Multiverse of Madness

It's almost been a couple of days now. Can we all agree that was really fucked up?

I'm seven inches tall! SEVEN! I have heels bigger than me!

[Brothers - Alec, Magnus, Jace, Simon]

Don't any of you dare suggest I go live in Madzie's dollhouse. I may be tiny but I can still fight you.

Also, don't worry. I'm safe. Oliver has a cozy pocket.

[OOC Note: Izzy turned into Tinker Bell size]

Not to alarm anyone, but I keep seeing a pair of wolves ranging about the grounds. Is anyone missing a loved one?

Please be advised there is an emerging situation happening at the Lighthouse.

At 20:37, the seismic sensors registered a low level tremor consistent with a detonation located at the Lighthouse coordinates. The event repeated minutes later.

Eyewitnesses in the area have described an explosion that levels the Lighthouse, but couldn't get closer. They said a green flash of light accompanied every reset. I've sent a team to establish a perimeter and ask that no one goes near until we find out more. Tony is sending in people to make sure the public and the media stays out of this. Team Science, I'd love you to weigh in.

I'll keep everyone updated as I can. So far, we can't raise communications inside. If you've been living and/or working in the Lighthouse, please check in here, let us know you're okay.

I'd like to report that it is officially possible to die of boredom. Also lack of anything good to drink. Or otherwise consume.

For anyone who might be celebrating Pride this weekend, please come by Medical for your very own bit of heartfelt handmade decor.

( Cut for Image )

I woke up this morning, and Jest was gone.

[Shadowhunters, Magnus + Derek]

The HYDRA investigation I assigned myself was inconclusive. The trail has more dead ends than a labyrinth.

I'll keep looking though. I still feel like they are hiding something. But so far I can't find anything to link it to the attack. I may have to take a road trip out of town to see the abandoned base for myself.

It's probably too early to say anything, but it's about time we had some good news around here, so I'm saying it anyway.

I'm developing an early warning system for the red portals.

I don't expect it will entirely prevent disappearances, as the energy signatures appear to only become readable within minutes of the portal appearing. The ultimate goal is to alert anyone within proximity of an emerging portal in hopes that they can evade it. So far the sensors have a limited range and have proven unstable even under lab conditions, but I think I've found the right balance of power and sensitivity and am building a new prototype now. Once complete, I'll be testing around the Lighthouse for ease of monitoring, and then distributing from there given appropriate circumstances and materials/ability to replicate. I originally wanted to make portable censors but the

It's going to take some time, but we will get to the other side of this.

[Cisco and Henry]

I wouldn't mind a second and third pair of eyes on these new schematics before I use up the last of this steel-polysiliconate I made.

We've had another incident in the woods between New Asgard and the Facility.

No one was gravely injured, and we're not restricting movement in the area but please take this as a strong advisement not to travel on your own until we know more.

More updates will be provided as they become available.

( [Shadowhunters + Magnus] )

Apparently a week here was a month in portal time for us.

[Fitz, Jemma, and Magnus]

We're back. How's Madzie?

[Jace, Izzy, Simon and Magnus]

I'd make some joke about if you all missed us, but I'm just glad that we're back.

It's really been two months?

Sorry for the burnt smell in the kitchen. I killed a toaster.

Last night I had a dream that I was looking into another world through a red portal and a moment later got pulled in. The place was beautiful, with huge trees and a waterfall and a rainbow, but I was angry that I was there because it wasn't home. I tried to turn around and go back through the portal, but it closed up before I could. I think I might have screamed. That was when I woke up.

I guess it was inevitable that my subconscious would get in on the red portal worry game.

[Alec]

Not precisely a nightmare this time, but it still felt a lot like the others.

Who's got two thumbs, kicked ass and got his ass kicked in Gotham, only to come back to find a majority of his friends and his entire husband g o n e?

If you answered me, then ding-ding-ding, you get to be insufferable about it.

Who wants to go day drinking once I shake Medical's watchful eye?

Jask and I have been holed up in the studio for the last few days, and he suggested that maybe we could play a bit in the common area for a couple of hours a day during the week, if people wanted? I can take a lot of requests, and Jaskier picks up on the songs like a freakin' prodigy.

Any interest? We just thought it might be good for morale or whatever. If I'm way off base, tell me that, too! I don't want to bug people.

[Private to Alec]

Jemma and Fitz are taking Alya out of school and want to know if we'd like for Madzie to join her in home school. What do you think?

I counted my fingers and there's ten of them, but I'm still not sure I'm not dreaming or trapped in some corner of my own mind. But the guy who gave me this datapad didn't think I was funny, and that kind of harshness is pretty damn real. How is a guy supposed to know???

Estate planning here is both far simpler and infinitely more complicated than back home. At least here I don't have to pretend to be my own grandchild or use magic. It feels so mundane to use a spell for paperwork.

We've been back for a few days, but we haven't made our announcement yet: while on vacation, Magnus and I got married. It was a bit of a sudden decision, all with Magnus quickly but carefully planning and we couldn't be happier.

[Jace, Izzy, Simon]

So, I'm worried. Magnus isn't sleeping again. He was completely fine while we were away, but the dreams have come back.

I'm only new around here so can someone tell me: merman in the bathroom? Is that normal? He was kind cute.

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[edited to add around noon]

Wow. What's a pocket dial called when you roll over on your phone in your sleep?

Despite firmly knowing my daughter's age—which is five, by the way (she "celebrated" her birthday while we were jumping through time)—I have continued to order Sweet Sixteen decorations. All of a particular theme. It appears I can't get my "future flash" out of my head.

If anyone needs any tiaras or glittery feather boas that aren't already being used for play date dress-up time, I'll be happy let you take much of this off my hands.

I got hired to watch over some rich college girls having a bachelorette party next weekend, and everyone I've mentioned it to seems to think that's hilarious.

[Simon]

I need a favor.

And here I thought I was used to sleeping at night now.

[Magnus]

I guess it's my turn to not sleep well. Left this just in case you wake up before I come back to bed.

[Jace]

I have some questions.

Why does the kitchen smell like a fish died, was resurrected, then died again and was smothered in fish sauce?

( Alec )
( Magnus )
( Simon )

Especially considering that my idea of fun when I was a kid is totally different, I think I'm running out of ideas of keeping a little kid occupied.

[Jace]

And how was LA?

[Magnus]

I was thinking, maybe we could go on a mini vacation in the city? We could stay in a hotel, and see if some of the mundane restaurants you like are in this universe. Also, find something fun for Madzie to do to help her as well. And it might be good to get away for a little while, but on our own terms? Maybe you can sleep somewhere else -

I'll be gone for a couple of days. I haven't disappeared again...I'm just away.

[Alec]

Playing bodyguard for a mundane. Should be easy money, and then I'll be back.

This is a (probably long overdue) PSA:

I'm a vampire.

I CAN GO OUTSIDE NOW!!!!



That's it. That's the post.

Anybody wanna tell me why it took me FIVE (literal, actual, verified by FRIDAY herself) HOURS to get from the range to the kitchen this morning?

Didn't feel like five hours, but all the coffee was gone and someone was setting up to make lunch.

I have concluded that there is not enough magic in the world to get spilled simple syrup off the bottom of one's shoes. Or the club floor. Or every piece of floor where one has walked since said spill.

So that's how my weekend went. How was yours?

( Friends )
( Quentin )
( Margo )

If I'm going to be stuck here for an indeterminate period of time, I'm going to need to line up some sparring partners other than my parabatai. Any takers?

I got my bow. It's absolutely fantastic, and I can't wait to get into the range and hit targets with this.

If anyone needs me, I'll be at the range. Like, for a long time. Maybe forever.

( Lighthouse Residents )
( Jemma, Henry, Ashley Magnus )
( Jemma )
( Added Later - Open to All )

This is the single coolest thing to EVER happen to me.

Please be advised of the attached ruling by the U.N. in regards to powered individuals.

The too long, didn't read version is this:

If you're caught by any media using your abilities in such a way that can lead back to your real identity, you'll be required to sign and abide by the Sokovia Accords. This is non-negotiable, especially after what happened with Tony Stark last month.

I'm sure some very smart people are doing their best to get this repealed, but until then, lay low. Or wear a goddamn mask.

[Attached: A Very Long Legal Document that is paraphrased above]


_{(OOC Note: This is sent as a direct message to every resident, making each comment effectively screened to Derek only. Feel free to react separately on the net.)}

Well, the goddamn portal still works.

For all those extraordinarily healthy copers among us, drinks are half price at Threshold tonight.

[Friends]

If this is like middle school when I only had one friend, everyone may have drag me off the floor to get their discounts.

[Quentin]

You ARE going to come back to me, and we're going to ta I'm going to stop being a coward.

So, is anyone else's social media blowing up about Tony disappearing on stage at a tech conference in Minsk? Is Zari slacking on telling all of us about this, or what?

Update: seeing some chatter on here about Pepper and Happy going missing, too.

Goddammit.

Sound off, if you're here? Please?

[voice post]

HELLO!

My goodboy Clint told me I could talk into this thing he's always looking at, and it would make words people could see. But you can't see words, they're just sounds. Goodboy Clint took me out to the big park in the loud big place and we ran and ran and he gave me a hot dog, because he's a goodboy and now we're back at new home, but I still miss old home sometimes because this place smells funny. He said he would give me pizza, because I'm the bestboy, and then we're going to see bestgirl Kate later, because I love her.

HELLO!

I've never seen Alya as elated as she was today when she came across a talking puppy on the way back from school. I don't think she knows yet that there are other talking animals...but let me know if anyone has a pet who'd like to play with an eager four-year-old. It might save us me us from having to get her one of her own....

I should be concerned that I don't find this whole thing nearly as strange as I should.

So, good news/bad news time:

The good news is that I think everyone's stuff is on a table in the common room now.

The bad news is it appeared right on top of my lunch, so if your stuff has bits of my sandwich and chips on it, that's not really my fault, but I still feel bad about it.

I guess come get find out if any of this giant pile is yours?



Also, as I understand it, the portal energy usually gives off a bluish tint, right? Just for the record, whatever the flash of light I saw was it wasn't blue.

Threshold will be officially (finally) open for normal business hours on Wednesday. There's some fliers floating around with all the info, but I thought it couldn't hurt to mention it here.

In other news, your favorite bartender will be better dressed than ever, because I woke up to clothes piled on every surface of my room. The portal giveth and the portal taketh away?

In other other news, I need a bigger closet.

[OOC: This is Eliot's February activity reward/]

So, my blade is missing. It's a short blade, jagged in shape, and has runes etched into the metal. I'm not accusing anyone because honestly it's the strangest thing. I usually keep it glamoured when I have it on me, and I haven't needed it to fight at all, so it's very strange for it to be gone.

If I did leave it somewhere, just let me know, don't touch: especially if you're a werewolf or a magic user. It might burn you.

Not funny. My bow's gone missing.

Did someone take borrow it from the lockbox at the range?

I thought I had it in my room, but maybe I left it downstairs?

Agent Romanoff, reporting for duty. What did I miss?

About this club I keep hearing about that sometimes is open and sometimes is not.

If you're the one holding the keys, I'd like to talk.





Did I mention I mix a mean drink and have recently procured a minimal stash thanks to a bit of cash^* I found under my mattress. Thanks whoever had my room last! Party in my room until I can't squeeze anyone else, and then we beg Q for his!



[*OOC: Moola from January activity rewards]

Can someone please explain to me the importance of the upcoming holday: Valentine's Day? I am starting to see information about it, and would like to make sure that I am celebrating it correctly. Especially in the bakery. There are many red fruits I can use to create delicious pastries, and I have heart-shaped cookie cutters. Is that all there is to it?

I don't suppose anyone has already compiled a list of child-friendly activities available in the facility or nearby? Apparently two hours days is long enough for a four-year-old to get bored.

[Added Later - Private to Ororo Monroe]

Hello - I'd like to get some more information about the program you've set up for children. I came through the portal with a four (or five?) year old who needs socialization outside of me and my boyfriend. She's a warlock and powerful for her age, but she's lived a rather tough life so far.