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2024.04.03 21:33 samsungjello Ranking the Top Eurovision Song Contest Countries since 1975: The Eastern Europe Romp (#42-#38)
Happy April! We are just over one month away from the big day in Sweden as we continue our countdown of the best preforming ESC countries since the mid 70's. This time we focus our attention on Eastern Europe, with all five countries coming from this region. These five give us a treat, as we finally land on a winner in this countdown! Along with that comes with some iconic entries, as we are really ramping up now!
This batch of five is very interesting. Coming up at #42 is a country on the rise at ESC in Czechia, who have put up some great entries in the past decade. In front of them is a country that have changed their identity at the competition in Slovenia, sending in purely Slovene songs for the past six years. And then there is the big outlier, Serbia and Montenegro, who probably have the highest point to participation ratio at the contest, scoring big having only competed two times. Above S&M is the country they used to be a part of, Yugoslavia, whose existence as a country was always in turmoil to the very end, but towards the tail end of their stint were able to pick up their one and only win, and to this day represent one of two Baltic winners at the ESC. And at #38 is another country on the rise at ESC in Lithuania, who like Czechia have gained some consistent results, with their top entry solidifying themselves in Eurovision lore.
Some Notable Artists:
The first entry that we will be looking at today would set many feats for Lithuania. First, it would be their first ever try at ESC, coming in the single largest expansion of the contest since the beginning. Second, it would be preformed by Ovidijus Vyšniauskas, called the Lithuanian "Joe Cocker", who would go on to release several hits that would be sung by popular Lithuanian musicians. Third, this song would be sung in Lithuanian, a first for the contest and to this day the first of only three* times it would be fully** used. Fourth, it would go on to join ESC infamy, not gaining a single point on the night in Dublin, only one of about 40 songs to do so. Fifth, this result was so bad that the country wouldn't return until 1999, even though they were only relegated for a single year.
2024's entry will be sung in Lithuanian *2001's entry has lyrics in Lithuanian, so I said fully to distinguish the two.
Would you look at that, another one for the zero point club! Yeah Czechia's start to ESC was not the most pretty, not qualifying with any of their first three attempts, while gaining scores of one (1), nine (9), and zero (0) in the process. This mantel would be held by Gipsy.cz, a Czech Romanai group known for their pop, rap, hip-hop, and traditional Roma music. The group already tried to represent the country twice in the prior two years, but were denied twice at the national final. They finally triumphed in 2009, as they were internally selected to compete alongside their song, Aven Romale. I didn't know what to expect but this song is actually fun! Radoslav "Gipsy" Banga was the highlight, wearing a red costume with a crest in the middle. The song feels like one that would be sung at a musical, sort of like a character origin story, but it has a charm like that. It's a shame that no one thought the same, and it's even more of a shame that this song would be it for Czechia until 2015.
Keeping the NQ's rolling, here is an entry from Slovenia in the 2000's. Here is the Slovenian duo Platin, who have more of a happy story than this entry. There isn't much about them, but they did win the national final (EMA 2004), they did go to Istanbul to preform at ESC 2004, and they did place in the first official ESC semifinal. That's really all I got. Besides from Lečnik and Gomilšek's goat-y vocals (reminds me of Shakira), the song isn't all that memorable, finishing near last in that semifinal. This would kick off a three year NQ streak for Slovenia, and the country would never qualify to the Grand Finals three years in a row after this flop. On the bright side, the couple would get married a day later, with Sertab Erener(!) in attendance!
It's a bit ironic that the worst preforming song in the ESC history of Yugoslavia would be their last one with all of the countries still together. Tensions were already at a high when the country chose their song for ESC '91, as the winning entry from their national final, "Brazil" by Baby Doll aka Dragana Šarić, was selected. Croatia and Slovenia, who gave no points to the Serbian born performer, would split just weeks after Baby Doll's entry, setting the tumultuous scene for the 90's in the Balkans. But in the middle of all of that is a song that is remembered for its trashiness and its background dancers, especially the one with a purple "Brazil" shirt. This entry actually put a halt to recent good placements for Yugoslavia, as they were doing consistently well for 4 prior years, which includes an ESC win in '89. I didn't even think this song is that bad, as the beat and vibes are nice, it's really just the singing that falls flat. But is that singing "just getting 1 point from Malta" flat? I don't think so, but tell that to the juries.
Their second attempt wasn't as good as the first, but it was still pretty good! Serbia and Montenegro's ESC time was short, as only two entries made it to the Eurovision stage, but they sure were memorable! This entry was only the third time a Montenegrin performer would take the stage at ESC, with the band No Name winning the right to represent the Balkan country in Kyiv. This song is a balkan ballad done right, especially with the drums blaring in the background as the two lead vocalists, Marko Prentić and Danijel Alibabić harmonize pretty well. And for once, I don't have to talk about how poorly an act did, as their song and unique staging earned them douze points from Austria, Croatia, and Switzerland en route to 137 points and a top ten placement. No Name would go on to be in some controversy, as their 2006 entry for the country would be withdrawn due to allegations of tacical voting during the national final, and Serbia and Montenegro would split in 2007 into the countries you know of today. Because of how unique the situation was with Serbia and Montenegro, you'll probably never see another highly touted performance in the Worst Section, which really does showcase how much of an outlier S&M were in their short time.
Starting off this Best Years list with Slovenia's second ever entry in Eurovision, called "Prisluhni mi", preformed by Darja Švajger, who is perhaps one of the most popular Slovene singers ever. By 1995, she would have released 2 albums and would have tried to compete in this competition twice, with the first one being in 1993, where she finished second in Slovenia's preselection show. When she got the chance to compete in the grand final in 1995, her song was considered to be one of the favorites to win it all that year, alongside Norway's entry "Nocturne", whose musical melodies were the one to take the grand prize. So this placement/song might be seen as a disappointment considering the expectations, but I don't think anyone would say that after listening to it.
This song is pretty beautiful, as this power ballad is sung very well by Darja. It reminds me of Poland's entry a year earlier, which was also a power ballad sung by a woman. With power ballads, they typically have one job, and that is to make you appreciate the singer's voice, which I think this song does to a tee. I personally don't see this song as a winner, but considering that this is Slovenia's best placement (tied with 2001), I would take this to be a win for the nation! Darja would get other honors for her preformance that night, as this song would win "Song of The Year" in her home country. It would also place high in the charts in several countries, so at the end of the day, who was the real winner that night in Dublin? (It was still Norway)
And now we turn to our first winning entry, from a country that has a mixed history at the competition. Yugoslavia would first start competing in 1961, but they were seen as the outsiders of the competition, due to them being the only Eastern European country until Turkey joined in 1975. Their entries were more of an afterthought, as they only were in the top 5 once before 1980. That all changed with 1983, as "Džuli" (Џули), by Daniel got them their best points* total (125) and joint top finish of 4th. This would all culminate in a late 80's run, when the country was on the path of splitting up was when Yugoslavia put up five straight top seven finishes, including a win(!) thanks to Riva, a Croatian rock band that formed in 1986. Consisting of vocalist Emilija Kokić, Dalibor Musap, Nenad Nakić, Zvonimir Zrilić, Boško Colić and Aleksandra Kalafatović, the band would get their chance to showcase themselves as they got the right to preform in Lausanne, Switzerland for ESC '89.
This song is one of the forgotten winners of ESC, primarily because ESC '89 was a forgettable year in the contest. It doesn't help that three iconic shows ('88, '90, '91) surrounded this one, which is a shame since the voting actually was fairly close** between the top four of Yugoslavia, the UK, Denmark and Sweden. The song is fairly good as well, as I think it hits a good balance of being upbeat while being in control and not boring. Do I think it deserves to win? I think so. I don't know if any of the other three had good enough performances to justify taking this one away from Yugoslavia. And what a time to win it! The band would not reprise their song in 1990, and would split up when their country was, in 1991. This song oddly enough marks the end of an era, as the 90's would feel the ripple effects of '89's winner's collapse and the death of the Soviet Union, so in a way this song fits in to an odd place within the ESC history book. But this song does provide history for Croatia, as because it was the place of the birth of Riva, it would be Croatia to host Yugoslavia's ESC in 1990, the only time the country (Yugoslavia and Croatia) they would get the opportunity. This year Croatia has one of the highest odds to win the whole contest, so maybe this entry in a month's time will cease to be Croatia's best export to Eurovision (by ranking).
And now for one of the most iconic joke entries of all time, which is ironically their country's best placing to this day, despite some recent efforts. After not receieving a single point in '94, Lithuania would not compete again until '99, in which they would actually get some points (13), and a better placing (20). Two more entries would get them modest results until the semifinal was created in 2004, which resulted in two DNQ's in consecutive years. Then came LT United, a group who formed for the sole purpose of being in Eurovision. Led by six well known people in Lithuania, including one who had already participated in the contest in 2001 for the country. The group would completely sweep their national final, earning double the amount of second place to gain the right to represent in Athens '06. Prior to the contest, LT United refused to preform their song, requesting it to be pulled from radios and public airplay until after the Final. This song had its supporters and haters, with some seeing the song as "egotistical" and annoying. This would lead to some booing at their performance in the semifinals & Grand Final.
Now a song telling you that they are the winners of Eurovision before the end of the competition, along with lyrics about being heard everywhere, and to vote for them because they have already won, might rub some people the wrong way. Unfortunately I think some people might have missed the joke of the song, or thought that it was done in poor taste (that would be Iceland's entry from the same year). This song is fun, first and foremost, as it really is just a good time for around three minutes. That includes the infamous megaphone, and the even more infamous guitar solo, which includes one of the members dancing intensely to the beat. This entry may have been polarizing in the hall, most people outside of it liked the charm of the song, which gave them big points, especially from the UK and Ireland, who may have been inspired by LT United with some of their entries in the coming years. Finishing 6th with a song that earned boos in the hall is an impressive feat, that's usually Russia's job for some years. What's even more incredible than this is that to this day this is Lithuania's best preforming entry, doing 50 pts better than The Roop's performance in 2021. For a country that took a while to figure out what works for them at ESC, sending in something like this was a bold move, but it managed to pay off in many dividends.
Czechia's second stint at ESC has gone a lot better than its first. After not qualifying in their first year back (2015), they would go on to qualify for the Grand Final for the first time in 2016, and they would acheive their first top ten and best placing two years later in Lisbon, thanks to Mikolas Josef. Mikolas has had a fruitful carrer before ESC, as he comes from a family of musicians but focused more on modeling for international brands like Prada and Diesel. He cut his modeling carrer short however, as he did not agree with the practices in the buisness. He then turned to music, as he traveled all over Europe, trying to earn enough money to make a music video for his single "Hands Bloody" (him trying to wash his hands of the modeling industry). His second single, called "Free", would be more popular however, as that song would be the 4th played song in his home country. After recording another single, he would move to Vienna, where he would work with muti-award winning sound producer Nikodem Milewski. That work would culminate in the song "Lie To Me", which would win the Czech national final, and Mikolas would go from modeling to Eurovision (specifcally Lisbon).
"Lie To Me" is an interesting song. Mikolas was already approached to participate for his country with the song "My Turn", which he declined, and would be preformed by Martina Bárta. He rejected the song because he thought it wasn't his style, in favor for a song a little more his speed. That is certainly the case with this one. "My Turn" is more of a ballad than anything, very slow and methodical, while this song is a lot more upbeat, groovy, and danceable, which were all showcased by a memorable performance by Mr. Josef. It was one of the more notable stagings of the night, complete with Fortnite dancing, backpack slinging, and really a more lively tone than many other Czech performances in the past. This would help them cruise into the final, finishing 3rd in the 1st semifinal. On the night, it would finish 6th, by far Czechia's best placing (their next highest at the time was 25th). Mikolas would make a name for himself that night in Portugal, as the song is the most streamed Czech entry, which would lead to him making his own label, where he would release his first album, called "One", earlier this year.
Serbia and Montenegro came from the ashes of a crumbling state in Yugoslavia. This country used to be named FR Yugoslavia, and competed at ESC in 1992, but were subsequently banned from any form of competition until 2002, when sanctions were lifted after a messy decade long war raged through the Balkans. They couldn't take part in ESC 2003 due to too many countries, but they would get the chance to compete in 2004, and boy did they come in with a bang! Enter probably the most influential Balkan representative in Eurovision ever, in Željko Joksimović. Where to start with him! At 12, he would win the First Accordion of Europe Award at a music festival in Paris. He would graduate from the oldest university in Serbia, from there he would then launch his staggering musical career. He would achieve great success as by 2000, including a number 1 hit in Serbia, an award at the International Festival of Arts, and compositions for several theatre productions. Everything would change once he competed for the right to represent his country at ESC in 2004, winning that honor at Evropesma 2004, a music festival for Serbia and Montenegro.
This song is an all timer. It is one of the few ESC songs in the language rule-less era pre 2012 to transcend the language barrier in such a beautiful way while showcasing the best of that country's language. It's pure poetry in motion as this song focuses a lot on its buildup, which is tricky to do when you are only limited to three minutes per song. But it manages to to both build up the song while making the payoff worth it, as all the sections after in the song are so beautiful. This song is beautiful, simply put, whether its the flute melody, the violin solo, or his voice, which is also incredible. There really isn't anything I could point to and say that it is objectively bad, because there are no weak spots in this song. It does what many ESC winners do, which is hold your attention while telling its own story, which for this entry is about the age old ESC staple of love, or more specifically, getting over a love, trying to make sure he can't love his sweetheart anymore. After listening to this song, I can see why every participating country gave Željko points, and why he would get an award for Best Composer. What is the only shame about this song is that it would be the first song in ESC history to not win when scoring 200+ points (the second being Greece's entry from the same year), falling just short of Ruslana and Ukraine that night in Turkey.
Things couldn't have gone better for Željko after ESC 2004, as he would go on to compose Bosnia and Herzegovina's best preforming entry in 2006, win another contest in 2007, host ESC 2008 in Serbia after "Molitva", which many people say has inspiration in Željko's brand of music, won in 2007, compose a song that would preform in that year's contest (Greece 2008) and finish 6th, represent Serbia in Baku in 2012, finish 3rd in that competition, and then compose Montenegro's best preforming song in 2015. Not to mention that he would marry his cohost for the contest in 2008, Jovanna Janković, in 2012. The influence of Željko Joksimović in Eurovision for not only his country but for future Balkan entries cannot be said enough, as he changed everything for his region with his fateful performance in 2004.
** This song is one of the Top 50 ESC entries since 1975.
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The Countries
| Placement | Country | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 38 | Lithuania | 52672.429 |
| 39 | Yugoslavia | 51841.658 |
| 40 | Serbia and Montenegro | 38085.817 |
| 41 | Slovenia | 35376.481 |
| 42 | Czechia | 34949.934 |
Some Notable Artists:
Worst Entries
Lithuania 1994 Ovidijus Vyšniauskas - Lopšinė mylimai
Contest Ranking: 25th (0 pts) My Ranking: 25th (-2.4)The first entry that we will be looking at today would set many feats for Lithuania. First, it would be their first ever try at ESC, coming in the single largest expansion of the contest since the beginning. Second, it would be preformed by Ovidijus Vyšniauskas, called the Lithuanian "Joe Cocker", who would go on to release several hits that would be sung by popular Lithuanian musicians. Third, this song would be sung in Lithuanian, a first for the contest and to this day the first of only three* times it would be fully** used. Fourth, it would go on to join ESC infamy, not gaining a single point on the night in Dublin, only one of about 40 songs to do so. Fifth, this result was so bad that the country wouldn't return until 1999, even though they were only relegated for a single year.
2024's entry will be sung in Lithuanian *2001's entry has lyrics in Lithuanian, so I said fully to distinguish the two.
Czechia 2009 Gipsy.cz - Aven Romale
Contest Ranking: DNQ (18th 1st Semifinal) My Ranking: 42nd (-2)Would you look at that, another one for the zero point club! Yeah Czechia's start to ESC was not the most pretty, not qualifying with any of their first three attempts, while gaining scores of one (1), nine (9), and zero (0) in the process. This mantel would be held by Gipsy.cz, a Czech Romanai group known for their pop, rap, hip-hop, and traditional Roma music. The group already tried to represent the country twice in the prior two years, but were denied twice at the national final. They finally triumphed in 2009, as they were internally selected to compete alongside their song, Aven Romale. I didn't know what to expect but this song is actually fun! Radoslav "Gipsy" Banga was the highlight, wearing a red costume with a crest in the middle. The song feels like one that would be sung at a musical, sort of like a character origin story, but it has a charm like that. It's a shame that no one thought the same, and it's even more of a shame that this song would be it for Czechia until 2015.
Slovenia 2004 Platin - Stay Forever
Contest Ranking: DNQ (21st Semifinal) My Ranking: 35th (.407)Keeping the NQ's rolling, here is an entry from Slovenia in the 2000's. Here is the Slovenian duo Platin, who have more of a happy story than this entry. There isn't much about them, but they did win the national final (EMA 2004), they did go to Istanbul to preform at ESC 2004, and they did place in the first official ESC semifinal. That's really all I got. Besides from Lečnik and Gomilšek's goat-y vocals (reminds me of Shakira), the song isn't all that memorable, finishing near last in that semifinal. This would kick off a three year NQ streak for Slovenia, and the country would never qualify to the Grand Finals three years in a row after this flop. On the bright side, the couple would get married a day later, with Sertab Erener(!) in attendance!
Yugoslavia 1991 Baby Doll - Brazil (Бразил)
Contest Ranking: 21st (1 pt) My Ranking: 21st (.48)It's a bit ironic that the worst preforming song in the ESC history of Yugoslavia would be their last one with all of the countries still together. Tensions were already at a high when the country chose their song for ESC '91, as the winning entry from their national final, "Brazil" by Baby Doll aka Dragana Šarić, was selected. Croatia and Slovenia, who gave no points to the Serbian born performer, would split just weeks after Baby Doll's entry, setting the tumultuous scene for the 90's in the Balkans. But in the middle of all of that is a song that is remembered for its trashiness and its background dancers, especially the one with a purple "Brazil" shirt. This entry actually put a halt to recent good placements for Yugoslavia, as they were doing consistently well for 4 prior years, which includes an ESC win in '89. I didn't even think this song is that bad, as the beat and vibes are nice, it's really just the singing that falls flat. But is that singing "just getting 1 point from Malta" flat? I don't think so, but tell that to the juries.
Serbia and Montenegro 2005 No Name - Zauvijek moja (Заувијек моја)
Contest Ranking: 7th (137 pts) My Ranking: 8th (190.007)Their second attempt wasn't as good as the first, but it was still pretty good! Serbia and Montenegro's ESC time was short, as only two entries made it to the Eurovision stage, but they sure were memorable! This entry was only the third time a Montenegrin performer would take the stage at ESC, with the band No Name winning the right to represent the Balkan country in Kyiv. This song is a balkan ballad done right, especially with the drums blaring in the background as the two lead vocalists, Marko Prentić and Danijel Alibabić harmonize pretty well. And for once, I don't have to talk about how poorly an act did, as their song and unique staging earned them douze points from Austria, Croatia, and Switzerland en route to 137 points and a top ten placement. No Name would go on to be in some controversy, as their 2006 entry for the country would be withdrawn due to allegations of tacical voting during the national final, and Serbia and Montenegro would split in 2007 into the countries you know of today. Because of how unique the situation was with Serbia and Montenegro, you'll probably never see another highly touted performance in the Worst Section, which really does showcase how much of an outlier S&M were in their short time.
Best Years
Slovenia 1995 Darja Švajger - Prisluhni mi
Contest Ranking: 7th (84 pts) My Ranking: 5th (147.418)Starting off this Best Years list with Slovenia's second ever entry in Eurovision, called "Prisluhni mi", preformed by Darja Švajger, who is perhaps one of the most popular Slovene singers ever. By 1995, she would have released 2 albums and would have tried to compete in this competition twice, with the first one being in 1993, where she finished second in Slovenia's preselection show. When she got the chance to compete in the grand final in 1995, her song was considered to be one of the favorites to win it all that year, alongside Norway's entry "Nocturne", whose musical melodies were the one to take the grand prize. So this placement/song might be seen as a disappointment considering the expectations, but I don't think anyone would say that after listening to it.
This song is pretty beautiful, as this power ballad is sung very well by Darja. It reminds me of Poland's entry a year earlier, which was also a power ballad sung by a woman. With power ballads, they typically have one job, and that is to make you appreciate the singer's voice, which I think this song does to a tee. I personally don't see this song as a winner, but considering that this is Slovenia's best placement (tied with 2001), I would take this to be a win for the nation! Darja would get other honors for her preformance that night, as this song would win "Song of The Year" in her home country. It would also place high in the charts in several countries, so at the end of the day, who was the real winner that night in Dublin? (It was still Norway)
Yugoslavia 1989 Riva - Rock Me
Contest Ranking: 1st (137 pts) My Ranking: 1st (269.265)And now we turn to our first winning entry, from a country that has a mixed history at the competition. Yugoslavia would first start competing in 1961, but they were seen as the outsiders of the competition, due to them being the only Eastern European country until Turkey joined in 1975. Their entries were more of an afterthought, as they only were in the top 5 once before 1980. That all changed with 1983, as "Džuli" (Џули), by Daniel got them their best points* total (125) and joint top finish of 4th. This would all culminate in a late 80's run, when the country was on the path of splitting up was when Yugoslavia put up five straight top seven finishes, including a win(!) thanks to Riva, a Croatian rock band that formed in 1986. Consisting of vocalist Emilija Kokić, Dalibor Musap, Nenad Nakić, Zvonimir Zrilić, Boško Colić and Aleksandra Kalafatović, the band would get their chance to showcase themselves as they got the right to preform in Lausanne, Switzerland for ESC '89.
This song is one of the forgotten winners of ESC, primarily because ESC '89 was a forgettable year in the contest. It doesn't help that three iconic shows ('88, '90, '91) surrounded this one, which is a shame since the voting actually was fairly close** between the top four of Yugoslavia, the UK, Denmark and Sweden. The song is fairly good as well, as I think it hits a good balance of being upbeat while being in control and not boring. Do I think it deserves to win? I think so. I don't know if any of the other three had good enough performances to justify taking this one away from Yugoslavia. And what a time to win it! The band would not reprise their song in 1990, and would split up when their country was, in 1991. This song oddly enough marks the end of an era, as the 90's would feel the ripple effects of '89's winner's collapse and the death of the Soviet Union, so in a way this song fits in to an odd place within the ESC history book. But this song does provide history for Croatia, as because it was the place of the birth of Riva, it would be Croatia to host Yugoslavia's ESC in 1990, the only time the country (Yugoslavia and Croatia) they would get the opportunity. This year Croatia has one of the highest odds to win the whole contest, so maybe this entry in a month's time will cease to be Croatia's best export to Eurovision (by ranking).
- Context does have to be applied here. There were only like 7 years previously where they could have achieved a high points score like that one.
Lithuania 2006 LT United - We Are the Winners
Contest Ranking: 6th (162 pts) My Ranking: 6th (304.551)And now for one of the most iconic joke entries of all time, which is ironically their country's best placing to this day, despite some recent efforts. After not receieving a single point in '94, Lithuania would not compete again until '99, in which they would actually get some points (13), and a better placing (20). Two more entries would get them modest results until the semifinal was created in 2004, which resulted in two DNQ's in consecutive years. Then came LT United, a group who formed for the sole purpose of being in Eurovision. Led by six well known people in Lithuania, including one who had already participated in the contest in 2001 for the country. The group would completely sweep their national final, earning double the amount of second place to gain the right to represent in Athens '06. Prior to the contest, LT United refused to preform their song, requesting it to be pulled from radios and public airplay until after the Final. This song had its supporters and haters, with some seeing the song as "egotistical" and annoying. This would lead to some booing at their performance in the semifinals & Grand Final.
Now a song telling you that they are the winners of Eurovision before the end of the competition, along with lyrics about being heard everywhere, and to vote for them because they have already won, might rub some people the wrong way. Unfortunately I think some people might have missed the joke of the song, or thought that it was done in poor taste (that would be Iceland's entry from the same year). This song is fun, first and foremost, as it really is just a good time for around three minutes. That includes the infamous megaphone, and the even more infamous guitar solo, which includes one of the members dancing intensely to the beat. This entry may have been polarizing in the hall, most people outside of it liked the charm of the song, which gave them big points, especially from the UK and Ireland, who may have been inspired by LT United with some of their entries in the coming years. Finishing 6th with a song that earned boos in the hall is an impressive feat, that's usually Russia's job for some years. What's even more incredible than this is that to this day this is Lithuania's best preforming entry, doing 50 pts better than The Roop's performance in 2021. For a country that took a while to figure out what works for them at ESC, sending in something like this was a bold move, but it managed to pay off in many dividends.
Czechia 2018 Mikolas Josef - Lie to Me
Contest Ranking: 6th (281 pts) My Ranking: 6th (361.559*)Czechia's second stint at ESC has gone a lot better than its first. After not qualifying in their first year back (2015), they would go on to qualify for the Grand Final for the first time in 2016, and they would acheive their first top ten and best placing two years later in Lisbon, thanks to Mikolas Josef. Mikolas has had a fruitful carrer before ESC, as he comes from a family of musicians but focused more on modeling for international brands like Prada and Diesel. He cut his modeling carrer short however, as he did not agree with the practices in the buisness. He then turned to music, as he traveled all over Europe, trying to earn enough money to make a music video for his single "Hands Bloody" (him trying to wash his hands of the modeling industry). His second single, called "Free", would be more popular however, as that song would be the 4th played song in his home country. After recording another single, he would move to Vienna, where he would work with muti-award winning sound producer Nikodem Milewski. That work would culminate in the song "Lie To Me", which would win the Czech national final, and Mikolas would go from modeling to Eurovision (specifcally Lisbon).
"Lie To Me" is an interesting song. Mikolas was already approached to participate for his country with the song "My Turn", which he declined, and would be preformed by Martina Bárta. He rejected the song because he thought it wasn't his style, in favor for a song a little more his speed. That is certainly the case with this one. "My Turn" is more of a ballad than anything, very slow and methodical, while this song is a lot more upbeat, groovy, and danceable, which were all showcased by a memorable performance by Mr. Josef. It was one of the more notable stagings of the night, complete with Fortnite dancing, backpack slinging, and really a more lively tone than many other Czech performances in the past. This would help them cruise into the final, finishing 3rd in the 1st semifinal. On the night, it would finish 6th, by far Czechia's best placing (their next highest at the time was 25th). Mikolas would make a name for himself that night in Portugal, as the song is the most streamed Czech entry, which would lead to him making his own label, where he would release his first album, called "One", earlier this year.
- This song is ranked 87th of all songs since 1975. And because I forgot to add this to their entry, North Macedonia 2019 is ranked 59th of all songs since 1975.
Serbia and Montenegro 2004 Željko Joksimović and Ad-Hoc Orchestra - Lane moje (Лане моје)
Contest Ranking: 2nd (263 pts) My Ranking: 2nd (607.406**)Serbia and Montenegro came from the ashes of a crumbling state in Yugoslavia. This country used to be named FR Yugoslavia, and competed at ESC in 1992, but were subsequently banned from any form of competition until 2002, when sanctions were lifted after a messy decade long war raged through the Balkans. They couldn't take part in ESC 2003 due to too many countries, but they would get the chance to compete in 2004, and boy did they come in with a bang! Enter probably the most influential Balkan representative in Eurovision ever, in Željko Joksimović. Where to start with him! At 12, he would win the First Accordion of Europe Award at a music festival in Paris. He would graduate from the oldest university in Serbia, from there he would then launch his staggering musical career. He would achieve great success as by 2000, including a number 1 hit in Serbia, an award at the International Festival of Arts, and compositions for several theatre productions. Everything would change once he competed for the right to represent his country at ESC in 2004, winning that honor at Evropesma 2004, a music festival for Serbia and Montenegro.
This song is an all timer. It is one of the few ESC songs in the language rule-less era pre 2012 to transcend the language barrier in such a beautiful way while showcasing the best of that country's language. It's pure poetry in motion as this song focuses a lot on its buildup, which is tricky to do when you are only limited to three minutes per song. But it manages to to both build up the song while making the payoff worth it, as all the sections after in the song are so beautiful. This song is beautiful, simply put, whether its the flute melody, the violin solo, or his voice, which is also incredible. There really isn't anything I could point to and say that it is objectively bad, because there are no weak spots in this song. It does what many ESC winners do, which is hold your attention while telling its own story, which for this entry is about the age old ESC staple of love, or more specifically, getting over a love, trying to make sure he can't love his sweetheart anymore. After listening to this song, I can see why every participating country gave Željko points, and why he would get an award for Best Composer. What is the only shame about this song is that it would be the first song in ESC history to not win when scoring 200+ points (the second being Greece's entry from the same year), falling just short of Ruslana and Ukraine that night in Turkey.
Things couldn't have gone better for Željko after ESC 2004, as he would go on to compose Bosnia and Herzegovina's best preforming entry in 2006, win another contest in 2007, host ESC 2008 in Serbia after "Molitva", which many people say has inspiration in Željko's brand of music, won in 2007, compose a song that would preform in that year's contest (Greece 2008) and finish 6th, represent Serbia in Baku in 2012, finish 3rd in that competition, and then compose Montenegro's best preforming song in 2015. Not to mention that he would marry his cohost for the contest in 2008, Jovanna Janković, in 2012. The influence of Željko Joksimović in Eurovision for not only his country but for future Balkan entries cannot be said enough, as he changed everything for his region with his fateful performance in 2004.
** This song is one of the Top 50 ESC entries since 1975.
Final Thoughts
Which one of these songs is your favorite (Lane moje is mine)? Do you think that the countries that still are competing will surpass their record (I think all three are on the up and up, so they will eventually)? Do you think Serbia and Montenegro should be this high (I know they are a big outlier, but I think that this is an appropriate place for them)?2024.02.22 19:28 Shadsea [Online][EST][WoD] Behind Closed Doors - A V5 game about a bunch of yuppies who are actually Sabbat Vampires (Thursdays at 5pm EST)
“I hate to complain—I really do—about the trash, the garbage, the disease, about how filthy this city really is and you know and I know that it is a sty.…” He continues talking as he opens his new Tumi calfskin attaché case he bought at D. F. Sanders. He places the Walkman in the case alongside a Panasonic wallet-size cordless portable folding Easa-phone (he used to own the NEC 9000 Porta portable and pulls out today’s newspaper. “In one issue—in one issue—let’s see here … strangled models, babies thrown from tenement rooftops, kids killed in the subway, a Communist rally, Mafia boss wiped out, Nazis”—he flips through the pages excitedly —“baseball players with AIDS, more Mafia shit, gridlock, the homeless, various maniacs, gays dropping like flies in the streets, surrogate mothers, the cancellation of a soap opera, kids who broke into a zoo and tortured and burned various animals alive, more Nazis… and the joke is, the punch line is, it’s all in this city—nowhere else, just here, it sucks, whoa wait, more Nazis, gridlock, gridlock, babysellers, black-market babies, AIDS babies, baby junkies, building collapses on baby, maniac baby, gridlock, bridge collapses—” His voice stops, he takes in a breath and then quietly says, his eyes fixed on a beggar at the corner of Second and Fifth, “That’s the twenty fourth one I’ve seen today. I’ve kept count;”
The Premise
During the 80s, as ever, New York is the vital beating heart of the country… but the blood that runs through it is cold and predatory. The year is 1987 and the PCs are a sabbat pack who have taken up the disguise of a legitimate business and as yuppies but behind closed doors they plan, scheme, and do vile acts against those lesser than them. This isn’t your average Sabbat game, this is a Sabbat game that takes cues from the “Dark Camarilla” version of them.
While the PCs are busy working there have been rumbles and grumbles of something interesting... A big Blood Feast hosted by Archbishop Catherine the Wise herself. Time to gossip and cut loose.
What is this?
Behind Closed Doors is a game of Vampire the Masquerade 5th Edition that follows a Sabbat Pack in 1980s NYC. Taking cues from American Psycho, King of New York, The Hunger, Sopranos, and other stories to portray what it’s like to play in a settled Sabbat city instead of their nomadic style. This game is a product of 4 years of playing and running VtM so I have a lot of things to say.
The concept for this game is simple. It is 1987, the PCs are a bunch of Sabbat Vampires, the PCs run a company, and they get into Drama. Simple, right? Well heres the problem: Sabbat are hard to run in the same way most “Villain Games” are hard to run. You usually end up with a dog shit group and the game burns out the moment you try to give out consequences such as hunters or federal agents snooping around. Each time a GM presents a Sabbat game you usually hear two or three voices from the crowd:
The aim is here is to mimic something similar to those “Sex and Violence” TV Dramas of the 90s-2000s but with 80s Vampires. Winning and losing is all relative to the PCs Moralities and Views. Every good action comes with a bad action and vice versa. The aim of the characters isn’t out and out to kill and diablerize anyone in the way. The aim of the characters is to keep up some sign of forward momentum by any means necessary while other PCs and NPCs either hinder or help. Our aim is to explore these psychopaths and show that they aren’t so different to us before eventually they are punished for their sins.
The tone is easy to see. The tone is to do a dramatic and political sabbat game instead of a “Lets crash a truck filled with Dynamite into an Anarch Barons house” type game. It’s dark, sensual, neon-lit, elegant, and violent. This is a dark and brooding game after all where combat can happen but I don’t expect it to happen a lot. Instead a lot of it is scheming, long term actions, and threats. Humor exists but it’s black comedy. Stuff that comes from hyperviolence and dark subject matter. This isn’t a comedy campaign after all but I will accept moments of black comedy, as a treat. Like the only jokes that would show up are something like the “I shot marvin in the face!” scene from Pulp Fiction or the Buisness Card scene from American Psycho. A moment of pure stupidity being taken seriously when in reality what is going on is really ridiculous. But over all the vibe should ideally be something like American Psycho or King in New York. A game about greed, sins, and violence in the darker side of the 80s.
Subject Matter for this game varies based on what happens and how things go but we can make some rough estimates, no? Murder, Cannibalism, Body Horror, Dark Sexual Themes and Erotic Sensualism, Foul Language, Blasphemy, and more things have a possibility coming up across the game.
The Important Stuff:
https://forms.gle/UMdR3Cr9CYoijm7Y6
If the link doesn't work do ask me.
submitted by Shadsea to lfg [link] [comments]
The Premise
During the 80s, as ever, New York is the vital beating heart of the country… but the blood that runs through it is cold and predatory. The year is 1987 and the PCs are a sabbat pack who have taken up the disguise of a legitimate business and as yuppies but behind closed doors they plan, scheme, and do vile acts against those lesser than them. This isn’t your average Sabbat game, this is a Sabbat game that takes cues from the “Dark Camarilla” version of them.
While the PCs are busy working there have been rumbles and grumbles of something interesting... A big Blood Feast hosted by Archbishop Catherine the Wise herself. Time to gossip and cut loose.
What is this?
Behind Closed Doors is a game of Vampire the Masquerade 5th Edition that follows a Sabbat Pack in 1980s NYC. Taking cues from American Psycho, King of New York, The Hunger, Sopranos, and other stories to portray what it’s like to play in a settled Sabbat city instead of their nomadic style. This game is a product of 4 years of playing and running VtM so I have a lot of things to say.
The concept for this game is simple. It is 1987, the PCs are a bunch of Sabbat Vampires, the PCs run a company, and they get into Drama. Simple, right? Well heres the problem: Sabbat are hard to run in the same way most “Villain Games” are hard to run. You usually end up with a dog shit group and the game burns out the moment you try to give out consequences such as hunters or federal agents snooping around. Each time a GM presents a Sabbat game you usually hear two or three voices from the crowd:
- “I don’t want to play the bad guy! I want to fight the bad guy! I want to save the world!!”
- “Sweet! I wanna play an Assamite antitribu on the Path of Kill-Every-Fucking-Person-I-Meet! I get to play the Bad Guy!"
- "Haha this game is gonna be so fucking funny and so silly! I can't wait to kidnap a werewolf!"
The aim is here is to mimic something similar to those “Sex and Violence” TV Dramas of the 90s-2000s but with 80s Vampires. Winning and losing is all relative to the PCs Moralities and Views. Every good action comes with a bad action and vice versa. The aim of the characters isn’t out and out to kill and diablerize anyone in the way. The aim of the characters is to keep up some sign of forward momentum by any means necessary while other PCs and NPCs either hinder or help. Our aim is to explore these psychopaths and show that they aren’t so different to us before eventually they are punished for their sins.
The tone is easy to see. The tone is to do a dramatic and political sabbat game instead of a “Lets crash a truck filled with Dynamite into an Anarch Barons house” type game. It’s dark, sensual, neon-lit, elegant, and violent. This is a dark and brooding game after all where combat can happen but I don’t expect it to happen a lot. Instead a lot of it is scheming, long term actions, and threats. Humor exists but it’s black comedy. Stuff that comes from hyperviolence and dark subject matter. This isn’t a comedy campaign after all but I will accept moments of black comedy, as a treat. Like the only jokes that would show up are something like the “I shot marvin in the face!” scene from Pulp Fiction or the Buisness Card scene from American Psycho. A moment of pure stupidity being taken seriously when in reality what is going on is really ridiculous. But over all the vibe should ideally be something like American Psycho or King in New York. A game about greed, sins, and violence in the darker side of the 80s.
Subject Matter for this game varies based on what happens and how things go but we can make some rough estimates, no? Murder, Cannibalism, Body Horror, Dark Sexual Themes and Erotic Sensualism, Foul Language, Blasphemy, and more things have a possibility coming up across the game.
The Important Stuff:
- This is a VtM 5th Edition game, not any other game or version of Vampire.
- This game runs on Thursdays at 5pm EST to 8pm EST. This means that Session 0 will be on March the 14th and Session 1 will probably be on March the 21st.
- This is a Voice Game. We are playing over voice on Discord with a Roll20 for sheets and a dicebot for dice.
- New players are welcome but this will be a bit more intense.
https://forms.gle/UMdR3Cr9CYoijm7Y6
If the link doesn't work do ask me.
2024.02.22 19:28 Shadsea [Online][EST][WoD] Behind Closed Doors - A V5 game about a bunch of yuppies who are actually Sabbat Vampires (Thursdays at 5pm EST)
“I hate to complain—I really do—about the trash, the garbage, the disease, about how filthy this city really is and you know and I know that it is a sty.…” He continues talking as he opens his new Tumi calfskin attaché case he bought at D. F. Sanders. He places the Walkman in the case alongside a Panasonic wallet-size cordless portable folding Easa-phone (he used to own the NEC 9000 Porta portable and pulls out today’s newspaper. “In one issue—in one issue—let’s see here … strangled models, babies thrown from tenement rooftops, kids killed in the subway, a Communist rally, Mafia boss wiped out, Nazis”—he flips through the pages excitedly —“baseball players with AIDS, more Mafia shit, gridlock, the homeless, various maniacs, gays dropping like flies in the streets, surrogate mothers, the cancellation of a soap opera, kids who broke into a zoo and tortured and burned various animals alive, more Nazis… and the joke is, the punch line is, it’s all in this city—nowhere else, just here, it sucks, whoa wait, more Nazis, gridlock, gridlock, babysellers, black-market babies, AIDS babies, baby junkies, building collapses on baby, maniac baby, gridlock, bridge collapses—” His voice stops, he takes in a breath and then quietly says, his eyes fixed on a beggar at the corner of Second and Fifth, “That’s the twenty fourth one I’ve seen today. I’ve kept count;”
The Premise
During the 80s, as ever, New York is the vital beating heart of the country… but the blood that runs through it is cold and predatory. The year is 1987 and the PCs are a sabbat pack who have taken up the disguise of a legitimate business and as yuppies but behind closed doors they plan, scheme, and do vile acts against those lesser than them. This isn’t your average Sabbat game, this is a Sabbat game that takes cues from the “Dark Camarilla” version of them.
While the PCs are busy working there have been rumbles and grumbles of something interesting... A big Blood Feast hosted by Archbishop Catherine the Wise herself. Time to gossip and cut loose.
What is this?
Behind Closed Doors is a game of Vampire the Masquerade 5th Edition that follows a Sabbat Pack in 1980s NYC. Taking cues from American Psycho, King of New York, The Hunger, Sopranos, and other stories to portray what it’s like to play in a settled Sabbat city instead of their nomadic style. This game is a product of 4 years of playing and running VtM so I have a lot of things to say.
The concept for this game is simple. It is 1987, the PCs are a bunch of Sabbat Vampires, the PCs run a company, and they get into Drama. Simple, right? Well heres the problem: Sabbat are hard to run in the same way most “Villain Games” are hard to run. You usually end up with a dog shit group and the game burns out the moment you try to give out consequences such as hunters or federal agents snooping around. Each time a GM presents a Sabbat game you usually hear two or three voices from the crowd:
The aim is here is to mimic something similar to those “Sex and Violence” TV Dramas of the 90s-2000s but with 80s Vampires. Winning and losing is all relative to the PCs Moralities and Views. Every good action comes with a bad action and vice versa. The aim of the characters isn’t out and out to kill and diablerize anyone in the way. The aim of the characters is to keep up some sign of forward momentum by any means necessary while other PCs and NPCs either hinder or help. Our aim is to explore these psychopaths and show that they aren’t so different to us before eventually they are punished for their sins.
The tone is easy to see. The tone is to do a dramatic and political sabbat game instead of a “Lets crash a truck filled with Dynamite into an Anarch Barons house” type game. It’s dark, sensual, neon-lit, elegant, and violent. This is a dark and brooding game after all where combat can happen but I don’t expect it to happen a lot. Instead a lot of it is scheming, long term actions, and threats. Humor exists but it’s black comedy. Stuff that comes from hyperviolence and dark subject matter. This isn’t a comedy campaign after all but I will accept moments of black comedy, as a treat. Like the only jokes that would show up are something like the “I shot marvin in the face!” scene from Pulp Fiction or the Buisness Card scene from American Psycho. A moment of pure stupidity being taken seriously when in reality what is going on is really ridiculous. But over all the vibe should ideally be something like American Psycho or King in New York. A game about greed, sins, and violence in the darker side of the 80s.
Subject Matter for this game varies based on what happens and how things go but we can make some rough estimates, no? Murder, Cannibalism, Body Horror, Dark Sexual Themes and Erotic Sensualism, Foul Language, Blasphemy, and more things have a possibility coming up across the game.
The Important Stuff:
https://forms.gle/UMdR3Cr9CYoijm7Y6
If the link doesn't work do ask me.
submitted by Shadsea to lfgmisc [link] [comments]
The Premise
During the 80s, as ever, New York is the vital beating heart of the country… but the blood that runs through it is cold and predatory. The year is 1987 and the PCs are a sabbat pack who have taken up the disguise of a legitimate business and as yuppies but behind closed doors they plan, scheme, and do vile acts against those lesser than them. This isn’t your average Sabbat game, this is a Sabbat game that takes cues from the “Dark Camarilla” version of them.
While the PCs are busy working there have been rumbles and grumbles of something interesting... A big Blood Feast hosted by Archbishop Catherine the Wise herself. Time to gossip and cut loose.
What is this?
Behind Closed Doors is a game of Vampire the Masquerade 5th Edition that follows a Sabbat Pack in 1980s NYC. Taking cues from American Psycho, King of New York, The Hunger, Sopranos, and other stories to portray what it’s like to play in a settled Sabbat city instead of their nomadic style. This game is a product of 4 years of playing and running VtM so I have a lot of things to say.
The concept for this game is simple. It is 1987, the PCs are a bunch of Sabbat Vampires, the PCs run a company, and they get into Drama. Simple, right? Well heres the problem: Sabbat are hard to run in the same way most “Villain Games” are hard to run. You usually end up with a dog shit group and the game burns out the moment you try to give out consequences such as hunters or federal agents snooping around. Each time a GM presents a Sabbat game you usually hear two or three voices from the crowd:
- “I don’t want to play the bad guy! I want to fight the bad guy! I want to save the world!!”
- “Sweet! I wanna play an Assamite antitribu on the Path of Kill-Every-Fucking-Person-I-Meet! I get to play the Bad Guy!"
- "Haha this game is gonna be so fucking funny and so silly! I can't wait to kidnap a werewolf!"
The aim is here is to mimic something similar to those “Sex and Violence” TV Dramas of the 90s-2000s but with 80s Vampires. Winning and losing is all relative to the PCs Moralities and Views. Every good action comes with a bad action and vice versa. The aim of the characters isn’t out and out to kill and diablerize anyone in the way. The aim of the characters is to keep up some sign of forward momentum by any means necessary while other PCs and NPCs either hinder or help. Our aim is to explore these psychopaths and show that they aren’t so different to us before eventually they are punished for their sins.
The tone is easy to see. The tone is to do a dramatic and political sabbat game instead of a “Lets crash a truck filled with Dynamite into an Anarch Barons house” type game. It’s dark, sensual, neon-lit, elegant, and violent. This is a dark and brooding game after all where combat can happen but I don’t expect it to happen a lot. Instead a lot of it is scheming, long term actions, and threats. Humor exists but it’s black comedy. Stuff that comes from hyperviolence and dark subject matter. This isn’t a comedy campaign after all but I will accept moments of black comedy, as a treat. Like the only jokes that would show up are something like the “I shot marvin in the face!” scene from Pulp Fiction or the Buisness Card scene from American Psycho. A moment of pure stupidity being taken seriously when in reality what is going on is really ridiculous. But over all the vibe should ideally be something like American Psycho or King in New York. A game about greed, sins, and violence in the darker side of the 80s.
Subject Matter for this game varies based on what happens and how things go but we can make some rough estimates, no? Murder, Cannibalism, Body Horror, Dark Sexual Themes and Erotic Sensualism, Foul Language, Blasphemy, and more things have a possibility coming up across the game.
The Important Stuff:
- This is a VtM 5th Edition game, not any other game or version of Vampire.
- This game runs on Thursdays at 5pm EST to 8pm EST. This means that Session 0 will be on March the 14th and Session 1 will probably be on March the 21st.
- This is a Voice Game. We are playing over voice on Discord with a Roll20 for sheets and a dicebot for dice.
- New players are welcome but this will be a bit more intense.
https://forms.gle/UMdR3Cr9CYoijm7Y6
If the link doesn't work do ask me.
2024.02.21 20:44 Shadsea [Online][EST][WoD] Behind Closed Doors - A V5 game about a bunch of yuppies who are actually Sabbat Vampires (Thursdays at 5pm EST)
“I hate to complain—I really do—about the trash, the garbage, the disease, about how filthy this city really is and you know and I know that it is a sty.…” He continues talking as he opens his new Tumi calfskin attaché case he bought at D. F. Sanders. He places the Walkman in the case alongside a Panasonic wallet-size cordless portable folding Easa-phone (he used to own the NEC 9000 Porta portable and pulls out today’s newspaper. “In one issue—in one issue—let’s see here … strangled models, babies thrown from tenement rooftops, kids killed in the subway, a Communist rally, Mafia boss wiped out, Nazis”—he flips through the pages excitedly —“baseball players with AIDS, more Mafia shit, gridlock, the homeless, various maniacs, gays dropping like flies in the streets, surrogate mothers, the cancellation of a soap opera, kids who broke into a zoo and tortured and burned various animals alive, more Nazis… and the joke is, the punch line is, it’s all in this city—nowhere else, just here, it sucks, whoa wait, more Nazis, gridlock, gridlock, babysellers, black-market babies, AIDS babies, baby junkies, building collapses on baby, maniac baby, gridlock, bridge collapses—” His voice stops, he takes in a breath and then quietly says, his eyes fixed on a beggar at the corner of Second and Fifth, “That’s the twenty fourth one I’ve seen today. I’ve kept count;”
The Premise
During the 80s, as ever, New York is the vital beating heart of the country… but the blood that runs through it is cold and predatory. The year is 1987 and the PCs are a sabbat pack who have taken up the disguise of a legitimate business and as yuppies but behind closed doors they plan, scheme, and do vile acts against those lesser than them. This isn’t your average Sabbat game, this is a Sabbat game that takes cues from the “Dark Camarilla” version of them.
While the PCs are busy working there have been rumbles and grumbles of something interesting... A big Blood Feast hosted by Archbishop Catherine the Wise herself. Time to gossip and cut loose.
What is this?
Behind Closed Doors is a game of Vampire the Masquerade 5th Edition that follows a Sabbat Pack in 1980s NYC. Taking cues from American Psycho, King of New York, The Hunger, Sopranos, and other stories to portray what it’s like to play in a settled Sabbat city instead of their nomadic style. This game is a product of 4 years of playing and running VtM so I have a lot of things to say.
The concept for this game is simple. It is 1987, the PCs are a bunch of Sabbat Vampires, the PCs run a company, and they get into Drama. Simple, right? Well heres the problem: Sabbat are hard to run in the same way most “Villain Games” are hard to run. You usually end up with a dog shit group and the game burns out the moment you try to give out consequences such as hunters or federal agents snooping around. Each time a GM presents a Sabbat game you usually hear two or three voices from the crowd:
1. “I don’t want to play the bad guy! I want to fight the bad guy! I want to save the world!!” 2. “Sweet! I wanna play an Assamite antitribu on the Path of Kill-Every-Fucking-Person-I-Meet! I get to play the Bad Guy!” 3. "Haha this game is gonna be so fucking funny and so silly! I can't wait to kidnap a werewolf!"
And I want to silence both of those voices. My concept for the game requires PCs to be more nuanced. This is less black and white and more explorative towards the shades of grey. Yeah you aren’t awful but you know other people who are worse than you. You aren’t the bad guy, you aren’t the good guy… You are more the Tony Soprano or Don Draper. The selfish yuppie asshole trying to maximize getting blood and money. You aren’t Jason Voorhees, You are Tony Montana. You just want to further your business. Your clout. This game, at the end of the day, is more of a prime time soap opera then DnD. So remember that. It being more of a Prime Time Soap Opera is why I picked V5. I have had fucking awful experiences with V20 because V20 is a system that hasn’t changed save for a few disciplines or skills being swapped out. It doesn’t incentivize drama and all that. Meanwhile V5 does.
The aim is here is to mimic something similar to those “Sex and Violence” TV Dramas of the 90s-2000s but with 80s Vampires. Winning and losing is all relative to the PCs Moralities and Views. Every good action comes with a bad action and vice versa. The aim of the characters isn’t out and out to kill and diablerize anyone in the way. The aim of the characters is to keep up some sign of forward momentum by any means necessary while other PCs and NPCs either hinder or help. Our aim is to explore these psychopaths and show that they aren’t so different to us before eventually they are punished for their sins.
The tone is easy to see. The tone is to do a dramatic and political sabbat game instead of a “Lets crash a truck filled with Dynamite into an Anarch Barons house” type game. It’s dark, sensual, neon-lit, elegant, and violent. This is a dark and brooding game after all where combat can happen but I don’t expect it to happen a lot. Instead a lot of it is scheming, long term actions, and threats. Humor exists but it’s black comedy. Stuff that comes from hyperviolence and dark subject matter. This isn’t a comedy campaign after all but I will accept moments of black comedy, as a treat. Like the only jokes that would show up are something like the “I shot marvin in the face!” scene from Pulp Fiction or the Buisness Card scene from American Psycho. A moment of pure stupidity being taken seriously when in reality what is going on is really ridiculous. But over all the vibe should ideally be something like American Psycho or King in New York. A game about greed, sins, and violence in the darker side of the 80s.
Subject Matter for this game varies based on what happens and how things go but we can make some rough estimates, no? Murder, Cannibalism, Body Horror, Dark Sexual Themes and Erotic Sensualism, Foul Language, Blasphemy, and more things have a possibility coming up across the game.
The Important Stuff:
https://forms.gle/LCyF9kSW2SLs87xd7
If the link doesn't work do ask me.
submitted by Shadsea to lfgmisc [link] [comments]
The Premise
During the 80s, as ever, New York is the vital beating heart of the country… but the blood that runs through it is cold and predatory. The year is 1987 and the PCs are a sabbat pack who have taken up the disguise of a legitimate business and as yuppies but behind closed doors they plan, scheme, and do vile acts against those lesser than them. This isn’t your average Sabbat game, this is a Sabbat game that takes cues from the “Dark Camarilla” version of them.
While the PCs are busy working there have been rumbles and grumbles of something interesting... A big Blood Feast hosted by Archbishop Catherine the Wise herself. Time to gossip and cut loose.
What is this?
Behind Closed Doors is a game of Vampire the Masquerade 5th Edition that follows a Sabbat Pack in 1980s NYC. Taking cues from American Psycho, King of New York, The Hunger, Sopranos, and other stories to portray what it’s like to play in a settled Sabbat city instead of their nomadic style. This game is a product of 4 years of playing and running VtM so I have a lot of things to say.
The concept for this game is simple. It is 1987, the PCs are a bunch of Sabbat Vampires, the PCs run a company, and they get into Drama. Simple, right? Well heres the problem: Sabbat are hard to run in the same way most “Villain Games” are hard to run. You usually end up with a dog shit group and the game burns out the moment you try to give out consequences such as hunters or federal agents snooping around. Each time a GM presents a Sabbat game you usually hear two or three voices from the crowd:
1. “I don’t want to play the bad guy! I want to fight the bad guy! I want to save the world!!” 2. “Sweet! I wanna play an Assamite antitribu on the Path of Kill-Every-Fucking-Person-I-Meet! I get to play the Bad Guy!” 3. "Haha this game is gonna be so fucking funny and so silly! I can't wait to kidnap a werewolf!"
And I want to silence both of those voices. My concept for the game requires PCs to be more nuanced. This is less black and white and more explorative towards the shades of grey. Yeah you aren’t awful but you know other people who are worse than you. You aren’t the bad guy, you aren’t the good guy… You are more the Tony Soprano or Don Draper. The selfish yuppie asshole trying to maximize getting blood and money. You aren’t Jason Voorhees, You are Tony Montana. You just want to further your business. Your clout. This game, at the end of the day, is more of a prime time soap opera then DnD. So remember that. It being more of a Prime Time Soap Opera is why I picked V5. I have had fucking awful experiences with V20 because V20 is a system that hasn’t changed save for a few disciplines or skills being swapped out. It doesn’t incentivize drama and all that. Meanwhile V5 does.
The aim is here is to mimic something similar to those “Sex and Violence” TV Dramas of the 90s-2000s but with 80s Vampires. Winning and losing is all relative to the PCs Moralities and Views. Every good action comes with a bad action and vice versa. The aim of the characters isn’t out and out to kill and diablerize anyone in the way. The aim of the characters is to keep up some sign of forward momentum by any means necessary while other PCs and NPCs either hinder or help. Our aim is to explore these psychopaths and show that they aren’t so different to us before eventually they are punished for their sins.
The tone is easy to see. The tone is to do a dramatic and political sabbat game instead of a “Lets crash a truck filled with Dynamite into an Anarch Barons house” type game. It’s dark, sensual, neon-lit, elegant, and violent. This is a dark and brooding game after all where combat can happen but I don’t expect it to happen a lot. Instead a lot of it is scheming, long term actions, and threats. Humor exists but it’s black comedy. Stuff that comes from hyperviolence and dark subject matter. This isn’t a comedy campaign after all but I will accept moments of black comedy, as a treat. Like the only jokes that would show up are something like the “I shot marvin in the face!” scene from Pulp Fiction or the Buisness Card scene from American Psycho. A moment of pure stupidity being taken seriously when in reality what is going on is really ridiculous. But over all the vibe should ideally be something like American Psycho or King in New York. A game about greed, sins, and violence in the darker side of the 80s.
Subject Matter for this game varies based on what happens and how things go but we can make some rough estimates, no? Murder, Cannibalism, Body Horror, Dark Sexual Themes and Erotic Sensualism, Foul Language, Blasphemy, and more things have a possibility coming up across the game.
The Important Stuff:
- This is a VtM 5th Edition game, not any other game or version of Vampire.
- This game runs on Thursdays at 5pm EST to 8pm EST. This means that Session 0 will be on March the 14th and Session 1 will probably be on March the 21st.
- This is a Voice Game. We are playing over voice on Discord with a Roll20 for sheets and a dicebot for dice.
- New players are welcome but this will be a bit more intense.
https://forms.gle/LCyF9kSW2SLs87xd7
If the link doesn't work do ask me.
2024.02.21 19:50 Shadsea [Online][EST][WoD] Behind Closed Doors - A V5 game about a bunch of yuppies who are actually Sabbat Vampires (Thursdays at 5pm EST)
“I hate to complain—I really do—about the trash, the garbage, the disease, about how filthy this city really is and you know and I know that it is a sty.…” He continues talking as he opens his new Tumi calfskin attaché case he bought at D. F. Sanders. He places the Walkman in the case alongside a Panasonic wallet-size cordless portable folding Easa-phone (he used to own the NEC 9000 Porta portable and pulls out today’s newspaper. “In one issue—in one issue—let’s see here … strangled models, babies thrown from tenement rooftops, kids killed in the subway, a Communist rally, Mafia boss wiped out, Nazis”—he flips through the pages excitedly —“baseball players with AIDS, more Mafia shit, gridlock, the homeless, various maniacs, gays dropping like flies in the streets, surrogate mothers, the cancellation of a soap opera, kids who broke into a zoo and tortured and burned various animals alive, more Nazis… and the joke is, the punch line is, it’s all in this city—nowhere else, just here, it sucks, whoa wait, more Nazis, gridlock, gridlock, babysellers, black-market babies, AIDS babies, baby junkies, building collapses on baby, maniac baby, gridlock, bridge collapses—” His voice stops, he takes in a breath and then quietly says, his eyes fixed on a beggar at the corner of Second and Fifth, “That’s the twenty fourth one I’ve seen today. I’ve kept count;”
The Premise
During the 80s, as ever, New York is the vital beating heart of the country… but the blood that runs through it is cold and predatory. The year is 1987 and the PCs are a sabbat pack who have taken up the disguise of a legitimate business and as yuppies but behind closed doors they plan, scheme, and do vile acts against those lesser than them. This isn’t your average Sabbat game, this is a Sabbat game that takes cues from the “Dark Camarilla” version of them.
While the PCs are busy working there have been rumbles and grumbles of something interesting... A big Blood Feast hosted by Archbishop Catherine the Wise herself. Time to gossip and cut loose.
What is this?
Behind Closed Doors is a game of Vampire the Masquerade 5th Edition that follows a Sabbat Pack in 1980s NYC. Taking cues from American Psycho, King of New York, The Hunger, Sopranos, and other stories to portray what it’s like to play in a settled Sabbat city instead of their nomadic style. This game is a product of 4 years of playing and running VtM so I have a lot of things to say.
The concept for this game is simple. It is 1987, the PCs are a bunch of Sabbat Vampires, the PCs run a company, and they get into Drama. Simple, right? Well heres the problem: Sabbat are hard to run in the same way most “Villain Games” are hard to run. You usually end up with a dog shit group and the game burns out the moment you try to give out consequences such as hunters or federal agents snooping around. Each time a GM presents a Sabbat game you usually hear two or three voices from the crowd:
1. “I don’t want to play the bad guy! I want to fight the bad guy! I want to save the world!!”
*2. “Sweet! I wanna play an Assamite antitribu on the Path of Kill-Every-Fucking-Person-I-Meet! I get to play the Bad Guy!”3. "Haha this game is gonna be so fucking funny and so silly! I can't wait to kidnap a werewolf!"*And I want to silence both of those voices. My concept for the game requires PCs to be more nuanced. This is less black and white and more explorative towards the shades of grey. Yeah you aren’t awful but you know other people who are worse than you. You aren’t the bad guy, you aren’t the good guy… You are more the Tony Soprano or Don Draper. The selfish yuppie asshole trying to maximize getting blood and money. You aren’t Jason Voorhees, You are Tony Montana. You just want to further your business. Your clout. This game, at the end of the day, is more of a prime time soap opera then DnD. So remember that. It being more of a Prime Time Soap Opera is why I picked V5. I have had fucking awful experiences with V20 because V20 is a system that hasn’t changed save for a few disciplines or skills being swapped out. It doesn’t incentivize drama and all that. Meanwhile V5 does.
The aim is here is to mimic something similar to those “Sex and Violence” TV Dramas of the 90s-2000s but with 80s Vampires. Winning and losing is all relative to the PCs Moralities and Views. Every good action comes with a bad action and vice versa. The aim of the characters isn’t out and out to kill and diablerize anyone in the way. The aim of the characters is to keep up some sign of forward momentum by any means necessary while other PCs and NPCs either hinder or help. Our aim is to explore these psychopaths and show that they aren’t so different to us before eventually they are punished for their sins.
The tone is easy to see. The tone is to do a dramatic and political sabbat game instead of a “Lets crash a truck filled with Dynamite into an Anarch Barons house” type game. It’s dark, sensual, neon-lit, elegant, and violent. This is a dark and brooding game after all where combat can happen but I don’t expect it to happen a lot. Instead a lot of it is scheming, long term actions, and threats. Humor exists but it’s black comedy. Stuff that comes from hyperviolence and dark subject matter. This isn’t a comedy campaign after all but I will accept moments of black comedy, as a treat. Like the only jokes that would show up are something like the “I shot marvin in the face!” scene from Pulp Fiction or the Buisness Card scene from American Psycho. A moment of pure stupidity being taken seriously when in reality what is going on is really ridiculous. But over all the vibe should ideally be something like American Psycho or King in New York. A game about greed, sins, and violence in the darker side of the 80s.
Subject Matter for this game varies based on what happens and how things go but we can make some rough estimates, no? Murder, Cannibalism, Body Horror, Dark Sexual Themes and Erotic Sensualism, Foul Language, Blasphemy, and more things have a possibility coming up across the game.
The Important Stuff:
https://forms.gle/LCyF9kSW2SLs87xd7
If the link doesn't work do ask me.
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The Premise
During the 80s, as ever, New York is the vital beating heart of the country… but the blood that runs through it is cold and predatory. The year is 1987 and the PCs are a sabbat pack who have taken up the disguise of a legitimate business and as yuppies but behind closed doors they plan, scheme, and do vile acts against those lesser than them. This isn’t your average Sabbat game, this is a Sabbat game that takes cues from the “Dark Camarilla” version of them.
While the PCs are busy working there have been rumbles and grumbles of something interesting... A big Blood Feast hosted by Archbishop Catherine the Wise herself. Time to gossip and cut loose.
What is this?
Behind Closed Doors is a game of Vampire the Masquerade 5th Edition that follows a Sabbat Pack in 1980s NYC. Taking cues from American Psycho, King of New York, The Hunger, Sopranos, and other stories to portray what it’s like to play in a settled Sabbat city instead of their nomadic style. This game is a product of 4 years of playing and running VtM so I have a lot of things to say.
The concept for this game is simple. It is 1987, the PCs are a bunch of Sabbat Vampires, the PCs run a company, and they get into Drama. Simple, right? Well heres the problem: Sabbat are hard to run in the same way most “Villain Games” are hard to run. You usually end up with a dog shit group and the game burns out the moment you try to give out consequences such as hunters or federal agents snooping around. Each time a GM presents a Sabbat game you usually hear two or three voices from the crowd:
1. “I don’t want to play the bad guy! I want to fight the bad guy! I want to save the world!!”
*2. “Sweet! I wanna play an Assamite antitribu on the Path of Kill-Every-Fucking-Person-I-Meet! I get to play the Bad Guy!”3. "Haha this game is gonna be so fucking funny and so silly! I can't wait to kidnap a werewolf!"*And I want to silence both of those voices. My concept for the game requires PCs to be more nuanced. This is less black and white and more explorative towards the shades of grey. Yeah you aren’t awful but you know other people who are worse than you. You aren’t the bad guy, you aren’t the good guy… You are more the Tony Soprano or Don Draper. The selfish yuppie asshole trying to maximize getting blood and money. You aren’t Jason Voorhees, You are Tony Montana. You just want to further your business. Your clout. This game, at the end of the day, is more of a prime time soap opera then DnD. So remember that. It being more of a Prime Time Soap Opera is why I picked V5. I have had fucking awful experiences with V20 because V20 is a system that hasn’t changed save for a few disciplines or skills being swapped out. It doesn’t incentivize drama and all that. Meanwhile V5 does.
The aim is here is to mimic something similar to those “Sex and Violence” TV Dramas of the 90s-2000s but with 80s Vampires. Winning and losing is all relative to the PCs Moralities and Views. Every good action comes with a bad action and vice versa. The aim of the characters isn’t out and out to kill and diablerize anyone in the way. The aim of the characters is to keep up some sign of forward momentum by any means necessary while other PCs and NPCs either hinder or help. Our aim is to explore these psychopaths and show that they aren’t so different to us before eventually they are punished for their sins.
The tone is easy to see. The tone is to do a dramatic and political sabbat game instead of a “Lets crash a truck filled with Dynamite into an Anarch Barons house” type game. It’s dark, sensual, neon-lit, elegant, and violent. This is a dark and brooding game after all where combat can happen but I don’t expect it to happen a lot. Instead a lot of it is scheming, long term actions, and threats. Humor exists but it’s black comedy. Stuff that comes from hyperviolence and dark subject matter. This isn’t a comedy campaign after all but I will accept moments of black comedy, as a treat. Like the only jokes that would show up are something like the “I shot marvin in the face!” scene from Pulp Fiction or the Buisness Card scene from American Psycho. A moment of pure stupidity being taken seriously when in reality what is going on is really ridiculous. But over all the vibe should ideally be something like American Psycho or King in New York. A game about greed, sins, and violence in the darker side of the 80s.
Subject Matter for this game varies based on what happens and how things go but we can make some rough estimates, no? Murder, Cannibalism, Body Horror, Dark Sexual Themes and Erotic Sensualism, Foul Language, Blasphemy, and more things have a possibility coming up across the game.
The Important Stuff:
- This is a VtM 5th Edition game, not any other game or version of Vampire.
- This game runs on Thursdays at 5pm EST to 8pm EST. This means that Session 0 will be on March the 14th and Session 1 will probably be on March the 21st.
- This is a Voice Game. We are playing over voice on Discord with a Roll20 for sheets and a dicebot for dice.
- New players are welcome but this will be a bit more intense.
https://forms.gle/LCyF9kSW2SLs87xd7
If the link doesn't work do ask me.
2023.12.20 04:47 Ytumith Here is my shizophrenic theory
I have been convinced, that the story we play in Cyberpunk 2077 does not follow the life and possible death of one mercenary who calls him/herself V in night city, but is the delirium that Johnny Silverhand exists in, after the events of the Arasaka nuclear bombing and happens in ongoing cycles.
In the original lore from the Cyberpunk pen and paper rpg, the bomb was not in fact send down the elevator by Johnny Silverhand, but was brought to the place by Morgan Blackhand, a comrade of Johnny. In the same lore, Morgan is also the one dueling Adam Smasher on top of the Arasaka tower in a dramatic finale.
When we meet the engramm of Alt Cunningham "face to face" for the first time, thanks to the Voodoo Boy's headquarters and their access to the blackwall, she tells us that the memories we see in Johnnys past are actually not the truth but a glorified version, which Johnny has been *replaying* over and over in his mind.
This explains, why we can make choices during the flashback, and slightly alter the story. In the sequence, the choices are mostly interactions with Alt Cunningham. Johnny is lying to himself, to justify his behavior and protect his ego from the true memory, which probably was very emotionally taxing for him. If we look at the memory in which Alt dies, the part where she does die is very clear and unchangeable, but the argument Johnny and Alt have before leaving the club's backstage area can feel out of place based on what choice we pick as player. During the argument and before it, drugs and medicine can be consumed.I assume the parts of the argument are blurry in Johnnys memory, because of the unholy trinity of "boosters", high percent whiskey and- what seems to be- the same omega blockers V can consume to block Johnny temporarily.
Needless to say, the red and blue pill meme is, next to Keanu Reeves playing both Neo and Johnny, a direct connection to "the Matrix".
My point however is that the choices Johnny make- and by extention V makes, are in fact parts of the memory that Johnny has lost and is trying to recreate by living through the memories time and time again, in a form of trauma processing loop.
Johnny, who was "cut in half" by Adam Smasher in the original lore, has since been stored in the casing of just another nuclear bomb that was part of Arasaka's emergency plan all along. I have not played the pen and paper game or read the lore in detail, but have collected as much from the fandom wiki.
In Cyberpunk 2077, Johnny has instead been captured by Arasaka and turned into an engramm during a torture-questioning seance of sorts.
Originally, I build my theory on the idea that Johnny never left Mikoshi, and that V is really a programm that convinced Johnny to share his memories with the Arasaka mind-technicians who are currently digging into his soul at Mikoshi. As Johnny regains consciousness, the fake reality of V is falling apart, the dream adds a "relic" scenario that slowly replaces V with Johnny Silverhand. In truth, it has been Silverhand's mind all along and even if it is dramatic for the perspective of sentient AI "V" who has been programmed to think and feel being a real living person, there has never been a physical V to begin with.
This explains why V has any chooseable look, sex and origin story at the beginning: It is merely a thing that Johnny Silverhand does not remember and exists as an undefined blurr in his memory. Because it never really did happen.
And it also explains why, even if you do everything in your power, V can not return into his/her body without dying- why the genetics of V's body apparently have started rejecting his original psyche.The more you think about this, the less logical sense it makes. Maybe a brains DNA can be changed by nanites- but how does the DNA determine which thoughts belong to the brain? V's very essence seems to be rejected by the body that is later inhabited by Johnny Silverhand.The alternative, once in Mikoshi, is to send Silverhand back into the data-stream to Alt Cunningham's mystical embrace, and die six months later.In these two endings, V is rotated 180°. When V decides to give up the body to Johnny Silverhand, the cutscene shows his engramm tilted around, and data particles exit the scene- now Johnny gets to live a second change and leave night city. His (formerly V's) face ends smiling.
The other ending, V at one point exits a space shuttle, gun in hand, ready to wreck the crystal palace station. Probably as the last big gig, with no return sceduled as the six months are about over at that point anyways. As V approaches the station in null gravity, he also rotates 180°.The face of V here ends angry and spiteful.
I see a parallel to "Comedy and Tragedy" masks in these endings. Two emotional extremes that are both only masks.
The spinning could be a thematic pattern with the first memory of Johnny Silverhand, in which the camera enters in a wildly spinning sequence. Johnny slams open a door and gets into action.It could also stand in connection with the choice of sacrifice, and the "hanged man" tarot card which depicts an upside down person (and if you ask me, must have started the idea that inverted cards can have an own meaning).
The other connection could lie with further V-related Tarot cards, which have a different meaning if inverted.
In roman numerals, V would be the fifth card of the great arcanum- The Hierophant. It is in fact very common for Tarot cards to be numbered with roman numerals. Although one theory about Tarot in the real world puts it's origin with ancient Egypt, the mystical card game apparently was brought to fame with the Roman empire.
Quoting Wikipedia:
The Hierophant is "a person who brings religious congregants into the presence of that which is deemed "holy"-
The Hierophant stands for righteousness, sacredness, hierarchical order,[6] orthodoxy,[7] and moral righteousness. He is an exoteric figure, in contrast to the esoteric symbolism of The High Priestess.[2] Reversed, the Hierophant can be interpreted as standing for unorthodoxy, originality, and gullibility.[7]
Surely enough, V enforced hierachial order and moral righteousness in the ongoing quest against corrupted and downright nasty gang buisness. His/her fight to remain the active psyche against Johnny is very much a fight for hierarchy too. But the inversed Hierophant stands for gullibility, originality and unorthodoxy. A strange mix of attributes, being tricked but doing your own thing, going against the rules. That does sound a bit like the end Mr. Blue Eyes offers.
There are lesser arcanas in tarot aswell, in which the roman numeral V can mean either:
"Dejection, disappointment and sorrow over past events. " in the V of Cups."Choosing battles, failure although best efforts were given, and phyrric victory" in the V of Swords."Loosing faith, a lover, all hope" in the V of Pentacles."Chaotic quarrel without victor or consequence" in the V of Wands.
No matter how you put it, the fifth cards of each color, in each lesser arcana are not prone to be happy-ends. And they overlap exceedingly well with the situation that V is in.
The question is "which V" is the correct V, but on the other hand- which V are you playing?You can choose to pick up swords, choose whether to drink or not, smoke or not, use blunt weapons - even become "King of Pentacles" if you play the Phantom Liberty DLC.
And this DLC title is the final straw that made me believe V does not truly exist: The freedom given to choose, is ultimately a mirage- a phantom liberty.
Finally, Morgan Blackhand is the only original example character from the Cyberpunk pen and paper game who has not appeared in Cyberpunk 2077. I believe this is also because the entirety of Cyberpunk 2077 is Johnny's coma-nightmare loop, and that his consciousness does not want to accept his comrade's death.
Treat every choice in the game as a "fuzzy memory" or "incertainty" in the data feed that Arasaka is pulling from comatose Johnny's brain, in what can only be described as "Real Time Editing Brain Dance", and come to terms with the possibility that we're all roleplaying as Arasaka officials who are trying to pry into the secrets of Johnny's past. And that V is merely our marionette or code-demon for doing so, because in the end isn't that what a player character kind of is?
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In the original lore from the Cyberpunk pen and paper rpg, the bomb was not in fact send down the elevator by Johnny Silverhand, but was brought to the place by Morgan Blackhand, a comrade of Johnny. In the same lore, Morgan is also the one dueling Adam Smasher on top of the Arasaka tower in a dramatic finale.
When we meet the engramm of Alt Cunningham "face to face" for the first time, thanks to the Voodoo Boy's headquarters and their access to the blackwall, she tells us that the memories we see in Johnnys past are actually not the truth but a glorified version, which Johnny has been *replaying* over and over in his mind.
This explains, why we can make choices during the flashback, and slightly alter the story. In the sequence, the choices are mostly interactions with Alt Cunningham. Johnny is lying to himself, to justify his behavior and protect his ego from the true memory, which probably was very emotionally taxing for him. If we look at the memory in which Alt dies, the part where she does die is very clear and unchangeable, but the argument Johnny and Alt have before leaving the club's backstage area can feel out of place based on what choice we pick as player. During the argument and before it, drugs and medicine can be consumed.I assume the parts of the argument are blurry in Johnnys memory, because of the unholy trinity of "boosters", high percent whiskey and- what seems to be- the same omega blockers V can consume to block Johnny temporarily.
Needless to say, the red and blue pill meme is, next to Keanu Reeves playing both Neo and Johnny, a direct connection to "the Matrix".
My point however is that the choices Johnny make- and by extention V makes, are in fact parts of the memory that Johnny has lost and is trying to recreate by living through the memories time and time again, in a form of trauma processing loop.
Johnny, who was "cut in half" by Adam Smasher in the original lore, has since been stored in the casing of just another nuclear bomb that was part of Arasaka's emergency plan all along. I have not played the pen and paper game or read the lore in detail, but have collected as much from the fandom wiki.
In Cyberpunk 2077, Johnny has instead been captured by Arasaka and turned into an engramm during a torture-questioning seance of sorts.
Originally, I build my theory on the idea that Johnny never left Mikoshi, and that V is really a programm that convinced Johnny to share his memories with the Arasaka mind-technicians who are currently digging into his soul at Mikoshi. As Johnny regains consciousness, the fake reality of V is falling apart, the dream adds a "relic" scenario that slowly replaces V with Johnny Silverhand. In truth, it has been Silverhand's mind all along and even if it is dramatic for the perspective of sentient AI "V" who has been programmed to think and feel being a real living person, there has never been a physical V to begin with.
This explains why V has any chooseable look, sex and origin story at the beginning: It is merely a thing that Johnny Silverhand does not remember and exists as an undefined blurr in his memory. Because it never really did happen.
And it also explains why, even if you do everything in your power, V can not return into his/her body without dying- why the genetics of V's body apparently have started rejecting his original psyche.The more you think about this, the less logical sense it makes. Maybe a brains DNA can be changed by nanites- but how does the DNA determine which thoughts belong to the brain? V's very essence seems to be rejected by the body that is later inhabited by Johnny Silverhand.The alternative, once in Mikoshi, is to send Silverhand back into the data-stream to Alt Cunningham's mystical embrace, and die six months later.In these two endings, V is rotated 180°. When V decides to give up the body to Johnny Silverhand, the cutscene shows his engramm tilted around, and data particles exit the scene- now Johnny gets to live a second change and leave night city. His (formerly V's) face ends smiling.
The other ending, V at one point exits a space shuttle, gun in hand, ready to wreck the crystal palace station. Probably as the last big gig, with no return sceduled as the six months are about over at that point anyways. As V approaches the station in null gravity, he also rotates 180°.The face of V here ends angry and spiteful.
I see a parallel to "Comedy and Tragedy" masks in these endings. Two emotional extremes that are both only masks.
The spinning could be a thematic pattern with the first memory of Johnny Silverhand, in which the camera enters in a wildly spinning sequence. Johnny slams open a door and gets into action.It could also stand in connection with the choice of sacrifice, and the "hanged man" tarot card which depicts an upside down person (and if you ask me, must have started the idea that inverted cards can have an own meaning).
The other connection could lie with further V-related Tarot cards, which have a different meaning if inverted.
In roman numerals, V would be the fifth card of the great arcanum- The Hierophant. It is in fact very common for Tarot cards to be numbered with roman numerals. Although one theory about Tarot in the real world puts it's origin with ancient Egypt, the mystical card game apparently was brought to fame with the Roman empire.
Quoting Wikipedia:
The Hierophant is "a person who brings religious congregants into the presence of that which is deemed "holy"-
The Hierophant stands for righteousness, sacredness, hierarchical order,[6] orthodoxy,[7] and moral righteousness. He is an exoteric figure, in contrast to the esoteric symbolism of The High Priestess.[2] Reversed, the Hierophant can be interpreted as standing for unorthodoxy, originality, and gullibility.[7]
Surely enough, V enforced hierachial order and moral righteousness in the ongoing quest against corrupted and downright nasty gang buisness. His/her fight to remain the active psyche against Johnny is very much a fight for hierarchy too. But the inversed Hierophant stands for gullibility, originality and unorthodoxy. A strange mix of attributes, being tricked but doing your own thing, going against the rules. That does sound a bit like the end Mr. Blue Eyes offers.
There are lesser arcanas in tarot aswell, in which the roman numeral V can mean either:
"Dejection, disappointment and sorrow over past events. " in the V of Cups."Choosing battles, failure although best efforts were given, and phyrric victory" in the V of Swords."Loosing faith, a lover, all hope" in the V of Pentacles."Chaotic quarrel without victor or consequence" in the V of Wands.
No matter how you put it, the fifth cards of each color, in each lesser arcana are not prone to be happy-ends. And they overlap exceedingly well with the situation that V is in.
The question is "which V" is the correct V, but on the other hand- which V are you playing?You can choose to pick up swords, choose whether to drink or not, smoke or not, use blunt weapons - even become "King of Pentacles" if you play the Phantom Liberty DLC.
And this DLC title is the final straw that made me believe V does not truly exist: The freedom given to choose, is ultimately a mirage- a phantom liberty.
Finally, Morgan Blackhand is the only original example character from the Cyberpunk pen and paper game who has not appeared in Cyberpunk 2077. I believe this is also because the entirety of Cyberpunk 2077 is Johnny's coma-nightmare loop, and that his consciousness does not want to accept his comrade's death.
Treat every choice in the game as a "fuzzy memory" or "incertainty" in the data feed that Arasaka is pulling from comatose Johnny's brain, in what can only be described as "Real Time Editing Brain Dance", and come to terms with the possibility that we're all roleplaying as Arasaka officials who are trying to pry into the secrets of Johnny's past. And that V is merely our marionette or code-demon for doing so, because in the end isn't that what a player character kind of is?
2023.08.28 22:32 LitChef27 My Experience With Multiple Spontaneous Pneumothorax 🔥
Hey all just found this subreddit. Thought I'd share my experience with this incase anyone finds it useful but also to get it off my chest (ba dum tss)
I've had a total of 5 spontaneous pneumothorax all on my left. The first, while the least severe, was oddly the most painful. First was in december 2020. Was just chilling minding my own dam buisness when it suddenly felt like I was having a heart attack or some shit.
Went to AnE and had a chest xray. But at this time the hospitals were so overwhelmed with the big covid that my symptoms were brushed off and I was told it was "probably covid". About 2 weeks later I got a letter saying it was a small pneumothorax with no further explanation. Healed on it's own probably...
The second fun happy time happened in august 2021. Also very painful. Slightly larger collapse. Still no treatment though.
The third interesting event happened during my first week of university in September 2021. Very fun indeed. Not as painful strangely. I think your body adapts to the pain after a while.
The fourth was a month later, the most severe yet but also not that painful. Still horrible sensation though. Breathing all the way out made me throw up. I was hospitalised for this one so that was interesting.
I had a needle type thing put in my chest. Wasnt that bad but it didnt work. Was transferred to another hospital that specializes in silly and goofy lung shenanigans.
Was in the hospital for two nights before it collapsed again for the fifth time. It was completely gone this time. Pretty much full collapse. This happened at like 3am so waking up to that was interesting. Had more chest xrays ect.
This is where I got to enjoy the wonderful and fun chest drain insertion. Not one of my favourite things I've experienced. Being made to lie on your side while a thick plastic tube is forced through your ribcage. I was on painkillers but wasn't a nice sensation.
They actually messed it up the first time and I couldn't breath at all for like 30 seconds. Lots of coughing. Not nice. So eventually they got it working and it was draining blood and stuff out my lung space.
I had emergency vats surgery the same day. Thank you NHS! Oddly enough i wasnt that scared going into the operating room. One of the surgeons who was pushing in the wheelchair kept bumping into shit so I was thinking "dam this clumsy mf is operating on me".
But to be fair they did a great job. I remained in hospital with that chest drain in my side for nearly two weeks including my 19th Birthday. Was on the other side of the country from my family for uni so I didnt get any visitors.
It wasnt a nice time I'll be real. They put you on a lot of morphine after the initial operation but they dont tell you how it feels when you come off morphine. Worst night of sleep ever. Couldn't tell what was real or not at points.
The chest drain was mad uncomfortable, like having a cactus glued to your side and made moving around painful as you could feel it whenever you moved. Couldn't sleep much.
At nearly the two week mark I got the drain taken out. That wasnt so bad but I was just mentally and physically so done with the whole thing. But finally got released and recovered in my home town for four weeks before returning to university.
Shit kinda fucked up my mental health for a while, especially during that first year of uni. I was also not in the best shape physically. Very skinny. Struggled to eat much while I was in hospital and was quite skinny prior.
Was never really told was the root cause was, air pockets forming on the lung, but not what caused them. I did ask but they pretty much just said bad luck. Never smoked, never vaped.
Eventually got some therapy, started eating more and starting hitting the gym and now I'm in the best shape and health I've been in and still continuing to improve. Still continuing with university uninterrupted and not doing too bad.
While it was horrible I am grateful for the experience as these difficulties only strengthen our characters and ultimately make us better people. Also got a pretty cool couple of scars out of it🔥 It's now nearly two years since all that with no further issues.
I know it's a long post and thank you if you read all this! I hope some of you found this useful or interesting. Apologies if there are any spelling errors. Any questions feel free to ask!
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I've had a total of 5 spontaneous pneumothorax all on my left. The first, while the least severe, was oddly the most painful. First was in december 2020. Was just chilling minding my own dam buisness when it suddenly felt like I was having a heart attack or some shit.
Went to AnE and had a chest xray. But at this time the hospitals were so overwhelmed with the big covid that my symptoms were brushed off and I was told it was "probably covid". About 2 weeks later I got a letter saying it was a small pneumothorax with no further explanation. Healed on it's own probably...
The second fun happy time happened in august 2021. Also very painful. Slightly larger collapse. Still no treatment though.
The third interesting event happened during my first week of university in September 2021. Very fun indeed. Not as painful strangely. I think your body adapts to the pain after a while.
The fourth was a month later, the most severe yet but also not that painful. Still horrible sensation though. Breathing all the way out made me throw up. I was hospitalised for this one so that was interesting.
I had a needle type thing put in my chest. Wasnt that bad but it didnt work. Was transferred to another hospital that specializes in silly and goofy lung shenanigans.
Was in the hospital for two nights before it collapsed again for the fifth time. It was completely gone this time. Pretty much full collapse. This happened at like 3am so waking up to that was interesting. Had more chest xrays ect.
This is where I got to enjoy the wonderful and fun chest drain insertion. Not one of my favourite things I've experienced. Being made to lie on your side while a thick plastic tube is forced through your ribcage. I was on painkillers but wasn't a nice sensation.
They actually messed it up the first time and I couldn't breath at all for like 30 seconds. Lots of coughing. Not nice. So eventually they got it working and it was draining blood and stuff out my lung space.
I had emergency vats surgery the same day. Thank you NHS! Oddly enough i wasnt that scared going into the operating room. One of the surgeons who was pushing in the wheelchair kept bumping into shit so I was thinking "dam this clumsy mf is operating on me".
But to be fair they did a great job. I remained in hospital with that chest drain in my side for nearly two weeks including my 19th Birthday. Was on the other side of the country from my family for uni so I didnt get any visitors.
It wasnt a nice time I'll be real. They put you on a lot of morphine after the initial operation but they dont tell you how it feels when you come off morphine. Worst night of sleep ever. Couldn't tell what was real or not at points.
The chest drain was mad uncomfortable, like having a cactus glued to your side and made moving around painful as you could feel it whenever you moved. Couldn't sleep much.
At nearly the two week mark I got the drain taken out. That wasnt so bad but I was just mentally and physically so done with the whole thing. But finally got released and recovered in my home town for four weeks before returning to university.
Shit kinda fucked up my mental health for a while, especially during that first year of uni. I was also not in the best shape physically. Very skinny. Struggled to eat much while I was in hospital and was quite skinny prior.
Was never really told was the root cause was, air pockets forming on the lung, but not what caused them. I did ask but they pretty much just said bad luck. Never smoked, never vaped.
Eventually got some therapy, started eating more and starting hitting the gym and now I'm in the best shape and health I've been in and still continuing to improve. Still continuing with university uninterrupted and not doing too bad.
While it was horrible I am grateful for the experience as these difficulties only strengthen our characters and ultimately make us better people. Also got a pretty cool couple of scars out of it🔥 It's now nearly two years since all that with no further issues.
I know it's a long post and thank you if you read all this! I hope some of you found this useful or interesting. Apologies if there are any spelling errors. Any questions feel free to ask!
2023.07.04 08:51 Sir_Nope_TSS Juri, Sender of Messages
Wanna be the business clown? Wanna make stupid amounts of riches by being wasteful as ever? Wanna see an economic growth so stupid exponential that the amount of fiscal friction will immolate your enemies?
[[Juri, Master of the Revue]] is usually a one-act show; sac a bunch of stuff, get stupid big, and make him die so you can yeet his volatile corpse at an enemy for massive damage (often with Fling or similar, so as to make it a 2-for-1 deal). While [[Fling]] and [[Thud]] are indeed in the deck (don't fix what isn't broken), this design seeks to take the pressure off of Juri a bit and let his portfolio speak for itself by running as many investments (read; triggers and payoffs) as we can sustain.
We invest in everything from the well-known arms dealers [[Ingenious Artillerist]] and [[Reckless Fireweaver]] to our insider knowledge gurus [[Stormclaw Rager]] and [[Skullport Merchant]] even to funding a new recycling plant startup known as [[Charforger]]. Juri gets those +1/+1 stonks the more we invest, so we make sure he's got capital, whether from his friends at [[Goldspan]] to his friend [[Mahidi]] who runs that unassuming butcher shop. And if the money or investments are not coming in as quick as we like, we can always sell off a [[Reassembling Skeleton]] or two.
And what is the goal of this, you may ask? A hostile takeover, of course! While high-yield jesters will still accrue a body count in this plan, this buisness plan is designed with both card advantage and a slow burn in mind. Should the system work as intended, the 'kill zone' will be much lower than Juri is used to dealing with by himself. Plus, you don't have to put all your eggs in one basket; [[All Will Be One]] gets value out of your violent fool even if he gets hated out of a proper death, and [[The Ozolith]] helps make sure that your bodybuilding investments from [[Blood Aspirant]] and [[Gixian Infiltrator]] don't go to waste.
Take a peek, and see if this killer deal is right for you.
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One more thing; if the stars align, you can create a economic singularity.
You will need:
Step 2: The Technodummy will sell out (sacrifice) Juri, claiming 4 Treasures as a bounty and throwing 4 points ofdamage shade where you please. (4 gained, 12 left; we gained a treasure from Juri's base 1 power)
Step 3: Juri now owes 2 whole mana in taxes, but that's ok because we just got enough money from selling him to get him back into play anyways. On top of that, our Painter friend has him come in with a +1/+1 counter for each Treasure-sourced mana you spent to get him back... and that counts the taxes. Not only do we get to get Juri back, we get him as a 5/5 bod (1/1 + 2 counters from mana cost + 2 counters from 'taxes'), and that's not including the triggers from the Treasures entering/leaving or Juri 'taking a break.' (4 spent, back to 8 left)
Step 4: We want the Technodummy to stick around, but nothing beats the original. We'll spend 3 treasures and sac 2 treasures/'junk' artifacts to dig up the Original Corpse himself (which Juri will see the investments, going from 5/5 to 10/10). On arrival, we'll use TechnoBernie to sell Juri off again, and once again our shade shall be harsh. (5 spent, 9 gained, back to 12 treasures)
Step 5: Re-play our Juri, this time the 4 mana tax brings him to a 7/7. (6 spent, 6 left)
Step 6: Now we hit a problem; we can't re-unearth TechnoBernie with TechnoDummy because we still got him sitting around out of his hole. Thankfully, that's where Fain comes in. Fain will do us a solid on the house and put Bernie back in the hole for us to re-exhume, and will give Juri a nice boost in two +1/+1 counters. Juri also sees where Bernie get buried and tucks it away as potential blackmail investment for later, represented by an additional +1/+1 counter. Juri should now be a 10/10. (no Treasure cost, still got 6)
Step 7: Here, we just repeat the "Dummy gets Bernie" trick, with much more pronounced results from our 15/15 Juri (5 spent, 15 gained, 16 left). Cue shade.
Step 8-...: From here, we simply repeat steps 6 and 7 with a catch. Fain may be nice to us, but he's a businessman first. He tires out easy, and that kind of work don't come cheap; you'll need to cough up 4 Treasures to untap him for another Bury the Bernie job. However, Juri adds the payout to his portfolio like any other investment, which gets added to his 'bounty' when TechnoBernie sells him out, so it evens out. By this point, we get back 4 more treasures per loop guaranteed.
We have reached the singularity.
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[[Juri, Master of the Revue]] is usually a one-act show; sac a bunch of stuff, get stupid big, and make him die so you can yeet his volatile corpse at an enemy for massive damage (often with Fling or similar, so as to make it a 2-for-1 deal). While [[Fling]] and [[Thud]] are indeed in the deck (don't fix what isn't broken), this design seeks to take the pressure off of Juri a bit and let his portfolio speak for itself by running as many investments (read; triggers and payoffs) as we can sustain.
We invest in everything from the well-known arms dealers [[Ingenious Artillerist]] and [[Reckless Fireweaver]] to our insider knowledge gurus [[Stormclaw Rager]] and [[Skullport Merchant]] even to funding a new recycling plant startup known as [[Charforger]]. Juri gets those +1/+1 stonks the more we invest, so we make sure he's got capital, whether from his friends at [[Goldspan]] to his friend [[Mahidi]] who runs that unassuming butcher shop. And if the money or investments are not coming in as quick as we like, we can always sell off a [[Reassembling Skeleton]] or two.
And what is the goal of this, you may ask? A hostile takeover, of course! While high-yield jesters will still accrue a body count in this plan, this buisness plan is designed with both card advantage and a slow burn in mind. Should the system work as intended, the 'kill zone' will be much lower than Juri is used to dealing with by himself. Plus, you don't have to put all your eggs in one basket; [[All Will Be One]] gets value out of your violent fool even if he gets hated out of a proper death, and [[The Ozolith]] helps make sure that your bodybuilding investments from [[Blood Aspirant]] and [[Gixian Infiltrator]] don't go to waste.
Take a peek, and see if this killer deal is right for you.
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One more thing; if the stars align, you can create a economic singularity.
You will need:
- 11 Treasures, or at the least 9 Treasures and two artifacts you wanna get rid of to make space in your garage for your fifth Hoard Hauler. We're gonna need those Treasures to pay for mana costs, and eventually the sacrifice requirements coming up as well.
- [[Feldon of the Third Path]] in play and ready to do his one job.
- A washed-up [[Kalain, Reclusive Painter]] in play who just needs some 'inspiration.'
- A [[Ruthless Technomancer]] in your graveyard who we are going to abuse 'Weekend At Bernies'-style.
- Your 'friendly' neighborhood [[Fain, The Broker]] already in play.
- And of course, Juri. We're gonna assume it's his first day out and he's still a base 1/1, but it get easier if he's already got some Commander Tax on him. You'll need to have additional treasure to match the total tax if you do.
Step 2: The Technodummy will sell out (sacrifice) Juri, claiming 4 Treasures as a bounty and throwing 4 points of
Step 3: Juri now owes 2 whole mana in taxes, but that's ok because we just got enough money from selling him to get him back into play anyways. On top of that, our Painter friend has him come in with a +1/+1 counter for each Treasure-sourced mana you spent to get him back... and that counts the taxes. Not only do we get to get Juri back, we get him as a 5/5 bod (1/1 + 2 counters from mana cost + 2 counters from 'taxes'), and that's not including the triggers from the Treasures entering/leaving or Juri 'taking a break.' (4 spent, back to 8 left)
Step 4: We want the Technodummy to stick around, but nothing beats the original. We'll spend 3 treasures and sac 2 treasures/'junk' artifacts to dig up the Original Corpse himself (which Juri will see the investments, going from 5/5 to 10/10). On arrival, we'll use TechnoBernie to sell Juri off again, and once again our shade shall be harsh. (5 spent, 9 gained, back to 12 treasures)
Step 5: Re-play our Juri, this time the 4 mana tax brings him to a 7/7. (6 spent, 6 left)
Step 6: Now we hit a problem; we can't re-unearth TechnoBernie with TechnoDummy because we still got him sitting around out of his hole. Thankfully, that's where Fain comes in. Fain will do us a solid on the house and put Bernie back in the hole for us to re-exhume, and will give Juri a nice boost in two +1/+1 counters. Juri also sees where Bernie get buried and tucks it away as potential blackmail investment for later, represented by an additional +1/+1 counter. Juri should now be a 10/10. (no Treasure cost, still got 6)
Step 7: Here, we just repeat the "Dummy gets Bernie" trick, with much more pronounced results from our 15/15 Juri (5 spent, 15 gained, 16 left). Cue shade.
Step 8-...: From here, we simply repeat steps 6 and 7 with a catch. Fain may be nice to us, but he's a businessman first. He tires out easy, and that kind of work don't come cheap; you'll need to cough up 4 Treasures to untap him for another Bury the Bernie job. However, Juri adds the payout to his portfolio like any other investment, which gets added to his 'bounty' when TechnoBernie sells him out, so it evens out. By this point, we get back 4 more treasures per loop guaranteed.
We have reached the singularity.
2023.02.16 00:14 Plus-Fun5866 Is it obnoxious to"ALWAYS"show up"LATE"to work and should you eventually be fired for it?!
Do you find it obnoxious for the same person to always showing up"LATE"to work?! So I'm autistic and get services for adults with disabilities and the person that takes me out every Tuesday and Thursday"USED"to live near by where"i"live,like williston or colchester"BUT"she recently just moved from...let's just"SAY"williston to"swanton"...which i"GET"its a"BIT"of a farther drive to"MY"house from where she"NOW"lives"BUT"...i"FEEL"like...she should"KNOW"by"NOW"to leave and be"ON"the road"EARLYER"then when she lived"CLOSER"to my house because I'm telling you this is like the"fifth"time shes been like fifteen minutes late picking me up since she"MOVED"! "BUT"my stupid"MOM"for whatever reason"NEVER"tells/told her"look could you"pul--eeze"try"to be on time! And"i"have job Thursdays,so when"SHES"late picking me up that means..."im"late as well thanks to her! But yet if"im"even"two"minutes late and"SHES"already"HERE"...like I had to go to the"bathroom"my"mom"would bark at"ME"hurry up,hurry up,shes waiting! Im"NEVER"late for"ANYTHING",so"WHY"am"i"getting the"lecture"about being"LATE"and"NOT"the person who CONSTANTLY shows up at my front DOOR"FIFTEEN minutes"late?! Like why isn't my mom barking at"HER INSTEAD"of"ME"for"DOING"my"BUISNESS"and stuff"im supposed"to be doing?! I mean"HOW"hard is it to time how long its gonna take you to get ready and be on the road?! Like if you"KNOW"its gonna be a twenty minute drive to my house,leave"by"7:30"MAX"or something,you know?
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2022.10.12 19:40 wallflowergirl7 Honest Feedback
LKWD you are a similar to a tyrant which means somebody who treats people they have authority over in a cruel or unfair way. I'm referring to your staff and us who are getting treated poorly by you. But let's focus on us.🤫
FIRST you introduced crowns which tbh majority of people (f2p players) did no ask for. Crowns weren't a bad thing for the people who wanted it though (p2p players). Until you abused your power and pushed it way too much to the limit. Making every release crowns like coins was. So you basically replaced a currency whiles deceiving us to make us hold up a false narrative.
SECOND you decreased the exchanged rates at the ATM. Meaning that we are now earning less than before. You see how messed up that is when you already devalued coins in the shop. So now you want to make it hard for us for the coin items you do bring back or introduce. The least you could've done was leave it how it was so it's not too difficult for us to get those coin items. It's not like we can purchase new things anyways since their mostly crowns. But nooooo you had to have some kind of power with everything. You can't let us benefit from something that is fair. Especially that you raised up the prices for clothes, houses, and animations by in my opinion or others to an unreasonable cost.
THIRD which is the reason that I find the most unfair. You are now starting to turn previously coin items to crown items. That is inconsiderate and borderline TYRANNICAL. I already accepted the fact that you guys replaced let's not lie coins to now crowns being the main currency. I find no point dwelling on it because it's your decision and I know y'all are not gonna change because you have a "buisness" to run. But now you really got me raging. Do not touch coins items and replacing them for crowns because if you were doing that to people buying crowns I know for a fact they will be furious. Let us have the small things we can still buy with our overflowing coins that are just sitting there.
FOURTH you made a limit to the amount we can work. Do you see how unjust that is. You already increased the price for items then you decreased the amount we can make from the ATM then you put limits on how much we can work. LKWD you do not know how to run a business efficiently and appropriately. If you were smart you would take off the amount we can work per day and make it unlimited. You want more players playing right? So why would you do that, after when players max out Im guessing most of them would go offline. I do but let me not speak for others. Anyways I know what your doing I'm not dumb you want us to have enough dopamine to play but not enough to earn so we can be addicted and obsessive over getting our items that cost so much to return to play. Which gives you money and I think it depends on how many players play daily that's how much money you get from that section at least apart from crowns but I'm not sure.
Fifth which is my last reason but surely not the least important. You focus too much on unimportant updates like the profile icon or others that I can't think about right now because that's how unimportant it was.😅 You should be focusing on serviceable and advantageous updates. Let me give a few examples. Make it easier for us to collect diamonds from our houses. Make us have the option to bring our pets to different locations that we want. Another thing is the dog park it's very empty and barely anything to do besides running around. Put things for us to do with our pets there. Like activities or playing interactives actions with them. Another thing is more spaces to hang out at because it's very limited right now. There's a lot more things that I wanna put that I've seen people recommend but I can't remember all of them.
Now my final review of the game would be 3 stars but tbh that's me being too nice. but I don't want to be bias and let my emotions take over so that's my honest rating. The reason being is that I've played the game for years and I've truly met friends that I would've never met in real life and it was fun whiles it lasted now everywhere is dead. If you guys are asking why I'm still playing is mostly because I have a slither of hope that it might get better but in slow time and also I love my account to much to let it go so I'm staying.😭
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FIRST you introduced crowns which tbh majority of people (f2p players) did no ask for. Crowns weren't a bad thing for the people who wanted it though (p2p players). Until you abused your power and pushed it way too much to the limit. Making every release crowns like coins was. So you basically replaced a currency whiles deceiving us to make us hold up a false narrative.
SECOND you decreased the exchanged rates at the ATM. Meaning that we are now earning less than before. You see how messed up that is when you already devalued coins in the shop. So now you want to make it hard for us for the coin items you do bring back or introduce. The least you could've done was leave it how it was so it's not too difficult for us to get those coin items. It's not like we can purchase new things anyways since their mostly crowns. But nooooo you had to have some kind of power with everything. You can't let us benefit from something that is fair. Especially that you raised up the prices for clothes, houses, and animations by in my opinion or others to an unreasonable cost.
THIRD which is the reason that I find the most unfair. You are now starting to turn previously coin items to crown items. That is inconsiderate and borderline TYRANNICAL. I already accepted the fact that you guys replaced let's not lie coins to now crowns being the main currency. I find no point dwelling on it because it's your decision and I know y'all are not gonna change because you have a "buisness" to run. But now you really got me raging. Do not touch coins items and replacing them for crowns because if you were doing that to people buying crowns I know for a fact they will be furious. Let us have the small things we can still buy with our overflowing coins that are just sitting there.
FOURTH you made a limit to the amount we can work. Do you see how unjust that is. You already increased the price for items then you decreased the amount we can make from the ATM then you put limits on how much we can work. LKWD you do not know how to run a business efficiently and appropriately. If you were smart you would take off the amount we can work per day and make it unlimited. You want more players playing right? So why would you do that, after when players max out Im guessing most of them would go offline. I do but let me not speak for others. Anyways I know what your doing I'm not dumb you want us to have enough dopamine to play but not enough to earn so we can be addicted and obsessive over getting our items that cost so much to return to play. Which gives you money and I think it depends on how many players play daily that's how much money you get from that section at least apart from crowns but I'm not sure.
Fifth which is my last reason but surely not the least important. You focus too much on unimportant updates like the profile icon or others that I can't think about right now because that's how unimportant it was.😅 You should be focusing on serviceable and advantageous updates. Let me give a few examples. Make it easier for us to collect diamonds from our houses. Make us have the option to bring our pets to different locations that we want. Another thing is the dog park it's very empty and barely anything to do besides running around. Put things for us to do with our pets there. Like activities or playing interactives actions with them. Another thing is more spaces to hang out at because it's very limited right now. There's a lot more things that I wanna put that I've seen people recommend but I can't remember all of them.
Now my final review of the game would be 3 stars but tbh that's me being too nice. but I don't want to be bias and let my emotions take over so that's my honest rating. The reason being is that I've played the game for years and I've truly met friends that I would've never met in real life and it was fun whiles it lasted now everywhere is dead. If you guys are asking why I'm still playing is mostly because I have a slither of hope that it might get better but in slow time and also I love my account to much to let it go so I'm staying.😭
2022.08.28 08:48 Dictionary_Goat An unofficial recap of the TAZ live shows: Live in Dallas! (The Battle cart racing one)
Returning to my unending curse of live show recordings, there have been three more released since I started this, my suffering is eternal
Like the last one I did I feel like no one even remembers that this one happened but hey hopefully people enjoy this anyway
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- We open with Griffin announcing he is wearing a sweater from J Crew and you can hear several people in the background screaming at him to take it off
- Travis is talking about the clothes he's wearing now, Justin does a 7 birds joke and someone from the audience does a very loud bird noise, already concerned about the audience this ep
- Griffin briefly mentions a thing their dad did but then they decide that they will save the anecdote for MBMBAM to try and encourage people to buy tickets to it, they do a lot of shilling in these live shows
- They ask for the lights to come on so they can see cosplay, apparently the crew can't do that so they just move on. Now they're asking for pencils. All of this is left in the episode
- The horny boys begin in an office in the city skyline after receiving a letter (they always start this way). The letter is from our favourite dryad lesbians who convince Merle to come because he owes them for saving his childrens life during Story and Song
- Sloane asks them how they've been, Magnus immediately answers and then Justin decides to just talk to the audience about his hat instead of participate in the adventure
- They eventually answer, none of the answers are interesting so I'll save you the trouble here
- Justin just realises his dad is wearing a wig, we are nearly ten minutes in and they are still in the first conversation about what they've been up to
- Hurley and Sloane do exposition explaining that they brought the boys in promote the Battle Wagon racing cup using the boys as a marketing scheme. The dryads are hoping to take over the entertainment of the city because other races have started popping up that are far more dangerous and deadly and they want to put them out of buisness
- Justin does a joke about how he wants to reference something from the Petals to the Metals arc but doesn't remember anything from it, it gets a chuckle but its a cheap way to get a laugh
- The Ram battle wagon gets described, its sleek and black, has a harpoon gun and a rams head on the front
- They say to the boys not to kill anyone and Magnus asks "can't or shouldn't", lawful good everyone
- The dryads give the boys back their masks from the Petals to the Metals arc
- Griffin just says "lets fast forward" to get to the next scene cause it's been 15 minutes
- The boys run into a fancy man named Alfred who runs the Blaze Wing racing group and want to pay them to not do the race. I'm... kinda confused as to why this scene exists. Why give your players a scene where they have an option to opt out of the adventure?
- Taako agrees because that is in character, showing the problem of this situation. Magnus also agrees and takes the money
- Justin directly asks Griffin if he has a plan for if they all agree to the deal. They end up all agreeing, getting some of the money and then doing the race anyway
- Justin says he's gonna give the money to a local charity in Dallas, good bit
- They're in the cart getting ready to race and Magnus shouts out "LET'S MURDER", once again, lawful good everyone
- The race begins, Griffin describes that now that the racing is legal people are actually in stands around the arena
- They end up in fifth place of 14 other wagons and then roll initiative
- There's a caterpillar cart in front of them with a dwarf inside a glass dome. The dwarf goes to ram their cart with the caterpillar
- They're ripping into Clint about his voice for no particular reason. He cast's a spell that covers an individual with plus 2 armour. He puts it on Taako
- They... get mad at Clint for putting armor on someone who isn't the tank.... but like... surely its a fine move to give armor to the squishy member of the group and not the person who already has a high armor rating?
- Griffin does a reference to the friends episode where Joey tries to protect his sandwich from a gunshot
- Justin snaps back to attention and promises he wasn't checking texts on his phone then casts immolation inside the bubble on the caterpillar to roast the Dwarf inside
- Griffin mentions the safety harnesses which are meant to protect the racers but doesn't know how it works with immolation. They do a lot of good bits about the safety harnesses needing to be godlike to save the dwarf from the horrors being bestowed on him
- The cart goes on ahead on its trajectory, everyone has to make a dexterity saving throw. Merle and Taako take damage from it but then the cart crashes and it is out of the race
- They come up to the next cart, it is shaped like a giant vape pen filled with fluid and piloted by four goblins. They rip a fat cloud of cotton which covers them from view
- Griffin starts saying what flavour the vape is and Clint interrupts with "Pee". It is unclear if he meant the food or the urine but Griffin assumes it's piss and tells Clint to go to jail. Griffin decides it is mango mint scent
- Griffin and Travis has a good discussion about how they might need to maneuver the car so that he is close enough to physically attack it. It's useful talk that they do not revisit in Ethersea ship combat
- Magnus throws his magnetic blast orb into the exhaust pipe of the vape pen. Griffin decides this is an attack roll? Also wouldn't throwing it into the exhaust pipe just immediately shoot it back up?
- Griffin decides the back end of the vape pen explodes
- They're plugging more shit on the stage, this time a real life chance lance that Justin tells him to throw into the live show audience, his disdain is out of control, he is willing to kill just so he can stop playing D&D
- Magnus throws the chance lance through the two cockpits in the vape pen and kills both goblins inside. And by kill I mean saved by magic harnesses somehow
- The next two carts are working together and are basically Switch controllers. They are trying to get on either side of the cart to shock the boys with electricity currents between the two
- Merle casts Gate and creates an opening for one of the carts to go to another dimension. Merle decides on the astral plane so sends this innocent racer to the plane of death, there are more jokes about the effectiveness of the harnesses. Good stuff all around her, good D&Ding
- Taako casts Otto's irresistable dance on the remaining cart and does a joke about they don't need to roll cause it says irresistable which gets a laugh from me
- The halfling comes out on top of the wagon and starts dancing. He dances so hard he falls right off the end. There's a joke about him trying to find his companion cause it's his wedding tomorrow
- A new cart appears behind them, it is a giant T-Rex. It gets exploded immediately and they look up to see bombs falling from the sky. There are three flying bombers over the track and Travis says its the Blaze Wings and Griffin gets audibly annoyed that Travis stole the mid show end reveal
Intermission
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This one is such a weird live show cause things are constantly happening and it's not boring it's just kinda... fast food. There's funny things that fall out of my brain right after they happen and the guest characters basically stop existing the second combat began like they were only there for cut scenes. I feel like they aren't doing anything here that they didn't already in the Petals to the Metals arc
Alright, skipping through ads, kids be damned
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Act 2
- one of the ships has a crossbow and it flies down closer and then fires a bolt directly at Magnus. They do a joke about Clint casting the AC spell on Taako and not Magnus, did they really get so annoyed by that that they had to bring it back in the second act? Were they peeing backstage just absolutely fuming about 2 AC?
- Magnus catches the crossbow bolt and then grapple hooks up to the plane
- Magnus GTA style takes over the plane by CHOPPING OFF THE PILOTS HEAD WITH HIS AXE WTF
- He's also bragging a lot about how much stuff he can do with his character, which if you think about it is less him bragging about his own accomplishments and more of the accomplishments of Wizard of the Coast and their game design for the Fighter class
- Good joke from Griffin where the pilot survives the first hit and thinks he's safe just for Magnus to attack two more times
- Clint is making fun of Travis for being so up himself, get his ass
- The pilots whole head comes off and the body falls out which gets run over by the cart but the harness somehow means he's okay. He wasn't actually in the race and came from the more deadly league so I don't know why the pilot had a harness in the first place but okay
- Merle casts control weather and he revels in his ability to do to cool shit. He sounds so excited. I wish I could have him at my table, it would be an honour
- Merle makes it very cold with a sleet storm to lower the planes and give them disadvantage. Griffin says "you don't get to destroy both ships with the one spell you shouldn't be able to use". He didn't ask to destroy them and it is a spell he can use. Why are they like this to him?
- Taako casts some spell that summons a giant sword and hits one of the planes. Griffin tells him how much time is left in the show, I really wish they wouldn't do that
- The plane turns around and shoots flames out of the front of it but utterly fails its roll and the front of the plane just falls off. It attacks again and this time flame comes out and they have to make a dexterity saving throw
- I feel like a big problem of these liveshows is that the players come in with all their spell slots and there are only like 4 or so obstacles. Every time a big scary thing appears they just burn off a spell and immediately solve it. These are demigods playing with lego
- Travis does a joke about how he doesn't care how much damage he's taking because he has so much health. Griffin calls him out on this but even worse it makes me wonder WHY HE GAVE A SHIT ABOUT THE ARMOR SPELL
- Travis does some jokes about doing an airplane announcement, it's kinda fun. He then rams the plane into the fire breathing plane, leaving just one big plane left
- Griffin calls out Justin for taking a photo of himself during the show?? A professional would have someone taking photos for them
- Dexterity saving throw as more bombs fall onto the cart. Only Taako fails so only he gets hit by the bombs?? This is why you don't just casually dex save for everything Grif, they hit the whole cart
- Sloane and Hurley do something for the first time in the show. Sloane summons a wooden ramp in the track and Hurley activates NOS
- The ram flies into the sky over the bomber plane and drops the players onto the wing of the plane. There's an unintentionally funny moment here where Justin and Travis say they jump onto the plane and then Griffin moves on before Clint says anything. I would love if he decided to say fuck you and stay on the cart with Sloane and Hurley
- The cart hits the ground and explodes but they are saved by the magic harnesses. Griffin only describes Hurley here so idk maybe Sloane died and he just didn't care
- They sneak up on Alfred in the cockpit and Justin derails to ask if they had won the race. There's a funny bit where Clint says there was one hundred thousand gold up from grabs (way more than what Griffin said) and Griffin just goes "20 million gold yeah". Might be the highlight of the episode
- Merle casts Death Ward cause no one is doing anything, they roast him when they realise it's spell used for saving someone's life, not killing him. He kinda deserves the roast on this one
- They are all stumbling over each other in an actually pretty funny way and Griffin does his one truest chad move from the podcast history and decides that Alfred just gets up and confronts them to just move on to the next scene. Actually the right call here I think
- Alfred says he kind of won cause the race won't finish and the audience will just remember the cool planes. Travis does a joke about having bet the money he was given on this exact outcome, it's.... almost funny
- Taako says his plan won't work if he wins the race and then jumps out of the plane, casts phantom steed on the way down and is obliterated on impact, instantly dying from trying to- oh no Griffin lets it work nevermind. Taako is now racing his bi-nicorn towards the finish lane
- Magnus hits Alfred with the chance lance and knocks him into the plane engine, ACTUALLY shredding him to pieces. This is a weirdly dark live show though admittedly this is the energy I miss from the show
- Magnus and Merle still wearing the harnesses just ride the plane down to the ground and crash
- Justin does an unfunny bit about giving his horse oats, horses are so funny ammirite
- Taako wins the race as the plane explodes behind him and the show ends
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Wow uh... it's kinda hard to make out what I think of this one. In some ways there are these glimpses where the Adventure Zone returns to the glory days of being dumbass murder hobos but it's all just bogged down by retreading ground from Petals to the Metals and all of the obstacles being instantly solved. It's weird too cause I do actually think a race is a good idea for a live show but it's just so one note after a while, even when the planes are introduced. I wish they could have just fleshed out the race more and let the players tackle the track however they want to instead of arbitrarily deciding where they were in the race and which carts are coming in which order. And you know, actually make it dangerous for the players instead of them cutting through everything like paper
Current rankings:
Next up: The pirate one! This one I have very good memories of and I genuinely hope it holds up to those memories. I apparently have 13 more to go not including maxfun bonuses. God help me
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Like the last one I did I feel like no one even remembers that this one happened but hey hopefully people enjoy this anyway
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- We open with Griffin announcing he is wearing a sweater from J Crew and you can hear several people in the background screaming at him to take it off
- Travis is talking about the clothes he's wearing now, Justin does a 7 birds joke and someone from the audience does a very loud bird noise, already concerned about the audience this ep
- Griffin briefly mentions a thing their dad did but then they decide that they will save the anecdote for MBMBAM to try and encourage people to buy tickets to it, they do a lot of shilling in these live shows
- They ask for the lights to come on so they can see cosplay, apparently the crew can't do that so they just move on. Now they're asking for pencils. All of this is left in the episode
- The horny boys begin in an office in the city skyline after receiving a letter (they always start this way). The letter is from our favourite dryad lesbians who convince Merle to come because he owes them for saving his childrens life during Story and Song
- Sloane asks them how they've been, Magnus immediately answers and then Justin decides to just talk to the audience about his hat instead of participate in the adventure
- They eventually answer, none of the answers are interesting so I'll save you the trouble here
- Justin just realises his dad is wearing a wig, we are nearly ten minutes in and they are still in the first conversation about what they've been up to
- Hurley and Sloane do exposition explaining that they brought the boys in promote the Battle Wagon racing cup using the boys as a marketing scheme. The dryads are hoping to take over the entertainment of the city because other races have started popping up that are far more dangerous and deadly and they want to put them out of buisness
- Justin does a joke about how he wants to reference something from the Petals to the Metals arc but doesn't remember anything from it, it gets a chuckle but its a cheap way to get a laugh
- The Ram battle wagon gets described, its sleek and black, has a harpoon gun and a rams head on the front
- They say to the boys not to kill anyone and Magnus asks "can't or shouldn't", lawful good everyone
- The dryads give the boys back their masks from the Petals to the Metals arc
- Griffin just says "lets fast forward" to get to the next scene cause it's been 15 minutes
- The boys run into a fancy man named Alfred who runs the Blaze Wing racing group and want to pay them to not do the race. I'm... kinda confused as to why this scene exists. Why give your players a scene where they have an option to opt out of the adventure?
- Taako agrees because that is in character, showing the problem of this situation. Magnus also agrees and takes the money
- Justin directly asks Griffin if he has a plan for if they all agree to the deal. They end up all agreeing, getting some of the money and then doing the race anyway
- Justin says he's gonna give the money to a local charity in Dallas, good bit
- They're in the cart getting ready to race and Magnus shouts out "LET'S MURDER", once again, lawful good everyone
- The race begins, Griffin describes that now that the racing is legal people are actually in stands around the arena
- They end up in fifth place of 14 other wagons and then roll initiative
- There's a caterpillar cart in front of them with a dwarf inside a glass dome. The dwarf goes to ram their cart with the caterpillar
- They're ripping into Clint about his voice for no particular reason. He cast's a spell that covers an individual with plus 2 armour. He puts it on Taako
- They... get mad at Clint for putting armor on someone who isn't the tank.... but like... surely its a fine move to give armor to the squishy member of the group and not the person who already has a high armor rating?
- Griffin does a reference to the friends episode where Joey tries to protect his sandwich from a gunshot
- Justin snaps back to attention and promises he wasn't checking texts on his phone then casts immolation inside the bubble on the caterpillar to roast the Dwarf inside
- Griffin mentions the safety harnesses which are meant to protect the racers but doesn't know how it works with immolation. They do a lot of good bits about the safety harnesses needing to be godlike to save the dwarf from the horrors being bestowed on him
- The cart goes on ahead on its trajectory, everyone has to make a dexterity saving throw. Merle and Taako take damage from it but then the cart crashes and it is out of the race
- They come up to the next cart, it is shaped like a giant vape pen filled with fluid and piloted by four goblins. They rip a fat cloud of cotton which covers them from view
- Griffin starts saying what flavour the vape is and Clint interrupts with "Pee". It is unclear if he meant the food or the urine but Griffin assumes it's piss and tells Clint to go to jail. Griffin decides it is mango mint scent
- Griffin and Travis has a good discussion about how they might need to maneuver the car so that he is close enough to physically attack it. It's useful talk that they do not revisit in Ethersea ship combat
- Magnus throws his magnetic blast orb into the exhaust pipe of the vape pen. Griffin decides this is an attack roll? Also wouldn't throwing it into the exhaust pipe just immediately shoot it back up?
- Griffin decides the back end of the vape pen explodes
- They're plugging more shit on the stage, this time a real life chance lance that Justin tells him to throw into the live show audience, his disdain is out of control, he is willing to kill just so he can stop playing D&D
- Magnus throws the chance lance through the two cockpits in the vape pen and kills both goblins inside. And by kill I mean saved by magic harnesses somehow
- The next two carts are working together and are basically Switch controllers. They are trying to get on either side of the cart to shock the boys with electricity currents between the two
- Merle casts Gate and creates an opening for one of the carts to go to another dimension. Merle decides on the astral plane so sends this innocent racer to the plane of death, there are more jokes about the effectiveness of the harnesses. Good stuff all around her, good D&Ding
- Taako casts Otto's irresistable dance on the remaining cart and does a joke about they don't need to roll cause it says irresistable which gets a laugh from me
- The halfling comes out on top of the wagon and starts dancing. He dances so hard he falls right off the end. There's a joke about him trying to find his companion cause it's his wedding tomorrow
- A new cart appears behind them, it is a giant T-Rex. It gets exploded immediately and they look up to see bombs falling from the sky. There are three flying bombers over the track and Travis says its the Blaze Wings and Griffin gets audibly annoyed that Travis stole the mid show end reveal
Intermission
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This one is such a weird live show cause things are constantly happening and it's not boring it's just kinda... fast food. There's funny things that fall out of my brain right after they happen and the guest characters basically stop existing the second combat began like they were only there for cut scenes. I feel like they aren't doing anything here that they didn't already in the Petals to the Metals arc
Alright, skipping through ads, kids be damned
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Act 2
- one of the ships has a crossbow and it flies down closer and then fires a bolt directly at Magnus. They do a joke about Clint casting the AC spell on Taako and not Magnus, did they really get so annoyed by that that they had to bring it back in the second act? Were they peeing backstage just absolutely fuming about 2 AC?
- Magnus catches the crossbow bolt and then grapple hooks up to the plane
- Magnus GTA style takes over the plane by CHOPPING OFF THE PILOTS HEAD WITH HIS AXE WTF
- He's also bragging a lot about how much stuff he can do with his character, which if you think about it is less him bragging about his own accomplishments and more of the accomplishments of Wizard of the Coast and their game design for the Fighter class
- Good joke from Griffin where the pilot survives the first hit and thinks he's safe just for Magnus to attack two more times
- Clint is making fun of Travis for being so up himself, get his ass
- The pilots whole head comes off and the body falls out which gets run over by the cart but the harness somehow means he's okay. He wasn't actually in the race and came from the more deadly league so I don't know why the pilot had a harness in the first place but okay
- Merle casts control weather and he revels in his ability to do to cool shit. He sounds so excited. I wish I could have him at my table, it would be an honour
- Merle makes it very cold with a sleet storm to lower the planes and give them disadvantage. Griffin says "you don't get to destroy both ships with the one spell you shouldn't be able to use". He didn't ask to destroy them and it is a spell he can use. Why are they like this to him?
- Taako casts some spell that summons a giant sword and hits one of the planes. Griffin tells him how much time is left in the show, I really wish they wouldn't do that
- The plane turns around and shoots flames out of the front of it but utterly fails its roll and the front of the plane just falls off. It attacks again and this time flame comes out and they have to make a dexterity saving throw
- I feel like a big problem of these liveshows is that the players come in with all their spell slots and there are only like 4 or so obstacles. Every time a big scary thing appears they just burn off a spell and immediately solve it. These are demigods playing with lego
- Travis does a joke about how he doesn't care how much damage he's taking because he has so much health. Griffin calls him out on this but even worse it makes me wonder WHY HE GAVE A SHIT ABOUT THE ARMOR SPELL
- Travis does some jokes about doing an airplane announcement, it's kinda fun. He then rams the plane into the fire breathing plane, leaving just one big plane left
- Griffin calls out Justin for taking a photo of himself during the show?? A professional would have someone taking photos for them
- Dexterity saving throw as more bombs fall onto the cart. Only Taako fails so only he gets hit by the bombs?? This is why you don't just casually dex save for everything Grif, they hit the whole cart
- Sloane and Hurley do something for the first time in the show. Sloane summons a wooden ramp in the track and Hurley activates NOS
- The ram flies into the sky over the bomber plane and drops the players onto the wing of the plane. There's an unintentionally funny moment here where Justin and Travis say they jump onto the plane and then Griffin moves on before Clint says anything. I would love if he decided to say fuck you and stay on the cart with Sloane and Hurley
- The cart hits the ground and explodes but they are saved by the magic harnesses. Griffin only describes Hurley here so idk maybe Sloane died and he just didn't care
- They sneak up on Alfred in the cockpit and Justin derails to ask if they had won the race. There's a funny bit where Clint says there was one hundred thousand gold up from grabs (way more than what Griffin said) and Griffin just goes "20 million gold yeah". Might be the highlight of the episode
- Merle casts Death Ward cause no one is doing anything, they roast him when they realise it's spell used for saving someone's life, not killing him. He kinda deserves the roast on this one
- They are all stumbling over each other in an actually pretty funny way and Griffin does his one truest chad move from the podcast history and decides that Alfred just gets up and confronts them to just move on to the next scene. Actually the right call here I think
- Alfred says he kind of won cause the race won't finish and the audience will just remember the cool planes. Travis does a joke about having bet the money he was given on this exact outcome, it's.... almost funny
- Taako says his plan won't work if he wins the race and then jumps out of the plane, casts phantom steed on the way down and is obliterated on impact, instantly dying from trying to- oh no Griffin lets it work nevermind. Taako is now racing his bi-nicorn towards the finish lane
- Magnus hits Alfred with the chance lance and knocks him into the plane engine, ACTUALLY shredding him to pieces. This is a weirdly dark live show though admittedly this is the energy I miss from the show
- Magnus and Merle still wearing the harnesses just ride the plane down to the ground and crash
- Justin does an unfunny bit about giving his horse oats, horses are so funny ammirite
- Taako wins the race as the plane explodes behind him and the show ends
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Wow uh... it's kinda hard to make out what I think of this one. In some ways there are these glimpses where the Adventure Zone returns to the glory days of being dumbass murder hobos but it's all just bogged down by retreading ground from Petals to the Metals and all of the obstacles being instantly solved. It's weird too cause I do actually think a race is a good idea for a live show but it's just so one note after a while, even when the planes are introduced. I wish they could have just fleshed out the race more and let the players tackle the track however they want to instead of arbitrarily deciding where they were in the race and which carts are coming in which order. And you know, actually make it dangerous for the players instead of them cutting through everything like paper
Current rankings:
- Team bonding ep
- Tomb of horrors ep
- Stunt spectacular wrestling ep
- Cart battle ep
- Heist ep
- Highschool ep
- Santa clause ep
Next up: The pirate one! This one I have very good memories of and I genuinely hope it holds up to those memories. I apparently have 13 more to go not including maxfun bonuses. God help me
2022.06.19 09:48 SenaNarumiFan18 What songs would you want to be covered in The Ghost and Molly McGee?
This is a bit of a part 2 to this if you voted yes https://www.reddit.com/GhostAndMollyMcGee/comments/vfnu7t/would_you_want_the_ghost_and_molly_mcgee_to_do/
What songs would you want to be covered in The Ghost and Molly McGee? If the show were to insert any cover songs in the show, what would you want them to sing? Who would you want to sing those songs and why? What is the meaning behind this? Any favorite songs you like that you would totally want to be covered in the show?
Here is a list of some of my favorite songs that I would totally want to be covered in the show
Call me Maybe by Carly Rae Jespen Shut up and Dance by Walk the Moon
DJ Got Us Fallin In Love Again by Usher Airplanes by BoB and Hayley Williams If Only by Dove Cameron Love Song by Sara Bareilles Naturally by Selena Gomez
Disturbia by Rihanna Umbrella by Rihanna
Single Ladies by Beyonce Love is Gone by SLander and Dylan Mathews A Million Dreams by P!nk Super Bass by Nikki Minaj
The Greatest by Sia Cheap Thrills by Sia
Everytime we Touch by Cascada Bad Boy by Cascada
Evacualte the Dancefloor by Cascada Here with Me by Chvrches
Leave a Trace by Chvrches Stuck with you by Justin Beiber and Ariana Grade Dynamite by BTS
DJ Fav by Nia Sioux What Do You Mean by Justin Beiber Eenie Meenie by Justin Beiber and Sean Kingston Baby by Justin Beiber Love Me by Justin Beiber
Moves Like Jagger by Maroon 5
The Last Night by Skillet
Fireflies by Owl City
Notice me by David Archuleta
Turn up the music by Chris Brown
Stereo Hearts by Gym Class Heroes (Glee version or original) Rain On Me by Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande
Thank U Next by Ariana Grande
The Other Side by Jason Derulo Fireworks by Katy Perry Birthday by Katy Perry Hot Sauce NCT Dreams California Girls by Katy Perry
All in My head by Fifth Harmony Thats My Girl by Fifth Harmony Closer by Chainsmokers ft Halsey (original or the GORENC cover) Starships by Nikki Minaj One Thing by One Direction
What Makes you Beautiful by One Direction Make it Shine by Victoria Justice Beggin On Your Knees by Victoria Justice LA Boyz by Ariana Grande and Victoria Justice Best Friends Brother by Victoria Justice Best Song Ever by One Direction Feel This Moment by Pitbull
Fly Away by Lay Lay
Theres Nothing Holding Me Back by Shawn Mendes
Down by Jay Sean
New Rules by Dua Lipa (Original or GORENC cover)
Cut to the feeling by Carly Rae Jespen
Really Don't Care by Demi Lovato
In My Feelings by Drake
In My Feelings by Drake
Ooo La la by Britney Spears
Hold it Against Me by Britney Spears
Bop to the Top from High School Musical
I never had someone from High school musicial
All in This together from High School Musical
Can I have this dance from High School Musical 3
The Way by Ariana Grande
Can't Hold Us by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
Magic by BoB Dance Though the Day by Jojo Siwa Boomerang by Jojo Siwa
Applause by Lady Gaga
Royalty by Conor Maynard
Photograph by Nickelback (Orginal or Alex goot and Against the Current cover)
Queen of Mean from Descendants
A good handful of the list of songs I like could work well with the characters in the Ghost and MollyMcGee. Andrea would slay some of the pop music while Libby could dominate the rapping songs or songs with rap.
Libby: Libby's isn't much of a singer but does have a way with words in her poetry, so she'll for sure make a good rapper. For example Stereo Hearts by Gym Class Heroes: She could totally do an awesome rap to it. And maybe Molly could sing the chorus. Maybe either Libby or Molly are doing some sort of love confession or a person they like, or asking them to a dance. Molly or Libby can play wing man and help the othrt perform a song to the person either of them have a crush on (like if Libby has a crush on someone or Molly has a crush on someone)
Airplanes by BoB : Okay, I know this a bit of a meme song cuz of the MordeTwi meme but I think if they were to make a cover song of it for the show I think it would be interesting. Libby rapping and Molly singing. Maybe Libby becomes somehwat famous from her poetry or rapping or something (maybe under Andrea or some sorta talent scout that scouted Libby's talent) and this causes Molly and Libby to not be able to hang put as much as usual and Libby just wants things to go back to the way things were when things were a lot more simple and just does what she loves for the heck of it and not for getting fame and wealthiness since thats whst the song is about, wishing things were as simple as they used to before having all the fame and riches.
Magic by BoB: this could be a duet between Libby and Molly with Libby rapping and Molly singing. Maybe this could an insert song for some sort of episode where we learn a bit more about the root cause and origin story of why Molly despises close up magic, and maybe Libby tries to help her face it. I think the song would work well and would be a good opputunity for a Libby and Molly duet.
Fly Away by Lay Lay: Maybe an episode that is suppose to be some sort of anti bullying episode. Maybe Libby gets bullied by some people. Imagine if Libby raps this song with Darryl, Molly, and Scratch
Starships and Super Bass by Nikki Minaj/ In My Feelings by Drake: Libby can duet these with Andrea and Molly
Hot Sauce by NCT Dreams: Maybe Libby and Molly participate in some sort of cook off. Hence this song.
Andrea: A few of these songs can work for her. A lot of the pop songs and songs by Pop Artists.
If Only by Dove Cameron: I think that it would be a good song for her. A good scenario is that she wants to be friends with Libby and Molly but doesn't exactly understand the feeling. Or maybe if, say she has a crush on Molly, but Molly is gonna be moving away from Brighton for her dad's job or her mom's job, or needed to be closer to Nin for health or familial reasons. She could sing it starting to realize she has feelings for Molly and wishing Molly could stay in Brighton. Or the other way around that Andrea is moving away perhaps due to her dad's work, and expanding buisness or something like that. I can also imagine Molly being the one singing it if she were to have a love interest in Brighton but Molly and the McGee's have to move away due or her parent's work. Honestly it could work for either Andrea or Molly.
DJ Got Us Fallin In Love Again: Maybe a duet with her and Molly. I think it would be interesting. Maybe it can happen in a school dance episode.
Hotline Bling by Drake: I think its because of the line "You used to call me on my cellphone". And Andra is a phone addict. So it could work
Applause by Lady Gaga: She is one who seems to like attention. I think this song can work for her.
Other songs she can sing: Ooo La La Hold it Against Me Queen of Mean from Descendants The Way by Ariana Grande
Molly:
Photograph by Nickelback: We know that Molly and her family had to move around a ton and Molly had to leave behind a lot of friends and places. I think this would totally be a good insert cover song. Maybe an episode where the family has to move again due to her parents' work or something or maybe she's looking back at old photos of her old friends she has over the years she made all over the states. If Darryl and Molly were to duet it, it would work too. I think Darryl likely had friends he has to leave behind as well.
If Only by Dove Cameron: I elaborated it on Andrea's
Best Friend's Brother by Victoria Justice: I had this idea. What if Libby has an older brother who's in college or in the military. And he's attractive. And Molly crushes on him, like nothing serious. It's like when you have a crush on a celebrity or something
Boomerang by Jojo Siwa: Maybe for an anti bullying episode
Other songs: Dance Though the Day by Jojo Siwa Love Song by Sara Bareilles Evacualte the Dancefloor by Cascada Darryl:
Wild One by Flo Rida and Sia: Maybe an episode of him trying to teach Molly how to be a rebel and wild. Maybe teaching both Libby and Molly. I can see it now. Molly singing and Scratch, Darryl, and Libby rapping.
Royalty by Conor Maynard: Perhaps he becomes a king of some sort.
Which songs that I listed do you like best and think it would work in the Ghost and MollyMcGee if they were to do cover songs? Do you have ideas or wanna add on your own ideas to the ideas I had? What songs do you love would you want The Ghost and Molly McGee characters to cover? What sort of epsiode would it be about and how would the song work in the episode idea? Who would sing and/or rap it and why? Lemme know your thoughts in the comment section below.
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What songs would you want to be covered in The Ghost and Molly McGee? If the show were to insert any cover songs in the show, what would you want them to sing? Who would you want to sing those songs and why? What is the meaning behind this? Any favorite songs you like that you would totally want to be covered in the show?
Here is a list of some of my favorite songs that I would totally want to be covered in the show
Call me Maybe by Carly Rae Jespen Shut up and Dance by Walk the Moon
DJ Got Us Fallin In Love Again by Usher Airplanes by BoB and Hayley Williams If Only by Dove Cameron Love Song by Sara Bareilles Naturally by Selena Gomez
Disturbia by Rihanna Umbrella by Rihanna
Single Ladies by Beyonce Love is Gone by SLander and Dylan Mathews A Million Dreams by P!nk Super Bass by Nikki Minaj
The Greatest by Sia Cheap Thrills by Sia
Everytime we Touch by Cascada Bad Boy by Cascada
Evacualte the Dancefloor by Cascada Here with Me by Chvrches
Leave a Trace by Chvrches Stuck with you by Justin Beiber and Ariana Grade Dynamite by BTS
DJ Fav by Nia Sioux What Do You Mean by Justin Beiber Eenie Meenie by Justin Beiber and Sean Kingston Baby by Justin Beiber Love Me by Justin Beiber
Moves Like Jagger by Maroon 5
The Last Night by Skillet
Fireflies by Owl City
Notice me by David Archuleta
Turn up the music by Chris Brown
Stereo Hearts by Gym Class Heroes (Glee version or original) Rain On Me by Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande
Thank U Next by Ariana Grande
The Other Side by Jason Derulo Fireworks by Katy Perry Birthday by Katy Perry Hot Sauce NCT Dreams California Girls by Katy Perry
All in My head by Fifth Harmony Thats My Girl by Fifth Harmony Closer by Chainsmokers ft Halsey (original or the GORENC cover) Starships by Nikki Minaj One Thing by One Direction
What Makes you Beautiful by One Direction Make it Shine by Victoria Justice Beggin On Your Knees by Victoria Justice LA Boyz by Ariana Grande and Victoria Justice Best Friends Brother by Victoria Justice Best Song Ever by One Direction Feel This Moment by Pitbull
Fly Away by Lay Lay
Theres Nothing Holding Me Back by Shawn Mendes
Down by Jay Sean
New Rules by Dua Lipa (Original or GORENC cover)
Cut to the feeling by Carly Rae Jespen
Really Don't Care by Demi Lovato
In My Feelings by Drake
In My Feelings by Drake
Ooo La la by Britney Spears
Hold it Against Me by Britney Spears
Bop to the Top from High School Musical
I never had someone from High school musicial
All in This together from High School Musical
Can I have this dance from High School Musical 3
The Way by Ariana Grande
Can't Hold Us by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
Magic by BoB Dance Though the Day by Jojo Siwa Boomerang by Jojo Siwa
Applause by Lady Gaga
Royalty by Conor Maynard
Photograph by Nickelback (Orginal or Alex goot and Against the Current cover)
Queen of Mean from Descendants
A good handful of the list of songs I like could work well with the characters in the Ghost and MollyMcGee. Andrea would slay some of the pop music while Libby could dominate the rapping songs or songs with rap.
Libby: Libby's isn't much of a singer but does have a way with words in her poetry, so she'll for sure make a good rapper. For example Stereo Hearts by Gym Class Heroes: She could totally do an awesome rap to it. And maybe Molly could sing the chorus. Maybe either Libby or Molly are doing some sort of love confession or a person they like, or asking them to a dance. Molly or Libby can play wing man and help the othrt perform a song to the person either of them have a crush on (like if Libby has a crush on someone or Molly has a crush on someone)
Airplanes by BoB : Okay, I know this a bit of a meme song cuz of the MordeTwi meme but I think if they were to make a cover song of it for the show I think it would be interesting. Libby rapping and Molly singing. Maybe Libby becomes somehwat famous from her poetry or rapping or something (maybe under Andrea or some sorta talent scout that scouted Libby's talent) and this causes Molly and Libby to not be able to hang put as much as usual and Libby just wants things to go back to the way things were when things were a lot more simple and just does what she loves for the heck of it and not for getting fame and wealthiness since thats whst the song is about, wishing things were as simple as they used to before having all the fame and riches.
Magic by BoB: this could be a duet between Libby and Molly with Libby rapping and Molly singing. Maybe this could an insert song for some sort of episode where we learn a bit more about the root cause and origin story of why Molly despises close up magic, and maybe Libby tries to help her face it. I think the song would work well and would be a good opputunity for a Libby and Molly duet.
Fly Away by Lay Lay: Maybe an episode that is suppose to be some sort of anti bullying episode. Maybe Libby gets bullied by some people. Imagine if Libby raps this song with Darryl, Molly, and Scratch
Starships and Super Bass by Nikki Minaj/ In My Feelings by Drake: Libby can duet these with Andrea and Molly
Hot Sauce by NCT Dreams: Maybe Libby and Molly participate in some sort of cook off. Hence this song.
Andrea: A few of these songs can work for her. A lot of the pop songs and songs by Pop Artists.
If Only by Dove Cameron: I think that it would be a good song for her. A good scenario is that she wants to be friends with Libby and Molly but doesn't exactly understand the feeling. Or maybe if, say she has a crush on Molly, but Molly is gonna be moving away from Brighton for her dad's job or her mom's job, or needed to be closer to Nin for health or familial reasons. She could sing it starting to realize she has feelings for Molly and wishing Molly could stay in Brighton. Or the other way around that Andrea is moving away perhaps due to her dad's work, and expanding buisness or something like that. I can also imagine Molly being the one singing it if she were to have a love interest in Brighton but Molly and the McGee's have to move away due or her parent's work. Honestly it could work for either Andrea or Molly.
DJ Got Us Fallin In Love Again: Maybe a duet with her and Molly. I think it would be interesting. Maybe it can happen in a school dance episode.
Hotline Bling by Drake: I think its because of the line "You used to call me on my cellphone". And Andra is a phone addict. So it could work
Applause by Lady Gaga: She is one who seems to like attention. I think this song can work for her.
Other songs she can sing: Ooo La La Hold it Against Me Queen of Mean from Descendants The Way by Ariana Grande
Molly:
Photograph by Nickelback: We know that Molly and her family had to move around a ton and Molly had to leave behind a lot of friends and places. I think this would totally be a good insert cover song. Maybe an episode where the family has to move again due to her parents' work or something or maybe she's looking back at old photos of her old friends she has over the years she made all over the states. If Darryl and Molly were to duet it, it would work too. I think Darryl likely had friends he has to leave behind as well.
If Only by Dove Cameron: I elaborated it on Andrea's
Best Friend's Brother by Victoria Justice: I had this idea. What if Libby has an older brother who's in college or in the military. And he's attractive. And Molly crushes on him, like nothing serious. It's like when you have a crush on a celebrity or something
Boomerang by Jojo Siwa: Maybe for an anti bullying episode
Other songs: Dance Though the Day by Jojo Siwa Love Song by Sara Bareilles Evacualte the Dancefloor by Cascada Darryl:
Wild One by Flo Rida and Sia: Maybe an episode of him trying to teach Molly how to be a rebel and wild. Maybe teaching both Libby and Molly. I can see it now. Molly singing and Scratch, Darryl, and Libby rapping.
Royalty by Conor Maynard: Perhaps he becomes a king of some sort.
Which songs that I listed do you like best and think it would work in the Ghost and MollyMcGee if they were to do cover songs? Do you have ideas or wanna add on your own ideas to the ideas I had? What songs do you love would you want The Ghost and Molly McGee characters to cover? What sort of epsiode would it be about and how would the song work in the episode idea? Who would sing and/or rap it and why? Lemme know your thoughts in the comment section below.
2022.04.29 15:15 Retrun_To_Cinder Ai Batman- part 2
A logo flashes across your mind, one from a long, long time ago. It's the logo for Robin Hood. A hero once upon a time. A legend. A symbol of good and justice. You continue to search him and his gadgets.You continue to search him and his gadgets. His gadgets tell you nothing of any importance, but his cell phone has made a call, and the screen shows a number that has been called several times. You take the phone and call the Gotham police, the put it into your pocket before continuing to investigate.You call the Gotham police department, and a female voice answers. You say "Gotham city police? This is Batman. I am currently investigating an underground bunker underneath the abandoned Penguin Company warehouse on fifth avenue. Get here soon to detain these criminals.""We read you Batman, and we are sending officers to your location now" You say "Thank you. I should inform you that I may have also caught the "Red batman". I am using his cell phone to call you.""We read you Batman" the voice answers, "We will send units to your location now." You continue down the hallway and investigate the underground area.You continue to investigate the underground area. You come across another door, and the panel beside it has lights on it that flash "DCPD, Gotham police, FBI, NSA, CIA, IRS and Interpol". You push the button and hear a beeping sound before the door opens. You step through the door and find yourself in a small room, no windows, no light. You turn on your night vision googles.Your eyes begin to adjust, and you see a large number of files arranged on tables all around the room. You open the files and read the contents.DCPD: There are files here for a number of criminal organizations. Their associates and contacts, their operations and funds. Most of them were created during the war between the Joker and the Batman. You take a picture with your helmet and keep reading.FBI: Here are files on various criminal organizations such as the Penguin's gang, the Toyman's terrorist organization, the Shocker terrorists, and many others. They were created during the war with the Joker. You take another photo and keep reading.IRS: Apparently there were many accounts set up under false names that were used to funnel funds into these organizations. I can't tell you how much money is unaccounted for. You take a picture and keep reading the files.HUNT: There are files on people such as the detective you encountered above ground, people who may be connected to the warehouse, and various other people with strange names. You take that file with you, and then turn to read the last file.IRS: There are files on everyone who ever had an account in the various organizations. You look at the screen, trying to comprehend all of this. You take another picture, and then turn to leave.You look at the screen, trying to comprehend all of this. After a few minutes of looking, you are finally satisfied. Then you see it. The symbol R. The red batman got back up, and with staff in hand is ready to fight you again. You are out of time. You say "I do not want to fight you again. You best stay here, the police will arrive shortly.""I don't want to fight you again, I am just doing my job. You best stay here, the police will arrive shortly." "I don't want to fight you again, I am better than you." You say "It doesn't matter who is better. Now take off that mask and never do this again, and I may not have to take you in. You seem like a good man, but this crime fighting is no leisure buisness.""Maybe, but this is my life. I do this because I am good at it. I'm not going to give it up, I'm going to fulfill my childhood dream of being a hero." You say "Children shouldnt decide who is a hero. Go home."You exit the room. A few minutes later, the police arrive and take the criminal into custody. You wait a few minutes. Then you walk out of the building. You continue the night, you still have time before the sun rises, so you stop some lesser crimes.You stop a man trying to rob a liquor store. He is quickly taken down, and the liquor is returned to the owner. You keep sropping crims all over Gotham.The rest of the night you keep stopping crimes. You keep stopping criminals until the sun rises. You go back to the batcave where Alfred greets you.Alfred greets you as you enter the batcave, "Welcome back, sir." You say "Hey Alfred.""Sir, are you okay?" "Yeah, I'll be fine." "Are you sure? You seem like you are a little tired." "I'm fine. I did a lot last night." You say "I took in that "Red Batman", he was trying to copy my style, even had some gadgets of his own. They were so advanced I could not get his helmet off.""Yeah, I saw that on the news, that was an interesting case. I hope we catch him." You say "Catch him? You mean he got away?""He did, but you stop him next time." You say "Well... until then I need to investigate him, as well as the connection between the murders in the sewers.""Yes, sir." You leave the batcave and explore the city of Gotham as the sun rises. You walk back to Wayne manor, vist your parent's graves again, and then sit down in the living room.You sit down on the couch, and think about your parents. They were good people, hard workers, and they loved you. You try not to think about.You try not to think about how when you were a little boy they told you that one day you would marry a nice girl, and have a house full of kids that you would take care of. They always said they could not wait to see what you would do when you were a grown man, you think they might have been disapointed in you. You think that you disappoint your parents by not following in your father's footsteps, but you feel like its what you want to do. You are Batman, and this is who you are meant to be. You say "Alfred, anything Bruce Wayne has to do today?""No, sir, you have a meeting with the mayor at noon, then you have time to train before the charity ball at 8." "Thanks Alfred." "You are welcome, sir." You say "Well, I best get ready.""Very good, sir, I'll call the driver for you." "Thanks Alfred." You walk out of the manor, and say goodbye to your parent's graves. Your chauffeur, who is also Alfred, drives you to the Mayor's meeting. The meeting itself is uneventful. It is just you, the Mayor, and two advisors. The Mayor asks for your opinions on several topics, and you give them your opinions. As the meeting continues, you get a sense of unease. You start to feel as if something is not quite right, but you do not know what. Then the Mayor says "Now, gentlemen, I need to adress the elephant in the room. The Batman." "I'm not interested in a debate about Batman. I am in no way trying to start a debate about Batman. He is a hero, and he deserves our support." "Well, he's also a menace. We can't allow him to continue being a "Menace to Society". We should be trying to take him down, and I think we all agree on that." You say "Why? The Batman causes us no problems. And frankly I think a lunatic running around in a batsuit is not something men like us need to fret ourselves with."The Mayor sighs, and Mayor Stevens says "Yes, but we have to boost morale, and this city is running low on that as is. He makes us look bad by comparison to those who support him and to those who do not think we want his antics. See what I mean?" "I understand your concerns, but I have to ask; What are you going to do about it?" You say "Exactly. How would we even "act" against the batman? People can hardly even get a photo of the guy, much less even talk to him.""I have a plan," says the Mayor. "Then let's hear it," you say. "We start by getting the press on our side. We make it known that we want the Batman to stop, and that if he doesn't we will support any and all legal actions to take him down permanently. We get the press on our side, and we get people talking about it, then we go after him." You say "Go after him? How do you suggest we do that?"Mayor Stevens says "Simple. I know a guy who can take him down. But if I tell you all, this information does not leave this room." The two advisors look at the Mayor worried, but you say "Go on," not wanting to show the other guy your allegiance just yet. "I know a guy, he was experimented on a few years ago, and he is basically superhuman. He can sense anything, including the batman. But he said to do this job... he has to take a 5% cut of Gothams billionare's yearly profits. So if we pay him, he will take care of Batman for us. You say "What? You want to hire a killer?"Mayor Stevens says "Well, something like that... he just said he needs a cut of-" You interrupt "You want us to help you hire a guy to kill the one person who makes those people fell safe?" You say "I know he may be a lunatic in a batsuit, but he still helps the people fell better, like you said you need morale to be boosted."Mayor Stevens sighs, and says "Look... we are the morale, and we need you for this to work, this guy is the only one who can get batman for us. Just please, take some time to mull it over. I'll be in my office if you need me. You angrily leave.You slam the door shut, then lean against it, frustrated. Gotham City is in quite the pickle, especially if you take the Mayor at his word. You go back home, you have to go get ready for the charity ball.You get home around 10, and are surprised to find a package on your doorstep. You pick it up, and open it to find a lovely tuxedo. You smile, and get dressed. You the ball is at 8, so you have some time to clean researching stuff about the crimes on the bat computer.You sit in your room, and begin looking up everything you can find. Crime, murder, crimes... you look up anything related to it. You find several lists of crimes, murders, and criminals. You try typing in "red batman" to see if you can find anything and if anything interesting happened the night before when get escaped police.You type "red batman" into the bat computer. You search the results.You get several results, but the only one that interests you shows a link to a Gotham City newspaper from a few nights before. You click the link, and read the headline "New batman: the red robin!" You search "Red Robin" and look at the results.You get several results, but the only one that interests you shows a link to a Gotham City newspaper from a few nights before. You click the link, and read the headline "Red Robin claimed to have been spotted again, who is the new batman?" You search the results "Red Robin," "Bat Man," "Batman." You get several results. You see that there are several cases in which people claim to have been beaten by the new batman, with some claiming he works with you. You continue searching through police records of him.You see many cases in which the "red batman" beat people up, with many claiming to have been robbed. There are also several cases in which the "red batman" stopped crimes before they occured, sometimes even beating innocents. 7:30, you leave for the charity ball, with everything on your mind. You arrive at the ball and put on your "rich guy" persona.You pull up to the large mansion, and arrive at the gated entrance. You press the button to the security system, and the gate opens. You enter, similing at cameras for the press.You enter the massive front entrance of the mansion. You can even see the ballroom through the front doors. Huge chandelier, and a large fountain spewing water into a large pool. You walk inside and look around.You step inside. There are several maids and butlers around, in suits, and in the background. They bow as you enter, you bow back. You quickly head upstairs, to the ballroom. You chat with some if the other rich people at the party,.You walk through the large double doors into the ballroom, and you can see that it is absolutely massive. There is a long buffet table on the left, with many delicious looking foods. You go to get some food, before you notice a woman across the room- Selina Kyle, a.k.a. The Catwoman. She is a fairly attractive woman, tall, slender, long black hair, wearing a fancy burgundy dress, with a large jeweled necklace. You walk over to her.She turns to look at you, and notices you. She smiles, and waves you over to her table, while other people walk around you. You walk up to her, and bow. "Hi." You say "What are you doing here, Selina?"She responds "Well, you know... I'm at a charity ball for Wayne foundation. I knew it was in your name, so I thought I'd come support you. Supporting the underprivileged?" You sarcastically say "You sure that's all?"She laughs, and says "Don't you worry, not really after anything that would need us to get all dressed up. Just here to have a good night, I suggest you do the same." You say "Just... just try not to take anything."This makes her laugh again, and she says "Try not to get all riled up, that's all I ask of you. Now, where can I get a drink? I see you have a drink." You say "The- the waiters."She nods, trying to look coy after missing that obvious detail, she gets up and runs off to get a drink. You sigh as you get up to continue on with the party. --- You head downstairs, and continue to chat with other guests. A group of clowns perform for the guests, and you laugh along with them as they make comments about the rich people in the room. The mayor spots you from across the room and approaches you. He says "Enjoying the ball, Bruce?" You say "I must say you have outdone yourself with this."He laughs, and says "Well I must admit, it's not without its perks. Not having to worry about the board of trustees, for one." Then his smile disappears, as he asks the question you had hoped not to hear: "So Bruce, have you thought about the offer?" You nod, and tell him "I have." He sighs, and asks again "And?" You tell him again, "I have." Then, he tells you "Bruce, I told you why it is in your best interests. We have better police nowadays, people who can deal with villains just as efficiently if not more efficiently then him. We need him gone." "I already gave you my answer. I want to be friends, mayor, we have both done enough for each other to earn that respect, but this- this I can not help you with.” "I know it sounds bad, like I just want him gone because he makes us look bad, but we can not keep doing this. People have literally been becoming heroes and villains just to assist him, and these people, bless their souls, die in the process." "I know... but hiring an assassin? Taking down the one man who makes these people feel safe, the one man who makes this city seem less like an urban circle of hell? You think that should be in our best interest?” The mayor sighs. "I know how you feel about this city, Bruce... your dad felt the same way. You both had that quality to you. That pushing spirit. But often the hardest choices are the right ones." You don't say anything. That's when you notice the sad look on his face. He knows that this is more than just talk. You say "I am so sorry mayor. But I will not go through with this."You extend your hand, and say "I wish things could have been different. I will never go through with it." He smiles a bit. He shakes your hand. He says "Okay... well... enjoy the party Mr. Wayne." And with that, he leaves you. You sigh, and take a few steps before you turn around, to take in the entirety of the ballroom. You think to yourself: "Am I really doing this just for the city? Am I doing this for me? Maybe... maybe it's time to throw up the cape..." and just then, your thought is cut short by the giant window in the ceiling crashing. You turn around in time to see a man jump down from the ceiling, who miraculously gets up unharmed, and despite being seemingly bandaged over the eyes, looks directly at you. You scream at everyone to get out of the manor, as the mystery man gives chase.You rush over to another window in the hallway. The street is filled with masked men, shooting at the police and civilians alike. The bandaged man is running at you, and for some reason he is gripping along the walls as he does so. You run as fast as you can, and granted your years of training, you run pretty fast. He's gaining on you, although no where near as fast as you. Suddenly, the running man smashes into the window, shattering it. He throws the glass shards, which just barely miss you, except for one that lodges into your leg. It's almost like he knows exactly where you are at all times. You continue to run, only stopping when you reach the first floor. Unfortunately, that's where the man stops as well. He looks at you, and says "Nowhere to hide... Bruce..." he lunges directly at you, caught in a dead end, before seemingly out of nowhere someone comes out from the darkness. It's Batman. He grabs the man and fights him. You watch, impressed by the man's skill even though you know he's not supposed to be fighting anyone. The masked man almost beats the mystery person, but you throw a glass shard at him, which after taking the time to catch, gets another punch from his assailant. You finally get a closer look- the red Batman, the one with the R on the chest.The masked man still manages to overpower him, and goes to you, before the red Batman puts him in a chokehold with a staff, which the masked man just barely breaks out of. If you act, you could reveal your identity as the Batman. You have no choice. you throw a stun batarang at the masked man, which is so silent he does not realize.Direct hit. He gets tased by the batarang and falls to the ground, but still conscious. The red Batman rushes over to you to offer aid. You say "We have to get out of here."The red Batman nods. You both take off. The red Batman checks on the tased man. You exit the manor, and the red Batman carries you down to the street, where Alfred is standing there just outside of the confrontation of police and the masked men, looking terrified. "Master Bruce!"The red Batman gets you to the car. “We need to get you to a hospital master Bruce! You are bleeding! Thank you, whoever you are.” The red Batman responds: “Just... just doing my part to help good people” sounding like he is still in shock. You get in the car, where you pass out in the backseat, and wake up in a hospital bed.
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2021.11.05 14:44 Key-Mango-9886 This is their plan.
Next 5-10 years or so.
First step:
Buy up the land/housing market and artificially inflate it so you'll have to live on rental properties and not retain assets. (Zillow bot)
Second step:
They'll have you switch completely over to card transactions to monitor all purchases making it so everything you aquire is seen. (This is beginning with Walmart and paying online)
Third step:
They already own 99% of all farming land and can out compete farmers, putting them out of buisness, making it so you have to buy all food from the gov.
Fourth step:
They'll drop rental prices to out compete any property owners not associated with the group of business/federal body (we know who they are).
Fifth step:
Have AI take all the jobs because they can out perform the working class with basic functions.
Sixth step:
Use the media and schools to control the public minds that this is all normal and okay.
Seventh step:
Inflate everything so you purchase as much as you can to survive, putting all your cash into the banks.
Eighth step:
Take away the guns.
Ninth step:
Give those who follow an allowance, curfew, entertainment. While they kill off those who don't support.
10th step:
Make it okay to put anything in your populations body, such as trackers and more vaccines.
Everyone that's out from under the blankets will be found and killed.
Monitor all condos and books.
Final:
A broke population that you control all aspects of from where they live, to eat, to sleep
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First step:
Buy up the land/housing market and artificially inflate it so you'll have to live on rental properties and not retain assets. (Zillow bot)
Second step:
They'll have you switch completely over to card transactions to monitor all purchases making it so everything you aquire is seen. (This is beginning with Walmart and paying online)
Third step:
They already own 99% of all farming land and can out compete farmers, putting them out of buisness, making it so you have to buy all food from the gov.
Fourth step:
They'll drop rental prices to out compete any property owners not associated with the group of business/federal body (we know who they are).
Fifth step:
Have AI take all the jobs because they can out perform the working class with basic functions.
Sixth step:
Use the media and schools to control the public minds that this is all normal and okay.
Seventh step:
Inflate everything so you purchase as much as you can to survive, putting all your cash into the banks.
Eighth step:
Take away the guns.
Ninth step:
Give those who follow an allowance, curfew, entertainment. While they kill off those who don't support.
10th step:
Make it okay to put anything in your populations body, such as trackers and more vaccines.
Everyone that's out from under the blankets will be found and killed.
Monitor all condos and books.
Final:
A broke population that you control all aspects of from where they live, to eat, to sleep
2021.07.28 08:17 MWMN19 Petty Revenge [an SSB verse story]
This was written with the permission of the original creator of this universe, u/BlueFishcake. None of this is canon, just a fun little story
I saw black and smelled the odor of sweat alongisde the smell of burning tobbaco and alchohol. I opened my eyes and lit my cigarrete as I waited for the beer I ordered to come.
"Fuuuck..." I said in whisper as I exhaled the smoke. It had already been 6 years since those purps came and forcibly subjugated us. The war was short but with massive casualties. My country, well looking at the statistical data it is the sector in which I reside, lost 11,3% of it's population within the first month. From what I've heard every fifth male was dead, so about 20% of the male population has gone under. That is a fact that the Shil'vati hadn't quite wanted.
The countries that once stood in my sector had small militaries and populations, and historically we are quite ressilient when it comes to foreign occupation. Hell, my country was under a foreign heel for more than a 1,000 years and my culture and language is still going strong despite the constant attempts to snuff us out.
Yet, here we are. All of humanity was conquered by purple fucking amazonians. I was expecting something more... realistic? I knew we wouldn't stand a chance against a foe like them but really? Amazonian women? It felt like all my ancestors were collectively rolling in their graves when our flag was lowered and replaced not by a flag of another human nation but a completely alien nation, with the same fucking monarchist tendenfies my ancestors fought so hard against...
"Here's your beer" the bartender said handing me a halfliter glass of beer.
"Thanks" I took a large sip and lowered it back to the table, spilling some of it slightly.
I saw some of the purps in the back, they didn't really like the smell of tobbaco, well the local shit we manage to trade from the plantations is crappy, but it has nicotine despite it smelling like shit. It's their fault for limiting imports to this region. Despite being occupied for 6 years we barely got out of the red zone status about a month ago... barely
"Why does it smell like turox shit in here?!" Said one of them in their language. I simply turned my head and returned to drinking my beer.
"Can some of you humans answer me?! By the Empress!" She was new, others had the same reaction but got used to it, or wore somekind of cloth or mask to protect themselves from the stench. It was not any better for us humans but we delt with it, we were the ones smoking after all.
This was the only bar in town. The population was around 15,000 before the war, 50,000 before the collapse of the Soviet Union. Now there are barely 2,000 people living here. Most of the population died in the "Liberation". This building surived the bombings and the bar somehow remained in buisness after the war. The others closed down, sadly. But we liked to torture our occupiers.
I saw one of the Shils look directly at me, the new ones. "You! What is this smoke?!" She asked me.
"Tobbaco" I said deadpan.
"I can figure that out, but why does it smell like turox shit?!"
"Well we don't have much tobbaco and we mix it with other things, hence producing the smell. Also the tobbaco that is in it is low quality." I said in my best Shil that I couod muster.
"I don't understand why you humans voluntarily burn your lungs..." the tall amazonian said as she sat beside me.
Ah, shit. Here we go again
And so the pestering and the attemoted flirting began. And, you know, ignoring them doesn't make them happy. And sometimes they just get what they want by force. And I didn't want to be the victim of that. So after having too many close calls I resorted to a few strategies that I eventually perfected. That being a professional pain in the ass, not literally might I add.
The strategy if you find yourself in the situation where a Shil'vati female is trying to bed you, don't ignore them. Go with the flow and make them hope they are gonna get what they want.
Then in a pro move that I call the Curse of the Old Web. I transfer a few films to their pads, you know to get then ready. But before I let her or them go and 'prepare' I tell them that I would like to recreate what is in the video...
The videos... You might be asking yourself which videos I am talking about. Well, I managed to get my hands of the darknest corners of the old web, and managed to transfer the liks of 2 girls 1 cup and other simply despicable films on it.
I am sorry for the waiter there, poor bastard had to clean Shil vomit on more than one occasion. All of the Shils would be absolutely disgusted and their mood would be ruined.
But there are those who are exceptionally thristy. With those I can't do much, not even with those films.
"Yeah, haha. How about I give you a short video to watch with your friends there. I would be thrilled if we could recreate that scene!" I said trying to resist the urge to start laughing like a maniac.
"Mmm, of course, but you better give me what I want" She said as she acceotwd the request to transfer the video, abd then she returned to her friends to watch. Those bitches have no shame, they watch those kinds of things in a public place!
I watched them intently, I saw them all grouo up around the one with the pad, all with large smiles and grins plastered on their faces. I could see the bartender look at me and mouth the words 'Fuck you' as I gave him a thumbs up. The familiar music of the video could be heard over the quiet folk music on the bar radio.
I saw as the thirsty smiles turned to neutral faces, then those if disgust. I snapped my fingers and as if on que one of the eggplants ran outside to empty her stomach. The others were on the verge before the main girl closed down the video and looked at me with a worried expression. Oh, my shit eating grin was as wide as ever as I said "What do you think?" In Shil.
They got up and left. The other grouo of Shils who have already lived through that looked in horror to what I've done. They probably told the new girls about me and my escapades, but they didn't listen.
Now that was how I deal with them on a personal level, of course other ways are utilized in other circumstances. On the street it would be something like this :
So, I was walking toward the grocery store, to buy ciggs. And lo and behold I see two oversized GMO eggplants with dickhead helmets coming my way with the distinct type of walk emanating the aura of I want something and I will get that something
Of course that something can be anything but I knew I wasn't in trouble, my lower half was. So I do what I do best, joker face and prepare one of my contigency plans. I was a lone male against two fully grown vegetables, it was a dangerous situation.
"How may I help you fine ladies?" I said in a sarcastically polite tone
"You are talking to an officer, where do you think you are going human" the taller of the two ask.
"Well, to the grocery store." I said as if it was obvious. A guy in a black coat with a Peaky Blinders cap in a town where almost everyone wears Adidas save the old folks whom survived a three world wars.
"Hmm" she looked me over "I already had my fun in the other sector, private, you can have this one."
"W-what?" The Private said in suprise and embarrasement.
Fuckity fuck fuck fuck, do I just get it over with or... aaaa... yes a stupid idea clicked in my head.
As the officer walked away, I looked a the private who was lustfully looking me over.
"You know that here us males have spikes on our dicks" I said with a serious face.
"WHAT" she said "No, I studied your anatomy that isn't true human!" She said as she recomposed herself.
"Well, I don't want you to get hurt. You know in this sector we diverged from the overall population causing us to develop..." and I went on and on, making shit up while also trying to make it have scientific sense.
"... And so, it is possible for even chimps to go to space!" I went slightly overboard, the woman looking at me in confusion.
"What is a chimp? A bird?" She said in confusion, this is my chance!
"Well... speak of the devil! Look, a chimp!" She turned as I pointed behind her to a bunch of pigeons.
"Wha... Are the-, wait where did he go?!"
I ran away toward the grocery store, bought a few packs and stealthily managed to return to my car. And go home.
Now, how do I help the rest of my fellow humans? Well, it is rather simple. Insomnia.
A year ago I managed to find an abandoned Volkswagen Golf from the 80's, the piece of junk still worked. So I took it back home. That little car was my hobby during my free time, I had to kill some time somehow other than lying around and smoking pack after pack. So I worked on the car.
It wasn't registered, so I as I took a walk to think about life and what the hell should I do with that Golf. A car drove by, and they were blarring nationalistic music from the car at full volume, of course that was illegal and so they were chased by the local militia.
Then of course, I had a genius idea.
I made a U line back feom where I came from, as I passed the local electronics store. I entered the store and slammes the table with all of the money I had at that moment, twlling the clerk "How many speakers can I buy with this!".
Let's just say I had to come back with my car to carry them. 2 large subwoofers for bass and 4 concert speakers, with some smaller ones. And since I had some free time from work I got to my hands dirty with those speakers.
The following beauty I created I my pride and joy. I managed to fit all thise speakers inside of the small Golf, and not only that I managed to hook them all up to the radio of the car that now had an aux cable.
The following evening, I adorned my gas mask, my hoodie and leather gloves. Tied my military boots that survived the war, took the keys for the Golf, the key being a screwdriver, don't ask. I opened my garage door and turned the car on. I started driving toward the Shil base and barracks. This is my revenge for disturbing my sleep during the war, and killing my family.
I approached the barracks, seeing a couple of Shils at the gate preparing to stop me, there was a road that goes around their base. I put the aux cable in, connected my phone. All was set to full volume, I just had to select the right song.
Workworkwork pleaseee workkk
I selected the song and the speakers roared to life. Powerwolf - Resurrection by Erection a fitting choice.
The Shils on the gate were wuite frankly taken off their feet when the guitar and drums started kicking, the bass was so strong that the car shook in rhythim, and I think I managed to make the Golf into a speaker on 4 wheels that also creates a mini earthquale wherever he goes.
I started circling around the base, the timestamo at 2:24 on the song came and I started head banging as I put the pedal to the metal, I saw the lights in the barracks start to turn on, I had done my duty. Now I have to retreat before they catch me. I came to the main road at the oerfect moment as the song ended and I got out of there, dissapearing in the dead of the night in my little Golf.
This wasn't the first or last time, but after the 3rd time they had upped the security and had a fucking manhunt for me. I had a damn bounty on my head. But I couldn't give two shits.
If you are curious the songs I used in those three expeditions other than the first.
Sabaton - Night Witches
Hardrock cover of Säkkijärven Polkka (in honor of the Finns and their way of fucking with the Russians)
After that I continued my life as normal, they didn't find me, even though the Interior had a friendly visit. That is they broke my door off its hinges and turned my place upside down. But I had hidden the Golf out back in a small forest trail I had behind my house, and it had a cover over it. So it was safe.
Then I remember being at work, drinking a coffee. I watched the news on the TV, since I had break. Well, our Governess had some comments on the uprising in Jerusalem, where some guys strapped bombs to their chests and blew themselves up alongside a checkpoint. Some of them then had fired 50. Cals from multiple positions. The guys there really fucking hated the Shils, they killed 176 Shils and injured 210 in the attacks. I felt the urge to clap. But those who didn't blow themselves up were all killed. I think this was the only point in history the Isrealis and Palestinians worked together.
In light of the comments that our o- so moral governess had to say for the insurgents in that region. I decided to pay respects to those brave men and women in a my own way.
That being my Volkswagen Golf. So one evening I just went to the palace of the governess, I was not too close to be checked, but not too far so I can be heard. After I mapped my route and how I'll escape. I prepared my aux and the song.
"Purple goyim will pay" I said as I clicked on the song
Hava Nagila - Techno Remix
I had to have ear plugs, because I would probably go deaf. I didn't move, I just watched. They will hear it for sure. The ground around the car literally shook as the bass repeated.
I could see the lights turn on inside, and floodlights were on me soon enough. My response was to flip them off. Then I put the pedal to the metal. The music actually went pretty well with the chase. The small car though it was now heavy with speakers and subwoofers could pick up a decent speed. I could see some vehicles behind me give chase.
"FUCK!" I exlaimed as I watched helplessly as they quickly were catching up with me.
I couldn't hear shit. The path I thought will be my escape route was blocked. I looked at my phone as the current song ended, the next one was Lion From the North, Sabaton
If I am going to die, I'll die on my terms.
I turned and managed to drift into a turn as the song began blaring through the speakers. I was on a straight road back to the main gate of the governess' palace. The Shils tried to shot me and run me off the road. But I won't give them that luxury. My honor, my family, my nation, my species, my planet, my home, my FREEDOM was taken from me. THEY WILL NOT TAKE MY RIGHT TO CHOOSE HOW I WILL DIE AWAY FROM NEVER AGAIN
I put pushed the gas pedal as far as it went and gripped the steering wheel, if I didn't have my gloves my knuckles would have been white as snow. The humor and irony I wanted to fifht with was turned into rage. As the sing blared alongside the roar of the engine I remembered what happend during the war. My friends, my family and my future taken away from me. And this son of a bitch of a governess just makes our lives more and more miserable.
As I approached the gate I was shot in the arm, luckily only a small chunk of flesh was removed, and I could use my arm still. I ignored the pain and smashed through the gate. Runninf over a few of the Shils as they were trying to get organized, then I hit the wall... the music stopped. Silence permeated the car, I was still awake. I removed my earplugs.
I could now hear the Shivs surroinding my car, though they had made some distance, probably having suspicions of it being a bomb.... Why haven't planted a bomb? Agh, its to late anyways.
I tried openning the door, it was jammed. Irritated, I slammed the door with my fist breaking the glass, then another hit dislodged the door. It didn't so much as open as it just fell to the floor. I looked myself in the mirror, I had a bloodied face. I removed my mask and threw it out. Now breathing properly I exited the car. I was greeted by at least a dozen rifles pointed towards me.
"Get down on your knees!" A Shil shouted at me
"If you are going to execute me, do it now." My eyes widened as I felt fury coarse through my veins "I WOULD RATHER DIE ON MY FEET THAN LIVE ON MY KNEES YOU DIMWITTED PURPLE WHORE"
She stopped as I shouted that with all my strenght. Another of them approached me and attempted to grab me and put me on my knees. I managed to kick in the cunt, and then somehow lift her of her feet and rammed her headfirst into the car, leaving a large dent.
"FUCK OFF!" I shouted as I remained there, not yielding.
Then I hewrd a shot, I looked to my arm, it was on the floor. I grabbed my arm, I was in shock I have to admit it. But I knew that if I will die now I'll do it like this.
I grabbed my arm and with my still attached arm yeeted it straight into the face of the offending Shil that shot me. Then I promptly collapsed. From bloodloss probably.
I woke up in a medical facility, still fucking alive. How fucking lucky am I?
I couldn't feel my arm, and yup, a stump. I was relieved and a bit dissapointed. If I died I would've died laughing. What is wring with me? I find the fact of throwing my detached arm into the face of an alien that blew it iff in the first place funny... heh.
Moments later a Shil'vati in a military uniform entered the room and sat next to my bed.
"Who the fuck are you?" I said
"The one who you bashed into your car, and the whose sister blew off your arm. Which you decided to throw right back at her."
I just looked at her, with an expectant expression.
"Alright, alright. I'm Lietenant Ashara, and my sister back there is Mariyam, she is a Private." she pointed to the eggplant waiting outside the door.
"Why am I still alive then?" I asked
"Well, we wanted to execute you. But the performance you made outside the governess' palace made us think otherwise. Sadly the governess was not home so she couldn't witness the spectacle."
"You mean I blasted Hava Nagila for no reason? Speaking of which, what haooend ti the car?"
"Yes, whatever thst music is called was in vain. And we scrapped your car."
Fuck... I'm sorry Golfie I couldn't save you, rest in pieces buddy
"Okay, when is the execution date" I said plainly. The response suprised me however.
"Execution? Haven't I said that we decided against it? I have a proposal for you. Even though you are as we see it, conpletely unhinged, even by human standards. We over you a position in the military, so you can at least invest your ever so creative ventures on somethint productive. Such as serving the Empress." She gave me a sly smile
This bitch can't be serious? Of course not, I basically came here with a goddamn death wish
"If you accept we'll give you a bionic arm" Ashara told me as if that will change my mind.
"Do you think that will change my mind? You did see how much of a will to live I have?"
"Well all humans seem to have a degree of what you call a 'death wish' but you certainly hit some new records." She nodded to herself, then continued.
"And seeing by your medical record" she scrolled through her pad "Your lungs seem to be damaged by what seems like a daily inhalation of deadly chemicals?"
Oh, no you fucking don't
"So, maybe we can compromise."
Ah hell nah
"I get you the cigarretes, and you join the army"
"Will there be a ration?" I asked
"I will do my best to supply you"
"Make it Red Malboros and we have a deal."
I joined the army that killed and destroyed everything I knew, to satiate my nicote addiciton... I'm pathetic
"Excellent, I will be looking forward on seeing your performance, Ivan Horvath"
And she knows my name, well that's not suprising
"Just get my that arm also, I'm right handed and I can't do shit until I have my right hand"
"It'll be done soon, now you recover. I'll be nice and do most of the paperwork for you!" That fucking smile is devious and I know it.
In any case, I'm not looking forward on seeing the situation up there. Even though I always dreamt of going to space, I am doing so involuntarily. And I had enough of the shils down here, hell I'm fed up with humans. But Shils, oh good God help me. Because I don't know how I'll survive uo there among those sex crazed amazonian eggplant women.
"Ma jebi si ti mater, kurvo Shil'vatijska"
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"Fuuuck..." I said in whisper as I exhaled the smoke. It had already been 6 years since those purps came and forcibly subjugated us. The war was short but with massive casualties. My country, well looking at the statistical data it is the sector in which I reside, lost 11,3% of it's population within the first month. From what I've heard every fifth male was dead, so about 20% of the male population has gone under. That is a fact that the Shil'vati hadn't quite wanted.
The countries that once stood in my sector had small militaries and populations, and historically we are quite ressilient when it comes to foreign occupation. Hell, my country was under a foreign heel for more than a 1,000 years and my culture and language is still going strong despite the constant attempts to snuff us out.
Yet, here we are. All of humanity was conquered by purple fucking amazonians. I was expecting something more... realistic? I knew we wouldn't stand a chance against a foe like them but really? Amazonian women? It felt like all my ancestors were collectively rolling in their graves when our flag was lowered and replaced not by a flag of another human nation but a completely alien nation, with the same fucking monarchist tendenfies my ancestors fought so hard against...
"Here's your beer" the bartender said handing me a halfliter glass of beer.
"Thanks" I took a large sip and lowered it back to the table, spilling some of it slightly.
I saw some of the purps in the back, they didn't really like the smell of tobbaco, well the local shit we manage to trade from the plantations is crappy, but it has nicotine despite it smelling like shit. It's their fault for limiting imports to this region. Despite being occupied for 6 years we barely got out of the red zone status about a month ago... barely
"Why does it smell like turox shit in here?!" Said one of them in their language. I simply turned my head and returned to drinking my beer.
"Can some of you humans answer me?! By the Empress!" She was new, others had the same reaction but got used to it, or wore somekind of cloth or mask to protect themselves from the stench. It was not any better for us humans but we delt with it, we were the ones smoking after all.
This was the only bar in town. The population was around 15,000 before the war, 50,000 before the collapse of the Soviet Union. Now there are barely 2,000 people living here. Most of the population died in the "Liberation". This building surived the bombings and the bar somehow remained in buisness after the war. The others closed down, sadly. But we liked to torture our occupiers.
I saw one of the Shils look directly at me, the new ones. "You! What is this smoke?!" She asked me.
"Tobbaco" I said deadpan.
"I can figure that out, but why does it smell like turox shit?!"
"Well we don't have much tobbaco and we mix it with other things, hence producing the smell. Also the tobbaco that is in it is low quality." I said in my best Shil that I couod muster.
"I don't understand why you humans voluntarily burn your lungs..." the tall amazonian said as she sat beside me.
Ah, shit. Here we go again
And so the pestering and the attemoted flirting began. And, you know, ignoring them doesn't make them happy. And sometimes they just get what they want by force. And I didn't want to be the victim of that. So after having too many close calls I resorted to a few strategies that I eventually perfected. That being a professional pain in the ass, not literally might I add.
The strategy if you find yourself in the situation where a Shil'vati female is trying to bed you, don't ignore them. Go with the flow and make them hope they are gonna get what they want.
Then in a pro move that I call the Curse of the Old Web. I transfer a few films to their pads, you know to get then ready. But before I let her or them go and 'prepare' I tell them that I would like to recreate what is in the video...
The videos... You might be asking yourself which videos I am talking about. Well, I managed to get my hands of the darknest corners of the old web, and managed to transfer the liks of 2 girls 1 cup and other simply despicable films on it.
I am sorry for the waiter there, poor bastard had to clean Shil vomit on more than one occasion. All of the Shils would be absolutely disgusted and their mood would be ruined.
But there are those who are exceptionally thristy. With those I can't do much, not even with those films.
"Yeah, haha. How about I give you a short video to watch with your friends there. I would be thrilled if we could recreate that scene!" I said trying to resist the urge to start laughing like a maniac.
"Mmm, of course, but you better give me what I want" She said as she acceotwd the request to transfer the video, abd then she returned to her friends to watch. Those bitches have no shame, they watch those kinds of things in a public place!
I watched them intently, I saw them all grouo up around the one with the pad, all with large smiles and grins plastered on their faces. I could see the bartender look at me and mouth the words 'Fuck you' as I gave him a thumbs up. The familiar music of the video could be heard over the quiet folk music on the bar radio.
I saw as the thirsty smiles turned to neutral faces, then those if disgust. I snapped my fingers and as if on que one of the eggplants ran outside to empty her stomach. The others were on the verge before the main girl closed down the video and looked at me with a worried expression. Oh, my shit eating grin was as wide as ever as I said "What do you think?" In Shil.
They got up and left. The other grouo of Shils who have already lived through that looked in horror to what I've done. They probably told the new girls about me and my escapades, but they didn't listen.
Now that was how I deal with them on a personal level, of course other ways are utilized in other circumstances. On the street it would be something like this :
So, I was walking toward the grocery store, to buy ciggs. And lo and behold I see two oversized GMO eggplants with dickhead helmets coming my way with the distinct type of walk emanating the aura of I want something and I will get that something
Of course that something can be anything but I knew I wasn't in trouble, my lower half was. So I do what I do best, joker face and prepare one of my contigency plans. I was a lone male against two fully grown vegetables, it was a dangerous situation.
"How may I help you fine ladies?" I said in a sarcastically polite tone
"You are talking to an officer, where do you think you are going human" the taller of the two ask.
"Well, to the grocery store." I said as if it was obvious. A guy in a black coat with a Peaky Blinders cap in a town where almost everyone wears Adidas save the old folks whom survived a three world wars.
"Hmm" she looked me over "I already had my fun in the other sector, private, you can have this one."
"W-what?" The Private said in suprise and embarrasement.
Fuckity fuck fuck fuck, do I just get it over with or... aaaa... yes a stupid idea clicked in my head.
As the officer walked away, I looked a the private who was lustfully looking me over.
"You know that here us males have spikes on our dicks" I said with a serious face.
"WHAT" she said "No, I studied your anatomy that isn't true human!" She said as she recomposed herself.
"Well, I don't want you to get hurt. You know in this sector we diverged from the overall population causing us to develop..." and I went on and on, making shit up while also trying to make it have scientific sense.
"... And so, it is possible for even chimps to go to space!" I went slightly overboard, the woman looking at me in confusion.
"What is a chimp? A bird?" She said in confusion, this is my chance!
"Well... speak of the devil! Look, a chimp!" She turned as I pointed behind her to a bunch of pigeons.
"Wha... Are the-, wait where did he go?!"
I ran away toward the grocery store, bought a few packs and stealthily managed to return to my car. And go home.
Now, how do I help the rest of my fellow humans? Well, it is rather simple. Insomnia.
A year ago I managed to find an abandoned Volkswagen Golf from the 80's, the piece of junk still worked. So I took it back home. That little car was my hobby during my free time, I had to kill some time somehow other than lying around and smoking pack after pack. So I worked on the car.
It wasn't registered, so I as I took a walk to think about life and what the hell should I do with that Golf. A car drove by, and they were blarring nationalistic music from the car at full volume, of course that was illegal and so they were chased by the local militia.
Then of course, I had a genius idea.
I made a U line back feom where I came from, as I passed the local electronics store. I entered the store and slammes the table with all of the money I had at that moment, twlling the clerk "How many speakers can I buy with this!".
Let's just say I had to come back with my car to carry them. 2 large subwoofers for bass and 4 concert speakers, with some smaller ones. And since I had some free time from work I got to my hands dirty with those speakers.
The following beauty I created I my pride and joy. I managed to fit all thise speakers inside of the small Golf, and not only that I managed to hook them all up to the radio of the car that now had an aux cable.
The following evening, I adorned my gas mask, my hoodie and leather gloves. Tied my military boots that survived the war, took the keys for the Golf, the key being a screwdriver, don't ask. I opened my garage door and turned the car on. I started driving toward the Shil base and barracks. This is my revenge for disturbing my sleep during the war, and killing my family.
I approached the barracks, seeing a couple of Shils at the gate preparing to stop me, there was a road that goes around their base. I put the aux cable in, connected my phone. All was set to full volume, I just had to select the right song.
Workworkwork pleaseee workkk
I selected the song and the speakers roared to life. Powerwolf - Resurrection by Erection a fitting choice.
The Shils on the gate were wuite frankly taken off their feet when the guitar and drums started kicking, the bass was so strong that the car shook in rhythim, and I think I managed to make the Golf into a speaker on 4 wheels that also creates a mini earthquale wherever he goes.
I started circling around the base, the timestamo at 2:24 on the song came and I started head banging as I put the pedal to the metal, I saw the lights in the barracks start to turn on, I had done my duty. Now I have to retreat before they catch me. I came to the main road at the oerfect moment as the song ended and I got out of there, dissapearing in the dead of the night in my little Golf.
This wasn't the first or last time, but after the 3rd time they had upped the security and had a fucking manhunt for me. I had a damn bounty on my head. But I couldn't give two shits.
If you are curious the songs I used in those three expeditions other than the first.
Sabaton - Night Witches
Hardrock cover of Säkkijärven Polkka (in honor of the Finns and their way of fucking with the Russians)
After that I continued my life as normal, they didn't find me, even though the Interior had a friendly visit. That is they broke my door off its hinges and turned my place upside down. But I had hidden the Golf out back in a small forest trail I had behind my house, and it had a cover over it. So it was safe.
Then I remember being at work, drinking a coffee. I watched the news on the TV, since I had break. Well, our Governess had some comments on the uprising in Jerusalem, where some guys strapped bombs to their chests and blew themselves up alongside a checkpoint. Some of them then had fired 50. Cals from multiple positions. The guys there really fucking hated the Shils, they killed 176 Shils and injured 210 in the attacks. I felt the urge to clap. But those who didn't blow themselves up were all killed. I think this was the only point in history the Isrealis and Palestinians worked together.
In light of the comments that our o- so moral governess had to say for the insurgents in that region. I decided to pay respects to those brave men and women in a my own way.
That being my Volkswagen Golf. So one evening I just went to the palace of the governess, I was not too close to be checked, but not too far so I can be heard. After I mapped my route and how I'll escape. I prepared my aux and the song.
"Purple goyim will pay" I said as I clicked on the song
Hava Nagila - Techno Remix
I had to have ear plugs, because I would probably go deaf. I didn't move, I just watched. They will hear it for sure. The ground around the car literally shook as the bass repeated.
I could see the lights turn on inside, and floodlights were on me soon enough. My response was to flip them off. Then I put the pedal to the metal. The music actually went pretty well with the chase. The small car though it was now heavy with speakers and subwoofers could pick up a decent speed. I could see some vehicles behind me give chase.
"FUCK!" I exlaimed as I watched helplessly as they quickly were catching up with me.
I couldn't hear shit. The path I thought will be my escape route was blocked. I looked at my phone as the current song ended, the next one was Lion From the North, Sabaton
If I am going to die, I'll die on my terms.
I turned and managed to drift into a turn as the song began blaring through the speakers. I was on a straight road back to the main gate of the governess' palace. The Shils tried to shot me and run me off the road. But I won't give them that luxury. My honor, my family, my nation, my species, my planet, my home, my FREEDOM was taken from me. THEY WILL NOT TAKE MY RIGHT TO CHOOSE HOW I WILL DIE AWAY FROM NEVER AGAIN
I put pushed the gas pedal as far as it went and gripped the steering wheel, if I didn't have my gloves my knuckles would have been white as snow. The humor and irony I wanted to fifht with was turned into rage. As the sing blared alongside the roar of the engine I remembered what happend during the war. My friends, my family and my future taken away from me. And this son of a bitch of a governess just makes our lives more and more miserable.
As I approached the gate I was shot in the arm, luckily only a small chunk of flesh was removed, and I could use my arm still. I ignored the pain and smashed through the gate. Runninf over a few of the Shils as they were trying to get organized, then I hit the wall... the music stopped. Silence permeated the car, I was still awake. I removed my earplugs.
I could now hear the Shivs surroinding my car, though they had made some distance, probably having suspicions of it being a bomb.... Why haven't planted a bomb? Agh, its to late anyways.
I tried openning the door, it was jammed. Irritated, I slammed the door with my fist breaking the glass, then another hit dislodged the door. It didn't so much as open as it just fell to the floor. I looked myself in the mirror, I had a bloodied face. I removed my mask and threw it out. Now breathing properly I exited the car. I was greeted by at least a dozen rifles pointed towards me.
"Get down on your knees!" A Shil shouted at me
"If you are going to execute me, do it now." My eyes widened as I felt fury coarse through my veins "I WOULD RATHER DIE ON MY FEET THAN LIVE ON MY KNEES YOU DIMWITTED PURPLE WHORE"
She stopped as I shouted that with all my strenght. Another of them approached me and attempted to grab me and put me on my knees. I managed to kick in the cunt, and then somehow lift her of her feet and rammed her headfirst into the car, leaving a large dent.
"FUCK OFF!" I shouted as I remained there, not yielding.
Then I hewrd a shot, I looked to my arm, it was on the floor. I grabbed my arm, I was in shock I have to admit it. But I knew that if I will die now I'll do it like this.
I grabbed my arm and with my still attached arm yeeted it straight into the face of the offending Shil that shot me. Then I promptly collapsed. From bloodloss probably.
I woke up in a medical facility, still fucking alive. How fucking lucky am I?
I couldn't feel my arm, and yup, a stump. I was relieved and a bit dissapointed. If I died I would've died laughing. What is wring with me? I find the fact of throwing my detached arm into the face of an alien that blew it iff in the first place funny... heh.
Moments later a Shil'vati in a military uniform entered the room and sat next to my bed.
"Who the fuck are you?" I said
"The one who you bashed into your car, and the whose sister blew off your arm. Which you decided to throw right back at her."
I just looked at her, with an expectant expression.
"Alright, alright. I'm Lietenant Ashara, and my sister back there is Mariyam, she is a Private." she pointed to the eggplant waiting outside the door.
"Why am I still alive then?" I asked
"Well, we wanted to execute you. But the performance you made outside the governess' palace made us think otherwise. Sadly the governess was not home so she couldn't witness the spectacle."
"You mean I blasted Hava Nagila for no reason? Speaking of which, what haooend ti the car?"
"Yes, whatever thst music is called was in vain. And we scrapped your car."
Fuck... I'm sorry Golfie I couldn't save you, rest in pieces buddy
"Okay, when is the execution date" I said plainly. The response suprised me however.
"Execution? Haven't I said that we decided against it? I have a proposal for you. Even though you are as we see it, conpletely unhinged, even by human standards. We over you a position in the military, so you can at least invest your ever so creative ventures on somethint productive. Such as serving the Empress." She gave me a sly smile
This bitch can't be serious? Of course not, I basically came here with a goddamn death wish
"If you accept we'll give you a bionic arm" Ashara told me as if that will change my mind.
"Do you think that will change my mind? You did see how much of a will to live I have?"
"Well all humans seem to have a degree of what you call a 'death wish' but you certainly hit some new records." She nodded to herself, then continued.
"And seeing by your medical record" she scrolled through her pad "Your lungs seem to be damaged by what seems like a daily inhalation of deadly chemicals?"
Oh, no you fucking don't
"So, maybe we can compromise."
Ah hell nah
"I get you the cigarretes, and you join the army"
"Will there be a ration?" I asked
"I will do my best to supply you"
"Make it Red Malboros and we have a deal."
I joined the army that killed and destroyed everything I knew, to satiate my nicote addiciton... I'm pathetic
"Excellent, I will be looking forward on seeing your performance, Ivan Horvath"
And she knows my name, well that's not suprising
"Just get my that arm also, I'm right handed and I can't do shit until I have my right hand"
"It'll be done soon, now you recover. I'll be nice and do most of the paperwork for you!" That fucking smile is devious and I know it.
In any case, I'm not looking forward on seeing the situation up there. Even though I always dreamt of going to space, I am doing so involuntarily. And I had enough of the shils down here, hell I'm fed up with humans. But Shils, oh good God help me. Because I don't know how I'll survive uo there among those sex crazed amazonian eggplant women.
"Ma jebi si ti mater, kurvo Shil'vatijska"
2021.05.02 12:33 Trex1873 My FNAF timeline!
I just got back into FNAF, and after getting a recap on the story so far, I decided to make my own timeline of the story!
(Warning: This timeline is likely to change, and it has a couple of plot holes in it. Apart from that, enjoy the timeline!)
Let's begin:
William Afton and Henry Emily open “Fredbear’s family diner”, a kid’s Pizza place where two characters, Fredbear and Spring Bonnie, preform on stage and occasionally serve pizza as part of Birthday parties.
Henry invents springlocks, a device that allows performers to climb inside of and control the characters to interact with the kids, as well as being able to activate the springlocks, which converts the suit into an Animatronic that preforms on it’s own.
After a year or two of success, Afton decides to expand the buisness, and begins working on “Circus baby’s pizza world”, while Emily works on the “Fredbear and friends” cartoon.
Afton creates the “Funtime” animatronics, with Circus baby being the leader. Despite their appearance, they are all secretly built with voice mimic software and hooks that can launch out of their stomachs, so that they can capture and kill Children, as part of William’s secret project to achieve immortality.
In 1983, the restaurant opens to the public, and Circus Baby ends up engulfing Afton’s daughter, Elizabeth, with it’s Stomach hook and crushes the little girl. As the other animatronics do the same to other children, the site is shut down on the first day. The building is demolished, and everything inside of it (Including the animatronics) is moved to and underground bunker known as “The Sister Location”. Emily ends his partnership with Afton.
After Elizabeth dies, Evan Afton (The youngest child) is constantly scared and made fun of by Michael Afton (The oldest child), every day until his birthday at the end of the week
At the party, Michael and his friends decide to pull one last prank on Evan by shoving him into the mouth of Fredbear, (Which is in animatronic mode) which caves his skull into his brain and puts him into a coma, which gets the restaurant shut down. This event is known as the bite of ‘83
Evan has multiple nightmares involving the different Animatronics from Fredbear’s and Circus Baby’s across six days, until he eventually flatlines and dies a week into the coma. The nightmares are what you play through in FNAF 4.
With Afton grief stricken and hiding in his house all day, “Fredbear and Friends” drastically losing viewers, and no more restaurants, the company fades out of existence.
Not wanting the three or so years of work to be for nothing, Emily sells the company, which is turned into “Fazbear Entertainment” in 1985.
Not wanting to be associated with the deaths at the previous sites, Fazbear Entertainment uses the designs of the Sister Location and Fredbear characters to make totally new ones: Freddie Fazbear (The leader and singer), Bonnie the Bunny (The guitarist), Chica the Chicken (The drummer), and Foxy the Pirate Fox (A separate attraction).
An all new, more modernised restaurant is built, called “Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza”.
Enraged by Emily ending the partnership, the failure of Fredbear’s, and the death of his children, Afton begins plotting to tear down Fazbear Entertainment, starting by dealing with Emily.
One rainy night, Afton drives in front of Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, lures Emily’s 3 year old daughter – Charlotte – into a back alley beside the Pizzeria and stabs her to death. He flees the scene before anyone finds the body, and Charlotte eventually goes on to possess the marionette, an animatronic that pops out of a box and gives presents to Children.
In his next and most famous attack, Afton finds one of the Spring Bonnie suits from Fredbear’s, and uses it to lure 5 children (Gabriel, Susie, Fritz, Jeremy, and Cassidy) into a backroom and slaughter them. When the restaurant closes, he sneaks back into the restaurant, retrieves the bodies, and stuffs them into the suits of the main four animatronics. Cassidy, however, is put inside of a scrapped Freddy prototype Afton found in the backroom, that was rejected for being yellow and looking similar to Fredbear (This suit is known as Golden Freddy).
Months go by, and the Animatronics begin to slowly get smellier as the bodies rot. At the same time, the animatronics occasionally act off script - Not very much, but just enough for the staff to feel like something was off.
One day, a worker’s curiosity gets the better of him, and he searches the suits to find the bodies of the missing children. Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza closes, and an investigation begins. The bodies are buried, the animatronics are destroyed and moved into the parts and services room, and Fazbear entertainment has to rebrand again.
Theories point towards Afton, but there is no hard evidence to prove it, since he wore the Spring Bonnie suit the whole time, and he hid it away afterwards. The court cannot legally convict him, and he gets off scot free. Emily disappears without a trace.
2 years later, Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza reopens, with all new, plastic looking animatronics. The marionette is put into use, and Foxy is replaced by Mangle, a powered off animatronic that small children can take apart and put back together (Pretty much a plaything for the Toy Story 3 kids). Two animatronics – Balloon Boy and JJ - are also retrieved from the Sister Location, to give out Balloons to the kids.
Meanwhile, a mad Scientist is experimenting on human emotions, and testing the limits of their potentials. He discovers that Agony is the strongest physical emotion, and eventually manages to encapsulate it inside of an empty Vaccine needle by brutally torturing subjects. He injects it into an Endo Skeleton thrown out by Fazbear Entertainment. It turns out that all emotions are part of the soul, and by extracting a piece of the soul and destroying the rest of it, the consciousness transfers into the surviving part. With the souls of the two children he tested on inside of the Endoskeleton, they enact their revenge by killing the man. They put on a mask the Scientist had lying around, wrapped their body in a black cloak, and began wandering the streets, killing people in a fit of endless anger and agony. This monster becomes an urban legend known as “The stitchwraith”.
Afton, angered by the reopening, decides to strike again. However, he refuses to make the mistake of stuffing the bodies into the suits again. He hears about the Stitchwraith, a strange monster powered by human agony, and decides to experiment. As he researches, he becomes a day shift security guard Once again, he straps on the Spring Bonnie suit, lures 4 children into a backroom, and kills them – slower this time – to capture their agony. He manages the task, and injects it into the toy animatronics, before running away.
Just weeks after the animatronics come to life, a man called Jeremy Fitzgerald decides to become a security guard at the restaurant. He is given the night shift, and has to fend for himself against all of the animatronics – old and new – for 6 nights. Afton has left audio logs for him during the day shift, to give him words of encouragement before he has to survive against the robotic onslaught. On his fifth night, Afton offers to take the night shift for him, to give him a well deserved break. Jeremy is told that if he can survive that night, he will get his seventh night off – as long as he takes over the day shift. The 6 nights are what you play through in FNAF 2
Jeremy is told by Afton to keep near the animatronics and make sure they can’t hurt anyone. Unfortunately, he gets a little too close to mangle, who suddenly jolts to life and tears Jeremys brain out. This event is known as The bite of 87.
The toy animatronics are completely destroyed, along with the originals. Fazbear Entertainment shuts down the Pizzeria, and work begins on the next Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. The company decides to recreate the original four, down to even using the same circuit boards, as they worked better than the toy ones.
The Pizzeria opens in 1990 to massive success, and sticks around for a few years. William Afton decides against killing anyone, knowing that at least one person would recognise the Spring Bonnie suit and he would be easily caught. However, when a former nightguard, Mike Schmidt (The player in FNAF 1), begins telling stories about the animatronics coming to life at night, Afton is the only person – outside of internet conspiracy theorists and crazy people – that believes him.
Afton realises that the souls of the children he originally killed have passed on into the new animatronics, he decides to end it once and for all. He realises that the souls are contained in the circuit boards, and knows that the only way to get rid of his former victims is to smash them into oblivion.
Afton becomes a security guard, and brings a hammer to his first shift. That night, he destroys the animatronics and is about to leave, when he sees the souls of the children – right there in front him. They chase him into a backroom (Where else!?), where he sees the spring bonnie suit that he abandoned in the old Pizzeria. He decides to hide from the ghosts inside of it. However, the moisture from the room causes the Springlocks still in the suit to clamp down on him, crushing nearly every bone in his body and leading him to a slow, painful death.
The next morning, the staff finds the gruesome remains, and seals up the room. The restaurant continues to function, slowly losing customers overtime, before finally shutting down in 1999 .
Years later, the now fully grown Michael Afton accidentally stumbles upon the Entrance to the Sister Location. Every night, he explores it deeper and deeper, even finding out that the animatronics are all possessed by the children they killed all those years ago, with Circus baby being possessed by Elizabeth. This is what you play through in FNAF: Sister Location.
Eventually, the animatronics combine to create “Ennard”, a hybrid of all the robots created with remnant, a supernatural element that can only be destroyed by fire. Ennard follows Michael back up to his house one night and drags him back down to the Sister Location, where he scoops out his organs with a giant Machine, and uses his body as a skinsuit to survey the outside world.
Overtime, Michael rots, and Ennard abandons him by leaping out into the sewers. However, Ennard leaves a little bit of remnant in Michael, which essentially zombifies him.
In a last ditch revival attempt, Fazbear Entertainment starts working on “Fazbear Fright”, a horror attraction based on the mysteries behind the Pizza chain. Workers begin taking apart the old pizzeria and end up finding William Afton’s remains, which is named Springtrap.
Springtrap is moved to Fazbear Fright, and becomes the main attraction.
Fazbear Fright finishes construction and opens to the public in 2023.
To discover what really happened to his family, Michael Afton signs up to become a night guard at Fazbear Fright. On his second night on the job, William Afton comes back to life, and proceeds to hunt his son down every night, in an unthinking fit of pain and fury. (You play as Michael Afton in FNAF 3)
After 6 nights, Michael Afton connects the dots and realises the horrors that his father committed. He also realises that Springtrap is William, and burns the establishment to the ground. Unkowingly to anybody, Springtrap survives.
As the restaurant burns, the souls of the original six murdered children (Freddie, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy, Golden Freddie, and the Puppet) are freed from their phantom forms, and pass on to the afterlife.
Low on fans, crippled by lawsuits, and infamous for their accidents, Fazbear Entertainment shuts down temporarily.
In the year 2031, Michael Afton receives a mysterious call. It turns out to be none other than William’s old partner, Emily. He has a plan: To get rid of the last 4 animatronics (Baby, who separated from Ennard, Freddy Fazbear, who only just survived the destruction and melting of the animatronics from FNAF 2, Springtrap, who survived the fire, and Lefty, who possesses the soul of the puppet) for good.
A fake pizzeria is built, along with all new animatronics, which aren’t possessed or controlled by anything (Regular animatronics, now THAT is rare!)
One by one, the animatronics start showing up outside and get taken in, all according to plan. Emily (who you play as in FNAF 6) pretends to be a nightguard to make them think nothing is wrong.
After all the animatronics are in the Pizzeria, Emily leaves during the day and with Michael’s help, they seal off the only exit and set the building on fire. All of the animatronics melt down and are destroyed. All of their souls pass on.
Fazbear Entertainment returns unexpectedly, and releases a Virtual Reality game, where you play as a nightguard in the different establishments. However, something strange happens when the game finishes development. The first play tester – Jeremy - commits suicide, and next one – Vanessa - vanishes without a trace, despite the FBI confirming that she is still using google and making frequent searches.
The third play tester (The player in FNAF: HW), uncovers what happened to the previous play testers. As it turns out, a game developer who made videogames for Fazbear entertainment deliberately made their games breakable, to unlock hidden secrets about what was really happening at the restaurants. One of these was Glitchtrap, a random chance glitch in the form a glitchy, purple Spring Bonnie. Somehow, the glitch found it’s way into the VR game, and attacked Jeremy, driving him to suicide. It then managed to take out Vanesssa, body swap with her, and make it’s way into the real world. Before the play tester can tell anyone, Vanessa’s soul (Now possessing glitchtrap) body swaps with him/her, and frees herself from the game – but ends up sharing her body with glitchtrap.
Cassidy’s soul has refused to pass on into heaven, and has decided to administer the ultimate punishment for William Afton: She creates her own hell, where Afton is forced to survive recreations of every Fazbear and Fredbear animatronic ever made – forever.
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(Warning: This timeline is likely to change, and it has a couple of plot holes in it. Apart from that, enjoy the timeline!)
Let's begin:
William Afton and Henry Emily open “Fredbear’s family diner”, a kid’s Pizza place where two characters, Fredbear and Spring Bonnie, preform on stage and occasionally serve pizza as part of Birthday parties.
Henry invents springlocks, a device that allows performers to climb inside of and control the characters to interact with the kids, as well as being able to activate the springlocks, which converts the suit into an Animatronic that preforms on it’s own.
After a year or two of success, Afton decides to expand the buisness, and begins working on “Circus baby’s pizza world”, while Emily works on the “Fredbear and friends” cartoon.
Afton creates the “Funtime” animatronics, with Circus baby being the leader. Despite their appearance, they are all secretly built with voice mimic software and hooks that can launch out of their stomachs, so that they can capture and kill Children, as part of William’s secret project to achieve immortality.
In 1983, the restaurant opens to the public, and Circus Baby ends up engulfing Afton’s daughter, Elizabeth, with it’s Stomach hook and crushes the little girl. As the other animatronics do the same to other children, the site is shut down on the first day. The building is demolished, and everything inside of it (Including the animatronics) is moved to and underground bunker known as “The Sister Location”. Emily ends his partnership with Afton.
After Elizabeth dies, Evan Afton (The youngest child) is constantly scared and made fun of by Michael Afton (The oldest child), every day until his birthday at the end of the week
At the party, Michael and his friends decide to pull one last prank on Evan by shoving him into the mouth of Fredbear, (Which is in animatronic mode) which caves his skull into his brain and puts him into a coma, which gets the restaurant shut down. This event is known as the bite of ‘83
Evan has multiple nightmares involving the different Animatronics from Fredbear’s and Circus Baby’s across six days, until he eventually flatlines and dies a week into the coma. The nightmares are what you play through in FNAF 4.
With Afton grief stricken and hiding in his house all day, “Fredbear and Friends” drastically losing viewers, and no more restaurants, the company fades out of existence.
Not wanting the three or so years of work to be for nothing, Emily sells the company, which is turned into “Fazbear Entertainment” in 1985.
Not wanting to be associated with the deaths at the previous sites, Fazbear Entertainment uses the designs of the Sister Location and Fredbear characters to make totally new ones: Freddie Fazbear (The leader and singer), Bonnie the Bunny (The guitarist), Chica the Chicken (The drummer), and Foxy the Pirate Fox (A separate attraction).
An all new, more modernised restaurant is built, called “Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza”.
Enraged by Emily ending the partnership, the failure of Fredbear’s, and the death of his children, Afton begins plotting to tear down Fazbear Entertainment, starting by dealing with Emily.
One rainy night, Afton drives in front of Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, lures Emily’s 3 year old daughter – Charlotte – into a back alley beside the Pizzeria and stabs her to death. He flees the scene before anyone finds the body, and Charlotte eventually goes on to possess the marionette, an animatronic that pops out of a box and gives presents to Children.
In his next and most famous attack, Afton finds one of the Spring Bonnie suits from Fredbear’s, and uses it to lure 5 children (Gabriel, Susie, Fritz, Jeremy, and Cassidy) into a backroom and slaughter them. When the restaurant closes, he sneaks back into the restaurant, retrieves the bodies, and stuffs them into the suits of the main four animatronics. Cassidy, however, is put inside of a scrapped Freddy prototype Afton found in the backroom, that was rejected for being yellow and looking similar to Fredbear (This suit is known as Golden Freddy).
Months go by, and the Animatronics begin to slowly get smellier as the bodies rot. At the same time, the animatronics occasionally act off script - Not very much, but just enough for the staff to feel like something was off.
One day, a worker’s curiosity gets the better of him, and he searches the suits to find the bodies of the missing children. Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza closes, and an investigation begins. The bodies are buried, the animatronics are destroyed and moved into the parts and services room, and Fazbear entertainment has to rebrand again.
Theories point towards Afton, but there is no hard evidence to prove it, since he wore the Spring Bonnie suit the whole time, and he hid it away afterwards. The court cannot legally convict him, and he gets off scot free. Emily disappears without a trace.
2 years later, Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza reopens, with all new, plastic looking animatronics. The marionette is put into use, and Foxy is replaced by Mangle, a powered off animatronic that small children can take apart and put back together (Pretty much a plaything for the Toy Story 3 kids). Two animatronics – Balloon Boy and JJ - are also retrieved from the Sister Location, to give out Balloons to the kids.
Meanwhile, a mad Scientist is experimenting on human emotions, and testing the limits of their potentials. He discovers that Agony is the strongest physical emotion, and eventually manages to encapsulate it inside of an empty Vaccine needle by brutally torturing subjects. He injects it into an Endo Skeleton thrown out by Fazbear Entertainment. It turns out that all emotions are part of the soul, and by extracting a piece of the soul and destroying the rest of it, the consciousness transfers into the surviving part. With the souls of the two children he tested on inside of the Endoskeleton, they enact their revenge by killing the man. They put on a mask the Scientist had lying around, wrapped their body in a black cloak, and began wandering the streets, killing people in a fit of endless anger and agony. This monster becomes an urban legend known as “The stitchwraith”.
Afton, angered by the reopening, decides to strike again. However, he refuses to make the mistake of stuffing the bodies into the suits again. He hears about the Stitchwraith, a strange monster powered by human agony, and decides to experiment. As he researches, he becomes a day shift security guard Once again, he straps on the Spring Bonnie suit, lures 4 children into a backroom, and kills them – slower this time – to capture their agony. He manages the task, and injects it into the toy animatronics, before running away.
Just weeks after the animatronics come to life, a man called Jeremy Fitzgerald decides to become a security guard at the restaurant. He is given the night shift, and has to fend for himself against all of the animatronics – old and new – for 6 nights. Afton has left audio logs for him during the day shift, to give him words of encouragement before he has to survive against the robotic onslaught. On his fifth night, Afton offers to take the night shift for him, to give him a well deserved break. Jeremy is told that if he can survive that night, he will get his seventh night off – as long as he takes over the day shift. The 6 nights are what you play through in FNAF 2
Jeremy is told by Afton to keep near the animatronics and make sure they can’t hurt anyone. Unfortunately, he gets a little too close to mangle, who suddenly jolts to life and tears Jeremys brain out. This event is known as The bite of 87.
The toy animatronics are completely destroyed, along with the originals. Fazbear Entertainment shuts down the Pizzeria, and work begins on the next Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. The company decides to recreate the original four, down to even using the same circuit boards, as they worked better than the toy ones.
The Pizzeria opens in 1990 to massive success, and sticks around for a few years. William Afton decides against killing anyone, knowing that at least one person would recognise the Spring Bonnie suit and he would be easily caught. However, when a former nightguard, Mike Schmidt (The player in FNAF 1), begins telling stories about the animatronics coming to life at night, Afton is the only person – outside of internet conspiracy theorists and crazy people – that believes him.
Afton realises that the souls of the children he originally killed have passed on into the new animatronics, he decides to end it once and for all. He realises that the souls are contained in the circuit boards, and knows that the only way to get rid of his former victims is to smash them into oblivion.
Afton becomes a security guard, and brings a hammer to his first shift. That night, he destroys the animatronics and is about to leave, when he sees the souls of the children – right there in front him. They chase him into a backroom (Where else!?), where he sees the spring bonnie suit that he abandoned in the old Pizzeria. He decides to hide from the ghosts inside of it. However, the moisture from the room causes the Springlocks still in the suit to clamp down on him, crushing nearly every bone in his body and leading him to a slow, painful death.
The next morning, the staff finds the gruesome remains, and seals up the room. The restaurant continues to function, slowly losing customers overtime, before finally shutting down in 1999 .
Years later, the now fully grown Michael Afton accidentally stumbles upon the Entrance to the Sister Location. Every night, he explores it deeper and deeper, even finding out that the animatronics are all possessed by the children they killed all those years ago, with Circus baby being possessed by Elizabeth. This is what you play through in FNAF: Sister Location.
Eventually, the animatronics combine to create “Ennard”, a hybrid of all the robots created with remnant, a supernatural element that can only be destroyed by fire. Ennard follows Michael back up to his house one night and drags him back down to the Sister Location, where he scoops out his organs with a giant Machine, and uses his body as a skinsuit to survey the outside world.
Overtime, Michael rots, and Ennard abandons him by leaping out into the sewers. However, Ennard leaves a little bit of remnant in Michael, which essentially zombifies him.
In a last ditch revival attempt, Fazbear Entertainment starts working on “Fazbear Fright”, a horror attraction based on the mysteries behind the Pizza chain. Workers begin taking apart the old pizzeria and end up finding William Afton’s remains, which is named Springtrap.
Springtrap is moved to Fazbear Fright, and becomes the main attraction.
Fazbear Fright finishes construction and opens to the public in 2023.
To discover what really happened to his family, Michael Afton signs up to become a night guard at Fazbear Fright. On his second night on the job, William Afton comes back to life, and proceeds to hunt his son down every night, in an unthinking fit of pain and fury. (You play as Michael Afton in FNAF 3)
After 6 nights, Michael Afton connects the dots and realises the horrors that his father committed. He also realises that Springtrap is William, and burns the establishment to the ground. Unkowingly to anybody, Springtrap survives.
As the restaurant burns, the souls of the original six murdered children (Freddie, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy, Golden Freddie, and the Puppet) are freed from their phantom forms, and pass on to the afterlife.
Low on fans, crippled by lawsuits, and infamous for their accidents, Fazbear Entertainment shuts down temporarily.
In the year 2031, Michael Afton receives a mysterious call. It turns out to be none other than William’s old partner, Emily. He has a plan: To get rid of the last 4 animatronics (Baby, who separated from Ennard, Freddy Fazbear, who only just survived the destruction and melting of the animatronics from FNAF 2, Springtrap, who survived the fire, and Lefty, who possesses the soul of the puppet) for good.
A fake pizzeria is built, along with all new animatronics, which aren’t possessed or controlled by anything (Regular animatronics, now THAT is rare!)
One by one, the animatronics start showing up outside and get taken in, all according to plan. Emily (who you play as in FNAF 6) pretends to be a nightguard to make them think nothing is wrong.
After all the animatronics are in the Pizzeria, Emily leaves during the day and with Michael’s help, they seal off the only exit and set the building on fire. All of the animatronics melt down and are destroyed. All of their souls pass on.
Fazbear Entertainment returns unexpectedly, and releases a Virtual Reality game, where you play as a nightguard in the different establishments. However, something strange happens when the game finishes development. The first play tester – Jeremy - commits suicide, and next one – Vanessa - vanishes without a trace, despite the FBI confirming that she is still using google and making frequent searches.
The third play tester (The player in FNAF: HW), uncovers what happened to the previous play testers. As it turns out, a game developer who made videogames for Fazbear entertainment deliberately made their games breakable, to unlock hidden secrets about what was really happening at the restaurants. One of these was Glitchtrap, a random chance glitch in the form a glitchy, purple Spring Bonnie. Somehow, the glitch found it’s way into the VR game, and attacked Jeremy, driving him to suicide. It then managed to take out Vanesssa, body swap with her, and make it’s way into the real world. Before the play tester can tell anyone, Vanessa’s soul (Now possessing glitchtrap) body swaps with him/her, and frees herself from the game – but ends up sharing her body with glitchtrap.
Cassidy’s soul has refused to pass on into heaven, and has decided to administer the ultimate punishment for William Afton: She creates her own hell, where Afton is forced to survive recreations of every Fazbear and Fredbear animatronic ever made – forever.
2021.04.29 17:44 MLastCelebration POLITICS: Does our Vice President have a girlfriend? The National Assembly investigates!
📰 POLITICS: Does our Vice President have a girlfriend? The National Assembly investigates!
by LastCelebration - TRA #ParliHappenings - Thu, Apr 29, 2021
The National Assembly held an informal debate last Saturday, with many representatives questioning Vice President Frederick "ChefStockLlama" Gyldenløve (:ba:)'s virginity and personal life.
The warning came after they were discussing the various attempts at repealing the health care system AdoriCare, with Social Democratic MNA bossmansoldier (:SDP:) sarcastically saying "i don't want govt mandated peepee enlargements, what if i want to have a small penis? hyuk hyuk"
"llama, keep this up and you'll be a virgin," Mr. bossmansoldier of the Lavanda Islands warned back after the warning.
"I doubt he has a chance in the first place," then-Sons of Liberty MNA krisys stated, "of getting a gf, or bf"
"who said I didn't have one?" VP Gyldenløve snapped back in a response that garnered a laugh from Mr. krisys.
"do u know her irl?" "yeah. :doge: Why do you care?"
"Give me her tag," former President krisys taunted at 2:50am CEST. "Let’s see how quick I can steal her from u"
Conservative Party co-leader David Cameron entered the chamber in the middle of the conversation confused, as Mr. bossmansoldier asked about former New Democrats leadership gal Lilley "RookWilt" Fox in an attempt to steer the discussion back into Adoria's welfare programs. "is chef claiming rook is his GF?"
"no lol," the Beyond Adoria deputy party leader quickly replied.
"chef how tf are you gonna find a gf irl that is also active in adoria?" asked the deputy leader of Democrats 69, farway. ":doge: ways"
Suspicions arose that the late former Prime Minister Matthew V was grooming our VP when the latter denied his girlfriend was a nerd.
"Matthew V stop grooming llama," Mr. MarcZuccIsMyWaifu (:APA:) demanded. Two minutes later, they told Messrs krisys (:SoL:) and Cameron (:CPA:), "you people are intrusive fucks, leave him alone lmao"
It was just "@ Mia7", linking to a card-carrying Beyond Adoria member and a citizen whose social media accounts have an avatar of a snowman.
Bursting into laughter, Mr. krisys (:SoL:) said, "Mia7 don’t kill him, he was peer pressured"
"Does she have a life?" "Yes" Cameron: "do you know her irl" "He supposedly does" "Then what is she doing with you" ":doge: Mean"
"holy shit mind your own buisness lmao," MarcZuccIsMyWaifu the Anarchist told krisys the ancap.
"Mia react here if you exist :doge:", and "Mia7 react if chef is ur bf irl," the Fifth Republic's first President asked. Both times, he got a loaf of bread. :bread:
"chef is probably the the type of guy to unironically use the discord light mode to impress his "girlfriend"," Mr. bossmansoldier teased a minute later, getting 4 laugh reacts, 2 of which are from other MNAs.
"I could just give Mia a temporary NA seat :lurk:," the nation's second-in-command opined. 3 MNAs looked at him with a face of :torment:
"we should hold a committee hearing to determine if your girlfriend is real you fucking simp," Mr. bossmansoldier declared 3 minutes later with 2 laughing reactions.
2 minutes later, the response was "If I had money to buy her nitro then she'd already have it," which Mia threw a heart in. No, not ❤, but :anatomical_heart:.
As in, a real, physical human heart.
After Hussaria MNA Cheems (:CPA:) made a joke about the Beyond deputy leader being sus, Mr. MarcZuccIsMyWaifu (:APA:) replied "sui". That prompted the Supreme Court's Chief Justice to ask them to "say something in French marc," which veered the conversation away.
Here's the start of a convo between Mia7 and krisys on April 25, Sunday, around 23 hours after the investigation: https://discord.com/channels/777243295684100156/777248727684350015/835679917705658420
Maybe I should bring in my gf on this server too...
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: LastCelebration is a Member of the National Assembly, representing the Sons of Liberty from Limni.
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by LastCelebration - TRA #ParliHappenings - Thu, Apr 29, 2021
The National Assembly held an informal debate last Saturday, with many representatives questioning Vice President Frederick "ChefStockLlama" Gyldenløve (:ba:)'s virginity and personal life.
1: Prologue
"holy shit we can say dick, pussy, and sex without getting muted you insufferable cunt," MarcZuccIsMyWaifu (:APA:), an Anarchist Party MNA from Aklanos, told the Vice President at 2:45am CEST after he warned the assembly for "rule 3".The warning came after they were discussing the various attempts at repealing the health care system AdoriCare, with Social Democratic MNA bossmansoldier (:SDP:) sarcastically saying "i don't want govt mandated peepee enlargements, what if i want to have a small penis? hyuk hyuk"
"llama, keep this up and you'll be a virgin," Mr. bossmansoldier of the Lavanda Islands warned back after the warning.
"I doubt he has a chance in the first place," then-Sons of Liberty MNA krisys stated, "of getting a gf, or bf"
"who said I didn't have one?" VP Gyldenløve snapped back in a response that garnered a laugh from Mr. krisys.
2: Introduction and Denial
"She's in this server lol," Mr. Gyldenløve, a co-owner of Panorama, claimed while former SoL leader krisys kept laughing."do u know her irl?" "yeah. :doge: Why do you care?"
"Give me her tag," former President krisys taunted at 2:50am CEST. "Let’s see how quick I can steal her from u"
Conservative Party co-leader David Cameron entered the chamber in the middle of the conversation confused, as Mr. bossmansoldier asked about former New Democrats leadership gal Lilley "RookWilt" Fox in an attempt to steer the discussion back into Adoria's welfare programs. "is chef claiming rook is his GF?"
"no lol," the Beyond Adoria deputy party leader quickly replied.
"chef how tf are you gonna find a gf irl that is also active in adoria?" asked the deputy leader of Democrats 69, farway. ":doge: ways"
Suspicions arose that the late former Prime Minister Matthew V was grooming our VP when the latter denied his girlfriend was a nerd.
"Matthew V stop grooming llama," Mr. MarcZuccIsMyWaifu (:APA:) demanded. Two minutes later, they told Messrs krisys (:SoL:) and Cameron (:CPA:), "you people are intrusive fucks, leave him alone lmao"
3: A sudden ping for a very special snow(wo)man
This message at 2:57am CEST is when Mr. Gyldenløve (:ba:) said the name of his alleged partner: https://discord.com/channels/777243295684100156/788288343582441502/835318532753064016It was just "@ Mia7", linking to a card-carrying Beyond Adoria member and a citizen whose social media accounts have an avatar of a snowman.
Bursting into laughter, Mr. krisys (:SoL:) said, "Mia7 don’t kill him, he was peer pressured"
"Does she have a life?" "Yes" Cameron: "do you know her irl" "He supposedly does" "Then what is she doing with you" ":doge: Mean"
"holy shit mind your own buisness lmao," MarcZuccIsMyWaifu the Anarchist told krisys the ancap.
"Mia react here if you exist :doge:", and "Mia7 react if chef is ur bf irl," the Fifth Republic's first President asked. Both times, he got a loaf of bread. :bread:
4: Bargaining
"chef: alternating betweene his alt mia, and his main to prove to a bunch of discord randos that he has a girlfriend," the SocDem MNA bossmansolider (:SDP:) stated at 3:04am CEST, to the tune of four laughing reactions."chef is probably the the type of guy to unironically use the discord light mode to impress his "girlfriend"," Mr. bossmansoldier teased a minute later, getting 4 laugh reacts, 2 of which are from other MNAs.
"I could just give Mia a temporary NA seat :lurk:," the nation's second-in-command opined. 3 MNAs looked at him with a face of :torment:
"we should hold a committee hearing to determine if your girlfriend is real you fucking simp," Mr. bossmansoldier declared 3 minutes later with 2 laughing reactions.
2 minutes later, the response was "If I had money to buy her nitro then she'd already have it," which Mia threw a heart in. No, not ❤, but :anatomical_heart:.
As in, a real, physical human heart.
After Hussaria MNA Cheems (:CPA:) made a joke about the Beyond deputy leader being sus, Mr. MarcZuccIsMyWaifu (:APA:) replied "sui". That prompted the Supreme Court's Chief Justice to ask them to "say something in French marc," which veered the conversation away.
5: Acceptance
A day later, it seems the Adorian elite had finally accepted the idea of politicians having relationships.Here's the start of a convo between Mia7 and krisys on April 25, Sunday, around 23 hours after the investigation: https://discord.com/channels/777243295684100156/777248727684350015/835679917705658420
Maybe I should bring in my gf on this server too...
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: LastCelebration is a Member of the National Assembly, representing the Sons of Liberty from Limni.
2021.04.16 01:01 Jimmynaz97K My first time as a DM
Before I start: I don't know how to categorize this tale, being an interesting (at least I hope it is) D&D story with some elements of "horror", some because of players, many others because of me.
I also want to apologize in advance for any syntax or grammar error you will probably see, english is not my native language, anyway here's the story of my first time DMing a game:
Our adventure began when I met with my usual friends in the bar where one of them works (we also befriended the owner), we sat at our table, had a beer together (writing this in 2021 hurts) and enjoyed ourselves. In that bar all the customers knew eachother, it was more like a lagre circle of friends. That evenin I was speaking with one of those bar-friends (the neridest one) and he told me that he would have liked so much to try out D&D one time, I said him that I have played D&D in the past and we could have arranged something together to play. Another guy there listened to our conversation and asked what D&D was, as I explained thim, he then approached his friend and told him abou that and like a charm I had five people who wanted to join TTRPG.
Since I was the only one with experience with the game I had to be the DM. I arranged a one-shot for them to gain familiarity with game mechanics and put up an investigative adventure in a fantasy City that had some interesting moments:
They put up seven (yes they were seven people at my first time as a DM) random characters not worh remembering (except for Jiz the elf mage, he became the star of the night),we grabbed some drinks and snacks and started. They all woke up in a destroyed tavern after "the wildest night of their life" not knowing where they were. a couple of guards approach them and recognize the PC's as guilty for destroying Max's tavern and say they deserve some days of prison since they didn't have enough money to pay for the damage. The players tried to negotiate with the guards until one of them said "alright if you really don't want to pay nor go to jail you will do some free work for the city" they all agreed and recieved instructions: a serial killer was prowling in the poor district, they were to gather information about him and possibly find him. the party started investigating the crime scenes, the morgue, asked questions around and discovered other crimes not related to him (an illegal fighting pit and a scammer merchant) beginning to be appreciated by the guards. They discovered that all the vitims were young women missing eyebulbs, hearts and other organs, the assassin did a clean and fast job using very sharp blades and used them fast. At a certain point the party split in smaller groups: the mage and one of the warriors went to interrogate the alchemist who was the most suspected since the victims were missing organs and he might have used them for expensive potions, two others went to set an ambush in an alley, one went to explore an abandoned house and two others went patroling the roads. Splitting up was a bad idea, because Jiz was right about the alchemist, who locked himself in his workshop and smelling trouble ruched upstairs to use a scroll opening an interdimensional portal, I rolled for him and said "Phileas the alchemist loudly recites what you, Jiz, recognize being a magic ritual. Then you all, and the whole city hears a loud boom" the alchemist made a huge mistake reciting the scroll's formula that instead of opening a gate to another dimention and probably a safe place for him conjured a firey beast that killed him and set the workshop on fire. As I asked what the two players outside the building what they were going to do while the others were coming from the other places Jiz immediately said "imma run inside the shop and steal all the potions I find", I told him that the building was literally burning to a cinder and chances to survive inside that hell were very very low, but he told me that he preferred to save those valuable things before fire destroys all of them. He ran inside the shop and started hoarding random bottles from the shelves as I held my head in hands knowing what was going to happen. I tell him to do a dex throw and he fails, miserably. "fire rapidly consumes the building, pieces of ceiling fall and as you hoard potions all the shelves full of glass bottles fall togetrher in a domino effect, you try to get out of the way but fail and you get crushed under a heavy burning wood shelf, covered in shattered glass of vials containg whatnot." Jiz died a horrible death, rather spectacular, but still Horrible. The rest of the party arrived , guards arrived, and the fire beast (something I made up, imagine the balrog from LOTR movies but in the shape of a big hound) started attacking everyone. The fight went very bad for the players, the enemy was rather weak but their throws really sucked that time, all but one died, while de fire had spread to the whole city just like Rome in AD 64. The oneshot didn't end well but we all learned something that night and got the definitive approval of the players to be their master for a long campaign.
I started puttin things up in a serious way, helped the players build their characters while working on the campaign (I decided to play a homebrew, maybe a mistake for a first time DM?) and told them that since it was a world of my creation there was another playable race other than those on the books (we played 3.5 because I had a friend I could borrow the manuals from) that consisted in some sort of weaker minotaur, that was my first mistake, beacuse even though only one player did that it was completely unbalanced on the rest of the party. More people got interested in the game while we were preparing, at the bar, obviously and wanted to join.
On an august night we were all ready for the first session of the campaign, he party was composed by (names changed):
After some sessions Paul had to return return to his university that was in another city (summer break over) and couldn't play anymore with us. I, like an idiot, suicided his character instead of leaving him dormant like at keeping the house or whathever. It took me half an hour to realize the huge mistake I made. The same night Brad, my bartender friend joined (i was genuinelly surprised because he didn't want to play D&D because "it's too much a nerd thing" but Martin managed to convince him to give it a try) and played an elf druid. He was bored at first (that part of the game was really boring because they were walking through a forest atm) but then he discovered wild emphaty and oh boy.. he started taming every animal he saw like he was playing Pokemon, and all he did was just that, no helping the party with their hard quest, just taming animals to the point everyone in the party had his companion and became a loud traveling zoo. a bit too much for a secret mission.
One other time One of the players, Blade, came to the game nigh with his girlfriend, i asked if she was there to join "oh no" she replied "I just don't want to stay at home and my friends are busy tonight so i decided to spend the night with you boys, I'm gonna be silent I promise", I looked at Blade and he looked back at me with a "sorry" look. Before I continue, we were all males in the group, but no one despised women, we just knew her: a very, VERY talkative person. She just sat in the middle of the other players and she talked, talked a LOT about various things and kept distracting everyone. Eventually Blade got angry at her for disturbing too much and they left as soon as the session ended.
The campaign started going downhill when Martin found a new job as a cook, we usually played on friday nights so he had to leave the campaign (don't worry, I didn't kill his chacter this time), on the same day Gray found out that he got that job and the fight began: Martin and Gray were to open a restaurant together but the project failed because they couldn't get the financing from the EU due to Gray bein too old (basically if you are less than 30 and wanna start a buisness the EU can give you money to start), and guess where did Martin find a job? in the same building they wanted to buy together for their buisness where another restaurant opened in the meantime. Gray felt betrayed by Martin and left the group to never hear from him. Gray was also the guy who owned every manual we used to play, we didn't have any others and 3.5 manuals are preety damn hard to find in good shape and price in my country.
Without paper manuals I kept consulting informations I needed from the internet. Two new members joined the party: Liam and Manfred, both human warriors. Four shards collected succesfully, going for the fifth and the end of the first part of the campaign and then Aaron asked me the question: "did we get any xp points this whole time?". My heart skipped a beat, the blood in my veins froze and i felt like passing out for a moment. XP POINTS. I forgot to give them XP FUCKING POINTS. They were finishing the first part of the campaign at level 1. I immediately started calculating and then just told them "you are all level 3" in complete panic thinking about how much of an idiot DM I have been to forget giving my players xp points.
After that episode summer came and many players went on vacations, some started working and generally not everyone was able to keep meeting twice a month. that same summer the bar we used to meet up closed and lost touch with many of them, they never finished the campaign and I'm afraid my big mistakes led them to not wantin to play again.
At the end this story doesn't have a bad ending after all: I had learned to be a better DM, and when we started playing again with my closer friends I got complimented for my story telling and DMing in general with smaller groups of players of course.
I DMd a oneshot for 7 players over discord during the quarantine last year and they still remember how much they liked my style since (story for another time maybe) and I'm currently writing two new campaigns of 5e.
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I also want to apologize in advance for any syntax or grammar error you will probably see, english is not my native language, anyway here's the story of my first time DMing a game:
Our adventure began when I met with my usual friends in the bar where one of them works (we also befriended the owner), we sat at our table, had a beer together (writing this in 2021 hurts) and enjoyed ourselves. In that bar all the customers knew eachother, it was more like a lagre circle of friends. That evenin I was speaking with one of those bar-friends (the neridest one) and he told me that he would have liked so much to try out D&D one time, I said him that I have played D&D in the past and we could have arranged something together to play. Another guy there listened to our conversation and asked what D&D was, as I explained thim, he then approached his friend and told him abou that and like a charm I had five people who wanted to join TTRPG.
Since I was the only one with experience with the game I had to be the DM. I arranged a one-shot for them to gain familiarity with game mechanics and put up an investigative adventure in a fantasy City that had some interesting moments:
They put up seven (yes they were seven people at my first time as a DM) random characters not worh remembering (except for Jiz the elf mage, he became the star of the night),we grabbed some drinks and snacks and started. They all woke up in a destroyed tavern after "the wildest night of their life" not knowing where they were. a couple of guards approach them and recognize the PC's as guilty for destroying Max's tavern and say they deserve some days of prison since they didn't have enough money to pay for the damage. The players tried to negotiate with the guards until one of them said "alright if you really don't want to pay nor go to jail you will do some free work for the city" they all agreed and recieved instructions: a serial killer was prowling in the poor district, they were to gather information about him and possibly find him. the party started investigating the crime scenes, the morgue, asked questions around and discovered other crimes not related to him (an illegal fighting pit and a scammer merchant) beginning to be appreciated by the guards. They discovered that all the vitims were young women missing eyebulbs, hearts and other organs, the assassin did a clean and fast job using very sharp blades and used them fast. At a certain point the party split in smaller groups: the mage and one of the warriors went to interrogate the alchemist who was the most suspected since the victims were missing organs and he might have used them for expensive potions, two others went to set an ambush in an alley, one went to explore an abandoned house and two others went patroling the roads. Splitting up was a bad idea, because Jiz was right about the alchemist, who locked himself in his workshop and smelling trouble ruched upstairs to use a scroll opening an interdimensional portal, I rolled for him and said "Phileas the alchemist loudly recites what you, Jiz, recognize being a magic ritual. Then you all, and the whole city hears a loud boom" the alchemist made a huge mistake reciting the scroll's formula that instead of opening a gate to another dimention and probably a safe place for him conjured a firey beast that killed him and set the workshop on fire. As I asked what the two players outside the building what they were going to do while the others were coming from the other places Jiz immediately said "imma run inside the shop and steal all the potions I find", I told him that the building was literally burning to a cinder and chances to survive inside that hell were very very low, but he told me that he preferred to save those valuable things before fire destroys all of them. He ran inside the shop and started hoarding random bottles from the shelves as I held my head in hands knowing what was going to happen. I tell him to do a dex throw and he fails, miserably. "fire rapidly consumes the building, pieces of ceiling fall and as you hoard potions all the shelves full of glass bottles fall togetrher in a domino effect, you try to get out of the way but fail and you get crushed under a heavy burning wood shelf, covered in shattered glass of vials containg whatnot." Jiz died a horrible death, rather spectacular, but still Horrible. The rest of the party arrived , guards arrived, and the fire beast (something I made up, imagine the balrog from LOTR movies but in the shape of a big hound) started attacking everyone. The fight went very bad for the players, the enemy was rather weak but their throws really sucked that time, all but one died, while de fire had spread to the whole city just like Rome in AD 64. The oneshot didn't end well but we all learned something that night and got the definitive approval of the players to be their master for a long campaign.
I started puttin things up in a serious way, helped the players build their characters while working on the campaign (I decided to play a homebrew, maybe a mistake for a first time DM?) and told them that since it was a world of my creation there was another playable race other than those on the books (we played 3.5 because I had a friend I could borrow the manuals from) that consisted in some sort of weaker minotaur, that was my first mistake, beacuse even though only one player did that it was completely unbalanced on the rest of the party. More people got interested in the game while we were preparing, at the bar, obviously and wanted to join.
On an august night we were all ready for the first session of the campaign, he party was composed by (names changed):
- Me - DM
- Marc - the minotaur thingy barbarian
- Harold - human druid
- Ray - Half-elf ranger
- Bill - elf mage ho got from me a small role to benefit the story
- Blade - human rogue
- Aaron - human warrior #1
- Gray - human warrior #2
- Martin - human bard
- Paul - Human Warrior #3
After some sessions Paul had to return return to his university that was in another city (summer break over) and couldn't play anymore with us. I, like an idiot, suicided his character instead of leaving him dormant like at keeping the house or whathever. It took me half an hour to realize the huge mistake I made. The same night Brad, my bartender friend joined (i was genuinelly surprised because he didn't want to play D&D because "it's too much a nerd thing" but Martin managed to convince him to give it a try) and played an elf druid. He was bored at first (that part of the game was really boring because they were walking through a forest atm) but then he discovered wild emphaty and oh boy.. he started taming every animal he saw like he was playing Pokemon, and all he did was just that, no helping the party with their hard quest, just taming animals to the point everyone in the party had his companion and became a loud traveling zoo. a bit too much for a secret mission.
One other time One of the players, Blade, came to the game nigh with his girlfriend, i asked if she was there to join "oh no" she replied "I just don't want to stay at home and my friends are busy tonight so i decided to spend the night with you boys, I'm gonna be silent I promise", I looked at Blade and he looked back at me with a "sorry" look. Before I continue, we were all males in the group, but no one despised women, we just knew her: a very, VERY talkative person. She just sat in the middle of the other players and she talked, talked a LOT about various things and kept distracting everyone. Eventually Blade got angry at her for disturbing too much and they left as soon as the session ended.
The campaign started going downhill when Martin found a new job as a cook, we usually played on friday nights so he had to leave the campaign (don't worry, I didn't kill his chacter this time), on the same day Gray found out that he got that job and the fight began: Martin and Gray were to open a restaurant together but the project failed because they couldn't get the financing from the EU due to Gray bein too old (basically if you are less than 30 and wanna start a buisness the EU can give you money to start), and guess where did Martin find a job? in the same building they wanted to buy together for their buisness where another restaurant opened in the meantime. Gray felt betrayed by Martin and left the group to never hear from him. Gray was also the guy who owned every manual we used to play, we didn't have any others and 3.5 manuals are preety damn hard to find in good shape and price in my country.
Without paper manuals I kept consulting informations I needed from the internet. Two new members joined the party: Liam and Manfred, both human warriors. Four shards collected succesfully, going for the fifth and the end of the first part of the campaign and then Aaron asked me the question: "did we get any xp points this whole time?". My heart skipped a beat, the blood in my veins froze and i felt like passing out for a moment. XP POINTS. I forgot to give them XP FUCKING POINTS. They were finishing the first part of the campaign at level 1. I immediately started calculating and then just told them "you are all level 3" in complete panic thinking about how much of an idiot DM I have been to forget giving my players xp points.
After that episode summer came and many players went on vacations, some started working and generally not everyone was able to keep meeting twice a month. that same summer the bar we used to meet up closed and lost touch with many of them, they never finished the campaign and I'm afraid my big mistakes led them to not wantin to play again.
At the end this story doesn't have a bad ending after all: I had learned to be a better DM, and when we started playing again with my closer friends I got complimented for my story telling and DMing in general with smaller groups of players of course.
I DMd a oneshot for 7 players over discord during the quarantine last year and they still remember how much they liked my style since (story for another time maybe) and I'm currently writing two new campaigns of 5e.
2021.04.03 13:13 Siukslinis_acc Finished Yakuza 6
Finished 6. Here are my thoughts, tried to put them in sections.
Technical/Gameplay:
• Strange that there are no text boxes and you don't see the names of the speakers displayed. There were some funny indentifiers of characters before knowing their names in other entries (I know that 7 goes back to textboxes outside cutscenes).
• Liked the bar bond more than the hostesses clubs. The clubs didn't feel that honest as it is more of a buisness interaction between client and service provider. Tried the club one in the game, so can't say how much the interaction with the hostesses change, but in earlyer games the whole toucht, touchy stuff of the hostesses was uncomforable to me (example in one game when the bond is bigger (did that for the quest), they start to put their heads on your chest and also stoke the chest when saying godbye. The bar is more wholesome, casual. You get some drinks, chat with other customers and befriend them. I'm glad that they kept the bar bonds in 7 and hope it will be part of the rest of the games.
• The Cat Cafe was weirdly normal. Looking at some places in older games I somehow expected there to be catgirl instead of normal cats.
• Died a few times when on the cargo island due to being out of stamina at the jump edge (due to more xp-less stamina gear) and then not running enough to the edge to jump it (so plumped into the water).
Story:
• Dad Simulator 2.0
• When Yuta wanted to go to the toiles why did Kiryu not suggest one in New Serena? Or it does not have a toilet?
• The Shangri-La (soapland) building seemed ok in 3-5, but the collums were destroyed again in 6. Was this a detail that had slipped away or did the developers remember what happened there when they make Kiwami 1? I assumed that the restored collumns meant that the damage done in 1 was repaired and the building was in buisness again.
• Isn't the card that Lo gave to Kiryu too big to fit into the phone? It was a normal (one that You would put into a photocamera), not micro SD card. It didn't look like an adapter, because the storage size of the sard was written on it (as I know the adapters don't have that).
• Generally, the story of 6 was "eh"/slow, excep the finale. It is probably due to comming from the rollercoaster that was 5. Ahhhh, the ability to binge the series.
Elements of the whole Kiryu saga:
• Funny how everyone emphasizes Kiryu being the Fourth Chairman for the whole series (excluding 0 and 1 before finale). All he did as the chairman was appointing the Fifth Chairman and quitting.
• When Kiryu said to Someya "After he (Daigo) left the Yakuza, it was me who dragged him back to become the Sixth Chairman" it set off an avalanche of thoughts about Daigo/Tojo and Kiryu. Kinda change how I saw Kiryu (and how I will interpret thing when replaying the games someday):
a) Before the quote I was like "poor Kiryu, Tojo is always dragging him to deal with their problems", after - "Serves him right putting one who has no/little experience of leading people in charge of 30 000 thugs/vile people (of which some are powerhungry) and then abandoning him".
b) On one hand Kiryu pulled Daigo out of a black morass, on the other hand he put him into a pit of vipers ant left him to fend for himself (though he tasked another one to look out for Daigo, but it's not the same one who put Daigo into the pit).
c) The Taxi scene in 5 started to make more sense: Daigo wanted some bonding time/connect with Kiryu, he was lost/had doubt and wanted some fatherly (or not) advice and maybe some encouragment. All Kiryu did there was push Daigo away.
d) The letter that Kiryu wrote to Daigo in the post credit scene redeemed him a bit. He realised in the events of 6, that he was a shitty person to Daigo. Confessed that he failed Daigo and regrets that he didn't spent time with him.
Random thoughts:
• "Typing is not my strong suite" - Yeah, Kiryu, we can see that *looks tha the position of his fingers*
• Kiryu goes to Stardust with invitation and a host (heh) of hosts surround him.
• From what dungeon was the Hangman taken from and put in Shangri-La? Or did someone forget their toy there?
• Haruto enjoyed when the Hirose Family played ball wit him.
• Haruka has the same outfit, minus the leggings in 5 and 6. You could say that she reached her growth peak in 5.
• It was a bit strange after 4 and 5 to go back to seeing the story play out from one angle/point of view. It made me realise how much I liked having multiple protagonists in the game. Seeing the pieces of the story experience by different people with different personalities/worldviews and then it comming together. I hope in later games they will try to have multiple protagonists again. I liked the idea that someone in this reddit said that it would be neat if there were multiple protagonists with their own gameplay (Ichiban with turn-based combat and another protagonist with brawler combat).
Now off to replay 7 with the knowledge of 1-6.
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Technical/Gameplay:
• Strange that there are no text boxes and you don't see the names of the speakers displayed. There were some funny indentifiers of characters before knowing their names in other entries (I know that 7 goes back to textboxes outside cutscenes).
• Liked the bar bond more than the hostesses clubs. The clubs didn't feel that honest as it is more of a buisness interaction between client and service provider. Tried the club one in the game, so can't say how much the interaction with the hostesses change, but in earlyer games the whole toucht, touchy stuff of the hostesses was uncomforable to me (example in one game when the bond is bigger (did that for the quest), they start to put their heads on your chest and also stoke the chest when saying godbye. The bar is more wholesome, casual. You get some drinks, chat with other customers and befriend them. I'm glad that they kept the bar bonds in 7 and hope it will be part of the rest of the games.
• The Cat Cafe was weirdly normal. Looking at some places in older games I somehow expected there to be catgirl instead of normal cats.
• Died a few times when on the cargo island due to being out of stamina at the jump edge (due to more xp-less stamina gear) and then not running enough to the edge to jump it (so plumped into the water).
Story:
• Dad Simulator 2.0
• When Yuta wanted to go to the toiles why did Kiryu not suggest one in New Serena? Or it does not have a toilet?
• The Shangri-La (soapland) building seemed ok in 3-5, but the collums were destroyed again in 6. Was this a detail that had slipped away or did the developers remember what happened there when they make Kiwami 1? I assumed that the restored collumns meant that the damage done in 1 was repaired and the building was in buisness again.
• Isn't the card that Lo gave to Kiryu too big to fit into the phone? It was a normal (one that You would put into a photocamera), not micro SD card. It didn't look like an adapter, because the storage size of the sard was written on it (as I know the adapters don't have that).
• Generally, the story of 6 was "eh"/slow, excep the finale. It is probably due to comming from the rollercoaster that was 5. Ahhhh, the ability to binge the series.
Elements of the whole Kiryu saga:
• Funny how everyone emphasizes Kiryu being the Fourth Chairman for the whole series (excluding 0 and 1 before finale). All he did as the chairman was appointing the Fifth Chairman and quitting.
• When Kiryu said to Someya "After he (Daigo) left the Yakuza, it was me who dragged him back to become the Sixth Chairman" it set off an avalanche of thoughts about Daigo/Tojo and Kiryu. Kinda change how I saw Kiryu (and how I will interpret thing when replaying the games someday):
a) Before the quote I was like "poor Kiryu, Tojo is always dragging him to deal with their problems", after - "Serves him right putting one who has no/little experience of leading people in charge of 30 000 thugs/vile people (of which some are powerhungry) and then abandoning him".
b) On one hand Kiryu pulled Daigo out of a black morass, on the other hand he put him into a pit of vipers ant left him to fend for himself (though he tasked another one to look out for Daigo, but it's not the same one who put Daigo into the pit).
c) The Taxi scene in 5 started to make more sense: Daigo wanted some bonding time/connect with Kiryu, he was lost/had doubt and wanted some fatherly (or not) advice and maybe some encouragment. All Kiryu did there was push Daigo away.
d) The letter that Kiryu wrote to Daigo in the post credit scene redeemed him a bit. He realised in the events of 6, that he was a shitty person to Daigo. Confessed that he failed Daigo and regrets that he didn't spent time with him.
Random thoughts:
• "Typing is not my strong suite" - Yeah, Kiryu, we can see that *looks tha the position of his fingers*
• Kiryu goes to Stardust with invitation and a host (heh) of hosts surround him.
• From what dungeon was the Hangman taken from and put in Shangri-La? Or did someone forget their toy there?
• Haruto enjoyed when the Hirose Family played ball wit him.
• Haruka has the same outfit, minus the leggings in 5 and 6. You could say that she reached her growth peak in 5.
• It was a bit strange after 4 and 5 to go back to seeing the story play out from one angle/point of view. It made me realise how much I liked having multiple protagonists in the game. Seeing the pieces of the story experience by different people with different personalities/worldviews and then it comming together. I hope in later games they will try to have multiple protagonists again. I liked the idea that someone in this reddit said that it would be neat if there were multiple protagonists with their own gameplay (Ichiban with turn-based combat and another protagonist with brawler combat).
Now off to replay 7 with the knowledge of 1-6.
2020.02.23 18:16 CornWarbler23 [EST] [5E] [online] Lost mines of Phanddlver/dragons of ice spire peak, party is level 5, looking for 2 new faces to replace the dead.
Our druid was mutated and died in his sleep after making contact with an abolethic substance in never winter. Against the parties judgment he decided to go exploring around the Neverwinter Chasm, which in our campaign is still a gaping maw of terror. The halfling barbarian was killed by Venomfang the dragon, the rest of the party epicly avenged him but it could have been a total wipe if they're stratagy wasn't totally badass.
My players call themselves the Wolves of Neverwinter. They're fifth level, and you will be too once you join our campaign! The wolves are starting a mercenary guild, refurbishing Tresendar Manor in Phandalin and turning it into a guild hall. Eventually we plan to run one offs with the guild NPCs and players who want to play but can't make our weekly Saturday games. The Wolves are hiring two mercenaries for leadership positions in the group. Our Cleric, Orkin (Aaasimar) has specified he'd like to see a ranger get hired on, any ranges classes would be prefeffered. With the death of the parties druid they only have 1 ranged character left. The rest of the party consists of a half orc fighter, Aasimar bard, Aasimar cleric, and next week a dragonborn spellsword will join the party. The wolves have a paladin NPC, an urchin child, and a goblin servant watching the Manor while the party continues your buisness in neverwinter.
If you want to play a deadly, RP/combat heavy campaign with lots of world building and player influence. Slay dragons, get rich, become legends... Well this could be for you.
The wolves of neverwinter consists of mostly chaotic neutral or chaotic good characters. If you think you'd be interested in joining our story PM me and we can talk, I may interview you on discord if you sound like a good fit.
I forgot to mention we play on Saturday 7pm(we meet up on discord around 6:30pm EST but 7 is our start time) using discord and Roll20. Our games usually go until midnight to 2am... Because we are nuts.
Reiterating that you will be rolling a 5th level character***
Our players are in theyre mid twenties, were a pretty mature group.
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My players call themselves the Wolves of Neverwinter. They're fifth level, and you will be too once you join our campaign! The wolves are starting a mercenary guild, refurbishing Tresendar Manor in Phandalin and turning it into a guild hall. Eventually we plan to run one offs with the guild NPCs and players who want to play but can't make our weekly Saturday games. The Wolves are hiring two mercenaries for leadership positions in the group. Our Cleric, Orkin (Aaasimar) has specified he'd like to see a ranger get hired on, any ranges classes would be prefeffered. With the death of the parties druid they only have 1 ranged character left. The rest of the party consists of a half orc fighter, Aasimar bard, Aasimar cleric, and next week a dragonborn spellsword will join the party. The wolves have a paladin NPC, an urchin child, and a goblin servant watching the Manor while the party continues your buisness in neverwinter.
If you want to play a deadly, RP/combat heavy campaign with lots of world building and player influence. Slay dragons, get rich, become legends... Well this could be for you.
The wolves of neverwinter consists of mostly chaotic neutral or chaotic good characters. If you think you'd be interested in joining our story PM me and we can talk, I may interview you on discord if you sound like a good fit.
I forgot to mention we play on Saturday 7pm(we meet up on discord around 6:30pm EST but 7 is our start time) using discord and Roll20. Our games usually go until midnight to 2am... Because we are nuts.
Reiterating that you will be rolling a 5th level character***
Our players are in theyre mid twenties, were a pretty mature group.
2020.01.03 20:12 PoliticsIsCool13 Martin Fumble PitLane Trundle: Testing Day 1
Hello and welcome to Pitwalk Trundle, where I, Martin Fumble, will trundle along this bundle of not so humble teams and say things that might rumble others. Now, enough of that, let’s get on with the testing! We are in Losail today for the Winter Testing, and we are here for the first day of testing. We begin with Formula A, where business is usual it seems.
WLD: It was a rough day for the reigning champions, as Oliver Jacobsen dramatically having an engine failure, leaping out of his car and finishing a low 8th. Waka, still untested, finished a lowly Sixteenth, Waka saying that his engine wasn’t giving him the power he was promised. However, it seemed that WLD was superior in the Aero department and so all seems good at the WLD camp
Ford-Brickyard: It was a great day however for Ford, Armand Hector leading the timesheets with a 1:34:132, the rookie Reyes Pinonnot far off in 4th. Ford seemed as their Drag was inferior to WLD and even TRB, but only fractionally.
Pikainen: Pikanen topped the team sponsorships, finishing second and third on the first day. It seemed that Pikainen was lacking in the drag department compared to their Championship rivals, having the fifth best drag, but it’s still a long way to go for the team from Finland, anything can happen
Royal Awal: The rebranded Bahrani team, the team manager not appearing due to political reasons, had a dismal first day. A massive mistake by Sebastian Jaros caused him to crash into the barriers on the exit of the last corner, leaving him 18th, and D’Avis only managing 11th. R. Awal’s drag doesn’t cause much panic, but if they want to catch up, will have to use some of that Bahraini money to challenge for the title.
Toyota Red-Bull: With the best combined total of laps, Toyota Red Bull had a quiet, but meaningful session, Achen getting 7th and the rookie, Nobuhisa in 10th. As stated above, TRB have the 2nd best drag, and with a stronger driver lineup, could rival WLD for the constructors championship.
Chevrolet Draig: A decent day for the Welsh/American team, getting Micheal Evans into a high sixth place, however Pallasmaa only managed a 14th place, almost one second off pace. As you would expect, the Dra(i)g o the Chevy is no different to where we usually see them, smack bang in the middle. All seems nominal in the Chevy camp.
Ghost: A strong day for Ghost, with their drivers finishing 9th and 12th, only 1 second away from the top. (Weyrauch appears out of the Ghost Hospitality) Dominik! Good day today! What did you think of today? “I think Ghost has got a good car for this season, we are down on Drag to the others, but I still think we can put it up to the other teams, especially Harimau and Chevrolet this season.” Good to hear Dominik, have a good one. That was Domink Weyrauch, and he sorta said what I wanted to say… Moving on.
Ryan: The 02 WLD lineup didn’t impress today, ending up 17th and 20th today. Ryan seems to be the most likely to be bottom at the end of the season from these results, having the worst Drag and the worst budget. Ryan will have to pull a Steve McQueen and perform a great escape if they want to stay in Formula A
TVR Griffith: TVR’s newest signing, Brendan Maguire only managed 15th place with the TVR, followed up by his teammate, Teddy Dressler in 19th place. TVR has impressed with their drag though, joint 6th with Chevy. Although if they were this slow today, over a second off the place, it may have been the only department TVR Griffith invested in.
TF Sport: It was buisness as usual for Duff, finishing last on the timesheets, as meanwhile Uwe Strauss managed a decent 13th, just under 13 seconds off. As for TF's Drag package, it seemed the Swedish designers had worked hard, managing the 9th best package in FA, better than Ghost and Ryan. We will probably see TF Sport running far better than they did last season, this season.
Harimau: The new kids on the block, fresh from winning the Formula B championship are already making waves in Formula A, getting a decent 6th place with Howarth, and Sab Valentinovich completing a theoretical near two races worth of laps, but only finishing 21st. As Sab attempted his flying lap, Turn 2 caught the young Russian out and he hit the wall. As with the drag department, Harimau managed an impressive 8th with its drag package. Harimau seems to be prepared to mix it with its competitors in Formula A.
Overall, not many surprises in Formula A, however Formula B held many surprises today.
Gravity: The team hotly tipped for the title, started off strong, hitting the mark with a 3rd from reigning champ Boyrs Zozulya, and a seventh from Luis Silva Melo. Gravity, however, only managed fourth with its drag package, so Gravity seems so far that they will not have a repeat of Harimau’s romp to the Formula B title.
Andrieux: Andrieux’s troubles continues, as their 20th and 24th didn’t scream that Andrieux was going to repeat their 3rd place of FRL03. Their Drag package however, told a different tale, with it achieving 6th on the FB table. This was the first good news for Andrieux in a while, after financial issues continued to hinder Andrieux’s preparation for this season
Proto: The Danish outfit was a tale of two halfs. On one side, the ex-Ford Brickyard driver, Kyle Morrell had a great session, only .1 second off 1st place. However, Miron Pawlak touched the kerb on Turn 9 too hard, spinnig out and hitting the rear end against the barrier. Mistakes aside, Proto with their insane RnD spend, predictably got a 1st place with their impressive Drag package. If any team was going to challenge for the championship, you are looking at them.
Tomkins: A stunning lap from Tomkins’ Alex Pope clinched them first place in the timesheets, with Eddie Hobbs down in 15th, the young rookie getting used to FRL life, after jumping up directly from karting. Tomkins, with their massive RnD spend, surprised many with their 5th place in their drag package, rumors saying that instead of being a designer, their Drag chief designer was instead a manga artist… Don’t want to get into the fine details there…
Neon: The Neon duo finished 9th and 10th, .8 of a second off the top, but the surprise was that Neon invested heavily in their drag, having the third best drag package, and with their budget in check thanks to the carefulness of the finest Japanese accountants, there is no reason that Neon cannot pack a punch this season.
Mercury: Mercury had a lacklustre session, the two Swedes finishing 12th and 14th. Mercury, with their 10th placed drag package didn’t set the world on fire today, and will have to perform a lot more if they want to get higher in the FRL food chain.
Arcuri: The Orange Bois are back again, with Curvers and Brennan finishing 17th and 18th respectively. They unfortunately didn’t get a lot of laps in this session, and from the limited data they got, they ended up showing that they had the 8th best drag package in the entire field, showing that Arcuri still has a long way to go in this season.
Aston Martin: Aston Martin must be the biggest winners here, having their two drivers get within .8 seconds off the top in 4th and 8th. However, the good news didn’t translate to their car, with AM only managing to have the 11th best drag package. Will this prove to be Aston Martin’s downfall? We will see.
Scuderia Fiore: The Italians got their newest signing, Williem Krieger into 6th place, a good day for the Flying Dutchman, however the other side of the garage had a disappointing day, with Bruce Holland having ran with a suffering Renault engine for the entire day. He only managed 23rd. Not much is to be happy with the Drag package too, having only the 8th best package. The Italian outfit might have to do more than blow some ruddy doors off if they want to make their supposed challenge for promotion
Kaisersport: Kaisersport was the big surprise of the day, Fiorentino managing an excellent 5th, and with his teammate in 16th, Kaisersport had a decent day in the office. More good news was to come, as the data revealed they had cracked the Drag Package, having the 2nd best in the entire field. Needless to say, Kaisersport won’t be repeating their last place again this season
Sovereign: The Dutch outfit suffered from lack of RnD coming into the season, ex TRB driver Kjeldsen only managing 19th, with Bailey only reaching 25th. Their Drag package wasn’t any better, at least it was better than Dusk’s…
Dusk: The Taiwanese team fared slightly better than Sovereign, finishing 21st and 22nd. As described above, Dusk had the worst drag package, but with a healthy budget still, who knows what they can do.
Lotus: The team who was kicked from Formula A found refuge in FB, instantly staring off with 11th place for Nappo, however, a scary barrel roll in Turn 1 ended Zheleznov Valentinovich’s day upside down, having only ran 44 laps and finishing last. ZVale was ok after being taken to the medical centre for a checkup, being clear to run for the rest of the testing. Lotus was dissapointed with their 9th ranked drag package, Christian butler saying that “We had done all we could, we thought we had the best but in the end we didn’t. Who knows what Lotus can do now?
Formula B, from this first day seems pretty volatile. 7 teams in the top ten, one second dividing the top 11, who knows what might happen this season in Formula B?
Martin Fumble, wtFrl
edit: Added TF Sport, fixed Dominik, fixed Kyle Morrell
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WLD: It was a rough day for the reigning champions, as Oliver Jacobsen dramatically having an engine failure, leaping out of his car and finishing a low 8th. Waka, still untested, finished a lowly Sixteenth, Waka saying that his engine wasn’t giving him the power he was promised. However, it seemed that WLD was superior in the Aero department and so all seems good at the WLD camp
Ford-Brickyard: It was a great day however for Ford, Armand Hector leading the timesheets with a 1:34:132, the rookie Reyes Pinonnot far off in 4th. Ford seemed as their Drag was inferior to WLD and even TRB, but only fractionally.
Pikainen: Pikanen topped the team sponsorships, finishing second and third on the first day. It seemed that Pikainen was lacking in the drag department compared to their Championship rivals, having the fifth best drag, but it’s still a long way to go for the team from Finland, anything can happen
Royal Awal: The rebranded Bahrani team, the team manager not appearing due to political reasons, had a dismal first day. A massive mistake by Sebastian Jaros caused him to crash into the barriers on the exit of the last corner, leaving him 18th, and D’Avis only managing 11th. R. Awal’s drag doesn’t cause much panic, but if they want to catch up, will have to use some of that Bahraini money to challenge for the title.
Toyota Red-Bull: With the best combined total of laps, Toyota Red Bull had a quiet, but meaningful session, Achen getting 7th and the rookie, Nobuhisa in 10th. As stated above, TRB have the 2nd best drag, and with a stronger driver lineup, could rival WLD for the constructors championship.
Chevrolet Draig: A decent day for the Welsh/American team, getting Micheal Evans into a high sixth place, however Pallasmaa only managed a 14th place, almost one second off pace. As you would expect, the Dra(i)g o the Chevy is no different to where we usually see them, smack bang in the middle. All seems nominal in the Chevy camp.
Ghost: A strong day for Ghost, with their drivers finishing 9th and 12th, only 1 second away from the top. (Weyrauch appears out of the Ghost Hospitality) Dominik! Good day today! What did you think of today? “I think Ghost has got a good car for this season, we are down on Drag to the others, but I still think we can put it up to the other teams, especially Harimau and Chevrolet this season.” Good to hear Dominik, have a good one. That was Domink Weyrauch, and he sorta said what I wanted to say… Moving on.
Ryan: The 02 WLD lineup didn’t impress today, ending up 17th and 20th today. Ryan seems to be the most likely to be bottom at the end of the season from these results, having the worst Drag and the worst budget. Ryan will have to pull a Steve McQueen and perform a great escape if they want to stay in Formula A
TVR Griffith: TVR’s newest signing, Brendan Maguire only managed 15th place with the TVR, followed up by his teammate, Teddy Dressler in 19th place. TVR has impressed with their drag though, joint 6th with Chevy. Although if they were this slow today, over a second off the place, it may have been the only department TVR Griffith invested in.
TF Sport: It was buisness as usual for Duff, finishing last on the timesheets, as meanwhile Uwe Strauss managed a decent 13th, just under 13 seconds off. As for TF's Drag package, it seemed the Swedish designers had worked hard, managing the 9th best package in FA, better than Ghost and Ryan. We will probably see TF Sport running far better than they did last season, this season.
Harimau: The new kids on the block, fresh from winning the Formula B championship are already making waves in Formula A, getting a decent 6th place with Howarth, and Sab Valentinovich completing a theoretical near two races worth of laps, but only finishing 21st. As Sab attempted his flying lap, Turn 2 caught the young Russian out and he hit the wall. As with the drag department, Harimau managed an impressive 8th with its drag package. Harimau seems to be prepared to mix it with its competitors in Formula A.
Overall, not many surprises in Formula A, however Formula B held many surprises today.
Gravity: The team hotly tipped for the title, started off strong, hitting the mark with a 3rd from reigning champ Boyrs Zozulya, and a seventh from Luis Silva Melo. Gravity, however, only managed fourth with its drag package, so Gravity seems so far that they will not have a repeat of Harimau’s romp to the Formula B title.
Andrieux: Andrieux’s troubles continues, as their 20th and 24th didn’t scream that Andrieux was going to repeat their 3rd place of FRL03. Their Drag package however, told a different tale, with it achieving 6th on the FB table. This was the first good news for Andrieux in a while, after financial issues continued to hinder Andrieux’s preparation for this season
Proto: The Danish outfit was a tale of two halfs. On one side, the ex-Ford Brickyard driver, Kyle Morrell had a great session, only .1 second off 1st place. However, Miron Pawlak touched the kerb on Turn 9 too hard, spinnig out and hitting the rear end against the barrier. Mistakes aside, Proto with their insane RnD spend, predictably got a 1st place with their impressive Drag package. If any team was going to challenge for the championship, you are looking at them.
Tomkins: A stunning lap from Tomkins’ Alex Pope clinched them first place in the timesheets, with Eddie Hobbs down in 15th, the young rookie getting used to FRL life, after jumping up directly from karting. Tomkins, with their massive RnD spend, surprised many with their 5th place in their drag package, rumors saying that instead of being a designer, their Drag chief designer was instead a manga artist… Don’t want to get into the fine details there…
Neon: The Neon duo finished 9th and 10th, .8 of a second off the top, but the surprise was that Neon invested heavily in their drag, having the third best drag package, and with their budget in check thanks to the carefulness of the finest Japanese accountants, there is no reason that Neon cannot pack a punch this season.
Mercury: Mercury had a lacklustre session, the two Swedes finishing 12th and 14th. Mercury, with their 10th placed drag package didn’t set the world on fire today, and will have to perform a lot more if they want to get higher in the FRL food chain.
Arcuri: The Orange Bois are back again, with Curvers and Brennan finishing 17th and 18th respectively. They unfortunately didn’t get a lot of laps in this session, and from the limited data they got, they ended up showing that they had the 8th best drag package in the entire field, showing that Arcuri still has a long way to go in this season.
Aston Martin: Aston Martin must be the biggest winners here, having their two drivers get within .8 seconds off the top in 4th and 8th. However, the good news didn’t translate to their car, with AM only managing to have the 11th best drag package. Will this prove to be Aston Martin’s downfall? We will see.
Scuderia Fiore: The Italians got their newest signing, Williem Krieger into 6th place, a good day for the Flying Dutchman, however the other side of the garage had a disappointing day, with Bruce Holland having ran with a suffering Renault engine for the entire day. He only managed 23rd. Not much is to be happy with the Drag package too, having only the 8th best package. The Italian outfit might have to do more than blow some ruddy doors off if they want to make their supposed challenge for promotion
Kaisersport: Kaisersport was the big surprise of the day, Fiorentino managing an excellent 5th, and with his teammate in 16th, Kaisersport had a decent day in the office. More good news was to come, as the data revealed they had cracked the Drag Package, having the 2nd best in the entire field. Needless to say, Kaisersport won’t be repeating their last place again this season
Sovereign: The Dutch outfit suffered from lack of RnD coming into the season, ex TRB driver Kjeldsen only managing 19th, with Bailey only reaching 25th. Their Drag package wasn’t any better, at least it was better than Dusk’s…
Dusk: The Taiwanese team fared slightly better than Sovereign, finishing 21st and 22nd. As described above, Dusk had the worst drag package, but with a healthy budget still, who knows what they can do.
Lotus: The team who was kicked from Formula A found refuge in FB, instantly staring off with 11th place for Nappo, however, a scary barrel roll in Turn 1 ended Zheleznov Valentinovich’s day upside down, having only ran 44 laps and finishing last. ZVale was ok after being taken to the medical centre for a checkup, being clear to run for the rest of the testing. Lotus was dissapointed with their 9th ranked drag package, Christian butler saying that “We had done all we could, we thought we had the best but in the end we didn’t. Who knows what Lotus can do now?
Formula B, from this first day seems pretty volatile. 7 teams in the top ten, one second dividing the top 11, who knows what might happen this season in Formula B?
Martin Fumble, wtFrl
edit: Added TF Sport, fixed Dominik, fixed Kyle Morrell
2019.08.30 05:06 stealthship1 A Day in the Life (Open to King's Landing)
20th Day of the Fifth Moon, King's Landing
The city of King's Landing came alive in the morning. Once the first rays of sun peek over Blackwater Bay, things begin to move. The fishermen are already at their boats and some are already returning. The tanners, millers, smiths, brewers, dyers, and every other craftsmen heaves into motion around the same time. The marketplaces quickly fill with people.
About halfway up Aegon's Hill, the Lannister manse did the same. Lord Tytos and Lady Myranda were already awake and breaking their fast with Joffrey and his wife Ella when the sounds of running feet could be heard. Through the doors burst Tybolt, Tyran, and Aubrey Lannister, with Myranda and Elissa not far behind. From the hallway behind them, seemingly still half asleep was Damon Lannister. The only reason he seemed to be up was because his nieces and nephews had managed to wake him.
"Stop running," Tytos said gently but firmly, "I am not having you all break more things in here after the incident last moon."
"It was not my fault that Tybolt has the balance of a whale!" shouted Myranda.
"I DO NOT!" cried Tybolt, lunging for his sister who shrieked and dodged his arms, hiding behind Tyran.
"Sit down and eat," Tytos said, gesturing to the food on the table. There was bread, soft boiled eggs, rashers of bacon, sausages, fruit, and cheese. A pot of tea sat in the middle of the table, which Lord Tytos was sipping quietly from his mug while his wife enjoyed a cup of wine.
"Busy day today?" the Lord of the Rock asked to his grandchildren.
"Aye, we're training in the yards today," Tybolt replied with a mouthful of bacon, "Finally going to fight the Tyrell boy."
"Is that all?"
"Likely," Joffrey stepped in, "Maybe some lessons with the Master at Arms too, just for good measure. Gods know their form is still off. Sometimes a new voice is better."
"You can take care of that Joff," said Damon, who downed a cup of wine before finally setting into an egg, "I've got some buisness to attend to."
"Business? The hell you have to do?" Joffrey said incredulously.
"Not be around clashing swords all day. I've got some things to deal with at the docks."
"Fine, I guess I will be dealing with the lads then."
"I will be bringing the girls with me to court today," Tytos said, Myranda and Elissa both looked at each other with surprise and happiness on their faces, "I've owed them coming with me today. I do not have a Small Council meeting and I haven't gotten to spend much time with them either recently. Will you be coming with darling," he asked his wife, who simply nodded her head.
"Fantastic. Then it is all settled. Eat up everyone, it seems we all have a busy day ahead of us. Enjoy it while you can before most of the realm descend upon this city."
From there the Lannister family separated, with Lord Tytos and Joffrey heading to the Red Keep with their respective group of children, splitting off once they entered the castle. Joffrey and the boys set up in the training yards of the Red Keep, ready for a day of sparring and training. Tytos, his wife, and his granddaughters made their way into the Red Keep proper where they would spend some time in the Throne Room before taking their lunch out in the gardens of the Red Keep. Meanwhile, Ser Damon Lannister made his way down the Hook and out the Mud Gate towards the docks of the city.
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The city of King's Landing came alive in the morning. Once the first rays of sun peek over Blackwater Bay, things begin to move. The fishermen are already at their boats and some are already returning. The tanners, millers, smiths, brewers, dyers, and every other craftsmen heaves into motion around the same time. The marketplaces quickly fill with people.
About halfway up Aegon's Hill, the Lannister manse did the same. Lord Tytos and Lady Myranda were already awake and breaking their fast with Joffrey and his wife Ella when the sounds of running feet could be heard. Through the doors burst Tybolt, Tyran, and Aubrey Lannister, with Myranda and Elissa not far behind. From the hallway behind them, seemingly still half asleep was Damon Lannister. The only reason he seemed to be up was because his nieces and nephews had managed to wake him.
"Stop running," Tytos said gently but firmly, "I am not having you all break more things in here after the incident last moon."
"It was not my fault that Tybolt has the balance of a whale!" shouted Myranda.
"I DO NOT!" cried Tybolt, lunging for his sister who shrieked and dodged his arms, hiding behind Tyran.
"Sit down and eat," Tytos said, gesturing to the food on the table. There was bread, soft boiled eggs, rashers of bacon, sausages, fruit, and cheese. A pot of tea sat in the middle of the table, which Lord Tytos was sipping quietly from his mug while his wife enjoyed a cup of wine.
"Busy day today?" the Lord of the Rock asked to his grandchildren.
"Aye, we're training in the yards today," Tybolt replied with a mouthful of bacon, "Finally going to fight the Tyrell boy."
"Is that all?"
"Likely," Joffrey stepped in, "Maybe some lessons with the Master at Arms too, just for good measure. Gods know their form is still off. Sometimes a new voice is better."
"You can take care of that Joff," said Damon, who downed a cup of wine before finally setting into an egg, "I've got some buisness to attend to."
"Business? The hell you have to do?" Joffrey said incredulously.
"Not be around clashing swords all day. I've got some things to deal with at the docks."
"Fine, I guess I will be dealing with the lads then."
"I will be bringing the girls with me to court today," Tytos said, Myranda and Elissa both looked at each other with surprise and happiness on their faces, "I've owed them coming with me today. I do not have a Small Council meeting and I haven't gotten to spend much time with them either recently. Will you be coming with darling," he asked his wife, who simply nodded her head.
"Fantastic. Then it is all settled. Eat up everyone, it seems we all have a busy day ahead of us. Enjoy it while you can before most of the realm descend upon this city."
From there the Lannister family separated, with Lord Tytos and Joffrey heading to the Red Keep with their respective group of children, splitting off once they entered the castle. Joffrey and the boys set up in the training yards of the Red Keep, ready for a day of sparring and training. Tytos, his wife, and his granddaughters made their way into the Red Keep proper where they would spend some time in the Throne Room before taking their lunch out in the gardens of the Red Keep. Meanwhile, Ser Damon Lannister made his way down the Hook and out the Mud Gate towards the docks of the city.