CH1-4 Home Again, Home Again - Greg Only
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CH1-4 Home Again, Home Again - Greg Only
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"Oh bloody hell guv, I'm not sure, gimme a moment" the cabbie grabs an AZ and starts flipping through its pages after a minute or so he looks back at Greg. "Right that'll be Hounslow town centre, take us about 15 minutes guv." with that the cabbie pulls out into the traffic and starts a running commentary of the latest ups and downs in the UK news...
Greg's trapped, every door in the house is locked, every window barred, there's no way to climb onto the roof. The house is large and well furnished, but there is no way out for him. He runs from room to room, searching, but each door he pulls open has only a featureless brick wall behind it. Eventually he come to the front door, and as he reachs for the handle, it unlocks, a bright light moves across the glass. As the heavy, iron-studded oak door opens towards him, a nameless dread flows through his veins...
Greg awakens, drenched in sweat to the clearly distressed cabby "...Guv! Guv! Are you alright there? I saw you dose off in the back there like, but then you went all grey in the face, was it dodgy food on the plane?"
Greg's trapped, every door in the house is locked, every window barred, there's no way to climb onto the roof. The house is large and well furnished, but there is no way out for him. He runs from room to room, searching, but each door he pulls open has only a featureless brick wall behind it. Eventually he come to the front door, and as he reachs for the handle, it unlocks, a bright light moves across the glass. As the heavy, iron-studded oak door opens towards him, a nameless dread flows through his veins...
Greg awakens, drenched in sweat to the clearly distressed cabby "...Guv! Guv! Are you alright there? I saw you dose off in the back there like, but then you went all grey in the face, was it dodgy food on the plane?"
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Greg wiped the sweat from his brow off on his arm sleeve and rubbed his eyes. "Yeah, something like that. I'm all right though... just a bad dream I guess," Greg responded to the cabby. He fished out his wallet and looked at the meter trying to guess what the total bill was going to be, then tucked on a 10% tip... so he had the money ready when they got to the Hounslow Town Centre.
As he looked out the window and let the cabby drone on, he kept thinking about the house in the dream. Had he seen it somewhere before? Was it significant, or just some obscure dreamscape setting? And just what was that light that filled him so full of terror?
As he looked out the window and let the cabby drone on, he kept thinking about the house in the dream. Had he seen it somewhere before? Was it significant, or just some obscure dreamscape setting? And just what was that light that filled him so full of terror?
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Greg gets out of the Cab at the entrance to a pedestrian precinct with directions from the cabbie to go "straight ahead" he quickly finds a large modern red brick building which, until he sees the signs for the library, he assumes is some kind of shopping mall.
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Greg wants to find his way to the newspaper archives of the library ... and dig through the microfiche to see if he can find anything of interest regarding the items on Jacob's list.
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As the Librarian shows him to the the Microfiche reader, Greg starts to contemplate the scale of the task ahead of him. He needs to decide on an area of research and a limit to his investigations and even then a thorough investigation is going to take him days. In addition the Librarian has already apologised for the limitations of her small library.
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"Why are you suggesting I go to the other libraries," Greg asked. "Is your archive incomplete?"
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In comparison to the two she suggested, yes woefully. The Librarian just points out that from a research point of view these locations are by far the best in the UK. The British Museum archives contain microfiche of every major newspaper in the UK. By Law, every book, periodical or magazine published in the UK is supposed to send a copy to the BL.
Either way by the end of the afternoon Greg has determined that there doesn't seem to be any correlation of 'lost time' with dehydration.
Either way by the end of the afternoon Greg has determined that there doesn't seem to be any correlation of 'lost time' with dehydration.
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Having struck out on that portion of his search, and after a quick plate of fish and chips, he settles back in to do some more digging to see if there is any articles on bodies that look like ritual murders or occult related where people have symbols carved into the skin. He'll continue until the library must close for the night.
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It doesn't really matter wether he conducts his research at the local library or the British Library, all he has time to do before the Library closes is determine that there doesn't seem to be any correlation of 'lost time' with dehydration. He'll have to start on ritualised murders tomorrow.
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Greg looks for a place with internet capabilities so he can continue searching online. He knows some of the others are doing this already, but ... he might get lucky. He goes to Google, types in "ritual murder symbols' and hits the "I'm feeling lucky" button.
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Greg reads a web site by some fundamentalist Christian group about how the Jews tattoo their murder victims, another on how the masons were responsible for the death of JFK as part of a ritual killing of the Winter King, but nothing which seems to have any conection with the events of today. However, he does find the web site for Symbol & Ritual Intelligence.
Formerly The Institute for the Research of Organized & Ritual Violence, it specialises in the research, analysis and investigation of symbolic and ritual violence. Areas of expertise include; unfamiliar cultural traditions, ritual activities, religious terrorism, desecration controversies, ritual murder, and the identification of symbols, artifacts and unusual practices. Its likely these guys could help but their services don't come free.
Formerly The Institute for the Research of Organized & Ritual Violence, it specialises in the research, analysis and investigation of symbolic and ritual violence. Areas of expertise include; unfamiliar cultural traditions, ritual activities, religious terrorism, desecration controversies, ritual murder, and the identification of symbols, artifacts and unusual practices. Its likely these guys could help but their services don't come free.
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Greg searched the Symbol & Ritual Intelligence website for a gallery to see if any of the images resembled what he saw on the girl, and annotated the web URL on a notepad for future use. He'd also copy down any contact information they provided.
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Greg was satisfied that he'd at least gotten something to share with the others out of the day's work. And so... after a nice, hot bath, he went to bed.
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Greg is sitting in the bath when his e-mail pings. It is an e-mail from Liz which basically describes a similar dream to the one Greg had when he fell asleep in the back of the black cab.
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Greg is sitting in the bath when his e-mail pings. It is an e-mail from Liz which basically describes a similar dream to the one Greg had when he fell asleep in the back of the black cab.
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Greg emails Liz back, telling her about his dream in the cab, and asks to know if anyone else tells her they had the same dream.
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