NO EXITS

Hey, it's Keyleth right? A good friend of mine name of Eddie was just telling me that he's really bummed out because his phone lost a battle with a puddle and he thought he wouldn't be able to reach you. I told him no worries and I could pass on a message.

Before I do I just want to say that Eddie's a solid guy. Good hair, musical talent that definitely appeals to someone out there, and he helped stop a swarm of demon bats from killing me one time. Solid guy.

Okay so the message is that he wanted to know if you would be his plus one to the ball. Don't worry, he can't see this so you can be honest.

[[OOC: For context, this IS a public entry. Team 1986 doesn't get how to filter yet. May lessons be learned. Maybe.]]

So this ball is starting to look somewhere in the realm of serious to completely whimsical. In the interest to make sure we're not completely fucked perhaps now would be a good time to make sure you have a date unless you have your heart set on stag.

Comment with your name, flavor on the LGBTQIA+ spectrum, qualities you may or may not be into, maybe something about yourself, age range, etc. Even if this isn't a romantic outing for you, let's not sell ourselves completely short, shall we?

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 )

What the SHIT is this? It looks like someone vomited a green kaleidoscope and my goddamn fairy eye is going craz

Whose got something for a migraine the size of the Grand Canyon?

Richie was one of our Much Ado cast members, and while I have understudies, we’ve got enough time and I know we’ve had some new arrivals since we held auditions, so I thought I would throw it out there if anyone was interested.

He was playing Borachio and one of the messengers. Gender/age isn’t an issue. If you’re interested, hit me up. I figure it’s better to get this settled before we hit next week since it’s always a who knows sort of game.

Why am I in the infirmary? Did something happen? Are we under attack??

Wow. I feel incredibly well rested.

So I'm on board with the whole tiny dimension that travels in time. It's one of those shows that's on PBS, right? With the guy who calls himself the Professor and has the blue box, right? Celery? He wears a celery, I think. So I get the whole time traveling bubble.

What I DON'T get is why me? Why Steve? Why Eddie and Eleven? Why any of you? Who does those disappearance notices? How does it know?

Also, HOW COOL IS THIS BRICK? It can take pictures, type messages, AND play video and music?

Stephen and I were talking about the possibility of getting some of us together at the beach and maybe this evening? BYOB and something to grill, and we'll have fires and enjoy the sunset. If you're into that, let us know and we'll expect you.

[Eliot]

Magical older brother I don't suppose you can magic us money so we can do a major prop/costume shopping expedition? And actually, possibly something a little less legal - don't tell dad?

[Pike & Steve]

Thank you both so much for helping with this whole backstage thing. I think we've made a lot of progress on what types of scenes we're going to want and the propers we need.

I know I said that buildng sets isn't my area of expertise exactly, but we all had to do set construction at UW, so whenever you want to work, I'll try to be there to help with what I can.

It's really, really disconcerting to wake yourself up because your tail started wagging and it's moving all the blankets up and down.

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.

The good news! I can tell the truth again. I never thought I'd be so grateful for that.


The bad news! An anvil fell on my foot and it was huge and red and throbbing for like 5 minutes. Because I'm a cartoon. This is weird, bro.

Well, damn, I'm feeling serious FOMO watching half of you become cartoons this week!

Thank god I can at least lie and be sarcastic again.

Filter: Richie Tozier

Okay, cartoon or not, the first thing we need to do is find a place to properly drink and forget about Derleth's general assholery.

Filter: Hugh Christian

I'm going to miss you being your dog self, just FYI. But I have to ask... is there any possible chance we're about to fill up the theatre's costume department with a fresh supply of period clothing?

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

[Eliot]

So, thanks.

[...] You still have some of those narcoberries?

[...] And my favorite vest, I hope?

Somewhere in the universe, I can hear Jonah's disappointment that he's not here to see me turn into a kitten every night. It almost makes me glad he's not here, I'd never hear the end of it. Sam would absolutely Guess my nights are planned out for the time being.

[Mobius]

You know, you make a really good mentor. I feel like the Empire City version of you would've scolded me for eating the cupcake.

[Hugh Christian]

I'll work as much as I can during the day, but it'll definitely make rehearsals a little more interesting.

[Stephen Strange]

Thanks for looking out for her or me, last night. Sorry if it's an inconvenience, but do you think you could keep a lookout for her? She's a kitten and if there are other predators around at night, I don't want to be eaten.

Okay, if it wasn't for the weird shit with the cupcakes, I'd say this is a fantastic week if just for the food. Which one of you made all of this breakfast? It's absolutely amazing and if every week could come with all these dishes, that would be amazing, although I get that something is also forcing you to make all of it and wanting all the dishes is selfish of me. But unfortunately, I can be a pretty damn selfish person, like I used my powers to get a lot of things in my life to make it to where I am, and then it eventually backfired, so I stopped but then I had to use it when I ended up back in the 1960s with the rest of my siblings. Do you know how addictive it is to have this power when you start using it on one racist twat? No, you don't but I'm sure some of you can imagine. [...] Damn, I could have ended all bigotry back then. Even though there's the whole don't-change-the-future thing. Not that it matters because we fucked it up someway because we decided to meet up with our adoptive dad in the past before he adopted us and when we traveled back to our real present time, he had subsequently not adopted us and adopted other people?? So yeah. I think I just learned that keeping your mouth shut and holing yourself up doesn't work.

Filter: Richie Tozier

Day two, still painfully honest!

Derleth, please. Please. Please.

Why am I cooking breakfast, lunch and dinner? The last thing I ever cooked - and I mean that in the loosest sense of the word - as a human was a grilled cheese that I doused with whiskey and set on fire.

And I ate it.

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.

Did anyone else shapeshift today? Because I look like I should be hanging out with crickets and Stevie is a cat. And on that thought...do we have cat food? I'm going to need cat food. And maybe someone with opposable thumbs to open the cat food.

Or do you think people who've been turned into cats can have regular food?

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.

[filtered to those who remember]

Alright, hi everyone. As you've no doubt seen by now, some of us here in Empire City remember the previous Derleth resets and some of us don't - that definitely wasn't the intended effect, and none of us 'wrote' this universe; it already existed, and our research and work nudged us from the Void to it due to its temporal stability. The memory effect was, like I said, not a part of the calculations - I personally have enough trouble with my memories before Derleth, not to mention after with all the Derleth variants of myself (and the variants of ourselves all of us have met) that dealing with that again is never on the agenda. But Derleth's mechanics are quirky and we'll make the best of this.

If someone you're close to seems to only remember Derleth as a series of dreams - it's possible they could eventually fully remember? This admittedly isn't my area, so if anyone wants to chime in on how to help get that to settle for folks, I'm all ears. And also if someone could properly explain a TubeTube to me, I'd appreciate that also.

i got a hierarchy of things that are important right now and top one is getting bagel

where's the best bagel place?? and also let me know if can i leverage the owner for a free one with my famousity

[Private to Friends]

Wednesday, karaoke party at Totally 80's Bar & Grill on Broadstreet. We're celebrating a friend and former colleague of mine's need for a night off from work, helloooooo Dr. Hamada.

Hope you can make it. Let me know if you are, and if there's enough of us I'm going to book the room.

Question of the Day: what were you doing yesterday?

( Instagram Post: Cut because Image )

[Text to Eliot]

[Mobius Family Text, added after this]

First off, I want to thank every single person who dropped by Peaslee to audition. I am so incredibly grateful and it means the world to me that you came out to try out for this crazy project of mine. I went into auditions worried I might not have enough actors to do the show I wanted to, and you guys made sure that I did, plus some. If you didn't get cast, I may be reaching out to help with some of the other projects related to the show.

So before reset, because who knows what next week brings, here is the cast list. I know not everyone will have the part they hoped for, but I think all of you can bring something to the part you're cast in, and I'm really excited to see what you bring as we put this together. So without further ado, have our cast list for Much Ado.

( Much Ado About Nothing Casting )

And if you're wondering when we get started on this? Well, I'll be at Peaslee on the main stage before the party today, so come by and pick up your script and you can start memorizing your lines as soon as possible. And if we're not somewhere crazy larping Ian Malcolm and Ellie Sattler next week, I'll let you all know when our first rehearsals will be.

[Filter: Orlin]

If you aren't busy, come join me in the theatre for a while this afternoon?

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Alright so we're going to just ignore
Since it seems that nothing is currently trying to eat us

For those of you who had said you were interested in trying to put a show together, I'm going to hold auditions tomorrow afternoon. If there are at least eleven of us, then we're going to do Much Ado About Nothing. For those of you not familiar, it's a Shakespeare comedy, with romance, treachery, betrayal, and a happy ending - of course. Much wit, some brawls, and a kiss or two. The Kenneth Branagh version is the best version, but we'll see what we can do.

If there are fewer than eleven, then I'll probably do a mixture of scenes - sort of a Shakespeare festival with classic scenes from multiple plays, maybe Hamlet, and Much Ado, and Romeo & Juliet, and all that.

Experience is delightful, but not required. You can bring a prepared monologue - the library has stuff - but I'll have readings available too. This is something to entertain our friends, and give all of us a pleasant distraction from Delerth's flavor of the week.

So tomorrow afternoon, Peaslee Theater, unless the screens are misbehaving and then we'll move out to the green.

This is Derleth, right? The place we're seemingly tethered to?

Alright, good morning. Just checking in to see how everyone is doing (welcome back to the void, we have a cafeteria this week - which is good because I've had my fill of weird berries) and wanted to ask if anyone else has received some kind of tape, or DVD, or anything else tangible that's clearly reflecting what happened in their life, but it's just in viewable format now?

Because mine's giving off a lot of interesting frequencies - we'll just file it under timeline frequencies, and I'm still in the process of looking into it but if anyone wouldn't mind bringing their piece to the research lab, I think that would really help. Not to keep, but just so I can take a few readings. You might have to talk to me for a few minutes but that's alright, I'm decent at conversation. Or you can just drop it off and then come back later to pick it back up, I'm not pressed either way.






[ooc: mobius received episode 5 of the loki series; the description of what happened in it is written up here or there's the promo here]