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BaelHunt 3016

[I tried. I dunno. It’s late.]

Dipper sighed, but finished tuning the last strings of his violin before answering the summons. He appeared in a burst of smoke and fire, took one look at the half-a-dozen eager teens wearing or holding various Mizar the Magnificent memorabilia, and promptly sighed again—only twice as dramatic and three times as loud.

“For the last time,” he cried, “I don’t know where that statue is. Stop asking me!”

“Aren’t you supposed to be omniscient?” asked one of the fans. He was wearing a dress decorated with summoning rhombuses.

 “That’s not how it—”

“Just help us solve this puzzle,” another fan said, tossing Dipper a 13x13x13 Rubik’s cube. “It’s supposed to lead to another clue. Please?”

“What, no!” Dipper threw the cube back at her. “Leave me alone. Don’t ever call me again. Alcor out. Peace.” He vanished.

And a moment later, he reappeared. “And don’t summon demons. Okay, Alcor out for real this time. Bye.”

baelhunters:

“I HOPE I HAVEN’T GIVEN YOU TOO MUCH GRIEF

BUT LOOK TOWARDS THE LAND OF THE MAPLE LEAF

FOR WHAT COMES NEXT, YOU ALL MUST RACE

TO ARTHUR’S FINAL RESTING PLACE”

So, I’m going to go out on a limb here a and ask if any of you Canada citizens could locate something to do with this Arthur.

Can you tell us more about Ian and Mira’s family?

marypsue:

(I’ve been sitting on this one awhile because I wasn’t sure I had any new information to share but doodilyboop, here you are!)

From: Linda Silverbrook <linsil@ncesschools.org>

To: Ian Beale <bealei@orchestrion.com>

Subject: RE: Parent-teacher conference

Dear Mr. Beale;

I would like to preface my statements herein by confirming that your daughter Lydia’s classwork remains above reproach, and she shows every sign of genuinely enjoying her coursework. However, I remain concerned about the extent to which she has been allowed to investigate subjects that are considered dangerous for grown, trained adults, let alone uninformed, dangerously suggestible youth. We restricted the occult section of the library to upper-year students in the pure academics stream for a reason, and a parental note will not be sufficient to allow her access. We do not believe this counts as ‘institutional censorship’, either, as we have not removed these materials from student access altogether, we have merely introduced academic requirements for access in order to limit the risk the children entrusted into our care are exposed to.

Also, I don’t see what the candle on my desk has to do with any of this. It was an end-of-year gift from a former student and it smells very nice.

Yours,

Linda Silverbrook

From: Mira Ramachandran <m.ramachandran@bonc.com>

To: Ian Beale <bealei@orchestrion.com>

Subject: pick up Joy

hey babe the preschool called, our little terror just threw up on an aide again and has to get picked up & i cant get away, would u go get her? &&give her the Talk about inducing vomiting with cleaning supplies again, 1 of these days shes gonna poison herself by accident & actually get sick. we gotta talk abt what we can do about these abandonment issues 2.

love u!!! cya after work!

<3<3<3<3<3<3<3

From: Harris Poolchek <poolchek@coalingadojo.com>

To: Ian Beale <bealei@orchestrion.com>

Subject: Fees

Mr. Beale:

Your daughter Violet’s full payment for the trip to the tournament on the Isles is coming due in a week. Just a reminder that this fee includes bus ride and ferry trip to and from the Main Island, two nights’ accommodation and meals, and the tournament fees. We are all very impressed with your daughter’s skill in the martial arts and she has been an asset to this dojo, all rumours of magical involvement aside. If she doesn’t come to the tournament and help us crush the Tigers I will personally snap you in half like a practice board.

Yours,

Poolchek

P.S. Please ask Violet’s godmother to refrain from attending matches. The riot last time cannot be repeated.

Has anyone ever asked you about Janice Stromberg? I kinda love her. (I think RB from her perspective would be a great opportunity for psychological/supernatural horror) Does she fit into the cycle of reincarnations at all? How’d she get tapped for …whatever it is they do down in area 51? Why she ackin so cray cray? Were there people she “worked on” besides Ian and Paloma?

marypsue:

Janice was a very bright and promising grad student researching in the field of supernatural biology at Stanford University until an ethics review scandal drove her out before finishing her Master’s. She was contacted shortly afterwards by a shadowy branch of a government agency which would prefer to remain anonymous, offering funding and facilities to continue the research that had ‘shocked’, ‘horrified’, and ‘nauseated’ the scientific community. She’s really, honestly, just very curious about how the world and everything in it works, and is not above taking it all apart to find out.

Also, have a minific!

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regularlyfe:

I swear, I have been on such a TAU/Mizar the Magnificent kick this week, here’s Cipher, a possessed kid from a nonexistent cartoon and is kind of a self-insert of a guy who is a reincarnation of an evil dream demon from an AU of a real cartoon, who’s creator the guy who made this guy is themed off of…

This AU is way to meta…

baelhunters:

Okay guys, I got off the ferry last night and stayed at a hotel in Newport. It was such a nice place, the water spirit who ran the place was kind enough to find a room for me even though I hadn’t reserved a spot. I’m going to head out to Gravity Falls right after I finish breakfast, it should be about a 4 to 6 hour drive, but I’ll update you all when I get there!

theitalianscribe:

With the #Cipherhunt going on, I really hope someone in @transcendence-au writes something for Ian doing a parallel to it called Bael Hunt. I don’t know what Ian would have as the prize, but meeting Dipper, Ian in cosplay, or Ian in cosplay possessed by Dipper so he floats, glows, and has other resulting traits would have pretty interesting results.

So one question I’ve had about RB for a while now, how did Ian manage to get a show about a demon, and not just any demon but the biggest, baddest, literal destroyer of a whole coast demon, on the air of a network that censors summoning circles as a relatively good guy? Or is this just one of those silly things I shouldn’t think that hard about.

marypsue:

On the one hand, I personally don’t think the Alcor in ‘Mizar the Magnificent’ is a particularly good guy. The premise of the show is that he basically forces Stella to join him, become Mizar, and help him figure out what’s going on in the supernatural world (and fight a decently-sized chunk of it) in exchange for helping her out of a life-threatening situation that the show would imply he had set her up for in the first place (sort of like how if you freeze-frame the images Bill flashes in Dreamscaperers it pretty much confirms he knew Gideon was going directly to jail, do not pass go, and sabotaged his own deal to make that happen). Alcor likes Earth and its dimension, he’s pretty fond of it the way it is, and he thinks humans are a lot of fun – he’s not interested in having it destroyed, but that’s mostly because he isn’t done with it yet. This is actually what would allow the endgame with Bael to play out the way Ian wants it to – Alcor comes to care more about Stella as the series progresses, but he sure doesn’t start out with her best interests at heart, and it wouldn’t take much stretching of the truth to convince her that the only way he really cares about her is like a pet.

There’s also the fact that the show is extremely cautionary about summoning demons. There are several episodes that feature demons that should not have been raised as villains in some capacity, whether as minor villains on their own or as the force behind a human evildoer (or human transformed into a bloodthirsty, mindless monster of some description, or supernatural plague, or other horrible thing Stella somehow has to stop). And there are consequences for main characters who get involved with demons too – Sam, who is revealed to have made an ill-advised deal with Bael for well-intentioned reasons, is basically turned into a puppet and used to nearly destroy his own dimension, and Grauntie Carla’s dislike and disdain for the supernatural is revealed to stem from a bad experience with Alcor in her own youth, one she’s still trying to undo all the damage from. Alcor isn’t an exception to the rule of ‘summoning demons is a Very Bad Idea’. 

On the other hand, it’s kind of just a silly thing. (Plus somehow Alex Hirsch got Gravity Falls on the Disney channel. I’m just saying.)