The Doorway: a panfandom game

TEXT MESSAGES TO STEVE ROGERS (616)

» So. Two questions.
» 1. How were your four hot dogs?
» 2. Do you think that my interpretation of Shrunken Green Zombie Jesus is technically sacrilegious, or just irreverent?

HEY CAPTAIN ☠☠☠☠

DO YOU WANNA HANG OUT AND GET CHASE BEER

I'm holding auditions for more freaking badasses to replace Klara and Victor.

[Text to Simon, sent in the evening, the day after this]
So are we just friends?

Who: Severus Snape & James Potter
When: 1 August, early afternoon
Where: Potts Tower, 22nd Floor
What: An unexpected meeting. This could escalate fast.
Rating: TBD

( He pressed the button to summon the elevator and pulled out one of the brochures to read as he waited. )

FILTERED TO STEVE, NATASHA, FURY (616):

Probably talked about this already, but humor me. That cube that's been ripping people out of their worlds and dropping them here. Not just me, right? That thing looks a hell of a lot like the Cosmic Cube.

I was just thinking as I was watching the news (shut up, I do do that sometimes!) and...well, what would you expect with a guy named Weiners really??

Filtered to: Annabeth

So...you're in a 2 bedroom alone...what if we became roommates?

Filtered to: Nico

We're one of the few left from our world. I guess we should get to know each other better, huh?

Okay. So this is completely random but amazing.

I've been corresponding with this Demonologist the past couple of days over emails with some questions I had about this world. And it turns out the guy has a T.V. show that he works on and one of his investigators is taking time off and they're going to start filming a fourth season in September. And guess who he wants to come onboard as an investigator.

That's right. This guy. Which is great because I was just starting to think how bored I am here in the tower. It involves some travel and to be honest I don't know if he'd know a real demon if it ate his face off but it pays and it's mostly weekend trips so it's pretty cool.

Now I guess I need to watch old episodes and catch up.

Who: Hal Mason and Liz Sherman.
When: After this.
Where: 1006.
What: Alcohol therapy.
Rating: R.

( So overwhelmed by the ocean's shapeless form )

Happy birthday to my baby sister, Paige. If you see her today, wish her a happy birthday.

[P3]

Are you working today, Paige? I am, but I promise your favorites for dinner when we are both off.

Now both of my grandpas are gone :(. This place kind of sucks.


[Neal]

Do you want any company?

( Tony, Steve & Gwen take Manhattan -- The Met )

Jack left. If it's true what they say, that the tesseract returns us home after our time here then perhaps it is for the best that he is gone. As grand as the innovations and world of the future might be, I think to Jack the home he left behind was grander still.

( Cut for picture; not filtered )
I found a Lichtenstein version of me.

Filtered: Peter Parker (616)

Hey. If you're still recovering, don't feel obliged to answer this back. Just wanted to put it out there that I'm thinking of you. And, umm, I let my ego get the best of me and thought "Hey, Peter's acting different? Let me pretend to be interested in his apps and go figure out what's up because I'm so smart." Which I guess was stupid in retrospect, and it won't happen again.

You also have cheesecake coming your way tomorrow before I go training with Reilly. (Yes, I'm still doing that.. yes, I know that I don't really need it, but it's actually a fun distraction and a great workout, and by the way, I'm halfway through SHIELD training!)

Asking if you're okay is probably a dumb question but if you ever need anything distracting and you want to hear about my day at the Met with Steve and Tony and the things that we did that probably got us glares from the serious museum-goers, you know where to go.

Filtered: Darcy Lewis

So is there an obligatory I'm-half-way-through-training night out? Because I feel like there should be.

Gods, it's like I'm cursed when it comes to roommates in this place.

For those of you who knew Violet Parr, she's gone.

It's a little surreal to a) pack for a trip instead of grabbing whatever's nearest and lightweight, and b) have a trip that's planned and not an attempt to flee a country. I can't remember the last vacation I took.

Actually, I think I need to buy luggage. I just realized my suitcase is an old tablecloth I turned into a knapsack. Or the one I borrowed from Ton

SHIELD:

I've sent coordinates and a report of where I'll be (Victoria Falls). Our hotel room does have a phone so we won't be entirely unreachable. I'd appreciate it if you forgot Darcy and I exist for a week. Barring international strife and mayhem, of course.

[ /SHIELD ]

[ Filtered to Peter Parker 616 ]

Grilled cheese this weekend?

[ /Filter ]

[ Filter to MCU Avengers ]

When I'm back, we should consider one of these.

[ /MCU Avengers ]

[Filtered to Foreign Language Students]

Hello, my name is Uhura. I'm taking over the language classes when school is back in session. I thought I'd take this opportunity to introduce myself to all of you. I would like to get to know each of you, the language you are learning, and what times you have free to take your class.

If you have any questions now or later, you can reach me here on the network, by phone (phone number) or by email (uhura@pottstower.com).

[Moya]

I've worked on a few languages to give you in the format you requested. Would you like me to email them to you or drop them off at your apartment?

[Filtered to the GFFA, Cell Three, and Friends*]

So this is my eighth month I've been here, and assuming that I am still here this next weekend and the tesseract hasn't decided to ship me back to the Galaxy Far, Far Away, I'm thinking it's time for a little bit of a celebration.

So come by my apartment Saturday, August 10, any time after 7pm in the evening. I'm planning on food, music, wine, and other alcohol as the spirit strikes. If you have a favourite game, bring that - I'm still getting acquainted with games in this place, so I have a deck of cards and not much else. Feel free to bring a friend.

[I hate using such general filters, but I am really afraid I'll completely forget someone this morning SO IF your character has spoken with Mara, or worked closely with her at SHIELD, etc - they're included!]

Who: Gwen Stacy (MCU) & Mayday Parker (MC2)
When: Backdated to July 16th, approximately!
Where: Gwen’s family’s apartment.
What: Gwen has a nightmare, May is sleeping over and comforts her.
Rating: Low! Mentions of Gwen’s alternate’s demise. And eating cookies before bed. THAT’S JUST WRONG, KIDS.

( May then felt awkward, for talking about attractive women while sitting in bed with her dad’s former girlfriend. )

I'd like to talk to people who have moved out.

In the meantime, still looking for work. It's shit trying to build a CV when all your experience is out of this dimension.

Why do you stay?

As much as I love having a break, I'm really starting to miss the insanity of being back home. Surprisingly, another world's insanity isn't really enough of a replacement for your own personalized brand of batshit.

How I've spent this long knowing nothing about 99 Problems is strange to me. I feel like a terrible Jay-Z fan and an even worse person who spends time on the Internet.

[Nick]

Feast your eyes on this belleza. Isn't it awesome?

And I used to be on the end of strange looks whenever I said that Home Depot was my second favorite store. Shows what they knew.

'Companion' robot headed to Space Station. Better than a Companion Cube, I suppose.

Oh! ETA:
And They Might Be Giants corrected their song (awhile ago...), Why Does The Sun Shine? With Why Does the Sun Really Shine? (The Sun is a Miasma of Incandescent Plasma) The sun's not simply made out of gas!




FILTER TO: LOKI (mcu)
Any requests?
END

I'm taking Molly to Coney Island. Does anyone else want to go so I don't look like a creep?

I want a good story, anyone got a good story? Elsa once asked me why I got into the superhero business. If you're one of the Supers, why'd you get into it?

And if you're not, oh, fuck if I know, tell me how you want to die. Like, say a couple aliens came down (they do that) and was like, YO, UGLY EARTHLING, YOU'RE GONNA DIE, HOW DO YOU WANT IT TO HAPPEN?

Captain out

(not Captain ☠☠☠☠ because I don't want Steve Rogers coming at me again).

I'm going to thank Gwen Stacy for my glowing skin.

( cut for image, NO FILTER )

KAINE'S TAKING ME TO THE MOVIES! YOU ALL OWE ME $5!!

IMPORTANT PSA: We are NOT talking about what happened last week.

( Delivered to Chase/Molly's apartment )

TEXT TO DAWN SUMMERS

Hey Kitten. I need some cheering up. You want to go get iced lattes and people watch cute guys in Central Park?

Who: May Parker and Jessica Drew (the clone one)
When: Sunday July 14th
Where: May & Peter’s apartment, and then probably the city!
What: JD needs some clothes.
Rating: JD swears a bit, so PG13?

(  It was like having a badass little sister to look out for her. )

I am in need of a New York photographer who either specializes in, or can at least has some knowledge in, commercial and theatrical headshot photography. I am currently building my portfolio and this is by far the most important part of the process. I am not looking for glamour shots at this time.

I would love to talk to any and all photographers in the tower before looking elsewhere. The sooner these photos can be taken the better, I'd really appreciate a block of time no later than next week, but I really am flexible and can work around your schedule if need be. For now.

Thank you!

TEXT TO STEVE ROGERS (616):

» hullo there. you & gitmo have something in common. it isn't this, though.
» wish you were here. (yes, it's instagram. no, i haven't sold out.)

( Attached. )

I've actually forgotten what a day off feels like.

[Tony Stark. All of them. He doesn't even bother to filter just one because they all just hack in anyway.]
I got some time to browse the internet today. There are way too many websites devoted to your facial hair and not enough devoted to my mastery of puns. I guess I'm going to have to try harder to slip them into public interviews or something.

[Steve Rogers MCU]

Looks like the stars and stripes are sticking around a bit longer. They've decided Iron Patriot was a venture worth keeping.

On that note, I have to say it was an honor to actually get to fight beside you, Captain.

It's comforting that no matter the universe, coffee is always delicious.

[Filtered to Anya Corazon]

So I may have spent the past few days going back over the network and various heroes from your world and gathering what information I could. There is like a ridiculous amount of information on this thing, though mostly on the whole Superheroing is basically high school with more beating people up. Plus Stark has some pretty big firewalls on certain things and I mean I'm not crazy enough to start poking that bear. I know there has to be a ton of this stuff that's just being all superhero secret, per usual. But I took notes on what I could find out of the millions of pages of people talking about, well, themselves.

Which is not stalking. It's information gathering. It's different. For reasons.

On the other hand, actually being able to buy coffee is really awesome.

Some days I just want to be a fat wrinkly dog who gives no fucks. Is that too much to ask?

[Filter to Ramona, Bast, Santana, Kurt, Michael, The Red Haired Cat Girl (Willow)]

I'm at the hospital with Barnabus C. Klangsington. I finally got him to come out for some Tuna and it's no wonder he's so cranky because he had a huge infection or something and they just finished operating on him. They also apparently did something with his boy parts and I think he'll be really mad at me about it but they said it's for his own good because then he won't get into fights anymore and I'm probably going to have to buy him a switchblade to make up for it.

He doesn't even have Will.I.Am.Care.

And I know we just met but I really care about him and I want him to be okay. They're letting me make payments but I think I'm going to have to sell my ovaries.

THREE REALLY IMPORTANT THINGS IN BUBBLES' LIFE:

1. MACARON ICE CREAM SANDWICHES EXIST?!
2. Oh my GOD, I am SO going here for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert.
3. Okay. OKAY. This is really important, but do I get the coconut mango or the raspberry pistachio? HELP. (⊙_☉)

ATTENTION: EDUCATIONAL SERVICES DIVISION *

Hi everyone. Don't worry-- you still have a little over a month of summer left. With the semester coming up, though, we need to look at finding instructors to take over classes that no longer have someone to teach them. Some of our teachers have empty class sessions, so we should also review if you still want to make yourself available for them should a student be interested. We'll also need to look at whether or not to remove empty classes with no teachers from the class offerings. Please let us know if you're interested in taking a position, want to drop something, or have any other feedback.

( Cut for length, not filtered )

If you're of school age (18 or under) and arrived over the summer and haven't already done this, please get with Kitty or me to make sure you're enrolled and assigned an advisor before the semester begins.

Private to Kitty:
OMG I totally recruited LIEUTENANT UHURA as a teacher and I didn't even fangirl at her once so let me get it out of my system now! I GOT US UHURA!


* [OOC: Post is not filtered (except for the last) to make sure people not already part of the ESD can think about joining in. FYI, I've been working on a not-yet-public REVISED SPREADSHEET and trying to clear up some user-friendliness concerns before we switch to it from the current. I'll try to make sure any additions to the current spreadsheet make it over to the new one]

[Text messages to Lady Sif]

» Free at all this weekend?

Filter: Dorcas Meadows
Hey - if you want to come see my new place let me know. I'm feeling melancholy, which is bad.

Filter: Fury (616)
Thanks for the assistance.
It was greatly appreciated.
Also, central park muggers have yet to learn I'm not a good target. Sad considering how many lessons they get taught. Guess I have to start teaching harder, huh?

Public
Truly New York is a place all it's own. Today whilst walking through Central Park on my way for a good meal, I saw someone chasing someone else while dressed as a clown and a mime. It's truly a city where anything can happen. also, muggers, but hey, they tried to grab from the wrong girl.

[Starfleet]

Would people be interested in an end of summer get together?

I was thinking maybe Six Flags if people are up for roller coasters?

[Bones]

I've been thinking about long term goals.

Do you think passing the SHIELD physical fitness standards is a possibility in the future?

Honest opinion, please.

TGIF. That's still a thing, right?

[JO, DEAN, VERONICA]

My friend Mara's having a party tomorrow. Want to be my plus three?

[ILLYANA]

I'm in the mood to be a not-so-good person and bitch to you about something. It's a stupid thing, really, but I know you'll get it.

FILTERED TO PETER PARKER 616:

Hey you. Oh king of the spiders. Dad of the spiders? Spider-King? You get the point.

So this is probably coming from out of the blue, and I'm sorry if I'm overstepping my boundaries, but I know what it's like to have someone you considered an enemy take over your body and then, you know, try to kill you. Several times over. And no one even realizing it wasn't you the whole time. My boyfriend slept with her-me and I'm probably the last person you wanna talk to about any of this, and I totally understand.

But I just wanted you to know that you're not alone - not in the body swapping with an enemy or dying department, at least - and that if you ever wanna talk or not talk with someone who knows what it's like, you know where to find me.

OH, and PS. Knock Ben out so he gets some sleep, ok?

FILTERED TO BEN REILLY:

Hope you don't think I overstep my boundaries or anything, and I'm sure he's not really in the mood to talk, but I filtered Peter about what happened, what he's going through. Had it happen to me once, messed me up for - well, I'm still not sure I'm completely over it.

I am still pondering what I should do with my time here. I have offered my assistance on an as needed basis to SHIELD, as joining them is not quite within my usual. However I may apply to join if I cannot find anything that suits me better.

I find myself missing working under the Allfather as much as I used to. Times have changed, although I am uncertain if they are for the better...

Who: Dawn Summers
What: The eye of the spider is upon her.
Where: Her apartment
When: Friday evening, 2 August
Rating: Low
Status: COMPLETE



( All right Dawson, pick up your dictionary for some overly syllabic, impressively philosophic teenager-speak, and here we come. )

[Text Message to Buffy Summers]

>> BUFFY
>> THERE IS A THINKG HERE
>> A spider robot thing i've got it under a glass
>> I think it might be dead
>> do they die?

>> I broke its leg.

It is surprising that in a place such as this, so far removed from my home across the sea and nearly two centuries. At yet today, I saw a children's book propped in a store window.

And I was reminded that when I was young, my mother used to sing to me what she remembered of an opera called Médée, she said she'd seen it when she was much younger, years before meeting my father -- though it had stuck with her in ways that, as she said, many brighter and better had not.

...But it seems perhaps, perhaps my mother had more of an ear than she thought, as it seems Cherubini's Medea has survived, and survived, and survived.

Alright, I saw that. People urgently in need of clean clothes, drop them off.

I can't sleep anyway.

i just wanna make one thing clear. no friend of mine is or is going to be a killer.

not on my freaking watch. that's not what heroes do.

Filtered: Avengers Academy

Movie night this weekend. I don't care which day, we're going to watch Conjuring. The newlyweds are coming with!

Seriously. I'm going stir-crazy and I would like a fantastic distraction from the fact that being a child star is not exactly going to help me make any money here. Not like my mother is here either to help with that. Thank FUCK So? Who is in??

Getting old is not so bad when your work hours are interrupted by CAKE! My coworkers (boss included!) are awesome. ♥

I'd like to also say that this is one of those first special occasions in which my sisters and I are not going 'aw shit, demon's in our kitchen again?' so I'd say this makes it pretty damn special.