War Is Coming Communications.

It's actually all real. All of it.

[Filtered to mom and da Gwen and Peter]
I'm sorry I took off. I just...you made sense of it. I guess I didn't think you would, didn't even consider that if you did you'd know that I'm a monst what it meant. Can we just...not mention that part to anybody? At least not until I find a bus station and get a head st

Black president. Teleporter can't change that. Haven't even left New York, have I? I'm trapped in my own head. One of you psychic pricks locked me in here with a bunch of stuff built from my memories of my parents and dad's journals and I guess the time I snuck into Deep Impact. Fine, whatever, you win. Just let me out already. I'll leave. Didn't even want to come to your crappy school anyway.

This is actually the image that greeted us when we got through the portal.

( More this way! )

So worth it, even if Hermione upped the essay pages to 10 on me. Who's not doing summer school? Sadie's not doing summer school!

Montana is beautiful!

[Andy]
Thanks, again. In case I haven't said it enough.

Oh ha friggin ha. Haze the new kid, right? What the hell even is this thing? It doesn’t look like AOL… Fine, whatever, but joke’s over now so bring me back or I’ll tear out your thro.

Why is there SO. MUCH. HOMEWORK???

...and why does Hermione keep smiling at it? I love her, but sometimes I really worry about her...

We watched the movie in class today. The.

Do I...ever un...obliviate my parents? Is that possible?

So Maleficent isn’t just a one media kinda bitch. Back a ways, the Final Fantasy guys did a game with Disney called Kingdom Hearts. It turned into a series, but I only played the first two. Maleficent was one of the main villains, sort of the leader of the Disney side of villainy. She was also a boss you fight twice in the first game, once in her human-ish form and once as a fucking dragon.

Now some people think this isn’t going to come to a fight. I don’t really believe that. So it stands to reason that if we have to fight her, and even if by some miracle we don’t have to, we should know what she can do. Well, we covered the dragon thing but we also have lots of other ground to cover. I don’t know much about classic fairytales or Disney movies, but I can tell you about the video game. There were two fights with her, one in her human form and one in her dragon form.

FIGHT ONE
TELEKINESIS. Oh god, the telekinesis.
FIRE MAGIC. Obviously, but not breathing it. She turns into a ball of it a couple times during the fights and sort of explodes a couple times to do damage if you’re in close.
DARK MAGIC. I mean dark in the elemental sense, not the moral sense. Void/space/gravity, for those that don’t play as many video games. She seems to be able to use this to mimic some other elemental effects. Or maybe combine it with them.
MINION SUMMONING. This could have just been the game being a game, but thinking about it, she mentioned minions to me back during the first banter I had with her before I knew who she was. So maybe not.

Here’s a video I found of FIGHT ONE. There’s some cutscene stuff at the beginning and end. If you just want to see the fight, you’ll want to skip ahead to about 3:29, but it wouldn’t be a bad idea to watch the bits before it to get an idea of her personality.

FIGHT TWO: THE DRAGONING
FIRE BREATH.
TOUGH HIDE, AS IF SHE WERE SOME KIND OF GIANT REPTILE.
THE DESTRUCTIVE CAPABILITY OF A GIANT REPTILE.
VERY BIG CLAWS AND TEETH.
REALLY FUCKING BIG. Sensing a pattern here?

Here’s a video of FIGHT TWO. The fight starts at 2:39, but again, not a bad idea to watch some of the stuff before it. In fact, watching it gave me a couple of ideas…

FIGHT PREP
It’s going to come down to a fight. I know people want to hope it won’t, but it always does. So what can we do to try and prepare? I had some thoughts.

ANTI-FIRE STUFF: In the game, there’s accessories you can equip that protect against fire damage. Can we mimic that in reality? I’m thinking enchanted armor, or clothes, or whatever works best. Magic-types, can this be done? If so, what do you need and how long do you need? This is probably going to be pretty vital, so if you need special stuff or whatever, I’m sure a lot of us would be willing to pitch in on getting it.

SPECIAL WEAPONS: In the movie, the guy uses an enchanted sword. In the game, you’ve got the Keyblade, which is a kind of…it’s best to think of it as a magic sword shaped like a key. I could try and explain it better, but it’s sort of silly and only makes sense in a Disney thing. I don’t know if special/legendary/magic weapons are necessary or not, but it probably wouldn’t hurt. I happen to have one, but it’s all mace-shaped and I’m thinking bludgeoning her to death shouldn’t be plan A unless we have a damn good way to immobilize her and keep her that way. Anybody else have any? And again, magic-types, how feasible would it be to whip up some more?

GETTING HER VULNERABLE: On this post Lois said something about not being able to kill her in human form. Bad news. EDIT: Hal suggested making her transform. That’s part of why I picked the second video. There were shorter ones without the cutscene bits, but that one kind of gave me an idea about the “make her transform” thing. The guy in the thing uses a dark Keyblade (again, don’t ask) to “unlock her heart”, which is…more silly Disney stuff, but it got me thinking. What did that do? Power overload, it seems like. But it also seemed like she wasn’t forced to change, like she just went FUCK IT I AM FULL OF DARK LET’S TAKE OFF THE KID GLOVES. So he “unlocks her heart” and all of a sudden she’s having a powergasm and flipping out like a kid on Christmas. So maybe we could push her into it somehow, dicking with her emotions or making her feel like she’s already won or something. Thoughts?

…Wow, that got longer than I thought it would. Huh. But here you go, folks.

ETA: Okay, so after talking to people I realized we should also have a list of people willing/able to fight a dragon. If anyone has experience in the field of killing dragons, we'd really love to hear from you. I'll add names to this list as I get 'em, so keep them coming.

DRAGONSLAYERS
Hal: Mostly swords, muskets, more modern if needed.
Kevin: Maces, swords, some staff work.
Mal: Guns and swords.
Spike: Swords.
Anakin: Lightsabers.
Allison: Bows.
Charlie: Pyrokinesis.
Elle: Electrokinesis.
Robin: Sword and bows.
Harry: Sword.
Captain Becker: EMD and other guns.

Liz and Emma and I used to go every Friday night to the theatre to see whatever new film was out. Saw some awful ones that way, and some really brilliant ones, too. That being said, I think I want to see that new one based on Jack and the Beanstalk. Would anyone like to join me? Ron, you're NOT invited Unless you want Or if she wants

[Hermione]

Have you talked to him yet?

I've never really watched this much telly. I always felt then that I was missing out, but now I'm not so sure. I've watched nothing but trash all night so far.

[Hermione]
I haven't slept in days.

This is ridiculous. You're running each other out of the bloody house, blowing up at each other. And why? Over something that wouldn't have been such a big deal if things hadn't gotten blown out of proportion. And it just keeps going and bloody going.

Personally, I don't want any of you to feel the need to leave, but you just keep pushing at each other to the point where you're driving each other out of the bloody house. My bloody house, when you get down to it.

I'm not trying to take sides here, I'm just saying that all of you that are all riled up should calm down and stop attacking each other.

Edit: Being as things keep getting worse, I'm going to England for a little while. Possibly also Scotland. Places may not be exactly how I'm used to them, but I could use some calmi familiar scenery right about now. I'll be back later.

Oi! Where do you two midgets think you're going?

I'm pretty sure wanting to go home when you're going home to fight a battle against Chaos is a bad thing, huh?

Got a new iPod but now I have to fill it. Obviously Adele, it isn't my iPod if Adele isn't angsting at me. Any other suggestions?

I want to apologize for any hurt feelings I may have caused last night. I was trying to make a point and it turned into an argument and...for that I apologize.

Hermione, Sadie, I do not want either of you to think that I've got any issues with either of you. I don't. Not in the least.

Roxy, I'm sorry for getting into all that so much with you, I just don't think either of us were really seeing the other's points as we should have.

I think I'm going to go stay somewhere else for a couple days. Don't worry, I'll be back. Just...want to give everyone some time to cool down and the like. Probably just going to camp out in an empty apartment at the complex or something.

[Stiles]
Sorry for the drama in the house last night, mate. Or, rather....on the boards, about stuff at the house, really. Either way. Sorry for the drama.

[Epiphany]
When do you think you might be back in town? I think, if it is remotely possible, I need a place to go when things are blowing up at the house, here... A semi-used apartment, sort of.

I was wondering if you would like to move into the house I'm at. We'd probably need to share a room, but I'm more than okay with that if you would like to come here. The others have all said it was perfectly fine and will help move your things over if you agree.

I understood the need for the first kidnapping. It was a wakeup call. This, though? Where did this even come from? Is there a problem with werewolves in Lawrence Kansas that I don’t know about?

So I just had a thought...

Back around September, Death started getting active. Sending ghosts, talking through people, shit like that. And then, just... nothing. Radio silence for months. Then last month when all the demons came and attacked at once... there were all those people that died and came back. And you know, for a bit I wondered if that could have been Death trying to get our attention again. Except, when he'd talked through people, he said something about "abominations", people who'd defied him somehow, been alive when they should have been dead or something, so maybe not.

Either way, as far as I know, we never did get his ring. We should probably be thinking some about that, yeah?

Some of you know me, some are new faces.

Anyway I'm Ruby Winchester and I'm from this world. I'm a demon. Only in the worlds most cliched way I fell in love with the guy I was sent to seduce and make Lucifer's bitch. Now we have a kid and live in a ridiculously awesome house in the countryside outside Lawrence.

Don't ask...it was a long process and more than once we tried to kill each other. True Love or whatever. Its weird.

Anyway I'm also a witch. Pretty powerful with the dark magics but trying not to push it cause using them...yeah, hell tends to notice nowadays. So I'm trying to work out who else we have that knows magic. Who uses it and what flavors.

Believe me. I won't judge what you do or who you are so long as you're not Team Lucifer.

I just like to know who I work with cause as those who have been around a while will attest, sometimes we need to play nice and mess up some threats.

Any questions?

May I ask how the rest of you cope with constantly being told you look like the actor or actress that plays you? While I’m used to being looked at oddly by my classmates it’s become quite annoying. I’ve tried staying to the library more often than not but that only adds to the looks and gossip as its something my character would do--which I am me so it can be a bit confusing.

I also do not understand many of the jokes made my way about my name or shipping wars. What is a shipping war?

Not that I exactly mind not being in the desert fighting chaos gods and dealing with potentially awkward situations with adorable guys, but I'm getting seriously bored and please tell me I can actually go to school here. Words I thought I'd never say but I have to get out of this flat or I will potentially go mad.