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Okay, so I need everybody to come to the Art Fair at Art of Expression on the 15th because...

...holy crap...

I got brave and got myself a booth!!! I'm going to be selling originals and prints of my work for the first time in my life!

So even if you don't buy anything, come by and see me and say hi and tell me it doesn't look like crap!


[OOC note: any artists who want to sell work at the Art Fair, feel free to say you have a booth]

Caught a fish today claiming to be the Salmon of Knowledge. I quickly noticed problems with this assertion:

- If a fish held all worldly knowledge, you'd think it would know how to avoid obvious bait.
- It wasn't even a salmon.

I called the fish a liar, and the fish insisted "it was just a prank, bro" and then suggested that essential oils would cure my arthritis. I suggested that the Bass of Bullshit would be delicious simmered in a tomato sauce.

I decided to throw it back instead, just in case the bullshit is catching. So, keep an eye out for that one if you're fishing off New Asgard.

[Filtered to FF House and Hacketeers]
I'm not okay.
Prom's going to take over my classes at AOE today so I can come home and cry.
And probably that's what I'm going to do for the rest of the day, but if anybody wants to give me a hug I would really appreciate it.

SOUPS SOUPS ETC IS FULL OF TINY HANDS

THEY ARE ATTACKING PEOPLE

PLEASE HELP

You guys!!!! Big news!!! FINN'S HERE FINALLY. They were born at 3:29 in the morning on June 8th, and they are so little and cute. Sword for scale!

( OOC Note: Fanart of baby Finn and the Sword of Protection below; please assume it looks like a more realistic photo! )

Look at that swaddling expertise. I knew all my practice would pay off.

Anyway, Finn's fine, Catra's fine, everyone's healthy and okay, especially after we all got some sleep. We'll probably start having visitors in a few days! I'm still textable, but for now, if you need anything, Adam and Teela will be helping out around Darla.

Love you all!

So I'm not sure what this is, but Lan Xichen is surrounded by roses at his deck and dead asleep. Absolutely refuses to be woken up. I blasted all the songs he absolutely does not vibe with at his head - thanks Fergie! -, poked him, tickled him, threatened to throw glitter around in his office nothing.

HELP.





Will, sorry for the hundred 911 texts and missed calls. But, um, panicking.

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

FITLERED: FFXV
I know Abi's got the art camp going that we want to check out too but what else do you guys want to do? We can go see the Chocobos, or go down to Galdin?

Guess what! Since we have so many more kids than usual, Art of Expression is launching a special session of ART CAMP!!!

Instead of our usual signups, this time we're just doing show-ups! Starting this morning, kids from 5 to 12 will be with me in The Big Classroom at Cloud Recesses, and we'll have a super great time playing with all kinds of media, including paints and pastels and clay! There's room for all ability and experience levels, so if you want to make art, just come on up the mountain!

If you're bringing a kid, make sure they wear something they can get messy, and pack a lunch. If they need any special accommodations, just let me know and I will make it happen.

And if there are any kids who see this and want to come but don't have an adult yet, just pipe up! We'll find someone to show you the way here and make sure you've got a good lunch.

[Filtered to 15 and up]
Annnnnnnnnd any of our suddenly-teenagers need stuff to do (or our regular teenagers, for that matter), I wouldn't mind an extra hand child-wrangling, so like...hmu if you need extra activities. I already had like a half dozen regular Vallo moms and dads responding that they'd be coming when I sent the message out to our standard mailing list.

[FILTERED TO FRIENDS]

Serious question - is a tableside sushi/book reading/chocobo cuddling engagement party too much?


Oh uh. This is me "officially" announcing the guys and I are getting married. Sorry. Specs probably has fancy announcement cards on the way to the printer.

Hey Talcott! Found something that might interest you.

Out in the parking lot of original building for the Art of Expression. I'll keep an eye on it until you can come get it.

[ooc; We're pretending Prompto is posing in front of the car like this.]

Filtered to Friends, please assume! Filtered specifically AWAY from Nadja and Laszlo
Now that things have quieted down a little, I have a question.

How do you turn down an invitation to a vampire orgy without being rude? Do you think I can say "I'm sorry, I have a boyfriend"?

Also, what do I do with a sign that implies I love wine and don't like my husband?

I always thought it would be cool to be friends with vampires, and they do seem nice in their way, but now my main goal is to not get eaten. Is it true that they really like virgins?

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Hello from 2033.
I know there are some anxious people on your end wondering what's been going on - everyone who decided to travel forward with Caleb and Essek have arrived safely and are now situated with us.

As you can see we are able to communicate across the timelines at the moment using the journals some of us managed to keep over the years. If you'd like to check in with your friends and family who travelled feel free to use this entry to do so.

While the journals will be usable for the next while here we are asking for everyone to refrain from spamming too much. All magic usage is a risk, this included. We are also asking that no one mentions any specifics to the plan, the journals on our end will not leave our safe zone, but should we be ambushed here we do not want any details falling into the wrong hands. As well please keep in mind our journal stock is limited and we are all sharing only a handful, your conversations may be viewed by others.

If someone can give me a quick "hey I see this" that would be great. We are fairly confident this should work but let us know for sure.



(( note: timeline wise today this will be written once everyone is back at the outpost and has had enough time to get sorted, so late afternoon/early eveningish ))

FILTERED: IGNIS, NOCTIS, PROMPTO

The list that future Essek brought up - I'm on it. Iris too.

[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. )

Tripped over the cat and the dogs running after each other and where $%&* was meant to be said the verbal equivalent of skjdfd came out instead. It was weird.

#$%@?

It's going to be one of those days isn't it.

filtered: prom/ignis.
I never thought I'd say this but you gotta start singing that damn song in your head, Prom, loudly. Or I'm gonna give up the plan before we get out of the house.

Lion Heart is here!!!



Any one up for a morning at the gun range? Absolutely nothing productive will get done and there will be trickshots galore. I'll pack snacks! (Matthew, what are your best gun range snack recommendations? Talcott! I need you to take pictures of me looking badass.)