[All you can see is bright blue and yellow flaming wings and feathers, but after Marco shifts, it's pretty obvious he's nesting the eggs. They're probably plastic and there's probably nothing in them, but Marco seems to think otherwise, or he's just not willing to take the risk.]

I'm taking off from work until further notice, yoi.

[And he croons them a lullabye. Well... That's a thing.]

[The following leaflet is being distributed throughout each city by random people. They offer each one to every passerby with a pleasant smile. Won't you take a read?

If in Genessia or Attleton: expect the leaflet to be available at local shops and shoved under doors whenever the cities thaw out.]

The Red House Foundation

The Red House Foundation is an initiative started by Grell Sutcliff and Oswald Cobblepot. Donations and a portion of the proceeds from Juliet’s Lair will help support orphans, bereaved families, and adoption services. Support will include mental health and medical support, as well as legal support and consultation. Other businesses, organizations, and the public are encouraged and more than welcome to help raise funds towards this cause.

All funds will be accountable for as transparency is of the utmost importance. Making direct donations to The Red House Foundation is possible via bank transfers. Details are listed below:

[Insert banking details and transfer instructions here]


We thank you for your generous support,


Grell Sutcliff, Co-Founder
Oswald Cobblepot, Co-Founder



[The following is a mass anonymous text to ALL devices, with the subject: Justice for All]

A bounty for the Former Mayor of Everglade. He is wanted alive...or dead, if the former is not possible. If dead, only a level 3 payment will be given, and please provide proof. If alive, the reward is a level 4 payment. Please turn him in to the Everglade authorities so he may be tried for his atrocities.

(ooc: this bounty is first come, first served. It can be shared by more than one person, but the reward will be split amongst the group.)



[Action: Everglade or Fayren]

[During the daytime until 6pm, Grell can be found in Fayren at her shop, Juliet’s Lair. There is a promotional sale going on: all red and green merchandise will either receive 30% off their purchase or have a portion of their sale go towards The Red House Foundation. Customers will be able to choose either at the register. There is a dog next to the register, resting on a nice, large pillow. Grell is working on her tablet behind the counter. At some point, one can hear her playing a game. It sounds like Sugar Crusher. All work an no play...

During the evening, Grell can be seen coming out of the police headquarters, waving politely to whomever saw her to the door. What a nice gentleman! She's walking on the path that leads to the gate. Now just what could she be doing here?]

[Zoro's holding his phone idly in one hand so that it only occasionally shows his face and his new winter coat (sheepskin, very warm and furry), sometimes the video is primarily of the leaden gray sky or a lattice of bare branches which happen to be behind his head as he leans on a railing]

Treehouses are fun and all, right up until all the leaves fall off in the autumn and then it snows for a week straight. [BIG SIGH, his breath vapor in the cold] At least Ace is like a furnace if you get up real close to him, but he drools in his sleep, so.

I wanna know what pays the best, the fastest. We need money for a ship and I ain't content with these piddly little bounties that're barely enough to keep Luffy fed for a week. I heard there was a coliseum somewhere, can you make money doing that? I got a decent price for a book from the ruins but even that seems to be tapped out now.

...and before anyone offers, if it involves wearing a uniform or being nice to people, don't even bother.

[if anyone who has fought him before (or at least heard his complaint about needing strong people to fight) wants to find him for another round, he's still in Fayren when not giving Namur's business a hand in Everglade. The pirate treehouse is easy to spot with no leaves on the trees, but he's also a fairly common figure on the streets and in the taverns, what with green hair, three swords, and no shirt on under that sheepskin coat. Because Zoro.]

Do you know what today is?

Today is the horrible day of the year, where idiots waste hundreds and thousands of pounds of seeds. The tragedy!

This is a public service announcement, save your seeds. If you carve pumpkins or turnips and light them up, save the seeds for the birds. They are edible and delicious and severely underrated.

I will set up a deposit station in all the cities so there will be no excuses! Unless you want to eat them yourself which is understandable and I will give you recipes, thank you.

Who: Marco, Grell, Namur
What: A... chat? It's definitely gonna be a fight
Where: Dock 5, Fayren
When: 10/6

( Band-aids don't fix bullet holes... )

A: [Video]

[Grell is walking along the streets of Nova City while she's making the video post. Because why not? And guess who's abusing a face filter app that gives people flower crowns and such? In her opinion, everyone could use a flower crown. She should get Marco to make some for everyone.]

I was recently asked a very good question. There are some of us here that aren't new to world hopping. The question is: how do you feel about that? Barring irritation at not getting back to your own world.

[Sips her to-go cup of tea.]

To be honest, it's rather exciting. A long vacation from my original vocation, all the while gaining new skills. Free of charge at that! So I can't exactly complain.


( all the action under here! )

[ At last, it's sunny again.

It's not the intense exercise she wants to do, but it is nice to actually be able to walk with her dog for once. Wearing blue-jeans and a button down blouse, Adela can't help feeling just a little bit more cheerful as she looks down to her swiftly-growing dog, making certain to keep him at her side rather than letting him take the lead.

It's only when Ash growls at someone getting too close to Adela that she lets her smile fade, instead kneeling down beside him to pet him and try to calm him down. ]

Easy boy, heel...

[ The dog does stop and bow his head a little, which prompts Adela to smile softly before petting him affectionately. She then tries to follow his gaze to the person Ash was growling at -- whether it 's someone she knows or someone she's never met, they deserve an apology either way. ]

I apologize for that, I am still training him. He will not bite unprovoked, I promise.

Let's just make something completely clear here, yoi.

Chickens have rights.

[.... That was one of hell of a non sequitur.] And anyone who thinks people won't complain about anything you eat is just fooling themselves. I come from a world where even plants are sentient and talk sometimes. And if Big Mama's souls get into the homies around her, all food talks and has eyes and ears and babbles about weird shit like whether or not they'll be tasty. And humans freak out all the time about others eating bugs, even though you'll eat fish and birds that eat bugs, and that's worse because it just means entropy is happening and you're getting less energy value from it. Or do you just like the waste and taste of chaos? Besides, do you know what lobster is? Sea bugs.

I'm not saying don't ever eat anything. I'm saying, you're all disgusting. [Points a finger. Isn't he great?] Have you ever heard of-- [HAS TO STOP HIMSELF FROM THROWING UP SORRY, complete with fist over his mouth, quietly breathing to stay deadpan.] balut? [DUN DUN DUN. Also clearly from his face, this is the most heinous thing he's ever heard of.] It makes the satire A Modest Proposal by Jonathon Swift seem absolutely humane, yoi! And for those who don't know, he was suggesting convincing the nobles to start eating babies that would otherwise starve to death. And that's not even the sick part, the sick part is that the nobles were only mad that the babies weren't good enough for them to eat. Kind of like veal. Which is baby calves. Only not only is it baby calves, they can only be fed milk or they stop tasting like newborns. You freaks.

[ARMFOLD.] So before you start worrying about whether sharks eating sharks is cannibalism, or whether it's okay to eat humans, or only non-humans, or if fish can feel pain, let me just tell you. They all have lives, and you know what nuts and berries are? Sex organs of plants. You know why testes are called nuts? That's why! And berries are just like ovaries. And hell, caviar is considered by weirdo humans to be a delicacy and that's just literally going into a fish and scraping out her eggs. Humans either just never think of how disgusting it is, or they learn to stop caring.

But if you care about one food today, don't eat balut. It's filthy and wrong and you should be ashamed. Go eat plant testes. Or bee vomit. You sickos. You disgust me.

Oi, but seriously. Chickens have rights. Just because you raise them as food doesn't mean you can treat them like slaves, scrape out their eggs, or cut off their beaks. Let them live in peace, and grow nice and big, and then you can do the food thing. Because otherwise someday a giant bird might just decide to eat you. [If only Buggy were here to testify...]

[But that appears to be the end of his rant. Finally.]

[Action: However speaking of giant birds.... There's an extra huffy sparkly blue phoenix hanging around the outdoor cafes, hissing and glaring at anyone who orders eggs for brunch today. :| It's just one of those days.... Bet you wish there was a vigilante to help stop him now, huh? Well, maybe not. Or maybe you can stop him. BE THE HERO THAT NON-VEGANS NEED EVEN IF THEY DO NOT DESERVE!]

[ooc: Do not google balut if you are squeamish about half-grown ducks or chickens still in the eggs.]

[Nagito who normally smiled as much as he could when talking to everyone was rather troubled looking. He held the paper in his hands and sighed heavily before addressing the camera.]

This... this is suppose to be something to root for? This vigilante....

[However, the person from before had already spoken up. Even the paper deemed that person pointless. So who was the other person mentioned who commit those atrocities? Could they be one and the same? Had he missed something?]

All I read was something despair inducing. Who would consider something like that any good at all? I can't believe in this person's hope, they are more a bringer of despair.

[To go so far... it was inhuman. It was like a monster.]

However, I will give one thing to this person, surely such actions and such despicable means will entice Hope among the people as they come together against him. It's the only acceptable way to tolerate this.

[He pauses a moment and laughs cheerlessly to himself.]

Ah... and I thought perhaps this place would be different. I thought perhaps this place was lighter. I thought maybe....

Now, I suppose, it's just about waiting to see what the outcome turns out to be. Please don't disappoint me. I've been disappointed enough lately.

( Private to Ibuki )

Answer me something, won't you?

[Grell appears, wearing a red leather jacket and black mini-dress while walking out on the streets of Nova City.]

Why do new arrivals feel the urgent need to tell their life story to a bunch of strangers? Even in the previous world, most make this mistake!

[She shakes her head with a bit of an eye roll.]

Yes, I can understand that you're looking for those familiar to you, but isn't your face and voice enough? Honestly, most of you lot are far too trusting in an unfamiliar world, along with not being very good at ambiguity!

So, enlighten me, hmm?

[The feed ends, but not before some people try to get their five seconds of fame behind her.]

Sebastian's arrival into the world is disconcerting. It began when he doing his normal chores of the day back at the Phantomhive Manor, and then he went to sleep. He then woke up very early in the morning to begin his daily routine for the household of the manor. With his normal routine broke out of it's usual normalcy, everything fell into chaos. Sebastian spend all morning and afternoon long, searching the cities, asking anyone for a way back home. The information he collected is the same. He is trapped here like everyone else, and he's in a different world.

In his mind, he wondered how the staff back at the manor will managed their jobs without him? And his Young Master would be very cross with him, with his unexplained absence. The closest feeling he could describe as a demon is a cross of worry, fussiness, and frustration. The sun sets, and evening descended with the sky turned dark. Unlike humans, sleep is a luxury for a busy demon, especially concerning his profession as the senior head butler. Not one to admit defeat, he will admit he probably need help from the citizens of this world.

Using his device in shape of a smartphone, he turned on the video feature. The demon marveled at the technology, but there are other issues that is pressing him at hand. Whoever is logged onto the network will see a very handsome gentleman wearing a classic, sleek, and traditional black butler uniform in a Victorian style. When he spoke, he has that calm, elegant British accent in his tone of voice.]


"Good evening. My name is Sebastian. Sebastian Michaelis. Senior Head Butler of the Phantomhive Household. It seems I'm not in England anymore and I have arrived in this unfamiliar world. Any hope or chance of return seem to be a hopeless endeavor.

Ah, well. I suppose I shall have to sleep in an inn tonight, but if anyone has seen or know a young man by the name of an Earl Ciel Phantomhive, please direct this message to him. His butler is looking for him."

WHO: Chopper Tony Tony (tonytonychopper), Trafalgar Law (getaroom), Adela (enchantressofore), and OPEN
WHEN: Pre-Op, Surgery - August 22nd. Post-Op, Recovery - August 22nd-29th. Aftermath - August 30th onward.
WHERE: Pre-Op, Surgery, Post-Op - Genessia Hospital. Aftermath - EVERYWHERE
WHAT: Thanks to the arrival of a surgeon who makes this procedure a heck of a lot easier, surgery date has been moved up and a certain red head is going to walk on two legs once more!
NOTES: Pre-Op is closed to familiar CR only. People Adela has met more than twice will likely be contacted over it, though if you're not sure feel free to ask me over plurk or private message. Post-op is more open as it's more reasonable that people who know her might have heard through word of mouth via other close CR of hers. Aftermath is open to outright everyone. No warnings save for possible potty-mouth, will change as needed.

SEPARATED THREADS BELOW, LINKS WILL BE ADDED AS REQUIRED

1. Pre-Op
2. Post-Op, Recovery
3. Aftermath

Who: Open to anyone who wants to attend
What: A Masquerade! Complete with masks, costumes, music and food.
WhenSaturday August 20th 8pm-midnight
Where: Genessia
Warnings: Tag them if they apply

( Come dance away the rest of the summer )

Who: You! Anyone and everyone is welcome to come!
What: A Festival of Fireflies with games, food, rides and more!
Where: Genessia
When: August 15th-20th. Starting at 7pm
Warnings: Be sure to warn in your threads appropriately.


[The gates are open and the air is filled with the sound of music. Whether you're a reveler, a vendor or anything in between-- come and enjoy the festival!

The Firefly Masquerade post is here]

( Alter ego introspection )
***

[The voice is cloyingly sweet, somewhere between Mickey Mouse and Steve from Blue's Clues. Just barely adult, yet saccharine.]

"Hiya guys! What I'm about ta say might not be appropriate for young audiences, so be advised!

All righty then! So, ya may have heard about all the trouble going on in Everglade right now. Just when ya thought things couldn't get any worse! Fai blames the mayor. Welp! I'm here to set the record straight.

It all started way back in January when Dracula, that dumb ol' vampire hanging out in Everglade, used the mayor as a stooge, and made it so ya could kill humans after sunset! Wow! Pretty evil, huh? Now, even though both Guardian Fai and David figured this out from the get-go, they didn't really do anything about it. Why not? Beats me! There's some baloney out there about how murder is A-OK so long as it powers the barrier or fills your tummy. Talk about rotten!

Fast forward through a whole half year of legalized murder, and not much has changed. The curfew is lifted, but humans can still be hunted same as always. Second verse, same as the first. And just like before, there's some funny business with that poor old mayor. Now, he's probably not that great a guy, since Everglade's pretty lousy with crime even on a good day. But still! That video of his was mighty suspicious! Someone's obviously up to no good and putting the screws on 'im. The real blame should go to the people that put him up to it, and the people that shoulda' fixed things from the start.

Welp, if the city's own Guardian won't do anything, I guess that means it's up to us! All right, enough of the doom 'n gloom. Time for the real reason for this video:

Hello! Pleased to meetcha! I'm Everglade's newest vigilante, and I can't wait to meet the good guys and beat the bad guys! And boy are there a bunch to beat! Ya may have heard in the news that they just released a whole bunch of 'em from the pokey. Surprise surprise, they haven't learned a thing. So much for prison reform!

Thing is, even when I try my hardest, I just can't get 'em all by myself. That's where you guys come in! I'm puttin' out the call for anybody and everybody who can lend a hand and keep Everglade safe and sound. There's a lotta criminals out there, and the poor city's really feelin' the hurt! So if you've got what it takes, Everglade could sure use a whole lotta' giving!

But hey, even if you're not some crime-fighting, bounty-hunting big shot, there's still plenty of stuff you can do to lend a hand! Window washing, bartending, even cleaning the gutters! There's something for everybody.

Welp, time to head back in there! Before I go, a great big thank you to all the awesome people who've been helping out lately! You guys are seriously the coolest and I want all your autographs yesterday!

Ace D. Portgas, for taking care of that no-good ritual sacrificer
Mr. Gold and Toby for putting those whispers to bed
Toby & Jeff for putting out the fireman
Danny & Cipher for taking down some of those nutty triplets (maybe go a little easier next time, geez!)
And last but not least, Namur for taking on not one but two bounties all by his lonesome! Wow! I hope some day I'm as good as him!

Golly! I'm inspired just looking at all these amazing people! And hey, if ya ever need help with anything, I'm only a call or a text away. Wish Everglade lots of luck, cause boy is it gonna need it! Until next time, good night, and stay safe!"

video; tuesday 8/2 around 1pm
[ It's been two months and through diligence and carefully covering finding ways to keep the ground cool, sure enough some of the community garden has started to sprout- which Yui is proudly showing off on her video, which starts with a scan over of the tiniest little centimeter-tall sprouts. ]

It's looking good, everyone! Thanks for your hard work. I'll keep trying to make sure these sprouts stay cool and can survive the summer heat..

[ The device goes into her front pocket so the video is still recording in front of her while she puts a shaded net over the sprouts, supported by stakes that are held up throughout the garden. It's at least creating shade and still letting the breeze in through the sides. Once she's done, she turns the video around and smiles. ]

If anyone knows any methods from their world to help sprouts out in the summer, I'd be happy to hear them!

Gardening aside though, I hope everyone's doing well.. and best of luck to those in Everglade. If there's anything I can do, please let me know. It seems like everything in the news has been negative lately, so I was thinking we could do something to cheer people up.

I know it's hot, but I've started learning yoga so I'll be offering free yoga group sessions at Garden Park on Saturdays at 10am! It'll be something of a group share more than a class, since I'll still be learning too but I think it'll help a lot of people feel better. I know it won't solve any of the problems, but hopefully it can help everyone feel less stressed and more healthy when it comes to facing reality. Everyone is welcome who promises to be cordial to others and actively participate.

action; friday 8/5 at 9:15am-9:45am
[ Yui waits quietly at the park setting out mats she borrowed from Sand Gym and just enjoying the light morning breeze and the sound of birds chirping and the little splashes of turtles plopping into the water in the pond. If someone gets to the yoga lessons early, they're more than welcome to talk to her. This is helping her study anyway, since it's review from the lesson she did last night, and she's hoping there's a big turnout. Who knows though, right? It looks like there's a table with those little 8oz water bottles and some fruit trays too- though it's sealed for after the lesson. It's best not to eat right before exercising or you'll get cramps!

OOC NOTE:Want to talk to more than just Yui before yoga lessons? Just put "OTA" in your top level and tag anyone who has an OTA up.

If your character shows up on time, we're handwaving the yoga itself bc Tay-mun doesn't know how to actually teach yoga to write this, but please let me know here if you want a character to be involved but aren't going for a thread. I'd like to get a count of how many people showed up for future reference! ]