Here is the next list of bands for checking. These bands played on NDR radio in December, 1984.
I've removed bands that were already in the October or November 1984 lists as these have already been checked and so have been removed. Also quickly went through and removed some obvious wrong bands. Thanks to everyone but especially to u/Nitokris666 and u/violetvvviolet for checking the November, 1984 list so carefully (I think both went through almost the entire list).
Search terms I use with youtube, google, discogs for rarer bands are "[band name] +band +1984 (or +demo)".
If you think a band is ruled out - please leave a comment with the band name and the workds "RULED OUT" - and please give a sentence as to why they are ruled out ('female lead', 'jazz band', etc.) but please ONLY say RULED OUT if it is clear they are not the TMS band. Just because you hear they are using a synth and no guitars in a song doesn't mean that they didn't use heavy guitar in another song! If you think a band sounds similar - please leave a comment with the band name and "SIMILAR" so we can really dig deeply into them more.

• A la Carte
• Abwärts
• Al Stewart
• Alex Conti
• Alice & Stefan Waggershausen
• Alison Moyet
• Alvin Stardust
• Amen Corner
• Andre Heller
• Andreas Doroue
• Andy Giorbino
• Anita Ward
• Anne Turner
• Anthony Moore
• Arche Nokah
• Arno & Andreas
• B.Sharp
• Bad Boys Blue
• Bel Ami
• Belfegore
• Best
• Billy Bragg
• Billy Haley
• Blue Face
• Blue Nile
• Bonds '81
• Bone Orchard
• Boston
• Bowwowwow
• Bronski Beat
• Bruce Cockburn
• Bryan Ferry
• Byna
• Caramel
• Carles Santos
• Casablanca
• Chaka Khan
• Chewy Raccon
• Chi Coltrane
• Chiefs of Relief
• Chilly
• China Crisis
• Chris Rea
• Christine McVie
• City Blues Connection
• Climax Blues Band
• Cowley & Sylvester
• Crusader
• Cyan Revue
• D.I.A.
• Dalbello
• Dave Ball
• David Christie
• David Jay
• David Sanborn
• David Tieghem
• David Van Tieghem
• Dazz Band
• Dead Or Alive
• Debbie Cameron
• Debile Menthol
• Dee C. Lee
• Deniece Williams
• Dennis DeYoung
• Dennis Edwards
• Der Plan
• Dexy's Midnight Runners
• Die Vorsitzenden
• Die Ärzte
• Dire Straits
• Disco Band
• DNA
• Don Henley
• Donald Fagan
• Earth; Wind & Fire
• Eberhard Schoener
• Echo & The Bunnymen
• Echo Echo
• Ede Und Die Zimmermäenner
• Edward Kaspel
• Edwina
• Einstürzende Neubauten
• Engelbert Humperdink
• Erlend Krauser
• Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung
• Eurption
• Everything but the Girl
• Fancy
• Fay Lorsky
• Feelabeelia
• Feldmann Trommelt
• Felix de Luxe
• Fiat Lux
• Fisher Z
• Forest
• Fou Gorki
• Foyer des Arts
• Fr. Miller
• Frank Zappa
• Freddie Mercury
• Free
• Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle
• Freur
• Galaxy
• Gary Boyle
• Gary Brooker
• Gary Byrd
• Gary Moore
• Gasolin
• Gazebo
• Geistesfaher
• Gen X
• Georg Denzer
• George Kranz
• George McCrae
• Gerhard Polt
• Gerry Rafferty
• Gianna Nannini
• Gino Vanelli
• Gloria Gaynor
• Godley & Creme
• Golden Earring
• Grace Slick
• Hall & Oates
• Hannes Wader
• Heaven 17
• Heegar
• Heinz Rudolf Kunze
• Herb Alpert
• Herbert Grönemeyer
• Herbie Hancock
• Holger Biege
• Holger Hiller
• Hot Chocolate
• Howard Carpendale
• Hubert Kah
• Hugh Masekela
• Hylton George Minott
• I.S.C. & Sunshine Band
• Imagination
• Ina Deter
• Inner Circle
• Irene Cara
• Isotope
• J.J. Cale
• Jacky Cleever
• Jeey Albrecht & Gustl Lütjens
• Jennifer Rush
• Jennifer's Rush
• Jim Diamond
• Jimmy Cliff
• Jo Jackson
• Joachim Kühn
• Joachim Witt
• Joan Baez
• Jobim
• Jochen Brückner
• Jody Watley
• Joe Cocker
• Joe Jackson
• John Cafferty
• John Denver
• John Martyn
• John Miles
• John Stewart
• John Waite
• Johnny & the Drivers
• Johnny Thunders
• Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers
• Josis James; BB King & the Crusaders
• Judas Priest
• Juice Newton
• Julia and Co.
• Julian Cope
• Kane Gang
• KC & the Sunshine Band
• Kenny Loggins
• Kid Creole & The Coconuts
• Kiki Dee
• Kim Carnes
• Kim Larsen
• Kim Wilde
• King Sunny Ade
• Kirlian Effect
• Klaus Lage
• Klavierduo Anthony & Joseph Paratore
• Kolbe & Illenburger
• Kool & The Gang
• Kosmonautentraum
• Kraftzwerg
• Kumulus
• Köpke & Badenius
• Lad
• Lake
• Laura Branigan
• Laurie Anderson
• League Of Nations
• Leif Garrett
• Lemon Kittens
• Les Coballos
• Level 42
• Little Heroes
• Lloyd Cole
• Lloyd Cole & the Commotions
• Long Tall Ernie & the Shakers
• Loriot
• Malcolm McLaren
• Manfred Gunzer
• Manfred Man's Earth Band
• Marc Almond
• Maria Vidal
• Marius Müller Westernhagen
• Markus Oehlen
• Marquee Moon
• Martha & The Muffins
• Martin Grunwaldt
• Matt Bianco
• Me & The Heat
• Meat Loaf
• Mecano
• Mercy Mercy
• Mezzoforte
• Miami Sound Machine
• Michael Sembello
• Microdisney
• Midge Ure
• Mike Oldfield
• Mike Oldfield & Maggie Reilly
• Minimal Compact
• Minisex
• Mink de Ville
• MKB Fraction Provisoire
• Mo & the Souvenirs
• Modern Romance
• Modern Talking
• Molly Hatchet
• Montana Sextett
• Mr. Mister
• Mtume
• Murray Head
• Mystic Rythm
• Münchener Freiheit
• Nanna
• Nazareth
• Neil
• Neil Young
• Nena
• Neon (Netherlands)
• New Model Army
• New York Dolls
• Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
• Nude Ants
• Oliver Cheatham
• Orgelanfang
• Pasodoble
• Paul McCartney
• Paul Young
• Pentangle
• Peter & The Test Tube Babies
• Peter Allen
• Peter Frampton
• Peter Holler
• Peter Maffay
• Philip Bailey
• Picture
• Pointer Sisters
• Precieux
• Propaganda
• Public Image Ltd.
• Purple Schulz & die Neue Heimat
• Raff
• Rainbow
• Raindancer
• Ray Parker Jr.
• Re-Flex
• Real Life
• Rebbie Jackson
• Red Guitars
• Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
• Redskins
• Rheingold
• Richard Romeo
• Richard T. Bear
• Rick Springfield
• Robert Calvert
• Robert Long
• Rodgau Monotones
• Rodger Hodgson
• Roger Chapman
• Roger Hodgson
• Rudolf Rock und die Schocker
• S.O.S. Band
• Sade
• Saga
• Sam Harris
• Santana
• Scotch
• Semaja
• Senfkorn
• Shadowfax
• Shakatak
• Shakin' Stevens
• Shango Fun Theology
• Shaun Cassidy
• Sheena Easton
• Sheila E.
• Shoes
• Sideway Look
• Siruca
• Sister Sledge
• Sivuch
• Slim Harpo
• Sly Dunbar
• Smokey Robinson
• Snakeman Show
• Soft Cell
• Spencer Davis Group
• Spyro Gyra
• Staple Singers
• Stefanie Werger
• Steve Miller Band
• Steve Winwood
• Steven Reich
• Stevie Ray Vaughan
• Street Fighter
• Stricher
• Sun Palace
• Supermax
• Swansway
• Taco
• Talk Talk
• Tangerine Dream
• Terje Rypdal & David Darling
• Terry Riley
• The Alarm
• The Carpenters
• The Cars
• The Chameleons
• The Cocteau Twins
• The Comsat Angels
• The Cult
• The Enemy Within
• The Everly Brothers
• The Explorers
• The Fall
• The Flirts
• The Flood
• The Flying Lizards
• The Flying Pickets
• The Good Bye
• The Honey Drippers
• The J. Geils Band
• The Jam
• The Jazz Butcher
• The Kane Gang
• The Kinks
• The Legendary Pink Dots
• The Mighty Wah!
• The Monkees
• The Moody Blues
• The Pretenders
• The Psychedelic Furs
• The Scorpions
• The Stranger
• The Stranglers
• The Teardrop Explodes
• The Temptations
• The The
• The Tramps
• The Wolfgang Press
• This Island Earth
• Thomas Dolby
• Thompson Twins
• Tim Curry
• Timothy B. Schmitt
• Tivoli
• TNT
• Tom Robinson
• Tommy Shaw
• Tough Enough
• Toy
• Tracie
• Triumph
• Trust
• Twelve Drummers Drumming
• U Webler ??
• Ultravox
• Under For
• Unknown Cases
• Various Popstars
• Video Kids
• Visage
• Vobrigdi Kakafonia
• Wally Warning
• War
• West of Sunset
• Wishbone Ash
• Womack & Womack
• X-Mal Deutschland
• XTC
• Yes Let's
• Zazou; Bikaye; & OYI
• Zerra 1

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1. Konsep Binari Pada dasarnya, komputer adalah mesin biner yang menggunakan sistem angka biner (0 dan 1) untuk melakukan semua operasinya. Konsep ini mendasari semua proses komputasi, mulai dari penyimpanan data hingga eksekusi program.
2. Perangkat Keras (Hardware) Perangkat keras adalah komponen fisik dari komputer yang meliputi CPU (Central Processing Unit), RAM (Random Access Memory), penyimpanan (hard drive atau SSD), dan perangkat input/output seperti keyboard, mouse, dan monitor. Ini adalah bagian-bagian yang secara fisik melakukan tugas-tugas komputasi.
3. Perangkat Lunak (Software) Perangkat lunak adalah program-program yang dijalankan oleh komputer untuk melakukan berbagai tugas. Ini termasuk sistem operasi (seperti Windows, macOS, atau Linux), aplikasi (seperti Microsoft Word, Adobe Photoshop, atau Google Chrome), dan program-program utilitas yang mengelola operasi dasar komputer.
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So I got my Brewzilla All rounder 30L and pressure kit. Tomorrow is brew day.
My recipe is more or less:
2800g pilsner malt. 100g Cara pils 100g Venna malt
16 litre boil - 14 in ferm - 12 lire keg target batch size.
Hops... err.. hop is czech Saaz. It looks tricky to get the minimum to style bitter ness but with the shorter batch size it should be fine.
50g at 60min.
Dump the other 50g in at flame out.
Santize it.
Fill with wort.
Fit the lid and use the CO2 line to pressurize it to 15psi. Burp it a few times over the next while, then put it in a dark corner.
Normally, for ales, I sue the bath tub for the first few days. Usually the ales are very willing to go way high on temps towards 24-25 unless I flood the bath in cool water to prevent it. (15C tap water and thermal mass).
I understand that at 15PSI I should be fine fermenting lager yeast (Diamon) at 24-25C.
Is it likely to get any hotter in a room temp area? Should I maybe move it into the bath just in case it does get hotter than 25?
I understand the ferment will be done in a matter of 1 or 2 days, but I should leave it to condition in there for a week, maybe more. Then I can pressure transfer it to the keg and cold crash it for a few days to a week. A little gelatine might help too.
I have a spunding valve and tested it works.
Anything I am missing?

If anyone could help me, I knew it would be Cara. She’d stuck by me through everything. She’d helped me run the clinic when the old veterinarian passed away. She comforted me when Linus was killed. She helped me save Ghost when he was injured. When I joined a rebel group in the village, she supported me then too. Even helped me join. Then, when I learned they were the ones who set Linus up, she apologized. I’d always trusted Cara and never for a moment suspected she had anything to do with it. I’d made great friends since leaving for PanTech, but always missed Cara.
Entering the market, I scanned it from end to end, instantly relieved there were no soldiers in sight. I walked as casually as I could, hoping no one would stop and recognize me as I made my way to the veterinarian stall.
“Hello,” I said as I approached. A crouching figure had been struggling with a sack of feed on the ground. I’d assumed it was Cara. Instead, it was a young man, likely around fourteen or fifteen years old.
“Hello,” he offered. “What can I help you with today?”
“I was hoping to talk to Cara,” I said, looking all around the stall as I did.
“She’s not here. She’s not feeling well, so she stayed home today.”
“That’s not like Cara. She never misses work,” I said, prompting a furrowed brow from the young man.
“Huh? She misses a lot, and barely does anything when she’s here. She mostly just tells me what to do.” Noticing my irritation, he amended his statement. “Which… I don’t blame her for! Those PanTech—” He stopped, composing himself. I knew that look all too well. Poor guy was about to explode. “Cara’s experiencing additional adversity to strengthen her character.” He smiled, but his eyes gave away his true feelings.
“Has she moved to a different house in the past few years?” I asked. I’d learned to mask my own feelings well. Besides, I’d be dealing with them soon enough.
“Depends on who’s asking,” he grunted, folding his arms.
I liked this kid’s spirit.
“It’s okay. I’m an old friend. You could say… I’ve also been dealing with PanTech for the past few years. This is the first opportunity I’ve had to reach out to her in a while.”
He eyed me up and down for a moment before relaxing. A bit.
“No, she’s in the same house. Don’t cause her more problems, you hear?”
“I won’t,” I said, hoping that would be the truth. I was a magnet to trouble already and now I was looking for it.
As I walked away from the stall and toward Cara’s home a short distance away, I considered turning around and deciding on a different course of action. Involving Cara felt wrong, but I had to know. I needed to talk to her and see how she was doing. The anxiety built inside of me and seemed to grow with each step. I barely noticed the two soldiers walking right by me in their power suits. I only saw them as they passed, out of the corner of my eye. I turned, even though it would’ve been better not to. Nothing identifiable. Just two regular soldiers, and they didn’t notice me any more than I’d noticed them.
I knocked on Cara’s door, but there was no answer. As one of the soldiers stopped and began to turn, I decided to enter instead of risking being recognized.
The room was dark, with curtains pulled. A small figure sat in a chair. No, this couldn’t be Cara!
I rushed to the window, pulling back curtains to allow the morning light to flood in. The skeletal figure awoke, held up a hand to shield her eyes and recoiled from the light.
“Cara?” I asked, rushing to her side and grabbing her hand.
“T… Taylor?” she replied. I knew it was her voice.
I gripped her hand tightly, almost too tightly. I could only stomach a glance before competing emotions flooded my chest.
She’d been starved to the brink of death. Her arms barely had enough muscle mass left to lift them. How she walked at all was amazing to me. Her hair was thin. Her eyes were dark, and her heavy lids fluttered slowly.
My eyes grew hazy, and a flood of tears poured down my cheeks.
“Yeah, it’s me, Taylor,” I said, choking on the words as I said them.
She reached out slowly and put her arm around me, her eyes welling with tears of her own.
“I thought I’d never see you again,” she said in a weak voice.
For every tear that fell from my eye, it may as well have been fuel dripping into a flame. There were times when I hated PanTech more than others, and this was one of those times.
I stood to my feet, releasing her hand and clenching my fists at my side.
“Don’t rush off. Won’t you sit with me for a while?” Cara asked, sensing my intentions as always. As though we hadn’t lost a single day. I sighed and sat on the floor next to her.
“Of course,” I said, wiping my eyes with my sleeve. “I’m sorry.”
“None of this is your fault, Taylor.”
“It’s because of the rebel group, isn’t it? They implicated you in it.”
“Still not your fault,” she insisted. Even as her words tried to deescalate my anger, hearing her weak voice only served to build it higher. Cara was one of the sweetest girls to ever live. She should’ve been able to take over the vet clinic properly. She should’ve been able to continue practicing her leatherworking, and improving the lives of the people here. Instead…
“Fine, but I’m still going to fix it,” I growled.
“Why are you here?” she asked.
That’s right. I’d completely forgotten why I’d visited in the first place, but that didn’t matter.
Was she well enough to give the vaccine? Because of her current condition, the virus would kill her quickly. Likely before any warning signs could be noticed. But if I caused her to go through all this, only to show up and kill her with my own two hands… I could never forgive myself.
“Taylor, are you alright?” she asked.
“Don’t ask me if I’m alright. Not after everything you’ve been through, Cara.” I reached into my pocket, pulling out one of the small devices I’d smuggled in. “This’ll hurt a bit,” I said, holding her finger and giving it a small poke. A tiny bead of blood pooled on her fingertip.
“What’s that thing?” she asked.
“A little something I took as a souvenir from PanTech. It analyzes the blood. Are they starving you, or is it something in your food?”
“They’re putting something in my food… I think. I don’t know. I don’t get much food either.”
I eyed the readings. They’d been adding a drug to her food to block nutritional absorption beyond a certain amount. It’s how they’d kept her in this weak, but stable condition. I entered a bit of data, rewrote the formula, and…
“Let me see your finger one more time,” I insisted.
She complied, and I stuck her again.
“Ouch. Twice? I expected PanTech to be more advanced.”
“This drug is of PanTech origin. Think of it as a tiny machine. For these types of drugs, PanTech employees with access to the right tools can easily rewrite them to perform a different task. Nothing’s going to solve this overnight. Unfortunately, I’ll have to return mass to your body slowly so it doesn’t cause your system shock. You’ll start feeling more energetic right away, but you’ll need to hide that.”
“I wish you hadn’t done that, Taylor. You’re amazing, but I wish you hadn’t.”
I frowned, gently embracing her.
“I know you’re scared. I’m going to take care of this village’s PanTech problem, and then I’m moving on to another. The whole organization has collapsed, and…” I unrolled my syringes. “I’m sorry, I’m going to have to give this one to you in your neck.”
She hesitated at first, leaning away from me.
“No…”
“Please trust me, Cara. The virus they let loose… if you contract it in your state, it’ll kill you before I have time to vaccinate you. Before you even show symptoms.”
“A virus? what? No. Give me some time to think. If they find out you helped me they’ll make things so much worse for me. Please, just go.”
“I’ll go but… just this one last thing.”
The nanomachines in her system were a blessing in disguise. Now that I’d rewritten them to stabilize her body, it could work in tandem with the vaccine and prevent it from putting too much strain on her body. It was safe, and I couldn’t miss my chance.
“I won’t force you, Cara… but please,” I pleaded.
Cara took a deep breath, placing a hand over her eyes. She nodded.
I placed the needle in her neck, ejecting the fluid slowly. She jumped a bit, making a pitiful, painful whimper as the needle entered.
I would make sure someone paid dearly for this. Very dearly.
“Who decided this punishment for you?” I asked.
“The mayor and the current commander I think,” she said as I removed the needle. “Don’t… Taylor.”
I put my hand on her cheek, wiping away one of her tears with my thumb.
“I’ll be back to visit you soon, okay?”
Cara simply nodded, and although her words were kind, she was clearly terrified I was going to create more trouble for her.
I was going to create a whole lot of trouble. That much was very true.
But it wasn’t going to be for her.
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What started as a panicked attempt to get her over-intoxicated friend to a hospital ended up in a disastrous car crash that claimed the lives of her friends... and a careless God crossing the street. But Sammi's adventure wasn't about to end there. In her dying breath, the God curses Sammi to take up her mantel. Now with her three friends resurrected as ghosts, Sammi has to navigate the tricky world of godhood.
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It was a much more stylish, clean, and swanky Sammi that started her saunter down to Meadow Lane at 8:30 PM that evening. I’d never been one for fashion, but I knew that no one out-styled Blair or Christopher. At least, not among their peers. They’d been instrumental in helping me pick out my outfit.
Joni wasn’t impressed, but Joni was never impressed. She accused me of looking like the love child between a third string football player who peaked in high school and a strung out, washed up, middle aged rave queen. She said I looked trashy, but all my clothes were designer, so like, there wasn’t any way I could really look trashy. This shit was too expensive to be ugly.
I strode on back to my electric blue sports car, still filled to the gills with my gear. The car roared to life, almost impression enough to detract from how it made me flinch. I guess it made sense, after the accident and all, but driving made me a little nervous. I kept telling myself that there was no one living in the car other than me, and I probably wouldn’t die in a car crash, but my hands were still a little sweaty as we rumbled on down to the river.
“Nice low profile,” Joni said, arms crossed over her chest as she floated in the passenger seat. In the rearview mirror, I could see Blair sticking her head in and out the window, enjoying how the wind would blow her ectoplasm around when most of her body was anchored in the car. It kinda looked like how you’d expect hair to blow around if stuck out a window, except her entire head. It was creepy, and every now and then she’d let out a ghostly wail, making me regret upgrading her.
“Low profiles are for mortals,” I said, dropping what was probably the coolest line of my life.
“Don’t— hey, wipe that grin off your face. Just cause you’re a God doesn’t make you a big deal.”
“Dude, it kinda does,” Christopher said, weighing in from the back seat.
I just kept grinning, fingers tight over the wheel as we bounced down the dirt road. Meadow Lane was a rarely used walking path, usually populated by high schoolers swapping spit or drug deals. Contraband, stuff like that. Like what we were doing.
I squealed to a stop just around the corner from the actual bridge and hopped out, my boots crunching loudly on the fallen leaves. My nose wrinkled reflexively, as if the noise had an associated smell. It kinda did, but it was a brisk, autumny smell. Normally one I was really cool with. Just, you know, today I was a lot less psyched about crunchy leaves given that every step I took would be megaphoned around the area.
“Be my eyes and ears,” I said, motioning the ghosts forward. “Blair, no spooky noises unless I say so. You’re the one that wants this to work, so we need to work together.” I wasn’t necessarily the biggest cell in the brain, but I knew who the smallest was.
Blair saluted.
Joni and Christopher hesitated, as if unsure whether I was gonna give more commands. I probably should but I just wasn't sure what else to say.
“Okay team, huddle,” Christopher said. “Sammi can’t, like, talk to us long range without the mortals hearing, so at least one of us should be out there, watching them full time, and one of us should be going back and forth to communicate, in case Sammi needs to convey a message. I think that should be me, since I’m fastest.”
Was he? He said it with confidence and none of the others rebutted him, so I didn’t question.
“Maybe I can stay with Sammi?” Joni suggested. “She’ll go crazy if she doesn’t have someone to ping her inane thoughts off, and I don’t want her charging in on this because she gets lonely.”
“Oi!”
Christopher nodded. “Good call. And if shit really goes bad while I’m relaying a message, Blair can always put the pause on the whole trade off by making spooky noises.”
“No, not spooky noises,” Joni said. “That’ll just make them think someone’s fucking with them. Have her make, I don’t know, siren noises. Scare them off and we’ll just regroup tomorrow and try again.”
Blair saluted again, this time a maniacal grin on her face.
But grin notwithstanding, I felt good about this plan, so I nodded, giving it my seal of approval.
The moment Blair and Christopher left, I started getting fidgety. It would be a whole fifteen minutes until Cara and Henry showed up, and I just wanted this to be over with. Or under way. I wanted something to be happening. And Joni wasn’t great company cause she was kinda glum. Maybe I’d do her kick-the-bucket list next. Next time I could level up a ghost, I could give her powers. Perk up her mood a bit. She deserved it. She might be a grouch, but a lot of time it was just cause she didn’t want us fucking ourselves over. And maybe there was some merit to that.
I must have gotten a little lost in my thoughts, dreaming up ways that I would stop Joni and Blair from making ruckuses once they could, because the next thing I knew, a car was rattling up to the bridge.
“Who is it?” I whispered.
Joni sighed and drifted off before returning. “Miller. He looks dazed as fuck though.”
“Probably because I gave him the order over phone.” I wriggled uncomfortably. “Do you think I should go and restate the lie? So he doesn’t, like, snap out of it mid-transaction?”
Her face froze. I could see where the two gears in her brain were jamming together. She was always supposed to be the one cautioning against action, so her gut was obviously gonna be to tell me no. But maybe I was right.
Maybe. I had no idea and neither did she. So we both kinda stared at the patch of trees where we heard the car door open and Henry climb out.
“I should,” I whispered.
“I don’t know…”
We waited. Another minute passed. Maybe it was my imagination but I could swear I heard the noise of another car approaching.
“I’m losing my window!” My whisper was more like a hoarse rasp, and definitely audible.
“Someone there?” Henry sounded discombobulated, and not at all like he should. At this rate, Cara wouldn’t trust him.
I had to act.
Without consulting with Joni again, I blitzed through the wood. It only took a few seconds for me to break through the bushes and trees, but my fancy designer clothes were looking a bit woodland chic by the time I finally cleared the foliage.
“Ash?” Henry stared at me, blinking several times in the fading light. “Samantha Knox? What the actual fuck are you–you know people are looking for you, right? What the fuck–”
I waved my hands. “That’s all a misunderstanding,” I said, thinking fast.
“Well no shit, but it’s not stopping literally all my socials from blowing up. Like, Jesus. Ricci and the others dead?”
“They’re not,” I said. “Like I said, misunderstanding and not important.”
He let out a half exasperated sigh. “Right. Just try explaining that to literally anyone else.”
Joni was giving me bug eyes, but I was low on time. I couldn’t hear the sound I’d thought was a car pulling up anymore, and no one new had appeared on the bridge, so it must have been my imagination, but that didn’t mean Cara wasn’t gonna show up soon.
“You need to do this exchange with Cara,” I said, going back to the mission at hand, now that Henry wasn’t losing his shit at my appearance. “It’s important. You’ve been setting it up for months and it’s finally coming to fruition and you’re gonna give her a good chunk of money, like you discussed.”
He nodded. “Yeah, Ash, I get it. I’m not a fucking crook. I pay well.”
A long breath flooded out of my lungs. “Good. Right. Okay.”
“Fucking Cellier really throwing this at me like this,” he grumbled, eyes darting around. “Everything about him screams narc.”
“Yeah,” I said.
“This whole thing has just been getting sketchier.”
“Yeah.”
“And my gut is never wrong.”
“Never,” I agreed. Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed Joni motioning frantically at me. Was Cara arriving?
“I bet that punk sold me out– wait, where are you going?”
“Right, yeah, totally. I’m just dipping. I’m actually not here.”
And with that, his eyes glazed over and he turned back to the road as I scrambled into the bushes and well out of sight.
“Coulda been worse,” Joni said, generously grading me on her scale of ‘that was braindead’ to ‘I guess no one died.’ “He’s gonna have some pretty conspiracy level tiers of rationale to try to explain why he thinks we’re not all dead.”
“That’s a problem for another time,” I whispered.
“You stayed out there a bit long, but no harm no foul.”
“Thanks Joni.”
“Shh,” she said. “Car coming.”
I shhed and waited for the show to start. For the most part, I could only hear it.
“Henry.”
“Cara.”
There wasn’t really any warmth to their voices but I suppose this was the first time they were meeting, lies aside.
“You got the goods?” Henry asked.
“Uh, yeah, all in here.”
There was a rustling noise, like a bag being opened, and then silence.
Maybe it was my imagination, but I could swear I felt my own lie straining to make sense of whatever Cara had brought him.
A second later, Christopher floated back through the trees, a barely concealed laugh already fighting with his face. “She brought him CD drives.”
Joni’s lips went flat. “CD drives?”
“CD drives.” A small snort escaped his nose. “External, USB connected drives. High enough functionality to give them a two hundred dollar price point. Capable of ripping and burning, but…”
“But what the fuck is the gamer club gonna do with them.” Joni groaned so long and loud that, were she leveled up, I’m sure the whole clearing would have heard it.
I, meanwhile, had yet to understand the problem. “Don’t video games come on CDs?”
They both stared at me, and suddenly I knew what it felt like to be a fifty-year-old trying to relate to a teenager.
“Ever heard of steam, Sammi?” Joni asked.
I had, but I also had the distinct impression that if I said ‘yes,’ they’d be even angrier. But I’d also feel stupid saying ‘no.’ So I split the difference.
“Uh…?”
Meanwhile, Henry and Cara were trying to figure out how this could be useful to them.
“Right, very, uh, very expensive.”
“Yup. Put my job at real risk to grab these.”
“Right. Right and I need these to sell to Bridgeport cause they… need these.”
“Yup.”
“We’ve worked on this score for a while now.”
“We have?”
And that’s when it started to go wrong.
“What do you mean, ‘we have’?” Henry asked. His voice took a sudden, sharp note. “It’s been months, Cara.”
But it hadn’t been. Henry thought that. Noah thought that. Cara did not.
“I’m literally just here to score some weed money and you needed some small, expensive things to offload.” Her voice started to spike now too. “Maybe there’s a third party person coordinating with you, but we’ve never spoken.”
At what point was the lie going to break over Henry?
“I should go out,” I said, already half making my way through the bushes. I could still save this.
“Sammi, no,” Joni said.
“Who’s there?”
I’d just popped my head out of the bushes in time to see Henry pull something out of his back pocket. A cell phone? A flashlight? But he wasn’t pointing it at me, and in the dark, I couldn’t make it out.
“Cellier? Is that fucking you?”
At this point, I finally took the time to ask myself who the fuck Cellier was. And then I saw the scrawny form of the gamer’s club treasurer step out of the woods, hands up.
“Look, I can explain,” he said.
“The fuck are you doing here?” Henry asked.
“I have to be here,” Noah said.
“The fuck does that mean?”
“I just do!”
My eyes were the size of saucers at this point.
“What the fuck is he doing here,” I asked, hissing so quietly I wouldn’t be surprised if none of the ghosts could hear me.
“You told him to come.” Blair had, by this point, rejoined me. “You were on the phone with Henry but he already hung up and you repeated the whole ‘meet me at the Meadow Lane bridge’ bit. Noah was the only one around at that point, so the spell just affected him. I thought you’d noticed.” She smiled brightly.
“And you knew this all along?” Joni asked, hissing so loudly that I cringed.
“You sold me out!” Henry gestured harshly with his outstretched arm, and Cara threw herself on the ground. “You’ve always given me narc vibes and my gut is never wrong.”
All of that was definitely my fault.
“We need to call this off,” Christopher said. “Like, seriously, this is about to go way south, way fast.”
“Yeah,” I said. I’d just need a second to come up with a way to diffuse this, and we could give it another stab.
But I wasn’t given another second. I wasn’t given another second because we had, technically, had a plan for if things went south. So instead of waiting for literally any other confirmation, Blair did the worst thing she could have done.
I don’t know if she’d been practicing her police sirens or if, as a banshee, she just had the capability to mimic sounds, but the sirens wailing in the distance was enough to convince everyone.
But the sirens weren’t the sound that really concerned me. What really concerned me was the sound right after that, from Henry:
“I was fucking right, you fucking piece of shit!”
And the sound after that, from the device Henry had been holding outstretched.
It was a resounding crack. The sound, not the device. The device had been a gun.
I'm back! I know, I know, you've fallen for it before. The last year has been a lot on me, so I've been focusing more on just writing and getting words down where I can, and not posting much. I completed the derby, which wasn't a very good idea as it really burnt me out. So I'm sorry I've been such a desert of content.
But!
That ends here because I have my first draft of this arc finished. I'm in the process of editing it and will be posting here and on RR as I polish it up.
If anyone is still reading, know I really appreciate you all. Hope you enjoy!

Hello everyone,
Sebelumnya, gw mau ucapin terima kasih untuk para suhu di finansial yang sudah memberi saran & insight mengenai awal karir gua sebagai FG beberapa bulan yang lalu, bener-bener spot on dan membantu. Setelah apply & melewati proses rekrutmen yang gak kehitung berapa banyak, alhamdulillah sekarang gw beneran diterima program MT di salah satu BUMN ternama. Pray for me to successfully navigate through all the stages; Frankly speaking, I don't have the spirit to do any job hunting nor recruitment process anymore (frick bonus demografi).
Now, back to the topic. I'm a complete beginner in dealing with real life, so i have a lot of questions. Bagaimana kalian melakukan perencanaan keuangan ketika kalian baru memulai karir? I'm sure you guys have the formula. Berapa persen dari gaji yang kalian sisihkan untuk:

• Kebutuhan Dasar
• Investasi
• Hiburan
• Dana Darurat
• Lainnya (mungkin ada hal lain yang perlu ditambahkan menurut redditor)

Kalau situasi gw, penempatan kerja setelah masa trainee di jakpus, single, dan gw gapunya tanggungan atau hutang apapun, tapi ada biaya kos karena gw gaada kerabat dan gak berdomisili di Jabodetabek.
Pertanyaan lanjutan, tools apa yang kalian rekomendasikan untuk perencanaan dan tracking keuangan kalian? Gw udah liat beberapa aplikasi manajemen keuangan, tapi gw mikirnya mending cari cara buat bikin sendiri aja di excel.
Gw juga ada beberapa pertanyaan tambahan lagi, menurut kalian apa aja rookie mistake yang sering dilakuin orang-orang seumuran gw? Sebaik-baiknya perencanaan pasti akan ada kesalahan juga, karena kadang manusia tidak membuat keputusan rasional. Gw juga pengen tau, kapan waktu yang tepat untuk ngambil KPR rumah, cicilan mobil & motor.
Sorry kalau pertanyaannya kebanyakan atau threadnya terlalu panjang. Any kind of input is much appreciated!