vallo

[DEFENSE]

Just spotted our potion boy, looks like he's got an illusionary wall covering a cave entrance. Well, that or he can walk through stone.

Coordinates:

Send backup, but I'm going in to investigate and maybe, hopefully, get him to surrender. That's gotta happen eventually, right?

45 seconds later...

[DEFENSE]

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User Iris Amicitia has triggered their emergency alarm. Please assist them with urgency, including medical supplies. User has recorded the following message along with the alarm.

[Iris' voice]
HE'S A GIANT FUCKING SNAKE!

[robotic voice]
Thank you for using the Emergency Services app, please remember to provide feedback when you're safe again.

So we all agree, we're kicking this guy's ass once he's found, right? Like this isn't one of those 'no, Diego, diplomacy is so great you can't solve everything by stabbing it!!!!' things?

Heeeey so there was some talk at Galahd's last night about an arrest made on the portal lady?? Anyone have anything official to share, because I'll listen to people over drinks all day but I figure 50% of anything there is added context and rumor.

Despite the best efforts of fate, Spring mead is out at Asynja. If you like floral flavors, good news. We have Hibiscus, Rose, and Lavender brewed to human strength, and several barrels of Lavender brewed to knock gods off their feet. Enjoy.

[Filtered to Kate Bishop]
If I disappeared, would you take over the meadery, close it, or sell it?
[/filter]

Ah-- Hello, good morning. I know that it is early for most, but well. I seem to have lost track of the hour.

A thought occurred to me in the night while I was trancing. It--well If you are unfamiliar, it is something that my variation of elves can do, wherein we do not have to sleep and instead go into a meditative trance and do exercises--it hardly matters, but I generally go over thoughts of whatever I am working on or Ca so my thoughts were lingering on this issue we have been going over regarding the portal beast since yesterday and--

I apologize, I did not actually finish my trance and am surviving on coffee and hope at the moment.

Anyway, I had a thought, specifically from the transmutation books that Prigany brought and a few specific runes that those idiots the culprits had tried to use and everything else surrounding the situation and, this might sound mad and I will need someone or a few someones to look over my work, but I am certain that they somehow managed to turn a waypoint crystal into the creature that we have been dealing with today and all of the portals and its glitching and disappearing are stemming from the fact that the magic of the waypoints just shouldn't be within something living and breathing like that.

As I said, I am humble enough to want someone to look over what led me to this conclusion as I have all of the work to show for it, but my humbleness ends at a point as I do have confidence here. There is nowhere for us to send the creature, as they were created and are truly from our Vallo. Perhaps this is something to confirm with them, if communication is at all possible?

But, ah--that is all. It feels as though this narrows our options.

Wild Vallo

Darlings, we spotted the portal creature in that meadow on the southeastern side, closish to the pond. It was resting, poor thing, but didn't stay that way all that long before an arboreal animosity made a most auspicious entrance and it flew off.

Does anyone have eyes on it?

Kit and I were barely out of the forest when a violent head-ache struck us both simultaneously. Has anyone else been struck with this affliction? We are safely home now, the pain in the past and the mission complete, but it seemed wise to inquire.

Guys I think the portal beast isn't really in control of all of the portals and what it's been doing? I ran into it tonight when Yrsa and I were out collecting mushrooms and it didn't run away? I actually got close to it this time and it's scared, confused, and lost.

Do you think there's a way to open the portals on our end? Can we meet up with the people who started all this in the first place and talk to them about it?

Hey everyone. After some conversations with the powers that be outside of the DOA and with the rest of Vallo, I wanted to touch base with our community at large just to compile information. I want us to all be on the same page, but know that there are others out there who have been sleuthing on their own time or just perhaps saw something and didn't make mention. Either way, I wanted to make sure we were all on the same page, but also to have an open forum to discuss any ideas going forward, any theories people might have, additional information that might be floating out there, and answer any questions that people might have. (Please know that I might not have any more answers to said questions than anyone else, but they're still really welcome.)

( Cutting this OOCly just because it's long! )

And that's what I have for now. Like I said, please speak up if you have anything you'd like to add to any of these lists or if you have ideas on how to move forward.

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?

I have been unable to complete my normal tasks for several days now. In exchange, I have been able to master a few small magicks that have been helpful in a way. It is not a fair trade, but at least I am not helpless. In times like these, I am grateful for the allies I have made as I do not feel vulnerable to enemies.

However, Atreus has helped me realize that I am feeling things I do not want to feel. Many of you are carrying emotional burdens and are putting on a false face so that others do not see how you are truly feeling. I would suggest finding someone to help you past these burdens or to help release them. I have dealt with too many spirits with lingering regrets that I would not wish the same upon you.

Also, I would like to return to not understanding how you feel.

Who normally has black wings and is fast enough to keep up with small fae children? Because I think I have your power now and I'm not sorry, but I'm using it to play tag with Kosmo and Kipp.

(Tag over on the beach, if anyone wants to blow off work and come play with us. Shiro.)

Okay so I was going to say something about dirt cake Oreos but instead I think it's more important to say that I saw that portal beast in the city?? It wasn't doing anything but I think it was scared worried afraid confused? Like it didn't know where it was? Or maybe it was the noise?

I think it's sad and I think I want to hug it


Oh wait hold on, it disappeared now? Like it--disappeared and came back and disappeared and came back and then I think it went through another portal? I can't tell if there's anything left behind. I don't think there is?


(also in case anyone IS wondering about the dirt cake Oreos, they're pretty good but the sprinkles are really hard to see and have no flavor so they're just there as a gummy worm homage, and there's dual creme which is nice even if I think crushed up Oreos in Oreo creme is a little like eating a chicken omelet lololololol look they're delicious because I love Oreos BUT maybe not the most clever)

[SHIRO, KEITH, CATRA, ADORA, LEON ORCOT]

I've been in Vallo for 4 years now, which means I've also known Shiro for 4 years now, and I don't mean to be sappy but I genuinely don't know what I'd do without you guys.

I know it's a weekday, and I know everyone has to get up early in the morning, and we've got kids to take care of, but father said he'd watch any of the kids if I wanted to go out, and I really really want to get drunk tonight. I've been good, and I've been sad, and I'm tired of being sad. Does anyone want to come keep me out of trouble? I might ramble about mistletoe again, Catra.

After figuring out explosives weren't the best route, the vacuum cleaner I rigged has contained the slime without them getting out and nobody has had to touch them.

Who do I send the containers to? I can incinerate them.

Power is back on in the barracks.

The outage was a result of deliberate sabotage to the electrical system. The culprit is unknown for now, but the situation has been reported to the captain.

When you have time, go to your pod and do an inspection, and report back if anything went missing or was disturbed in the dark.

When I first found myself in Vallo, more than two years ago, I found myself quite unmoored. Vallo was like no place I had ever been, beyond even my wildest imaginings, both in terms of technology and culture.

I was lucky enough to make friends with men and women who helped acclimatize me to this new world; some a little less gently than others. I'm afraid the last of those kind people have now gone. But thanks to Ignis, I've now found a pleasure and ability in cooking that I likely never would have found had I remained home and never met him, and his affection for his husbands is, I suspect, at least part of the reason I was able to allow myself to fall for my own husband. If, three years ago, someone had told me I'd not only witness, but also help plan the bachelor party for a wedding between four men, I would have thought them quite mad, but I am glad, very glad, that they allowed me to be a part of their lives.

Ignis, Noctis, Prompto and Gladios will be missed. But they'll not be forgotten any time soon.

Can't be real. Can't be. Has to be another portal thing. Right? Has to be.

Hey guys, if you like your tentacle porn to smell like cotton candy, make your way down to the Starcourt Mall. We've got it all. Ice cream! Movies! A bunch of fucking rainbows. All the sexy-gross tentacles you could ever want. The lingering smell of sugar and cookies fucking everywhere.

You think this is enough to like, bail on work and go get a drink someplace instead?

[Sanctuary Family]

Forest Girl, you are welcome here always. I believe we are both in a similar state today. I will make the waffles, Mimir has provided instructions.

Atreus, if you are not otherwise occupied, it would be good to have you here as well.