Jumping through time

A handful of loops ago, I hoped that keeping entries about everything that was going on would help me understand the world. I now realize that there are way too many things going on for me to be able to track every single details.

But it's a soothing activity to recall's one day, so why not?

## Season 1

### Getting the team together

We went on a simple mission, today, a simple errand to test our abilities to work as a team. It was pretty fun!

### #Pumkinsinthebasement

This week, we went out with the summer program. The objective was for Lance and ... I can't remember who. To improve their grades, while we all have fun! Unfortunately, Mirri couldn't come over, this time. I'm sure he would have loved it! Oddly enough, during our stay, the house was attacked by gigantic living pumkins. We thought all would be well, when we kicked their butts, but we then discovered that there was one in the basement.

Thankfully, we took care of that problem before anything bad happened.

### A bunch of kids go to Hell

On our trip to Hell, we travelled with Andy's little brother. The trip was really fun, overall! Of course things weren't all safe and nice, but Mirri got to use his powers and show off how me he's improved! I'm so proud of him.

Oh, also! I fell off a bridge at some point.. what can I say, I'm not really good at long distance jumps. And Andy dove down to catch me. What a sweet guy!

Oh! One more thing!

Andy's father called me the ''Dream jumper''. How odd, it's not like I dream or anything...

### Puzzling crates

Had a special mission with Elijah and Andy today, thanks to our good grades, recently.

We were tasked with finding a missing kid from the normie school, on the other side of town. We headed to the inn where he was last seen and turns out that's where most of the normies hang out. They were pretty mean at first, but I guess they're alright, once you get to know them. So, they ended up telling us that they had a secret lair under the inn. Elijah retrieved the key to get there and we headed down under. After replacing a bunch of crates, we got access to the lair and within minutes we found their friend, stuck under some weird moss. To him, only an hour had passed, while it had been two days on this side. Odd. Another fun day on the field! But damn, Elijah and Andy need to learn how to chill.

### Psssh-shhh-shh

Surprise mission today! We showed up to class only to find a message from Mister Popernickle sending us on the field! How amazing! We grabbed our gear and headed our merry way to the corridor of doors. We took the seventh door on the left and ended up in this winterland. Boy was it cold! We quickly found a little hut nearby to warm up and that's where Mirri caught up with Andy, Lance and I. He gave us our winter coats (poor Mirri, he tried to pull a prank on us and it didn't work). Then we proceeded to do the mission, it was quite simple, really. Bring back a few lost animals to their owner.

Thanks to Lance, it took us no time to figure out that Psssh-shhh-shh was a really good sound to attract animals! We rounded everyone up in no time! We were given an amazing reward for our hard work, in the end. Today passed so fast, even faster than a day off!

### Bagpipes in the snow

So! Yesterday, Elijah and I were asked to head to the office right after our class. We weren't sure why, at first, but it turns out that the principal had a special quest for us (because our grades are so high!).

We were sent really far North to deliver a message to the Researcher (Earl). Pretty easy really. So we took our coats and were guided to the portal hallway. There, we found the right door and were sent on our merry way. We arrived in this really really snowy land where winds and snowfall made it hard to see really far away.

After a short while, we met an old Crook who told us that to find the inn we were looking for, we just had to head towards the woods. Also that our compas wasn't actually showing North and that we had to be wary of monsters. He then pulled out his magical bagpipes and disappeared! (but we could still hear the bagpipes.)

Elijah and I followed the path North for 12 minutes 45 secondes. That's when we noticed movement. We halted and, before long, we realized that we were surrounded by Krungs!! You know, the ones from the story books I read when I was young. So we talked to the youngest one of them, Koukou, who sent us back on the proper track. They were super sweet! We headed back, found a mysterious path in the woods, helped a magical dog (Cookie) by chasing a bear away and then finally reached the inn. Talked to the innkeeper, she gave us magical items (YUP!!!!) and then the Researcher arrived. He was like, really really sweet. We talked about the Krungs then his wife asked for some alone time, so we decided to head to bed. AND THEN. When we walked upstairs, we stumbled upon A BUNCH OF COOKIE'S PUPPIES. And we got to take care of 3 of them each, for the night.

In the morning, before leaving, the Researcher showed up his research. He showed a weird arcana symbol with sigils on it. I didn't quite get it. But, I'm not supposed to cast light on the light sigil.... so odd. We then got to magically choose a puppy, because the school said that we could keep one, and we were sent back home.

WE GOT A PUPPY!!!!

I gotta share it 1 night/1 night with Elijah... but it's still half the nights!

Oh, Mirri will love her!

### The blood of our ancestors

Well.. not exactly a mission, more like an extracurricular activity to learn a bit more about the history of the world.

Man... I had forgotten what it was like to just head out with the goal to learn about our past.

So, this time it was Andy, Elijah and I only. We left with Mr Popernickle for the woods. There, we met Ms Roseta, an old elf historian. She told us about a war that occured between the Tieflings and the people of our country. Quite the bloodshed. The worst part is that.. well... no one really knows why it even begun. Something about a wedding trade off that ended in the murder of a princess.

So! We were brought in that part of the forest because it harbours a lot of the souls of the people who passed in that war. We talked to a few of them. They showed quite the animosity against the humans. Elijah tried to convert them to the light of Palor and Andy tried to tell them that hell sucks. And then, we woke up two spirits at once, a tiefling and a human... the spirits got super angry and, although we managed to contain their animosity at first, things quickly went wrong. So we ended up fighting all the ghosts, Ms Roseta was severely injured. Andy ended up blasting a fireball on the ghosts, which led to a forest fire.

Thankfully, we quickly handled the situation, with the help of Mr Popernickle. Andy felt really bad for his fireball. It's understandable, but he really meant no harm. I guess that many violent ghost deaths are better than spirits going away in peace, but taking a life with them as well..?

I'm glad that Mirri didn't see any of this.

### The final exam

#### Be mindful of biases!

Alright, here comes the super cool end of the year team event!! I made a few arrangements and I'm so glad. This time around, we get to all be in the same team! (By all, I mean: Mirri, Elijah and Lance with Andy to complete the bundle.)

We started off the race at a good pace. We took second place. Lance grabbed the bag with the information... but forgot to read it. So we headed straight for the cave and.. the boys might have opened fire on the goblins? ...my bad. But they'll learn from this... Poor Jimmy....

We then took the beholder door. Which Lance understood with immense ease (I'm impressed). We had a nice chat with the Beholder and he sent us on our way to Palor's door. It did a lot of good to Elijah to speak with another person of his faith. But I think that something might be troubling him, he seems to linger in contemplation, whenever Palor is brought up. Maybe I should talk to him.

I'm impressed by Mirri! He was able to do something for the good of Elijah! He agreed to 'repent' for the goblin attack. I'm so proud of him~

Next stop, the creepy door that Andy chose. With... people turned to stone and a weird creature in it.

#### Etched in stone

How dare they?

How dare they do this to Mirri!?

When we entered the stone room, our attention was right away brought to some movement in the distance. Just enough of a distraction for them to catch Mirri off-guard and turn him to stone. I was livid.

We proceeded into the room. It didn't take long to realize that some of the statues were students and others were posers. We found a little Kanku (the evaluator) and a fight broke out in no time. As soon as Andy spotted the basilisk, he cast a cloud of darkness around us. Against a gorgon and a basilisk, it wasn't so easy. Elijah did some good smite-ing damage and Lance was able to keep the creatures at bay until he was turned to stone.

That's when Andy started taking most of the damage... eventually, the cloud of darkness was dispersed. The gorgon had ram through Andy's stomach.. I'm do glad I didn't have to bear witness to that. Andy did finish the gorgon at the last second. I scared off the basilisk and Elijah healed up Andy.

And that was it.

The kanku jumped from my arms, took some notes, and proceeded to free everyone from their curse. Around that time, I had to stop Andy from drawing on Mirri's face with a sharpy. Andy then whispered with Elijah that I might have been acting so protective of Mirri because I have a crush on him. If only he knew...

So, when we went into the chapel to heal up, I took the time to explain my reasoning to Andy and I think that he understands. I mean, he was always pretty smart- I think..? Boy, this is weird.

#### A door to the past

We went through the illusion door, this time around and Cookie was there, waiting for us.

The door lead us to that same forest where Elijah, Andy and I saw the ghosts of war. The place was burning and soldiers were fighting left and right. It was awful. Mirri tried to extinguish the fire, while Andy was talking to the tieflings and Elijah tried to soothe the humans. Elijah did a pretty impressive speech, asking everyone to stop the fight. And it worked! On his side, Andy talked to this woman tiefling who gave him a compass and called him... a prince?

That conflict resolved, we went to the door to Hell. We met Andy's aunt! She was.. quite open. But she gave us the stamp for free and offered a few answers to Andy. (She also flustered Mirri enough to make him leave.) Turns out... Andy is related to the princess that was exchanged a few years back... I didn't understand everything, but she might have been the sister of his mother. Andy seemed quite surprised.

#### The missing stamps

The first part of the exam is now over. Fiouf!

We came in second, this time around. That's pretty good!

After our stop at Hell's door, we headed to the Art's Den. I was so curious about that door, I'm glad that we had a chance to explore it! It turned out to be a talents' show. So everyone geared up, we got instruments, light effects and the like and we performed the classic 'I need a hero'. Elijah had quite the singing voice! Unfortunately, Mirri took the herty gerdy and... well... I should have taught him how to play an instrument. We didn't get any stamp, but we had a blast!

Then we headed to another door. A dragon's den. We were a bit scared at once, but it turns out that the dragon was super sweet! We gave them shiny objects and they gave us a stamp in exchange.

That done, we rushed to the inn, to make the end of the exam! We relaxed there for a while and, eventually, the exam came to a close. Our results popped up, we did pretty good! And then we were told about the next part of the exam, tomorrow.

We're now about to go to bed in rooms arranged for each team. We had a nice little party, followed by a warning... ''beware of the nightmares''. How odd. Oh! I'm sleeping with Cookie!

It's the middle of the night. I just... had the strangest sight. It.. didn't feel like a memory. I was holding Mom's hand and there was blood everywhere. She told me that it would be alright. But... I was filled with this feeling that I would never see her again. Is.. that what a nightmare is?

#### Tournament arc!

I can't remember the last time I have been this confused. I don't know what's going on anymore, I feel like my head's about to explode. I knew that the fun part was getting to a close, but... this was brutal.

Shortly after we woke up this morning, we headed off to the tournament section of the exam. The rules were simple, team fights, team with the most points wins. And you gotta knock out 3 players in the other team to win. We did pretty good in our first fight. It was.. gruesome however. Andy pulled up a wall of fire and... we then basically burnt the other team to a crisp, one at a time.

I shortly after realized that things were off. There were weird people looking at the fight. Mirri noticed students having moments of absence, during their fights (Andy being one of them). And I tried to warn them, everything felt so wrong! But they weren't ready to listen. Elijah believed me, thankfully...

When we began our second fight, realization struck. Things weren't adding up, the timeline was no longer making sense. That's when they struck. Multiple explosions left and right, targeting tieflings. And those ... human nobles staying oh so calm through all of this. Mister Poppernickle helped us evacuate. He teleported us to the school, sending us to the hallway of doors. The academy was burning. The guardian was laying on the floor... Mister Poppernickle then gave us a map and sent us away for our safety.

And here we are.. in the middle of a snowstorm with the bare minimum. Cookie's with us. But I've hurt Mirri by keeping quiet, and Andy's mad at Lance for what his father did. It's so cold. And I'm so confused. I didn't remember the war. How could it be..?

It's the six of us this time. I should be glad!

But I feel lonelier than ever.

### OVA : Enter-mission-beach

What a better way to celebrate a successful exam retake than to head to the beach?

Over there, we crossed path Damien and his group of friends. It was the perfect occasion to hang out! After I hailed them, (to Andy's despair), we played an awesome game that is quite hard to describe. We were passing around a ball covered in teeth and then we had to catch the magic flying gewy tooth. Which Lance did! It was awesome! We then headed over to a small restaurant where we met the cool waitress. We also heard about a creek that we totally had to visit!! Damian's friends made it there first, unfortunately, which led to a huge fight and the awakening of a giant octupus water elemental thingy! Thankfully, we all made it out rather fine. So we went surfing.

What an awesome day!

## Season 2

### Postal Strike

#### Part 1 : Another time stamp

We reached another small town. Not much to say about it except that most people don't seem to know how to read. Elijah and Mirri found some work and helped in the fields. They also grabbed some makeup for Andy because today he used his last charge of the disguise self stone. Lance went to buy spices and got... well spices, but also a very weird orange liquid. And Andy and I headed to the inn. We tried to get a hold on a newspapers, which lead to a wild chase after a gremlin nicknamed Jack the Burrower. He escaped, unfortunately.

Seeing our sad faces, the innkeeper told us to go see this hermit outside of town. A conspiracy theorist. I toyed with him a bit, got him nervous, and snatched his not-completely-accurate map of the North.

Next stop, the next town! Not the town before or the one thereafter.. just the next town! That one should have a postal office.

#### Part 2 : Keep us posted

We finally made our way to Greyburrow, one of the biggest towns in the North. There, we hoped to find shelter for the night, information about the war and, for the fun of it, investigate the weird letters they had received. Talking to the guards allowed Andy, Elijah and I to meet Adam and Captain Vincent.. whom I'm sure I have seen before, as a general. We found shelter in the local inn, cared for by Hans and Greta. And then, while waiting for the Sheriff Lexand and the wizard Sarabela to show up, Andy got in some trouble with the Three Old Ladies, some locals who didn't find him quite polite.

After a very brief encounter with the local authorities, because Sarabela had removed Andy's disguise, we learnt that the North was threatened by this group that calls themselves the Watch. They have been gaining some popularity down South and are currently on a crusade against tieflings. Thankfully, the locals don't really share that philosophy.

In the end, we found letters addressed to Lance and Andy and I think that Lance's family is gonna be able to track us, here on out.

### Go on ahead! I guess...?

Chasing after Elijah and Mirri, who ran ahead, the party encounters some common thieves. After a brief exchange of blows and half of the opposing party's death to the flames, the group presses forward to the nearest town. There, they cross path with tiefling lady they were after and find Elijah.

### Curtain call

Invited to the next representation of the circus, the party passes the next day in town. Touching discussions, clumsier ones and training for the show are in order.

### We didn't start the fire

We didn't light up the circus tent, I swear!

But we did put it out. We did catch some kids involved with all of this. Andy was seen by the crowd. The mom did come to pick up her kids, making a show of force. And, well... the circus' tiefling sacrificed herself for us... giving us just enough time to run away before danger creeped on us.

### The calm and the storm

As we trudged through the night, a storm hit. Thankfully, we found shelter under a tree, but it could unless last so long. During my and then Andy's watch, we noticed some light in the distance. A very brief investigation led to the realization that the light belonged to other academy students' camp.

Some war updates were given (no staff or student lives were lost!) and soon Andy and I tried to run away to get him to safety without endangering Elijah and Lance. Godly powers were used. Friends caught up. Scream echoed in the valley... and we were forced back to the camp.

### A song of healing

And for once, we talked. Well.. I got the boys to talk and by the boys, I mean Lance and Andy. Now we got a plan, an actual path East. Get Andy safe, so he can make a move. Get the tracker off Lance, so he can undermine his father. Eventually figure out Elijah's goal and mine.

Then we had a lovely day of relaxation and singing to no end.

### Inn-er peace

A few hours of walking in the snow eventually led us to the bagpipe man. The one Elijah and I met oh so long ago. We exchanged a few words and he then pointed us in the direction of the inn, all that was left to do was to walk for *some time* and at the sign turn left and walk for *a moment*. As simple as that!

Following these instructions, we got to the inn where information was shared. Andy encountered a group of tieflings who believed him dead, but soon decided to help. Elijah had a meaningful discussion with his dad. Lance was offered a way to blurry his tracker's signal, if we can capture a Nightmare's essence. And I was offered the possibility of a discussion about time, with the innkeeper. All in all, it was an efficient evening!

### Sweet Dreams

As we made our way through the forest, looking for those *Nightmares* we had heard off, obscurity surrounded us. Soon, we found ourselves at the mercy of impenetrable darkness and our minds were left running loose. Seeing hands in shifting branches and agonizing souls in the twists of trees.

That's when we saw it. A dark creature made of shadows and fears, cloaked in an aura of horror that we could barely resist.

And that's when the nightmares, no... the memories came.

### A bug in the storyline

After a brutal return to reality, Andy captured the nightmare and we made our way back to the inn. They know now, they know about the first loop, about how mean I was to Mirri and how important it is that we find him again. I'm not sure that they completely get it, but, I hope that they'll never have to.

Once we got to the inn, we were tasked with bringing some Krung hair back. Which we did! A good 10 strands we promised to return or destroy if we didn't use them. We got the bug out of Lance's body! But at what cost? Before long, I think that the formula we used badly reacted and... it exploded, breaking all the protection around the inn.

We gotta run.

### Survive

The group runs away to the closest beacon known to them. Accompagnied by a group of tiefling refugees, they trail as fast as they can to a teleportation circle.

One incantation later, they find themselves in the city of paperwork, where things are about to get quite complicated.

### Papers please

Welcome to the big city. A big city where you stand out and clearly permanently look as an outsider. A city where to buy anything, well, you need a visa, a travelling certificate, a passport, your parents' wedding certificate and the death certificates of everyone in the last 8 generations of your family.

It is no wonder that the crew soon attempts to be granted citizenship by being adopted by ..... In this line of event, Sol realizes that they have attracted the attention of a ... named Ace. Should be quite simple with their help!

Aren't they quite the familiar face?

### The son, the father and the adoption papers

Caught in the administrative office to explain the group's strange arrival in a foreign land, Lance soon finds himself face to face with his father. Once informed, the team rushes to the office to help their friend.

A mountain of paperwork completed and a swift escape later, the group is now officially under a new guardianship but... where's Cookie?

### Insert the many games I didn't write about (but will!) here

* Somewhere comes the search for the dead tieflings, but I forget where
* Not just a "f\*cking dog"
	+ The group retrieves Cookie, at what cost...
* They say never two without three...
	+ Where Andy gets kidnapped
	+ Where they nearly don't make it
* ...but never three without four.
	+ Where Elijah beats up someone
* A sweet old lady
	+ Discovering Rehinar's "past"
	+ Trying to solve Sol's addiction
* Yes, yes, we are from this town!
	+ Trying to claim a house by walking is not quite the approach, apparently
* Searching for a dragon
	+ Walking around, the nice city, and hoping for the best
	+ Lance got switched, a god was there
	+ And Elijah went up in the air
* Why'd you run towards danger again?
	+ Big worm!
* This house no longer feels like home
	+ Finding the inn, but it's odd
	+ Research, info, update
	+ Andy is finally showed the timeline and sees a link with hell
	+ Sleepy time
* Time doesn't discriminate
	+ One more hair
	+ It is decided to search for more Nightmares

### Bedtime story

The party enters the cavern in search of Nightmares and those beasts they soon find. First to take the fall, Andy finds himself in his younger days once more. He is with his mother as a council is trying to plan their trip to the future, but something's off. The runes don't seem quite right. Still, the journey is taken as time is off the essence.

Then it is Rehinar that finds himself in another existence. His town has been recently ravaged, but the repairs are underway and the moral is good. Even for that little kid he meets. Rumour has it that the latest attack also took out a bully. What a shame. :)

A fraction of a second later, Lance awakes in the Academy. Or rather, what's left of it. In the rubbles, the survivors are gathered and a teacher is reading the list of souls lost in this battle. Amongst these, a close friend of Lance, Solulri.

As the Nightmares focus their attention on Andy once more, he is brought to a much closer time; his arrival in modern times. Where, a brief moment of relief is followed by a large amount of people running in, announcing that the spell didn't work as planned and that, contrary to belief, it did not protect Andy's mom properly. As the child is removed from her grasp, Andy's mother begins to wither away, in seconds, two centuries catch up with her.

Time was never known to be kind.

### A story in which you no longer exist

In the midst of battle, Sol finds herself in complete darkness. Still surrounded by Nightmares, she is saved by Lance, Rahinar, Elijah and Flincher; a small adventuring party from the Academy that has been on the run for a full year now. After escaping the Nightmares, the group takes some time to settle down. In this story, the war is still an issue, but things are very different. Sol and Mirri were not part of this story, not even seemingly in this world (through sending). The war has turned in favor of Lance's father and the tieflings' royal family was recently executed.

In her final instants in these foreign times, Flincher offers Sol an experiment. One in which he will try to track her through time with the help of the ribbon she always has with her. The ribbon gone, the group is ambushed and Sol is shot through the heart.

When she opens her eyes, Sol is back in the cavern, her friends by her side, and her ribbon is missing.