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Hey. Hope you're all staying safe. It's icy out there.

The Postmaster gave me a package. Couldn't tell you who sent it but I think there's been a mistake. This was inside.

[ There's a picture attached of a yarn snowman wearing a knit black cap and black and white knitted scarf with green buttons for eyes. It's pretty cute... ]

Does this belong to anyone?

One more thing.

The movie theater downtown has a stage and multiple film projectors. Big library of films too. The spirits working the concession counter seem okay too.

Only problem is it needs power. Take a look at this.

[ The attached picture shows five slots that look like they could fit a big square car battery or something like it. ]

Not exactly urgent. Still, a movie sometimes might not be too bad.

-Riku

legalcy

[This storm cloud that randomly shoots lighting at him makes any sort of work inefficient, but as least no one can tell that he had to pause his typing once he hits "send".]

Re: Presence of Others on This Planet.

I have spoken with the Hint Machine at the Night Market regarding the presence of other sentient beings apart from ourselves, and while its answer was not entirely helpful, it has confirmed that we are not alone.

However, it has refused to provide any specifics apart form printing a crude image created from writing symbols.

[Attached is an image of the Hint-O-Matic's readout, edges aligned with the sides of the camera. He took his time ensuring it was even.]

Does anyone recognize these faces?

Signed,
Minimus Ambus

((OOC: feel free to threadjack and share info!))

lunchbreaks

Hello there, everyone, this is Aziraphale. With the advent of the Songbird on our devices, I was hoping to ask you all a favor. Or, well, it's more like a proposal, really. If people with musical talents could volunteer their time, we could record some songs with our devices and publish them for public listening on the why-fye.

I was also wondering if anyone here was familiar with the work of someone called Freddie Mercury, or perhaps one of the Velvet Undergrounds? They are performers from Earth, somewhere in the latter half of the 20th century or early 21st century. I would like to make a personal request that we could make some of their music available post-haste!

I admit that I have very little to offer in this project, myself. However, if anyone is interested in book passage recitations, I would be delighted to take requests, provided I'm familiar with the material!

[ Additional note: Aziraphale has intended to filter this message to everyone except for Crowley to be able to see it, but he has messed up and just made it open. ]

dadandgone

Okay. I give up.

Rosinante and I have been pouring over this crossword puzzle book from the General Store for a long time and between the two of us we just have no idea what some of these clues are referring to.

You guys are all from different worlds, right? Maybe one of you can help us.

[He includes a picture. The picture is an open puzzle book, turned to a mostly completed crossword puzzle page. Anyone from a normal, modernish Earth might realize that most of what they have left blank are due to context problems related to being from very different realities.

Feel free to tease them, help them, or somewhere in between.]

((ooc: Lauren helped me make this post by putting together a visual reference for you all. The words highlighted in pink are the words that Maes and Rosinante DO NOT KNOW. We figured we would give you the solutions, in case you are like us and play characters who would actually BE GOOD at crosswords while we are not.

Replies may come from Maes or Rosinante as they are both far too invested in solving this now.))

sunborne

Hey guys! So, I made a post about studying the language a month or so, right? I made progress on it! Not a lot of progress but some progress? With words and everything? Got a few phrases and descriptives and stuff like that!

Hmmm... It'll be easier to explain this if I demonstrated it to you guys, right? Right- I'll use the ocarina for this but, um, I promise, we'll try to transcribe the melodies to other instruments soon. Anyways-

[ daylight then proceeds to play a series of melodies and notes, taking his time to explain what they mean and how to play it on the ocarina.

when he finishes his little demo, he continues talking: ] Later, in the day, I'll add all of this stuff to the spirit language app we have on the tablet here. So you guys can practice it for yourselves if you want to do that.

And... Um... For the next few months, I'll be more focused on trying to crack the grammar of the spirits' language since I think the lexicon - I think that means the total words and stuff? (sorry, grandma!) - is robust enough that I don't need to keep digging for new combinations to the phonetics anymore.

So yeah... That's it! If you guys, like, have questions about how to play the music and, er, stuff- Let me know? I'll try to answer what I can.

techtype

So...random question for anyone who's attached currently...or has been attached in the past, I'm not picky!

what's the best way to ask someone out?

that isn't "just go up to them and ask". I've tried, it don't work.

...asking for a friend, of course.

arsarcanum

i dunno if anyone else is staying in the library but i'm gonna set up there for a few days
sorry if i'm invading someone else's territory
i'll leave as soon as i can get somewhere permanent to stay

[ just a friendly heads up to any library denizens! ~~sorry angel~~. ]

mollymocked

[We open to the sounds of fiddling with his tablet.] Fuck- she showed me how to queue this up, but-

[Suddenly a melody begins to play, which nearly startles him. By the time, he collects himself, it’s already stopped and he queues it up again, and then repeats it on loop.] Right, so that is something I got from one of our gorgeous guests from a couple weeks ago. I went looking to see if I could find myself another adventure, because as lovely as you lot are, I get restless when I’m stuck in one place for too long, and this is what I have. Now it’s not exactly a location or even a hint at a location, but she said, and I’m quoting, “That’s all you’re getting until the tablets have GPS functionality.”

[He clicks his tongue] I assume that’s… a very complicated way of saying “until we get a map.” [You can practically hear him shrug it off like it's not any big deal.] Anyway. Has anyone heard anything like this anywhere? And which of you arseholes is bored enough to go on what’s either a wild goose chase or some sort of awful trap? Bound to be exciting either way.

[Come on, you know you wanna join him in some shenanigans.]

mindofathief

So, uh.

[Some fiddling on the other end. Duster is almost used to the audio function.]

I've been crashing here and there for the night, but considering that it's always cold and I can't risk sleeping outdoors anymore, does anyone have an open space in their house I can sleep in for the rest of the winter? I'll help with cooking.

ultraviolents

[ hi everyone; here's a first time poster to the network. she usually prefers to not be seen OR heard, but given recent events she figured it would be beneficial to issue a warning to those who don't already know about what she's about to tell them. ]

I'm sure anyone who participated is already well aware of this, but as it turns out, asking the machine for details, whatever they are, leads to varying consequences. You can decide for yourself whether or not what it tells you is worth whatever it decides to take from you, but if you'd prefer not to be messed with any further than we've already been, I'd advise staying away from it when the market comes back around.

itselbitch

Hello, fellow citizens of Beacon. It's me. Eliot. [ for however grandiose his tone remains, there's boredom lingering underneath. ]

We're getting to that time of the year, and I'm sure most of you still look lovely in the same clothing you arrived in, but without a doubt your sundresses and polos are not sufficient for the. Well. Gradually lowering and soon to be possibly freezing temperatures.

Of course, there's your choice of thrift shop clothing available in the general store, and far be it from me to keep you from popping tags and looking for a come up, but I've also perused the same clothing and. [ he hums and sighs. ]

If you'd like some winter clothing that fits you better and has been freshened up for your use, let me know. Let's get you clothed properly, mm?

[ there's a pause. a slow inhale, a soft puff. it seems he's smoking. ]

Anyway. Anyone here know A Christmas Carol? We have their permission to reuse their stage as we please, so long as we invite them to whatever we use it for. They showed us their own production, so I was thinking why not give back one of our own.

darkeyed

_{[It's rare to see the owner of this un opt for the network over saying whatever he needs to say in person, but in this particular case, he can't go around asking everyone...]}

Has anyone seen Riku? Guy with silver hair. You can't miss him.

Let me know, thanks.

_{[Quick and to the point. But then in a perfect world this would be a quick and to the point mystery solved.]}

EDIT:

_{(OOC: After this thread, M.K. has taken pictures of Bruce's texts and posted them below his original message. Oho, you thought he hadn't learned his lesson about making copies of important documents, but he did.)}

Someone here has an idea of where he is and is hellbent on hiding it from the rest of us. If you have a way to track someone down, use it.

callada

Hey everyone,

Have a look at the images attached to this post. These were taken of the same location in the sky at the same time of day. August 1, September 7, October 4 in that order. The fourth picture is the same as the third, other than my own addition to it to highlight some of the more obvious changes.

I haven't finished going through all of the images yet but the stars are going out. Sometimes one a week, sometimes one a night. Averages out to something like ten to twelve per month from what I can see. Maybe more, since the tablet camera doesn't pick up every star all that well, and the trees get in the way.

For now, I have enough of a star chart to navigate by, so long as those stars don't go dark. I'll let you all know if Doctor Ingram or I see a change in the rate of losses.

If anyone can control cloud layers and wants to give me a clear sky every now and then, I'd appreciate it.

((Here's a cool animated version! Thanks, Xy!))

lunchbreaks

Hello, um, everyone. This is Aziraphale. I know I haven't met all of you, but I have gotten to know a good number of you as of late, and I've come to like you all a great deal, so it doesn't sit quite right with me not to apologize for recent events.

The sinking of the ferry was inexcusable. Our-- my failure, was a direct result of poor planning and lack of transparency, but I do need all of you to know that the intention had been to find our only way out of Beacon as other methods had been exhausted, and it was always in the plan to make subsequent trips for everyone remaining who wished a return home.

But I know that no amount of good intention will bring it back, nor heal your injuries, nor surface the supplies it was carrying. For all this, I am deeply and terribly sorry; this was, in no way, how I should have repaid all your kindnesses. I understand your anger, and you can direct it at me, if you would like, if you have need of a place to focus your ire.

However, I am afraid, actually, that I must ask a favor. I have, though not for lack of trying, not been able to retrieve much of the sunken raw material - if anyone should lend abilities, magical or otherwise, to help in the rebuilding of the ferry or the docks, you will have my deepest gratitude, for whatever that is worth.

I will try to assist with this as much as I possibly can, and otherwise will be available to assist those who require healing, though my ability to do so has been stunted.

shadowsran

[Someone had been around the docks when...all of that happened, broken an arm, and spent the following days snugly shut up tight in her house. Not a weakness she wants on display, of course, but she's angry, and having been in no useful condition for supply-regathering isn't much of a boon to her pride. But a handful of days shut up are little better.]

Couple things, just, quick.

Couldn't stick around the ferry and people's chief concern seems to have been food, which is fine, but I'm wondering if anyone got gardening supplies, and if those made it? I've mentioned it in passing to a handful, but especially given the exact worry I had was just proven right, no excuse to not be proactive anymore. We have good gardening types here, and it's better for the town as a whole if we can set a couple plots up...immediately? Fast as possible. A couple of small greenhouses are kind of a must at this point too. I'm not really up to building and clearing condition right now, so anybody brave enough to turn soil and move rocks and handle basic construction, drop me a line. People I talked to before, uh, the same I guess? We can divvy up who goes where, five people per square foot's a bad spread of resources.

Second thing - I'm getting the impression nobody's liking those flowers very much. [She's...largely unperturbed. Distressingly accustomed, at this point. Were the month not getting off on such a broken foot she'd be amused.] If it's crippling and you're desperate for something, stop by and I can give you a little cone to breathe through. Plague doctor-style, but tiny. Cute. [Deadpan:] You'll look like little birds, and it'll smell like pine.

otrazhenie

Has anyone found a way to burn things yet?

[ The voice that comes over the network is clearly exhausted, an almost husky rasp to the words that are slightly muffled, as if her mouth might be covered by a layer of fabric. ]

Because I'd love to get rid of these damn flowers and burning them sounds really cathartic right now.

[ She sounds weary, frustrated, and a little bit sick. And for good reason: one of the perks of being a vampire is an enhanced sense of smell. ]

Alternatively, are there any magic users out there who could set up a ward or something to keep this smell out?

donttalktome

Well, congratulations on managing to destroy the notion that I had seen all the idiocy this place had to offer.
Leave it to you all to find some way to sink to new lows. Literally.
I do hope you plan on not getting yourselves killed, because we may well have just lost our only way to add to the population.
Honestly, the whole thing makes me almost want to withdraw what I'm about to offer, but here I am anyway.
You can save your thanks for later.

A while ago, it came to my attention that not everyone here is used to dealing with a sunless environment.
In fact, it seems that a grand majority of you are terrestrial.
You don't know the protocols for a 24 hour cycle without daylight, and eventually that's going to have, let's say, a negative impact on your mental health.
Without your naturally-evolved signals for sleeping and waking, your circadian rhythm will become an absolute disaster.
Without UV light, your brain will not produce as much serotonin as it should.
You'll be exhausted, depressed, and withdrawn, and you'll start to suffer cognitive issues.
Memory loss, lack of coordination and concentration, etc.
In the worst of cases, you may suffer a psychotic break, which is something none of us, myself especially, want to deal with.

These are not mere hypotheticals.
Excusing what amounts to maybe a few months, I lived my entire life without a sun.
In that time I met a substantial amount of people who hadn't grown up that way, but for some reason or another chose to venture out into the void.
Many of them adapted, eventually.
The rest, to put it lightly, lost it.
Mostly that just entailed their being reduced to useless lumps, but sometimes things got a bit more exciting, and that's something I'd like to avoid.

Luckily for everyone, there's a fairly easy solution.
In addition to exercise and eating more fish and eggs, you need to regulate your sleep/wake cycle.
To assist in that, I have the gift of a simple application.
It operates as both an alarm and a stop watch.
Which may seem incredibly banal, but I assure you it'll come in handy.
Whatever makes the most sense for whatever species you are, make a schedule and keep to it.
That whole essay above wasn't just written to glorify a timer, it was written to tell you why you need one.

As an aside, this little update allows you to convert hand-written characters into text, and it also includes an application exclusively for multiple-image sharing.
The latter of which I'm sure you'll all decide is far more important, but don't forget to use the goddamn alarm.

[The aforementioned apps are attached to the post, though not separately; downloading one downloads them all. The first is, as described, a fairly simple alarm clock/timer/stop watch, and the second allows users to share multiple images at a time in a collection, like an album. The images can be captioned individually (or collectively) by the sender. And finally, the tablets now offer the option to write with your finger instead of tapping letters on a keyboard. The scribbles will be translated into text, so hopefully you have good handwriting!]

Oh, and the next person who tries to hack into my tablet is getting a very unfortunate name change on the network.

kungfuey

I'm looking to speak to anyone who;

1. Has communicated with the Church hermit
2. Has come across any railroad tracks in Beacon
3. Has seen any antibiotics lying around

[ She would have left it there but figures maybe she should probably let people know this next bit; ]

I also spotted a giant spirit in the woods around the museum. Try not to get killed by it.

beaconkeeper

Hi everyone! I'm Robin, or the Lighthouse Keeper, for those of you I haven't talked to yet. Hello hello! Welcome to Beacon!

Sooooo I know it's been pretty dark and gloomy these past few weeks. :( I hope the little thing Rastus set up with the paper boats helped. That was like, totally his idea! And really pretty to see from up here, I gotta say.

But! I want to get some ~*~positivity~*~ flowing now, so I set up a scavenger hunt for you guys! There's a whole list of things below for you all to find, all stuff you can find in Beacon somewhere! I think, anyway. It's been a while since I've been down there, but I left the prompts pretty open-ended, so feel free to interpret stuff however you want. I'll be the judge, but since I can't be in town with you all, I want you to take selfies with the stuff on the list!!! I know that'll be kind of a pain since the tablets don't have a flash, but I'm not judging on quality. Just do your best, and be creative!

Here's a couple rules and instructions before I get to the list:

- I put up little headers for each item down below, so to submit a "find", comment with your selfie under the item header you want it to count toward. That way we can all see everyone's pictures! It'll be really cute! You guys can like, comment around on people's pictures, too. [ooc note: submissions may come in the form of a written description of the selfie, or you can link pictures to give us the vibe! just make sure to note which thing in the picture is intended to count for the find.]

- You can totally work together on this! If a bunch of you take a big group selfie with a thing on the list, all of you will get credit for it! Teamwork is really great!

- One selfie can count toward more than one list item, but let me clarify! You could, for example, take a selfie with someone else with both of your lanterns down at the beach, and this submission could count toward list items #3, #5, and #7 all at once! BUT one "thing" in each selfie can only count toward one list item, so taking a selfie with your fabulous outfit from home could only satisfy either #9 or #10, not both. Make sense? If not, let me know!

- The scavenger hunt ends on September 25, but you can keep submitting stuff until the end of the month! I can see the timestamps on pics, though, so I'll know if you CHEATIN' 👀!!! [ooc note: the takeaway here is that backdates selfies are allowed up until the next intro log, as prizes will arrive via the ferry. oocly, selfie timestamps mean nothing since these ain't real selfies, it's just an ic thing!]

- Everyone who participates will get... a prize! The prize will depend on MY JUDGEMENT but everyone will get something cool for chipping in! I'm gonna keep the prizes a secret, but trust me, you don't want to miss out!!!

Oookay, I think that covers everything, so... Here's the list!

A forest spirit with feathers
A work of art
Someone who has helped you
A letter
Your favorite lantern
Something delicious
A postcard view
Someone you've never spoken to
Something from home
A fabulous outfit
Somewhere you've never been
Your favorite place to be
A forest spirit like you
A web
Something you treasure
A hard-won friend
The Rat King
A gift
Something beautiful
Someone beautiful
A game
A forest spirit bigger than you
An effort of teamwork
Footprints in the woods
The lighthouse

Good luck everyone! :)

primordialerebus

Did anyone see what the fuck happened to the church????

[ Attached is a photo of the main area looking like a tornado went through it. Pews are scattered everywhere: some shattered against the wall, others look like they got attacked by a large cutting instrument or something. Even the walls and floors didn't leave the incident unscatched, with quite a few new cracks and gouges decorating them. Indeed, the only thing that can be called untouched is the alter of candles up front. ]

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Entries tagged with aziraphale (xy)

[text] @riku; lost & found and other stuff [open]

text @Ultra_Magnus; We're Not Alone

audio \ @hello \ or is this fantasy? \ open

[text] @m.hughes; crosswords [open]

@daylit; audio.

[text] @quicksilver

[text] @langit; library? [open]

[audio] @mollymauk; [open]

[audio] @Lucky; Roommate Quest [open]

AUDIO; @badeaux | possible cw for mentions of sensory and memory loss in comments

@regina; voice | open

audio | @sdkbmri92kgb

text | @silent | Oct 21

audio / @hello / open

[audio] @silver; Backdated to the fifth [open]

voice; @elena » open

[text] @dr; OS v.3 [open]

[text] @helsing; I've always liked to play with fire [open]

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