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The Serapeum of Alexandria Alexandria, Egypt Saturday January 4, 2025, 10:34 AM local time As could often be the case working for Danger International, and with Veronica in particular, Lulu Beaumont and Davyd Palahniuk never knew when they might get called to travel to some far corner of the world to help with some humanitarian crisis or investigate some ruins or any number of other situations that might confront employees of the company. Today they were in Egypt, having been called in to investigate the disappearance of the head of an excavation at a site in the city of Alexandria. Veronica had teleported the trio right into the location, a large area of ruins covering nearly two football fields of land right in the heart of modern Alexandria. Several tall apartment buildings and other high rises lined the area around the site, while the site itself resembled others Lulu and Davyd had visited since joining Danger International around the world. Baren dirt and sand, with several trenches dug in various locations to excavate areas deemed of interest. Ruined stone foundations for walls, columns and other structures could be seen around the immediate area, providing the basic footprint for whatever structures might have once stood in this location. And as with some dig sites, there were a few ancient structures still standing, and this site had one no less impressive. Not far from where Veronica had teleported them was a giant Corinthian column that must have been close to ninety feet high. "Welcome to Alexandria." Veronica stated with a small smile as she looked back at her friends. As was typical, the brunette was dressed for the outdoors, and the relatively cool January weather, brown cargo pants, a grey T-shirt, over which she had a long-sleeve shirt that she had left open, and her well-worn cargo boots. Glancing back at the massive column, Veronica continued. "Pompey's Pillar, although it was actually built to honor Emperor Diocletian." She said, her slight French accent a bit more pronounced than it had been in high school given she had spent the last three and a half years studying in Paris (when she was not trapsing around the world). "One of the largest monolithic columns ever built." She glanced back at Lulu and Davyd. "The central shaft is a single piece of granite, not stacked drums, the more typical method of construction for Roman and Greek columns." Turning away from the column Veronica gave Lulu and Davyd a small smile. "Well, ready to get to finding the trail to our missing archeologist?"

Along the banks of the Yarlung Tsangpo River Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon, People’s Republic of China Wednesday August 2, 2023 10:45 AM local time Situated high on the Tibetan Plateau, the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon lay in the eastern end of the Himalaya range, where the great Yarlung Tsangpo River turned south through the range, before dropping nearly ten thousand feet to the lower gorge and into northeastern India. With an average depth of nearly 7,500 feet, it was the deepest canyon on land, and was slightly longer than the American Grand Canyon. Despite the high elevation, the day was fairly warm, reaching into the low 70's. This was tapered somewhat by occasional light rain from the cloudy sky. While the rain was intermittent, it was enough that all of the vegetation in the forest covering the banks of the river in this stretch of the canyon was soaking wet. Veronica Danger moved through the wet vegetation, following after Davyd Palahniuk as he tracked through the forest. The young brunette was, as always, dressed in a pair of cargo shorts (black in this case), a linen Khaki button up short sleeve shirt worn over a grey T-shirt and a pair of well-worn hiking boots. However, given the rain and wet vegetation, Veronica had added a lightweight waterproof parka, which she had pulled out of her dimensional storage when the rain had started over an hour ago (providing similar parkas to her friends that wanted one). A short distance behind Veronica was the third member of the trio hiking through the forest, Louise (Lulu) Beaumont. While both Davyd and, more recently, Lulu, where employees of Danger International, when Veronica had asked for their assistance it was based on their friendship that went back to their first year together at Claremont Academy. The trio where hiking through this remote forest in search of any signs of Veronica's younger brother, Rex Danger III. The teenage Danger had been accompanying a group of scientist employed by Danger International conducting research in the canyon. Two days ago Rex had vanished from the base camp the scientists were working out of and had not been seen since.

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@Avenger Assembled, @Dr Archeville, @Spacefurry ooc for this. You can choose for your character to be among the crowd, or being one of the fighters. In the latter case, if you want, you can write the Mistress of Mayhem introducing the character to the arena in some playful and bombastic way. Showing off in front of the crowd, is of course very much welcome.

The Espadas School of Self Defence and Swordsmanship! 202 Fall (early November), a Saturday morning (probably after So Cruel and Beautiful) Davyd Palahniuk had graduated from the Claremont Academy a few months ago, but still wasn't quite sure what to do with himself. He'd had a few ideas, and one of them -- after overhearing Uncle Sasha gripe about "government spooks" -- had been worming its way through his mind for about a year. He'd tried doing his own research on it, but, due to the idea's nature, he could only get so far. But then he remembered someone who had (it was rumored) fist-hand knowledge with the idea, someone he'd met (briefly) last April. The idea gained traction. And so he had returned to The Espadas School of Self Defence and Swordsmanship!, dressed plainly and simply -- brown khaki pants and a long-sleeved gray tee -- and knocked on the front door. Should I have called ahead? I probably should have called ahead. Or maybe not calling ahead was the right move? The initiative, the element of surprise...

Fall 2019 -- shortly after Aquaria's speech at Claremont Claremont Dorms -- Room 213 7-ish pm Despite how much his roommate had been amped about it, Davyd Palahniuk had elected not to attend Aquaria's speech. It's not that he wasn't interested in seeing her -- a Deep One, here, on campus! Not attacking or eating anyone! -- but he already had a lot of homework to catch up on, and was happy to be able to study alone in his room for a bit. He'd never done well in history, and while Claremont's version of U.S. History courses focused more on the impact of superheroes (and supervillains) on the country, and was thus much more interesting to the native Freedomian, he still had difficulty keeping all the names and dates and whatnot right in his mind. He was lying on his bed, with his textbook on his chest, eyes closed in concentration. "Okay, let's try this again. First there was The Ghost, then Johnny Danger, then Bluesman, then Centurion, then Eldrich... wait, no," he picked up the book, "no, Eldrich then Centurion. Then-" And that's when his roommate reappeared.