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I don't usually keep a knife in my protein powder, but I guess today is a different type of day.


Looks like it might be a teleporting dagger too.


You know who would like this, probably, is Vax. But he just has so fucking many daggers. Eh.

Diego says that finding the entire wine cellar from Grazyk is no reason to stop in the middle of our training, but he did not accidentally stumble upon it when taking a water break nor does he understand that the sheer size alone would be enough to stop any person. He also is on the mend, and truly the break was for his benefit not mine. Now, for those of you I owed a drink, can it be a Tranavian red?

FILTERED TO JACOB & EVIE

Have you been doing some remodeling under the Underground? And I am not speaking about the sudden appearance of my wine cellar, though you are both welcome to take from as payment for unintentionally housing it under your establishment.

Whoever did that introduction video, you should do every introduction video ever. Didn't fall asleep during and that explosion was a thing of beauty. Well done.

A place from my world called Nanda Parbat arrived, and it's located within the mountains. It's not easily accessible, thankfully, but if you're up there and you find something that looks like this, it should be avoided. It's the home base of a shadow organization and it's dangerous to walk around that place if you're not familiar with it. Don't take that as a challenge. I'll be setting up security around it soon.

Right, so. I think Evie and I found the beasties' nest. Too on the nose? Serefin says it's called the Salt Mines, anyway. There was no way to get close without tipping our hand, but they definitely seem to be coming and going from there. No actual salt as far as I can tell. No obvious leader either. I'll pass on the location to the DOA and I imagine we'll mount some kind of offensive? Don't look at me, I don't organise things. I do want in though. I've a message to deliver.

[FILTERED TO DIEGO]

You better be resting, prat. You can be tetchy about us searching without you later.

Hello, yes, hi, normally I would fill this space with some flirtatious banter or something...else witty, I don't know, but the things in the forest? They have cloaks and look like human birds? Are from Tranavia. They're called Vultures. They're blood mages, like we are, but they're...worked on? Tortured? We don't completely know how they're made, but they're made and then they're much more powerful. They're a bit like a secret police, a bit like a military. I was tutored by one, he was eccentric but not so bad compared to the rest of my tutors.

But when the process of becoming a Vulture goes--wrong--they lose their humanity and they're much more powerful because they do not listen to anyone or anything, they do not recognize limits, they are more monster than human. Which is what these are.

I think I am rambling a bit

Here's what you need to know. They're incredibly fast, and they fly, which yes, that is where the name comes from you're welcome. They're very good at just about everything because they do not care and they cannot be reasoned with. Once they set their minds (because they have a bit of a hive mind, I don't know more than that to explain it) to something, they will achieve that thing. Which is usually death. They use fire, mostly, but they've been known to create earthquakes, rip boulders out of the earth, that sort of thing. And then they have monster claws and teeth that have torn apart armor like a piece of paper.

You can behead them. That is it. Otherwise, they will keep going. They have no sense of pain, or compassion, or empathy, or anything. If you are going somewhere, I suggest it is in groups. I'll be out as well.

Serefin

I'll take care of it.

I am not underestimating you.

I love fight club. And even if I haven't fought you yet, I love you too. I wear this black eye with privilege and also, Adora? Do you give lessons?


If we do team ups again I perpetually call dibs on Atreus. What a beast.

Private to Erik:

I found a goal and that goal is to win fight club. Is that healthy?

XHORHAUS + OTHER FRIENDS*

For those of you that aren't aware, I applied for a job at a youth center in the city a couple weeks back, had a couple of interviews, and this morning was offered the position. I accepted it, though I'm still in vague shock as I was definitely not expecting to actually get to this point but I don't start until the beginning of next month so hopefully it will all sink in sometime before then. I've never had a real job before that didn't require me to use daggers to complete my duties so it's a shift.

Anyway -- shock or not, I'm not one to pass up a chance to celebrate something and it's always more fun to celebrate with friends. I know it's last minute so no hard feelings if you already have your dance cards full for a Friday, but I feel as though drinks are in order, at least. Quills, tonight? Perhaps not a proper pub crawl, but we'll see where the night takes us? We can sort out a babysitter for the girls, maybe? Another question here, just for the hell of it?

[* - as always, feel free to assume; vax makes friends easily enough!]

No 'welcome and sorry about the displacement' fruit basket?

Selina Kyle. Hello, Vallo.

Vaguely concerned as to what including "fuck you vax" in a search might have brought up on the internet.

If anyone lays eyes on Evie Frye today, congratulations! You've succeeded where her own flesh and blood has failed. I think the super stealth suit is even out. Which means it's not just about

Anyyway, fight club is a week from Saturday and we're throwing in a side event in honour of finding literally any excuse to throw more punches after this bollocks. So if you're interested in randomly paired fights two on two, come by this week to add your name to the pot. It's just one match per person at the tail end of the night for some extra fun. We might let you pick your pairs next time, but we want to see how this fits first. Cheers.

[ooc: All bolded strikeouts are a fail strikeout. Paired fights are just for kicks and don't have a bracket or winner's purse but bets are encouraged! Standard fight club sign-ups are here and pairs fight sign-ups are here. Sign-ups end 3/18.]

MARCH 9, LATE NIGHT

JACOB FRYE + SEREFIN MELESKI
“Most of the ways we’ve been trained to get people down a ladder are decidedly unsexy, I should warn you.”

LOCATION: A PRACTICE FIRE RESCUE SITE
WARNINGS: None, just some love confessions and ridiculousness

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Good afternoon,

I've come to understand that this is the best way to communicate with others here. Though given some of the confusion I've seen thus far, I'm not quite convinced that a quill and ink still isn't the superior option.


My name is Simon Basset, and I'm a new arrival here.

Thanks to my uncle, Ásynja Meadery is looking to expand into the ale business. We've been working on developing several ales for our first lineup, but I'd like to get feedback from the public before we make it available to sell.

So those of you who have been with me from the beginning (new people still welcome!), you know what time it is.

I'm looking for a handful of volunteers who could be available tomorrow evening to try our new ales and provide feedback.

Look, if I'm going to accidentally land us on a new universe, at least there's a musical introduction to soothe the sting.

Billy Kaplan, from the Young Avengers, in case anyone is semi-familiar with us.

And it's totally not my fault this time, guys, I would definitely know if I created an entire universe and trapped people from different universes on it.
I think.
Probably.


My twin brother Tommy is also here--or, was, at least, he zipped off and if you were holding a slice of pizza or a frappuccino or a hot dog or had a cool looking hat on and all of a sudden it vanished, that was him and I apologize profusely. To tell us apart, he's got white hair and has no opinion on the best Robin (which is Tim Drake, by the way, just saying, even though Stephanie Brown being Robin AND Batgirl is legendary).

[FILTERED TO FRIENDS & FAMILY]

Jiang Cheng, do not be upset.

The Burial Mounds is here? How it was-- before. When it was prettier, and things were growing, and there is flourishing lotus! It's empty of people otherwise?

And the spirits are quiet too. But the cave is still there and so is my blood pool! Serefin, I have an idea.

In case anyone's curious, firefighting training hasn't killed me yet. It's made a valiant effort! But I've only thrown up once.


Alright, fine. Twice.

[FILTERED TO SEREFIN]

So there's a high-rise full of smug pricks in suits, right? Some money has carefully exchanged hands and now I have unfettered access to the building. After we sort out whether this circle of death is all hands on deck or not, do you want to race me around the office in those wheeled chairs? We can leave foul-smelling gifts for them to come back to on Monday.

If the past week is anything to go on it seems a fair assessment that things are generally never dull around these parts.

filtered to grimmauld place residents.
I'm still working on finding a suitable place, but I will be gone Saturday evening onward for the full moon.

As well there are pastries on the kitchen counter, please help yourself.

It's funny how unpredictably nostalgia can hit you. I don't have much to be nostalgic for - I had a wretched existence as a searingly attractive-yet-abused indentured servant back home in the dripping ossuary caverns of the Ninth - and yet the people! A tiny blot of people. Not many people, mind, but a few - they're worth missing. Sex Pal would have just loved this place. He's a scholarly type - into dusty things of Great Historical Import - whatever that is. He'd absolutely see all the shit the academics have done here and just yeet himself into the center of it. (Incidentally, Sex Pal is not a sex pal; his name is Palemedes Sextus and he is a beautiful soul trapped within an amber of bitchiness, and he deserves the nickname. I don't swing that way because have you seen boobs, but if you put a knife to my throat and I had to chose, I'd go with Fandral here at Vallo anyhow. He reminds me of a palomino. Anyway, Sex Pal is just a name he hates and pretends not to notice when I use it. Sex Pal thinks I'll stop using it if he doesn't give me a reaction. I am going to use it until the universe ends.)

Anywho, rather than sit about and mope and wonder how everyone back home is - dead and/or smug, I'd wager - I'm going to try something new - yoga! It sounds awful. I can't wait to bend myself into a plate of spaghetti and wonder what the hell past!Gideon was thinking. Anyone have any experience? Can I do it raging?

[ Filtered to Serefin ]
I've been patient, I've been sweet-tempered and just, I haven't grabbed you by the ankles and shaken you, so now I must ask: why have you been moping about looking like some aggressively-haunted Victorian doll? I didn't want to be a bother but I simply can't be mature any longer.

I am a General in the Tranavian army (which I know means not a lot to people because Tranavia doesn't exist for you, I promise, it's impressive). I am feared in our border countries--there is a curse word that was created in one because of me. I am a very, very, very good blood mage. I have spent years trudging through swamps and forests and mountains in blistering heat and freezing cold.

Why am I terrible with this stupid oven.