When we last left our heroes...

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[Haight]

I wonder if you can integrate the shell into anything to make it work.  Could Adrian put it into his guitar to get a guitar of mind-controlling sexiness?  Or does it take more work than that?

And is Jacky still planning on stripping at Sawyer's?  I wonder... was that some sort of residual from Danielle's original command to her to strip?

[jmundt29]

It could be residual, but I really felt like this was more about a celebration of life and power, not a tack-on from that command.  After all, Erin, Mallory, and Marliese finished her programming so she could wear clothes and wouldn't randomly be swamped by sexual fever or fervor.

[GodWilling]

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[jmundt29]

I don't think he even knows about the shells (although if one of them is powering the belltower, it might be responsible for his hypnocock gambit if he were fundamentally altered or enhanced..nah, he wasn't born there or conceived there...never mind).

[laguna85]

GodWilling
Thank you for keep the list up todate for year and one month
 

[GodWilling]

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[laguna85]

EDIT: Removed. Thankfully finally rendered redundant.

should keep dates and list of names on computer
 think put back?

[GodWilling]

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[Daphne]

And another note of deepest appreciation for maintaining this!

[laguna85]

Thank you for bring it back

EDIT: I've removed my cast list because there's little point in maintaining it now there's an official one. But some of the rest of the post is now back.


MALLORY'S CALENDAR

In episode 79 Mallory's calendar shows January with a few events marked in. Daphne has more or less confirmed that current events in the story are taking place in January 2012:

Mo 02	Le clinique! Merci, Adrian!	Dani's session with the doctor, paid for with a gift certificate Adrian gave her for Christmas
Th 12	Laura Dinner	a tangential reference to Raven's date with Erin
Mo 16	BUY MORE BEER!!!	possibly relates to the get-together of the whole harem that's currently playing out
Sa 28	Dani & Jacqui	who are due to pole dance together at Sawyer's
Tu 31	Rent Due!

SJI CHRONOLOGY

Daphne has also suggested that time in SJI is "impressionistic". But since some episodes - especially guest pages - have specific dates on them, and the main narrative does tie up with the calendar above, it seems reasonable to try to produce an SJI chronology. And here's my attempt.

Obviously, we all understand that story-telling and strict chronology need not (and thus probably couldn't) go hand-in-hand. For example, Daphne has indicated that events in New York (e.g. Claudia's meetings with Derek) are not necessarily in sync with events in Kearsarge, but that the difference is not significant to the plot.

Time	Episodes	Notes
Dec 1679	139	John Wilmot and Polly
Jul 1680	140	John Wilmot dies
Mon 28 Mar 1983	g11	Mallory's birth foretold
Tue  6 Sep 1983	g7-g9	Patrick meets Miel
Sun 25 Dec 1988	255	Jacqui@Xmas
Sat 22 Apr 2006	g16	Jacqui and Q in NY
Mon 25 Dec 2006	256	Erin@Xmas
Spring 2007 (Approx)	g2,g10	Erin's going to Wilmot; something bad happens (Erin was 18 in Jan 2007)
Tue 25 Dec 2007	257	Mallory@Xmas
June 2008	g17-g19	Pearl visits Jacqui and Q (Daphne confirmed timing in the forum)
2008	g6	Mallory's coming to Wilmot (presumably shortly before g21)
Fri 1 Aug 2008	g21	Mallory's friend Charlotte dies(?)
2009 (Approx)	g5	Dani says goodbye to her father (Daphne said Dani was 23 here, placing it between May 2009 and May 2010)
Sat Dec 25 2010	258	Dani@Xmas
?	g14	Jakob Kuppler disappears (questionable chronology)
Aug 2011	g3	Dani's nightmare
Autumn 2011	g4	Caitlyn's a Mantis Squad newbie
Autumn 2011	1-5; 6-11	Adrian arrives at the SJI (the groupings represent different days)
Autumn 2011 - Jan 11 2012	g1	Miriam tells her father she's going to Wilmont
Christmas Day 2011	12	Adrian's given some condoms
New Year 2012	13	Resolutions
Mon  2 Jan 2012	14-78	"The Night Of The Watch" (the re-cap in episode 51 is not part of the narrative)
Tue  3 - Wed 11 Jan 2012	79-80	Continuity here may be impressionistic
Wed 11 Jan 2012	81-115
Thu 12 Jan 2012	116-138
Fri 13 Jan 2012	141-168
Sat 14 Jan 2012	169-226
Sun 15 Jan 2012	227-	Excludes 255-258. (Does Amy usually work Sundays though?)
Sat  1 Oct 2016	g12	Roll again
Sat 31 Oct 2020	g13	No no no - roll again
Mon 30 Apr 2035	g15	That one! Take that one!

HYPNOTHERAPY PATIENTS and THE MANTIS CHEER SQUAD

It's probably worth keeping this point in. Episode 79 also has Amy's computer showing a list of Zenon's patients. All the names are partially obscured, though we can be pretty confident who the first three are:

Student Name      Gender
Pellerin, Danielle     F    Gift Code 400x7b21
Hess, Caitlyn          F    Weight Loss
Lovering, Laura       F    Stress Relief
---------ndy            F    Referral
----------ani            F    Referral
-----------chel         F    Gift Code 327b49r2
------------by          F    Stop Smoking

These are the names of the Mantis cheer squad members we've been given (two only in the forum):

Caitlyn Hess
Wendy
Imani Wright
Rachel
Hitomi Amano

As mns_95125 points out below, three of these names could fill the gaps in the patient list. So Hitomi may be the only one who hasn't been under (with) the Doctor. But who is the last patient?

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[Haight]

Me myself, I like the idea of a pervy aristocrat setting up a women's college with a device in the clocktower to turn them all into sluts.  I somehow don't think it's as simple as that, though. 

Real good job on doing the work on the mythological connection, GodWilling.  As a mythology nerd, I eat that stuff up. 

Rain's certainly got a stonier heart than Adrian does.  Regardless of how well-intentioned each character is, Adrian is much less willing to break a few eggs to make the omelette he wants.  While I of course wish Adrian was a bit more gung-ho with the mind control and harem of sex slaves bit, but I don't think that's mutually exclusive with being a basically decent person (at least in this erotic fantasy we're all enjoying), and I like him for that at least.  Rain... has a bit of a harder edge to her.  She wants something, that's for certain, but I don't know if that something is good for any of the other characters. 

I don't mind Daphne playing the cards close to the chest as much because the comic comes out so regularly, but for an information nerd there are still a lot of questions frustratingly unanswered, heh.  Like, conversations happen, and we aren't shown what's actually told (like we don't know what exactly Rain told Adrian at their big talk).  So sometimes it comes off as being obfuscating for its own sake.  I hope the payoff is worth it (so far it has been, natch).

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