After Omaha - Part 3
Oct. 6th, 2021 06:06 pmOctober 16, 1972
Tammy Brown gives the FBI more information on Daniela’s experiences at school.
A failed Omaha Event in Nottingham, England. A teen tries to copy Daniela’s feet, but fails. She runs away to Sherwood Forest…
More information is recovered about what happened at the Watergate Hotel.
October 17, 1972
The FBI interview Tammy Brown again.
Omaha Event in Manitoba. A young woman flees into space in a Volkswagen Kombie.
A failed Omaha Event in Helena, Montana, stirs up discontent against Mages…
Daniela’s signal is jammed in the urban areas of Arkansas.
October 18, 1972
Daniela’s signal is jammed throughout New Jersey.
Katie and Anna talk about who may be Mages (to rat out to the FBI).
October 19, 1972
The Secretary of Defence reports that the signal will be ‘permanently jammed’ by the end of the year.
Lightning Beard establishes a base on the far side of the Moon.
An Omaha Event in New Jersey is intercepted by fighter jets before the Mage can get too high. However, the Mage bails out of the house, causing it to fall to the ground, before flying off out to sea…
October 20, 1972:
A second teen elven witch, Hanna Olafsson, from Uppsala, Sweden arrives at Lawson’s house (in the Copernicus crater). Daniela welcomes Hanna with open arms.
Katie decides to confront the Turner Twins again, but Anna persuades her not to.
Timothy Wells is found in Topeka, Kansas, in the presence of a group of Mages…
October 21, 1972
The FBI interview Katie again, but she denies that she knew Daniela was a mage.
A third Mage is captured in Birmingham.
Daniela’s signal is jammed in eastern Massachusetts.
October 22, 1972:
Vietcong forces overwhelm and capture American and South Vietnamese military forces in Saigon, utilizing flying troops, exploiting the inability of radar to distinguish a flock of birds and witchcraft enhanced troops,...
There is a false report of an attempted Omaha Event in northern Idaho..
Daniela’s signal is jammed in Brussels…
Tammy Brown reads past newspapers at a library, trying to find past references to Mage activity.
October 23, 1972
Tammy and the Turner Twins hang out at a library, reading up on history (and trying to find clues as to past Mage influences).
A fourth Mage is captured in Birmingham.
October 24, 1972
Omaha Event in a small Oklahoma town. A mage takes a trailer into orbit…
A fifth Mage is captured in Birmingham.
October 25, 1972
The FBI interview the Lawsons’ former neighbours again.
Daniela’s parents give more information on Daniela to the FBI (old school records).
October 26, 1972
Two more Nottingham Mages run away to Sherwood Forest.
Tammy Brown is approached by an FBI agent in the library, but she refuses to answer his questions.
A failed Omaha Event in Sheffield leads to the Mage in question nearly being lynched.
Nixon denies that anything untoward occurred at Watergate… (“Um, sir, you should really avail yourself of your Fifth Amendment rights,” someone in the know says after the press conference.)
October 27, 1972
The FBI complete their interviews of the Millard High School faculty.
Omaha Event in Armidale, New South Wales. A teen absconds from home with his parent’s car…
October 28, 1972
The colony of Mages in Sherwood Forest grows to five.
Again, Tammy is approached by an FBI agent in the library.
October 29, 1972
Tammy Brown finds more information on past Mages…
Omaha Event in southern Manitoba. A young couple flees into space in their Volkswagen Beetle.
October 30, 1972
A sixth Mage arrives in Sherwood Forest.
Daniela’s signal is jammed in southern Vermont.
October 31, 1972
Tammy Brown and the Turner Twins cross paths with Katie and Anna while trick-or-treating, but their cooler heads prevail (despite the latter two being provocative).
The United States begins evacuating the embassy in Saigon…
November 1972
More Mages manage to escape offworld… (Estimates of the Offworld population by the end of the month are in the mid 30’s.)
There is a marked increase in the number of people who discover that they have Mage powers.
The Turner Twins and Tammy Brown continue to get to know each other better.
There are several failed Omaha Events in the United States.
The settlement at Copernicus grows. (9 or 10 people residing in the former Lawson house by the end of the month.)
With Lightning Beard gaining a crew, the threat of piracy increases.
November 1, 1972
A second Mage arrives at the orbital supermarket from Idaho.
Omaha Event in Sherwood Forest. The six Mages cooperate and they manage to get into Orbit. Establishment of New Sherwood.
There is another false report of an attempted Omaha Event in northern Idaho..
November 2, 1972:
American Indian members seize control of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco, California and the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) in Washington D.C., citing broken treaties with Native Americans,....
Daniela’s signal is jammed in Antwerp.
At New Sherwood, they manage to establish a permanent atmospheric shield. (Rather than at least one of the mages having to maintain it constantly.)
November 3, 1972
The Turner twins discover that they both have mage powers. They are shocked and resolve to keep it a secret…
More than ten mages have been captured in Birmingham.
November 4, 1972
Tammy Brown spends another afternoon at the library, trying to elucidate the truth from Mage legends.
November 5, 1972
An attempted Omaha Event in a Las Vegas suburb. The teen Mage fails to get the house very high, and crashes on the Strip, narrowly missing one of the Casinos.
Communications are set up between New Sherwood and Copernicus.
Lillie, Billie and Tammy spend the afternoon reading The Lord of the Rings and discussing the themes therin.
November 6, 1972
Katie Neverton finds herself called to the Principal’s office over her behaviour. She finds herself on probation after an argument with the Principal.
November 7, 1972
The population of the house in the Copernicus crater rises to six.
Tammy Brown accidentally discovers Billie and Lillie’s secret. She’s shocked but decides to keep it to herself.
November 8, 1972
A seventh Mage arrives at New Sherwood.
Late in the evening, Katie Neverton covers the Turner house with toilet paper.
November 9, 1972
An eighth Mage arrives at New Sherwood.
A negotiator from Congress arrives at Alcatraz Island.
November 10, 1972
Tammy considers telling the Turner twins that she knows their secret, but ultimately decides not to.
November 11, 1972
A ninth mage arrives at New Sherwood.
November 12, 1972
Daniela’s signal is jammed throughout Massachusetts.
The Turner Twins use their powers to strengthen Daniela’s signal within Omaha…
One of the New Sherwood Mages raids a farm in Nigeria for food. This goes unnoticed.
November 13, 1972
While they don’t want to run away, the Turner Twins test to see if they could pull off what Daniela did. They take a tree from the middle of a park up 1000 meters, before returning to that park and quickly making themselves scarce.
November 14, 1972
A third Mage arrives at the orbital supermarket from Idaho.
Daniela’s signal is jammed in all Belgian urban areas.
November 15, 1972
An Omaha Event occurs in Las Vegas. A Mage snatches a room from a top floor of one of the larger hotels…
November 16, 1972
Katie Neverton decides to ‘rat out’ all Mages at her school…
November 17th, 1972:
A seventh person arrives at the Lawson house in Copernicus Crater. A teen Witch from Aberdeen, Scotland.
New Sherwood grabs a school of fish from an English river…
November 18th, 1972
The FBI compiles a preliminary report on the Original Omaha Event.
The mages in the Orbital supermarket note that all the milk is nearly off…
November 19th, 1972
Another Omaha Event in Las Vegas. This time there is disruption to traffic when a Mage takes off with a nearly empty bus…
November 20th, 1972
Katie Neverton again finds herself called into the Principal’s office…
At New Sherwood, the Dome is completed, completely enclosing the forest segment. They would no longer need to rely upon the shield spells to contain atmosphere.
Lillie and Billie find that the FBI are surveilling their street…
November 21, 1972
A third Omaha Event in Las Vegas. This time the Mage responsible is successful in fleeing into space.
November 22, 1972
Katie decides to try to confront suspected Mages in a away that wouldn’t draw the attention of the school authorities.
November 23, 1972
Nixon receives a report that the FBI would be able to respond to an Omaha Event in a major city, but not one in a rural area.
Taking cues from New Sherwood, the Mages in the Orbital Supermarket raid several farms in Canada…
November 24, 1972
A party is held at the Lawson house to celebrate the arrival of the eighth resident.
November 25, 1972
Jamming of Daniela’s signal begins in Halifax.
November 26, 1972
Lillie and Billie again test their powers, finding that if they concentrate enough, they can send short telepathic messages to each other…
November 27, 1972
A fourth Mage arrives at the orbital supermarket…
The FBI compiles a preliminary report on the Boise Omaha Event.
November 28, 1972
Lightning Beard captures a Mage who was enroute to the Moon. He offers her a position as his first mate. After some consideration, she accepts.
November 29, 1972
A third person joins Lightning Beard’s crew.
November 30, 1972
More evidence of corruption in the Nixon Administration is uncovered.
Daniela’s signal is jammed in southern Nevada.
December 1972
In Omaha, Lillie and Billie telling Tammy about their powers doesn’t really change anything.
Copernicus continues to grow and prosper.
So does New Sherwood.
December 1, 1972
A conference is held in Las Vegas on how to prevent Omaha Events involving properties on the Strip…
December 2, 1972
A third Vegas Omaha Event occurs (despite jamming of the signal from Copernicus).
In Omaha, Katie writes in her diary, a list of suspected Mages. (two pages long!)
December 3, 1972
Katie spies on her neighbours, trying to catch them in the act of using magic...
December 4, 1972
An Omaha Event is prevented out of the outskirts of Las Vegas by police.
Tammy Brown gives the FBI more information on Daniela’s experiences at school.
A failed Omaha Event in Nottingham, England. A teen tries to copy Daniela’s feet, but fails. She runs away to Sherwood Forest…
More information is recovered about what happened at the Watergate Hotel.
October 17, 1972
The FBI interview Tammy Brown again.
Omaha Event in Manitoba. A young woman flees into space in a Volkswagen Kombie.
A failed Omaha Event in Helena, Montana, stirs up discontent against Mages…
Daniela’s signal is jammed in the urban areas of Arkansas.
October 18, 1972
Daniela’s signal is jammed throughout New Jersey.
Katie and Anna talk about who may be Mages (to rat out to the FBI).
October 19, 1972
The Secretary of Defence reports that the signal will be ‘permanently jammed’ by the end of the year.
Lightning Beard establishes a base on the far side of the Moon.
An Omaha Event in New Jersey is intercepted by fighter jets before the Mage can get too high. However, the Mage bails out of the house, causing it to fall to the ground, before flying off out to sea…
October 20, 1972:
A second teen elven witch, Hanna Olafsson, from Uppsala, Sweden arrives at Lawson’s house (in the Copernicus crater). Daniela welcomes Hanna with open arms.
Katie decides to confront the Turner Twins again, but Anna persuades her not to.
Timothy Wells is found in Topeka, Kansas, in the presence of a group of Mages…
October 21, 1972
The FBI interview Katie again, but she denies that she knew Daniela was a mage.
A third Mage is captured in Birmingham.
Daniela’s signal is jammed in eastern Massachusetts.
October 22, 1972:
Vietcong forces overwhelm and capture American and South Vietnamese military forces in Saigon, utilizing flying troops, exploiting the inability of radar to distinguish a flock of birds and witchcraft enhanced troops,...
There is a false report of an attempted Omaha Event in northern Idaho..
Daniela’s signal is jammed in Brussels…
Tammy Brown reads past newspapers at a library, trying to find past references to Mage activity.
October 23, 1972
Tammy and the Turner Twins hang out at a library, reading up on history (and trying to find clues as to past Mage influences).
A fourth Mage is captured in Birmingham.
October 24, 1972
Omaha Event in a small Oklahoma town. A mage takes a trailer into orbit…
A fifth Mage is captured in Birmingham.
October 25, 1972
The FBI interview the Lawsons’ former neighbours again.
Daniela’s parents give more information on Daniela to the FBI (old school records).
October 26, 1972
Two more Nottingham Mages run away to Sherwood Forest.
Tammy Brown is approached by an FBI agent in the library, but she refuses to answer his questions.
A failed Omaha Event in Sheffield leads to the Mage in question nearly being lynched.
Nixon denies that anything untoward occurred at Watergate… (“Um, sir, you should really avail yourself of your Fifth Amendment rights,” someone in the know says after the press conference.)
October 27, 1972
The FBI complete their interviews of the Millard High School faculty.
Omaha Event in Armidale, New South Wales. A teen absconds from home with his parent’s car…
October 28, 1972
The colony of Mages in Sherwood Forest grows to five.
Again, Tammy is approached by an FBI agent in the library.
October 29, 1972
Tammy Brown finds more information on past Mages…
Omaha Event in southern Manitoba. A young couple flees into space in their Volkswagen Beetle.
October 30, 1972
A sixth Mage arrives in Sherwood Forest.
Daniela’s signal is jammed in southern Vermont.
October 31, 1972
Tammy Brown and the Turner Twins cross paths with Katie and Anna while trick-or-treating, but their cooler heads prevail (despite the latter two being provocative).
The United States begins evacuating the embassy in Saigon…
November 1972
More Mages manage to escape offworld… (Estimates of the Offworld population by the end of the month are in the mid 30’s.)
There is a marked increase in the number of people who discover that they have Mage powers.
The Turner Twins and Tammy Brown continue to get to know each other better.
There are several failed Omaha Events in the United States.
The settlement at Copernicus grows. (9 or 10 people residing in the former Lawson house by the end of the month.)
With Lightning Beard gaining a crew, the threat of piracy increases.
November 1, 1972
A second Mage arrives at the orbital supermarket from Idaho.
Omaha Event in Sherwood Forest. The six Mages cooperate and they manage to get into Orbit. Establishment of New Sherwood.
There is another false report of an attempted Omaha Event in northern Idaho..
November 2, 1972:
American Indian members seize control of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco, California and the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) in Washington D.C., citing broken treaties with Native Americans,....
Daniela’s signal is jammed in Antwerp.
At New Sherwood, they manage to establish a permanent atmospheric shield. (Rather than at least one of the mages having to maintain it constantly.)
November 3, 1972
The Turner twins discover that they both have mage powers. They are shocked and resolve to keep it a secret…
More than ten mages have been captured in Birmingham.
November 4, 1972
Tammy Brown spends another afternoon at the library, trying to elucidate the truth from Mage legends.
November 5, 1972
An attempted Omaha Event in a Las Vegas suburb. The teen Mage fails to get the house very high, and crashes on the Strip, narrowly missing one of the Casinos.
Communications are set up between New Sherwood and Copernicus.
Lillie, Billie and Tammy spend the afternoon reading The Lord of the Rings and discussing the themes therin.
November 6, 1972
Katie Neverton finds herself called to the Principal’s office over her behaviour. She finds herself on probation after an argument with the Principal.
November 7, 1972
The population of the house in the Copernicus crater rises to six.
Tammy Brown accidentally discovers Billie and Lillie’s secret. She’s shocked but decides to keep it to herself.
November 8, 1972
A seventh Mage arrives at New Sherwood.
Late in the evening, Katie Neverton covers the Turner house with toilet paper.
November 9, 1972
An eighth Mage arrives at New Sherwood.
A negotiator from Congress arrives at Alcatraz Island.
November 10, 1972
Tammy considers telling the Turner twins that she knows their secret, but ultimately decides not to.
November 11, 1972
A ninth mage arrives at New Sherwood.
November 12, 1972
Daniela’s signal is jammed throughout Massachusetts.
The Turner Twins use their powers to strengthen Daniela’s signal within Omaha…
One of the New Sherwood Mages raids a farm in Nigeria for food. This goes unnoticed.
November 13, 1972
While they don’t want to run away, the Turner Twins test to see if they could pull off what Daniela did. They take a tree from the middle of a park up 1000 meters, before returning to that park and quickly making themselves scarce.
November 14, 1972
A third Mage arrives at the orbital supermarket from Idaho.
Daniela’s signal is jammed in all Belgian urban areas.
November 15, 1972
An Omaha Event occurs in Las Vegas. A Mage snatches a room from a top floor of one of the larger hotels…
November 16, 1972
Katie Neverton decides to ‘rat out’ all Mages at her school…
November 17th, 1972:
A seventh person arrives at the Lawson house in Copernicus Crater. A teen Witch from Aberdeen, Scotland.
New Sherwood grabs a school of fish from an English river…
November 18th, 1972
The FBI compiles a preliminary report on the Original Omaha Event.
The mages in the Orbital supermarket note that all the milk is nearly off…
November 19th, 1972
Another Omaha Event in Las Vegas. This time there is disruption to traffic when a Mage takes off with a nearly empty bus…
November 20th, 1972
Katie Neverton again finds herself called into the Principal’s office…
At New Sherwood, the Dome is completed, completely enclosing the forest segment. They would no longer need to rely upon the shield spells to contain atmosphere.
Lillie and Billie find that the FBI are surveilling their street…
November 21, 1972
A third Omaha Event in Las Vegas. This time the Mage responsible is successful in fleeing into space.
November 22, 1972
Katie decides to try to confront suspected Mages in a away that wouldn’t draw the attention of the school authorities.
November 23, 1972
Nixon receives a report that the FBI would be able to respond to an Omaha Event in a major city, but not one in a rural area.
Taking cues from New Sherwood, the Mages in the Orbital Supermarket raid several farms in Canada…
November 24, 1972
A party is held at the Lawson house to celebrate the arrival of the eighth resident.
November 25, 1972
Jamming of Daniela’s signal begins in Halifax.
November 26, 1972
Lillie and Billie again test their powers, finding that if they concentrate enough, they can send short telepathic messages to each other…
November 27, 1972
A fourth Mage arrives at the orbital supermarket…
The FBI compiles a preliminary report on the Boise Omaha Event.
November 28, 1972
Lightning Beard captures a Mage who was enroute to the Moon. He offers her a position as his first mate. After some consideration, she accepts.
November 29, 1972
A third person joins Lightning Beard’s crew.
November 30, 1972
More evidence of corruption in the Nixon Administration is uncovered.
Daniela’s signal is jammed in southern Nevada.
December 1972
In Omaha, Lillie and Billie telling Tammy about their powers doesn’t really change anything.
Copernicus continues to grow and prosper.
So does New Sherwood.
December 1, 1972
A conference is held in Las Vegas on how to prevent Omaha Events involving properties on the Strip…
December 2, 1972
A third Vegas Omaha Event occurs (despite jamming of the signal from Copernicus).
In Omaha, Katie writes in her diary, a list of suspected Mages. (two pages long!)
December 3, 1972
Katie spies on her neighbours, trying to catch them in the act of using magic...
December 4, 1972
An Omaha Event is prevented out of the outskirts of Las Vegas by police.