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[atypically]

[ If he looks a little nervous, it's because he is. Caleb, like, lives on Instagram, but this is different. This is talking to people and he's never been terribly good at it. That comes from lack of practice, surely, but all the same. At least this isn't in person, so he won't get lost in a sea of emotions. ]

Uh...hi. Hi. I'm...Caleb. They said I have to go to school, but uh...I just finished school back home? I mean, I was waiting for the graduation ceremony in a couple of weeks, but I'm done with school, so do I really have to go repeat my senior year just because I'm still seventeen?

[ He'd really rather work full time if he has to work, even if he's just flipping burgers. What's the point of working part-time and taking his senior year over again? That's fucking stupid. ]

What do I have to do to, like... [ he huffs an awkward laugh, running a hand through his hair. ] you know, not do that?

[Voice]

[prophesiedone]

[Since his fight with Vaderhis Shadow, Anakin has been keeping a low profile - except when he has to work. Or take his dogs for walks. Life goes on, after all - even if you have a split lip, a black eye, a bruised throat and his only hand in a splint. Oh and all the bumps and bruises under his clothes too.

He sounds hoarse as he speaks - maybe he should have relied on text? But that requires patience and he has little of that.]

I don't want to be sent back. If there is a way to save this world, let's find it. I know that has been said before, but it feels like we're down to the wire.

[Or maybe he is panicking because he went face to face with his worst self.]

It can't all be for nothing. I won't let it.

So let's... Do something. [Before he explodes.] I'll play along. I'll do what it takes even if...

Even if that means dying or - [A worse fate.]

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[pillz]

[there's no preamble, no identification— just a couple clips of from recent news in the united states of america, a couple of photographs, press releases. any import who's been half-awake for the recent chaos will recognize plenty of the connections with the latest global threat of o.t.o., and even reposts of old material.]

( Decrypted prophesy repost! )

LOCAL INTEREST
VERNON, NEVADA A pair of 7-year-old twins claim to have seen the Great Weaver in a dream. The children's parents to bring them to Jeopardy to be baptized into the Church of the Great Web Mistress next week.

An iconic landmark of the Porter City, the Church structure is a cathedral within the ImPort city. Practitioners dedicate their faith to a giant spider god. Like larger religious groups, parishioners of the faith are known to go door-to-door in local neighborhoods, spreading the good word and inviting residents to board game night. The Church welcomes[...]

NEVADA STATE COVERAGE
JEOPARDY, NEVADA The National Park conservation area has recently expanded to absorb a natural rock formation outside Jeopardy. The main attraction includes a massive, wind-carved rock called the Altar. Park hours, weather data, and other information are available at[...]

[there are a handful of other fragments of information as well, tangentially related to spiders, twins, religious groups-- probably dead-ends.]

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OOC: OOC plotting sub-thread here. Specifically, if you're planning on contacting the mods or something about the above information, please make a note there, so that your fellow players know who's trying to pursue what and can coordinate.

Kavinsky, Ronan, Kylo Ren, Murphy, and BAMAN were involved in acquiring the above information, so any of them may respond if your character replies to this post. They most likely will have skills or swag to help ur character out if you want to get involved on this level.

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[fursleuth]

[For those of you who haven't seen the cute electric mouse-thing in the deerstalker hat, this message is gonna be a shock to you, and Pikachu knows it.]

Yeah, hi. Let's get this out of the way before I get to the serious stuff. Yes, I am adorable. No, you may not pet me or smother me in affection until after the apocalypse is over. I got massive amounts of crap to do, gang. I can't have these distractions. Bad enough there's super crazy, super-powerful Pokemon running around. And zombies... But like seriously? The Ultra Beasts thing? Is that still a problem? Never mind. Not important right now. Bigger things.

[He seems to be broadcasting from on top of a table and as he moves, you can see a whiteboard behind him with a lot of hastily scrawled notes like SPIDER CHURCH??? and TWINS= NOT LITERAL??? as well as a copy of the completed code that everyone received right in the middle in the worst handwriting you've ever seen. LOOK HAVE YOU SEEN HIS TINY HANDS???

Pikachu, meanwhile, is picking up a coffee cup and once he has it, he returns to the frame.] So we all know the whistleblower is probably not blowing smoke up our asses. That's a thing we know we can believe. As far as anything else... We're on our own. I got the same notes nearly everyone else has and a lovely dane has already offered to spill those deets, so I'm not gonna steal her thunder. [He snorts like that's some big pun.

Because it is.] But seriously... I think the answer to our problems is in this. [He gestures to the whiteboard, indicating the full code.] This is the big deal right here, and those of us who ain't big on giving the big one-two punch to the bad guys are gonna need to focus up on it. I need my people on this- yeah, I'm talking to you, detective crew. Y'all were great. We had some good times solving this, but now we're in the big leagues.

[He drains the coffee cup, tosses it aside and picks up another from offscreen.] And we need some people to look into this spider church thing. Do some reconnaissance. Maybe do the whole wig-and-disguise thing and pretend to be cultists. I dunno. I'm not a spy, but I'm sure some of you are. I'm just tossing ideas out here... Wait. Is this line secure? Forget I said any of that.

[He coughs.] The point is, we gotta take our big brains and throw down, 'cause I'm pretty sure our only hope is getting all these gods together. [He slurps his coffee, weirdly nonchalant.] Trust me... This is like normal in my world. Bringing gods together to save the world? Always works... Except when it's actually what causes the end of the world, but I'm at least 89% sure that's not the case here.

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[crypdick]

[ The Outsider is in Jeopardy, on a roof near the church of the ancient web mistress. He has a jar in his hand with two spiders in it, which draws his black-eyed gaze more than the camera.]

Look at you all, scrambling for answers. Some of you even have the answers already, don't you?

You're in the thick of a storm, a ship-killer. Will you sink? What will you do to keep afloat? Will you throw a pair overboard to appease the seas? Or will you go down with the ship, standing tall until the water takes you?

[ He looks away from the jar to look at the camera.]

For those of you who are willing to take action yourselves, the best you can, what do you need to succeed?

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[mofi]

y dont 1 of u
just rip open time n space 2 another dimension
n toss the bitch thru it?
food for thought

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[cantgetanyworse]

Hmm... [Says Jane. She's been trying to hold back on this, hoping someone else would do it, and yet...

She can't not do it, and maybe it can be beneficial.]

I'm sure that... there are a lot of people like myself - who haven't been here for terribly long - who perhaps don't understand the significance of what may be happening now. What we've been warned about. [Since the strange message, that is.]

Thanks to a very helpful young man, a while ago I came into the possession of some very detailed note-taking on the past of this place, and the porter, and... well. I'm sure I'll miss something here or there, but...

[She manages what looks like a nervous, slightly forced smile.]

I'd like to help. Atropos, the OTO, all of it... I might have barely known a thing without these notes, and I very much doubt I'm the only one. So. [Jane clasps her hands under her chin, the phone propped up against something.]

Does anyone have any questions... that perhaps I could help them find an answer to?

oo1 ✨ audio, un: troy.

[photografist]

[ Donna doesn't opt into the video function when she starts up the communicator, an interesting little piece the soldiers on base handed over to her. Some people back home might have liked to get their hands on it for curiosity's sake.

Her inflection runs a little dry, events of the past couple of days and trying to get her bearings weighing upon her shoulders. To arrive in a world that's officially on a Doomsday Clock isn't the welcome party she wanted. ]

I'm trying to get this straight: one of the Moirai is on her way to potentially devour this world, but in the meantime one of her other sisters is going to keep bringing us in and the soldiers on base are kind of raising their arms up in defeat over it. That's thrilling.

[ Her tongue clicks before she adds: ]

Alright, so who jump started the apocalypse?



( ooc: feel free to action for maurtia falls #004. backdated to earlier in the day before this goes up. )