Kalamay sa latik recipe

Hi naay kibaw unsay recipe atung mga pancake nga baligya sa Mercado, like katung yellow ba. Ganahan unta ko mag buhat ug ingun ato pero dili ko ka kuha sa lasa, more on margarine siya. Salamat in advance

Started having a skincare routine two months ago lang, di pa strict yun. My sister is an impulsive buyer so di na nya ginagamit yung garnier vitamin c set nyang binili nya. I only needed the basics at first so kinuha ko yung cleanser at sunscreen nya. Bumili ako ng celeteque moisturizer eventually.
The vitamin c sunscreen and cleansers felt off to me. I wasn't comfortable with the sting sa sunscreen and the cleanser felt too drying (may salicylic acid pala yun and di pa sanay ang skin ko). I ditched my ate's garnier products and started buying my own.
Eventually, nag-decide na rin ako bumili ng niacinamide serum (ibang brand), which i continue to use religiously. Bumili na rin ako ng ibang products na tinatarget ang skin concerns ko.
So last week, nakita ko yung garnier bright complete vitamin c overnight booster serum ng ate ko. I used it in my routine that night and went to sleep.
Pagkagising ko, grabeng smooth ng mukha ko! I have uneven skin texture sa forehead and cheeks ko, but when i woke up, it was as if i have makeup primer on. My face was oily upon waking up (which is normal for me) so inisip ko baka sobrang dami ng oil kaya naging ganun ang mukha ko.
I thought it was weird kaya i decided to forgo makeup that day. I kept touching my face that day kasi di ako makapaniwala. Could it really be due to the serum?
I went home that day and sabi ng ate ko, ganun din daw ang experience nya. 3 days lang may nakapansin na ng effects sa mukha nya. I decided to add the morning vitamin c serum too before niacinamide serum on my AM routine.
It's been 4 days since using vitamin c and it's still soft and smooth! Honestly, i felt cheated kasi i've been religious sa cleanser-toner-serum-moisturizer-sunscreen routine, tapos isang serum lang pala yung magpapakita ng instant and drastic effect sa skin ko.
Honestly, it feels like my skin has a film over it na nag-cover sa texture nito. The bumps are still there but they don't feel as uneven as before. I wonder if hindi long-lasting yung effects ng vitamin c serum na ito?
I'll still continue my new routine na nay dagdag vitamin c but i'm still kinda bummed lol.
[I've experienced naman na na may biglaang effect from a product. I over-layered Papa Recipe Blemish Peeling Toner once and then when it dried, sobrang plump ng skin ko. It turns out i overused it kasi when i put a serum over it, naging sticky yung mukha ko, parang glue yung nilagay ko. What remedied it was when i used a thicker product (sunscreen). Nawala na stickiness nya.]

Since we're growing older, it's better to prioritize healthy living. May alam ba kayong healthy recipes for bfast, lunch, dinner, and snack na available sa pinas? Since pag nagssearch ako puro pang intl food naman and hindi easily accessible dito like quinoa kelangan pang bilhin online or selected stores lang meron. Yung sanang mabibili sa common groceries or yung ingredients na nasa palengke lang. Pa-share naman ng healthy foods na hindi nakakaguilty kainin.

Hello po!
Need ko lang po ng suggestions/recommendations kung anong food masarap lutoin?
Solo na kasi ako sa apartment ko and unlike nung nakatira pa ako sa parents ko na si mama palagi nagluluto. Ngayon halos di na ako nag c'cook for myself kasi di ko alam ano uulamin 😩
Ayoko nang mag order ng take-outs 😩
If meron po kayong masuggest na quick and easy recipes, pwede nyo pong i'comment?
Badly wanna eat homemade food na.
P.S. Wag lang po yung may eggplant, crab, and shrimp kasi nagkakaroon ako allergic reaction when I eat them :))
Thank youu!

Heyyy @all, since a friend asked me how far I got in Genshin after playing for a while now, I wondered too. So I looked up some stats, took a few screenshots and now I'm curious how other (new) players progress, what are your biggest milestones yet, best loot-drops, craziest pulls, stories in general, or if you have some personal tips maybe?
As for me, I started playing Free 2 Play on 13.02.24 and here are some stats:

• Old Standard Team: Electro Traveller, Amber, Noelle, Kaeya, all 90
• Old 2. Team for Abyss: Dilluc, Collei, Barbara, Razor, all ~70 (got me to Abyss 10-3)
• pulled: Neuvillette, Kazuha, Arlecchino, all 90 (3x 50/50 won in a row, I'm worried...)
• pulled: Diluc, Skyward Pride and Qiqi from Standard Banner
• bought Bennett from Shop, 90
• obtained ~ 75k primogems (~ 45k left)
• had ~ 90 intertwined fates, wished 245x
• had ~ 180 Acquaint Fates, wished 212x
• 25.04.24 all Areas show 100% (not true 100% though, I know)
• Serenitea-Pot: 2x 25k points and Paradise Lvl 10, all challenges done
• 1029 Achievements without hunting them besides challenger-series
• 01.05.24 beat Abyss 12-2 (finally saw the last missing enemy-type🙏🏼) and made it to 12-3
• 75 Weapons, 1 gold, 49 purple, 24 blue, 1 grey (Starter-Sword)
• 210 Artifacts, 171 gold, 39 purple
• hit maximum of 1800 pieces 3 or 4 times while exploring iirc. Nearly everything what's left got filtered through: General Settings all turned on + edited Standard Filter Plan 1 (additional Main Affixes: Sands: ER, EM / Goblet: EM / Circlet: ER, EM, HB and Minor Affixes: Crit Rate, Crit DMG, EM, ER, including at least 2))
• farmed Artifacts with Condensed Resin: Noelle 10 runs, Neuvillette 10 runs, Kazuha 5 runs
• learned 165 Recipes, mastered 142 of them
• found 104 Tunes
• highest Crit DMG: 110.133
• Co-op Domains: 431
• Co-op stuff taken: 1279
• Wood collected: 5911
• Dyes created: 1198
• Furnishing Blueprints learned: 463
• Currency obtained: 45.988
• Fish caught: 2014 (all spots = ~ 500 fish per run so 4 runs)
• caught all jumping versions of them
• TCG Lvl 10, defeated all players on map, all challenges + all on hard
• TCG coins obtained: 231.550
• Crowns obtained: 21
• Crowns used: 2 on Neuvillette, 1 on Kazuha, 1 on Arlecchino
• for a month now helping others, because motivation for achievement-hunting isn't really here yet^{^}

I'm still planning on getting the first char I wanted to pull for after playing her story quest - Raiden. And as the second one - Zhongli. As for Starter-Pokemon I'm planning on getting Alhaitham next. Others I want to pull for: Navia, Wriothesley, Ganyu, Furina, Nahida And then, in my dreams where I still have primogems left: Ayaka, Yelan, Itto, Xiao, Shenhe, Eula and Klee.
My personal biggest Milestones: - got all the crystalflies including the coralfly💙 - finished all available Quests - Map Exploration Rate of 100% - Only missing 4 + 1 Hydroculi and the extra Electroculi - Made it to Abyss 12-3 - Earned 6 Gold-Medals in Vibro-Crystal Application😎 ( the difficulty was not even comparable to all the other events I took part in😅) - Saved the "unplayable" account of a friend on WR 8 with 24 artifacts in total and struggling with lvl 70 enemies in only 3 days, obtained 40 wishes and got her Arlecchino as a 'overnight suprise' next time she logged in🤭
Next one: - Finally beating Abyss for the first time
And my biggest Fails: - although logged in 7 of 7 days, I did not claim Day 6 and through that missed out on 5 Intertwined Fates...💀 - because the season ended and max weekly xp were reached, I bought a season-pass rank up for 150 primogems to get a wish worth 160. Only to being able to claim a seasonal challenge ten minutes later which bypassed the weekly xp limit and got me the rank up anyways...🤦🏻‍♂️ - allowed a player in chat to join my teapot and got infected with his excitement and happines over getting accepted and finally finding someone so close before reset, so I then quickly entered it myself because I wanted to know what he was so crazy about - without realizing I just kicked him before he could even send a request...😂
Sooo, that was my journey so far, how are you all doing? Ah btw, in case someone still has not redeemed these yet, here are some free codes I posted last week: https://www.reddit.com/Genshin_Impact/s/0t5oSaJcYB 🍀

Alam ko kasing madaming bawal, mas madali na may recipe an akong alam na pwede sakin. First time ko kasi ngayon na tumaas ang uric ko.

First time tumaas uric ko at at sobrang namaga paa ko. Then nalaman ko kay Doc,after check up, na sobrang daming pagkain na kailangan kong iwasan. Kaya asking for help guys. Parang mapapatubig na lang kasi ako ngayon hahaha. Need kasing kumain before taking the meds.

Mine are
Ridge Gourd (Jhinga) skin Bata
Soyabean Bata
Please share recipe if your favorite is uncommon

I will be going back to manila from bohol this weekend. Is it true that you have to put your pasalubong esp kalamay in a styro box and check it in to pass thru the airport security? Kapag wala daw sa styro you will not be allowed to carry the pasalubong... need your advice huhu im planning on putting in my handcarry backpack the ff: peanut kisses and otap 2 packs of each and maybe 3-4 small containers of kalamay.

Hi there. I’ve been a dm for almost 10 years now and had plenty of horror stories throughout my experience. I’ve always been too nervous to post them out of concern the players from the respective stories might see them, but I finally decided to relive one of the most awful player stories I’ve had to date. Trigger warning for attempted SA in the game. (Long post, TL;DR at end.)
This story took place about 4 years ago. I remember Eberron Rising just recently came out, which is relevant because problem player’s class came from this sourcebook, in the form of Alchemist Artificer. I was running a paid campaign for a group of friends that took place in the forgotten realms. It was a homebrew story that I wrote after getting a general idea from the party on what theme they wanted it.
I ended up making the campaign about the lich Vecna enlisting the help of the party to stop another powerful lich, Acererak, who was once a pupil of the former that now sought to overthrow him. The campaign starts with Vecna resurrecting a group of four renowned warriors from different ages and worlds. They arrive in Faerun in order to be his champions and slay Acererak before he can succeed.
The hook of the campaign is that the four warriors have been resurrected with psuedo-lichdom. They don’t appear undead and seem mortal by all means, but they still have phylacteries housing their souls which are all kept under lock and key in Vecna’s domain. He promises the party that if and when they stop Acererak, he will reward them by fully returning them to life and letting them have a second lease in Faerun to accomplish whatever goals they wish to afterwards.
The playefriends seemed very excited by the premise of the campaign and eagerly worked with me to create their characters. One was a changeling rogue with amnesia, the second was a “chosen one” Paladin that failed to fulfill their destiny, third we had a warlock that now drew his power directly from Vecna in this new pact they forged, and finally we arrive at the problem player: a variant human artificer.
His player is really the only relevant one, so I will just refer to the other three players as rogue, paladin, and warlock. The player’s character seemed normal enough at first: he was a renowned alchemist in his life that specialized in poisons and was seeking to make the ultimate poison that caused “forever sleep”.
The player described it as: “Think of it like the cursed slumber of Sleeping Beauty, except there’s no cure to wake them up.” Ok, a little creepy. But the rest of the players were still extremely solid and, at the time, I still thought his character concept was cool albeit a little weird. He was upfront about the artificer being lawful evil as well, so I felt reassured that he at least knew his motives were questionable. His character’s name was Kill Bosby.
At the time I didn’t look twice at the name, but it will be relevant later on. So, we get session 0 out of the way and next week we officially start session 1. From the get-go, I could tell I would have my hands full with Kill. The other three players were very immersive and deep into the RP, which I still appreciate to this day.
They rarely broke character and kept side discussions at a minimum. Kill however tried to make a joke out of everything. He would constantly slip a word in edge wise at every NPC throughout a quest, and would constantly try to get a laugh out of the rest of the party. Which he did often, to be fair. I remember a few occasions where I told him he would’ve been better suited playing a bard. I could tell the guy was probably the friend group’s resident “class clown”.
A good example of this: there was a time the party was convening with a mummy lord that ruled a sunken kingdom beneath the land of Anauroch. This encounter happened a few sessions into the campaign. He was a close confidant of Vecna, and the party actually sought him out at Vecna’s behest.
The mummy lord was explaining to the party that Acererak was collecting the knowledge and power of lost Netherese magic to create a ritual that could wash away not just Vecna’s divinity, but any other god he so chose. It was a very important dialogue because this was the party’s first exposure into how exactly Acererak was going to try and overthrow Vecna. The end of the conversation went as follows.
Mummy: “I know what Acererak’s next target is. There’s a crashed Netheril enclave with a powerful magical artifact buried within. He will be sending powerful wights there to-“
Kill: “Wait wait wait, whites? Why does it matter what color they are?”
(queue laugh track)
Mummy: “I wasn’t referring to the color of their skin. Rather, specifying that they are a vile and dangerous type of haunted undead warrior.”
Kill: “Now cmon man, just because they’re pale as sheets doesn’t mean they’re ghosts!”
(Badum tiss)
Mummy: “I apologize. I should’ve know better than to try and explain myself to one with meager intelligence such as yourself.”
Kill: “Oh, oh! It’s cause I’m black, isn’t it?”
This, this right here. I can’t tell you how many times he hit an NPC in the world with this one liner. Obviously my problem isn’t with the skin color of his PC, but when he tries to make every serious dialogue encounter with NPC’s into a joke about his character’s race, it gets old really quickly.
I remember he got a couple of halfhearted chuckles from the other players the first few times he ran this one liner, but they quickly stopped reacting at all after it became a repeat occurrence. In fact, in this encounter with the mummy lord, the party kinda ganged up on him and demanded he take the encounter seriously because they needed the mummy’s help.
The mummy had pause in giving them any more information/aid in the face of Kill’s jeering. Remember, this mummy is still a ruling lord of an entire subterranean kingdom and was once a god/pharaoh. He expects full respect and reverence to any mortals that have an audience with him.
The party had to pass a high DC persuasion check to regain his attention, which the paladin barely passed. As soon as the party had him begrudgingly continue explaining the necessary details, guess who decides to put in their two cents again?
Mummy: “The artifact has long since permeated the land with the malevolent magic it is steeped in. The people living above the ruins it dwells in don’t realize it, but it is the cause for all of the misfortune and tragedy that befalls their village. You see, this artifact is putting their-“
Kill: “Wait, wait, wait! You’re telling me this artifact is PUDDING?”
Mummy: (prolonged silence)
Kill: “You should’ve opened with that! I’ve been dying to have some pudding ever since I reincarnated in this awful world!”
Mummy: “…no. Putting, with two t’s. Not the dessert you speak of. It was a verb, if you’d let me finish you would have known that.”
Kill: “Dammit! Don’t get my hopes up and then pull the rug out from under my feet.”
The mummy at this point is furious at the interruptions from Kill. He rises from his throne and screams that he’s had enough. He explains that for the disrespect the party has shown before him, he will not offer them anymore information and that they are banished from his kingdom and forbidden to ever set foot into it again.
The party tries to reason and say that he’s supposed to be a subordinate of Vecna that is obliged to help them, but this only infuriated him more. He was offended by the word subordinate and told them that he was just a trusted ally whom owed a favor to the lich, but that his good will had been consumed by the gaul of Kill. His favor to Vecna would now be him not killing the party where they stood. The party gave up and promised they would leave immediately, but begged him to at least tell them where the Netheril enclave is.
This prompted a persuasion check from the paladin, and he actually rolled a nat 20 plus modifiers. Impressed, I immediately let him know that he succeeded the DC check. Then Kill butts in. The player asks if he can help paladin in order “to make up for him causing the mummy’s temper tantrum”.
Paladin (confused): “Um, no? The dm just said it passed.”
Kill: “No, no. I insist. It’s my fault, I caused this mess in the first place.”
Warlock: “Yeah, we all saw. Paladin is trying to fix your screw up right now so just stay out of this.”
Kill: “I can’t in good conscience do that.”
Kill’s player begins to describe what his character does as the other three party members try to talk over him and urge the narrative along. Rogue says he is going to grab Kill to hold him back and Warlock says he’s going to clap a hand over his mouth to keep him quiet. Contested strength check from Rogue and a dexterity check from Warlock to see if he’s quick enough to stop him before he says something.
Warlock rolled below 10 and I remember Rogue rolled pretty decent, but Kill’s result was higher. Both fails. Kill said that he shrugs off the “concerned kindness” of his friends, and steps forward beside the paladin to help negotiate.
Kill: “Look, this can either go the easy way… or then there’s that other way. How about you tell us that location and then I promise to ignore that not-so-secret threat you just made about sparing our lives?”
I was flabbergasted. I can only assume the rest of the party was stunned in silence too, as no one said anything for a long moment. Mind you, the party was only level 4 at this point and they were facing down a mummy lord as well as his envoy of undead warriors in the room with them. The one who finally broke the silence was Kill’s players when he asked “Soooo, can I roll intimidation?”
Me: “…what? No, the Mummy Lord isn’t swayed by your words at all. In fact…”
I proceed to explain how the mummy lord was about to disclose to the party the enclave’s location because of paladin’s excellent roll, but because of Kill, the Mummy lord instead loses all patience with the party and immediately warps them out of the mummy’s kingdom and to the surface world above. Kill laughs maniacally and starts talking about how the mummy was so scared that he had to run away, meanwhile the other three party members are silent.
I also inform Kill that the mummy lord imparted the pharaohs curse to him because of his disrespect, which is normally only branded upon thieves who steal from the mummy’s tomb/kingdom. The curse made him have disadvantage on all saving throws until it’s removed. This made him laugh even harder for some reason.
I remember we called session there, and afterwards two of the other players messaged me. Paladin messaged me to vent his frustration about how he felt like he couldn’t do anything in the situation and about how mad he was at Kill’s player. Warlock also messaged me (who from what I understood was the main friend who organized this dnd game and sought me out to pay and dm the game for them) to apologize on behalf of Kill’s player and say that he knew he could be rowdy but he’s never seen his friend ruin an entire encounter like this before.
I felt bad and told him it was alright and that it just made things more interesting for the party. I remember for some reason thinking that now, because of the lost pertinent information and the curse put on Kill, it would be a learning experience on why you can’t always goof around in certain encounters. Boy was I wrong.
The game went on and Kill continued to be a class clown every step of the way. I can’t remember every single one of his offenses, but they were all in similar vein to the encounter with the mummy lord. Any time the party talked to a noble, guard, or important quest giver (you know, serious and down-to-business encounters) he would always find some way to make a cringey joke. If he was a bard it would at least make some sense, but he was a got damned alchemist! This guy literally had his dump stat in charisma, -1 modifier! So, not only did his friends and I not find any of his jokes funny irl, but neither did the NPC’s in the world.
I tried to have some talks with him about his character’s behavior, without overstepping too much because of this being a game I was paid to DM, but I always got the obligatory “it’s what my character would do”. I let it rest after a while, and to be fair I had Warlock do a lot of checking on him too during the sessions.
The jokes, however, weren’t the only/most annoying thing Kill did. Every female NPC in this world, I kid you not, Kill tried to hit on at least once. Of course this never went ANYWHERE because of his horrible charisma stat, but it sure didn’t stop him from trying. It took me a while to realize it, but after a good several sessions I started to realize it wasn’t just a coincidence, literally every female npc he had a pickup line for.
I remember even a couple of times I had to stop him because I told him the particular Npc was either underage or was married, etc. To his credit, he usually stopped after the first pickup line when he failed his charisma check and I told him they were not attracted to him. However, there was one NPC that he came back to try his luck on every time he saw her.
The girl in question was the owner and barkeep of the tavern that acted as the home base of the party. It was a homebrewed tavern that I named The Courteous Kobold, and it was on the main road just outside the city of waterdeep. The party got free board there because one of their earliest quests was to help the owner, an elven woman named Rella, rescue her workers which had all been kidnapped.
Long story short, the workers at this tavern were all kobolds which Rella had bought from a slaving operation years ago in Baldur’s Gate. She did so so that they could be paid workers with a safe place to stay at her tavern, instead of being bought by someone else as manual laborers that were worked to death. She treated them all very well, gave them lodgings, and paid them as much as any normal tavern worker would be.
The Kobolds also retained their freedom and could leave at any point should they wish, but they all chose to stay and work at her establishment. (This is important because Kill would make many a slave joke about them in the sessions to come.) The idea for the tavern was a spoof on the maid/butler cafe and the Kobolds all wore very expensive and tailored suit/ties and were very courteous and attentive to the tavern goers. The party ended up liking the tavern so much that they decided to make it their base of operations, since Rella told them that they all had a free room to their name whenever they wanted it.
This soon became a regrettable decision, because Kill relentlessly hit on Rella. Unlike the other female NPC’s where he would always give up almost immediately, every time he laid eyes on Rella the onslaught of pickup lines and compliments would be unleashed. She turned him down every time, with her main reason being that her only true love is the Courteous Kobold tavern and her work. I also had to come up with multiple other excuses throughout the incessant flirting from Kill, such as Rella believing that she’s way too old for him (Kill was already an older guy by human standards, but Rella was a few hundred year old elf). The flirting was annoying, but it was nothing I wasn’t equipped to handle- or so I thought.
Eventually, Kill’s player came to me and asked why he never seemed to have any luck romancing the NPC’s. He asked if romance wasn’t allowed in my games, to which I assured him it was, but that he had a really bad charisma stat and so all his pickup lines fell flat. He said something along the lines of “so, what? I’m just never going to be able to have a love interest in the world?” I told him that wasn’t true, but that he would have to build a genuine bond with someone as opposed to trying a pickup like on every girl he meets to see if he gets lucky.
This seemed incomprehensible to him, he couldn’t seem to fathom that one night stands are going to be hard to come by without high charisma or any CHA-based skill proficiencies. I told him he could always just find a brothel in the game and get his fix that way if he was really that concerned with it, to which he just said “no, I would never pay a b*tch for sex”. His comment really concerned me, but I just kinda closed the conversation soon after that and tried not to think about it.
After that, he never approached me to complain about romance in the game again, and I daresay he even laid off of the flirting with every female NPC a little bit. He still gunned for Rella nonstop, but that I’d come to expect. I remember vividly the session where he finally declared that it was about time he started pursuing his character’s own motive.
Kill began to continue his goal of concocting a poison so potent that it caused an incurable “forever sleep”, or basically a permanent coma. This solicited eye rolls and complaints from the rest of the party, with Warlock in particular giving him the most flack for it. Warlock insisted that they couldn’t pursue any personal agenda until after they’d fulfilled their pact with Vecna, at which point they would get their chance to accomplish whatever goals they had. Kill told the party that he would only research it during his downtime between sessions, which the party was fine with.
From then on, every downtime moment he had would be dedicated to using his poisoner’s kit and herbalism kit to study, concoct, and test different poisons. The rule I had was that he would need either a recipe or a vial of the poison already to be able to make an exact copy of it, otherwise his downtime would yield various poisons that he wouldn’t know the exact effect of. He was fine with this rule and over the course of multiple sessions he began brewing a variety of poisons from the dungeon master’s guide and deepening his character’s understanding of poison.
This arc of his character actually gave me a lot of hope and was the most enjoyment I had playing with his character throughout the course of this campaign. Even the party was hyped for it, especially rogue who was able to use all these poisons to great effect during combat. I was foolish enough to think that maybe his character was actually experiencing character growth and could still have a good plot line.
After I believe the 4th time of him experimenting with poisons, he created an Essence of Ether poison. For anyone who doesn’t know, a creature who breathes in this poison is knocked unconscious for 8 hours if they fail a DC 15 Con saving throw. Kill was elated when he made this poison, because he saw this as a breakthrough in his studies towards making the “forever sleep” poison.
At this point paladin asked Kill what exactly he wanted a poison that could cause someone to go into a permanent coma for. His answer was kinda vague, but he essentially said that “some people deserve a fate worse than death, plus this gives us a method to incapacitate things like gods that are immortal or unkillable”.
I didn’t want to rain on his parade, so I didn’t jump in to tell him that most enemies at the caliber of a god have immunity to poison, I wanted to let him have his moment. Mostly because his passion for this was applaudable by the group and it meant less time from him harassing women or being a wise guy.
Finally, we arrive at the session where everything came to a head and Kill went from being a slightly problematic player to a full blown nightmare. I don’t remember what session we were at, but I remember the party had just reached 9th level. I remember this because Kill had just received his next subclass feature as an Alchemist Artificer, and I planned a little plot point to commemorate it. I decided to throw him a bone and let him have another breakthrough during his downtime with an experimental poison he was crafting, which he used the knowledge of Essence of Ether’s composition as a foundation for.
Once the downtime concluded and I had him roll his DC for the crafting, I informed him he had a major breakthrough and discovered a virulent poison the likes of which has never been seen. He was freaking out and excitedly asking me what it is. I told him that he had discovered a new poison, a brand all his own, that was so powerful that anyone subjected to it which failed a Con DC check of 15 would be unconscious for a full 48 hours. The target also couldn’t be shaken awake. Only a healing spell such as cure wounds or lesser restoration, or a poison antidote, could wake the creature before the 48 hour period. This essentially made it six times more potent than Essence of Ether, and it was a homebrew poison I made specifically for his character.
He was ecstatic about this and began asking me a flurry of questions about it, like its value, name, ingredients, etc. I let him name it and he chose the name NyQuil for it, for whatever reason. While the party and I were discussing it with him, he commented that it still isn’t strong enough to his liking but that at least it shows he’s making progress.
One question he asked me, which I guess should’ve been a red flag but I was blindly having good faith in this player, was whether it was a poison that could be ingested or if it was strictly a poison that needed to be inhaled like the Essence of Ether. I really hadn’t thought about it, so I just told him either one could work. He just said “good to know” and we carried on. The party congratulated him one last time on the discovery, to which he thanked them and said he’d “have to test it out soon”.
The party ordered some breakfast and began discussing their next move. At this point, they discovered that Acererak had made a major move and killed another lich named Szass Tam and assimilated his powesoul into himself. He then subjugated the Red Wizards of Thay that served Szass Tam by convincing them that their patron lich’s powers and will now lived on in him, and that together they will fulfill his vision of dethroning not just Vecna but all of the gods. Acererak is now using the stolen artifact from the Netheril enclave (that the party never found in time) as well as a lost, forbidden ritual to have the wizards of Thay conduct for him and finally steal Vecna’s spark of divinity.
The party’s next move, at the advisory of Vecna, is to venture to Thay and stop the ritual by either stealing the artifact or assassinating the leader of the red wizards to send them into disarray. The party realizes at this point that they will have to venture across the continent to the opposite coast in order to get to Thay, and as such will be leaving their favorite tavern for an indeterminate amount of time. They all get disheartened at this and unanimously decide to throw a big going away party tonight before they leave. So, they do. The party invited all of their favorite memorable NPC’s that they’ve made on the Storm Coast throughout this campaign to the tavern and they have a big going away party.
Throughout the evening everything goes great. The NPC’s reminisced on how the party helped them, while offering them their hopes and prayers that they can stop Acererak and fulfill their mission. Everyone was drinking and being merry, when Kill announced that he’s going to buy everyone a round of the absolute best draft the tavern had to offer.
He asked Rella, flirtatiously, what the best drink the Courteous Kobold had to offer was, and she said it was a keg of a house made Barley based beer that’s finished in oaken whiskey barrels called “Draggin Dragon”. He demanded an overflowing pitcher of that for every patron in the bar. It costed him nearly an arm and a leg, but he had a stockpile of gold from all the poisons he decided to sell so far, so he covered the cost without question.
After everyone had their drink, he asked me if Rella got one as well, to which I said “sure, why not?” He said that’s good, he wanted to make sure the cost covered her drink as well. The other three party members tell me that once they finish their drinks they’re going to go ahead and turn in for the night, having decided that they want to get up early and embark on the long journey across Faerun.
Kill says he’s going to stay behind and revel some more. I roll my eyes and think that he’s probably going to try and flirt with Rella again. I even think for a moment that I may give him a chance to roll and see if he can impress her, given his good behavior lately and how the party wouldn’t see this npc for a long while, maybe if ever again. He does indeed approach Rella, but what he does is the exact opposite.
He asks her if she has any more of the Draggin Dragon left, which he now knows she keeps in the cellar in the back. She says yes, and he asks for another pint of it. The player explains to me that he wants to make a toast with her before his character turns in for the night, in order to toast their success on the mission ahead. He asks if she still has her drink, or if he’ll have to buy her another one, to which I tell him she still does and it appears she hasn’t had much time to sip on it between dealing with serving the others.
So he pays for the drink and she leaves to go fetch it. I remember him asking “did she leave the tavern?” I thought to myself ‘yeah? I just said that’ but still confirmed she did indeed leave to go get the drink. He asks how many patrons are left and if anyone is still partying. Figuring he just wanted to buy the tavern another round of drinks, I decidedly told him that with most of the party’s departure, pretty much all the other NPC’s have left at this point. Those who were still there were blackout drunk on the floor, with the kobolds trying to wake them up to get them to leave. He says “oh, perfect”.
Kill’s player then says, without any hesitation, “I’m going to take out the NyQuil and pour it in Rella’s drink, making sure no one sees me”.
Immediately, the party and I start freaking out and asking this guy what the f he’s doing, after stating his intent to dump the highly effective poison in her drink. He just reiterates that he’s going to do it, and the other three players start asking him wtf is wrong with him. The other players ask if they can stop him, but they’ve all already stated they were going to bed and Kill quickly snaps back with “no! You’re all asleep, stop trying to metagame.”
I ask him what exactly he’s trying to do by poisoning this NPC, that the party all unequivocally likes quite a lot. He just says that he needs to test the poison and make sure that it works. I think at this point the guy is a major asshole who doesn’t care about what his party wants or about the NPC’s in the world, but I’ve always been huge on player agency. So, if he really wanted to do something as evil as poison the tavern keeper here, so be it. He did say from the get-go in this campaign that his character is lawful evil.
I just decide to make the sleight of hand DC check stupid high. The customer NPC’s might all be gone, but the Kobold workers are still there and would very much be watching their boss’ drink/belongings while she’s gone. I have him roll it up and this man rolls me a 26, with the DC I set for this sleight of hand being 25. I at this point realize that he took sleight of hand proficiency with this artificer, and paired with his +4 to dex it let him barely pass this check with a roll of 18. So, he successfully dumps the poisons into the drink and pockets the empty vial without the kobolds noticing.
I’m beyond pissed at this, but I let the roll stand. The other players just repeatedly kept saying “wtf are you doing”, “what is happening”, “knock it off”, etc. I would also like to mention that it hadn’t dawned on me that what this player had done was essentially roofied the NPC’s drink. The thought hadn’t crossed my mind that he could potentially be trying to drug and assault this NPC because, despite all this guy’s faults and annoying behaviors, I never thought he could be capable of doing something so awful.
Rella comes back with his tankard and gives it to Kill, to which he proposes they make a toast. A toast to a successful journey to save the world. She toasts with him and I regrettably narrate as she takes a long sip with him. She sets the mug down and immediately comments that the drink was stronger and more bitter than she remembered it tasting, as I rolled the CON save. This girl is a commoner NPC, she has a +0 to con, the likelihood of her rolling a save is very low. I remember the dice roll to this day: 6. For a moment, I thought of fudging the roll and just saying she passed, but I still genuinely had no inkling as to what his intention was. I truly did believe him when he said he was just testing to see if it worked, and then would laugh like the annoying asshole he is before making his character go to bed. So, I was truthful and said she failed.
I narrate how Rella has a fit of coughing and gets a cold sweat as she starts wobbling on her feet before collapsing behind the bar counter. All the kobolds in the room run to her aid while shouting concerned cries. Sure enough, Kill’s player starts laughing like a jackass while the rest of the party just groans and continues to yell at him. Warlock kept asking if he was happy now and saying how once Rella wakes and realizes what happened they probably won’t ever be allowed back here. Paladin just says that the party should be more concerned on if HE finds out, because it will be PVP on sight.
I ask Kill if he’s done and what he’s going to do now. He says he rushes to the side of the kobolds and tries to help Rella to her feet as he shouts at the Kobolds to back up. The Kobolds angrily ask him what the hell happened and why she suddenly collapsed. He says, “it looks like she had a little too much to drink.”
I immediately tell him to roll deception. His shitty charisma modifier yields him less than 10, I believe it was an 8. The kobolds don’t believe his words and immediately become suspicious. They inform Kill that they will be taking her to her room and one of them is going to depart to go find a doctor in Waterdeep. Kill tells the Kobolds that they can go get a doctor, but that he will take her up to her room because he’s stronger than the Kobolds and he can get her safe in bed easiequicker. The kobolds protest and try to approach him to take Rella from him. He backs up and insists on taking her up. I have him roll persuasion, and he fails.
The kobolds refuse to let him take her and cite his creepy behavior towards their boss as grounds for why they won’t let him. Kill immediately gets angry and says he takes out his quarterstaff to threaten them that he’ll force them out of the way if he has to. “All I care about is getting her to safety!”, he insists. The Kobolds decide to relent to him, but follow him up the stairs to make sure he gets her in bed safely.
Kill brings her upstairs with the Kobolds in suit. Once he gets in her room, he says that he immediately closes the door behind him and locks the Kobolds out. The Kobolds start shouting at him to let them in while banging on the door. Kill explains how he sets Rella down on her bed and shouts at the Kobolds that it’s fine, and that he tucked her in bed. The Kobolds obviously don’t listen and keep demanding that he open the door. Kill then walks over to the door as the kobolds bang on it and casts Arcane Lock on it.
I remember at this point that I began getting extremely worried as to what exactly Kill was trying to pull. I fully anticipated this whole encounter going with him fleeing to his quarters after he administered the poison and acting ignorant the next morning. But now he’s locked himself in Rella’s room, magically blockaded the door, and refused to let her workers by her bedside to ascertain if she’s ok.
Then, Kill goes way too far. He starts narrating how he gets up on the bed with Rella and begins to unbuckle his pants while saying “We don’t have much time.”
The discord voice chat explodes, as I and the other 3 members begin freaking out and asking what the hell he’s doing. He tries to ignore us and just describe how once Kill’s pants are off he’s going to start undressing Rella.
Me: “No. NO! We are not doing this. You said you were just testing the poison, what the actual hell are you trying to do?”
Kill: “Exactly what I said. Test the poison.”
Paladin: “Yeah, fuck no. DM, do I hear the kobolds banging on a door in the hall and shouting?”
Me: “Yes! In fact, the whole party hears this and wakes up.”
The party proceeds to rush out of their rooms, not even taking time to don their armor and just grabbing their weapons. They don’t even waste time with the Rogue trying to pick the lock, Paladin just immediately bashes the door in with his maul and I don’t make him do any rolls. They all see Kill in the bed attempting to take off Rella’s corset.
Kill: “That’s bullshit! I casted Arcane lock and you didn’t even make them roll, it should be almost impossible to get through that door.”
I was worried the party would try to talk the situation out. I can’t tell you how relieved I was when I heard paladin ask:
Paladin: “So, do we need to roll initiative or can I just run up and attack?”
Paladin runs up to Kill and immediately takes two swings, to which Kill tries to use the Shield spell as a reaction- to which I tell him he’s too surprised by the party breaking through the enchanted door to take any actions in the first round of combat.
Kill: “THIS IS BULLSHIT! You are plot armoring them!”
Me: “Are you serious?! You’re damn right I am!”
The party then explains how each of them takes their turns to brutalize him. Paladin pumps the highest level smites he can into his attack, Warlock eldritch blasted him and knocked him off the bed against the wall, and Rogue hid during the chaos and sneak attacked him with a dagger he threw square into his head. Somehow, Kill still barely has some hp.
Kill: “Alright! My turn! I’m going to-“
Me: “Not so fast. The first round isn’t over yet.”
I then describe how all of the Kobolds rush into the room and dogpile Kill. I don’t even roll anything, I just describe how they take advantage of him lying prone on the ground after Warlock’s eldritch blast knocked him off the bed to tear him apart. In a matter of seconds, Kills entire body has been torn limb from limb and lies in a bloody heap on the floor.
Kill’s player goes absolutely ballistic as he demands I roll for the Kobolds, and “how dare I kill him in a cutscene!” I just respond that he only had a few hit points left and with him lying prone there’s no way they wouldn’t have been able to finish him off.
Kill: “I’ve never seen such bs. There’s no way I would’ve been surprised, I knew they were trying to break in. If I had been able to use shield, none of those attacks would’ve hit and I would’ve Merced all of your asses.”
Paladin: “You knew the Kobolds were trying to get in, not us dumbass. I’m also sure Kill wouldn’t have expected his party to immediately beat his ass with no questions asked, but ‘surprise’.”
Warlock: “Seriously, wtf player’s name? You’ve always been a troll but this was too messed up. Why did you try to SA the NPC?”
Kill: “What, you guys don’t get it? It’s all supposed to be a joke.”
(Queue mass confusion and silence from us)
Kill: “You don’t get it? I can’t believe you are all so stupid you still haven’t caught on. I’m BILL COSBY!”
Party & I in unison: “What the fuck???”
Bill(?): “I just swapped the B and C from his first and last name. He was reincarnated from his world to finish his original ‘mission’.”
Me: “Yeah? NO! None of that was in your back story, we did not agree on this.”
Bill: “Yeah I kept it a secret to surprise you. This was supposed to be the big reveal and you guys ruined it.”
We all told him that this wasn’t funny at all, in fact he might’ve just ruined the whole campaign for his whole “joke”. He threw a huge wrench in the story by pulling this right before the party left for this main quest. We called session there, and that night Bill Cosby’s player texted me asking if he could roll a new character.
Hell no.
I remember at the time I was worried because I didn’t know if the party would want to continue the campaign, and if so if they would with the problem player who pulled all this. I knew that if they did want to include him, I would have to step out. I was a little nervous about doing that, considering I was being paid to run this campaign for them. I was also a depressed because I thought the campaign was going well aside from his character’s bs. I was excited to see where it would go next.
Thankfully, Warlock’s player texted me the next morning to let me know that the party wanted to continue playing and, no, they didn’t want problem player to rejoin. Apparently, he had already started talking about a new character to the party in a group chat they had. They all shut him down immediately and told him he wasn’t allowed to come back. Apparently this made him super pissed and he left the gc.
We actually finished the entire campaign. The three of them invited another friend, a girl who rolled up a monk character, about halfway through and she was an absolute joy to have. I actually still dm for that friend group sometimes to this day, not for money anymore just for fun, and we still reminisce about the nightmare that that player was. He actually fell out from the friend group within that same year because of other reasons, which is probably for the best.
I don’t really have a moral for this story other than if you’re going to make a joke character, especially one that has SA as an integral part of their character, tell the dm upfront at the beginning. So at the very least they can shut down the idea from the get-go before you go multiple sessions in and get killed, and kicked from the group. I’ve also been traumatized to the point I always get paranoid whenever I have a PC interested in trying to use poisoners kit, to this day.
TL;DR: Problem player makes his character Bill Cosby and secretly plots for many sessions on how he’s going to make a roofie and SA an NPC character as part of a “joke”.

Ano ba yung hindi mo dapat ma-miss if you're coming to Batangas? Obviously, their FOODS!!!!
Here are the list of foods that you should try:

1. Halo-Halo
2. Barbecue
3. Tanigue Steak
4. Pinangat
5. Paradusdos or Paladusdos
6. Balot sa Dahon
7. Crispy Canton
8. Gatang Tulingan
9. Pancit Balita
10. Seafood Bilao
11. Bibingkang Kanin
12. Bibingkoy o Bibingkang Monggo
13. Suman
14. Kalamay na Mais
15. Taho

What are your thoughts with this one?

Hi! My furbaby is currently sick and choosy with the food. Upon searching for recommended diet for her condition, isa sa recipe ay kailangan daw ng Omega 3/fish oil. Baka may nakapag try na po nito and baka may mabigay kayo reco. Mixed reviews or ang mahal sobra nung mga available online eh. Thank you so much po

May maalam ba sa inyong mag luto ng Adobo na may sabaw na Hindi maalat?
Drop recipe and paano lutuin!

I used Lalamove today para magpadeliver ng Chicken Liver from Malabon to San Pedro, Laguna. I'm a cat rescuer and a minimum wage earner. I have 15 cats in my care. Never ako nanghingi ng donation o tulong from local government to help me with my small rescue.
Recently nagipit ako sa mga bills. The usual na pinapakain ko sa mga cats ko ay homemade cat food of my own recipe + dry food. Sa gabi ko sila pinapakain ng homemade, na hinahaluan ko din ng dry cat food, then sa umaga yung dry food lang. May 1 week ako na di ko sila nagawan ng homemade because I'm at my lowest. Lahat sila healthy sa pinapakain ko, it's obvious in their body as well not too fat not too skinny.
Ngayon nagkaroon ako ng onting cash to buy homemade at nag decide nga ko maghanap sa FB ng seller or supplier ng raw ingredient na mura. Chicken liver yun. Sa palengke sa lugar namin Php240 per kg ng liver, sa mall naman minsan Php200, pag nakadiscount ay Php180 nalang. Now yung nakita ko sa FB ay Php109 lang per kilo, which is almost half ng price dito samin, but I have to buy in bulk, minimum ng 10kg. So I did, good for 1 month worth na ng homemade cat food yun. Nung una skeptical si buyer kasi malayo daw, baka umabot sa 1k ang delivery fee.
So I tried Lalamove, inenter ko location ni seller as pickup, while my location is drop-off (which is yung office na pinagwoworkan ko). Nag booking ako ng 9am, may nag accept agad na rider. Tinanong ko muna sa kaniya kung okay lang yung ipapadeliver ko at yung distance. Binigay ko agad lahat ng details kasi gusto ko imake sure na walang abala. Ngayon napickup na ni rider ng 9:14am, and ETA ay 10-11am. Which is good for me kasi balak ko umuwi ng 12pm para irefrigerate yung liver kasi baka masira. Kung matraffic man I was assuming na past 11am lang basta before 12am.
Ngayon nag 11:20, I keep checking the rider's route kung saan saan pa siya naikot kaya inassume ko baka kumukuha pa to ng ibang booking. Tinawagan ko si Rider ng before 12am, medyo mataas na temper ko kasi yung plan ko na iuwi yung liver ng 12 ay di na possible since nandun pa din siya sa area ng pick-up. Tinanong ko siya kung nasan na siya. Ang unang sabi niya sakin after lunch pa daw idedeliver yung item. Sabi ko pero nakuha mo na yung item? Oo daw.
Which made me worried more kasi kung nasa kaniya na yung item since 9:14 am, ibig sabihin almost 2 hrs na exposed sa heat yung liver. I didn't pick the insulated option kasi akala ko madedeliver agad. Not sure kung meron din siyang insulated bag as standard. Regular delivery yung sinelect ko, may option na mag select nung Saver, which is for a lower amount, pero yun yung matatagalan talaga delivery kasi pinapayagan mo na kumuha pa ng ibang booking ang rider. As of now en route pa din yung rider sakin. I am worried na compromised na yung quality ng liver kasi naexpose na sa heat. Laman loob din yun, madaling masira.
I already reported him to Lalamove and was told to report again kung spoiled na yung liver pagdating sakin. I'm so stressed out na imbis na makatipid ng few hundred peso ay malulugi pa ata ako ng 1500, kung di ko na mapapakinabangan yung liver dahil sira na. Ayaw ko icompromise yung health ng mga rescue ko. I worked so hard para mabuhay sila. Wala kong pang vet bills at the moment kung magkasakit sila dahil sa homemade na ipapakain ko. It's either that o magutom muna sila for weeks until my next paycheck. Bakit ganto ang bansa natin, alam kong gusto lang kumita ng pera ni kuya rider pero dahil dun sa ginawa niya may isang mahirap din na natapakan

Kadakol ngunyan nagaluto-luto sa tiktok ki buru-Bicolano cuisine na bako man palan talaga Bicolano.
Kapag may nagcomment na taga Bicol na bako man arog kaito su pagluto digdi nauuyam sinda.
Sana naglaag na sana sinda ki disclaimer na "own recipe" para dae sinda mataraman. Su iba man makataram na "di ikaw gumawa, mas magaling kapa" ~ weird lang, claiming sinda kang Bicolano cuisine gibo ninda pero bako man arog kato talaga ang pagibo kaito digdi.
Wara "off my chest" kaya food tag nalang.
Kaka scroll ko ini sa tiktok hahhaha