The Doorway: a panfandom game

WHO: Loki Laufeyson & Stephanie Brown
WHAT: Negotiations and Breakfast Food
WHEN: April 1st; Morning [backdated]
WHERE: Stephanie's apartment
RATING: PG
STATUS: Log; COMPLETE

( Kids having a good time were not quite as threatening as Loki up to his old tricks. )

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[ Filtered to X-Men & Avengers of All Stripes ]

Good morning.

My brother Alex has brought me up to speed on future events - future events that are also current events to some of you. I can't and won't apologize for crimes that I haven't yet committed. Debasing myself to gain favor is a waste of my time and yours.

The rivalry and distrust between the X-Men and the Avengers has made for conflict both petty and catastrophic. I've contributed to this culture in my own time, and I further break down and eventually obliterate relations between our two factions in the future.

This stops now.

We are two teams with our own methods and culture, and there is no reason to try to unite and become a cohesive whole. However, we fight for the same goal - the protection of humanity in all forms. I've allowed myself to lose sight of this in the past as well as here in this New York, fighting against the idea of my future and allowing it to discolor my perception of my teammates and my allies. While I won't apologize for what I have not yet done, I can see the seeds of it sown in past actions, and those I see now as poisonous.

I will do everything in my power to set events right. I don't need your permission, your affection, your undying trust, or your respect. What I am asking for is a chance.

Thank you.

[ /Filter ]

[ Filter to X-Men ]

The above applies internally as well. My cards are on the table. Are yours?

[ /Filter ]

I've been seeing summer clothes out in stores. Makes me wish it was summer. I'm dying to get some time in the sun this year. Now that I'm not worried about things back home, it seems only fair I get time to relax in the sun. I never did that much back home.

woooooooooo!!!! angels starting off the season right in a 3-1 win! best april fool's day ever. grats on your win against the giants, Humberto, but you're going down come the end of may! anyone else watch all the opening season games yesterday? we should get a weekly pool going, the kind that awards a little green.

That band was AWESOME.

I'm still buzzing. Going to be dopey at work today. But so worth it.

Any of you musically inclined people want to get together and have a bash at playing some songs? I miss playing in a group and it could be fun?

Let me know.

I never thought I would say it, but it was nice to have a quiet evening on the first of April. No demons prowling. No vampires pranking werewolves. No werewolves pranking vampires. No fae leading stupid mundanes down roads filled with empty promises.

Still boring, but I guess I should say thank you for the vacation.

( The following is delivered to Clary Fray on the morning of April 2 without a note or card )

Whilst trying to perfect navigating with this device I found the National Museum of the American Indian. Completely the wrong direction from where I was intending to go.

I spent quite a bit of time wandering around the museum and I'm caught between feeling glad it exists - it means people can learn something about the Indians, which is more than more than a lot of folk in my time want to do. But it also feels a bit wrong somehow - cause they ain't just moccasins or beads or feather dresses - they're my friends, and there ain't anything in that museum that tells that story.

And then I started doing some research on the network thing and found to my frustration there are still reservations. But then I also saw that Ben Nighthorse Campbell, a Northern Cheyenne was a US Senator from Colorado, so some things clearly have changed cause that wouldn't have happened in my day and it made my heart glad to see it.


They had a photo of Chief Black Kettle in the Museum - which, I was pleased to see cause he was a great man, but at the same time it was just a photo. Ain't nothing that tells anyone that walks in that museum anything about how honorable he was, or what a good friend he was. End result of the whole day is that I miss Cloud Dancing.

Náhevésenéhenôtse.

And this network is good for something - I can say 'he is my friend' aloud Cheyenne, but I'd have had no idea how to spell it.

[ Filtered to MCU/616 Avengers + Sif ]

I didn Right, let's try this again.

So far, I have Peter Parker, Janet Van Dyne, Carol Danvers, Jessica Drew, Sif, Thor, (our) Tony Stark, (other) Steve Rogers, Wanda Maximoff, Tony Stark (other), and Steve Rogers (our) on the backup shortlist. I've secured a plot of land upstate that will be sans populace next Sunday the 8th. I would appreciate if you could let me know if you might be available on that day ASAP.

I Thank you.

[ /Filter ]

[ Filtered to MCU Tony Stark ]

Fury's not pleased with the damage report.

I need a stronger unit. Or to not be around people.

[ /Filter ]

Does it depress you that the remaining springs you shall see before you die are a very countable number? You have perhaps 70 remaining, after all. Or perhaps 69 once this one passes. Depending on your age. And whether or not you actually die.

I do so love spring. It's my favorite season with the renewal of the earth and life itself. To walk the valley of Imladris and see the sun cast her lovely light upon the earth and waken it!

I woke to a dream today, from a dream that was far less pleasant but I shall not go into those details. I heard Music, it was a pleasant sound. So very beautiful and filled with hope.

I do miss Imladris.

To: S.H.I.E.L.D. Human Resources <human.resources@shield.gov>
From: Darcy Lewis <d.lewis@shield.gov>
Subject: SHIELD Application
Attachment(s): application.pdf, resume.doc

( You Have 1 New Message )


To: Bruce Banner <bruce.banner@shield.gov>
From: Darcy Lewis <darcy.lewis@pottstower.com>
Subject: Your Grumpy Cat Daily Mail!

( You Have 1 New Message )

I guess music really does soothe the savage beast.

It was a good idea, Sam, and it made me want to try to play a piano. instead of punching it What did that poor piano ever do to me, anyway? Looked at me funny, that's what. You should

A stroke of luck had me out of the Tower for all of your April Fooling so if you were after a piece of Kara Thrace, you've got a year to think of something that I will actually (probably not) fall far.

[Filtered to PTYC staff]
I'm going to be out today - my father's disappeared now too, so I'm going to be sorting through their stuff. If you need me for anything, I'll have my phone on me, so just go ahead and call.
[/filter]

[Filtered to Rory and Amy]
Do you guys still need baby stuff? My parents were expecting, and they just vanished this week. There's a pretty fancy stroller, among other things.
[/filter]

Deciding to learn aikido from Mr. Summers is the best decision I ever made. I like the practice, but I like the philosophy, too. I think I need to learn more about Shinto now, since that's what it's based on. If my gods don't exist here, I guess my spiritual options are wide open.

So after I was made aware of National Table Top day, I discovered that you guys totally have a version of Bandits and Bunkers here! Which is like, so totally awesome. And I found all the books that I needed cause your version is kind of different. I mean dragons? Old school, man!

So I am announcing the super awesome crazy death filled campaign of badassitude of Dungeons and Dragons ran by yours truly!

If you don't know how to play, I've programmed the rules into DT and now both of us can recite them from memory! Also I can upload books for you onto your computer if you wanted.

It's going to be off the chaaaaaaaain!

[Filtered to Luke Skywalker]

Yo! I think I've got your training droid up and running. Ran some practical tests with DT and it's not dead so should be good enough for you. It's personality matrix is hilarious, by the way.

( Cut for picture! )


( Filtered to Darcy Lewis )


( Filtered to Bruce Banner )

Hello again.

1832-2013 (and some additional blank space) is a jump of not insurmountable means and so when I fill out any hospital forms for their ledgers, I enjoy telling the administrative staff that I am one-hundred thirty-one years old and some change. While it garners a blink of surprise from some of the Medical Assistants and PCAs, my Nurse -- dear Nurse Florence -- gives a scoff and bustles them out before I can trap them in their entirety. Is there anything in 2013 quite so powerful as a nurse with absolute control over a young man confined to his bed?

I think not.

But as I continue my confinement and hope to return to my friends and to this Potts Tower as soon as I can walk under my own steam, I grow more interested by the pastiche of information that is consistently available to the populace. Free, (more or less) peer-reviewed information that was shut up in libraries and behind the doors of universities in my time. It was information that I yearned for, that my teachers could only grasp at and though we imagined a day in which the world was small enough to share its knowledge, its perspective and the full breadth of its inter-connectedness, I did not think I would see it.

EXHIBIT A
Maria Sibylla Merian, illustratrix and naturalist, took her notebook to share the world's incredible biodiversity a full hundred years before even I was a twinkle in my father's eye. The richness of colour and the depth of detail in her illustrations are only superceded by imagining her (a bloom of colour amongst the drab inconstancy of the sciences dictated by man at the time) with a pencil behind her ear as she industriously catalogued Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium.

I began to dirty my fluffy white tail discover her because of Google. And a doodle. What a curiosity is Google. All of the information you seek (or nearly), if only you know how to ask.

How lucky you are, New York City, to have such information at your fingertips if only you have the heart to seek. I do very dearly hope that you seek.

Happy 366th, Maria.

[Filtered to SHIELD]

So shooting down the rest of the plexiglass and calling it a "training exercise."

Good idea/Bad idea?

[Filtered to Janet Van Dyne]

You holding up okay?

You know what happened yesterday wasn't your fault.

[FILTERED TO MORDIN SOLUS]

Interested in dusting off your spy training and impressing some science geeks with that big brain of yours?

FILTERED TO JESSICA DREW, MINDY MACREADY, COMMANDER SHEPARD, CAROL DANVERS, BRUCE BANNER:

Okay, so Bruce and I had a little brainstorming session last night. Everyone can breathe a sigh of relief that you didn't get subjected to hours of science talk. Except you, Bruce. High five, man.

We have results from all these samples, right? Yeah, they're all different. That's not helpful. But what is helpful is that all these mutagen exposures are having the same sorta result. The same parts of the DNA strand are getting warped -- just in different ways, on different levels. Upshot is that it's probably not some street drug. Someone's actively working at this. The rate of decay is looking to be longer each time -- it's getting refined. Anyway. ANYWAY. Conspiracy theory's got some solid proof. Because someone's got money. Someone's got resources.

Someone had a Dr. Curt Connors on the payroll until he turned himself into a giant lizard and terrorized the city not that long ago.

Oscorp still has a shiny slate and a trusted name, but... well, I explained to Bruce about the guy running the show. I can't prove anything about him at this point, but as far as number one suspects? Yeah. Osborn. Mindy, Shep, you two good on his story? One of us can run through it if you need.

But, yeah. Oscorp/Osborn. Which helps. Aaaand doesn't. Because squeaky-clean Oscorp isn't going to turn open its doors and welcome us in to look around behind the locked ones. Who even knows if this stuff is coming out of their facility. Everything up to now's been so shady. I'm pretty sure someone would report them if, y'know, a slobbering guy with claws ran out the backdoor and assaulted passersby.

But that's where we are. Stop writing, Peter, omg you write too much -- YEAH, I KNOW. Be glad I didn't do this in text messages.

So, by far the meanest April Fool's joke played? Mother Nature going "here's some warm 60 degrees weather because spring is finally here" and then come nightfall, it's "just kidding, here's a windy night and tomorrow will be winter weather again!"

I miss my Easter break vacation already that I'm about to start making plans for the next one. Except not because I should be saving money for next semester's slew of textbooks.

So what did I miss?

( E-mail to Logan )

( E-mail to Ororo Munroe )

( E-mail to Remus Lupin )

( E-mail to Charles Xavier )

( E-mail to Jessica Day )

( E-mail to T'Challa )

( E-mail to Leia Organa )

( E-mail to Susan Hastings )

I thought second opinions were supposed to work with me, not against me.

Thank GOD for the other me who was here. I've got enough clothes to last me a while, and some bath stuff. That makes this $1000 less of a pittance. Now to use these cheap ass shoes to get a job. What does a party girl like me do when she has no money?

Who: Annie Sawyer & Fox Mulder
When: Tuesday, April 2nd
Where: Java Moment
What: Discussing the business of ghosts underwater, and other avenues of paranormal investigation.
Rating: G

( You know, I can't actually drink this? I just thought it would be odd if I didn't order anything. )

OK, SO I'M HAVING A CRISIS AND I'M PRETTY SURE SOMEONE HERE CAN HELP

As far as superheroes go around here there's Team Avengers, Team X-Men, and Team Batman-With-No-Batman.

Where does that leave someone from Team Fantastic Four? (other than just being The Fantastic One, which I obviously am already)

Positions as a biology, chemistry, Mathematics and computer science, Mathematics and Astronomy instructor. That's what I'm qualified for.

Hm. Doctor, what do you think? Jenny? Anyone?

Text to Diana Prince:

» So. Fancy dresses.
» NYPF gala is coming up,
» In two days,
» Oops.
» Apparently I am being encouraged to go.
» My girlfriend's not really the type
» (Not that I really am either.)
» But want to wow them?

There's no filter for this and I'm not sure who to target with it if I made one in any case, so I apologize for the open invitation to anyone uninterested.

It seems there's a few of us that own boats now, so I was thinking some kind of sailing club might be a good idea. Maybe even host weekends with friends and such. Make it a 'thing.' Thoughts?

[Kara]

Why don't you have any ocean scents? I'm judging.



Okay, only a little.

TEXT TO MYCROFT HOLMES:

» Rook to F6.
» Check.

GROUP TEXT: LBD VERSE

» Anyone want to head down to Philly next Tuesday?

TEXT TO MR. GOLD:

»Can I work opening next Tuesday and closing the next day?

I've always loved this time of year. It is a season of endless possibilities and the chance for new growth. Having a career was never a real possibility in my time, but this is a new world. I have accepted a position teaching for the students of Potts Tower. My subjects will include Italian, Spanish, Etiquette and Classical Dance. To those brave enough to share this journey with me, I can assure you that it will be interesting.

If there are any adults who wish to study any of these subjects, I would be honored to offer my assistance. For those in need of a tutor in Latin or classical Greek, I also offer my services. You never know when it will come in handy.

So, apparently I'm not allowed to work more than forty hours a week anymore. Which means I'm going to have a lot more free time and have to face some of the things I've been trying to avoid. I mean, I'll still be volunteering at the clinic, and working full time as a paramedic, but it's going to seem like a vacation after all the double shifts.

In some ways it'll be nice, I guess. Although I'm going to feel again like I'm not doing enough

I was liking that overtime.

[Filtered to Lucy]

Let's get married. Let's just do it.

It seems that everywhere I turn in this city is another woman threatening me with weapons.

Yes yes, I completely support women's rights and think they should have the right to vote, etc. etc. But I also wonder when holding a sword and sparring because a prerequisite for womanhood.

I would much prefer to date someone who didn't carry something at her side that could kill me at any moment. Especially when women seem nearly honor-bound to threaten me. It gets tiresome, really.

I swear, I'm even busier here than I ever was in Gotham. And I was pretty sure I had no life back in Gotham with how busy I was. So that's definitely an accomplishment. I like it though. I think I'm doing good things. Minus the whole...April Fool's with a tiny trickster god thing. So there's that.

Jane, I found some new recipes I want to try. You should come by.

Jaybird, I found a pretty ridiculous movie starring that actor from this world who looks like you. We should watch it. You know you want to.

I love this city at night. I found this club that likes to throw a lot of '20 themed parties.

I miss the '20s. Now there was a good time.

Izzy, I figured out the show. ( cut but not filtered )
We're mermaids. There's also a lot of our faces together in pictures from google. Guessing the actresses are best friends in real life.

I don't know know about anyone else, I'd rather be a vampire. Maybe hum

TEXT TO MAEDHROS:

» Brother
» Who is Lindir
» He is odd

TEXT TO XANDER HARRIS & CAROLINE FORBES:

» Thank you

It seems to me that this isn't the time to refashion the past so much as weave a new future (excepting in actual fashion, where I seem to gravitate far more comfortably towards the first half of the last century, and am quite happy with the fact). And yet -- I am what I am.

I have found a printing collective willing to help through colleagues, and so much as I find our status here a predicament the Stark staff I have spoken with regarding this have been nothing short of marvellous: so. I intend to start Locative Press, primarily but not solely for the publishing of works by fellow refugees. Print runs will be small & some books hand-bound; for all that this city seems increasingly enraptured by the digital, and for all the gifts it has to give us, I am convinced that many people still find great value in such things. I certainly find an actual book, well-bound, a treasure.

If any are interested in embarking upon this with me, you are most welcome; if you have works you would like to publish, I hope that you will come to me (even if you wish simply for an opinion, or an editor; this will be no vanity press, we will be working together).


[Filter | Walter Blythe]

I meant what I said about your poem; please do consider this, Walter.

[Filter | Septimus Smith]

You are thinking so hard, Smith, I can almost hear you four floors down. A walk?

Oh, New Kids On The Block are releasing another album?

Why?

I know it's not relevant to most of the network, but I just wanted to thank everyone that was kind to me the other day with the food and the hangover remedies, and watching bad telly and that sort of thing. It doesn't bring Mark back but

Who: Katherine Edmunds and Rick Grimes.
What:  Looking for a good pizza place.
When:  Tuesday 6PM
Rating:  G

( “Delivery” )

TEXT TO NICK MILLER:

» Hey, so.
» Where are you right now?

What is this? I'm not putting that on my face.

And does anyone know any good tattoo parlors around here?

Kids these days have gotten soft. I think it's time everyone was introduced to the Swanson Pyramid of Greatness.

Really, the whole pyramid could just be one triangle that says "Be a man." But it looks like some of you need more instructions.

Because this is a pyramid, we will start with the bottom and work our way up. Today's squares:

FRANKNESS: Cut the bull shit.

CAPITALISM: God's way of determining who is smart, and who is poor.

Questions?

You know, I'm so torn on how I feel about that show.

On the one hand, I don't want to watch, because it seems like things get worse every week. But I also hate these breaks. I'm worried about what's happening back home, and I can't help but want to know what's going to happen next. I know we can't stop it or change it, but I still want to fix everything wrong.

In other news, I'm really enjoying my job. I thought I'd miss the action, but I really don't. It's nice to have a break from all the insanity.

( Mary Margaret )
I know I've probably said it a hundred times now, but you are good. You're the best person I've ever known. And no matter what you do, there will always be good in you. I just wanted to say that.

And I love you.