NO EXITS

ok.thiws works liKE a.scroll right? i can.t find.pentasgram, but THIs looks.similiar.

WHEre am i? the.flying paper.is cool but.l makes no sENse.

I'm in love. Well, maybe not with the Toon bit, but otherwise, this is a great week. I'm thinking of going and checking out the Cocoanut Grove tonight - does anyone want to come with me?

[Cast of Much Ado]

Since everywhere so far seems to be pretty stable, we're going to have rehearsals for a couple of hours in the afternoon every other day, starting this afternoon.

Allison, can you read Claudio*'s lines for us so that we can keep movement considering that Loki is sleeping currently.

*Ahem. So my brain took a trip, and we'll just pretend this always said Claudio, and in any comments pls ty.

[Yelena]

I thought I'd check in, see how you were doing after last? Would you want to do another morning dance sometime?

Well, this is certainly interesting. (Of course, being a horse was also interesting.) It's nice being able to see the sun as a human. I must say, the jacket is not a bad touch. At least the rest of the clothes aren't too bad.

The Terminal Station Bar reminds me of some of the dives we'd go to in San Francisco when we were cadets.

Since we're in Southern California, I was thinking of taking a trip out to the Mojave. It's only a few hours drive and I thought it might be nice to get out of the city for a day or two. (And I confess, I want to see what the stars out there look like in this time. I asked around and there's a handful of motels out there if folks aren't interested in sleeping under the stars. Anyone interested?

Bucky

I believe I owe you a drink. Or at least, I promised drinks and stories. Still up for it?

Yelena

I'm glad you're better. (Is that the right word?) Hopefully it wasn't too painful.

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?

Okay, so. Looks like sometime in the past on Earth. Los Angeles even. Well, could be worse.

Anyone found anything different going on? Or are we just in Maltese Falcon this week?

YELENA BELOVA:

Talk to me. How are you doing?

[ HUGH ]
Hey do you think we could meet in the morning? I think everybody being worried finally got to me and I can't sleep, so maybe if we dance awhile I can take a nap or something in the afternoon. Up to you. I'll come to the theater and if I see you, good. If not, I can practice on my own. Either way, you know?

~

Yelena will not, unfortunately, be showing up to the theater on the morning of day five of this week, nor will she be answering any replies to this message or any other messages she might receive. Why, you ask? (No you don't, most everyone totally knows why!)

A couple hours after sending that message and managing to fall into a restless sleep, Yelena's cupcake curse comes calling. Is it dust? Did she accidentally tickle her own nose with her hair? Does she actually have allergies? Hard to say, but she pops awake, is too groggy to remember to try to stop it, and sneezes. It's pretty peaceful, all told - probably not even loud enough to wake her roommate, and she falls back onto her pillows like she's just asleep.

( Read more... )

[Private to Yelena]

Hello, remember me from karaoke night last week? Stephen here.

Natasha tells me you've got a sneezing problem.

( Read more... )

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?

[Private to Yelena]

Hey, it's Steve.

Just curious, do you like baking?

Okay, so now that it's day 2 of this lovely void week, those of us who have eaten the cupcake have some sort of consequence. What can I do to help you out?

YELENA BELOVA:

So? What curse did you end up with?

STEPHEN STRANGE:

Please tell me you have a magical way of keeping someone from sneezing.

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Since this is one of the quieter weeks we’ve had and there’s no sign we’re actually ever going to escape the weekly resets, I had a different sort of project in mind: let’s make death meaningless. No more traumatic bullshit. I collected some materials from that week we were on Dino Island. If we can figure out how they created that set up, come up with our own version…? Just wake up in a new body if our current body kicks it. Rick did that kind of shit. Apparently he had some creepy wasp man clone of himself in storage he would have transferred his consciousness into if anything ever happened to him.

Is anyone else interested or am I working on this on my own?

So don't eat strange food by the bed. I knew this, yet, I consumed it anyway. Powerful magic must be at work. At least I think I know what it did. Could have been worse. So this is Derleth? Can't say I'm overly impressed just yet.

[Yelena & Ben (roommate)]
I am naked in the Forest Green at the moment. I'd rather not do a walk of shame through the dorms themselves as such. Apparently, something happened last night that ended with me in a tree this morning? I hope you saw it Ben? But would one of you be willing to bring me at least my undertunic, pants and my boots?

[Rey & Ben Solo]
Hello. Are you as disoriented to be here as I am? I can't sense anyone else, are there no others but us three here? New Zealand was a lot more hospitable than it is here. I never thought I'd miss it. Just the people there...

Well, this is certainly an interesting place to find myself. Certainly not what I expected. Certainly didn't expect to spend the day as a horse - which may have been related to the cake it seems? And here I thought the cake went along with the welcome letter.

I suppose I should introduce myself - Chris Pike, Captain of the USS Enterprise, and I come from Earth in 2258. Seems like y'all have had some interesting adventures here. Anyway, looking forwards to meeting all of you. (Preferably in human form, but I suppose if the horse form continues, that will work too.)


[Private]

Captain's log. Is it still a captain's log if I have no idea where the Enterprise is or if the crew are all right. I hope they are. I know Una can handle anything.

Spending the day as a horse was interesting, but of course made me miss my own. Of course, now the things I've read about colorblindness in horses make a lot more sense.

General Order 1 is probably out the window in a situation like this I imagine. Considering the different times and places people seem to be from.

This better not be like Talos. I'm not sure I could handle that.

I miss my apartment already.

[Much Ado About Nothing Cast]

Much Ado cast, ultimately last week seemed a little difficult to get us all together considering some of you didn't even remember auditioning, so we're going to have our first meeting this evening (hopefully), if Delerth cooperates.

I'll give you a rehearsal schedule when we meet, but I'm hoping to keep it so that initially you all have a couple of afternoons of rehearsals, and a couple without. Any questions, hit me up. I'm taking Shadow out to the Green to run and then I'll be at the theatre.

[Julia Sowinski]

The dog's friendly, I promise.

So, the plan didn't work and we still reset at the end of the week. I'm sorry. Unless, of course, you hated last week and then I can be weighed down with the knowledge that you were almost trapped in a timeline you hated for the rest of your life.

Someone please reassure me I'm not terrible for trying this. At least Rick didn't give a fuck what everyone else thought. That would honestly be easier in this situation.

But we can try again. We can make it better this time. We'll figure out how to beat the reset.

Just... let me know. Some of us have been here about a year now, maybe longer? I might legitimately be losing it or just being overdramatic. This is usually when Bambi would step in and tell me not to cock out but hey, she's not here because all my friends keep disappearing, so there's that.

I'll be at the bar, pretending that I'm just really drunk but really I just plan on being high on narcoberries from Dinosaur Island that I swiped and purposefully failed to tell anyone about.

Cupcakes and a drink, huh?

[MARVEL (STEVE ROGERS EXCLUDED)]

Uh. I woke up with Captain America in my room. You know, the Steve Rogers version. HOW DO I LIVE HOW can I live like this I'm afraid to breathe, man

On the off-chance that he asks me about what happened in our world, what do I tell him? Do I tell him anything? Do I tell him nothing? Do I just pretend I know nothing?

Question of the Day: what were you doing yesterday?

Okay okay, if I'm asleep then this is the weirdest dream I've had in a long time. Very nice, brain! You really did a great job this time, now let's wake up!

But in case you're all real, what's going on? Did I die? Is that what happened? All that time I spend doing things to make sure the way I go is really cool and... what, did I space out with headphones in and step in front of a taxi? I die and end up at a frat party. I know I really did some things when I was alive, but I think I'm going to need to talk to the person in charge about how so many of them (so many!) weren't actually my fault.

Are you there, god? It's me, Yelena. I just want to talk.

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.