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So. Giant penny.

First: the Penny Plunderer used it to try and kill Batman and I. Yes, the Penny Plunderer. He stole antique pennies from a museum, so the name is justified, if completely lame.

Second: as a death trap, a giant penny is ineffective but surprisingly intimidating in the moment.

Third: I am awesome at talking Batman into bringing crazy things home. We have a rather impressive trophy collection now, but nothing else quite measures up to the giant penny and t-rex-bot so far.

Apparently, I spend too much time holed up in the studio surrounded by paint fumes. And apparently it is for my greater good that I reach out and talk to people on the computer because why the hell not. And to do this, apparently my rum is now being held hostage until I relent.

So I'm Grantaire. Help a guy out and show I can make friends so that 'Apollo' decides to give me back my rum.

You are looking at the newest employee of Stark Industries! Eeeee!

I start on Monday. An actual job. Who would have thought? Snakeychan would be proud, maybe.

So who are my new coworkers?

So apparently starting in April there are Gray Whales moms and calves return on migration around the Newport Beach area and you can pay $20 to go on a whale watching adventure. I've never done something like that before, but it could be a lot of fun if it's a nice day out and you actually get to see something. This could be a good excuse for me to get a new camera in the near future as well.

Afternoon, everyone. Name's Mary Kelly. I'm a masseuse over at the Avanti Day Spa in Westminster. I just got an invite to this network. I recognize some of you as clients already and hopefully some of you will be new ones. I've lived in Santa Ana most of my life, but this is the first I've heard of this network. Should be interesting.

Hello! I'm Andre Courfeyrac, and I go to UCI for theater. Theat-uh. I'm new on this network but not new to the OC - I've lived here for a year now and it's rather wonderful, I think.

I look forward to making lots of wonderful new friends on this network; I like making friends. I'm told I'm good at it.

One of my students said I should get out more. Smart kid, but he's an annoyingly persistent little shit. So we're going to pretend this counts as getting out, got it?

Fuckin' kids.

My cousin Navi told me this was a good place to meet people, and I had to post as soon as I got settled.

So, uh, hi? I'm Merry, I just moved here for work. Is it always this sunny?

So, I'm back on the job now, which means I can't really talk much about what I do every day cause in a few months it'll be on TV and there's that whole clause in my contract so that I don't spoil it. I mean, how do I know that none of you work for the network and are here to make sure I don't screw up? But this also means that I'll probably be easier to spot when I'm out cause I'll be the guy with a camera crew following me around. I'll probably be out with some of the others in the house too.

Oh who are we kidding, I'll probably still be talking about everything that happens anyway.

Is anyone familiar with the Bristol area in real life? It's where mine, Annie and Nina's dreams have taken place for the most part and Annie and I have been talking about taking a trip out there to see if the house we lived in in the dreams exists.