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WEEKLY BULLETIN

announcements

• What do you get when you combine a Catholic and a spirit child? I don't know, it's not a joke, it's just an announcement that one of the spirits-- a baby, it looks like-- has been adopted.


• What an awful week, though. Both the exploration group and the distraction group did so well, and honestly? It made a difference. You guys should be proud.


• On a lighter note, autumn is just around the corner! Look for temp drops and gusty weather cropping up in the next week or so.

classifieds

• None.


• If you wish to submit an advertisement, please drop them by the post office.

obituaries

• Capt. Ben Winters: at least he died as he lived: doing something worthwhile. Thank you, Winters.


• Number Five: clever right to the end.


• A whole host of people have gone missing since the party... We haven't found their bodies or their lanterns yet, but I think it's safe to assume they're probably gone. Here's the list: Melisandre, Yaeris, Gene Hicks, Ahven Sychantus, Scott Ryder, Nathan Drake, Brienne of Tarth, Raylen Givens, John Constantine, Chloe Frazier, Irwin Wade, Elisha Harper, Dick Grayson, Aragorn, Rafe Adler, Billy Russo, Ben Hargreeves, Kyna Midha, Washington, Sam Drake, Daniel Riordan, Replica Riku Dawn, Eleven, Shadow Moon

[Worthy of note: this bulletin comes to you not via a newspaper, but by the network, now that Robin's connected with you guys once more!]

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Comments

@riku; text

[equinoctials]

It's not Replica. His name was Dawn.

@keeper; text

[beaconkeeper]

Oh, was it? Shoot, sorry.

I'll change it.

[equinoctials]

wait
YOU were the one writing these?

outside the post office | open

[callada]

[Rosinante had, naturally, expected physical paper this week as with all prior weeks. When he finds there's no paper copy and asks the postmaster about it, at least the spirit has the good sense to gesture at his tablet.

Robin's style is familiar now to him and her words to Winters and Five are kind, but he can't help but feel bitter anyway. And then he scrolls through the list of names that feels like it will never end.

So if you, too, have come looking for a newspaper, you can find him sitting on the ground with his back against the post office building, tablet resting open on one knee and cigarette in hand as he stares in stunned silence. Linger long enough and he'll ask:]

Seen the latest bulletin yet?

[equinoctials]

[ It's a good thing Riku never found out who announced Kairi's death or what was said when her corpse was found, because he'd have a less sympathetic reaction to Robin. He came here to follow up on a tip - that there might be some records here about what's been going on.

He finds a welcome and familiar face, instead; Riku's on the mend from injuries taken during the mission at the lighthouse, the haggard and exhausted look hasn't waned, but a lot of that has to do with the toll grief and sleeplessness has had on him.

His hands curl at his sides into fists. He nods once: ]

I know for sure one of them isn't coming back.

...Did you know any of them?

[callada]

[Kairi, he has to assume. The one Riku had been looking for; who he'd promised he'd keep an eye out for also. But he never had seen her in all that chaos. Poor Riku, losing someone he was so close to.

He nods slowly at the question as he thumbs the tablet screen up and down, looking the list over again, then reaches into his shirt and withdraws the sailboat pendant.]

Melisandre gave me this on my birthday. Wade, he was one of the medics, and shared a room with me and Mary. Helped me look after her.

[Gene was a good man. Washington was a fellow Marine, even if from a different world. He and Kyna had been sweet to each other and it made him smile, knowing there could be love in a place like this. Many of the others he'd spoken to at least once also. Not one name on that list was a person he wanted to see gone.

Reminds him of some of the lists at home after some of the battles. He must have ended up on a list like this also, as if this wasn't sobering enough, so that calls for another long, slow draw of tobacco.]

[pure_havoc]

[what a coincidence, he came looking for the news and discovered the same thing. Well, except for ignoring the Postmaster, which will probably bite him in the ass later.]

...no.

[seeing that the commander has his tablet out, Cao Pi catches on very quickly and retrieves his own from the makeshift pouch he's taken to wearing in order to carry all the cumbersome shit this world has loaded on them. Ah, there it...wow. Damn.

Ah.

[paletteswap]

So many gone.

[He looks morose. Had there been something they could have done to prevent this?]

@subzero, text, open; i am so sorry

[saibot]

The obituaries are a true testament to the grand success of those who choose to partake in a certain mission.

@hasashi

[comehere]

Do not attempt to bring dishonour to a name that does not belong to you.

['Cause you definitely are not Kuai Liang.]

@Nightshade

[primordialerebus]

Fuck off.

@missprincessmary; voice

[withsadness]

You need to work on your friend-making skills...

@Grandmaster

[paletteswap]

Have you no honor left at all?

@Nightshade | Text

[primordialerebus]

They might still come back! I can keep watch at the church until they do.

[ Denial? Don't know her. ]

@missprincessmary; voice

[withsadness]

Do you want company?

[consecrates]

do the dead resurrect in the church?
i'm sorry, i just arrived recently and i'm still figuring out how this place works.

@bestimmt; voice.

[mutterseelenallein]

[ thinking that voice isn't on yet: ]

Urgh... This is on... right?

[ oh- it is.

...

right: ] Are there any particular signs we should watch for in regards to those who are coming back? I can help with the watch if you need to take a break.

[evulsed]

[ "They're probably gone" it says, but Vanitas had been in the newspaper and he came back. His eyes scan the list, he reads the comments posted, and then he pockets his device and opens a dark corridor to the church, ready to wait in the pews for the ressurections to start. ]

[equinoctials]

[ Riku didn't intend to visit the church again, he was just passing by when he caught the scent of Darkness, and one he's become more familiar with over time. Curiosity is a welcome change from the vacillation between grief and just feeling numb, so he indulges it, the door creaking noisily as he opens it and slips inside.

The scent is stronger here. He eventually picks out Vanitas under the gentle glow of candlelight. ]

...What are you doing in here?

@HK, TEXT

[catholicisms]

( it's generally Matt's job to be a huge creep that knows things nobody told him. he finds it slightly disconcerting to have the shoe on the other foot.

but he's not here to talk about his plant baby, instead, )

Is that amount of casualties normal around here?

@parker

[webshoots]

This is the first time it's happened for us, as a group.

But as for 'normal'? Doc Ingram or the Keeper would be your best bet for an answer to that question.

@cuttingedge; text

[knifecollecting]

I've only seen one or two. Sometimes none.

Never so many at once.

@cuttingedge; text

[knifecollecting]

They deserve more than just a paragraph on a weekly newsletter.

@keeper; text

[beaconkeeper]

I know, but this is all I can do for right now.

I'm working on something better. I just need some time to get it organized.

@jtodd

[mind_blown]

i want 2 no how tht many experienced ppl died
this is fucking ridiculous

[ he's still pissed and sad and pissed again about his brother ]