NO EXITS

DO NOT TRUST THE SQUIRRELS!

Okay, someone tell me: what did I miss?

Choose Your Own School Bus Adventure! Code ( The Choice is Yours and Yours Alone... )

Fine. It's not a stupid fucking prank, or worse, an escape room.

How do I know this isn't all in my head? Like a fever dream or a coma?

So this place is called Megalopolis, but most people just call it The City. Sort of how New Yorkers and people from San Francisco just call it "the city." I seem to have some sort of reputation around here as a slacker. I guess that's what happens when your job is "Trust Fund Baby."


ORLIN DAX & BAYMAX (PRIVATELY):

I need to talk to you about Loki. He's been having headaches and some personal and has said that he went to medical to get looked over for them. He told me you found nothing.

But things are still wrong, and he's refusing to get help for the headaches.

I know, doctor/patient confidentiality, but this is something that's transcending the resets and keeps getting worse. Help me out here. Did the scan really turn up with nothing?

OH COME ON

back in this place again???

derleth can take all these 🖕🖕🖕🖕 and eat some 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕 and put 🖕🖕🖕 on that 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕 slice of 🖕🖕🖕🖕 cake

Hello? I appreciate the letter. A paper airplane's better than a creepy doll. I still have questions. Does this have anything to do with Russians? Is there any way to contact home? What do I do if I run into a zombie?

More questions will come as I think of them.

[ hours after the mall excursion. ]

Rogers and I decided to go on a spiritual journey. See you all next reset.

As it turns out, guns are a bad idea against these zombies. While they are efficient in killing them, the noise draws more and more. The fact that they move slowly is definitely a saving grace. Stay quiet, stay in pairs or groups (I'm talking to you, Vax), and find any long-range weapon you can.

If I find the right supplies, I could probably rig up a decent ballista, but it would take me a few days. If anyone else has suggestions for building up our defenses on campus, let me know. We really don't want the undead to get too close.

Yes, hello, I have a question: what in the actual fuck?

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.

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?

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?

back to being the only guardian around here

and if that wasn't bad enough i keep getting yelled at to stay away from people's garbage when i'm just WALKING AROUND

you know what??? who wants to help me flip all the cans over just to give them something to yell about?? flark your dumb garbage cans, people. i'll get in your trash. I'LL GET ALL IN YOUR TRASH

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

This is a fucking madhouse. Alright. Since people are losing their heads, literally in some cases, maybe let Nat me everyone know what's going on with all of you.

I spotted a few truth-tellers, some people who can't stop lying, someone's head got away from him, there's cats, a hyena, a talking bear - what else?

kovacs, i drew us

Wow, last week was messed up, wasn't it? LOL! That was pretty weird. Glad it's over. Where can I get another one of those cupcakes?

By the way, is it just me or has everything in campus shrunk?

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.

Next time, I might not be as friendly.

[JULIA W.]

Why'd you do it?

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?

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

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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.

Seeing as it's a quiet dayISH, I thought I'd take a moment to ask for any sort of updates for our "This or That." You've seen it as an icon on your Derleth phone, but it needs to be updated from time to time.

Just a reminder: most of us are fighters. This is specifically for things you can do outside of fighting. Can you sew? Do you know how to cook? Garden? Woodwork? Building things? This is what we're looking for so everyone can talk to someone instead of randomly putting out feelings.

FRIENDS:

We could really use a few people with some therapist skills around here.

You all okay after this latest round of what is going on?

Alright, so...

There is a plan to try and stop the Derleth rollercoaster. We can't send anyone home (sorry, people who would rather be home) but we can find (or possibly sort of create? the science is complicated) a timeline that isn't terrible where we can stay.

We're sort of going to trick Derleth into anchoring itself on one world-slash-timeline, where we can live some semblance of our normal lives. We don't exactly know what that will look like, admittedly, and yes, the last time Rick tried something like this things got a little fucked the following week.

Worst case? Maybe we all end up as weird alternate timeline versions of ourselves until we reset and continue on like we always do.

Thank you Mobius and everyone else that worked on this. He's been scanning in information from the videos and DVDs that have been coming in so if you got one, the more information we have, the better this next timeline is going to turn out for all of us. I think.

Anyway, this is your heads up in case things get weird. You're welcome.

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]

If we're here for a week, what do you do here?

You don't even have rambling man or hard luck woman on your radios.

[NEBULA]

Is everyone here so [...] needy?

I don't underst Who aimed this paper projectile at my head?

I am My T-Rex will attack if you stray too close. Fair warning.

[PACK] ^{(NATASHA ROMANOFF, ROCKET, POE, ROSE WILSON)}
This is too much work. I don't need Are you guys fine?

[NEBULA]

ok so here's the score

- serious looking humie named kovacs is good people
- other good people: shit who natasha, tozier, metal arm barnes, pointy ears with the long hair and white hair with the guns, blondie #1, pikachu, sometimes loki, maximoff, thor, probably a few others but that's the short list
- the beefy guy's kinda delusional
- you're probably gonna get a roommate
- usually if you demand food someone'll make it

Where are the Guardians? Where's Rocket and Mantis and Thor? And Quill I guess Did we break time?

Can someone tell me how to get rid of these damn idiotic birds following me?

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?

Based on my exploration outside the valley and what other people have described I've come up with a map showing the area to hopefully help anyone still trying to find the place.



I personally think the north-eastern entrance is the easiest to find - if you look carefully among the trees you can see the beginnings of the path where the vegetation on the ground has stopped growing. It might be worth some of us cutting the trees there down to make it more visible, especially since we'll need the wood anyway to improve our shelter. I'm also wondering if we should prioritise putting some kind of gate up on each entrance to keep the nastier things out, but it would need to be pretty sturdy and made of stone at the least. At least the bizarrely simplified version of building things we have here doesn't seem to allow for poor construction quality. It's just all either there or it's not.

ANYONE ELSE THINK THEY JUST DIED???

WOKE UP SOMEWHERE else in nothing but my underwear.


NO ONE ELSE?

JUST ME?

Are we sure it's not aliens?

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.