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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.

I'm glad you're all here. I don't have the workshop anymore, but I make do with whatever we can get at the compound. Recovery operations are successful pretty often. Viktor's working out of our second location. So if you need to arm up at all, patch any armor, or need gadgets and devices set up, I'm still here to help.

It goes without saying that we're relying pretty heavily on you all, I hope that's not too much stress. But I firmly believe that together we can do this. I don't think the stakes have ever been higher, if that's any motivation.

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 ))

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Hey folks, welcome to the shitty future you're hoping to avoid for yourselves. Thanks for coming.

When you came from, the network is for fun. Here, it's the primary communication medium for a resistance that's scrambling to survive, and it's under constant attack and held together with paperclips and hope. This means:

• Don't try to run a bunch of data across it unless you need to. Keep your comms to text as much as possible.
  
• SECURITY IS PARAMOUNT. You'll notice the passphrase requirements are stricter than on the network you came from. That's because Murderbot got hacked/enthralled and he can bruteforce your oh-so-clever "password1" in about two seconds without even having to know you'd pick a password that dumb in the first place.
  
• Smash your device to pieces before you let it fall into the hands of the enemy.
  

Filter: Avengers, Avengers-adjacent, colleagues, friends

I’ve been enlisted. If you know what I’m talking about. If you don’t, you got an essay to read on the networks.

I got Lola’s usual schedule listed but I know I don’t have to explain too much on what to do.

[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. )

[FILTERED TO AVENGERS]

Look what decided to show up just off the coast today.

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It let me in without complaint, but Stark, if you want to check it over, probably couldn't hurt.

[FILTERED TO FRIENDS & FAMILY]

Alright, SO, my birthday's in two weeks. You all probably know I require more attention on my birthday than some - no gifts, though, I'm good there. In the absence of Disney (unless Vallo decides to be nice again 👀), I want to plan something fun. I'm not old enough for the wine-and-cheese night that Google suggested.

Karaoke? Escape room? But that wouldn't be fun for spy and spy-adjacent people. Rage room? Everyone here probably likes breaking shit sometimes. OR we could stick with the theme park idea and go to Blizzard World or Critical Role Land since those are more kid-friendly! (Pepper, please can the kids come?)

Opinions? Please help.

... Hi! So um, I've had a few weeks to adjust and sleep and figure out how to fly (!!!) now and I'm all refreshed and doing pretty good except for almost burning myself alive this mo!

I'm a vampire! AMA (Ask Me Anything)!

I swear to god, I only just get out of the hospital only to find out Vallo is throwing out something else entirely.

Everyone who took care of the house and Lola for me, I appreciate it. I'm pretty sure she barely noticed I was out this entire time.

I am looking for two things.

First: with Scorpia being gone I'm searching for someone who can manage the front of the house when it comes to the tea shop. Looking for someone who will not murder the difficult customers with violence but with kindness and help other employees. I can do this to an extent, though my patience with the general public thins with every interaction.

Second: the owner of a glowing sword that seems to have its own mind? Reminds me of Clo I don't sense any threatening energy and it seems oddly cheerful. It followed me home after an early walk around the forest this morning. I'll let it stay at my cottage until someone claims it.

I really, really appreciate all you do, Outlander Heroes, so you gotta know I'm saying this with full respect and lots 💓 of 💓 love 💓 in my heart.

I'm not giving up eating mushrooms. If you see me with food, it's probably best if you look away until the Too Soon period has passed.

But I'm totally ready to run mushroomless food to anybody who could use delivery services with a smile right now while they heal.

[DEFENSE COMMANDERS AND TEAMS]

This is Steve. I've got eyes on what I believe may be the source of our mushroom invasion. There's a massive leader-type, it looks like the underlings are feeding it and it's spawning more. Something of a colony occurring here.

I'm transmitting my location, recommend organizing strike teams. Expect maximum resistance and a cave outcropping, so we may be able to use stronger powers without risking the tree growth.

[FILTERED TO NATASHA ROMANOFF, YELENA BELOVA, STEVE ROGERS, JAMES ROGERS, TORUNN THORSDOTTIR, SAM WILSON, WANDA MAXIMOFF, PEPPER STARK, TONY STARK & EMILY FIELDS]

Reminder that tomorrow is Nat's birthday! She's turning [...]

Apparently, that information is classified. 🙄

She didn't want a big party, which I decided to respect due to her old age, but you're all important to her, so we're having dinner at Galdin Quay. Eight o'clock, tables are already reserved. Bring your significant others if they're not on this filter!

[ FAMILY & FRIENDS* ]

While part of Vallo is living the Black Friday Earth stereotype, Tony and I didn't have to do a single thing for Vallo to get us the best Black Friday deals of our lives.

Morgan Stark and Francis Barton (now the second Francis) are both here. According to the kids, Morgan is five and Francis is three, so Morgan has experienced losing her dad about a year ago, but Francis hasn't lived through any part of Ultron.

We're going to take things slow traffic-wise in the Mansion today and going into the weekend so they can see people they know and adjust to any changes due to time points and timelines, but we're so excited to be able to share them with all of you soon. We'll be making some changes to both our schedules from this point forward, but all SIV projects will continue on schedule, including the Tower.

[ ooc: if you think your character is a friend or family, they are ]

( Thanksgiving at the Wilson residence )

I'm not saying anyone should use alcohol as pain relief in any form, that would be bad. But I will say if anyone who's been dealing with those monsters feels the urge, drinks are on the house at Al's today and tomorrow.

[FILTERED TO NATASHA ROMANOFF]

Hey. I owe you an apology (again). I screwed up, overreacting like that. I handled everything with us as the worst possible version of myself, and it was unbelievably unfair to you.

This is starting to feel like Carol's Greatest Hits, but I promise you I'm done now. I really do hope you're happy.

[FILTERED TO SAM WILSON]

Changed my mind. I'll be there tomorrow. Assuming we're not still up to our ears in this shit.

Filter: Avengers and Friends

Alright, what are your general plans for Thanksgiving weekend here? The last time I did anything in this big empty house was Steve's birthday (while he was here!) so I'm ready to host again if nobody else had any plans they were considering for that day.

We need more singles' events, maybe even monthly. I had a great time at the last one and it's been quiet since. Minus all the weird time stuff, sure, but I think that was kind of all a good thing, right? What I'm not going to do is suggest Vallo give us something bad or dangerous - I clearly mean we should come up with our own fun. You hear that, Big V?

[Cloud]

Hey spikes, come on, I'm dragging you out tonight. AND you'll fit in with all your leathers and frowns. It's perfect.

[Lux Crew]

Hey there, sorry you're all basically awesome and therefore I'm one of you now. Them's the rules. I'm bringing in someone I've forced to be my best friend. How can we make his first time at Lux something special?