It seems there is no such thing as Tuesday!

Greetings!

It’s Brian Russetcoat here, I am taking a turn to update you while we try to get things sorted out! There is still a great deal of uncertainty and concern around the Holt, and from what I have seen, this is extremely justified.

We know from Lucy’s endeavours that Lutra Longwhiskers is, at present, unharmed and still being allowed a minute amount of control of the Holt. So far this control extends only to demanding snacks and giving out apparently accidental hints to those of us working in opposition to the OIA.

It is scientifically sound to extrapolate from Lucy’s conversations and our own observations that Conrad Shortwhiskers and his cohort have staged a hostile takeover of the UK Raft. It is also clear that, as yet, they are unwilling to openly announce their new regime. This leaves us uncertain as to their eventual agenda.

We can, however make the reasonable working hypothesis that it is directly related to the time wheel and its use and that they are hiding this behind claims about the prophesied Otters of the Apocalypse.

This hypothesis is based on two main factors:

The first is that they have suspended all use of the time wheel for all but their own “authorised” users. This is undoubtedly a load of absolute rubbish, they can’t possibly have authorised users as they haven’t been through our official training programme!

The second is that the investigation Debbie and I were carrying out into the unusual time logs seemed to provoke this take over. They seem so concerned about what we might discover that they have not only shut our lab but they have confiscated all of our research. Luckily for everyone, well luckily for use anyway, I am not the sort of otter that would leave my research un-backed-up. Nor would I leave my back-up research un-backed-up!

So it seems only right that I give you a brief rundown of what we found just before those OIA nobs got all uptight and shut us down.

At first glance the time logs and seem to indicate a random scattering of journeys commensurate with (as Lutra might say) throwing otters at time all willy nilly! However when you get into a bit more detail, and when you consult your resident historian, it becomes clear that these journeys seem to coincide with a lot of the most significant historical events, both in the otterverse and in the human world. We suspect they have been manoeuvring themselves into prominent or influential positions throughout history, although as yet we don’t know why!

The other interesting fact that became evident while studying this data, is that during the whole temporal experimentation programme, both authorised and unauthorised, not a single destination has been a Tuesday!

I have told Simon Swifttail this and he is extremely excited, he has declared this to be the meaning of the prophecy line “it seems there is no such thing as Tuesday”. It does seem that it could well be a sensible explanation. I have to say though if we are going to get through this unscathed it would really be useful to find out what some of the prophecy means before we live through it. Luckily Simon is working his little paws off as we speak.

I am going to have to sign of now, Debbie, Lucy, Simon and I are going to try and set up a network of communications around the Holt so we can work out a plan of action. We desperately need to get ourselves access to the time wheel again, and to do this we are going to have to work out who in the Holt we can still trust!