Okay, so I guess we need an IC "meeting" to compare notes and air laundry - dirty or otherwise - before we continue into the next phase. My vote would be for sometime on the 25th or 26th. (Mainly because Fred will be going out with the guys on the 29th and it'll be easier to justify if there's been some progress... )

Totally agree. I think looking for the brother should be your avenue, maybe looking into the maze again? The girl said she found the diary underneath the statue of Alioe in the garden... perhaps that can be looked into. As to finding the brother, we have his friends names (which we can look up in like old yearbooks and whatnot).

I think I want to see how Mr. Ghosty's visit affects Ali next time she's in the garden, and how the garden is affected by her. I mean, he can't be the only one to mistake her for miss damp-and-dreary.

Either day would work. Abe could try finding some of the people who wrote the ghosty books she's reading. whyyy didn't I think of that sooner?

We have:

1) the brother's first name - Billy
2) the girl's first name and initials - Catherine C.L.B.
3) the gardener's first name - Couldin
4) the name of one of the cronies - Bastine
5) A date - Dentis 1, 2662

Materially we have the journal and Catherine's suitcase. Fred knows where the gardener is buried and that the pickaxe is/was there. Getting there requires the cooperation of the Thorns maze.

I'm about to start a "looking through the yearbooks and suitcase" thread on the 25th if either of you want to join in... viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1643