Second Chances: the Network

Okay. I don't know if this was meant to be a compliment or an insult so I'm throwing it out to the community.

What is a camboy and why should I be one?

Is it some kind of hint that college isn't for me?

[Edwin]

I got something from home that could help with your quest for afterlife knowledge.

CW/TW: likely mention of a gun shot wound in comments

Facts as we know them

1. They can't see me and Edwin, but they know about us.
2. They're obsessed with salt.
3. They're using iron, so they definitely know about us.
4. We'll find out in the morning what happens when I'm injured just before sunset.



5. I might need help in the morning.

Enid is MIA. No phone, no tracking. What've we got?


[ ooc; anyone who knows him knows he wouldn't risk posting (AND unfiltered!) this if he weren't absolutely LIVID - he's gonna do a Violence, y'all ]

I haven't had a headache this bad since the goddamn birds.

OKAY SO. It's the end of September and I have to pull myself back together so you know what that means!

GIANT HALLOWEEN BASH! Edge of Glory will be hosting, costumes OBVIOUSLY encouraged. Go as wild as you want but important bits must be covered because I love you all but I'm not losing my liquor license for you. There will be prizes for some categories (think best group, spookiest, funniest, best mashup, coupl ah fuck it cutest couple, and probably more as I think about them).

Family friendly till 8, 18+ after that (and shouldn't you smol people be Trick or Treating anyway?)

Drink specials all night long and we'll be open till 2am. Halloween is on a Friday this year and we're going BIG so go practice your best Thriller and I'll see everyone there!

Cafeteria talk today at school was about Halloween costumes. I said I was thinking about being Freddy Mercury, and one of the kids asked who that was.

I feel outraged and old. More outraged, I think. How do they not know Queen? I get it if one of us from a different universe doesn't know, but from here, when I know I've seen their albums on both vinyl and CD? Inconceivable.

Now that the city seems to actually be back to "normal," allow me to be a total basic bitch for a second and ask if anyone wants to go find an orchard this weekend and pick some apples or something? Though I mostly just want to stuff myself on apple cider donuts, tbh.

I have been here long enough to see times like these, where a larger group arrives or returns all at once. It does not make anything easier, it will likely never get any more easy to deal with when we lose loved ones.

But now is a time for support. Ask for it, provide it, whatever you need or are able to do. Check on your neighbors, "our people" or otherwise. The smallest offering can make a world of difference in times like these. We are in this together.

[ ooc; I am turning off tracking on this post - please use it to corral character reactions about the drops so the network comm isn't getting spammed and posts being buried ♥ filter to your own people, text messages, whatever. Your characters don't have to talk to Una at all, it's just a place to corral this. ]

The Monday blues've got me thinking about the long weekend ahead. It's one of the grilling holidays, right? Are we doing something as a community, or should we plan our own things?

[DBD Group]
Wanna just converge and turn or brains off for three days and watch the cheesiest films we can find?

Three days in and school is the loudest place I've been in a long time....A teacher already scolded me for wearing earbuds to cancel it out...

[Kara]
Think you can write me a note for the accommodation? Tim got me noise cancelling headphones to block out some of the chatter otherwise I can't focus at all.

How long does summer last before we have to go to that high school?

[Batfam+, +Kal, +Kara filter]
All this talk of birthdays made me remember Tim saying I should pick one..I've never actually had a birthday before? But how does one pick one? A) Random date generator? B)Does it have to mean something? C??)Am I over thinking it? This is stupid, why am I like this etc?

[Teen filter]
So what else is there for us to do on a weekend night? Like Sunday. We had bowling today, and I guess that was cool. But what about tomorrow?

... Yeah I'm not sticking around for whatever this is. Who wants to go for a joyride?

Celebrating your birthday without your best friend is really lame.

Happy birthday, Adaine, you're a legal adult and your best friend is a tween.

She owes me the best damn cake when she's herself again.

[Private to Edwin Paine]
I had this whole thing typed up and ready to post.

It was not as angry as it could've been, but it was not polite, and it was absolutely me stirring the pot. It would've made it worse, which I never want to do for you.

I wouldn't be here if not for your particular brand of honesty and candor. Not everyone appreciates it, but I do. Immensely.
[end]

People seem stressed. We should probably do something about that. Important scientific questions first: How much pizza have we, as a group, ordered in the last week, and on a scale from 1-10, with 1 being not at all, how sick of it are we?

I hate it here. I want to go home.

[OOC: any comments after the last one to Stiles will go unanswered by Sylvie]

I hope everyone is okay. I'm not really sure what's going on. Just that things on the network are chaotic. It's gotta be Mercury in retrograde. That always seems to drive chaos into people's lives.

Edwin, are you

Tim, is everything

I feel like going to the bookstore today. Maybe I'll find some more star charts there.

The apartment feels too big empty.

Apologies to anyone who finds random plants growing somewhere they shouldn't. Or random ice sculptures. I might have gone overboard.

...not quite the adventure I was lookin' for. Wee bit confusing, even if the digs be nice.

Name's Hook. Seem to have taken a very wrong turn and end up here.

Since my birthday is in the middle of the week, would people prefer doing a get together the Saturday before (the 21st) or the Saturday after (the 28th)? I'm thinking dinner and a bon fire at night on the beach is probably going to end up being the best option.

I think I should put in for some PTO and actually enjoy a little of my summer before school starts up. Anything has to be better than the summer before junior year. And college here is way different than Solace but...maybe not in a bad way.

[Crystal]
How are you holding up? I know it sucks but at least you don't NEED a guardian much longer if you don't like your new one?