Timeline

From doktorsleepless

Events Prior to Year Zero

Relative Date	Time	Event	Reference
c. 30 years before Day 1	-	Birth of John Reinhardt
c. 25 years before Day 1	Night-time?	Cthulhu event at Scartop Mountain. John Reinhardt assumed to be sole survivor. Dr. Albert Cannon becomes his legal guardian.
c. 10 years before Day 1	-	John Reinhardt publishes numerous works
5 years before Day 1	-	John Reinhardt and Sing Watson set up Catastrophe Books
c. 3.5 years before Day 1	-	John Reinhardt creates and distributes Clatter and Shriekyware. He knows what the H-Plates around Heavenside are really used for.
c. 3 years and 2 months before Day 1	-	According to Sing Watson, John Reinhardt becomes psychologically unstable
3 years before Day 1	-	A person believed to be John Reinhardt is incarcerated in St. Thomas Institute by Preston Stoker
c. 3 years before Day 1	-	John Reinhardt leaves Heavenside on a journey of self discovery
c. 3 years before Day 1	-	"Something interesting" happened in Heavenside according to Tag and Dem	#001,p08
c. 2 years before Day 1	-	John Reinhardt meets Don Bastardos somewhere in the Amazon Basin	#002
c. 2 years before Day 1	-	John Reinhardt dies in a hotel room in Hamburg	#002,p20

Year Zero

Relative Date	Time	Event	Reference
Jan 31	-	Pod release the album No I in Team	#001,p10
Feb 3	-	McVeigh play the Eschaton Club	#001,p10
Unknown Date, "Day 1"	Evening [?]	Doktor Sleepless is created
Day 1	Late Evening/Early Morning	DJ Amun is confronted by an ex-lover
Day 1	Late Evening/Early Morning	DJ Amun commits suicide
Day 1	08.18am (EST)	Sing Watson realizes DJ is dead
Day 1	Morning	Doktor Sleepless engages Tag and Dem in a conversation
Day 1	Morning	Nurse puts up posters around Heavenside
Day 1	Morning	Sing Watson receives a delivery of The Darkening Sky
Day 1	Afternoon	Doktor Sleepless visits the Grinder Bar Shank Valentine where he revives Jamie with scary science fingers
Day 1	Evening	Sing Watson holds a wake of sorts for DJ Amun.
Day 1	Evening	Doktor Sleepless begins his broadcasts on 98.3FM. Sing Watson recognizes his voice as John Reinhardt, before he tells everyone who he is. He tells of leaving Heavenside and journeying to the Amazon Basin to meet with Don Bastardos, in order to expand his mind.
Day 1	Night	Commissioner Preston Stoker hears the broadcasts, and is alarmed. He believes he has John Reinhardt in a cell. He orders the Mayor out of bed for a meeting at the St Thomas Institute.
Day 1	Night	Doktor Sleepless tells Nurse he created Clatter and Shriekyware, on their way to a club to find some social grinders, namely Shrieky Girls. Nurse asks about the H-Plates, but Doktor Sleepless says she isn't ready for thier true function yet.
Day 1	Night	Commissioner Preston Stoker visits the St Thomas Institute to confirm John Reinhardt is still in his cell, number 23.
Day 1	Night	Doktor Sleepless and Nurse visit the Rustmonkey Club. The Doktor experiences a psychotic break. This is not the first time it has occured.
Day 1	Night	Sing Watson sees Doktor Sleepless and Nurse leaving Rustmonkey Club which she was going into. She recognizes him and runs after their car.
Day 1	Late Night	John Reinhardt tells the tale of Alexandra David-Neel and her Tulpa, suggesting that either him or Doktor Sleepless are not real.
Day 2	Early Morning	Doktor Sleepless ends his first broadcast.
Day 2	Morning	People flock to Catastrophe Books, talking about the previous night's broadcast. Celia sets Sing Watson up to sell the copies of the new printing of The Darkening Sky to customers who are looking for anything by him. Sing Watson doesn't want to be known as his former girlfriend.
Day 2	Late Morning & Raining	Dr. Albert Cannon kills the Mind Reader in the back of an alley. He appears to be in town to clean up John Reinhardt's mess.
Day 2	Day & Raining	Nurse has a flash back to her childhood, where she may or may not have figured out her mother, who was a nurse, had killed her father. Afterwards, she leaves the house, telling Doktor Sleepless she will be back later.
Day 2	Afternoon & Rain is clearing	Nurse goes to see Max Cale's lecture on a LIFE IN MURDER at the Heavenside Central Library.
Day 2	Afternoon	Max Cale talks of his imminent.sea days, and of being one of many authors on the group blog.
Day 2	Afternoon & Raining	Sing Watson leaves the bookstore and Celia follows her. Sing Watson tells Celia that John Reinhardt was Professor Zero on imminent.sea, though no one else knew. He apparently help to fund the group blog.
Day 2	Afternoon & Raining	Nurse confronts Max Cale after his lecture. He was recruiting people for the government, and the Nurse was one of his previous recruits. He evidently took advantage of her at one point. Nurse guts him, bothered because he knows some of her previous names.
Day 2	Late Afternoon & Raining	Doktor Sleepless broadcasts about helping to bring about the stagnation of Heavenside. He tells of tomorrow morning being what everyone will deserve. The Grinders are out on the streets, listening.
Day 2	Late Afternoon & Raining	Sing Watson and Celia are at the bookstore when Celia sees a Angel construct come into focus and begins screaming.
Day 2	Late Afternoon & Clearing	Nurse returns and Doktor Sleepless is upset at Max Cale's death. Nurse didn't realize he had plans for him.
Day 2	Early Evening & Clear	Sing Watson has taken Celia to the Heavenside General Hospital, where the doctor doesn't know what is wrong with her. Two more people had been admitted in the last hour with the same symptons. Celia may be untreatable.
Day 2	Evening & Clear	Doktor Sleepless begins his next broadcast, telling of how 'real' musicians were. He says that anyone can be made into being.
Day 2	Evening & Clear	Doktor Sleepless presses the "Do not Press" button, shutting down power to the city for a minute, in honor of Max Cale. Even cars lost power.
Day 2	Evening & Clear	Nurse is instructed to get into character to wait for the police. Preston Stoker insists Doktor Sleepless caused the blackout, but he has no proof. Doktor Sleepless provides the commissioner with a blood sample he draws on himself. Doktor Sleepless threatens Preston Stoker, believing him to have been responsible for Max Cale's death.
Day 2	Evening & Clear	Doktor Sleepless tells Preston Stokerthat there are three cases of St. Teresa's Eyes in Heavenside, which appears to shock him.
Day 2	Evening & Clear	Doktor Sleepless tells Nurse of Preston Stoker's attempt to incarcerate him. He also told her he released St. Teresa's Eyes into Heavenside. They leave Scartop Mountain and go into the city, where Doktor Sleepless proceeds to show and tell the Nurse the secrets of the H-Plates.
Day 2	Evening & Clear	Doktor Sleepless reveals the H-Plates are location markers that soldiers can use to find entrances to the underground Apocalypse Bunkers., located beneath Heavenside. Originally started as a place of refuge for the government in case of nuclear attack, six of them changed after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, evolving into "cultural bunkers" in case of revolution.
Day 2	Underground	Doktor Sleepless reveals, among other things, that he can shut down all the IM networks from the War Rooms except for Clatter, because that's the way he designed it. See Revolution.
Day 2	Underground	Doktor Sleepless had isolated the Apocalypse Bunker from the others, before he left Heavenside, by having it send out a message everything is fine.
Day 2	Above Ground - Evening & Clear	Doktor Sleepless and the Nurse emerge from the bunker and go to a rooktop. There, the Doktor sees a Angel construct. He gives the impression he is not supposed to see them himself.
Day 2	Above Ground - Evening & Clear	Sing Watson come to the conclusion that Doktor Sleepless is back in Heavenside to hurt people, as John Reinhardt has had another breakdown.
Day 2	Evening & Clear	The Grinders are convinced the Doktor has come back to "save them" and concludes from Doktor Sleepless's latest broadcast they should "fuck up" the band Pod, that was started in Heavenside
Day 3	Early Morning & Clear	Doktor Sleepless finishes his nightly broadcast with death statistics and again points out that this wasn't the future they were promised
Day 3	Early Morning & Clear	An angel construct is shown flying over the city.
Day 3	6:55 am EST & Clear	Sing wakes up and goes into work early. Finds a box filled with grey masks left on the steps of Catastrophe Books, which she takes inside. Doktor Sleepless is seen watching from a distance.
Day 3	Early Morning & Clear	The owner of Shank Valentine wakes up to banging on his door. He finds a machine, with the note "faces won't be legal forever". Plugging it in, he discovers the machine to be a fabricator, which then makes masks resembling the face of Doktor Sleepless.
Day 3	Early Morning & Clear	According to Doktor Sleepless, John Reinhardt invented the patent for the RFID tags used by everyone. This has made Reinhardt a rich man.
Day 3	Early Morning & Clear	Doktor Sleepless turns off the Contract Police Zone in Central Heavenside.
Day 3	Morning & Clear	Grinders show up at Shank Valentine, and are convinced that Doktor Sleepless left the fabricator for them. They discover that the face masks jam any RFID tags that are near it.
Day 3	Late Morning & Clear	Sing Watson goes to visit Celia in Heavenside General Hospital. Celia is still seeing things due to the St. Teresa's Eyes, but is not telling the doctors. Her eyes are now solid red, with red streaks running down her cheeks.
Day 3	Late Morning & Clear	Preston Stoker receives the DNA analysis back on the blood that Doktor Sleepless gave him, and it doesn't match John Reinhardt.
Day 3	Late Morning & Clear	Sing Watson gives Celia the grey mask, which she promptly puts on and "likes". Sing storms out of the hospital and hails a cab.
Day 3	Late Morning & Clear	The Grinders, wearing the face masks, have slowly made their way through central Heavenside. There, they gang up and attack a police officer.
Day 3	Late Morning & Clear	Sing Watson arrives at Scartop Mountain. Doktor Sleepless tells Nurse to greet her, but not to get friendly - as she may have to kill her.