[The feed opens on a view of ceiling tiles; anyone familiar with the hospital might recognize them. Off-screen there's the sound of rustling food wrappers and the crunch of someone chewing on chips and cookies, quite possibly with her mouth open.]

I am alive again. The anomalies -- the anomalies are dangerous. The ones with our friends' faces are dangerous.

[The monotone is muffled as well as hesitant; she's talking with food in her mouth despite the gravity of the topic.]

Characters: John Watson, Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes, England, America, Ginger Hale, Roland Crane, Bucky Barnes, Peter Quill, Flynn Carsen
Location: High school, Building 34/35
Date: 407-409
Summary: Watson and co, the Country Crew, and the MCUs plus a Librarian collide.
Warnings: References to recent event things are likely! Please add to subject lines as they come up.

( That's what they say when we're together... )

This is Dr. Watson. Please find a summary update of recent happenings from Day 368 to 405 below. My apologies for the delay in getting this together for everyone. There's been some mild interference in my ability to post. For anyone wanting to read up on the past, an archive of my previous summaries can be found HERE. As always, I'm available for medical consultation. Please let me know if you need anything. I'm running an on-again, off-again blood transfusion service for those with severe MN Poisoning. It's only a temporary reprieve from symptoms, but blood transfusions from healthy donors have proven to alleviate MN poisoning symptoms for up to two weeks.

( Additional Information )

Characters: Flynn Carsen, Bucky Barnes, Peter Quill, Gamora, Nicole Noone
Location: Various locations around Res 3 and Radiation Zone
Date: Days 393-400
Summary: Dealing with a Celestial crybaby, then dealing with a non!Celestial crybaby and all the fallout that comes from it. Also Flynn and Nicole meet for the very last time which isn't tragic at all.
Warnings: Possible violence, blood, descriptions of broken bones or other injuries, more will be added to headers as needed

Characters: Peter Quill, Bucky Barnes, Flynn Carsen
Location: Building 316
Date: Day 393
Summary: In which a Celestial finds out what it means to be human.
Warnings: Potential violence and blood, Infinity War spoilers, further CW's will be noted within.

( And the whole world has to answer right now just to tell you once again--who's bad )

[Flynn looks pale and a little tired when he starts the feed, just your regular image of Norfinbury fatigue really. But he also looks quite content - which might have to do with the genuine excitement over the task at hand.]

Hello and good evening. I've been meaning to get in touch with you all for a while now and I come with a request for a little collaboration. Now I'm sure you all remember when communications broke down and people couldn't understand each other. With medication suspended I'd say there's a good chance it might happen again. Maybe...

[There's a needlessly dramatic pause and his hand comes up in an equally needlessly dramatic fist.] ... for good!

[Alright, now that this is out of his system...]

So! I think we should prepare for when that happens. I've talked to several people and with all this new exploration on the way we should make sure our efforts are not lost in translation at some point.

For that, I'd like to collect the most important words and phrases and devise a database of the different languages everybody is speaking. ... Oh, and if you're willing to spend some time I'd love to learn the basics of your language, too, that is, you know, if you're stuck somewhere past lockdown and don't know what to do, just, give me a call...

[He rushes through that last bit and tries to keep his tone neutral but fails horribly, the boyish excitement all over his face. Please teach him your language, he'll be the happiest nerd in Norfinbury.]

Alright, that's it.

[...]

This isn't like last time where I tried to incite others to rip into people's selves, by the way.

Just in case anyone's wondering.

I think you're all great.

Well, most of you.

Most of the times, of course excluding murder and randomly torturing each other unless it's a city thing because it's totally a city thing and we all know how that works, one minute you're hiking, just going about your post-apocalyptic day and then suddenly you're doing horrible unspeakable things to people you care about...

[Little circle gestures with his hands. It will occur to him eventually that he could just stop talking.]

This is really just about the languages and trying to facilitate communication in case we have another network incident and have trouble understanding each other which would make the exchange of new information difficult. ... And I totally just said that and well, then I guess I just said everything I came here to say.

Right.

Uh.

Stay warm.

Don't kill each other.

Characters: Flynn and Bucky
Location: Between houses
Date: Day 380
Summary: Flynn gets caught in a snowdrift, Bucky helps, they bond
Warnings: None

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[Many people here will recognize the inside of the sports shed on the campus of the elementary school. Newer people may not have seen Ecks's face before; she's a patchwork woman with a perpetually blank expression, and when she speaks (turning the tablet around as she does so, so that she's only visible for a moment at the start of the video) her voice is flat and inexpressive.

The new subject for viewing is a conical hat with the word 'DUNCE' written on it in big, red letters, which she has set on the floor of the building.]

What is this? What is a dunce? This hat is not comfortable or warm. What is its purpose?

Characters: Bucky and Flynn
Location: Building 273
Date: Night 370
Summary: Two awkward men have a meet up
Warnings: None yet, any that crop up will be in the subject lines

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OOC Warning: This post is going to involve Will suffering from extreme delusions and other mental instability. He's in his river happy place, but also has some of his worst hallucinations floating around the edges.

( Non IC cut for content )

Hello. I believe this may be my first communique, so allow me to introduce myself. My name is Dr. Hannibal Lecter. I am a psychiatrist with deep and extensive experience working with victims of trauma. Many of those I have treated over the years had suffered terrible things, and found themselves unable to fully remember what had been done to them. In the interest of helping them find peace and closure, and to be better able to hold accountable those who had victimized them, I have used hypnosis to help bring those repressed memories to the surface.

Those of us who were recently taken into the cells have endured a terrible trauma, and few of us remember clearly what we experienced, and some not at all. I therefore propose to attempt hypnosis to help better understand what it is that occurred. I am in particular thinking of those who were marked with red lines, for their memory loss seems particularly profound. There may be answers for you, and I would like to help bring them to light.

If anyone would be so kind as to volunteer to be hypnotized, please contact me so that we may arrange to meet.

Thank you.

[CW: references to religious violence; disrespectful discussion of both Abrahamic and Nahuatl religions fairly likely in comments.]


[OTA]
[The Tess who appears on the screen is a rather tired-looking Tess.]

I, uh.

[She glances down; clears her throat awkwardly.]

If anyone actually, uh. Actually took the blood sacrifice thing seriously? I need you to just not. Please. Offer's rescinded, no blessings for blood. Even if it worked--and it's not going to work; I was just being--I was being stupid. Even if it worked I don't...I don't want that. And I'm sorry, I'm sorry I said all that stuff. I'm sorry for the things I called everyone.

[Her face contorts in guilt, but she forces it neutral again.]

And...if anyone's seen my snake? I know you don't owe me anything, but if you could let me know if he's okay, I'd just...I'd really appreciate that.



[Private to Flynn]

Flynn, I...I'm really sorry. That wasn't okay; none of that was okay. I shouldn't have put you in that position. I'd get it if you didn't want to talk to me again.

Characters: the marked, the unmarked, and their rescuers
Location: ???
Date: Morning 356
Summary: Time to get out of here.
Warnings: gore, psychological horror, warn for specifics in the subject lines

Part Six OOC Post

Characters: Bucky, Kesara, and Royce
Location: Building 15, and the school shed
Date: Days 348 and 349
Summary: Various meet ups
Warnings: None currently.

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