September 13, 1995
3:32 AM
just outside Echo Bay, Maryland
a shed
the death of the mayor changed everything. it brought new perspective to a people who were scared, upset, confused. it gave people a moment to pause and reflect on what had happened so far.
what it didn't do is change anything.
Markus Wilson, Sr., had long theorized that it was human nature to destroy, because humans seek to end the hierarchies that bind them. kill an authority figure, and suddenly you're in charge. he thought that by eliminating those hierarchies, we might eliminate death itself, and he left Dorothy to this task through a program he called the sequences. give people the ability to freely end life, and people will sort themselves out in a way that isn't normally possible.
before the sequences could begin, though, she had to demonstrate to the people why they were necessary. one death spirals into another, into another, into another, until eventually everything settles, and some people are left alive, but the hierarchies themselves remain untouched. and so she had started this campaign of murder with Roderick Howell, the chairman of Howell Hospital, a position he earned only through nepotism -- a well respected man in the community. the fact that his death was a necessary consequence for her own life played a role in this, but more than anything, this was about the sequences.
after a month had passed, people started to think things might be okay again. but that complacency created the necessary conditions for everything to start once again. this was inevitable.
the body, found rotting in a shed eleven days later, proved otherwise. at some point, a mob had come together to dispatch another life. the cycle continued.
for a brief moment, Dorothy had considered the possiblity that things might be okay. maybe all the incredible circumstances that had brought her into existence at this specific point in time weren't necessary, and she could rest easy. it was clear to her now, though, that things were only going to get worse before they got better.
she'd need to get her hands dirty.
3:32 AM
just outside Echo Bay, Maryland
a shed
the death of the mayor changed everything. it brought new perspective to a people who were scared, upset, confused. it gave people a moment to pause and reflect on what had happened so far.
what it didn't do is change anything.
Markus Wilson, Sr., had long theorized that it was human nature to destroy, because humans seek to end the hierarchies that bind them. kill an authority figure, and suddenly you're in charge. he thought that by eliminating those hierarchies, we might eliminate death itself, and he left Dorothy to this task through a program he called the sequences. give people the ability to freely end life, and people will sort themselves out in a way that isn't normally possible.
before the sequences could begin, though, she had to demonstrate to the people why they were necessary. one death spirals into another, into another, into another, until eventually everything settles, and some people are left alive, but the hierarchies themselves remain untouched. and so she had started this campaign of murder with Roderick Howell, the chairman of Howell Hospital, a position he earned only through nepotism -- a well respected man in the community. the fact that his death was a necessary consequence for her own life played a role in this, but more than anything, this was about the sequences.
after a month had passed, people started to think things might be okay again. but that complacency created the necessary conditions for everything to start once again. this was inevitable.
the body, found rotting in a shed eleven days later, proved otherwise. at some point, a mob had come together to dispatch another life. the cycle continued.
for a brief moment, Dorothy had considered the possiblity that things might be okay. maybe all the incredible circumstances that had brought her into existence at this specific point in time weren't necessary, and she could rest easy. it was clear to her now, though, that things were only going to get worse before they got better.
she'd need to get her hands dirty.
Gamma Emerald has died, and was a town roleblocker.
it is now night 4! submit your night actions in the next 48 hours!!!
it is now night 4! submit your night actions in the next 48 hours!!!
