NO EXITS

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OH COME ON

back in this place again???

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So, shot in the dark here, but does anyone have some video games? A Nintendo would be awesome, but I'd be good with an Atari. Really hoping there's a Nintendo with Legend of Zelda, but video games in general are kinda the goal.

Unless someone wants to run a new D&D campaign, but I need to make some more dice for that, first. How'd you play without dice, Eddie?

[Eleven]
I found a system to play on!

We just have to promise not to throw the controllers.

For fuck's sake. The letter didn't say, but are there any leads yet on who or what abducted us? Usual suspects include but are not limited to serial killers, hell lords, Asgardian troublemakers, and the US military.

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[Eddie]

Want to smoke and you help me make a character for D&D?

[Natasha]

So I think I have a cr. How many relationships have you been in? I'm going on the assumption that we both suck at keeping them.

I need to know something. Anyone here actually knows what Mordoor Morrdo Mordor is? I have a bet that says there's more than ten people who never heard of it.

[FILTERED: Dustin Henderson & Eleven Hopper]

Hey, you two both know if you ever hear about any drugs or anything that So. Weed Why is it always me Ok, look. There's some choice relaxant plants around campus. I mean weed. There's weed. Now I'm not saying that you should try it out. I'm also not saying you SHOULDN'T try it out. What I'm saying is that if you two make any decisions about exploring that stuff just don't be all secret about it. You have people here that would hang out and make sure you're safe. Got it? Cool?

[FILTERED: Wizards? Magic People and Robin Buckley. NOT EDDIE MUNSON.]

I don't actually know if this got answered before but let's say someone you know is probably in for a really bad time if they get sent back home. You guys know how to make sure that doesn't happen? Not saying that's what I need right now, but trying to get a read on what's possible.

[Dad]

There's a Ferris Wheel here. Steve was going to show me it but then he left and came back and didn't remember being here. Want to go see it?

[Dustin]

We need to hang out.

[Paul]

Can we do more weirding?

Is there a Julian here? I'd like to talk to him.

Since I've already been banged and married a couple of times I should probably introduce myself properly. I'm Melissa. Songbird is the name I use at work and I come from a town in Wyoming you've definitely never heard of. When I was still pretty young I volunteered for an experimental procedure that was attempting to give people super powers and it affected my vocal cords so I can convert sound into hard light to make shields, wings, weapons, basically anything I can think of. I've been on a bunch of teams including our version of the Avengers for a little bit, but mostly the Thunderbolts. I also have half a degree double majoring in criminology and music.

[Clint Barton]
Steve Rogers. My roommate is Steve Rogers.

Who has wine?

JULIA WICKER:

So I'm going to get drunk as fuck tonight. I wasn't expecting Geralt's disappearance or having Ciri dumped in my lap, not that I consider her dumped — but it was a two-person job. I did the magical training and helped her with womanly things. Geralt was training her to be a Witcher and being a father figure.

And Derleth fucked it all up.

And I may have already been drinking some.

[FILTERED: 18+]

For those of you who have only smoked the magic greenhouse weed fresh? Can confirm it tastes better and gets you more high when it's properly dried and cured. Hit me up if you're in need. No charge. Just remember to save your non-super powered drug dealer if zombies attack again or something. I don't have any pipes or paper but I can show you how to use an apple. Uh, we might need more apples.

[STEVE HARRINGTON, ROBIN BUCKLEY, NANCY WHEELER]

If El and Dustin haven't figured out there's weed in the greenhouse already, it's only a matter of time. Dustin knows I sell so, if anyone wants them to get the hugs not drugs talk, it probably shouldn't come from me.

[DUSTIN HENDERSON]

You hanging in there?

[ETA: ANYONE FROM HAWKINS, INDIANA]

Okay, so there are wizards and people claiming to be gods and whatever the hell, right? ...Why don't we ask them how to destroy someone like Vecna? Maybe they can give us some fucking magic or some shit?

Hey. There's something about me people ought to know about. I've already told a few people already and... yeah. So, some of you have met me, Marc, and others have met Steven. But they're both me. This isn't some stupid game, and I'm not faking it, but... I have a mental health issue. Psychiatrists call it Disassociate Identity Disorder. I really do have two personalities, it's not pretend.

I wasn't up front about it before since it's not the sort of thing you lead an introduction with, hello I'm clinically insane. I've had it for most of my life and I've... managed to hide what's wrong with me because I don't have any many friends back home. I'm a loner. But here, it's harder to blend in with the crowd and keep to yourself.

Things are further complicated because, like Layla who wrote about herself a couple of days ago, I'm an avatar for an Egyptian god. Khonshu. God of the moon, the night sky, and vengeance. I wasn't supposed to be anymore, but Steven and I had a talk with him last night and... I guess we're still stuck. Being an avatar means that I'm supposed to follow what he wants me to do, and in return he gives me special abilities. We're still negotiating that, since these are unusual circumstances. Besides, Khonshu's strength is derived from the moon and only works at night, and since the void really doesn't have either of those, he's pretty useless. At least during those void weeks. When we were in L.A. and in zombie world, he told me he had his usual power.

It's harder to tell us apart over the network, but we've been trying to let people know who's been writing when we've been posting comments. But Steven Grant has a British accent and uses British slang. I'm American.

And that's about it. If anybody has questions, Steven and I will try to answer.

NATASHA:

Will you be attending the play on the last day?

Inspired by Margo's FMK, some of us were tossing out the idea of Derleth bingo - a list of things/challenges to do here. If anyone wants to help us come up with a list, we're meeting at lunch tomorrow. (Or drop your suggestions below)


Also, we've got a few more days here and since we don't know what next week will bring, I thought I'd take requests for meals. (And let you know what I have planned so far.)

Day 5 dinner: Chili bar - meat and vegetarian options available.
Day 6 dinner: ratatouille & lasagna
Day 7 ?

I was thinking maybe an omelette bar for breakfast one of these days? I'd do waffles, but I haven't found a waffle iron yet. Could also do pancakes again. Or crepes.

Well, this is the first week I've experienced here in which something wasn't absolutely fucking weird by the end of the day two (and since it's past day three, I feel confident in saying that and not jinxing it), and I guess I've had moments to reflect on this whole experience and realize it's not all a fever dream from agreeing to a deal with a Goddess. (You know.. the whole can-my-body-handle-this-much-power-or-am-I-dying etc.) Besides, the fairy party introductions spilled a whole lot, didn't they?

So I'm just going to go ahead and reintroduce myself because even if it was like 3-4 weeks ago that I just showed up, it feels like I'm still super new to this place. I'm Layla El-Faouly. I'm an archeologist. My favorite part of it was the research but also stealing back artifacts from people who think they're finders keepers. I'm also an Avatar of Taweret, the aforementioned Goddess, who gives me the ability to fly and some other superhuman abilities. It was supposed to be a temporary alliance but I think I've gotten used to her being around that last week when the powers weren't working, it felt like I lost something terribly valuable. And now I'm sitting here processing that feeling. Thank you, Derleth, for this moment of quiet introspection!

[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!]

I can't be the only one wanting a little excitement of the non-murderous kind. So let's play

FUCK, MARRY, KILL

Derleth edition.


Maybe a little murderous. But just in the fictional way.

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[Laura]

You want to chill at the pool today?

[Eddie]

Heard you did your D&D at that game night. Did a lot of people play? Maybe I'll hit that up next time.

[Strange]

If you want to play Chess again, let me know.

[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.]

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[FILTER: BEN REILLY]

Caaaan I run something by you?

I just wanted to thank everyone who helped with boosting the magic and with planting new seeds that will hopefully lead to an even more plentiful harvest than this world has seen before. I am hopeful it will stick beyond the reset, but only time will tell. It's been so wonderful to see everyone working together, and for such a good cause.

In the meantime, I think I will be spending time in the Green communing with nature. You can learn a lot by speaking with plants what it's not that weird and that whole thing with the zombies was kinda awful, I want to make sure there have been no lasting effects from all that death.

Soooo I don't really have a point to this other than to say if you're wandering around and see me talking to what appear to be nothing I'm actually talking to the trees?? I swear it's not that weird

[Eddie]

So, um, we never got the chance to really talk after that whole weird fae ball thing. But you were, like, really good with all of that storytelling at the game night? So I guess I just wanted to say hi and yeah this is really awkward I'm so sorry.

I got the low down on me disappearing for six weeks, but what else did I miss?

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[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!

This is all very exciting, but I do wonder what happened to my friends. Surely Imogen at least has to be here as well. Has anyone seen a strong, beautiful, talented woman with purple hair? Well, I suppose it's more like purple stubble right now which is also very lovely and suits her and makes her look tough.

She is very capable and can take care of herself. But also, if anything has happened to her, I will gauge out the eyes of anyone who has laid a finger on her.

Thanks! Have a nice day!

This is Songbird, who reads me?

[Private to Natasha]

The update was about Wanda. Has anybody ever told you about the Scarlet Witch yet?

Anyway, she came into contact with the Darkhold, a very dangerous book of dark magic, and was corrupted by its influence.

[YENNEFER]

Hey.

Fuck, I-



Sorry Derleth, no breakfast from me today. Maybe tomorrrow?



I need to get back home.




[Christine Chapel]

I remember you.

[Private to Natasha]

You okay?

No. What am I supposed to do now?

[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.
  
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  • 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.