Time Stand Still | | A Show of Hands

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Strange visitors arrive at the mansion. They are indeed very strange, on a mission and have a lot of secrets and yet oddly, are quite open about the fact that they're from the future.

( *please* don't say anything too weird. )

Time Stand Still | | La Villa Strangiato

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Secret is out, the strange visitors are from the future - and a far more specific future than realized at first. Amanda... has a niece? Who can teleport and is blue?

( Oh goddammit, literally not even sixty seconds. )

Time Stand Still || Mission

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Storytime! Now that the mansion people have established that they have a bunch of future people on their hands, they need to make sure they're trustworthy. Cue the uncomfortable interviews and exposition!

Trigger Warning: Discussions of death and violence.

Jean and Topaz interview Ellie, Ruby and Garnet, and Shakti. There are two Topazes. It's very confusing, and very anger-inducing once the time travel group tells them exactly what they're here to do.

( We're here to stop her. )

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On the other side of the room, Doug and Emma quiz Franklin, Shogo, Nate, and Talia. There are pop culture references, delightful six-year-old manners, and amusement about revelations of peoples' parentage.

( Did you know that the original youtube has eastern european folk dancers acting out sorting algorithms? )

Time Stand Still || Entre Nous

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Doug's already weird day gets a whole lot weirder, when Ellie uses Doug's own complicated 'I'm not a shapeshifter or possessed or otherwise not who I say I am' verification system to explain to him just exactly who she is.

Trigger Warning: Discussions of death and violence.

( But somehow, the reality was even more precious, strange, and terrifying all at once. )

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After Doug calls Marie-Ange, they sit down and have a very awkward conversation with Ellie.

( I hate that you have code words for these things. )

(TSS) Talia and Amanda || Lock and Key

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Talia catches up with Amanda to apologize for the... awkwardness.

( You might've noticed we're not exactly a crack team of experts. )

(TSS) Topaz and Amanda || Mystic Rhythms

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Topaz goes somewhere safe to decompress.

( So I'm feeling a little bit better about my life choices )

Time Stand Still | | Stick It Out

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Topaz does some percussive therapy with Kyle, because the idea of Evil-Alternate-Universe-Topaz is rather justifiably freaking her out.

( So, like, Maleficent bad, or like, Bellatrix bad, or like, Rasputin bad? Evil you isn't, like, a zombie, right? )