vallo

Good morning ☀️ hunnies!! 🤗🥰😘 Remember me? 👋👋

It was a little over a year 📅 ago that (❗️❗️ THIS IS HUGE ❗️❗️) my interest in gardening 🌱💮 was sparked 💥 thanks to some sudden 👸💆‍♀️💅 memories from home 🧝🔮. It was a bit later on in the season, so while some plants 🌿🌴 were still able to thrive (❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️), many of those more suited for spring 🍃 had to be skipped. This year 📅, however, is a different story 🎉🥳🙌 and it has been quite nice to leave the house 🏡 in the morning 🌄☕ to see so many blooms 🌼🌻🌹, those practical for components ✨ and simply for aesthetics 🧐 alike.

UMMM! 😱😱😱 Not that I can claim all credit for them, of course. 😇🤫 I think it is fair to say that Yasha 🌩️🌷 is far more gifted 🎁 in that area than I am.

So any boss babes 🤸💁💅 wanna join my amazing team ✌️ and change the world?? 🌍👯‍🤗

[...] This is what I get for hoping 🤞🤞🤞 whatever has been happening on here was over. 🤣💀 How ridiculous. 🤪

CALEB

Hey hottie~ 🔥💖💋 random question for you! 💓🔎📝

😊😊😊 Your birthday 🎂🎈 is in a few weeks 📅❗️❗️ and I thought that rather than plan an event 🥳 for you without asking permission again 🙊🤷🙃, I would see if you wanted to do 😏 anything in particular. I thought asking might also prevent any of our friends 🍭💥🌊⚡ from making potentially unwanted 🙅⛔ plans, as well. 😅

[...] I am so sorry. 🙇‍♂️🤦

[ooc - the filter works, but feel free to do whatever in other comments]

Oyster season is over. Any fresh oysters you get from Earth to Rain - that's May to August here, more or less - are watery garbage. I'm telling everyone this because the next idiot to ask me about oysters at the market is losing a finger.

Still alive, Syd.

In light of recent events causing some dramatic changes in my life, I'll be stepping away from my position at Geliara, and will not be returning in the fall. Additionally, I'll be hiring a full time manager to run Uncommon Goods for me, and will be shifting my focus to the DOA. I'll still be involved in the shop, should anyone need anything, but less hands on. This way I can have more time at home.

I'll be continuing my work with the local covens, and Outlander coven in a more full time capacity, while also acting as a representative of Outlander magic-users with the Vallo government. You can find me at the DOA offices full time now.

Raise your hand if all of your boyfriends officially have better facial hair than you. And one of them is a vegetarian pacifist now.

✋🏼😭

What is going on and who do we file complaints to?

Spotted a ghost ship off New Asgard, drifting west. Ship-rigged sloop, looks like one gun deck. Can't spot a name on her, but she's flying a black flag with a horned skeleton stabbing a heart.

Someone who knows how to not catch a plague should probably look into it.

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Is anyone available to help with warding off an area?

More of Hell showed up and I'd like to stop it from seeping out into Vallo quickly. No one wants those nightmares.

Chasing after the Cloak, who is chasing after a bunch of snowballs with faces is pretty normal for Vallo, I think. But Vishanti's sake.

Also sudden dumps of new mental letters from home are annoying - who else has experienced those? Has it changed you here? I mean physically. Besides the 'well, thanks for the new trauma' change.

Additionally, I'm looking for someone to spar with. I do my katas every morning but practicing with a quarterstaff has fallen by the wayside. If anyone's interested, let me know. I can bring us to the Mirror Dimension or wherever else.

filtered to friends and family:

Wanda and I set a date for the wedding. It will happen on June 4th, atop our favorite mountain that we sort of broke again after we fucked on-- and we'll have a portal or two open to help people get there, but we don't anticipate the entirety of Vallo. We just would like our friends and family to join us for the ceremony and also for a reception back at the Sanctum afterward.

filtered to kate danvers, specifically:

Soooooo.

Okay, so last week I asked about breaking magical contracts and a couple of you said you had ideas and were going to look into them.

So... How many of you remember doing that? Have you looked into anything? New ideas?

Does anyone else remember Addie?

Does anyone else have ideas?

On an unrelated note, did anyone else's wardrobe suddenly turn leopard print only or is that just me?

So Disney is... a festival? A kingdom? Somehow... not a horrific kidnapping dimension? Someone with experience please explain.

[ Ostyia ]
I require your assistance, if you've time.

I grew up in a household where pets weren't really a thing unless they were on loan to look better in family pictures. I didn't really live at home for long anyway, but I never considered myself much of an animal person from lack of association.

And then Ronan Lynch came into my life with a tiny dreamed raven cupped in his hands. Now I live on a giant farm filled with animals of wonder and magic and there's more happiness in a tiny corner of this place than I think there was ever was in the estate I grew up in.

But anyway all of that was a lot of sappiness (I'm not sorry, Ronan) to mention that at the adoption event I - we - ended up with Chorizo. He's about five, a little shy, loves Blue's knitting, and likes being carried around by Opal.

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Vallo Outlanders. After addressing your DOA members, you are on the hook with the fae realm to assist in returning the following members of the royal family and courts from whatever your newest disaster has pulled them into.

Meriol and Thian Valmaris, my twin brothers
Selenia Greytree, my personal guard and mentor
Aurae Sylris, my father's advisor
Aien Keyzeiros, the Spring Court's representative for the council
Arryn Briarvale, the Unseelie ruling family's private healer
An informant from the Dusk Court who goes by the name Sparrow
And an absolutely horrible ex-best fr Clover

Captain Nightspark has also alerted me that Eidothea one of his enlisted members is also missing and breaking a contract the Wild Hunt holds between courts. If she is not found, he will require a replacement and I am not against offering one of you.

PRIVATE TO CYPRIAN.
I know you can see this. The DOA let me know another fae had registered for network access. The only reason I have not slit your throat immediately is that I believe getting my living brothers back is far more important vengeance at the moment. Stay out of my way and I won't gut you as you did to my brothers.

Well, I don't know how much of this I believe, but the alternative was looking grim so this is considerably more organized than I would expect of such a situation. If people started coming through the hexgate from other worlds, the council would assume it was an attempted coup. I would spend the next six months assuring them that any interruption of trade was negligible and unavoidable. It's not like you can schedule these things.

Anyway, hello. My name is Mel Medarda. I would appreciate direction to the best wine in this strange city and a recommendation for a tailor. I don't know how far this foreign money will spend but I intend to make the best of it.

I didn't even get to go to another world, I want a refund. Just home and then back here? It couldn't have been some cool space world? Infinite Disney World Land? At least if magic is going to yank my chain around it could add in some nice travel benefits and pretty backdrops.

Hello, greetings, salutations, good morning.

Normally I would just chalk this up to 'Vallo weather anomaly' and move along with my weird day, but. It snowed inside the Sanctum and everything's iced over.

The Rotunda of Gateways seems to have somehow (Vallo quirk? A hiccup?) opened up to a snowstorm on a mountaintop. Apologies for any inconvenience - I already sealed everything up again so this should wear off momentarily.






In short, the Sanctum has indigestion. Thanks for your time.

I've been to space, the Savage Land, outside of time, Metro City, even Milwaukee and no matter where you go it's always the same: Paperwork.

Compared to most places, it's incredibly well organized but still. Guess I'll check this little box under "Outlander" and hope for the best.

Gotta be better than the last time I had to registered with the government... dammit Tony.

I realize that time marches on, even in a pocket universe such as this, but nevertheless, I'd like to register the loss of my beloved pumpkin spice latte: I will see you next autumn, my favorite beverage, and although I will consume plenty of other things know that you are, as always, first in my heart.

[ Filtered to Henry ]
Do you and your mother have anything planned for her birthday today? I thought I'd come over with dinner, but I didn't want to step on toes if you had something in the works. I realized belatedly that while I know her taste in alcohol very well I had no idea what sort of cake she might like. "Cake" is the birthday tradition here, correct?

[ Filtered to Regina ]
A joyous birthday to you.

Hi! Sharing info of what we know so far! Feel free to leave any locations you've spotted them or information you've found out and I'll update the list:

- THIS [CW: Sketch of Creepy Monster] is what we're deaing with. They're ugly.
- Eyeless, but can sense through smell and sound
- Uh big gross teeth. Assuming it probably hurts to get bit by them but I don't think you turn INTO one if you do. (.... someone please confirm now I'm worried)
- Regular body damage doesn't really hurt them but can slow them down. Normal arrows aren't super effective.
- Destroying the head works though! Beheading, exploding the whole uh- thing. That was cool, by the way. GROSS, but cool.
- Some wards don't seem to hold them back but I haven't been able to figure out what wards consistently do. The Sanctuary is okay but I've seen them go through some of my protection runes in other parts of the forest? Just run straight through.
- Jörmungandr clear bit the head off of one of them earlier and I got it on video. LMK if you want to see it! IT WAS AMAZING

[FILTERED TO SHI MEIYING]

I had kind of a dumb idea and I was curious if you knew anyone to talk to about it - digital uh, publishing? Scanning of stuff from written documents? That's a thing, right?

[ART CREDIT]

[FILTERED TO FRIENDS AND DOA DEFENSE]

Keith and I are going out to his father's cabin this weekend to work on it. Before anyone offers to help, we're not looking for any company this time around, if you know what I mean, but I'm sure we'll be begging for some extra hands at some point down the line. Not in a dirty way! That sounded--I just mean for renovations. Anyway. Okay. Sara's got us covered, so let her know if you want to grab an extra shift. See you Monday.

Please stay out of trouble.

Sup, Vallo.

Since BILLY thinks my name for my freelance delivery service is shit, I'm taking suggestions. I'm faster than DoorDash, GrubHub, and Postmates combined. You need same-day delivery? How about same SECOND delivery?

Nothing stupid or I'm vetoing it immediately.