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James, it's time to brush up on our mer speech!

I really do hope my future in this new future has less needles going forward. That was unpleasant.

My name is Napoleon Solo and, while all of this is marvelous and fascinating in all of its aspects, I'm quite eager to locate my associate, Gabriella Teller, before I start asking more questions. I'm told she is here as well. She is approximately 5'5", brunette, brown eyes, impeccable fashion choices, stubborn, and bossy.

It's very likely she has punched someone by now and if that someone is you, well, I'm sure you deserved it.

I take it back, Santa. I believe in you now.

( cut for image, not filtered )

For those of you who knew her, Caroline Forbes has been returned home.

EPS:

I just wanted to let you know that we're going to need a new Early Childhood Program teacher. Caroline disappeared this morning.

DAMON SALVATORE:

Punching or not punching?

Shark socks and make-your-own hot sauce. How did you know, Secret Santa?

[...]

This hot sauce kit requires sterilizing solution and gloves. I will try not to blow up your kitchen, Nikolai.

Okay, this weather. This is not normal. Not even for Texas or Southern California this time of year. I'm wondering if there's something out there doing this now.

After school lets out, I'm going patrolling to find out.

She knew some of you. So, here's all I'm gonna say: Elena's gone. Nope, I'm not talking about it. Yes, I'm okay. And no, I don't need to be second guessed on it.

I do, however, have a hell of a stash of bourbon that's calling my name

[Buffy's house]

This ball thing, and these santa letters. How do we feel about these? Are these things normal? Should we respond to the letters?

I was thinking maybe we should do a spell to detect if there's anything wrong with the stationary that was sent to us. Like, is demonic stationary a thing? Should we be worried about it being a thing?

Also, ball? Dresses? Yes? No? We could totally make a house outing fun time for it. :)

TEXT TO CAROLINE FORBES:

» Scale of 🏔️ to 🌋
» How much do you need to get out of the house?

This is a hell of a lot more comfortable than traveling by tesseract, but I gotta say I'm not digging this whole quarantine thing. Tempted to ask for something crazy just to see how far they'll go

Also, New York to small town Texas? Kinda feels like a step down.

[BUFFY SUMMERS]

I... did some research after you talked to me about Sunnydale being a crater. I'm sorry I didn't just ask, but I thought it might be hard for you. And I kind of wish I wasn't messaging you like this, but it's hard to tell you in person.

I know what happens to me. And Willow, after.

Willow's just now getting into magic, and I want to try and steer her away from using it to manipulate people. I want to prevent Dark Willow.

And... I'm sorry we brought you back. I mean, I'm not sorry we had you, but I'm sorry if we pulled you away from something beautiful.

[Text to Buffy]
--[IMAGE ATTACHED]
--Might never return

WHO: Buffy Summers, Nikolai Lantsov
WHEN: November 6.
WHERE: Buffy's office at EPS
WHAT: Nik comes by to see how Buffy is handling post-Gremlin attack school street; Buffy wonders if maybe there is a damn Hellmouth under this town.

( ''I thought I would make certain that you haven’t been kidnapped by paperwork or otherwise buried beneath an avalanche of it.'' )

[Texts to Buffy Summers]
--Just a head's up that I'm heading out of the country on Wednesday
-- after school
-- I'm gonna go spend the long weekend in Greece

[Cisco]

So how would you feel
Do you think I could maybe, posibly, also
I want a
Let's build a

So! What motivated you to make your own super suit thingy? Not to say it's not completely amazing and I'm not totally jealous because I completely am. I mean how cool is building that?

I guess I'm just curious? It seems like everyone has a reason for the things they do and I'm wondering what was yours? Assuming you want to share that with me, and if you don't that's completely fine too and I'll bring you cookies for making you think about something not fun.

[Vanille & Prompto]
So, I was thinking of maybe trying to do something date
How do you
Did either of you make the first

What's your experience with dating, and trying things out with the people you were interested in? Did you try to be affectionate before comitting to anything? Or did you keep it really platonic until you told the other person?

[Tara]
What are your favorite holiday traditions?

[Buffy's House]
Are we a thanksgiving celebrating house, or do we recognize and respect the trials and tribulations that native people went through and how this holiday is a mockery to the pain and suffering the first people of this nation endured due to the horrible ways that the pilgrams treated them?

Just a heads up, if anyone needs to talk about flaming gremlins, I'm here. I've got a lot of experience dealing with the day after.

[EPS Staff]

If any of you need to take the day off tomorrow to deal with the fallout of the bonfire please just let Scott or I know. We'll make a plan for covering for you.

Can I get a count of how many of the students were in attendance as well though?

Buffy, we may need you to do some counseling.

I was about to announce to the scant number of you who might care that I enlisted with the military just the other day, but that isn't half as exciting as the box I found at my door today.

Has someone been gifting pets?

I need some honest opinions here. The nearest beach is at least 8 hours away. Anyone been there? Is it worth it?

The progression of coding languages is amazing. The ones now are so much more complex than [.....] when I'm from. I'm pretty fluent in Standard C++, HTML, Javascript, Java, Python, ColdFusion, Mercury, PHP, Ruby, E, a lot of late 90's programming languages, and have been catching up on the newest ones online. The prior integration of data and object orientation has been crazy upgraded in the newer languages! The mass query and repetition built in? Way easier! Knowing some most some of the older languages that created the base format of these newer languages makes learning these new ones way easier. Being able to look at page source codes without having to hack into the web page itself? Magic! There's so many different OS types. The differences and similarities between them is staggering. I was also looking mobile application development and that's such a huge market, I never would have ever predicted any of this even if some of the coding language improvements were obvious upgrades. Like, duh, of course you'd want the data package to push through automatically by linking the two packages without having to manually code each push.

[............]

For something a little less nerdy: Chemistry Cat has to be one of my favorite things on the internet with his little glasses, little bowtie and being so periodically Fluorine, Uranium, Nitrogen, Nitrogen, Yttrium! :D


( Buffy )

( Vanille, Prompto & Cisco )

( Diana )

( Tara )

[FILTERED TO BUFFY SUMMERS]

Are you game for some socializing? This Hocus Pocus movie sounds entertaining, and it sounds like a good amount of people are going.

So, um, if there was someone who you thought was really nice and sweet, and maybe kind of pretty and you wanted to do something really nice for their birthday for them, what would you do?

I was thinking maybe baking, but I'm not sure what her cake or cookie or sweet flavors are perferred.

If someone's allergic to strawberies, would they also be allergic to strawberry flavoring? Google says yes, but maybe I could sneak some benedryl into the cake? but it seems uncertain?


[Buffy}
So, you know I think birthdays are a big deal, and totally should be a big-time deal, and that everyone should have a happy birthday and since Tara's been so nice to me so I'd hate to see someone not have a good birthday. Do you know what Tara likes? have any suggestions for how we could celebrate people's birthdays in the house? I'd really like to make sure everyone has a good time on their special once a year yay-you're-alive kind of day.

Today's my birthday.

We don't have to do anything for it, I just thought it was weird that I'm already 22! I've been kind of saying I was 22 already because it was May where I was and that's kind of close to October??

So, the internet? Wow. This is mega-huge. Like bigger than I ever could have imagined it being sort of huge. Titanosaur argentinosaurus huinculensis cross bred with a Blue Whale kind of huge!

It's so easy to get lost in too.

Has anyone else lost an hour of their life to aodrable cat videos?

CAROLINE FORBES:

So...

What do you wanna do for your birthday?

NIKOLAI LANTSOV:

Two of my friends showed up.

Willow's from the beginning of college so like eight years ago. And Tara! The girlfriend she had for years who Willow currently doesn't know.

Is there a magic shop in town? Is there interest in a magic shop? A place to buy ingredients for spells, maybe do tarot readings, a place to store all the big tomes that might have come with us?

If not, I'd really like to start one. I don't know how to go about that though. Where I come from, there was already one. It was called the Magic Box.

[BUFFY]

So... Willow doesn't remember me.

Which makes me wonder about this whole... timeline stuff. Where are you at in it? What's the last thing that happened in Sunnydale for Buffy? :)

Buffy? It's me! Will! Someone told me you're here... somewhere. Not where though, but if you're here it'd be really cool if you'd respond. This whole thing is really super zany weird and not in a Xander's making too many comic jokes and cartoon references or a inch tall demon is trying to take over the world sort of way but more like I wish Giles was here and I could use his books to be research gal and find out what demon might have done this sort of way. I was told there's a rift? And that we're in Texas? And there was a really nice girl here who seemed really sad when I said I didn't I feel like a major jerkzilla And that the rift messes with time?

Please tell me the rift doesn't mess with time, I don't even want to try to figure out what that would mean for the space-time continuum, and the Hellmouth. I don't want to be zapped back to dealing with a fifty foot fang face in high school somehow because we took a wrong turn at Albuquerque.

Let it be so noted that Captain Oretsev lost his sword in a duel this afternoon.

EPS STAFF:

I need to take off for the rest of the day. My — this sounds so dumb — but my boyfriend just came back and he's a little lost on to what is going on.

And I'd really like to see him.

CAROLINE FORBES:

NIKOLAI IS BACK. AND HE HAS HIS MEMORIES.

For a moment I thought I was in for that prolonged, dreadful sort of boredom in quarantine, but I've been told that we're fully into pumpkin spice latte season and my timing could not have been better. I assume things can only look up from here, but that's more the optimist in me than my personal taste for whatever a pumpkin spice latte may be.

Well, I officially had my first pumpkin spice latte of the season.

Who's going to the Bronze tomorrow night? I feel the need to wear something autumn-like and drink cider. But you know, not along, because that's sad. Stabbing my pumpkin alone is pretty great though.

Yorkshire Gold is a godsend.

FILTERED FROM MUGGLES
I've finally calmed down to the point where I can shift again.
Though being in quarantine is still bollocks. One more day and I'm free.

There's gotta be a demon that feeds on broken hearts, right? I mean, there's demons that feed on babies and baby hearts and scared people. What about broken hearts? 'Cause I'm thinking about using mine to try and lure a demon out for stabbing.

CAROLINE:

Save me from Whitney Houston songs.

So, so. Poll time. Who's not back to normal by now?

filter: buffy summers

Hey. You. Awesome slayer person. Quick question.

I'm really kind of glad that there were places to get those glasses so I could see the eclipse today. It was absolutely worth it.

Can't I just go home? Isn't there a way to sign up to do that? My friends are in a camp for being magical, and it's not pretty. I just want to be there to help them out. I know, I KNOW, I'm not really gone or whatever, but I have

Maybe I just need to be busy. Staff starts up next week, and I'm councilor so that should help.

I daresay I almost missed the constant thrum of insanity weaving through our growing collective. Not enough to join in on it, however. Provided I can help it.

Let this be a lesson to many of you, that a funhouse is neither fun nor a house, least of all when placed within our close proximity.

CAROLINE FORBES:

Scale of one to WTF is wrong with you:

Sleeping with Clint Barton?

I got a few questions.

Is the EMS or the THS hiring a school counselor? I've got experience.

And secondly, anyone want to go out and get wasted on a Tuesday night?

Nothing else to punch or stab?

Nikolai is gone.

I know Matt got the start of watches put in place last night, but with knowing the town has an idea of where we're located, we might wanna be upping that a bit.

Anyone able to shield the area from others entering that ain't ours? Or setting up some sort of security perimeter around the new shelter we got going?

And I'd say don't travel without a buddy. Preferably more'n one person just in case anything does happen.

Piggybacking on Ahsoka, let's use this site to set up a temporary camp. We can't really go exploring now and we need a home base of sorts. Don't use the pods since it damped your powers. But can we organize to do the following?

Set up shelter and inventory supplies

Explore (running water and civilization being essential)

Set up a perimeter security detail around the camp

Tony, all the thanks to you for building this network, by the way. (Jess, Luke, Trish, Misty, Elektra, Karen - you'd better be here.)

This is Ahsoka Tano. I'm able to connect to our network, which has been active in most worlds we've landed in, and I'm writing this in the hopes that someone else is out there. I've landed in a pod that seems to have some sort of power dampener. I was unable to use the Force while in it, but after releasing myself, I feel back to normal.

If you're out there, please let me know. I don't know what kind of world we've landed on, but the terrain seems extra dry with the potential to be hostile. If others are out there, I want to find you; there's safety in numbers.

Hypothetical.

What are the odds that people from our worlds have been coming here for long enough that they've spread out? I mean, we're sticking around here, but what if people before us thought Tumbleweed was boring (understatement) and decided to leave.

What if some of them weren't, you know, necessarily benevolent?

CAROLINE FORBES:

I realize this is late and nothing is open except the bars. I kind of don't want to be stuck in my mom's house on a holiday without Dawn so I thought I'd ask if you were up for hitting the Bronze?

Maybe we'll get lucky and find a vampire or two to punch, and I can tell you about the vampires we found in California on the way back home.

NIKOLAI LANTSOV:

Good luck, and if you need rescuing, text me.

WHO: Buffy Summers & Nikolai Lantsov
WHEN: 6/26
WHERE: Louisiana! On the road.
WHAT: Vampire slaying, oooo.

( Do you ever worry that you might inhale undead by mistake? )

WHO: Buffy Summers, Nikolai Lantsov
WHEN: Today
WHERE: On a road somewhere!
WHAT: Buffy & Nik get pulled over, and Buffy makes a discovery.
WARNINGS: None actually.

( ''Okay, but why is it in your glove compartment? On a cross country trip? Where you didn't take it out of your car.'' )

Buffy Summers

So. Not to bring you sadness on your vacay. But Faith is gone.