Christmas has never been a holiday of Demeter's but it is one for many people she knows. That means that today she enters holding baskets and bags full of treats for those she cares for. All of them are dropped at the Bar and instead of a signature simply have a golden sheaf of wheat in the from section.

( Felix and Louis, Kate and Bill, Ben Grimm, Teja, Urquhart, Carlotta, Gordon and Alyx, Adrian Shephard, Sunshine, Malcolm Crowe )

Somehow, D0G has gotten ahold of a T-Minus headset. Whether he has his human's permission to use it is unknown.

He can be found online under the name custodialConstruct. We wish you the best of luck in trying to communicate with him, since he can't actually speak and his fingers are too huge to be used for typing.

It's something of a cliché for pregnant women to be seen knitting baby booties. Alyx, however, never really got into knitting; she prefers more mechanical pursuits ( Read more... )

Claudia has decided that the best way to deal with the immediate situation is to not think about it if she can possibly help it. Staring at the lack of a door and angsting isn't going to make her feel better, and it's probably like that 'a watched pot never boils' thing.
So after breakfast, she leaves ( a note with Bar for Ray. )

One a_mere_child napping on the couch,
one g00d_d0ggie romping through the snow,
one no_vampires_plz practicing fire spells,
one doyousmellfudge with a giant mug of tea,
and a withhistailhigh in a pear tree.*

Take your pick.

* No, really. There's a pear tree out by the lakeshore and he's stretched out on one of the lower limbs.

Some pregnant women occupy themselves with knitting baby clothes. Others fuss over the decorations of the nursery ( Read more... )

Do you have any idea how frustrating it is to not be able to have caffeinated coffee, not be able to phase, and to have your center of balance thrown to hell, all at once, throwing in the fact that for some reason you're getting morning sickness in the last month or so of pregnancy instead of the first ( Read more... )

CURRENT aadiTelmatologist [CAT] ?? MINUTES AGO opened memo on board MAGICAL MYSTERY BAR VIRTUAL BULLETIN BOARD

CAT: This is Alyx Vance, speaking on behalf of the human resistance against the Combine Empire ( Read more... )

It's been One Of Those Days, back home. You know the ones we mean--the ones where everything goes wrong. Even the little mundane things that don't really matter, just to add insult to injury ( Read more... )

A couple of days ago, according to Alyx's personal timeline, Sergeant-Major Shephard gave her a crate full of headsets that he claims will allow them to communicate across the dimensional barrier between Earth and the Combine Overworld. He was uncharacteristically cagey about where and how he managed to acquire them, which makes Alyx more than a ( Read more... )