NO EXITS

Reading everybody's goodbyes are making me sad. Some have already left.

I feel like I must return to my universe, eventually. But for now, I will stay.

For the record, I enjoyed it all. Even the rough times. Because I got to know everyone here better.

There is an actual coffee shop here, and I am completely going tomorrow morning to have an expresso made that I didn't have to make myself. Anyone want to join me?

[Yelena]

There is YouTube Yelena!

I told Eliot I'd help him with food shopping, so can you watch Shadow? But after maybe we could go find the nearest Target and pick up some of those things on our list?

There's not one but two local breweries in the immediate area! Who wishes to accompany me to them?

'Football' is a sport, I assume?

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DO NOT TRUST THE SQUIRRELS!

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome. I still have some questions about our current situation if someone wouldn't mind answering what they know? I heard there was a paper airplane. Sorry I missed out on that. There was a whole thing I won't get into it here.

Derleth Questions:

• Why us? What's the mechanism that pulls us here?
  
• What happens when we leave?
  
• Why Derleth? What makes it special?

This Place Questions:

• So we thought we were in the Wild West-- but may not be?
  
• Also robots? What gives?
  
• Looks like some folks came back from a mysterious elevator?
  
• Robots can't see flies? Might be a stretch. Anyone not seeing flies?

Anyway, thanks for taking the time to clarify things for me. I'll probably have more questions as things come up.


[COWBOY LOKI]

So I'm pretty sure I owe you an apology. You okay?

[SYLVIE, TIGER BEAT LOKI, LOOKS GREAT IN HATS LOKI]

Anything else I need to know or you'd like to tell me before I inevitably find out myself?

616 BUCKY BARNES:

Are you still around? I haven't seen your name pop up, but for all I know, you died like Loki and the other Barnes and all those poor bastards at the Mariposa the other day.

LOKIS + THOR:

So what are you all doing for the rest of the week?

If anyone needs me, I'm going to be hunting down rare-Earth elements.

Don't touch my shit, Thor.

Matthew, my raven...

Someone, please... I cannot speak to him. He does not answer me. I feel so strange.

What is happening?

I have had my share of memories, I don't want any more.

It was fun at first, but they've become a burden.

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The good news is: my lab's still here.

The bad news is: EVERYTHING IS FUCKING GONE.

DNA sensors, here I come. AGAIN.

FUCK. I wanna make new shit, not have to make basic shit all over again.

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Hey, so you know how the squirrels around here seem really different than Derleths? Like tiny and brown? Kind of sickly when you remember the Derleth squirrels.


I think I found a Derleth squirrel. It was chonky and so fluffy and grey, and I swear it recognized me and Lucky. We ended up chasing it — well, Lucky did most of the chasing, and I tried to keep up — but it disappeared behind an enormous redwood tree. Which, btw? Looks so out of place here.

Anyone want free candy? Feel free to come by Candy Crush and take all the sweets you want. All of them. Please. Whatever you want, just come in and yank em off the shelves or the bins. The smell is driving me bonkers.

Well.

This is... less shabby. And less feeling of immediate immanent death. That's something.

Anybody wanna explain why the sky looks like it was painted by a mad enchanter? Or are we not supposed to look at that too hard?

I'm going to miss the rabbit. He was funny.

But I was told he left and returned before, so it's possible it'll happen again. It's always possible.

Is there anyone willing to watch my dog? I'd like to go out scavenging and maybe finding some better animals for, you know, the arrowing, but I don't wanna risk him getting zombie-handled.

Filtered to Eleven & Steve Harrington

We don't have time for introductions, but I'm Silena, I'm one of the people keeping an eye on everyone and I'm picking up a feed from Macy's, you have a group of zombies there, you need to get out.

ooc: per this when Silena doesn't get a response after several more attemps.:

Public

Can someone help, please? There's a group that went to check out a mall and they're going to run into zombies, but I can't reach them, none of them are responding but I still see them on the screens. They're fine for now, but they won't be.

Loki, I have just heard of Mobius' disappearance. You two were very close, and I'm very sorry for your loss. If there is anything I may do for you, let me know.

Right now it seems like the campus is safe enough and I think it's better for all of us if we keep it that way, so I want to organize patrols to keep the perimeter as secure as we can. With at least some watches through the night to keep us from being surprised until we know exactly how bad the whole zombie situation is and if anything else is waiting to see if we're really bad at this. I know we'll have people out scouting for food and water, but if everybody goes out at once and comes back to find we have a big problem then it's sort of useless.

Let me know here if you want to sign up. I want to set up at least pairs and keep the turns as short as I can so nobody gets too tired and misses something, but I guess it depends on how many people want to help. We can work out weapons when we know who has them and who doesn't, and if you have special training in stealth and survival things then tell me that too. Night time is going to get interesting with no lights and I don't want to send anybody out who doesn't know what they're doing. And no lying - it doesn't hurt me right away if you lie, but it could probably kill you, so. Don't do that.

[HUGH]

Lucky.

( PATROL ASSIGNMENTS )

Has anyone seen Loki? My Loki, not the long haired one or the alligator. We usually do our resets on the roof, but when I got there, there was just a scorch mark on the roof. He never showed up. There was no notice that he disappeared.

He's not answering his door, and he's not on the roof of the theater. His old roommate left, and I don't know who his new one would be.

So, what the actual hell is with this magic teleportation, and why does it keep happening?

Andraste's ass, I preferred those woods and regular ruins. This shit is... creepy. Smells like the Fade around here took a turn for the darker.

Inquisitor, you around? Chuckles?

All right, everyone. I went snooping outside the boundaries of the campus since it doesn't look particularly void-y (I know, I know... don't go anywhere alone, it's a flaw and I swear I'll work on it one of these days when it comes back to bite me harder than I feel like it should) and aside from everything we already know, positive or negative? I have good news, bad news, and worse news. We'll just go in that order, shall we?

GOOD NEWS: It seems we're in a town? City? ...there are buildings around, but I didn't go so far as to find out just how large a settled place we're situated in. Not the middle of nowhere at least, so it might be easier to scavenge ourselves a few things.

BAD NEWS: "Buildings" is about the most descriptive I can be of what's out there in the immediate vicinity. What's around looks long abandoned and in terrible shape, and at least the places closest to us look absolutely torn apart for supplies.

WORSE NEWS: I didn't see many people. Any people, perhaps? I don't know how much experience everyone has with the undead, but what people I did see seemed... that. Shambling, maybe not entirely whole but still making their way around, much more interested in a slow lurch in my direction than conversation. There were only a couple of them that I saw, but I didn't stick around to let them get close enough for a better look at them. I took the most roundabout way back here I could, so hopefully I lost them before I could lead them to our collective doorstep.

So... there's some information for us. Definitely seconding the below wisdom of not venturing out alone, especially if you're keen to get a better look at what's out there. (You know how it is, do as I say and not as I do. Let me learn from your example. Other sage words so you won't get yourself killed out there.)

Is there anybody here with the skill of braiding hair?

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?

They picked out shoes for us? They look so... fancy. And the heel is too tall. If they're going to give us clothes to match them I don't think it's going to be something I would normally wear.

Did anyone see anything last night? I'm a light sleeper but I didn't wake up.


(posted on comm coz it feels weird to have a whole netpost+comments as a comment on another post but we can keep all the shoe net-talk here?)

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 )

I purchased far too many watermelons for the beach party yesterday, much more than we could eat there at once. I brought them all to the kitchen, so please help yourself. They are ripe and delicious. I'm heading off to this desert ranch place and bringing some there, too.

[ooc: Edited after reading Orlin's post.]

Loki's still sleeping. I just checked.

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?

I hate this place. I’m all alone no My one friend from home left.

[Vampire Julia]

I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to upset you. I just wanted to help.

Loki isn't waking up. He's breathing, he has a pulse, he seems otherwise okay, but I cannot wake him. This isn't the first time something like this has happened but thankfully it's rare. I would take him to the clinic for observation but he's much heavier than he looks and anyway, I don't know if it would make a difference. If this is like last time he should be safe.

Message me if you want into the room to see him.


[HUGH]

Please tell me you're okay this week. Dad is on his way to check in with you.

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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!

Paging Thor Odinson...! Please report to the front desk. Your party is waiting for you.

Does that reference work? Wait, no. Wrong decade. When did Midgard get rid of paging? Not the point, I suppose.

Thor, give me a sign of life. Julia didn't want my cat memes, and I feel in the mood for video games.

I think that airplane gave me a papercut on my cheek.

Is this some kind of trick Did Kro

I know it says I'm stuck here, but there has to be a way out, right? My friends need me and it's my fault I can't leave them.

What if it's just the Mist? I know that might sound strange if you don't know it, but it can be really powerful. Even demigods can be tricked

[Phone message left on Loki's voice mail]

[Thor's voice is excited and jovial]

LOKI! You sly fox, you! YOU ESCAPED! I didn't even know, which is probably a good thing because the DSS came by to ask me a bunch of questions because, you know, you were talking about escaping earlier this week and you'd asked me to help you and stuff. Just surprised you didn't try this sooner. Hope you're doing alright. Call me?