History Recap / TheMagnusProtocolSeasonOne

-->''Chester'': "Statement to the Magnus Institute."

Sam asks Alice how she and Gwen can listen to these stories without any visceral reaction, and Alice explains that she just doesn't pay attention. "I just skim the case for keywords, and if it's a talker I hit play and get on with other work. Then when it's done being creepy I process it and move on." She again reminds him to not worry if the incidents are true.

In the break room, Gwen warns Alice that Lena is planning to make their jobs redundant.

* DeadlyEuphemism: "Please repay your outstanding balance or prepare for Personal Adjustment." From the sound of things, Personal Adjustment involves a horrible insectoid monster [[ReachingBetweenTheLine crawling out of your phone]] to do [[UncertainDoom something unspeakable to you]].

Darrien has always been poor but is determined to make his own wealth. While at university on a scholarship, he finds a new trading app called Zorrotrade. Taking advantage of its unlimited margins and deposits, Darrien makes some money by shorting and investing in "obvious winner" cryptocurrencies, and while it's not life-changing it's good enough to scrape by. Eventually, Darrien finds a somewhat hidden feature called Personal Projection Short Selling which gives him the warning "These settings are experimental and may not function as intended. User discretion is advised." Since he's basically broke, Darrien turns it on and invests the last of his money into it. The next day, Darrien's friend kicks him off his yacht for trashing the guest cabin while drunk and badmouths him to their friend group, leaving him stranded in France. Darrien is quickly mugged, but they don't take his phone for some reason. After some difficulty, Darrien manages to get in contact with the embassy and while he's trying to get an emergency travel permit, he sees a notification from his banking app and finds that he has received a deposit of £100,083 from Zorrotrade. Checking on the Zorrotrade app, Darrien reads a notification telling him that his Personal Projection Short Sell was paid in full due to "your change in circumstances" and he realizes that this feature allowed him to bet against himself. Darrien schemes about how to exploit this further, first betting £1,000 before picking a hopeless fight, then £10,000 before deliberately crashing a rental car. Each time Darrien gets a bigger payout until he has made over a million pounds. Darrien bets it all, then sends some inflammatory messages to his parents and friends to destroy his relationships and claims several "messed up" beliefs on social media as he walks to a cliff. Darrien jumps off the cliff and wakes up in the hospital two days later. Despite his grievous injuries including an amputated leg, Darrien is excited and demands his phone from the nurses, but to his horror his Zorrotrade balance is now near a negative fifty million pounds, along with a notice telling Darrien that his account has been flagged for suspicious activity and requesting that he repay the balance. Feeling cheated since it wasn't his fault the loophole existed, Darrien tries calling Zorrotrade customer support but is unable to get through to anyone for twelve hours, eventually settling on leaving a voicemail telling his story. As Darrien waits to be transferred to the adjustments department, something insectoid and very large enters Darrien's hospital room and attacks.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: The case ends with Darrien getting killed by a monster that seemingly has nothing to do with the rest of his story.

Darrien has always been poor but is determined to make his own wealth. While at university on a scholarship, he finds a new trading app called Zorrotrade. Taking advantage of its unlimited margins and deposits, Darrien makes some money by shorting and investing in "obvious winner" cryptocurrencies, and while it's not life-changing it's good enough to scrape by. Eventually, Darrien finds a somewhat hidden feature called Personal Projection Short Selling which gives him the warning "These settings are experimental and may not function as intended. User discretion is advised." Since he's basically broke, Darrien turns it on and invests the last of his money into it. The next day, Darrien's friend kicks him off his yacht for trashing the guest cabin while drunk and badmouths him to their friend group, leaving him stranded in France and. Darrien is quickly mugged, but they don't take his phone for some reason. After some difficulty, Darrien manages to get in contact with the embassy and while he's trying to get an emergency travel permit, he sees a notification from his banking app and finds that he has received a deposit of £100,083 from Zorrotrade. Checking on the Zorrotrade app, Darrien reads a notification telling him that his Personal Projection Short Sell was paid in full due to "your change in circumstances" and he realizes that this feature allowed him to bet against himself. Darrien schemes about howto exploit this further, first betting £1,000 before picking a hopeless fight, then £10,000 before deliberately crashing a rental car. Each time Darrien gets a bigger payout until he has made over a million pounds. Darrien bets it all, then sends some inflammatory messages to his parents and friends to destroy his relationships and claims several "messed up" beliefs on social media as he walks to a cliff. Darrien jumps off the cliff and wakes up in the hospital two days later. Despite his grievous injuries including an amputated leg, Darrien is excited and demands his phone from the nurses, but to his horror his Zorrotrade balance is now near a negative fifty million pounds, along with a notice telling Darrien that his account has been flagged for suspicious activity and requesting that he repay the balance. Feeling cheated since it wasn't his fault the loophole existed, Darrien tries calling Zorrotrade customer support but is unable to get through to anyone for twelve hours, eventually settling on leaving a voicemail telling his story. As Darrien waits to be transferred to the adjustments department, something insectoid and very large enters Darrien's hospital room and attacks.

->'''Celia:''' I would need to sort some stuff out first.\\

* TheScream: Suprisingly, Lena argues in ''favor'' of screaming when first meeting one of the [=ORIA's=] [[HumanoidAbomination 'externals.']]

''January 6th, 2020'': Gordon, a supervisor with Padstow Groundworks, begins an email correspondence with Alison Leshi, a council member from Cornwall, to keep her updated on the relocation of an old cemetery which has become jeopardized by the erosion of the seaside clifftop it currently sits on.
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''January 12th, 2020'': Gordon explains that they've been having to move human remains directly since many of the coffins are too rotten to stay together, and some were just wrapped in cloth. This makes it very perplexing when they find a body that whose skin is in far better condition than the others. On the corpse's back is a "complicated tattoo of a ship sailing across an open sea towards an open horizon." David, the medical examiner assigned to the project, halts the exhumations until they can determine the body's age, since if it's a more recent addition then they could have a crime scene on their hands.

''January 14th, 2020'': Gordon asks Alison to get on David's case since he's really taking his time with the body and they can't get back to work until they have his green light. Gordon takes another look at the photos of the tattoo and thinks the inked sun is lower down than he previously thought and there's a shape in the water, as if something is chasing the ship. On the topic of tattoos, Gordon also notifies Alison that a civilian has been nosing into the project, someone with a lot of tattoos including a large snake running up their arm who won't give their name but is apparently an internet personality. They are particularly interested in the tattooed corpse and explains that "the tattoo is an Oscar Jarrett, and that's a big deal to some folks in that community. Something to do with Sutherland Macdonald, whoever that is." This person creeps out the workers but Gordon doesn't want to call the police to remove them since Alison doesn't want to draw the attention of protesters.

''January 16th, 2020'': Gordon offers Alison his condolences for David's death.

''January 17th, 2020'': Gordon apologizes to Alison, who has asked him to keep his emails more professional, and asks for authorization to contact the medical examiner's office to ask about the corpse.
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''January 18th, 2020'': Now annoyed, Gordon tells Alison that he's not being unprofessional, and explains that he hasn't been sleeping well due to "weird dreams, shapes in the water and that", before asking her to follow up with the medical examiner again.

''January 20th, 2020'': The medical examiner's office has been broken into and the tattooed corpse stolen. Even though he's been anxiously waiting outside the office to see the corpse, Gordon denies guilt and instead blames the strange tattooed civilian who he had seen near the office too.

''January 20th, 2020'': Alison tries to email Gordon but receives an error message, as Gordon's email has been deactivated.

* BeingWatched: Alice gets the impression that someone was following her on her way to work that night. Considering that [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom she and Sam unknowingly released something from the ruins of the Magnus Archives]], and what happened to [=RedCanary=] in episode 1, it doesn't bode well...

* FalseReassurance: Gordon insists to Alison that the corpse wasn't stolen by him... because [=In5oul=] got to it first.

* FalseReassurance: Gordon insists to Alice that the corpse wasn't stolen by him... because [=In5oul=] got to it first.
* MarkOfTheBeast: A suspiciously well-preserved corpse is dug up with a [[AnomolousArt creepy tattoo of a ship fleeing into the sunset from a shape in the water]] on its back that causes people to become obsessed with it and (probably) killed at least one person.

''January 6th, 2020'': Gordon, a supervisor with Padstow Groundworks, begins an email corresponence with Alison Leshi, a council member from Cornwall, to keep her updated on the relocation of an old cemetery which has become jeopardized by the erosion of the seaside clifftop it currently sits on.

->'''Gordon:''' They think they're smart, but I saw them. I know where they're staying. And if they think they deserve it, they're wrong. It belongs to the deep. I'm going to go get it and and I'm going to find it and if they try and stop me, I swear the ocean will claim us all. I can taste the salt and spray. It's waiting in the water.

'''Lena:''' "Why" comes later. For now, it's best you try to process the "what". I'll let you know when I have another liason assignment for you.

[[folder:11: Marked]]

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'''''January 6th, 2020'''''
Gordon, a supervisor with Padstow Groundworks, begins an email corresponence with Alison Leshi, a council member from Cornwall, to keep her updated on the relocation of an old cemetery which has become jeopardized by the erosion of the seaside clifftop it currently sits on.

'''''January 12th, 2020'''''
Gordon explains that they've been having to move human remains directly since many of the coffins are too rotten to stay together, and some were just wrapped in cloth. This makes it very perplexing when they find a body that whose skin is in far better condition than the others. On the corpse's back is a "complicated tattoo of a ship sailing across an open sea towards an open horizon." David, the medical examiner assigned to the project, halts the exhumations until they can determine the body's age, since if it's a more recent addition then they could have a crime scene on their hands.

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'''''January 14th, 2020'''''
Gordon asks Alison to get on David's case since he's really taking his time with the body and they can't get back to work until they have his green light. Gordon takes another look at the photos of the tattoo and thinks the inked sun is lower down than he previously thought and there's a shape in the water, as if something is chasing the ship. On the topic of tattoos, Gordon also notifies Alison that a civilian has been nosing into the project, someone with a lot of tattoos including a large snake running up thier arm who won't give their name but is apparently an internet personality. They are particularly interested in the tattooed corpse and explains that "the tattoo is an Oscar Jarrett, and that's a big deal to some folks in that community. Something to do with Sutherland MacDonald, whoever that is." This person creeps out the workers but Gordon doesn't want to call the police to remove them since Alison doesn't want to draw the attention of protesters.

'''''January 16th, 2020'''''
Gordon offers Alison his condolences for David's death.
->'''Gordon:''' If it's any consolation, he's with the sea now. The deep will care for his bones.
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'''''January 17th, 2020'''''
Gordon apologizes to Alison, who has asked him to keep his emails more professional, and asks for authorization to contact the medical examiner's office to ask about the corpse.
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'''''January 18th, 2020'''''
Now annoyed, Gordon tells Alison that he's not being unprofessional, and explains that he hasn't been sleeping well due to "weird dreams, shapes in the water and that", before asking her to follow up with the medical examiner again.

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'''''January 20th, 2020'''''
The medical examiner's office has been broken into and the tattooed corpse stolen. Even though he's been anxiously waiting outside the office to see the corpse, Gordon denies guilt and instead blames the strange tattooed civilian who he had seen near the office too.

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'''''January 20th, 2020'''''
Alison tries to email Gordon but receives an error message, as Gordon's email has been deactivated.

* FreudianSlip: In his interview Nigel lets slip several times that he's a prisoner Mr. Bonzo, but as it turns out he means it far more literally than the interview probably took his statements for.

* SerialKiller: The Bonzo Butcher, a man who murdered people while wearing homemade mascot suits. He had numerous others and oresumably wore them all, but he was caught while wearing his Bonzo suit, so that was what stuck in the public's imagination.
* SpringtimeForHitler: Mr. Bonzo was supposed to be a nigtmarish parody of a kid's show mascot, but bafflingly, he became genuinely popular. At least, until the Bonzo Butcher.

* CorruptedCharacterCopy: Mr Bonzo is this to Series/MrBlobby, with many of the details of his story being directly lifted. Both were intended as a minor, intentionally disturbing parody character, who they claimed to be a beloved children's entertainer for a segment where they pranked unknowing celebrities, that unexpectedly exploded in popularity (despite also terrifying large portions of the audience) and [[BreakOutCharacter thus gained a much-increased role]], to the point of even releasing a hit single and nearly having an amusement park created. Of course (as far as we know) Mr Blobby didn't become a murderous eldritch horror that imprisoned its creator. Even the show version of Mr Benzo seems to have taken a more actively antagonistic role towards the guests and the host (with it eventually replacing the original comedy antagonist [[MeanBoss Mr Six]], who was supposed to be trapping Nigel in the dungeon), rather than just being an annoying pest like Mr Blobby.