NO EXITS

I am probably not alone in this. I just had an unnerving experience.

Are we sure these are actual [...] people?

STEVE HARRINGTON, NANCY WHEELER, EDDIE MUNSON:

Okay, I'm over this.

Linda has no personality of her own.

I ask her what movie she wants to watch. "Whatever you want to watch, honey."

I ask her what kind of music she likes, "I like whatever you like."

I ask her what she wants for dinner, "What are you in the mood for?"

It's like she has no personality other than Please Robin, and THIS? DOES NOT PLEASE ME.

STEVE HARRINGTON, NANCY WHEELER, EDDIE MUNSON:

Um. So there's a girl at my place, and we live together. And share a bed, and SHE LOOKS JUST LIKE PHOEBE CATES. HER NAME IS LINDA. Yeah, I know. Really weird right?

And we work at Clothes Clothes Clothes (oh how original) together.

And I'm just rolling with this. She is really into me, and she's so cute.

Well this is... cryptic. Everyone good?

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[FILTER: Robin Buckley, Eddie Munson, Nancy Wheeler]

You're never going to guess what I found.

Also what's with the post with like 800 comments?

[OOC: Warning for marijuana use discussion!]

[WHEELER & HARRINGTON]

So I think Robin just asked me out on a date...?

She said she was going to make me pizza.

That's a date, right?

STEVE HARRINGTON & NANCY WHEELER:

Hey, so... you know how they say that people get updates from back home here?

I got an update back home.

DUSTIN HENDERSON & ELEVEN:

What's the last thing you remember?

HUGH CHRISTIAN:

I have a question to ask you.

[There WILL BE Stranger Things, season 4 finale spoilers in the comments.]

[Voice post]

"What the shit?! Eddie! Where the hell did you go? Anybody?! Steve, Robin, Nancy! Lucas, do you copy? This is Gold Leader!"

What the hell is this, some kind of BBS? HELLO? This is Gold Leader, looking for the Watergate Quartet, Vecna's Lure, or ANYONE ELSE WHO KNOWS WHAT THAT MEANS!

[Filter: Team Timeline*]

As Natasha and Eliot have both mentioned, Mobius was heading up the work to try to create a stable place for our Derleth, and fortunately he made certain that we had duplicates of all of his work. I've met with some of you already this week, but I know several others have expressed interest in helping, and it seemed prudent to set out goals:

• DATA RESEARCH. We have data collected. This includes items that have arrived from our home timelines, the timelines that we've visited with Derleth, and in some cases our own mental & temporal energies. We're looking for connections and clues, answers that may help magic and science with what they're doing. If you are good with sorting and finding patterns, this is the place for you.
  
  • Lara
    
  • Nancy
    
  • Paul
    
  • Chris
    
  
  
  
• MAGICAL. This team will be working with Eliot on the magical aspects of making this work. Eliot, I'm assuming you still want to head this up, if not please let me know otherwise.
  
  • Eliot
    
  • Margo
    
  • Ronan
    
  
  
  
• SCIENCE. This team has two goals currently. Unfortunately the tempad that we used to take a lot of readings went with Mobius. We have some information about that device, but we need to figure out new ways to take readings and collect data. The other is to work with team magic to see if magic and science together can fix the reset and jumping problems.
  
  • Spock
    
  • Ben
    
  • Ianto
    

If you don't see your name on here, it's because I wasn't certain where to put you - let me know where your skillset makes the most sense. If I've got you in the wrong place, let me know that too and I'll clean that up.

I'll be working in the Lab pretty much every day this week, so if we haven't yet talked in person, let's do that.

I want to rethink Mobius's work.

Before, he went through data attempting to find a timeline we could anchor ourselves to. It limited when we could attempt the jump and I think may have been why we still reset. That's not mentioning the issues a majority of us had remembering who we were.

I say we make our own timeline. We still have all the research necessary, but I was looking at the metamath, and I think this could be much more feasible without the drawbacks of attempt number one.

So if those of you who worked with Mobius are willing to work with me on this, let me know.

So... just so we're clear, this is what it usually looks like? Nice sky, small area. Stocked kitchen. Warded rooms. (Hi Vax! I promise not to try and talk your ear off every morning. I'm also going to try and shower before you wake up. If I can. I don't know your sleeping habits so I may be way off on this. But I will try!)

It's nice. I mean, nicer than the last two weeks anyway. Toon Town was pretty neat. Weird as hell, and I'm still not over 2D cartoons being in the 3D world. I kind of wish I'd been able to find and keep Jerry as my very own mischievous pet mouse. I love him.

So we (potentially) have five more days of quiet? Just getting to relax?

ETA: Hey Mr/Ms/Mrs Wizards: can any of you magic some bathing suits?

Hey,

I'm in what probably was the journalism building. There are reports, dated ten years ago, talking about a virus that was compared to a really bad upper respiratory infection.

And things went South.

Biowarfare?

[Nancy Wheeler, Eleven, Robin Buckley, Eddie Munson]

I think I got this filter thing down?

Not totally important. Hey, everyone let me know you're good. This weekly restart thing is throwing me.

Anybody else's magic on the fritz?

This is going to be a loooooong week.

No power. No water. Awesome.

Is everyone back okay?

Good morning Derleth and welcome to an exciting new week. So far we have determined that we have:

• No power
• No running water
• No food
• No medical supplies

Signs are that there has been some fighting, but hard to say yet if that was the main cause of the situation or a consequence in the aftermath of whatever went down. A lot of us have done this dance before but for anyone who's newer, standard guidelines for a hostile environment - don't go out alone/without telling anyone, advise everyone of any useful information or resources you find, and food and medicine go a lot further when they're handled centrally. If you think you need a weapon or if you have extra you can loan out let us know.

We'll probably want to make bandages from any spare linens we've got around and dig latrines a bit away from the buildings. We can collect limited clean water from toilet tanks if someone hasn't thought of that already, otherwise we need to find a source and set up a means of filtration. If you find large sheets of paper and things to draw with get them to the cafeteria, between scouts and arty types we can try to come up with a map of the area so we know where's good and where to avoid.

Another note for newer people: if you look at the icons on your screen there should be one that links to the skills list. It looks like it might need updating, so if you want to add yourself anywhere leave a comment for Nat.

Last thing for now, if your roommate is one of the ones who didn't come back from the ball please confirm they're safe.

Just to let everybody know... a couple of weeks ago when those cupcakes appeared in our rooms and cursed whoever ate them in various ways, I was cursed to have a very detailed dream whenever I fell asleep. In this dream, I attended an extravagant ball where I danced the entire time, but when I awoke my body was sore and ached with pain, which got worse after each dream. When, in my dream, I tried to stop dancing, or attempted to leave, I would be caught up again by the other guests and forced to continue dancing.

I bring this up because the clothes I received today are exactly the same ones I wore in my dreams. I realized the shoes were also the same, but I didn't want to jump to conclusions but today practically confirms it in my mind... the person or people who are throwing this party are the same ones responsible for those cupcakes, so we need to keep in mind the level of magic that we're dealing with here.

Hello Derleth Captees,

I'm Nancy Wheeler, a new arrival. I guess my first question is, who has been in this pocket dimension the longest?

[...]

Hey Robin and Eddie.

[Eliot (after figuring out how to send private messages)]

Silena directed me to you about questions. I have a few. Are you free now to meet up?

[Eddie, Robin & Steve]

We're all going to the ball, right?

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.