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Who:Darlington and Kellach
What: Kellach gets a hand...fighting a hand.
When: During the Creeping Fingers Invasion
Where: Near Black Elm
Rating/Warning: Some blood, but otherwise quite PG
Status Complete!

( I think either of us might have been hard-pressed to handle that thing alone. )

[Posted several hours after the disappearance notice went out]

well, happy birthday to me I suppose.

Not again.

I've been reading through the syllabus for Professor Philomenes' Introduction to Literature in hopes of catching up a bit on local culture. I just finished the Pre-Modern section, which included The Tale of Arcturus. It's a fascinating piece, remarkably similar in style to the Beowulf that I read as a freshman. The style in which the author constructs metaphor, the alliteration, even the debate over provenance bear striking resemblance to one another.

One of the early things I learned about magic in my world was this: stories are immutable, like gold. It's fascinating to see proof of it--the details in Arcturus are different, but the core of it is nigh identical to Beowulf.

It makes me wonder if we're all stories, and Vallo some dedicated collector of special editions. Which one of you is the 1937 author-illustrated printing of The Hobbit?

I'd prefer not to bring this to the public, but I'm tired of the arguing so you all get to help put it to rest.

Do you side with Enid, in that a hand doesn't count as a pocket, regardless of how it's being used to hold things.

Or do you side with Thing, who simply states that he can be a pocket if he wants to be and that's the end of the argument?

Ugh. Two things to consider - Thing is an animated hand. And this argument has been going on for three days and if it continues, I'm going to bury them both in the cemetery outside of Adaine's castle.

[Lan Xichen, Darlington and Alex]

I wanted to say thanks for helping out little me. It doesn’t seem like I was too much of a handful, but I know she had fun and felt safe here because of you guys.

[Callum]

Maze says you did a brilliant job keeping the demons occupied so I’ve decided you can keep the kingdom and I’m taking over your apartment.

If anyone needs activities for children today, the Great Library will be holding Epic Story Time at 2 p.m. in the main stacks. Our tale of choice this afternoon is the Old English story of Beowulf, as told by Miss Heliotrope Undersea. It does have some scary moments, so today's story time is not recommended for children who don't want to hear about monsters being beaten to death.

[Filtered to Edwin and Nikolai]
Are you two doing well enough with your unexpected child? I don't know the first thing about children, but I can send dinner over this evening.
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okay so there's this GUY and i saw him and he has a HUGE SWORD LIKE IT'S SO BIG and idk guys with big swords definteyl have like cool MOVES and i wanna know if he's like a bad guy or a good guy or if we gotta fight him so i wanna like follow him around to see if he does anything COOL with the sword because he has to rite? so who is gonna come with me to follow him because like i don't NEED HELP but if you wanna see some cool stuff i bet this guy will do it and then we fite him or we ask if we can hold the sword

[all voice to text]

I want to go explore the woods.

I heard it moves. Do the trees pick up the roots and go PLOP somewhere different? Does anyone wanna play hide and seek? The cat says its good for hiding, but red eyes said to not go. But she went somewhere so I want to explore.

Is there a big beach?

The dogs say I got a boat but I dunno where it is. Does anyone know where my boat is? How do you ride a bo Can dogs ride a

We've been home for a couple of weeks now and it feels like I'm finally settling back into my normal routines which I know my very particular child is happy about. There was a lot to process and unpack about our brief trip to that future, but the one takeaway that's stuck with me is that there's too little time to spend it stuck in the future--or the past. Which feels a bit too introspective for this early on a Friday morning, honestly, but here we are. Serving up a bit of gratitude for the present alongside fresh chocolate croissants this morning.

So here's my Friday morning question to the rest of my fellow Outlanders: Besides the obvious choice of indoor plumbing, what are you glad for here that you don't have where you came from?

Does this house look familiar to anyone?

[pretend there's a photo of Black Elm here please]

I'm on a run with my hounds in the forest and haven't ever seen this one in this general area before. It's giving me Overlook vi

>> Would you like to go out for dinner with Edwin and Nikolai?
>> My treat, obviously.

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Smiley day to you all, welcome to La Niña. I know you may still be adjusting from your journeys from the Outpost to here last night, and that's quite alright. We, ah, weren't expecting guests so the accommodations might be sparse because it's been awhile since we've had anyone stay residentially--for you traveling folk, La Niña tends to be used only as a medical safehouse for cases that require extensive medical interventions and long term care. Viktor and I run it together. It is still an active medical facility, so please don't enter any designated care areas without being accompanied by one of us, for the safety and security of our patients.

Actually, I know some of you from

So, y'know, check in just to let everyone know you got here okay, I'm going to be wheeling around parceling out supplies, getting a sense of who is where and all, and we'll try and keep you as comfy as we can.

What's up, assholes. Using these things so you folks in the past are up to speed on where the fuck we're at with all this stuff. I'm not apologizing for my handwriting.

So the info that our time traveling wizard duo was able to pull from 2023 (with the help of you fine nerds back there too, thank you for that) was actually good shit, because as of a bit ago we were able to use it to figure out where the weapon is at that we can use to take down Interitus once you folks in the past destroy the simulacrum. It's in the city, because of fucking course it is, hidden away.

Naturally this means we have to put a group together to extract it. We've got our secret hidey hole way into the city to get in, but we're going to need a mix of Sneaky Shits and Fighty Fucks to do it, so ivolunteerastribute.gif and all that shit below, visitors and our regular crew alike. As always, this isn't a guaranteed safety sort of situation, but we'll need to get a lay of the land ahead of time to at least mitigate. They're a bunch of dicks, though, so no doubt something will come up so know that before you step up.

More details incoming once we have a better idea as to the group we're looking at and once we've got it secure, that's one step closer to getting this asshole fucking gone.

[OOC - Please note that in any visuals, Essek has longer hair and an eyepatch over his left eye with visible scarring on that side of his face/ear/head k ty bye.]

This is so awkwa Figured out time travel, but did not plan how to

Hello. It feels odd to introduce myself as many of you already know me, but I am Essek Widogast and I'm here with Caleb (also) Widogast. If my husband's perfect recall can be relied upon, which I am willing to stake most everything on it, the versions of us that you know normally should still be deep within the Aeor that was brought to Vallo, being very much themselves while surrounded by ancient Exandrian magic and technology.

Which is to say, and I'm doing a poor job of getting to the point, we are from a different timeline and time. A few hours ago, we were in 2033 within a branch of the future that is hopefully not your own. The Temporal Concurrence and the aligning of the leylines does, it seem, allow for some otherwise so-called impossible magic when one(s) puts many months of work into entirely too many sleepless nights their wizard mind(s) to it.

I cannot promise to keep a long story short as there are many moving parts and I tend to be accidentally verbose in the best of times, but I think many of you may remember the attack from Interitus that happened in August of 2021. He was not as gone as we had all hoped and is now wreaking havoc upon my and Caleb's timeline. Thanks to the concurrence and the influx of magic, our intel is advising that he is planning on ascending beyond his current form into something akin to godhood. Should he do so, his powers will be made more or less limitless and there will be no stopping him from traveling freely within timelines to destroy every version of Vallo, as has been his will all along. Our version has just been practice for him.

As for why we have broken through literal time and space to visit the past, we are seeking aid. This has already been discussed with the DOA, but there are a few things that we are here for specifically.

First, Interitus is using a simulacrum of sorts as a power focus, which has allowed him to bide his time in our world and eventually build up enough power in secret to take over. We believe that this simulacrum had already arrived in March of 2023--in February, specifically. We do not know where, but our hope is that you fine people will be able to locate and destroy it, specifically at the height of the concurrence to not give away our plans.

Second, Caleb and I are in search of a very specific tome from the Great Library. We unfortunately do not have access to the Library in our time as you do now, but we believe that the tome we are looking for has information regarding locating the object needed to pierce through Interitus's magical defenses. If any librarian friends are willing to volunteer to help with that, as we do need this before we return to our time tomorrow, it would be greatly appreciated.

Finally, and I realize that this is the largest ask of them all, a vision from one of the Prigany psychics has shown us that there are specific people in the future that aid in the efforts. Our understanding is that these people come to us from your timeline and travel to our own. We have a list of those people, who I will be filtering separately with more information. Please know there is no expectation. We are not here to force anyone to help, regardless of psychic visions.

This is long and a great deal of information for a Monday, I understand. Caleb and I are here to answer any questions that we can--at least those questions that do not pose more harm to the timelines than our being here already might.

FILTER TO AURORA MORNINGSTAR, BILLY KAPLAN, BO DENNIS, COBB VANTH, DANIEL ARLINGTON, GALADRIEL HIGGINS, GANSEY, GLADIO AMICITIA, IRIS AMICITIA, KATOU YUE, KELLACH DONNALLEN, KRATOS, LAN XICHEN, LILA PITTS, LYDIA MARTIN, ORYM, OSTYIA RABALSKA, REMUS LUPIN, ROGIER, SAM WILSON, SARA LANCE, STEVE HARRINGTON, TALLY CRAVEN, TENNAL HALKANA, THOM SUMMER, TYLER LOCKWOOD, VEX'AHLIA + CALEB WIDOGAST

( OOC cut because I know this is getting long I AM SORRY. )

This aurora is truly spectacular. I've never seen anything like it. My world has auroras, though rarely in England, but I don't believe they typically last for long, and to have them caused by magic such as this would truly be unheard of.

I'll be making a study of them for the next couple of weeks, I think, and will be happy for any resources anyone might have on the phenomena, especially if anyone has any experience with such a thing in their own worlds.

WHO: Daniel Arlington and Alex Stern
WHAT: A reunion at the DOA and a little walk through Vallo City
WHEN: A couple weeks ago
WHERE: Vallo City, around and about, with a stop in front of the Library of Alexandria
WARNINGS: None

( You know, it’s not actually the fire that was the tragedy of the Great Library. )

It has been brought to my attention that I failed to introduce myself properly to the network. This is what happens when your sole contact in town was raised by wolves.

Good morning. I'm Daniel Arlington, usually called Darlington to differentiate me from the four previous Daniel Arlingtons. I am recently assigned to the Special Collections department at the Great Library, which I've learned still includes making people wear gloves before handling fragile texts, but also includes preventing them from being bitten by particularly aggressive literature. Pleased to meet you all.

A question, while I'm here: do those of you who used magic in your worlds of origin find that your magic has altered at all since coming here?

[Filtered to Stern]
There is little more humbling than attempting to look up local history, finding yourself bereft of any context, and discovering that you need to start in the middle grades section of the library. I was able to move through it quickly, but my ego may never recover from the initial shot.
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Oh yes oh OH I like this one. Or wait what's this one? Oh that's very nice too. BOLD. Dramatic! Very good.


Right sorry, don't mind me! Just having a bit of hwyl with all this brilliant technology. Miss Frye was most helpful and charming. Especially for an Englishwoman! Oh bugger where are my manners? My name is Owain Glyndŵr. I've been assured no one wants me dead here and she even said that with a straight face, so I've now put my true identity in your hands, good people of Vallo! I suppose it doesn't really matter anyway as I am most definitely dead. I think. The spell certainly felt like a dud. That's what I get for trusting Artemus with the sleep spell. Not the most reliable chap in my inner circle. Excellent at turning into a tree though! Really, just incredible.

What was I going to say? Oh! Does anyone want to take an old man for a ride in one of those automobile things? It looks exciting! Actually any other suggestions for exciting things to do would be appreciated!