Welcome to Gaia! ::

- 09/13/2006 - Journal Set Up!
- 09/15/2006 - Entrance RP complete. ^_^
- 09/18/2006 - Met Newt on the path near the Duplexes
- 09/18/2006 - Met Marshall and Sid in the Cafeteria
- 09/18/2006 - Met Sid Again, discussion stuff.
- 09/22/2006 - Called Sabin, Got Lied to
- 09/25/2006 - Met Tommy, Conspired against Feral Labs
- 09/29/2006 - Played Pool with Maryke
- 09/XX/2006 -
- 10/08/2006 - Seth transformed to 25%!
- 10/22/06 - Met the neighbour, Liamh. Told him to shut up.

Seth Callaghan's live could be described as fairly average for the most part aside from one or two major disruptions. He was born in the early hours of the morning on February 15th 1980, in the maternity ward of the Royal Melbourne Hospital, in Victoria, Australia. His parents were Rachael and Brian Callaghan, a happily married couple who were quite devoted to each other. Their relationship was fairly close, save for the odd fight every so often. They led a quiet life with a few social neighbourhood ties, but nobody had a set against them. They were a low-key family with no enemies.

Brian worked for the local council as a rubbish collector, Rachael was an accountant for the local supermarket and worked standard business hours, but left her job a few weeks before her son was born with the intention to raise and care for him. The financial decision of moving out of their rental property close to the Central Business District to take on a mortgage and buy a modest house in the suburb of Dandenong North caused Rachael to return to work shortly after Seth turned 2 years old, and thus he was placed in a childcare centre for a few hours a day until his father returned from work to pick him up in the afternoons.

Seth was the pair's only child, but he was rarely bored. As he grew he became more fascinated by the world around him, both the natural aspects and the manmade buildings in the Central Business District of the city. He always loved the occasional weekend visits with his parents to the city, for he would take the window seat on the train and stare out at the window to gaze in wonder at the giant buildings in the area. When he was 5 years of age he began the endeavour of education at Dandenong North Primary School, coming to love every moment of kindergarten. Most of his primary school days went with few hitches. He began to show interest in sports such as rugby and cricket, playing soccer on the back school field was also something he found enjoyable and fun. He also began to learn playing the guitar for the school's band, not being able to play much more than "twinkle twinkle little star" at that point of his life.
At the age of 10 he fractured the radius bone in his right arm after falling out of a tree, causing him to miss nearly seven solid weeks of school. It was by no means a total loss however, as it allowed a lot of bonding time with his father. When the man came home from work he would spend time with the boy and played board and card games with him. The time spent away from school caused Seth to fall behind on the class work, but it did not hinder him from moving up to the next grade. By the end of Primary School he had developed into a happy, playful and intelligent young man. For Christmas that year, Seth's parents gave him a smoky grey kitten as a pet, he named her Ruffles, naming her after her wiry fluffy hair. She became a much-loved family pet.

The transition from primary to high school was relatively easy for Seth, but it had its hitches. Dandenong High School was not that much further away than his primary school so it was not an issue to travel there. He enjoyed music and art classes, as well as technical hands-on work such as wood and metal shop classes. Music classes saw him able to develop his guitar playing skills further and so of course he enjoyed doing that. However, it wasn't all fun and games. He was presented with the problem of insult and bullies who used to take great pleasure in heckling him. Although he was rather witty in his retorts and they couldn't easily upset him that way, they would beat him up or generally be a nuisance to him at every possible opportunity, throwing his bag and books into the rubbish bin, and on a few occasions, into the local creek. They were relentless and the attacks were very frequent as well as completely random. Seth simply could not understand why they had taken a set against him and it troubled him deeply. Did they hate him? Were they doing it for fun?
Although he did his best to seem indifferent or uncaring to the taunts, their comments and efforts to harm him damaged his self-esteem and his value of self-worth went down considerably. He wasn't particularly dislikable or argumentative or disruptive in any way and he didn't understand why they couldn't just leave him be. The bullying continued on and off for many months, causing Seth great anguish to the point of desiring to avoid school altogether - he would often ditch school or pretend he was ill and stay home in an effort to avoid them. His pet cat certainly didn't mind his extra company around the house. On a few occasions, his mother called the school in an attempt to deal with the problem when she noticed her son was coming home with torn clothes or bruises, but her complaints were largely ignored on the grounds that if the harassment wasn't observed by staff or if it happened out of school grounds, they couldn't do anything about it. By the end of Year 9, Seth's average academic score fell from among the highest in his year to somewhere near to the bottom. His parents were concerned for his education and bought him books to learn from at home. They could not afford a tutour so it was the best they could offer him. It helped him somewhat, as with the desire to study and just get on with his learning at home, he was able to pass with an acceptable mark at the end of Year 10.

He finally had some reprise by the beginning of Year 11 however, as the majority of people who hassled him dropped out of high school at the end of the previous year to pursue apprenticeships or jobs. A new student began attending the school at the beginning of the new school year, and was a new immigrant to the country. His name was James Lasseter and he spoke with an American accent as he had been forced to move to Australia from the United States with his mother, thanks to the recent breakup of his parents. He didn't have any friends as the people of the grade had long ago formed their own tight social cliques and nobody seemed to want to befriend him because of his rather harsh abrasive personality. People tried to bully him at first, but it did not last for very long at all, because once somebody taunted his accent or something similar, he put an abrupt end to it by beating the living daylights out of them. After that, he had just been left alone. Seth admired this trait very much and was curious to seek him out. Maybe it was for protection purposes; maybe it was because he didn't have any friends himself either. In any case, Seth decided to gather up some courage and talk to him. James was in a few of Seth's elective subject classes, as well as in his mathematics class, so the opportunity arose quite frequently. James found Seth to be annoying and cowardly at first, but found him useful for gaining answers to the class questions, thus tolerated his presence. He soon grew to like him though, for Seth was quite talkative once he had come out of his shell and they became good friends. Seth gained a buddy to talk to from the friendship and a means of protection - James would stand up for him and beat up anyone who made life awkward for him. In return, Seth gave James answers to the class exercises and even began teaching him to help him understand the lessons. At the end of their schooling careers, both ended up graduating from high school with marks good enough to take them to University. Seth's parents also gave their son a genuine Yamaha Brand Acoustic Guitar so he could continue his practice. This was a fairly poor move on their behalf however, as he rarely ended up using it.

James and Seth went their different ways academically, but still remained close buddies. James pursued a Bachelor of Arts majoring History, while Seth decided that perhaps a Bachelor of Arts in Teaching would be best for him. He had never disliked the academic qualities of school and liked the prospect of 12 weeks a year holiday; the salary of a teacher was also promising. He began it with the intention of completing it, but it would come to an abrupt end for reasons beyond his control.

Dandenong North was never a particularly high-income area, but the people who lived there were usually quite peaceful. There were always reports of the television of arson or break-and-enter robberies committed in the greater Melbourne area, but nobody ever thought much of it. The day started like any other on November 27th 1991 - Rachael and Brian went to work, Seth woke up early to travel to university as per usual. The house was empty, save for the cat, until Seth's father and mother returned home again. In the early evening Seth walked home again from the train station as he usually did, tired and feeling dirty from traveling on the city's Metlink train system with other smelly commuters, also tired out from another long day at University. His mother and father had already arrived home from their respective places of work and his mother was preparing dinner in the kitchen singing along to some song on the radio, his father watching rugby on the lounge and drinking beer. Seth dumped his bag on the floor and tossed his shoes anywhere as he normally did, greeting both before heading into the bathroom to take a shower to relax. It was an uneventful evening also; the family discussed their day over dinner and other topics of interest. They watched television for a few hours and the cat would try to steal the warm patches on their chairs while they weren't in the room. Later in the evening, Seth retired to his room to study over his notes for the day before settling in for the night to sleep, Ruffles joining him on the bed. The house was completely dark by 11pm, but it would not stay that way.

The family was completely asleep when the arsonist threw a flaming molotov cocktail through the living room window of their modest fibreboard and wooden framed house. Not a soul in the neighbourhood knew why the Callaghan household was targeted that night, and it is probable that not even the arson knew themselves. Nobody heard the breaking glass, nor the soft roar of fire as the cocktail of flammable liquids leeched into the carpet, the fire quickly spreading across the dry wooden floor like a deadly carnal predator. The house was not installed with smoke detectors, so the family inside remained fast asleep as the fire grew dangerously larger, shooting up the walls, getting into the roof in no time at all. It was actually a friendly neighbour that noticed the house was on fire and called the fire department. Seth's father was the first member of the household to wake, roused by a coughing fit, his lungs irritated by the smoke that had leaked under the door. He quickly stirred his wife awake and attempted to open the door to their bedroom - promptly scalding his hand on the doorknob as the flames had superheated it. At once he forced their bedroom window open and ripped the fly screen, quickly ushering his wife to climb out before climbing out himself. They were soon safely outside, but their son and the pet cat were still inside. Seth's father quickly leaped over the side gate that led into the backyard of the property, but could not gain access to the house via the back door because rabid flames were already consuming the kitchen and dining room, the immediate rooms that the back door led into. Both parents yelled out to their son, but neither parent was able to wake him. It wasn't until the Fire department came that Seth was retrieved from the house - he was unconscious and badly burned but still alive. He was promptly moved into an awaiting ambulance and sent off to hospital, while his parents were treated on site for smoke inhalation. Ruffles died in the fire. The Firemen did what they could to put the fire out as quickly as possible as soon as they arrived, but the house had been more or less destroyed, the remains would later be dismantled completely. The Callaghan family had lost everything except the clothes on their back and their lives.

Seth spent the next 12 weeks recovering in the burns unit ward of the Royal Melbourne Hospital, while his parents stayed with relatives. Seth had sustained extensive burns to his back and shoulders due to pieces of burning roof and other debris falling on him. While in hospital he was depressed, bored out of his mind, uncomfortable with lying on his stomach all day long, and annoyed that his prospects of continuing his studies at university were now ruined. He was to get a short series of painful skin graft surgeries, but his biggest concern was for his parents and what was to happen now - would they have the house rebuilt? Would they buy another and sell the land? Seth was crushed and deeply saddened by the news that Ruffles had died, and highly angered when his parents had told him that the damage assessment people were able to work out that arsonists had started the house fire. As they explained the details of how the fire began and where, Seth fumed with hatred for the unknown person who had ruined the house. It was more mindless stupidity to him, the same logic of the bullies who heckled him and tormented him for years. He and his family had done nothing, yet they had suffered terribly out of somebody's desire to harm them for no good reason whatsoever. James visited Seth in the hospital as often as he could, at least, when he wasn't busy with his own studies or off courting females. He was able to offer a sympathetic ear and shared in Seth's disgust at the arsonist's stupidity, offering to 'kill the stupid b*****d' or run them over in his car if he ever found out who they were.

Everything was not completely lost however - Seth's father was smart and had paid for limited house and contents insurance. When his parents sat beside his hospital bed and asked him for help with compiling a list of the contents lost in the fire, Seth had a rather cunning but deceitful idea and took their notepad to add to their list. He added a few items, which they had never owned in the house, let alone ever been able to afford. When asked his reasons for doing so he explained that all their possessions had been lost in the fire, so nobody could really question what they had owned or lost. Seth's parents seemed very apprehensive and uneasy with the idea for they were honest people, yet they reluctantly submitted the extra items on the claim form at Seth's request, probably out of sympathy for the guy.
Seth's lies soon paid off however, as Brian and Rachael Callaghan were rewarded by the insurance company with a paid rental house in the same local area to live in until their current one was rebuilt. Seth's mother presented him with a brand-new 486 Packard Bell brand laptop, a top of the range laptop at the time and a nice piece of hardware. It was one of the items they had lied about owning, but the insurance company had replaced it all the same. Rachael was happy to hand it to her son so he would have something to do while in hospital. The laptop computer was heavy and cumbersome, but he was delighted with the machine and it helped melt away many boring hours spent in hospital. Seth was discharged later with detailed instructions on how to properly care for and dress the healing skin, as well as exercises he could undertake to reduce stress on the area. But despite recovering from such a bad burn, Seth would retain large burn scars across his back and shoulders forever - the skin would be permanently wrinkled and unpleasant looking for the rest of his days. But as the scars were in a concealable area and did not compromise his mobility, no extra treatment was suggested for them.

And so Seth returned to living with his parents once again. The temporary house they lived in was a little bigger than their old house, but it was cold and unpleasant. Seth's parents were more than happy to move back onto the old land and into the rebuilt house, but Seth never really felt at home in the replacement house. The house and contents insurance fund could replace the material possessions, but it would never replace Ruffles. Seth was still angry from the loss of his cat, the near loss of his own life, and from the senseless destruction of his old house, his possessions, his guitar, everything he ever owned. He slipped into a state of depression and loathing of the outside world around him, caring little of leaving the house, interacting with the world around him and so on. For as far as he was concerned, the random strangers of society were out to get him, he had no idea why, but people he had never gotten to know or met already caused him torment before, so who was to say that others weren't going to do more of the same? Who was to say that the house wouldn't be the target of another arson attack, or similar? It was good justification to turn his back on people. Seth's parents became deeply concerned about the changes of attitude in their son, but they did not know how to deal with it. He was still on good speaking terms with them and treated them with much respect; he just didn't seem to ever want to leave the house. So they let him go, thinking he would probably come around on his own. Seth stayed in this state of mind for a little over three years after the house fire incident and pretty much only left the house to retrieve the mail from the letterbox, or to open the garage door when his parents came home. James came to visit him every now and then, but towards the end of that time period he had finished his Bachelor of Arts majoring history and went to pursue a job working in the Melbourne Museum.

Finally, one day in early 1994, Seth's father decided to put his foot down on the antisocial behaviour. If Seth was to be useless and sit on his arse all day doing nothing but watching TV and eating junk food, he may as well get a job and at least contribute something into the running cost of the house. There was some mild protest on Seth's behalf, but he eventually reluctantly agreed, soon finding a job as a cash register attendant/item scanner with the local Safeway supermarket where his mother worked. And so it was, for nearly two years, Seth's entire purpose was to scan people's shopping items and put them in grocery bags. It was very boring and repetitive work, and Seth was disappointed with the low wages, but the job finally allowed him to earn enough money to buy himself his first car and get his driver's license. The car was nothing particularly brilliant, a white 1987 white Holden Astra with a manual gearbox, but to him it was freedom on four wheels, and he took as many road trips as he could, pending his income and work holiday entitlements. With an income brought the desire to make more money out of it. Sometimes Seth would visit the Crown Casino and try to do just that. He also liked the atmosphere of those types of places, so it was always an enjoyable experience for him.

For a while Seth was content, but something was still missing from his life. It just wasn't going anywhere for him. He still felt cheated at the fact that he never did end up finishing anything at University. So later that year he attended an information day at Monash University, and decided that he would steer his life in a new direction. He would leave his job and go back to University, deciding he would become a Network Administrator. Networking in general was high paying and it interested him, so at the end of 1996, he quit his job to return to his education endeavour once again. Three long and hard studied years at Monash University in Melbourne rewarded him with a Bachelor of Information Technology and Systems. Seth was happier than he had ever been in his life; he finally had a valuable qualification he could get a decent paying job with. But after doing a job hunt in the local newspapers and attending several job interviews, he discovered they were really only after more qualified people, people with experience, and so on. He got the odd temporary job here and there, but it was nothing permanent. After much deliberation, he decided that if he was going to be a Network Administrator, he might as well just go ahead and continue his studies, and signed himself up with the university for another three years, gaining his Graduate Diploma of Network Computing afterwards at the end of 2004. This now meant he was qualified and capable of setting up networks for entire institutions, large businesses, and so on. His parents could not have been prouder of him. Although he had incurred a huge education debt with the government to pay off, he had persisted in his goals and came out on top. In the same year he received his Graduate Diploma, the large corporate banking institution known as AMP quickly picked him up for employment. He worked for their company branches around the greater Melbourne area, maintaining their networks and implementing changes where necessary. He was entirely devoted to his job and did it diligently, sometimes staying well after business hours to finish the work. He continued to work for them until October 2005, where he was forced into resigning because of management decisions to force him out. In the first few months of working at AMP he had come to learn that the nature of his job made him a very valuable member of the team. He had seen other IT professionals in his department push for higher wages and discussed with them how to go about it. His first few pushes for higher wages were rather successful, but he later became too cocky in his demands and his managers began to make life quite difficult for him, deliberately sabotaging his work as well as breaking equipment for him to fix. With the delays that ensued, it gave them reason to blame it on his incompetence and uselessness. Seth resigned in disgust and resumed freelance work, submitting his details with many businesses and other firms, often repairing their networks as well as the computers themselves on very short notice.
Seth turned 36 on February 15th, 2006. He continued his freelance Network Administration and was usually pretty busy with clients who called his cell phone about emergencies at any random hour of the day. He was paid quite well and decided to register himself for an Australian Business Number, declaring himself as a one-man business. He continued to occasionally gamble earnings in his leisure time, giving whatever he won to his aging parents. They were happy with him and well pleased with the comfortable life his high paying job brought the family, but they secretly desired he would just move out and settle down with a female.

Then one quiet afternoon in early September, 2006, Seth got a call from an old friend of his. It was something that would change his life in ways that he would never imagine...

Common Names: Thylacine (pronounced: Th-i-lah-s-eye-n)
Scientific Name: Thylacinus cynocephalus
Other common names: Tasmanian Wolf, Tasmanian Tiger, Zebra Dog, Native Hyena
Conservation status: Most Likely Extinct, last seen in 1936.
Size: 100 - 130 cm in length, including tail (about 50 to 65 cm) (link)
Located: Fossil evidence and Aboriginal cave paintings have proven that the Thylacine once existed on mainland Australia, but it was competed off the land by the introduction of dingoes. In recent times it was only found in the isolated island state of Tasmania (which was free of canids until white man introduced them).

Physical description: The Thylacine resembled a large, short-haired dog with a stiff tail which smoothly extended from the body like a kangaroo. It had rounded ears and a semi-kangaroo like face. It was approximately 100 to 130cm long including its tail of about 50 to 65cm, and had a very large gape. It's fur was sandy to yellowish-brown in colour with anywhere from sixteen to eighteen dark brown stripes running down its back and rump, hence its common name "Tasmanian Tiger". The female Thylacine's pouch faced backwards and opened to the rear of its body. In at least two male specimens a scrotal pouch, unique amongst marsupials, was also documented.
One unusual feature of the Thylacine was the ability to open its jaws to a surprising extent. Although it is most unlikely that the gape was as wide as some reports have stated (90 to 180°), it was still the widest of any known mammal. This capability is captured in part of a short black-and-white film sequence dating from 1936, which shows a captive Thylacine yawning in a zoo. (image of this can be found in the images section).

Habitat: It is said that the Thylacine preferred to inhabit dry eucalyptus forests, wetlands, and grasslands in continental Australia. Fossils dating back 2,200 years ago and Aboriginal rock paintings suggest the Thylacine might have lived throughout mainland Australia. A mummified carcass was discovered in a cave in the Nullabor Plains in Western Australia, dated to around 3,300 years old and provided physical proof of the animal's existence on the mainland.

Diet + Hunting Technique: The Thylacine was exclusively carnivorous. Its stomach was muscular with an ability to distend to allow the animal to eat large amounts of food at one time, probably an adaptation to compensate for long periods when hunting was unsuccessful and food would be scarce. Analysis of the skeletal frame and observation in captivity points to it singling out a target animal and doggedly pursuing the target until it was exhausted. Although some studies believe that the animal may have hunted in small family groups, with the male lying in waiting to ambush while a female herded the prey in the male's general direction.

Prey included kangaroos, echindas, wallabies, and various small marsupials and birds. After European settlement the Thylacine was believed to have also opportunistically preyed upon farmers' sheep and poultry. In captivity, Thylacines were fed on dead rabbits and wallabies, which they devoured entirely, as well as beef and mutton. Some researchers suggest that the Thylacine may have primarily devoured the blood of its victims, coining the term 'vampire dog' and claiming a preference for the nasal, throat (jugular), stomach (kidney and liver) and groin regions, with the remaining carcass left for devils to scavenge. Like their relative, the Tasmanian devil, the Thylacine is believed to have possessed an acute sense of smell which enabled it to track prey for many miles.

Call/Cry: Not too much is known about the full extent of the thylacine's vocal range. However, accounts from their keepers in the last zoo they existed in were able to mention that the species was quite shy in captivity, and when was disturbed would dash about uttering "a short guttural cry resembling a bark". When excited it made a series of husky, coughing barks, the breath being indrawn with a wheeze. When hunting they made sharp quick yaff-yaff nasal noises.

Stance and Movement: The thylacine was a quadruped, but walked on both its digits and its heels depending on the speed it was traveling at. It was more than capable of standing on its hinds in the same fashion as a kangaroo (it did this to see further than it otherwise would have seen on four legs). It also seems to have been quite agile, for a keeper once observed a female jump 6-8ft from the base of its cage to the top of the wall and from crossbeam to crossbeam with great ease.

It also had two distinct methods of locomotion. One is the plantar walk which is common to most mammals (with diagonally opposite limbs moving alternatively) but with the entire pes, including the long heel, in contact with the ground. When moving quickly, the front legs run, and the back legs hop like a kangaroo - this is common and seen in many other dasyurid-marsupials (including the Tasmanian Devil). The animal can stand upright with its front limbs in air, resting on it's elongated back feet and using the end of its tail as additional support. In this posture it takes on a very kangaroo-like structure and sometimes hops a short distance.

Interesting facts:
- With a large gape that enabled the thylacine to open it's jaws to a full 120°, it allowed this predator to tackle larger prey species.
- A striped coat camouflaged this predator within forests and grasslands.
- The Thylacine was the largest marsupial predator to have survived into recent times.
- Despite superficial similarities as a marsupial, Thylacines were more closely related to Kangaroos than they were to Wolves.
- It walked on both its digits and heels depending on its speed, and could also hop like a kangaroo.
- It had five toes on it's front paws and four on it's hinds.
- The Thylacine's skull is remarkably similar to the placental wolf's skull, and is one of the best examples of convergent evolution that exists.


Most of this Information has been sourced from Wikipedia.org, with exerpts from the Thylacine Museum (both links below).

Useful Links
Wiki Entry on 'Thylacine' - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine
Thylacine Museum - http://www.naturalworlds.org/thylacine/index.htm
Australia Museum Online - http://www.amonline.net.au/thylacine/

Images
Thylacine joey in ethanol - http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j213/kat_aclysm/thylacine/thylacine_joey.jpg
B&W Image colourised - http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j213/kat_aclysm/thylacine/thylacine_touchedup_bw.jpg
Skeleton - http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j213/kat_aclysm/thylacine/skeleton.jpg
Skull close-up - http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j213/kat_aclysm/thylacine/thylacine_skull.jpg
Artist's impression - http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j213/kat_aclysm/thylacine/thylacine-print.jpg
Jaw open all the way! - http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j213/kat_aclysm/thylacine/ben_crazy_jaw.jpg
Rounded ear - http://s81.photobucket.com/albums/j213/kat_aclysm/thylacine/th_thylacine_rounded_ear.jpg
Closeup of coat stripes - http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j213/kat_aclysm/thylacine/camo_coat.jpg
Kangaroo relation face - http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j213/kat_aclysm/thylacine/kangaroo_like_face.jpg
Size comparison chart - http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j213/kat_aclysm/thylacine/size_chart.jpg
Thylacine standing on its hinds - http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j213/kat_aclysm/thylacine/hindstand.jpg
Ditto - http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j213/kat_aclysm/thylacine/hindstand2.jpg
Paw tread - http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j213/kat_aclysm/thylacine/paw_images.jpg
Stripe study - http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j213/kat_aclysm/thylacine/backarea.jpg
Front face with paws - http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j213/kat_aclysm/thylacine/front_face_toes.jpg

- In Order of Meeting Appearance -

Sabin Duvert - This was the guy I met when I came off the helicopter. He led me to Feral labs for 'negotiations'. He's an unusual guy of french descent, and has really long whitish hair. Also has a funky top hat. Knows how to talk business. He also owes me about 6 - 18 million dollars now that our trade agreement is complete. I like money. Woo! LYING b*****d!! I hate this idiot and I want to kill him. Or at least swipe his hat.

Frog-dude - Boy do I feel sorry for this bloke. He was the first 'changed' animal critter person I met. He was nervous and afraid of me, and I didn't help any. He told me the truth right from the beginning, but I didn't want to believe him. This guy used to work for Feral Labs and they're changing him into stuff? That smacks of 'unfair'. I owe him an apology - as soon as I find out his name and where he lives, I'm going to have to leave a note on his door about it.

Marshall - This guy called me old... not so happy about that! Tried to explain the island stuff to me, gave me pretty much the same story as the frog dude. I'm still not sure if I believe him, or even want to. Afterall, he showed me his needlestick injury, and I don't have one. He looked smart in any case. That might come in handy later.

Sid - Older than me, but still got some life in him yet. Poor b*****d walks with a cane. Also likes to make things with a knife. Knives are wicked! Wasn't too happy about some of the things I said though. He walked away after a while. Must talk to him again, he's probably got a lot on his mind, as do we all.

Tommy Christian - An honest person. Set me straight on the island's purpose good and proper, he did. Was patient, explained everything properly. Also informed me to the fact that Dr. Duvert is a manipulative lying b*****d. We'll find a way off this island yet - we have to. The labs are turning the poor b*****d into a vampire bat. He just keeps looking weirder as he goes on...

Richard - Older guy with a cane. He reminded me a bit of Colonel Sanders, but I didn't tell him that. He got angry with me for talking about trying to get off this island, but who isn't thinking about that? He wasn't too bad though, I admit. He was unchanged when I met him. I wonder what the labs are going to turn him into.

Liamh - My upstairs neighbour. He woke me up and I was initially annoyed with him, but I since learned he's pretty cool. He has a laptop he calls 'Claire'. He was unchanged when I met him, like some of the others.

A Deal is Done - in which Seth and Dr Duvert make a business transaction in which the trade of not so legal goods are handed over in exchange for a large sum of money (or so, at least Seth thinks so).

Official art (c) Sabin Duvert/Arania heart blaugh
IoDM Gaia B/C shop, concept, and story (c) Chibi Hige, Sabin Duvert, Kamiki
Other arts (c) Respective Artists as listed
Seth Callaghan, the character (c) The Kat Aclysm
Other IoDM Islanders that may be mentioned here (c) Their owners
Thylacine (c) God
Original IoDM Story (c) HG Wells


Thank you one and all! (except myself, because thanking myself is a bit egotistical, isn't it? Blagh).