NO EXITS

It seems like we've got a few folks scouting and working on finding food and medicine sources, so like Lara said, shelter's probably next on the list.

It doesn't look like the buildings are going to collapse, but they also don't seem ideal lodgings at the moments. Might make sense to see if we can clear some of the brush and make some shelters athat are more defensible and easier to access.

Let me know if you want to lend a hand. Bonus if you can help clear brush. But I'll take whatever help I can get.

Steve, Thor - you two want to lend a hand?

[ORLIN]

I might have suggested your tricorder could determine if food was poisonous or not. Is that possible?

If we could get a replicator working this week, that would probably be good.

( Private: Captain's Log )

So running to the kitchen for a snack seems like it's not a thing right now. Anyone up for trying to find where breakfast is? Because now that I started to think about it, I'm really hungry.

Anyone else get an invitation to a ball?

I think I should go. Not that I can tell what day it's supposed to be, but maybe we can get more information about this place. It's supposed to be a void week.

Probably should find myself a date?

Time to get absolutely shit faced and drink to Richie. I'll miss that foul-mouthed little shit. The only person who really loved my Step On Me attitude.

I'm not a cartoon, but I look like my dad in these clothes. This is

Anyone want to check out Chinatown with me?

[STEVE]

Any chance we can just forget about last week?

Has anyone ever gotten aggressive when they landed in this world? Just wondering how that was usually dealt with.

Hello, network. Reaching out per your possessed paper airplane to say I have too many questions.

No thank you.

Gar left? He just got here. Everyone from my world keeps leaving. So why am I still stuck here?

It's been over 24 hours since anyone has heard from Yelena Belova. If anyone knows anything, please let me know. I haven't found her anywhere. I can only assume she's in her room or the magic took her or

I pretty much have just the network right now because of my curse, sooo... When's the last time we did a no-stakes competition? I'm 100% not doing any personal question type games on here when there's a bunch of people that can't lie or can only lie. But we should establish Derleth's favorite snack. Y'know, the one that gets the most votes.

Rules:
1) Cupcakes are automatically eliminated.
2) List your top 3 favorite snacks.
3) Seriously, no cupcakes allowed.


French fries: 4
Blood: 2
Potato chips: 2
Doritos: 2
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups: 2
Chocolate Chip Cookies: 2
Pizza: 2
Flamin' Hot Cheetos: 1
Elk jerky: 1
Baked apples: 1
Blueberry Grunt: 1
Red bean mochi:1
Dark chocolate-covered almonds: 1
Applecake: 1
Funnel cake: 1
Hot Pretzel: 1
Poké Puffs: 1
Malasada: 1
Poffin: 1
Candied sweet potato: 1
Furutsu Sando: 1
Túrógombóc: 1
Chocolate mint milkshake: 1
Fried milk: 1
Kulolo: 1
Toaster waffles: 1
Green beans: 1
Moose Tracks ice cream: 1
Popcorn: 1
Pizza rolls: 1
Cheese fries: 1
McDonald's apple pies: 1
Samosas: 1
Fudge: 1

I'm totally telling the truth. I will swear on my childhood pet.

I know your fucking handwriting, Eliot Waugh. Where the fuck are you? I need you to explain this in OUR terms.

Has anyone tried transferring a curse from one person to another?

I usually try to laugh at the things that happen to me, but I think I reached my limit back in Gotham. Like, mostly.

I now it's nucuch too littlem too late, ut do not eat the cupcake. I was gonna offer to make a homemade pizza this morning to curb the cravings, but I got thrown out of the kitchen by someone who was a vampire. I'm pretty sure about that, because that's what he said among 'I am a vampire, why am I the one coiking?'

Bear paws. I am itrying but my voice is deepper and the voice to tezt hard a heart time. And ii have nnnopooo paitienxe do youf know how harrrd it iz to aom a cllaw

If any of the animals are scared I still have my magic ring that makes wild animals trust me. I could look after them.

added after this:
Also we should check everyone's rooms in case they can't get out. I know we can't open the doors but if they can tell us they're there maybe we could think of something.

Bucky

You’re still on the network. Does that mean you’re here? Where are you?

Rocket

There's a ping before a quickly redacted message.

What did you do.

To All

So. I remember a life in Empire City, and another life altogether. Is there somebody who will explain all this to me?

[Those who remember]
I knew we were hiding from something bigger but I didn't realise we escaped so recently. It's going to make it hard to explain to Eleven where any survival skills I've learned come from when we're both supposed to be as inexperienced as each other. It would be helpful if I remembered more about this place. It's hard to pick all the bits out of my real life.

[Eleven]
Did you see the posters?

My old upstairs neighbors are using what sounds like a jackhammer again, and ah, the shrill sounds of kids watching cartoons on a Sunday. It feels like home.

I was late for work, which means I have a job. I was also accosted by the lady of the blood bank who was mildly worried I hadn't bought any blood from her as of yet. And after work, I was approached by certain individuals who are very familiar to me.

I guess nobody killed my Sire. So.

[filtered to the teens]

Every time there's a party, I get hit with a big case of FOMO. If you don't know, it means fear of missing out. I know this is probably stupid, but I have never been drunk or high before and I just want to experience that. I can finally do normal teen shit. I can't get drunk or high, though. My healing factor is just too fucking fast for me to feel anything.

Anyway.

/end rant

[dr. strange]

hey, strange. i got a question for you.

I'm going to be honest here. After being lectured on the potential dangers lurking around every corner of Derleth, I was expecting something more - nefarious?

But I'm just glad to see my family's faces again.

Don't touch the small black eggs with blue splotches. They belong to those little flying things that sometimes use their wings to crawl across the ground and seem harmless. They're not harmless. They get very angry and you can't hit them.

But if you build a bed you will come back to it when you die. I think we'll put some spare equipment in the treehouse even though so far nothing else has been so bad.

So I continue to have some kind of healing ability. Anyone else experience this? Is it just me? It makes this world mildly less terrifying.

Meanwhile, I've taken inventory of all the island's various berries for your safe consumption after an earlier incident on the network. You're welcome.

Completely Safe:

Red: Kind of cherry looking, taste is similar.
Blue: Look like a raspberry or blackberry shape, taste is in that vein.
Purple: Sort of shaped like a blueberry but not particularly sweet.
Yellow: Doesn't taste bad, it just doesn't have a comparable flavor.

Just Say No To Drugs:

Dark Purple/Almost Black: Also shaped like a blueberry. These berries are 100% a narcotic. Not sure if it's the healing factor or they're not dangerous but at least this week they're impossible to OD on. So not not safe, but maybe not safe if you're in the middle of nowhere.

White: Somewhere between caffeine and cocaine. Tastes bitter as fuck, dehydrates you worse than alcohol which equals instant headache unless you immediately get some water but does act as a handy antidote to the black narcotic berries.

Anyone not find somewhere safe to wait out the week?

I need help.

Something is wrong with me.

[Steve]

I don't have my powers and I don't know where I'm at.

I can hear a lot of big animals in the area and I've climbed up a tree that's at least six or seven feet in diameter at the base of the trunk. It must be a very old forest. I can't smell anything like gasoline or plastics either, and the canopy's too thick to see the sky properly so I can't tell if the stars are right. The only light nearby seems to be this thing in my wrist that's glowing. I'm not sure if I should try taking it out, it feels very securely embedded. I think there's swamp or bog over to my left but I won't know what direction that is until the sun comes up. There's cleaner water somewhere behind me to the right, too.

Did anyone come across a new, mundane, seemingly harmless object on campus? It might thematically be connected to... whatever the fuck is happening right now?

Now that we've all had a day to adjust, I have experience in looking for cursed objects on campus. It's been long enough I'd hoped we were past stumbling upon anything dangerous and/or irritating. Past cursed objects include a clock, a karaoke machine and a mirror.

The problem is, if you hadn't caught on from Carver's love note yesterday, I don't currently have magic.

So who has magic? Who just received magic? Who wants to learn how to track cursed objects?

Unless someone thinks they might already have found object and would like to fess up. It's okay. It happens to the best of us.

Alright, we know something is going on. Some people have swapped bodies, some people seem to have mind connections, and some people have lost powers or gotten new ones.

Who is in need of medical help? And who can help them?
Who is in need of magical help for controlling their magic? And who can help them?

Let's try not to panic. Even if I can feel someone in my own head.

Well, let's see, here.

Has anyone heard of the Avengers?

Asking for a friend.

We can keep things from here, right? And money?

Some of what we found might be useful to other people but not us. Maybe we could find somewhere people can show what they don't need to make it easier to trade things. That way everyone doesn't have to list everything or figure out themselves what it is. Some of what I found is magic and some seems like it's just trinkets or little games.

Who wants to go into the ruins with me and look for some magic shit?


[MALACHI & CARVER]

So I found something interesting. There's a legend about a vampire hero, or anti-hero depending on the source. Apparently about 100 or so years ago Baba Yaga, or a version of her here, pissed him off and he stole her magical mortar and pestle, intending to bury it in the ruins where she'd never find it again. Except he must have done a really good job hiding it down there because he never made it back out.

The relevant part, however, is that he famously had a magic ring that allowed him to walk around during the day. It's part of how he was able to trick her in the legend.

So... let's go find his corpse and loot his shit? If we manage to hang onto any magic items we find this week it means you won't be limited by worlds we visit with a sun.

Hi everyone - just wanted to check in and see how you were all doing. Also see if anyone's in an adventuring kind of mood?

I've been listening around, doing some snooping for anything that may be relevant to our timeline research interests - and it seems like the merchants have a lot of info about various doo-dads that pique my curiosity. I don't have exact details but I've heard rumors about something called the Book of Time, basically a whole bunch of chronomancer knowledge and spells we want to get our hands on. If anyone would be up for tracking this book down, I think it'd really help us.

There's also a ring I heard rumblings about too - it's a ring that allows you to store spells in it to use at any point and since breaking the timeloop is going to require a combo of magic and science/tech (or at least that's been my guess, and the path we're currently on) we're going to need helpful supplies like that too.

I'm a cat? I assume this is one of those "unfamiliar new worlds".

...Scott?

My dearest friend,

Welcome to Derleth.

I am so sorry I could not be there to greet you myself, but I trust you'll find your way around soon enough. Most of the students have not yet arrived for the new semester and so I've arranged for [your?] lodging on campus. You'll find a key in your pocket. Just like old times, eh?

Should the experiment go as planned, for one week we will be able to displace time and space itself. I believe with my calculations we will be able to control the effects and no one shall be the wiser. To anyone not directly involved it will be imperceptible.

Feel free to wander the campus in the meantime. We'll begin the experiment at [muffled] Hall, on Thursday, precisely at midnight.

We'll show them, won't we?

Un Sacrificium Parvis ob Adagnitio.