I. Around Town/Action
Thank everything she was in her civvies. It wasn't that she fancied traipsing around town in soaked shoes and trousers, but even Catalina had to admit to herself that she already stood out amongst the townsfolk--her military blues would've only added to the show.

Of course, that show included the brunette questioning every talking piece of technology for at least an hour before finally catching on. She'd absently asked questions of the hologram at the Bay  and was now considering throwing the small device asked women up with in front of the next car that drive by.

At least she's paying atten--

"Shit! Sorry, sorry," Rebecca Catalina isn't terribly tall, and she doesn't look particularly imposing, but she had been moving fast enough that whoever she bumped into she hit hard. Waving one hand in apology and offering the other if she's knocked the stranger over, she sighs. "Wasn't paying a lick of attention to where I was going."

II. Video

She has surprisingly not tossed the phone into the street. She's continued pressing buttons on and off throughout the day, and the feed turns on with a jolting view of a mess of curly brown hair and the profile of a new face. She looks simultaneously aggravated and confused.

"--can't even figure out how to turn the thing on!"

[The camera is on, recording an... interesting... scene.

For once from this feed, it's a quiet one. Mordecai has turned it on, and gently set it down, to face...

A Meowth.

Of whom is just sitting there on the table, pleased as punch to be there.

Mordecai has taken a seat across from it, still within shot of the camera.... and just stares.

Just steeples his hands in front of his face.

And stares. Meowth doesn't really seem to notice, nor care, about its new owner, just comfortably curling up into a ball on the table and appearing to doze off as the almost expressionless cat just.... fucking stares.

At length, words]

... What do I do?

[Hear that. Hear the faint, growing horror? He had no idea what he was signing up for when he took that ticket down there.

Babies. Apparently.

He signed up for babies]

Who: Hughes and Mustang
When: January 2 smack dab in the middle of the blizzard
Where: Woods of Everglades
What: Stranded in the 2spooky woods during the biggest blizzard of the year

( The cold definitely bothers them anyway )

Who: Everglade
What: There's some rather rude mannequins breaking and defacing property in Everglade, particularly "public" buildings.
Where: Various parts of Everglade, probably a thread to move to the woods/Wonderland.
When: About midday after the election results.
Warnings: Creepy mannequins.

( Mannequins are kind of dicks )

[The feed switches on to Winry laying on her bed, chin resting on the pillow as she looks at the device. It was clear she was tired as a yawn escaped her lips. But she had something to say even if she was overly sleepy.]

Hey... So... I've been working constantly for a week or two ago trying to finish a present for a friend of mine. [She smiles sleepily.] I finally managed to finish it so Ed, if you are actually paying attention to this can you please come over as soon as possible.

[She used her free hand to rub her eyes, it gives her a moment before she carries on.]

Because of that, I need to take a few days to just relax and catch up on some shut-eye, so if anyone needs me for anything, it's best to just say now before I do because I may not be paying attention to the feed for the next three days or so.

[A small yawn passes by her lips again.]

Whoever works at Genessia hospital, this is also to let you know that if you have patients that were referred to my area that I pretty much have finished all the projects so please just go in and check them over and if it needs more to do to please leave a message on my device.

[She slowly moves to sit up, stretching slightly.]

That's all really. Except if there is an emergency to actually come to my apartment. [She waves sleepily for a moment before switching off the public feed and switching to a private one.]

Private to Riza, Roy, Hughes, Alphonse and Edward

As I already mentioned I'm going to be pretty much out of it for the next few days. So if you need to get something from my place, I've left five keys in a box outside my apartment. The box is locked with a password which at the moment is simply 1905. You can keep the key after you get it as it's meant to be for you.

Ed, I will need you to come over to try what I made on, see if it's actually okay.

[The video comes on to show a blonde teenager frowning at the camera. He's been playing with the phone for a while now, figuring out how it works, and he thinks he has a decent handle on it now. Enough to make a video, at least. He's not entirely sure how the broadcasting to everyone thing works, but he assumes it's something like a radio, but with picture. Sort of. Or like a movie, but with sound, and shown real time.]

Hello? Is anyone there?

[He peers at the phone like it'll respond. It doesn't.]


My name is Alphonse Elric. I'm not sure how I got here, and I know that we're not supposed to be able to get back, but there has to be a way.

[After all, so much of his life has been about doing the impossible. There's always a way. Well, almost always.]

If anyone knows anything, let's talk.

This is cute and all.

[He waves his hand, frowning.]

I've got shit to do.

[There's a clap and now he's brandishing a blade through his sleeve.]

Can't do a kidnapping right now, come and face me you coward!

WHO: OPEN TO ALL!
WHAT: Holiday party! Date auction! Shenanigans.
WHEN: December 15th, 2017 - Evening
WHERE: Fairy Tale HQ - Fayren
NOTES: The auction and the kissing contest are time sensitive! Bids close and the last kiss will be accepted on Friday, December 22nd, at midnight PST!

Fayren didn't have electricity, but it had something even better.

MAGIC!

There were twinkling colored lights that burned, flickered, and floated in an ethereal way, enchanting the building in a way that fluorescent lights never could. Branches of evergreen were hung here and there to give the air a fresh pine scent. There were also pinecones doused with cinnamon and nutmeg near the doorways.

Except near the kitchens, because the food smells were more than enough to entice the senses. There were mini-sausages swimming in a thick and spicy sauce, sweet and tangy meatballs on toothpicks, vegetables and dip, bite-sized cream puffs, iced sugar cookies, cheese and crackers, mulled cider, and eggnog in alcoholic and non-alcoholic varieties.

The main room, expansive as it was, had plenty of room for music, dancing, and mingling. There were some tables and several chairs set up, and a small stage where musicians were welcome to perform to their heart's content. To the side was an even smaller stage where a sprig of mistletoe was suspended on a loop of scarlet ribbon, with a sign that reads: "Test Your Passion! Win This Arcade Game!" And next to that was a full-sized arcade game version of Alley Brawlers. Might be worth checking out!

But there were more games than that, and more than a few maps set up on easels of the headquarters and where to go to play certain games. A single lane bowling alley (with manual set-up of the pins), a "fishing" booth where people toss a clothespin on a fishing line over a curtain to have a little prize attached by someone hidden on the other side, a ring toss for cans of soda, a cake walk (with full-sized cakes for the winners and cupcakes for the losers), ornament decorating, pin-the-tail-on-the-unicorn, face painting, a pool of rubber ducks with numbers corresponding to prizes on the bottom, goldfish scooping... Almost anything one would find at a carnival was sure to be found here.

As for the auction? Step right up, right past the gauzy white curtains into a big room lit with twinkling golden lights. Anyone was welcome to come in, but if someone wanted to participate as a bidder, they'd have to make a donation at the door. In return, each donor would receive a packet of 100 red tickets with the same number assigned to the bidder name: one roll of tickets with 101 for the first donor, a roll of tickets with 102 for the second donor, and so on.

Cookies and punch were available in this room, with several tables and chairs set up before a large stage with a microphone. Along the wall was a line of clear plastic boxes, with slots on top, set in front of each auction date's face. A card that indicated the name of each person, their age, and a brief description of what they were all about was pasted onto the front of the boxes. People were welcome to look at the line-up if they wanted, or even use some of their tickets prematurely if they wanted, as they were clearly for a drawing. Until the auction starts, soft piano music plays from a stereo running on batteries.

[The last thing Winry could recall was that feeling of blacking out. It had been an awful feeling and she couldn't quite put her finger into describing the feeling in her own mind. She just knew that perhaps...She felt like she had been dying. She could recall her last moments clearly. Her last thoughts and the last thing she said.

So when she found herself suddenly waking up, something she really hadn't been expecting she was admittedly a combination of worried, scared and just plain confused. As she climbed out of the pod quickly, she looked around, grabbing the items that had managed to fall to the ground, hitting the water.

As she nervously left the Bay and soon spotted the hologram, which was quite interesting, to say the least. After listening to it, she started to fidgit with the device and eventually turned it on.]

Hello, hello. Is this on? [She checked briefly for a moment, before nodding.]

Looks like it's on. This is much different than a normal telephone. [She waved slightly.]

Hello, my name is Winry Rockbell and I guess I would be what you call new around here. [Which was a very strange thing to say, but she had a reason for turning the device on.]

I need to ask for directions to the Commons and also possibly for the welcome center. Unless there are maps in which case, please forget I asked.

[She smiled for a moment before it faded briefly. She was thinking about how the others might be doing at home. She figured with what was happening to her it hadn't been going well...But she wanted to have hope too as she turned the device off. Once the device was put away she was already going around and exploring.]

So... Genessia, right?

[ The bored drawl belongs to a man looking just as bored sprawled on the bed of what is obviously one of the sparsely decorated bedrooms in Commonspace. His red eyes are his most striking feature, other than the bottle he is holding in his hand. Just at the edge of the camera, you can make out something which looks like a strange giant sword propped up against the wall. ]

The name's Qrow Branwen, and I hear having been snatched from another world is nothing unusual around here; it's not even a story that earns you a free drink. [ He takes a sip from the bottle. He does play the too cool for you card rather well, but if you look closely you might notice that he looks a little too wan and haggard, like someone who hasn't fully recovered from sickness yet. ] Now that makes it a pretty miserable place in my book, but I'm willing to let you prove me wrong.

First step would be telling me that Taiyang Xiao Long, Yang Xiao Long or Ruby Rose are here. Or Ozpin. Hearing from Ozpin would make this place better, too.

Step two is telling me where I can get a better drink, this swill's better suited to stripping paint.

Who: Everyone
What: Halloween Party
Where: Nova City - After Life
When: 4 PM October 31st to who knows how early of November 1st
Warnings: B for boos and booze. Also Gale is there so that deserves a warning in itself. Is spooky.

----

Welcome to After Life. The entrance of the Nova City nightclub has the additional illumination courtesy of a purple neon bat to welcome the party goers, which that little bat seems more inviting than the almost ominous fog coming out of the front doors. Just beyond the door are a variety of glowsticks, should one feel so inclined to equip themselves with them for the night. The varying colored glass tables are trimmed with fake cobwebs with little spider lights illuminating from beneath it while at each table's end has a jack-o'-lantern of different carvings with color changing LED lights inside. The club's colored strobe lighting reflects off of the club's crystalline walls to help lend to the atmosphere in an almost eerie manner, even adding additional color to the fog hovering over the floor.


As the party begins, Gale makes a special introduction to the ladies who helped make the party possible- Yang Xiao Long, Ayame Sasaki, Gwen Stacy and Mikaela Banes. He wouldn't let the party go on without the much deserved recognition for them.

( You better be good - You better beware )

Video leaving the Bay
[Maes Hughes has accepted the fact that this is the end. Some shapeshifting freak is pointing a gun to his chest disguised as his wife and he just can’t bring himself to harm them even though he knows it’s not her. So this is how it’s going to end, huh...

The next thing he knows, he’s in some weird… thing in some weird place and he really has no idea what’s going on. He figures this must be the afterlife (not at all what he pictured, really) until he watches the video - and boy wasn’t that a trip - and reads over the info that was provided in the Bay. It was all very troubling, really, but since never in his wildest dreams would he be able to come up with this kind of tech he has to assume this is actually real and he’s not dead.

Well, there’s some good news at least.

He fumbles around with the device for a few minutes and has an uncharacteristically serious face on when he finally figures out how to work it and get the video feed up on his way to Genessia City.]

My name is Lieutenant Colonel Hughes and I have just one question:

[He stares hard before he’s suddenly the picture of absolute adoration as he whips photographs seemingly out of thin air and holds them in front of his face.]

Have you seen my baby girl? Her name is Elicia, she’s three years old, and she’s just the cutest little girl on the planet! Look at her, isn’t she stunning? And she’s smart, too! Why just the other day…

[Either mute your devices or interrupt him, people. There’s no limit as to how long he can talk on this subject (or how many pictures he has).]

Action in Genessia City
[Hughes is very certain that the intro video did not mention a single thing about monsters. He’s going to be having words with these Schnees about this. But that’s for later. For now, he lodges a knife square in the face of a… whatever that thing is before he ducks for cover behind a car.]

What the hell is going on? First that… thing and now this? Just where the hell am I?

[He pokes his head out and sees that the coast is clear before he runs another burst down the street towards the Guardian Office. He figures he can get some answers there and maybe help out, but it looks like he’ll have to fight his way there. He’s decent enough in a war, but for this? He could probably use some help.]