vallo

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

I know I shouldn't be laughing but
I'm sorry Ronan
Am I sorry?

If anyone sees a giant raven, who goes by the name Chainsaw, who may or may not have flown off with a tiny angry puppet Ronan Lynch, feel free to tell her she is a very good girl and deserves all the trash.

Also, I'll give you some knit freebies if you can get her to come back to the market with him.

[Gangsey Group Texts]

» Pig broke down on my way back.
» Got out of the pig, turned my back for a moment, and it was gone when I turned back to pop the hood.
» So- hello. I know it's market day, sorry. I can walk back, I was only a mile or two out. But my bag was

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?

MARCH 23, MORNING

BLUE + GANSEY
"Oh sure! Let me just pull a molotov cocktail out of the pockets of my skirts! Try the zombie method, I don't know!"

LOCATION: The Barns
WARNINGS: PG-13 - Swearing and fighting.

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UH.

Anyone else have their phone freak out and send a bunch of search histories to their device?

[FAILED] FILTER TO GANGSEY.

What is happening? Anyone make any hacker enemies recently?

*ooc note: bold strikeouts are failed strikeouts on this post!

You wake up and you're standing on a stage at a podium, spotlight's on you. You've got 15-20 minutes to give a Ted Talk (aka speech) on a subject you know by heart, no prep. If you fuck up you die (I'm adding this part in for dramatic effect). No, you can't use your powers to get out of the situation because no one cares about your powers or how sexy and badass you are in this scenario. You're giving a Ted Talk. It is what it is.

What's your Ted Talk?

It occurred to me this morning -- while trying to hurriedly help Kiri find one of her shoes so I could take her and Velora to school before stopping to get a pair of lattes and oversized muffins to share with my 'chev before our school started -- that I have been here in Vallo nearly a year. And, while that is truly not a very long stretch of time in the grand scheme of things, had I been told a year ago that I would have been doing any of those things in as many months time, I would have likely laughed at the impossibility.

And yet, here we are. Life is funny.

CALEB

Would you be willing to teach me a spell?

is the forest always this ominous? Because holy shit.

[ attached is a short clip of the blatant circle of death. foliage all curled and withered away. trees dried and hollow. a murder of dead crows. ]

[Gar]

i stepped inside the circle to see if anything happened. nothing hurt me, but i got the weirdest feeling.

In news that I imagine only Blue is interested in, my previously cancelled book readings are being rescheduled for this coming week at Chastity's Nook during the evening. Violent fowl rather got in the way last time for reasons I just don't want to think about anymore for the sake of my pride. But the socks I was given as payment for this service are rather wonderful and I would hate to disappoint, so here we are, rescheduling. As the resident experts, I've requested that Caleb and Jester pick the books to pull excerpts from, so I'm sure there will be far better selections than I might have chosen.

Anyway, if you have some desire to listen to me read adult literature, next week is your chance. You should also buy books or literally anything else they have for sale while you're there. Or, I don't know, bring cupcakes.

(You're welcome for the stellar marketing. I know where you both live to deliver the bill.)

[FILTERED TO FRIENDS OF SYDNEY CLARKE]

Howdy. Hope this Saturday is treating ya mighty fine. Better than the week of turkeys, anyway. Seeing as things have quieted down, I wanted to let ya know I'll be holding a birthday party for Syd on the 19th. Her birthday's the 20th but so's fight club and I know she signed up this month.

Now what are we doing, you ask? Well, I'm hoping to throw her a beach party. I know, it's the middle a winter, but hear me out! Plenty of folks here have magic and Syd's always cold as hell, so I'm hoping to pull some strings to let her pretend it's summer for a night. Maybe just spell a small little strip of beach to be warm? If you can help with this or pull in somebody who can, I'd be mighty grateful. Figure I can manage a bonfire and the furniture and whatnot. Could use some help with food and some of them umbrella drinks though? Real sorry it's short notice. Blame the birds.

[FILTERED TO SYDNEY CLARKE]

Don't make plans for Friday, alright?

[FILTERED TO THE GANGSEY + FRIENDS]

By now it's likely obvious that you're aware of turkeys venturing from the forest to the city. Adam and I stopped by the library for a few things and the library got swarmed - a total cluster-puck. But we're fine, and I'm not lying, Jane, I promise there's no need to roast me. Just a few minor scratches.

Everything still quiet at home? Does anyone else need anything? We're planning on coming back to the Barns soon, but we can do supply drop-offs first if needed.

[FILTERED TO DEAN WINCHESTER]

Hello, Gansey here. I wanted to let you know that Sasha was portaled to the hospital just now, following a Turkey Swarm at the Library. Her leg was injured, but I'm not exactly sure how severe it was, but I hope the hospital will be able to tell you more? She was a little out of it.

From now until February 14, Chastity's Nook will be offering our mystery books as Blind Dates. There is a display in-store of books wrapped in plain paper with a short description on the front, and each purchase will be entered in a raffle to win an Adult Gift Basket. They are ah-- Valentine's Day themed, and Jester is putting them together, so they are sure to be interesting? And likely very dirty.

From the 6th-14th, our entire section of romance will be Buy-Two-Get-One-Free, so you can have plenty of opportunities to warm up.

(And if you or your loved one is a cat lover, inquire in the shop to have a Frumpkin Delivery Service added to your purchase.)

Hey, Vallo. Names Thom. I'm the cute-but-traumatized one.

You got any jobs where I don't have to deal with people?

603, you served me well, but the new flat isn't bad either. I'll miss you, wigs.

Anyone else having trouble sleeping though?

[ooc; Posted at like 3 AM.]

Hey, Vallo Prime and Vallo Dark - everybody should be able to see this on network-connected devices.

Thanks, whoever you folks who helped stabilize the connection on the Vallo Prime end are. I'm Dr. Morgan Yu, and I'm about to go full typhon because that shit was exhausting. Vallo Dark-area psychics, don't freak if you sense a weird white noise; my thoughts are always like that, but they tend to get a little louder when I'm not holding a human form.

While I'm napping, see what you can do about getting us all out of this foggy hellhole.

(posted before the attack at Morningside)

( FILTERED TO KATE DANVERS, CALEB WIDOGAST, MAURA SARGENT, AND CC RONAN LYNCH. )

MORGAN YU.
Hey, I don't think if this is going to be relevant to your working with the Network, but I have this feeling, similar to the one when I saw that Adam guy from the other Vallo. Like he's there again, but it's not as strong.

RONAN & BLUE
I wanted you to know that I think I can feel the connection to your friend again. It's not as strong, but it's there. At least I think it's him, it feels similar.