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Name: Waverly Earp
Date: 8/4/20
Statement: Before we start, there is ... so much more, but this is a lot of writing, so if you want more, I'll probably drop more in later down the line!

GHOST RIVER TRIANGLE:

So where the Ghost River splits into two legs and then rejoins at the bottom forms the Ghost River Triangle. It starts in Baniff Natural Park, near Alberta, Canada down to Flathead National Forest in Montana. As far back as we can track it, it’s always been a hotbed for supernatural activity. The interesting thing about the Triangle, however, is that not only does it keep certain supernatural creatures in, it also keeps other things out. It acts as both a barrier and a shield at the same time. For a long time we weren’t really sure why, but it turns out that the Ghost River Triangle happens to be protection Paradise, aka the Garden aka That Garden, with the snake and the tree, etc.

The main bad guys in the Triangle are the Revenants (more on that later) but since the barrier between the Triangle and the rest of the world went down we’ve gotten everything from soul eating demons to gnomes to vampires. The world is our proverbial supernatural oyster.

THE GARDEN

We don’t know much about the Garden yet. It’s kind of a new development, so I’m just gonna put a pin in that for now. Also we’re well aware that it doesn’t make sense that the Garden of Eden is in the frozen North of Canada but I have theories about that, if you ever want to hear them!

What we do know is this: the Garden was originally placed in the hands of two angels, Juan Carlo and Julian. Juan Carlo vacated his post first, when Bulshar Clootie first became a big problem in the late 1800s, and Julian closer to the 1990s. The steps to the Garden can only be seen by angels, mortals who are virtuous enough or by champions designated by the angels in question.

THE EARP CURSE

Over time, a small town called Purgatory popped up. It was one of those Western resettlement homestead towns, nothing special but drew the usual collection of saloons and settlers, bad guys and good guys for a rootin’ tootin’ western adventure. A demon named Bulshar Clootie, who also happened to be the aforementioned snake, set up shop in the Ghost River Triangle with his creepy spider sisterwives and a powerful witch known as the Stone Witch, to try and find the Garden so that he could break his way back in.

He didn’t find it. It took him a while.

Eventually he named himself sheriff, but he wasn’t really doing much sheriffing. Crime was running rampant, as it tended to do in these settlement towns. Sometime in the late 1800s, the famous lawman Wyatt Earp arrived in Purgatory with his posse to try and track down some bad guys, as he do. Juan Carlo, one of the angels of the Garden, deemed that he was worthy and gave him a flaming sword disguised as a Colt Buntline Special called Peacemaker. Wyatt set off writing the wrongs of the Ghost River Triangle, trying to set justice in his own way, but on the way, he murdered Bulshar’s sons.

Thus, Bulshar created a curse.

Every time the oldest Heir of Wyatt Earp turned twenty-seven, the seventy-seven people Wyatt killed with Peacemaker would resurrect as Revenants that only Peacemaker could put down. The Heir would be tasked with sending the Revenants back to Hell until all seventy-seven are gone or they die.

(Most of them died.)

The curse is now defunct, thanks to the efforts of the latest Heir, but it’s unclear what the ramifications from that will be in the long term – it’s a new development.

REVENANTS

Okay, so. Revenants. I don’t know the names of all of them, though God knows I’ve tried, but in what I’ve learned over the years, there is no one-size-fits-all Revenant. There are certain standard behaviors, which are as follows:

They can’t be “killed” (sent back to Hell) by anything but Peacemaker. Their bodies can take a lot of gratuitous harm, even be decapitated, but they will regenerate eventually.

They cannot leave the Ghost River Triangle – if they do, they will basically burn alive in perpetuity. It’s really gross.

Revenants can be distinguished by their mark. Red eyes, and a glowing scar that usually appears in the presence of weapons like Peacemaker, or when the Revenant themselves invoke them.

It’s after that where things get a little messy.

As far as we can tell, they all have a power of some kind, and that power is unique to the Revenant themselves. Some are hyper specific to them and their personality, ie. Killer Miller could turn out the sun and blend into shadows, an exaggeration of his abilities as an assassin. Others were related to their deaths: August Hamilton was drowned and his body was chained to the bottom of a lake that he couldn’t leave, even as a Revenant, and he was able to move through town through reflective surfaces.

And then some of them were just random. Bobo Del Ray could move metal objects with his mind. We don’t really know why.

It also isn’t entirely true that all of these people were terrible people. The terms of the curse was not “every bad guy Wyatt ever dealt with becomes a Revenant” – it was every person Wyatt shot. This means that not all of these Revenants were bad people or deserved to die at Wyatt Earp’s hand. However, that doesn’t change the fact that they did, and while some of the Revenants continued to be good people, the same is not true for all of them.

Basically, even subjected to Hell, Revenants are still people and making the Heir hunt them all the time was kind of sucky.

With the curse being lifted, it’s unclear where the Revenants stand, or even if they still exist, but who knows? Since we’re in Hell, some of them might show up here.

text;

[arachnafriendly]

What if I just take the cushions from the couches in the hotel lobby to help make this bed more comfortable?
Is that stealing?

[recordingends]

probably
What did you tell Blue?

[arachnafriendly]

What
Oh. Nothing.
It's not my place to tell your secrets.
Just tried to caution her from giving a statement in person.

Why?

[recordingends]

I had it under control

[No, he didn’t.]

[arachnafriendly]

Jon.
I wasn't doing it because you didn't have it under control.
She reached out to me.
She asked, and I wasn't going to lie to her.

Text

[onlyordinary]

Hi, Jon? It's Vanya.

I'm sorry to bother you. I was wondering if you had a book on human psychology?

[recordingends]

I don't, as it happens.
What do you need it for? I hear there's a library.

[onlyordinary]

My brother just arrived, and he isn't well. A doctor says he needs a book on human psychology to help him as best he can, and nothing I can find in the library is helpful.

Do you know anyone else who might have one?

[recordingends]

I'm afraid not.
... what doctor?

[onlyordinary]

Dr. Elcin.

Do you know him?

text; 9/26 @ 3:42am

[bestfuneralever]

y r u in my dreams
and not like u as a person
but like the u thats made of fuckin eyes
i saw u in there
in the crypt when i was little but i def dont remember any spirits made of eyes so what the fuck

[recordingends]

[Jon, helpfully, does not see these texts until a more reasonable hour of the morning.]

I'm sorry

[that will surely help.]

it's a side effect
of what I did to you
I'm so sorry

[bestfuneralever]

[That's fair. Most people don't keep Klaus-hours.]

a SIDE EFFECT
like what
the way some ppl say acid gets stuck in ur system & u have flashbacks or w/e???

[Look. He's been leading a Certain Kind Of Life for a long while now. Drugs are what he relates things to in a scale, easily.]

[recordingends]

something like that.

[very reassuring. he really doesn't want to discuss this. ever.]

1/2

[bestfuneralever]

what the FUCK

Text;

[bluewithenvy]

[You probably should stop letting Martin talk to Blue, Jon.]

One: Library. Go there. Look for Adam Parrish and his horde of nerds. You'll like it there.

Two: What'd you do to Martin?

[recordingends]

One: Thank you?

Two: I don't see how this is relevant to part one.

[bluewithenvy]

They're looking into the Order. And the Church.


It's relevant because he's freaking adorable, and a friend.

[recordingends]

What happened is between him and I.

text; 10/28

[arachnafriendly]

It took me a bit, but I think I found something.

[It takes a moment, but Martin finally sends a link to an old network announcement by Lucifer himself regarding the Veiled Order.

He also sends God's contact.]

Did you know you can also contact God directly?
He doesn't answer though.
Typical.
Waverly thinks the tattoos might be making us as supporters of Lucifer but I'm not so sure.

[arachnafriendly]

[After a moment he sends another text.]
Are you keeping warm?
Do you want to come over for tea?

I miss you.

[recordingends]

I have my doubts on whether or not God is actually receiving messages.

[Jon goes over the message from Lucifer a few times, frowning as he takes it in and tries to place the knowledge in relation to other things he knows. He hasn't tried to Know. Maybe he should.

He gets another text from Martin and he reads, then reads it again, and isn't sure how to answer.]

I don't think I was ever expecting Hell to be cold
Even after reading Dante

[There's another pause.]

Some tea would be nice.

[He misses Martin desperately.]

[arachnafriendly]

Are you at the library?
I'll bring tea.
Same as always or are you feeling adventurous?

text 🕷️ un: tsarina

[krasnaya_smert]

I've had the chance to speak with another version of you, Jonathan, and was instructed to pass along a message -

"Do not read the statement of Hazel Rutter. Burn it immediately upon seeing it. If you can't, have Martin burn it while you're in another room."