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2024.05.14 17:02 gayprisonsex Best Mods I recommend for KCD
These mods makes the combat more fun and challenging, at the same time makes the world more immersive. If you already mastered the game and wants more, this mod is for you. If you are having a hard time with the game already, you might want to skip this one out. Keep in mind to always read the instructions, if no instructions were given, rely on the posts/comments of the mods.
https://www.nexusmods.com/kingdomcomedeliverance/mods/1384 This is a MUST, and one of my favorite mods of all time. This overhauls the entire blocking/master strike system, allowing you to master strike ONLY AND ONLY IF you match the exact side. It allows you to block IF AND ONLY IF you match the sides. The original mod is Normal Mode Friendly, Hardcore players needs to tweak 3 values in the mod file (See mod comments for instructions). I also have the modified file, just dm me if you want it.
https://www.nexusmods.com/kingdomcomedeliverance/mods/1062 This allows you to create a camp of your own. In that camp you could save your game through sleeping or through the "journal". Really simple to use, it will create a new quest item called "Make Camp", just click that and you are good to go. There are some fun additions too, such as having the ability to make your bed more comfortable by having flemishes in your inventory.
https://www.nexusmods.com/kingdomcomedeliverance/mods/797 It organizes your inventory by adding tags to them, really great mod, best inventory organizer out of all them.
https://www.nexusmods.com/kingdomcomedeliverance/mods/591 Removes bushes collision.
https://www.nexusmods.com/kingdomcomedeliverance/mods/72 Makes the UI grey instead of yellow, allowing you to focus on the game, while remaining true to the KCD iron-y aesthetic.
Have fun! Dm me if you need help, I have all of these mods installed.
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2024.05.14 17:01 Hellopainful420 Fire all my favorite colleagues? I'll get YOU fired and get your position.
This is an old story some of my friends told me (29F) I should share here.. so here I am. Sorry for the long text, but there's a lot to unfold.
This started a few years ago, after I got ghosted by my ex, I decided to switch careers and took the proposal of my brother to work for one of his friend in an organic grocery store in my area. I was 22ish at the time, maybe 21 turning 22, but anyways.
I started working in the fruits and vegetables aisle. Despite having a crazy director, I liked my job and my department manager. After a few months, I got the title of "third key" which is basically I'm the assistant manager when the assistant is gone. Then, they decided to hire a new customer service manager that I will call Linda. That woman was CRAZY. While I was 23 at the time, she was only 20 acting like she owned the world.
To give you an idea, in the span of 8 months being here, she got 11 employees fired for stupid reasons and since our director at the time was just as crazy... it was easier for her to get her way. Also, when I say stupid reasons, I'll give you a few examples: Benji got fired because he was "talking too loud" in the break room and it was disturbing her peace and supposedly making her harder to rest to come back fully ready to finish her shift. Marie got fired because she HAD to take off work to go to a relative's funeral and couldn't give her 2 weeks notice. Rose got fired because she was getting "too old to do her job properly and it was ruining the pace of the team's work" (which is bs, I've never seen someone cut veggies and fruits as fast as her). And I could go on. Yes, some of them could've been able to be protested against and even file a complaint against her. Mind you, outside of Rose, everybody was too young to just wanting to fight for a grocery store job. Even Rose just decided to take her retirement earlier and fucked off the work world lol.
Anyways, she took it too far when she tried to mess with me. To give you the context, we had a huge special on lemons and sometimes, those fruits can get rotten and you don't notice it because there's no smell. The only way you'd know is by going through the several small boxes of like 10ish lemons and look at them all one by one. Which I did regularly, but hey, I'm not a robot, sometimes some of them slipped out of my eyes. I was leaving the backstore with more boxes when I saw Linda with a customer that seemed more than pissed. So I go see both of them because mind you.. she has a LEMON box and I work in the fruits department. So it's kind of my job to help IF I CAN. That's when I asked her "Hey Linda, do you need help with the lemons?" And right away she told me "Fuck off, I don't need your help, I already spoke to your manager. Go do your job for once." My face was literally like this đł as I went to my department. Even the pissed customer did a bombastic side eyes.
A few minutes later, I go back to the backstore to fulfill the missing products and my manager pulls me aside. "Hey OP, stay out of Linda's business. I can't protect you all the time for talking back." I stopped him right away asking what does he means cause as soon as she told me to fuck off, I did fuck off. He looked at me surprised and said he'd come back to me with it, but only tomorrow because he's finishing his shift and for some personal reason, he can't stay longer to solve the issue. Since Linda was the manager on guard that night, he told me to stay in the back as much as possible to stay in her good graces. That's what I did.
One hour after my manager left, I heard my name being called in the front office (shared by the customer service manager and director). Big wtf. I go in the front and all of my colleagues are looking at me like I'm a prisoner going to their death sentence. Mind you, I know my laws and my rights. I might be young, but as soon as I got called, I started reciting in my head the main laws and rights she has to respect. I open the door's office and Linda is FUMING. And she is alone. She asks me to close the door and I tell her "No, it is my right to have someone in the room with us for this talk. I am not comfortable being alone with you." She starts freaking out and starts to speak louder, on the verge of screaming. "Linda. This room is recorded 24/7 and the customers can hear you talking to me like that. Lower your tone and find a witness to be in the room or I'll go back to work." She stands up to look outside the office and sees that indeed, there's a line in front of the cash looking to the office's direction. She takes a few deep breaths and calls Gabrielle who takes care of the finances of the store so she can be a witness. From the moment Gab got into the room, she seemed like she wanted to get away, so do I.
Gab took a seat in the back and Linda starts her whole speech. I'll be paraphrasing cause the meeting took almost an hour.
L: You know why I brought you here, right? OP: Not really, I've been in the backstore minding my business. Why? L: Well you disrespected my authority in front of a customer and that's a big no no for the company. OP: For the company or for you? L: OP, this is not the topic. You shouldn't be disrespecting authority in front of customers. It makes the managers look bad. OP: I was honestly just trying to help because you had a box of products from my department. I just wanted to help because the customer looked pissed and I didn't want him to ruin your fragile mood. L: My fragile mood?! Are you fucking serious?! OP: Linda, we are being recorded and we have a witness. I'm asking you to stay polite and not scream or I will file a complaint against you. L: Are threatening me??? OP: No, I am stating my rights and making you aware of where your attitude will lead you. I won't accept being talked like that by someone that ain't even my manager. L: Okay OP, let me remind you where your position stands in this business.
That bitch started to draw a triangle, put her name at the tippidy top and mine at the bottom. I didn't even let her finish what she had to say, I stormed off the office, went into the employees lockers, took my stuff and headed out. Linda ran after me, yelling like a psycho "YOU CAN'T LEAVE LIKE THAT! YOU'RE STILL SCHEDULED FOR THE CLOSE!" I stopped on my steps, making Linda almost run into me and said with the most blank expression I could have "Linda, you crossed a line and since you're so good at your job, close my department for me. I will be filing a complaint against you." And left the work place.
Next morning, I came to work as usual and had to see my manager and the director. I explained them the whole situation and showed the papers I was about to send to file a complaint against Linda. Also, this dumb bitch didn't even throw her pyramid in the trash. It was still on display when the director came in to work and asked me what it was. I asked her to look at the cameras, put the sound on and listen to the whole meeting. We watched it to my director's horror and who came in to work in the middle of our screening time? Linda! She came into the office and Linda being a poc turned white as a ghost. I've never seen her being so so pale. "W-what are you doing?" The director asked Linda to sit down and we watched again the video. Mind you, it took us one full hour to watch because she was in a never ending power trip. She used to be smart when she was bullying and making stories about past employees, doing it far from the cameras and usually using the other office that doesn't have cameras or a microphone, but she wasn't with me. I guess she got comfortable or whatever, but check mate on her ass.
My director said I could go back to work with my manager, that she would take care of the rest. Two weeks later, Linda still had her job, but our director resigned from her job right away. Which was hella weird, but whatever. We got a new director, she was a total sweet heart and she noticed Linda's crazy power trips right away. She decided to launch an intern investigation, but sadly, all the employees Linda bullied were fired. There was only me and my little complaint waiting to be served. When Nancy, our new director, came to me asking if I knew anything about Linda. I gave her the file, the time stamps of the video tape, all the employees she fired for stupid reasons with the old director and also phone numbers of those employees.
Flash forward 2 weeks later, Linda left work earlier, balling her eyes out yelling how Nancy was a bitch and didn't deserve her job. How she always came in earlier, put in the work and yadi yada. Nancy waited a few more days before asking me to come into the office and again, I'll be paraphrasing because a lot have been said.
N: HI OP, don't worry, you're not in any trouble. I just saw your CV and noticed you've had a lot of experience in customer service. OP: Yes, I used to be a cashier for almost 5 years, it was my first job. Why? N: I've seen your file, your CV and how you managed the conversation with Linda. We are actually looking for a new customer service manager since Linda have been let go. OP: What about my actual position? N: It's easier to find a fruits and vegetables commis than it is to find a competent service manager.. as you experienced.
I ended up accepting the position and all my co-workers cheered for my raise. I don't want to brag, but I've always been the one to defend everybody in the place, making sure I'll keep my job in the process and following the laws and rights. A few months later, Linda came back to the store as a customer and the look she had on her face when she saw me at the cash with the manager uniform was priceless. It was even more priceless when she asked me when I got the promotion and I told her the exact date, which matched her departure. "So you got my position when I left?" I just nodded and asked if I could do anything more to help have a better experience in the store. She didn't answer to that and just left after paying her things.
To this day, it's still one of my favorite moments to have been through. I'm not a petty person, but if I can ruin you in the process of me trying to defend my people, I'll be more than happy to do so. Last I've heard of Linda, she was working for the competitor, but never had any promotions.
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2024.05.14 17:00 MR_everyone13 Neospin Casino - FAQ for Redditors
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2024.05.14 16:59 SwoozeQ Blue sediment from my LG fridge water dispenser
We recently purchased a French door fridge with an interior water dispenser. I always have a glass of water at my bedside. A couple days after getting the fridge I noticed blue sediment on the bottom of my glass. I emailed support, flushed the dispenser more, still had the problem so they sent me a new filter. I installed it, flushed it, and a couple days later noticed sediment again. I have emailed support again but have not heard back yet. BTW, this LG fridge is replacing my 20 year old Amana with an interior dispenser, and we never had this issue with the old one.
Anyone else have this kind of issue?
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2024.05.14 16:50 vavuxi Costco orders are insane
| A was a regular order, just 5-6 grocery items. B, on the other hand, had this! Preface with itâs 100% my fault for accepting orders before checking out ALL of the details, but this is so annoying! Getting batches that really require a second person for assistance because itâs physically impossible to fit in one cart. Anyway, I was able to have Costco bring 19 of them up front and ended up having 2 guys help me cram all 20 bags into my car, one HAD to be in the front seat because there was no possible way to fit more in the back. My suspension was tanked, thank god there werenât many speed bumps on the drive. Get to the clientâs house 45 minutes away from the store and knock on the door. She answers like sheâs confused at first, I confirm she ordered instacart, and she tries to tell me whatâs in her delivery instructions: âoh, just leave it at the garage.â To which i quickly responded âsounds good, Iâm just grabbing you to come help me real quick.â In a nice tone with a smile and stood there until she turned back around and said sheâd be out in a second. She wasnât rude, per se, but she seemed annoyed. She still helped me, and maybe it was her partner who made the order and she wasnât expecting the soil, so Iâm not railing her. But it was also 89 degrees after being in the 60s for the past month, so it was hot asf and this soil HAS COMPOST IN IT. So again, in my little SUV filled to the brim with compost so pungent i had to keep my windows down on a hot day while i had refrigerator groceries for my other order and was pretty annoyed with the whole thing. Instacart should be more mindful of batch weights than they are. submitted by vavuxi to InstacartShoppers [link] [comments] |
2024.05.14 16:50 HillarysFloppyChode PSA if youâre looking for a sunshade
Buy the Mini branded $65 one from the dealer. I have one for my R56, and itâs been excellent, however when I was cleaning out the storage bag it comes with, a piece of paper popped out. It was the install instructionsâŚâŚtheyâre made by Covercraft.
For $65 you get a Covercraft UVS100 Custom that CC themselves, sell for $151 without the storage bag.
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2024.05.14 16:45 ExtrapolatedData Missing Sidebar on BlueStacks X App Player
Hi all, I had an issue with cloud saving on a game I've been running on my BlueStacks instance, so I'm trying to recover local data by launching the game in Airplane Mode. Trouble is, the instance in which I was running the game has no sidebar.
I had two App Player instances in my multi-instance manager, a Nougat 32-bit (I think this was the default OS when I originally tried setting up BlueStacks) and a Pie 64-bit (this is the instance where my game is installed). The Nougat instance has a sidebar with the Airplane Mode option, but the Pie instance does not.
I found and followed this guide:
How to resolve the missing side toolbar and top bar in BlueStacks 5 But the "Through BlueStacks settings" advice did not work for me. I haven't tried the BlueStacks utility tool because it says it's for BlueStacks 5 while I am using BlueStacks X.
Would the utility tool work for version X as well? Or is there a different set of instructions for restoring the sidebar for version X?
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2024.05.14 16:43 reach4thelaser5 Mods on Xbox App
I've recently started playing Dyson Sphere Program via Xbox Game Pass..... I'm having trouble getting some mods to work..... The AutoMute mod works fine out of the box using Thunderstore, but I cannot get either of the Night light mods to work.
SuperNightLight Thunderstore - The Dyson Sphere Program Mod Database The instructions say " Unzip the SuperNightLight folder to steamapps/common/Dyson Sphere Program/BepInEx/plugins" This directly clearly doesn't exist for Xbox app.
I've tried adding it to D:\Xbox-Games\Dyson Sphere Program
and D:\Xbox-Games\Dyson Sphere Program\Content
which is where my game is installed. but still doesn't work. And there's no config file added.
Can anyone help..... The night-time on this game is a pain in the ass I can't see a thing.
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2024.05.14 16:36 dear_remnant [CAN-ON] [H]PS1-5,3/DS,GC,GBA,NSW,amiibo,misc [W] lists
Hi,
Here's what I can offer for trades. CIB unless noted otherwise. List may get updated after initial posting.
Have
PS1 | |
Breath of Fire 3 | Manual damaged. Missing first page. Disc plays okay. |
Breath of Fire 4 | |
Parasite Eve | Small crack in the case |
Tactics Ogre | |
Dragon Warrior 7 | |
Legend of Legaia | |
Metal Gear Solid | missing manual |
Suikoden | small rip in first page of manual |
Wild Arms 2 | loose disc only |
Final Fantasy Tactics | |
Revelations: Persona | box only |
Star Ocean: The Second Story | |
Gran Turismo | Brand new. Plastic wrap is gone but seal at the top is still intact. |
A bug's life | |
Black Dawn | |
Formula1 98 | |
Small soldiers | |
The next tetris | |
Star wars: Episode 1 The phantom menace | |
Twisted metal III | |
Wu-Tang: Shaolin Style | |
Apocalypse | |
Playstation Underground Jampack | |
NHL FaceOff 99 | |
NFL Xtreme | |
NFL GameDay 2001 | Sealed. Small rip in the plastic wrap |
NFL GameDay 2000 | |
MLB 2000 | |
3Xtreme | |
Contender | |
Jampack Summer 99 | |
Jampack Winter 98 | |
Interactive CD Sampler Pack Volume 3 | |
Spyro | |
Bust A Groove | |
PS2 | |
Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 [Limited Edition] | outer box showing some wear |
.Hack Quarantine | Missing anime DVD, Case may not be original |
Front mission 4 | |
Katamari Damacy | |
Silent Hill 3 | |
Silent Hill 4 | |
Suikoden 3 | |
Final Fantasy XII Limited Edition (steelbook) | |
Xenosaga Episode 1 | |
Xenosaga Episode 3 | |
Guitar Hero | |
Guitar Hero Metallica | |
Guitar Hero III Legend of Rock | |
Rockband AC/DC Track Pack | |
Grandia II | |
Grandia III | |
Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne | |
Kingdom Hearts | GH |
Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3 | |
PSP | |
Untold Legends Brotherhood Of The Blade | |
Prince Of Persia: The Forgotten Sands | |
Legend Of Heroes III Song Of The Ocean | loose umd only |
Grand Theft Auto Liberty City Stories | GH |
Robots | UMD Movie |
Vita | |
Killzone Mercenary | loose |
PS3 | |
Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection [Artbook Bundle] | Sealed with artbook |
Dante's Inferno Divine Edition | with slipcover, missing manual |
BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend | |
Batman: Arkham City | |
Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII | |
Disney Infinity starter pack | Sealed |
Record of Agarest War 2 | Sealed, One corner of box is dinged |
Dead Island Riptide [Rigor Mortis Edition] | Sealed |
Dead Space 3 Dev-team Edition | Sealed, 4004/5000 |
Battlefield 3 | |
Battlefield 4 | |
Far Cry 2 | |
Far Cry 4 | |
Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2010 | |
Heavy Fire: Afghanistan | |
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas | |
Little Big Planet Karting | |
Batman: Arkham Asylum - GoTY edition | |
Medal of Honor: Warfighter | |
Need for Speed: The Run LE | |
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit LE | |
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit | loose, GH |
Need for Speed: Rivals | missing manual |
Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection | |
Duke Nukem Forever | |
Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes | GH |
Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens | loose |
Destiny | |
Lost Planet 3 | Sealed |
God of War Collection | GH |
Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli | |
Dead Space | |
Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII | |
Dead Island | |
Batman: Arkham City | |
Blazblue: Continuum Shift Extend | |
Blur | |
Prototype 2 Blackwatch Collector's Edition | Sealed |
PS4 | |
Fallout 4 Pipboy edition | Sealed |
Elder Scrolls Online Tamriel Unlimited Imperial Edition | Sealed |
Wolfenstein II: The new Colossus Collector's Edition | Sealed |
Final fantasy vii remake | |
Final fantasy vii remake deluxe edition | Sealed |
Neptunia x SENRAN KAGURA: Ninja Wars | digital code |
Kingdom Hearts All-in-one | sealed |
Fifa 14 | |
Battlefield 4 | |
INSIDE / LIMBO double pack | |
WWE 2K15 Hulkamania Edition | sealed |
Dying Light | |
Fallout 4 | |
Borderlands: The Handsome Collection | |
Maid of Sker | Sealed, PEGI |
NBA 2K19 | |
Dynasty Warrior 7 Empires | Chinese version |
R-Type Final 2 Inaugural edition | Sealed |
Transformers: Rise Of The Dark Spark | |
Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition | |
PS5 | |
Tales of Arise | Sealed |
Elden Ring preorder code x3 | Willing to throw this in free with any trade |
Elden Ring with steelbook bundle | Bundle seems to be Bestbuy Canada exclusive |
Scarlet Nexus | Sealed |
Evil Dead | digital code |
Horizon Forbidden West Collector's Edition | Sealed |
Spider-man 2 | digital code |
Xbox | |
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines | gamestop sticker on manual |
Xbox360 | |
Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation | |
Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts | |
Fallout 3 | |
Halo 4 LE | Sealed |
Lost Odyssey | |
Silent Hill: Homecoming | |
Otomedius Excellent | |
GameCube | |
Resident Evil | |
Donkey Konga 2 | Sealed |
Wii | |
Super Mario All-Stars: 25th Anniversary Edition | Sealed |
The Last Story LE | |
Sin & Punishment: Star Successor | Sealed |
Switch | |
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 | |
Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna the Golden Country | Sealed |
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 | Sealed |
Metroid Dread Special Edition | Sealed |
Shin Megami Tensei V Fall of Men Premium Edition | Sealed |
Hoa | Sealed |
Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town Premium Edition | Sealed |
Prinny Presents NIS Classics Volume 1 [Deluxe Edition] | Sealed |
AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES â nirvanA Initiative Collectors Edition | Sealed |
Legend of Zelda the tears of the kingdom Collector's edition | Sealed |
Fire Emblem Engage Divine Edition | Sealed |
GBA | |
Platinum GBA SP | loose |
Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage | loose |
Avatar: The Last Airbender | loose |
SpongeBob SquarePants Movie | loose |
American Dragon Jake Long Rise Of The Huntsclan | loose |
Ty The Tasmanian Tiger 3 | loose |
Pokemon LeafGreen | loose |
Pokemon Sapphire | loose, dry battery replaced |
Chronicles Of Narnia Lion Witch And The Wardrobe | loose |
Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 | loose |
Tales of Phantasia | loose |
Shining Soul 2 | loose |
Kirby and the Amazing Mirror | loose |
Kirby Nightmare in Dreamland | loose |
DS | |
Coral Pink DS Lite | Excellent cosmetic condition, charger included |
White DSi | no charger, stylus |
TMNT | |
Lego Harry Potter Year 1-4 | |
Phantasy Star 0 | missing manual |
Flash Focus | |
Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia | loose |
Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume | loose |
Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light | loose |
Pokemon HeartGold | loose, small damage on label |
Pokemon HeartGold | big box with pokewalker |
Pokemon SoulSilver | box only |
Pokemon Diamond | |
Pokemon Diamond | loose |
Pokemon Platinum | loose |
Pokemon Black | |
Pokemon Black | missing manual |
Pokemon Black | box only |
Hoppie | no manual, some water damage in cover arts |
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days | |
Metroid Prime: Hunters - First Hunt | loose |
Diddy Kong Racing | |
Fossil Fighters | |
Professor Layton And The Curious Village | |
Pheonix Wright: Ace Attorney | loose |
3DS | |
3DS XL Black+Red | CIB, Cave Story digital installed |
New 3DS XL Galaxy | loose. Charger included. Missing stylus, Dual IPS screen |
Pokemon X | |
Rune Factory 4 | |
Bravely Second: End Layer | Warning booklet missing |
Kingdom Hearts 3D Dream Drop Distance LE | Missing AR cards |
Pokemon Sun | loose |
Pokemon Ultra Sun | |
Pokemon X | loose, have 2 |
Kirby Triple Deluxe | loose |
LEGO Star Wars The Force Awakens | Case in rough shape. Missing manual |
Etrian Odyssey V: Beyond The Myth [Launch Edition] | sealed |
Sonic: Lost World | |
Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS | |
Mario Kart 7 | |
Kirby: Triple Deluxe | Nintendo Selects |
Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D | Nintendo Selects |
Tales of the Abyss | sealed |
Fantasy Life | |
Amiibo (all SSB except noted otherwise) | All sealed in original box |
Peach (Super Mario) | 025W1 |
Yoshi (Super Mario) | 524W2 |
Mario | 434W2 |
Bowser | 464S1 |
Diddy Kong | 424S1 |
Luigi | 434S1 |
Pikachu | 474W2 |
Squirtle | 279W5 |
Ivysaur | 299W5 |
Snake | 2559G1 |
Sonic | 494W2 |
Peach | 444W3 |
Link (Link's awakening) | 2079G1 |
Link | 524S1 |
Link (Majora's mask) | 187S1 |
Guides | |
Tales of Vesperia | BradyGames |
Dark Souls | FuturePress, Sealed |
Dark Souls II CE | FuturePress, Sealed |
Dragon Warrior VII | Prima |
Breath of Fire IV | Prima |
Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch | Prima, Hard Cover |
Wild Arms 4 | Prima |
God of War III | BradyGames |
Resident Evil 6 | BradyGames, Hard Cover, Sealed |
Legend of Zelda Collector's Box Set | Prima, sealed |
Steelbooks | G1 size unless noted. No games included. |
Assassin's Creed 3 | in shrink wrap |
Assassin's Creed Collection | |
Batman Arkham City Armored Edition | |
Batman Arkham City | G2 |
Call of Duty Black Ops II | |
Dead Space 3 | in shrink wrap |
Devil May Cry | G2 |
Dishonored | |
Duke Nukem Forever | in shrink wrap |
Epic Mickey 2 | |
Farcry 3 | in shrink wrap |
FF XIII Lightning Returns | in shrink wrap |
Hitman Absolution | |
Injustice Gods Among Us | |
Medal of Honor Warfighter | G2 |
New Super Mario Bros U | |
NHL 12 | |
Prototype 2 | in shrink wrap |
Sleeping Dogs | |
Thief | |
World of Warcraft Mist of Pandara | |
Misc | |
FF X Play Arts Tidus | Still in original box, never displayed out of box |
FF X Play Arts Yuna | Still in original box, never displayed out of box |
FF X Play Arts Auron | Still in original box, never displayed out of box |
FFVII Advent Children Play Arts Sephiroth | Still in original box, never displayed out of box |
FFVII Advent Children Play Arts Vincent | Still in original box, never displayed out of box |
FFVII Advent Children Play Arts Cloud with Fenrir | Still in original box, never displayed out of box |
Steer 'n win jr racing wheel/pedal | compatible with PS1/N64 |
Diablo III Collector's Edition PC | Sealed |
Diablo III Reaper of Souls Collector's Edition PC | Sealed |
Homeworld Collector's Edition PC | Sealed |
Want:
Mostly interested in JRPGs and horrors. Working design, Enix, Falcom, NIS, Atlus, etc. Also looking for many turbo/turbo CD games. Must be CIB unless noted otherwise.
PS1 |
Adventures of Lomax |
Deception III: Dark Delusion |
Echo Night |
Kartia |
King's Field (Long box) |
King's Field II |
Klonoa: Door to Phantomile |
Koudelka |
Misadventures of Tron Bonne |
RayCrisis: Series Termination |
RayStorm |
Shadow Tower |
Tail Concerto |
Thunder Force V |
Torneko: The Last Hope |
Resident evil survivor |
PS2 |
Echo Night: Beyond |
Forever Kingdom |
Haunting Ground |
ObsCure |
Shadow Heart |
Silent Hill 2 (Greatest Hits) |
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories |
Tsugunai: Atonement |
PS4 |
Atelier Ryza LE |
Atelier Sophie LE |
Tales of Berseria CE |
PS5 |
The Last of us Part 1 Firefly edition (sealed) |
The Last of us Part 2 WLF edition (sealed) |
Vita |
Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Brith 1 LE |
GBC |
Dragon Warrior Monsters |
Dragon Warrior Monsters 2: Cobi's Journey |
Dragon Warrior Monsters 2: Tara's Adventure |
Dragon Warrior I & II |
Lufia: The Legend Returns |
Revelations: The Demon Slayer |
GBA |
DemiKids: Dark/Light Version |
Klonoa 2: Dream Champ Tournament |
Klonoa: Empire of Dreams |
Lufia: The Ruins of Lore |
Lunar Legend |
Summon Night: Swordcraft Story |
Summon Night: Swordcraft Story 2 |
GameCube | |
Star Fox: Assault | Manual only |
Jet Black GameCube box and cardboard inserts | |
Indigo wired OEM controller | very low want |
Switch | |
Dragon quest xi | sealed preferred |
DS | |
Blue Dragon: Awakened Shadow | |
Commando: Steel Disaster | |
Dragon Quest V | |
Dragon Quest IV | Box and manual only |
Etrian Odyssey | |
Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja | |
Lufia: Curse of the Sinitrals | |
Lunar: Dragon Song | Manual only |
Resident Evil: Deadly Silence | |
Sands of Destruction | |
Super Robot Taisen OG Saga Endless Frontier | |
3DS | |
Corpse Party: Back to School Edition | |
Dragon Quest VIII | |
Etrian Mystery Dungeon (Launch soundtrack bundle preferred) | |
Etrian Odyssey Nexus (launch edition) | |
Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows Of Valentia Limited Edition | |
Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology (launch edition) | |
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers (with soundtrack) | |
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2 Record Breaker (launch edition) | |
Shin Megami Tensei IV Apocalypse Launch Edition | |
Others | |
Turbografx-16 Console | CIB preferred |
Turbografx-16 and Turbo CD games | CIB preferred. Almost everything except sports games will be considered. Big priority now |
Dragon Quest Slime controller for Switch | |
All Uncharted Waters games (SNES and Genesis, CIB) | |
Notes.
- Prefer to trade within Canada, but will consider cross border too if offers are attractive. I'm okay with conus (with some exceptions).
- Will provide pics upon request.
- I have not listed everything in haves/wants. I will gladly check your list and work something out.
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2024.05.14 16:34 AffectionateGrape786 Andersen screen door closes too fast
I know, tighten the screw on the closer! I wish it were that simple!
Case: When walking out of my Andersen screen door, the door slams back about halfway, THEN the closer kicks in and finishes it off slowly. Issue: Can I get the door to not slam for the first 1/2 of the travel? I: A) installed a second closer on the bottom B) bought a Heavy Duty closer C) tried every single combination of tight and loose settings for the screw on the closer
Nothing I do "catches" the door for the first half of the swing. Its driving my baddy after hitting my kids in the face more than once! Any help would he massively appreciated!!
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2024.05.14 16:34 Total-Chems AITA for not taking out my neighbors trash ?
2 months ago I bought a house . A month later, my neighbor gets a wheelchair ramp installed, and the workers tell me they will be coming home next week as they haven't been next door in 3 months. A week goes by, and they come home . I see this old lady looking through her windows every time I go outside onto my patio to smoke or vape but never come out to say hi or introduce themselves, which is fine, but then trash day comes . It's early, maybe 7 am, and I go outside to smoke, and within a few minutes, she's in the blinds again . Then the back door opens, and I hear excuse me, "Can you help me?" I get up and said sure she hands me a bag of trash and asks me to put it in her bin I said sure then she asks me to take the bin out to the street I said sure again . Now, because I'm the one that took the barrel out, I felt like I had to bring it in, so later that day, I brought it in . A few days go by, and there are bags of trash pilled on the wheelchair ramp and the barrel I brought in sitting right next to it . My wife said something like I should take her trash and put it in the bin and take it out to the street for trash day and I said no I didn't buy a house so I could take out someone elses trash out every week the lady next door hasn't even introduced herself or said thank you for bring it out and back in last week so fuck that .
Tldr. Wife thinks I should take out old lady next doors trash every week even tho they haven't introduced themselves or said thank you .
To anyone saying I should do it because she's old . I understand that and I was raised that we help the elderly but I can't see why I'm required to do it everywhere just because this lady wanted to come home and not go into an assisted living .
Edit to add . This lady is somewhat mobile
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2024.05.14 16:31 thinkingstranger May 13, 2024
Today illustrated that the Democrats have become Americaâs cheerleaders, emphasizing how investment in the nationâs infrastructure has created jobs and rebuilt the country. This week, the Biden-Harris administration is touting its investments in rebuilding roads and bridges, making sure Americans have clean water, getting rid of pollution, expanding access to high-speed internet, and building a clean energy economy, contrasting that success with Trumpâs eternal announcements of an âInfrastructure Weekâ that never came.
The White House today announced that it has awarded nearly $454 billion in funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, including more than 56,000 projects across more than 4,500 communities across the nation. Those include fixing more than 165,000 miles of roads and more than 9,400 bridges and improving more than 450 ports and 300 airport terminals. It has funded more than 1,400 drinking water and wastewater projects and projects to replace up to 1.7 million toxic lead pipes, as well as more than 8,000 low- and zero-emission buses. It has funded 95 previously unfunded Superfund projects to clean up contaminated sites. It has improved the electrical grid and funded 12,000 miles of high-speed internet infrastructure, and exposed internet junk fees.
The White House explained that this investment is making it cheaper to install clean energy technology and lowering familiesâ monthly energy bills, and highlighted today the available rebates to enable people to take advantage of the new technologies.
On Wednesday, May 8, a report from the Semiconductor Industry Association and the Boston Consulting Group explored the âbreathtaking speed,â as the president of the semiconductor organization put it, at which the industry is growing. In the
Financial Times on May 9, John Thornhill reported that the CHIPS and Science Act, which provided a $39 billion investment in the semiconductor industry, has âprimed a torrent of private sector investment.â With the influx of both federal money and an additional $447 billion of private investment in 83 projects in 25 states, the report forecasts that the U.S. will increase its share of global manufacturing capacity for leading-edge chips from todayâs rate of 0% to 28% by 2032. Thornhill compared this investment to that spurred by Russiaâs 1957 launch of the Sputnik satellite.
The Economist yesterday announced that the U.S. âis in the midst of an extraordinary startup boom,â and explored â[h]ow the country revived its âgo-getting spirit.â
In contrast to the Democratsâ confidence in America, the Republicans are all-in on the idea that the country is an apocalyptic wasteland. At a rally in New Jersey Saturday, Trump announced: âOn day one we will throw out Bidenomics and reinstate MAGAnomics.â He promised to extend his 2017 tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations.
But the gist of his speech was an angry, vitriolic picture of a failing nation full of âenemiesâ that are âmore dangerousâ than China and Russia and who are âgoing to destroy our country.â In his telling, the criminal case against him in Manhattan is âbullsh*t,â and President Biden has done more damage than the âten worst presidents in the history of our countryâ combined: â[h]eâs a fool; heâs not a smart manâŚ[h]eâs a bad guyâŚthe worst president ever, of any country. The whole world is laughing at him.â
Trump lied that other countries are âemptying out their mental institutions into the United States, our beautiful country. And now the prison populations all over the world are down. They donât want to report that the mental-institution population is down because theyâre taking people from insane asylums and from mental institutions.â Then he riffed into âthe late great Hannibal Lecter,â the fictional murderer and cannibal in the film
The Silence of the Lambs, apparently to suggest that similar individuals are migrating to the U.S.
House Republicans this week are working to pass a nonbinding resolution to condemn Bidenâs immigration policies, although it was Republicans, under orders from Trump, who killed a strong bipartisan immigration bill earlier this year.
The only way to turn back this apocalypse, Trump and his supporters insist, is to put Trump and his team back into the White House. From there, Republicans will return those they consider ârealâ Americans to power.
The last few days have added new information about what that means. On Thursday, May 9, Senators Katie Britt (R-AL), Marco Rubio (R-FL), and Kevin Cramer (R-ND) introduced the More Opportunities for Moms to Succeed (MOMS) act. Brittâwho is best known for her disastrous response to Bidenâs State of the Union speech from her kitchenâsaid the measure would provide a federal database of resources for pregnant women and women parenting young children, but that information excludes anything that touches on abortion.
The measure is clear that it enlists the government in opposition to abortion, but more than that, it establishes that the government will create a database of the names and contact information of pregnant women, which the government can then use âto follow up with users on additional resources that would be helpful for the users to review.â
A government database of pregnant women would give the federal government unprecedented control over individuals, and it is especially chilling after the story Caroline Kitchener broke in the
Washington Post on May 3, that a Texas man, Collin Davis, filed a petition to stop his ex-partner from traveling to Colorado, where abortion is legal, to obtain an abortion. Should she do so, his lawyer wrote, he would âpursue wrongful-death claims against anyone involved in the killing of his unborn child.â Now Davis wants to be able to depose his former partner along with others he says are âcomplicitâ in the abortion.
Antiabortion activists are also seeking to make mifepristone and misoprostol, drugs used in many abortions, hard to obtain. In Louisiana, state lawmakers are considering classifying the drugs as âcontrolled dangerous substances,â which would make possessing them carry penalties of up to ten years in prison and fines of up to $75,000.
More than 240 Louisiana doctors wrote to lawmakers saying that the drugs have none of the addictive characteristics associated with dangerous controlled substances and warning that the drugs are crucial for inducing routine labor and preventing catastrophic hemorrhage after delivery, in addition to their use in abortions. âGiven its historically poor maternal health outcomes, Louisiana should prioritize safe and evidence-based care for pregnant women,â the doctors wrote.
Louisiana lawmakers also rejected a bill that would have allowed anyone under age 17, the age of consent in Louisiana, to have an abortion if they became pregnant after rape or incest. Passionate testimony from those who suffered such attacks or who treated pregnant girls as young as 8 failed to convince the Republican lawmakers to support the measure. âThat baby [in the womb] is innocent.⌠We have to hang on to that,â said Republican state representative Dodie Horton.
Today, at the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization promoting Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander participation and representation at all levels of the political process, Vice President Kamala Harris encouraged young people to innovate and to move into spaces from which they have been traditionally excluded.
âSo hereâs the thing about breaking barriers,â she said. âBreaking barriers does not mean you start on one side of the barrier and you end up on the other side. Thereâs breaking involved. And when you break things you get cut. And you may bleed. And it is worth it every timeâŚ. We have to know that sometimes people will open the door for you and leave it open. Sometimes they wonât. And then you need to kick that f*cking door down.â
Harrisâs advice reflects the history that happened on this date in 1862, when the enslaved mariners on board the shallow-draft C.S.S.
Planter gathered up their families, fired up the shipâs boilers, and sailed out of the Charleston, South Carolina, harbor. The three white officers of the ship had gone ashore, leaving enslaved 23-year-old pilot Robert Smalls to take control. Smalls knew how to steer the ship and give the proper signals to the Confederates at Fort Sumter, Fort Moultrie, and three other checkpoints.
Smalls piloted the
Planter, the sixteen formerly enslaved people on it, and a head full of intelligence about the Confederate fortifications at Charleston to the U.S. Navy. In Confederate hands, the
Planter had surveyed waterways and laid mines; now that information was in U.S. hands. Smalls went on to pilot naval vessels during the war, and in 1864 he bought the house formerly owned by the man who had enslaved him.
A natural leader, Smalls went on to become a businessman, politician, and strong advocate for education. After serving in the 1868 South Carolina Constitutional Convention that made school attendance compulsory and provided for universal male suffrage, he went on to serve in the South Carolina legislature from 1868 to 1874, when he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served until 1887. When President Barack Obama signed an executive order establishing the nationâs first national monument concerning Reconstruction, he cited the life of Robert Smalls.
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https://newjerseymonitor.com/2024/05/12/trump-brings-2024-campaign-to-the-jersey-shore/ https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a60774814/trump-rally-new-jersey-weird-speech/ https://www.britt.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/MOMS-Act_FINAL-Britt_Rubio_Cramer1.pdf https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/11/katie-britt-proposes-federal-database-to-collect-data-on-pregnant-people https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2024/05/03/texas-abortion-investigations/ https://lailluminator.com/2024/05/08/rape-incest/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/13/abortion-pills-louisiana-controlled-substance/ https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/05/12/america-is-in-the-midst-of-an-extraordinary-startup-boom https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/05/13/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-kicks-off-infrastructure-week-by-highlighting-historic-results-spurred-by-president-bidens-investing-in-america-agenda/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/05/13/fact-sheet-president-bidens-investing-in-america-agenda-is-helping-american-families-across-the-country-save-money/ https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/icymi-the-great-american-innovation-engine-firing-again https://www.ft.com/content/0d39e8f0-38ba-40aa-8ec8-d04e82afb690 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/us/politics/chips-grants-fuel-industry-growth.html https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/11/trump-rally-new-jersey-trial-fascists-00157482 https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/12/presidential-proclamations-establishment-reconstruction-era-national https://www.nps.gov/people/robert-smalls.htm Twitter (X):
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2024.05.14 16:30 Corruptfun As If It Were Kismet Prologue & Chapters 1-5
As If It Were Kismet: Prologue
Matt tore through the brush, blind in the dark. He didnât care where he was going. He only knew he needed to be elsewhere. Far from here.
Behind him a creature howled that shocked his mind. Itâs form was cruel and dangerous, though female. Nothing like the young woman she had once been. Nothing but a girl, a small and slight female.
Itâs guttural growls and howls only grew closer as Matt tried to pick between seeing where he was going and getting away. The few times he looked he caught sight of the creature behind him. Hopping through the air with a speed that told him he was being toyed with. As if he were a mouse being played with by a cat.
But the reflex in him to run kept him going. His adrenaline going as hard as it could. The tightness and burning in his core tensing and locking up as his legs felt like there were being burned from within while taking on more of a heaviness.
His lungs were starting to betray him as he tried to gulp big breaths of air but only rapid and shallow breaths were all that he could manage. His brain was starting to burnâŚ.and then he was falling.
Falling down the side of a hill he saw the creature dart in a spring towards him, imperceivably fast almost. Catching him in mid air it seemed.
Managing to wrap its body around him and cushion his impact against the ground as they rolled. His mind barely took in what was happening during the roll. Only starting to understand what was happening once they were still.
The creature's triple D-cup breasts were unmistakably pressed hard against his back as he laid facing up at the night sky.
For a few seconds the world stilled and the needle light pain hitting the center of his brain took over for the cooking heat his brain had felt. His whole body felt heavy and reluctant to move.
Even if he could have really moved, a dull ache came over his limbs making them feel stilled and trapped as if by immeasurable amounts of sand that had engulfed him.
Slowly the arms holding him started to move. Moving so the creature's hands could start exploring him. Causing Matt to unstoppably let out a pathetic moan that made him go cold inside as hands lifted up his shirt and started to touch his exposed stomach and then his chest.
He would have whimpered so pathetically had he not still been in the depths of terror.
As its hands felt and groped his pecs he tried to situp as if to get away. For his efforts, his reward was a hand around his throat and a collection snarls and growls against his ear. A beastly, guttural voice spat words at him while somehow holding a feminine tone.
âDonât moveâŚ.I donât know if I can calm downâŚâ
Her words were not helped by her moans in his ear and the subsequent kissing of his ear. The flesh of his ear going between her lips as she moaned and seemed to pant. Releasing it and licking the side of his face with a moist warmth. He could feel its spittle, viscous and coating his flesh where the tongue touched. He could smell something in his saliva. Something that subtly entranced him.
Matt went stock still with fear and the confusion of mixed arousal. He barely perceived her right hand traveling lower on his body. A surprised moan and shudder echoed in the night from Mattâs lips as she took ahold of him. Her hand above his pants but stillâŚ.stimulating him.
A light squeezing and almost probing of her digits kept him aroused and confused within her grasp. Resigning himself to the strange fate, Matt looked up at the stars as his mind tried not to shatter under the strange maelstrom of events and sensation that had started mere minutes ago.
His mind was only more confused as a slight figure, feminine in build, how it seemed to thunk the ground audibly as she landed on her feet out nowhere. Her knees barely bending under the pressure of the landing. Yet dirt was kicked up anyways and some of it onto Matt. Feeling it pepper his shirt and pants as it fell.
The figure, lit only faintly by moonlight, roared some dark tone Matt could only perceive as a demon as her eyes went bright with a crimson light. A light in the darkness that should not have been. âLet him go you bitch.â Was its words following the roar. Spittle escaping its mouth with faint droplets hit Matt's face.
The creature holding him by his throat and crotch seemed to tighten the grasp of both hands as it roared back. âHE IS MINE!â
The figure paused with a moment's hesitation. He was also her quarry. She had felt his fear without him knowing. His confused arousal. His fear. His terror.
And now he laid at the center of a struggle between two monsters. Unsure of who he wanted to win.
As If It Was Kismet Ch. 1
Matthew Berkshire hadnât seen his mom in two years. Not that he had seen her much over the last six years.
A messy divorce between messy people and momâs chaotic want for a life in Alaska had been one of the mostâŚupsetting times in life. Setting him up for so much of what had defined his life thus far but then that had really started two years before he ever turned.
His ear buds were basic and simple. A part of cheap five pack, common for his life as he was known to lose little things. Small things. They had a mix of metal and hard rock playing in them. Some classics, some alternative. Whatever made him feel something, anything. Even if it was hate. Anger. Rage. It was better than feeling numb. Not belonging.
The escalator down to his lone bag to go with his lone carry on showed his mom waiting for him. His had a type, thatâs for damn sure. Not that it helped him in the genetics department as he was stuck at 5â9â to go along with his motherâs five foot even as his dad stood six foot. Forever leaving him to feel small, to pale, under his dadâs shadow. Did he ever stand a chance?
The guy next to her with the unkempt former seventies porn stache was âDave.â Heâd met him twice when his mother came and visited him in Florida. To his credit the guy didnât look annoyed. Kind of concerned kind of which made Matthew want to break his frozen look but he was well practiced. Having removed any note of sadness from his face through muchâŚtribulation.
His motherâs look on her face betrayed a hint of worry as the bruises on his face lightly showed up close. Saying his name was his like a distant echo that belonged to someone else.
Dave cut in and pulled out his right headphone. âWhat the hell bud, they knock you hard enough to hurt hearing? Your momâs asking how you are doing.â
Matthew pulled out the other bud and grunted an empty âsorry.â
âYou still have bruises after two week? What did they do to you?â His momâs voice was full of worry. Something he hadnât heard inâŚ.too long. Too long to make him feel anything. To ever make him believe there was any sincerity to her words. To not think her voice and mannerisms were an act. An act by someone whoâŚwasnât really there.
âItâs only fair. I took a nose. Fractured a couple orbital bones. Left one with having to get his jaw wired shut. And one will never walk right again for what I did to his knee cap.â Matthew said it all with a bored and disinterested tone. Perhaps well rehearsed.
âMy man, handing out ass kickings, not bothering to take names.â Dave was quick to be the typical manâs man about it. Matthew wasnât quite done yet. Lifting up his shirt to expose the right side near his kidney. Revealing a nasty scar from a six inch blade. âLuckily they gave me this first so they could rule it all in self-defense. The fuck didnât get it in more than inch before I ruined his knee cap and then I took the nose of one of the fucks holding me.â Now he chose to smile keeping the well practiced dead look in his eyes.
No retorts. No questions. Just horrified looks on their faces. As he liked. As he preferred. They could hate him. They could be disgusted by him. But by God they would fear him.
âWell the doc did a good job sewing you up.â Dave commented uncomfortably. âDissolving sutures. Ainât they grand.â He smiled again and let it abruptly fall off his face and started walking to the carousel for the baggage claim.
Waiting and making small talk with Dave as his mother stood in silence. He was not the little boy she abandoned. The little boy she left with an angry man. While never hitting him. Left him in constant fear till he turned twelve and just didnât care anymore. Something snapped. Broke. And he didnât care if he died. Didnât care if he stole. Didnât even care if he killed. He just knew not to get caught. Something left over from his grandfatherâs wisdom which came to make more and more sense with each passing year of life since that thing inside him broke.
Finally his bag came around and Dave went to try first to grab it but Dave practically leapt ahead of him. âIs that your grandfatherâs rucksack bag?â his mother asked in a perplexed voice.
âFigured itâs been around since Viet Nam. So itâd serve me better than any of the worthless stuff they called luggage.â Dave commented after Matthewâs words. âWell hell yeah I still got mine from Desert Storm. You know the first one.â Dave laughed and Matthew eyed him oddly. Be it in the south or whether it was Alaska, country boys are country boys he guessed.
The car ride to the two peopleâs house, as Matthew thought of them. Was uneventful and full of vistas he imagined metropolitan types wetting themselves over. At most they meant isolation to him. Furtherness from the world as there were no mountains in Florida. And what mountains he had last seen in another state had been when he was eight. Another life, to Matthew it felt like. A life alien to him.
As If It Was Kismet Ch 2
Dave and his momâs place was some two story type tucked into a tree line far up an elevated point. It was by no means the highest point in the mountain but it certainly felt up there.
Rocks were where the driveway should have been Matthew thought. Grabbing his backpack and rucksack from Daveâs jeep was no hard thing for him. Matthew was in formidable shape for someone his age, maybe even five years older. He had gotten a mix of fairly big shoulders and arms along with the chest to go for it when compared to most kids his age. A side effect of working out at least twice a day. First thing in the morning, some time in the evening, and the schoolâs gym when had had a good semester in school before he had to leave Florida.
Dave tried to come up and help him but Matthew walked past him towards the house. His mom was not sure what to make of his demeanor. Matthew was not the sweet kind boy he had once been. But she had been gone from his life essentially for a long time.
Ushering him into the house she cracked some joke he did not hear. He was too busy looking about and seeing a mix of old outdated decorating mixed with the strange and odd flair of his mother. Color contrasting against drab and dated. Like brightly painting over an old home that was falling apart he thought.
âYour room is this way Mattie.â His mom brightly intoned.
Without expressing any interest he followed his mother. Still faced and nonplussed. Just going along with the current. Pushed and pulled with its roll like a piece of driftwood.
The room was simple. A single small bed. A set of rubber weights with a curl bar and barbells. âYour dad said you were into weight lifting so we got you a bunch of stuff. Dave says it looks like his departmentâs gym almost. The womanâs smile felt very alien to him.
âThank you. I appreciate it. Iâve got most of my stuff from home.â Matthew starting unpacking his rucksack and pulled out cables of repetitive and mixed colors. A single plastic barbell handle. The ruck sack could be filled with water bottles for added weight during pushups he figured. Remembering a Michael Keaton movie he watched with his dad post-Batman movies where he played a convicted killer using plastic bags filled with water for weights.
Matthew caught movement outside his lone fairly large window that could let him step out onto the roof of the house given its layout.
He saw a number of people running together through what he guessed was the backyard of the property, not that it had any fences to mark boundaries
They wore clothes that looked similar yet different from each other at the same time.âOh those are the Johnstonâs. Really nice bunch of people. Been on the mountain for a long time Dave tells me.â
Matthew looked at the group of people running and noticed the lack of resemblance. âThey are related?â Matthew quizzically asked. Seeing a black and possibly a hispanic person amongst the bland looking white people.
âOh well they are all adopted but for one or two of themâŚbesides the parents of course. The family has a long tradition of taking in orphans they say. Real nice of them to do that donât you think.â
Matthew looked at his mother and the hosier accent made no sense to him as he arched his left eye brow. Her and his dad were both from Florida. Born and raised. Sure her parents were from New York city butâŚ
Matthew shook his lightly without turning to look at his mother as his vision was grabbed by one of the runners in particular. A girl of moderate height. Soft brunette. A plain beauty he figured with a slim buildâŚ.and lack of remarkable breasts and rear to make any note of butâŚ.girls in general were his type at his age.
She was pretty enough. He couldnât deny that but he found himself transfixed by her visage.
But the way she turned and looked at him, especially at that distance felt very disconcerting to him. Even if she was smiling likeâŚshe was a taste of a bright shiny day. Somehow.
Matthewâs mom noticed the exchange and smiled to herself with closed lips. âOh thatâs Vicky. Sheâs your age I think. Very sweet girl, who does the charity functions. You know bake sales, blood drives, car washes and the like. I think you should get to know her. Might be good for you.â
A truck horn sounded a couple of beeps in rather succession. âOh that must be Mack, he said he might come by later this evening but he seems early.â
Matthewâs mother turned and left his room. Leaving Matthew to exchange a few looks with the alluring Vicky as she turned her head away from him to talk to the others in her group and look back at him.
Still Matthewâs left eyebrow was arched. In a way that reminded him of Spock from Star Trek that he and his grandpa used to watch on some streaming service or another.
As he heard ambient chatter elsewhere outside the house he figured to check it out as the alluring sight of Vicky would be around he figured. It was dull to stare at artwork. He was a boy who preferred jet skis and the like. Something he could ride and enjoy immensely. Even if at times it got him stabbed.
As If It Was Kismet Ch 3
Matthew sauntered out of the house and down the rockway that stood in for a driveway.
A few new people had come over from what he could first surmise of the situation. As he got closer it was obvious they were indigenous people. A couple of grown menâŚand a girl?
She was mousey. Maybe five foot. Hiding behind glasses and a big camo jacket that was far too big for her. It looked made for a grown man and the backwards trucker hat on her head kept her long black a beautiful mess of sorts.
She was cute in a way. A little androgynous but she had a cute energy to her. She reminded him of the more tomboyish Puerto Rican girls he had gotten into back in Florida. Given the deer corpses in the back of the truckâŚ.probably more dangerous to play with given the men in her family.
Small chatter passed between the adults when the girl noticed but turned away, trying to hide the tiny hint of a smile.
âOh Mattie, this is Mack. He works with Dave at the sheriffâs department and John, heâs with fish and wildlife.â Matthew nodded at his momâs words with some blankness as he looked at the deer the in the back of the pickup truck.
âGale tells us you hunted with your dad some in Florida and Georgia.â Mack offered with a light hearted laugh camouflaged by his big simple and cheery but husky way he spoke.
Looking in the back of the truck he spoke. âWe used lever action thirty-thirties and Mosin Nagants in seven-six-two-fifty-four-rimmed.â Mack and John whistled in an exaggerated fashion. Leaving Matthew to wonder if they were mocking him.
Mack spoke. âWell we just used thirty-odd-six in a custom gussied Garand.â That caught Matthewâs attention. âYou have a GarandâŚâ Matthew finally demonstrated interest in anything. âMy dad has an SVT-40 and a Hakim 8mm but he always wanted a Garand but was too cheap to buy one.â
Gale, his mother, chimed in loudly. âOh his Dad loved his guns but was such an odd duck about how he bought or why he bought them. Never made sense to me how he wasnât a collector but he didnât get the latest and greatest.â Gale laughed uncomfortably. At least it seemed that way to Matthew.
Matthew pointed to the girl with an underhanded pointing hand. âAnd who is this? A cute little mute mouse or does she have a name?â Dave and the other men laughed.
Mack again spoke. âWell you people call her Rebecca, sheâs my adopted daughter.â Matthew was taken aback by what he heard. âYou people?â
Rebecca kindly spoke with a soft but almost melodic voice as she struggled to maintain eye contact. âWhite people or rather not members of our tribe. Itâs just easier to appease the colonizer kind of thing. Borrowed from when the Jesuit missionaries chased us up here.â
Mack stepped in. âItâs just easier to have white people names than have them try to say our tribal names. And we donât want them shortening or Anglicising our names kind of thing.â Rebecca stepped back into the conversation cutting off her adopted father. âItâs an insult to our history basically.â
Matthew cocked his head sideways raising his eyebrows shortly before letting them drop. âWell as soon as Iâm eighteen Iâm out of here and back to Florida so Iâm a sort of involuntary colonizer of sorts. So I wonât be taking any of your land from you. The Seminoles on the other hand are still shit out of luck.â
Rebeccaâs smile caused Matthew to reflexively smile. Mack made the moment more awkward. âSee Becca, I told you someone off the reservation would like you some. You just have to be creative.â Mack laughed in a chiding mannerâŚMatthew presumed. He sensed that he was the butt of some kind of cultural joke. Like marrying a white guy was some sort of insult or mark of shame. That kind of thing.
Rebecca turning away from him was not something he had been expecting. Her then getting in the truck in a huff left the group in a silence for a moment.
Dave spoke to break the awkward silence. âWell just bring the truck to work on Monday and leave it for me to grab up.â Mack acknowledged Dave and they started to get off as Rebecca looked at Matthew for another instance. Matthew couldnât look away for some reason as the two seemed to lock eyes for an instance.
Till Vicky and family seemed to come jogging down the road. While Matthewâs eyes diverted from Rebeccaâs. Hers did not till she realized he was looking elsewhere. And her vision found Vicky and what had been a hint of smile on her face turned glum and disappointed.
Matthew did not look away from the vision of Vicky but instead of a starry eyed fool looking longingly. It was a baffled look. Well baffled for him, with his eyes drawn narrow and night with a focus.
There was something about herâŚhe couldnât quite put a name too. The way she appeared to him. One second brunette. The next second blonde or blonde like. As if the color appeared in her air and disappeared in fractions of seconds. Much the same way her body almost seemed toâŚshiftâŚvery subtlyâŚsmoothly. A nicer bum. Larger breasts. And then back to a simple and plain form. Feminine no doubt. Attractive. But not soâŚremarkable.
As If It Was Kismet Ch 4
The next two days passed without incident. Nothing of any real substance or challenge to note.
Matthew got settled somewhat and started working out almost immediately. Exploring around the woods but Dave told him not to go far. Especially without a hunting rifle. Dave had left a simple semi-auto Winchester out for him. His bear gun as Dave referred to it with its four round magazine. But Matt figured till he got some practice with the rifle to leave it alone. He made a hiking stick like his grandpa taught him and treated it over a low fire. He would take some electrical tape for the end his hand would grip around. Plenty enough to ward off anything smaller than a bear he figured.
The ride to school was a pain in the neck but simple enough. Dave would let him use a clunker pickup truck he had laying around. It wasnât pretty but it would get him to and from. Even if it was from the eighties and still backfired on occasion. But for now Dave and his mom took him on their way to the sheriffâs department.
It wasnât much of a school. It wanted to be modern but its fifties original construction was very obvious. It serviced the pipeline families and familysâ of fisherman who worked the seasons in between their time at the pipeline.
Matt was to report to the principal for some reason Dave and his mom wouldnât share. Which annoyed him but he figured it was to read him the law of land. Small towns with their big views of the outside world and like.
Dressed in jeans, a grey sweatshirt under a light jacket with steel toed boots set him more apart then he expected. His buzzed head didnât help matters. Already he was feeling like a stranger in a strange land but he was quite strange after all. And he liked it that way. Normal people were so pathetically disappointing to him.
A secretary or assistant or some such led him to the principalâs office. Where it reeked of real wood that was old and fabric and upholstery that needed to be updated for the last twenty years, Matt figured.
âThis is Matthew Berkshire, Principal Andrews.â The man was turned with his back to the door and he was quick to wave her off as he turned her around.
He was an older man. Fat and large. Tall with a body built like he had once been fit and a demeanour of annoyed and irate already as he fixed Matt with a scowl and look of disgust. Another worthless government whore. Matt thought to himself. His father and his grandfather had bestowed unto him a natural disrespect for government workers and the figures that wore unjustified authority as a shield but pretended the weight of the state was not at their back ready to crush all who resisted. Little figures of valor pretending to be mighty and alone but acting with the tyranny of the state and all the backing.
âMr. Berkshire, please sit down.â His tone wasnât unusually hostile, just gruff. As if he had better things to do.
Matt complied and took a seat in the chair while maintaining a friendly facade. Not everyone was an enemy. And not everyone needed to be an enemy. Even if anybody could be any enemy. There was no reason to make enemies you didnât have to. Another of his grandfatherâs bastardised wisdoms.
âWell I looked over you file and you have quite the history Mr. Berkshire.â Matt resisted qiuping back a joke. Instead he waited for Principal Andrews to continue as he remained nonplussed and looking as if he felt no need to respond. A simple head tilt with dead eyes looking back at the principle as if he was not even there would suffice.
Mattâs reaction or lack of a reaction rather made Principal Andrews only narrow his eyes with examination. He was not used to a kid not responding to him. Especially with his gruff and hard act going on.
âWell by all accounts you moved here after some problems at your last school. A fight broke out and you did some real harm to your fellow students it appears.â Of course, he would take the side of the perpetrators. School administrators always did. Especially when they werenât white. Just a fact of the times. Cowardice and pathetic mediocrity was the way they leaned, like good government workers sucking the dick of Big Daddy government. Worthless whores.
Matt chose to reply. âOh you mean the criminals that stabbed me. Got arrested at the hospital and then pled to felonies. Yeah Florida, with the American counties are good like that.â Principal Andrews went real still. No shame. No fear. No penitence. He didnât like that.
âWell be it as it may Mr. Berkshire we donât tolerate that kind of behaviour hereâŚâ Matt cut him off responding with a deadpan tone. âYou mean self-defense meant to save oneâs own life while the cowardly and pathetic school workers look on with zero interest but to keep their money rolling in and will allow known gang members with records of violent acts and crimes that should have them expelled many times over, where in certain Democrat counties such cowardice and idiocy empowered a couple school shooters?â
Principal Andrews looked at the Matt with a note of disgust. âLook here Mr. Berkshire, your beliefs matter not one bit here. This isnât Florida. We donât like our way of life being disrupted by outside agitators who have problems with authority.â
Matt did his best not to roll his eyes and let the older fat man drone own as he dead-stared him. Lifeless and without emotion.
The man came to a finish and Matt spoke up without having listened to him or paid him any attention. âGreat now thatâs taken care of. Can I please get to class and finish my sentence of two years at your wonderful school?â
Principal Andrews huffed and snorted before calling in Vicky. Vicky stood in the corner after entering with a quiet and seamless presence. Matt felt disturbed and tried not betray his feelings as the young Vicky was perceived and not perceived to be moving.
Principal Andrews made the introductions and Matt nodded back. She was to be his chaperone for the day. They had the same classes and she was to show him the ropes so to speak. The ins and outs of the school. The locations of their classes.
He recognized her. It was hard not to. The way her appearance seemed to shift fluidly almost. The petite and skinny brunette ever so lightly had a big bust and blonde hair with curves added when she seemed to shift before his eyes. Like watching a film but each frame had a different person.
Matt didnât say anything about it. Even if he did he would only be acknowledging his crazed state, if he had one. If.
Unlike an obedient puppy dog he got up in a slow and awkward fashion and followed behind her as his oddly disproportionate frame allowed. Causing her a note of concern for some reason. As if she was seeing something she shouldnât have beenâŚ.Or he was just weird. And Matt could admit to himself he was just weird. Part of his charm, he would jest about it at times. Not that he had many people to jest to now.
As If It Were Kismet Ch. 5
Following Vicky into the hall off to their first class was simple. She exchanged small talk and he slightly smiled as if to obviously suggest he was just being polite.
Inside his head, Matt was trying to figure out if he was having a psychotic break. The way Vicky looked kept changing and he looked at the other people around him and they stayed the same.
He was searching his mind as they were walking. And thus he wasnât paying attention to where he was looking and so fell to his face forward over his feet seemingly out of nowhere.
A series of laughs erupted as it sunk in that he was obviously tripped. Like in prison this was a challenge to his superiority. If he let this pass he would be mocked and sneered at by this same group of boys. He wouldnât walk to them like he was going to do nothing like a little bitch.
In a rage he turned and punched the stomach of the first face he saw. Some typical blonde haired wannabe jock. He knew from experience not to aim for the ribs. Instead he needed to aim for where he thought the belly button was.
Yells and screams blindly echoed around him as his after the punch he followed up his elbow of the opposite arm slamming into the face of the jock. Harder than a fist, the elbow struck the jockâs jaw and seemingly dropped him against a locker. Just in time to catch an errant and soft punch to the nose that sure enough hurt but did little to slow him down as his dad had taught him to fight through the pain. Blood and scars happened. They were a natural consequence of life to a man.
Taking the punch and falling further into his red state Matt headbutted the punch thrower before another guy arm bared his throat from behind. Which he managed to get his grip on the arm over a letterman jacked and jerk the unprepared boy to the side with him still latched on.
A few feet away from the lockers Matt knew his only chance was to jump and push off the lockers and knock the boy to the ground and so he did. He heard a thunk of the boyâs skull bouncing off the ground and he turned to pull out of the grapple.
The beatings he had taken from his father, the grapples, being choked unconscious. Had prepared him for fighting little bitches who didnât know what a fight was. It wasnât gay porn with rabbit punch fists flying.
Blood was running down his face and the pain started to hit him as the threats had been eliminated. Only then did he remember to breathe. Taking breathes as Vicky came up to him with tissues and took a hold of his nose.
âOwww owww owww what the fuck my nose could be broken.â He said to Vicky as she pulled his head up and back.
âItâs ok Carl. Itâs done.â Matt tried to look to see who Vicky was talking to. It was a boy taller than his 5â9â by more than a small margin. The boy eyed him bored and annoyed before speaking. âWhat happened here?â An unoriginal line but one Matt couldnât be a smart aleck about. âWell you see there was an outbreak of tripping and we all tripped over my dick. It happens.â Matt was about to laugh when Vicky seemed to pull up while still gripping his nose causing Matt no small amount of pain which he audibly evidenced.
Vicky spoke in a tone he wasnât expecting. As if she was accustomed to issuing orders. âKeep Iris away from the hall till we sanitize the site. We have blood from at least three people contaminating the site. And have Jake bring me a spare jacket and shirt for this moron.â
Carl seemed to acknowledge her orders and seemed to blink away. Maybe the punch hit harder than he expected. He had no time to wonder as Vick took her hand away from his and pushed him against the lockers. With ease he had not been expecting from her form and stature.
Before he could respond Vicky licked his blood covered chin and then his lips and spoke to him. âFocus on me you little blood bag.â Her tone had an annoyed yet feminine sneer.
âLook into my eyes. Look at me. You belong to me. You are just another food source in a collection of food sources.â Her eyes were a beautiful hazel Matt thought. Almost green. Pretty like jewels in some old treasure collections. The eyes he could get lost in before kissing her. Finally Vicky was just a slight and petite brunette and he thought she was beautiful.
She would make a hell of a girlfriend. Some cute thing he could see laying on the beach in Florida on their sides laughing and smiling before trading light kisses while hands wandered innocently. Before his mind could drift further he felt her lips on his. It took him a second to mentally grasp the kiss but his arms were around her back as her hands were at his sides. His eyes reflexively closed as he saw hers close.
It was ineffable to Matt. Beyond words, what was happening. The kiss, the moments beforehand. The way his brain tickled with electricity and gentle warmth. He had never had a kiss like this and he had traded more than a few kisses with at least a few girls.
The kiss was like a warm bath with his consciousness slipping beneath the surface. Their lips only parted to try new angles and approaches as Matt struggled to take in breath. It was a moment he could have stayed trapped in forâŚ.he didnât know. But a curt throat clearing by another girl pulled them out of the moment.
The girl was taller than Vicky. Blonde. With slight curves. Vicky addressed her bewildered and gobsmacked, and perhaps a bit embarrassed. âTina?â
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2024.05.14 16:29 ThisIsACryForHelp22 Am I too worried about the body?
Thanks to being from the rust belt (now live in Florida in case it's relevant lol), I'm terrified of rust and the expensive repairs that go with it. However, my friend has poked fun at me for how much money I'm willing to drop to rustproof and waterproof my bus. About 1/3 of my budget (outside of electrical/legal stuff) for the conversion is going to rustproofing/waterproofing. I basically plan on disassembling the bus to blast, repaint, and reseal every panel, inside and out. I also plan on buying all new windows (except the windshield and driver window, which I will remove, clean, and reseal), a storm door for entry/exit, and a skylight to replace the emergency exit. Is this too much? Is there a cheaper (but still safe) way to ensure I won't have waterust issues sooner rather than later?
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2024.05.14 16:28 Ok_Flounder8842 Platform Barriers vs. Person-on-track costs
I've read that NYC subway platform barriers are incredibly expensive to install, and challenging given the different door positions in various railcars used in the system. But I also see the huge numbers of delays from people falling/jumping on the tracks, which aside from the horror is also costly in terms of delays, emergency and medical care, etc. Has anyone ever done a rigorous comparison of the costs /benefits to the MTA and society as a whole?
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2024.05.14 16:23 Kataclysm 2016 Ford Expedition ECU replacement question
Long story short; I turned a $60 repair into a $1000+ (and counting) repair because I thought I could DIY.
AC clutch won't engage when you press the AC button inside the vehicle. I've had the panel replaced, the wiring harness redone properly; and the relays and fuses checked and double checked. (Two different mechanics.) I've been told the last thing to do is replace the ECU, so I found one online that sold me the right model and was supposed to be programmed for my vehicle.
I plug it in, and go to start it, and the vehicle won't crank. No real other signs aside from the 'check engine' light, and the system telling me I need to change my oil.
I take some OBDII scans, see a ton of error codes and think maybe they're locking something. I clear those, and still nothing. I look and see the computer reports back a different Make and VIN.
I plug in the original (problematic) ECU and it starts just fine, I run a scan and it returns my current Make and VIN.
I contacted the company I bought it through, and they say the unit was programmed, but will show the doner Make and VIN; even though it really is programmed with my current VIN.
I suppose my question is; is this true, or do I need to take this computer elsewhere and just get it programmed by my Ford dealership? Or are my keys somehow not allowing it to start? I have the original factory keys, and they have lock/unlock, panic, and rear door open. There's also a third-party aftermarket remote start installed, though I already know that will need to be reprogrammed and have lined that up.
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2024.05.14 16:21 Ok-Passion8864 The Immortal Night [Fantasy, 1989]
Hi everyone! I'm currently looking for any feedback on the first chapter of my short novel, which has just reached the second draft stage. It's about the main character being forced into eliminating the heads of an island conquered by vampires. The title is referencing a blood moon which remains present only on the island, always draping it in darkness and making it perfect for its inhabitants. I see it as a gothic Suicide Squad with less characters.
Thanks!
The chateau remarked itself as the jewel of the street.
The building rose above its accompanying homes, two stories larger than its nearest neighbours. A grand display of the original ownerâs wealth, it now belonged to the vampires, like the rest of Prache. Looking down the street, Hitchforth recognised it from afar, his target for tonightâs mission. He watched stylish vampires enter through the front gate, greeted by ushers at the entrance, checking their invitations. Checking the inner pocket of his greatcoat, he searched for the invitation given to him, satisfied it was there. Hitchforth looked to his left and saw the rookieâs for tonightâs mission checking for his invitation. The rookie searched throughout his body, appearing to have lost the card, but found it before Hitchforth could scold him, offering it to his Educator.
The rookies they gave him rarely survived his missions. Sometimes he thought they were sent as a punishment, a test to see if they could survive. In his old age he had seen countless rookies, forgetting countless names and faces. This one beside him seemed nervous, adjusting his collar, wiping the sweat from his brow, avoiding eye contact with Hitchforth. This one might as well have been sentenced to an execution. What was his name? Anton? Arthur? It wouldnât matter in the end, but the rookieâs nervousness could jeopardise the mission entirely.
âTell me,â he said, seriousness in his tone. âAre you afraid of me or the vampires?â
The rookie fidgeted with his fingers before responding, wiping his brow from the new sweat that dripped. âB-b-both, sir.â
âBreathe. Fill your lungs and empty them. Like this.â Hitchforth demonstrated for the rookie, taking extra care to show the slow speed of the action.
The rookie did as instructed, inhaling and exhaling deeply.
âIt helps?â Hitchforth asked.
âYes sir,â the words spoken with more clarity and calmness.
âGood, letâs go into the lionâs den then.â
They approached the front entrance, lining up to be ushered in. Carmillaâs festivity had attracted the richest of Pracheâs vampires, adorned in foreign jewels and extravagant clothing. The rookie almost slipped on an exceptionally long dress, caught by the cuff by Hitchforth. Looking behind him, he saw the fury in their red eyes, that Humanityâs Hope had been invited. Reaching the usher, Hitchforth handed his and the rookieâs invitations, inspecting the vampireâs face. The slightest twinge of shock showed on his face, but was quickly concealed with a stern, professional demeanour. He waved them both in, shooting a questioning glance as they passed by.
The building appeared larger inside than it was outside, if possible. The minimal red torches fitted on sconces and the amount of vampires fitted into the building helped accentuate its size. A sea of suits and dresses spread throughout its floor, different colours and materials shining in the ambient light. Imported marble made up the floor, dark and white tiles patterned intricately. Large windows draped by exotic curtains furnished the walls throughout the building, paintings spread in between the spaces. Hitchforth could just make out the paintings as portraits, the closest to him being a group of five vampires.
What surprised Hitchforth the most was the sounds that filled his ears. Music played by a orchestra filled the building with the sounds of strings, woodwinds, percussion and brass sections. Pushing past the crowd that had congregated near the front entrance, Hitchforth saw dancing. Vampires dancing in line with their partners to the music, alternating between partners, spinning with arms outstretched.
Behind the dance floor a grand staircase rose from the floor, providing access to the two other stories of the building. It was there that Hitchforth saw the target for tonightâs mission come down the stairs, stopping high enough to be seen, but low enough to be heard. Immediately the orchestra ceased its playing, the dancers also ceasing their dancing. The congregation around the entrance strode to the dance floor, taking Hitchforth and the rookie with them, waiting for her words.
She was tall and deathly beautiful, more civilised and confident than the others. She wore a dark crimson dress, accenting her red eyes and slender face. Her moonlight coloured hair draped straight down past her shoulders, shining despite the lack of light. Her red lips parted into a savage smile, displaying the pointed canines she shared with every member of her race. Hitchforth noticed she looked directly at him, her eyes sizing him as a lion would to its prey. Carmilla Sanguine had arrived.
She spoke to the guests, keeping her eyes on Hitchforth. âWelcome all, to the festivities of tonight. I hold todayâs ball as a celebration of our independence as a species, our freedom from humanity.â The guests cheered at the words, delighted at the words. âAnd please give our warm Prache hospitality to our sanctioned guests of Humanityâs Hope, who have joined us.â
The vampires did not cheer at those words, hushing and hissing silently as they turned to see Hitchforth and the rookie. It was easy to find them, both wearing their issued dark green greatcoats. Hitchforth had refused formal attire for the event for himself and his rookie, knowing they would stand out regardless.
âEnjoy your time tonight and as always, long live our king.â
âLong live our king,â the crowd shouted out in unison, mirroring Carmillaâs words.
Carmilla stepped down the stairs, her guests returning to conversation and dancing. She mingled with her guests, leaving Hitchforth and the rookie alone.
âSir, what now?â the rookie asked.
âShe will come to us, she canât help herself,â Hitchforth said whilst looking over her watching her conversations. From a distance he could still see the power she held, the fear in the faces of the vampires she held conversations with. From what he had been told, the heads of Prache kept to themselves mostly, only communicating when necessary. The mission would not be hindered by reinforcements, or so he had been told.
Carmilla made her way over to where Hitchforth and the rookie stood, flanked by two bodyguards in suits. She looked over the rookie, smiling and looking into his eyes. Hitchforth saw the rookie smile back, his nervousness gone. Already her mind games had begun.
âHello, Carmilla,â he said, breaking her eye contact with the rookie.
âGreetings, Educator Hitchforth. And who might this be here?â
âMy rookie. You know my name?â Carmilla had come closer to the rookie, stroking his cheek with her hand as Hitchforth spoke. Hitchforth saw the sharp nails on her hand, softly grazing the rookieâs skin.
âIsnât fresh blood the best? We donât get a lot of humans here, Iâm sure you know.â Carmilla moved her hand away, turning and answering the Educator. âOf course, who doesnât know the only Lycan Educator in Humanityâs Hope? Iâm sure everyone here has smelt it already.â
âFair enough. Can we talk in a moreâŚ,â Hitchforth looked around, noticing most of the guests were paying attention to their conversation. âPrivate place?â
âOf course, Educator. Allow me to lead the way,â she said, taking hold of the rookieâs hand and walking ahead. Hitchforth stared at him from behind to let go yet he continued, unable to escape her trance. Playing along, he followed Carmilla up the stairs, leaving behind the vampires to dance and socialise below.
Carmilla lead Hitchforth and the rookie up the stairs to the second floor, passing through multiple hallways and doors to reach their destination. The buildingâs halls and rooms seemed to continue endlessly, doors leading to more doors and longer hallways. They walked down a long staircase, perhaps made for the servants of the building. They walked through a large hallway containing Carmillaâs thralls, lined up against the wall, saluting as she passed. Eventually they reached a cold room with a large table in the centre with a fireplace emitting red flames. Red ash was a new invention created since the vampires had conquered Prache, a harmless light source for their needs. They had invested heavily into the island as their home and Hitchforth knew they would not give it up easily. Looking above the mantle place, Hitchforth noticed the familiar painting from the ballroom.
All the five vampires matched the descriptions he was told, to the point he could recognise them all. At the forefront sat Harrow Sanguine, the self-appointed king of Prache. He looked younger than the rest of his family, his ashen skin painted flawlessly. His fierce eyes stared back into Hitchforth, instilling fear from even his heart. To his right stood his wife, Rose Sanguine, who bore a strong resemblance to Carmilla, matching hair and all. To the kingâs left stood Varney Sanguine, wearing his familiar grey suit and matching brown flat cap. Standing next to Varney was Father Nostra, the religious leader of Prache, wearing his black cassock. Finally, standing next to her mother was Carmilla Sanguine, identical to her real life presence.
âWhere are we?â Hitchforth asked.
âA meeting room under the chateau. We wonât be disturbed here.â
âAnd your guests? They wonât be afraid youâve gone missing?â
Carmilla laughed. âThose fools will be too blood drunk in the morning to remember their past few days. Our meeting will be fine.â She ordered her guards out of the room, instructing them to stay outside, just in case. âThe guards will be waiting outside,â she said, warning in her tone.
âWhat do you want?â
âWhen my father sanctioned a member of Humanityâs Hope to visit the island, I was surprised they chose you.â
Hitchforth shrugged. âIâm expendable.â
âYes, they do see you in that way, and that may be so. But I see more.â
Hitchforth furrowed his eyebrows. âLike what?â
âI see opportunity. I see power. I see a new path.â
âCare to explain?â
âYou are the only Educator that is not human. On Prache we can give you freedom, like we have achieved.â
Hitchforth thought over what Carmilla said, processing her words. She had to have been desperate to separate him from any prying eyes, eager to keep her plans secret. The only choice was to continue.
âI see. They say a hand that lends help is matched by a hand that waits repayment. What is the repayment you seek from me?â
Carmilla smiled more than she had before, looking more unnatural than she ever had before. Her smile outstretched to the corners of her face and Hitchforth thought he saw her eyes darken lustfully. Not lust for blood, but lust for power. âThe crown. With my connections and Humanityâs Hope, we can topple my fatherâs regime. He is outdated, out of touch with the populationâs desires and needs. I can give it to them.â
Hitchforth scoffed at the words. âAnd you believe Humanityâs Hope is willing to partner with a vampire?â
âThey partnered with you didnât they? I see no difference.â
âI have no partnership. Something much worse.â
âIt doesnât matter. My father is eager to enact revenge for the prosecution vampires have felt for millennia. I am willing to move on.â
Hitchforth looked to the rookie, who had remained silent throughout the conversation. He sweated through his coat, leaving visible stains. The trance Carmilla had put him through had broken, putting her attention to Hitchforth. He could feel the slight strings pulling him in the direction she wanted, appealing to his emotions and desires. He considered over her terms, it made sense to accept the deal. Why would he protect his captors? His mind travelled elsewhere, to a farmhouse and her tending to her flower garden. He thought of her smile, and the little one that accompanied her.
âDo we have a deal? You have no choice either way, Educator,â Carmilla said, snapping Hitchforth back to reality.
He looked to his rookie, signalling under the table to warn him. Hitchforth saw him nod subtly, trying not to give away the motion.
âNo,â Hitchforth said, raising the table above his head, smashing it into Carmillaâs body, sending her flying.
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2024.05.14 16:18 MisRandomness Seeking solution for screening doorway.
Only the middle opens, but there appears to be some kind of track ONLY over the left and middle sections. Iâm wondering what kind of screen maybe was here or what I could install to make it so we have a screen door.
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2024.05.14 16:18 Ded-Maks-78 AUTO DOOR CLOSER by Pressure Pads
Hi everybody, Can someone improve or make the installation easier? Task of automation as follow:
- There is a house with bunch of floors and doors that players usually forget to close;
- There are also several exits in the house (for example, 3 floors, 4 exits; doors needed to be closed 20);
- Next to each exit installed pressure pads that serve to close all the doors in the house when the players leave house;
- Only closing of doors needs to be automated - opening the necessary doors is done manually.
A smart switch or something more appropriate (like a RUST+ button) is also needed - to close these doors when players go offline or during an online raid...
If anybody can improve this scheme I will be grateful... submitted by
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