[For once it seems that the Potions Master has purposely started the video feed. He favors the screen with a grumpy look before starting.]

As the summer months are upon us I notice young Muggles running around the city at all hours and doing Merlin only knows what. Idle curiosity compels me to ask - how are you fine, upstanding individuals spending your summer holidays?

[OOC: Edited because I am a DERP and I completely forgot that vacation is an American word. *headdesk* Thanks person who shall remain nameless because she asked to. :P ]

[It seems Frank has gotten used to being a member of the community - even seems to enjoy it from the look on his face as he addresses all who may be watching right then.]

What up, Ducks? Long time, no see. Seems this book does what it likes in terms of letting me connect to the community. What you all been up to?

So. Question time, I guess. I've got this friend who really likes romance novels and things. I figured I'd get them a gift but, uh.

I don't really know anything about that sort of thing? Give me a sports film or action movie any day. So, I guess my question is:

What kind of romantic stories do you like? So I can try to figure out exactly what to get.

Today, I was awes...

I said I was...

Where’s my ink going?

[. . .]

Suck it, Greece!

Hah! Got it to work! Knew I could fix it!

[Text]

So what was up with that?

(remember that naked guy? well, he's back! but he's in a throne room and everything, actually wearing clothes and sitting on a "throne".)

Ah, yes finally! This mirror is quite fickle, but I am glad to see you all again. I did not get the chance to introduce myself properly, the last time. Since then I have learned that this is such a great thing, that I can actually communicate with people from other worlds than my own.

So, please allow me to formally introduce myself; I am Sinbad, King of Sindria. Who do I have the pleasure to be talking to and from where?

[The cabin that Will is in is much cleaner and well kept then others the community has shown. He looks a bit...at odds with the surroundings but a shake of his head and he smiles politely to a man who informs him that Beckett will arrive shortly.

He looks outside at the ruckus between Navy Men and Jone's fish adorned sailors before turning his attention to the mirror in his hand.]

I'm sorry I haven't been available to keep everyone informed.

[A slight pause as someone walks past before he continues.]

I've only recently escaped Jack's idea of dignified quarters. As it seems...neither he nor Elizabeth recall this place. I would apologize but perhaps it's better this way.

[He puts the mirror down as a man enters the room. Beckett sits before him, the mirror offering an odd view of tea cups and biscuits being passed over it. A sudden sound of wood hitting wood doesn't phase either man.]

I can not be summoned like some mongrel pup!

Apperently you can. I do believe you know each other?

Ahaha, come to join my crew again, Master Turner?

Not yours. His.

[Beckett sets a cup of tea on the mirror, which seemed to be part of the tea set the whole time, and shuts the feed off.]

[Hello Republic City Ducks! Anyone who happens to be watching the community right now is in for a rare treat - Avatar Korra trying to Airbend.]

Com'on. Work - WORK!

[The young woman goes through several smooth motions and then thrusts out her hands but nothing happens. She looks at her hands in disgust before throwing her arms to her sides in frustration.]

ARGHHHHHHHHHH! Why can't I Airbend?! What's wrong with me?!

[A rock suddenly lifts from the ground and smashes into a boulder, pulverizing the rock. The woman you have been watching begins to stalk off, muttering various comments on the element of Air and where it can go.]

[The video begins and the viewer is greeted by a view of Selina Kyle entering her apartment with its faded pink walls, very 90s, very…quaint…or small…]

Honey, I'm home.

[Beat]

Oh, I forgot. I'm not married.

[Then she goes through a series of motions, as though she’s done this a thousand times before. Drops her keys on the table, turns on the lamp, drapes her coat over the back of the chair and then sojourns into the kitchen where there is an open window…and through the open window slinks a beautiful black cat]

Miss Kitty...Back from more sexual escapades you refuse to share [as she removes a carton of cat formulated milk from the refrigerator that she pours into a small bowl] not that I'd ever pry. Drink your dinner.

[Miss kitty looks up at her a yowls]

What? "How can anyone be so pathetic?" Yes, to you I seem pathetic. [with Miss Kitty squared away Selina leaves the kitchen and heads toward her bedroom, hitting her answering machine on the way] But I'm a working girl, gotta pay the rent. Maybe if you were chipping in, 'stead of stepping out...

[While pulling down her Murphy bed a voice can be heard coming from the other room, distinctly female]

Selina dear. It's your mother. Just calling to say hello…

Yeah right, "but"… [like any petulant child she rolls her eyes]

…"but" I'm disappointed you're not coming home for Christmas. I wanted to discuss just why you insist on languishing in Gotham City as some lowly secretary…

Lowly "assistant".

[The answering machine beeps and message one ends moving on to message two, this time it’s a man’s voice]

Selina, about that Christmas getaway we planned? I'll be going alone. Doctor Shaw says I need to be my own person now, and not an appendage.

[Selina hits the fast forward button on the machine before dropping into a nearby chair inhabited by embarrassing stuffed toys, her face fixed into a sullen expression]

Some appendage…Well the party never stops on Selina Kyle's answering machine…Guess I should've let him win that last racquetball game.

[And just as she’s starting to make herself comfortable, toying with the taser she nicked from the clown the next message rolls]

Hi, Selina, this is yourself calling. To remind you, honey, that you have to come all the way back to the office unless you remembered to bring home the Bruce Wayne file [she quickly jumps out of her comfortable spot and begins to scramble around for her coat and shoes] because the meeting's on Wednesday…

Stupid corndog!

[And as she's at the door the video cuts...

...only to open once more with Selina back a Shreck Industries.]

~*What did curiosity do to the cat?*~

[Cut]

((ooc: She will not be responding to this for obvious reasons XD Is Kefka getting his wish? Lol.))

[The video starts with Tokiya sitting at his desk and sitting on the bed nearby is a red haired boy, who looks to be about the same age. It's pretty obvious that Tokiya looks a little irritated and that this is probably mid-conversation.]

The only reason I am talking to you about this is because I can't talk to them about this. Understand?

[The boy on the bed tilts his head, looking a little confused. "The people in that community, right?" He says. Tokiya nods briefly.] Exactly. Now...What should I do about the situation with her? I can't just say something outright and look like an idiot. [Otoya, the redhead, seems to look smug now. "And here I thought that you weren't capable of things like that!"]

Just...shut up. Forget I even mentioned anything.

[And the video ends.]

[ The video takes a moment to adjust to what is clearly a beautiful night sky - if anyone thought the milky way was pretty just multiply it by ten and that's the general idea of what it is. There's the clamor of feasting and fighting in the background, but it's distant.

Instead there's Sif, lit by firelight in full armor - her own winged helm and all. ]

Friends of Steven Rogers - Thor [ Pan down, and there's Thor with his own helmed head in her lap, sleeping, before panning back up again. ] and I have waited for him at Valhalla for some time. And it is with mixed emotions that I say we have not yet seen him.

So there is hope yet that somehow, he still lives.

[ There's an oddly warm smile, and then the camera pans up to the stars again before cutting out. ]

Ah, communìta, I want to show you something.

[So here's the view of Florence greeting the community, though probably not from where you're expecting. Because this? Is on the rooftops.

Ezio is making his way along the tiles, arms wide open as he crosses a narrow rope with ease, to run to another rooftop, all the while grinning from ear to ear. He jumps over a gap between two more houses, climbing up the walls as he barely reaches the top of the ledge, and then walks along one of the planks for the hanging plants nearby. And he crouches, before sitting down and just taking in the view before him, of the Piazza Republica, the Piazza della Signoria, and the Santa Maria del Fiore.

...can you tell he enjoys this? There's a smile and he finally looks down to his book, well aware it's been recording this whole time.]

This is one of my favorite spots. [And he lowers his voice.] But you must keep it a secret, sì? I do not want others to come by and take it- I have heard the birds are terrible in claiming territories.

[The video camera shows Mami's apartment--richly furnished but empty. Nothing but a few dishes on a glass table and the light coming from a sliding glass door are seen. Nobody's home. That is, until the noise of an opening door. Lights flicker on as someone flips a light switch.]

Mother, Father... I'm sorry I was out later than usual.

[Mami walks into the view of the camera. She doesn't look around and instead just puts her schoolbag near the table with a heavy sigh, looking a bit more ragged than usual.] I understand that I could probably have returned sooner but not tonight. It was busy.

[As Mami talks, she picks up the dirty dishes and moves out of sight of the camera. There's noises of someone putting water into a pot.] I believe I've made a couple of new friends. I'm sure you would have gotten along well with them.

I hope you weren't too mad at having a strange man in the apartment. He was very cordial, as you remember. I used your recipe, Mother. [Mami re-appears as she sets the table again: for one person.] Don't worry about me, I promise I've been taking care of myself.

[Mami sits down at the glass table, pouring herself a cup of tea. She continues talking to herself but the video cuts out.]