these trees can swallow you whole
roots grow through bones and eat them
tall mountains of this valley rise higher and higher
leaving you in a deep crater filling with dirt
sky that was once bright blue now a deep dark brown of the earth
honey brown eyes now smooth stones of amber
brain once full of thoughts and dreams now a thick bed of moss
and the roots grow through bones leaving nothing behind
one thing remains
the heart
it joins that of the forest and you beat as one
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The Forest Is Empty And All The Cryptids Are Here
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this is how i see all of dlh and you can’t change my mind
nobody:
not a single soul:
DLH kids finishing their presentation on Greek philosophers: In conclusion, we should cancel all of them for being pretentious and sexist, but especially Aristotle. Diogenes can stay because if he were alive today he would say ACAB and gender doesn’t exist. Also I’m well aware that I didn’t discuss Democritus. I left him out because he was a time traveler. Any questions?
the other departments: ...
the professors: ...this is a science class....why are you even here?
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@avernotown I am h y p e
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So remember last night's Instagram live? And how they were discussing Quinn and how he has has loose friends go on his hero's journey? And how when Morgan was asked if they were gonna do something to Will THEY DIDN'T SAY NO?
Well I do. So I wrote some angst. I'm sorry (well, a little)
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Gravity Falls x Averno
I have seen one (1) gravity falls averno crossover and I gotta say now I’m addicted please someone gimme more
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Cartoon Lovers and Wild Ones!!!
We’re making an Averno fan cartoon called By The Forest’s Edge!!!!! Follow us here or on Insta @by_the_forests_edge_cartoon to stay updated<3
Art by @velleitytea on Insta
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page...? of what..?
it a page of a notebook, writen in sloppy handwriting, rushed but relaxed at the same time. the pen doesnt seem to have been pushed down very hard, ulike some of the other notes found simular to this one.
"averno is pretty cool! the school, the people in my department, the cryptid hunts, its better than anything else. but... i cant help but to wonder about the shack. i know it and its duplicate are gone but, could there now be something new that takes its place? a cave? a house? a pillow case? i cant help the urge that tells me to look but i know better, i may never come back. even so, what do i have left to loose, my sanity thats dwindling away after... the incident? no, my friends, family, even, here in this school, in these ever changing tunnels. so for now, these thoughts stay here, in this book, on this page, never to be seen by anyone but myself unless i cant undo what was done, ultimately showing this off for the entirety of the DUE to see..."
the page is ripped after that, clear that whoever wrote it also wrote the notes on a very mysterious student in the department of unconfirmed existence, and its clear they didnt want this, or any of their notes from what we call the scattered notebook, to be found. we can only assume this was ripped forcefully out of it, but some speculate that it wasnt ripped from the notebook by its author. that begs the question, if not the author of the notes, then who ripped it out and why?
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Cabin Terra head cannons
-Instead of coffee we drink honeysuckle nectar, at least we used to until we noticed that the bees were sad. Then we started making our own
-There are skylights in the ceiling that open when it rains, so the moss floor and flowers get watered
-The bees never sting terra campers, but they do sting those who are mean to us
-We have a worm bin for food scraps. We use the worm poop as fertilizer
-Anything thats meant to stay dry is stores in waterproof sets of drawers
-The cabin smells like a forest after a rainstorm
-Any mushroom that grows in the cabin is safe to eat
-Edible flowers, need I say more?
-The excess honey that the bees make are turned into candies
-Pet raccoon
-Dirt under everyones fingernails
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Fun fact: me not being able to keep a book actually lead to the creation of these documents! So I guess I have the Librarians to thank for... everything...
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The Librarians #633-05
-Department of Lost Histories
-Appear and disappear randomly
-Some how know the exact book you need
-(if you dog ear a book they will take your kneecaps)
(Rn: this was mentioned on a gossip page and I had to write it down. I’ve had some experiences with the Librarians, apparently you can only keep a book if you have “a written note from the headmaster”...odd.)
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Tell Me About EVERYONE at A New School
I wanna see the DLH kids with dyslexia listen to Macbeth and the Iliad instead of reading it.
I wanna see the DCD kids giving warnings to the other students when they blow stuff up so they can get out of earshot or put on noise cancelling headphones and avoid being triggered by the sound.
I wanna see the deaf DDL kid who learns the signed form of dreamspeak when they get to Averno.
I wanna see the DUE kids with autism who have the most encyclopedic knowledge of cryptids, but are the only ones in the whole department with any sort of schedule.
I wanna see students who experience ANS differently, but are still HOME.
(feel free to add more)
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welcome to averno home <3
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Averno DND update
I'm gonna do weekly-ish updates for this
using 5th edition, mainly cause that's the system I'm most framilar with
as this is the early stages, I'm working with a T.A.R.D.I.S notebook and the notes app on my phone
(speaking of, if you know of any good online dnd campaign building tools or the like, let me know)
I wrote this like, intro thingy? Like the thing the DM says during the first session? It helped get me in the mindset (might post it somewhere, idk)
I also paraprased the welcome speech from September into my book. Partly to get me in the mindset again, partly cause I really like that speech and wanted to keep it
started with DCD (mainly cause it was the first time in that list I made of ANS departments as DND classes)
so first I wrote out a description out about the different main areas of DCD (Barn, Silo, Kitchen, whatnot)
then I moved on to the class part
when I was doing this, my mind sent was "Bards are Creation, artificers are destruction" but it's not really set in stone thing
at the moment I think the departments are gonna closely follow the given class stuff, but with a few like, monitory features
for example, the bardic collage for DCD is collage of creation (was this decision made based on the fact that creation is in the name? a little)
NPC! Mainly did teachers, but also 2 students
I would like to take this time to thank whoever had contributed to the avernotown wiki
it is my favourite resource whenever I make fan content and I love you
so I'm thinking the department heads are each gonna have like a magic item
so far we've got bread that casts lesser restoration and a very breakable potion of explosions
I'm thinking the players would start at freshman orientation
opening speech and whatnot, get shown arround
Also came up with some quest ideas
and yes, one of them is the prank war
also, I made a map of the tunnels. And when I say map, I mean "I try a bunch of lines on a page and connected them"
you know what, I'm just gonna put a picture here
there, map
and that's all for now. Next week, DLH!
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Is your reality slipping too?
This might be me. I don’t know. But ever since I joined Averno, it feels like things have been... slipping. Hours will pass and I’ll look up from my phone and I don’t know if I’m in Washington or Virginia, if I’m in the forest or the tunnels or my living room. I can feel everyone- my classmates, the Shadow Mothers, the people in my house. They all have equal weight in my mind.
I guess I just... don’t know what feels most real anymore.
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Here is my freshman introduction! V and I are relatively new to Averno and ANS so we'll be focusing on catching up and maybe some hmwk here and there but it might be a bit before we focus on the ANS lifestyle
- Robyn
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