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This is the weekly recap of approx. 144 monetized posts from Kylea and Joseph "Joe" Gomez of Kylea G. Weight loss Journey.
(For anyone following longer, she has/they have made approx. 399 posts in 3 weeks. 😲)
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Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with Royal Caribbean or WW. I am not a mental health professional. These opinions are my own based on social media content, medical sources, Missouri public court records, and internet searches used primarily to estimate/locate purchases on actual/potential purchases. Due to Kylea heavily editing many posts 3+ times it was difficult to keep up with posts that had been edited vs delete/reposts. I wish no harm to Kylea or Joe Gomez.
Financial Disclosure: I am not a paid content creator or influencer. I have made $0.00 from my work.
"Do not save what is left after spending but spend what is left after saving." Warren Buffett
The tagline of Kylea G Weight loss Journey is, "I changed my life with prayer and a playlist of songs. No surgery, no meds. Just Jesus."
Of the approx. 144 monetized posts last week on the topic of faith:
0/144 discussed which version of the Bible she prefers.
0/144 revealed her church home, a service she attended online/in person, or how she worships when traveling.
0/144 discussed a personal/group Bible study she completes/attends.
0/144 were a favorite scripture or Bible quote.
Of the approx. 144 monetized posts on the topic of music:
5/144 discussed the impact of music on her life.
Of the approx. 144 monetized posts on the topic of health:
4/144 posts contained intentional movement that could possibly be considered exercise
0/144 shared a food, water, or exercise log
0/144 discussed meditation, deep breathing, attending grief group, or therapy for her mental health
0/144 shared reputable medical sources for nutrition or weight loss content. (She mentions WW points but does not list a website or how to access their app.)
0/144 shared a recommendation for another weight loss influencer to follow
0/144 shared a source for recipes
0/144 shared a recipe
So, what is her "weight loss" content about? Let's dive into her purchases to find out.
📢 Disclaimer: Kylea was secretive about the money spent on her Mom and Stepdad for this all expense paid cruise. I strongly feel that these estimates may be lower than the actual amount spent. Buckle in 🚗
Her Subtotal from 04/21/24-04/27/24 was $10,094.76 + all applicable taxes, tips, and fees.
(For anyone following longer, her 3 week combined subtotal is $13,193.79 + all applicable taxes, tips, and fees.)
🚨 Per Missouri public court records, she has not satisfied her current medical judgment and is only able to pay $25 per month.
Weekly Takeout Purchases: $154 est + tips
Sunday 04/21/24 Dutch Bros for KG= $8 est + tip; *Possible Dutch Bros for 3 adults= $24 est + tip; Sunflower Bakery & Cafe for 2= $25 est + tip; *Possible Sunflower Bakery & Cafe for 2= $25 est + tip; Starbucks for KG & Joe= $16 est + tip;
Monday 04/22/24 Starbucks Flavored Tea for KG= $6 est + tip; Starbucks Flavores Tea for KG= $6 est + tip;
Wednesday 04/24/24 Starbucks cold brew for KG= $8 est + tip;
Thursday 04/25/24 Starbucks coffee for KG= $8 est + tip; Fresh Pineapple Stand for 2= $5 est + tip; *Possible Fresh Pineapple Stand for 2= $5 est + tip; Coca Cola & Diet Coke at bar on excursion= $5 est + tip; *Possible beverages for 2= $5 est + tip;
Friday 04/26/24 Starbucks Cold Brew for KG= $8 est + tip
📢 These additional shopping/travel expenses do NOT reflect her rent, utilities, phone, 2 car payments, etc.
Additional shopping/travel expenses: $9,940.76 + all applicable taxes, tips, fees
Sunday 04/21/24 Gas from Houston, TX to Galveston, TX= (51mi/33mpg) x $3.85 est = $5.95 est; Target= unknown
Wednesday 04/24/24 Magnet souvenir= $7.99 est; Palo Alto Cafe Artesenal 100% Hondureno coffee beans: $12.50 est; LFK Sloth Farm & Full Island= $109 x 4 Adults = $436 + tip; LFK Resort Mini Pig Add On= $20 x 4 Adults= $80 + tip; Taxi round-trip for 4 Adults= $16 est + tip
Thursday 04/25/24 Chacchoben Ruins Tour (taxi included) $58 x 4 Adults= $232 + tip;
Friday 04/26/24 Mr Sanchos All Day Inclusive Pass= $68 x 4 Adults = $272 + tip; Taxi round-trip for 4 Adults= $34 + tip; Custom Neon Friendship Bracelets for Drue and Kylea= $15 est;
Saturday 04/27/24- Royal Caribbean Fees included an estimated 60% off 2nd guest and 35% off photo packages paid in advance. I believe Kylea used a medical exemption to have a different drink package than Joe.
2 interior rooms for 7 nights = $6,592.96 est; Deluxe Beverage Package for 1 Adult= $80 est per person/day = $560 est; Refreshment Package for 3 Adults= $35 est per person/day = $735 est; VOOM Surf & Stream (Internet) for 2 devices for 2 Adults= $18.99 per person/day = $265.86 est; Photo Package up to 50 prints × 2 = $535.50 est; Parking for SUV for 7 days= $140 est;
⚠️ Trigger Warning: Disordered Eating, Mental illness, and Religion
Final thoughts: 🤔 What have you learned in the last 3 weeks via approx. 399 monetized posts or in the last week via 144 monetized posts to help you on your weight loss/health journey?
I learned that Kylea Gomez glorifies disordered eating in the name of Jesus for monetary gain. She ate 1/4 to 1/5 of her allotted WW points most days of this cruise via photo evidence and posts. I learned she is a vain, narcissist, who I believe is mentally ill, and will exploit anything and everything to live a frivolous lifestyle. She is not budget-wise, financially savvy, and should pay her debt(s). She has NO business offering any form of budget or financial advice.
In general, I am frustrated with social media influencers and paid content creators who REFUSE to disclose how, when, and why they are paid. Your "followers" should know the details of your social media income from the platforms and companies you work with so we can make an informed decision of how we spend our time and money. There is a fine line between advocacy/education/influence and dishonesty/hypocrisy/lack of transparency and accountability.
I am fortunate to have grown up without social media. To all influencers and content creators, we don't NEED you. Quite the opposite. Many of us lived without you once. We can do it again. We will hold you accountable.
All info from Reddit. ✌️

I know it sounds bad, but hear me out. All fake names.
My brother Matthew (60M) and I (58F) live on a small farm. We’re Canadian btw. Neither of us are married, no kids. Well, the farm work has been getting harder for Matthew so after some talking, we decided to adopt a kid who could help out. We’d give him a good home and make sure he got to school and church and all. We’re not monsters.
Farm work is physically exhausting, so we were planning on getting a boy from an orphanage in the next biggest city. Our friend was going out that way, so we asked her to go by while she was there and bring our new servant/kid home.
Some wires must have gotten crossed because yesterday, Matthew goes to pick the child up from the train station and when he comes back, he has a GIRL with him- Anne (11F). She’s so exited talking about how cute our house is (it does have nice green gables), and about the trees and lake and well everything. She doesn’t shut up. EVER. She even tried to lie about her name for no reason and say it was Cordelia. Matthew looks sheepish, so I know he’s going to make me be the bad guy. I break the news that there’s been a mistake, and Anne starts WAILING. Full on SOBBING.
Things eventually calm down, and I show Anne to her room. I finally get to talk to my brother later that night, and yeah, he’s dead set on us adopting Anne, or at least giving her a chance. Ugh, what about the farm work? He’ll hire someone, he says. And Anne can help me around the house. He makes the case that she’s smart and energetic and fun to be around. I mean, he’s not totally wrong from what I can see, she’s not a bad kid, it’s just that she’s a GIRL.
I don’t know, I want to send her back still, but I know Matthew will be crushed. And I don’t hate Anne or anything. This just wasn’t the plan. AITA??
Edit: My oldest friend came to visit not long after I posted this and she’s really blunt and kind of told Anne she was ugly and ginger, and Anne called her fat and old. Not sure if this makes a difference, but they both apologized.

I did bad in high school and just now want to pursue Pharmacy as Junior year is ending--is there really, honestly, a good chance for me?
This turned out to be pretty long and I know some might just scroll down real quick and leave at sight of two massive paragraphs , but I just really want some insight of wether or not my high school performance is going to worsen my chance of making it in this field :(
I'm currently a Junior in High School and I'm really worried. Our state University (Rutgers) has a pretty amazing Pharm Program, and I'd absolutely love to go into it and fully want to major in biochemistry. Problem is that high school was just....not good. It sounds okay on face level, I have an unweighted 3.4 gpa and a weighted 3.9 . I only have one AP Class this year which is AP Lang. I've taken our required Biology and Chemistry classes, and I'm in accelerated Physics this year, and even then my Biology and Chemistry classes were only Level 2. I had to DROP a level in Algebra 2---and, I'm in Algebra 2. I should have been in Calc 1 by now but the academic mess up has been haunting me since 8th grade. I'll be going to Stats Level 2 next year. I have a few extracurriculars, which again are okay on face level. I'm in two consistent clubs which is our Teacher's Club (Assistant teachers at the elementary schools) and MSA (Muslim Student Association), I've got a decent number of volunteers hours from our donation clubs, I've volunteered at our masjid and the library, and I'm in NAHS(National Arts Honors Society). I also have 10 college credits from Freshman year from completing our Teen Arts Program and 10 college credits last year from dual enrollments in Spanish. I'm getting a job this summer and taking the AP Lang, World History and Psych Exams, and next year I'm hopefully making it to AP Lit, AP Gov, and Ap Visual Arts, and I'm hoping to get my little side comic published before Senior Year end. I'm searching for pre-college summer programs at the moment. No matter how much my Guidance Counselor says I'm "okay" I know okay isn't enough.
Rutgers at least, knows us very very well. We're practically in their backyard, they know what students are bs'ing and know who tried to make full use of our school. This year especially, Rutgers is rejecting students and waitlisting, they're having an influx of applications. The competition is getting so high that it's really no longer a safety school anymore. I'm worried. I have upperclassmen friends who went into Pharmacy and they've been to AP Calc, AP Physics, AP Stats. They had the 4.0 GPA and the solid extracurricular base in research internships. It SHOWS in their background that they prepared for Pharm or a field of the sort. I feel like I'm just all over the places and there's a clear inclination towards the arts much more than research when looking at me. I've been pursuing Arts for a long time but came to the eventual realization that I don't really want it to be my main career. I discovered an absolute love for Chemistry last year and I just know I would do well in a Pharmacy field. I genuinely feel it, I feel joy being able to sit at my teacher's table after hours and ranting about Antibiotic Resistance and stupid mitosis puns. I had a horribly tumultuous year this year with a chronic medical condition, and it's truly been eye-opening. Heck that's probably the topic of my college essay. I just know I'd enjoy the field, I'm going to work hard and do whatever it takes. I aspire to say I am working hard after all these messy years, but more often than not it feels like I'm too late. I know it could be worse. But it doesn't beat the feeling how I feel so average in everyone's eyes, because I'm constantly living with the regret of "why didn't I do more earlier?"
Some sources say high school matters and others say it doesn't. Some say just do well in college and get into the Pharmacy school. Do I truly have any chance of making it to that Pharmacy career? What can I still do now? How was it for you guys? Is anyone in a similar spot(pretty unlikely) but what would you do if not?

I recently had to properly kick my first ever player, things got a little intense between us for it and well left me on the all sorts of spectrum of emotions sides. I just had to get both feelings and my logic for the reasons for this removal of at the start, a good player and good guy and character that.. to me just started to not be. Maybe to just vent out, maybe to see if I was justified, but also to hope that, if there were points I didnt see or think of at the time that someone can help me think better if a scenario ever bubbles up like this, I have a better headspace to go about things right.
To start, I am more or less a newby forever DM (1 oneshot game to my belt under as a player), my current running campaign is only my second, going 2 years strong now. Its been bumpy recently do to my work schedule last few months but we are nearly up to our 100th session together and things have begun to heat up story wise and excitement wise by my players. Everything's in the story is homebrew more or less, both my own works and others I found and my players bring up to me.
At the start of the game, I had 5 starting players, and the one in question was one of them. We lost a few of them, first sadly I more suggested he leave, as much as he wanted to play, it was to the point he was playing while traveling via busses, planes and others (he traveled alot for his daily life events he couldnt get out of) an never mentioned when these would happen. That went smooth, we were both polite and I wasnt upset with them, just upset a good player like him will have hard times with finding a table. Better ways, would have been having a blast with them to this day. The second was starting to act up, I had to shoot him down a bit hard at times, more so when a new player, a girl, joined up an he started being a bit inappropriate and not act like the character he told me he would be. After I started blocking his more chaotic antics, he pretty much ghosted the group all together. Our third player who left is more on a prolonged hiatus cause of his work schedule, but he keeps in contact. So as far as the original party goes there are only two, with the first whom replaced our enthusiastic but unable to stay with us player being 'Miss 3 1/2's'.
With most of that out of the way, I can get onto the player in question. Again, he was there from the start, only second in my player search to start this campaign. Wanting to play a neutral good paladin who grew up a simple farmers life and was on a life walk-about to enrich himself before his turn to take over the family farmlands. At the start things were bit fine, he showed a general interest to hooks that kinda developed in the intro fight, making some good goofy aspects with his character and interactions and at least at first, an interest to some of the things in the world at the time. But looking back, I did likely trust him with a bit much, the other characters likewise were very 'go with teh flow' but they liked to investigate and get into things outside the city that they were given slight hero titles to after the start of things. With him though, he did 'actively' have his character go to get the town effective 'quest board' and ask around if people needed help with things... and.. not tell the other PC's about it or try an start the missions or plots.
While in itself it wasnt 'bad' people also trusted him a bit as 'the note taker' at first, so maybe we just expected him to go into things later or something, but, this became something I was concerned of with him on it. I mentioned his own story progression aspects from the start of the game, well, when given a lead that would let him undo a poor families ailment he showed interests too with time to go at least check it.. he suddenly invented a sister for his character.. who was getting married, back in his home country, that they 'had' to visit right then an there.
He had been vague about his characters history, he may have mentioned a sister 'in passing' but nothing ever set in stone besides his Grandfather being the true head of the farm and his dad. Not even anything about his characters mother, an now suddenly he wanted to spend a week or two travel via air ship to go see a 'new fiance' on top of it. I admit, I wasn't too happy but I also didnt outright pull him to the side to talk about that. Mark against me I know.
But it kind of worked out, as because no one could do much since he was kinda blocking the group from reaching the intended quest givers that he swore he would get with (2 of the other remaining characters at the time mostly had their stuff working on things they were trying to do that wasnt too crazy but at least progressed their characters in ways). And Miss 3 1/2 wasnt sure of her character at the time so played a temp one to feel out being another class and style for a bit. It helped her bloom a little. They ended up helping another little quest idea i had for halloween, late it was, but had fun with it an great action. But do to how that took an bad dice rolls which I do no flub or such, they got sidetracked from things an had to go back to go onto a quest 3 1/2 got them to.. an he wasnt exactly actively happy or doing the quest (guard a noblewoman on a quest to one of the countries for buisness matters. Kinda.. avoided the woman in weird ways.. like trying to push the hotel cooks asideto 'show them how its done'..).
When the crew finished with it, it was with another teaser to quest lines he was kinda pinning the group with. Again unfortunately the rest were 'kinda' okay with his choice on it but they were doing a bit more to be active now so it wasnt likely to work out for long. Around this time is when 'Work Haitus' had to sadly step away, so i started to put feelers out for new players again. During this time, he was still kinda pulling back on things as best he could, but he started to show a.. interesting trait. He wanted to start 'grinding' for EXP.. without going into the literal forest where some creatures could be faught, instead, he went to the city coliseum. Now this was explained since session one, I dont give any real EXP for fights there, quit literally if you have a fun sparing match or a more rough bloody match in it against a tamed or caught creature or class person, you'll only end up with 1 xp point. I did this cause I heard of a number of stories of 'those' players showing up, going to fight pits to make themselves stronger an not bother with rp time stuff. But I also tweaked it, so you could make bets for yourself, and the boon of prize and noterity (IE, people start being more favorable to you, seek you out that sort of stuff.. which considering he had so many 'hidden to activate quests' at this point wouldnt have mattered either way). He very quickly stopped after his 2nd or so solo attempt and made a passing comment on being upset of it. I overlooked that time.
During this, the entire party collectively was sought out, as the city knew 'all of them' roughly, so no reason only someone looking to the quest board would be involved alone. They were given a new quest by a neighboring kingdom, to deal with monsters they had ties with from the start as an already active side-story plot. He kinda 'backed' a bit into doing his characters 'im off to clean the broom closet' antics during some of this.. alot.. so looking back it feels he was upset not only was he not 'in charge' of getting the quests, but that the whole party agreed to be invovled with it regardless of anything else. I did try to bring him bback in, by having that Sister and her Fiance appear to meet them since he couldnt make the meeting.
There was some .. issues.. he kinda started to instantly mistrust the fiance, he litterally used 'every' detection spell he had on them trying to sus if they were demon, enregy or otherwise. An more or less ignored the sister even when she asked him his plans on things.. an since he 'left the sibling things to me besides she pranks him maybe' he didnt seem thrilled that she was upset the 'Lord title' brother, who won plots of land in this country an was going to open, I kid you not, an 'Pizzaria Inn petting zoo pet super plant farm forge and factory' on said plot of land with 'secret super caves our befriended monster friend will terraforming for us'. Short version of the monster thing.. monster had no such ability and at best had very tiny cute versions of itself digging out the cave, one pebble at a time.. this is when i noticed he sort of 'half' listened to details given.
I will admit, I wanted to have a moment where the sister was going to become some sort of 'rival', if she couldnt find way to convince the older men who are currently running the farm that big bro might have more important things to do as 'a Lordship hero paladin' maybe its time to break 'the men run the farm' tradition. In character he was warned 'she really wants your farm, and as someone whose seen people go extremes maybe you should reach out to her so its not so bad an no bad blood has to happen'... he kinda took it that she wants him dead, sorta. Took a bit with the informer to correct it.
He .. 'kinda' tried to 'make it up to her' i think by baking her favorite pie an admittedly as a nice act gave her his holly symbol which was the family's given by grandpa to him.. no biggy as the city hade a temple of his goddess to get a replacement soo.. yeah. Honestly I did talk with him a little on it.. but this is when another aspect started being apparent.
I hadnt mentioned, but I am not a fan of no call no show specially when we had a constant schedule, he had a few, but 'did' sorta apologize, at first. We do everything discord and roll20, so when he starts to not appear i would '@' the group and then '@' via DM's, and there maybe 'weeks' to 'months' if theres nothing 'important' to talk to me about response wise. And at the start of those times he started missing alot. An also, not apologizing or saying why. He doesnt always have to I know, but given we were having fewer players, wed have sudden 'we cant plays' cause it was 2 people only..
Then, we get introduced to not one or two but three new players. I kinda worried with them being prior friends and click group but its been working out for most part. Timing for ones admittedly stunk, an their on a personal leave Im not faulting but having their character background for now. They show up, an their characters, well starting at high level for at least 2 fresh faces an one long term one is a little odd, but its been fun. They instantly get into their characters mindsets, weird quirks that fit their upbringings and own style of things, but they also work as a functional communicating and asking questions group with slight airs of 'they are not lower class but deal with both from the noble side of things' air to them. Again its worked out, given they lost a litter hard hitter the three work great.
As the plot went, they were actually being lured away by a group who they helped bust antics an get called out on it in the city, the bait was just 'oh it might be the same type of monster you guys are looking for who might eat an entire city', done via a modified memory spell on the patsy. They were lead to a campsite the badguys set up to be a kill/trap spot.. It was a bit rough with things, but the group was doing 'amazingly' well. But I had an even bigger surprise for everyone, to take our game to a new level an give a 'big' meaty plot hook to hype and put every character on an equal 'i dont know anyone around here/dont have the same resources you do' foot from how the characters went, as an idea to build their bonds.
The trap, got ambushed, by a big honken monster I teased the first players with barely into session 4 that was a corps but came back. An this thing was a beast, CR minimal 20+ an higher (i suck at figuren the maths) but yeah, it was 'not' a winnable fight they could escape from that even the badguys said 'truce till were not monster food???'
It blew apart the trap-badguys, an sent the PC's hurdling into a space that was supost to be instant death, but plot armor I intended for em saved them if only 'barely' but now, their in ' a ocean like space between the outter realm and multi realms', with faint contact by the holly characters gods saying 'theres a way back, you must return'. including to the Paladin an 3 1/2 (who is cleric).. and honestly, everyones raved to me about it.. but looking back agian, given lack of Paladins communications 'out' of his appearances in game.. he hasnt said much, unless someone else starts it..an even then its.. barely a sentence..
The players were picked up by 'friendly pirates' an have been discovering things and gaining new strengths.. least, most of them again. 3 1/2 really bounded with the new NPC's an been expanding their character (shes been very creative that way an shes really gotten into the player bug, im sooo happy i could get her into the hobby) the new players had their growths too, the full slightly higher brow noble of them has come to terms 'hes mortal an can die, but people need his strength' too, as well as 'living is hard.. their not just 'dirty' or something by chance its just the efforts of their brow' to the sorceress of his friends being delighted to be sailing the seas with quirky merman, turtle an other type pirates with treasures an jerks to kick in the seat of the pants. Even the other first player has tried new character aspects, trying to be a 'new version' of himself till an event happened (which he half told me of, but it was more workable then 'sudden sister quest').
But.. paladin has been a bit more missing an sadly we have had spotty game times cause this is when my own work schedule has been bad. An again, he never gets back or says 'oh sorry cant make it' or whatever happened. I brought up a bit ago about his passing remarks of the exp thing for this point to make, he doesnt like to have his character have much of my homebrew stuff.. despite how many treasures hes had that hes just gone 'i sell it' or 'eh if you want it take it dont want it' that has been (a) a plot starter, or (b) a pretty handy if maybe OP item, hes just passed them off even from session z where I give every player chances to pick a unique thing for their character that helps tie them to the world. He opted out of it, an through everything they have done an gathered.. hes held onto a grand total of 2 homebrew things.. a sword, that after a 'certin point' he used as his hexblade warlock focus point with his goddess also being his patron, and 'one' spell that I had to reach out to offer him, well, technically '2' spells. One that he could use to turn a mundane object into a powerful magic weapon, an a ritual spell that he needs to cast to regain uses of the other spell.
The reason this ties to the EXP block from the coliseum bit, is because as part of the ritual to regain usages, he has to create a small 'choke point' of a ritual spell ring to fight an unending horde of monsters that the spell summons to fight just him. Now, the monsters are extremely low level, like 1/4 cr, an they wont try an kill him, as the ritual ends when hes KO'ed. It took a bit before he had to properly cast it in ession (big surprise, had him recharging it on some of the missing day's of his). But when eh did, an he finished it, he did instantly ask 'how much exp to i get?' an kinda grew hushed when I said 'you.. get your six usages of your spell back?'. I.. low key wonder if he wanted to try an use it as a cheat to grind or something..
This also does not help that, just prior, 3 1/2 managed to do our 'biggest' damage in a single round during a hord fight, literally between her spells an a new weapon with some seriously amazing rolls, did over 200 hp of damage on her own. To the point she KO'ed the boss monster leader. granted it was with a smart play and some literal crit hits, but thats when his vibe for games started kinda feeling off big time. An come now, to the more recent events before the kick..
I had a rare day off i could have a game completely unhindered, an we agreed to all have it.. sadly starter 2 forgot the US has Daylights saving, so we did loose an hour for him getten outta work. Eh it happens. An sadly the new 3 didnt get to join in so it was an agreed on one shot. Well, that 'was' the idea..
When we started.. when we 'could' have started, I gave them the quick plot of how they got to this place (this all happened just before the event with the pirates so they had their stuff but meta'ed they were still their current levels). Now, Im loose with my own OS's, so I used a module i bought that looked fun an it was interesting. I did have to build a bunch of rough doubles of the maps, since turns out the PDF didnt want to let me get the pics right at the time, so wasnt focusing too much on some details but for key point ones. Its important for later. But anwyay after the basic 'you did a hero thing an was invited to a small isle city by its noble ruler who has big parties every week an your the guests of honor', you know the usual kinda crud. Well i started to get into the start of it, about to go to details of the maps location.. when he, stopped me an blocked me to go 'oh i climb the building or whatever to get that gun!'.....there was unfortunately an image of a gun on the part of the token i used to build the maps clocktower..didnt notice it.. he sure did.. an kinda derailed me a bit more..reminder, we were an hour late into session.
I managed to get back on track, the security at the start of the party line stoppen the crew an saying 'sorry its a costume party, dont worry we always have spares, pick one' an they got to pick a set of masks for themselves. They rolled to take turns, he got first dibs, an picked one he 'really liked', but I do kinda wonder cause my tag name relates to what it was.. Well, I sent them the screenshot of the masks an their effects as an item/equip card... he started to.. get sour sounding.
In prior in between an pre game times, hes mentioned hes.. not exactly a fan of alot of stuff. Even some of the oldest movies an comics that are still being made now an are big on fandoms, hes got zero interests or cares for.. an on troupes, he is not big on mysteries. An sadly, the mask gave him an ability thats great in discovering secrets...
Well, I started to bring one of the moduels NPC's to start pointing out details, give them some hook bits an background to what goes on normally in the city... and.. he used that one use ability to check if she liked her mask.. literally stepping the entire conversation, then walked away to break into that clocktower.. that had the guns on it..
3 1/2 an second 1'st decided 'lets try an get on with the actual story regardless' an tried to go to the party which they did, trying to get him to come with too, crossing the small castle bridge to get to there an start mingling as they do.. paladin did 'eventually'.. but first he shimmied the bridge to use up his stealth abilities from the mask... then when 3 1/2 noticed, tried to get him to come in, he... started climbing to the top of the castle wall..
His character, never acted like this, in any OS we had before or in game before. Second 1'st did do a little weird, but it was stuff his character was infamous for, but not good for the long run. I admit.. I lost my cool, I didnt shout, yell, or otherwise.. but at this point, from when we 'late started', to paladins 3'rd athletic roll to scale the building he was invited for, we had lost over 2 hours of our usual session time an it was very apparent he was really not going to act like the character we were accustomed to.. so I said, 'sorry guys, see you next time'.. admittedly, I did kinda vent in our group chat text wise.. I was pretty upset an tired i cant lie on this, i had spent very early hours on the maps an looking over to familair most of the thing as best i could while having lack of sleep beforehand. But, I basically just said, if you dont feel up to a game please just say so cause putting all that time en effort for even a one shot was time an tiring thing an just frankly kinda rude antics for no reason just hurt.... didnt use cures or otherwise but that was about it..
It did help that, the group reached out to me about it, even both our Hiatus ones.. everyone but Paladin who kinda went back to basic no coms with me pretty much like norm.. he kinda missed a few more sessions between then to now.. so lets get to what became the last straws of the DM..
So, in the 'undersea' places, the crew realized that, the party had something they could use with their nations rulers to try an breach peace with the races that was locking everyone up in this space between the multiverse, to escape some big dangers thats happening here. This thing was second 1'sts 'tie in starting choice' i gave the first party options too an hes loved ever since, giving his character a level of importance. Of course there is the risk the guys could go 'we dont need 'them' for just 'that'. but thankfully its the nicer space sea folks side so thankfully its all negotiations. I rolled beforehand to see what outcome would happen.. not the best roll but it was one with surprising good results but the meeting was postponed with the intended target cause.. well the system got fragged as they sent the unintended invite back to the outer realms and their time slot to reach out to there was lost. So the party an the friendly pirate captain npc buddy was told 'come back in several months well try again'. The captain was telling the leaders 'oh sure no problem' while giving a 'if we dont find you guys a way back to your side of the world to stop that big bad monster for good first 'wink' to them..
An paladin.. confronted an tried telling the nation guys the details in a... weird way. I really dont know how to explain how he said it it still sounds weird to me. But he basically wanted too.. convince the nation that 'the party' could end all their troubles.. against a hord of demons an undeads effectively 'not understanding' the monster that threw them here was not one of the creatures in question. Which even after i pointed out 'if he couldnt do more than 13 points of damage to that thing, how would he think he can beat the monster he 'thinks' made it?'... which on that matter, he was told multiple times it wasnt.
Well, the rest of the gang tried to talk reason to him, even pull him aaway.. an i had made split choice of the captain decided to put a 'command bracelet' on him, effectively 'if you fight the order given you get zapped an paralyzed'. telling him 'please stop an lets talk about this somewhere 'safe'... because the party and them werent safe..
People in the sea space place, dont like people 'from their side' not that any survive coming down to there. Again, they survived via their plot armor's they dont even fully get yet. With the leadership litterally saying to him before the captain dragged him to the doors a bit 'let them hang for all we care'...
Well, paladin passed the check against the paralyze effect (again, i give honest rolls unless absolutely necessary which i dont like doing..) an.. he had his character chop his hand off, use every will save till he passed the players spells an use his tp abilities to get out of any grapple an ran into the building to more or less brow beat the leaders into listening to him...I made a choice as the captain npc... an ran for the ship to get the heck out before his crew would be arrested an maybe killed for hiding the PC's, an the other PC's likewise, ran for the hills too with them saying 'your mad if you do this'..
That is where that session ended, he made a passing comment 'guess ill reroll a character for the time being'... an he never showed up for the following one despite knowing 3 weeks in advance..though it turns out he 'did' roll stats for a character after I left the chat an roll20... an 'then' designed his character... which at first i was iffy but gave him a sheet to fill in to go ahead an start worken it, not knowing he had pre existing stat rolls for it or clearing that with me.. something I dont like..
Well, cant say i fault him for not knowing this, none of them did.. but there was a planned event for the city they were in. After the 'meeting the outsiders' event, they were going to be there during a siege by the monsters the leaders were worried about. I had the mechanics that, theyd get swarmed by mooks they could likely kill in a round or two at worst with a few higher level front line commanders thrown in, for each one of these theyd get a -5 to around -15 against a d100 roll (which I infamously roll low on all the time) on how much the city gets damaged up (multiple of the results for fyi), where either (a) they would stand their grounds just enough to cause the enemy to tempt pull back from the current onslaught, (b) the do enough damage an pull back gettin more then they need for now (long story) or (c) the party retreats for the time trying to pick up some survives they could fit on the ship an get the heck out as the city is torn up...
Instead.. I roll flat 3d100's as the party 'just' avoided the guards an lockdown.. which didnt add any bonses for the city guards chance to prep ships an counter attackk.. of the three, 2 in the ninties, one over fifty.. the city was whiped out.. I was 'devastated' that now i may have put the paladins character in a state he was just outright mamed and couldnt even give his player a 'last hura an fade to black'...because they never showed up or said anything...
I had to take a day or two before i sent the news to him, i did kinda phrase it a little angerly but i was 'where were you what happend'?... no response the entire week, right up to our next game session with nothing being done to that character sheet i gave him for a month..
And then came to our last bit of communication.. one hour before we started, he wanted to ask me about his character creation thing.. he stuck with the class i was iffy on to begin with but he.. went with a completely different class, an frankly he was maxing out the stats on the class too..
I confronted him since at least then he was 'finally' speaking to me. He was giving me the 'he would have convince them' speach of his characters plans.. I was just getting more confused by some of his responses of what that even was. The 'misunderstandings' of his character of what things are going on, why he did an extrem like 'why would he cut his hand off' an then he admitted no matter what, his character was going to leave. All on the fact his 'Paladin Alignment as Lawful good' wouldnt let him 'let a bunch of people die in the city'... his character has pulled back from fights an stuff before, while yeah if he saw a fight he would totally try an defend someone if need be, but, the abandon the party thinking they were doing wrong, knowing that the plan the group would be involved with after the outsider meeting, was to go search for things that might power them all up enough to be on the same playing field as the monster that beat them, or event he ones attacking the undersea side.. He even made a passing comment 'yeah i know they all talked about it for an hour'.. when.. he caused the conversation to las tthe hour by having them repeat it different ways several times.. something he also did alot im afraid when the quest was not one he started/invested in specifically of himself (the starting foot of it happened to one of the new players an 3 1/2 while he was on one of his missing days again).
He made a slight passing comment about me jus killing off his character an how they were acting as a 'what if someone wanted to play something else' .. which i did ask 'did you want to play something new why didnt you just ask?' to which.. he kinda ignored an went on. It was roughly at this time that he said he was trying to focus on his wizard spell list that i clicked to he was playing a new type of character all together.. one he admitted he wanted to play as 'weird and kinda crazy'.. it honestly sent chills to me given his 'sane' character did something extreme out of the blue for no reason an would never had done before was a bad sign what he considers 'slightly weird/crazy' would be.. but i was further made up set he made up a character only 'after' getting rolls he didnt get clearance from me with beforehand. I asked if this was the case which he confirmed and simply asked 'what want me to do point buy instead?'... an thats when I said i dont think he was set for my game again.. most so since all this all he focused on, again, an hour before game time, was only the basic mechanics an nothing else (given my honest mistrust of him springing something on me on this point with the sister visit 'quest').
I had literally given him my reasons, told him didn tlike how many red flags hes pulled lately. Including our game communities famed words by players who do things that tend to do things that.. kinda make things weird or bad or start to trail from how they start as.. When he first started missing the bulk of sessions, an losing plot interest, was when he 'lost his notes'. Then an most infamous last appearance, literally last bits hes said when he decided to have his character leave (which in hindsight i think he may have just wanted but again.. pardon me for guessing since he never communicated) 'Its what my character would do' when he had him cut his hand off.. Then during our conversation when i was trying to figure out what the heck was all that an what happend he said 'because my lawful good paladin couldnt let that under his oath'... his 'netual good' character whose hidden monsters under his house, stolen from a school of magic, made friends with an had sight powers from a devil an a few other shady things to say the least...so he was plannen or taking that his character should have a diff alignment without communing with me on it..who knows ont hat one..
I honestly did my usual, 'i dont think this game is for you' exit speech... an he said 'dont bs me with this over polite crap' an tried to make me say 'i want you gone'.. he was more or less animate on the specifics of the words.. and I think i know why..
Because, the players have a private text chat, not that hes much on there himself unless his character name is mentioned multiple times, but they do have it for funnies an stuff between em. I dont mind it, but.. at some point when I officially announced I'd be removing the player in our whole group chat.. he sent a very cropped two lines that was the tail end of us with me saying him in the groups not looken good, but told them 'i shouldnt be contacted about this'..
Tooo bad for him, I screenshot everything big like this. An further bad for him, the new guys an me talk alot too, like constant, and he forgot, 3 1/2 are friends for over a decade. 3 1/2 told me that... so i reached out to the rest of the group, shared the entire thing with them on the spot, saying 'i am sorry, its been bad with all these points' (i mention in here better more details after all, given how it was an hour of getting heated an trying to get him to tell me what his game plan is or anything else if need be given everything else sounded like he was flipping between wanting to be something new or... again i can only speculate since he just went offensive/defenses with no explanations or stuff to understand him the player). an sent them the entire conversation the two of us had as a screenshot.
While I was polite an just saying 'dont think the games for you' which yeah is a little over gentle.. after i pointed out one of them mentioned with a tiny screenshot of only me saying 'you should go' an the 'dont talk to me about it'. He honestly said 'i told them they shouldnt bother with it' like they should have just listened to him on the get go...an that 'he' would send it.. told him I already had. And for that level of honestly kinda manipulative tactic, both trying to isolate the party from me and only showing the 'closest' he would have of me saying 'i want you gone' comment, which he had stressed for a bout a minute i should 'say' in our private chat, i cant help but wonder if he was seriously trying to poison the well between me and the others.. an then said he would 'show them the whole conversation.... well he kinda got super silent with the private group and to me when i said 'i already sent the whole. I told him, good luck an goodbye, an then removed him from my DND group.. he suddenly for the first time in 2 years 'went offline', on my notice thing, so i think he made himself invisible but at first i thought he blocked me.. made a passing comment to test, but he went 'no' an was suddenly fully online an back to his MMO's that he 'usually' played too much an overslept some of our early day games on... not surprising..
The rest of the party were.. thankfully understanding, 3 1/2 suggested we didnt play but i pressed on but we did kinda vent.. helped one of the experienced newby of the three was a dm, an said 'hey its what you feel too, if he was making you feel uncomfortable at the table with that, your alright to feel it an remove him' which helped too..
But part of me does have to have that nagging feel since, he is the 'first' true kick i have done. ALl my other possible problem players ghost themselves from my games an he had been in for 2 years.. not that we done much since we are nearly at our 100'th session an only 'now' getting to the possible tea of the world i have been sitting on for 3 years since started working on the campaign over it. I left it openf or them to discover, an things started to click when the new guys came in an started being able to 'take lead' a bit on group choices.. not waiting for the paladin to lead them.. but.
of course, communication is '2 way street' i know, I said he didnt talk to me on things but likewise maybe i shoulda been more active reaching to him. To a point I tried, but, unless it was 'hey want a new power or something' ...he didnt respond back much. Again we had not much on similar things an it feel slike he was cluing in that many of my influences was from comics, movies games an anime that even if he was into the fandoms of, he didnt know alot as I have a broad and little known spectrum of series. Maybe a bit of it was lill mix of we didnt upfront what we expected, but also disinterests... but I do know at least 2 of his fave games.. tha has owning land, getting bonus in some way from that, an thats that.. an some other aspects, kinda in hindsight were what he wanted/expected for his character at times.
Again, my thing is full homebrew, an always say 'hey if you find something you like, lemme know an see maybe we can toss it in.', sadly some of the gang dont take that up too much, but the new players have lately an its been fun. He did at first 'start' suggesting something.. but with no set things, so when i brought up things that we can do for it he kinda.. shot em down, like not say full on no but.. just went silent.
In the end, Im upset with myself over not confronting the problem a bit more 'first', but i guess i just started to let him just 'be silent all the time is fine the problem goes away' as much as he did it when i reached out to him. Hell if he stepped away for a bit, sadly perfect since his first character might be KO'ed, i may have taken him back if he just said 'been dealing with things' or 'wanted to be something new' or, 'can i try something crazy'.. but in the end he only wanted me to respond in the moment to what he came up without double checking things an it can happen so sparatically, so 'railroady' for me an the other players I just cant anymore. An knowing hell honestly try an manipulate my words behind my back to the rest of the players.. yeah Im not trusting that player at any of my games ever again and wont ever trust one like that... but I hope it doesnt turn to that for just that factor an not because of other reasons that can be avoided...
Anyone who reads, thanks for your time. If you got tips or mindsets to consider for me here, like to help get them like a mindworm to maybe help me over things, given how my head is still lill swimmen on it both emotionally an thoughts. I guess maybe im looking to see if I was valid (I know for my 'mental health' i was, but want to know its not just my own head thinking it an maybe cases like this is at least partly justified). An hey, if you ever had a sitch like this, lemme hear how ya felt too, never helps bottling it in. Just typing this at first as a note to myself before it showed up anywhere helped me clear my head a fair bit, so theres always getting the words out there wither someone's ear or eyes take it is a nice way to get the happy feels in. Next order buisness to feel better... getten to those cursed die rolls (come on Dice Gods treat me an my players failry, ah dangit another 1! I thought i blotted it out!)

On Slaying Phaelanxes

Phaelanxes. What happens when some lunatic combines a Pangar, a Moonreaver Shrike, a Frostwülf, and a Flameborn Quillshot. Big, fiery, fast, and lethal. Arguably the most dangerous Behemoth of its tier, with only the Shrowd and the Rezakiri providing any competition. But how could you slay one? Well, it’s actually not terribly hard, but the speed, damage, and the STUPID FIRE DEBUFF make it a daunting challenge for new Slayers. Just like my guide on Rezakiris, we’ll go over attacks, a synopsis, and useful tips on killing these oversized toasters.
PART 1: SYNOPSIS
The Phaelanx is, contrary to the Rezakiri, a very melee-focused Behemoth. Most of its attacks involve using its metallic body as either a Slap-Chop or a cannonball. As such, I have no Omnicell recommendations, because unlike the Rezakiri, you can’t negate three-fourths of their attacks with the Artificer shield. In terms of lanterns, use whatever you want, but I prefer Skarn’s Defiance. With that said, we’ll get onto the attacks.
PART 2: ATTACKS
Attack 1: NYOOM
Damage: 6/10
Dodge Difficulty: 7/10
Frequency: 5/10
This attack is the only attack that you can interrupt. It’s telegraphed by a VERY short charge-up noise and the missile launchers flaring out followed by the Behemoth launching itself like a rocket across the arena. Funnily enough, the hitbox for this attack is extremely wonky, and as such almost never hits its intended target. I’ve had more issues dealing with this during Escalations, where I’m carving up the other Behemoth when suddenly Bird Jumpscare. Dodge this by going through the Phaelanx’s face, or by interrupting it.
Attack 2: The Slice
Damage: 6/10
Dodge Difficulty: 7/10
Frequency: 7/10
Ah, the wing slice. A classic amongst Shrike-class Behemoths. Telegraphed by it standing up on its hind legs before deploying its wings and spinning in almost two full circles. Simple enough in concept, but the hitbox for the wings, as well as the range of the slice, is COMICALLY large, covering a good quarter of the battlefield. Dodge this by leaping out of the radius, if you are far enough to do that, or by dodging through the spin.
Attack 3: Walmart-brand Frostwülf
Damage: 10/10 (because fire debuff)
Dodge Difficulty: 2/10
Frequency: 3/10
This attack is telegraphed very well, by the Phaelanx stabbing the ground with its wingblade and twisting it. A glowing spot will appear under a Slayer before erupting into a geyser of fire. It’s very easy to dodge, but getting hit by it will give you the fire debuff. It usually appears in the midst of a combo, so it becomes harder to dodge.
Attack 4: Bioaetheric Missiles (a.k.a. Flameborn Quillshot on crack)
Damage: 6/10
Dodge Difficulty: 5/10
Frequency: 5/10
This attack usually comes after a ground slam or some other aerial attack and is signaled by the creature curling up on the ground and unfolding the missile launchers from its back before firing a barrage of explosive spines in a rough circle around itself, similarly to attacks from most Quillshot-class Behemoths. While the spines move much slower than the Flameborn Quillshot’s spines, they have a deceptively large blast radius, so be on guard.
Attack 5: gohegdeH ehT cinoS
Damage: 7/10
Dodge Difficulty: Yes/10
Frequency: 5/10
This is what I firmly believe to be the most bull***t attack in the Behemoth’s entire arsenal. It has zero telegraphs, zero counters, and does an excessive amount of damage. Sometimes, after it’s done firing missiles, it rolls up and kicks itself backwards in the span of about half a second, rolling around the battlefield like some bootleg version of Sonic. Unlike the Pangar, which has a similar attack, you can’t interrupt this one, and it’s MUCH faster and more agile. It doesn’t help that it attacks backward, where most Slayers like to stand. Dodge this by either going to the front or getting lucky.
Attack 6: Tactical Retreat
Damage: 7/10
Dodge Difficulty: 5/10
Frequency: 5/10
This attack involves the Behemoth being up on its hind legs first, and then it spreads its legs wings before launching itself backward, firing a “fence” of missiles out of its back and landing back on all fours. Both the dash itself and the missiles deal damage and can be dodged by leaping away from the dash’s direction.
Attack 7: Freaking Laser Beams
Damage: 8/10
Dodge Difficulty: 8/10
Frequency: 6/10
This is probably one of the most dangerous attacks in the Phaelanx’s repertoire, telegraphed by it standing on its hind legs. It flares both wings in a frill around its body before blasting twin heat rays out of its eyes and moving them about its field of vision. This appears to be somewhat inconsistent in my experience, but the rays apply the fire debuff. The difficulty with this attack comes with the randomness of the rays and the speed at which they move. Despite this, the rays have a very low field of view, and is really only a danger if you are standing in front of the Behemoth. If you do happen to be in the danger zone, get out as quickly as possible, otherwise you might get stunlocked and knocked down repeatedly.
Attack 8: Ground Slam
Damage: 7/10
Dodge Difficulty: 6/10
Frequency: 7/10
This is another common attack amongst Shrike-class Behemoths. (By the way, for those asking, I divide Behemoths into Shrike-class, Embermane-class, Gnasher-class, Quillshot-class, Oddball-class, and Keystone-class. There could also be an argument made for Drask-class, but it only has one variation that’s almost essentially a reskin, so I don’t count it.) The Phaelanx hops into the air before crashing down and making a shockwave. Fairly simple to dodge.
Attack 9: Sonic the Hedgehog
Damage: 9/10
Dodge Difficulty: 8/10
Frequency: 4/10
This is a less-unfair version of the previous roll attack, where it rolls forward. The same rules apply, but it’s more telegraphed by its tail kicking out. Not much else to say.
Attack 10: Famous YouTuber Cr1t1kal (WOOOOOOOOOOO)
Damage: 2/10
Dodge Difficulty: 4/10
Frequency: 1/10
This is the attack where the Phaelanx becomes enraged, where it leaps into the air, dives toward the ground, then rears up and does the WOOOOOOOOO YEAH BABYYYY THAT’S WHAT I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR pose and becoming enraged. It has a very fast dive and a very short telegraph, so keep on your guard. Actually, all things considered, I think that the Phaelanx has the shortest enrage move of any Behemoth. (For those wondering, the Valomyr has the longest enrage move, at a whopping ≈5.5 seconds.) Dodge by going backward.
Attack 11: Fenroar Cosplay
Damage: 3/10
Dodge Difficulty: 5/10
Frequency: 2/10
This move aether-charges the Phaelanx. It summons a swirling storm of rock and stone… oh no…
DID I HEAR A ROCK AND STONE!?
ROCK AND STONE IN THE HEART!
ROCKETY ROCK AND STONE!
STONE!
ROCK…AND…STONE!
With that out of the way, the storm of EARTH surrounds the Phaelanx before exploding out, damaging any Slayers in a radius around it. Just don’t go near it while it charges this move.
Attack 12: Rain Fire
Damage: 7/10
Dodge Difficulty: 8/10
Frequency: aether-charged/10
This is a fairly brutal attack, where it flaps up into the air before blasting heat rays down at Slayers. Just like the other attack involving the lasers, this one is hard to dodge thanks to the randomness of the beams, but it only occurs while the Behemoth is aether-charged. Dodge by getting out of its FOV.

(This isn’t all the attacks, but I haven’t encountered them enough to list all of them. More will be added later.)

PART 3: USEFUL TIPS ON HUNTING AND PART BREAKING
So. It wasn’t enough to kill one Phaelanx, you want to make armor out of them? Well, I hope you like the Phaelanx, since to make the full set of armor and ONE of the weapons, you’ll have to kill AT LEAST FORTY-FIVE PHAELANXES. So, how do you hunt efficiently? Go for the tails and the heads first, as there’s only one per Behemoth. Ignition Glands and Tempered Ironbeaks will be the hardest reagents to acquire. Usually, Wracked Pinions and Fused Steeldown are acquired accidentally, breaking almost unintentionally. Chrome Wingblades, Serrated Steelfeathers, and Blazeworked Shards are acquired by killing the thing, and are common enough that you’ll almost never have to hunt the beasts specifically for them. They have weirdly low part HP, and breaking parts, unlike ****KING REZAKIRIS AND THEIR STUPID EXOSKELETAL PLATES AND LUSTROUS TAILPLATES I SWEAR TO GOD THEY HAVE A BIGGER HEALTH POOL THAN THE BEHEMOTH ITSELF, is relatively easy.
Cobra’s Hunting Tips:
- Stay on the move! Phaelanxes have a variety of attacks that punish Slayers that stand still.
- If you are set on fire, and you didn’t know this already, dodging reduces the remaining effect time.
- Don’t get greedy. Whenever the Phaelanx starts recovering, your guard should go up.
- Manage your stamina. You really don’t want to get caught between a rock and a six-ton flaming biomechanical killing machine.
- Listen carefully. A lot of the Behemoth’s attacks, specifically the rocket dash, have audio cues.
- If there’s two Behemoths, prioritize the Phaelanx. Even if the other one is on the other side of the arena, a Phaelanx can close the gap in an instant.
- Always keep an eye on its target. If it starts targeting you, put some distance between you and the Phaelanx, have a breather, and try to avoid being set on fire.
- Stay to the sides of the Behemoth and avoid the front or back. Unlike other Behemoths like the Skarn, the Valomyr, or the Fenroar, Phaelanxes have no method of attacking you sideways.
- Make every opening count. You can safely pummel them during their laser attack, their fire geyser, and their missile attacks.

I live in a very kid friendly neighborhood. Even still, I live on an exceptionally kid full street. There are eight houses on my street, and half of them (mine included) have kids under six. Between the four families, we have nine kids who are all living within a few hundred yards of one another. It's great, and I love seeing kids out all the time when the weather's nice. I'm on a first name basis with all the other parents on the street, and I know all the kids' names (except the newest one whom I haven't met yet because she's only a few months old).
That's not to say that we've spent a lot of time hanging out with these other kids. Most of them were born in the COVID years (two of mine included), or just before the COVID years, so while I know all the kids, my kids haven't spent much time, if any, playing with most of them. Things changed a bit on Friday. The power company had to do some work in our neighborhood, and we were all without power for most of the day. I was at work, but my wife was home with the kids and, since the weather was nice, spent most of that time outside. Our closest neighbor had apparently the same idea, as she was out with her daughter.
According to my wife, the daughter spent a good bit of time trying to get the attention of my two older sons who are either a year older or younger than her. My oldest actually ran over to the fence and they talked through the fence, apparently so much that her mother decided to just bring her over to our yard to hang out (just to be clear, my kids have a ton of yard toys so it's not a surprise that they would come here). I guess it was all good fun for all and everyone enjoyed spending time together. My sons talked about the bouncy house we got them for christmas, and our neighbor's daughter wanted to see it. Of course, without power it wouldn't work so my wife didn't bother dragging it out, so she made plans with our neighbor to hang out again this weekend since the weather was supposed to be nice.
Well, she and our neighbor agreed that the weather was supposed to be nice so they'd come over again today. No one at any point actually formalized plans, which is certainly a lesson learned from this experience.
Today the weather was absolutely spectacular, so the boys and I spent almost the entire day out back. We played with the bouncy house, and their power wheels, and it even got warm enough in the afternoon to pull out some water toys. My oldest spent the entire morning asking when our neighbor's daughter was coming over to play, but since a time was never agreed upon, we didn't know when that was going to happen. At one point he even convinced my wife to go knock on their door, but no one answered.
Finally, just after we had lunch, they came outside and we all said hi. My son, being an impatient five year old, said something incredibly rude like "Where have you been all this time?" and "When are you coming over?" I corrected him for being rude and apologize to our neighbor. She said that they had to eat lunch before they could come over, which was perfectly reasonable. I said they were welcome to come over anytime they were ready and not to worry about rushing.
An hour and a half later and the boys were getting grumpy, so I took them in for a nap. The neighbor girl was out in her yard playing the entire time and never once stopped for lunch as far as I could tell. The parents sat on their porch, which is out of sight of my yard. When we came back out after nap time, they were all in their yard, and my son again yelled over to them asking them when they were coming over. They didn't respond this time, and shortly after they went back inside. I didn't see them again after that.
My son was very upset that they didn't come over. We stayed out until dinner a few hours later, but they never came back out. A few times he came and sat with me and cried that he wanted to see the neighbor girl and ask me why she didn't come over. I honestly don't know, unless maybe the mom was uncomfortable coming over because I was out with the boys and not my wife, but I don't want to read too much into it. All I know is my son was crying off and on all afternoon, and it really got to me.
I probably could have gone and knocked on their door again, but I already felt awkward and angry enough and I didn't want to do or say something stupid and make it even less likely that my son will get to spend time with them again.
This having kids that have feelings thing is hard. I wish he didn't have to go through that today.

Cultural Exchange and Community Building : The Benefits of International Volunteering at Pehchaan The Street School
It is impossible to overestimate the importance of cultural interchange and community development in a world that appears strangely remote yet increasingly interconnected. International volunteering is one way that these ideals can come together. It provides a special chance to overcome distance and cultural differences while making a significant difference in the lives of underprivileged populations. Having various centers in the very heart of Delhi, India, Pehchaan The Street School is a prime example of the transformational potential of these kinds of initiatives.
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Admiral Tenrah returned to the battle map, looking at all the various icons and routes to and from star systems. So far, the Sennes Armada was keeping its pace mostly on track. The delay due to the diplomats from the Misan Li Heptarchies no longer would matter.
King Siran had pulled back from the battlefront against the High Federation in an attempt to pivot to the Hive Union. He had won the battle, but the stragglers included the remaining leadership of the High Federation anyway, so they could continue to remain somewhat organized. The massive civil war would soon spill into a more international affair, due to the King's rhetoric. But that was entirely his fault when he so strongly advocated for the deaths of Cawlarians who had lived on planets for generations that he happened to desire.
And he would not let his name be stained with even the suggestion of a loss. The Battle Planner and Fleet Commander Annabelle Weber were also now on their way to the front, and the diplomats from the Heptarchies were tagging along. Phoebe was in discussions with them now, and supposedly there'd been a few breakthroughs on that front. Whatever she'd promised them or get them to agree to, the fleet buildup along the Hive Union's border with the Heptarchies was slowing.
The Interstellar Gathering seemed to have realized no amount of bluffing would get the High King out of war. Even if he was a proxy force aligned with them, King Siran was not valuable enough for them to risk a wider war. It was just as Tenrah had expected and had told Eyahtni, Kawtyahtnakal, and the Patriarchs when he'd met with them several days ago. Just as a young hatchling couldn't be allowed to stray too far from the nest, there was simply no sense for the Heptarchies to risk economic ruin.
Orith and those who ruled over him would shift their tone while pretending it was a natural decision, not one they'd been forced to make to align with reality.
"I must commend your tactics in the latest training exercise," Tenrah said, ruffling his feathers slightly before respectfully nodding to Annabelle.
"I am pleased to hear such high praise from you, Admiral," the woman said. She was fully dressed in her regulation spacesuit, meaning most of her face was obscured. But Tenrah wouldn't complain since it was more than prudent to be ready for anything. The next unknown ships might not be friendly.
He had also looked into the parties responsible for the lack of communication or warning of the Misan's arrival. As it turned out, general incompetence was to blame. A receiver hadn't been properly calibrated, so the transmission signal had just been noise. He'd given the officer in charge of that an earful before eventually letting up and telling him to do better. A personal visit with the Admiral was one thing. But a second personal visit was quite another.
Tenrah drew a vector toward some of the outer systems controlled by the High King. A few garrison forces were there, but they would be swept away almost instantly. What most concerned him was the shipyards in the region that received most of their metals from a select group of planets in those systems. They were rich in the metals required to forge the alloys needed in the High King's fleet.
The High Federation had been something of a dumping ground for either overthrown species or other alien species that had been deported from their homeworlds before the war broke out. This was reflected in the number of species inhabiting the worlds, each with unique names, traits, and temperaments.
"We plan on taking this path, and then splitting to conquer these systems and disable their metal exporting abilities," he explained. "Then we will move to this system."
He zoomed in more and drew a new vector from where the previous one ended. "We have intelligence that they have at least four planet crackers there. Brey will send FTL suppression satellites through portals on the outer edges, with her portals boosted by our psychic amplifier fields. we will be able to take over the system quickly, and begin the process of either disabling the planet crackers or moving them back to our territory."
"We will need to know the angles the superweapons are at before committing to the battle," Annabelle said. "Otherwise, judging by the trajectory cone you have, we can bypass them entirely and reach Siran within two weeks."
"And that is an interesting proposal. Can you lay out your plan, in that case?"
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Annabelle did so. She and Tenrah discussed the strategy's risks, and they eventually decided that such a tactic, while bold, wouldn't do what they set out to do: ensure the safety of the Cawlarians near the border. They were already trying to evacuate from the coming war front, but cities and planets were large things that took a lot of time to completely empty.
And more garrison forces, whether they were androids from Phoebe or specialized and highly trained defenders from the Union, were still moving in as the civilians evacuated. Kawtyahtnakal had established a fund for them, but many people were too stubborn to leave. Despite the looming threat of war and possible massacre, they still refused to board the passenger ships. Annabelle could respect their tenacity and courage, though she personally believed it was counterproductive.
A few encroaching splinters of Siran's fleet had already struck the evacuation forces. He'd sent around 2% of his ships away to harass all the border systems within reach in an attempt to get the Armada bogged down in defense. But with such small forces and the Union on such high alert, all of the important stations with weak shields were well within the protective layers of planetary shields in the area.
Larger garrisons than necessary were still required, of course, but Tenrah had managed to navigate the desperate concerns of the Feathers and those like them in charge of governing their planets with his natural political skill. He didn't need to ask them for favors because, as an Admiral, he alone held power over how his portion of the fleet would respond. Annabelle had witnessed that loyalty and control well within the organization of his fleet. Even at his advanced age, she continued to be impressed with his adaptability and skill at monitoring three-dimensional battle planes and fields.
She pointed to the cone of possible directions Siran was expected to take. They were generally adjacent to the border, though they would head around the left side of the territory he claimed from the Union. If he reached it, millions of lives would be lost every day. Once he broke the shields entirely, the planets would be utterly glassed down to their mantles.
She'd read up on his methods and had seen videos of them in action. Despite all her training, it still was haunting. The hivemind helped to soothe her when the unpleasant parts of command sizzled up to meet her in the middle of the night.
But they would not impede her on the field of battle. When she went to war, the hivemind suppressed all that wasn't necessary for the mission. It was their agreement, one which she'd asked of it. And being a node of the network meant that her stability was paramount, even more so than her title as Fleet Commander. For if she fell, others could take her place. Protocols ensured and demanded that.
But her place in the hivemind was what allowed it to have any strength this far out. It could form avatars and help with long-range communications, though the main mind back on Earth and Luna obviously remained disconnected from this distance.
"I would normally agree with you, Fleet Commander, but I am reminded of your tactic to use decoy hard light holograms."
"They will suspect that any ships heading right for the barrels, or close enough, are either not valued enough or are the decoys."
"Then all you have to do is make them impossible to ignore," Tenrah said. "I can lend you bombs capable of remaining armed and capable of being triggered inside of hard light holograms, even with jamming involved. Then, they will be unable to ignore them, and the explosions generated would destroy the shields in place around the planet crackers. If they fire the weapons, then the residual magnetic interference will allow us to destroy them, since the shields will be far weakened."
Annabelle could see the potential brilliance of the strategy. But it was just that- potential. In space, there were no obstacles. Without stealth fields, there was no hiding. And with hard light holograms, stealth was obviously off-limits.
They would be left approaching from angles that they would be unable to adapt to. She had her VI plot several routes but was unsatisfied, so she had Edu'frec link into the network to do it. Phoebe had been replaced after contacting a Sprilnav network to ensure she could scrub any programs that may have gotten through to her without distraction.
It would be a terrible thing for a Sprilnav AI to make it to her dreadnaught, for sure.
"We will likely need a threefold diversion at least," Annabelle said. "Maybe fourfold, if we can spare the forces, and brave any minefields that may exist."
"Well," Tenrah began. He pulled up a few schematics of the weapons her dreadnaught carried. "I believe you can solve the minefield issue from a distance, even with the lightspeed limit. After all, they can't move easily. As for the actual attack? I suggest a sixfold flower formation, with a twisting wings accent."
"You will have to show me a diagram of that," Annabelle said, grasping uselessly at the unfamiliar words. Before their integration had begun, there had been a limit to how much doctrine she could memorize.
Tenrah pulled up an image of an alien flower blooming with six petals. And then the image faded, overloading with a stylized ribbon of red shapes. The ribbons spun on their sides every thirty seconds, like corkscrews that were flatter.
"And in this case, the ribbons represent the drone formations. I can send a few carriers into the battle with fighter escorts, though we will need to keep them spread out to avoid any direct lines of sight from the planet crackers."
"I heavily doubt they will waste such shots on carriers," Annabelle said. "And if you commit more, you will overwhelm their defenses. I believe your drones are highly reflective, so only missiles and bullets can deal sufficient damage at the involved speeds and numbers we are working with here."
She tapped the diagram, shifting it by about 45 degrees.
"I believe I can fit a stealth force here, which will engage the back defenses of the planet crackers once they focus their shields frontward. I can likely get a full battlecruiser group in, and if you can press in as a wedge around 10 million kilometers above me from where I come in, and around 30 million kilometers below," Penny paused to draw the vectors with her hands, "Then it will aid in my ability to subdue them. It would likely shorten the battle time from a week down to four days."
"Assuming their detection satellites are not capable of seeing it."
"And we will target those too. I believe the first strike can fall on those, since the planet crackers will interfere with their ability to scan behind themselves, and such large power signatures can be noted."
"There is one more problem," Tenrah said. "We are generally working on the assumption of trying to capture these ships, yes?"
"Yes," Annabelle said.
"Then will we board them?"
"Yes, but no. Edu'frec and Phoebe's commando androids will open up the beach heads on the physical surfaces of the planet crackers, while our specialized mental warfare agents will take the fight to them in the mindscape. I assume you have your own plans in that regard?"
"It depends on how we will split the planet crackers. There are 12 in the system. Half and half?"
"That seems prudent," Annabelle replied. She selected the ones that would be most advantageous for her various gambits and strategies to work. They were closer together, which meant more capacity for coordination, mutual aid, and shielding. But it also meant a larger target, one which she could hit from many vectors without worrying about each enemy ship having a wide field of view. Some battlecruisers and cruiser groups were scattered around, but they were not enough to resist the Armada. And once Siran was robbed of a quick way to end the war, the Union would hold the upper hand, capable of committing devastating power to a fleet that remained in a system for a long time.
Yet the same was true for the Union and the Alliance. If the battle took too long, or their command positions were located, then the terrible might of the planet cracker beams would be turned upon them instead. Annabelle's dreadnaught was powerful. More so than all the ones before it. But that didn't mean she wanted to test her shields against alien planet crackers.
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Penny was talking to a group of freed slaves on Justicar. These were recent ones who still held quite a bit of trauma. They'd taken to calling her 'Liberator' despite her never identifying herself as such. It was oddly endearing and did make her feel quite a bit better. It was good to just be able to go out and help people.
She felt some perturbations in the mindscape but ignored them. Right now, she needed to ensure that the gangs couldn't continue their horrific industry. She'd taken out most of their heavy equipment and was now waiting for the Guides to finish searching.
Sirens and alarms echoed in the distance. Penny sent psychic energy into her eyes, but she was too far underground to see anything without using the energy itself instead of light to see. Justicar's mind seemed busy, so she couldn't connect with him. As time went on, Penny felt that something was wrong. It was a gut feeling that she couldn't place. But because of that, she was on edge. She made a large shield of psychic energy above them.
She held it for several minutes. Nothing happened, but Penny wouldn't let it down that quickly. Justicar still didn't respond. Her communicator rang. Kashaunta was calling.
"What's going on?" Penny asked.
"The Grand Fleet is-"
Light and heat smashed into her, easily breaking through her shields. She briefly saw tens of thousands of Sprilnav burning before the light overwhelmed her eyes. Her communicator was destroyed. The onslaught was accompanied by a monstrous level of sound. Shockwaves drilled Penny into the melting and fracturing ground, forcing her lower and lower into expanding pools of magma and liquid metal.
The city's upper layers fell upon her, crashing with great and terrible force. But Penny was now fully reinforced with psychic and conceptual energy. She erupted furiously from the rubble. The air around her burned with heat as she continued to accelerate. The armor plates now surrounding her glowed cherry red, but they were white by the time she'd reached space.
She reached the first planetary shield.
"Displace," Penny growled. She forced reality to move as she willed and to place herself where she saw fit. The Grand Fleets were high above, firing upon a small group of ships that had detached from Azeri's fleet. They seemed to be directly attacking the broken-off contingent and not Justicar itself.
So Penny increased her eyesight and analyzed the battle in both real space and the mindscape. Nilnacrawla helped her identify Justicar's targets. The massive Elder was angrier than she'd ever seen him, and his size, which was even larger than Tetelali, made that incarnation of him appear more like a god of wrath. She saw him brutally tear through groups of minds desperately running to avoid him.
She could faintly see spheres of psychic and conceptual energy area denial fields. From this distance, the flagships' strength was truly impressive. Both of them were at least ten times as powerful as Azeri's had been during their battle. It was clear both Kashaunta and Valisada had ordered upgrades.
Then, her attention came to the dreadnaught, which seemed to be at the head of the attack. Penny explored the ship with her psychic power, pushing aside all resistance. Several lasers struck her, but she ignored them, denying their impact in reality against her own.
It glowed with the fury of weapons firing. Missiles and fighters flowed out of its bays. Bullets, nukes, and lasers streamed from red-hot gun barrels. A nuke hit her but didn't explode. She ripped it apart, using the materials to add energy to her reserves.
Justicar continued to go in inside the mindscape. He tore at them like a shark at a school of minnows in a coral reef. His ravenous anger and hatred were frightening, but Penny rapidly got used to it. Calling up her own memories of the innocent people who'd been killed for no reason, Penny wrapped herself in energy and began to erase her signature from the area.
Fighters flew past her, no longer hitting her psychic shields with bullets. Lasers stopped firing at her since she'd moved from her last position, and there was no longer anything for them to track. Penny floated in the stars, with bright blooms of white fusion explosions blossoming around her. And so she moved forward. She reached a cruiser. She reached forward, teleporting past its shields, and shut down the ship's reactor by teleporting all of its fuel into the void.
Soon, a missile from Kashaunta's Grand Fleet found the vessel, and it vanished in another sphere of heat and light. Of course, it was all silent in space. Penny could only hear her heart beating and occasional warnings from Exile or Nilnacrawla at incoming attacks. Exile occupied the area in her ears, which felt weird, but it allowed him to speak without showing himself in the mindscape. Given his nature and the fact that the Grand Fleets likely had detections for speeding space entities, it would be a terrible idea for him to appear there. Nilnacrawla continued to help Penny with the mental aspects of the battle.
He processed the energy input and output that Penny was giving off in the hopes of keeping her off the sensors of the dreadnaught battlegroup. She didn't want to attract the full focus of one of those massive guns. The explosions on Justicar would have been capable of cracking apart a mountain range if not for the extensive dampening Justicar's shields had done. And she'd withstood them only because she could shunt off most of their impact into reality, leaning into her conceptual nature and the nature of Cardinality to escape certain death.
Even with her power, as high as it had ever been, the blow she was taking were the most powerful physical impacts she'd ever endured.
She also suspected Yasihaut's work in this, though she had nothing to prove. She also had to remain vigilant about the Judgment. She couldn't take overly hostile actions, so she didn't just teleport the Sprilnav in the area out of their ships. She tried it on a smaller scale, and a weak pressure from the dreadnaught made her power fail to affect them.
But those Sprilnav were still doomed to die by their commander. But Penny didn't wish to doom the Alliance and herself by taking their deaths into her own hands. And she was stained with enough blood, metaphorical and literal. The ashes of the people she'd freed had fallen away with her ascent into the atmosphere, but the gritty memory and feel of them never would.
Once again, she'd been powerless to save those who'd needed her. And if she'd had that power, what could she have really done? Would she have been forced to stand there and take it? Or could she have really fought back in a way that wouldn't be turned against her in the Judgment? And was she wrong for considering all of that during such a horrendous time, when she'd literally seen thousands of people turned to slag and ash before her very eyes just ten minutes ago?
Penny burned with shame and grief. She hated this. She hated that things always turned to this. Why couldn't the galaxy just leave people alone? Why did there have to be so much suffering? Her anger threatened to overwhelm her, but with a herculean effort from her, Nilnacrawla, and Cardi, it was beaten back.
Penny felt Justicar getting close to breaking through the shield. She sent a small jolt of power to its underside. A thick bolt of psychic lightning infused with rage leaped from her arms, shattering the shield completely and taking roughly half her power. In the dreadnaught, the antimatter reactor she could sense radiating its energy suddenly lost all coolant access.
She pushed her psychic energy into herself and her conceptual energy into words that she harmonized into existence with the force and might of her will.
"Cardinality: One to zero. Reversal."
A heap of her energy left her instantly, stopping a budding explosion from ripping the dreadnaught apart. Justicar absolutely ravaged whoever was inside that ship, including what appeared to be a leader figure in the mindscape. Penny watched Justicar smash the Elder's corpse in his jaws and tear his soul from his body before shredding it violently with a contraption that looked straight out of a horror movie.
She let the explosion go, and so it went. The dreadnaught cracked in half. The Grand Fleets, which had never stopped firing, finally broke through the shields as the circuits failed to supply them with power. Hundreds of thousands of lives winked out instantly, torn to subatomic particles by beams coming from two different flagships. Penny went straight to Kashaunta, appearing on the ship's bridge still in stealth. To their credit, her guards noticed immediately and bared their weapons at her.
The guns that were powerful enough to blast holes in skyscrapers and sturdy enough to withstand a fall from orbit with hardly a scratch unloaded their payloads into her. Penny opened her mouth, and strings of psychic energy writhed outward, wrapping themselves around the guns and wrenching them out of the claws of Kashaunta's guards while the impacts' explosions were contained by thick shields.
Kashaunta herself had already drawn her sword but hadn't moved an inch.
"Penny," she said dryly. "Welcome to my ship. I apologize for your reception."
A new shield came down on both of them, preventing their words from reaching the ears of Kashaunta's subordinates.
"Think nothing of it, Elder Kashaunta. What punishments will be given to the Grand Fleet Commander?"
"Well, technically I am not the Grand Fleet Commander of this fleet," she said. "So that is not really something I can enforce. However, the Grand Fleet Commander of the 85th Grand Fleet does wish to talk with you, Justicar, and myself about what just occurred."
"And you believe him?" she exclaimed.
"He sent transcripts of the message he sent to one Elder Solei, asking him to cease his actions before it was too late."
"Even the Alliance can make deepfakes," Penny said.
"And do you think I would be ignorant of such things, child?" Kashaunta asked. "We have ways around those. That is why we still have a society after billions of years of time to screw it all up. Deepfakes are a problem of less advanced species and cultures, not those with the tools to handle them."
"Which are AIs, which you also ban throughout the galaxy."
"Yes."
"Isn't that hypocritical?"
"Yes, it is," Kashaunta said. "You can go and complain to the Judges who decided that if you wish, though asking them to think of the children instead of preserving the power of the entire Sprilnav species will get you laughed at by a billion mouths."
Penny felt something in her mind take offense to Kashaunta's wording. It didn't feel like it was part of her, but it also did. The shock of all the lives lost hit her again, making her scowl.
"So there will be nothing done?" Penny growled.
"No. Prepare for a neutral and level-headed discussion. If you wish to have any seat at a table such as this, you will conduct yourself with decorum. You will not accuse Elder Valisada of being responsible for whichever fool did this, and you most certainly will not baselessly claim that Yasihaut is at fault for this, even if it is likely that she or her backers are. It is time you learn the lesson that all Elders have: there are always more Sprilnav. Recognize that this was a strike against you without casting aside all of your goodwill among those that matter."
"Those that matter," Penny mused. "Sometimes I forget what you are."
Kashaunta stepped forward, eyes narrowing. She let out a hiss.
"You saw a few thousand people die, and now you're back to the racism again? Grow up. People die all the time in this galaxy. You complain about the status quo. I would respect that, if you could stomach what is required to change it. Death will continue to run rampant, and you will be the reason more die no matter what you do. 760 sextillion Sprilnav, Penny. And you cry over ten thousand?
During the Source war, we sent two years olds to war. You don't get to slide back into comfortable dumb hatred of our species because of a few stupid people. Rest assured, if you ever get this Alliance-based order, you or your successors will become tyrants. There will be a human who has the power and will to start wars, and enact genocides, for functionally no reason. Need I remind you of World War Two, and World War Three? If you multiply the population of Humanity by a trillion, that means you'll get a trillion Pol Pots, or Hitlers, or Genghis Khans.
And a hell of a lot more dumb idiots in power, which ascribes most of the history of nearly every species in the galaxy. Notice how Valisada and I both fired on Solei once he decided to be an adult daycare nominee? Notice how Valisada has not fired at us, or Justicar, and is trying his best to start a constructive dialogue? People die in war, Penny. This is reality. And you cast your disdain onto me, the only Sprilnav keeping you alive in this place, because I happened to be born an Elder. But no. I'm still some alien, right? Just another dirty animal for you to kill when the Judgment ends."
Kashaunta's fury caught Penny off-guard. The Elder truly meant her words. Penny had deeply offended her, cracking open the facade she usually maintained. The smug feeling at having made Kashaunta go on such a tirade faded when she considered the circumstances. Maybe she had acted like a child. But she hadn't said anything truly deserving of such a furious tirade, had she?
Not unless her proclamation that she remembered 'what Kashaunta was' had an implication that she didn't understand. Kashaunta was a mass murderer, one who was more than willing to justify it when necessary. And she downplayed the fact that this attack was on Penny herself and on thousands of innocents on a Sprilnav planet where she was meant to be safe. This wasn't a pair of assassins in the night, slipping poison into water or dropping snakes into a bed. This was a much more insidious and terrifying evil. Penny had been powerless to stop it.
Penny knew she was right, but Kashaunta did not. Could she truly weigh her scant decades against Kashaunta's billions of years of age? Perhaps. Age was not wisdom, though it certainly could be experience. Kashaunta turned around and started to walk away. Sadly, Penny still needed her.
"I'm sorry, Kashaunta. I am... incredibly charged. I am very pissed right now. I am not apologizing for how I feel about this attack. I have every right to be upset, and I will remain so. I will not be bullied or cowed into submission, even by a thousand more tirades. There comes a point where something must be done. But if you are upset over what I said, then I would at least like an honest clarification why."
"Because you had showed me you could think like a person should. That you didn't see people's species anymore. That you were becoming less racist. And yet, when you are cut raw, you still see me as a Sprilnav Elder alone, and therefore complicit in this massacre I literally did everything I could to do stop before it worsened. You said you knew 'what I am' as if you'd forgotten that. And it is clear that you meant that you'd forgotten your belief that I am some dirty criminal Sprilnav, who deserves to be slaughtered in the dark for the crime of being born in her species.
You care more for the ash on Justicar than you do for what I have given you. Your simplistic view of reality would mean that if you could push a button to kill us Elders, you'd do it, robbing countless families of their loved ones, because you now remember 'what we are,' and are again regressing away from your previous growth."
"I am one person, Kashaunta. I don't understand why you care this much about me. But I can recognize that the message you received is one of terrible bigotry. I am suffering, every day, every week, that I remain in this god-forsaken place. It hurts for you to dismiss the people I care about, even for a moment, dying just because there are many of them. But that does not excuse what I said to you despite the death toll you carry on your own head. It was a half-truth."
Kashaunta laughed. "Do you know why I care so much about what you think, Penny? It is because you are the other aliens. All at once. The Alliance is the face of all things 'alien' in many places. Remember what conceptual energy is? Lecalicus told you, I believe. You represent more than just your own views. And if you're able to forgive a speeding space entity, but not me, then it shows that we will never have peace. That no matter what, this cycle of hatred will continue, and I will need to either build a new galaxy with aliens that don't hate us for our ancient crimes, or just figure out another way. You are the face of the rest of the galaxy, Penny. And you have just told me that you still hate me for being an Elder. After I thought you had changed."
"And you believe you are undeserving of such hatred?"
"Penny," Kashaunta said. "The Alliance didn't exist when many of these events happened. Some of your grievances are older than the mountains on Earth. You say you hate us for genocides that happened so long ago that they no longer hold any meaning. There is no compensation we can give to dead species on dead worlds. What you want is an alien species to hate and blame for all the universe's problems. Because it is easier to hate us than to confront reality. And we are the ones you have been told to hate."
"They were not small things. It was the deaths of trillions of people, Kashaunta."
"Yes. And it was wrong. I can understand that. But what do you think will happen when your Alliance, filled with people who hate us, takes over? You will see humans bombing Sprilnav schools, and the hivemind will do nothing, for it will share that hate. Acuarfar will abduct and torture us. Knowers will devour our children. And in the face of that? You would turn a blind eye, because it is too hard to solve with a simple fix. You will only propagate generational hatred, just as all the Alliances and Galactic Republics and Peace Unions did before you.
Because underneath your message of equality for all species is oppression and genocide for us, the villains in your little story. That is what happens in reality, once the benevolent dictators die. And you, who have lived with us, eaten with us, and talked with us, will sit upon your golden throne, and when I am brought before you, naked, bleeding, and in need of support, you will throw me away, because all I am to you is an Elder. That mindset is exactly what stands in the way of peace. It is why I stopped giving you aliens chances for so long. And having to argue this with you at all makes me think you may no longer be worth my effort."
More manipulation. Penny was ready to shout at her, but Nilnacrawla pulled her thoughts away from blind anger. And it did feel unnatural for her. Alien.
"This is not peace," Penny said. "This is war. And we are circumstantial allies. I will not become what you claim."
"I have sown the seeds of a thousand despots," Kashaunta said. "I recognize them when I see them because I have reaped the heads of a million more."
Penny sighed. She wanted to resist and continue arguing, but it wouldn't get her anywhere. Now that she had thought about it, she was unlikely to overturn a viewpoint set in a billion years of experiences. Perhaps Penny could explore this later, when she had time to properly process it all.
"Very well. I will go to this meeting of yours, and I will conduct myself with decorum. However, while I refuse to belittle or forget thousands of deaths, I am sorry that you feel this way."
"But you are not sorry about making me feel so."
"No," Penny replied. She suppressed her emotions more, taking the time to carefully consider her words. Kashaunta was wrong and oddly sensitive right now. Saying the wrong thing could damage far more than their mutual feelings. As much as she wanted to win this argument, Kashaunta was who she was. She was the alien dictator keeping the Alliance alive.
"We are both right in some ways, and perhaps we might be both wrong, too. This only shows how tough the road will be. We at least are consciously trying to come to an understanding. But for the billions of Alliance citizens, quintillions of aliens, and sextillions of Sprilnav? It is a gargantuan task. And... right now, I don't think it is possible."
"It isn't," Kashaunta said. "And it won't be for thousands of years. But we don't get some neat little time skip to wait and solve all of our problems for us. Change will start only when we make it."
Kashaunta was throwing her a bone, then. They both knew the argument couldn't continue right now.
"So we have an understanding, then," Penny said. "Hatred will remain, but it must be minimised. That way, cultural and social pressure will eventually stamp it out, and we may have peace."
"No. We will have a truce, which will only become peace with much more work. The Alliance is a nation that is 24 years old. Only a single generation has grown up within it. Negotiations will be hard with so many who remember the hatred. But Valisada is not like other Sprilnav. He will seek to bring a hybrid war to you and the Alliance, unless you can convince him that you truly mean to bridge the divide. You are clearly misguided, but have a genuinely good heart. That will make life hard for you. Your words today would have spelled the death of you and the Alliance, had I not established this shield around us to hide them. Out of the spirit of our friendship, I will not request a favor in return for this boon."
"Thank you, Kashaunta. Though I'm not sure I can consider you a friend."
"The fact that you bothered to listen to my side of things, in this limited aspect, despite the hurt you must feel right now, proves otherwise. I am well aware of my past crimes, Penny. I know that my emotions today were a weakness I should have been able to seal, and that you will still see me for who I was, and not who I am. I know how it sounds for me, a killer and a ruler, to be upset at being confronted. But that is how I am. I still have my pride as an Elder, and there is only so far it can be pushed. Who I was certainly would qualify as beyond evil. But to remain at the top, there are limits to how far you can swing into benevolence.
I cannot atone. Do not try to make me repay debts that you don't own. If you are ever to have more Elders on your side, whether Progenitors or otherwise, you will need to learn to deal with this. There will be people with death tolls higher than the population of the Alliance, who were once the heart of evil and are now at least acceptable. The first step will be recognizing that, yes, we are in fact friends, despite my history. Because only from friendship and understanding can hope come."
"I will think about this more. My feelings about this, and about you, have not yet solidified."
"I was wrong for what I said to you, Penny. We are both on edge, and said things that we didn't properly express. We should get our heads in order before re-entering this argument with logic instead of emotions."
"I agree. I will go and see who I can save. And I will think more about this. I freed people from slavery, and watched them die today. Respectfully, I must spend some time away from you for now."
Penny left the ship. In something near her subconscious, anger remained. When she landed in the rubble once again, she missed a small but steady stream of conceptual energy wafting into her from below.

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A Plague Tale: Innocence
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Bridge Constructor Portal
Chivalry 2 - Epic Edition
Deep Rock Galactic
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
Doom Eternal
Elite Dangerous
Endless Space 2 - Digital Deluxe Edition
Ghostrunner
Honey I Joined a Cult
Lost Ruins
Mass Effect Legendary Edition (temporarily unavailable)
MONSTER TRAIN (FIRST CLASS - COLLECTORS EDITION)
OUTWARD + THE SOROBOREANS AND OUTWARD SOUNDTRACK
PATHFINDER: WRATH OF THE RIGHTEOUS
Rebel Inc: Escalation
REMNANT: FROM THE ASHES - COMPLETE EDITION
Roboquest
SCP:Secret Files
SHOTGUN KING: THE FINAL CHECKMATE
Songs of Conquest
Spyro™ Reignited Trilogy
Surviving Mars
THE OUTER WORLDS: SPACER'S CHOICE EDITION
Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales
VALKYRIA CHRONICLES 4 COMPLETE EDITION
Wasteland 3
Yakuza 3 Remastered
Yakuza 4 Remastered
2064: Read Only Memories
20XX
7 Grand Steps

observer (x3)

A Good Snowman is Hard to Build
A Juggler's Tale
A Mortician's Tale
A New Beginning - Final Cut
Aaero
Aces and Adventures
AER Memories of Old (x2)
Age of Wonders III
Ageless
Agents of Mayhem
AI War: Fleet Command
Alien Spidy
Aliens:Fireteam Elite
Alina of the Arena
All You Can Eat
Aragami 2
Arcade Paradise
Army Men RTS
Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation (x2)
Assassin's Creed® Origins
Assault Android Cactus
Atom RPG Trudograd
Atomicrops
AUTONAUTS VS PIRATEBOTS
Backbone
Bad End Theater
Banner Saga Trilogy - Deluxe Pack
Banners of Ruin
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Batman Arkham Origins (x2)
Battle Chef Brigade
Beacon Pines
Beat Hazard Ultra
Bee Simulator
Before Your Eyes
BEHIND THE FRAME: THE FINEST SCENERY
Beholder
BENDY AND THE DARK REVIVAL
Beneath Oresa
Between the Stars
Beyond a Steel Sky
Binary Domain
Bioshock Remastered
BioShock: The Collection
Biped
Black Book
Blade Assault
Blasphemous
Blazing Beaks
Bleed 2
Bloodstained®︎: Ritual of the Night
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Boomerang Fu (x3)
Borderlands 3 Super Deluxe
Boreal Blade
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Broken Age (x2)
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
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Bury Me, My Love
Celeste
Chasm
Chicken Police
Children of Silentown
CHUCHEL Cherry Edition (x2)
CivCity: Rome
Coffee Talk
COMMAND & CONQUER REMASTERED COLLECTION
Company of Heroes 2 + Company of Heroes 2 - Whale and Dolphin Conservation Charity Pattern Pack
Conan Chop Chop
CONTROL STANDARD EDITION (Steam or Epic Games)
COOK, SERVE, DELICIOUS! 3
Coromon
Crowntakers
Crusader Kings Complete
Cultist Simulator (x2)
Curious Expedition
CURSE OF THE DEAD GODS
Cyber Hook
DARK PICTURES ANTHOLOGY: HOUSE OF ASHES
Darkside Detective
Darksiders Genesis
Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition (x2)
Darksiders Warmastered Edition
Dead In Bermuda
Deadly Days
Death Squared (x2)
Deathloop
Decieve Inc.
Deleveled
Desperados 3
Destroy All Humans!
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
Disciples: Liberation
Distance
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Drawful 2
DUCATI - 90th Anniversary
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Dusty Revenge: Co-Op Edition
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EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1: Blood Storm + DLC
EarthNight
Eastside Hockey Manager
Elderborn
Eldest Souls
Elex
Ellipsis
Embr
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ENCASED: A SCI-FI POST-APOCALYPTIC RPG
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Epic Chef
Eternal Threads
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Evan's Remains
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EVERSPACE™
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Figment
Finding Paradise
First Class Trouble
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TLDR: Delos Reyes prescribed me the wrong eye grade twice. They gave me an eye grade that's much lower than my actual eye grade. They also made me believe na I have astigmatism but upon checking with a new doctor from a different clinic, wala pala akong astigmatism. Now my eyesight is much worse.
My experience may be different from other people pero hindi ko alam baka may nakaka experience rin nito. So I'm sharing this for awareness.
I've been getting new lenses at least once a year since 15 years old ako, and about last year, nagworsen masyado yung grado ng mata ko. So normally, I needed to upgrade my lenses. My mom's colleague recommended Delos Reyes kasi maganda daw service nila at "high tech" daw. So napa budol kami.
The first time na nagpa consult kami sa delos reyes was at around August 2023. Nanibago ako sa style nila sa pag check ng eye grade kasi they didn't use the usual na eye chart. Instead of using the eye chart, nasa monitor yung numbers na titignan mo. Sisimulan nila sa maliit na letters tapos pag blurred pa, iincrease nila yung grado sa lenses. Parang ganun ata yung ibig sabihin nila sa "high tech" kasi monitor yung ginagamit ng delos reyes, hindi yung eye chart.
Okay naman yung first consultation ko doon pero medyo may kamahalan nga yung overall nabayaran namin. The lenses + other eyeglass features and the frame costed us around 18k pesos total. Yun talaga yung pinaka expensive na eyeglasses na nabili mamin sa buong buhay ko. Pero as graduation gift na rin ng mom ko sa akin, hindi na siya nagreklamo.
Sabi ko sa sarili ko, "napaka worth it siguro nito kasi almost 20k yung nabayaran namin eh".
After 1 week, nakuha ko yung new eyeglasses ko. Napakaganda niya on first impression. Durable yung frame tignan. Pero upon wearing the eyeglasses, I've noticed na yung mga letters na medyo malayo ay may parang blurred edges. So as someone who has worn eyeglasses for a long time, it was unusual na medyo blurred yung letters sa malayo. Obviously, sinabi ko agad ito sa doctor para ma remedy.
First excuse nila: hindi maayos yung pagka lagay ng eyeglasses ko kaya may blurred parts akong nakikita. So pina adjust namin yung nosebridge na area sa eyeglasses para mas fitting sya sa akin. When they did that, may konting improvement naman pero it's not to the point na nawala yung blurred letters. Sinabi ko rin yun. So ang ginawa niya, pinacheck nya ulit yung eyeglasses if tama ba yung grado. Tama naman daw. Chineck nya rin ako ulit if tama ba yung grado ng mata ko. Tama rin naman daw.
So their second excuse: hindi pa daw sanay yung mata ko kasi first time ko daw ma experience yung astigmatism na lenses.
After some attempts, medyo napagod na rin ako. (I should also mention na galing pa ako na hospital a month ago due to a brain injury, pero okay naman ako when i got my eyeglasses). So ginaslight ko na lang sarili ko that time by saying na "siguro dahil lang to sa brain injury ko last month. Maybe after some time mag adjust yung eyes ko".
So we went home and i used my 18k pesos worth eyeglasses with slight disappointment. I used that eyeglasses for about 4 months. Bumalik kami sa delos Reyes last December 2023 kasi nagworsen ulit yung grado ng mata ko. It's worrisome kasi it hasn't been a year, bibili na naman ako ng eyeglass? Tapos 18k?
We went back sa delos reyes to ask if anong problema sa glasses ko. They got my eyes checked tapos sabi naman ng doctor na same lang daw yung grade ng mata ko pero may increase in astigmatism daw. I'm not an eye expert so naniwala lang ako. They told me to get new lenses immediately. I didn't want to change my eyeglasses kasi napakabago pa. I'm also not the type na ma reklamo kaya i just asked them if magkano yung babayaran if i get new lenses pero no more additional features (like UV protection), and I'll just use my frame. 7k pesos daw yung new lenses with "Eyezen" (not sure). Sabi nya need ko daw yung eyezen para hindi magworsen yung eyesight ko especially na madalas ako nagbabasa ng libro. Mahal parin pero it's not as expensive na. So yun na lang kinuha namin.
After another week, i got my new eyeglasses. I was deeply hoping na this will be the last time na I'll upgrade kasi nga napaka mahal. And i was expecting na i will not get the same experience as before. I was wrong. Pagdating sa new eyeglasses ko, nag improve ng konti yung vison ko pero may blurred edges parin akong nakikita sa mga letters sa malayo.
I expressed my concern. They told me the same thing. Yung nosebridge sa eyeglass frame ang problema. Or hindi pa sanay mata ko.
At this point ayaw ko nang tanggapin yung eyeglasses ko. Pero wala na akong magawa kasi they wouldn't process or make the eyeglasses unless we pay full. We can't make a refund narin kasi custom made na to for me eh. And i can't go home without eyeglasses kasi wala na talaga akong makikita.
So i used the eyeglasses for another 4 months.
Now, it's April 2024. I asked my mom for another eyeglasses upgrade kasi mahirap nang mag aral with blurred vision. This time we consulted a different doctor. The new doctor is not new to me. His known clients have great reviews about him and I also got my old eyeglasses from him and napaka ganda rin yung feedback ko about him. (Yes kasalanan ko yung part na i decided to try a different optical clinic. Lesson Learned.) Anyway, this new doctor used the eye chart when i got myself checked. And turns out, wala pala akong astigmatism :)
My eyegrade now is actually 450, and according to him, matagal nang nasa around 400 yung grado ng mata ko, but the previous doctor from delos reyes pinned it as astigmatism. Sabi rin ng new doctor ko na, as much as he didn't want to accuse, it seems like nabudol lang kami sa delos reyes in an unfair way.
So now I'm getting new lenses in a few days na naman.
I learned my lesson na. I will not go back sa delos reyes because of that experience. Twice is enough. Hopefully when we get enough money, I'll invest on lasik surgery kasi I know naman na my eyesight really is getting worse due to my studies na rin and stress. Again, this experience is mine. If you think may kasalanan rin ako, I admit na I should have been more firm na hindi ko tanggapin yung slightly defective yet expensive eyeglasses ng delos reyes. But at that time ayoko ng gulo kasi bawal ako ma stress kasi i was still recovering from my brain injury. I'll just take this as a lesson and sana ma aware din yung iba.

My former friend, who lives in another state, has only dated what she described as bad boyfriends - she said they were sociopaths, users, etc. When she met a new guy who had a very good job, she immediately moved in with him, stopped working, and they got engaged soon after.
He bought a house and we went to visit. My family felt the guy was unfriendly/off. There was a TON of PDA in front of my child, and they would leave us siting in the living room to go "take a nap" every day. She ignored me to the point where I broke down in tears - I had come all that way to visit and she acted like she didn't care. This is a trait of hers. She hugged me and apologized and things improved.
When they got engaged, I offered to help because she helped minimally with my wedding 20 years ago. So here's where the drama starts. She was all set on this particular wedding a couple years back. I helped look at the locations remotely , we discussed menus, the dress, ideas, the whole thing. They were now trying to get pregnant and it was looking like she had infertility issues. He really wanted a family. But they wanted to get married first.
He called the wedding off/postponed it to do updates on the house instead (her words). They were still trying to get pregnant and now working on getting an egg donor. I talked all this out with her, comforted her, etc. I purposefully didn't talk about my life much at all, because she was going though all this.
*Please note: all of our communication was over text. She told me she didn't like talking on the phone a while ago, so we never, ever spoke on the phone. Only texts and occasional visits when we were in each other's states. In retrospect, I get this was a red flag.
Fast forward about a year, and finally they have everything set for her to get pregnant. Still not married. A while later, she got pregnant and they decide OK, let's invite our close family and friends for a VERY small, low-key, low-stress, mini wedding. And then maybe have a larger wedding later.
The mini-wedding is what I helped with, all over text, many texts per day. We exchanged tons of photos and messages about this very small, simple, intimate, LOW KEY and LOW STRESS event as she was at an advanced age when she got pregnant.
She constantly told me how low key this was as we looked at pretty place settings, menus, talked about decor, dresses, everything. It was so delightful to talk about all the nice touches and I hope it took her mind off her fears and discomfort of being pregnant at an advanced age.
The groom did not want anyone staying in his very spacious house for the wedding. She offered to pay for my plane ticket and an air bnb for all the help. I graciously declined.
So I got my tickets, booked the air bnb, and then 2 weeks later found out that the Friday before her wedding was my son's graduation from grade school. An earlier calendar version of the school year had it the following week, but the school board actually changed the calendar and moved it up a few days. It sounds almost unbelievable, and I am still upset about that date change.
Rather than being able to fly out early, visit the venue, look at the decor, meet the caterer, and go over everything in person to prepare, I had to be here for my child. She didn't offer another option when I told her about the date change - we were both at a loss about that. So I paid a fortune to change my ticket and flew out right after his ceremony, forgoing all the weekend graduation celebrations, even lunch afterwards. I regret that, especially now. My child should have come first.
So I landed Friday night. I have severe altitude sickness, insomnia, and a concerning autoimmune health condition that is being diagnosed right now and is triggered by stress. She knows about the insomnia and has even tried to offer solutions, but probably not the severity of the health issue bc I didn't want to burden her with that.
She said all along this "mini wedding" with 20 people or so would be simple and stress-free. Right when I got there, there was drama with his mother, who has full blown dementia and didn't know why she was there. He (the groom) had no idea his mom had ANY dementia. So while she was frantic and lost, we were trying to get on with things I guess? He went out with his friends but was in a bad state because he didn't know his mom was like this. He was planning to have her be a huge part of taking care of the baby and was going to relocate her to their state.
Ok, so while that was going on, she had me, her other attendant, and the 2 mothers do a formal rehearsal that night at her house...and then started to explain this DIY design element she wanted me and her other friend to re-create down at the wedding site. We had talked about this DIY thing via text and I understood and could do it, but she was concerned about it being right.
THEN she started talking about changing the setup time in the morning (I had created a spreadsheet for her with all the times and my go-time was 9am).
Knowing I'd just flown in that night and have a history of insomnia, she changed the time at the last minute. I thought about the new time and realized with the time change in the new state, which is already an hour earlier, I might not be in good shape for that early of a go-time. This is not a petty concern - I am working on getting a diagnosis, but without good rest, and with altitude sickness, I get very confused, disoriented, I have bad diarrhea, I pee constantly, can be shaky on my legs, and an emotional mess. It sucks and is private and personal and embarrassing. But if I am rested I can present myself normally.
Her other friend insisted she could handle the design element and had been to the wedding venue. She kept reassuring us she could do it and it'd be a cinch. It was simple, after all. If she had not been so confident I would have pushed somehow to shift the time back to the original 9am go-time to just get it done and get it done right. That is the whole reason I was there - to HELP.
After she changed the setup time, it was agreed that at 9am I'd be at the bride's house helping her get ready, then go to the location, help her and her other attendant with their makeup there, and also help throughout the rest of the event, which I did.
In the evening, after the wedding lunch, instead of a reception, they had a baby shower. A couple of the guests seemed "off" to me - like not very nice. Now I know she badmouthed me to them.
Back home, I sent a text to her to say I thought she looked gorgeous and it went beautifully. She was short in her reply. A few weeks later, after I got back from a family vacation, I touched base with her again. And just the tone of her text...I realized she was angry with me for not being at the site to do the setup.
I immediately wrote a very heartfelt reply explaining what my experience was and my apologies, etc. It took me 3 hours to write. She replied with a short, cruel text saying I flaked on her, that I said rude things (she never clarified), that I could not set aside my own needs just for one day, that she could not bear to look at the pictures from the wedding, that I kept offering to help, and "lesson learned."
She then said there was something wrong with the baby. So immediately I dropped all that and focused on helping her and being there for her. She made it through the delivery and baby is healthy and perfect. I sent gifts and we were on good terms.
Then I get a mass email announcing she's throwing herself a large, splashy wedding and everyone can come meet the baby. I wrote back saying I thought it would be a really nice event, sending best wishes, etc. No reply from her.
She has displayed micro-aggressive behaviors since then (yeah, all via text) and when I said we would graciously not be attending the larger wedding, she disregarded my texts completely - my last text was asking how her baby was and she ignored it.
I realized this was intentional, and finally sent a very firm text message telling her she crossed a line and that I can't have friends like that in my life.
AITA?

• Meet the Kyanah -- the alien civilization I've been working on since 2016
• A Primer on Kyanah Physiology
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• A Rare Look at Kyanah Living Spaces
• A Primer on Kyanah Economics

Kyanah are obligate carnivores, a fact which obviously influences their diet to a strong degree. Virtually all of their calories come from some form of meat, eggs, or other animal products; while some plant matter can be safely consumed, they derive little or no energy from it and would eventually starve if placed on a vegetarian diet for some reason. Thus plant-based foods are usually only added in small amounts to meat-based dishes for flavor or micro-nutrients (which could usually be gotten from meat as well); animal products are around 90% of the average Kyanah's diet, depending on the region. The actual meat consumed by Kyanah varies a lot by region and culture, with animals from all major categories being consumed somewhere in the world, but walkers tend to be the most common and crawlcritters (the closest analogue to insects) are usually avoided except in desperate times or very poor and undeveloped city-states. In Ikun's cuisine, nyruds and tyukruds account for the significant majority of all meat consumed--perhaps unsurprising as the rud suffix indicates a livestock animal--with thukukens coming in a distant third. Though cuts and preparation styles vary considerably depending on the dish. The plants that they do consume, albeit in small amounts, tend to be spices, tubers, or "nuts". These nuts aren't botanical nuts in the same sense as Earth nuts, due to the paucity of seeds and complete nonexistence of fruits. However, similar-looking structures do exist in some structured plants, where many species store spores inside hard-shelled structures that, when mature, crack open to release large quantities of spores; the immature forms of these structures are called "nuts" by Kyanah. Leafy greens are taboo in most cultures, as they are seen as livestock food and also have an emetic effect in large quantities. Attitudes towards fungi vary widely and are not taboo in Ikun, but also not very popular.
Ikun is a melting pot city-state with hundreds of specialty stores and restaurants selling food from all regions of the world--with varying degrees of authenticity--but has its own mainstream cuisine as well, which is obviously high in meat. Nyrud or tyukrud steaks are an obvious choice--either as-is or with other ingredients on the side and sauces to dip it in--and a favorite of picky eaters and/or lazy Kyanah, but plenty of other options exist. Whole nyrud ribs are usually shared by entire packs (nyruds are very large animals) with each member taking turns to take a bite out of it. On the other end of the scale, ground-up nyrud, tyukrud, or other meats can be mixed with the eggs of these very animals and smaller amounts of the aforementioned tubers and "nuts" to create a sort of "salad". This mix can be eaten as is or stuffed into the gas bladder of a juvenile thukuken, or a tyukrud stomach, or wrapped tightly in cooked skins or thin strips of roasted meat. Various blood or animal oil based sauces exist, which are used to provide flavor and moisture. Fried bits of wingbeast wings and thukuken gas bladders, flavored bone marrow, and jerky-like strips of dried meat are common snack items. Meat cubes, consisting of one or more ground meats stuck together with eggs and sticky sauce and shaped into a cube, and sometimes subsequently fried, can be eaten as either a snack or full meal, depending on their size. Lower-grade meats are sometimes dried, powdered, and used as a condiment on other dishes. Spices are heavily used in Ikun and most northern cuisines, though in the far south, where spice plants are typically not as common, there is more of an emphasis on flavoring meats via salting and drying, or cold smoking. Hatchlings, whose teeth have not yet fully developed, eat chewed up and regurgitated food, which can be provided by any adult in their pack, or sometimes even older siblings; Kyanah have a specialized pouch in the upper esophagus to store food for this purpose.
As Kyanah biochemistry uses water as a solvent, they do naturally drink water more than anything else. Packs with a lot of money are often water snobs who will pay a premium for water that was bottled in some particular city-state, usually one with historical or religious significance, or just one that has a particularly nice mineral profile--despite the fact that any mineral profile can be created synthetically, and the Water Distribution System tends to mix water from different regions anyway. Flavor packets are commonly used to enhance the flavor of water; these tend to be savory or even bitter rather than sweet. As Kyanah haven't evolved to consume large amounts of sugar, and a lot of the bacteria found in spoiled meat on their planet produce saccharin as a by-product, so sweet tastes are generally avoided (the average Kyanah really wouldn't like cake even if a biochemically compatible version were somehow made). The blood of various animals, most commonly nyruds, is also drunk, either straight up--it's often considered to be very refreshing on a hot day, when chilled--or as the base for various sauces. This substance has a distinct indigo hue, much like the blood of the Kyanah themselves, or most other animals on their planet, for that matter. It appears that ethanol has a fairly similar effect on Kyanah as on humans and alcoholic beverages have thus existed for thousands of years. However, the means of creating the Kyanahs' alcoholic drinks is quite different; it relies on strains of microbes unique to their planet that produce alcohol from amino acids rather than carbs or sugars. Naturally, this means that most such drinks are produced from "fermented" meat or blood. Roontkak, made from tyukrud blood, is the most popular alcoholic drink, both in Ikun and the broader world. The Kyanah have also been able to replicate this process using plant-based proteins found in tubers, nuts, and fungi. This process was discovered a few thousand years after the meat-based alcohols and tends to produce a slightly weaker drink, but it's rarer and harder to make, so tends to carry a connotation of culture and sophistication, while something like roontkak is seen as a lowbrow drink for the masses. Common plant-derived alcoholic drinks include roontyeti, from the tubers of the tyeti plant, and roonwerkdda, from the nuts of the werkdda bush. These tend to have spread to Ikun's region of the world from the far north and far south, where suitable plants for making alcohol are more common. Either alcohol category can be distilled to create the Kyanah version of hard liquors, which are usually denoted by the suffix -tyot (literally "strong" or "dominant").
Additionally, capsaicin is a psychoactive and moderately addictive drug to Kyanah, with a sizable chunk of the population smoking the dried and powdered skins of various endoskeleton plants that have evolved to use capsaicin to deter herbivores. Though in southern hemisphere cultures, it's more common to mix it into a tea and get high on capsaicin that way. Such mixtures usually contain no more than 2% actual capsaicin; purified industrial-grade capsaisin is much stronger and more addictive and restricted by many governments. There is no minimum age for substance use (nor any minimum age to do anything else, since adulthood is determined solely by separation from the birth-pack, regardless of the age) in most Kyanah societies, so it's up to the adults in a young Kyanah's birth-pack wehther they can access these items. However, it's seen as perfectly normal in Ikun society for older children and adolescents to be given small amounts of alcohol or some of the milder capsaicin variants on festive occasions, to partake with the adults.
Kyanah in most societies typically don't use personal utensils, instead simply taking food with their hands; at most they use ladles or tongs to take food from serving dishes. Rather than using their teeth or knives, they typically use their powerful neck muscles to rip away bite-sized chunks of whatever they are eating. In formal dining environments, eating gloves are used to keep their hands clean, but at home or in more casual venues, nobody really cares. As Kyanah drink by lapping rather than sipping, shallow bowls rather than cups are used for liquids; drinks are only kept in bottles for storage. Technology has advanced to the point where synthetic meat is fairly common and cheap, using colonies of genetically engineered microbes to essentially grow meat like a crop inside industrial tanks, with artificial flavoring being added to simulate various actual meats. While often cheaper than real meat, it has its limitations; it can only create homogenous patties rather than the complex textures of an actual animal, while there's no scientific evidence that they're unsafe, many feel that they're unnatural or unhealthy. So this tends to mostly be food for the poor. However, it has also found a use as military rations during the Kyanah invasion of Earth, as it would be stupid to try to farm livestock in space, or on an alien planet in the middle of a war zone.
Eating is generally not a social occasion for Kyanah, it's seen as something of a private and vulnerable time, when they're weak and in need of nourishment, not strong and ready to defend or advance their pack's position in society (most Kyanah won't absolutely refuse to eat if outsiders happen to be around, but all else being equal, most will prefer to have only the company of their own packs). So it's very rare for them to eat or drink with anyone who isn't already in their pack, unless they don't have one yet, or want to expand it. Even ikoin who go "together" to eat out somewhere will split up into their own separate areas and just eat with their packs. So their restaurants and bars--which still exist, as even Kyanah, much like humans, often like eating professional-quality food without having to prepare it for themselves--have a considerably different layout and atmosphere. Usually there will be a bunch of stalls where diners can sit and eat while being walled off from other Kyanah while still providing a good view of the kitchen via a curtain or window so they can keep an eye on their food being prepared. Mid-range establishments will usually just have the food and drinks, and few other amenities, while higher end ones have more elaborate measures to draw in diners and justify their price points, from ornate cushions, aromatic sprays, and elaborate light displays all the way to live music, holographic movies, and other performances like reenactments of historic duels and combat challenges, which diners can either open their window to get a good look at or ignore and eat in peace.
Since the end of the Utopian Wars, the traditional Kyanah dining experience has been steadily losing ground to fast food (DakDakDak--literally FastFastFast--being the most popular one in Ikun, with over 64 locations) and drone deliveries. The former allows Kyanah to simply come in, choose from the premade meals that are currently on the shelf, pay, and leave, or (for a premium) put in a special request, though these establishments by nature have limited menus and little room for customization; they will often use AI to predict what to make ahead of time, with high accuracy. While the latter allows them to avoid the hassle of dealing with anyone outside their pack entirely, while still getting high quality food. The one exception to the general dynamic at Kyanah restaurants and bars would be those that cater to the packless; these are set up to encourage rather than discourage interaction, as their entire purpose is for young adult Kyanah who have recently separated from their birth-packs to find love for themselves. To this end, such establishments have elaborate sets of rituals and social rules to attract the attention of other individuals. As a day on the Kyanah homeworld is only about 15.75 hours, there are customarily only two meals, the very creatively named day-meal, eaten before the beginning of the workday, and night-meal, eaten after the end of the workday. Though many do eat snacks during the day, especially if working physically demanding jobs.
In terms of inter-species compatibility, as humans and Kyanah are both carbon and water based life forms, most human foods wouldn't kill a Kyanah, nor vice versa (with a few niche exceptions, such as chocolate or grapes) neither species can properly digest the other's food and would likely throw up if they tried to eat a significant amount. Interestingly, hard liquors of either species are largely exempt from this, as they're mostly just alcohol and water anyway, while weaker booze like roontkak or beer has impurities that would definitely not be appreciated by the digestive system of the wrong species. During the post-war occupation of Earth, Kyanah have also been known to import chili powder into their occupied regions, apparently for the sole purpose of smoking it.

If you've read the story about grand dad building his sugar shanty over leaky natural gas supply lines, you know that we've done sugaring for a couple of generations. When you're boiling, it's cozy and actually quite relaxing, in spite of having to pay near-constant attention to the boiling sap.
Getting to that point though, is a lot of work. It wasn't until the late 80s that we had a cordless drill to tap with. Prior to that, it was all done by hand. The Old One would carry a stack of buckets with his hand drill and a bunch of taps inside. Ma would carry a couple more buckets that were stuffed full of tubing, and I carried an old pill bottle of arsenic tablets.
What in the world does poison have to do with sugaring, you ask? Well, back in the day, it was common to drill your hole, then put an arsenic tablet in before seating the tap. The arsenic kept the hole from healing up quite as fast, so that you could get 6-8 weeks out of a tap instead of 3-4. The arsenic was mostly absorbed by the tree it was figured, and what went into the sap was so diluted as to have no effects on people. When it got boiled, it largely changes composition anyways, so that no real arsenic was getting to folks.
That didn't matter too much to folks back then anyways. The Old One used to use sap to make coffee with while in the shanty. That coffee was really sweet on its own (and still is-today I've got a dedicated percator for in the sugar shanty, rsther than have to remember to take it home every day when I'm done).
As a matter of fact, that's one story Ma tells about her and The Old One dating. Grand dad was the one toting the buckets and drill back then, The Old One the tubing, and Ma carried the arsenic. She says that she always hoped grand dad would get too cold and head back to the house so that she and The Old One could have some time to themselves. I don't know if she figured traipsing through the snowy woods was romantic, or if she just wanted to learn about some of the poisons around the farm, or if she was just curious about sugaring, or if she just always had the kind of work ethic that she did when I was growing up.
One memory I have though is how disappointed The Old One was when the last arsenic tablet was placed, some time in the early 90s.

I've just had an episode with my neighbor going absolutely berserk on me because his horses were going nuts because of my gunfire. It was really nasty, and I don't think I've done anything legally wrong. Perhaps someone can clarify for me? Details to follow. I want to know if he has any basis in his claims, or if he's just trying to be a controlling dickhead.
I live on a ~20 acre farm, there's houses off in the distance in most directions, except one, on the edge of my property. So I set up a backstop, which did and would stop every caliber I shoot. I got through two magazines on my new 9mm to see my neighbor approaching screaming like I had just killed someone, full blown temper tantrum.
My backstop was about 15 ft from our shared property line, probably 500+ feet from any houses (and not remotely aiming towards any houses or structures) but nothing goes past the backstop (that's the point). He came over and said his horses were going nuts, which I can empathize with, but seemed to suggest I'm not allowed to shoot on my land - if not legally, then because it disturbs his horses or because other people have to hear it (presumably). It was a lot of rage and not a lot of logic.
Is there any reason why I would not be allowed shoot in this way? Personally I don't give a fuck what people do on their property, and I want to be left the hell alone with what I do on my property. Hopefully someone can provide some insight, did I do anything legally wrong or is he just an asshole? How would I find local laws or ordinances to confirm? I am outside of city limits by the way, it's very rural here.
p.s. the horses must have been 700 ft away, it's not like I was blasting anywhere near them. I'm down for being courteous, but I'm not down to have my legal rights as a private land owner shit on by a hothead neighbor.