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From New Babbage Department of Records and Archives
This page in reverse order, most recent events on top. The previous month is removed during the second week of the current month and put in calendar order for an archive page, indexed by month and year for retrieval. Line entries could also be moved to a topic pages to provide a chronological outline of events which can be read without the unpleasantness of trying to dig things out of the Ning and the greater blogosphere. The ultimate goal is to make the ongoing story of New Babbage more cohesive. Also, many stories are so complex that they cannot be strung together until some point in the future, so this page will serve as a staging area until the threads can be properly archived
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The News from New Babbage
- February 7
- Lia and Phineas arrive at their destination
- Underby's estranged wife, Phaedra, wonders where him and Boris have got off to. She lures in an urchin to do her bidding.
- Stargirl has a romantic evening of ice skating on the frozen canals. Tenk has a pet crow.
- Footman and Keithan visit Innsmouth
- Wiggy Undertone attempts to rent out a spare room above the wiggyfish cannery
- February 6
- Miss Steel gives birth after a very short pregnancy. Placebo steals the baby and disappears
- Charise realizes she may be overindulging, decides she should get out more.
- February 5
- Another crow is brought in for bounty. image
- Given Placebo tell of the man who sent him on his mission, who was obviously smitten with Miss Steele
- Footman recounts his family's history in Antarctica
- Lia endures the tight conditions of the ship on her voyage to the Arctic
- February 4
- Alanas feels as if she is being followed
- February 3
- Talisa and Alanas have an adventure at Helgerud's musuem
- February 2
- Lia and Fracture depart for the Arctic
- Capt. Renfold muses on carnival freaks. Finds an old letter from the American Civil War in a trunk, which he has no memory of writing.
- Alanas Steele takes the stone idol to the archeologist, Alastar Helgerud, for some explainations
- Talisa continues to secretly torment her sister Alanas.
- February 1
- Given Placebo arrives, looking for Miss Steele.
- Lionheart investigates Alanas Steele's dreams
- January 29-31
- Phineas Fracture has misgivings about Bilavio's arctic research on magnetism, concerned about expedition.
- Footman tests the Geistmagorium (after fending off a rogue automaton), Keithan Darkfold assists
- Alanas Steele bemoans her pregnant condition and the stone idol that is haunting her
- Talisa reveals she has been intentionally driving her sister mad with a large hidden supply of stone idols
- Charise in a constant haze of drug use since Reed's departure, derides Alanas Steele for attempting to purchase abortive medicinals.
- Cyan and friends find a warehouse to live in. They also witness a robot attack while shopping in the arcade
- Nell and Zachary close a chapter of their lives, decide to stay in New Babbage indefinately.
- January 28
- Verlia Bilavio has misgivings about going to the Arctic with Phineas Fracture, the man who rescued her after falling into the canals.
- January 27
- Phaedra Wickentower, a woman claiming to be the wife of YoYo Underby, makes inquiries as to the health of Miss Soup.
- Professor Footman works on the Geistmagorium, a machine designed to communicate with the dead.
- January 26
- Dizelle Soup, Underby's mistress, dies after drinking a tea that was addressed to Mr. Underby.
- Tenk refuses to grant a favor to Stargirl.
- January 25
- Professor Footman builds an automaton girl.
- Cral Denimore remains obsessed with the moon rocket that fell through the roof at Ruby's Pub. Considers hiring a Priest as a mathematical consultant.
- Victor takes his new airship out for her maiden flight
- Talisa tours the undersea complex with Professor Alastar Helgerud
- Cyan continues recounting his adventures with Shadow of the 13 (SPOILERS)
- Kaylee pushes buttons and blows things up.
- January 23-24
- Holmes and Watson depart for overseas. image
- City welcomes visitors for the Airship Regatta and Races
- Keithan Darkfold and Grendel Footman discuss experiences with spiritualism, Father Pizzaro overhears.
- Reed Darkfold, the assasin, leaves town because he cannot find work. Charise runs to train station to see him off.
- Founder's Ball image: dancing the night away
- Verlia Bilavio writes to her sister about searching for clues about his father and general impressions of the city.
- MichealD MacMannonen reviews his lack of business progress since settling 7 months ago, looks forward to receiving his friend Mr. Foehammer and discussing alternative energy for clockwork mechanisms.
- Lans Starsider brings in a raven for the bounty.
- Stargirl recounts a pleasant weekend full of excitement and dancing.
- January 22
- Loki leads a musical parade through the streets from Oldbridge to Clockhaven.
- Footman pokes around for a new project, talks with Nightshade Sixpence about alternative energy
- Mr. Trex Renfold, the carnival owner, watches his fortuneteller make a potion, thinks about his seizures and whether or not he should allow Lilli to perform the Tower of Terror act due the flimsy construction of the apparatus.
- Tenk still offering 500 lindens for live crows, infers that there is one crow in particular he is looking for, asks Kaylee to make a custom Reality Enforcer Device attached to a cage.
- Underby casts a strange spell that makes people channel spirits from another dimension
- January 21
- Cyan talks about his adventures in the year he was away and meeting his parents
- Stargirl recounts her visit from the priests
- Mr. Pearse thought he saw courier wearing the the old Imperial colors.
- January 20
- Repairs are finished on Footman Industries, Grendel Footman's health much improved after fire, turns sights toward other projects.
- Underby livid over Pip's insubordination
- Nikolas Souther, a new arrival in town, ponders recent events, discusses the Mayor's reasons for hunting the crows and finds lodging.
- Charise Adderstein starts a new journal, fears the arrival of Edmund and frets over the impending departure of Mr. Reed Darkfold.
- January 19
- Cadmus Lupindo comes ashore to check the progress of his secret project.
- Gizzzy pleased with the improvements to Footman Industries, joins the carnivale as a sword swallower.
- Two ravens are turned in for bounty. Tenk talks to each one before killing it by twisting off the head.
- Stargirl panics after a visit from the Fathers, considers leaving town.
- January 18
- Mr. Underby reveals that he has sent Pip to spy on Miss Macbain, but suspects he should have given Pip more specific orders.
- Cral Denimore test his new steam carraige, speculates on the rocket that fell on the roof of Ruby's Pub.
- January 17
- Stargirl ponders the presence of Pip, takes in two urchins and discovers that Mr. Tenk is having crows hunted because they are taking parts of his clock. Father Moonwall makes inquiries.
- Clementine Claremont arrives in search of Clara Corryong
- January 15
- Grendel Footman recovers, no longer needs to use rebreather, finds frozen corpse of a child to test serum on.
- January 14
- Stargirl finds Underby's servant Pip sneaking around in her house
- January 13
- Mornington's pet magpie, Mr. Umbridge, is shot at by crow hunters
- Jimmy find a stranger studying the Eliot Device
- Stargirl still has a cold, worried about Footman, and the fact that someone has been in her house while she was gone.
- January 12
- Victor Mornington speculates on the mysterious scanners Journal entry
- Footman Industries catches on fire when Prof. Footman knocks over a lantern after injecting himself with something. Gizzzy survives with severe cosmetic damage. image image image
- Stargirl catches a crow, but looses it before she can collect the bounty image: Bird in a Box
- January 11
- Mayor Tenk authorizes a bounty for live crows and ravens
- Stargirl survived the immortalis experiment
- Margo the bag lady puts a music box back in cobblestone house basement. Myrtil & friends follow the clues, find a ghostly burning man in the sewers. image: on the trail again
- Man in the moon MAJOR SPOILERS!
- Mr. Renfold calls an emergency town hall meeting concerning the barrels which have been falling from the sky. A dark cowled man in flames, howling for the return of his own soul, appeared and seemed to cause Renfold to spontaneously combust. Renfold's satchel is left behind. image image image
- Willard Steamweaver, the dark man in flames, runs from City Hall, drags off Triky Jinx.
- Your soul or your life MAJOR SPOILERS!
- Loki discovers that Margo is his grandmother image: Loki meets his grandma (Shadow of 13 wrap-up)
- Some urchins try to collect the crow bounty image: "Don't squish him!"
- Kaylee tries to make her rail mounted reality enforcement device less obvious image: The Device
- January 10
- Rumors circulate about the nature of Miss Steele's pregnancy
- A rocket ship crashed into the roof of Ruby's Pub. image image
- A self aware clockwork girl takes up residence at Brunel Hall.
- Nat tries to piece together the clues, meets Mr. Renfold
- Kaylee rolls her new reality enforcement device onto the tracks near Oldbridge image
- Margo December, the bag lady, keeps going on about putting something back before the moon returns. image image
- January 9
- Alanis Steele battles morning sickness.
- Experiment with Immortalis carried out, Stargirl locked-up at Footman Industries for observation. image
- Myrtil tries to put the clues together.
- Brainstorming SPOILERS
- Breezy Carver digs deeper into the mystery
- The Clues, Characters, The Moon SPOILERS
- January 8
- Founder's Day
- Cyan Icewolf returns to the city, starts on the trail of clues that starts with the corpse in the theater.
- Welcome Home!
- Welcome Home part 2 (Shadow of 13 SPOILERS)
- Nat, Skyler, and Kaylee are scanned by flying automaton in Port and left unharmed. image image image
- Thaiis, Jimmy, and Myrtil are scanned by a flying automaton near the Academy. Thaiis shoots and it explodes.
- Breezy Carver starts on the trial of clues
- January 7
- Stargirl recovers from a night of drinking at the Gangplank, contemplates the corpse at the theater, the coming immortalis serum trial, and a broom that appeared on her hearth.
- A fifth barrel is found near the Academy
- January 6
- A third mysterious barrel is found in Babbage Canals image
- Jesper Renfold of the Van Creed Society examines the corpse in the theater, speculates that it is Arthur Celtington.
- Prof. Footman and Nightshade Sixpence attacked by automata, they shoot and the automata explode.
- A fourth barrel is found in Clockhaven market square Barrel Pin Map
- Bela Lubezki fires gun at a flying automaton, it explodes.
- Myrtil follows the trail of clues that started in the Imperial Theater
- Kaylee Frye test her portable reality enforcement device at the Gangplank, which sets off a night of heavy drinking by some patrons present. Underby performs an act of magic to test the device, but Tenk suspects trickery and advises Kaylee to maintain scientific rigor. Kaylee unnerved by experiment, returns to Gangplank and indulges in drinking.
- A pregnant woman arrives at the Gangplank and makes inquiries about Mr. Underby
- January 5
- Workers find body in wall of Imperial Theatre while rennovating backstage area image
- Twelfth Night. Christmas ends.
- January 3
- January 2
- Heliotrope Lionheart writes privately about settling in New Babbage and his ability to infiltrate dreams
- January 1
- City eerily quiet as citizens nurse their hangovers.
- Lafayette Steamweaver reopens former Cleanslate Shipworks under his own name
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