…to the point that i can barely get out of bed some days & constantly obsess over my face(mostly) at totally random times & it always manages to bring my mood down..I’ve been trying to keep an optimistic mindset but it’s getting harder & harder to bear looking in the mirror & getting disappointed each time. overanalysing my face and thinking about what i should be changing next. feeling anxious in public whenever i feel eyes upon me. feeling like crying because i’m so overwhelmed, sweating, shaking nervously whenever in public places. not enjoying my youth the way it should be enjoyed because i feel my looks stand in the way of it…wanting to run back home or not wanting to leave home at all some mornings..because i’m ashamed of my face, i feel as if i don’t belong with my face, like it isn’t the one i deserve & cannot help but compare myself to most gals my age & wish it was me instead. i don’t date, i never dated, been on dates alright just feel like i woudnt be able to get any further than that, like no one would take me seriously long term, like they’d just eventually get to a point where they’d fallen out of love for me. i’m afraid of getting cheated on because of my looks, i’m really afraid i woudnt be able to be in a healthy relationship because of my doubts & constant insecurities & fears. i’m obsessed with looking in the mirror, front camera, sc camera or whenever i’m passing by windows, reflecting glass etc even at my phone screen when it’s off, just to make sure nothing has changed since last time i checked. i absolutely despise having photos taken, even worse when everyone around me tells me i look great in them, when what i’m seeing doesn’t align with my image of myself i’ve got in my head. it’s gotten to the point that i no longer know what i look like anymore & even after looking in the mirror i feel deceived. there’s no one day that goes by that i don’t research plastic surgery/alternatives, cosmetic treatments etc. started taking care of my body & mind lately & it’s gotten me in a better place for awhile, but not for long…feel as if no matter what i do, even if it does in fact bring me slightly bit of satisfaction or pleasure, it’s never long lasting and i’m always back to square one. i’m not trying to jump into anything drastic just yet since i don’t yet hold the courage or the financial capacity for it…also i’m worried even with everything i want done & after getting it done, what if i’m going to continue finding other new flaws… it’s been 7 years of this disorder & im fearful i’m in it for life. i cannot see any light at the end of the tunnel just now; regardless i still got a little bit of hope left in me, because i’ve seen it happen with others…& it does really happen & it’s amazing & i deserve to love my body the way it should be loved, because its the only one that i get to have & im going to grow old in it, but i wanna be able to do so happily. there’s no do overs for life.🌸ps: more of a rant than anything else, not really looking for much advice, but still anything’s appreciated xx

I know this is a frequently asked question but usually the comments given aren’t super helpful for my situation so here I am.
I just graduated high school and was planning on taking a gap year as I still have no clue on how to start. I’m not really interested in going to college (at least not as a full time student) and honestly don’t have friends as I’ve moved around a few times during high school and did online for majority of it. I’m currently staying at my dad’s for the summer in Pennsylvania where I’m working a part time job but majority of the year I live with my mom who’s in alabama.
Right now I’m just lost. So lost I’ve even considered joining a branch of the military to do public affairs (I come from a military family lol). But I just want to know all of my options. As I have no connections whatsoever and no funding. Most of the time people on here say to start shooting. But I have no experience with any big camera equipment you’d work with on a set (I only have a canon eos rebel T7 camera) and like I said I have no friends so no connections. I just don’t know what to do and the more I research the more confused I get.
My absolute dream goal is to be a DP in the film industry one day. I know most people also say to work your way up but I really just am confused on where to start? I’m at the very bottom. Square one. If anyone could give me any advice or what their journey was like I’d greatly appreciate it :) Sorry for the lengthy post!

Every bad habit starts as a passing action. You might have looked up "naked ladies" on Google as a kid or started smoking because all your coworkers did. It always begins there. If you currently don't have an addiction, consider yourself lucky to have stumbled upon these words. If you do, you're also lucky—you've learned the hard way. You've witnessed the pain, suffering, and self-hatred that come with addiction, and now you can see the rivers of addiction at their source. You can nip a bad habit in the bud before it has a chance to gain control over you.
As an addict, I've seen what addiction does to me and how small the changes start. I began masturbating more and more often whenever I was alone and horny. Then I started doing it just because I was bored or stressed. It became a stress reliever, something to replace my feelings of inadequacy or loneliness, until it became something I needed. I NEEDED to masturbate at least four, maybe five times a day. I would do it while everyone was home, in school and public restrooms, and in other situations that I don't even want to talk about.
I knew about addictions, but I felt like it would never happen to me. Considering how normalized porn is, I just thought my behavior was common—and in some ways, it is, but for all the wrong reasons.
I just hope that this experience isn't in vain. I think that's honestly what's kept me going: the idea that if I can get through these obstacles, I can help other people get through them or, better yet, avoid my mistakes. I think that's what we should all be working towards.

Every bad habit starts as a passing action. You might have looked up "naked ladies" on Google as a kid or started smoking because all your coworkers did. It always begins there. If you currently don't have an addiction, consider yourself lucky to have stumbled upon these words. If you do, you're also lucky—you've learned the hard way. You've witnessed the pain, suffering, and self-hatred that come with addiction, and now you can see the rivers of addiction at their source. You can nip a bad habit in the bud before it has a chance to gain control over you.
As an addict, I've seen what addiction does to me and how small the changes start. I began masturbating more and more often whenever I was alone and horny. Then I started doing it just because I was bored or stressed. It became a stress reliever, something to replace my feelings of inadequacy or loneliness, until it became something I needed. I NEEDED to masturbate at least four, maybe five times a day. I would do it while everyone was home, in school and public restrooms, and in other situations that I don't even want to talk about.
I knew about addictions, but I felt like it would never happen to me. Considering how normalized porn is, I just thought my behavior was common—and in some ways, it is, but for all the wrong reasons.
I just hope that this experience isn't in vain. I think that's honestly what's kept me going: the idea that if I can get through these obstacles, I can help other people get through them or, better yet, avoid my mistakes. I think that's what we should all be working towards.

I will post whatever info there is. There's not much else.
Currently available as a public demo in China.
Architecture: DiT over latent video space

• diffusion over 3D spacetime.
• Latent diffusion, with a VAE. They emphasized that it's not done frame-by-frame, so we can presume it is like Sora, where it divides the 3D spacetime into 3D blocks.
• Transformer in place of a U-Net

Multimodal input, including camera motion, framerate, key points, depth, edge, etc. Probably a ControlNet.
Resolution limits: * 120 seconds * 30 fps * 1080p * multiple aspect ratios. Seems focussed on phone-shaped videos, as Kuaishou is a domestic competitor to TikTok (Douyin).

So I'm running into a weird issue I'm struggling to solve. I'm trying to implement a working respawn for the player character in this 2D platformer prototype. Currently what I have works correctly on first death. Player object is destroyed and instantiated at respawn point and player lives are decremented. However on the second death and respawn the player respawns at the respawn point but is not controllable and just falls through the floor with no interaction from the colliders. Will post my player controller script below, any ideas or advice on what could be the issue is appreciated. Also this is my first time posting here but probably wont be my last so if there is any more information I could provide or anything I could format better please let me know. Thanks!
PlayerController script:
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour
{
[SerializeField] private float speed = 75f;
[SerializeField] private float jump = 100f;
private float horizontalInput;
private Rigidbody2D rb;
private Animator playerAnimator;
string currentState;
public bool playerOnGround;
private bool justJumped;
private bool justMoved;
public GameObject playerPrefab;
public Transform respawnPoint;
void Start()
{
rb = GetComponent();
playerAnimator = GetComponent();
currentState = "idle";
playerOnGround = true;
justJumped = false;
justMoved = false;
respawnPoint = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("RespawnPoint").transform;
}
private void FixedUpdate()
{
if (justMoved == true)
{
justMoved = false;
moveHorizontalPhysics();
}
if(justJumped == true)
{
justJumped = false;
playerJumpPhysics();
}
if (horizontalInput < 0)
{
// Player is moving left, flip horizontally
transform.localScale = new Vector3(-1, 1, 1);
}
else if (horizontalInput > 0)
{
// Player is moving right, reset scale
transform.localScale = new Vector3(1, 1, 1);
}
}
void Update()
{
moveHorizontalInput();
playerJumpInput();
if (horizontalInput == 0 && playerOnGround)
{
changeAnimationState("idle");
playerAnimator.Play(currentState);
}
}
private void moveHorizontalInput()
{
horizontalInput = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
// Trigger walk animation if the player is moving
if (horizontalInput != 0)
{
if (playerOnGround)
{
changeAnimationState("walk");
playerAnimator.Play(currentState);
}
justMoved = true;
}
}
private void playerJumpInput()
{
if(Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space) && playerOnGround == true)
{
changeAnimationState("jump");
playerAnimator.Play(currentState);
justJumped = true;
playerOnGround = false;
}
}
private void moveHorizontalPhysics()
{
float horizontalMovement = horizontalInput * speed * Time.deltaTime;
rb.velocity = new Vector2(horizontalMovement, rb.velocity.y);
}
private void playerJumpPhysics()
{
rb.AddForce(new Vector2(rb.velocity.x, jump));
}
public void changeAnimationState(string newState)
{
if (newState == currentState)
{
return;
}
playerAnimator.Play(newState);
currentState = newState;
}
private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
{
Debug.Log(collision.gameObject.name);
if(collision.gameObject.tag == "Ground")
{
playerOnGround = true;
}
if(collision.gameObject.tag == "Death" collision.gameObject.tag == "Enemy")
{
playerStatCounter.getInstance().playerDeath = true;
Destroy(gameObject);
if (playerStatCounter.getInstance().playerLivesCounter >= 1)
{
respawnPlayer();
}
}
}
private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collision)
{
Debug.Log(collision.gameObject.name);
if(collision.gameObject.tag == "GoldCoin")
{
playerStatCounter.getInstance().addCoins("GoldCoin");
}
if (collision.gameObject.tag == "SilverCoin")
{
playerStatCounter.getInstance().addCoins("SilverCoin");
}
if (collision.gameObject.tag == "BronzeCoin")
{
playerStatCounter.getInstance().addCoins("BronzeCoin");
}
Destroy(collision.gameObject);
}
private void respawnPlayer()
{
if (respawnPoint != null)
{
GameObject player = Instantiate(playerPrefab, respawnPoint.position, Quaternion.identity);
CameraFollow.getInstance().target = player.transform;
}
}
}

So I am trying to create a particle in the shape of the player model. The particle is the shape of a triangle. I don't know what I am doing wrong. It is not rendering anything in the game

public static void RenderQuadFaceOnCamera(VertexConsumer vertexConsumer, Camera camera, Vector3f[] vertiX, float posX, float posY, float posZ, float r, float g, float b, float a, float scale, float pt, net.minecraft.util.math.Vec2f[] UV){ Vector3f[] vertices=vertiX; Vec3d camPos = camera.getPos(); float x = (float) (posX - camPos.x); float y = (float) (posY - camPos.y); float z = (float) (posZ - camPos.z); Quaternionf camRot = camera.getRotation(); for (int i = 0; i < vertices.length; ++i) { Vector3f vector = vertices[i]; vector.mul(scale); vector.rotate(camRot); vector.add(0, 0, -0.2f); // Add the offset vector.add(x, y, z); } int light = 0xF000F0; // Max brightness for (int i = 0; i < vertices.length; i++) { vertexConsumer.vertex(vertices[i].x(), vertices[i].y(), vertices[i].z()) .color(r, g, b, a) .texture(UV[i].x, UV[i].y) .light(light) .next(); //System.out.println("vert"); } } public void prepareDrawPerCube(VertexConsumer vertexConsumer, Camera camera,float partialTicks, ModelPart.Cuboid part) { for (ModelPart.Quad side:((CubiodAccessor) part).getSides()){ Vector3f[] vectorArray = new Vector3f[side.vertices.length]; Vector3f[] copiedvectorArray = new Vector3f[side.vertices.length]; Vec2f[] UV= new Vec2f[side.vertices.length]; Vector3f direction = side.direction; for (int i = 0; i < side.vertices.length; i++) { vectorArray[i] = side.vertices[i].pos; Vector3f copiedVector = new Vector3f(vectorArray[i].x, vectorArray[i].y, vectorArray[i].z); copiedvectorArray[i]=copiedVector; UV[i] = new Vec2f(side.vertices[i].u,side.vertices[i].v); if (direction.equals(POSITIVE_Y)) { // Side pointing up, set UV to (0, 1) UV[i] = new Vec2f(0, 1); } else if (direction.equals(NEGATIVE_Y)) { // Side pointing down, set UV to (1, 0) UV[i] = new Vec2f(1, 0); } else if (direction.equals(POSITIVE_X)) { // Side pointing towards positive x, set UV to (1, 1) UV[i] = new Vec2f(1, 1); } else if (direction.equals(NEGATIVE_X)) { // Side pointing towards negative x, set UV to (0, 0) UV[i] = new Vec2f(0, 0); } else if (direction.equals(POSITIVE_Z)) { // Side pointing towards positive z, set UV to (1, 0) UV[i] = new Vec2f(1, 0); } else if (direction.equals(NEGATIVE_Z)) { // Side pointing towards negative z, set UV to (0, 1) UV[i] = new Vec2f(0, 1); } } Vector3f[] triangle1 = new Vector3f[]{copiedvectorArray[0], copiedvectorArray[1], copiedvectorArray[2]}; Vector3f[] triangle2 = new Vector3f[]{copiedvectorArray[0], copiedvectorArray[2], copiedvectorArray[3]}; Vec2f[] UV1= new Vec2f[]{UV[0],UV[1],UV[2]}; Vec2f[] UV2= new Vec2f[]{UV[0],UV[2],UV[3]}; // RenderUtils.RenderQuadFaceOnCamera(vertexConsumer,camera,vectorArray,this.x,this.y,this.z,this.red,this.green,this.blue,this.alpha,this.scale,partialTicks); RenderUtils.RenderQuadFaceOnCamera(vertexConsumer, camera,triangle1, (float) lerp(partialTicks, this.prevPosX, this.x), (float) lerp(partialTicks, this.prevPosY, this.y), (float) lerp(partialTicks, this.prevPosZ, this.z), this.red, this.green, this.blue, this.alpha, this.scale,partialTicks, UV1); RenderUtils.RenderQuadFaceOnCamera(vertexConsumer, camera,triangle2, (float) lerp(partialTicks, this.prevPosX, this.x), (float) lerp(partialTicks, this.prevPosY, this.y), (float) lerp(partialTicks, this.prevPosZ, this.z), this.red, this.green, this.blue, this.alpha, this.scale,partialTicks, UV2); } /* for (ModelPart.Quad side:((CubiodAccessor) part).getSides()){ Vector3f[] vertices = new Vector3f[side.vertices.length]; Vector3f[] copiedvectorArray = new Vector3f[side.vertices.length]; Vec2f[] UV= new Vec2f[side.vertices.length]; for (int i = 0; i < side.vertices.length; i++) { vertices[i] = side.vertices[i].pos; Vector3f copiedVector = new Vector3f(vertices[i].x/16, vertices[i].y/16, vertices[i].z/16); copiedvectorArray[i]=copiedVector; UV[i] = new Vec2f(side.vertices[i].u,side.vertices[i].v); } RenderUtils.RenderQuadFaceOnCamera(vertexConsumer, camera,copiedvectorArray, (float) lerp(partialTicks, this.prevPosX, this.x), (float) lerp(partialTicks, this.prevPosY, this.y),(float) lerp(partialTicks, this.prevPosZ, this.z), this.red, this.green, this.blue, this.alpha, this.scale,partialTicks, UV); } */ } 

So I am an able bodied person but as I have gotten older I started having OAB issues so sometimes I wear a diaper out in public because it can be difficult finding a restroom in time some days. So I needed a change so I stopped in a Sams Club to pick up some things and to use their restroom. I could have used a regular stall but it is much easier in the handicap stall because of the extra room. When I was about halfway through I hear a voice outside the stall asking if I was okay in there? I was a little taken aback but I said yes I’m fine. Then they asked again, are you sure you’re okay in there?, because you’ve been standing there a long time. Now I know I’m not the fastest, but I didn’t think I was in there that long. So again I said yes I’m okay I am almost done. Then he said I can call for help if you need it. At that point, I just lost all sense of modesty and belted out. I’m just changing my diaper! Then I finished up and walked out as quickly as I could when I open the door I saw an elderly man in a wheelchair sitting there he said not to feel bad. He had issues too. I felt embarrassed and left very quickly and didn't even take the time to wash my hands. So was I wrong for using that stall?

Alright, I am .tlb_cr1pt0n1t3. I apologize for any grammar mistakes and other spelling mistakes (I am not good with English that well) finally coming out to the reddit community for these allegations of me supposedly doing these things (below) - Racism remarks - sexual and explicit comments - power abusing/using my position to abuse other people.
We'll start first with the sexual and explicit remarks. These date back to maybe 6-7 months ago, after I started fully joining into the skibidi community, the first server I came to was the dfb server, there was a lot going on, everyone is pretty chill, I've met a few friends who are STILL my friends until now, these remarks were made by a user called ravenz or who is now called north_polexd (Nxrth) 835594782126243861, my former staff team and former friend, who used to be a part of huge communities in servers and other big communities. I don't have an excuse for the remarks I have made but to say that I thought those were all funny and just jokes that aren't taken seriously by them, as they made similar remarks towards camerawoman, and other skibidi analysis YouTubers, the whole thing was engaged by him through a VC in the old iso server before it got raided. But still, as I said that it doesn't excuse the fact that I made these remarks, I've apologized for saying such to people. Those who I've told them to are people around my age, and I thought it'll all be funny cause they made those remarks too. I'm really sorry about that, I really am, I've matured over the past few months after realizing what I said we're immature and uncalled for, I'm just a teenager like most people in the community.
Second of all, the so-called power abuse was later revealed to be false by nightmare (former owner of dfb) all of which had low evidence of me actually abusing my power as a high staff in servers such as mobis, isos, or even elites because my roles there were pretty low besides isos, and I was in the verge of getting demoted from mobis due to my inactivity and how much I was offline while always making staff on leave. I later retired after a week of being a part of the ticket team in elite cameraman's server due to other complications regarding someone else and the same drama they have brought up. Nightmare didn't side with me because we were friends, she sided with me as soon as I started admitting to my mistakes and actually accepting my punishment, I was banned in servers for more than a month or so till I could get back (I just joined back Ecam's server 3-4 weeks ago), and I was the one who contacted nightmare to admit my wrong doings, there was a GC made for that but it has been deleted by her.
There were a lot of dramas that happened between the iso toilet server, including ravenz who were threatening to retire because I told him he's going to get demoted if he doesn't do his duties as a manager, regarding him, there were also complications that occurred even before the new iso toilet server got re-released due to the fact that this user was making higher roles than the owner and excusing it as "Giving himself a role because he'll watch over the server if anything happens" There were a few who saw that, especially people who were working hard to finish up the server, I told him to delete the role because its kind of unfair since he didn't contribute the slightest in the server, not even a channel or anything for that matter, after that, he got agitated and kicked me from most Gc's we had of each other, he was banned from most servers, up above as I said, he was also one of the people who made sexual remarks on people and skibidi characters such as camera woman. He claimed he was 21 and then later on told my friend he was 17 and finished with his degree, even to the point he also lied about the applications in certain servers.
Seeing one of the comments, no, I don't do favoritism, If I did the server would've been in chaos, I had a lot of work that I did throughout the server, and fully explaining all the unbans on the people who nuked the older server of iso toilet. I was only planning on unbanning one of them, due to them apologizing and promising to never do It again, which I should've given much more thought to. But after his unban, one of the former owners of the iso started unbanning the ones who mainly nuked the old server, then most of them got unbanned. I wasn't the one who suggested they get unbanned because the other owners believe in "second chances" which I understand, people change overtime, those who got unbanned like kortz have really changed a lot, and I am proud of them for what they've accomplished. Though, to tell you the truth, I have them blocked, I've been having them blocked for the past 5 months and even before all of the drama happened.
There was a whole drama that happened between me and this ravenz dude that lasted more than 2 months, and now most of us just moved on, I didn't expect him to go this low though. I am aware of the person who made the post, believe me, I'll be making a post myself with all the 700+ screenshots and screen recording that I have.
Third of all, for the racist and slur filled comments I would like to note out there to anyone that these screenshots date roughly back to NovembeDecember of 2023.
I wish to express once again, that I have changed as a person and the reason I still remain staff in some servers is because I have simply wished to redeem myself and I had. I also wish to bring upon a light that there has been an individual or a group who still wish to do everything in their power to bring me down. They had never shown the true story behind anything as I had also not been the only one to have said such words. The Drama between this group and I should've ended around 3 months ago by this point. And I hoped and wished everything would have been moved on from now, but it appears maybe one or a few still have a grudge to hold against me.
I do wish to take responsibility and slander for my actions as that was never ok to begin with. I have matured and I do not repeat these actions. I know what I had said was wrong amongst the community as a whole, and not just the Iso Toilet Discord Server. I apologize for my actions, and even though they are unforgivable, I wish to still make this statement as it is only the rightful thing to do, as I had not realized even after months, one or a group could still hold such a grudge. I have already faced the consequences of my actions, and I have already been banned from some of the servers. However, after some communication with several of the administrative branches of most servers and I've been given chances after my consequences. I had already been demoted rightly fully in some and blacklisted in others from ever becoming a staff member again. I have faced what I had deserved, yet I still wish to address this problem as it's clear to me that some still may hold grudges and are not at peace with this fully. I wish to put minds at ease, resting assured that I had gotten what I had deserved a long time ago.
And to those who still hold a grudge, especially to the one who had written this to. We know who you are, and we will deal with this soon. i hope you find peace within' yourselves to look past this, I understand that those racist remarks were wrong of me to do, and I have taken my punishment accordingly, I understand if people who are unwilling to forgive, I really do, and I really apologize for my actions.
I would like to once again point out, these screenshots we're mostly in DMs and in places where the people expressed NO form of uncomfortableness or concern whatsoever with my actions, and while these we're only to be intended as jokes, they weren't jokes. And I do apologize for that. As said, they had already made similar remarks before, even expressing it outright in public as have I. It isn't an excuse for how I behaved. And I appreciate to those who finally understand and chose to look past this issue. And to those who still hold their rightful grudge, I can only hope you learn to let it go soon for the sake of a community without drama, those remarks that I made were unforgivable, and I can fully understand that.
As I said, I'll also be making a similar post on what fully happened with all of the screenshots that I have.

Me 27(m) fit and tattoos from south Florida but I’m working in Long Island for the summer I m a plumber and im obsessed with milfs and gilfs mostly gilfs I’ve had multiple sexual encounters with older lady’s in my job and in bars etc I legit have sex first flirt or I just give in after all the hints and let them touch me as they talk or seduce me it’s gotten to the point where I take candid pics to jerk off or hide the camera if I get lucky to see us having sex when I have the urge but lately I can’t stop starting in public and now I think I can have any older woman and when it doesn’t happen I get so sad lmao I have a gf and kids but I’ve been this way since a kid I’ve always found mature woman sexy asf and I know what they want and I’m in my prime

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Two items — a crystal ball, and a green leather-bound notebook — sat benignly and idly atop of the black-robed professor’s desk.
The camera lingered on them, giving them what most may see as an undeserved moment in the spotlight.
But to those that knew, to the parties invested in this controversy, this little pause and dramatic zoom-in was accompanied by a hair-raising excitement… along with an untempered nervousness for what was to come.
It definitely caused the investigative duo on the other side of the screen some pause for thought; prompting them to stand intently, pondering both the orb and the notebook.
Ilunor, as far as I could tell, was entranced by the green notebook in particular. Though it wasn’t a trance born out of any positive emotion, but instead, one of abject horror.
“Recommended Reading Materials for the Studious Student.” Sorecar announced with a steady breath, prompting Ilunor to visibly flinch in his seat, as the man reached a finger over to point at the hand-scrawled title of the leather-bound notebook. That finger soon found itself carefully manipulating its pages, opening the cover first, before turning over the internal dust-cover to reveal letters and symbols written in High Nexian, but arranged in a manner the EVI simply could not translate.
“Error: Unable to Translate. Cause: Unrecognized and/or unintelligible organization of local script-forms.”
Yet despite this, it seemed as if both Sorecar and the Apprentice were able to draw something from its otherwise senseless pages. As despite being written haphazardly, with letters and pictograms arranged in no meaningful order, they were able to still draw meaning where the EVI couldn’t.
“Within these pages lie materials for the studious student. Materials are to be found within The Library, and are to be retrieved with great haste. May you make swift work of their contents, and may those after you find only ash in your wake. Seek, unlearn, and remove from the grip of the eternal entity, that which was once a gift but is now a curse. Seek, unlearn, and remove; with the fires of your passion, oh studious student.” Sorecar read aloud, managing to read something verbatim from the nonsensical pages of the book.
Ilunor’s eyes were practically glazed over at this point, as he began bringing his cape over across his chest, tucking his legs towards his chin in the process.
“This is it.” The apprentice announced with a half-cracked smile. “Please, keep going. I’m certain your skills of appraisal far exceed my own, Professor.”
Sorecar obliged by flipping the page, turning over to two pages of complete gibberish, once again watermarked by the EVI’s error message; but proving no challenge at all for the ever-inquisitive professor.
“Section One, A Tainted Reality: A Wretched Collection of Historical Affidavits During the Reconciliation and Reformation of Otherwise Lost Realities.” Sorecar paused, before turning towards the apprentice. “It lists an entire section’s worth of books, in titles held within spatial positions with reference to their potentialities within the ever-evolving library.”
Thacea’s features visibly flinched at that revelation, but similar to the apprentice in the footage, she refused to comment. At least not for now. Her eyes however betrayed a look of mild distress, which subsided somewhat as the apprentice urged the armorer to continue.
Which he did, as he flipped from page to page across the relatively small notebook, only pausing to read in between what he interpreted to be different sections and ‘chapters’.
“Section Two. The Unspoken War and the Treacherous Alliance.”
“Section Three. All surviving works from Alaroy Rital.”
The apprentice cocked her head, as if trying to recall some familiarity in that name. “Alaroy Rital.” She repeated. “I don’t recall hearing of such a name before.”
“Well his full name, as far as I recall, and vastly aided by the book is as follows: Alaroy Rital, Lord-Mayor of the Township of the Two Rivers, Slayer of the Dragon of the Grey Canyon, Repeller of the Tainted Blight of the Orsin, Liberator of the Aether, and Grand Master of the Elusian Guild Hall of Adventurers.” Sorecar responded succinctly, prompting the apprentice to once more clench her eyes shut in deep thought, before finally letting out a sigh of defeat.
“The name is both familiar yet foreign at the same time.” She finally admitted.
“As far as I recall, and mind you, my memory of those years are far from perfect… the man was a local hero of sorts. Though his record was besmirched by some controversy or another.” Sorecar offered, prompting the apprentice to finally shrug, giving up on this particular subject matter entirely.
“There are more sections, yes?”
“Correct.”
“Then let’s move on.”
Sorecar nodded promptly at that, flipping the pages over until he hit the next section.
“Section Four. A Sordid Account of the Most Bizarre of Newrealmer Arrivals: A Death By Harmonization and the Ensuing Investigation.”
That immediately got my attention, causing me to jolt forwards, prompting the armor to quickly follow as it automatically switched from the currently active in-armor-postural-readjustment mode, and back into its active configuration.
“Section Five. The Unfortunate Procedures Against Unruly Realms and the Instances in Which Such Procedures Were Incurred.”
The armorer paused after that, not necessarily due to its contents, but as if puzzled by what lay ahead in the next few final pages. In fact, he flipped back and forth between the pages soon after that, treading and retreading what were effectively the last five pages of the book. “There is an appendix which includes titles not covered by these sections, however it will take some time to read through them.”
“That’s enough for now, professor.” The apprentice offered, prompting the man to quickly pull back, closing the notebook with an unsatisfying thump. “We have our glowing wand.” The apprentice surmised. “The oeuvre of works which are no doubt the subject of this grand controversy. Now all we need to find is the contract which ties everything together.”
“I’m assuming you haven’t forgotten about our second item of interest?” Sorecar gestured towards the crystal ball.
“Of course not, professor. However, the fact we’ve found that book implies that we must be close to its dependent article.” The apprentice responded with a renewed sense of urgency, as she began using that same ornate magnifying glass in an attempt to further pick apart each and every nook and cranny of Mal’tory’s desk.
Part of me wanted to make some joke about how this was every unpaid intern’s dream, to be rummaging through your boss’ stuff.
But that part of me was completely buried underneath the confusion and dread that came with the revelations from within that little green book.
I… honestly didn’t know what I was expecting, but I felt like I’d been suckerpunched, with the wind being knocked right out of me from the implications of exactly what had been selectively purged from the library.
It was a struggle to process it all, which more or less made me dull out the more eccentric aspects of the apprentice’s investigation; as she unlocked drawer after drawer, pulling out pile after pile of magical nicknacks and more documents than what was possible from that finite amount of space.
Sorecar was clearly of the same opinion as the rest of us right now however, as he continued obsessing over the book, his hands once more trailing over to inspect its cryptic pages. The man seemed transfixed on the second and third sections in particular, though his featureless visor made it difficult to really pin down what his reactions were.
Yet throughout all of this, it was clear the reactions on the homefront were much, much more animated, as Ilunor was just about ready to pass out from the stress, and Thacea seemed about ready to burst at the seams if her featureless facade was of any indication.
“That was the book.” Ilunor finally chimed out, just as the narration through the recording had died down during the more tepid phase of the apprentice’s investigation. “I know it.”
“I thought your memories when it came to the whole Mal’tory book burning situation was lost, Ilunor?” Thalmin countered.
“It was. I mean, it still is. But I remember parts of that room. I vaguely recall the emergence of a book that I was forced to…” The Vunerian trailed off, as if struggling to piece together words.
“... to sign?” Thalmin offered in a surprisingly helpful tone which stood at odds with how he earlier regarded the Vunerian.
“No. No you imbecil-” The Vunerian paused, realizing his misstep as he backtracked from what would’ve otherwise been an expected response. “That wasn’t a book of binding. It’s not comparable to the yearbook, if that was where your assumptions were leading to, Prince Thalmin.” Ilunor clarified, gripping the armrests of his seat tight between his fingers.
It was about this point in time that I expected Thacea to chime in, to elaborate on the nature of the book with her encyclopedic knowledge on seemingly every aspect of the magical world.
But she didn’t.
Instead, her eyes remained practically glued to the screen, as I realized that whatever had been revealed thus far had hit much, much harder than I could’ve imagined.
Ilunor, as if taking note of this silence, elected to fill in for Thacea. “The book… is an adjacent artifact. It is, as the apprentice has noted, an eclectic oeuvre of works, a list if you will, to be bound to and referenced by a contract and a spell of binding. The book itself isn’t the binding agent, moreso the reference material by which the contract is hinged upon.”
“So what’s with the illegible text? Are they ciphers or some magical equivalent of it?” I gestured once more at the bird’s eye view offered by the drone, and the pages of indecipherable text currently beneath Sorecar’s hands.
“Those are anchor runes, earthrelamer.” Ilunor answered with a frustrated sigh. “It is frustrating to see them for what they are not. Frankly, it’s as if your sight-seers and memory-shards were designed to mimic the world as it is seen through the eyes of a particularly weak-fielded commoner.” The Vunerian went off, venting his frustrations through a rant before finally calming down. “But I digress. Those runes are referred to as anchors for a reason. For tethered to them are akin to pages of text to be openly read and deciphered within the manastreams. Granted, this form of writing is not common; moreso used for the purposes of contracts and other such magical binds.”
“And on the topic of contracts. I’m assuming that the contract… your contract, is what the Apprentice is currently rummaging for?” I gestured towards the screen once more, at the apprentice who was now buried ankle-deep in piles upon piles of books, documents, and an assortment of scrolls that criss-crossed across the room’s mahogany and carpeted floors.
“Unless she’s a complete nitwit, then I’d imagine so, yes.” Ilunor responded with his signature cattiness. “In any case, the fact she’s even trying proves that she’s barely above a fool anyways.” The Vunerian shrugged. “And before you ask, earthrealmer, let me preempt your question. The contract, at least on the professor’s end, has more than likely suffered the same fate as my own. Namely, its existence is more than certain to be dubious at best. What the apprentice will surely find will be nothing more than ash at the bottom of that bottomless drawer. Which… given its sheer size and scale, and the potential inhabitants within its limitless confines, will more than likely result in even ash being difficult if not impossible to find.”
There was… more than one point I wanted to raise with Ilunor’s statements. However, before I could address any of them, the elf in question finally spoke up once more; now surrounded by an entire archive’s worth of documents and nicknacks.
“Nothing.” Larial spoke with a sullen breath, taking a moment to steady herself as she made a point of not sitting on Mal’tory’s chair. “At least nothing that’s relevant to our case.” She continued, resting her palms flat against the green suede of the desk.
“Were you really expecting anything different, Apprentice?” Sorecar countered, having since moved from pondering the pages of the book to now pondering the depths of the crystal ball.
“I’d assumed the damage to the man hadn’t been so severe.” Larial admitted, alluding to something else that drew all of our collective attention. “When I first saw him in the healing ward… he looked… intact. You couldn’t even tell there was anything wrong with him.”
“And yet they called you of all people, to aid in the ritual.” The armorer surmised, with a tone of voice that now more resembled that of a fully fledged Academy Professor. His happy go lucky persona had subsided completely, at least for now, as he addressed Larial in a manner more akin to what I’d expected of the Dean. “You have been around the Academy for long enough to understand that calling upon the aid of apprentices is unprecedented. Which means that despite how things may seem on the surface, that lurking beneath the seemingly calm waters, is a hydrostorm of epic proportions.”
“This entire situation is unprecedented, professor.” Larial countered meekly. “But you are correct. It… must have been desperate if they required the aid of apprentices. I just… cannot fathom the fact that the professors must have…” The apprentice trailed off, her face scrunching up and breaking eye contact with the armorer as if too skittish to broach the next point.
Sorecar didn’t reply, nor did he complete her sentence for her, simply allowing her to recuperate and reorganize her thoughts herself.
“... brought the man back from the brink.” She managed out, offering what was in effect a euphemism that didn’t seem to sit right with the armorer, if his immediate head cock was of any indication.
“That is the only way you can explain the complete loss of a contract.” Sorecar reasoned. “You were hoping to find it, despite knowing well that it, amongst the rest of his contracts, have more than likely gone up in flames.” It was around that point that he walked around behind the desk, and reached down into the drawer the apprentice had been searching in. His arm sank impossibly deep, deeper than what should have been physically possible inside of that small and limited space. After a few moments, the man finally brought his hand back up, holding within it what appeared to be fine specks of ash that he allowed to filter back down into the dark depths of the seemingly bottomless drawer. “And there you have it — ash. Most of it has no doubt already been consumed by the bottom-feeders. However, what remains is enough to account for what is perhaps more contracts than most would form in their lives.”
The man stood back up soon after, before once more taking his place at the front of the desk.
“Well, I believe that answers our prior speculations on Auris Ping’s potential relations, contractual or otherwise, with Professor Mal’tory.” Thalmin growled out, punctuating the moment of silence within the footage; which soon continued with a resonant sigh from the apprentice.
“I guess, in a way, I was trying to find the contract not so much because of my assigned task, but because I wanted to perhaps prove to myself that the situation wasn’t as dire as my intuition leads me to believe. The loss of all these contracts can only mean one thing.” Larial paused, once more trying to find the strength inside of her to face whatever facts were self-evident in this case. “The man was lost.” She finally managed out through a shaky breath. “His soul must have departed from his mortal coil. And yet…”
“... and yet he remains.” Sorecar surmised.
“They must have re-tethered it before I arrived that night.” The apprentice shot back. “But I felt nothing different when they asked me to aid in the mana-channeling processes. This whole situation is just…” She sighed, prompting Sorecar to cock his head.
“Unprecedented?”
“Yes.” The apprentice once more admitted, sinking her face into her hands and taking a moment to process it all, more or less falling into the same camp all of us were currently in. “Moreover, it brings up a very disturbing question.”
“Which is?”
“If his soul was truly untethered, even for a split second… how exactly were they able to retether it? Or more specifically, through what means are they using to permanently retether his soul to his mortal coil?”
This question seemed to cause some level of concern from Sorecar, as his answer soon demonstrated. “There are… ways of doing so that aren’t exclusive to being spellbound to armor.” The man offered under a dour breath. “Especially if the body is… fresh, in a manner of speaking. Though it requires the use of-” He stopped, halting himself from going down what was clearly a darkening path. “I apologize for prompting this rather… dark and dreary subject matter, Apprentice.” Sorecar offered, as that empathetic, kinder side of him returned without much prompting.
“It’s quite alright. It… it needed to be said, if we are to complete this investigation with any degree of professionalism.” The apprentice concluded with a small smile. “Whatever the case may be, it is clear that we are unable to procure the contract through which the perpetrator of the library’s burning was bound. We have, however, undeniable proof of Professor Mal’tory’s involvement with the scandal.” She pointed at the green notebook. “And of course, a potential interloper who may or may not have been a part of this conspiracy; thereby expanding this from a mere Academy matter, to one which could implicate others beyond its walls.” She pointed at the crystal ball. “Have you discovered anything from your observations thus far, Professor?” The apprentice inquired, prompting the man to nod, as he knelt down to eye-level, pondering the orb from desk-height.
“The inherent limitations of the Echovale make it so that it’s near impossible to transcribe anything following the cessation of a communique.” Sorecar began. “Though of course, you knew this, and hoped that because I am perhaps one of the greatest armorers to have ever lived, that I would be able to aid in this impossible endeavor, hmm?” The armorer’s tone of voice had more or less resumed that flighty, happy-go-lucky one I knew him for.
The apprentice, hearing this, could only smile awkwardly in response. “I wouldn’t have put it that… bluntly, professor. But I do indeed have faith in your ability to make the impossible, well… probable, at the least.”
“Hmph! Well, I couldn’t pin a face or a name, but I was able to pin a definite location if that helps.” The man offered.
“Any stray piece of information will help tremendously, professor.”
“The Crownlands.” He answered without a hint of hesitation, prompting the Apprentice to raise both of her brows up high.
“That’s as far as I am able to draw from the residual echoes within the vale.” He tapped at the ball, generating a series of satisfying clinks in the process.
“So the man wasn’t acting alone. Or rather, perhaps he was consulting someone.” The apprentice pondered. “Then again, that final communique could very well be with Lord Lartia—” The apprentice paused, before placing both palms softly across her throat. “—may his soul rest in peaceful slumber.” Following another moment of silence, the apprentice’s hands soon shifted towards the ball. “In any case, if it isn’t Lord Lartia, then who could it possibly be? Maybe we should…” The apprentice suddenly stopped; as if realizing the dangers of diving any deeper into this growing conspiracy. “No.” She quickly corrected herself. “Whatever the case may be, this is probably now completely out of my purview. I was assigned to collect any evidence I deemed to be relevant to recent happenings, and I believe this should suffice.”
“Whatever you believe is best, apprentice.” Sorecar acquiesced, prompting the apprentice to slowly, but surely, pack the archive’s worth of documents, books, and scrolls all back into the drawer using nothing but telekinetic spells.
This left just the crystal ball, and the little green book, both of which the apprentice promptly pocketed into a small pouch, before placing it somewhere beneath her cloak.
“Though on that note…” Sorecar began, pointing towards the apprentice’s cloak. “If I may ask, how do you plan on divvying up these finite pieces of evidence?”
This caught the apprentice off-guard, as her mouth opened, but no response came through.
“Moreover, are you even obligated to hand in this evidence? Or are you only expected to write a report to all parties involved?” Sorecar continued, pressing the matter further, causing the apprentice to stop mid-stride. “Because if primary evidence isn’t explicitly required, might I offer my services as a master forger?” The man spoke with a hint of mischievousness, the duality of the word perhaps translating equally well despite the language barrier.
“I may need to contact my superiors to ask if a… copy will be satisfactory to their needs. I believe not, but… we shall see. In any case, I am due to submit the evidence along with my report no later than the end of next week. As such, this should give me ample time to organize my findings, which is especially convenient given the roster of duties I am expected to cover over the next few days.” The apprentice took a moment to pinch the bridge of her nose, halting her rambles as she steadied herself with a sigh. “But I digress, I believe I will take you up on that offer, Professor Pliska.”
“It would be my pleasure to welcome you into my domain, apprentice.”
The rest of the footage consisted of small talk between the pair, with nothing in particular standing out as the topics being addressed soon turned from high-stakes espionage, and back into faculty banter.
Yet despite that, none of us broke the silence that now dominated the boring trip back. Not even as the footage came to a complete stop, and there was nothing more left to play.
I leaned back against the armor, eliciting a series of creaks from the couch below me, echoing across the high-ceilinged room and disrupting the tentative peace that came with this ominous silence.
“This explains… a lot.” Thalmin offered, finally breaking the silence with a tentative tone of voice. “It explains your contract, and its abrupt cessation.” He continued, turning towards Ilunor. “It explains Mal’tory, or at least, his current lack of public appearances. And it reveals to us exactly what he was trying to hide from you, Emma.” The lupinor eventually turned towards me. “And I think the sections of the library, selectively pruned, are self-explanatory as well.”
“Section four, and section five, at least.” I replied shortly thereafter. “I have no idea who or what Alaroy Rital has to hide in section three, and don’t even get me started on section two, let alone section one.” It was at that point that I turned towards Thacea, who let out a sharp exhale upon me bringing up section one.
“The removal of all information relevant to… and I quote — Tainted Realities — speaks volumes to the inherent fears of the Nexus. Though I know not what specifically they may fear from your discovery of its deep and now-lost lore.” Thacea offered through a pensive gaze. “There are many rumors, legends that come with the phrase Tainted Reality. Though most are mythical; epics of long lost eras that dwell between the blurry line that exists between history and legend. Perhaps the records within the library were pieces of irrefutable evidence that would’ve shed light on this nebulous subject matter. But even so… that begs the question… why? Why would they hide what is effectively a non-issue when it comes to your discovery of its lore? Taint, and more specifically, the concept of a Tainted Reality, is something that is inconsequential in the contemporary world. Its history, even if it proves to be true, is neither a disruptive political element, nor a practical tool for war, that could be used in countering the Nexus.” The avinor’s explanations were clear, concise, and yet they belied something personal that she clearly wasn’t broaching.
And I wasn’t about to dig either, not when this topic very clearly hit close to home for her.
“This leaves the second subject matter then.” I offered, giving the avinor an off-ramp towards a potentially more palatable topic.
“The Unspoken War and the Treacherous Alliance?”
“Correct.” I nodded.
“That… I have no knowledge of.” The avinor admitted, prompting me to turn to both the lupinor and the Vunerian for answers.
“Don’t look at me, earthrealmer, I’m the one who lost all memories on the subject, remember?” Ilunor countered.
“I’m afraid I’m as in the dark as you are on this one, Emma.” Thalmin replied with a loud huff, leaving me with perhaps more questions than answers at this point.
“Right then.” I nodded. “Well, regardless, as disquieting, confusing, and disturbing as these revelations have been, they are exactly that — revelations.” I took a moment to stand up, resting both hands on my hips, as if adopting Ilunor’s more theatrical approach to things. “We started today off with no intel on Mal’tory, with no idea how we were going to complete The Library’s Seekership questline, and no knowledge on exactly where we stood in this game. We’re ending today off with a firm grasp on exactly what we need to do, what exactly was scorched in the library, and a tentative understanding on Mal’tory’s fate. I’d say that’s an incredible step forward, even if the answers we now have are leading to even more questions.”
“Reality is often filled with disturbing truths, but only when we acknowledge them, can we act to change them.” Thacea offered.
“Here here!” Thalmin reaffirmed through a firm stomp, standing up tall and ready.
“While certain revelations come as disappointments… namely the survival of Professor Mal’tory… it is indeed somewhat satisfying to hear that the man is at the very least suffering for his actions.” The little thing spoke maliciously, as he too stood up. This prompted a look of worry to form amidst all three of us, but instead of reacting accordingly, he instead displayed an expression of confusion. “What? The man was a monster! He actively antagonized not only me, but this entire group! Surely you also feel at least some sense of satisfaction at the consequences of his actions catching up to him!”
“The delight in an enemy’s defeat, best comes from the resistance of the blade against his body. Not from the suffering incurred from happenstance.” Thalmin countered, whilst Thacea and I refused to entertain that line of thought, as I quickly placed a palm across my forehead, bonking it once again in the process.
“Right, well, here’s the game plan. We now have a clear target to complete our first objective — the notebook. We grab that, hand it in to the library, and presto, we accomplish the Seekership questline. Now comes the difficult part… how exactly do we do that?” I turned to the group, as offers and suggestions finally came flying in.
“Take advantage of your life debt?” Ilunor offered.
“I wouldn’t take advantage of that card just yet, Ilunor. Not if we have other options.” Thacea countered.
“What if we steal it?” Thalmin proposed.
“Thievery isn’t a diplomatic approach, Thalmin.” Thacea shot back with a glare.
“Well, Emma here was able to grapple her way, through manaless means, across the outside of the castle towards the apprentice whilst she was in the medical wing. I’m sure we can pull something else off in a similar capacity!” The lupinor countered.
“No, Thalmin. As much as I would like to try, I believe it might be best if we try a more diplomatic approach.” I offered, prompting the three to cock their heads.
“We could just ask, right?”
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(Author’s Note: And there we have it! The first step towards the completion of the Library's questline! We've found exactly what we were looking for, the list of books that were ordered to be put to the dragon flame by Mal'tory. With that being said however, a new series of questions arises... exactly why were these books targeted in particular? Moreover, what exactly was lost as a result? These questions and more will continue to linger in the back the gangs' minds as we push forward! Especially as we now find ourselves in the midst of another conundrum, exactly how are we going to get the book to the library! Regardless, this is still a massive step forward, and one that will surely bring Emma and Ilunor closer towards addressing the first phase of their intertwined fates with the library! I hope you guys enjoy! :D The next Two Chapters are already up on Patreon if you guys are interested in getting early access to future chapters!)
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I start from the premise that DBC knew what he was doing. I also think that he had an accomplice, who was 15 to 20 years younger (either a son or a nephew, just barely possibly a boyfriend). And that they took the money and held on to it for about a year or two and spent it slowly (banks and casinos have admitted that back before computers, they simply didn't have the manpower to carry out such searches for more than a few weeks. After six months, no one was checking those lists anymore).
DBC had the plane expertise. He knew how to parachute. He had survival training. Probably some electronics expertise. I suspect his accomplice had the procedural knowledge from a law enforcement angle. Maybe a failed FBI applicant. Or someone who washed out of training. He'd know procedure, so he'd know the money would be "safe" after about two years. And in the early 1970s, there'd still be lots of ways to pass the currency with no one being caught on camera. A bill's lifespan is about 18 months. Before computers, it would have been a million-to-one shot. Ten thousand bills amid, what, a billion of them in circulation? It would take a long time, but you could easily pass 10 bills a day each. Hit a supermarket, buy a candy bar, get $19.75 back. Buy a paperback for 75 cents. High-volume places where people don't have time to check bills and have lots of cash in the registers. Keep on the move. Change up the route. Drive across the country. Keep an ear open. Accomplice might hear from friends if the DBC money is being spent. It would take about 18 months. If you kept the conversion cost low, you could easily still clear $180,000.
For the electronics enthusiasts out there. In the late 1960s/early 1970s, could a "hobbyist" build something that would fit into a briefcase that would allow them to triangulate known-strength radio signals? E.g., if KABC's transmitter four miles east of Portland broadcasts at n watts and KXYZ's transmitter, eight miles north of Castle Rock, broadcasts at m watts, could that hobbyist build a briefcase-sized something that would allow them to calculate a preset jump point -- and also make the components look like a dynamite-stick bomb?
For the topography/geography enthusiasts out there. Back in 2019, a break-in at a store in Heisson, Washington, that occurred shortly after the hijacking was made public knowledge. The burglar took only survival items (gloves and beef jerky are mentioned). I wonder if he also grabbed some plastic bags/a cooler and a small shovel. Could DBC have landed near Heisson (possibly losing some of the bundles into a nearby river that connected up to the waterways that would have led to the Teva Bar) and realized he was miles away, and buried the cash to make it easier to travel/prevent being caught with it?
For the parachutists out there. Would a 1970s highway be visible at night from 10,000 feet? Looking at Heisson on a map, the closest landmark appears to be the triangle of Rt. 14 and the highways 5 and 205. If DBC could get a good visual of the highways, he could have aimed for the triangle. It's not even five miles from any one interior corner to the center. An accomplice could simply drive the perimeter, pause at each intersection, at a landmark, and wait for DBC to come out of hiding. If DBC got blown off course, he was still withing 10 miles of the 5/205 intersection.
Why is the accomplice younger? DBC is almost certainly dead now, if he survived the jump. A comparably aged accomplice would also probably be dead by now. Usually, men do not form very deep trusting relationships with people outside of their immediate age cohort. The only three major exceptions to this that I can think of are situations involving consanguinity, warfare, and sexual relationships. A commanding officer and a younger soldier could develop a deep respect and father-son affinity for each other. An actual father and son (or uncle and son, or older brother and much younger brother) can do this also. And, of course, some 35-year-old and a 20-something who start a romantic relationship could also develop that sort of deep commitment to each other. So I assume that somewhere out there is someone in his 70s, who has a manuscript sitting in a bank vault. And when that guy dies, we'll all be in for a hell of a surprise.
tl;dr -- I suspect DBC used an electronic rangefinder of some sort to help him aim for the 14/5/205 triangle when he jumped. He missed, landed near a small town called Heisson with a parachute full of just over 22 lbs. of $20 bills, broke into a store, buried the money, and hoofed it to a prearranged pickup with an accomplice. Then went off for Thanksgiving with whoever to establish a plausible alibi, then went back to get the loot and slowly reintroduced it into circulation with no one spotting in because most people simply didn't bother checking serial numbers after a few months.

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-	416 CQB	$600	pics
-	CQBR KIT	$650	pics
-	PDWL BK	$520	pics
-	SCARL Kit	$600	pics
-	SCARL BK	$540	pics
-	-	-	-
GHK	COLT M4RIS 14.5"(2019)	$1100	pics
G&G	SMC9 Kit	$700	pics

GAS PISTOLS(SHIPPED)

Brand	Product	Price	Pictures
TM	Des Warrior	$350	pics
-	Night Warrior	$360	pics
-	M9A1#2	$250	pics
-	P226E2	$230	pics
-	G17G3	$280	pics
-	G17 w/2mags	$400	pics
-	G17 Custom DE	$320	pics
-	G17 w/2mags	$300	pics
-	5.1	$360	pics
-	5.1 Kit	$500	pics
-	M&P9	$340	pics
-	MEU	$320	pics
-	1911 Series '70	$320	pics
-	USP	$420	pics
-	USPC Kit	$480	pics
-	USPC Kit2	$400	pics
-	5-7	$350	pics
-	xDm	$230	pics
-	PX4	$300	pics
-	M9 Chrome	$400	pics
-	M9A1	$350	pics
-	M92F Military	$280	pics
-	XDM	$190	pics
-	-	-	-
WE	G17 Kit3	$400	pics
-	G17 HEX	$250	pics
-	G17	$210	pics
-	G17 Kit2	$330	pics
-	G17 Kit4	$300	pics
-	G17 Kit	$400	pics
-	G17G4 Kit	$300	pics
-	G18C	$230	pics
-	G18C Kit	$400	pics
-	G18CG4	$300	pics
-	G19 Kit	$370	pics
-	G23 Kit	$360	pics
-	G23 G4 BK	$230	pics
-	G26C ADV Tan	$210	pics
-	G27 Kit	$400	pics
-	G33ADV Kit	$300	pics
-	G35 BK/GD	$250	pics
-	G35DT Kit	$340	pics
-	G17 Dual	$320	pics
-	Luger Kit	$300	pics
-	Luger w/SIL	$180	pics
-	Luger SV	$250	pics
-	P38 SV	$240	pics
-	F226 Kit	$300	pics
-	F228 Kit	$290	pics
-	F229R Kit2	$300	pics
-	F229	$190	pics
-	F226 DT	$240	pics
-	F229 Kit	$320	pics
-	F226 TAN	$230	pics
-	M902	$260	pics
-	M9A1 w/SIL	$250	pics
-	M9 Navy	$230	pics
-	1911 Kit	$300	pics
-	1911A1	$220	pics
-	1911DT Kit	$320	pics
-	MEU DT	$250	pics
-	MEU BK w/SIL	$250	pics
-	MEU SV Kit	$300	pics
-	KIMBER Kit	$300	pics
-	KIMBER	$230	pics
-	M&P9 BK/GD Kit	$350	pics
-	M&P9DT	$200	pics
-	PX4DT Kit	$350	pics
-	-	-	-
VFC	FNX45B	$180	pics
-	G19 Kit	$300	pics
-	M&P9T Kit	$320	pics
-	M&P9C	$240	pics
-	M&P9DT	$250	pics
-	M&P9 w/case	$300	pics
-	G17G4 Kit3	$320	pics
-	G17G4 Kit2	$330	pics
-	G17G4 Kit	$500	pics
-	G17G4 w/DOCTER	$300	pics
-	G17G4	$300	pics
-	PPQ M2 w/2mags	$320	pics
-	FNX45B	$300	pics
-	FNX45DT Kit	$440	pics
-	FNX45B Silenced	$350	pics
-	-	-	-
KJW	KP05 OD Kit	$300	pics
-	P09UGSR Kit	$430	pics
-	KP06 2mags	$230	pics
-	1911 Kit	$300	pics
-	KP07 Kit	$400	pics
-	G23 Kit	$320	pics
-	M9 CO2	$160	pics
-	M9A1 Kit	$300	pics
-	M9 4mags	$280	pics
-	KP09 Kit	$250	pics
-	P09 BK	$170	pics
-	P09 Kit	$320	pics
-	P09 TAN	$200	pics
-	KP05	$190	pics
-	KP05 Kit	$260	pics
-	SP01 UGSR	$180	pics
-	SP01 ACCU Kit	$350	pics
-	KP01 Kit	$350	pics
-	KP01 Kit2	$290	pics
-	-	-	-
KWC	Deagle Kit	$260	pics
-	MAKAROV	$160	pics
-	SW40	$130	pics
-	1911 TAC DT 2mags	$180	pics
-	1911B	$170	pics
-	1911 L.E.	$200	pics
-	1911 w/3mags	$220	pics
-	1911	$160	pics
-	MEU	$180	pics
-	P08	$140	pics
-	24/7	$160	pics
-	DEAGLE BK	$130	pics
-	DEAGLE SV	$190	pics
-	KCB89	$150	pics
-	SW40	$120	pics
-	M17	$180	pics
-	PT99	$120	pics
-	-	-	-
AW	G17DT	$270	pics
-	NE3002	$250	pics
-	HX2002	$280	pics
-	NE2201	$300	pics
-	HX2202	$240	pics
-	5.1 Custom	$280	pics
-	HX1005	$200	pics
-	HX1101 2mags	$280	pics
-	HX1102	$200	pics
-	HX1105	$180	pics
-	HX2003 Kit	$320	pics
-	NE2002	$230	pics
-	HX2302	$250	pics
-	HX2402	$250	pics
-	HX2601	$290	pics
-	-	-	-
EMG	STI/ TTI JW3	$400	pics
-	SAI 4.3 BK	$260	pics
-	SAI 5.1 SV	$280	pics
-	SAI BLU	$300	pics
-	SAI 5.1 BK	$250	pics
-	-	-	-
KSC	Auto9	$340	pics
Marushin	FN 5-7	$250	pics
KWA	MK23	$320	pics
-	USP MATCH	$390	pics
-	HK45 w/2mags	$340	pics
G&G	GTP9 TAN	$210	pics
-	GPM92 Kit	$450	pics
Umarex	SAA Antique	$390	pics

AEGS (Collectors Pieces/Wall Hangers)

Brand	Product	Price	Pictures
G&G	AR15 SBR8	$630	pics
-	M14 EBR-L	$700	pics
-	TR-418	$630	pics
-	Wildhog 9"	$330	pics
-	SRL TAN	$330	pics
-	GC Predator	$450	pics
-	-	-	-
VFC	HK416	$750	pics
-	HK416 Kit	$900	pics
-	HK417 Kit	$800	pics
-	416CQB Kit	$600	pics
-	HK416 Calibur	$650	pics
-	MK18	$630	pics
-	VR16 RISII	$630	pics
-	SABER MOD1 Kit	$600	pics
-	Avalon Calibur DT Kit	$780	pics
-	Calibur CQC	$440	pics
-	AVALON Calibur CQC	$560	pics
-	Calibur Carbine Kit	$500	pics
-	VR16 Kit #2	$360	pics
-	MK12 MOD1(SPR)	$670	pics
-	Fighter MK2 Kit2	$460	pics
-	Fighter MK2 Kit3	$500	pics
-	VR16 Saber CQB	$380	pics
-	VR16 RIS	$330	pics
-	M4A1	$330	pics
-	M4 SOPMOD	$440	pics
-	XCR-C Metal	$400	pics
-	SCAR-H CQC	$590	pics
-	SCAR-L	$550	pics
-	SCAR-L TAN	$560	pics
-	-	-	-
Krytac	PDW Kit	$380	pics
-	PDW FG Kit	$600	pics
-	PDW BK	$540	pics
-	PDW FDE Kit	$580	pics
-	SPR MK2 FG	$550	pics
-	SPPDW	$500	pics
-	SPR BK	$300	pics
-	SPR-M FDE	$620	pics
-	REC7 BK	$630	pics
-	LVOA-S BK Kit	$600	pics
-	LVOA-C CG	$600	pics
-	LVOA-S BK Kit2	$500	pics
-	LVOA-S FG	$560	pics
-	LVOA-S FDE	$600	pics
-	LVOA SBR DT	$500	pics
-	LMG-E	$850	pics
-	LMG PDW	$1100	pics
-	Vector LE	$1050	pics
-	Vector DT Kit	$1100	pics
-	Vector BK Kit	$1200	pics
-	TR47	$600	pics
-	-	-	-
G&P	Viper	$700	pics
-	AGGRESSOR	$520	pics
-	Sentry DE	$600	pics
-	TMR 10"	$450	pics
-	Rapid Fire	$600	pics
-	Defender	$580	pics
-	Ball Med	$400	pics
-	QRF	$480	pics
-	MOE Carbine	$570	pics
-	-	-	-
ASG	Scorpion Evo 3A1	$600	pics
-	-	-	-
KWA	KR12	$300	pics
-	KM4 RIS	$400	pics
-	SR12	$500	pics
-	SR10	$500	pics
-	-	-	-
KA	COLT MK18	$400	pics
-	B.R.O. 15"	$500	pics
-	M7	$400	pics
-	CAA M4	$400	pics
-	-	-	-
ARES	M4 DMR Kit	$500	pics
-	AM014 Kit	$500	pics
-	OCTAARMS KM03	$430	pics
-	AM014 BK	$360	pics
Magpul PTS	PDR-C	$1300	pics

USED Guns

The guns below are used. They are tested for functionality and leaks.
GAS Rifles

Brand	Product	Price	Pictures
WE	SCARL Kit	$480	pics
-	M4A1 RIS Kit	$720	pics
-	M4 LVOA w/4mags	$560	pics

GAS Pistols(+SHIPPING $$)

Brand	Product	Price	Pictures
TM+KWC	G17+PT99 Kit	$560	pics
-	-	-	-
TM	G17G3 Kit3	$250	pics
-	G17G3 Kit4	$450	pics
-	G17G3 Kit2	$300	pics
-	G17G3 4mags	$460	pics
-	G17G3 Kit	$420	pics
-	G18C Kit	$520	pics
-	PX4 w/2 mags	$330	pics
-	P226E2 w/2 mags	$250	pics
-	-	-	-
WE	G18C Kit	$280	pics
-	G17 Kit2	$350	pics
-	G17 Kit	$380	pics
-	1911 Kit	$300	pics
-	MEU TAN kit	$250	pics
-	1911 7mags	$260	pics
-	F229 Kit	$250	pics
-	xDm Kit	$200	pics
-	xDm Comp 2mags	$230	pics
-	-	-	-
VFC	FNX45BK	$220	pics
-	FNX45TAN	$325	pics
-	-	-	-
KJW	1911 OD w/2mags	$160	pics
-	M9	$150	pics
-	M9 Elite	$150	pics
-	-	-	-
KWC	Makarov	$90	pics
-	PT99#2	$90	pics
-	PT99	$100	pics
-	MEU	$140	pics
-	Makarov#2	$120	pics
-	M&P9	$140	pics
-	PT99 3mags	$150	pics
-	PT99 w/2 lowers	$160	pics
-	1911	$120	pics
-	1911 4mags	$200	pics
-	1911 4mags	$180	pics
-	1911 2mags	$100	pics
-	M92 4mags #2	$200	pics
-	M92 4mags	$180	pics
-	Luger	$150	pics
-	M17 2mags #2	$150	pics
-	M17	$130	pics
-	M&P9 Kit	$250	pics
-	SW40	$100	pics
-	-	-	-
AW	HX2502 Kit	$350	pics
-	HX1002 Kit	$280	pics
-	-	-	-
KWA	HK45	$220	pics

AEGS

Brand	Product	Price	Pictures
Krytac	LVOA-C	$330	pics
-	LVOA-S Kit	$550	pics
-	LVOA-C FG Kit	$520	pics
-	CRB MK2 Kit	$540	pics
-	SPR MK2 DT Kit	$450	pics
-	SPR MK2 Kit	$420	pics
-	Vector PKG	$950	pics
-	GPR CC	$500	pics
G&P	LMT Kit	$300	pics
VFC	VR16 TE1 Kit	$420	pics
-	XCR-C(Metal) Kit	$380	pics
KA	BRO 15" Kit	$350	pics
-	VIS CQB	$360	pics
G&G	SRL DST Kit	$340	pics
ARES	M4 15" KeyMod	$290	pics
E&C	EC106	$350	pics

Accessories

(NEW)(+SHIPPING $$)

Type	Brand	Product	Price	Pictures
Sight	SIG	ROMEO5	$270	pics
-	Firefield	1x22	$100	pics
-	VORTEX	SPARCII	$300	pics
-	Valken	LPVO	$125	pics
-	AIMSPORTS	2-7x32	$90	pics
-	-	1x20mm T1	$80	pics
-	-	4X ACOG	$90	pics
-	-	4x32	$55	pics
-	LANCER	3-9x32	$65	pics
-	NCSTAR	4x32 w/laser	$110	pics
-	-	4x32	$140	pics
-	-	4x30	$50	pics
-	G&P	T2 Tan	$90	pics
-	Repro	RMR	$75	pics
-	-	ACOG w/Doc	$185	pics
-	-	552	$45	pics
-	-	XPS 2Z	$100	pics
-	-	T1 Dual Mount	$75	pics
-	-	LCO	$95	pics
-	-	ACOG 4x	$150	pics
-	-	3x Barlow	$70	pics
-	-	MRO	$80	pics
-	-	Doctor	$40	pics
-	-	552+3X Magnifier	$150	pics
-	-	Reflex w/Laser	$50	pics
-	Sniper	ACOG 4x	$110	pics
-	-	-	-
Tracer	Xcortech	XT301	$90	pics
-	-	X3300W	$150	pics
-	G&G	Midnight Hawk	$90	pics
-	-	Battleowl	$140	pics
-	Acetech	Predator KAC	$200	pics
-	-	LighterS	$95	pics
-	-	-	-
FlashHider	6mmProShop	16mm+ 14mm-	$30	pics
-	6mmProShop	16mm+ Thread Pro	$30	pics
-	E&L	AK74U	$25	pics
-	Madbull	DNTC04 SV	$35	pics
-	-	-	-
Suppressor	CYMA	LaRue	$65	pics
-	-	BW 14mm CCW	$45	pics
-	Krytac	HPS4G	$100	pics
-	5KU	KAC QD	$85	pics
-	-	556RC	$95	pics
-	WE	Makarov	$35	pics
-	Rpro	SF 556	$100	pics
-	G&P	Zombie QD 14mm +	$120	pics
-	Madbull	7"KAC 14CCW	$150	pics
-	-	Blackside	$65	pics
-	-	SWR 6"	$90	pics
-	-	7"KAC FDE 14CCW	$145	pics
-	-	Gemtech	$65	pics
-	-	-	-
Launcher	G&P	M203 Navy L	$270	pics
-	-	M203 MIL	$270	pics
-	MBull	XM203L OD	$170	pics
-	MBull	XM203S BK	$180	pics
-	SPIKE'S	HAVOC 12"	$250	pics
-	-	-	-
Light	TM	CQX Micro	$100	pics
-	Element	M600W	$90	pics
-	Rpro	M600	$60	pics
-	FMA	PEQ15 Tan w/IR	$60	pics
-	Rpro	X300U	$140	pics
-	Rpro	X400	$150	pics
-	Rpro	M720V	$140	pics
-	Rpro	SBAL-PL	$110	pics
-	G&P	GP800 w/switch	$180	pics
-	G&P	DBAL	$320	pics
-	-	-	-
Tool	XCORTECH	X3500	$110	pics
-	-	X3200MK3	$90	pics
-	-	-	-
Grip	Rpro	Red Keymod	$30	pics
-	SI	Cobra	$35	pics
-	Rpro	PK2 Metal AK	$40	pics
-	UTG	Light	$50	pics
-	Rpro	MVG	$15	pics
Bipod	ATLAS	PSR	$120	pics
-	-	-	-
Mount	Rpro	MP5	$25	pics
Covers	SI	KeyMod FDE	$15	pics

(USED)(+SHIPPING $$)

Type	Brand	Product	Price	Pictures
Tool	TM	Mag Clamp	$35	pics
Grip	5KU	Foregrip	$20	pics
-	Magpul PTS	AFG2	$10	pics
Silencer	Rpro	7" KAC OD	$65	pics
-	Rpro	Navy Seals	$45	pics
Launcher	ZOXNA	Shower	$50	pics
-	HFC	HG-138	$55	pics
-	Madbull	XM203L TAN	$100	pics
Light	Rpro	M910	$70	pics
-	OPSMEN	FAST501	$40	pics
-	Rpro	M600W	$55	pics
Sight	TM	Micro Pro	$70	pics

Parts

(NEW)(+SHIPPING $$)

Brand	Product	Price	Pictures
5KU	2011 MidFrame	$95	pics
Rpro	TM226 14mmCCW	$40	pics
AIP	HiCapa 140% Spring	$10	pics
AngryGun	SCARL NPAS	$40	pics
AW	5.1 Lower	$120	pics
TNT	H.L.R. Bucking 60	$30	pics
SI	AR Enhanced Grip	$40	pics
DP	GhostRing2(TMG17)	$30	pics
SLR	2x VFC G17 EXT Baseplates	$100	pics
G&P	870 Piston Set 150%	$40	pics
SPEED	5.1 Comp Trigger Gold	$40	pics
AIP	G17 Spring Guide	$22	pics
WE	G17 Lower	$85	pics
-	Apache Lower	$220	pics
-	G18C Slide	$50	pics
-	5.1 Parts	$40	pics
TM	G17 BBU	$50	pics
-	4.3 HopUp	$25	pics
-	G19G3 Internals+Slide	$170	pics
Guarder	TM G17 Barrel	$65	pics
9Ball	5.1 Recoil Spring	$20	pics
-	G17/226 6.00mm Barrel	$40	pics
-	M92F Sights	$70	pics
-	PX4 Sights	$100	pics
-	XDM Sights	$90	pics
-	5.1 Sights	$120	pics
-	5.1 Inner	$50	pics
A1A	G17RB1 Kit	$330	pics
-	SAI G19 Slide/Barrel	$190	pics
-	G17 Parts	$45	pics
AM	1911 Hopup	$110	pics
AM	Edge BBU	$65	pics
AM	5.1 Hammer and Searset	$50	pics
AM	.45ACP 5.1 Gold	$170	pics
Cowcow	TM G17,19 T1G Sight	$28	pics
-	TM Buckings	$20	pics
-	5.1 Barrel BK	$120	pics
-	5.1 Tornado SV	$180	pics
-	4.3 Gold	$125	pics
-	-	-	-
AEG PARTS	-	-	-
SPEED	M4 SE Trigger	$40	pics
Madbull	363mm Inner	$35	pics
A1A	M4 CNC Hopup	$25	pics
Airtech	PDW EXT	$35	pics
G&P	AAC	$50	pics
-	KAC AMBI Release	$60	pics
-	M4 Externals	$300	pics
-	STONER RAS	$170	pics
Laylax	Vector KeyMod(L)	$220	pics
MadBull	NSR 7"	$110	pics
-	MK18 RISII BK	$165	pics
-	Noveske 10A	$120	pics
VFC	VR16 Lower	$150	pics
-	416 AEG Grip	$45	pics
-	VR16 Receiver Set	$250	pics
-	14.5" Outer	$70	pics
-	HK416 Stock	$65	pics
-	V2 GB	$100	pics
-	12" Quad Rail	$100	pics
-	QRS Stock	$65	pics
G&G	ETU 2.0	$75	pics
-	GOSV3 Tan Stock	$65	pics
Magpul	Paraclip	$30	pics
-	Rail Light Mount	$45	pics
Magpul PTS	MOE Pistol FDE	$40	pics
-	RSA Mount	$50	pics
-	CTR Black	$110	pics
Krytac	LVOAC FG Externals	$350	pics
-	CRB Barrel+Hopup	$40	pics
-	PDW Upper BK	$300	pics
-	Vector Rail	$135	pics
-	M4 Receiver Parts	$40	pics
-	LVOA-C Rail	$150	pics
-	M4 Receiver Set	$160	pics
-	PDW Stock	$120	pics
SHS	32:1	$25	pics
-	16:1	$40	pics
Prometheus	280mm Barrel	$75	pics
-	155mm Vector Barrel	$90	pics
G&P	M170 Devil	$65	pics
SIEGETEK	Cyclone 14.09 Ratio	$220	pics
-	10.78 GS	$220	pics
BTC	Chimera V3	$120	pics
-	Chimera V2	$120	pics

(USED)(+SHIPPING $$)

Brand	Product	Price	Pictures
AW	Hicapa Mount	$15	pics
GHK	G5 Bolt	$85	pics
-	G5 Barrel+Hop up	$60	pics
VFC	G17G4 Lower	$130	pics
-	G17G4 Externals	$150	pics
WE	G17 BBU	$55	pics
-	Apache Mag	$30	pics
-	M4 Lower	$150	pics
-	SCAR-L Barrel+Sight	$45	pics
-	G18C Parts	$60	pics
-	G17 Slide/Barrel	$95	pics
-	1911 Silver Frame	$50	pics
TM	5.1 Midframe	$120	pics
-	G17 BBU Set	$60	pics
-	-	-	-
AEG PARTS	-	-	-
VFC	M4 Buffer	$20	pics
ASG	Scorpion Internals	$60	pics
-	Scorpion GB	$65	pics
G&G	V2 GB	$60	pics
-	V2 GB#2	$50	pics
G&P	V2 GB	$65	pics
Krytac	PDW FG Upper	$110	pics
-	5" Barrel	$40	pics

Magazines (N)ew or (U)sed (+SHIPPING $$)
GAS

Brand	Product	Price	Pictures
TM	G17EXT(N)	$65	pics
-	2xG17(U)	$65	pics
-	2x5.1(U)	$80	pics
-	P226(U)	$40	pics
-	MEU(U)	$45	pics
-	1911A1#2(U)	$40	pics
-	1911A1(U)	$40	pics
-	M9(N)	$50	pics
-	5.1(N)	$45	pics
-	5.1 EXT(U)	$65	pics
-	4.3 BK(U)	$30	pics
-	4.3 SV(N)	$40	pics
-	USP-C(U)	$35	pics
-	USP(Leaky)	$20	pics
-	PX4(U)	$45	pics
-	5.1 EXT(U)	$50	pics
-	2x4.3(U)	$75	pics
-	G19(U)	$40	pics
-	2xG17(N)	$55 Each	pics
-	2xG19(N)	$55 Each	pics
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Tl;dr: Next-door neighbours approached me about a boundary issue that was holding up the sale of their house. They asked me to give up a small piece of my land for free and I said no due to my past experiences with them. They're still trying to sell their house a year later.
My neighbours (a couple I'll refer to as Sean and Levi) and I have had a pretty strained relationship. It started 3 years ago when I first moved in. I had placed a few online orders and there were about 4-6 instances where the delivery drivers, impatient as they were, knocked on my neighbours' door to ask if they could accept my parcels. Each time, I would open my door to hear Levi speaking to the drivers through their Ring Doorbell and refusing to take my packages. On the sixth instance, Levi was standing outside, visibly angry and giving out to the delivery man.
I would like to note that by the third incident, I started including "don't leave with neighbours" in my shipping address and also scheduled to have a camera doorbell installed so I could tell the drivers that I'm home and to not bother my neighbour. I also went over to their house several times to apologise, but they never answered.
About a month or so after the parcel debacle, Levi noticed my mum at the bus stop near our house, glared at her and scoffed before walking away. My mum didn't even know who he was until she saw him going into his house. There were also two instances where we saw eachother in public and my smile/greetings would just be met with a cold stare. His actions felt borderline hostile and while I felt bad about the parcels, I thought his reaction was a bit extreme.
Sufficed to say, we weren't on good terms. That is, until late 2022, when one of my cats got stuck in their garden. My mum went to ask for help and met Sean, who was very kind and let her in to rescue my cat. She also met Levi, who was suddenly very cordial as well - a complete 180 from his past behaviour. Our relationship improved slightly after that. We exchanged phone numbers and they event sent us a Christmas card that year.
In early 2023, Sean wanted to have a chat. He was trying to sell the house but ran into a boundary problem. When the previous owners of my house built the extension, they left a small gap between the extension and the boundary line, which the previous owners of Sean's home had claimed as part of their garden. Sean was aware of this when he bought the house and even built a patio over it when he was renovating the property.
Sean had already had a previous sale fall through (house isn't mortgage-buyer friendly) and the new buyer he had was a cash buyer that would only go through with the sale if the boundary issue was sorted. He asked me to sign documents to transfer the ownership of the land to him for free. After thinking it over, I told him no via text. He never responded to me and is still trying to sell the house.
The piece of land is very small (if I had to guess, around 0.78sqm), but I was put off by him asking for it without offering anything in return. And while I'm grateful that he helped out with my cat, I couldn't help but remember his partner's past behaviour. It felt unreasonable for someone who had spent the past year giving us death stares and refusing to accept a single parcel to now ask for land for free. Additionally, I believe Sean always intended to sell the house after renovating it, so I don't understand why he didn't rectify the issue earlier when he was remodeling the garden.
I always felt justified in my decision until a friend of mine recently came to visit and noticed my neighbour's For Sale sign. While she previously supported my decision, she now thinks I'm being petty. I'm hoping to get some fresh perspective on the situation. Am I being a shite neighbour? Should I reconsider giving him the land?

Dear Fellow Targets,
We've been trained to act as truth-seeking, Christian, whistleblowing victims since birth. Many of us got caught up in this mess trying to expose some conspiracy. Our problems might soon dissipate if we adopt a different mindset—a different mentality. Part of adapting to this new mentality is fully understanding the situation: who is doing the stalking and how they got that way.
We don't understand Satanists because their groups are secret. We don't hear how they talk, we don't attend their secret meetings, and we don't see how they address or think of us. We don't understand how they address all of us in derogatory terms like "sheeple" or harbor such hostility towards us. Most of us are not cops, and finally, most of us are not occultists!
Occultists like to set up transactions between opposites—between negative and positive, or between liberal and conservative. They watch these poles go at it forever, collecting energy off the transaction. They personally do not like to talk about politics in the lower levels of their club while they learn their occultism because they are about 'not being polarized.' They understand how polarized transactions harness the energy of people. Don't be polarized!
Occultists have set up this transaction between Christian, whistleblowing, truth-seeking, conspiratorial victims who wear truth on their sleeves and the so-called Satanists who actually do the conspiracies—cops, spies, and those who operate in secret. They've created a contract where cops merely pose as civilians walking their dogs when they are secret cops, stalking real civilians who might actually just be walking their dogs. This slowly turns civilians into either fugitives, where a normal person goes nuts and commits a crime or acts so crazy they get committed, or into the secret police themselves. This results in a divine marriage, a resolution, a union of opposites where polarities swap, or just a neutralizing non-polarity if someone's lost interest altogether.
So, your choice to end this, in my opinion, is to become one of two things:

1. You literally don't care about this anymore. You ignore them and see right through them. You quit being polarized. You stop giving your energy to the transaction. You thereby withdraw all implied consent to the transaction. In response, they will escalate the situation before they must give up due to lack of response. My guess is they must stop after a year because it's written in their contracts.
2. You become a secret cop yourself. You cop the cops. You treat everyone as a fugitive. You turn every corner with, instead of a gun, a camera. You point it at every 'suspect,' documenting every behavior and writing a report on every transaction like a private detective. You maintain distance and professionalism at all times. You build a case responsibly. Occasionally, you make a speech to the public, post on Nextdoor, or host a community-building event. You, in essence, become the cops of your neighborhood. This approach may take a little longer to see a final result. They will have to switch out criminals every time you obtain three good snapshots of them within a certain period of time.

However, this isn't natural for many targets because a lot of them are raised as Christians rather than Occultists. Or they are not truly serious about their situation like a cop who has undergone intensive training where everyone is treated like a potential enemy. Targets may get a camera in their car and only point it in one direction. Targets often revert to their victim identity, getting a camera and then complaining about how it didn't work, perpetuating the narrative of "we're good, they're bad."
But changing our core mindset is how we can flip the script and take control of our situations.

What's this?: Each month in Doctor Who Magazine they have a column by Russell T Davies (formerly 'Letter from the Showrunner', before that 'Production Notes') - a column by someone involved in the production of Doctor Who, and normally in the form of either the showrunner writing pieces about writing Doctor Who or the showrunner answering reader-submitted questions. Because these pieces and questions have often been used as a source for blogs to write misleading stories, they started being typed up for /gallifrey.
Hey thanks for doing this! Now I don't have to buy it: Yes you do, otherwise you'll be missing out on: in-depth previews of the four episodes of the new series (73 Yards, Dot and Bubble, Rogue, The Legend of Ruby Sunday); an interview with Jonathan Groff (Rogue); behind-the-scenes set reports from Space Babies, The Devil's Chord and Boom; an interview with Steven Moffat; a feature on the script-to-screen process behind the effects in Space Babies; a deconstruction of "The Rescue"; the first part of DWM's Fifteenth Doctor comic-strip "The Hans of Fear"; reviews for all of this month's DVD/CD/Book releases and EVEN MORE.
It's available physically in shops and digitally via Pocketmags.com!
Want an archive of the previous Production Notes that have been posted on /gallifrey?: Follow this link.
I am writing this in New York! It's the Doctor Who press junket (definition of junket: a sweet milky pudding, or a promotional trip, discuss). This is how it works. We're put in a hotel, me, Ncuti, Millie, plus their agents, with fleets of publicists. We all have a chocolate TARDIS in our rooms, to welcome us! (And none of this comes out of the licence fee, don't worry.) Then an entire floor of the hotel is set aside; there's a room of food, which ends up untouched because we're so busy, plus rooms with cameras in, one for each of us. (You've seen these rooms on every bit of publicity made in the last 20 years, usually a dark curtain with the logo in the background, often with Alison Hammond nearby. I wish! We want Allison!) And there's another room where, for half an hour every day, Ncuti and Millie and me are brought together to face a zoomful of journalists, 20 faces in boxes, all staring at us. This is my least favourite half hour of the day; Ncuti and Millie look beautiful, I look like the Werthers Original Grandpa.
Then it's back to our individual rooms. I sit there, on camera. Sometimes a journalist will come to sit opposite me, but most appear on camera, from Spain, from Berlin, from Rio. And it's fast! The PR in charge tells them 'You have six minutes.' Once in a while, it's 'You have nine minutes' and I wonder what Faustian pact has gained them the extra time. Once a day, someone has 15 minutes and I think this must be a Pulitzer winner!
This amounts to, on average, 28 interviews every day. 48 if you include that zoom. Over three days that's 144. It's dizzying! The thing is: you're encouraged to repeat yourself. Or you'd go mad. No one has 144 different anecdotes. At the same time, you're encouraged to, as the PR speak has it, 'Bring your roses.' I hooted at that phrase, but I've come to like it. It means, give out gifts. Have certain stories that you can choose for each journalist; that's for you, that's for you, that's for you. And now and again, if you really like an interviewer: have the bunch!
It becomes a mad blur. I repeat. I forget I've repeated and repeat again. I act, I try to make every story sound new. Sometimes I lie. Sometimes I bait. An imp in my mind still wants to find 144 stories - isn't that my job?! - so while I talk, a searchlight in my head is sweeping those dark corners for treasures. I'm in a freefall of words and find myself saying things I haven't thought about for years. Lots of journalists ask about The Devil's Chord, how the expensive copyright on Beatles tracks inspired my idea to have Maestro taking music away, but then suddenly, one afternoon (is it afternoon? The windows are still curtained, we are cocooned) I find myself saying, "It's Peer Gynt." A pause. "Oh?" "Yes, it's Act IV of Peer Gynt, the tumbleweeds appear and tell Peter: We are the songs, you should have sung us. A thousand times, you stifled and strangled us. In the mine of your heart, we've lain and waited, we were never summoned. Curse you, curse you." A pause. A silence. Then. "So what was it like to work with Jinkx Monsoon?!"
But that's true, that's what inspired Maestro draining Timothy Drake's heart. Where do you get your ideas from? Ibsen! Somehow the blur of words has woken that fact from its hiding place.
On and on it goes, and it's knackering - though I'm not complaining, I love this stuff because I think it's important. We want Doctor Who in every headline across the world. So onwards, onwards!
Then suddenly, oh faithful DWM reader, it all comes full circle. Out of the blue, one journalist - I'm sorry, I can't remember, was it Eric? - finishes his six minutes. "Thank you, bye!" But then he says quickly, "I just wanted to say..."
Argh, hurry up, the switchover from one interviewer to another is fast! It's brutal! You're on a bobsleigh, Eric, you've got about eight seconds! What?!
"I just wanted to say thank you for your page in Doctor Who Magazine."
"Oh. Wait! What? This page?"
"If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't have got into journalism, I wouldn't be doing this job today."
"Really? Gosh! But how - ?"
"Well, because - "
Click!
"Hi, this is Amber from HotSpike in Chile! What was it like to work with Jinkx Monsoon?!"
Gone. Eric. If it was Eric. Goodbye.
But what a lovely thing to say. No one's ever said that before. And I reckon there's a chance that Eric might still be reading, so...
Thank you. Hugely. Thank you.
Onwards.
"Amber, we had so much fun! Like Ibsen says..."

Law enforcement agencies are crucial for maintaining public order and safety, but there are several issues that lead to perceptions of inappropriate conduct, injustice, and prejudgment. These issues are complex and multifaceted, involving historical, social, and systemic factors. Here are some key points to consider:

1. Implicit Bias and Racial Profiling

Implicit bias refers to the unconscious attitudes or stereotypes that affect understanding, actions, and decisions. In law enforcement, this can manifest as racial profiling, where individuals are treated differently based on their race or ethnicity. Studies have shown that people of color are more likely to be stopped, searched, and arrested by police, which contributes to a sense of injustice and mistrust in the community.

2. Use of Force

The use of excessive force by police officers is a major concern. High-profile cases of police brutality, especially involving unarmed individuals, have sparked public outrage and calls for reform. The lack of accountability and transparency in these cases can lead to perceptions that law enforcement agencies are protecting their own rather than seeking justice.

3. Prejudgment and Stereotyping

Prejudgment occurs when officers make assumptions about individuals based on stereotypes rather than evidence. This can lead to discriminatory practices, such as assuming someone is guilty based on their appearance, behavior, or socioeconomic status. Such prejudgment undermines the principle of "innocent until proven guilty."

4. Training and Culture

The training and culture within law enforcement agencies play a significant role in shaping officers' behaviors and attitudes. If the training emphasizes aggressive tactics over community engagement or fosters a "warrior" mentality, it can contribute to a culture of hostility and mistrust. Improving training to focus on de-escalation, cultural sensitivity, and community policing can help address these issues.

5. Accountability and Oversight

A lack of accountability and oversight can perpetuate injustice. When misconduct is not adequately investigated or punished, it erodes public trust. Effective oversight mechanisms, such as independent review boards and body cameras, can help ensure that officers are held accountable for their actions.

6. Community Relations

Building positive relationships between law enforcement and communities is essential for effective policing. When officers are seen as outsiders or enforcers rather than partners, it can lead to tension and conflict. Community policing strategies that involve officers working closely with residents can help build trust and cooperation.

7. Legal and Systemic Issues

Systemic issues within the broader criminal justice system also contribute to perceptions of injustice. For example, laws and policies that disproportionately affect marginalized communities, such as mandatory minimum sentences and the war on drugs, can exacerbate inequalities and lead to negative interactions with law enforcement.

Solutions and Reforms

To address these issues, comprehensive reforms are necessary. Some potential solutions include:

• Implicit Bias Training: Training officers to recognize and mitigate their biases can help reduce discriminatory practices.
• De-escalation Training: Emphasizing de-escalation techniques in training can reduce the use of force in confrontations.
• Community Policing: Encouraging officers to build relationships with community members can improve trust and cooperation.
• Independent Oversight: Establishing independent review boards to investigate misconduct can enhance accountability.
• Policy Reforms: Reforming laws and policies that contribute to systemic inequalities can reduce negative interactions with law enforcement.

Addressing these issues requires a collaborative effort involving law enforcement agencies, policymakers, and communities to create a more just and equitable system.