Hello.

I am very itchy and sad and grumpy and tired all over and I would like to stop scratching, please.






And my feathers are falling out.

I think this is a problem.

FILTERED TO MAGIC USERS, ELIPHAS GRIMSBANE, AND CAYDEN YARROW.

I need help.

I know. No one asks for help anymore. But I am. Some of you are privy to all the shit going on with this body me. And after the last world we were in And after pouring over everything I can possibly think of, we're I'm at a roadblock.

Reverse this, break the magic, whatever it is you do. I'm willing to do anything. Just name your price to get me back to what I am.

( I think I've mostly been forgiven for being gone )

Totes recommend farm animals as therapy, it's good stuff. :)))))))))))))))) (talking to someone is important too!!!)

It's Adaine's birthday!! And my SUPER amazing and co-worker and all around GREAT friend requested ice cream for it, so it's time for a very low-key but still celebratory but also low stress and not making too much of a big deal but a big enough deal because birthdays are important but again like, as long as everyone is having fun ice cream crawl! Please join us for as much as you want tonight at the following locations in order:

--Creameri (here I recommend the hot fudge sundae, no cherries, extra whipped cream)
--Honeice (they're vegan but they're SO nice, you guys and it's pretty good!! I get the sorbet and that is top notch and it's real fruit so Gansey doesn't make a face at me for the day)
--Scooplicity (you pick your own add-ins and they mix it in front of you, mine is usually brownies, Sour Patch Kids, and Golden Oreos with cheesecake ice cream)
--Frost and Fizz (root beer floats are the BEST but don't sleep on the orange or grape soda or the ginger ale!!!)
--Gelato Glitz (true story the owner is related to the pixie who owns the coffee shop which is very cool and there's literally edible glitter in EVERYTHING, sometimes they'll add in extra effects too, my Pop Rocks scoop had sparkles flying around it it was super cool)
--Barsar's (ask him about his bocce ball league, also, get the homemade waffle cone)

It's a LOT of ice cream so prepare yourself!

[ooc - posted shortly after portal closed]

Well, a week has passed and I have no memory of it, so... I'm assuming people went somewhere again?

Is everyone okay?

There is a new portal opened in front of Morningside and it is swarmed. I was able to defeat several angry plants and defend most of the building but they are still coming through and I do not wish to burn everything to the ground.

Assistance requested.

Kir, you are to stay home. Do not argue with me.

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So, uh.

Are we still looking for the portal guy? Because it just kinda dropped out of the sky from a portal and flew off. The portal isn't there anymore, but just checking that no one suddenly disappeared or anything, because that would be a problem.

EDIT: Witches and wizards and magical folk of Vallo, do you have magical ways to track glitchy, invisible beasts? And ones that can fly. Me and Kratos ??? want to know.

EDIT 2: Anyone who is familiar that sounds so wrong but that's the words that F with the beast, can you come describe it to Fresh Cut Grass?

Next week will mark my arrival anniversary into Vallo and I believe that counts as one of the few dates where I am allowed to be sentimental "on main", as my once students used to say. (Note that the other dates include: my birthday, Caleb's birthday, the children's birthday, our wedding anniversary. Other random days must be forgiven, if I am not controlled at brunch and have one too many sips of a mimosa.)

And so, this has been a very tumultuously wonderful handful of years and I am grateful to the people who have given it such joy, both those that have since gone and everyone still here--and, most assuredly, those that will still stumble into Vallo in the future. I am a lucky elf.

Anyway, sentimentality over. Thank you for allowing the indulgence.

I am delivering a new podcast this evening that I am particularly proud of. Normally I would give hints as to the subject matter--magic, soup, book reviews, etc--so as to tempt people to listen, but I wish not to spoil anyone and also I have heard that lending some mystery could likewise tempt people to listen so this is a test. If no one listens, I will know it is a gamble best not taken again and simply be terrible sad. (This is a back up plan: if mystery does not work, perhaps guilt will.) (This is a joke, in case my brand of humor remains less than clear after all these years of attempting it.)

Uh What do you say when you are seeing if another world can see what you're writi

Hello, this is Orym of the Air Asha Beketh Squadron, Communications. I know that there is a lot going on around the ship and everything is confusing and bad, but there might be a bit of good news for you new folks.

With our comms back up, we almost immediately received a signal that was first theorized and then confirmed to be coming from your side of things. It's gotten stronger as we've drifted closer to the proximity of the assumed portal. Long story short, I've been told that they should be able to see this and you lot should be able to communicate with one another now.

So uh if anyone not currently on the V.A.L.L.O. could confirm that, that would be super helpful. I'm sure your people will be relieved to hear from you.

Someone left their footprints all over the grass in the Forest. The grass that, as it turns out, has very clear and obvious signage that says to not tread upon it. The grass that we work very hard to maintain to add to important things like the oxygen we breathe.

Do not step on it again, mysterious person. The surveillance did not catch anyone this time which is rather, but just do not.

All right, thank you.

Hey there, newcomers--and also not-newcomers, since I've been told everyone should be connected onto our networks now. Obviously let us know if that's not the case--well, I guess you wouldn't be seeing this if it wasn't, so. Let us know if it is and that's one thing done.

Anyway, I'm Orym and it really is nice to see some new faces, even if it's from strange circumstances. (I say that as though arriving via tree onto a space station is normal, but after a few years it really is.)

If there's anything you need or have questions about, let us know.

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RESCUERS

I kept some of the healing potions aside for us. Most were donated to the larger pool, please do not lecture me, but I wanted to make sure we had some as well, just in case. Find me if you want to keep one on your person.

Oh. Ah-- Is everyone relatively all right for now?

CALEB

This is a terrible idea, but I
Caleb
Are you
I am here for

Caleb? I have been told you are here, but I do not know if you utilize this network.

((late tonight via a sending stone)

Talon to Eagle Eye, are you in, Eagle Eye?

REVENANTS

I just went to keep an eye on the portal and caught the tail end of what looked like new arrivals being taken in by the rebels. A big mess of them, not just the usual trickle of one or two.

I didn't see them come through the portal specifically, but 1+1=2 and all that.

BILLY

Are you sitting?

ATTENTION ALL THOSE WHO HAVE COME ACROSS KITTENS WITH MOUTH TENTACLES!

Some of you might remember when I introduced my cat (Goose) about two years ago. Goose is an alien in the shape of a cat known as Flerken. All of the info on Thor's post is true of her species back home. Here in Vallo, Goose's more toxic elements - both the claws and more extreme uses of tentacles - have been dulled, presumably by whatever kind of magic Vallo likes to use to keep us here. I'm pretty confident the same will hold true for any of the kittens' toxic elements, too, and they should be ultimately harmless.

After rounding up the 39 begging for attention from Thor, I've picked out enough familiar patterns to say these ARE Goose's kittens. I don't know how many are here, but at last count, I'm seeing mention of 48 - that includes 39 from Thor, 4 from Atreus, 1 from Orym, 1 from Wanda, 1 from Darlington, and 2 from Ty. There could be up to 69 more running around Vallo.

If you've found one (or one has found you) and you feel comfortable holding onto them for the time being, great, but please drop a line here to let me know where you have them, just in case. If you don't feel comfortable, that's fine, too. Again, drop a line here, and I'll come by to pick them up. We have a safe space to keep them until we figure out what's going on.

Please don't attempt to kill them.

Would anyone care to see a family cat picture before the kittens started sprouting their wings? Now they are learning to fly and every picture of them is a blur.

( I assume everyone will answer ja. )

[FILTERED TO ESSEK]

Are you feeling a little better now that you have stuck your hands in moist soil?

((posted laaaaate tonight/eaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarly tomorrow morning))
((also this is a picspam and requires a lot of mental photoshop and theatre of the miiiind))

I went to that Critical Role Land with my moron friends and it is the best place I have ever been to in my entire life.

( I found Vax )

It's just an amazing likeness. Incredible. I'm looking at two Vaxs. Vaxes? Vaxii? Fuck.

WAIT I TAKE IT ALL BACK

( What the fuck is this nonsense )

WHO IS THAT REFERRING TO?

( Here are other pictures look at them or don't I don't care )

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My entire life in Faerûn, I only ever encountered two mimics and both times it was rather our own fault for snooping around and looting every chest we came across. (I make no apologies.)

Never would I have imagined an inflatable man of snow being one, therefore rendering me very surprised when admiring some of the festive twinkle lights outside of a home. I will admit that the Fireball was overkill, but I'll be paying the homeowner back for the destroyed decorations that weren't all tooth-y and pseudopod-y.