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How many Outlanders do we have here that are part of Vallo Covens? What was your experience (that you can share) like joining them? Pros/Cons?

We've received word recently that a member of Ankou hasn't been seen since last March. This isn't official, he has not been reported missing. Some of you may remember him though, as he was active on this network for a little while. Eli Grimsbane. Last seen headed toward the Fae realm for a party. Ankou is fairly private, but people talk. If anyone has seen him or sees him in the meantime, I'd appreciate if you could let myself of Sabrina know.

Attention people who expressed interest in a roller derby league:

This is officially happening! I'm still working on ironing out the specifics right now, but things are coming soon. I'll be popping up again in a few weeks with info about skating lessons for anyone who needs them.

Please no one start the end of the world, or try to take over Vallo in the meantime. Thanks.

I spent most of the day today dealing with malicious hands creeping about the forest, so I'll keep this more brief than I otherwise might.

A year ago today I turned up in this pocket of the universe, had my world turned upside down, and I'm grateful for it every damned day. Even the ones like today. Because at the end of it all, I get to come home to the most incredible person I have ever met, chase around a set of toddlers that can test even vampiric energy limits, and fight off multiple animals for the best spot on the bed. It's more than I deserve, and never taken for granted.

Cheers to you Vallo.

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.

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.
  

Well, this is a nice welcome back.

Sup, I'm Tyler. I was around a couple of times before. Back again in time for the apocalypse? Love it. I'm going to be eating my feelings at Glenn's bagel cart if anyone wants me to take pity on me and buy me some when I run out of cash because I'm broke af.

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Torunn, gotta give you my two weeks. I realize I just started last week, but the apocalypse calls? Which brings me to, sorry guys, but I'm on the list. I'll stop by to see people before I head out tomorrow with the wizards.

[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. )

Moment of appreciation for my favorite person, who continues to tolerate my mediocre guitar playing skills and doesn't question it when I insist on dragging his ass out of bed early for a full day of playing into valentines day consumerism. I'm not sorry about stealing your bacon at breakfast, though.

( you're the best )

[FILTERED TO MAGIC PEOPLE & SURIT.]

Are any of you adept at dealing with the mind? I guess it would be considered magical to you. Magical minds. I just need to know how fucked I am if something goes sideways. I have a few small questions, minuscule even, but I figured one of you would be able to answer.

I thought being stuck two weeks in an Eldritch Terror was as close to a second trip to hell as I was going to get.


Currently looking for favorite movie recommendations.

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Another glorious day, eh?

Though, coming home after getting slashed up by a monster was much improved by watching Bonnie living her best Disney Princess life talking with all the animals.

KATE

How's the head?

I owe you a drink after this is all over for covering my ass out there.

There's a storm coming, and I can't see past it.

Now's the time to get winter necessities. And probably brace for nothing good.

So never wear a costume again. Got it. Shoutout to the Black Widow, Robin, and was that the Crow?? For the assist against the killer Jack-O-Lanterns. Getting covered in pumpkin guts officially killed my love for PSLs.

Hey Lord of Dreams and Nightmares, can Gregory come over and play? I made something for him.

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I want to say than- no fuck this

Thank you for your he-gfhlkjf NO

I'm glad you weren't enough of a bi- Ugh gotta be nice NICE

Thanks. For the blood.

Happy Halloween/Samhain!

Don't forget to check out all of the activates going on across the city today, from Halloween parties to Samhain rituals. A few possibilities:

🎃 Silniara has a haunted corn maze. It's not actually haunted, the monsters are usually coven members and volunteers so please don't retaliate against any of the people who try and scare you.
🎃 Ankou is in their element today, expect block parties and a lot of spirits to talk to.
🎃 Geliara has a carnival going on at the school.
🎃 Salie has a themed baking classes going on throughout the day.


And a whole lot of other things. If you're invited to a covens Samhain ceremony tonight, please remember to be respectful of their traditions and practices.

Don't forget to light a jack-o-lantern to ward away the unwelcomed spirits (so I'm told).

Feel free to drop any other activities going on in the comments.

For anyone who's curious, I did not manage to convince Seren to change his costume. He is a pair of pants. And Enzo is a shirt.

I'd like to register a complaint, Vallo. On account of this whole being late thing which I absolutely hate.

As previously mentioned today, Halloween is almost here! Which means Sabrina's birthday is almost here, which she is choosing to ignore Samhain is almost here.

Looking for something to do that day? Don't forget that Vallo will be busy with Samhain traditions, both public and private (for anyone in a coven or with special invites). If anyone is interested in going around to different Samhain events during the day, before heading out to some clubs for the night, let me know. Sabrina and I are looking to get a group together to adventure for the day.

Ten years ago I was very dead and stuck on the Other Side, just two years after finding out I was actually a witch, not thinking I'd make it past 18.

Ten years later I'm now:

- Posting in a public network to remind people that an entire city is about to decent in Halloween and Samhain insanity, it's kind of a big deal around here. Some witches and others with magic look at is a New Year, and the veil between the living and the dead is at its thinnest. Expect a lot of celebrations from your local covens. (Similarly, Halloween. Get your costumes now before you're scrambling to find something last minute like the majority of the population. Just don't buy pieces of your costume from actual magic shops. That's how you get cursed.)
- Still trying to convince my son that "Pants" is not the best Halloween costume. I'm still losing.
- Getting a second chance with my favorite person, who I actually used to hate at one point.
- Wondering how Caroline did what she did as I'm trying to get my own grasp on Thurvishar's job as Magic Lead.

Time is weird.