Does anyone have any tips or advice for acclimating an older sibling to a new one that isn't born yet?

Hatched, I guess. It has to be similar right? Because Tairn and Sgaeyl have an egg that's going to hatch any day now and Andarna has gotten really, really testy. I've tried to make sure I give her extra attention but I think she's jealous of how much attention the egg is getting from Tairn and Sgaeyl and is too stubborn to admit it.

If you don't have any advice but just want to squeal about a baby dragon with me that's okay too.

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.

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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?)

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» Theo picked out a toy at Target!
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» I hope you're ready for some critter catching when you get home.

It's been a rather eventful week for me! Unexpectedly. Discovered the Outlander coven, that was enjoyable! Thanks for making me feel welcome even out of place as I was - I'm used to being around magicians now but foresight isn't thought of as magic in our world and I'd never be welcomed into something like that unless it was for a laugh.

Does anyone know how to continue correspondence with a ghost, by any chance? My medium is back at home and would roll her eyes at me for that (and every) question anyway.

And finally, the most important. Which of these two gentlemen do you think is more of an Edwin? Both are healthy and playful. The one on the right is very keen on licking.
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The sun not setting makes being an early riser its own kind of painful this morning. Even with the curtains closed, I'm not sure I got all that much sleep last night so I apologize if you have to interact with me between bouts of coffee today.

This is weird, yeah? Hasn't happened before? I've been here two years and nothing like this has happened before, outside of Moon Day. And that's, you know, the opposite of this.

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I know we hate these fucking portals, but there better be one because there is not a chance in the hells that both my fiance and sister disappeared right in front of me and it can't be fixed.

Added later:

No place better to start a list.

Gilmore
Adaine
Kellach
Kara
Keith
Shiro
Atreus
Kratos
Orym
Chetney
Kit
Cayden
Eli
Kaitlyn
Ronan
Matthew
Lan Xichen
Temeraire
Violet S
Henry
Sydney
Katou
El

That's it, I've decided: witchy powers are not for me. I lost my temper at some jerk at the dog park for a fraction of a second, and I set a bush on fire! But the worst part is that I couldn't even put it out because I couldn't figure out how!

Good thing Krypto still has freeze breath and was able to take care of it.

And now I really want a hot brownie with ice cream. Is this swappiness over yet? I'm tired.

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After figuring out explosives weren't the best route, the vacuum cleaner I rigged has contained the slime without them getting out and nobody has had to touch them.

Who do I send the containers to? I can incinerate them.

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Good morning, everyone. I know we've all been feeling tense as we wait for word from our volunteers who went through the portal. I know that brings with it an inherent feeling of helplessness; I'm sorry there isn't more we can do on that end at the moment. However, we do have news.

The DOA received a call from the Vallo Police Department early this morning. Late last night, Dahlia Argent, of Beketh coven, turned herself in as a party in the portal beasts incident back in November. Along with our people, her sister, Luciana, was taken by the portal, as well as some Vallo residents - the exact number is currently being investigated. DOA leadership was invited to come speak with Ms. Argent, and we've learned the following:

A group of Vallo natives have been working on ways to open a portal to send Outlanders either back to their world or out of Vallo permanently. The teleportation circle found by Sam Wilson in December, as well as a portal that opened on Geliara Academy's grounds and the theft of the Ashurbanipal amulet in November were all early, failed attempts at targeting Outlanders. The November 10th incident with the portal beasts was the closest they've come to success, but they didn't have the correct knowledge to close the portals without threatening the rest of Vallo.

This group has been using the teachings and research of the Guide of Existence, also known as Bronislavas of Beketh, whose body is on display in the Vallo Museum of Natural Magicks. They've made attempts to resurrect him for his assistance - if you remember, the museum was broken into back in August and that particular exhibit was temporarily closed; this was an attempt to take one of Bronislavas' bones for the resurrection process. This plan also failed.

After discussions with VPD and Beketh, they've agreed to let Outlanders take matters into our own hands. We've been granted permission to resurrect Bronislavas and, hopefully, both get more answers on this portal and his assistance in bringing the missing back home. If any of our community have the appropriate skills for this task, please let us know here, and the DOA will facilitate any way we can.

( I'm not saying I feel a crazy amount of vindication right now, but... )

I was downtown on a call with the station, when I came across part of a spaceship. Weird thing is that it looks like it crashed here? But awhile ago. I think we definitely would have noticed it being here though by now and I vaguely remember there being a boarded up building for rent around here before, but me and our station inspector can't find any evidence of it being under this beautiful hunk of junk. I called it into the city and the DOA (hi Shiro!) and I'm waiting to hear back something about that.

Weird Vallo thing probably?

The inside's wrecked, but the comms system looks like it might be salvageable. I'm not techy enough to work on this, but would love help figuring it out to see if we can maybe get some logs or security footage out of it. I was thinking about reaching out to Enki to see if Mei or anyone could lend us a hand if we don't have any Outlander brains on it.

ATTENTION ALL THOSE WHO HAVE COME ACROSS KITTENS WITH MOUTH TENTACLES!

Some of you might remember when I introduced my cat (Goose) about two years ago. Goose is an alien in the shape of a cat known as Flerken. All of the info on Thor's post is true of her species back home. Here in Vallo, Goose's more toxic elements - both the claws and more extreme uses of tentacles - have been dulled, presumably by whatever kind of magic Vallo likes to use to keep us here. I'm pretty confident the same will hold true for any of the kittens' toxic elements, too, and they should be ultimately harmless.

After rounding up the 39 begging for attention from Thor, I've picked out enough familiar patterns to say these ARE Goose's kittens. I don't know how many are here, but at last count, I'm seeing mention of 48 - that includes 39 from Thor, 4 from Atreus, 1 from Orym, 1 from Wanda, 1 from Darlington, and 2 from Ty. There could be up to 69 more running around Vallo.

If you've found one (or one has found you) and you feel comfortable holding onto them for the time being, great, but please drop a line here to let me know where you have them, just in case. If you don't feel comfortable, that's fine, too. Again, drop a line here, and I'll come by to pick them up. We have a safe space to keep them until we figure out what's going on.

Please don't attempt to kill them.