This story was originally written July 2023.
You might have heard of me. I was a social media influencer for two years.
I know kids have “influencer” as one of their top professions these days, but for me it was all an accident, really. I uploaded a few YouTube videos back in 2019, in the summer I finished school. All I did was rant about movies. I had a few notes, not a full script, and just spouted off to my laptop camera about inaccurate science, bad casting choices, real nitpicky stuff. In about six months I’d got 200 subscribers.
I was at university then, and I mentioned my videos to some of my uni friends. They subbed and told their friends, and I got up to 1,000 sub by January 2020. My videos were only about ten minutes long, and I had nowhere near the views to monetise. I was making one a week, but not on any sort of schedule. It was just something I did when I was bored.
Then the pandemic hit. A lot of students here in England basically got locked into their halls of residence (that’s dorms for any Americans reading), but I was lucky enough to get back to my parents’ before then. So I was doing what my uni laughably called “remote learning”, which basically meant a couple of video lectures a week, some worksheets, and lots and lots of my own research. I won’t bore you with the topic of my course; it’s not relevant.
I’m not exactly stereotypically pretty. I’ve come to accept that. My hair is stringy, my nose is too big, my face is profoundly asymmetrical, my complexion is strange and acned, my teeth are crooked … You get the idea. You can only do so much with makeup and hair that covers your face. I probably have fewer friends than I would if I looked like other people, and it actually took a lot of courage to make that first video - and even more courage to upload it.
I can only assume that’s the reason I went viral. It certainly wasn’t the high production values, or the tightly-written scripts, or the quality of my research. On the 9th of April I had 1,322 subscribers. On the 10th it was over 8,000. By the end of April it was up to 300,000, and I had actually monetised my channel.
The comments were … well, they were varied. Lots of hate because of my looks, but lots of love from people who just appreciated what I put out there, calling out others for their negative comments. I know many social media stars struggle with unkind comments, but I’d got used to it. Let’s be honest, they weren’t nice, but neither were they untrue. And comments under your video are easier to ignore than comments in the street. I was making decent money after all. If you were one of those commenters, you know which side you were on, and I love you either way. Thanks for the engagement - it’s not easy to gain financially from your unusual appearance!
The trouble with going viral is that it doesn’t last. Competing in the fast-paced world of internet stardom takes a lot of effort. I started experimenting with other things - YouTube shorts, TikTok, Instagram, pretty much anything going. The format that turned out to work best was actually TikTok. I’d bought some skimpy outfits and did ridiculous little dances. I quickly reached over a thousand views per video, and while I wasn’t up to their creator tier, it still worked. A well-known cosmetics company asked to sponsor my videos.
Cosmetics! Me! I guess they were going for woke points or something. I didn’t care, they offered me more money than I knew what to do with, as long as my views stayed high. So I started making 2-minute videos. A dance without make-up, then I applied the make-up - being sure to show the brand name clear and up-close - and then the same dance with make-up. If this is ringing any bells with you, then yes - that was me. And no, stupid - that’s not my real name.
I’d got used to undesired attention of course. Along with the unpleasant comments, I got my fair share of unwelcome male approaches. For a few hours after any upload, about half of my DMs were from men, and some women (or men with female account names), asking to see more of me. I wasn’t a camgirl, though I suppose I wasn’t a million miles away from one; but I could have been. I did seriously consider it a few times, but never actually followed through.
And half of the rest of my DMs, and a good portion of the public comments, were from angry women. What made me think I had the right to show off like that? How could I bring their favourite cosmetics brand into disrepute? But I’ve got pretty thick skin (hey, I can make that joke, you can’t), and mostly laughed the comments off and ignored them.
That was, in hindsight, a mistake.
By September my uni was reopening for in-person teaching. I was working six or seven hours a day just to keep up with everything, and had a couple more brands sponsoring me. Being an influencer isn’t just about filming for ten minutes a day and watching the money come in!
So I was going to tutorials an hour a day, watching video lectures at 2x speed, and ignoring my assignments in favour of making videos and replying to messages. It’s not like my pointless degree was helping with my real job.
Okay fine. It was geology. Rocks and stuff. You happy now? I bet you can’t tell the difference between sylvite and carnallite just by licking it, can you?
Anyway, the point is I came close to being chucked out. Actually I had to repeat the second year. At least I could afford it.
So anyway, I somehow got through to the end of my second year, the end of my second year again, and part way through my third year. I was passing my exams - just - and through several reinventions I had managed to maintain my social influencer role. Last Autumn I was getting some good views, and cash, back on YouTube. I was getting pretty good at make-up (I had an exclusive deal with one company on TikTok, and another deal with a different cosmetics company on YouTube). The videos that did well then were me with experimental hairstyles and not much in the way of clothes, putting on makeup for a few minutes, then reading out-of-copyright fiction in my patented “YouTube voice”. If you can imagine a cross between Shania Twain and Marge Simpson then… well, then you’re weird, but you’ve pretty much got it.
Then, last December, a week or so before the Christmas holidays, I went out with my friends. I had made a decent number, both girls and guys, by then. I could never quite tell whether it was my personality (which I assure you is fantastic), my influencer status, or the cash I was liberal with (it always seemed to be my round, and I didn’t mind). There were even a couple of boys who were keen on me, though I hadn’t done anything about it yet. Eight of us went out together to celebrate a birthday. It wasn’t actually anybody’s birthday that day, but Shireen had a Christmas Day birthday, and she wanted a proper party.
Now I look quite different in real life than I do online. I think the technical term is “frumpy” - jeans, trainers, fluffy jumper and a hat, or maybe a hoodie. The birthday girl had somehow convinced me to put a bit more effort in, and had helped me pick out some heels and a knee-length silver dress. Make-up was easy for me of course, and so I got dressed up and off we went to the Black Swan.
The Black Swan has several great qualities about it. One: it’s cheap. Two: it does good food. Three: it’s a couple of hundred metres from The Bar. We had a decent meal, a few drinks, and around 9 we walked to The Bar.
To be more precise, they walked. I wobbled. If you’ve watched my videos you might have seen me in heels, but did you ever see me walk in them? Didn’t think so.
The Bar is open til 3 in the morning. It looks respectable enough from the outside, especially in the afternoon; but after about 11, when most pubs close, it fills up with students drinking expensive-looking drinks. And almost every night, somebody jumps up onto a table, and then everybody’s up there dancing. In The Bar, either you hold your drink tightly, or you lose it.
I’d done this before, and I can handle my alcohol. I’ve stayed at The Bar till chuckout more than a few times, and I’ve been wobbly on the way home, but I’ve never thrown up or passed out. And so I was surprised when I woke up. The last thing I remembered was Stu saying he was tired, and Shireen replying that it wasn’t even midnight yet. Now I was lying on the hard wooden floor of my living room.
My head pounded. Daylight streamed through the window, and I blinked a few times and rubbed my eyes. My hands were wet and sticky.
I looked at them. They were covered in blood.
I looked down. My heels were across the room, but I was still wearing my dress. It, also, was covered in blood, a huge stain across the chest.
Panic set in. What happened to me last night? I checked myself out and could find no injuries. Where did the blood come from?
Standing up, I realised it was worse than that. Red pools stained the wooden floor. I don’t know much medicine, but if somebody had lost this much blood, I couldn’t see how they could have survived.
I stood up, unsure whether my shaking was from the shock or the alcohol. This was when I saw a shirt on the floor behind me. White, with a subtle pattern. I’m sure I don’t need to tell you that it wasn’t my shirt. I lived alone, and rarely invited people back to my flat. I looked around some more. A pair of men’s black leather shoes by the door. And then I saw it.
I suppose, rather, I should say him. He was naked except for a pair of dark blue jeans, slumped in the open doorway to the kitchen, covered in blood, and very, very, dead.
I panicked then. I’m calmer now, so let’s take a moment to describe my conclusions that morning. I had got very drunk. I had met a guy. We’d come back to my flat. We’d been getting naked (the shoes and shirt weren’t bloodied). Then, for some reason, we’d had an argument or a fight. The body had stab wounds in the chest, and a pool of blood had congealed onto the wooden floor of the living room and the linoleum of the kitchen where the man collapsed. How did those stab wounds get there? I didn’t know for sure, but a quick glance at my kitchen counter showed that my sharp carving knife was missing. It was all coming together. I didn’t know if he had picked up the knife, or if I had; I didn’t know why either of us would do that. I didn’t even know his name, and later when I checked his pockets, I couldn’t find any ID.
There was a lot I didn’t know. But I’m smart. So once I was done crying on the floor (I think it was about two hours), I came up with a plan. This man was dead, and I couldn’t do anything about that. But what would the consequences be? There’s no need for my life to be ruined as well. I decided not to call the police. People go missing mysteriously all the time, he can just be another statistic and I’ll get on with my life.
The blood on Dave was mostly dry by now. (Sure, I didn’t know his name, but every bloke’s called Dave, right?) So I put a badly-fitting vest on him to soak up the remaining blood, and his shirt over the top, along with his shoes. His jeans were bloody, but they were dark, so hopefully it wouldn’t show up in low light. I couldn’t find his coat, which was odd given how cold it was, but this would have to do. I put my dress and heels in a plastic bag, and grabbed a spade that I never used. Had I missed anything?
The knife. The fucking knife. I searched all over for it, but by the time it got dark I still hadn’t found it. I knew I couldn’t delay for long, so I figured it was best to deal with Dave now, and find the knife later.
Eight o’clock in the evening came. I’m lucky I have parking right outside my house, no street cameras, and a ground-floor flat. I put the bag in the boot of my car and came back for the body.
Have you ever tried to move a dead person? It’s not easy, and I’m not exactly strong. I put my arm around his waist and eventually managed to heave him almost upright. “Come on Dave, that’s it. We’re gonna get you home. Maybe calm down on the tequila next time right? Try to keep it in, and don’t you dare vomit in my car, you sexy bastard.”
Oh come on, what do you want from me? I’m an influencer, not a stand-up comedian. And anyway, I don’t think anybody saw me during the several minutes it took to drag Dave to the passenger seat. I really wish I’d got round to buying a bigger car than the Fiat Punto I’d had since I was 18, but it was too late for that now.
There’s a place about an hour’s drive from me called Epping Forest. The Heritage Trust reckon it’s most famous for its huge tracts of unspoiled wildlife, thousands of trees, and Iron Age settlements. But around here it’s best known as the place where murderers and gang members bury bodies. So off I trundled in my 1.2 litre pensioner-mobile. I arrived around 9:30, checked Google Maps, and drove offroad into the woods.
Do you know how long it takes to dig a grave? The answer is: a long time! By dawn I’d only managed a hole about two feet. Oh, and it was my third try, because the first two times I found too much rock. Well, it would have to do. In went Dave, and I shovelled the ground back over him. I thought I could put my clothes in with him, but it was a shallow grave, and when the inevitable dog-walker finds it I didn’t want them linked back to me. I mean, there’s my DNA in there for sure, but let’s not make it too easy for them, right? So I chucked the spade in a river, and the clothes went back home with me, including the vest I’d lent him.
Now in England we have a thing called ANPR everywhere. The police can just type in a car registration and see exactly where it’s been from traffic cameras. I needed an alibi. Why had I gone to Epping Forest? For a hike of course! So I walked around for a few hours, got breakfast at a pub, and told the staff about all the wacky adventures I’d had that night. And while I was there, for the first time in a good long time, I checked my phone.
Hundreds of messages, of course. But only one sent a shiver down my spine.
Jolly_Gal_56234
I KNOW WHAT YOU DID
My heart thumped. My ears started ringing. I felt dizzy, nearly passed out. How could anybody know?
Of course nobody knew. I actually got messages like this fairly often. Just some idiot trying to wind people up. They’d probably sent a dozen messages just like it, to random people, and I just blocked her. Still it rattled me. I finished my breakfast, paid up, walked back to my car, and drove home.
My flat was just as I left it. Dave was gone, but his blood was still there. I scrubbed the floor for hours, and it helped a bit, but you could still see the stains. Exhausted, I showered and went to bed.
The next morning I woke up. I hadn’t posted anything for a day and a half, so I needed to do something about that. Scrolling through my messages, one stood out like a police light.
Jolly_Gal_28473
YOU’VE BEEN A BAD GIRL 🔪
Shit. SHIT! What the fuck is going on? I stared at my phone, paralysed with indecision. When I finally snapped out of it I made sure the door was locked, and tried to come up with a plan.
I had no idea who was sending these. Maybe they didn’t really know anything. You send stupid messages like that to hundreds of people, you’re gonna come across one who’s actually done something bad, right? I poured myself a big glass of gin, decided that nobody could know anything, and made a video.
Remember that one where I didn’t speak at all, just danced for three minutes dressed like 90s Britney to 70s disco music, titled “HANGOVER DANCE”? Yeah, that’s the one. I didn’t trust myself to speak without breaking, but I could dance about as well as I ever could.
The rest of the day I answered messages, emailed my sponsors, and considered getting an agent. It’s still just me doing everything, and that Sunday afternoon, I really didn’t want to. I also spent a few hours scrubbing the wooden floor with baking soda and vinegar, and looking for the knife.
I kept getting messages from Jolly_Gal. It didn’t matter how much I blocked her, she just popped up again the next day with different numbers at the end of her username. Always all-caps, just a single sentence.
YOU DON’T DESERVE IT
YOU’LL GET WHAT’S COMING TO YOU
OWN UP
DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT
Exactly one message a day, but always at different times. I decided it was a bot, and it was just coincidence that it started when it did. Until Christmas Day.
I’d been back at my parents’ for a few days, and endured the usual conversations about what I was going to do for a “proper job” after uni. They’re great, and really supportive. They’ve just never understood what an “influencer” really is, and that “playing on my phone” for six hours a day counts as work. My brother Rich gets it, but the rest of my family is honestly baffled.
Anyway, Christmas morning comes. All four of us were in the house together (my brother’s 17 so he still lives there), and we gathered together in the living room opening presents. It was a couple of weeks since the incident, and I still had nightmares every night, and those sudden panic attacks - you know, when you’re sure you’re going to be found out - but I was getting used to it. It had happened, I couldn’t change it, and I’d have to keep it secret for the rest of my life; but it was becoming a sort of background hum. I don’t know if that’s too quick, but I suppose I’ve learned to handle difficulty in my life.
Until we finished opening presents and I checked my phone.
Jolly_Gal_814385
HAPPY CHRISTMAS
And underneath, a photo of my kitchen knife, stained with blood.
I ran out of the house in tears.
Rich found me, sitting on the wooden bridge down the road from the house, my legs dangling over the river. I came here a lot when I was a teenager, so it was the first place he looked. I’d left my phone on the living room floor, and the three of them had seen the message, so he knew what triggered me. He just didn’t know the full story.
Well, I told him. I mean, not everything, obviously. But I told him how this person had been harassing me for weeks. He listened sympathetically, like he’s always done, and asked if there was anything he could do to help. I didn’t say anything; I just turned around, hugged him, and cried into his Christmas sweater.
After about half an hour we went back to the house. Rich explained things to my parents, thank goodness. I don’t think I could have handled it.
The rest of the holiday was … okay, I guess. More messages from Jolly_Gal, but only text. I made videos most days, and met all two of my old schoolfriends for drinks, movies and shopping. They’re big fans of my channels. I even took Rich out for drinks one evening, though it took us four pubs to find somewhere that wouldn’t ID him. He’s a bit of a babyface.
I did all I could not to think about Dave. I put him to the back of my mind, letting him live in the shed at the bottom of the garden of my psyche where he couldn’t disturb me. I guess that’s why it came as a shock to me, when I packed my stuff into the boot of my car to head back to uni.
There was one suitcase I’d packed but hadn’t got round to taking into the house. And peeking around the edge was that plastic bag. I’d forgotten to get rid of it!
Dad was helping me load the car, so I couldn’t do anything about it. I tucked it out of sight, finished loading up, said goodbye, and drove back to uni. It was dark when I got back, so I unpacked everything else, triple-bagged my bloody clothes, left my phone at home (no tracking me!), and walked two miles to drop them into somebody else’s wheelie bin.
The next morning I checked my messages.
Jolly_Gal_12592
WELCOME HOME
And a photo of me dumping the bag the night before.
You know what? This didn’t bother me. I mean, it did bother me, but not as much as I guess Jolly_Gal hoped. I’ve been bullied and harassed most of my life, and I’ve got pretty good at ignoring it. Sure, it was an escalation - she was actually following me - but it was just one of almost thirty messages. Jolly_Gal was hoping to destroy me. Instead, she hardened my resolve.
Clearly she had enough evidence to go to the police, but she hadn’t. And obviously she lived nearby. Now I’m no hacker, but you don’t do a job like mine without learning your way around technology. So I started sleuthing. I hadn’t bothered blocking her after the third or fourth message, so I made a list of all the messages, including timecodes. I’ve got a geology degree (almost), and we have techniques to analyse rock strata. Finally I had a genuine use for all that studying I sort of did!
Jolly_Gal was not as clever as she thought. She’d got sloppy. About half of her messages were sent at strange hours, on the hour. These were presumably posted by her bot. But the other messages were all sent between 7 and 8 am, or between 6 and 10 pm. So I guessed that she has a normal 9-5 day job, or maybe she’s a student.
Next I searched all the social media sites I could think of for Jolly_Gal or JollyGal usernames. There are a few, so please don’t go harassing people with that username! I don’t want innocent people to get hurt. After a few hours I had profiles of all Jolly_Gals. Pictures, locations, partial travel history, even birthdays for some of them. I discounted those who clearly weren’t in England, but I still had too many to narrow it down. The photos had no EXIF data so I couldn’t tell the type of phone or camera they used.
So my days became something like this: Five hours doing uni stuff, five hours working on my socials, and an hour or two learning digital sleuthing. I still went out with my friends sometimes, but made sure not to drink too much. I know how to have a good time without being drunk!
The breakthrough came by total chance. I rarely read the local papers, and just got lucky one afternoon in March. I was waiting for a friend in the pub after lectures, and there was a copy of the Post somebody had left on a table. So I flicked through it. The local council was rubbish at doing traffic. Some group of OAPS was organising a May Day celebration. And a woman had been convicted of body-snatching.
I recognised her! There was a photo of a woman in her early twenties. She’d been arrested when a corpse went missing back in December, and they’d seen her take it on the morgue’s CCTV. She’d been released on bail. “Prevention of the lawful and decent burial of a dead body” is a rare crime these days, so she hadn’t been sentenced yet; instead she was released until her sentencing, expected to be in August. Her name was Jenny Smith, which is so common as to be almost useless - that is, if you don’t have a profile of her on your laptop at home!
The report also gave her address. So I started hatching a plan. I texted my friend that I wouldn’t make it, and went home.
Jolly_Gal, or rather, Jenny, lived near me, and actually went to the same university. She had accounts on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Twitter, and a few others. Of course you can’t get Jolly_Gal by itself these days, but my profile gave all her precise usernames. I spent my evening watching her videos and reading her tweets. And then I found the smoking gun.
Jenny had posted a video on TikTok last June bitching about me. She’s way prettier than me, and yet I’d got all the subs and follows. She deserved all those sponsorship deals. It wasn’t fair that I had hundreds of thousands of subs and she only had a few thousand. She even said I was ugly and deserved to die.
Well, she got one out of two right, I guess. You can decide which one.
It all started to slot into place. Jenny was absurdly jealous of me, so she’d hatched a plan to destroy me. She must have roofied me in The Bar, got me and Dave back to my place, stabbed him, poured blood everywhere, and taken the knife home. I mean, I don’t know anything about forensic science, and I was drugged and panicked when I woke up that morning. I’d have no way of knowing that Dave had died days before he ended up in my flat!
I’d never managed to get all the blood out of the wooden flooring, and ended up putting a really misplaced rug over it. I chiselled off a sample and gave it to one of my friends who was doing a PhD in biology. It took a bit of persuading, but he ran an analysis on it.
It was pig’s blood.
Fuck Jenny. She’s not Jenny, or Jolly_Gal, she’s fucking Carrie!
She planned to destroy me. She ruined my mental health, she framed me for murder. All because I was more popular on TikTok than she was. Well, two can play at that game. I didn’t deserve what Jenny did to me. She did.
I thought about this all night, coming up with plan after plan, weighing them in my head. I wanted two things: to destroy Jenny, and to feel good about it for myself. Finally I had a course of action I’m actually rather proud of.
I decided to start slow. I did something anybody could have done - I mocked up a poster. At the top was “Jenny Smith - body snatcher!”. Underneath were two pictures, her Insta profile pic and the courthouse photo from the paper, and between them: “From This … To This!” And all her various social media handles to top it off. I printed hundreds of these, and pinned them all around the university and her street.
I’ve never thought of myself as an unkind person - God knows I’ve suffered enough myself to be sympathetic to others. But I’m willing to admit I felt a lot of satisfaction seeing her comments fill up with accusations and links to the online article. Jenny carried on making videos, but I could tell she was suffering. Good!
That was stage one. I had to up the ante for stage two. Jenny had covered me and my flat with pig’s blood, so I think we all know what’s coming next.
I pondered for a long time whether I should do it in the day or the night. But you know what they say - go big or go home. I scoped out her house for a while, and found out that she leaves her kitchen window, at the back of the house, open. Now I’m not the most athletic girl in the world, but I can be pretty determined when I want to be. So one night around 2 am I walked to her house - it’s only about half a mile - and climbed through the window.
I almost gave myself a heart attack when I knocked a glass over on the kitchen sink! Luckily it didn’t smash. I hid in a corner and waited for a full half hour before I decided Jenny hadn’t heard me. Then I snuck upstairs, slow as anything, and crept into her room.
Actually, the first room wasn’t hers. She shared with a couple of other students. Thank fuck I checked first! The second room was the right one. She was asleep, alone, in a double bed. I was so quiet that the only thing I could hear was my heart pounding in my chest as I opened my canvas bag, gently deposited its contents onto the pillow next to her, and took a photo. It didn’t come out that well - I couldn’t use the flash - but hey, I have a souvenir!
I really wish I’d seen her face when she woke up the next morning, staring at a pig’s head. She didn’t post on her socials for a week after that, and for two days she even forgot to send me a threatening message.
I’m sorry? You think I’m done? Oh, my sweet summer child. I’ve barely begun.
Jenny had a boyfriend, Abdul. I made sure he wasn’t around when I broke in, but stage three involved him in a big way.
Abdul was also at our university, a year younger than me, a year older than Jenny. He wasn’t very active on social media, but he did tend to broadcast his activity on Twitter. And what do you know? He’s also a fan of The Bar. So I spent the next month planning my move. I bought a new clubbing dress and heels - hey, I kinda missed that outfit! - and asked around for the other thing I needed. Some things you can’t just buy in Next, or a local butcher’s, but eventually I managed it.
I got my chance one Friday in May. Abdul had loudly announced on Twitter that he was excited for his boys’ night out in The Bar, and Jenny had been gushing about a girls’ night on the whole other side of town. Perfect. I spent hours on my makeup, and got to The Bar around ten. Abdul and his mates were having a drinking contest, and leching up at the girls dancing on the tables.
I figured I had a good long while before he would be ready, so I had a couple of drinks - not too much, but like I said I can handle myself, and I knew Jenny wasn’t around - and got up on the tables myself for a bit. Then about midnight Abdul’s friend got another round in, while Abdul was in the loo. This was my chance. I walked up to their table - which had no dancing feet on it, but a heck of a lot of spilled beer - and started talking to them, saying I thought their friend was hot.
“Uh, what the fuck?” “Not a chance in hell.” “Get lost, freak!”
Lovely chaps. But they were too far gone to notice me dropping something into Abdul’s double-whiskey-and-coke. For all I know, it’s the exact same thing Jenny used on me all those months ago.
Abdul came back and downed his whiskey in one gulp. I was worried he was going to vomit it up, but he held it in and blamed his difficulty on the coke fizz. Yeah mate, sure, sure.
Not too long after, he started to fade. His friends were really taking the piss out of him for being such a lightweight. Well, when I came over, the pisstaking just got worse. I introduced myself (with a fake name, duh) and told him he was hot. Believe it or not, it was only about twenty seconds before he put his tongue down my throat. Wow, I’m not sure I even needed to bother with the roofie!
His friends, who had been so intent on being mean to me, now turned their attention to him. I suggested we ditch them and go back to his place (I’d checked, it was only five minutes’ walk sober) - and off we went.
That was the first time I had sex. I’m sure I don’t need to go into details, but we did a lot of stuff, and I enjoyed it. I’m not sure if that’s because it was good, or because he was good, or because I knew what it was all for. I was impressed that he managed to keep going as long as he did in his state, but I do feel a bit sorry for him; from his Twitter he seems like a decent guy.
When he finally fell asleep I left. I’d got what I came for - pictures. And the next day I made a new account and sent a DM to Jenny.
At first I blurred my face, or chose shots that didn’t include it. A bit of editing and I could have been anybody. I watched their messy breakup on Twitter, Jenny hurling accusations, Abdul protesting his innocence. I know this is the age of social media, but I never understood why people play these things out in public.
And then, after posting a picture a day for a few weeks (I’d taken a lot of pictures), I sent one that showed my face clearly.
Jenny had managed to restrain herself from replying before, but now she knew who I was. She was furious! The very idea that her boyfriend had cheated on her with ME, of all people, was unbelievable. And this was exactly the outcome I’d been going for.
Jolly_Gal was broken. She’d ruined her reputation. She’d lost her boyfriend. She had nightmares about pigs (okay, so I don’t know that for certain, but in my imagination she woke up screaming every night). She was possibly going to prison. And now she knew that not only was I more successful than her as an influencer, but I was the one to steal her lover. She still sent messages, at first angry, but they soon degenerated into pleading. “Please stop.” “I’m sorry.” “We can work this out.” Jolly_Gal without CAPS LOCK, it was glorious to see.
In fact it was almost perfect. Three stages of my plan were complete, and only one remained. Jenny’s sentencing was in three weeks, so I had to move quickly.
She had two flatmates, so I needed to work around them. They weren’t particularly active on Twitter, but Jenny was. I knew from her tweets that while her flatmates had gone home, she was staying on a couple of weeks after the end of term. She didn’t say why publicly, but it was for her trial. No flatmates, no boyfriend. Now was the time.
And that brings us up to date. I’ve typed this up over the last few days, and saved as a draft. The final chapter, hopefully, comes tonight.
*******
I’m at Jenny’s house, and I’ve just called the police.
I turned up at Jenny’s door just after seven. Luck was with me - she’d tweeted that she was expecting a Deliveroo takeout. And I got there first.
The idiot actually kept the knife. I’d seen it when I was in her room. When she answered the doorbell, expecting food, and saw me - ah, the look on her face was priceless.
“I’m so sorry! Please, let’s just talk. I didn’t mean it to get this -”
I stalked towards her, anger in my face. Jenny fled upstairs. Perfect! She went into her room and shut the door, but I was like the furies of Greek legend. I smashed the door in, and looked on as Jenny cowered on her bed.
In full daylight, I saw the knife took pride of place in what looked like a shrine. She had photos of me printed out, and she’d written on them “BITCH”, “WHORE”, “FREAK” and all sorts of other hateful words.
Jenny had tried to make me into a murderer, so I gave her what she wanted. I grabbed the knife and stood over her. The coward shrank into the bed, begging for forgiveness, pleading for her life. Unfortunately for her I was not inclined to oblige. I plunged the knife into her chest, just as she had done to Dave all those many months ago. Jenny whimpered like a whipped dog, and after the ninth stab (yes, I counted), she stopped.
The police are on their way. I’m definitely going to jail after this. But Jenny got what was coming to her. We could both have lived happily, but Jenny chose otherwise.
And me? I passed my degree. I have friends. And jail or not, I have a life.
Burn in hell, Jolly_Gal.

such low requirements to make a ranked account.
free game.
no consequence with only an account vac ban
free to make a new steam account
wow you need a phone number for prime gaming
its almost like you cant get a free phone number on google voice
or buy bulk google voice numbers.
MAKE IT HARDWARE ID BAN.
Game is uninstalled and hidden from steam library until anything is confirmed or said a bout an anti cheat finally being added.
With the amount of money people spend on cases you would think the actual gaming aspect of the game would take some priority with an anti cheat. Invest in time and resources to get an anti-cheat out for your 20 year developed game.
The fact any FPS, yet alone one developed with such a huge title, comes out without an anti-cheat is absolutely mind blowing. FPS are the top hacked in games and Counter Strike has been notorious for having a huge amount of hackers.
You would think with years of advancement and development we would have a stable anti-cheat. I didn't expect Steam to be going backwards and just releasing games without an anti-cheat.
Shows their priorities. "As long as our cases work, we are good. Release it"
Blatant 0 care attitude from anyone involved in this game.

The past couple of days/ weeks have been insuffarable on this subreddit and it's only actively hurting the playerbase and alienating the ones that will help us push in the right direction.
1. Veeraah
Now to address and understand this issue we need to clear up the confusion the difference between a Bean Brigadier and a community manager.
A Bean Brigadier is an associate position. They make content about ur game, you give them pointers, like please don't curse in your videos or don't mention this topic, but in return you give them benefits. We heard from iirc Sacrix that for him it was 200k MP per month. You can also get invitations for test servers and produce content non-brigadiers cannot, e.g the New Age presentation that Misusing was allowed to post on his channel before even the official Maple YT channel. That's your motivation, benefits and brownie points essentially. If you do it right you can make content creation your irl job you live off, yes, but you are not paid by Nexon. They might pay for a hotel stay or flight, yes. You are a gamer that does work with Nexon.
A community manager is an official position, you are paid in real $, € or whatever. This also means that the pointers aren't pointers anymore but rules you have to follow. You are now representing the company directly and it's values. The term community manager has been diluted. It does not mean you are the voice of the community. What is a PR manager? Public relation manager. Let's say there is a scandal. Famous person X, who works on Project P did action A. The PR manager's role isn't to say what is on our minds, but to save X's reputation so P doesn't lose too much money. Come up with excuses and relate A to us, like: "This can happen to anyone".
I know alot of people lost their minds when I state CM isn't the voice of the community. Their job is to voice player concerns to the devs, after some basic filtering is done, e.g "Give us Sia from Maplestory M" isn't even worth the mention. They are the bridge between devs, who have trouble communicating and the players, who also have trouble communicating. They have to understand how each side functions and manage the community's expectation on what can be done, communicate updates etc. Might also require to post on social media, but most important, keep the playerbase hyped. I have addressed several concerns over the years and I'm often being taken serious when I do address an issue. Here is an example, you can scroll right to the comment section and find CM_Jade who left a positive remark while I did not even tag them. I know they read their social medias but they know what to skip, so I have to work around that: https://www.reddit.com/Maplestory/comments/1c1gheh/with_untradeable_frags_we_dont_need_more_sol_erda/
Yes it might be a thankless job, but if you compare it to something like customer service, it's not much different. CS don't just smacktalk their product, instead they try to find a solution to the problem you might have, but they can only help you if you are properly addressing and describing your issue. As a CM you are a Nexon employee that plays the game.
This might sound like unnecessary information to some, but after having read my Discords and Reddits post, this information is vital if you want to go forward and be taken serious.
Now let's talk about the infamous stream that got our previous CM fired. IMPORTANT: This one was the OFFICIAL Maplestory channel, not his private Twitch. I did watch it personally, I was chilling and grinding. I know alot of people lost their minds because he was gonna start his heroic char and kept flaming him, saying ofc Interactive is doomed because that guy doesn't have an idea what the usual player is suffering from. The funny part is: he started the stream playing his 267 AB in the Interactive world, did his dailies and was vibing. Actually he's in the perfect position to understand the majority of the playerbase's concern. Not everyone is 285 and soloing Hseren. The cube changes we did not receive would've helped people like him. We have triple primes in GMS thanks to Equalities and Unicubes. For whales it is muuuuch cheaper to get triple primes and if you add them all up, probably more than all of KMS, eventhough they are maybe 150x our Interactive playerbase?
He was motivated and hyped about things he is allowed to announce in the future and stating how working with Jade is a treat. Then just some casual gaming and eventually the infamous Niru situation. Nexon was clean and precise so we don't have access to the whole stream anymore, however I am a witness and can attest that this person summed it up nicely: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fniru-is-awesome-fired-from-nexon-v0-2rr4ojc9s0zc1.jpeg%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3D8f49cf82575c7d0595e2213409707c398d426001
Backtracking a bit - Nexon promoted Niru's stream, forwarded their viewers, like alot of content creators. Niru then took a stand AGAINST Nexon. He used his platform to protest and did not hit the 300.
People were laughing: haha they took off his banner. While some speculated that it was just on a timer and it ran out. Even if it wasn't: Why would a company promote a guy shitting on them? Like seriously, please think with ur human and not your gamer brain. What company stands with those people who glue themselves on the streets. Mercedes doesn't send their media team over there to promote them. CCs are blacklisted for way less if you look around the globe and don't just live in the Maple bubble.
Now having said that: Niru is blacklisted by Nexon. Case made. Veeraah did not just mention Niru, I can affirm the other Redditor, he did state something like what he did was dope. Let's play devil's advocate and say: He meant to say his lvl 300 grind was awesome. He didn't clearly communicate that. He is on the official Maplestory channel he needs to pay attention to his words precisely. However like the other Redditor I can attest he spoke like a gamer and not a professional that very moment. He had a task at hand, might've been difficult yes, but in my eyes this was a good test. If he does well you know you can rely on him, going forward: in person presentations etc without having to hire another professional and waste more money on said person. He failed to remain professional.
For anyone who might be in a similar situation, you try to divert while maintaining a positive attitude, except if Nexon told him precisely not to say ANYTHING about the topic and avoid looking at the chat if his name pops up. We have had several streams in the past where Jade/Ezra and Veeraah acted like chat doesn't exist, it is an option.
"Everyone feels frustration at times, but our devs are working hard to give you guys the best experience possible. Nexon does care about their customer base and that's why Inkwell with his wealth of experience was brought over to give the team the right pointers. This patch might have not been for Niru and his level of progression. It's a celebration of the game and all it's players over the years, casual gamers, returning players and alike, also a great event to boost your legion and man I'm hyped about all the cosmetics from our childhood. Just look at the store. So many items I missed as a child that I now can easily get. And after we are done Maypril, the 19th Anniversary we get a plethora of QoLs with Dreamer and the game is only gonna get bigger and better" - your PR statement. Managing expectations while hyping up the community. When you are hype, they are hype.
Afterwards you DM Niru on your burner stating you think what he did was awesome and apologizing that you could not speak further or you'd lose your job. The fact that Veeraah downplays all of this and states: Also, sorry for saying the name "Niru", tells me personally that Nexon was in fact right for firing him and he did not understand the assignment. His job was to divert attention to the 19th annual celebration of the game. Firing might've been over the top, but we don't know if he got strikes in the past, someone mentioned he might've gotten one with Ezra, but that's gossip unless confirmed.
Me saying all of this isn't me harrassing him. It's how a company works and I hope he takes this to heart and improves upon his attitude going forward. I'm grateful for what he did for the community and that's why I waste my time writing alot of this. I'm not a CC trying to stir up drama. I also know that we share this version of the game with several countries, varying from America to Mexico, all over to some countries in Europe like Netherlands, Germany etc and there are even SEA, Brazil and even Chinese players (from China if u can believe it). It indeed is Global - does also mean alot of cultures clash. I grew up with Asian values, however I was raised with western modern children and saw their values. I say this to say that we will have disagreements in the comments if their treatment was fair or it wasn't. Nexon America is a subsidiary to Nexon Korea, so alot of the higher ups are Asian. Discipline and patience is valued while being defiant is a no go. For me this feels like another Monday, but I can understand if a NYC born is shocked to the brim by their decision, but there was a reality check given.
2. Niru
Whatever he said and did was on him and he deserves the spotlight he was given. He grinded his ass off for 2 years for this moment and "gave it all up". I commend him for doing it. I do grind for several hours on end at times. Sometimes just listening to music, sometimes watching movies and other times just thinking about stuff I need to solve or simply personal thoughts. When he was close to hitting 300 and then took a 15 minute break to think about what to say I was just thinking to myself: you had thousands of hours to think, why break up the flow of the stream. He then came back and to the regular interactive Mapler he spoke out what was on their mind for years, however all I could think was: This sounds like a rant, I wish he had something like a document with a list he worked through. Visualize it for people. We had a lot of Asian viewers who might not follow your fluid speech but if you put it on a list it's easier to understand and follow and helps yourself not to get lost in blabbering.
I'm not playing WoW, but because it's with RS, DFO and Maple one of the longest running MMO I do follow history, botting issues, concerns etc and a CC Asmongold gets recommended quite often. Whenever he addresses issues he has a notepad ready and you can easily follow along. Another CC I can name quickly is Raxxanterax. He does the same for Diablo but he also has notes and sometimes even visualizes issues on Paint and I can just tell you guys that Blizzard takes him serious and close to nearly everything he says gets implemented. While I don't play those 2 games religiously I can understand their issues, follow along and I help the algorithm by watching. It's really tough to watch/hear Maple CCs talk about the game, bar a selected few.
Again I am not harassing Niru. I do understand his frustrations as I am frustrated quite often with Maplestory, as a are many others. I used to be one of the first people to hit 275 in reg, I grinded 10-14hours a day close to a year myself. I am just helping you guys help the community. Passion is important yes, but so is compassion and that is lost in the shuffle at the moment. There are people trying to improve the game, but all this ranting and gossipping gets them nowhere.
3. Interactive servers and no accountability
For clarification I am not maining regular server anymore. As stated I hit the max lvl. Then I solod all the bosses at the time, did it F2P, and when Nexon decided to remove 2x Drop Coupons I just couldn't take it anymore. Took a break for several months and started Reboot and right now I am having a blast. I can by no means grind on hours on end anymore but I still make great progress and I just have FUN playing the game. I state this because I still have alot of friends from over the years and I am still part of Interactive communities and Discords.
Right now I see alot of doom posting and alot of pointing fingers. "They only focus on Reboot and don't care about interactive!" - is a good summary. Nexon is a company and a company always follows the money. They don't just look at the playerbase, they also look at what each server is generating in revenue seperately. Me not spending on Reboot isn't gonna do Jack for Interactive. I researched Nexon's history for the last recorded 15 years and actually wanted to give my script to a CC like Coppersan, so maybe in the future there might be a deep dive on it. GMS, EMS, SEA are in constant battle with hackers and there were alot of measurements/ balance decisions to combat them, because unlike Korea you can just spam create accounts and don't need an ID. Yes you might have not seen a hackebotter in Luna or Elysium in years, but look in the Market Place. You will see Pensalirs etc being sold for 20-60b, Mesos are still being sold in mass. Nexon can never publicly address this because that would be admitting defeat, they can also not be open about it because they would give hackers an insight how they operate helping them work around anti-bans. Former WoW GM made an informative video about this topic.
While yes there are some botters in Reboot it's much more efficient to get rid of a "main" and much easier to detect a 1T meso botted account that will be sold. There also isn't an economy that's being ruined. All of this leads to Reboot being the easier server to manage in GMS.
This doesn't mean Interactive is doomed, but alot of the endgame players are part of the problem. I used to be part of top guilds and actively left. Argued a ton whenever it came to RMT/ Meso buying. RMT is short for Real Money Trade. This means you trade a Mapler an In-Game item and get $/€ in return. It's against the ToS and against rule 4 in this subreddit, however reality is that alot of the Discords (official Discord ofc against) allow it, albeit maybe with codewords, while others are pretty open about it and I lost plenty of arguments being against RMT and RMT players. This is for both EU and NA, there is no difference. Yes you might be a whale and spent 30k on the game but Nexon only ever saw 1k of it themselves, so ofc their motivation isn't as high compared to Reboot where you know any person in a NX outfit did spend that money actually on the game. Having played this game for over 10 years, I met 2 whales that actually did their gear themselves. Frenzy Totem aside, that one is just stupid and needs to be addressed by Inkwell soon.
Yes whaling and getting to endgame is expensive, however it is the name of the game. I'm not saying go spin on Marvels and fund Nexon, but there is this issue not many interactive endgamers are ready to address. Sometimes I see people buying mesos for 10% better rates than just buying them legally in game for NX-> MP -> Meso Market and fueling the game. They might lose 10%, but Nexon loses 100%. Again Nexon follows the cashflow and money is the easiest motivator.
This is a game of chicken, however I understand Nexon's position and would just advise to take a stand against RMT in the several discords and exclude RMT players, so they can go form their own guild and community where it's easier to single them out by Nexon, while you convert your NX to MP and then to Mesos. Hackers would have had a field day with the new system. Why is no one talking about this? Ofc you can call me all kinds of delusional and sellout but don't expect much sympathy from Nexon and stop blaming Rebooters please, it will not help your situation.
Tl;dr
Veeraah didn't just mention Niru, he spoke supportive of him. In that moment he was a gamer and not a Nexon employee. Alot of companies would've done what Nexon did.
Niru has made some good points, but it would have helped if they were more conceise and presented in a way that made it feel like a school presentation and less of a rant. He had thousands of hours to prepare his thoughts and yes he doesn't owe anyone anything. Yes to some people this sounds otherworldly, but if you can step out of your Mapler bubble and look at this from an outside perspective, it was a rough to follow. There are other CCs, like Raxxanterax for Diablo that make some great progress along with the devs. We are all human and communication is tough, but you can work through it.
Interactive players have some things they can do, like take a stand against RMT and help Interactive stir in the right direction, however blaming Rebooters or saying Veeraah was fired for Reboot ain't it.
Also I know I sound like an Nexon Employee however I did post the link above and here is another thread: https://www.reddit.com/Maplestory/comments/osr5jj/please_stop_saying_we_got_7080_of_our_drop_rate/ We did eventually get our droprate back at one point. I also started the New Age thing with Steam that had to be removed at one point because it was against the ToS - the mods found out some days later. It had over a thousand upvotes, people followed along and we were successful getting the limit removed and made ourselves heard.
For people thinking I try to become the next CM, whiteknight Jade or anything absurd. I have caused Nexon enough fuss, I'm probably blacklisted at this point. I just try to make this game a better version, while being realistic about it and considering all sides.
The past 3 years have been really demotivating with all the gaslighting we had to endure as a community however for the first time since then we were again considered an own version and can have hope again finally, but you need to understand changes take time and sometimes you gotta help them help you.

Hey, I recently started playing wow again. I logged on about three weeks ago and started adding members to my old guild. It still had 360 members. Most that logged on were casual and just using the bank for repairs. We are up to about 550 members now. Season 4 has got a lot of people coming back in anticipation of the new expansion. Lots of people that haven't played for years. I think many of these are due to what has become the highly competitive nature of most popular games now. And how they are inundated with hackers. Anyway, I need an addon to get my guildies talking. There used to be many of them, but all kinda went away around the time curse changed to curseforge. Triviabot is still around, but it's a couple years out of date and not working. What I am asking for is someone familiar with addon creation to revive an addon like this for getting guilds talking again. Gold is chea, and there should be some kind of reward system as well. No gambling. I think that an addon like this could revive this gam, which used to be about partying and working together. A social game. An addon like this could revive the game, seiously. When someone logs on and hasnt in a long time and they see people talking and having fun, they want to join in. This gets them involved and brings them back to wow. A game we all love. In my opinion, it is one of the best games ever made. Wow has it's issues, but there is still so much that is amazing about the game. A good name for the addon could be "wow isn't dead". Everyone can thank me later! I have never posted on redit before, so I hope this works.

I am not The OOP, OOP is u/Ok_Royal6055
My Daughter Is EVIL
Originally posted to pettyrevenge
TRIGGER WARNING: bullying, abuse of authority
My Daughter Is Evil Or Hilarious. You Decide. Feb 25, 2024
THIS IS KIND OF A TWO PARTER: My daughter's first grade teacher (imho) had it out for my kid day one. Literally sent her to the principal (who sided with my daughter) for correcting her on the pronunciation of a character in the book The Call of the Wild, a book I had read to her several times years before. This same buzzkill loved to sing to the class. My daughter raised her hand and told her she sang just like the big sister in the movie Dirty Dancing, which my oldest niece loved to watch any time she was babysitting. If you've seen the movie, that girl sounds TERRIBLE. Apparently Mrs. Buzzkill hadn't seen it, and she was honestly flattered. That was on a Friday. Someone (I like to think it was a large group) must have told her over the weekend that my daughter basically said she sucked. The following Monday the teacher wrote "Your NOT funny" at the top of the paper. My daughter could not help herself and wrote (in red marker of course) "Well, YOU'RE not a good speller" with a red F- next to it, and handed it back to her as the dismissal bell rang. Two days it's Meet The Teacher night. The second I introduced myself as her father Mrs. B whips out the spelling test with my daughter's angry red reply, and I immediately bust out laughing right in her face. I was literally in tears. Took me almost 5 minutes to stop. The hag's icy death stare just made it worse. I was feeling like a complete failure as a dad because I knew I'd probably made things even worse for my kid. I started wondering on the way home why my daughter hadn't told me about the incident on Monday. It then hit me that she'd taken my yelling at her new puppy the last couple days very well compared to before. I concluded that the smart little sh*t set me up!!!! I looked like a total lunatic to a classroom full of disapproving parents. I KNEW I was right when she walked straight up to my car before I could even get out and with the most devilish grin said "So, did you like her??"
She's now 14, and to this day won't admit it was intentional. I don't believe her.
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One more thing which my daughter DID tell me about. Final day of school, the teacher wrote "Now YOU'RE another teacher's problem" in my daughter's yearbook. My daughter wrote "Future generations will thank me" with little music notes by it in hers. I actually thought that was even funnier. 🤣🤣🤣
EDIT: That phrase has been passed down in our family. My dad said it to my brother and I anytime we were doing something dumb as kids (usually acting like idiots in a store). His parents said it to him and his siblings. So on and so on.
My Daughter Is EVIL (Same daughter from yesterday's story) Feb 27, 2024
I told a story on here yesterday about how my daughter told her first grade teacher that she was a terrible singer and corrected her spelling, and a lot of people liked it. So, here's another one. It's kind of a prequel of sorts.
My daughter put a tablet as #1 on her Christmas list when she was 4. Had to have it. Wanted it more than a pony. Reminded me daily to the point I wanted to kill her. Anyway, it's around 10pm on Christmas Eve, and it's a tradition in my family that each kid gets to open one present right before bedtime. Having obviously known this in advance, I knew she'd go straight for the tablet shaped wrapping paper, so i had it charged and ready to go. I've NEVER seen anyone look so happy as she did when she saw it. Gave me the biggest hug I've ever gotten. I woulda probably been in tears if there wasn't a room full of family members around me. She was full-on bawling tears of joy.
She turns it on and immediately asks me to pull up "our songs." I'm darn near in tears again. I'd been singing Puff the Magic Dragon and House At Pooh Corner to her every night at bedtime since birth. I'm feeling awesome at this point. Ten seconds into Peter, Paul, & Mary's singing of Puff, she pauses it and says:
"Wow. Now I know what it sounds like when good singers sing it. Goodnight everybody!!" - Then she hits play again and runs upstairs to bed.
I'm feeling like I just got kicked in the heart. My mom's doing her best not to laugh. My dad is literally turning purple trying to hold it in, but the second my son gets going, the whole room is dying laughing. It took a minute, but eventually I was cracking up, too.
Long story short: December 23rd, 2013 at 10pm was the last time I ever sang to my daughter. I know millions of parents sing to their kids, but I bet I'm one of the few that vividly remember the exact day and time they stopped.
THANKS FOR READING!!!
P.S. I'm her dad btw
Same Vengeful Daughter (Son Still Traumatized) March 5, 2024
I made a deal with my kids that I'd only share stories involving them if they're both okay with it. This one cost me season passes at an amusement park for my son and his now fiance, but it's too damn good NOT to share. So here goes:
As much as I love saying my daughter is evil, she's actually a sweet, brilliant, and fiercely loyal kid. That loyalty extends to her now 9 year old dog Jason Voorhees Jr. On a Sunday in January 2023, Jason scattered a 1000 piece puzzle my kids were trying to get done before he had to get back to his college. It's one of their "things." My son called Jason a dumbazz, and pushed him away (Tried anyway. Jason is enormous). I was waiting for my daughter (13) to blow up at him for it, but nope. She just gave him one of her famous "Elsa" smiles and went upstairs.
I told him we both know damn well she's up to something. He sighed and nodded. Fast-forward 2 hours, and I'm about to drop him off at his dorm. For whatever reason, freshmen weren't allowed to have cars on campus. As I'm pulling up on campus, I get a text from my ex-wife asking if our son is drunk or on drugs. I text back he's sitting right by me. My phone rings seconds later, and she says: "Put it on speaker, TRUST ME!!"
My ex says: "Son, did you do something to piss off your crazy sister.???"
My son: "I yelled at her dog a little. Nothing major."
My ex: "As smart as you are, why aren't you asking me how I knew that???"
The blood starts draining from my son's face. He's saying oh no over and over. I ask his mom what the hell is going on.
She replies: "Oh, nothing much. I was just curious why our little sweetie pie is wondering if I'll try on some edible undies tonight."
I bust out laughing and darn near rear-ended the truck in front of me. My ex is laughing like a hyena too. My son is literally just stammering for words but nothing is coming out. Anyway, we hang up a few minutes later. Phone rings again. It's my mom.
Mom: "Are you around Punkin??"
Me: "Perfect timing. I wouldn't have been in another few minutes. I'll put it on speaker."
Mom: "Punkin, I have 2 questions. One, are you mad at me? And two, did you piss off your sister?"
My son literally just drops his suitcases in the slush water and says "How did you know that, Granny???"
Mom: "Well, I just assumed it wasn't really me you wanted to 'effing murder,' that's all. I thought we were buddies. Also, your mom just texted me to give your sister a high five for her. Said it was her best work yet." So yeah, he hit on his mom and threatened his grandmother all in a 10 minute span.
Long story short, my daughter switched around the contact information on his phone. She could not have known how well it would work out, but its the revenge that keeps on giving. Just last week my mom asked him if he was getting enough to eat at school, and my daughter just busts out laughing along with his fiancé. Yes; same girl. It's also now got a password that I doubt a full team of hackers could ever break. He wont even tell his fiancé cuz he's scared she'll be tempted to tell his sister. It's now a running gag in our family to mess with him by saying "Did you piss off your sister?" He can't keep from checking his pocket for his phone. Every. Single. Time. 🤣🤣🤣
Finally, a huge THANK YOU to my future daughter-in-law. No way my son okayed this story without your help. Welcome to the circus, sweetie. I knew you were a keeper when you fell over laughing when I met you that day and told you why your usually cool as ice BF was yelling at his hysterically laughing sister on FaceTime about edible undies. If THAT didn't scare you off, I knew nothing ever would.
Another "Evil Daughter" story (She HATES bullies) Apr 24, 2024
A girl on her bus was bullying and making life terrible for another little girl. It didn't matter where this kid sat, because it always happened to be that bully's seat. Anyway, my little girl got mad (aka ROYALLY PISSED) at seeing a nice kid being bullied by a "bigger girl" (She was 13 in fifth grade terrorizing a 5 year old kindergartner).
Long story short, my crazy kid took our bottle of Hershey's Chocolate Syrup onto the bus that day, and she squirted it all over that bully's seat.The bully sat in it, and was immediately ridiculed for crapping her pants once she got to school.
That is not a label you lose lol. I knew that "kid" by the way, and she was just bad, and she's currently in prison. Probably will be for life.
My daughter was 6 in first grade.
THIS IS A REPOST SUB - I AM NOT THE OOP
DO NOT CONTACT THE OOP's OR COMMENT ON LINKED POSTS, REMEMBER - RULE 7

I was asked to explain how I've used Obsidian while being in Law School...
How I've Organized
I have a main folder for each topic (Torts, Legal Writing, Legislation & Regulation, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law)
Within those main folders I have sub-folders based off of the syllabus provided by ea. professor.
Within those subfolders I'll have individual notes. Those notes could be from the class lecture, and many are individualized notes on the cases I needed to read. This way I can focus on "one thing at a time" and then link notes later or while I'm typing in a class note.
Things that have helped
One of the biggest aids was a new appearance theme. I'm currently using AnuPpuccin, and I've loved it, but I recently discovered MagicUser, and I'll be switching to that next semester. The reason why is because when you also have Style Settings downloaded, you can modify a lot of the visual aspects without having to be a whiz with CSS files/Snippets. That'll come in time the more you play around with it, but I digress... The theme as you adjust the theme, you can set the colors, sizes, and underlines of your headers. This helped me because the color coding helps pull my eye to certain places.
Templater is another community plugin that is massively helpful. When you know what kinds of metadata you want for certain notes, you can set it up with templater so that particular templates auto generate when you create a new note within specific folders. This is one of those "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of pain" sort of deals.
While I'm on the subject, I guess I'll just put in some of my favorite community plugins
First off are my newest "Must Haves" - User TFThacker (https://tfthacker.com/Welcome) has two plugins for purchase, one of which has been crucial lately: Cornell Notes and Tufte Side Notes. If you have ever used the Cornell Notes method, this is the next best thing to the handwritten way. The other is Canvas Candy which incredible of you like visual notes. Either way, I purchased the Cornell Notes + Tufte Side notes, and I loved it so much I went and bought Canvas Candy to show support, and it's been great when working on Criminal Law flow charts of Majority Rule/Minority Rule/MPC pathways.
Additionally, TFThacker has created some other plugins that are second to none: Strange New Worlds, Text Transporter, WordNet Dictionary, HelpMate and AI for Templater. These are so great when helping navigate and find your connections.
Here is a list of other plugins I have installed, without diving too deep into why I have them.

• Advanced Slides - A great way to make simple slides without having to go to a new app/program
  
• Advanced Tables - Streamlines making tables and takes away the trouble of using markdown
  
• Chronology - let's you know when was the last time you accessed a note
  
• Colored Text - I prefer this over highlighting
  
• Commander - Amazing ways to quickly get around
  
• Continuous Mode - For law school, this has been nice to take a semester's worth of notes and create a view where I can just scroll down in one pane, while outlining in the other.
  
• Dataview - I need work here, but I suspect it can be *MASSIVELY* useful for queries where I want specific data pulled into one area (i.e., commerce clause cases)
  
• Excalidraw - OP plugin... watch the videos from the creator and from Nicole Van Der Hoeven. Here's the link to her channel (https://www.youtube.com/@nicolevdh), her videos along with Nick Milo's (https://www.youtube.com/@linkingyourthinking) helped a ton
  
  • Excalibrain - another way to see the links between notes; it delineates between "parents, children, siblings, and friends" when it creates the relationships for notes.
• Floating TOC - I sometimes disable this because in certain situations the plugin "Outliner" works better, but I have it downloaded
  
• Folder Notes (I have this because it syncs harmoniously with Waypoint, and Waypoint has already saved my bacon)
  
• Helpmate - So So good! Allows you to but the Obsidian Help website in your side menu
  
• Hover Editor - I use this daily. Hover over an embedded link, and a hover widow appears. You can then edit directly within that window if you so choose. I've used it for quick reminders of case notes I've created.
  
• List Callouts - I have this installed, but the native custom bullets/callouts for both AnupPuccin and MagicUser are better
  
• MAKE.md - Another way of using Obsidian, but a bit more moldable. Traditionally all of your folders and notes are arranged alphabetically, but MAKE.md allows you to bypass that ... and there are some other things too.
  
• Omnisearch - A better way to search
  
• Outliner - Creates an automatic outline within your side menu. I have found that this sometimes is better than the Floating TOC, but that is always task specific.
  
• PDF++ -> Wish I knew about this earlier. Drop a PDF into your vault, and then you can view it, and pull text from it without having to readjust the text formatting later... so great.
  
• Plugin update tracker - not necessary, but it's been nice. This allows you to use your bottom menu to see if an update if available, and you can then update instantly from there without having to go into your settings menu
  
• Projects - Still debating if I'm going to keep this
  
• QuickAdd - I don't know if I need this either
  
• Recent Files - super helpful when your scrambling to find "that note you were just working on"
  
• Semantic Canvas and Advanced Canvas - Plugins to make Canvas work "better" - I don't know if you need them for TFTHacker's Canvas Candy... but I have them anyways.
  
• Smart Typography - not necessary, but nice sometimes. It'll change certain text items into different dashes or curly quotes, which can be modified as you see fit.
  
• Style Settings - Needed to adjust certain aesthetic elements in other plugins.
  
• Templater - Already stated above, but believe me, it's incredible
  
• Text Extractor - A (companion) plugin to facilitate the extraction of text from images (OCR) and PDF's.... I think it's necessary
  
• Text Generator - Generate text content using GPT-3... I've never actually use this...
  
• Text Transporter - another TFT Hacker plugin which I use often. Advanced text tools for working with text in your vault.
  
• Tracker - Track occurrences and numbers in your notes.
  
• Unofficial Supernote by Ratta Integration - I haven't used this YET, but it's a way to utilize your handwritten notes in obsidian
  
• Waypoint - SO CRUCIAL for Outlining in Law School and linking notes. When you have a main folder, create a "folder note" using the app above. This will have the identical name of the folder, and then add "%% Waypoint %%" (omit the quotations) in that note. This will create a living index of everything in your folder. If you have subfolders, you can create a new folder note for those sub-folders, but in those folder notes you type %% Landmark %% instead. This will allow you to have nested sub-notes in your original Waypoint... So simple, but WOW did it help me this semester.
  
• Wordnet Dictionary - TFT Hacker's Dictionary connection.
  

New player here. Played WoW arenas/bgs for decades but have a shoulder problem now and can't use mouse/keyboard so im getting into ESO with a gamepad on console. Very familiar with mmo pvp but there are a couple things that I can't figure out and would love some input from eso vets

1. Is there a way (on console) to make it easier to spot who's a tank in BGs? Im usually going by: if its not taking too much damage, its a tank

But it's probably the wrong approach as there are abilities that make you immune etc

1. is there a way to show a pop up or some sort of icon whenever someone uses an invincibility spell? (Console) Sometimes im trying to down someone but they pop a cooldown and all damage is mitigated. I'd like to see right away like a big warning on my screen (WoW has some addons for that, but i believe console Eso doesn't allow for addons, right?)
   
2. I have barely done any pve, leveled all the way from 10 (or whenever bg becomes available) to max level Only using activity finder BG. Question is: does gear matter in pvp or is it equalized like say, Guild wars 2?
   

If gear does matter, can i get good gear just doing activity finder BGs?

1. Any way to add buffs under enemies Health bars like in WoW?

Either way, appreciate any insights. Loving the game thus far, even though im getting destroyed in some matches but i think these are uber geared people and im still using level 20 items (almost CP 160 and saving my AP) so I assume gear does matter? Unless there are hackers in this game
Thank you!
edit: thanks for all the input and help!

Pessoal, provavelmente eu tenho uma lost wave, e é do gospel ainda por cima. Entendo que muitos não gostem de música religiosa, mas confio no respeito de vocês. Esse mesmo texto postei num grupo de mídias perdidas do Facebook.
Neste caso, nós conhecemos a música, que é "Via Dolorosa", que fez enorme sucesso nos anos 80 com a cantora americana Sandi Patty e ganhou várias versões pelo mundo todo (e aqui no Brasil também) ao longo desses anos. Mas essa versão em específico é de uma cantora cristã brasileira cuja voz não consegui identificar. Os arranjos são muito bem feitos, bem orquestrados, então o arranjador é possivelmente conhecido. Parece uma gravação, para os moldes brasileiros, de meados para o final dos anos 80 e pode até entrar no início dos anos 90.
Esta música eu gravei do rádio em 1998, em Brasília, em uma transmissão de teste - aquelas transmissões feitas antes de uma rádio efetivamente entrar no ar na região. Logo, não havia locutores. Infelizmente não me recordo do número no dial. Devo adicionar aqui uma nova informação: aos que moram em Brasília, se eu não me engano, a rádio era a Planeta Gospel FM.
Procurei essa música com o Shazam, com o SoundHound, no Google, no Duck Duck Go, e no Youtube; rolei páginas e páginas entre gravações e covers, mas nenhum vídeo trazia esta versão em específico. E embora a música tenha copyright no YouTube, os direitos foram reservados por causa da melodia da música. Ao clicar na sugestão do YouTube, você vai parar em outra versão de "Via Dolorosa". Quanto à letra, também procurei no Google, mas nenhum verso era desta versão, o que a torna bem diferente. Procurei até mesmo entre os grupos de colecionadores de música cristã na internet, mas não encontrei ninguém que soubesse algo sobre esta versão.
Se alguém souber quem é a cantora e tiver mais detalhes sobre a gravação, ficarei muito grato. Penso que este seja um caso real de lost wave, e gostaria de ter a oportunidade de ouvir esta música em melhor resolução, seja pelo YouTube ou outras plataformas pagas, seja em CD ou LP. Desde já eu agradeço.
TÉCNICA: Aqui, neste post, a minha fonte foi um deck Sony TC-FX510R; no YouTube, um toca-fitas portátil Akai PM-18, com muito wow & flutter. Ripagem pelo Sound Forge, com ganho de volume e equalização retirando apenas hiss; remasterização pelo Reaper, utilizando o AR TG Mastering Live, da Waves. Não está muito bem feito, não, mas eu estava com pressa de postar, então deixei assim mesmo.
Link no YouTube: https://youtu.be/e2JcqwwqzKA?si=M1TbL_Vr2fEOmjie

It's started to be unbearable. It's just a game. Play with your skills.

———————————————————————- Recently I’ve had a lot more time to write so I’m going to pick up the series again, between deployments and underways I’ll have more time but there won’t be any consistency so expect there to gaps in chapters and sometimes several chapters put out at a time ——————————————————————————————————————————————————-—-
Anja grabbed my by the hand and and began to tote me to the next destination I took my pot with me as she excitedly spoke “look!” She pointed to a stall that was selling food and asked if I wanted to eat, I was feeling fairly hungry so I agreed, one thing that always struck me as odd was that as far as I knew Neveein and Humans were the only two races to have anything remotely culinary, most other species had very little care for flavor profiles or dish composition or complexity for that matter. We approached the stall and I could smell a fragrant scent coming from whatever the owner was cooking. Anja looked at me and began to explain the dish. “This is called fah’al it’s a cold blooded species that lives in the desert something like a snake but it has vestigial limbs still and gives birth to live young,” while I’m not an ecologist by any means the thought of reptiles giving birth to live young was definitely interesting. She continued leaning into me so I could smell the sweet fragrance coming off of her and pointed at the stall owner preparing the meal. And continued explaining but even with this I could see what he was doing. He began by cutting it from the bottom of its jaw to its tail and cut off its head then began to clean it out removing its organs and bones then sliding his knife underneath he flipped the creature over and began to separate the skin from the meat what struck me was that while it was cold blooded it seemed closer to a red meat than a white meat, after this he set the skin to the side rubbing an orange color sauce on to it before peppering it with a blend of spices. Anja explained each one. however as I had not tasted any before, for lack of better terms her words completely lost meaning to me. The neveein then began to curl the meat into a tightly bound roll and tied it off with the fah’al’s intestine he then turned his attention to the skin and began to cut it in a zigzag sort of pattern which he rolled up creating a flower like shape which he placed into the stem of a plant almost like when one cuts the top off of a pepper creating a quite literally a meat flower (but not like those, I know what you’re thinking when I say meat flower, get your mind out of the gutter this story isn’t just about sex.) he then placed it into the top of the meat roll and let it sit on a griddle, and with this finished he turned to us. “Can I please get two?” Anja asked cheerfully prompting the owner to hand her two before she tapped her finger onto a pad transferring the credits.
This was also something I found interesting as I had never seen her pay for anything and I asked her “I know that humans have an RFID in most of their phones or pads or sometimes on their watches but do you have an implant that allows you to do that?”
Anja looked quizzically at me “ what do you mean?”
“Like you just tapped your finger and then it transferred the credits,”
Her face washed over with realization, “ohhhh” her face then turned very excited for some reason “ohhh I love this, okay so our monetary network is centralized obviously individuals have personal wealth but instead of keeping it with us or on us any currency we have is transferred to a special account per say where instead of using a device to pay we use our own biometrics to confirm a transaction.”
I thought about the implications of this and asked another question “ is that consistent with other things you use?”
She spoke “ Yes! Our screens and data pads are universal so anyone can use any item however the device registers the electrical current in our body to load whatever data to the device every neveein has a slightly different electro magnetic frequency, so I only have access to my personal data.”
“I’d assume this would prevent theft or robbery but what about data leaks or hackers going into a central system and pulling your information?”
She looked at me “we don’t really have hackers or anything the online world of neveein culture is monitored by a VI that’s purpose is to constantly replace and update firewalls around each encoded data packet and it’s self, it has no backdoors either”
I laughed a little “ oh wow that’s honestly impressive that you know all that, where’d you learn all of this?”
“It was an academic path I could take in our advanced schooling back when I lived on Brusia”
“So it was like a cybersecurity course?”
She stopped at a small over hang motioning at a table where we sat down and she responded “hmm I wouldn’t exactly say that it’s more like a cybereconomic course…”
“I never expected that to be something that would interest you “
she paused looking at me with a small smile creeping onto her pink lips “what do you take me for James? I’m more than just a soldier”
Rubbing the back of my neck and looking down a bit ashamed and I responded, “I guess I still don’t know that much about your culture and I had just thought…”
she cut me off, smiling and pressing her thumb to my lips “shhhh I’m just teasing you.” At this I could Feel my ears grow hot and my face begin to tingle, while I hadn’t known her long she seemed more assertive than usual, not to say it was bad, just different, she spoke again. Still smiling “So Mr. Space Man what do you think of the fah’al?”
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“MR. SPACE MAN!!!!??!?” What was that!???!” I thought, sure he might be an alien but that was so stupid i looked at James waiting for a reaction and to my relief he began commenting on the food,
“I’m not sure how to describe it but it’s very good, it if I had to describe it in terms of what I knew I would say maybe like crocodile meat and for the spices probably turmeric, nutmeg, coriander, lime and something else but not anything I’ve tasted before it’s a little sweet too,”
“Hmm that’s probably the sharia petal “
He looked at me quizzically “another petal?”
“What do you mean?” I asked
“ I don’t know you’ve told me about like three different petals that are used as spices and I mean I know that’s not completely mind-boggling but for the most part, we use leaves instead of petals if you get what I’m getting at.”
I responded pursing my lips “I think the reason we use petals more than leaves or even just the entire plant is because our home world is much more arid than yours and it takes a lot to grow new plants the petals dry quickly in the hot sand so it’s just a matter of raking through it to find the petals for our spice farms.”
“That actually makes a lot of sense….” He paused “ do you have to worry about pests in your spice crops, how do you deal with them is it like a pesticide that you use?”
“Pesticide?”
“Yeah like chemicals”
“What?! No we introduced a small animal to our crops that feed on the pests”
“Oh really what are they?”
At this an idea came to my mind and I turned to James “actually can I show you? We have an ecological habitat with all kinds of flora and fauna from Brusia on board the station!” ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————

Howdy pals, first post here! Happy to share some deets and perspectives from my first ever solo trip. I am currently battling the post-Disneyland blues and scheming for a future visit LOL.
This is lengthy, so buckle up and thank you in advance for reading through!!!

• 4 day, 1 park per day ticket (1 DCA, 3 DL)
• Split stay between Eden Roc Inn & Suites and Best Western Plus Park Place Inn - Mini Suites. This was my first stay at both and I was super pleased with the cleanliness, value, and walkability of both locations! A bit more on them at the end of my report.
• Genie+ for 2 of the 3 days @ DL.
• My main goals this trip were to soak in the vibes, enjoy a super leisurely pace, and just going with the flow :-)
• Bonus point: this was also my very first Food & Wine Festival!

I’m currently based out of Texas and have visited annually with my SoCal-based cousins since 2022: after an awesome experience with them back in September 2023, along with keeping up with all the general park updates, I was really inspired and excited to plan and save up for a solo run!

4/8 AUS-LGB

A pleasantly sunny day which gradually got warmer in the afternoon and evened out to nice and cool in the evening: perfect arrival day weather!

• 12:30pm – Arrived @ LGB
• 1:00pm – Ubered to Eden Roc
• 1:26pm – Arrived @ Eden Roc and was able to check in early. Got a double queen room: secured/sanitized/settled room and ordered grocery delivery.
• 2:30pm – Lunch @ Earl of Sandwich/Downtown Disney. Their Italian always hits the spot! Followed up with dessert @ Salt & Straw, a scoop in a cup of Honey Lavender, one of my favs.
• Leisurely looked at new pins after lunch, visited the Home store, and browsed through World of Disney. Small list of souvenirs I got below!
• Took the GCH shortcut to return to Eden Roc.
• Checked out Pixar Place on the walk back: the re-theme is really cute! Also got a glimpse of Bing Bong walking around/finishing a meet and greet.
• 4:30pm - arrived back @ Eden Roc and napped (the lunch slump was real)
• Woke up to shower, prep for DCA the next day, and made dinner in my hotel room: relaxed and reviewed my DCA gameplan for the rest of the night.
• 9:00pm – Bedtime!

4/9 DCA (full day)

An amazingly crisp start to the morning with a warmer high in the late afternoon: yummy food, awesome live music, relaxing at the GCH, hydration, and a round of cold beers made this day fantastic!

• 6:00am – Woke up to prep and had a protein shake for breakfast.
• 7:10am – Arrived @ Downtown Disney security via the GCH courtyard. With my walk from Eden Roc, I lucked out with my timing and got to walk in behind a group of Cast Members and a large family to enter through the security gate for GCH/Pixar Pier only-guests. Many of y’all know this shortcut is never guaranteed and may/may not be manned with a security CM. Always be courteous to CM’s and take the scenic (longer-ish) way through Downtown Disney if they ask you :-)
• 7:15am – Arrived @ DCA gates, third person in my line: a first for me! The Esplanade music really got me grooving and subsequently got into/conceded a hilarious mini-dance battle to an adorable 11-year-old and her family who were in line behind me. Vibes had already started off great!
• 7:32am – Scanned in through DCA.
• 7:35am – Arrived @ Soarin’ and were instructed to wait just before the main queue for official 8:00am start.
• 8:11am – In line for Soarin’ pre-show.
• 8:25am – Exited Soarin’. That orange grove scent never gets old!
• Leisurely enjoyed breakfast outdoors @ Smokejumpers Grill: the breakfast burrito was fresh and fantastic.
• Bought my 4-tab Sip and Savor pass from Julius Katz & Sons.
• Leisurely explored Avenger’s Campus. Crowd levels at this time of day were still quite low and made the Campus ambiance really nice, I really enjoyed the soundscapes that can easily be drowned beneath crowd noise and all the epic music. The Dora Milaje show is always so awesome and it was great being in the mix, solo. I loved seeing everyone have fun and getting their energy levels up. Got to wave good morning to the Black Panther from his perch and had a quick chat with Captain America about hot vs. iced coffee (lol) as he walked to his meet and greet spot.
• 10:25am – Made my way to the Golden Dreams booth and saw they opened early. I ordered the Blueberry Pancake Cold Brew a la carte: so great! As with any cold brew, a good mix before sipping is in order, but the balance of smooth coffee and sweet definitely gave me a boost. I also redeemed my 4 tabs to collect at their respective booths as the day rolled along:
  • Grilled Top Sirloin from Garlic Kissed (no question why this returns annually: REALLY yummy! I was pleasantly surprised with the sirloin quality especially since it has to be made en masse.)
  • Chile Relleno Empanada from Peppers Cali-Ente (another annual favorite of so many, and I understood why! I had my fingers crossed that the empanada itself wasn’t gonna be too hard or borderline crispy from staying under heat in the staging area and it didn’t disappoint!)
  • BBQ Beef Brisket Slider from Cluck-A-Doodle-Moo (as a Texan, I’ll always take brisket from anywhere else with a grain of salt lol but I was happy with my choice: the brisket was tender, the brioche worked great for the slider, and the pickles were generous.)
  • Carbonara Garlic Mac & Cheese with Nueske’s Peppered Bacon from D-Lish (holy guacamole, this was a banger and again, I understood why this is an annual favorite. Given both the bacon and melted cheese can render this on the oilier side, the tasting/Sip & Savor portion was just the right amount for me)
• Took a relaxed stroll along Paradise Bay/facing the Fun Wheel while finishing my cold brew. I really like watching DCA from this “low” angle and seeing the park continue to slowly come to life as the morning unfolded, along with the fun sounds of the pier on the other side. Offered to take people’s/family’s photos as I continued to stroll, everyone was friendly/exchanged where we were all visiting from. One woman told me this was her Dad’s first visit back since DCA opened in ’01!
• Circled back up to Garlic Kissed, picked up the sirloin, then ordered a Frozen Mangonada Beer Slush from California Craft Brews from next door (a winning combo…plus, I can’t ever say no to a beer slush on a sunny day!)
• Leisurely explored Carsland. Going solo really allowed me all the time to appreciate the details that go into its theming. Daytime and night vibes here are so unique and I was happy to experience both!
• Leisurely explored San Fransokyo. Wow: for how compact the space has always been, the details and theming are so on point. The J-Pop playing overhead put a smile on my face; the love for Big Hero 6 is great and seeing everyone enjoy their time meeting Baymax and Hiro were great vibes.
• Debated between the Cervecería or Rita’s and opted for a Sun Blonde: no regrets, just a happy gal and her cold beer! Will definitely try a margarita from Rita’s next time.
• Strolled across the San Fransokyo bridge, picked up my BBQ Beef Brisket Slider, and went over to the Paradise Garden Bandstand for some live music. The early afternoon crowd was still really light on this side of DCA, making the Bandstand really relaxed. Jazz tunes were super fun!
• 3:00pm – Relaxed in the GCH lobby before walking back to Eden Roc.
• 3:30pm – Settled back at Eden Roc for a nap.
• 6:10pm – Arrived @ DCA “shortcut” via the GCH (Lucky again with my timing at the main security gate)
• 6:17pm – Scanned back into DCA gates
• 6:30pm – Enjoyed more live music @ Palisades Stage: this got me grooving and hungry again LOL.
• Naturally, the evening crowds had made their way in by this time. Picked up my Chile Relleno Empanada and found a chill spot near Redwood Creek Challenge Trail to enjoy it.
• Caved in and ordered another Chile Relleno Empanada a la carte LOL.
• Took the scenic route back over to Nuts About Cheese and ordered a PB&J Whiskey Milkshake: oh man, that hit the SPOT. Apart from the raspberry garnish, I couldn’t quite taste more of the raspberry liqueur, but the whiskey wasn’t overpowering at all.
• Little Mermaid (nostalgic ride for me) had been down most of that day and unfortunately didn’t come back up that evening.
• Enjoyed a sip and stroll over to Pixar Pier and enjoyed the vibes there. Incredicoaster had been closed for refurb, so no launch views, but the Midway energy was really fun.
• Found a quiet outdoor spot near Boardwalk Pizza & Pasta to finish my drink, call/check on my folks at home, including FaceTime with my doggo. I was also tempted to try a slice of the “new” BBQ Chicken Pizza, but thankfully listened to my head instead of my stomach lol.
• Strolled through Carsland for all the neon lights energy, I absolutely adore the design and details of this land.
• 8:40pm – Returned for World of Color ONE
• 9:00pm – World of Color ONE. Standing further back wasn’t bad at all and the viewing area didn’t feel as crowded as it was. My cousins and I would usually do standby for the second showtime, but the first showtime was more than doable, solo: crowd wasn’t overwhelming and everyone in my immediate area seemed to be in a great mood. The music, as always, was fabulous, and loved seeing the magic and wonder on children’s faces around me.
• 9:30pm – Shortcut/bathroom break/water bottle refill at the GCH before my walk back.
• 9:52pm – Arrived @ Eden Roc.
• 10:30pm – Bedtime!

DCA Food & Wine Festival was awesome. I was so happy to experience Soarin’ Over California again while it was around (and should stay year-round tbh!) Crowds were very manageable, everyone I interacted with exuded great vibes, and all the food service CM’s were helpful and so friendly. The musicians get all my love, genuinely! Live music at DCA is really something special to me; my appreciation for DCA grew a bunch after this visit! I would definitely be down for my future annual visits to coincide with Food & Wine/just “after” the main Spring Break rush.

4/10 DL (relaxed day)

A much warmer Spring day.

• 9:30am – Woke up, made breakfast in my hotel room, packed bag for the day.
• 11:30am – Arrived @ Downtown Disney security, DL Hotel side.
• 11:40am – Arrived @ DL gates.
• 11:47am – Scanned in.
• 11:50am – Disneyland Railroad Grand Circle tour, on the E.P. Ripley! I missed the railroad so much!
• 12:30pm – Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln. Forever my underrated favorite. Before and after the show, I love taking my time going through the gallery and reveling in the art and history. Every visit to the gallery, that gentle piano music really stirs this feeling of gratitude in my heart for being there, being present. It’s an incredibly special corner of Disneyland and I pray that Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln will stick around for when I get to bring my children. Whew, cue the midday emotions!
• Snack break: popcorn on Main Street and the Disneyland Band playing at Main Street Station. Classic! I loved singing along to their medley.
• 1:08pm – Standby for small world.
• 1:18pm – In boat for small world.
• 1:35pm – Exited small world.
• 2:00pm – Standby Mickey & Minnie’s RR
• 2:12pm – Ride shut down, exited, temp close.
• Snack break in small world: ordered a frozen apple slush from Edelweiss, so perfect on a warm day. I relaxed on one of the elevated benches and enjoyed the jerky I packed (Tillamook zero sugar sausage sticks are my go-to!) Pinocchio, Merida, Aladdin, and Mary Poppins strolled through and were all so lovely to say hello to, with Aladdin telling me I gotta make sure to watch out for Abu while I was snacking LOL.
• 2:30pm – Decided to stay put in small world since Magic Happens was right around the corner!
• 3pm – Magic Happens parade from small world area, shared the bench with a super sweet baby girl and her awesome father. Being close enough for the first time to see the details of every parade float with my own eyes was amazing. The crowd energy at small world was really fun! I loved hearing people singing along and being in the moment. After the parade, I chilled around a bit more to let the crowd disperse.
• 3:40pm – Walked back to Toontown.
• 3:47pm – Standby for Roger Rabbit.
• 4:15pm – Finished Roger Rabbit, strolled Toontown, and ran into Pete! I was surprised with how many younger kids in the area knew who he was lol.
• 4:45pm – Mobile ordered/picked up a Pridelands Potato, still a must-get snack for me when I visit, after my cousin put me on last year.
• Walked over to look at Fantasyland Theatre: after Tale of the Lion King ended earlier this year (videos of the last performance were amazing and had me emotional, the cast is incredible and deserve a comeback) it was cool to see a little of the prep going into the upcoming Pixar Fest! I stayed a bit to watch crew testing out some screen visuals and lighting. I’m hopeful that whatever the theatre will be used for during Pixar Fest will breathe some life back in that corner of Fantasyland/small world!
• 5:30pm – Found a great bench spot to relax and people watch near the corner where Matterhorn/Autopia/Nemo corner (I love the fence detail at this intersection.)
• Decided to check out the Marine Observation Outpost @ Nemo (the viewing room for guests to have the submarine experience without stepping down into one) and it was neat: accessibility and sensory friendly, and definitely an air conditioned haven during the sweltering summer months.
• Enjoyed an awesome evening stroll back to Main Street. By now, the weather had cooled significantly and it felt fantastic.
• 7:00pm – Met Pluto & Minnie on Main Street.
• 7:18pm – Disneyland RR Grand Circle tour, this time on the C.K. Holliday. Night rides on the train are magnificent.
• Churro and chill at Main Street station/overlooking Town Square. Listening to the music loop and ambiance at Main Street station at night is something else. Sigh!
• “Goodnight” to Walt while walking past his apartment/lamp above the Fire Station. Bathroom break near the lockers/DL gates before my walk back. – Shortcut exit through the GCH for my walk back.
• 9:08pm – Returned Eden Roc. Showered, dinner, packed up ahead of checking out the next day, and caught up with family back home.
• 10:30pm – Bedtime!

This was my first time coming into the park nearly midday and it wasn’t as bad as I anticipated. Initially, I had debated with wanting to rope drop my first DL day, but opted to do a more relaxed pace after a food-filled adventure the day prior and save rope drop for the next. Having the flexibility to sleep in is SO helpful and will definitely plan the same way for future trips. Looking forward to rope drop the next day had me excited!

4/11 DL (full day and hotel change)

Significantly cooler day and that alone boosted my morning walk! This day was also my check out from Eden Roc and check in to Best Western Plus Park Place Inn - Mini Suites.

• 6:00am – Woke up, made coffee, and did some stretches (which I had conveniently forgot to do the last 2 days LOL)
• 7:10am – Arrived @ Downtown Disney security via the GCH courtyard.
• 7:21am – Grabbed locker and arrived @ DL gates.
  • Locker stash: change of shoes, change of socks, 2 cans of sparkling water and 2 Uncrustables from my grocery delivery, and extra snacks.
• 7:30am – Scanned in, purchased Genie+, made LL for Indy 8:15am-9:15am.
• 7:34am – Lined up @ Adventureland for rope drop, enjoyed my protein shake.
• 7:58am – Entry to Adventureland.
• 8:05am – Walked on Pirates and got front row for the first time. I missed this ride SO much!
• 8:30am – Arrived/entered LL @ Indy.
• Made LL for Big Thunder 9:30am-10:30am
• 8:49am – In car for Indy, back row. Post-refurb videos I’ve watched on Indy don’t do the ride justice, everything seemed more vibrant and cohesive. Holy guacamole, I forgot how ridiculously fun and jerky everything is lol. Got the “not bad for tourists” ending.
• Bathroom break and saw Big Thunder was down. Pivoted to breakfast!
• 9:15am – Brekkie chimichanga with salsa verde from Ship to Shore. I have yet to be disappointed with it! SO good.
• Back deck seating near Ship to Shore/overlooking the Rivers of America was open! One of the most peaceful, scenic breakfasts I’ve had.
• 10:00am – Relaxed on the Mark Twain. Waving to people never gets old.
• Made my way back to Main Street, exited, and took the GCH shortcut back to Eden Roc.
• 11:00am – Checked out of Eden Roc, Ubered, and transferred to BW Park Place Inn - Mini Suites. Luck had it again, room was ready! Got a 2-double room, secured/sanitized/settled.
• 11:30am – Midday break and nap.
• 3:30pm – Woke up and freshened up.
• 3:37pm – Arrived @ security, Harbor side. I never take the convenience of walking across Harbor for granted! Stopped by my locker, grabbed some snacks, and changed socks and shoes. Much needed!
• 3:45pm – Back in line @ DL gates.
• 3:53pm – Scanned back in.
• 4:15pm – Flag retreat. My very first! I’ve always known about the daily retreat and seen videos, but never found myself in the area during this time when doing group visits. I’m super glad to have made time for this.
• 4:35pm – Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln – Very fitting after flag retreat. I was SO HAPPY to return here before the refurb/gallery changeover. The soft music while exploring through the gallery and looking at Disneyland’s past, present, future concepts had my heart soft. I was finally able to admire the details of all the Spirits of America figures unrushed: beautiful. There was actually a good number of guests with me for Great Moments, deservedly, because I fully agree that it’s incredibly underrated. The artwork, narration, and the overall message took a deeper meaning for me, on this day. Lincoln rising from his chair still gives me goosebumps!
• 5:00pm – Stayed for Magic Happens on Main Street, just in front of Great Moments. Vibes were awesome. I took some time in the Magic Shop and enjoyed looking at the décodetails of the stores on that side of Main Street while post-parade crowds dispersed.
• Made my way to Adventureland Treehouse and explored. With the refurb happening during my last visit and watching walkthrough videos after its completion, I was eager to see it for myself. Each level was so fun and creative, and the views at the top made the churro calorie-burning worth it!
• 6:21pm – Over to Frontierland and redeemed MEP for Big Thunder.
• 6:38pm – In train for Big Thunder. Night rides are wild lol.
• 6:43pm – Exited Big Thunder.
• Mobile ordered and picked up a 3-pack of Mickey Beignets @ the Mint Julip. So bummed I wasn’t able to try the ube flavored beignets, but next time! Found a nice table around the corner at Tiana’s Palace next to the main walkway and enjoyed the ambiance. New Orleans Square at night has a special place in my heart and has definitely been my favorite land since I’ve started visiting the parks and learning more about park history.
• 7:00pm – Pirates standby was still a bit too long, so I decided to stroll to the GCH for a drink before returning for Wondrous Journeys.
• 7:15pm – Snagged a bar spot at Hearthstone Lounge and enjoyed a Meadow Punch (floral-y rum) The mix was decent and the pour was generous. Not a bad drink, but definitely planned on trying something different next time. I was also tempted to order a chorizo poutine, but alas! I still had 2 more beignets nestled in my bag. Self-restraint ;-)
• 7:53pm – Finished the rest of my beignets in the Grand Lobby, bathroom break before back to DL, checked up on/chatted with family back home. Also, at this point of the trip, I was definitely missing my dog a LOT, haha.
• 8:15pm – Scanned back in to DL. Went to Disneyana and looked through some new awesome art prints.
• 9:30pm – Wondrous Journeys, viewed the projections on the middle of Main Street in just before the Coke corner. No fireworks this night, but no biggie to me. It was really fun hearing everyone singing along and how beloved the song and its outro version have become to lots of people.
• 10:20pm - DL RR Grand Circle tour x 2, C.K. Holliday. Super relaxing ride, and at this point, I was definitely feeling sleepy (and the rum from earlier lol) Interestingly, most of the animatronic dinosaurs in Primeval World weren’t working during this night.
• 11:00pm – Ordered a churro for the road and left the park. I emptied my locker and made my way across Harbor.
• 11:08pm – Arrived back @ Best Western Plus Park Place Inn - Mini Suites.
• Midnight – Bedtime!

4/12 DL (final full day)

The coolest weather of the entire week, most of the day was overcast with some rain chances at night. I planned on having an “OG” Fantasyland morning and then soaking up as much ambiance as I could for my finale day. No regrets on my pace!

• 6:00am – Woke up, showered, prepped my bag, chugged a protein shake.
• 6:42am – Arrived @ security, Harbor side.
• 7:13am – Arrived @ DL gates, scanned in, purchased Genie+, made LL for Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway 9:30am-10:30am.
• 7:26am – Arrived @ main rope drop.
• 8:01am – Arrived @ Alice via the Matterhorn path and ran into Captain Hook!
• 8:09 – Finished Alice.
• 8:10am – Arrived @ Mr. Toad’s
• 8:14am – Finished Toad’s.
• 8:15am – Arrived @ Pinocchio.
• 8:19am – Finished Pinocchio.
• 8:21am – Arrived @ Snow White.
• 8:27am – Finished Snow.
• Caught the Pearly Band finishing their Fantasyland set. So fun! Made my way back to NOS.
• 8:38am – Walked on Pirate’s.
• 8:52am – Finished Pirates.
• Stayed for an entire Bootstrappers set! They’ve been my favorite group in the park, by far.
• Beignets and coffee break @ Mint Julep. Called in/chatted with family back home and was reminded to bring home some churro toffee! Before leaving the park that, I made sure to do so and they were demolished about 48 hours after returning home lol. So good.
• 10:00am – Arrived/entered LL @ Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway, purchased LL for Rise of the Resistance 10:30am-11:30am. Doing this ride solo is such a treat and finally got to spot more Hidden Mickeys that my cousins had mentioned to me prior to my trip! The underwater bossa nova theme variation is so fun and Daisy’s conga line always gets me smiling. Our train stayed a tad longer in front of Mick, Min, & Pluto’s ending picnic scene and the ukulele/fireworks ambiance was so nice.
• 10:19am – Finished MM RR, went to Galaxy’s Edge.
• 10:30am – Arrived/entered LL @ RotR. No Kylo Ren lightsaber through the ceiling effect this time (I’m curious how long that’s been out for) but everything else was smooth. That escape pod drop still surprises me lol. Also, manifesting for the laser cannons to return in the future (wishful thinking?)
• 10:54am – Finished RotR. Bathroom break/water bottle refill. Ordered a Blue Milk, as one does while on Batuu. I love taking time in Galaxy’s Edge: it’s right behind NOS in my favorite lands. Crowd levels still seemed very light at this time that I could still hear and enjoy all the soundscapes and immersion overhead. I saw some CM’s set up on mini tables with cards: I’m assuming Lorcana? I couldn’t get close enough as there were guests. It would be so cool if it was Sabacc cards and Sabacc mini games instead. Ran into the Stormtroopers on my way out and waved to Chewie up on the platform.
• 12:00pm – Arrived @ River Belle Terrace for brunch. Since it was a colder afternoon, I welcomed sitting inside. I was seated in a window nook with a view of the Pirate’s queue, a little of Adventureland Treehouse, and the Adventureland to NOS walkway. I ordered the Loaded House Fries with Egg and a Modelo, just as good as I remembered!
• 1:00pm – Boarded the Sailing Ship Columbia.
• 1:27pm – Bathroom break, then arrived @ Pirates.
• Mobile ordered early dinner for later: the 7 Greens Gumbo with Chicken and a cornbread from Tiana’s Palace.
• 1:35pm – In boat for Pirates.
• 1:55pm – Exited Pirates. I’d be so down to dedicate a future morning rope drop for doing Pirates like 3 times in a row LOL.
• Followed the sound of sea shanties…The Bootstrappers, again! This time, near Eudora’s shop. Enjoyed the whole set and had fun learning a new drinking song (“Spent All Me Tin” (?)) and of course, “Yo Ho (A Pirate’s Life for Me)” NEVER gets old.
• Mobile ordered a Dole Whip and strolled to the Enchanted Tiki Room, because a trip to Disneyland is never complete without a visit where the birds sing words and the flowers croon. The afternoon gradually continued to be overcast with some rain chances in the evening made the thunderstorm sequence so fitting. Enjoying your Dole Whip during the show is top 10 vibes for me.
• Walked back to the hub and made my way to Main Street station and got to see some of the Main Street vehicles come out from backstage, a first for me! Found a nice spot and watched the Disneyland Band groove and move.
• Boarded the DL RR to relax, E.P. Ripley again!
• 3:00pm – Magic Happens from Main Street Station. The parade crowd energy on Main Street is so unique to small world/other viewing areas.
• 4:00pm – Back to Tiana’s Palace to pick up my mobile order and asked for a to-go box since I was leaving the park for a bit.
• 4:20 – Returned to BW Plus Park Place Inn for early dinner & nap (chances of rain between 5pm-8pm) I enjoyed the 7 Greens Gumbo over the House Gumbo that I had last visit. The cornbread was (thankfully) not dry, but tbh I could’ve done without it; earlier, temptation had struck once again and I thought on trying a house-filled beignet, but definitely next time. OG beignets, from both Mint Julep and Beignets Expressed in Downtown Disney, are still supreme!
• Woke up and ordered a small grocery delivery from 7-Eleven for my last night. Chance of rain was still around, so I packed my poncho and umbrella just in case.
• 8:30pm - Arrived back to DL.
• Saw the line at City Hall wasn’t a mile long like during the day and hopped in to pass along my Cast compliments in-person, in addition to having submitting them via app. I definitely encourage y’all to continue keeping track of the stellar Cast Members that you both interact with and observe doing a fantastic job, especially amidst everything they put up with on the daily. With the good also comes the bad (or, at the very least, aggravating annoyances) and Disneyland will never be exempted from that. Vacation time is understandably precious, but making the time to drop by City Hall and passing your compliments in-person is worth it, IMO. Always try your best to pass your compliments forward and don’t forget that a genuine, verbal “thank you”, “you’re awesome”, or “you really made my day” to Cast Members really goes a long way!
• 9:30pm – Wondrous Journeys, no fireworks. Admittedly, I was a little bummed as the last nights of this show were approaching (thankfully was able to watch some livestreams of the final Wondrous night, Sunday, Apr. 14, WITH the fireworks…happy tears all the way from Texas) but I was really filled with gratitude for an incredible week back in Anaheim and fulfilling my goal of my first solo trip.
• Decided to hang on Main Street after the Wondrous crowd dispersed and relaxed in Town Square. It’s usually around this time during any vacation that I’d start anticipating and brainstorming “the next trip”, but the nostalgia and peaceful feeling of being on Main Street at night, with all the lights, helped to be intentionally present in the moment. I was really happy in that moment.
• Finale churro on Main Street and a goodnight to Walt walking past his apartment.
• 10:45pm – Back to BW Plus Park Place Inn: swung by the front desk to pick up my grocery delivery, showered, and called it a night (after an Advil LOL) Bedtime!

4/13 SNA-AUS

A cloudier, colder morning that made way for little peeks of sun, then a little rain @ SNA.

• 8:37am – Woke up to pack, sigh!
• 9:30am – Arrived @ security, Harbor side.
• 9:48am – Arrived @ Earl of Sandwich for breakfast, ate outside on the patio for some finale Downtown Disney vibes.
• 10:30am – Picked up churro toffee @ Marceline’s Confectionery, as requested by the fam back home!
• 10:44am – Back to BW Plus Park Place Inn, secured the churro toffee, and cleaned up the last bits of my room.
• 11:00am – Checked out of BW Plus Park Place Inn, Ubered to SNA. Started fleshing out this report before/during my flights.
• 2:00pm – Departed SNA.
• 6:00pm CST – Arrived @ AUS after a layover in LAS.

Souvenirs bought:

• Disneyland license plate frame and a new pin for myself
• Food & Wine coasters for my parents

Quick takeaways!

• Hotels: First time stays at both locations and no regrets splitting my stays so I could end my solo trip just being across Harbor. My feet and back thanked me LOL.
  • Eden Roc Inn & Suites: Carlos and Janet at the front desk were so helpful. I requested/received a refurbished first floor room and it was more than spacious. Shortcuts in/out of GCH made the walks to/from here a piece of cake.
  • Best Western Plus Park Place Inn - Mini Suites: Dalia at the front desk was equally helpful; I also requested/received a first floor room. I usually stay at the Best Western Plus Anaheim Inn (2-minute walk between each of these BW’s) but the Mini Suites had the lower rate for the last half of my stay. While I’m partial to BW Plus Anaheim Inn, the Mini Suites’ location couldn’t be beat for my solo trip.
• Bag(s): My main bag over the last year has been the Hydroflask Slingback Bottle Pack. Here’s a review from Pack Hacker. I also bring Daiso foldable/packable lunch totes, similar to this.
• Shoes: Sketchers Slip-ins, New Balance Dynasoft Nergize V1, OOFOS OOriginal recovery sandals.
• Socks: Muk Luks graduated compression socks (knee length) and Dr. Scholl’s compression socks (crew length)
• Crowd: Coming after the “main” spring break rush made this one of the best visits I’ve had since I started coming annually. I avoided chokepoints as best as I could, guests had good vibes in the immediate areas I was in, and overall, a very tolerable crowd experience (especially compared to my August/September 2023 visit)
• Cast Members: Fantastic. I was so privileged this solo trip to experience and observe magic being made, even if I wasn’t the direct recipient. Magic is really in the little things: waving back to someone passing by on the train, complimenting someone's ears/outfit, enjoying the ragtime piano at the Coke corner. Each Cast Member I encountered was phenomenal in their roles/capacities.

Things I’m looking forward to next visit!

• Tiana’s Bayou Adventure
• Trying more seasonal food
• Monorail rides/enjoy Tomorrowland night time vibes
• Making time for more music around both parks
• Starting the morning at Tom Sawyer Island
• Late nights/shutting down the park
• Taking my film camera to the parks

WHEW. To anyone making it to the end of this trip report: THANK YOU! :-)

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ZooE) (Sossa remix) 07:33 127bpm 6A Djonii - Drillin' 06:56 93bpm 9B Djonii - Where Is The DJ 06:12 127bpm 12A DLMT - More Passion, More Energy (Extended Mix) 04:20 130bpm 6A DODX, Daniel Kazuo - Satisfaction (Extended) 06:37 128bpm 4A DONT BLINK - MY DREAM (CADELAGO & Martin Angrisano (ARG) Remix) 05:55 127bpm 9B DONT BLINK - RUDEBOX 05:21 126bpm 7B DONT BLINK - WHAT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT 06:05 126bpm 7B Dr. Space - Anima (Extended Mix) 04:28 126bpm 9A Drop The Cheese, Dirty Sound Boys - Chama (Club Mix) 04:41 126bpm 12B DROPDEXX - House Thing (Extended Mix) 05:19 130bpm 9B Dubdogz, Jude & Frank - ININNA TORA (Extended Version) 03:46 127bpm 7B Duke & Jones - Horizon (Crusy Extended Remix) 06:29 126bpm 9A DUPH - Sax 88 04:44 125bpm 5B DYKMN - Dale Dale 02:53 125bpm 9A Dylan J - Atardecer En Brasil 05:50 125bpm 7A DZR, Sabrosura Boyz - BAPU 06:27 130bpm 9B EitherOr - Drop It! (Extended Mix) 04:20 128bpm 9A Emiel Roche, Michael Seumeren - Mental Disorder 05:21 127bpm 7B Emircan Hattat, No Worries - Joker (Extended Mix) 05:08 128bpm 3A ESSED - Boom 04:48 98bpm 8A ESSED - Honey 05:10 130bpm 4B Esteban Otoya - Pa 06:58 125bpm 12A Etwas (IT) - Menealo 06:09 130bpm 8A Etwas (IT) - Mi Barrio 06:41 127bpm 8A Eu Bolos - Underground Sensation 06:57 122bpm 11B Eurostep - Ride Nasty (Extended Mix) 05:30 128bpm 2A Eurostep, Leisan - Sensations (Extended Mix) 05:02 127bpm 3A Eze Drill, LeoK - My Turn 05:45 128bpm 1B Eze Drill, LeoK - Want It 05:45 128bpm 1B Ezziolino - Y Ahora (Original) 04:55 130bpm 8B Fabi Hernandez - Azul (Extended Mix) 05:31 127bpm 6A FeelGood - Discoteca 05:37 128bpm 8A Felipe Cardona - Tk+ 04:03 126bpm 8A FENIK - Blowing Up My Phone 04:41 130bpm 3B Fetish - Premeditated 02:36 126bpm 4A F-Lima - Let Me Love You 06:30 128bpm 2A FONEMA - Ballers 05:26 128bpm 7A FONEMA - Boom Boom 04:39 130bpm 12B FONEMA - Pa pa pa 04:03 128bpm 5B Fran Dc - Eighteen 05:16 128bpm 7A Francesco N (ARG) - Grooving 07:12 125bpm 10A Francesco N (ARG) - Tonight 05:44 124bpm 7A Francesco V - Fresh On Your Teeth 06:34 129bpm 7A Francisco Allendes, Manuelito - Viva El Coyote (Extended Mix) 05:48 128bpm 2A Franco Schmidt - Hey Mutombo 06:36 126bpm 3B Franco Schmidt - Reflection 06:15 0bpm 9A Frander Zambrano - Week 04:45 128bpm 3B Franz Alexander - Together (Extended Mix) 06:03 128bpm 5A Franz Costa - Darling 06:02 128bpm 12B Funkyst - Bender 05:24 128bpm 11B G DOM - Track Please (Extended Mix) 06:02 127bpm 10B Gabe Katz - Bobble Heads 06:30 128bpm 9A Gala Gutierrez - Black From The Future 06:08 128bpm 9A Gala Gutierrez - Jaleando 06:02 128bpm 1A Gallardo, Malex, Yosmer Davis - Call My Name 05:15 124bpm 6A Gallardo, Malex, Yosmer Davis - Move Your Feet 04:38 126bpm 9B Gene Farris, Basura Boyz - In My Heart (Extended Mix) 05:23 126bpm 10A Genesi - Stoppin (Extended Instrumental Mix) 05:18 128bpm 8A Genesi - Stoppin (Extended Mix) 05:18 128bpm 11B George JJ Flores, Soul Shadow - Heaven (Doc Martin Subwap Remix) 06:13 124bpm 6A Gettoblaster - Purple Pin Stripes 05:37 128bpm 1A Gettoblaster, Dipzy - Love Is Kind 05:41 130bpm 4A Giancarlo Zara - Freedom 05:57 130bpm 5A Gianni Ruocco, Day Garcia - Le Mostraste Tu Titi (Extended Mix) 05:48 128bpm 11A Gianni Ruocco, Day Garcia - Se Lo Meti (Extended Mix) 06:08 127bpm 9A Gianni Ruocco, Elegant Hands, Calego - Dale (Extended Mix) 05:22 128bpm 4B Gianni Ruocco, Guti Legatto - Scream Night 06:06 127bpm 10A Gianni Ruocco, Guti Legatto - Tiempo 05:36 127bpm 10A Gianni Ruocco, Kassier - Jumping 05:31 128bpm 1A Gianni Ruocco, Kassier - The Crew 06:00 128bpm 10A Gino Lonero - Nem Me Importa 05:51 131bpm 7A GIOC, Eric Olliver - Baby Freak 06:48 127bpm 9A GIOC, Eric Olliver - Drunky Fairy 07:00 128bpm 7A GIOC, Eric Olliver - Drunky Fairy (Pablo Mancilla Remix) 06:59 126bpm 10B Glassy & Bare - Latin Bros. 03:39 126bpm 8A Gory - Hasta Que Salga La Luna (Extended Mix) 06:21 126bpm 4A Groovboy - Class 06:41 128bpm 1A Groovboy - I Like 06:37 128bpm 12B GSEP, Rikki Sawyer - Charlie Heggartys (Silvio Ecomo Remix) 07:28 130bpm 7A GSEPP, Smith & Sorren - Kiss (Extended Mix) 03:50 126bpm 10A Guezmark - Monkey 05:56 124bpm 6A Guglielmo Nasini, NuKey - The Doppler Effect (Extended Mix) 03:56 126bpm 5A Guzt - Do You Watch Me? 06:15 128bpm 5A Guzt - Martians Dance 06:30 128bpm 9A Guzt - Nobody Knows 06:18 128bpm 12A Guzt - Yes, We Do 06:42 127bpm 3A Halogen - Hot (Extended Mix) 04:04 126bpm 5A Hammer - Red Alert (ABSOLUTE.'s High Alert Remix) 05:03 125bpm 2B Hammer - Red Alert 06:06 126bpm 12B Hardskin - Bengal (Extended Mix) 04:55 130bpm 9A Hardskin - Better (Extended Mix) 05:30 128bpm 9B Hassio (COL) - Packwoods 07:07 128bpm 4A Hassio (COL), Corrales - Opium 05:45 128bpm 6A Havoc & Lawn, MI.BARRIO - Embiggen 06:28 129bpm 3B Hennry - Pushim Pushim 06:15 128bpm 11A Hennry - Whodis 05:54 130bpm 2A Hermin Hernandez - It's So Good (Extended Mix) 06:03 128bpm 7A Homar Rossi, Vincenzo Aiardo - Aladdin Kill 05:02 130bpm 6A Homar Rossi, Vincenzo Aiardo - U Drops My Ball 07:50 123bpm 6A HoneyLuv - Right Spot (Byron The Aquarius Remix) 05:04 134bpm 7B HoneyLuv - Right Spot (Dennis Ferrer Remix) 06:03 127bpm 1A Hrag Beko - Totalito 04:19 127bpm 6A Hunters - El Ave 06:46 124bpm 2A Ignacio - Ven Pa Ca 02:14 126bpm 11A Ignacio Le Bert - Salsa 06:16 126bpm 7A Ignacio Le Bert - Under Groove 06:22 126bpm 9A IILO, destiny ron - Who Dat (feat. Destiny Ron) (Extended Mix) 04:03 126bpm 10B Ishimaru - Jaw (Extended Mix) 04:51 130bpm 7A Ivan Kook - Esta NO 06:13 126bpm 11A J Aristi - Malvadao 06:05 126bpm 9B J Aristi - Yeah 06:02 127bpm 4A Jack Orley - Wake Up (Extended Mix) 04:51 126bpm 9A Jackie Hollander - The Afterparty 05:35 126bpm 11A Jaco Reigosa - Night (Diego Bustamante Remix) 06:08 128bpm 9B Jaco Reigosa - Night (Martin OCCO Remix) 05:36 128bpm 6A Jaco Reigosa - Night 06:04 128bpm 3A Jaded, Dombresky - Sound Of The Drums (Calussa VIP Mix (Extended)) 05:31 128bpm 11B Jadoo - Tú Sabes 04:39 125bpm 12A Jadoo, Sael Quinn - RitmiKa (Extended Mix) 04:38 126bpm 6A Jaime Narvaez - Te Toca (Instrumental Mix) 06:42 126bpm 1A Jaime Narvaez - Te Toca 06:44 125bpm 1A Jaime Narvaez - Werk It 06:30 125bpm 7A Jaime Soeiro, Knober - Crossing the Town (Extended Mix) 05:33 129bpm 1B jairo delli - Above 05:31 128bpm 11A jairo delli - Backup 06:04 127bpm 11A jairo delli - Les Bari 05:30 128bpm 3A Javi Reina, Jesus Fernandez - Fiebre (Extended Mix) 03:21 128bpm 8A Javi Reina, Óscar Madrid - Volta (Extended Mix) 04:43 129bpm 12B Jay Cara - Ese Ritmo 06:22 128bpm 11B Jesse James - Drop the Bass (Eldeanyo Remix) 06:40 126bpm 12B Jesse James - Drop the Bass (Mr Jay Remix) 05:17 124bpm 11A Jesse James - Drop the Bass 05:57 124bpm 11A Jessteck - Expansion 04:08 125bpm 8A Jessteck - Machinike 04:02 126bpm 6B Jim Brown - Medication 05:56 126bpm 9A Jim Brown - My Face 04:55 126bpm 11B Joa Martul - Silence 06:40 127bpm 6A John Summit - EAT THE BASS (Extended Mix) 04:35 128bpm 7B Johnk - Arcade 06:00 128bpm 8B Johnk - Despierta 06:00 128bpm 1A Johnk - Happy 05:45 128bpm 5A Johnk - Little Joe 05:45 128bpm 5A Johnk - Sunday 05:46 128bpm 5B Johnk - TechLow 05:48 128bpm 7A Jon Fleet, Chrisy Stebbeds - RADIKAL AUDIO 05:34 128bpm 4A Jony Romero - En Nota 05:56 127bpm 12A Jony Romero - Muevelo 06:04 128bpm 4B Jony Romero, Juan Vargas (VE) - El Lio 05:42 127bpm 8B Jorhav - Asunder 06:36 127bpm 10B Jorhav - One Two Hits 06:32 128bpm 9B Jorman M. - Ecuador 06:40 127bpm 12A Josh Butler - Seeder 05:12 130bpm 6B Joshwa - Get Stupid (Extended Mix) 05:27 129bpm 1A Joshwa - Lluvia (Extended Mix) 06:27 129bpm 7A JP Chronic - Dancintro 06:05 126bpm 8A Juan Dragster - Belis 05:45 128bpm 9B Juan Dragster - La Cluja 05:54 130bpm 8A Juan Dragster - Pickpocket 05:30 128bpm 7A Juan JF - Flipping 06:54 130bpm 9A Juan JF - Sur Connection 06:30 128bpm 7A Juanchi Llanos - Heat 06:36 127bpm 5A Julian Collazos - Psicólogo 05:00 128bpm 10A Julian Collazos - Tik Tak 05:00 128bpm 4A Julian Jordan, Mingue - Bon Voyage feat. 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My partner was hacked a couple weeks ago by the classic person pretending to be a blizzard GM in /w. She’s new to the game and loves doing non-competitive stuff like pet battles and mount farming. That’s all she kind of does.
After losing access to the account she managed to reclaim it. After spending a few days getting it back she finds out she’s been banned. She wasn’t sure why and thinks she was doing too many pet battles ( she googled it and some people had been banned for pet battles for some reason). I think it was the hacker using her account to sell gold on her account.
Anyway we contact blizzard for her to essentially say “Hey this wasn’t me I was hacked.” and they respond with “hello there! we are truly sorry you can’t access your overwatch account but the rules are final please read our terms and conditions. But please note all bans are final and may not be appealed”. Why are they saying overwatch when we asked about WoW? It’s like an AI wrote it or automated response with the wrong . She’s absolutely devastated and it’s making her depressed because she feels like she’s done something wrong but she hasn’t, all her in game purchases are gone and the difficulty it takes it contact blizzard is ridiculous.
Shes attached an Authenticator to her account now but what’s the use if she can never play WoW again. Kind of making me feel some sort of hate to the game with this level of customer service.
Has anyone had this kind of experience happen to them? Did you manage to get around it?

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Elder Kashaunta moved her agents into place. A hundred thousand years of planning, all coming together now. High-ranking officers, mere janitors, and computer technicians all served her whims. They scrambled the information spreading across the flagship, providing general confusion and misdirection to the responding cadres of soldiers.
Azeri had, in fact, managed to get several messages out about an attack. But while some mentioned Penny, others mentioned Kashaunta. And she was more than willing to take the reputational hit for what she stood to gain from this.
Currently, Penny had Azeri as a hostage. She had manipulated him well, and ensured that he would always bear some of the blame for the absolute debacle going on aboard the flagship. Sprilnav ran this way and that, relaying contradicting orders to officers and crews who had no choice but to attempt to satisfy both of them.
Kashaunta gloried in the chaos.
Seeing all of Azeri's complex protections fall apart into scraps was wonderful to her. She stayed and watched for a while before returning to one of her advisors.
A Progenitor manifested in her room before she could do anything, though. With a flash of bright white light, Nova gently floated down to alight daintily on the luxurious carpets.
"Your flagship is quite impressive," he said.
"To what do I owe the pleasure of your visit, Progenitor?" Kashaunta asked, bowing slightly. She fixed her eyes on him in case he was about to do something he shouldn't. Nova just watched her. There was an awkward pause after Kashaunta exited her bow.
"You have allowed Penny to use your resources to escape with Elder Azeri as a hostage," he accused.
"Perhaps."
"Why did you do this, exactly?"
"Elder Azeri threatened me directly by bringing a Grand Fleet to the Justicar system," Kashaunta said. "It is clear that he deserves punishment for such an infraction. We had several agreements which he broke by doing this, and I intend to collect upon his debts."
"Yes, yes," Nova sighed. But that is not the issue. It is mainly the agreement that I have just learned that you have with Penny."
"What agreement? She supplies me with linear singularities, and I provide her support. That is all."
"Really?" Nova asked. He moved closer, his claws digging into the carpet and the metal below. The floor creaked under the pressure. Kashaunta did not. She faced him head-on.
"Yes."
"Elders are not supposed to lie to Progenitors," Nova said. "Naughty, naughty. You conveniently left out that you and Penny plan to use the 85th Grand Fleet for your own whims. More specifically, to place one of the crown jewels of all Sprilnav-kind under even a partial dominion of an alien species. This is entirely unacceptable, Elder Kashaunta. I do not care what the agreement's exact terms were. You will not do this."
"Progenitor Nova, surely-"
"You. Will. Not. Do you hear me, Kashaunta?"
"You are... Progenitor, I believe this is interference."
"You would love to hide behind that, wouldn't you?" Nova asked. "But you have no true authority to back you."
"Lecalicus," Kashaunta said. The Beast appeared in a portal next to Nova. Blood and worse dripped from his pale red skin. Thick fragments of bone were covered with splatters of his own blood, and his muscles had torn visibly in many places. There were cataracts in his eyes, and every one of his claws was chipped. But still, he raised his head to glare at Nova.
Nova stared at Lecalicus for a minute. A tear fell from his eye.
"Why do you weep, Nova?" Lecalicus asked.
"I weep for you," he replied. "You are... horrifically maimed. It is... quite upsetting to see, and brings back terrible memories."
"That is not why... I am here," Lecalicus wheezed. "Interference... is not to be allowed. We have... decreed it."
"Such a pitiful state," Nova sighed. "I will mourn for you. As for you, Elder Kashaunta, there will be consequences if you undertake this action."
"Can you lay out these consequences, Progenitor? Or will you leave them vague where they would hover about in a mind weaker than mine? I would at least ask for that level of respect."
"Respect?" Nova asked. "Respect!?"
"Yes."
"You spit on the legacy of the Sp'rkial'nova, and worse, Narvravarana itself. And you have the absolute gall to complain about respect? Elder Kashaunta, you have gone too far. When this is over, your part to play will be remembered, and I will ensure you are given a heavy penance. It will be painful."
With that, Nova left, stepping through another portal. Lecalicus turned to Kashaunta.
"Are... you alright?" she asked.
"As much as I can be," Lecalicus replied. Thank you for calling me here, but I must leave again."
And he disappeared as well. Kashaunta turned her attention back to the screen. Her agents continued to block messages, send false information, and give orders to patrol the wrong location for investigations. She'd lose thousands of people today, but it was more than worth it for a strike at the grand prize.
Kashaunta knew that Nova would ensure that that the 85th Grand Fleet wouldn't be given to her. Perhaps he'd get them to strip Azeri of command or or ignore her. But though it was a great loss, she could still influence his successor far more if the person she suspected was going to become the Interim Grand Fleet Commander actually did.
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Edu'frec monitored Phoebe's connection to the flagship carefully. It was a paper-thin thread, but AIs were more than capable of using that much bandwidth to do massive damage. Even now, small ambient attack programs floated back over the connection.
They would inevitably find themselves in the local network Phoebe had set up just to catch them. They'd feast on all of the 'data' around themselves, revealing their presence. Edu'frec squashed almost a million of them every second, and more were constantly coming.
But he knew that the operation had to succeed—not just for Penny's mental health but also for the Alliance and Kashaunta. Both of them were heavily involved in the undertaking, though only Phoebe could do anything on-location among the Alliance's leaders.
However, the rest of the Alliance's main leaders were getting a feed of the situation. It was delayed, of course. And Edu'fred had safeguards in place to prevent any Sprilnav spying attempts, or any visible signs that the Alliance had viewed the situation. It was the best way to defuse the political fallout of Penny's anger with Azeri.
As such, it had its detractors. Several people didn't like the idea of throwing Penny into the dangerous flagship. Others wanted her to be more combative, sabotaging and detonating everything she came across. Most had lesser critiques or simply couldn't be bothered to raise their opinions.
Dilandekar was still focused on arguments with the rest of the High Researchers. Blistanna was working on securing more work visas so that her swelling population could emigrate from the Guulin Congressional Republic. Izkrala was monitoring her eggs from a distance and keeping watch on the military for any further secessionist movements. Edu'frec was sure that the Acuarfar who'd left would return someday at the head of an army, likely Sprilnav in nature.
And the DMO's people were focusing on horizontal expansion. They were building new factories using the power of the Dyson swarms on other planets besides Mercury. Powered by the urgency of military and industrial expansion, they continued to get richer and richer.
Phoebe would ensure they could never grow too large or corrupt. Many of them didn't know it, but she and the hivemind had an agreement on managing the DMO's growth from the sidelines. Other parties, like the Voice of Brey and the Conclave, were also involved.
Fyuuleen was still carefully watching the unfolding events. Her influence was still mostly stagnant in the Alliance, driven by her cautious attitude. A grizzled war veteran, she was more vocal in opposing expansionism and intervention. But even she would not deny that the Alliance constantly needed to grow stronger.
Edu'frec noticed an attack AI slip itself into the network. He pressed down on it, locking it out of its own functions and shutting off its ability to perceive the data it was getting. It instinctually fought him with everything it had. But everything it had was nowhere near all Edu'frec could offer. And so it became the 19th AI Edu'frec had killed after attempting to attack Phoebe.
More would come. More would die.
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"Last time we met, I spared your life, and you kidnapped my father. Just goes to show how much your honor is worth, right?"
"I do not fear you, human."
Penny nodded. "You don't. Normally, I might make some speech about the nobility of not killing your enemies. But you are a Grand Fleet Commander. Your only worth to me is your ability to get Nilnacrawla back to me, and to keep anyone from interfering until I have him back. In exchange for that, you, Kashaunta, and I will sign a formal treaty. During this time, you and your Grand Fleet will serve under the joint control of Elder Kashaunta and the Sol Alliance."
"No."
Penny just continued to smile. The flagship's conceptual energy field hadn't been activated like it should have, which told him Phoebe was behind the attack instead of some mere hackers. There was no other way. As for his guards, if Penny had fooled them, it would have been through either hacking their implants directly or through a mental manipulation tactic of some sort.
Azeri saw several psychic energy monitoring stations nearby in real space. None of them even registered Penny's presence at all. Was Phoebe inside those, too?
"In a black hole, time and space switch places. I can place you into eternity with a single word. I have demonstrated the capability of creating singularies for all of you already."
"...And Yasihaut?"
"She will be ignored," Penny replied. "I figure you have a trap set up involving her. I will not fall into it."
"And if the trap is that you do nothing?"
"Then so it is," Penny said. "I have made my decision already. And because you are not sadistically evil, nor a masochist, I also know what you will choose. Submission."
He could feel the demand impress itself upon him. But he was no weaker Elder. He resisted her with all of his might. He clawed, fought, and screamed. No one came to help him. He doubted the sound even left the room. His implant suddenly disappeared. He had no idea how she'd done it, especially when his own conceptual energy stores were as high as they were. She shouldn't have been capable of this at all.
He couldn't even find her to attack her when his claws lashed out. Bereft of the Soul Blade, he was incapable of damaging her seriously. But his clawing arms and biting teeth did draw some blood. Azeri could feel his impact on her flesh before she pulled away. And when he bit the same spot the third time, he stopped bothering. It was better to save his energy. Especially when the guards in the mindscape were looking right at him and acting as if they didn't see anything.
They were not paid to do that, and he would not have allowed spies to make up his elite protection forces. There was no doubt about it. Penny was isolating him entirely. Whatever she'd done to evade the sensors would now work on him.
She withdrew for a quick moment. It was exactly then that the flagship's conceptual power suppression field ticked down even lower. The stand-down procedures he'd enacted following the arrival of the other Grand Fleets had cost him majorly. Now, he and the entire fleet would soon pay the price for daring to bow to the others. She'd gotten him at the perfect time; somehow, Azeri suspected she knew it.
Elder Azeri first tried pressing the floor in a certain pattern. The pattern was meant to trigger a silent alarm, which would alert both his guards and the more elite soldiers on the ship to his predicament. Yet, unlike the rare times when he'd been in danger on his own ship in the past, the signal didn't do anything—no subtle ultrasonic vibrations.
In the mindscape, things were far worse. Azeri was held so tightly by Penny that he could see into her mind. He could see the massive anger underlying her every movement, mixed with a high amount of confidence and pride. There was a heap of caution in her mind, too, which meant she would be less suggestible than her anger might otherwise make her. The critical thing was that she wasn't making major mistakes.
She hadn't let any of his psychic energy leak through her powerful mental barrier. She'd ensured that a psychic suppression or enhancement field would only affect him if it affected her as well. Azeri's physical body wasn't visibly impaired, but he could tell the psychic blades were still there. The nanite coating on his body and the neutronium dust network were not limiting the influence of her psychic power. Somehow, she'd accounted for them.
But there were still holes. She'd need to get him through the entire ship as an invisible hostage. And he could call out at any time and perhaps ruin her plans that way. But just because the option was left so wide open didn't mean it was one he could take. It was equally likely Penny would kill him if he tried to get help rather than just fleeing.
It wasn't the logical thing to do, but the desire for his death was high in her mind. He also could see her hatred for Nova, Yasihaut, and even several entities in speeding space. Outside the chamber were his guards.
"Grand Fleet Commander," they said deferentially. Not a hint of suspicion clouded their words. No hidden tones, no surreptitious flicks of the eyes or twitching of the claws.
He tried to respond. Nothing came out of his mouth. Penny had blocked the sound, sensing somehow that it was not normal for him to answer them. So they walked together. A human and a Sprilnav Elder. The parasite and the host.
"Parasite?" Penny asked. "I'm not hurting you."
"And yet you keep me weak, and as a hostage."
"Well, yeah? It's this or trying to rampage through however many million Sprilnav are on this ship. And while yes, I could kill them all, they also don't deserve to die for nothing. Their cause is unworthy of their sacrifices."
"Can you not see the evil in what you are doing?" Azeri asked. Penny let out a scoff. Again, none of his guards seemed to hear either of them talking. What manner of illusion was she putting around him? And how didn't he have anything that detected it?
"Tell me how I am being evil, for getting the help of an infiltrator, and conducting a surgical attack against you alone, the man who ensured the kidnapping of my father."
"Two wrongs do not make a right."
"I didn't know you guys had that saying too. And it's quite pretentious of you to say in this situation. Roughly 30 million years ago, you blew up a planet because its leader said he wouldn't surrender. Do you really think that my supposed evil is equal to yours?"
"It was insignificant."
Azeri didn't really remember that. And there wasn't much reason to. Certainly, he was only considering this because she was here. And after this, he'd go through everything that went wrong to figure out what had happened.
"But far more significant than my decision to take you to help save my father. And I'll note that this is a response to an attack you made on me. I did nothing to make you 'need' to kidnap Nilnacrawla."
Penny kept him walking as they argued. She stubbornly denied every argument he made. Sometimes, she insulted his morality, and other times, she seemed to listen thoughtfully to his points. But he never was able to get her to slip up. He was never able to get anything out to the cameras or to the various officers who passed him.
They walked for many kilopulses. Penny ignored his requests for rest.
"Elders have the stamina to walk for days on end. Surely this is nothing."
"It is not. I am tired from the use of the Soul Blade."
"I am sure you are. But there is plenty of energy left in you, Elder Azeri. And it's not like you'd deign to take the train thing you have installed for mass movement anyway."
"I must relieve myself."
"Your bladder is empty."
"This is... inhumane."
"Oh, the horror. You have to walk for a little bit. I'd laugh if that argument wasn't so pathetic."
"You are enjoying my suffering."
"I'm enjoying you lying about this being suffering. You stabbed me in the heart with a sword, and you're moaning about walking. Give me a break. You're not going to annoy me enough to slip up. We are totally isolated."
"How did you do it?"
"Do what?"
"Cut me out of the network without notice."
"I wonder why you think I'd tell you that," Penny replied. Shall I explain every facet of my plan and do some monologue about how you'll never defeat me? I won't tempt Fate in such a way. Or perhaps we can have another 'you're not so different, you and I' argument. That was totally not a waste of our collective time, after all."
Azeri sighed. He passed another hallway. "Look. We can work out a better deal than this."
"A better deal for you? Maybe. But I don't think you're in a position to negotiate."
"I know you won't kill me. You can't take the backlash."
"Oh no, it seems the team of Sprilnav hackers completed their task, and managed to kill Elder Azeri. Wow, those are very large claw wounds. It seems like someone tore out his throat. Poor guy."
"That totally isn't what an evil person would say."
"So? Evil people also say they're thirsty and hungry. Does that mean the words themselves being said define someone as evil? Plus, I'd actually prefer that you live, so we get a better arrangement."
"And how would you keep me in line?"
"Kashaunta has some ideas," Penny said. "I have others. Maybe Nilnacrawla will have a few more."
"It won't be this easy."
Penny laughed as they came upon the final door. The black metal wall was just as imposing as it was meant to be. It was massively thick and set up with a secure locking system separate from the rest of the ships' network. It had a scanner for psychic energy and genetic code on the front. Azeri didn't speak to his guards, and neither did Penny. He made a small sign with his claws, but somehow, none of the guards reacted. It was as if they hadn't seen him at all.
"Oh, you think I don't know about your false passwords? Or the silent alarms, if you step in the wrong tiles? Or the psychic detectors meant to kill me instantly upon my entrance to the room? Or the androids in stealth fields that are following behind us, likely because you are approaching the Soul Blade containment room without notifying them of your intent to do it over 200 pulses prior? No, it won't be this easy. But you will do it exactly as it would normally be done. If Nilnacrawla dies, I will personally throw you into eternity."
He recited the code to unlock the door. When it finished rising, Azeri stepped into the room. It was filled with all kinds of death machines. Azeri went to the Soul Blade's container and unlocked it. An emergency burst of psychic energy hit him, and he spun around to impale Penny. She tried to move away but was too slow. He smashed the blade through her neck, tearing the muscle savagely.
She fell to the ground, still somehow surviving as she fell to one knee. She looked up at him defiantly. Azeri didn't say anything. He stabbed her in the head.
The ship around him crumbled, and he was... back in the virtual reality chamber.
"Wha-"
"Wow, your tech really is amazing," Penny said, standing in front of him again. They were back at the virtual reality chamber, and he was exiting it again.
Azeri's eyes widened. "...What did you do?"
"I learned. Everything you expected to do and see in that room, along with all the procedures you have, and the various ways you react."
"But... the Soul Blade-"
"Every time you swing that thing, it hurts you," Penny said. "Did you not think anything was wrong with it not doing that? Really, you have no one to blame but yourself."
"You have invaded my mind."
"I have little other choice, Elder Azeri. I spared your life, you kidnapped my father. I do not claim that what I did was right. But I did it for a reason, and you are not in a position to complain about that. And I have done my best to make this painless for you, as well. Considering that you just tried to kill me, I believe my paranoia was more that justified. Don't you?"
"You... you will get what you deserve."
Penny nodded, cupping his head with her hands. "I will. I will get Nilnacrawla."
She turned and walked away. Azeri immediately reached for his communicator.
"Nope," she said, appearing again. "I'm sorry, Azeri. I'm afraid I can't let you do that. And considering that you'd violate your deal with me, and I really can't kill you right now, I think we can reach a happy compromise."
She grabbed him again, lifting him up.
Meanwhile, Ishucrawla's body slowly morphed into Azeri's own. The copy of Azeri practiced walking just as Azeri did, effortlessly mimicking his expressions and typical motions. The thousands of tiny movements. The millions of tiny pieces that made up every part of his being. It was incredibly creepy to see.
And his memories went back to the Source war. The horrid Servants had done much the same thing. And... Penny had brought one of them to Justicar. Was that how she could do this? Was the Servant the real one ensuring that this could even happen?
"You will not fool me... Rimiaha."
Penny laughed again. "Wait, seriously? That's your theory? That's almost sad. Look, Azeri. We can get out of this alive, without me having to kill your men."
A painful blow hit him on the bottom of his head. He staggered dizzily. Then, a second hit him, and he fell down, slowly fading into unconsciousness. He was only dimly aware of conceptual power surrounding him as he was hoisted onto Ishucrawla's body, where he would sink down into the frame of the body.
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Elder Yasihaut could tell that something was wrong. Azeri hadn't responded to her messages through his implant. A few other Elders were on their way to the Soul Blade chamber, but the narrowness of the flagship's passages around here made gathering sufficient forces a struggle. Other lesser leaders, like a few Field Commanders, were already moving soldiers into position, arranging them neatly where the hallways merged.
She checked on the Soul Blade's chamber, finding it was still guarded. Curiously, there was a seeming lack of activity near the door. Sprilnav milled about in the hallways around it, but the sealed doors only Elders like herself could enter wouldn't have prevented all of them.
..."Yasihaut..." a voice silently said.
It was in the mindscape and incredibly weak.
"...over here..."
Yasihaut frowned. She didn't have time for this. She looked at the chamber again. Something was still off about it all. So she called in more guards. Advancing soldiers quickly appeared, just a few kilopulses after the request. Now, a few ceiling-mounted mechs had crawled over. Several turret-mounted lasers were in position, along with shield walls ready to be deployed.
And then something unexpected happened. Azeri appeared again, walking with his guards surrounding him. His head was held high, and he gingerly stepped over the prepared defenses, appraising them with a critical eye before moving on with a huff.
"Yasihaut," he said. "What are you doing here?"
"I could ask the same of you," Yasihaut said.
"Kashaunta's agents are on the ship. Phoebe has been confirmed as an attack vector present in the cyberattack. There is only one thing that will follow her."
"Penny," Yasihaut murmured. Azeri clacked his jaws in agreement. He placed his claws on the door.
"Verification Code: 10362-3293-2894-Balese-Nestaporiale-Tannador-Volune-Caori."
The locked blast door in front of the Soul Blade chamber rose. Hydraulic hisses accompanied it, and there was a total silence of discipline and apprehension.
Yasihaut frowned again. The guards kept her back from Azeri as he entered the chamber. A new slave was waiting inside, a food trough beside his cage. Azeri opened the case of the Soul Blade. Nilnacrawla's mind became easily visible in the mindscape, but so too did a thread of psychic energy between him and Azeri. The only person who had a bond like that with Nilnacrawla was Penny.
Yasihaut froze. And when the Soul Blade's case opened, it released a titanic burst of psychic and conceptual energy. The Sprilnav, who was not Azeri, was revealed. Azeri's body was draped over his shoulders.
"Fire!" Yasihaut shouted, accompanied by a few other voices. Lasers and bullets screamed and seared into the chamber, impacting Penny, the ground and floor around her, and even Azeri himself. Five new psychic energy suppression fields were extended. Penny stumbled, but the guards were unable to capitalize on it.
The soldiers moved the mounted lasers into position and fired thick beams of red light that struck Penny's arms hard enough to throw her into a wall. They kept firing, and Penny moved out of the way before sending a burst of smoke into the laser's path. A bright explosion followed, flattening the guards down. But with their shields in place, it was only a temporary setback. Gunfire and lasers continued to pour down upon Penny like rain. Yasihaut checked the flagship's network availability with her implant.
Every single part of the network's threat level was being reassessed. Almost no sections were marked 'Safe,' with the areas concentrated around the psychic suppression fields and conceptual energy suppression fields marked off in black. Yasihaut started gathering her limited conceptual energy, sending it into her armor to keep her from being killed by Penny. Her perception increased, and her vision sharpened.
In the mindscape, massive Flagship Protection Units slammed down onto the battlefield. Their bodies were psychic energy cords, whipping and pulsing with absolute fury at the intruder. A single slice was enough to cut Penny's entire arm off. Her mental avatar dragged Azeri in front of herself while she practiced a fighting retreat. Yasihaut continued to watch the battle, willing to let Penny wear herself down more before engaging. The human was certainly trying to outlast them for some reason.
And then a Flagship Defense Unit came down. Everything on the mental battlefield that wasn't an Elder or Penny collapsed due to its presence. Penny only continued to run, all while dodging the most powerful laser shots in the chamber itself, which was starting to gain a red sheen in many places from the energy flying around within. The sound was like the constant roar of an engine.
A new reinforcement group came in, bringing more lasers and gun turrets. They locked onto Penny for a moment. But she spun around, presenting Azeri's body to them all. Yasihaut could visibly see them depower, also keyed to be unable to attack the Grand Fleet Commander. Androids stood down. Gravitational energy traps, only half-active, spiraled back down to nothingness. Heat and cold balanced in the room again. It was as if Penny knew exactly what to do to counter the defenses.
Air rushed out of the highly guarded room, staggering their feet briefly. Wounds were visible on Penny's body, but psychic power mended her too quickly for Yasihaut to risk an attack. During it, Penny recovered, gathered her conceptual energy, and released it in a single word.
"Displace."
Yasihaut felt the air in the entire region disappear, along with the soldiers, small robots, androids, and turrets. Yasihaut's armor saved her from the same fate. She was incredibly glad for it, but that didn't mean the situation wasn't dire. Yasihaut had drawn her sword but knew she couldn't safely engage Penny without endangering Azeri. And while other Elders were useless, Azeri was not just anyone. Azeri's guards had the same thoughts.
Five of them slowly approached her, flanking her from all sides with their blades drawn. While they were not Soul Blades, they were serious enough weapons for Penny to need to worry about.
Hundreds of thousands of guards and various psychic attack entities were already closing in in the mindscape. Thick psychic shields over their heads counteracted the suppression effect of the Flagship Protection Units and the Flagship Defense Unit, which was still glowing with bright blue energy as its strings battled with similar limbs coming from Penny's back. Her Sprilnav form had reconstituted itself in both the mindscape and reality, though it was ethereal instead of real.
Penny's physical body was still human, and she ran with all her might on her two legs.
Their footsteps shook the stone of the mindscape, and their presence pulled Penny up from the deeper layer she was previously on. No matter how deep she was, the suppression field would ensure she could never defeat so many. There was power, and then there was hubris.
And she didn't look like a human in the mindscape, which likely meant that the guards didn't truly know who they were dealing with. There was simply not enough time to communicate the urgency of the situation. Even Yasihaut was powerless, knowing that Penny could kill Azeri at any moment.
She hated that feeling. It reminded her of... no. It didn't. Yasihaut was better than her, stronger than her, and was an indomitable Elder. Her eyes locked with Penny's. Their rivalry was one of violent hatred, and it would not be contained any longer. Penny let out the smallest smirk. With one hand, she beckoned to Yasihaut.
"Come and try it," she whispered. "Bitch."
Yasihaut let out a battle cry, sprinting toward Penny and Azeri. Conceptual energy hit her armor a second time. New power rushed through the flagship, and they both stopped. Yasihaut swept her sword into Penny's legs, but she neatly jumped the blade, kicking Yasihaut in the chest.
Three of the guards stabbed at Penny, but she dodged two of them and sent one of their blades into Azeri's prone body. The three continued to encircle and battle Penny, driving her closer to Yasihaut with remarkable teamwork, even as they struggled to keep her away from the Soul Blade. One by one, Penny swung Azeri into the paths of their swords, shoving and punching them at supersonic speeds.
The sonic booms buffeted them harshly, sending them crashing into the walls and ceiling. They fell to the ground after that, defeated, even as Yasihaut stood strong, taking the shockwaves head-on and continuing to drive her sword at Penny's heart and head with all of her might.
Penny tore the remaining laser and gun turrets apart while they battled. One of the lasers shot her entire foot off, revealing a human foot where the Sprilnav one had been. And then the machine was dismantled with brutal efficiency.
Its pieces flew at Yasihaut's eyes, and she quickly dodged them. Gunfire from the guards took out the remaining portions of Penny's lower body before she brought Azeri in front of their bullets again.
Penny leaped onto the first guard, using Azeri as a club to knock him out. Yasihaut teamed up with the remaining few to distract her while the remaining soldiers gathered outside the door. An Elder would be here soon to unlock them so the remaining attackers could kill Penny. She was living on borrowed time.
They battled again and again. Yasihaut saw the guards fall one by one, incapable of harming Azeri. She suspected that it was either a mental defect or an implant responsible for their incompetence. A few androids joined in on the fight. But while they could fight nearly perfectly, Penny was far stronger than a normal Sprilnav. Yasihaut accidentally cut two of them in half when she tried to stab Penny again.
She saw Penny try to construct a psychic weapon. The energy fizzled out in the suppression field. Penny was too weak here for her own good.
Yasihaut managed to get her claws into Penny's side. She tried to stab her, but Penny blocked the blade with Azeri's durable body again.
"Coward!" Yasihaut yelled. The wide-area defenses couldn't be activated with Azeri in the room. And Penny seemed determined to keep him with her.
Penny just smiled again. She sent a punch at Yasihaut's neck. She barely managed to get out of the way, and the shockwave sent her upward. Yasihaut maneuvered herself with a swing of her sword to allow her claws to hit the ceiling at the perfect angle. More soldiers were closing in, carrying thick wedges of shields with guns mounted on the front. If Yasihaut died, or the battle slowed down enough, they'd probably begin firing at them both.
Penny was still slow, though. Slow enough to be beaten. Slow enough to be killed.
Yasihaut slashed down at Penny, who hefted Azeri too slowly to stop the blade. It smashed into her, cutting off her ear and destroying that piece of her Sprilnav form. Left exposed was her head, with a massive bleeding cut next to where Yasihaut had struck.
The blood soaked into her clothes, and was making a pool on the now-bare floor. Penny blinked, as if remembering that she could be harmed. Yasihaut attacked again. She used her sword to keep Penny's fists away, and Azeri was not a sufficient shield from her wrath. A cut on the leg. A nick on the left arm. A deep slice in the lower ribs. Through all of it, Penny kept going. She was gathering energy, but not using it.
That wasn't good at all. Yasihaut didn't know what had happened to the conceptual energy field, but it was badly needed. Penny was nearing the completion of whatever she was doing. She rushed in again, hoping to land a final killing blow on her hated foe. Yasihaut saw the hatred reflected in Penny's eyes. The human would kill her, too, if her father wasn't at stake.
That was the key. Yasihaut's eyes landed on the Soul Blade. Penny's energy pressed down more, preventing the guards from moving. Soldiers outside the vault fell to the ground, and Yasihaut grunted with the strain of it all before pulling forth psychic energy to resist Penny.
"If I cannot have you, I will have your father," Yasihaut said. She ran around the case and took the Blade. She stared into Penny's eyes and broke it over her knee, tossing the shards to the floor.
Penny didn't react to her father's death as she should have. Instead, she just laughed.
"If not for that armor, and this stupid psychic energy suppression field... oh, how the mighty have fallen," Penny said.
"Your father is dead. And I, Elder Yasihaut, have-"
"My mind bridge says otherwise. And that wasn't the real Soul Blade."
It was just stupid talk. Clearly, she knew she was about to be killed. Yasihaut would have commended it, but it would not save her mongrel hide from flaying.
Yasihaut would gut her again and again. She would make her-
Penny reached into the case and grabbed a spot of empty air. A hard light hologram shattered, revealing the Soul Blade beneath it. Her Sprilnav form fully fell apart as her hands touched the ancient blade, revealing her pale fingers and wrists. Blood still dripped from her, staining both Azeri's clothing and the Soul Blade itself. It seemed to drink in the blood hungrily, glowing brighter.
"Displace," Penny said. Yasihaut felt the conceptual energy hit her, but it was too weak to properly move her in the armor she wore. Yasihaut's own energy kept her in place. She smirked at Penny, who looked down at herself for a moment. Yasihaut started moving closer to her again, nearly exhausted but still willing to fight.
"Goodbye, Yasihaut. Taste your defeat again. I'm sure it's quite familiar. When I'm back to full energy, we can have another of these delightful little duels."
In the mindscape, Penny flared with energy. But it left her at the same time. She said something that Yasihaut couldn't hear, but could guess. And just like that, the standoff ended. They were all gone. Even the slave's corpse had disappeared.
Yasihaut screamed, punching the wall with a fist hard enough to crack the metal. "Useless bastards!" she yelled at the guards and soldiers.
They stood up but didn't respond. Yasihaut scowled. "I will ensure that this attack does not go unanswered."
She would ensure that this would be brought up in the Judgment. Whether she knew it or not, Penny had just handed her the case. Yasihaut would burn the Alliance down around her. And in the end, it would be her, standing victorious over Penny. It would be her foot crushing Penny's face into the dirt.