NO EXITS

We are running out of time. If you have NOT tagged your person, it needs to happen. If you have been unable to locate your person, let's chat.

[Sharon's Band of Beautiful Anti-Heroes and Villains]

First, have any of you NOT tagged your person?

Second, we're putting Plan B into motion, because at this point we don't know who might not have been tagged that is currently unavailable for tagging thanks to the extremely clever 'let's destroy a building' contingent.

Right now that's collecting things that we can find on their campus that might make life a little better on this one. If Plan A happens, they can thank us when they end up here. It's going to have to be done quietly, and probably best done if it looks as if you're over there to help.

I'm going to assist with Butler. I'd like people in the kitchens helping with food, and people in medical helping with healing. I know some of you are already doing that.

As you're doing that, consider what might be useful here, and slip it out wherever you can.

We'll gather supplies in the third floor classroom where we sometimes meet for now.

If this doesn't work, those supplies will be distributed amongst us for as long as they last.

Questions?

Okay, Kaiju is down.

Remember what we talked about. Keep it friendly. The longer they take pity on us, the easier it's going to be to tag all of them. We don't know if we're going to be equally matched or outgunned so lets find out as much as we can about this other Derleth first.

Anyone who doesn't think they can keep their shit together can lay low and go last. Do not fuck this up. It was a one in a million shot finding them so lets make this count.

Questions?

I'm sure I would have gotten bored eating the same thing for all of eternity, but I can't help be really sad about the food being gone. Nobody made that dumpling soup as good as Josh did.

Filter: Eliot Waugh

I love you. I'm sorry. I'm here if you want to talk. Or if you want to borrow my knives to throw. Or just not talk and sit around and drink.

Filter: Tim Stoker

So the monolith is back to its normal color but did you still wake up from nightmares?

You have got to be forking kidding me. I forking killed him and I get brought back here.

What's up with the pink tower of doom? I thought it was black.

[FILTERED AWAY FROM MICHAEL AND JANET]

What're the chances someone has some really strong coffee they're willing to share? Preferably strong enough to keep me from sleeping until the reset.

[Filtered against Michael and Janet]

So, I know there's been sharing of food because too much of a good thing, right? But there'll likely come a time when we're missing this food again and it got me thinking to when me and Sam were talking about the possibility of batch cooking and freezing it whenever there was actually a downtime so that there'd be a supply of ready to go food.

How many people are getting food that could just be frozen for reheating later? I mean, it might all disappear with the reset, but it's worth a shot, right?

[Tim]

I saw you touch it. You told me not to. Why did you?

[Steve]

I think I can help, but I'll have to touch the monolith.

Should I tell people about what I can do?

[Eliot & Natsha]

Hi. I'm El, Steve's friend. He said I could trust you. I want to help with finding out what brought the tower here. I can do things that help me to see what most people can't.

FILTERED AGAINST MICHAEL AND JANET:

I never asked him to destroy a single bit of information. I only asked him to keep one particular bit of information quiet while I did my due diligence to make sure it was even true. I have been transparent about everything else.

ELIOT WAUGH

Since I doubt anyone else will really care, and I don't even know if you will you should know that I said fork it and touched the monolith.

Yes, I realise what I've done. Yes, this is going to be awful. No, I'm not sorry. Strange tried to talk me out of it when he saw me, but he seemed resigned to believe that I knew what I was doing. Which I do.

FILTERED AGAINST MICHAEL AND JANET:

Michael's a chatty guy. Or, if he's to be believed, a thousand foot tall [...] fire squid.

I've gotten a fair bit of information out of him, but it's tricky picking the parts that are true, out of any potential fallout.

Tim, it looks like you confirmed that the Monolith is an extension of the Eye from your universe in the new teenager's post. Can you tell us a little more about that? (I'm not sure if this information is true or not, but if you touched the monolith and still have nightmares and feel like you're being studied, he claims the way to fix that is to gouge your own eyes out. I don't recommend that, but I didn't touch it so I have no idea what kind of struggle that is for those who did.

Loki, I'd like to talk to you about the statement you gave to Jonathan Sims when he was here.

Julia, let me know if you find more spiders drawn to you.

Was anyone working with Professor Sanchez during that version Derleth... universe where we weren't ourselves?

Michael claims there's a point in the reset that he and Janet exploited to get into this Derleth. Fraction of a nanosecond kind of thing. We really could really use Sanchez right about now for this. That was kind of his forte. Where's Stark when you need him He must have found it that one time he tried to pause us in Planet Vegas, or was close enough to cause issues.

Anyone else talked to him?

MICHAEL:

Anything interesting going on?

The tower.

Why is it watching us?

Hello [...] My name is El.

[ ooc note: this is after she's encountered someone and they were nice enough to explain how to use the device she's been given. ]

[ELIOT WAUGH]

What the fork is with this place forking with us all the time? I'm so tired of it.

[...]

Why can't I say fork?

F o r k.

Shirt.

Oh, come on!

Not that I've been looking for a way out of this daily musical hell hole or anything, but I found a bridge. With signs that make it seem like you can leave. And a leprechaun that sang to me when I tried to cross the bridge and figure out what was going on.

Apparently, at least according to that guy, "within its borders ye are bound until, at last, true love is found." So... I guess do with that information what you will.

For the record, no, the bridge did me absolutely zero good.

This is different. Anachronistic college campus in a pocket dimension that's mostly artificial. Sonic seems a bit confused about the nature of the locals. Love the song and dance numbers, though. I don't see my TARDIS anywhere. I hope it hasn't up and vanished again.

Please do me a favor and if you see me talking to myself, just give me a minute. I'm fine, really.


[MARGO, QUENTIN, ALICE, KADY, SEB, FEN]

So for those of you who remember Charlton, he's back. We're not sure why. Let's keep our fingers crossed that this is a temporary Derleth thing.

[TIM STOKER]

Honey, dearest... We need to discuss something.

[This post brought to you by: Becky is an asshole to her characters.]

Was that really me last week? It feels like a dream. Or at least how I imagine a dream would be, that is if I slept. More of a nightmare, though. Is that what being a demon is like, I wonder? That was positively ghastly.

Rest assured I'm back to my usual self. Everything is tickity boo. No attacks from me, and hopefully never again.

Everyone make it through the night okay?

Anyone need help? Please try to check in here if you're able to.

We're almost at reset, just one more day of this.

[ELIOT WAUGH]

How are you doing? Friends okay?

I know some folks woke up with memories of the alternate version of themselves and most of us didn't, but is anyone else starting to get to like... vague memories of their alternate selves? Because let me tell you, it's pretty fucking weird and frustrating.

[JULIA WICKER]

So, creepy ancient daddy vampire? Yeah, uh. Apparently he sired me.

[TIM STOKER]

How are you feeling?

blocked from matt, but everyone else can see:

Look, I don't know who is what and who remembers what because as usual everything is hot mess but. Matt's not himself and he's a flannel-wearing lumberjack hunter on a mission and that's to kill me which is fine, I'm fine, thanks. This is fine. Everything's fine and all other Twilight creatures or whatever.

So maybe just steer clear of him. He'll feel like shit later on if he hurts anyone. Also do we know when the full moon is gonna be? How do you werewolf?

Any Anne Rice vamps with or without sparkly peens who have snarky comments can just fuck off - I'm trying to get through this without eating anyone, if possible.

[Private to all the vampires]

What a twist, huh? As the usual friendly neighborhood vampire, feel free to hit me up if you need any help acclimating to your new unlife for the week. Hopefully, it's just a week this time.

So... anyone else wake up a vampire this week?

ETA: Blood donors this week are going to be appreciated. So let me know if you volunteer.

Points for being back on campus, but I did not sign up to sleep on the ground last night.

This whole feeling post wake up is the worst. Even sleeping didn't make me feel less like death warmed over. This is like the flu intensified.

What do we know about what's going on? Alice wrote a lot and I had to go back and read it after sleeping. But hi. I'm Quentin and I miss my hair.

What in the fucking fuck is happening right now? Cleo, why??

How dare you buy that kimono stand out from under me, Seb. Have you no decency?

( she sent them at random, whoever replies first can do it )

Tom Nook's weirdo ex Redd is here with his boat on the north side of the island if anyone wants to try and find something worth buying. I bought a Dynamic Painting for my bedroom, I think it's going to look really neat there.

It appears I've procured a key.

I take that is my best indication that I ought to make a more dignified effort at introductions. So, with this in mind, my name is Seb. I would be delighted to hear about each and everyone of you should you feel like indulging me.

Private to Eliot Waugh.

Do the patterns indicate we ought to expect a new locale in the coming hours?

That was nice while it lasted, I guess. I really wish he hadn't had to leave I've still got some rum left over from our pirate glory days if anyone wants to share a bottle or two. Shots all around?

Right, so about that "there's no way out" thing, nobody mentioned these weird, creepy disappearance notifications.

Or do we already know that doesn't mean they've actually gotten out, but something else has happened to them?

EDIT: MICHAEL

Have you investigated these keys?

I got tired of sitting around and the "weather" outside is always decent during the weeks we're stuck here, so I rummaged in the gymnasium and found some old sports balls. Anyone care to set up a match of footie (or soccer for you Americans) on the Green before end of week? Could be fun.

ELIOT WAUGH

Not sure what happened or how, but I woke up back in my old room.

[Jon Sims]

Right. I'm sorry for being a bit of an anti-social arse the last couple of days. Did you end up having a key when you arrived? If not, did you find somewhere to stay or is that not a thing you need?

[Eliot Waugh]

How're things going on your end with all of these new folks?

So there's a lot of new faces around.

Don't panic.

On all sides.

For the new arrivals: you're in a pocket dimension. We don't know who did it or why, but a good chunk of us have been here for months. Every week, the campus resets to the way it was this morning. Most people fall asleep or go unconscious during the reset and wake up in their rooms. The reset includes you. However you arrived, whatever condition you were in and the clothing you were wearing resets as well. If you're injured, please flag me down. You probably have a key on you somewhere. Look for it. If you don't, let me know and we'll figure out a place for you to stay.

If you're new here, introduce yourself. If you're not, introduce yourself. Let's try to keep it in this one place so people don't get lost.

I'll start. I'm Natasha Romanoff. I'm from a dimension with superheroes, if you know what those are. If you don't, it's people with powers or abilities who used it to protect our planet and the people on it.

Now you go.

(For people who offered their services, I'm going to need people to check our stores for food, medical supplies, and clothing.)

Hello, hi. Just - an announcement, I suppose? I made an ice skating rink behind the old gym - it's big enough and sturdy enough to get in however many laps you want, or to do things besides skating. The sport with the hitting and the sticks, maybe?

Just letting everyone know, while we're in a place where it's easy enough to pick up ice skates or other appropriate clothing. Though if anyone needs ice skates later I can always make you a pair too.

[ELIOT WAUGH]

Good morning, love.

There is breakfast waiting for you on the coffee table whenever you're ready. I wanted to get up early to try and find a good spot for the sunrise, so I'm out exploring part of the island. I should be back by lunch.

Have I told you lately how beautiful you are?

- Tim xx

Did anyone happen to come across a little tape recorder outside of Butler Hall last week and if so, may I please have it back? I [...] need it would very much appreciate it.

[ELIOT WAUGH]

Want to catch a show before Hawaii?

So. Last week was terrible.

As much as I normally love this city, who wants to check out what Hawaii in the 80s was like and sip piña coladas on the beach?

( X )