Maple Shade Timeline S1

Chapter One: Friday

Session One: 05/25/2018

Friday, July 9, 1976

• Time in the Bookstore: While Lucas, Matthew, and Rose are hanging out in the bookstore, Natalie drops by with a sandwich and pear for Matthew.
  • Natalie asks to speak with Matthew privately (Lucas steals the pear while Matthew is busy). She confides in him that she's been having awful nightmares about being trapped in a dark place that is both huge and confining, with an unnerving smell in it. She also mentions her date that night.
• Date Night: Natalie asks Carol if she can have the apartment that night for her date with a man named Sergio Cavazos, who is coming over to cook for her. Carol agrees, and Natalie promises to save some of the dinner for her. He arrives, and Carol meets him on her way out the door.
• Night at the Pub: Carol, Matthew, Lucas, Rose, Harry, and Nancy all end up at the pub for dart night. Some of the locals are also at the pub that night.
  • Dylan & Lisa (Apt B02, First Floor) are there with some of their hippy friends, including a girl named Starbeam, who Lisa told all about Matthew's shop. She asks if he carries sandalwood joss sticks.
  • Scott Powers (Apt A09, Third Floor) is there as well, with some of the local vets, including someone Rose recognizes: a Sergeant Haywood Mane, who served under her father on the base back in Vietnam. She greets him, and he is so happy to meet her, although a little deep in his cups, rambling a bit about how Colonel Walter King was the man who saved so many of their lives "from the real dangers over there."
  • After they've been there for a while, Tom & Minnie Denly (Apt B06, Second Floor) show up, with Minnie still wearing her waitress uniform from the Italian restaurant where she works.

Sergio Cavazos

Starbeam

Sgt. Haywood Mane

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Session Two: 06/01/2018

Friday, July 9, 1976

• Dart Challenge: The friends are challenged to an informal dart competition by some other team's members there drinking. They accept, with Carol, Lucas, and Harry winning a round of drinks.
  • Afterwards, Carol receives an unexpected drink. The waitress indicates that it's from Benjamin Pardo, down the bar, who raises his glass to her. She wanders over to chat with him for a bit, and they start getting friendly. He is clearly into her, and while she doesn't fully reciprocate, she seems to be enjoying the attention.
• Purse Snatching! Suddenly, a wild-haired homeless man (that onlookers will later identify as Ziggy Howe) who's been wandering around the bar darts forward, snatches up Carol's purse, and takes off running.
  • Matthew watches after his much more athletic friends giving chase, and glances over at a spotlit portion of the sidewalk, lit by streetlamp. Standing there is a sinister figure, familiar to him in its malice. Before he can even really react, the sidewalk crowds close in on it, and when he can see past them again, the figure is gone.
  • Carol and several of her friends leap up and give chase as quickly as they notice.
  • Lucas and Harry get into an altercation with drunk and disorderly pedestrians that they try and shove their way through in chasing him.
  • Carol missteps and injures herself badly, and Rose stops to tend to the ugly, jagged wound she opened up on her leg from the surrounding rusty garbage.
  • The purse snatcher gets away with Carol's purse.
• Coming Home: Everyone heads home afterwards, their nights rather doused.
  • When Carol arrives home, she surprises Natalie and Sergio. Sergio quickly covers his naked torso with a sofa pillow, while Natalie darts up, pulling closed her halfway open shirt. She gigglingly apologizes, and quickly ushers Carol off to her room, promising to give her all the details tomorrow morning.
• Early Morning Horror: In the wee hours of the morning, Carol sits up in bed, awakened from a deep sleep by some loud noise, but can't remember exactly what the noise was. As she gets up and around, she finds that the lights are out in her apartment. She stumbles into the other room, and slips on something warm and viscous. It is blood, and she screams.
  • Rose is awakened by the talking of her aunties, who tell her to go back to sleep. They begin whispering that they're sure that was a scream they heard.
  • Harry is smoking a middle-of-the-night cigarette out on the common terrace in front of his apartment when he the lights all wink out, and he then hears a scream from the floor below.
  • Matthew is up late, insomnia and the fear of the figure he's seen keeping hold of his attention. He also hears the scream, distantly below.
  • Lucas opens his eyes in a dark room, which he can't seem to find the walls of. He is dimly aware of something in the room with him, however, able to hear its low, half-snarling breathing all around him.

• The Police Arrive: x

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Session Three: 06/15/2018

Saturday, July 10th, 1976

• The police continue to swarm the apartment, looking for clues, all the while asking everyone in the building all about Natalie.
• Carol stays with Harry and Nancy, with Harry taking a spot on the couch.

Sunday, July 11th, 1976

• Dreams & Nightmares: That morning, Harry dreams about his high school days. He is sitting in the bleachers of the high school, his senior year. Natalie, Nancy, and Carol sit side-by-side on the softball sidelines, cheering for their teammates, when Natalie glances over her shoulder, smiling back at him, and his stomach does the flip-flop that was the first time he realized that he might also have a thing for her.
  • He suddenly awakens in the dark, realizing that someone is standing over him in the dark. Flipping the lamp on, though, reveals that no one is there, except there is the slight lingering of Natalie's perfume in the air.
• Terror in the Mirror: Lucas gets out of the shower and as he's toweling off, he notices Natalie's class ring in a drawer. She left it there the last time she came over, removing it to wash her hands in the bathroom and forgetting to grab it.
  • As he stands there contemplating it, he can suddenly see his breath and the lights flicker in his house a little. It goes dark as it gets suddenly incredibly cold, and when the light comes back on, the bathroom mirror is frosted over, with the words WHERE AM I traced out of the frost on the glass.
• Old Fashioned Love Song: While Matthew is preparing to open up, the music he is playing on his shop's record player suddenly crackles out, replaced by a portion of Old Fashioned Love Song by Three Dog Night – Natalie's favorite song. It crackles again, and then returns to playing his normal music.
• Logistics: Carol is visited by the manager, Myrtle, who assures her that she's happy to change the locks. She also asks Carol when she is going to arrange the clean-up of the apartment - Carol is horrified to learn that it is her responsibility to take care of.
  • She promptly calls her father, Buck Grayson, who is disturbed to learn what has happened. He tells her that he'll arrange for the cleaners to come in. He also promises to find out more from the police chief about the case and what they've found. He then tells her to come over for dinner, and to bring her sister (and Harry, Carol insists, and he grudgingly agrees).
• Adamant Rose: Rose talks to her mother about having a monk come out to put Natalie's ghost to rest. Her mother suggests that she's been listening too much to her grandmother and aunties, but agrees to have Aunt Holly talk to someone she knows. She suggests that they'd need to get into the place where she died – assuming she did, in fact, die – for the ritual to be efficacious.
  • Rose goes to talk to Carol, asking her to let her into the apartment.
  • After some high emotions, Carol agrees to let her into the apartment after they return from dinner with her father.
• Bringing the Daughters In: Lucas goes downstairs to talk to Matthew, asking him very pointed questions that reveals Lucas is experiencing weirdness. Matthew admits his own strangeness, and they decide their best plan is to call the Daughters of Portlandia.
  • Evangeline answers, and agrees to come down with Noelle.
  • They arrive, and spend some time discussinges the possibilities, ultimately suggesting that if they have something important to the "unrestful spirit" (the ring from Lucas' bathroom), then they might be able to summon the ghost. She sends them to get access to the apartment while she gets the others and Noelle fetches the materials she needs.
• Punk As Hell: Rose is hanging out with Shirley, and asks her to pick a lock into Carol & Natalie's apartment when Carol and her family are away at dinner. Shirley is happy to help.
  • As they are listening to a new punk LP from a local band, suddenly the sound on the LP goes fuzzy and begins playing Old Fashioned Love Song, which Rose recognizes as Natalie's favorite song, but Shirley thinks was pressed on the LP as a joke. She gets upset, but Rose tells her to play it again; she does, and there is no sign of the weird, haunting song.
  • Shirley is very confused, and Rose explains her suspicions, which freaks Shirley out a bit.
• Uncomfortable Conversations: Lucas and Matthew hesitantly go upstairs to also talk to Carol about apartment access. She also puts them off until after dinner.
  • While they are there, Shirley and Rose pick the lock to the apartment, and then leave, Shirley to head home, and Rose to get ready and bring her family around.
  • After the conversation with Carol, Lucas suggests to Matthew that they might try his extra key of Natalie's that he has. They discover the locks have been changed, but that the door is unlocked! They head out to await the arrival of the Daughters, and to fetch the ring.
  • Rose's Auntie Holly, Grandma, and a monk named Diem arrive and begin to set things up (burning joss sticks, preparing ghost money, and the like).
  • Meanwhile, the Daughters arrive, and Lucas and Matthew lead them to the apartment, opening the door on the King family's preparations!
  • Awkwardness abounds.
• Family Dinner: Dinner with Buck is pleasant enough. Afterwards, Buck and Harry retire to the back patio for cigars, and Carol and Nancy do a little straightening up after dinner.
  • Buck and Harry talk a little sports while out there, landing on opposite sides of a favorite team. Harry doesn't make much headway winning Buck over.
  • Carol tells Nancy that she hates the distance between them, and Nancy is honest about some of her feelings, particularly when others do things for her, as though she were incapable. The sisters achieve some measure of peace together, making for a pleasant night.

Evangeline Regina

Noelle Britt

Diem

Buck Grayson