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Hey, it's Halloween next week and apparently I've made it my mission in this place to throw parties as we've done some pretty good Halloween parties at the Keep so guess what: doing it again.

So, details:

Halloween, starting at 7PM (Yes, I know it's a Thursday. Drink responsibly or don't, I'm not your dad and it's your Friday hangover.)
Greyskull Keep
Come in costume or I'll give you shit

PS: This is not associated with the Youth Center (off the hook, Storm) so I don't have to be professional.

GILMORE & VEX

Hey guess what, I'm going to throw a party if you want to help.

FRIENDS + FAMILY OF VAX & GILMORE (feel free to assume)

Good morning. I'm typing this alongside coffee, so no judgements will be permitted on what I manage to string together.

Shaun and I would like to ask all of you (and a plus one, if your plus one isn't already included here) to join us at our home at 5PM on October 5 to watch us get married. You're all our nearest and dearest and it would be an honor if you'd join us in celebrating something that we've been waiting for the most right moment to do—the most right moment being 5PM on October 5.

Dinner, drinks, and frivolity will follow, obviously. Gifts are not necessary, as your presence is literally all we could ask for. And be comfortable. I'm not wearing a tie, so I expect no one else to do it on my behalf.

Anyway, in conclusion: we love you all and we hope to see you there.

COME GET LIT WITH ME. Ankou bonfire party at the beach tonight has MOONBATHING. FIRE (lit, get it?). ALCOHOL (lit, get it??). LIVE MUSIC. DANCING. ROAST MEAT. MORE DANCING. MORE ALCOHOL. GET YOUR BONES READ.


Oh also I made special cookies AND brownies so hmu if you really want to have some fun.

Alright, I get that we're more or less embroiled in spooky season, but these scarecrows have got to go. I just had to dispatch four of them while walking from my temple back to the house and that seems like three too many. If I'm going to get sliced up by a creepy scarecrow, it could at least give me a cool scar that I can talk about later on.

And I know that crows and ravens are different birds, but it feels a little personal at this point.

Anyway, Vex'ahlia, your dragon is now an accomplished scarecrow killer.

Once again, I would like to issue apologies to the person that I may have taken too close of aim at upon my arrival. I'm normally an ask questions first sort of woman, but—well. I think we can all agree that arriving here in the middle of a forest when you had just been enjoying a lovely breakfast is quite the shock, yes? Perhaps?

Regardless, one more time, for the road: many apologies, I owe you a drink or pastry.

That said, hello! I've been told Lady de Rolo is here? Mum?

I was so delighted by being around my brother (Vax'ildan, it's alright if you didn't notice, I am the far more attractive twin and now I have several years on him) that I never made a proper introduction. I am Lady Vex'ahlia de Rolo, but Vex will do! We're all friends here, I think? At the very least we should share embarrassing stories of Vax - I will tell you of him as a child if you all tell me idiotic things he's done here.

My youngest daughter is with me, so if anyone has any suggestions for schooling and clothing for a young girl, age 8, I would appreciate it. In that same vein, I will be looking for a job - I have been on the Tal'Dorei Council as the Master of Commerce (I prefer Coinmistress, it has a nicer ring to it) for over a decade now, finances are my bread and butter.

Point of note: don't get eaten by a plant.

Second note: don't tell your littlest sister that your having been eaten by a plant is why she beat you at Birthday Laser Tag Shenanigans, because she will absolutely call you on your shit and roast you. Multiple times and rightfully so, certainly but also. I was eaten by a plant yesterday.

Gods, twelve. How did that happen? How is she going to be a teenager next year? This doesn't compute in my mind.

I feel like I just woke up from a coma and that I could sleep all bloody week. Is everything back to normal now?

[a few moments after this airs for vallo to see]

Fuck.

I have been doing better about losing days, so the fact I just apparently lost several is bullshit. I remember I had a fucked up dream but it's fuzzy as shit and What the fuck is going on?

Did anyone happen to notice if the gas station on the way in carried sunscreen? I was on the cabin's front porch carefully applying it to my chest and shoulders when my bottle came up empty, and I cannot very well do my morning yoga practice in these shorts without it.

Right so. The club entrance is currently filling up with bloody snow so either dig your way in or leave me to drink alone in peace. I'm still recovering from the damned heat. (Should we be worried about these extremes? Anyone hear anything about a weather curse or a witch or a lost cursed amulet that once belonged to a witch?)

I need a baby translator because Gracie screams 'boobah', 'boobah', and 'boobah' which you would think would be the same word but fucking surprise it's three different pronunciations and she stares at me like I should know what each of them mean.

And yes, I have tried holding shit up when she says it to see what she reaches for. Fucking. Nothing.

This has been fucking Things No One Tells You When You Become a Parent so you're all damn welcome.

Chaos Crew minus Lila

Give me your best proposal ideas.

Also as my friends you have a responsibility to tell me if Lila's going to propose and try to interfere so I can do it first.

Yes I know how that fucking sounds, but this is one of our delightful quirks as a couple, shut up.

My entire firehouse has decided they're chocobo racing shirtless today. Enjoy.

[FILTERED TO THE UNDERGROUND & FRIENDS]

Thinking about building an outdoor ring while the weather is nice. If you have an suggestions on where, feel free to throw them my way. So far I'm thinking down by the harbor, near the quarry, or just right on the beach. The sand might make everyone cranky, though.

[FILTERED AWAY FROM SHADOWHUNTER GROUP MINUS KIT]

If you died and were made into a ghost after, without your previous consent, would you want to move on and stop being a ghost if that option were available?

I may not know who any of you fucking bingbongs are or why I'm on a fucking train like a goddamn engineer named Wilberforce or some shit but I do know if you come for this baby I will rain down an unholy fucking terror the likes of which you will never see again. Because you'll be dead.

Right then! Just wanted to pop on now that I've got a bit more of a handle on things, and say a heartfelt cheers and thanks to those that helped me during my quite ghastly arrival. Even those of you that laughed at me - hope to have brought some humor for your day.

I never got to make proper introductions, all said. I'm Si Robin Blyth, I come from the same ah- time? place? world? These things go over my head - as Edw Ms. Violet Debenham, and Mr. Edwin Courcey, but! If you hadn't guessed by my previous blundering, I am not lucky enough to be as gifted as they are with magic, just stumbled into it by accident and then ended up with unexpected psychic abilities! Though, I've learned that having foresight really isn't that helpful at all, in the end, especially not when they couldn't even warn me I'd be walking into a but apparently I'm not the only one of my kind here?

It is nice being able to say that part to the general public! So far I've heard of the same-sex marriages, the fact that women have far more freedom, and experienced now the indoor plumbing and hot showers on command. Tell me of more wonders? What am I missing? I've become acquainted with several bars and taverns since my arrival so that part is covered now do your worst.

H blast ho
W do I

THERE THATS SOMETYING, I YHINK
FUCK

NO THATS IMPOLITE HO W DO YOU REMOVE THERE SURELY

at this point just leave me here lost to die I cannot recover from this and I haven to the fainted idea if hie to use this internal yhing

Id like to go home now I think

Time to take the gremlin to get a flower crown in her hair and to touch grass or whatnot. Anyone else headed for the festival? Someone tell me there are giant mugs of witch ale or something. What about those massive pretzels that you need to eat with two hands? Apparently I'm in the mood for oversized refreshments today, don't judge me.

On a related note, should we be keeping an eye on the local covens whilst we're waiting for this legal business to get sorted? Just wondering if I need to be more armed than usual for this little outing.

I've thought it over a good deal since yesterday and now I want a chocobo.