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i am grateful for the opportunities that vallo has afforded me
but this continues to be utterly ridiculous

I don't know why Vallo keeps forcing me to make these ridiculous posts, but it looks like something from the Blackpointers' past has cropped up here - the puppet spell.

You'll notice some of you have turned into a puppet. Back in the first reality I was kidnapped to, it was a spell created by a local witch of theirs to curb people from using their powers to kill everyone once they came through the portal that brought us there. The vast majority of their population were regular humans and couldn't handle superpowered people, otherwise.

Any time someone wished to harm someone physically, they'd turn into a puppet until they calmed down. It prevented some bloodshed and provided a lot of laughs cause it was hilarious, when it wasn't happening to you. It let us still spar with each other and let us defend ourselves if something was attacking us because it was always about the intent, but yeah. Guess the whole point of this post is to say if you don't want to spend your time as a puppet or toy (cause people turned into Barbies too), try not to get pissed off to the point of punching? You should be able to defend yourselves and spar though, so Defense teams, you should all be good. And the locals always seemed to ignore us when we were like this? So you should also be good for not being picked up by a random kid and taken home to be added to their collection.

I also don't know if Vallo put its own spin on this, so the rules for this bout of insanity might be different from what I know. Take all of this ridiculousness with a grain of salt and be wary of everything. Paranoia is your friend.

Also, Tina, Thalia, and I are hosting a luau over at Tina's place this Wednesday just cause that's how we always solved our problems back in Blackpoint. Show up in the afternoon, BYOB, casual, these things usually go late. [Address]

EDIT: Looks like getting very, very angry is triggering it too. So it's a new ball game, sorry guys.

Good news! My daggers are all safe and in my hands again!

More good news! There is a new addition to the Physical Cottage that I forgot to mention before because of my previous dilemma with the daggers. This is Garfield. No, not THAT Garfield, because he can't talk but he's perfect and I love him.

Attached video!

Saturday

Margo & Julia
"She tried to, once again, reach for a bottle of vodka, and watched her hand go through it like it wasn’t even there."

Physical Kids Cottage | Disappearing Alcohol

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Has anyone who has had something vanish on them had it returned yet?

I would say the trade off of ship for droid is less than ideal but if anyone is missing their droid let me know.

I don't know who I talk to about missing things but over half of my daggers are gone and one of them seems to have a missing hilt, and that's not okay.

Is this something you all call an April Fools prank?? Those daggers are precious to me, I DON'T APPRECIATE THE PRANK!

WHO: 21+ Vallo + Anyone Sneaking In
WHERE: Vallo Forest: Physical Kids' Cottage
WHEN: April 3rd, 2021 | 7 PM (Forwarddated)
WHAT: Breaking in the arrival of the cottage with a party.
WARNINGS: Drinking and drugs, probably.
STATUS: IC/OOC

( 'Physical Kids. Telekinesis; move shit, lift shit. Most can fly. Also, magnificent partiers. Do not come by our house if you have anything to do the next morning.' )

[ FILTERED TO 21+ ]
My place just showed up, so party this Saturday to break it in properly. The theme's Cherry Blossoms, so do with that what you will. Feel free to start showing up around 7. [Directions]

[ FILTERED TO MAGICIAN CHARACTERS ]
The Physical Cottage is here. Come claim a room if you want a place that isn't Morningside or whatever. Or if you have shit here that you want to come get, come by. No one touches Eliot's or Quentin's rooms. [Directions]

[ FILTERED TO FEN ]
How are you feeling? I left some breakfast for you in your kitchen, but had to get to work.

This certainly isn't the strangest scenario I've been in - but it's won points for the most informative introduction video I've ever seen. Thank you for that.

I'll cut to the chase: I'm Lena Luthor and I don't particularly like to stay idle for long. If I'm stuck here for an undetermined amount of time, I prefer to be put to use and explore what options this world has for employment. I've got degrees in biotechnology management, civil & environmental engineering and computational science. I work best in a lab. Something tells me this place has plenty to study, anyway.

My other search involves a reputable liquor store and what would be Vallo's most recommended brand of scotch. I don't need a bar. I prefer my own bottle to bring into this new apartment I'm apparently going to be occupying. A suitable breakfast considering the circumstances, I suppose.

Quick announcement!

I'm temporarily out of weapons that can remove heads in a single swing. It's been a busy week! If it wasn't all for self-defense I'd really feel like I was in the murder business. My team will be producing new gear for the foreseeable future so we'll be back to normal stock soon. But this means no custom orders at least until next weekend - sorry!

[ASHE]

Do you want to go into business together on a new idea?

On the one hand, avian attacks of all sorts -- I am including the dinosaurs in this number -- really do get in the way of my syllabus that I took great strides in creating all summer by having school closed for days at a time. (Note that I know this is for the best as the safety of students come first, obviously.)

On the other, I am going into this weekend with no grading or reading of essays on my plate as I finished it all to keep busy the last few days.

Whatever is one meant to do with such an excess of free time?

Hey, I got my daggers! Whoever said they'd show up, they did! And I got to use them too! For a short while at least! MAZE, YOU SHOULD COME OVER AND SEE THEM.

Except maybe when I'm back home because right now, I'm at Julia's. She's great, guys, she really is. Like she's got a healing touch, you know. And Margo! She brought me ice cream! It hurts to walk right now, and I can't use one arm for some time but I have ice cream! Earth is so great!

margo.
I have Fen at my place. She had a run-in with those bastard vulture things. Thought you would want to know.

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.

» Hey.
» Finish your photo shoot?

SOS I need someone to come be my photographer and take thirst traps of me. Actual photographers, welcomed. Pervs, go home.

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UMBER'S GREAT BALLS

Someone TELL ME WHEN THE FULL MOON IS.

Trying every sore throat remedy today and politely asking the Gods of Spring to give a bro a break. Everything itches and I can't sing and blow my nose at the same time.

[FILTERED TO THE HAUS]

Yo Annie's is here. Got myself a triple soy vanilla latte no foam and didn't even drop it on the way out.

A reminder that Vallo Spring Equinox celebrations start tomorrow, with the Equinox taking place on Saturday. This marks the official arrival of Spring. Plant some seeds, cuddle some bunnies, have a picnic, participate in an egg hunt. For anyone with kids, the egg hunt is supposed to be really fun. Plus many of them are chocolate eggs, so profit.

For witches and others with magic, less public ceremonies for covens that are more open will be taking place when the Equinox hits, which I believe is early in the morning this year. Personally still debating on if it's worth dragging myself out of bed, but I'll probably cave.

If you are interested in the Outlander Coven, as a reminder we are not an actual coven in the sense that there's any hierarchy, rules (outside of Vallo laws), etc. It's more like an opportunity to learn magic from other worlds, and we do our best to help make connections with locals, if there's an interest for you there. We typically meet once a month, and sometimes there is social events outside of magic if you're interested.

Lastly, can anyone here read or speak Arabic? I could use some help with some translation work. Arabic is not in my wheelhouse.