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My socks are gone, but something from my world showed up. Can't help but wonder if it's connected somehow.

If anyone is looking for some extra money, there's a lot of opportunities for planting crops and protecting farms right now. There's a gang of little beasties running around trying to destroy crops and farms in the forest, and farmers are paying what they have for people to help them. The locals I've talked to say this is normal occasionally, but they're being especially annoying in the warmer weather. So be on your guard a little more than you would normally, if you're out in the forest.

Or! You can hire me to guide you through it and protect you. :D

[FILTERED TO THE BARNS INHABITANTS]

That goes double for you guys - the Goblins seem to be targeting farms and stuff, so I want your place to be safe. I can help with some protective wards, if you want? I don't know exactly what scares them off just yet, I'm learning more about their behavior now.

Oh and Henry!! I need help! My father got me a Switch like what you have?? And the fun animal game? But I've never done anything like this and I don't know if I'm doing everything wrong.

[FILTERED TO KEITH]

I can't get over how breathtak incred impressive you were this weekend. Be honest, Keith. Have you been taking it easy on me during our sparring sessions?

SHIRO + KEITH

Shiro liked somewhere quiet with a view of the sky, so he could look at the stars.

WHAT: bb!Shiro and Keith get to know each other; then fast forward to bb!Keith stealing bb!Shiro’s bike
WHERE: Morningside roof then outside the Panorama Diner
WHEN: April 19th and then April 21st
WARNINGS: none that I can think of
STATUS: Complete!
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Our house showed up in the woods sometime around Father's arrival, which is handy! It's a great house, father built it, I helped him improve it as I got older. It's not nearly as grand as some of the places around here, but that's okay! We're working on making it a little more-- ah. Modern? Between construction improvements and magic, I think we can do that.

Then I'll have a nice fenced area for Bessie to help recover, maybe a barn or a stable that can hold a few animals if I come across injured ones in the forest.

But, I got a surprise today when I was working on building the fence. I turned around, and there was ... a new buddy! Eating my Twizzlers! They're gone now, Matthew, sorry. :((

But at least he didn't eat me, so that helps!

His told me his name is Bruce, he seems pretty friendly, all things considered! And he has a very fetching collar. Does he belong to anyone?

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Hello! My name is Takashi Shirogane. It's possible I hit my head on a bunk I come in peace. Assuming you're peaceful anyw I'm a pilot trainee in the Galaxy Garrison. Can someone tell me what planet this is and why all of the clothes in this room are giant and missing a sleeve?

Thank you.

[SHIRO & KEITH]

Hi. Are either of you busy?

In light of it being one of those weeks - drink specials tonight at Galahd, the good kind of specials.

FILTERED ➢ DEFENSE TEAMS & RESERVES:

From what I've seen we've had a few people hit and probably a few who need to help out those who were so anyone need help filling out their teams?

ETA: As John suggested - daily check in? Make sure you've got a full enough group before heading out kind of thing.

I really enjoyed the egg festival yesterday! Thank you for hosting, and I'm sorry if I asked too many questions and made Ronan's eye twitch but not really that sorry because:

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[KRATOS]

Sometimes things from our own worlds show up here - just like people do. I got mom's kni Houses and vehicles like the ones in the city? That's how the Barns ended up here, where we visited yesterday.

So I just wanted you to know it's pretty normal for this place, before I tell you that I found our house in the forest today when I was out doing my morning exploration. It's just like we left it back home.

Do you want me to take you to it?

My Monday was far more Monday with the cafe out of the scone I like. Small problems, I know, but would have been an easier pill to swallow on a Wednesday.

ETA: Heads up if you missed Morgan's post. There are a creature known as Owlbears in the forest right now. Territorial and in mating season. Keep safe everyone.

DEFENSE TEAMS/RESERVES:

In case you missed Morgan's post a few days ago - be on the lookout for Owlbears. Looks just how it sounds. Got some information from Caleb who has them in his world. He said they're fairly easy to scare off with a group but hiding from them doesn't always work as they've got a good sense of smell. Aggressive and territorial and also in mating season so more so.

If you get into trouble call back and we can send some more people your way. Stay safe out there everyone.

BUCKY:

Breakfast tomorrow?

JAMES:

We're overdue for a pizza night I think.

CISCO:

Hey, everything alright? Haven't seen you around for a few days.

ooc: let's pretend I know how to copy and paste, link is fixed!

So back home we have something called Virtual Intelligences. Basically what some of them do is be able to handle search queries over the extranet, or act as tour guides. They even have personalities, but sadly aren't sentient. There's another version that are tied to armor upgrades, and basically allow your combat suit to optomize your combat performance, or dispense medi-gel when it's needed. Which; obviously isn't here yet but one of it's precursors happens to be something called a conversational user interface (or more easily pronounced: CUI).

Now you may ask, what exactly is that? Well you might know it as two things; chatbots or voice assistants. That's right every time you ask your phone something it will (eventually) lead into being able to ask a Virtual Assistant where a particular store is, or hey why aren't there any real fish in the Citadel waters. Now how a CUI actually works is really interesting. You see to understand the questions you give it, a CUI uses something called natural language processing which more or less allows a bunch of code to understand, and create meaning from human language. Which, we all take asking our devices things for granted but that's actually pretty cool. However there's still a few hiccups. Obviously human language is really ambiguous, so sometimes the CUI has trouble understanding us. But! It will get there.

This is already being shown because there is already a shift towards natural-language understanding, which allows a CUI to have sentiment analysis and lets it follow a line of questioning that in turn lets it figure out context. So for instance if you asked your device for the population of a particular place, and then followed it up with who was in charge there, the NLU could carry the context further on that and give you the answer.

Neat, huh!

So I guess I'll go out with the patrols and stuff.

But what do people just do here? Just ... get jobs and live and nobody's freaking out trying to find a way back home or something?

That sounds weird. Not bad, but weird.

Maybe I should find a hobby that isn't just fighting stuff in space.

What's the item you most miss from home.

Accepting wrong answers only.

Spring is really starting to happen, especially in the forest! Be mindful of animals coming out of hibernation looking for food, please :) You can help by not disturbing them, and not over-picking flowers that Queen Bees might need to replenish after surviving the winter.

It's also the best time to just sit quietly and watch them all work, lots of birds are making nests and animals are making the best of the sunshine. If anyone wants to join me on my morning walks, you're more than welcome? I've been taking Bessie out on a harness.

I also don't know if it's needed, but everybody should take advantage of Adam's tarot readings! He's really good. Really, really good. Maybe a little too good. So, if you need some insight into your life? Go buy things and get a reading!

[BRIGITTE]

Hi! Hello. I have a request? Your blacksmith skills seem amazing, I don't know how well set up you are here yet? But when you are, could I commission an axe? Something a little bigger than a throwing axe, but could still be thrown with enough skill? I have some drawings I can show you of what I have in mind??

You know, in my excitement over discovering it, as well as with the addition of Jules Waffle Hargreeves to the apartment, I believe I forgot to mention that the best doughnut shop in the WORLD has shown up here!

Yes. We now have Griddy's Doughnuts. Somehow. You're welcome.

Hi?

Shiro said to say hi on here. I'm Keith? I'm new.

I don't get this place, but he said everyone was from different places? What kind of places? Not just different planets?

tw: discussion of pregnancy in comments

Things I didn't miss:

Nearly burning down the house trying to make a Thanksgiving dinner.

Things I am missing:

Black Friday. I need new boots and do not want to pay full retail thank you very much.

((pls to ignore the tag dump on this))