Mission Report 3: Dio, for the first time in a long time, is on time

Mission Title: Introduction to Night Vale

Mission Date: 10/22/2015 - present

Personnel: Dio, friend KYC, friend SEA, friend CGP, friend C

Objective: Introducing Dio and friend SEA to a small desert community where the sun is hot, the moon is beautiful, and mysterious lights pass overhead as they all pretend to sleep.

Itinerary: No specific itinerary. Sporadic stretches where Night Vale was commonly heard, five or six episodes at a time, then nothing, then Night Vale again.

Inventory: A bloodstone circle. Librarians. The flesh-eating summer-reading bacteria.

Difficulties encountered: Staying awake through twenty-something minutes of CGP's sonorous voice.

Mission Findings: STAY AWAY FROM THE DOG PARK. Librarians are deadly. Do not approach. If you have troubles, consider the Brown Stone Spire. The Whispering Forest is more than it seems.

Summary: Goodnight, Night Vale. Goodnight.

Today's proverb: If you don't see Night Vale everywhere after you start, then you might as well start again. And again.


Mission Title: Brief Description of Midterms

Mission Date: 10/5/2015 - 11/5/2015

Personnel: Dio, teacher-enemies

Objective: Passing midterms. And surviving them.

Itinerary: One midterm after the other. One day Dio will fall to them, but... this is not that day.

Inventory: Textbooks. Paper (lots). Pencil and pencil lead. Victims. Suffering.

Difficulties encountered: Surviving. Though, as Dio has put pen to paper (in a metaphorical sense), Dio has, obviously, survived.

Mission Findings: Please, not more.

Summary: Midterms. Five. Death.


Mission Title: Integrating Dio Into Modern Pop Culture

Mission Date: 9/1/2015 - ongoing

Personnel: Dio, friend KYC, friend SEA, friend LZ, friend PS, friend CMS

Objective: Introducing Dio and friend LZ to modern pop culture elements, e.g. BOTFA, the LOTR extended editions

Itinerary: Friday night, Saturday night, Sunday late afternoon, every week. One movie a day.

Inventory: Speakers. Laptop. Popcorn. Couch.

Difficulties encountered: (should i really start posting memes here) A strange, pulling feeling in the empty hole where my so-called heart used to exist, a long time ago.

Mission Findings: Tony Stark is a russet potato, flying above the clouds. Thor is Pikachu. Steve Rogers is a Cinnamon Roll. Thorin calls Thranduil "English pig-dog". Boromir: "Tis just a flesh wound!". Frodo is rather silly at times. Making Sam cry is like kicking a puppy, hard. No one listens to Elrond, so he decided to pass into the West and is now the Red Skull, aka "evil elf-daddy" (quote from friend PS, who came up with a lot more of these as well). Tumblr will destroy lives.

Summary: Do not Tumblr if you value that thing you call a heart.