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[Filtered to The Mage, The Bard, The Banished, Bat-Man, The Band Geek, My Sister, and My Girlfriend's Dad*]
Guys, I think something's wrong with me. I got stung by a plant with pretty flowers that smell good and now I can't remember the right names for things. Or for people. I don't even know if this filter is going to work. Do I need to go to the magic doctor?


*if one of these labels could also apply to you, feel free to decide you can see this filter

I'll take disconcerting experiences I'd rather not repeat for $100, Alex.

[Lydia Martin]

So. That was a thing.

One of our Art Camp activities this week (Sunday) is "Welcome to Cardboard Castle." If anyone has boxes they are willing to donate to the cause of children's art and architecture, please notify me. I will be happy to retrieve them. We seek boxes of all sizes, though large ones are especially valued. We are also accepting donations of tape and Christmas Lights.

We all wish to thank the community for supporting us, that we may in turn support you. Your assistance yesterday was vital to our staff and volunteers, as has been the ongoing support that allows us to keep up this space and its activities on a regular basis.



[Filtered to Art of Expression Staff and Volunteers]
All of you did beautiful work yesterday, especially to have done it on such short notice. I know that the following days will be just as wonderful. Thank you all.

Please discuss your choice of places from which to order lunch today and have your order to me by 10:30. There are doughnuts and bagels in the kitchen for everyone working this morning.

The woman who complained about her child drawing butts and the man who complained about his daughter seeing scary drawings by other children have been managed, as has the woman who argued that there should also have been chips with the sandwiches. If today brings any new complaints, send them directly to me. Such nonsense concerns are not your responsibility.

If you need anything at all over the course of the day, be it support, supplies, direction, or a reprieve from your duties, call upon me. I wish to support this endeavor fully, so I ask that you consider me a resource entirely at your disposal.
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[Filtered to Temeraire]
Is Sir William Laurence carrying on well? Please tell me if there is anything I may help with, as I am certain he will not.
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I awakened this morning to discover that my husband is thirteen years older and has no recollection of Vallo. Is anyone experiencing similar difficulties?

Vallo just decided to get me a few-days-early Eid gift. I mean... maybe not, maybe it just showed up but I'm taking this as an early Eid-Ul-Fitr gift.

I got my whole desktop setup from home! And it's all got all my stuff in there, photoshop and animation programs I've had, videos I've made, important music clips and all, some pirated movies even.. I just woke up and THERE IT WAS!


Sloth Baby Productions on YouTube can resume in a new setting. I'm thinking I should start with videos of crazy stuff that happens here so newbies can be like "oh that's what you meant by the geese incident".

Apparently you can get a TICKET on a BIKE here? For not wearing a HELMET? This is insane. Everything else about this place is cool, and now they throw this at me? What the hell?

The officer said it's just a warning this time, but if she catches me riding without a helmet again I'm getting a real citation you have to pay money to get rid of, AND I'd have to get something signed by a parent or guardian.

This is such bullshit. I'm enough of a nerd in school already, I can't add wearing a bike helmet on top of it!

I GOT A JOB!!

AT THE GAMES STORE!!

LIFE DREAM ACHIEVED!!

So yeah, friends, come see me after school at Wicked Games, where they pay me money to be, because I am employable! Goodbye being broke because I have no job, hello being broke because I'm gonna spend my whole paycheck at work!

I am honored to report that in 2033, we have ended the threat of Interitus for all Vallo timelines. Many are injured, but we are now able to focus on healing rather than destruction.

May fortune smile upon you in 2023 at least as much as it has smiled upon us here. We travelers will see you soon.

Please use this page to check in with your friends and family as needed.

I fucked up and fell into a stupid goddamn trap and now they took Eleven and brought her to that bastard. She's a thrall now. Please watch out for her. We can finish this and we can save her, but if she hurts any of us, she might never forgive herself. I'm going to do everything I can to lock her down tomorrow so just. Run if you see her. Use any mind protection you know. Stay behind cover. Distract her.

Just don't kill my kid please, I can't Anybody with good mental shields that can help me out, let me know.

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.

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 ))

[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. )

Alright Vallo, back me up here. When you're twins, there's no such thing as an older sibling or a younger sibling because you're twins. The whole point is that you're the same age, right?

There's a group of us who get together to play D&D

(if you've always wanted to play and have never had the excuse, we're always looking for new people, we play once a month--today is a day, actually, but life happens so people come in and out and it's not a big deal, also I can teach you if you're curious but have no idea how to play)

(second parenthesis is that if you're wondering what I'm talking about, it's a table top role playing game where people create characters and tell a story together using statistics and dice to determine successes)

(third parenthesis is that wow, lots of side notes here)

and although this is a great system to use, there are other fun RPGs to mess around with. Awhile ago we played Honey Heist where everyone played as bears or bear-adjacent animals and so in a similar vein may I humbly present, next week Saturday...

( Raccoon Sky Pirates )

Let the chaos begin.

Alright, so here's the thing. I've been here a fucking second now and I've got my people, but there's a lot of you people out there that I'm damn curious about. And, you know what, no matter how long you've been squatting here, be it fucking forever or you got here yesterday, you are damn curious about some people, too. So it's time for a drinking game, just without the drinking unless you are drinking on this weird exchange of a Da'leysen afternoon, in which case, fucking great, you're my kind of people.

Anyway, the game is simple. Point out something that you're curious about the person, then follow it up with a hearty what the fuck is up with that. (Don't actually have to say that, but it's highly encouraged and you're open to judgement if you don't.)

For example, someone could look at me and go: You're green, asshole. What the fuck is up with that? And then I'd answer.

And that's the game. Real fucking simple.

Also, I don't fucking know everyone around, so feel free to chime in so other folks can reply to you and get nosy. It's a gods damn free for all, okay. You reply, people ask questions, you ask questions, just fucking ask questions alright, go.

It's weird how video games got both way harder and way easier in forty years. Like, on one hand, saving? Holy shit, being able to save is amazing! Play pretty much any game right there in your house? So cool! But then there's way more buttons, way more going on, so much more to pay attention to and keep up with. I honestly feel kind of ashamed of thinking that being good at Pong was something to brag about.

Anyway, that's my rambling intro for a request: what video games would you recommend for someone who's not new to the concept, but new to any game made post-1986? Gimme some training wheels so I can get good.


Filtered to Nancy:
What do girls want for Valentine's Day? Flowers and chocolates? Is that good?

I have had the pleasure of free soup at Soups, Soups, Soups, Soups for a month now--eleven more to go--and I have no eaten enough soup to feel that I have a solid opinion on which are the best, at least according to my own personal tastes. As such, I have an official ranking, of which you need to listen to my most recent podcast to hear about.

That attempt at a cliffhanger is also an attempt at marketing. Let me know if it works.

Other topics beyond soup for this most recent episode include: a frankly fascinating conversation with our Angroboda about magic, particularly her brand of it, and also an overview regarding this world's upcoming Temporal Concurrence, including what it is and what it might mean for any of us.

Anyway, it has been a while since I talked about the podcast, so here I am, doing that. You're welcome, Blue.