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Dear Vallo: anything but larger than life fucking cicadas. I wouldn't mind a giant bunny if you had to but seriously? Cicadas??

Not normally phobic of bugs in general but I think a new fear has unlocked.

And I know this is a little late in the day but, uh.. heads up. Don't go into the forest unless you have strong enough weapons and a stomach of steel.

I'm going to need someone else to head over to the clinic and open it for the day, please and thank you.

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ATTENTION FUCKWADS

your cabeswater boy's loose and made the forest kick my ass

dropping coordinates for people to avoid




also i'm stuck in a cave

Vallo this is so not cool it's still my birthday month!!

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I don't know what any other scouts are seeing, but there's significant troop movement in the northwest and at the Vallo City perimeter. Interitus is gearing up for something. Blue, I'll have a full report for you when I get back.

Watch yourselves out there.

[Filtered to Nancy]
Hey.

You're not allowed to make fun of me for this, because I'm just saying it because I know there's a world where I never get to. This is serious apocalypse shit and you have to be chill about it.

You're cool, and I love you.
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[Filtered to Dustin]
Hey. Looks like I'm dead in the future, and probably it never crossed my dumbass mind to tell people what they mean to me. So I just wanted to say, I love you, man. You're a good friend, and I'm glad I have you.
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[Filtered to El]
So apparently I'm dead in the future. Bummer, huh? And I know I tell you all the time now, but I'm gonna say it one more time anyway: I love you. And I'm going to get serious about learning to fight now, so even if everything still goes bad, you're not going to have to be the lady who's sad about me. Not ever. Okay?
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[Filtered to Eddie]
You're a kickass DM, and I just wanted you to know that. And the coolest guy I know. Thanks for being yourself, and for taking me and my dumbass bunch of freshman friends into your group.
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[Added Later: Filtered to Hawkins 2023]
Hey. El from the Future has given us a quest. We need to find the Nina Project Bunker. She says it's important in the future and they need it a lot. She can't tell us exactly where it is, though, because she's worried about security.

So, who's in for forming a party to find it and secure it?
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This message should be able to be seen by present and past people alike. Hello. This is Viktor. I think many of you know me. I am glad to see so many people that have been lost, but-- that is not what this entry is about.

When Interitus took control, many infrastructure systems that we had taken for granted proved fallible, and caused catastrophic challenges that might have been averted. This isn't a reprimand; this is a warning. Only now we can look to the past and see clearly certain errors that might have proven far less grave had we addressed them prior to Interitus and its forces gaining power. Of course, these issues do not go away even should you vanquish Interitus. I suspect many of them would likewise prove troublesome in different circumstances against different villains. I am not in Defense, so I can't speak to that. But I can note the following:

• Hard copies of important documents burn. Digital copies can be corrupted and deleted. Have both of what matters.
• There are adequate and knowledgeable sources of learning self defense. I recommend everyone chooses one type and practises it.
• Separate stores of first aid supplies should be stocked, with more than one failure point.
• When the medical facilities fell, many were suddenly stranded without their medications and reliable healthcare. Many minor health issues spiralled. It is why I Again, some form of backup system might be implemented in the event of disaster to ensure that no one goes without the medicine they need to survive.
• Communication devices such as the network are frequently the only safe way to pass messages to loved ones during an attack. Many citizens are only passingly familiar with technology. Consistent training should be held to ensure that their lack of knowledge does not put the entire system at risk.
• Access to clean water is a consistent problem without reliable magic. I have tried to address it so that people on the run can safely filter water from the creeks and springs using a mechanism, but it has been an uphill battle.
• I wish I had known canning prior to this.
• Structural engineering has proven to be a very important skill that few of us knew much about prior to Interitus forcing us out of town.

I am certain I have forgotten some, and welcome any other observations to help those in the past. These are just the things I have noticed, and am actually okay to speak on.

Enid Sinclair

Mi querida, with reinforcements arriving from the past, we're going to see more activity from Interitus and his forces. It's going to be more dangerous, but we also have more force than we've had since the beginning.

But still, don't use this as an excuse to do something stupid or I'll kill you myself.

Hi.

For those of you new who haven't heard it a million times already (Rogier, I'm looking at you, can you feel the side eye from here, I sure hope so):

The chocobos have a treat schedule. Please do not fuck with the schedule.

I am aware they are cute, and that they have the please give me treats look on lock down at this point, but I promise you all they will live if you don't give into it. If anything they will be happier, more productive chocobos and not full of food that they love but isn't the best for them. You do not know what it was like before the schedule but trust me when I say it was madness.

If you'd like to get on the rotation to give treats during the designated treats time let me or Prompto know.

That is all.

The problem with keeping your more prized spell components, books, and wine locked away where few know to look is that one of those "few" apparently includes your future self that has the stickiest of fingers, it would seem. Not even a payment left behind by way of the apparent spell for time travel, either.

Please know that I understand this is the least of our worries and I am not trying to make light of a very real situation, but I feel better having lodged my complaint nevertheless. I am willing to lend aid if I can, either magically or through research.

Also, to add: the honeymoon was lovely, I continue to be grateful to be legally attached to my husband, and Aeor is still very cold. The lights are reminiscent of the last Apogee back home that I remember from my youth, too, which leads to an odd sense of nostalgia.

Can someone explain to me how I went to sleep last night in my bed, and woke up where my room should be, but between two stripper poles and an entire rack of outfits that belong on the Victoria Secret runway. Feathered wings included.

Anyone else in present day Vallo suddenly have the urge to just start training and amping up their skills? Just in case? For no reason at all? To either get stronger or get distracted? Whatever works, really.

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.

Does anyone else just really, really hate being here with no idea how things are going in the future?

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.
  

[STRANGER HOUSE]

Hey fuckheads. I need my Marty McFly vest, where they fuck is it?

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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.