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Team Phantom - Extended Edition

AmityUnsolved - Hey Tucker, how is the list of ecto-rich cities coming? I don’t want to have to wait another whole year to apply for college.

AmityUnsolved - Not that i’m not enjoying researching with the ghosts, I’d just like to get something on paper so I can get, like, a real job?

PharaohTuck - I’m working on it, I only have access to the one satellite so far dude

AmityUnsolved - Hey, was just asking

PharaohTuck - it’s fine dude, I should have it done for the end of the week tho

DashingDash - really? sweet

PollyPocket - fabulous!

AStarIsBorn - about time dweeb

IShotFirst - finally

TaeKwanDo - hell yeah dude

IToldYouSo - please let Metropolis be on the list, pleasepleaseplease

PharaohTuck - ancients dude calm down, other places have good journalism programs too

IToldYouSo - yeas but I want to inter at The Daily Planet

DashingDash - yeas

TaeKwonDo - yeas

IShotFirst - yeas

PharaohTuck - yeas

PollyPocket - yeas

AStarIsBorn - yeas

AmityUnsolved - yeas

EbonyDarkness - yeas

SpaceCase - yeas

PharaohTuck - oh hey @SpaceCase @EbonyDarkness glad to see you back in the land of the living

EbonyDarkness - really?

SpaceCase - har har tuck

PharaohTuck - I do my best work for you, you know that

DashingDash - ew keep your flirting outta the main chat you three

PharaohTuck - no but seriously, how’s things in the gz? run into anybody you didn’t mean to?

SpaceCase - nah, just the usual ghost shit

EbonyDarkness - translation: he somehow earned himself a new title again

SpaceCase - SAM!

IShotFirst - really not surprised at this point

DashingDash - what the fuck fentonio

TaeKwonDo - what is your life man…

IToldYouSo - goddamnit Fenton

PollyPocket - is it at least cool this time? what was the last one again?

AStarIsBorn - Lord of Lougies

PollyPocket - eugh right that

AmityUnsolved - So, what is it this time?

SpaceCase - well, the username is a bit more fitting now I guess

SpaceCase - you’re talking to the new Ancient of Space™

DashingDash - again I say: WHAT THE FUCK FENTON!

IToldYouSo - wait like space as in outer space or space as in the concept of space

SpaceCase - yes

PharaohTuck - I’m with dash on this one dude, what the actual fuck

SpaceCase - on the bright side, I can now make portals and teleport

TaeKwanDo - dude you should totally do doordash

SpaceCase - if my powers were public then I totally would, I’d make bank

PharaohTuck - you could always pretend it’s an invention your parents made, they did make that portal bazooka that one time

SpaceCase - ooh good idea

EbonyDarkness - the boy finds out he can alter space and can access all knowledge of it and everything contained within and he uses the powers to work at doordash

EbonyDarkness - you know, sometimes I see all the shit we do on paper and I think we’re responsible adults and then shit like this happens and I remember we’re still kids

IShotFirst - eh at least we know he won’t use the powers for evil?

EbonyDarkness - rich coming from you

IShotFirst - hey, I apologized for all that shit and you know it

EbonyDarkness - I know, you didn’t really know any better, it’s just fun to rile you up sometimes

IShotFirst - oh well fuck you too then

IToldYouSo - waitwaitwait Fenton, can you feel all of the Earth if you concentrate on it?

SpaceCase - yeah, probably, why?

IToldYouSo - do you think you could feel where the highest concentrations of ectoplasm are on the world? It would save Tucker some time and probably a headache

SpaceCase - you  know what? It’s worth a shot

SpaceCase - whoa

IToldYouSo - what???

EbonyDarkness - hold up I’ll get a picture

EbonyDarkness - (photo of Danny in Phantom Form with a cloak of stars and holding an icy globe in his hands. There were bright ecto-green dots all over the miniature of the Earth.)

PharaohTuck - hey, if you bring that over I can cross-reference it with a world map and get this done tonight

IToldYouSo - come on Metropolis

PharaohTuck - so bad news, Metropolis isn’t one of the ecto-rich places

IToldYouSo - goddamnit

PharaohTuck - however, Gotham, an hour’s train ride away, is

PharaohTuck - and it happens to be the place that has all of our majors in or nearby

SpaceCase - Jazz will be excited, she wanted to eventually work at Arkham and we can’t just keep sending her ecto all the time. Luckily London was ecto-rich

PollyPocket - omg yesyesyes they have SUCH a good fashion program

AStarIsBorn - and their business program too!

DashingDash - hell yeah, they have a great phys ed course

TaeKwanDo - I’d have to hop on the train with you to Metropolis for Vet Tech stuff Wes

IToldYouSo - THANK THE ANCIENTS

SpaceCase - you’re welcome

PharaohTuck - snrk nice one

AmityUnsolved - oh cool! They have a pretty good forensics school in Gotham!

EbonyDarkness - oh hell yes, do you think I could get Dr Isley’s autograph on my botanical science textbook?

PharaohTuck - oh no, you aren’t allowed anywhere near that woman

EbonyDarkness - and why is that Tucker?

PharaohTuck - Sam, you’re on your way to beating Jane Fonda’s record for being pap‘d while being arrested at protests

PharaohTuck - do you know how hard it is to keep your name off watch lists as it is?

EbonyDarkness - and I thank you for that every time. What’s your point?

PharaohTuck - Sam, you and Ivy would take over the world together

EbonyDarkness - hey, she’s mostly reformed at this point, I was just gonna suggest she request to be in charge of the green spaces of Gotham and maybe introduce fruiting trees to sidewalks all over the city so the homeless can eat

PharaohTuck - fine, but so help me if I have to hack into the Pentagon from the back of a taxi following a police car with you in it again, I’m gonna be pissed

EbonyDarkness - hey, that asshole deserved it

IShotFirst - as enlightening as this conversation is, and I would like the full story the next time I see you, back to the topic at hand. Are we all gonna try and find a place together for college?

PollyPocket - I have a whole account set aside for housing that’s been waiting until we found out where I was going. It should be able to at least put a down payment on a place that can fit us all

EbonyDarkness - same here, Grandma Ida has been excited for us all and set aside some too

EbonyDarkness - want to meet up and we can start looking at places? 

PollyPocket - sounds good to me, are you all okay with us figuring out the housing situation for all of us?

SpaceCase - less thinking for me is always a happy thing

PharaohTuck - yeah, I trust you guys to figure it out

IShotFirst - just make sure the place has a gym for me or at least a place where I can have one

AStarIsBorn - if you need help looking over anything, just message me, I have work at the library tomorrow, but I can answer texts

IToldYouSo - yeah, I’ll look into the commuter train between Gotham and Metropolis

TaeKwanDo - oh can you send me that info too? I’m at the shelter tomorrow otherwise I’d join you

AmityUnsolved - I’ll look up the requirements for admission for all of us and drop it in the Drive

SpaceCase - sick. now if you need me, no you don’t. at least not for the next 14 hours as I’m going to be asleep. @IShotFirst you’re primary defenses until I am conscious, showered and fed again

IShowFirst - you are so lucky it’s my day off from training tomorrow danny

SpaceCase - thanks val <3

IShotFirst - fuck you ghost boy <3

AStarIsBorn - your friendship confuses me sometimes

PollyPocket - for real tho 

SpaceCase - it’s all in good fun don’t worry. now I’m going to bed, we probably all should tbh

EbonyDarkness - night

PharaohTuck - night

PollyPocket - night

IShotFirst - night

AStarIsBorn - night

TaeKwanDo - night

DashingDash - night

IToldYouSo - night

AmityUnsolved - Goodnight!

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Team Phantom - Extended Edition

EbonyDarkness - Hey freeloaders, I found some options for us. ping so I know I have everyone’s attention

PollyPocket - here because we legit just narrowed these down together

AmityUnsolved - Here!

IToldYouSo - here, hoping for one close to public transit

TaeKwanDo - same buddy

DashingDash - hey, i’m gonna be paying some sort of rent whether you like it or not, I’m no freeloader.

PharaohTuck - i on the other hand am gladly claiming the title

AStarIsBorn - here but lurking, I’m getting ready to go out tonight

IShotFirst - same, but also paying attention so I can roast these places if need be

SpaceCase - I’m hoping for a place that directly crosses a leyline, then I can put a door to the gz in a closet

IToldYouSo - dude what even is your powerset

SpaceCase - come over sometime and I’ll show you the updated files, honestly we should probably all meet up in the ops center soon, it’s been too long

EbonyDarkness - agreed, we can plan that later, for now we have our options

EbonyDarkness - option one is the most customisable. It’s a block of apartments with a courtyard in the center 

EbonyDarkness - it is however in a place known as Crime Alley

PharaohTuck - um how about no

PollyPocket - we could invest in a really good security system

PollyPocket - fenton, wouldn’t your parents be able to make a shield to go around the place?

SpaceCase - uh probably, but I’d rather we stay off the radar of the local vigilantes as long as possible

SpaceCase - plus isn’t there a whole ass crime lord that runs that place? 

IToldYouSo - I still say he’s the second Robin

EbonyDarkness - FOCUS!

EbonyDarkness - option two is an old hotel with a restaurant on the first floor and a pool on the tenth

EbonyDarkness - we would be purchasing it from the Penguin however

PollyPocket - he’s said he’s gone straight and has been for at least a year according to the articles I had wes look up for me

PollyPocket - thank you again for that @IToldYouSo 

IToldYouSo - no problem, anytime really, just ask

EbonyDarkness - moving on

EbonyDarkness - option three is my personal favorite

EbonyDarkness - it’s a large manor with a few acres of land

EbonyDarkness - it’s on the outskirts of Gotham proper though, so we’d have to drive into the city

EbonyDarkness - we’d be purchasing it from Timothy Drake-Wayne and be neighbors with Brucie Wayne

EbonyDarkness - mom actually tipped me off to this and got me Tim’s number because she remembered hearing him complain about needing to sell the place at a gala she recently attended

PharaohTuck - Sam.

PharaohTuck - Are you telling me you have Tim Drake-Wayne’s personal cell phone number???

EbonyDarkness - please don’t be weird about this

PharaohTuck - I will try my best. My vote is the manor.

PharaohTuck - I’m going to go scream now.

EbonyDarkness - we don’t have to vote just yet, I’m gonna put all the details in the drive

EbonyDarkness - there were some weird stipulations for the manor too

EbonyDarkness - he wanted to be able to still store the artifacts his parents had collected until he could find proper homes for them and warned us not to explore the caves under the mansion, that there was a gas down there or something

DashingDash - kinda sus ngl

TaeKwanDo - I mean, he probably wants to preserve his parents' stuff, didn’t they both die in really shitty ways?

AmityUnsolved. - According to the news reports I found, yeah, it wasn’t great.

SpaceCase - looking at the map we were able to put together of magic sources around Gotham it looks like all three of these places are close enough to certain ley lines or thinning of the veil that I can safely have a door to the gz without needing an outside source of power

EbonyDarkness - sick

EbonyDarkness - I put all the info in the drive, everybody research it, we can vote on it when we meet up

EbonyDarkness - I’m thinking this friday night? anybody busy?

SpaceCase - barring ghost shit I’m good

PharaohTuck - I’ll be there.

PollyPocket - I’ll bring sodas! No offense fenton, but I don’t trust anything in your house

SpaceCase - none taken

IShotFirst - If someone wants to pick me up from work and help me haul it, I can bring Nasty Burger for everyone

DashingDash - I can grab you once I’m done at the shop

IShotFirst - sounds good to me, I’m off at 6

DashingDash - bet

TaeKwanDo - could somebody pick me up after my shift at the shelter? I’m off at 4

AmityUnsolved - I can pick you up if it’s okay with Wes that we start and end a bit early for this week’s podcast?

IToldYouSo - I’m cool with that

EbonyDarkness - Cool, so 6:30 at earliest at FentonWorks this friday

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The screen lights up showing a group of 10 young adults at a table composed of two card tables of slightly differing heights. There was a large screen along one wall and everyone had a file in front of them. The rest of the room was all metal paneling, broadcasting equipment lines one wall and a refrigerator stood alone on the other. Aside from the makeshift boardroom table, you’d assume this was a professional meeting setup. The camera didn’t shake or go out of focus.

A goth woman stood in front of the screen, button to change slides in hand. She had a look that evoked a concrete structure, covered in graffiti and mostly reclaimed by nature. She wore a punk jacket, had bright purple undercut hair with a living plant in the clasp holding the small ponytail, a torn Dumpty Humpty band tee, and skinny jeans covered in patches, random embroidery of rose vines and tears to reveal fishnet stockings underneath and a pair of steel capped Doc Martens on her feet. She scowled at a tall redhead that had a mouse in his hand and a laptop in front of him. He had a red polo shirt, khaki cargo shorts and sneakers on.

“Do we really need to record everything?” she asked.

“Hey, I want to document a group of magically inclined and contaminated people relocating, and the planning phase is a part of that.” Explained the redhead.

The other redhead spoke up, this one shorter and with glasses, he also wore a polo shirt, though his was light green, and had khaki slacks and a pair of loafers. “Plus, it makes it easier to take the minutes of the meeting, this is technically Team Phantom business now.” He pressed his glasses back up his nose and sniffed, fingers at the ready over his own keyboard.

The goth rolled her eyes. “Fine, moving on. Our options slightly changed, the Crime Alley apartments are no longer available. Apparently a gang was squatting there and it got bombed by Red Hood last night.” 

She clicks the button and an image of a twitter post from the Red Hood saying “Fuck you Sionis <3”. It contained a selfie of the Red Hood flashing a peace sign with the apartments engulfed in flame behind him.

“On the bright side, we still have the other two options. The first being the hotel.” She clicked the button and a glamor shot of the front of the building appeared on the screen. It had an art deco style to it and a large lit up sign in the front. It was all light stone facade with gold trim. The next slide showed the lobby. It had a large reception area with elevators to one side and a restaurant at the other. The floor was black and white checkered marble with gold detailing between the tiles. Another slide showed a few shots of large meeting rooms, four in total. The next slide showed different shots of the rooms everyone would get. Two adjoining rooms, one for a bedroom and the other for office and living space. Another slide showed the pool with a hot tub and sauna at one end.

“With this we’d have a communal kitchen, but each would have two private rooms and private bathrooms.” The next slide had a list of pros and cons. “Pros would be the customizability of the rooms, we’d be able to change whatever we want to a point, and we’d each get suites. Here, we’d have the pool, and we could set up gym equipment in one of the meeting rooms on the second floor. It comes with the furniture that’s currently there, I’ve already looked into a program the Martha Wayne Foundation has for the extra furniture we won’t need.

“Cons would be primarily location. While it is in Gotham proper and only about a 20 minute walk to campus, it is nearby where rogues like to wreak havoc. It’s down by the docks, so we’d have to up security pretty high, maybe even have patrol shifts. We’d also have to deal with the gun fights that will break out literally a block over.” A large blonde boy in light wash jeans, a white t-shirt and a letterman jacket with his chair tilted back, scoffed and the goth narrowed her eyes at him. “These are real guns idiot, like with metal bullets that can actually kill you, or at the very least injure you an excessive amount. I don’t care how invulnerable we feel after all the shit we’ve been through, metal bullets can still hit us and kill us.” Her eyes started to glow and her hair stood on end and the plant in her hair started to vine around the sides of her head forming a crown.

The blonde tilted his chair so it was settled on the ground again and held up his hands in surrender. “Okay, I’ll keep that in mind. I just think I’ve gotten good enough at dodging that I don’t have to worry. But continue.” He waved his hand at her. 

She narrowed her eyes further, though the mystical effects around her calmed back down. “I’m going to let Skulker use you for target practice during the next training session and he’s not allowed ecto-weapons. They won’t be lethal, but they’ll hurt like a bitch. Anyway,” she clicked the next slide and a picture of Oswald Cobblepot, aka the Penguin, appeared on the screen, “the last con is that we’d be purchasing from a former gang leader, and while I’ll admit he’s been trying lately, he does have blood on his hands.” Several people shifted at that. The black girl’s hand twitched as if she wished for a weapon. She wore a loose set of gym clothes, red sweatpants, black tanktop and an orange hoodie. A lanky boy in a nasa t-shirt and loose light wash jeans with black hair clenched his fist and his eyes went from a shocking blue to electric green. 

A blonde girl in a yellow sundress piped up. “According to what Wes found, he hasn’t been found guilty of causing anybody’s death yet, and hasn’t been arrested or done anything really in the last year.”

“Thank you Star. This brings us to our last option, Drake Manor.” She clicked to the next slide and beyond a large cast iron fence stood a large gothic manor. There was a sign above the gate that said Drake Manor, though it looked newer than the fixtures around it. More pictures showing the grounds, as well as a heated pool that was half in a glass greenhouse appeared on the screen. Inside there was a water slide alongside a miniature waterfall and a hot tub to one side. There was plenty of extra space that appeared to have been unused for quite some time in the greenhouse. The entrance of the manor was all hardwood floors and fabric walls dating back to before Gotham became a proper city. Miscellaneous rooms came across the screen on the next few slides, showing a gym, a kitchen, a dining room and a home theater. There was a server room next to the main office, and a wine cellar. “There are two wings, they are designated the Family wing and the Guest wing, there’s eight suites in each, all containing a bathroom, a bedroom and an office space or sitting room area. There are also several desks in the library and an empty room right next to it we can turn into a study space.” She clicked through the images showing all of these. 

“Now,” she clicked to the pros and cons list for this option, “the major pro is that we wouldn’t have to beef up security. This place is pretty much a fortress, I guess being the youngest CEO in modern business will lead to you having state of the art security. The place is private, and away from rogues and vigilantes alike. It’s definitely the safest option for us, and we know the person selling it is legit and not gonna come back later trying to squeeze more money out of us. The major cons are that it’s pretty far from campus and public transport, we’d have to carpool, and that Tim will still come by from time to time while he’s working on relocating the artifacts from his parent’s archaeological digs. He’s bound to notice something’s up with us. I don’t think he’d say anything from what I remember of him from past galas, but I can’t be too certain because I haven’t really talked to him since like, middle school.” She clicked to the next slide, this showing the pros and cons lists for each location.

“I still can’t believe none of us realized you were richer than god.” A black-haired latina girl clucked. She wore a light pink crop top with a white lace and mesh shrug over it and a wrap mini skirt in lavender and greek styled gold strappy sandals up her calves. She had a large silver and turquoise ring on her hand and bright Barbie pink nails. 

“Yeah, not gonna lie you hid that better than Fenton ever did his secret identity.” The tall redhead from earlier laughed.

“Hey, I resent that. I thought the whole being dead thing was a pretty good cover.” The lanky boy with the black hair grumbled. 

A tall and muscular asian boy clapped him on the shoulder, he also wore a letterman jacket though he had a black t-shirt on underneath. “Hey, you got me until I saw you transform in front of me Danny! Don’t worry too much!” 

Danny smiled a soft smile at the boy. “Thanks Kwan.”

The goth cleared her throat to get everyone’s attention again. “Okay, so now we’re gonna do a vote. All for the hotel?” The latina, the blonde girl, and the asian boy all raised their hands. “Okay, and all for the manor.” Everyone else’s hands shot up, bringing it to a score of three to seven. “Looks like we’re going with the manor then.” She handed a paper bag to the african american boy who then proceeded to take deep breaths. He was in a long sleeve gold henley shirt, a pair of street-style pants with green accents and a red beanie. He also wore Doc Martens and a pair of glasses. 

“I’ll let Tim know that we’re going to go through with purchasing the manor. We should be able to get everything finalized and be ready to move in a month before classes start. Tucker set up a sheet for requests for custom things you may want or need for your rooms.” The boy breathing into the bag looked up and gave a thumbs up at mention of his name. “As for splitting up where people go, I was thinking that Danny, myself, Tucker and Valerie would stay in the Family wing, Jazz will inevitably move in so she can work at Arkham, and I doubt the rest of you want to deal with ghosts probably visiting at all hours of the day. The rest of you will be in the Guest wing. Any issues with that?” She raised an eyebrow at the group, no one spoke. “Cool. There’s a map of the building in those folders, figure out amongst yourselves who gets which room and fill out all the paperwork in the folders and the drive. We’ll meet up again in a week and figure out house rules.” Everyone turned to the folders in front of them. “I think we’re good now Wes, you can shut it off.”

“Sounds good, video log one down!” Said the tall redhead. Then the screen cuts to black.

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Team Phantom - Extended Edition

PollyPocket - DAANNNNYYY can’t you just transport our stuff to Gotham? I thought you could teleport now?

SpaceCase - Paulina, I am still pretty inexperienced in using it and so far I can only do it with places I’m familiar with. I don’t know the new place well enough yet to be able to make a stable enough portal to be able to haul stuff through.

IToldYouSo - Plus, it’d be suspicious if suddenly 10 people moved in from several states away without even one moving truck?

IToldYouSo - It’d be pretty sus, and we still gotta avoid the Bat’s attention if we can.

PollyPocket - fiiiine. Hopefully you have it figured out by Thanksgiving, I want to save on a flight if I can.

EbonyDarkness - he’s not a taxi service paulina

SpaceCase - it’s fine sam, I was actually hoping the same thing honestly

SpaceCase - once we’re there I can put a door in a closet so we can reach the Zone, and if we can do that then we have an easy way to Amity.

SpaceCase- we can use that for anything we don’t want to bring via truck

IShotFirst - like weapons and other wacky shit your parents come up with?

SpaceCase - yup, the volatile shit. Oh also some of your plants sam, and your delicate hardware tuck

PharaohTuck - sounds like a plan man

EbonyDarkness - Thank you, transport via truck is such a pain for plants

IToldYouSo - ooh, can you bring our recording equipment through that way too? The mics are super sensitive.

SpaceCase - they’ve got ecto in them right?

IToldYouSo - of course, they couldn’t pick up my voice otherwise

SpaceCase - cool they won’t get messed up by the ambient ectoplasm then

AmityUnsolved - I am so looking forward to this! I haven’t really been able to get out of Amity besides visiting relatives since I was a kid, I can’t wait!

PharaohTuck - how long do you think it’ll take Wes to figure out the bats?

DashingDash - oh I give it a month before he’s frothing at the mouth

IToldYouSo - hey if that happens I can always use my curse to their advantage

IToldYouSo - unless everyone in Gotham ends up being liminal, then we have some issues because then the curse won’t work on them

SpaceCase - here’s hoping that doesn’t happen

PharaohTuck - how does that work with your podcast again?

IToldYouSo - we figured out that I can give details after the initial factoid was said without it triggering

AmityUnsolved - Yeah! So I present the topic and he’s able to give details without it being an issue. As long as he doesn’t outright say the topic, he can rant about details all he wants.

TaeKwanDo - magic is weird bro

DashingDash - you said it

AStarIsBorn - so are we each getting our own trucks, or are we renting a couple to move all our stuff?

IShotFirst - yeah, I don’t have moving truck across five states money

SpaceCase - actually Vlad has offered to cover moving expenses for us

SpaceCase - something about getting on my parent’s good side after everything

PharaohTuck - he’s on thin fucking ice, but I don’t think he’d purposefully mess this up

EbonyDarkness - he’s probably going to put trackers on all our shit

PharaohTuck - if he does that then I’ll get access to all of them and shut them down

SpaceCase - hold on, I think it might actually be a good idea to have trackers on all of us

DashingDash - what the fuck fenton, why would we want trackers on us?

SpaceCase - think about it, we’re going to a city with an almost magically high amount of crime

SpaceCase - I feel like having trackers to make sure none of us get kidnapped would be a good idea

IShotFirst - no he’s got a point

PollyPocket - really Val? You too?

AStarIsBorn - honestly, I’d probably feel safer if I knew that someone with powers and my best interests at heart had a way of finding me

TaeKwanDo - honestly yeah, we don’t have to worry about this kind of stuff here in Amity, but Gotham has humans that will do awful things to us, not ghosts that mostly want to cause random chaos and maybe hold us safely until Danny comes or Val comes to save us.

DashingDash - u right, u right. Fine, I’ll agree

SpaceCase - sick, I’ll let Vlad know, he’s been giving me wounded eyes ever since I told him I had to think about it.

SpaceCase - this whole redemption thing for him has been a trip.

EbonyDarkness - mans needs to read some ya novels and maybe learn a bit about how capitalism is inherently evil. Maybe he’ll learn that money doesn’t mean he can do whatever he wants as long as the result he wants happens.

SpaceCase - he’s getting there, I think the talk he had with Jazz before she went back to England helped a bit

AStarIsBorn - good. Maybe he’ll listen to the people of the town then before he just decides on major infrastructure changes

AStarIsBorn - like I know chlorophyll is good for you, but I tasted nothing but grass for a whole week after that mess

IShotFirst - yeah that sucked. Still can’t believe I worked for that guy when he was evil

SpaceCase - hey, don’t worry about it, he’s a very smooth talker. Honestly he stopped using his powers to gain business deals after the first decade. He’s used to cozying up to people who desperately don’t want to spend any of their money and convince them to do so.

SpaceCase - you as a teenager with something to prove stood no chance. He took advantage of you, and I know he’s been trying to make it up to you, but you know you don’t have to forgive him right?

IShotFirst - nah, it’s fine now, he let me deck him in human form and I broke his nose. He’s been paying me to take training courses for different things since then and also training with me.

SpaceCase - fair enough. Hey tuck, do you think you could design a find your friends app that uses the trackers Vlad puts on us?

PharaohTuck - no prob, I’ll just need one of them to get the frequency

Space Case - hold up, I’ll message him

You’re not my Dad

SpaceCase - hey fruitloop

SpaceCase - so everyone’s cool with you funding the moving trucks

SpaceCase - could I get enough trackers for everybody? We’ve decided that it’d probably be a good idea to be able to track everyone in a city like Gotham.

SpaceCase - also, would you be able to get them ready for next Saturday? That’s when we’re planning on heading out

CountMasters - … I see you’re taking safety seriously in this matter.

CountMasters - I’ll bring some over at dinner tonight

CountMasters - I believe your mother is making meatloaf

SpaceCase - awesome, thanks Vlad!

CountMasters - Any time little badger.

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SpaceCase - I’ll have those trackers today tuck, I’ll bring them by before patrol

PharaohTuck - sounds good dude

DashingDash - wow, we’re really doing this. I thought we’d be stuck in Amity since we found out about the ecto-contamination

TaeKwanDo - we’re doing it! We’re gonna be college students and do non-ghost related things

SpaceCase - yeah, it’s gonna be wild

SpaceCase - I mean, it’s wild currently, but it’ll be a different kind of wild

AmityUnsolved - We get what you mean Danny. It’s gonna be weird not dealing with ghost attacks every day.

IToldYouSo - it’s fine, it’ll just be changed out for gang wars and rogue attacks

AStarIsBorn - thanks, that really helps Wes.

IToldYouSo - you’re welcome

AStarIsBorn - I was being sarcastic dumbass

PollyPocket - it’s fine, we should be able to deal with all that stuff! We’ve been training to deal with ghost attacks, the skill have gotta transfer over, right?

SpaceCase - I’m not going to lie to you all, we probably will have to pick back up training.

SpaceCase - we’ve been pretty lax since I was crowned and the attacks have petered out, but we’re gonna need to be on our a-game to survive Gotham

IShotFirst - I’ll work on a schedule

EbonyDarkness - sounds good, I’ve managed to track down a company that builds military training courses and team-building courses. They should have everything done and safety tested by mid-terms

DashingDash - sick, we should have a leaderboard for who can complete the course the fastest

TaeKwanDo - hell yeah, that sounds awesome!

PollyPocket - oh I’m so excited!

AStarIsBorn - I’m just glad we won’t be alone in an unfamiliar city

AmityUnsolved - Agreed!

IToldYouSo - yeah, connecting with people after the weird shit we’ve been through would be tough

SpaceCase - Jazz would say something about us being trauma-bonded I’m sure

SpaceCase - anyway, Vlad said he’ll have the trucks ready for next Saturday, so be packed and ready

AmityUnsolved - I’ll be ready!

IToldYouSo - got it

PollyPocket - Will do!

AStarIsBorn - I’ll be sure to be ready.

DashingDash - sick, I’ll start packing

TaeKwanDo - would I be able to being my fish?

SpaceCase - I can bring them through the portal later, it should be less harsh of a ride

TaeKwanDo - awesome, thanks Danny!

IShotFirst - if anybody needs help hauling, my last shift as Nasty Burger is friday

EbonyDarkness - finally getting outta that shithole, huh?

IShotFirst - I can’t wait to no longer smell like stale burger grease

PharaohTuck - I could always make you a signature fragrance?

IShotFirst - have you gotten remotely better at it since freshman year?

PharaohTuck - I’ll have you know that I’ve been learning from some people in new ancient Egypt in the zone on how to make proper fragrances

IShotFirst - oh really? You know what, sure I’ll let you try

PharaohTuck - cool, I’ll dm you details

IShotFirst - cool

SpaceCase - I’ll come by Friday to collect the weapons and gear people want to bring through the door, I should be able to have it set up by Sunday night.

SpaceCase - Kwan, I’ll dm you details for your fish

TaeKwanDo - Awesome, thanks man

SpaceCase - no problem

SpaceCase - fuck

PharaohTuck - ghost?

SpaceCase - yeah, CW just stuck a sticky note to my monitor. I was actually looking forward to dinner tonight too. Here’s hoping there isn’t some world-ending crisis to take care of

EbonyDarkness - again

SpaceCase yes again

AmityUnsolved - Good luck Danny!

IShotFirst - rip your peaceful night

IToldYouSo - rip

DashingDash - rip

AStarIsBorn - rip

TaeKwanDo - rip

PollyPocket - rip

PharaohTuck - rip

EbonyDarkness - rip

SpaceCase - thanks guys

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Team Phantom - Extended Edition

SpaceCase - so uh, we’re gonna need an altar room

EbonyDarkness - uh, why?

SpaceCase - it turns out Gotham has a city spirit, and in order for us, or rather me, to be there, we gotta pay respects to her

EbonyDarkness - huh cool, what do we need to do for that?

SpaceCase - shiny things, lemon drop candies or bottom shelf booze

EbonyDarkness - huh, well we can’t do the booze quite yet, but the other things shouldn’t be a problem

DashingDash - do we have to buy the booze? I could always make some wine

SpaceCase - wait, you can do that?

DashingDash - yeah I used to do it all the time, you just need yeast, a balloon and some grape juice that doesn’t have preservatives in it

PharaohTuck - sick. WAIT does this mean we could've had alcohol this whole time?

DashingDash - I mean, it’s not great and not a very high alcohol percentage

TaeKwanDo - idk man, that one that you made that had mulling spices in it wasn’t too bad

DashingDash - thanks man, but I still wouldn’t whip it out at a party

PollyPocket - yeah, it’s not good, but it isn’t bad either

AStarIsBorn - have you tried it with other juices? I feel like apple cider would work well

DashingDash - I did once and I left it too long and it turned into vinegar

IToldYouSo - sad, that probably woulda been awesome

DashingDash - maybe I’ll try it again now that I won’t have to hide it from my folks

PharaohTuck - sweet. Wasn’t there a wine cellar too? You can store it there

DashingDash - you right

SpaceCase - I think that’ll work, we can at least try it, the supplies are what, $6?

DashingDash - I still have some balloons, so it should just be the juice and yeast, so yeah

SpaceCase - sweet. As far as shiny things, I’m not sure if CW meant like jewelry or just shiny bits of metal

PollyPocket - I have some antique costume jewelry I was going to donate to the school, but we can use it for this instead.

SpaceCase - awesome, thanks Paulina!

EbonyDarkness- so I found some information on city spirits

EbonyDarkness - they’re formed when the spirit of a people gains sentience and sapience due to either large levels of ectoplasm or otherwise a thinning of the veil

EbonyDarkness - essentially there was enough ectoplasm in Gotham that the general vibe of the populace became it’s own entity

EbonyDarkness - I’ll work on figuring out everything that’s needed for an altar. It’s probably going to need something that ties to the city and I’ll probably have to call tim about it

SpaceCase - sounds good Sam, thanks for always being on top of the magic shit

SpaceCase - so

SpaceCase - the first stop for the trucks Saturday morning will be my place, and then they’ll do a loop of the city to get everyone together.

SpaceCase - then we’re meeting at the High School to carpool right?

AmityUnsolved - I’ll be there with my car!

IToldYouSo - you’re picking me up right?

AmityUnsolved - yep!

IToldYouSo - awesome, thanks again!

DashingDash - I’ve got my suv and I can fit four people and suitcases for everyone

DashingDash - we’re just driving straight through right? No stops like the trucks will take?

SpaceCase - right, they’re gonna leave by noon and we’re headed out around 4, we’ll probably beat them there

PharaohTuck - according to my calculations, we should get there Sunday morning and the trucks should be here by nighttime

EbonyDarkness - so glad I have an electric car for this trip

IShotFirst - yeah yeah we get it, save the environment and all that

EbonyDarkness - hey, I just want the planet to be here when I’m gray and wrinkly

IShotFirst - I’m just messing with you, calm down

EbonyDarkness - whatever

SpaceCase - ANYWAY

SpaceCase - Kwan, Star, how’s the roadtrip playlist coming?

AStarIsBorn - putting the finishing touches on now, it’ll be ready by the time we head out

TaeKwanDo - we’re probably not gonna get all the way through it, we kinda went a little ham on it lol

SpaceCase - sweet. Well, we’ve all got packing to do, and this’ll be the last time we’re gonna be living separately for a long while.

SpaceCase - spend time with your families, walk around town, punch Skulker if you see him, because this is the last we’re seeing Amity Park for a few months y’all

IToldYouSo - Ha. y’all

DashingDash - you’re such a hick fenton

SpaceCase - shut the fuck up you two, I just spent a few days with my Aunt Alicia in the middle of the damned woods. I picked up on how she talks a bit

SpaceCase - sue me

IShotFirst - nah, you’re broke, I’ll sue Vlad

PharaohTuck - lol he’d probably let you right now

EbonyDarkness - yeah, it’s a bit sad really how much groveling he’s been doing

EbonyDarkness - not that him being pathetic is new or that he doesn’t deserve it

SpaceCase - hey, he’s getting better

SpaceCase - he’s even paying for Ellie to get online schooling

EbonyDarkness - fine, but he’s still on thin fucking ice

SpaceCase - good thing I can control ice now, huh?

EbonyDarkness - whatever ghost boy

SpaceCase - on that note, have a great night everybody, see ya tomorrow for the start of our new lives!

EbonyDarkness - night

PharaohTuck - gonna watch a movie with my folks and then pass tf out

DashingDash - yeah, I’m gonna play catch with my dad one last time

TaeKwanDo - night everybody! My mom says goodnight and good luck to everyone!

AStarIsBorn - I’m thinking a spa night tonight

PollyPocket - ooh good idea, I’ll do my longest skincare routine and a mani pedi!

IShotFirst - I’ll probably play a board game with my dad, he took the night off to spend time with me before we leave

IToldYouSo - I’ll probably just play some games with Kyle, dad’s working a double so he could have tomorrow off to help load up

AmityUnsolved - Goodnight everybody, see ya tomorrow!

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Video footage from the inside of a car, the camera seems to be mounted on the dashboard.

There’s four young adults in the vehicle, a tall and muscular blonde boy behind the wheel, an equally large Asian boy sat in the passenger’s seat, behind the blonde was a Latina girl and beside her was a blonde girl. 

They were all singing along to a song playing over the speakers, it was a rock song that they all had memorized the lyrics of.

The next video was of a different car, also with four young’s adults. A goth girl was behind the wheel, an African American girl sat in the passenger seat and two boys, one African American and one lanky white boy were leaning on each other, apparently asleep.

”This is gonna be fucking hilarious.” Said the passenger with a sharp grin as she queued something up on her phone. The goth girl was trying to hold back giggles. 

Loud horns played through the speakers followed by “What’s new Pussycat?” blasting at full volume.

The lanky boy jumped so high he smashed his head on the ceiling of the car and the other boy screamed as if he were attacked.

”What the fuck Sam!” Yelled the lanky boy. The goth just cackled from the front.

”Hey, it wasn’t just her idea, I picked out the music.” Said the other girl from the front.

”Val, what did I ever do to you to deserve this?”

”I’m calling in the payback from the dance you stood me up at freshman year.” She leveled him with a glare through the rear view mirror. 

He glared at the lanky boy next to him. “That was all Danny, he possessed me and had me go to Sam’s to convince her to go.”

The glaring eyes in the mirror changed targets. “You’re dead Fenton.”

”Yes, thank you for stating the obvious.” Said the boy, his normally blue eyes flashing green.

The next video cuts to a car with two people in it. Two red headed boys, one tall and one shorter with glasses. The boy with the glasses was driving.

”I’m telling you, the blonde Robin is also Spoiler! All the fight videos I found of them both show the same moves used between the two.” Ranted the taller one.

”I still think that Robin is a trickster spirit that changes form every once in a while.”

”Then why did he only appear recently? Gotham has been a festering hole of crime and pollution since its founding, why would spirits just appear now to protect the city?”

”I mean, is it really that far-fetched? One of our classmates just became an avatar for an aspect of reality and rules over the dimension that holds all the afterlives in it. Is it really so weird to think that Batman is a shadow demon and Robin is a trickster spirit?”

The taller redhead sat in silence for a moment.

”I’m going to prove they’re all just human, I will.” He declared.

The shorter redhead just patted him on the shoulder. “Okay Wes. I’ll go with you to buy more red string.”

”Thanks Mikey.”

”Anytime dude.”

Video cuts back to the first car, Paulina is passed out with an eye mask and a travel pillow on, Star is playing around on her phone and Kwan is looking at road signs.

”Oh! Zoar! That gets me a Z! I’m just missing Q and X now, maybe I should add license plates to the game instead of just road signs.” He said absentmindedly.

”Yeah dude, maybe we’ll see an Arizona plate, or New Mexico.” Said the driver, Dash.

“Maybe, yeah I’ll add them in.”

”I doubt you’ll see any, this is Ohio.” Said Star from the back, not looking up from her phone.

“Hey, people come in from out of state all the time, I once saw an Alaska plate in Amity.” Dash stated.

”Yeah, especially folks from college, they’ll be moving in around this time from all over the country like us.” 

Star sighed. “You’re right, sorry, I’m just still a bit nervous. I haven’t left Amity Park for anything besides either a field trip or going to a theme park since before the Fentons punched a hole in reality. I’ve never been alone before.”

Kwan turned around in his seat to look at her. “Hey, you’re not alone. We’re all going to be there with you. I know this is scary and we’re going to a place that’s more dangerous for us, but we’ve been training for years to be able to take care of ourselves. We’ve been learning from our ghostly tutors and the Fenton parents on how to defend ourselves and get ahead.” He reached out a hand and she grasped it. “We got this. Plus, Fenton’s gonna have a portal to make it easier for us to get back home. I’m pretty sure that if you told him you wanted to go home to see your parents or just to get away from the city for a bit, he’d totally be down to help you with that.”

Star smiled at him. “Thanks Kwan, you’re a really good friend, you know that?”

Kwan smiled back. “I try, now help me try and find these last two letters.”

It cuts to the next car again. The goth girl driving is white-knuckling the steering wheel and had gritted teeth. The girl in the passenger seat has large noise-cancelling headphones and an eye mask on, ignoring the chaos around her. The boys in the back are singing off-tune to the song blasting over the radio.

”Emberrr! You will rememberrrrrr! You will remember my name!” 

“Will you two shut it? I can’t believe this made it onto the playlist.” Yelled the goth.

”Hey, the whole initial Ember incident is what made me start to realize I liked you Sam.” Said Danny.

”And when you guys left me plugged in to a computer for twelve hours, leading to me never being bad at school again!” Said the other boy.

Sam sighed. “Fine, but Ancients I want to get you both singing lessons.” He went back to singing. She yelled over him. “That means you Tucker!”

”I’d be down with that honestly.” Said Danny. 

“I wonder if it would effect your wail at all? Do you think you could be like Black Canary?” asked Tucker.

”You know what? That’s a good question. I’m not sure if it’s really sonic waves or if it’s waves of ectoplasm. We should test it out sometime.”

”Fucking where and how? It’s not exactly a subtle power to have.” Asked Sam from the front.

”I’m sure Frostbite will let me practice in the Far Frozen, they have the space.”

”Fair, just don’t cause an avalanche if you can help it.” 

“Will do.” He saluted her and she snorted out a laugh.

Video cuts back to the car with the two redheads.

”I wonder what causes the ambient ecto in Gotham. Is it just all the death from gang wars and rogue attacks?” Asked Mikey.

“It’s possible. I mean Reddit seems to think the place is actually super cursed, which used to seem like hogwash to me, but then everything that’s happened to us has happened.” Said Wes. “I still don’t think the vigilantes are supernatural though.”

Mikey rolled his eyes. “Sure, the city that’s probably cursed doesn’t have magical protectors for it. That would be like sending someone with only a regular gun against a ghost. Not exactly effective.”

”Most of the rogue attacks can be chalked up to just mad science and hyper competence.”

”Yeah, but this high a concentration of crazies? There’s gotta be something else going on. I mean, there are the ley lines crisscrossing the city.”

They sat in silence for a moment. Then Wes groaned and ran his hands through his hair in frustration.

”I just finished pinning down all of the ghost bullshit, this is gonna be a mess to figure out.”

Mikey just patted him on the shoulder again.

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“Ugh that was the longest drive of my life ” Groaned Kwan as he stretched after getting out of the car. “That was what, sixteen hours?“ He turned to Dash.

”Yeah something like that. Let’s see, we left around five…” started the blonde as he shut the car door.

”It was sixteen hours and forty-three minutes, excluding the three hours we all accidentally slept at that one truck stop.” Said Star as she exited the car, wiping popcorn crumbs from her lap.

“It always surprises me when you do that. It shouldn’t, because you do it all the time, but it does.” Yawned Paulina as she climbed out. “Ooh this place is so much nicer in person!” She exclaimed seeing the manor in all its glory for the first time.

“Yeah, I’m especially a fan of the gargoyles.” Said Sam as she walked up behind them. Everyone from her car filed out, until they realized Tucker was still asleep. Danny licked his finger and stuck it in his ear, prompting him to jump and hit his head on the ceiling of the car.

”What the hell man, why can’t you wake me up like a normal person.”

”It’s funnier this way.” Danny shrugged and climbed out of the car. He whistled at the sight of the house. “You know, it vaguely reminds me of the Fruitloop’s old castle.”

”You say that now, wait until you see the neighbor’s house” Smirked Sam.

“This place could fit like three of my house back home.” Stated Wes as he approached the group.

”Well it’s a good thing there’s ten of us then, it’s probably gonna feel pretty cramped with all of us here.” Pointed out Mikey.

”We should find all our rooms and then we can explore the place, sounds good everyone?” Asked Danny, everyone facing him as the leader of the group. Everyone nodded at that and got their bags out of Dash’s suv.

As they approached the door, it swung open and there stood a boy roughly their age with black hair and blue eyes.

”Tim, right on time. How are you?” Asked Sam, as she was the only one who knew him. Tucker was trying not to hyperventilate behind her with his eyes bugged out. Danny snickered at him. 

Tim smiled. “I’m doing good, how was the drive? Here, let me lead you to the bedrooms so you can drop your stuff off.” He led them into the house, passing many closed doors on the way. Eventually he led them to a split in the hallways. “To the left is the Family Wing, to the right is the Guest wing. I think Sam mentioned you all planned out which rooms where whose?” He quirked an eyebrow at the group, who all nodded. “Cool. If you all want, I can give you a tour of the place, so hopefully you won’t get lost at all?” A round of agreements were spoken as everyone dispersed to deposit their belongings. 

Tim led them through the estate, showing the rooms that had artifacts in them, and the rooms they were freely able to use. To those who were curious, he explained the security system in place and showed them where a panic room was. By the time the tour ended, it was about noon.

“You really thought of everything, didn’t you?” Asked Dash.

A wry smile crept across Tim’s face. “Comes with the territory I’m afraid. After the tenth kidnapping attempt, I decided to up security. I still have nothing on Wayne Manor though. Bruce has the most ridiculous system I’ve ever seen.”

”That tracks honestly, I’d be surprised if he didn’t have the most over-the-top system in place. It seems his vibe to have top of the line everything.” Said Sam.

Tim laughed. “Yeah, he’s a bit eccentric, I’ll give you that.”

”He’s gotta be with that much money.” Danny chimed in. “I haven’t met a billionaire yet who wasn’t eccentric.”

”Hey!” Said Sam, elbowing him.

”Sam, you describe yourself as ’ultra-recyclo vegetarian’. That just means you’re vegan.” Deadpanned Danny.

”Oh my Ancients Danny, I was fourteen with access to the internet and eco-goth forums. That was what they called it there, I didn’t know vegan was a thing until junior year.” She growled out.

Tim just smirked. “Oh, you’ll get along with Damian I think. He went vegetarian a few years ago, maybe you can trade recipes.”

Sam turned to him, eyes narrowed. “Why did that vaguely sound like a threat?”

Tim smiled. “Oh don’t worry, unless you threaten him or any of us at all, you should be fine. He can get a bit stabby though.”

Sam’s face cleared. “Oh, that’s fine then.” Tim looked at her weirdly at that comment.

”Okay then, well, I should head out. I promised Dick I’d take care of his dog while he’s on vacation, and it’s about time I checked on her. If you need anything, Sam, you have my number. Have a nice day everybody!” He waved at them all before heading out.

“So, anybody else thinking we just camp out in the theater room until the trucks arrive tonight with all of our stuff?” Suggested Danny. A round of agreement was heard and everyone went to get the stuff they’d need for the day. 

“Pizza?” Asked Valerie once everyone was in the room.

”Sounds good to me!” Cheered Kwan. 

“Kay, I’ll order some, I’m thinking five for all of us?”

”That sounds right. I’ll ask Tim for a recommendation.” Sam opened her phone to do just that. “He’s saying Ray’s Pizzeria is the best in the area with vegan options, I’ll text you the number.”

”Cool, thanks, the usual?”

“Yup! A meat lovers, a pepperoni, a Hawaiian, an extra cheese and then the veggie vegan pizza. here’s my card.”

”Sweet, I’ll be right back.” Valerie exited to room to order the food.

"I still think you're heathens for enjoying Hawaiian pizza." Dash lightheartedly ribbed Paulina and Star for their preferences.

"Still not as much of an abomination as Mason's vegan cheese on hers." Paulina sniffed.

”Okay! What movie are we thinking?” asked Tucker, bringing up the library of movies he had on his laptop and hopefully stopping an argument before it started.

”How about we marathon and roast the Twilight movies?” Suggested Paulina.

”Ooh, eye candy and a stupid plot we can make fun of? I’m in!” Cooed Star.

”I still think they should have ended up in a poly relationship.” Grumbled Danny. Tucker cozied up next to him and threw an arm over his shoulder. 

“Not everybody is about that life man, I mean, it took us way too long to figure that shit out, I doubt those emotionally repressed and sheltered characters would ever be able to figure it out without help.” Danny leaned his head on his shoulder. Sam came and sat next to him on the couch, her head in Danny’s lap and feet kicked up over the arm. 

“Yeah, it took a literal life-or-death situation for you to admit you liked us both.” She said looking up at him. He began to absent-mindedly stroke her hair. 

He sighed. “You’re right, plus the fact it was written by a religious woman means it never would have happened. Alas, I must read fanfiction.”

”Alright, pizza will be here in about forty-five minutes. Let’s get this mess started.” Said Valerie as she came into the room and plopped herself into a lounge chair. Tucker leaned forward and pressed play.

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Team Phantom - Extended Edition

TaeKwanDo - can someone come find me??? I got lost in this place

PharaohTuck - yeah hold up a sec

TaeKwanDo - I’m in one of the artifact rooms and there’s a mask in one of these cases that’s giving me weird vibes

PharaohTuck - don’t go near it then dude, we’ll have sam check it out

TaeKwanDo - sounds good man

PharaohTuck - cool, I found your tracker, want me to come find you or do you want me to guide you through the halls via chat?

TaeKwanDo - if you could come get me, that’d be great

PharaohTuck - cool be right there

DashingDash - @EbonyDarkness I think the builders for the course are here, want me to bring them out back, or do you want to meet them?

EbonyDarkness - ugh I was JUST about to take a bath

EbonyDarkness - bring them out back, I’ll meet you out there

DashingDash - 👍

PollyPocket - @IToldYouSo @AmityUnsolved can you show me how to edit videos??? I want to start documenting my fashion design projects before classes start

AStarIsBorn - ooh that’s a good idea! 

AmityUnsolved - Absolutely I can! We can start tomorrow and get some practice shots to work with.

IToldYouSo - would this just be for your own purposes, or would you be posting these online to get a following? Did you want to do it as pure documentation, or are you doing it as a tutorial? That changes how we’d edit and frame things.

AStarIsBorn - Paulie you could start to build your brand! Post it on Insta!

PollyPocket - oh you’re right! Let’s work on building a brand then!

AStarIsBorn - I can help you manage it, it’ll be good practice for my degree

AStarIsBorn - once I’m back from Amity, we’ll talk brand names

PollyPocket - awesome! How far is it from where danny’s door is to the fenton’s portal?

AStarIsBorn - not far at all actually, the door opens into the Keep and then it’s about 20 mins by air Phantom and 45 mins by Speeder

PollyPocket - that’s good to know, my cousin’s quince is soon and I wanted to surprise her by coming

AStarIsBorn - aww that’ll be cute! Don’t forget to take pics!

PollyPocket - my aunt hired a photographer don’t worry

AStarIsBorn - are you gonna make a dress for it?

PollyPocket - that’s brilliant! I should totally do that, we can film the design process tomorrow

IToldYouSo - sounds like a plan, just let me know when you want to start

PollyPocket - will do! Thank you!

Team Phantom - Front Lines

SpaceCase - hey tuck? Do you think you could laser engrave something into like, a dogtag for everybody?

PharaohTuck - yeah I could do that, why do you ask?

SpaceCase - so today in ghost king lessons I was told that I have several different summoning circles

SpaceCase - I wanted to give everyone the one meant for friends, family and allies

SpaceCase - it would let me instantly teleport to them if they’re in trouble

PharaohTuck - dope, yeah I can do that. How many do you need?

SpaceCase - at least one for everyone in the group, then probably one for jazz, and one for ellie

PharaohTuck - roger roger

SpaceCase - thanks tuck

SpaceCase - oh, and a scroll was dropped off for you by an ancient egyptian ghost with a jackal head

PharaohTuck - uuuugh it’s the part of dhul-amann that broke off before reincarnation to rule over new ancient egypt in the zone

PharaohTuck - he keeps saying that I need to learn the ways of a leader so I can inherit the throne now that I’m aware of my ancestry

SpaceCase - rip

EbonyDarkness - rip

IShotFirst - rip

Jazzercise - rip

SpaceCase - hey jazz! What’re you doing up? Isn’t it like 3 am there?

Jazzercise - uugh my roommate convinced me to join her to try and see the meteor shower tonight

Jazzercise - she neglected to check the weather beforehand though

Jazzercise - I’m going to get a cold in august

SpaceCase - oh rip. The smog was too thick here for us to see anything either

EbonyDarkness - I’ll pm you a tea you should get, it should clear you up in a matter of hours

Jazzercise - thank you ~

EbonyDarkness - you really should probably go to sleep though

Jazzercise - I’m going to warm up with a shower first I think and then yeah, I’m passing out under no less than two blankets

Jazzercise - good thing I don’t have anything to do til 1 tomorrow

SpaceCase - go to beeeeed

Jazzercise - fiiiiiine

IShotFirst - it always amuses me when you bring out her childish side 

SpaceCase - I have a lot of practice

PharaohTuck - oh, sam, did ya get a chance to look at that mask kwan found earlier?

EbonyDarkness - yeah, I’m gonna have to have a chat with tim about that.

EbonyDarkness - if you were to put it on, then it turns you into a vampire for while you’re wearing it

IShotFirst - I really shouldn’t be surprised that vampires are a thing, but I guess it’s nice to know the world still can surprise me

SpaceCase - you’re not allowed to keep it sam

EbonyDarkness - oh come on, I think it’d be awesome to be able to temporarily be a vampire!

PharaohTuck - didn’t know you wanted to try blood that badly sam, rethinking being vegan?

EbonyDarkness - ew wait you’re right. Maybe he can get a hold of one of the bats and have them take care of it?

Jazzercise - probably the responsible thing to do

SpaceCase - JAZZ! BED!

Jazzercise - I’m going, I’m going! Sleep well y’all.

IShotFirst - night. We probably should all head to bed, orientation is tomorrow

PharaohTuck - ugh don’t remind me. Who the hell decided to have it at 8 am???

EbonyDarkness - idk but I’m definitely trying that space-themed coffee place tim suggested that’s near campus, they have a drink called void that sounds perfect for tomorrow morning

SpaceCase - oh, can I try a sip?

EbonyDarkness - it’s 8 shots of black espresso and some blackberry syrup, I doubt you’ll like it. 

SpaceCase - ugh yeah no fruit in my coffee please

EbonyDarkness - they do have a mocha with star sprinkles called the milky way though, we can get one of those for you

PharaohTuck - hey, I want a fun morning drink!

EbonyDarkness - they have some wild energy drink combos you can try out, I think one was called solar flare?

PharaohTuck - hell yeah, looks like we’re getting up extra early so we can stop by then

EbonyDarkness - take over danny’s bed?

PharaohTuck - I’m down

SpaceCase - fine, I’ll remove most of my nest so y’all can fit

EbonyDarkness - nah we should still fit in your nest of pillows

SpaceCase - sweet, I’ll be halfway to passed out by the time you’re here