Portland Net

You're making friends with a tree.

I'm Detective Hardy with the Portland PD. I need a moment of your time.

Lots of new arrivals over the weekend. Welcome to Portland. I'm Ianto Jones and I work in the central library for all your reference department needs. There's a few useful things to know about the city which you may have picked up on already, or not.

- There's a wide variety of people here from a lot of different universes. We tend to be less furtive about secret identities here than we might have been back home. Obviously you've got no obligation to reveal anything, but if you're used to anti-supernatural/alien/whatever bigotry or being targeted because of it, the network is pretty free of that sort of thing. The city itself isn't fully aware of our presence, but they have seen a few strange things so they know something's up - in June the city was invaded by dangerous creatures coming through the wormhole and those who could banded together to defend against them, and last month all clothing within the city limits disappeared.
- Weird things happen every few weeks (see: city being invaded, clothing disappearing). Normally they're limited to us, but not always. You get used to it.
- We're largely self-policing. Don't start anything and you should be left alone.
- Obviously there are hundreds of bars, cafes, clubs, shops etc in a city this size but there are a few people from the network tend to frequent more than others. The Bar Fly and Teardrop Lounge for bars (the latter's a bit more upmarket) and the Half-Pint Cafe. Portland City Gym particularly for people who can be a bit rough on standard gym equipment. The Dance and Gymnastic Academy has classes for self defense and archery and the Gun Shack has a practice range. I know the Teardrop Lounge does karaoke on Thursday nights that a lot of people go to.
- Public transport's no fun, but free travel's pretty good. http://www.trimet.org has all the timetables and you can download an app to your tablet.
- Chances are most of your immediate neighbours are from the network too. I think there's six or seven different clusters of houses around the city and on each street they share the first three numbers then run 1-9. The rest of the neighbourhood might think you're a little weird.

Happy to answer any other (relevant, and most irrelevant) questions, though honestly most people will answer questions. Everyone's been in pretty much the same position whether it was last week or several months ago.

I hear there will be some severe weather tonight. Strong winds and heavy rain. I might have to get to work in a canoe tonight, but hey I'm not beyond such things. So be careful out there, people. Mother nature is not happy.



This has been David Lassiter with your daily weather update. Feel free to tell me not to quit my day job, folks.

[Private to Dani]

Look, don't freak out, but I just got questioned by the cops and I'm like, a person of interest or whatever.


[Private to Rebekah]

I just got questioned by some detective.

I'm so sorry for all the messages to you from me. But, I didn't know that Santana and Dani were planning in getting married. Would.....would you want to go with me to their reception on Thursday as my date?

What the hell? LET ME OUT!

I haven't talked to you since the whole evil twin who, by the way, was a super lame imitation and I totally knew something was up. But, whatever, we haven't talked and I know you miss me, so what's up?