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Hey folks, so it's been a week of us quietly enjoying this life update, but just wanted to say that I'm probably the luckiest guy around because Dorian agreed to marry me.

That said, no details have been set yet but we would like to celebrate with our people here in Vallo and were hoping that you might all join us for dinner and drinks—and a little theater, because it only feels right to do this at a classy establishment like Taste of Tal'Dorei. Don't worry, Exandrians. Already cleared it to make sure the show that night doesn't feature any present company or friends back home. Safe for one night.

So if you're free next Saturday at 7 and would like some food and alcohol (or not alcohol) on us, we really hope to see your faces.

Alright, well, this very legitimate and perfectly reasonable memory wiping business has gotten out of control. Our contacts assure us they are working most diligently on it, however...I am the sort that would rather take issues in my own hands.

(Harrow, this is one of those 'other duties as assigned' in case you were curious)

If you are interested in working out a solution, please come to the DOA. If you have no ability to do so but would like to support, I enjoy a full bodied red and spicy food. If you are being impacted by this memory issue--or if someone has told you that you are, I suppose, give us about an hour to start and then please come by. I make no immediate promises, but we will get to the root of this.

DOA FOLKS

Hey, hope you all had a good Monday so far. Before Brenda finds out and tells everyone it gets around, I wanted to just let you all know that after a lot of thinking and considering, I put my notice in today. I'll still be doing defense as usual, but I put in my notice today for my job as the Outlander rep.

That said, it will be a bit before I'm fully gone as I'm going to stick around to help with finding a replacement and getting them onboarded, so it's not an immediate thing but I know that news can spread and I wanted you all to hear it from me first.

Anyway, I brought in some pie and it's in the break room if you're interested or want to take some home with you.

BELLS HELLS

Okay, it's officially official. I put in my notice at work. It will be a while before I'm fully done, but after spending so much time thinking it over the last month, it feels good to have taken the first step.

CHETNEY

Unrelated to that, I was wondering if you'd help me with something.

Listen I just want to go on the record and say I'm a GNOME that's different than the LEPRECHAUNS that are going around giving folks like myself a bad name. I like candy, same as anyone, and I like a fight, maybe more than some, but I only get in houses via chimney I ain't going door to door asking for things.

Just making sure there ain't no false information out there.

Ivy!

Guess what?!?!

I get to wrestle!!

Sort of!!

First off, hi. I have time traveled. Or I guess my mind has? Another Vallo thing, I see. But anyway, just because I've been away from Vallo for so long doesn't mean I don't post about things I remember from my world that just stick with me for some reason or another!

And today's thing that stuck with me is that October 1st is International Raccoon Appreciation Day back on plain ol' Earth. Should be universal if you ask me. Therefore, ROCKET! If you're still here, let's get you some treats.

ALSO ALSO, Diego and Lila, HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I want to get you some treats too.

hello!!!!!! it's me Orym of the air ashari

did you guys know you have flower dogs here

🌸🐕🌻🐶

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( 18+ - Mentions of incubus/succubus vibes but nothing SA triggering I promise. )

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.

That was certainly one way to exit my 30s.

Everyone go get a piece of pie, or two, or a whole pie. I don't judge, I also don't judge flavors, I only judge if you come in here on the day of my birth and tell me another dessert is better. (I don't discriminate, I just really like pie.)

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.

XHORHAUS INHABITANTS (PERMANENT AND VISITING) + OTHER EXANDRIANS

There are a lot of us here right now and I think that calls for togetherness. I don't make the rules.

I want to suggest we eat at Taste of Tal'Dorei and then run around the damn theme park, but I also recognize that's pretty on brand, so I will take other suggestions. Except now I want that disgusting chicken sorbet and the not disgusting pie flight, so I might argue suggestions.

VEX & KEYLETH

How are you both doing?

Hi everyone, my name is Keyleth. I'm here at the DOA with Vax and he's showing me how to use this. It's pretty neat, I wish I had one of these at home. It's very convenient. I don't know what else to write just yet, but... your city is beautiful? The looks, the smells, the design. It's all so nice.

I meant to mention this last night, but just an update that there will not be any Zeph'aeratam classes this week. I'll see you all next week, though, with snacks on hand. If there are requests, let me know.

DOA LEADERSHIP + DEL

I just wanted you all to know from me and not an out of office email that I'm going to be out all of this week on some personal leave. Hopefully this plant business doesn't get any further out of hand, though I think it's a little outside of my jurisdiction at the DOA anyway. My meager druidic magic didn't make any differences when I tried, at least.

And Del, I've got you on here just so you're aware for patrols. Sorry to leave things short.

[cw in comments - spoilers for critical role, talk of death]

Alert: these plants are fucked. I've never seen anything like this. They think in words. It's all the mother this and the mother that, and they don't respond to me like regular plants would. The root system is incomprehensible.

Oh and I'm almost certain it's them making people walk around like they're made out of warped wood. Something in their pollen, probably, which means breathing the air around them is a really bad idea, except they're practically everywhere so it's not easy to avoid. I think one of them might have got me earlier, since I have no memory of walking all the way out of town.

I know Vallo likes to cook up exciting things for us to deal with on occasion, but this has a parasitic sort of feel and I don't like it at all.

Bells Hells

Alright now. Don't you all be hiding or shoving your face in pie. Let's talk about this like a real family.

Champio Vax'ildan

You up?