video; un: j.porter

[cantgetanyworse]

Hello everyone. If you don't know me, my name is Jane Porter. [This is said with a little wave. Years using devices like this and she still isn't sure how to begin a transmission without feeling awkward about it.

Well, moving on!]

I know things have been... very difficult lately. [Understatement.] And a lot of people are probably feeling very worried. Now, I'm... not a therapist, or anything like that. I most certainly wouldn't claim to be one at all.

But what I certainly am is somebody who cares about other people. So, I'd like to table an open offer to anyone who might like to just... sit down with a cup of tea, or take a walk, and have a chat. [She pauses here and gives a soft little smile.]

About anything at all. Please don't hesitate to reach out. If not to me, then to someone. ... You don't need to go through anything alone.

[And, with the same faint awkwardness that she started with, she signs off with that.]

Twelfth: Pick Your Poison (Video; un: Caster)

[colchismagecraft]

Good Afternoon, Avalon. For those I haven't met yet, I go by 'Caster' here.

[Despite her gloating in the aftermath of the Celliwig 'event', Caster was in an unusually somber mood...

Still, she gave a subdued smile as gestured with her staff to the vineyard around her, and the cute-yet-ominous little shop attached to it. Despite her insistence that she wasn't a witch, it very much looked like a witch's potion shop!]

I had hoped to wait for a better time to make this announcement but, well, I think there's plenty of people who could use a decent drink at the moment. So- I've finally been able to open up my Potion Shop and Winery here. I call it 'Pick Your Poison'.

[She gives the address.]

I'll be selling potions that I've managed to brew during my time here, which I hope will prove useful- there's some that can be used for helping keep a house clean or improve your sleep better, others that improve your vision in darkness or help you resist fire. I will be adding to my stock periodically, so do keep your eyes open.

The wines I'm selling are those that I have brewed in-house, trying to get as close to traditional Colchian wine as I can. There will be free samples available to anyone who wants to try before buying, so do come and see what you think.

...And if the name of my Homeland means anything to you, I don't object to answering questions, so long as its kept private.

[After all, admitting she was a Sorceress hailing from Colchis narrowed her identity down quite a bit...perhaps that was the closest she'd get to being public with her True Name, at least for now.]

On a...different note. I want to do something for those who've disappeared from this realm. Many people have come and left, and I can't be aware of all of them.

I've left a large book in the entranceway of the shop, so, feel free to write the names of those you miss here who have returned home, if you wish. I don't know exactly what to do with it just yet, but it seems callous to simply forget them.

Ah. And I can't say I'm usually the sort for public announcements like this, but-... but Homura's disappeared, to those it may concern.

[Caster went quiet for a brief moment, before recovering her focus.]

If you have lost someone close recently and feel comfortable enough to tell me, the first bottle of wine is on me.

video; UN: firstfallen

[corruptedsave]

[Sure they could say something about the whole big things that happened recently, or how they feel about the now too crowded Inn. Which they are annoyed by, which may just show in their expression, but that's not why they are addressing the network this day-night-whatever.]

So like, how'd you come up with a name for your familiar? I was going to name it after someone I know, but they kind of showed up here so that makes that name off-limits...

[They make a popping sound with their mouth before continuing.]

In fact a lot of names I've thought of could be like, someone who could show up here, so again like. How'd you name your familiar?