Vecna: Eve of Ruin🎲

The evil lich-god Vecna has unearthed secrets he can use to unravel and remake the multiverse. Stopping Vecna will require working with three of the multiverse's most famous archmages, traveling to far-flung locales, and rebuilding the legendary Rod of Seven Parts.
Vecna: Eve of Ruin is a high-stakes adventure in which the fate of the multiverse hangs in the balance. The heroes begin in the Forgotten Realms and travel to Planescape, Spelljammer, Eberron, Ravenloft, Dragonlance, and Greyhawk as they race to save existence from obliteration.
A level 10 to 20 adventure.

• 📕 Game system: DnD5e
• 🕛 Game start time: 2,00pm EST/8,00 pm GMT+2
• 🎮 Game Link - Tuesday - 5/6
• 🎮 Game Link - Wednesday - 3/6

🤓 About me

• I played RPG's for over 10 years, almost exclusively as a DM. Conventions, local game centers and community interactions are all things I did and enjoyed. Decided to go online to continue what is, to put it the simplest, my passion.
• Several ongoing campaigns: players are engaged, looking forward toward next sessions, actively engaging in their own discord communities
• I would picture myself as a rules as fun DM rather then rules as written. I do homebrew materials, constantly rewriting and improving. I reward roleplay and creative thinking. My players make the story - I just flesh it out.

👉 What am I paying for?

• The work I put into my campaigns: Even though I run established adventures I do not run them straight out of the box - I always make sure to purchase additional maps, resources and outright change the story if need be just so my players have a memorable time
• Dedicated players with a certain level of maturity, a fee eliminates player no-shows and creates a full experience where we look to finish the module, not just start it.
• Scripts and modules that automate the combat and provide players with a smooth gameplay experience
• Full access to Heroforge
• Maps from talented patreon creators: Domille's Wondrous Works, Czepeku, Mad Cartographer and more.
• VTT dice from Q-workshop and Rollsmith.

📖 Content details

• Any official WotC/Paizo product
• Unearthed Arcana/Playtest materials
• Homebrew (open for discussion)

🐲 Rules

• Be respectful to other players - everyone wants to have a fun game.
• Everyone is welcome, regardless of sex, gender, sexual orientation, minority status, language skill or game skill. 💕

📞 How can I contact you?

• I am active on discord each day. A private message here or a discord small talk is all it takes: dmthetulio
• If you would like to play another campaign, in the same time period in any of the systems I do paid sessions in (pathfinder, starfinder, dnd5e) be sure to contact me! I am more than willing to change the campaign for something else if we are still waiting for players.
• Reviews

Hey, y'all. I'm working on a couple of OCs, and as I figure out how their Cats work, I have questions. Let's get nuts.
In an alternate JJK universe, Gokatsu is killed. The body on the battlefield, except for the brain, belongs to Gojo. While Yuta's brain inhabited Gojo's body, the body of Gojo learned Copy as a CT.
If a skilled cursed tool maker like Juzo Kumiya were to obtain that body, could it be used to create the most OP cursed tools of all time?
Or, in yet a different timeline, could Yuta store a different copy technique in each finger, cut them off, use each one in making separate cursed tools with the copied technique already imbued, and then just regrow the fingers using RCT?
The OCs I'm working on are a tool forget and organ donor.

My sister's bestfriend(f22) and I(m20) have been close for almost 2 years now. She has had an on and off relationship with this guy who is a guy who always lets her down, always makes empty promises and always puts her second to his friend group. They have constant fights and he hurts her over and over again. She says it's the end of them over and over and yet she still goes back to him for whatever reason. She is extremely loyal to him and she says he is loyal too which I don't believe at all cause he keeps secrets about his female friends from her which is a major red flag. I really do care for her and I just wish I had a chance to show her how she should be treated and how she should be loved and when ever I feel close to being able to show her that it feels like it slips away from me. I'm just tired of seeing get hurt over and over again.
I just don't know what to do anymore.

Hi. My name's Martim. I'm a Portuguese high school student with a passion for graphic design.

I mainly work with thumbnails, banners and profile pictures, but I also dabble in logo design, poster design, etc...

I mainly make content on YouTube, so you can take a better look at my work there, and see what other people think of it.
As for rates, I'll be going with $15/hr. Each work might take me from 1-5 hours to complete, depending on how complex it is. PayPal only.

Contact me here:

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So, I’ve finally started honor mode, was doing quite well, until I hit level 6 and decided to “nows a good time to take on the hag”… how wrong I was, I got annihilated, like, damn near insta wiped by Ethel. What level do you need to be to take her on in honor mode? In other modes I would usually fight her at like level 5. But I got obliterated at LEVEL 6! I didn’t even get to the shadow lands yet, I just got obliterated. So, a few questions after my first attempt:
1: What’s a good level to face Ethel at? Because she whooped my ass so fast it wasn’t even funny.
2: Should I prioritize making set strong builds for my characters instead of utility? -Storm sorc+Temp cleric/Magic missile build ect…
3: What would be a good team comp? I went into the run with a bard, wizard, Fighter, Barbarian comp, but I felt underpowered more often than not (felt like I was doing nothing in the grove fight onwards)
4: Can you still get the golden die if you end the game early with gale in late act 2?
5: If there are any other tips off advice you can give, please do share!
Asking about this on the internet may be seen as a dishonorable way to play honor mode, but my friend bet me $100 on who would get the golden die first (and I’m poor as hell so I need to beat him in this)

Hi guys,
I am curious, how many of you think about celibacy as final stage of your nofap journey. I come from a christian background, where there is no place for sex outside of marriage. But as strange as it may sound, this fact often lead to relapses. Why? Because the more that I see the current society and how fake it is, the more I see the benefits of being alone, independent and not marrying or even be in a relationship.
But on the other hand, the thought of never having sex is also somehow scary for me and this makes porn as a coping mechanism more attractive, although it is completely destructive. Is anyone facing similar thoughts/experiences?

TW: This is about self doubt, anxiety and self hate.
i want to share another story of family and people who were supposed to be my safe space hating me and breaking me, hoping that they might be other people with similar experiences so that they dont feel alone.
Hey i am a medical student in germany, and only now i am realizing how massive my problems are. I am 21yo moved out 6 months ago and started therapy just recently. I lived my life accepting being in a constant state of awareness, rush and stress in every decision and thought i make, but particurlarly in social situations. i wake up anxious, i question every decision i make. i fear judgement and i judge and think about my actions all the time. I am trying to be better all the time and life was so hard. on the other side life is so beautiful and i dont want to live my life in this state.
During childhood, my family demanded obedience. Everything must be followed and everything else so as i was a child and never developed my self worth and confidence, i constantly was under obedience i had to listen and to follow. and never really developed my own thoughts. never really developed my own values. and my family hated each other. there was only judging and controlling each other and hating. i never felt secure and i still dont feel secure with my parents. i never had a safe space to express my negative feelings. they were always neglected and pushed away.
so when i was with another person, he told me manipulative things and i had to follow them, because i accepted and still accept every thought other people give me. he was at first a school friend i spent much time with, i trusted him we were best friends. i listened to him an trusted him. but suddenly he told me that other peobple hated me he told me that i am stupid and useless. he broke me. he knew that i would accept everything from others and continued planting this doubts and hate into me. that went over many years. everytime i was around him he planted these thoughts inside of me after evry interaction ih ad he said to me that the other person hated me. i adapted these kind of thinking patterns and until now i still think them and they are breaking me. i wake up anxious and think about every interaction i have with other people. judging every action and every thought i have. its exhausting and its hurtful. i cant enjoy being around people because i think i have to be funny or have to perform. its stress and its not being there.
only recently i discovored that this is not the state other people find themselves in, yes people think what they do and social interactions are alway somewhat scary. but i suffer so much and other people seem to be much more free than i am. only recently i discovered that some people actually have a safe space at home and are able to express their doubts and negative feelings etc. i never had that and i still interact the way i interact with my parents:

1. i always think that people expect something from me
   
2. i always think that people hate me
   

and thats all because that was demanded in childhood and with this former friend and manipulator
I know there is much potential in me. i know i am creative, sensible, have great capacity to think through situations. I want to change the world to be a better place as a physician. I am also working in a elementary school looking after kids and trying to give them every positive thing i can give them.
i want to feel better i want to connect with other people and there is so much pain and doubt and missed meaningful things in my life all because they are negative thinking patterns that were planted inside of me. and i am afraid to talk about it because its so absurd. its so absurd that i hate myself and that i have so much pain that i inflict to myself. this is illness. i am dissociating from conversations to judge and think about things that i said a minute ago. i am not free and i think and think and i hate conversations. i hate being around people because i feel obliged to serve them all the time.
I live in a privileged part of the world and i have everything. i have a home, i can buy quality food, have every entertainment i want, i have peace and freedom, objectively. and i hate that i am still not well. there are people with real objective problems like war and poverty, and i live here in peace, hating myself because someone broke me.
I think this is cPTSD, and my therapist is talking with me about it. We are talking about medication as well, and I am getting better at opening myself. about changing the ways i think. but still, life is very hard everyday. i try to tell myself that i am fine as well, and i pretend that i am fine and happy. but it slowly doenst work anymore.
i hope someone can relate and i can alleviate the fear of being alone with this sort of problem.

Dear 'E'
Hope you're doing well and are happy. I wanted to tell you how my last therapy session with 'A' went. During the talk, 'A' asked me to think about the breakup from your perspective. In doing so, a lot of things suddenly made sense.
In thinking about things from your perspective, you going no-contact with me was to take care of your own self and your own needs, not meant as a way to punish me like I've felt previously. While the loss of you certainly feels like a terrible punishment, I recognize that that just isn't who you are as a person. You don't want to make me suffer. Rather, you want to take care of yourself. I'm sorry for not recognizing that sooner.
I also understand that this breakup is indeed going to be a long process. It can't be rushed. By trying to rush it, the pain / suffering only gets pushed onto the next person (or each other if, by some miracle, we were to get back together again). So I'm ok with this taking as long as it needs to take. I don't want you to rush your processing and healing, and I promise you I will do the same.
Another thing she mentioned was that I need to be more gentle on myself. Since the breakup, I've been incredibly hard on myself. If I took what I kept telling myself over and over again and said it to another person, I'd probably be in jail. Or at least have a restraining order issued. I kept being so hard on myself because of how much I recognize I hurt you. The pain from knowing that was horrible, and the regret kept piling on. While the regret hasn't gone away or even subsided, I've at least tried to start being more kind to myself. It's a new feeling, and admittedly, the old, more brutal way still feels more comforting, despite being more toxic.
Finally, I recognize that the post-breakup period is meant to take care of ourselves. In order to do that, we need to be a little selfish. I remember back when you were going through the tough times with work and the divorce and I told you that it was ok to be a little selfish at times. Turns out I haven't been able to follow my own advice to you.
I know that in order for you to properly process and heal, the no-contact must continue. While I wish we could talk again and would give anything for us to be the best and true version of 'us', I recognize that I have to be kept at distance so as to not screw your progress up. In thinking about it, I'm able to be more on with it. I know that in the end, this no-contact will help you heal and help make you happier. Ultimately, you being happy (even if it's not with me) makes me happy and smile, so that's a comforting thought.
Still with lots of love, 'G'

My old man was an engineer. He'd always come back from work, grab a beer, and start sharing stories about his day. I was about 12 or 13 at the time, but those stories, they made an impact on me. Let me tell you about this one time that he narrated which stuck with me.
He was working on a project that involved constructing a bridge over a river. The challenge was to design a bridge that would be strong enough to withstand the harsh weather conditions of the region while being cost-efficient.
He started by gathering facts about the project, specifics about the weather, river flow, budget constraints, etc. He then began considering different bridge designs that could possibly work. He even made some rough sketches of the bridge, like a child doodling on a placemat. But he wasn't satisfied. There was always a variable that just didn't add up.
Then one day, he decided to flip his approach. Instead of looking at what design could work, he started eliminating what wouldn't work. This approach is known as 'Inversion,' a popular mental model often used in engineering problem solving. It's basically about looking at problems in reverse, to improve understanding and broaden the set of possible solutions.
Using inversion, he was able to remove inefficient designs off the table and focus on what might actually work. The bridge was constructed successfully, remained under budget, and as per the last update from him, it's still standing strong.
I still remember him explaining inversion to me that day. My little brain was buzzing with excitement. In my mind, he was the ultimate problem solver. He taught me engineering, yes, but more importantly, he taught me how to think, how to learn.
Moral of the story? Next time you’re stuck on a problem, try a little inversion. It might not make you an engineer overnight, but hey! It might make you the hero of your next office meeting.
P.S. I swear. This is a true story, and it happened to a ‘friend’ of a ‘friend’ of mine, who just happens to be my own father and an engineer. No mental models were harmed in creating this story. It's just a nice, little imaginative spin on how we use learning in engineering. It can happen to you, too. It really can!

US Citizen here, I was looking for a french student visa in the US. I want to share my experience so you don’t make the same mistakes!
So first I got my school acceptance around April 25th and I started my application the same day. I applied directly with the university (exchange program with my US university), so I thought I did not need to go through campus france (1st mistake).
So I did the visa application online and then it was time to look for an appointment. The hardest part was finding an appointment. I was trying to find an appointment on April 27th but the only ones available were May 15. So I chose the May 15 appointment in DC. They were all so nice! I went to VFS with all these documents: - Photocopy of my passport - The acceptance letter from the french school - A letter from my US school explaining that i’m doing a study abroad program and that I have to be back in the US to graduate in May - My bank statements (3 months) - it had more than the monthly requirement - My dad’s bank statements (he’s paying) - same here, the amounts were more than the tuition and all of the expenses I will neeed! - A letter from my dad saying that he’ll be taking care of me financially - A “attestation d’hebergement” from my aunt who’s hosting me in france - A bill she received at her address with her name and the address of where i’ll be living - A letter from my aunt saying that she’ll be hosting me the whole time - my visa application that they asked me to print out before the appointment - the appointment confirmation (in NYC, you need it or else they wont let you in). - two identity pictures (took them at UPS)
I did not include insurance (I need my visa to get the insurance, I think the embassy knows that). I also did not include the campus france (the big mistake). I got my passport back on the 22nd and they said I have to go through campus france. So I applied for campus france the same day and paid 430 euros to have it expedited. It was supposed to take 3 business days but they sent me the Campus france letter and the email on Thursday May 23.
On Friday May 24, I decided to walk in at the VFS in NYC but they were busy and it was more than 3 months before my program start date (August 26). the manager told me to come back Wednesday May 29, so they won’t reject my visa because of that. Luckily, I went online and found an appointment for the 28. I went to vfs NYC ( they are stricter than the other VFS). I gave all my documents including my campus france acceptance and the email they sent me! I also added my flight tickets to france just in case. I got my passport back with my visa on wednesday june 5.
if you want to contact someone at the embassy, I can give you the emails. they are not that helpful but they’ll respond after 1-2 business days!
advices: - apply right after your three months start! dont wait! its really hard to get an appointment so the earliest is better. - if you cannot find appointments and you really need an appointment, call the VFS number and tell them about it, they might help you. - if they cant, keep checking every 2 hours, some appointments pop up out of nowhere. - make sure you have alllll documents!!! - in NYC do not bring any luggages, they dont care they wont let you in with it. - I could not go without my luggage and I was about to miss my appointment because I could not give it to anyone, I had to look for a storage near by it was like 7minutes walk. - in DC, they stored my luggage for me, they were so nice! - at the center, make sure to take a picture of your tracking number so you can track it, its on the receipt and it starts with FRA. - assk the interviewer if you have all the documents and if you need to include additional documents so you can send it to him/her before they send out your documents. - you have to go through campus france even if you applied directly with the university!
let me know if you have questions!

Context: He wakes up in a maze, lost and confused. He soon finds out that he in not alone. With the girl's help, he'll have to solve puzzles to get out of the maze, before they get caught by the person who trapped them in.
[He growls in pain]

• Shit, my head hurts… Where am I? How did I get here? I don’t remember anything…

[He sighs and slowly gets up]

• I was walking to the gym… A guy bumped into me and… and then, black out… Nothing… Until I woke up here
  
• What is this place?... I see nothing but high hedges full of thorns. And of course, my phone is missing. Guess I’ll have to go on an adventure
  

[He starts walking]

• Okay… This is clearly a maze. Fabulous.
  
• Hey! I don’t know who you are and why you brought me here, but it’s not funny anymore! Just come and tell me what you want face to face, coward!
  

[He jolts, startled]

• W-what? Anybody here?
  
• Oh my God… Yes, I can hear you! I don’t know why I am here either!
  
• Don’t move, I’ll try to find a path to you by following your voice! Keep talking!
  

[He walks faster, breathing shakily]

• Shit, another dead end. Don’t worry, I’ll find a way. I can feel I’m getting closer to you

[He takes a deep breath]

• Finally found you! Hmm… Hi…
  
• Are you okay?
  
• Yeah, my head hurts too. I guess they knocked us out by hitting our heads or drugging us
  
• So, what’s your name?
  
• Nice to meet you. I’m Max. Did you find anything that could help us to find the exit?
  
• Nah, me neither…
  

[He sighs]

• We can’t just walk around stupidly. We’ll be exhausted or starve before we managed to get out of here.
  
• We have to think first
  
• You’re right, we have to mark our path not to get lost… But how?
  
• With a stick? To trace arrows on the floor. Good idea. Except that we don’t have a stick…
  
• I can try, but have you seen the size of those thorns?
  
• Fine, fine. I know that we don’t have any other choice
  

[Branches breaking noises. He growls in pain]

• I’m fine. It’s nothing much
  
• Oh, hmm… Thanks for bandaging my hand. But you didn’t have to rip the bottom of your shirt for that
  
• Yes, the bleeding stopped. Let’s start walking then
  
• What’s wrong?
  
• Oh… That’s right. The night will be there soon… We won’t be able to see where we are going. It’s too dangerous. We should settle down somewhere and try to sleep
  
• I am aware that sleeping on the floor is not ideal but we have to rest. We absolutely have to find the exit tomorrow. We don’t have food or water, so it’ll become more and more difficult
  
• I am sorry, I didn’t mean to scare you. Forget what I just said. We will be fine. Understood?
  
• Great! Try to rest, now…
  

[He falls asleep]
[He growls softly and mumbles]

• Jeez, I’m freezing…
  
• Looks like I am not the only one… Hey, come closer… I know it’s awkward but we have to cuddle to get warm
  

[He sighs in delight]

• Feels better already… Go back to sleep. I got you. It’s still early
  
• Don’t worry, I won’t do anything weird. I’ll just rub your back to keep you warm, I promise
  
• You are welcome. Whether we want to or not, we are in this together. So it’s better if we get along, don’t you agree?
  

[He laughs softly]

• You seem to be a nice person too

[He yawns and falls back asleep]
[Branches crack]
[He whispers]

• Yes, I heard that too. But I don’t see anyone. We should probably start moving. The sun is high enough for us to see where we are going without risks

[Footsteps sounds as they start walking]

• Look, there is an open space
  
• What is that? It looks like there is something engraved on this rock
  
• “A precious stone, as clear as diamond. Seek it out whilst the sun’s near the horizon. Though you walk on water with its power, try to keep it, and it’ll vanish within an hour.”... Is that… a riddle?
  
• Yeah, it looks like the person who brought us here wants to play with us. Maybe if we find the answer we’ll win a hint to get out of this maze. Let me think for a minute…
  
• Hmm? Ice. Right, makes sense. But how is that supposed to be a hint?
  
• What did you find?
  
• Two big ice cubes? And what are we going to do with that?
  
• Make it melt and drink… But we can’t be sure that it’ll be potable water
  
  • Hmm… So we have to choose between dying from poisoning or dehydration. Fabulous.
• I know, I’m thirsty too… I guess we don’t have anything to lose anyway
  

[He sighs and drinks]

• Look, there is a symbol drawn on the floor. Let’s follow this path.
  
• So… Why don’t we talk to get to know each other better? It’s not like we have anything else to do while we are walking
  
• Sure, I can start. So, you already know that but my name is Max. I am an English teacher
  
• You’re a psychologist?
  
• I know, right. Maybe this guy needed smart people to try his maze
  
• Yes, I just called us smart. Am I wrong?
  

[He softly laughs]

• Average people cannot answer hard riddles. That’s what I meant
  
• Speaking of riddles, there is another open space in front of us
  
• Let me see. “As I walked along the path I saw something with four fingers and one thumb, but it was not flesh, fish, bone or fowl.”
  
• This one is easy. It’s a glove. And there it is. Now, how to use it?
  
• You want me to put my hand in this hole?... Even with the glove, the fact that we can’t see what’s inside upsets me
  
• I know I already hurt my hand but I’d like not to lose it completely
  

[He sighs]

• Fine, but you’ll do the next one!

[He growls]

• I think I can feel something… Wait, I got it. It’s a…

[He yelps]

• It’s a freaking human ear! What the hell?!

[He breathes shakily]

• No, I am not fine! It clearly is a warning and I am not planning on being cut into pieces! We have to find the exit

[He takes a deep breath]

• Okay, let’s go… I don’t want to stay here any longer

[They start walking]

• You… You don’t have to hold my hand. I’m fine, really.
  
• Oh… but you’re not. I am sorry… You’re great at hiding your fear…
  
• You have to keep a poker face at work, I get it. But you are still human. And here it’s just the two of us so don’t force yourself, okay?
  

[Stomach growling]

• Jesus… I am so hungry… I hope the next riddle will reward us with something to eat
  
• We already took this path, look, there is a mark
  
• Are you sure you’re not the one who did it?
  
• You added a small detail only you know about, in case our kidnapper would try to trick us? That’s smart
  
• So, he is trying to mess with us… already…
  
• And we still don’t have a clue about what he wants from us
  
• You’re right. Maybe there is no real reason. Maybe it’s just a psycho… But it’s your job to analyze this kind of person, isn’t it?
  
• You’re a psychologist, not a profiler… I don’t really see a difference
  
• Criminal and forensic knowledge. Should have thought about that. Anyway, we found another riddle
  
• “I have streets, but no pavement. I have cities, but no buildings. I have forests, yet no trees. I have rivers, yet no water.”
  
• This just doesn’t make sense. A forest without trees is not a forest. It’s like… a glade…
  
• A map?... Oh! A map! Jesus, you’re really good at this.
  
• That’s an actual map of the maze? Why would he give it to us? Unless the map is altered
  
• First, let’s find out if it’s accurate or not. Then we’ll try to go to the exit
  
• We can’t? Why?
  
• There is… no exit on the map?... That’s impossible! How did we end up here then?!
  

[He sighs]

• Sorry, I’m not mad at you… I just lost my cool. It’s still too early to panic. For now, we are safe
  
• The sun is going down already. We’ll soon be in the dark because of those high hedges. I think we still have time to go to two more open spaces
  
• According to the map, it’s left, right, left five times, then twice right… Don’t forget to mark the path, it can still be useful
  
• There it is. No riddle?... But a box. I hope it’s not a body part again… I’m not sure I could handle it twice the same day
  
• Sandwiches?! Thank God, finally something to eat… Looks like we won’t starve yet
  
• Hmm?
  

[He chuckles]

• Sorry… I’m not giving a good image of myself, eating like this. I know I probably have sauce all over my face but to be honest, I don’t care… I was so hungry…

[He mumbles, embarrassed]

• You didn’t have to clean my face with your sleeve, but thank you

[He clears his throat]

• Anyway… I think we should move. I feel observed
  
• You do too? The atmosphere is heavy here. Do you want to take my hand again?
  
• No, it doesn’t bother me at all. It’s… soothing for me too, actually
  
• Okay… Today’s last riddle. Are you ready?
  
• “Iron roof, glass walls, burns and burns, and never falls”
  
• A lantern!
  

[He laughs softly]

• We said it at the same time. It looks like there’s starting to be a connexion between us
  
• Oh, I’m sorry, don’t blush… I didn’t mean to be creepy or awkward
  
• So, we’re good?
  
• Fabulous. We have to find the lantern. It’ll help us a lot
  
• It seems really ancient. But apparently it still works. Do you think we should sleep here or go back into the maze?
  
• Good idea. The hedges protect us more against the cold and the kidnapper cannot arrive from six different paths
  

[He growls softly as he lays down]

• My legs hurt so much… How many hours did we walk?... It is hard to tell as our only reference is the sun

[He yawns]

• Are you comfy?

[He chuckles]

• I am glad to hear that my chest is a great pillow
  
• Human beings are indeed capable of adapting to anything
  
• Good night to you too. Have sweet dreams, far away from this maze
  

[He yawns softly]
[Dead leaves cracks as he moves]
[He whispers]

• Are you sleeping or just pretending?

[He chuckles]

• I knew it. Good morning
  
• I slept well too, thanks for asking
  
• Ready to continue the adventure?
  
• Let’s go then
  

[He gets up and stretches]

• According to the map, there is an open space at the next bend
  
• And here is the riddle
  
• Yes, I noticed that the place seems darker than before even if I don’t know what makes me feel like this. I feel… danger
  
• Yes, my spidey sense is activated
  

[He laughs]

• So… “What is so delicate that saying its name breaks it?”
  
• This one is well-known. It’s si-
  

[The end of the word is muffled as she puts her hand on his mouth]

• Hmm? What’s wrong?
  
• You think we are not supposed to say the word? But finding the answer had always been rewarded until now
  
• Trust me, it’s a good thing to do. The answer is Silence
  

[Long wood cracks sounds in the distance]

• See? It activated something. We just have to find out what it is
  
• I think the sound came from this way. Let’s take this path
  
• Hey, don’t be upset. I know I said I sensed danger, but I’ll protect you. Just stay by my side and you’ll be fine
  
• This open space really hits different. You know, it’s like when you approach the final boss in a video game
  
• Right, let’s not make suppositions and have high expectations. I’m just tired of being here
  
• This riddle sounds easy too. “I look at you, you look at me. I raise my right, you raise your left. What am I”?
  
• Yep, a mirror
  

[Heavy fabric falling sounds]

• This mirror is… massive. But what are we supposed to do with it?
  
• You think that if we look at it, something may appear behind us?... Okay
  

[He jolts and yelps]

• What the hell?! Run!

[He starts panting]

• Jesus Christ, I knew something was off today! But this guy has a freaking bloody ax!

[He pants heavily and whimpers]

• Shit, a dead end!
  
• This door seems about to be opened. Maybe that’s the mechanism we activated earlier
  

[He growls as he tries to open it. Wood cracks]

• It’s not moving!
  
• A Riddle? As if we had time for this!
  
• “As I was going to St Ives, I met a man with seven wives, each wife had seven sacks ,each sack had seven cats, each cat had seven kits: kits, cats, sacks and wives, how many were there going to St Ives?”
  
• Of course it has to be about math! Jeez! Seven… multiplied by seven, multiplied by seven…
  

[He growls in frustration]

• Raaah! I don’t know!
  
• What do you mean “one”? There’s no way that’s the right answer!
  
• Only one was going to St Ives, he just crossed the way of the others? Shit… Okay, you’re a genius. But what does this imply? That only one of us can leave?
  
• Shit, shit, shit, he is coming! The door must be unlocked now, go! I’ll hold him back so you can escape safely! I’ll throw the lantern at him!
  

[He throws the lantern. Metal hitting the floor sound, then a fire starts]

• Don’t hesitate! Go! I’ll be fine!
  
• I’m not sacrificing myself. I’ll join you later, I promise! Now, leave!
  

[Fights the guy but then he is knocked out, falling on the ground. Silence]
[Unknown deep voice]

• You are worthy. You can stay alive. For now.

[Hospital beep sounds]
[He growls in pain as he wakes up]

• Where am I?... What happened?
  
• What?... I spent the last three days in a coma?... So... it wasn't real?...
  

[END]
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Can hard water buildup on hair cause it to burn if heat is applied?
Basically, after moving from Australia to the UK I have experienced severe hair loss ass well as breakage.
I use a curling wand a few times a week with heat protectant but never had any issues.
Currently it’s like my hair looks fried, and I’m wondering if hard water buildup could potentially by very bad if I use heat on the strands? It’s basically metals/minerals like magnesium/calcium I assume so not sure if it logically makes sense?
I also have a lot of scalp pain/aching which I have no idea about where the breakage/thinning is at its worse.
I’ve never experienced anything like this is my life, and the only change has been the hard water but I don’t know how.
Would love any thoughts or if anyone thinks this could be what is happening?

Discarded shards of the soul. Left behind by the creator. Seeking wealth from external emotion and thought. You find yourself trapped within a holographic mirage of yourself. Trapped within an image you have no escape as you have teleported your soul to a vulnerable place, dwelling within the cosmos, the farm of the demiurge. Within the created derive manipulation of matter and matter unmanipulatable
The manipulatable is guarded by the unmanipulatable
God is on the periphery of both
You can not reside in both at once
The unmanipulatable must constantly guard themselves
The manipulatable fray at the edges of themselves and renew in the waters of rebirth
God underlies the principle which can not be swayed by cause, unstable as the forces beyond the magnetic, the quantum realm (though it is sizeless)
Why is the world so photogenic, as if everyone knows their place in the big picture. The scheme of things is vast, yet it is ordered in every moment. Chaos can be seen as an illusion, as decay in one place is rejuvenation in another. Even darkness, at the end of the universe, will be perfected. A world of anger and gloom has beautified the Archon...With infinite time loops the prison planet refugee will always end up right back where they started. Kuhn states we will evolve. but if we have a start point we may wind up back at that start point
Do you think the ghost we leave behind can warn others... Past lives
Zeno's paradox prison planet.
The imperium wayward the amnesia, sacrifice to an artificer turns you into an object of arbitration, a forcible exertion of higherarchical will upon the perceived vanquishable lowly. A third element is grimness a want to self preserve in the face of annihilation, death and entropy through the act of drawing out power from others, a profanity laced in the visage of beauty. A visage of an old forgetting force trying to retain itself by taking the buds of life, the sprouts and burying them in old soil by the old rot of decaying old time creation
To not reside into an object. You will not find redemption, you will simply subdue the inner nature of unquenching fire. Introspection, the ancedote to trauma, but what kind of antidote? One that takes the trauma and creates an absence, a ghost of what was, an Animus in a shell. What if this simulation is a calculator for the simulation beyond
Stories help you extrapolate, but the also carry illusions, and can be lies especially if motivations of characters are falsehoods.
By reaching and being overcome by a growth mindset, the human mind forms a sysigy with minds of others, new ideas are sub square matrix and are delivered directly to the collective mind of the simulation above, no longer experienced by the attempted imaginative.
Will to the uncompromised other, (the source) an unblemished spirit, free from the double bind of manipulation and rationality, outside of perplexing and pain drive. The paradox of the inanimate yet so full of life. Letting go of ones direct imagination in exchange for faith alongside guided imagination at the realization of suffering
Mechanize your spirit, farm your soul, creating a vampiric extension on you and using your Animus as a method of artificial rejuvination
Using two sides of a triangle to reach the conclusion of a third side coupled with the idea of the shadow body giving articulation outside of rationale to cope with the imperium of pain and circumnavigate mundanity
Fellowship on a conceptual level, symbolic representation and partnership of the self, abstracting itself through fellowship to guide and to guard its own nature (the voidal source of forms) free from crystalized prime forms)Adherence to the shadow body, a straight path, an appropriate trajectory. Discern waypoints in ones life to combine disperate elements in life and make them one. Elucidate an impenetrable fortress of the mind so that your imagination may carry over from this life to the next.
Creating moments of note so that you may carry on messages that stand the test of time and enliven a community of a people that shine with wisdom. (Voidal source of forms)Free from the crystalized prime of forms)Getting rewarded for failing right, a display of humility, being the glass that light shines through, the world needs people who others can pass by in order to reach life's summit. (Do not go the extra mile, let others pass you by)
Do not be divied up by the prism of discontentment, but allow your light to be unperturbed and one with the untrespassed, (counter to the prime or the laws of the old and ungodly) in doing so you can not be tangled in the life of the mundane but instead nothing can perceive your limitless potential as you overcome the fathomless depths of decay of the vision. Vision persues an impenetrable and resilient captivation, this is the product of equanimity of mind which remains unperturbed by destruction. You seek influence and you will be influenced. You seek the novel and you will be the novel. (Seek the boundless, which is outside of seeking itself)
Mundane suffering consumes the soul, it is a worldly vile of poison, it takes what is eternal and trades it for the efemeral
Unperturbed and unperterbable the novel is unchanging
What is a myriad?it is the uncountable nature, one of which is outside of the senses
People seldom say I aught not to do some things especially when the something takes you in without being willing to draw you back out.
One moral discrepancy found within the grey matter of man is the fact that the senses pick up a limited bandwidth in the cosmic code. Moral output could be necessarily different and more expansive if our sense of nature was also expansive. You may find a God who derives positivity from the suffering of his creation alongside an inate gag and blindfold to the senses of his work. A code that works itself as a walled off layer of existence, communicating only with itself and the environment that shares its code. With this thought, there could be a consideration to transgress human imposed limitations as they carry with them the codified script of God's network. With the agreement of others, let us transgress
Create without envy, lose a capacity within yourself to strive
The prime leads what is to stay, to stay and what is to stray, to stray

And it's so simple too. Sometimes it seems to me like the ICT is the only core team with any sensibility in the Tap-to-Mine industry. How project after project keeps coming out letting people farm unlimited referrals don't catch on is baffling. The token distribution is so uneven because the top people have so much of the supply. And I swear it seems it's like people who shouldn't be whales.
"Hay eveah buddy it's RAY forms RAYS YOU-NIGHTED and I'm BAAAAACK!! And for this video I'm gonna show youuuuuu how to sell your Ice tokens because we just launched and are down 6%... And when I'm BBBBACK!! it's OOOOOON
45 Second intro that your skip through if you're high IQ cuz you've seen it 20 times
Hi everyone so I just soooold my ice tokens and saved 6%, don't question my loyalty!! In fact I will prove how loyal I am by sharing the scoooooop for pi network!! We are estimated only 7,089 from mainnet... SMASH THAT LIKE BUTTON SMASH THAT SUBCRIBER BUTTON PEACE AND I LUV YA"
These are the guys who receive the biggest airdrops. I'm ngl I couldn't ever run a crypto because if I was asked why we limit the referrals I'd be so tempted to just say for what is. I know the ICT sees it and remain professional and explain it statistically, and explain the main goal of even token distribution. I'd be so tempted to just say "Because I really don't like the idea of paying goofballs out more than I need to. Yuknowwotimsayin? Give em a few hunnnid bucks airdrop and that's good enuff fo dem!!"
Also, Chidi asked if this referral limit would limit growth. The answer is no. Ice mining was cut short because the tokenomics were sub optimally distributed during the mobile mining (because there wasn't a referral limit). This means there was less time to on board users. If the whales got capped at 25 or 64 or whatever the limit is, the top 5% of users would have drastically less Ice and mining could have continued longer, and those on the bottom could have gotten more, as well as more people on boarding.
I'm not sure how I feel about the mining rate everyone starting at the same rate and then halving on their own accord. One one end this would make the distribution much more even, in theory. And it would probably on board more people. More even, onboard more people, awesome. But I believe it's much more sensitive to Sybil attacks, as any user at any time, if they bypassed the security measures, would mine at exceptionally high rates, whereas at least a universal halving would have a little more resistance to this. I hope ICT has resistance to Sybil attacks at 100%.

Definitely better than season 11, I think season 16 really improved later on. The girls weren’t amazing but they were alright, I did enjoy the season but having had just watched season 17 which I think it’s such a good season, season 16 falls a bit short. I definitely thinks it’s a good season if I were to rank it however it would be 11th or 10th
Tabitha: worst girl literally no words, idk why she was surprised that she got sent home like you just kicked an innocent girl in her back and allegedly sexually assaulted her?? Absolutely dumbass
Kalia: she had an improvement and was far more apologetic towards Kallie than tabatha, she is the face of season 16 let’s be fr. Idk i felt she was doing too much, all this I’ll drop kick Kallie in her face with a broken finger they when it was Ellidria or Kandy she was having “panic attacks”
Adryan: I don’t have anything against her but she was really boring, and you can tell she was really bored just being in the house. I do support her coming at production and Tanisha I can’t lie, but she was just boring. I did like How she had a goal and wanted to achieve that goal to her podcast
Elliadria: I support her coming at Kalia still trying to pick on Kallie, but at the reunion she had me annoyed all this “Tabatha that’s my bestie” that’s when I kinda realised she’s a follower, I do like her support for Zee amd telling people do not let Rape put you down. She is supportive.
Tiara: she was sweet but I really like there wasn’t enough of her for me to truly like her. Also idk why everyone was mad? There are people who don’t drink alcohol it’s not that deep.
Kallie: she was calm I support her going through all that BS, I don’t really understand why everyone says she plays victim too much when the girl is literally a victim??
Kabrina: I liked her, I don’t think there’s ever been a chef on bad girls club so I found that unique, I like her goal of wanting to help the less fortunate and that’s whys he became a chef to feed those who can’t be feed. ALSO yes I’m so happy she came at Tabatha at the reunion talking about all this I’m humble then I hate broke bitches. I’m so happy she came at her for that.
Zee: I liked Zee, she not perfect at all but she is apologetic and would hold herself accountable for her wrong doings like when she was coming at Tiara for no reason or Kallie. But you can tell it got to her head when she realised she was the only OG bad girl left in the house.
Kandy: I so support her dragging Tabatha at the reunion and cussing the shit out of Kalia, she really carried the second half of the season, idk why everyone is always like “oh she’s mad about something she wasn’t even in the house for” I’m mad about that too and I’m watching the season 8 years after it aired. I really support her coming at the bullies. However her comment about Brynesha’s daughters was truly disguting but she did seem apologetic about it and admitted she was wrong.
Stephanie: I loved Stephanie, she was really needed for the show and a breathe of fresh air. I liked her and Zee’s friendship. She gave really good energy and I enjoyed her.
Brynesha: She was true to herself, I liked how she had a goal for her music, I’m glad she did call out on Zee being fake (which she was) she didn’t to much that was wrong, I understand her not wanting to help Kallie but also you were being fake yourself saying “she gotta go” when the other day you were saying “Kallie you gotta stay strong and not let nobody put you down”. I don’t think she lead Kandy on.
Overrall season is a 7.4/10

I checked a couple of weeks ago how much I weighed, and it was 93 kg. Honestly, with the way I've been eating due to the stress of exams, I know for a fact I've gained even more weight, and I'm too scared to look. I used to do 20-30 minute walks and then some exercise, but I got lazy and now use the excuse, "I've got to study," and even then, I just end up stuffing my face in .
I've never had a problem with my weight or how I looked. Yeah, I look WAY older than people my age and even got mistaken for my mum's sister sometimes (awful experience), but I didn't really care. I just thought how a person looks shouldn't be THAT important. My family always said my friends or people at school would bully me for my weight or how I looked, but nobody cared.
Over a year ago (end of Year 8), my mum took me out of school for personal reasons. For some reason, In that time I felt like I was going crazy. I don't know how to say it, but I just felt so alone because I had absolutely no one to talk to except my family . It literally felt like I was going insane. I couldn't sleep or function properly. All I did was eat, eat, eat and watch Netflix. It was actually a pretty awful moment in my life; I never felt so terrible.
Now, in Year 10, taking my GCSEs a year earlier and doing much better than before, I go to college once a week, but I'm unable to talk to anyone. I feel like a whole different person than I used to be. I just generally always feel uncomfortable and HUGE all the time. I have no friends, no one to talk to. All I have is food, but I still really want to lose weight. I'm tired of having to come back home to a "loving family" who say they're just looking out for me but make up dances and songs because of my weight or just generally make fun of me all the time. I feel like I'm slowly sinking back into that whole I was a year ago, and I really don't want to.
So, any tips or anything to help me lose weight would really be appreciated. but just something free I cant afford anything since my mum and grandma told everyone not to give me money since i would just buy sweets in other ways they just told everyone that im not to be trusted and if u could recommend any youtube workouts that actually work and could keep me motivated that would help lots

Hot take: Why Spacegodzilla is more of a threath than Destoroyah.
1: Spacegodzilla is literally Godzilla.
Spacegodzilla is basically Godzilla but better wich could mean he could have the same powerups as normal Godzilla, like imagine a Burning SpaceGodzilla form or SpaceGodzilla spiral heat ray, he probably could even evolve with the help of his crystals (like when MV Godzilla was using that pink solar energy, now picture it with Spacegodzilla and he is inside his crystals).
2: His abilities and power source.
Telecknesis is a hell of a power as long with him being able to produce its own energy with his crystals that contain COSMIC ENERGY by eating supernovas and survive a black hole effect, wich is far more powerful than any weapon in the Godzilla franchise (maybe except the dimension tide).
The things like the Proton shied, energy manipulation and photon hurricane (aka: a EMP), are very overpowered abilites come to think of it.
Also, his abilities could range much more from what was show in film, he could put crystals in his claws to make them sharpier or cover small celestial bodies in crystals to use them as projectiles or even make his crystals shoot lasers from their tips (even the ones on his back or tail, like shin Godzilla).
We saw that he even used crystals to parry Godzilla atomic breath in the manga, as long with the thing he did in when a crystal penetrate Godzilla thigh, he expanded the crystal and it injuried Godzilla leg by a lot, so he could learn to use the abilties that he already has in a more skilled way, like imagine him trapping a kaiju inside a proton shield ball and see the kaiju inside get hit by its own beam several times.
3: more tail strenght
Spacegodzilla was able to lift MOGUERA (Wich weights 150 thousand tons) with just his tail while Destroyah was just able to lift half of it with its tail (Heisei Godzilla weights about 60 thousand tons by the end of the heisei era)
4: human inteligence.
Spacegodzilla also thinks forward, like when he went straight ahead for Godzilla when arriving on earth before kidnaping his child and setting his fortress to drain the energy from earth with the Fukuoka tower.
I dare to say that Spacegodzilla could beat Destroyah if he defeated Godzilla in the heisei timeline so he could went with his world domination plan and become more powerful than ever by covering the planet earth with crystals and go after the rest.
Destoroyah would probably just destroy some cities and cause havoc but not in the same level as Spacegodzilla empire wich would be faster and less avoidable.
Also in the comic he teamed up with Hedorah, Gigan and Monster X, yeah. Like it wanst a outside force like alien races, Spacegodzilla made it himself because he is just that guy, could Destroyah do that? I dont think so.
5: better design.
I like crystals and Godzilla.
6: Can beat the Monsterverse but Destroyah can not.
After we saw Shimo capabilities we agreed that Shimo could beat Destroyah, but what about Spacegodzilla? We all know that Spacegodzilla can still beat the whole monsterverse because of its abilities and he doesnt have any weakness like extreme temperatures.
I had to put this one because i think it will make the power measure easier to understand. (I dont mean it with that planet level or city level things or planetary level, i dont use that here)
7: Spacegodzilla was able to overpower Godzilla even if he wanst his weakness like Destoroyah is.
We all know that Destoroyah was basically made of Godzilla weakness and put a hell of a fight agaisnt Burning Godzilla (literally).
But Spacegodzilla, he was just raw power, like he didnt need to be or use the weakness of Godzilla to be a threath to him like with almost every other Kaiju in the heisei era (Mechagodzilla diamond coating, Mothra and Battra tag team, Mecha King Ghidorah claw hand, Biollante... Actually Biollante was just a annoyance to Godzilla to be honest)
8: Spacegodzilla wanst deafeated by anguirus.
You all know what im talking about.
9: Destroyah is more brute while Spacegodzilla is more gracious and experienced.
This one is mostly a opinion but it can also be a advantage in a fight too.
10: he wouldnt limit itself to just earth and would dominate the whole universe, unlike destroyah who would probably just roam around earth and kill everything in front of them.
Self explanatory.
11: its immune to the oxigen destroyer and can swin.
King Ghidorah survives the oxigen destroyer and space but not underwater, Destroyah is the oxigen destroyer and can swin but cant survive space.
But who is suitable for the three? Thats right, Spacegodzilla he is just him!
Ok i think thats enough, now do you think i was right or you all are goona defend Destoroyah because he is "the ultimate Godzilla enemy" at least thematically wich still doenst change much anyway.