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[Volume Two: A Blessing in Disguise (Issues 79-128)]

Volume Two: A Blessing in Disguise (Issues 79-128)


Following the chaos during the Night of the Watch, life begins to return to normal. Derek goes MIA, and the girls begin to adjust to their new sexual obsession. Amy is seen on the phone with Zenon, confirming he has returned from his vacation, while Laura and Caitlyn gush to their social circles about their new boyfriend. Dani and Erin install a stripper pole in the Infirmary in preparation for Mallory’s birthday party, which had previously been decided to be held at local strip club Sawyer’s (Dani’s former off-campus job after arriving at Wilmot). Jacqui suggests to Adrian the morning after that he should accept the thanks of the women he saved, implying he ought to assert himself in this burgeoning harem, though he seems reluctant. He is, however, willing to fuck her after she returns from her lunch break.

Laura is working in the lab for her TA credit alongside her partner, Vikram Puntambekar, an Indian student revealed to be having a date with Amy. Laura feels bad, knowing the date is fated for disaster, but spares Vik the details. While sniff-testing a new perfume mixture, Laura trails off, eyes losing focus. She regains focus after a moment, remarking on the strong scent of the mixture, and they conclude their work. Vikram takes some of the mixture, marked #49, and remarks he may share some with his sister Kanti to scare off her date, of whom neither he nor Laura approve.

Erin sucks Adrian’s cock behind the register while Jacqui is away for lunch. A woman walks in looking for Jacqui, and Adrian manages to inform her Jacqui is away at lunch. The woman asks if they could tell Jacqui she stopped by, and Adrian asks for her identity. Much to both his and Erin’s shock, the mystery woman says she is Jacqui’s daughter before leaving. When Jacqui returns, she is less than enthused to hear about her daughter, claiming she had taken out a restraining order against her. She then scolds Erin for fucking Adrian on the clock… without waiting for her to join, then drags Adrian into the storage room for sex while awaiting her daughters imminent return. Said daughter, revealed to be a Jewish woman named Miriam, is outraged that her mother is having sex while expecting her arrival and is nonplussed by Erin’s flippant attitude.

Jacqui emerges and it is clear there is no love lost between mother and daughter; Jacqui refers to her as Pearl, though Miriam insists on her other name. Miriam informs them that she has transferred to Wilmot’s Jewish Studies program and will be in town for the foreseeable future, having come to discuss how they will avoid each other for the duration. The ladies have a tense lunch to hash out the details and split, intent on never speaking again.

That night, Erin and Adrian play pool. When Erin knocks the cue ball off the table, it is recovered by her and returned by Quentin Tarbox, also known as QBox or simply Q. Q returns to his own table and his own date, who happens to be Kanti, Vikram’s sister. She tries on the perfume sample Vik had given her and, like Laura, she fades out of focus, eyes glassy and mouth open. Q approaches her from behind and suggests that they go home and fuck all night, and she dreamily agrees. He backs off, claiming to have been joking, but as Kanti regains focus, she suggests that they do just that. Q pockets the vial, seeming to take note of the reaction. The two leave and have sex, Kanti eagerly urging Q to recover so they can continue. He suggests she go down on him to inspire his recovery, which she says she does not do; however, after another sniff of the vial, she finds herself sucking him, admitting it is fun. Sidenote: Q seems to have picked up very quickly on the suggestive side-effects of Laura’s compound, taking immediate advantage of them on Kanti and knowing enough to source her new suggestibility to the perfume.

On their walk home, Adrian tells Erin what Jacqui had said about the breakdown of her relationship with her daughter. According to Jacqui, Miriam screwed up an engagement she had with another man when she ratted him out for legal trouble, claiming it ruined her life for a few years without going into great detail.
At Zenon’s office, he and Amy discuss the incident with Derek… while Amy has her blouse unbuttoned and her bra exposed. He is later heard calling someone and claiming that “we have a problem.” While he feigns innocence and claims Derek happened to discover the patients’ triggers when speaking with Amy, the phone call makes clear that whatever Derek was trying to do with the girls, Zenon was connected to it, as well as to whomever else is involved.
Erin stalls Adrian by having sex with him in the campus steam system tunnels, while at the Infirmary, Mallory, Dani, and Caitlyn practice their pole dancing and prepare to surprise Adrian when he returns home. While in the tunnels, Erin and Adrian find strange machinery reminiscent of radio equipment, along with four glowing scallops. They return to the Infirmary, Adrian waiting outside as Erin, Mallory, and Dani get dressed. When he enters, they have decked the living room in oriental decor and are dressed in gauzy silks. They proceed to alternately dance for his pleasure and suck him off, reassuring him that he can stop worrying about them after the Watch and that they are here because they want to be. Caitlyn is eventually revealed to also have joined the fray, and the four romp long into the night as Adrian begins to truly enjoy his newfound position as harem head.

Jacqui closes her shop, gazing wistfully at an old photograph of herself and Miriam. She calls Sawyer and lets him know she will be dropping by the club for a drink, but on the way, she is stopped by a woman in a green coat, whom she greets as Rain. Enigmatic and nebulous, Rain has history in Kearsarge and at Wilmot which predates much of the present’s nonsense and, over time, is revealed to play a very important role in the story. Here, however, she merely informs Jacqui that someone (later revealed to be Q, her previous boyfriend) is out of prison and back in Kearsarge.

At Sawyer’s, Jacqui bemoans Q’s return and remarks to Sawyer that he had better stay away from both her and Miriam. Sawyer remarks Q likely got a job with someone called Yves. He reconfirms that Jacqui and Danielle eventually plan to make a dual performance at the club for Mallory’s birthday, then tells his right hand man to send word to Yves to let Q know that Jacqui and Miriam are off limits.

On her way home, Jacqui feels fairly depressed at her day, which quickly improves as Amy and Laura find her, kiss her, and take her home with them to fuck, introducing her properly to the sapphic side of romance. Jacqui displays a natural talent for cunnilingus despite never having done so before.
Marliese visits Rain, seeming to have recovered something from him after using his alarm code. It is unclear whether Rain provided the code or whether Marliese knew it from somewhere else, but Rain has clearly sent Marliese to confiscate whatever items of interest she has swiped. Rain remarks that Zenon does have a “private stash” of said items, and then she and Marliese disrobe and enjoy each other. The precise nature of Marliese has always been somewhat confusing to me personally, especially given the drama which happens with her regarding the Watch in the 900s and in the late 1200s-early 1300s. Rain is slightly less obfuscated, but the fact that these two characters interact with each other this early to steal something from Zenon is quite odd considering future developments.

Elsewhere, Derek appears before his boss, a leather-clad dominatrix poser named Claudia, who rebukes him for thinking with his dick when his assignment was simply to find Danielle and the Watch. Flanked by nude women in lingerie (eventually revealed to be a busty blonde named Meghan and Adrian’s former girlfriend Echo), she warns him he will be sorry if he fails again and tells him to wait for further instructions from her in Newark.

Sawyer’s man informs Q of Sawyer’s warning, to which Q agrees to avoid Jacqui, though he expresses surprise at learning that Miriam is back in town.
Raven watches as Jacqui, Amy, and Laura enjoy their morning after at Over Roasted, bemoaning her lack of current companionship. On cue, Erin enters and compliments her jeans. She encourages Raven, whom Laura had recently invited to dinner at the Infirmary, to bring an overnight bag; Raven becomes flustered at Erin’s forwardness. Adrian talks with Amy, who enthusiastically tells him about her time with Jacqui and Laura, much to Erin’s amusement, and the two set up a date.

Later, as he works at the record shop, Adrian is approached by Rain, who claims she needs to speak with him. While their conversation is left ambiguous as they walk across town, she apologizes to him that he has landed himself in a mess of relationship drama while seeking to avoid it. Upon their return to the shop, he confronts Jacqui and, apparently prompted by his conversation with Rain, gives her permission to call him Master for the first time, which she does with relief. He subsequently texts Erin and Mallory with the same permission, much to their delight, then walks to escort Danielle (who has picked up a new job servicing planes) home from her interview. He expresses his mixed feelings about all that has transpired and says that Rain warned him something bad might be coming. He worries over whether he is ready for it, and Dani throws a snowball at him. The two devolve into a snowball fight, which ends with them tenderly making love in the middle of the snowy woods. Rain looks on and bids an unknown audience to, “Watch over them.”

STOP

Volume Two introduces several new and noteworthy characters. Vikram will eventually become something of a secondary antagonistic force as more and more of the women in his life seem to fall under the effects of mind-altering shenanigans, while Q and Kanti’s relationship (and Q’s past with Miriam) will continue to evolve as the story progresses.

The two biggest additions, however, are Miriam, who will eventually be inducted into the harem through wacky hijinks and schemes, and Rain, who seems to know the most about what is actually happening while revealing the least possible at any given moment.

Noteworthy additional developments include Laura’s development of #49, which will be revealed in the third volume to be the infamous substance known as Pink Clouds, Adrian’s renewed resolve to take ownership of his women after his discussion with Rain, and Danielle’s sudden aviation job… in spite of having no listed knowledge or history in regards to planes beyond “dating a pilot.” This last detail in particular is another hint that not all is as it seems where the busty, somewhat ditzy Quebeçoise is concerned.

[Volume One: The Night of the Watch (Issues 1-78)]

Driven both by boredom, the irregularities with the site in the last 10-ish months, and a (admittedly likely unhealthy) obsession with SJI, my effort with this post is to do for the 15+ year serial what  user jwik01 did for Beyond Rubies as it was approaching its conclusion back in 2017. Please feel free to point out irregularities, errors, and additional useful information, as in spite of the ludicrous amount of information I’ve consumed regarding Saint James Infirmary, there are doubtlessly still going to be spots I miss.

Volume One: The Night of the Watch (Issues 1-78)


Adrian Cavanaugh, musician and student, transfers to Wilmot College in Kearsarge, New Hampshire. Down on his luck after a recent breakup, he has accepted an offer to rent a room in a house already occupied by three tenants. He is pleasantly surprised to find that the three tenants are a trio of bombshell college babes: Mallory Lefebvre, a brilliant brunette who works with the campus library; Erin Hackberry, a busty, feisty redhead currently cast as Juliet in the campus’s upcoming production of R&J; and Danielle Pellerin, or Dani for short, a beautiful blonde who initially seems to fit the stereotype of the blonde bimbo. All three women are knockout gorgeous, but Mallory cautions Adrian that dating housemates is off-limits, with Erin in particular having a trail of broken hearts behind her. Mallory also informs him that the house they share they have nicknamed the eponymous “Saint James Infirmary.”

Though none know it at the time, these three women will become the seminal members of a harem which eventually spans the campus with Adrian at the center. Each of the girls also harbor as of yet unrevealed secrets which make them all far more than meets the eye.

Erin begrudgingly begins getting to know Adrian better, eventually encouraging him to seek employment at the record store at which she currently works. The boss, a no-nonsense woman named Jacqui, hires Adrian after the interview, though it is clear that Jacqui is not quite what Adrian was expecting. Adrian and Erin get lunch together after the interview in celebration. They have Vietnamese together, and Adrian asks Erin on a tentative “date” afterward. She agrees, and they go for coffee, where Adrian frustrates her by revealing a near-identical taste in music to her own. It is quickly becoming clear that, despite her frosty initial impression, Erin is beginning to fall for Adrian, much to the amusement of local barista and goth Raven.

Meanwhile, we are introduced to three new girls, each in their relation to the on-campus hypnotherapist known as Dr. Zenon. Caitlyn Hess, a campus cheerleader with post-grad political aspirations, is first seen under trance in Zenon’s office, slowly being coaxed out of her pants and masturbating before the doctor at his orders. In the lobby, Amy Honeywell sits as receptionist and assures Laura Lovering, a ginger TA pursuing her PhD in chemistry, that Zenon will be with her shortly. Upon Caitlyn being released, we see her being confronted by a man eventually revealed to be Derek, an ex-boyfriend of Danielle’s who apparently has access to hypnotic triggers which Zenon has programmed into his patients. Caitlyn is triggered by Derek and follows him, allowing him to grope her as she does so. He fucks her in an alleyway (the same one Erin and Adrian pass on their way to the Vietnamese place) and then takes her for lunch, conditioning her further one table over from Adrian and Erin. He makes out with her against the window of the Over Roasted coffee shop while Erin and Adrian are on their date, before sending her away with a dazed expression.

Though we are not privy to their session, Zenon clearly programs Laura with the same set of triggers, as Derek is seen triggering her outside of the coffeehouse where Adrian and Erin have their first date; he and Laura depart, Laura glassy-eyed and unresponsive to Derek boldly feeling up her tits in public.
Christmas and New Years pass in the span of two issues, Adrian gifting each of his housemates a present and receiving condoms from a secret Santa. It should be noted that his gift for Danielle is a certificate for stress management at Zenon’s clinic. Erin is sexually frustrated, unwilling to make a move on Adrian (which is vocally apparent to the other housemates); Laura and Caitlyn spend some time as Derek’s sextoys, clad in costumes for his amusement; Danielle shows up for her first appointment with Zenon; Raven the barista is shown to be considering her burgeoning bisexuality, and Jacqui (up to now only shown in shadow) determines to get laid more in the New Year.

Erin and Adrian bond further, hungover from the New Years Eve celebrations at work. They discuss Adrian’s previous relationship, and he explains his ex broke up with him by phone and mid-coitus with her new man. Derek is seen in the background trying to use a trigger on Jacqui, who breaks his nose for his trouble.
Danielle’s first session with Zenon is shown in detail. She strips without any prompting from Zenon and explains some of her past while masturbating, claiming she had been a good girl until arriving at Wilmot but gaining a wild streak after arriving as an exchange student. Zenon, skeptical, asks if she has ever been hypnotized, which she denies; she does, however, elaborate that her first boyfriend was an older man who had ostensibly hired her as a housekeeper but was really interested in sex. Dani obliged with eagerness and submission, which she recounts while having an animated orgasm. After this, she redresses, is hypothetically given programming from Zenon, and sent on her way.

Erin, seeming conflicted, tells Adrian she isn’t looking for a relationship right now in spite of her feelings for him. He mentions needing to stop at Student Health before turning in for the evening. Adrian leaves her and heads to Student Health to buy condoms (inexplicably, given we have seen no evidence he used his Christmas gift). Outside, a dazed Danielle walks past, and Adrian eventually spots her and catches up to her… right as Derek does the same. Derek leans in and whispers something in Dani’s ear, but before he can capitalize, Adrian sweeps her up and whisks her away, much to Derek’s chagrin. Venting his frustrations, we see him triggering Amy (confirming she has also been hypnotized by Zenon) and fucking her off-panel. He later calls Caitlyn that evening and triggers her, telling her to join Amy at his place.

Adrian carries Danielle home and calls Erin to let her know about Derek’s appearance. Danielle goes upstairs, Adrian thinking she’s been shaken up by the encounter; in reality, we see her doing her makeup and donning a stereotypical French maid’s outfit. Adrian asks Erin if she thinks he has a chance with Dani, and she seems hesitant to respond, but Dani reappears and Adrian hangs up before Erin can reply. Dani presents herself to Adrian and begins to unbuckle his pants, claiming she will do anything he wishes, much to his surprise. Erin’s arrival home startles him and he frantically shoos Danielle to his room. Erin, seemingly emboldened by Adrian wondering about his chances with Danielle, directly asks to fuck him, suggesting they go up to his room.
Adrian, a bit overwhelmed by two women throwing themselves at him in such quick succession, makes out with Erin up the stairs as they disrobe, leaving a trail of clothing in their wake. He distracts her long enough to tell Dani to hide in his closet before Erin returns and begins blowing him. Dani, turned on by her view of the show, begins touching herself and falls out of the closet; Erin storms away, furious. Adrian is dejected, but Dani claims to have a solution, reassuring him to wait as she heads for her room.

Mallory, whom we had previously seen considering having her girlfriend Marliese over for a date night, arrives home and assumes the house is empty. She calls Marliese to invite her over as she begins making dinner. Upstairs, Danielle retrieves a box from her room with a spiral-covered notebook, a series of polaroids featuring a host of women, and a golden pocketwatch. She goes to Erin’s room, and we see spread polaroids of Dani using the watch to hypnotize an unknown woman and coaxing her into sexual acts with her former employer as Dani talks with Erin, eventually showing her the Watch.

Dani sends Erin to speak with Adrian while she heads downstairs to confront Mallory, approaching her from behind with the Watch in hand. Erin enters Adrian’s room and asks what happened with Danielle, and Adrian explains the odd behavior Dani had displayed. To his shock, Erin rises and sheds her green robe, revealing herself to be nude beneath and promising to finish Danielle’s blowjob and then let him do whatever he wants to her.

While Adrian fucks Erin, Dani answers Mallory’s phone to tell Marliese that Mallory had to run an errand but that she will be back for dinner and that Marliese is still welcome. She looks down and tells Mallory they should talk about her girlfriend, Watch in hand, as Mallory eats her out. Erin proposes asking Dani for tips on deepthroating Adrian, then proposes that the two women can practice on him together. Adrian heads to clean up before dinner but is surprised in the shower by Mallory, who says that Dani explained things to her and proposes they not let the hot water go to waste. They fuck in the shower while Erin and Dani fix dinner downstairs and prepare for Marliese’s arrival.

Marliese arrives and is surprised by the three women, each clad in slutty garb. Erin and Mallory restrain her while Dani shows her the Watch, which seems to put her into a hypnotic trance. Dani tells Erin to go and entertain Adrian while Mallory finishes dinner, then sets about programming Marliese into Adrian’s adoring sex-slave. Mallory calls Jacqui, whose power has gone out before she’s finished submitting her taxes, and invites her to the Infirmary for dinner; Dani plans on using the Watch to make her into yet another slave for Adrian.

At dinner, Adrian is surprised to find Marliese under the table sucking his cock, and seems for the first time to wonder whether something fishy is going on. The ladies exhort him to simply sit back and enjoy as Jacqui rings the doorbell. Dani welcomes her in and takes her upstairs to hypnotize her while Erin and the others tend to Adrian. Though he is still hesitant, Mallory and Erin eventually persuade him to fuck Marliese over the table.

Upstairs, Jacqui finishes filing her taxes and catches sight a string of pornographic photos displaying more women on Dani’s computer. Notable among them for future reference is a petite girl named Echo, whose photo is right beside Dani’s own. Jacqui asks if Dani was a talent scout, and the maid replies that she was part of a harem as she dangles the Watch before Jacqui’s eyes, telling her that they will now both be part of Adrian’s harem. Jacqui attempts to resist, and Dani explains that Monsieur (her boss) invented the Watch and used it on Dani and other women to make his harem when she lived in New York. Now, seemingly confusing Adrian for her Monsieur, she is intent on resuming her duties and brainwashing women for Adrian.

Adrian, thoroughly enraptured by the crazy turn his life has taken, is finally fully alarmed when both Erin and Mallory refer to him as Master. He hollers for Danielle, who heads downstairs, leaving the Watch and a dazed Jacqui stripping in front of the computer. Dani explains what she has done to Adrian, who is bemused and intent on returning the four to the way they were. Dani reluctantly agrees to fetch the Watch, only to be interrupted as a nude Jacqui descends the stairs, Watch in hand and pissed that she can’t redress herself. The two realize that someone else must have put Dani under and deduce the nature of her hypnotherapy with Zenon. Adrian tells her to awaken, which she does, but she retains no awareness of what has happened since her therapy session and no knowledge of how the Watch works.

Without Dani’s hypnotized mind, Erin and co. are stuck in the slave personas Dani programmed into them. Zenon is conveniently out for a week-long vacation, but Adrian proposes trying to go to Derek to see if he can retrigger her. Dani is reluctant, but Jacqui convinces her with the promise of some sexual favor. She calls Derek, and she and Adrian dress to go meet him, leaving Jacqui to the sexual mercies of Erin, Mallory, and Marliese, who quickly begin having their fun with the record-shop manager.

Derek, having already collected Caitlyn and Amy, enjoys their company along with Laura as he roleplays supervillain and awaits the arrival of Danielle, eager to have her back under his control. En route, Dani tells Adrian that Erin does genuinely care for him beyond the effect of the Watch and proposes (free of hypnotic triggers) that she and Erin reward him for saving them together. When they arrive at Derek’s address, hands reach out and grab Danielle, yanking her inside. Adrian tries to follow, but he too is apprehended. Tied to a chair and confronted by a hypnotized Laura, Caitlyn, and Amy, he is able to use their preexisting trances to persuade them to release him and view him as their Master. Derek, having triggered Dani, is prepared to fully reclaim her, but Adrian and his new slaves burst in and rescue her, Derek once again injuring his broken nose in the process. Adrian and the four women hastily redress and flee into the night, the four still dazed from their experience under Derek’s control.

As they are entertaining Jacqui, Mallory and Erin stumble upon the Watch, left at the Infirmary by Danielle; they use its power to finish Dani’s brainwashing, properly inducting Jacqui into the harem in spite of her best efforts to resist. When Adrian arrives back with his four rescues, his three slaves and Jacqui (secretly now a fourth slave) greet him enthusiastically. Erin claims they discovered how to turn off the Watch, temporarily undoing the programming. Mallory says she will use the Watch to purge Caitlyn, Laura, Amy, and Danielle of Derek’s influence, while Jacqui encourages Adrian to enjoy the fruits of his heroic labor and have sex with Erin upstairs. However, once he is gone, Mallory, Marliese, and Jacqui program all four women into Adrian’s sex-slaves with the Watch, including Danielle, who has previously not been under its influence. The group then descends into a sapphic orgy while Erin reassures Adrian that she is open to Danielle and other women being a part of their relationship.

STOP

Thus ends the Night of the Watch! Though Adrian does not know it yet, he has suddenly and unexpectedly been saddled with eight obedient, adoring sex-slaves who have been programmed to obey his every command. In the coming volumes, his slaves will grow more bold in their desire to not only formalize the harem, but to open its doors to others… whether they want to or not.

The Watch, a seemingly innocuous and charming reference to the ultimate stereotype of the hypnotic genre, eventually evolves into the most consequential artifact in SJI’s mythos, able to rewrite thoughts and personalities in whole with no limits on suggestibility or timeframe. More will be revealed as to its origins and predecessors in due time.

Derek has been established as a semi-recurring character who will eventually be revealed to be tied to much bigger players in the overall story of SJI, and mysterious secrets in Danielle’s past with her boss which will ultimately form the crux of the story are teased in the form of the polaroids, her known history at the time, and her possession of the Watch itself. Even Dani is not aware at this time just how impactful her presence in Kearsarge is.

Retroactively putting it on the appropriate day

The calendar seems a bit off. This appeared on the 24th, but it was placed in the calendar on the 21st.

Bit like buses really; it seems like you wait forever for one and then...
Great to see.

Script: Daphne • Art and Lettering: OneDollarBilly

Script: Daphne • Art and Lettering: OneDollarBilly

I've seen that since the recent round of updates.  Also one where you send Annie a trigger phrase at the same point.

[NOTE:]

NOTE: Regardless of which route got you into the bedroom or what version of Allison you saw, if you are on a hypnosis path (and you are the hypnotist), you will text Annie a trigger phrase here. Wait a moment, and you will get a "Read [time]" indicator. The phrase and time change based on your run.

I don't remember seeing it mentioned, and have never gotten this one before, but I got an ending were you also send Paula a trigger phrase (which works) right before sending one to Annie.

My only issue is that with the number of artists we've been through I feel like I need a SJI style character notation at the bottom of the pages. Who's the girl on the cover meant to be? The MC's girlfriend?

I don't remember her name, but Jeremy put the whammy on her a couple of times.  There was a scene in the park where he zapped her and another girl, had a threesome, and set them up to be lesbian lovers.