How does the saying go? "Once more unto the breach, dear friends", I do believe.

Although my return is hardly an event worthy of Shakespeare, I wonder yet how times have differed. It feels as if I were gone quite some time, by my end. The inhabitants of this site seem as polarized as always. Youth is such a blessing to the young.

For those of you that do not know me; welcome. My name is Louis Cyphre. Perhaps we will become well acquainted in time.

Who can tell what lies ahead? Perhaps it is all God's will.

[He is so glad that nobody can see the smirk on his face.]

It's quite the beautiful night, isn't it?

I wonder how everyone seems to let the night pass by without looking at it-- oops.

[ it seemed she knocked over a bowl of kimchi with a small giggle. Rika didn't care at the moment, she just wanted to sit there and stare at the moon. She'll shake the glass in her hand filled with a mixture of juice and wine as she smiled. ]

Well... at least it wasn't the juice. That would be such a waste. Hehehe. 

...Hey, what are your favorite mixtures? Hehehe.

[ So yep, thanks to Yuri's suggestion, she tried to fake being drunk with juice, yet... she somehow managed to sneak some in. ]

[ it appears to be a normal day in space. the crew of serenity is milling about in the tiny, old-looking kitchen and chatting. of course, community members will spot river tam sitting at the table with her brother, and the others are moving to join them. everyone appears to be enjoying themselves, at least, smiling and laughing, although by the sounds of things, there's an argument going on.

captain reynolds enters the room in the midst of this. ] No one is settin' foot on that fancy rock, I don't want anyone leavin' the ship. Come to think of it, I don't want anyone lookin' out the windows, or talkin' loud. We're here to drop off Inara, that's it.

What's the point of comin' to the core if I can't even step off the boat?

[ everyone continues to mutter and chat, since it looks like the discussion is over. river hasn't said a word. she's sitting there, watching jayne's weapon maintenance. he's licking a knife and being a dick to simon. river wanders off into the kitchen while jayne and simon are bickering, and anyone watching her in the background will see her take out a huge carving knife.

without a word, she walks back into the room and slashes jayne across the chest with the knife. judging by the amount of blood, it's a pretty serious and deep wound. jayne reacts immediately - he recoils, and promptly backhands river to the floor. everyone moves in a sudden panic, simon running to river: ]

River, no!

[ the crew assesses the situation - "i got the knife" - "he's bleeding!" - "that's deep" - "he okay?" - and meanwhile river glances up at jayne, blood in her own mouth, looks around at the horrified faces in obvious confusion and she says - bewildered, offended, insistent? - like she has no idea what she's done wrong: ]

He looks better in red.

[There's a green and yellow dog-like thing staring into the camera, panting a little. Those are some serious teeth it's got, but it seems fairly friendly.

And then Jak's voice comes in.]

Huh. I don't think I've had this one before. It's kind of interesting... though I need to remember to do my laundry when I have thumbs again. Didn't realize how much it smells.

[The crocadog looks off to one side, apparently toward the laundry.

Of course, what's really happening is that Jak's attempting to ventriloquize from off camera. Thankfully he's found a friendly crocadog who's willing to look towards a treat on cue. He was going to just be Mar again, but this seemed funnier. The hard part will be keeping its attention. He's just hoping his microphone doesn't make it too obvious where he actually is.]

[oh look, a new face! however, unlike most newcomers' first posts, it looks like this is an intentional recording. it certainly looks like she knows what she's doing, anyways.]

Ah, there we go!

[she holds whatever she's using to communicate in front of her at arms length; slim black feathered wings protruding from her back come into view. the winged girl is perched high up in a tree. distant mountains and more treetops are visible around her.]

A community that spans across different worlds... a perfect pool for all sorts of interesting news and gossip, just as I'd imagined! I can't say I was expecting to find something like this when I picked up this item that fell in from the outside world. What an incredible stroke of luck~ [she folds in her wings and sits back against the trunk of the tree.]

Ahh, where are my manners? I am Aya Shameimaru, reporter and photographer for the Bunbunmaru Newspaper of Gensokyo. I don't expect any of you to have heard of it. Well, one of you should have, at least. [cough lazy armpit miko cough.]

Anyways, why don't you all tell me something about yourselves or your worlds? But let's make this a challenge- I only want to hear something that would be worthy of the front page! Don't bother introducing yourselves with names. You see, I've taken the liberty of browsing through posts on the community beforehand to familiarize myself with as much of this as possible; I already know who most of you are.

[Aya balances the recording device in front of her and flips open a notebook, pen at the ready. two crows suddenly fly down and perch on a branch above her head. one of them hops down onto her shoulder and lightly pecks her ear, but Aya only acknowledges it with a brief tilt of her head.]

One more thing- I'd love to have a worldhop device of my own or someone to teach me to travel between worlds. Name your price for either and we can negotiate. Of course, currency obviously isn't an option here but I'm sure you can think of some other method of payment.

Now then! Everyone share something interesting about yourselves, please!

[ The first thing that you see on your video is this: ]

( cut for image )

[ Followed by the voice of one Quinn Fabray, who you see when she believes that you've seen the invite for long enoough ]

So listen up. I'm throwing a party for Buffy, and you're invited. Friends preferably, but as long as you behave I'll allow it.

[ She'd like to not be banned from BreadstiX thank you ]

We're starting at BreadstiX, it's a restaurant, and then we're moving to mine. I convinced my mom to stay with her sister so we'll be fine.

[ And there's a pause, a small smile and a half-joking: ] And tip your waitress.

[ What, you're not all from her world ]

[ Kyousuke sat at his desk, staring the camera straight in the face, his arms crossed, as if he was trying to look serious. It would have worked, did he not have what appeared to be giant white wings on his back, and a huge smile on his face. ]

I'm not sure if I should call myself lucky or not for what the community gave me this time, but this is too cool! [ He gave them a small pet. ] Though I do have to skip classes for the day. You should have seen the look on my roommate when he saw them. I'll have to talk to him later.

Anyone else get stuck with this?

[Anyone looking at the community right now will see Robbie settling in front of his computer. He gives the screen a disdainful look before he starts to talk.]

This community does like pulling little 'jokes' on people, doesn't it?

[Why, yes, he has seen what was posted during the 'Bad End' virus and it doesn't exactly please him. The past, especially events involving Morse, is a sore spot for him even now.]

For the record, I am very much alive and that is not how that little scene actually played out.

[What's this? Suddenly on screens everywhere throughout the Duckscape a pink pony with wild hair will come dancing across the sceen humming to herself.

Then suddenly...she comes to a stop...as if sensing something.]

"Hello? Is somepony there?"

[She looks about before moving right up to the lens.]

"Oooo! What's this? Ducks? Where'd you come from?"

[The little pink pony moves her head about curiously as if trying to discover the source of this. She can't find it, but one thing's for sure...all these ponies are new!]

"Welcome to Ponyville! I'm Pinkie Pie!"