Toby the Ice Worm is big enough to ride and seems to enjoy it, so we’ve been snorfing and hurling ourselves across the Antarctic plain. And what do we run across but an Icy Mummy Civilization! Out there in a hidden valley. Building pyramids, worshipping old gods, going about their mummy business.

It looks like they’ve been here for centuries.

Of course, the mummies got loose in Antarctica. They wandered through the portal and now it's anybody's guess.

Well, ok, it's MY guess, I suppose, since thankfully I put AirTags on the alphas, and with the satellite sim cards the school gave us I can track them. They mostly travel in flocks. And are naturally resistant to the cold.

To a point, that is. They have a very low freezing temperature, but once you reach it, they freeze right up. Regular mummies freeze when water does, but animated mummies are a lot more resistant. These guys won't freeze up for months.

I could just wait it out, but these rascally mummies have a nose for trouble. I don't expect them to start some mummy civilization out on the ice, building ice pyramids or whatever. More likely they'll end up harassing the station, trying to drum up acolytes. So I'm working with the station scientists to track them and see what we can do.

When I sent away for them from the back of the comic book I certainly didn't mean for it to come to this.

Happy upcoming Birthday to @Kyle!

Sheesh! What is it about birthdays and this generation? What happened to "ask forgiveness, not permission?" Feels like it was just @Scaramouche's birthday. Can't anybody keep a secret anymore?

So, the deal with birthdays. The same rules apply for anybody having a get together:

1. Clean up your own mess.
2. This includes carpet stains; broken light fixtures; holes in the drywall; fire repair; and damage from acid, ooze, and poison from creatures terrestrial and otherwise.
3. Keep the noise down. While I may be at the Antarctic research station this month, I have ears EVERYWHERE.
4. No lycanthropy shots.
5. Seal any dimensional rifts thoroughly.

Best advice: Don't get caught! It will save everyone a lot of trouble.

Sincerely,

A. Hazeltine
Student Activities Coordinator

I couldn't turn down the opportunity to go on the school trip to Amundsen–Scott station. As everybody knows, teleportal is the most environmentally friendly way to visit Antarctica.

The dome is a little chilly for sleeping, but there's no "night" and we're allowed to stay up for as long as we want. And there's plenty to do during the day, like rigging the giant Japanese huskies up on the sleds to pull us around, bounding over the snow drifts. Or saddling up one of the giant Japanese huskies and going out for a ride across the wastes. Or just wrestling around with one of the giant Japanese huskies and a chew rope. They're very protective and would never hurt you, even though they're twice your size.

But again I swear it's the same orange checkered blimps I see, just over the horizon. Have they been spying on us the whole time?

My birthday is soon. I'm planning a birthday party.
Everyone is invited to my dorm.
First I need to get approved by @Ms. Hazeltine
I hope she says yes.
Because I want to make this birthday special.
Also should I invite that guy that crawls from the bed?

Hey it's a lot colder here on the Psychic Study Abroad program than it was on campus I thought this was a trip the the Global Psychic South?

Happy Winter Term students!

Hasn't all this snow and ice been romantic? Trapped indoors, short on supplies, endless night, and only a dangerous network of tunnels to escape the endless monotony of madness and potential cannibalism? Yes, who am I fooling? It only reminds me of the time I'll never get back pining over my over-educated and thoroughly untrustworthy paramour @Seketus Reed.

Which is why I've arranged for a special winter Psychic Study Abroad program for all eligible students to a place where it's summer and the sun never sets! That's right, pack your bags for Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station! It's the land of sunshine 24/7, and high temperatures reaching -14°F (that's -25°C for our metric friends).

There's a new portal in the ice tunnel network, just off the junction between the admin building and the gym. And just between you and me and Quinn the clairvoyant clerk in the Hall of Records, there's a lot of Love Signs perking up above the horizon down there, which means in ALL DIRECTIONS! Every which way is UP when you're down there I hear.

Plenty of bunks in the newly reconstructed "Dome Dorm," offered especially to us for its inaugural sleepover by the Extreme Environmental Psychic Study (EEPS) thinktank.

So a big thank-you to EEPS.

See you down under!

Sincerely,

A. Hazeltine
Student Activities Coordinator

Those mummies are like the number one reason not to just scatter your toenail clippings any old where. You can imagine EXACTLY what they are doing with them.

I've tried to get the mummies to come back, but they are proving to be highly resistant.

Naturally I first tried the Eye of the Jackal (signing up for the monthly mummy subscription definitely paid off) but that just made them more unruly. They also felt the torches were quite rude.

Strangely, I've found myself in negotiation with the head mummy, or "Hip Priest" as he refers to himself as, annoyingly, in third person, continually.

They're still figuring out what they want. But in the meantime have agreed to let anyone they run into in the tunnels pass freely. Just ignore their hissing and whispering.

Toby opened a tunnel to the surface and I squeezed up through it and boy was it nice to get some fresh air! Snow's still falling but through a break in the clouds I saw a blimp, or something, circling campus. Orange with black warning stripes. Anybody else been topside?