And Every Stranger's Face I See Reminds Me That I Long to Be Homeward Bound

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WHO: Anyone not whisked off on a Glorious Adventure
WHERE: The villages
WHEN: May 10th and the days following
OPEN TO: Everyone still "at home"
WARNINGS: Please put triggers in the subject line if they come up!

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For some people, it's noticeable: other members of the village community suddenly not where they'd been working beside them a moment before, in the hospital, the inn, or out in the fields getting them refurbished after winter. For many, it's not - not until their attention is drawn to it, anyway, by absences at meals or other villagers running around looking for the missing. But on the tenth, twelve members of their little tribe have suddenly vanished, too many to be accounted for by the random disappearances they're all familiar with and undoubtedly part of something the observers have planned. What it is, no one knows, and it's easy to wonder and even panic if more people would disappear, and if they did, who would be next. Questions are asked, plans are discussed, and speculations are made over the next few days as the missing begin straggling back to the village. It's another demonstration of the lack of power over their own lives that many people didn't want, and not an easy one to swallow so soon after the last one.

At some point during the first day, part of the chalkboard that had been moved to the inn has been erased and a new message added:

HAVE YOU SEEN THESE PEOPLE
SEEKING INFORMATION

Below is a list of names that anyone can add to if they find a friend, loved one, or relative has vanished. Some have added names next to the missing to show who specifically is looking for this or that person or who to bring any discoveries to. It's an imperfect system, but at least it gets the word out.

((OOC: mingle post here to ask questions, search for the lost, discuss plans for finding them, look after their animals, panic attacks, whatever you want to do! Feel free to go nuts and have your kids put on their shiniest tinfoil hats to speculate what the hell is going on here.))