Baker’s Street Newsblog

The Dropouts’ Second Trial: The Shadows’ Temporal Menagerie

What do we have here…?

They dropped this at midnight EST and

Chat, remind me to make a proper reference for Heavy Cream Cookie so I can introduce her properly in this blog’s lore.

🕰️ Oh dear… if you happened to see what that comment was on that last post where Editor Meringue had his most-likely Roll of the Month…

This kind of luck will not happen again for a long time. And that’s saying something after pulling Wind Archer Cookie twice AND one more Burning Spice Cookie within 24 hours of each other.

Wait, Strawberry Crepe, how did you, Licorice, and Dark Choco ended up here?!

I was looking over this when I skimmed up and down the patch notes, and I noticed a little possible contradiction. When does Timekeeper get Forced Regression if she’s immune to Regression overall?

Oh, don’t you worry about me missing the patch notes this time. Timekeeper’s content drop has a lot for this game alone.

Day 4/8: Ensuring that the next course of action we take would yield results on what happened regarding Shadow Milk Cookie helped contribute to our division’s creation, partially by drawing some of the most skilled Cookies across the rest of the TBD from their divisions to this one… preferably as side work. I used to be in Technology Development working on various magitech projects- sometimes dubbed “magichanical” by the Vanilla Kingdom- before being assigned towards making a dual reader that could examine multiple timelines at parallel coordinates. Granted, not a lot of the other Cookies know how to operate the parallel timeline coordinate settings, so they mostly use it to observe one timeline in two different sets of geological coordinates in the same temporal snapshot. This would help with proposals to initiate “Operation Flipside” to possibly locate clues in the past about what could have led to Dark Enchantress Cookie and Shadow Milk Cookie enacting their plans the way they did, and whether more complex schemes beyond the known Cookies of Darkness were involved.

Day 3/8: You’re the new recruits? Excellent. Look, I know this whole thing’s a bit unusual for the TBD’s onboarding process, but trust me when I say that some days will feel like they’re being held together by puff pastry, frosting, and strawberry jam… especially if you’re in my unit. Truth be told, after I sorted through some jumbled records for Coffee Candy Cookie and Pain de Campagne Cookie regarding some wizards and Moonlight Cookie, the Director expedited several days’ worth of paperwork to convert my position between the TRD and END into a standalone entity in a matter of hours. If you’re good at noticing the little things between two sets of data, you might get assigned to my division too. I’d love to have you join us.

Day 2/8: This whole situation is worse than I first anticipated since I responded to those other incidents… solely because nobody else in the END had picked up the phone. But then we’ve got you. Between our abilities with technology and your tactical skills, we should be able to mop up what Shadow Milk Cookie’s cooking before lunch. It’ll be like another day in Parfaedia Academy all over again…!

Okay but for real, I kinda needed that time to ease back into CRK before committing to any real news.

Day 1/8: Commissions aren’t easy, nor do they come often. Consider this your onboarding for now, but we’ve got some more optional backwork on the other side if you’re interested in joining us. You’ll be audited once the trial period ends, but you’ll be compensated accordingly during this time, lasting 8 days. We’ll meet again soon enough with more details on our next joint mission!