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Welcome to John's blog. This is where the good doctor keeps all of his thoughts and adventures on the notepad feature of his Pocketwatch.



The Charon

[ Week 16 Day 1 || Arrival on the Charon ]	[ Week 16 Day 7 || Dinner Party ]	[ Week 17 Day 5 || This Bloody Week ]
[ Week 18 Day 2 || 3 AM ]	[ Week 18 Day 5 || Crowded Container ]	[ Week 19 Day 4 || Greg Lestrade ]
[ Week 20 Day 7 || Text Bunnies ]	[ Week 21 Day 1 || The Sunken Ship ]	[ Week 21 Day 4 || Rapture ]
[ Week 22 Day 4 || That's It ]	[ Week 23 Day 5 || Back to Normal ]	[ Week 24 Day 3 || Codename: Medico ]
[ Week 24 Day 7 || Room 219 ]	[ Week 25 Day 6 || Preparing for War ]	[ Week 26 Day 7 || Two Surgeries ]

Japan

[ Week 1 Day 3 || Settling In ]	[ Week 1 Day 7 || First Case: House ]	[ Week 1 Day 7.2 || Green-Eyed Monster ]
[ Week 2 Day 4 || Second Case: Football ]	[ Week 2 Day 2.2 || Fallen From the Sky ]	[ Week 3 Day 1 || Third Case: Beach ]
[ Week 3 Day 1.2 || TITLE ]	[ Week 3 Day 6 || Domestics ]	[ Week 4 Day 5 || July 7th ]

Tu Shanshu

[ Week 1 Day 1 || On the Back of a Turtle ]	[ Week 1 Day 4 || Storm ]	[ Week 2 Day 2 || Baker Street Replica ]
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[consultantsdoctor]

[Loooooong internal sigh.]

Yes, alright. What do you want?

[of_deduction]

Since you're concerned about this COMPASS coming after you again, I'd like to know more about it. You gave me the basics of what they've done but who are they? You said it was a company. What do you know about this company?

[consultantsdoctor]

[Oh boy. This is gonna be a thing.] Most of I know came from other people but before it was COMPASS it was called KERNOS, weeks before I ever showed up there. Some of the first people arrived on an island which I can only begin to pronounce - Gurgen-something. Back then it was said that it was supposedly a test for a virtual reality game with monsters to fight. An individual called the Project Head was overseeing the "project" close-up but it didn't matter because if one died they were replaced soon enough. From what I understand, there was nothing but the island for as far as the eye could see and that's how it was on the Charon as well.

When the final days of the island came, there was a great deal of fighting - both monsters and each other. Then there was an earthquake along with a kraken and at some point after that some of the people on the island woke up on the Charon. KERNOS had become COMPASS from that point onward, no one had figured out what happened to cause the change while I was there.

The Charon was mostly crewed with ghosts, honest-to-god ghosts and even then there weren't many of them. You couldn't leave the boat even if you had the ability or any idea where to go. If you tried to swim, the sharks would get you and if you attempted to fly there was a giant albatross waiting to get you. Sixty feet, I think it was. I'm not sure what KERNOS' goal had been - but COMPASS was definitely interested in experimenting on us. Said it was a fear experiment but I'm not sure that's all they were doing. Sometime in the second on the ship a room opened up and there were files on all of the captives but there was a word COMPASS was using for us, probably anyway. It was Phortion. There were some notes about that, things about letting the Phortion stretch their legs or new ones arriving and how they were learn to fear COMPASS. Also revealed that there was surveillance on everyone with a bunch of photographs taken on the ship.

The other captives formed a Resistance after that, trying to pull together some form of communication they could used that COMPASS wouldn't have access to. We assumed that the devices they gave us were bugged somehow and some of the more technologically inclined set up some kind of program later on but not sure how well that really worked. I think it was the fifth week when the ship docked at an island - different from the first and populated with dinosaurs, more like an attraction than something out of the past. At the end of the week meteors destroyed the island. Two weeks on the ship and one on another island - fighting, experiments, experiments involving fighting. Sometime during the thirteenth and fourteenth weeks the Project Head attempted to reset the captives but they fought back and defeated her. Even with her dead the ship kept on going and experiments continued, they even docked at another island.

The week I showed up there another Project Head took control of the ship. Another captain as well. Both Project Heads and the captains were put there by COMPASS, all of them appeared to want to be doing their jobs and weren't under any kind of duress. There were two ghosts - the engineer who had been on the ship before COMPASS got their hands on it. He was helpful as much as he could be and was punished for it at one point. Then there was the little girl. Not so much helpful as she was more tempermental but if you wanted to trade for something, she was the one to see. The first Project Head didn't like it when the captives knew the name of the girl.

Closest we ever got to COMPASS was through dealing with their minions on the ship or when there was a slip-up. Once we found paperwork of KERNOS selling merchandise to COMPASS - selling those from the Alpha phase to them. Some of the papers were ship logs, probably ones from before it came into COMPASS' possession - nothing stood out as strange in the logs. Perfectly ordinary about its time before we got to it. There was a typewriter with a paper still in it and every word on the paper was Argus. We also discovered a machine in one of the holds of the ship, didn't know what it did until later on when the next new batch of arrivals appeared all over rather than just on the deck. We were fishing people out of the water even and a few weeks after that we used the machine to send people away from the ship. Could send them to any world they wanted to go to even but I don't rightly think that COMPASS would allow us to go off on our own, not after they paid for us. I didn't get much opportunity to explore the city they dragged me back to but there was an announcement saying it was COMPASS who'd done it.

There might be some things that I'm missing but I was trying to focus on keeping people alive most days.