at the party. There’s a suggestion that the reader has to want to like what they read. Eric has written his declaration of love, the loved one has to want to read it. Or it could just mean, sometimes what you see is what you get / love. This scene is concerned with surface reading - Lady Capulet tells Juliet to “read the volume of young Paris’ face”. Of course Juliet doesn’t fall in love with Paris, but she does fall in love at first sight at the party. So looking does liking move. It’s interesting that the poem ends on a conditional clause. I guess maybe it’s open to the reader’s interpretation and my Year 10 students were wrong after all.

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