[Monika's face pops up on the screen, her smile excited but also a little nervous. This is something she's been planning on doing for some time now, but for one reason or another never got around to doing until right now.

She's not sure why, but she's been feeling a lot more energetic lately. Almost, one might be tempted to say, manic.]

Hi, everyone! Um, I was kind of thinking about how serious everything always feels here, and how we're all constantly worried about dying or losing our minds or getting assimilated into a ghost collective and stuff... and I thought maybe we could all do with an outlet for our feelings!

See, I used to run this club back home where we would write poetry and share it with each other? And I thought we could do something like that here too! I'm going to post a couple of poems I wrote recently, and if you feel like it you can write something yourself! It can be kind of scary to share your writing like that, I know, but if you give it a try you'll find that it's really rewarding! I'd be happy to give out some writing tips, too.

( cut for poetry )

[He's pretty much just going to cut to the chase here.]

I'm going to start a criminal database. Clearly there's no law enforcement, but it would be dead helpful to those of us who are interested in that kind of thing to have a database on noted criminals. And by criminals, I'm using the term very loosely, considering that those of us who...pursue said criminals are criminals by definition ourselves. Anyway, a real database will help in solving future incidents. Which, I'm sure there will be some.

I know there's already a warning about people in the notes, which is great, but what I want is this:

Names. Descriptions. People who have attempted, or succeeded, to kill, assault, rob people here -- anything that harms other people or their property, I want to know about it. And people who have attempted to do similar in their home worlds, not counting war veterans or police officers. I want details, and dates if you can give them.

Characters: Tess, the Watsons, and Monika
Location: Building 37
Date: Day 315 (evening)
Summary: Tess gets confirmation that there are, in fact, actual people here instead of only phantoms on her tablet. Also, she makes some sandwiches.
Warnings: Parents experiencing separation/loss from a small child.

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Characters: John Watson, Mary Watson, Royce Melborn, Alfie Solomons, Karkat Vantas, Monika
Location: Building 131, Building 126, and Building 58
Date: Day 311, Day 312, Day 313 and 314
Summary: John and co meet up with Karkat for a blood transfusion, then John and Mary meet up with Monika to give her some clothes and suffer the event together.
Warnings: Blood, needles, potential severe illness

( Either way you won't be going thirsty )