The Hash/Jen

Main character and POV character in The Hash.

• Female
• Enjoys recreational mathematics
• Geohasher
• Doesn't like letting people down; if she's said she'll do something, she won't let herself change her mind
• Has a car for shopping and long journeys, but prefers her bike (motorbike) when her shopping is low-volume.

• Catch phrase: "Thanks. I think."

Post-hypnotic suggestions

• Reinduction trigger: Count down for me - created by The Hash/Eric in #One
• Visualisation trigger: The copy of Sixty-Nine Shades of Gay she bought in #Two is coupled with a suggestion that whenever she reads it, she will experience everything that the main character Amantha feels.
• Underwear: Whenever she wears the fancy lingerie she buys in #Three, she will be convinced that she's in public and people are looking at her, but will be so horny she can't help following through with whatever she was intending to do.
  • After taking them off, she will be unable to wear regular underwear for 24 hours. She can either wear sexy lingerie again, or go commando.

#One - Part 1

• Thinks weirdness can be awesome
• Proud to be a nerd
• Lives with Simon.
• Simon, Claire, and Pete were all there when she got home from her first hash.

• Unclear if they all live there. Pete might be one of Claire's friends.

• Jen manages to get to 8 hashes over several months, but meets nobody.
• Finds a hash at Gregory Levinson Memorial Park - Number 8, and the one where she meets Eric.
• Does mystery shopping; buys stuff and fills in a questionnaire.

• Likes getting to try different food and stuff. A fan of the unexpected in general, and likes to have a little randomness in her life.

• Little knowledge of current fashions

#One - Part 2

• Good head for abstract maths
• sometimes donates mystery shopping purchases to the Saint Nicholas Centre in Coppington.
• Once had big plans for the future with a guy; plans for their dreams as a family, rather than individual goals. Then he left.
  • Tries not to feel bad about it, but doesn't have many big goals
• does odd work, bits and pieces of different things. Freelancing, mystery shopping
  • Doesn't like to be tied down, and likes to have a less structured life
• Somewhat embarrassed by the thought that people might think she has kids
• Thinks of reading as a hobby. Quite likes mysteries, likes problem solving.
• Once hoped of a job with maths, but found that companies were expecting calculators to replace accountants. There's a little bit of anger there, but she doesn't really think about it any more.
• Was once "hypnotised" by a boyfriend in college
  • Tried bondage, making her think she couldn't move, but it didn't work
  • Went back to actual ribbon bondage, and a dinky little whip. Didn't do much for her, but the bf was pretty into it, so she was happy to play along for a year or so

#One - Part 3

• The hypnotist bf was called Karl
  • He wanted her to feel like a puppet

#Two - Part 1

• Does part time work at the Bullridge scout camp sometimes (teaching them willow weaving; which she can do but doesn't know the history of)
• Doesn't have time to go to Farthinglades and still make the hash

#Two - Part 2

• Buying a bottle of wine for movie night with charlene and Lind at the weekend - presumably more friends
• The supermarket (one of a chain she's visited often) has staff in blue waistcoats. Slogan "delighted to help YOU". they sell a few books that have been in the news or are by local authors.
• Staff named Aldesh (pale, gangly youth, helpful; might see him again later) and Cerise (lazy checkout assistant)
• Buying a book, Sixty-Nine Shades of Gay - it's been on the news, and has large fleshtone illustrations on both sides