Shipwrecks by cabeza nunez english

Hi everyone, this is my first post like this and English is not my first language so bare with me... I'm writing this after a dinner I had with my mother and my two grand parents from her side where another and I think final rift was exposed...
INTRO: To give some background my grandpa's family had an ancestral business that was passed down from first male child to first male child, for at least 4 generations that I know of, that until half of my grandpa's leadership was a thriving establishment with international contracts spreading 3 continents, and that gave that side of the family the possibility of owning a great number of houses around our country. Around 30 years ago this establishment was robbed, nothing big but I've always being told It was something like a catalyst that marked the decline of the business. Something like 5 years later that business failed, the factory was closed. After a couple years my grandpa and my uncle decided to rebuild it in a smaller capacity and to found it they roped in my grandma, my mother, my aunt (uncle's wife) and wife's parents and a bank (with some loans). This time the thing started slow and never really exploded but managed to keep some of the previous clients and was still a little profitable. 10 years ago started the problems, debts from the previous business and from the new one started piling and one after the others they started liquidating the houses and ended up with only three of them ( first world problem is what you are thinking and I guess you are right) but still there was a hole, at the same time relations started to break first between my father and my uncle and then my uncle and his wife's parents because they all felt like they were roped in a shipwreck. In the meantime my grandpa reached retirement age and handed the reigns to my uncle while always backing him up (this was before the really bad debits arrived btw sorry for the confusionbut after the business was no longer bringing in profits), he was waiting for this to happen and accepted. So at this point we are close to now and the assets list is three houses: one in the city one by the sea and one in the mountains; and a little factory. The city house was split in two and the two parts went one to my uncle that started living there and one to my mother that was already living with my father and so my grandparents kept it so practically my uncle got already part of my grandparents will. A couple years ago there was another problem and to get cash my uncle sold half of his house to a friend and kept living in it whereas my grandparents sold completely the other half that was supposed to go to my mother and renting it from the people they sold it to, my dad was furious (understandably) because the house was a masterpiece and demanded that since that house was supposedly my mother's that she had to be compensated somehow and the choice was between getting half of my uncle's half or getting the seaside one that was still less than the quarter of my uncles house to give you an idea, we chose the second option so we didn't have to share with my uncle and to sweeten the deal she still would keep ownership of the furniture of her city house part and at same time she was bought out of the shares of the company for what they were worth at the moment ( a fraction of what they were worth at the start but that would free her from that mess). At the same time tensions between my uncle and aunt peaked and they separated wich was hard on my little cousins and her parent's and her wanted to be bought out of their share and that created another hole. Last year my grandparents asked my mother if they could sell a painting from the ones in the city house and that were supposed to be hers and she accepted with the exception that no money from the sell was supposed to go to the business but kept for living expenses and the payout was good and the painting went to auction for 140k € of Wich 50 we to to my mother. Sorry for this enormous intro but it was necessary and if you lasted until here KUDOS.
THE MATTER AT HAND: Last week we were contacted because there was an unpaid bill for the gardener that was the only remaining bill my grandparents had to pay from the summer house and the fact that it was not paid by them worried us, not because we had to pay it but because it meant something happened to the remaining of the sell of the painting... So my mother wanted to have a chat with her parents and asked if someone was willing to go with her and my father who couldn't take anymore refused so I went because I was informed of the previous matters and I'm the oldest nephew and they usually listen to me. After the dinner we got to talking and we learned that nearly 65k were put in the business behind my mother's back and she was furious and without words so I pressed on the matter to learn more and apparently my uncle begged them to put more money in it and they did.
The problem is that when it was time to defend themselves only my grandpa spoke but using a "pluralis majestatis" that really ticked me off especially since my grandma was silent and looking at her feet, he went on about how he needed help and that he is going through a bad period with the separation and that my aunt wasn't collaborating, and that he doesn't know what would happens if the business closed because my uncle is 50 and worked only there and who knows if he can find employment, that they helped her with us kids so now they can't turn their back on him his final point was that they had no problem continuing with their "war economy" . The thing is my aunt is not keen on sign the divorce papers because they are living like divorced people but he can't marry his new partner he brought up a month after the separation until the papers are signed and she is clearly resentful because some of us are of the idea that the new partner was there before the separation, my uncle's job was mostly maintaining and creating new relations with clients and dealers so he can be a consultant for similar businesses, the help he means was that when i was in highschool i spend three nights a week there since their house was 5 mins on foot whereas mine was 1 h of public transport but my cousins pratically live there and eat at least one meal a day there and rely on them for going and getting back from football pratice four days of the week and for the "war economy" they go around with patches on their clothes and count cents at the end of the day...
I don't know why he has his eyes closed like this, after this discussion my mother seemed more pissed than ever and I think we are on the brink of collapse, is there a way to mediate?

One of the area where, IMO, the tv show has done the biggest disservice compared to both the book and Japan History, is the way Blackthorn was systematically downplayed. Because of that, these forums are full of tv show fans rightfully puzzled at some of the tv show internal logic. Why would Toranaga ally himself with just another Gaigin? Why did the real life counterpart to Blackthorn, Wiliam Adams, became a trusted advisor for Tokugawa Ieyasu (Toranaga's counterpart in History) if he was just another sailor?
To rectify this perception, I'd like to share with you these small excerpt from the book, explaining to the reader the importance and immense knowledge of Pilots in Europan 1600s :
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He knew they were all afraid of him, even the Captain-General, and that most hated him. But that was normal, for it was the pilot who commanded at sea; it was he who set the course and ran the ship, he who brought them from port to port.
Any voyage today was dangerous because the few navigational charts that existed were so vague as to be useless. And there was absolutely no way to fix longitude. “Find how to fix longitude and you’re the richest man in the world,” his old teacher, Alban Caradoc, had said. Out of sight of land you’re always lost, lad.” Caradoc had paused and shaken his head sadly at him as always. “You’re lost, lad. Unless …”
“Unless you have a rutter!” Blackthorne had shouted happily, knowing that he had learned his lessons well. He was thirteen then and had already been apprenticed a year to Alban Caradoc, pilot and shipwright, who had become the father he had lost, who had never beaten him but taught him and the other boys the secrets of shipbuilding and the intimate way of the sea.
A rutter was a small book containing the detailed observation of a pilot who had been there before. It recorded magnetic compass courses between ports and capes, headlands and channels. It noted the sounding and depths and color of the water and the nature of the seabed. It set down the how we got there and how we got back: how many days on a special tack, the pattern of the wind, when it blew and from where, what currents to expect and from where; the time of storms and the time of fair winds; where to careen the ship and where to water; where there were friends and where foes; shoals, reefs, tides, havens; at best, everything necessary for a safe voyage.
But a rutter was only as good as the pilot who wrote it, the scribe who hand-copied it, the very rare printer who printed it, or the scholar who translated it. A rutter could therefore contain errors. Even deliberate ones. A pilot never knew for certain until he had been there himself. At least once.
At sea the pilot was leader, sole guide, and final arbiter of the ship and her crew. Alone he commanded from the quarterdeck.

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The book also explains that Pilots were raised as apprentice by another pilot master, working for them for at least 12 years to learn the trade:

"You’re apprenticed for twelve years. You’ve ten more to go and then you’re free. But until that time, until 1588, you’ll learn how to build ships and how to command them—you’ll obey Alban Caradoc, Master Shipwright and Pilot and Member of Trinity House, or you’ll never have a license. And if you don’t have a license, you’ll never pilot any ship in English waters, you’ll never command the quarterdeck of any English ship in any waters because that was good King Harry’s law, God rest his soul."

So no, despite the tv show attempt at depicting Blackthorn as just another sailor, he was actually an incredibly gifted pilot, speaking 5 languages (dutch,portuguese, Spanish and Latin in addition to English), with a huge knowledge of history, politics, navigation, religion, war, trade, shipbuilding and the leader of the expedition of 5 ships with a total of 460 men that sailed for Magellan's pass and of which one ship and a mere 16 men arrived to shipwreck in Japan.

(FOR WIKI VERSION CLICK HERE: https://whig.miraheze.org/wiki/Property_%26_Land)
Views on property by whigs varied, but one strain of thought put forth something like the follow. First, we should respect other people's (some might say creatures') autonomy and equal status as ends onto themselves, and we should try to not lessen or hurt each other. Second, if someone adds to themself without lessening another, they probably have not wronged anyone. Third, because of the first and second points, it follows that we can mix our labor with natural resources and have a property claim to the result, so long as we have not lessened, hurt, or restricted another in the process, by, for example, taking more than a fair share of land and thereby depriving others of a home or means to feed themselves.
Contrary to this thinking, there is a common thread running a thousand years through history. It starts with the Norman Invasion which imposed feudalism on the English people in the 11th century, it then runs to 12th century complaints about Normans hogging up land, it then runs to the Peasants' Revolt of the 14th century, then to the enclosure of the commons and depopulation of some villages to make way for wool production in the 16th century, then to English republicans denouncing this theft of the people's land in the 17th century, then to land reform efforts by whigs in the 18th and 19th centuries (including during the Anti-Rent War of New York), then to the housing crisis of the 21st century.
This is the common thread: the general public has suffered an unnecessary and unjust burden ever since a small class of people declared that the earth belonged to them alone, and imposed themselves on the villages, towns, and cities of England (later on the settlements in the colonies), by supposed right of the king, by supposed right of heaven. This insane system has largely survived until today by disguising itself as part of republicanism, but it is a remnant of feudalism. It is presented as the ideology of private land rights, when it is only the feudal theory of private land rights, and is in opposition to the classical republican theory which holds that land is a natural thing like the air, not the creation of humans, and that we all have an equal right to the land, to shelter ourselves in homes, to feed ourselves with produce, and to come together in a republican manner to decide the particulars of this equitable arrangement, like by imposing land value tax on those granted the privilege of holding more or better land than average.
QUOTES

"The same law of nature, that does by this means give us property, does also bound that property too. . . As much as any one can make use of to any advantage of life before it spoils, so much he may by his labour fix a property in: whatever is beyond this, is more than his share, and belongs to others. . . But the chief matter of property being now not the fruits of the earth, and the beasts that subsist on it, but the earth itself; as that which takes in and carries with it all the rest; I think it is plain, that property in that too is acquired as the former. As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivates, and can use the product of, so much is his property. . . Nor was this appropriation of any parcel of land, by improving it, any prejudice to any other man, since there was still enough, and as good left; and more than the yet unprovided could use. So that, in effect, there was never the less left for others because of his enclosure for himself: for he that leaves as much as another can make use of, does as good as take nothing at all. No body could think himself injured by the drinking of another man, though he took a good draught, who had a whole river of the same water left him to quench his thirst: and the case of land and water, where there is enough of both, is perfectly the same."

—John Locke (Two Treatises of Government, book 2 chapter 5)

". . . a right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants, and the right to what we acquire by those means without violating the similar rights of other sensible beings; that no one has a right to obstruct another, exercising his faculties innocently for the relief of sensibilities made a part of his nature. . ."

—Thomas Jefferson (a letter to Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 1816)

"Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, & to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise. Whenever there is in any country, uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labour & live on. If, for the encouragement of industry we allow it to be appropriated, we must take care that other employment be furnished to those excluded from the appropriation. If we do not the fundamental right to labour the earth returns to the unemployed. It is too soon yet in our country to say that every man who can not find employment but who can find uncultivated land, shall be at liberty to cultivate it, paying a moderate rent. But it is not too soon to provide by every possible means that as few as possible shall be without a little portion of land. The small landholders are the most precious part of a state."

—Thomas Jefferson (a letter to James Madison, 1785)

"It has been pretended by some (and in England especially) that inventors have a natural and exclusive right to their inventions; & not merely for their own lives, but inheritable to their heirs. but while it is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all, it would be singular to admit a natural, and even an hereditary right to inventions. it is agreed by those who have seriously considered the subject, that no individual has, of natural right, a separate property in an acre of land, for instance. by an universal law indeed, whatever, whether fixed or moveable, belongs to all men equally and in common, is the property, for the moment, of him who occupies it; but when he relinquishes the occupation the property goes with it. stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society. it would be curious then if an idea, the fugitive fermentation of an individual brain, could, of natural right, be claimed in exclusive and stable property. if nature has made any one thing less susceptible, than all others, of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an Idea; which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the reciever cannot dispossess himself of it. it’s peculiar character too is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. he who recieves an idea from me, recieves instruction himself, without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, recieves light without darkening me. that ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benvolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point; and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement, or exclusive appropriation. inventions then cannot in nature be a subject of property. society may give an exclusive right to the profits arising from them as an encouragement to men to pursue ideas which may produce utility. but this may, or may not be done, according to the will and convenience of the society, without claim or complaint from any body."

—Thomas Jefferson (a letter to Isaac McPherson, 1813)

"Establish the principle also in the new law to be passed for protecting copyrights & new inventions, by securing the exclusive right for 19 [years]."

—Thomas Jefferson (a letter to James Madison, 1789)

"Consequently there is as yet no such thing as a street except adjacent to the lots actually sold or divided; the erection of a house in any part of the ground cannot as yet be a nuisance in law. Mr. Carrol is tenant in common of the soil, with the public, and the erection of a house by a tenant in common on the common property is no nuisance. Mr. Carrol has acted imprudently, intemperately, foolishly; but he has not acted illegally. There must be an establishment of the streets before his house can become a nuisance in the eye of the law. Therefore till that establishment neither Majr. Lenfant, nor the Commissioners would have had a right to demolish his house without his consent."

—Thomas Jefferson (Enclosure: Observations on L'Enfant's Letter, 1791)

"It is a position not to be controverted that the earth, in its natural, uncultivated state was, and ever would have continued to be, the common property of the human race. In that state every man would have been born to property. He would have been a joint life proprietor with rest in the property of the soil, and in all its natural productions, vegetable and animal. But the earth in its natural state, as before said, is capable of supporting but a small number of inhabitants compared with what it is capable of doing in a cultivated state. And as it is impossible to separate the improvement made by cultivation from the earth itself, upon which that improvement is made, the idea of landed property arose from that parable connection; but it is nevertheless true, that it is the value of the improvement, only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property. Every proprietor, therefore, of cultivated lands, owes to the community a ground-rent (for I know of no better term to express the idea) for the land which he holds. . . There could be no such thing as landed property originally. Man did not make the earth, and, though he had a natural right to occupy it, he had no right to locate as his property in perpetuity any part of it; neither did the Creator of the earth open a land-office, from whence the first title-deeds should issue. Whence then, arose the idea of landed property? I answer as before, that when cultivation began the idea of landed property began with it, from the impossibility of separating the improvement made by cultivation from the earth itself, upon which that improvement was made. The value of the improvement so far exceeded the value of the natural earth, at that time, as to absorb it; till, in the end, the common right of all became confounded into the cultivated right of the individual. But there are, nevertheless, distinct species of rights, and will continue to be, so long as the earth endures. It is only by tracing things to their origin that we can gain rightful ideas of them, and it is by gaining such ideas that we, discover the boundary that divides right from wrong, and teaches every man to know his own. . . While, therefore, I advocate the right, and interest myself in the hard case of all those who have been thrown out of their natural inheritance by the introduction of the system of landed property, I equally defend the right of the possessor to the part which is his. Cultivation is at least one of the greatest natural improvements ever made by human invention. It has given to created earth a tenfold value. But the landed monopoly that began with it has produced the greatest evil. It has dispossessed more than half the inhabitants of every nation of their natural inheritance, without providing for them, as ought to have been done, an indemnification for that loss, and has thereby created a species of poverty and wretchedness that did not exist before. . . It is not charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state of civilization is as odious as it is unjust. It is absolutely the opposite of what it should be, and it is necessary that a revolution should be made in it. . . It is the practice of what has unjustly obtained the name of civilization. . . to make some provision for persons becoming poor and wretched only at the time they become so. Would it not, even as a matter of economy, be far better to adopt means to prevent their becoming poor?. . ."

—Thomas Paine (Agrarian Justice)

"I care not how affluent some may be, provided that none be miserable in consequence of it."

—Thomas Paine (Agrarian Justice)

"Separate an individual from society, and give him an island or a continent to possess, and he cannot acquire personal property. He cannot be rich. So inseparably are the means connected with the end, in all cases, that where the former do not exist the latter cannot be obtained. All accumulation, therefore, of personal property, beyond what a man's own hands produce, is derived to him by living in society; and he owes on every principle of justice, of gratitude, and of civilization, a part of that accumulation back again to society from whence the whole came."

—Thomas Paine (Agrarian Justice)

"The law which prohibited people's having two inheritances was extremely well adapted for a democracy. It derived its origin from the equal distribution of lands and portions made to each citizen. The law would not permit a single man to possess more than a single portion. . . It is not sufficient in a well regulated democracy that the divisions of land be equal; they ought also to be small, as was customary among the Romans. 'God forbid, said Curius to his soldiers, that a citizen should look upon that as a small piece of land, which is sufficient to support a man.'"

—Charles Montesquieu (The Spirit of Laws, book 5)

"The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows: Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody."

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men, part 2)

"In general, to establish the right of the first occupier over a plot of ground, the following conditions are necessary: first, the land must not yet be inhabited; secondly, a man must occupy only the amount he needs for his subsistence; and, in the third place, possession must be taken, not by an empty ceremony, but by labour and cultivation, the only sign of proprietorship that should be respected by others, in default of a legal title."

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (The Social Contract, book 1 section 9)

"In granting the right of first occupancy to necessity and labour, are we not really stretching it as far as it can go? Is it possible to leave such a right unlimited? Is it to be enough to set foot on a plot of common ground, in order to be able to call yourself at once the master of it? Is it to be enough that a man has the strength to expel others for a moment, in order to establish his right to prevent them from ever returning? How can a man or a people seize an immense territory and keep it from the rest of the world except by a punishable usurpation, since all others are being robbed, by such an act, of the place of habitation and the means of subsistence which nature gave them in common? When Nunez Balboa, standing on the sea-shore, took possession of the South Seas and the whole of South America in the name of the crown of Castile, was that enough to dispossess all their actual inhabitants, and to shut out from them all the princes of the world? On such a showing, these ceremonies are idly multiplied, and the Catholic King need only take possession all at once, from his apartment, of the whole universe, merely making a subsequent reservation about what was already in the possession of other princes."

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (The Social Contract, book 1 section 9)

"The like may be said in relation to my house, land, or estate; I may do what I please with them, if I bring no damage upon others. But I must not set fire to my house, by which my neighbour’s house may be burnt. I may not erect forts upon my own lands, or deliver them to a foreign enemy, who may by that means infest my country. I may not cut the banks of the sea, or those of a river, lest my neighbour’s ground be overflown, because the society into which I am incorporated, would by such means receive prejudice. My land is not simply my own, but upon condition that I shall not thereby bring damage upon the publick, by which I am protected in the peaceable enjoyment and innocent use of what I possess."

—Algernon Sidney (Discourses Concerning Government, chapter 3 section 41)

"The like continued amongst Jacob’s sons; no jurisdiction was given to one above the rest: an equal division of land was made amongst them: Their judges and magistrates were of several tribes and families, without any other preference of one before another, than what did arise from the advantages God had given to any particular person. This I take to be a proof of the utmost extent and certainty, that the equality amongst mankind was then perfect. . ."

—Algernon Sidney (Discourses Concerning Government, chapter 1 section 12)

"Men can hardly at once foresee all that may happen in many ages, and the changes that accompany them ought to be provided for. Rome in its foundation was subject to these defects, and the inconveniences arising from them were by degrees discover’d and remedi’d. They did not think of regulating usury, till they saw the mischiefs proceeding from the cruelty of usurers; or setting limits to the proportion of land that one man might enjoy, till the avarice of a few had so far succeeded, that their riches were grown formidable, and many by the poverty to which they were reduced became useless to the city."

—Algernon Sidney (Discourses Concerning Government, chapter 2 section 13)

"That the too long continued shame of this Nation, viz. permission of any to suffer such poverty as to beg their bread, may be forthwith effectually remedied; and to that purpose, that the poor be enabled to chuse their Trustees to discover all Stocks, Houses, Lands, &c. which of right belong to them and their use, that they may speedily receive the benefit thereof, and that some good improvement may be made of waste Grounds for their use. . ."

—John Lilburne (An Impeachment of High Treason against Oliver Cromwel)

"As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce."

—Adam Smith (The Wealth of Nations, book 1 chapter 6)

"The thirteenth ORDER. . . every man who is at present possest, or shall hereafter be possest of an estate in land exceeding the revenue of two thousand pounds a year, and having more than one son, shall leave his lands either equally divided among them, in case the lands amount to above 2000 l. a year to each; or so near equally in case they com under, that the greater part or portion of the same remaining to the eldest, excede not the value of two thousand pounds revenue. And no man, not in present possession of lands above the value of two thousand pounds by the year, shall receive, enjoy (except by lawful inheritance) acquire, or purchase to himself lands within the said territorys, amounting, with those already in his possession, above the said revenue."

—James Harrington (Oceana)

"All Property indeed, except the Savage’s temporary Cabin, his Bow, his Matchcoat, and other little Acquisitions absolutely necessary for his Subsistence, seems to me to be the Creature of public Convention. Hence the Public has the Right of Regulating Descents & all other Conveyances of Property, and even of limiting the Quantity & the Uses of it. All the Property that is necessary to a Man for the Conservation of the Individual & the Propagation of the Species, is his natural Right which none can justly deprive him of: But all Property superfluous to such purposes is the Property of the Publick, who by their Laws have created it, and who may therefore by other Laws dispose of it, whenever the Welfare of the Publick shall demand such Disposition. He that does not like civil Society on these Terms, let him retire & live among Savages.— He can have no right to the Benefits of Society who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it."

—Benjamin Franklin (a letter to Robert Morris, 1783)

"I think it could never be, that the best of the Proprietaries located uncultivated Lands should be taxed no higher than the worst of those of the People; that being so manifestly unjust. Nor that a Medium Rate should be fix’d on for all that kind of Lands, as this would be too high for some, and too low for others. Nor that the common Rate should be taken from the worst kind; for this would lay the Burthen chiefly on that kind, which is unjust and oppressive to the poorer People."

—Benjamin Franklin (a letter to Richard Jackson, 1764)

"It gives me Pain my Lord! to observe that the prevailing monopoly of Lands in this Colony has become a Grievance to the lower Class of People in it; and confines the Bounty of our gracious Sovereign to mercenary Land-Jobbers, and Gentlemen who have already shared very largely in the royal Munificence."

—John Jay (a letter to the Earl of Dartmouth, 1773)

"That the right of the Poor, in their Commons, may be preserved, and freed from the Usurpations, Enclosures, and Encroachments of all manner of Projectors, Undertakers, &c. and that all servile Tenures of Lands, as by Copy-holds, or the like, be abolished and holden for naught."

—Leveller tract (The Fundamental Lawes and Liberties of England claimed, asserted, and agreed unto, by severall Peaceable Persons of the City of London, Westminster, Southwark, Hamblets, and Places adjacent; commonly called Levellers.)

"The right to property being inviolable and sacred, no one ought to be deprived of it, except in cases of evident public necessity, legally ascertained, and on condition of a previous just indemnity."

—National Assembly of France (Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens)

"Great days and glorious victory! My name is Spifflemonk and welcome to my Letsplay! Today I am back from my medically mandated break from playing human videogames after a rather... cathartic experience with a game called Teardown. Subnautica, even among humans, is labeled as a notorious experience with... mixed reception for its sequel. A survival crafting game apparently. I have experience with those so presumably the gameplay loop should be predictable enough. So... Let's go in!"
Spiffle starts the game, going for standard Survival Mode, with aspects of food and water mechanics alongside health and oxygen. The game loads very, very fast with Spiffles overpowered computer, and the introduction sequence begins. The camera pans to the panicked sight of the payer character moving down a ladder followed by a sight of a starship above exploding.
"Oh dear... oh dear! They weren't kidding about survival! Do I even survive this or am I a ghost or something..."
The pod rattles, the screen shakes, a fire extinguisher falls from its mounting. Velocity causes the pod to dislodge a panel from a wall and it flies around the cabin. The panel flies into the player's screen, making it go black.
"Oh... well okay then. I uh... well."
Spiffles' character awakens and panics at the buttons securing him to the seat. Spiffle quickly figures out that fire in this game is in fact bad, and grabs the fire extinguisher, putting the fire out. The game's introduction plays, showing his PDA, the game's inventory UI.
"Oh! I have seen these things in real life when visiting human stations! Do all humans have these?"
Spiffle starts exploring the escape pod, noting all of the damage to the radio beacon and the wiring panel.
"Hmm... craft the repair tool... Well... For later I suppose. Now how do i-AH, the ladder!"
Spiffle clicks on the ladder and goes through the animation. The character exits and dramatically stands. Spiffle looks around. His face visibly pales as he looks in every direction, finding the only thing nearby that looks 'safe’ or like 'land' is the destroyed ship in the distance.
"Water... it's... water... everywhere! How big is this game's map!? Structural hull failure... zero human lifesigns detected. That's.. not nice. Well... Here we go!"
Spiffle jumps into the water. His mood changes, the underwater environment significantly different than above ground. The water is absolutely teeming with life and color, as Spiff swims towards a reef to stare at some coral. Spiff gets distracted and starts chasing a fish, specifically a Peeper, and grabs it.
"Oh! Good god! THAT'S how humans catch fish!? That's very... inefficient! What is this thing? Can I eat it? I know I'm supposed to take care of my food and water, so how do I eat it?"
Spiffle wanders about for a while, gathering resources and exploring his general location, eventually getting back to the pod. He had gathered up a decent amount of stuff while he was swimming around and accessed the Fabricator to see what was available.
"Ah! I see, the fabricator cooks things too. Uhm... cooked fish thing and... these transparent fish give me water bottles? Okay then! Well. Sorted for food anyway. Let's see. Copper wire, batteries. A Scanner? Does that mean I can like, scan things and tell what they are? And... Oxygen tank? Oh hell yes. I'll build that then."
Spiffle goes through the process of building a few things, checking out how the game's crafting system works, and spending more time collecting resources. He quickly realizes how much work he has to do and finally finishes making a Scanner.
"Okay then well... I can see how much time is going to be spent collecting resources so i'm going to edit all of that out and keep you all in the loop on all the fun parts instead."
Spiffle continues playing, inserting a creative, albeit mildly annoying fanciful scene transition in between resource loops. He comes to a cave looking for salt to make more equipment, when he encounters the first hostile enemy of the game: The Crashfish. He does not notice it at first, the strange sloppy noise it makes as its pod opens, the beast makes a terrible gurgly noise and charges straight at him.
"What is that noi-AH! OY! OI! OIIII what are you what are-!"
Spiffle is cut off as the fish explodes, causing him to lose half his health. He quickly surfaces and takes a breath.
"Okay then... OKAY... THAT... makes absolutely no sense from an evolutionary perspective... but okay then. Avoid those. What even was that? I can't even scan it because it was moving so fast! Gods... exploding fish."
Spiffle shakes his head and resumes his hunt for resources, eventually finding enough for a repair tool. He makes the repair of the pods' broken wiring and looks around a bit more, noting some of the details in the game.
"Hard to believe these games are over eight hundred years old! I keep getting requests to play 'them gud ol' gamez' instead of any new releases. Maybe I'll get to those eventually. I have quite the backlog though."
Spiffle quickly tabs out and shows the huge list of human made games on his list that he has been gifted or purchased himself. The list includes Space Marine, Starship Troopers, Spyro Trilogy, Crash Bandicoot, and so... so many more.
"I am also told about this thing called 'anime', whatever that is. Maybe I should look into that. Anyway..."
Spiffle shrugs for now and resumes playing, swimming around for a bit before finally deciding to use his scanner. He gets the first scan - the Acid Mushroom - and painstakingly reads the supplied article. He then goes on a scanning frenzy, scanning each thing he can find, comically chasing after various fish and objects, trying to scan them then taking an irritatingly long time to read the article aloud.
He gets to the point where he encounters his first real hostile enemy and tries to scan it. The stalker, of course, doesn't appreciate that, and attacks.
"Oooh what's this thing? Oh lovely, it's a big one. Can I scan it? The... Stalker? Oh okay is it friend-OW! NONONONO go away!"
Spiffle panics and scans it while running away from it, trying to swim backwards. He's so focused on scanning it he can't run far enough away that he gets ambushed by another Stalker nearby and manages to scan it just as he gets hit with his first Death in the game.
"Oh.... o...kay. Well... it seems things aren't as friendly as expected. I'm going to guess there's more things like that around. So... I'm just going to finish working on repairs and equipment then I'll take those things on."
Spiffle reads the article on the Stalker he scanned and spends more time collecting resources, scanning local entities and building the rest of the gear he has. Fins, high capacity O2 tank, rebreather and some more food and water which he stores in floating containers for later. He starts to explore a bit farther in search of fragments to scan and finds a Sand Shark, as well as a biome resembling a desert-like area. He encounters his first piece of the wrecked ship here.
"Oh! Hello! Pieces of wreckage! What are these for now do you suppose? Can I disassemble these for resources or-Oh! Is that a door? Oh! I'm supposed to go in here and look for things? How do I get in? Oh I can't. I need a laser cutter. Is one of those here? Need more fragments I guess..."
Spiffle gives up trying to enter and goes up for air, then returns to the floor to hunt for fragments. He eventually unlocks the Bioreactor, pieces of the Scanner room, a couple fragments of the Seaglide and Seamoth. He comes across the first cave entrance to the Mushroom Caves Biome.
"Oh... oh my. That's... deep. Good thing I unlocked the Seamoth thing. Its a miniature submarine I think. I can use that. But that's... kinda scary. I can't see the bottom. I kinda see just... purple. Mostly purple. But it scares me that I can't see the bottom."
Spiffle hangs around the cave entrance for a bit before a call for Oxygen forces him to the surface. He swims back down to the cave entrance and then hangs around a bit longer before once again resurfacing, heading for some new things to scan. It is however at this point that Spiffles exploration is cut short.
"EMERGENCY - SEISMIC READINGS SUGGEST A QUANTUM DETONATION HAS OCCURRED IN THE AURORA'S DRIVE CORE. THE CENTRAL DARK MATTER REACTOR WILL REACH A SUPERCRITICAL STATE IN -"
The computer aboard the PDA shakes Spiff out of his daze and he quickly rushes to the surface and looks at the ship.
"Wait wait wait what's that!? What's going on!? I see the ship? The Aurora! That's what its name is? Whats a Dark Matter reactor and wha-"
The computer continues its countdown muffled by Spiffs panicked squealing and he has a front-row seat to one of the most spectacular explosions in the history of gaming - the Aurora's Reactor Detonation.
It happens. The world goes dead silent for a short moment, and one can see Spiffles heart visibly stop beating. Then explosion as the Aurora lets out its magnificent blast. As the shockwave expands outwards, Spiffs skin visibly turns a paler shade of blue, and his eyes go wide. The sound of a geiger counter follows, leaving him breathless and pale as the world suddenly goes dead quiet again. The sound of the geiger counter ominously leaving him shaken even more than he already is.
"FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE - THE RADIATION SUIT HAS BEEN ADDED TO YOUR BLUEPRINTS."
Spiffle stays completely silent, bobbing in the water for a solid few minutes, staring in shocked wonder at what he just witnessed. He regains his composure for a few short moments and returns to his scanning venture, but one can easily see he isn't in the right mind after that. He returns to the seabed, at the entrance to the mushroom caves and dives again. He does this several more times, popping up to the surface, looking at the shipwreck, then diving at the entrance again. Finally, after much hesitation, he dives one last time.
"Screw it. it's just a game right?"
He smiles at the camera with a shrug and swims far below the surface, into one of the caves. As he enters the cavern his jaw drops at the sight of a massive underwater cavern filled with gigantic glowing pink mushrooms. The Mushroom caves as they are known. He spots something in the distance, entranced, forgetting his oxygen situation. He cant get far however and a terrifying shriek of some unknown entity shakes him out of his stupor.
"What in the red dawn was that noise!?"
Spiff can't finish asking his invisible audience what's going on as he strays too close to a mushroom, occupied by a Crab Snake, a gigantic sea worm. He is grabbed from behind, spun around and he visibly panics as the giant worm digs its enormous tusks into Spiffles character. Spiffle immediately freaks out, a combination of both the terrifying shriek emitted by the creature and the shock of being attacked makes poor Spiffle jump out of his seat and duck under the table.
"GOWAYGOWAYGOWAGOWAYGOWAY!!!"
The worm comes back and finishes Spiff off before his oxygen runs out. Spiff's character respawns but the footage continues, a slight whimper can be heard in the background as Spiff hides under the desk. This carries on for a few minutes, and his head very slowly appears above the desk. He gingerly puts himself back in his seat and breathes heavily for a bit. When he finally gains control, he tabs out of the game and takes a look at the wiki for Subnautica. He returns a few moments later and stares at the camera in that strange haunting glare he's become so famous for.
"WHY DO YOU STUPID DEVELOPERS NOT PUT GUNS IN THE GAME IF YOU HAVE SHIT LIKE THAT!? ARE YOU INSANE!?"
He grabs the camera and shakes it violently as he rants at it, questioning why there are guns in every other human game he has played and not THIS specific game, especially considering how there are 'giant water snake monsters that eat your face' in a game with no guns. He rants for a good minute or two then plays his outro.
TOP COMMENT: "Are you absolutely sure after Teardown, Factorio and Project ZOMBOID, you should be playing Subnautica? I mean seriously, try something less... psychologically terrifying. It's known as Thalassophobia Simulator for a reason."
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"Great days and glorious victory! My name is Spifflemonk and I still don't understand why we have giant worm monsters but we have no guns!"
Spiffle stares at the camera with an expression that can only be summarized as 'Seriously bruh?' and resumes his last playthrough. He becomes confused at the lack of stuff in his inventory.
"Why is my... Why do I not ha-Oh right... I was eaten. When you die your inventory is wiped... I need to build more tools then."
Spiffle starts some silly music, an alien version of Benny Hill to a montage of him collecting resources, occasionally ranting at various oddities and questioning game logic. He restores all of his tools then goes hunting for a Vehicle Bay fragment so he can build the Seamoth. He continues to scan what he can, developing something of an obsession with the task, then painstakingly reading every word about it to try and understand it. It is at this point Spiffle, during his explorations finds another derelict chunk of ship near the desert region, encountering his first Sand Shark.
"What... What is this? Oh... careful Spiff. This one looks angrier than the last one you found. Wh-What in oblivion!?"
Spiffles attention is once again diverted by the appearance of a Reefback Leviathan and its signature low drone. This one appears to be a fully grown adult.
"You-you... You've got to be... You gotta be fucking kidding me. A Juhara Eelfish!? WHAT IS THAT DOING IN A HUMAN VIDEOGAME!!!??"
Spiffle squeaks in shock as he sees a creature that is an absolute spitting image of a large oceanic dwelling sea creature, which is both the games and his native homeworlds version of a Whale. The Reefback has some dissimilarities, but its close enough to the real thing that Spiffle is genuinely shocked. He quickly pauses the game, opening various wikipedia articles, then displays a full picture of both Subnautica in game Reefback, and the Juhara-Kal-Rehar, colloquially known as a Juhara Eelfish, a shockingly similar creature that lives in his homeworlds oceans.
The only difference between them is the color of the exterior chitin shell. The Reefback has a blue/purple shell, the Juhara Eelfish's chitin has a red/green shell.
"WHEN was this game made!?"
Spiff checks, the current Earth-date is the year 2886. Humanity only entered the galactic community in 2752. Subnautica was released in 2018.
"HOW.... How is that even possible!? You didn't even know the galaxy existed until only a few decades ago, yet you almost PERFECTLY matched the appearance of one of our homeworlds native species! How is this even possible!? Okay. If the name matches then I have to call bullshit."
Spiffle approaches and scans it, then reads the data article.
"A... Reefback Leviathan? Oh thank God... Now let's see... A herbivorous creature that... that likely got so large due to the fact that its predators went extinct. Well... that's... okay... A hard chitinous shell of multiple layers, a microcosm of different creatures and flora growing from its back, hence the name. Hmmm..."
Spiffle gets that cold, empty stare on his face and glares menacingly at the camera. The screen goes black, then returns, seeing Spiffle nursing a beverage of some kind while wrapped in a blanket.
"I realized something... Call it a message from the Ancestors or a Divine revelation. But I have a funny feeling this isn't going to be the last time I see a creature from the galaxy represented in human media. I hope to the Gods that doesn't happen... the concept of this situation is nothing short of terrifying. In any case, I'm sorry about that. Lets.... let's continue."
Spiffle resumes where he left off, doing his usual routine of scanning, then obsessively reading. Eventually he unlocks the Vehicle Bay, and returns home to his pod where the situation with resources is growing obscene with at least fifty floating resource containers hovering around the area.
"Alright... A Vehicle Bay... This means I can build things like the Seamoth now. This will be nice. Right, I shall for the sake of my audience skip the resource collection mechanic that's here and focus on the actual result. I shan't waste my time either though. MONTAGE!"
Spiff yells excitedly and a montage to that same odd Benny Hill type music plays out, with him collecting the resources he needs to build both machines. Most of it is already in the floating containers strewn about. With a few visits to the fabricator, he compiles the Power Cell, Titanium Ingot and Lubricant he needs to make the Vehicle Bay. He deploys it and chases it to the surface just away from the pod in the deeper end of the shallows.
"Right... Not too hard. Let's see then, how do-Ah. Get on it and... The Seamoth. Cost of two glass, one titanium ingot, a powercell, lead and lubricant. Right."
He quickly gathers and makes everything he needs for the Seamoth, then stands on the platform ready to go. He chooses the Seamoths recipe and the sequence starts. His eyes light up as drones start flying around the platform, then begin assembling atom by atom, the small, adorable minisub known as the Seamoth. It finishes the process and flops into the water with a splash.
"My gods look at this thing! It's so cute!"
Spiffle explores the sub for a little while and hops inside it, testing the controls and playing around with it a bit to see what it can do.
"Hm... Maximum Depth, 200 meters? So if I go below that does it implode or something? I need to be careful of that. OH dammit I remember! I have to make that Radiation Suit don't I? I shall do so now!"
Spiffle seems to have found a new resolve, quickly gathering resources together and making both a Seaglide and radiation suit in short order.
"Does this thing have any weapons? How do I repair-Oh... Repair tool? That makes it easier I suppose. Now... Where do I go now? Is there anything I can do?"
Spiffle stumbles about in the blind for a few minutes, trying to figure out his next course of action beyond simply wandering aimlessly while scanning things. He gets back in the pod and fixes the radio beacon. His face visibly contorts into an expression of irritation when he hears his rescue is in 9999 hours. He resolves to come back every now and then to check the radio. He decides to gather more resources to make up for building the seamoth and comes back a bit later. He finds a radio transmission when he returns.
"RADIO: ▀▖┗▛Nine new biological subjects designated. Mode ▄▖▜▚┣: hunting/analyzing.
Sharing subject locations with other agents."
"What... in the Nine Hells was THAT!? Why was it in such an odd voice? What was that language? What were those letters!? Somethings going on here... SO now what? I have the radiation suit. i guess... go into the Aurora? Oh no, I'm not going in there unprepared! Lemme make some tools and spare batteries, then i'll go in. I need... Oh... I need more fragments is what I need."
Spiffle resumes his fragment hunt, looking around for fragments of various tools. He uses the Seamoth to traverse around.
"WHEEE!!!"
Spiff seems more than just a bit happy as he trundles around in the Seamoth, using his speed to launch himself out of the water. He splashes about a bit, testing the limits of the craft and trying to see what holes he can squeeze himself into or out of and how deep he can go.
"Okay okay. time to get to serious work. Now... I need to find... A Laser Cutter and a... STASIS RIFLE?! Wait... rifle? That means GUN! I NEED A GUN!!"
Spiffle charges forward towards the desert biome where he found the Reefback and resumes his search for things to scan. It is now he comes across a Reginald.
"What... IS this fish? Wait, let me just..."
He gets out of the Seamoth and scans it.
"Huh... Reginald. That's a... fish? It's so cute! Wait, come back friend!"
Spiffle spends an unreasonable amount of time trying to catch a Reginald. When he finally catches one he gets back in the Seamoth and heads towards the aurora, new friend in tow. He trundles over to the side of the crashed ship and scans some random stuff here and there, finding fragments to a few small items, including a few he needs such as a Powercell Charger for the Seamoth’s battery. He gets close to the front of the ship and the haunting, evil noise of Subnautica's most iconic killer suddenly echoes through the gloomy water.
"What... Was that? Is it another worm thing? Please don't let it be one of those..."
Spiffle wanders around the side for a bit longer. An ominous shadow looms in the background, catching his eye. He ignores it for the moment and simply carries on, eventually arriving at the entrance to the ship. Through the mangled steel and fire he squeezes into the front of the ship and looks around. The environment ominously rattles and his screen shakes as the ships structure isn't exactly stable. The howl of the creature in the shadows makes Spiff even more uncomfortable.
"I... Do NOT like this. I really dont."
Spiff parks the Seamoth where he can see a ramp leading up, and gets out. He is immediately accosted by Cave Crawlers and uses his knife to defend himself, poorly, but he gets rid of the three or four around him.
"WARNING: SCANS SHOW THE DIGESTIVE TRACTS OF INDIGENOUS LIFE FORMS CONTAIN HUMAN TISSUE."
Spiffs face turns an even paler shade of blue and he swallows visibly as if he's trying not to vomit.
"Yeuch... I can scan this thing and read it later. I don't want to be here any longer than I have to."
Spiff scans and follows the path to the interior, uses his fire extinguisher to put out some fires in the area and gets inside. The ship rumbles as he wanders around and gets into one of the rooms. He finds the poster of the P.R.A.W.N. Suit.
"Ooh! A poster thing? Can I take it or? I can! PRAWN Suit eh? Can I actually use that thing?"
Spiff takes the poster, scans some furniture and collects a PDA. Spiff continues down the corridor and retrieves his Propulsion Cannon from his inventory and uses it to pick up some furniture in the way.
"I am SO glad I got this thing from scanning the area before I came here. This is super useful! I wonder if it has other uses..."
He gets to the door and looks at his databank.
"Hmm... Here it is! Code for the door is 1454. Right."
Spiff moves through, repairing a door to get the Seamoth Depth Upgrade Module. He continues and clears a fire to enter the main reactor. His inner loot goblin shines through and grabs the Cyclops engine efficiency module before he starts work on repairs, scanning the breach and starting work. It doesn't take him long, but he gets issues with a Bleeder that lives in the waters. He scans one then finishes repairs. Foolishly, he uses the propulsion cannon and shoots the bleeder at one of the reactors, undoing his work. He looks at the damage he caused and repairs it.
"Well... what was I expecting... Why did I do that? It's a CANNON... why did I aim it at the reactor exactly? So stupid..."
Spiff finishes and heads to the PRAWN Bay, and looks around at the damage. He spots the prawn suits and starts scanning, grabbing a storage module upgrade from a console and starts extinguishing flames so he can scan. He runs out of fire extinguisher juice though.
"Blast! Can I still scan these if they're on fire?"
Spiff walks around, finding cheeky angles he can use and scans the debris, finding all four fragments he needs. He heads upstairs and goes through the rooms and everything he can find. He gets into the Galley and sees the Kitty in a Space Helmet Poster.
"What the- 'Keep Calm'? What in the blue balls is this? It's.... cute! What is this creature!? Can I keep this? I can!"
Spiffle excitedly grabs the poster and moves on. He goes through cabins, picks up PDAs and collects the Natural Selection 2 poster, the Prawn suit in the sea poster and the collectible arcade toy in the locked cabin. Lacking the code to the Captain's cabin, he returns to the prawn bay and tries swimming around, eventually finding a passage in the hull debris to the rest of the ship. He moves through in silence, recovers the black box data and exits the ship. He removes debris, grabs the local wildlife with the cannon and tosses them into fires or the water with glee.
"BEGONE BEAST!!! Ha! Right... uhh... where did i park? Oh, there it is. Should I go home? I wonder if there are any fragments I can use around here?"
Spiff exits, finding Liefpod 4 floating upside down on the surface of the water. He collects the PDA data and a new blueprint. Then, as he gets in the seamoth, the horrifying roar of the Reaper Leviathan suddenly sounds. Spiff is thrown into a panic, screams in terror and tries desperately to get away. The beast appears with jaw chomping and claws clawing at the poor Seamoth. The entire time Spiffle is screeching like a bird with a broken leg, his entire body now an almost ghostly white out of absolute terror.
"GOWAYGOWAYGOWAYGOWAYGODNONNONOGOWAYGOWAY!!!"
Spiffle manages to get out of its grip and in a panic charges away towards his lifepod and continues to scream, breathing hard between screams. He gets to the pod and then hides under his desk, continuing to scream. His channel outro plays.
TOP COMMENT: (This has been translated from Eridani) "I am starting to believe this whole sojourn was a very BAD idea. Do you humans have those kinds of beasts on your homeworld? How did you ever survive them?!"
RESPONSE: LOL no we never had Reapers. The only Leviathan Class creatures we have on our planet are Whales. And they're mostly peaceful plankton eaters. Mostly.
RESPONSE: (Translated from Eridani) "Seriously? I think I find it more terrifying that these creatures are made up in your minds. What kind of nightmares do you people have to be able to create this level of fiction!?"
RESPONSE: Do. Not. Ask. This is only Subnautica - we have FAR worse.
Spiffles response: "You're going to make me play these 'far worse', aren't you?"
RESPONSE: "Damn right we are! :)"
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"Great days and glorious victory! My name is Spifflemnonk and welcome back to Subnautica!"
Spiffle looks visibly stronger, his usual lanky appearance now looking like he's been working out like a Gym Bro. One can see muscles on muscles and Spiff seems to have an abnormal amount of energy.
"I am now relaxed. It is now time to get eaten by giant scary sea monsters. And yes, before you ask, I have successfully finished fully soundproofing my office. And also yes, I am indeed expecting a new addition to the brood... THANKS DAMN HUMANS! You and your damn musical magic nonsense..."
Spiffle starts the game and is swimming outside the pod next to the Seamoth. The first thing he does is repair the seamoth from the damage incurred by the Reaper, and recounts what hes been up to, checking inventory and equipment. He heads to the radio and gets a new transmission.
RADIO - "This is Avery Quinn of trading ship Sunbeam. Aurora, do you read? Over.'
'Nothing but vacuum. These Alterra ships. They run low on engine grease, they send an SOS; you offer to help, they don't pick up.'
'Aurora, we're out on the far side of the system, it's going to take more than a week to reach your position, do you still need our assistance? Over.'
'I'll try them again tomorrow. Damn charter's going to have us wasting our profit margin running errands for Alterra.'
'See what the long-range scanner picks up in the meantime."
"Oh? Oh lovely! There ARE people in this game! I wonder when they will be here? Meh, I have things to build, so I'll keep an eye."
Spiffle resolves himself to start building a base, trying to find a good spot. He finds the Mushroom Forest Biome and starts gathering resources to ferry them around. He installs the Depth Module and the Storage module to the Seamoth, then builds the Moon Pool. The Mushroom Biome becomes one of his favorite spots and a close encounter with a JellyRay cements it.
"Those creatures are beautiful! Look! JellyRay! Its glowing blue and pretty! I love that! Oh... I have a new radio message. I need to listen to that then."
Spiff returns to the pod and listens to the message.
RADIO - "Aurora, this is Sunbeam again. We just picked up a massive debris field at your location.'
'I didn't know how bad... How many of you... I didn't know.'
'We are now en route to your location. We're going to bring you home. Sunbeam out.'
'What else can I say? The only time I parked a rig this big on a rock that small was in VR, and I blew it'
'Oh, it's a bad option alright, but so are all the others."
Spiff smiles and carries on working, parking the Seamoth inside after powering everything up.
"So lovely! But... Is that a win condition? I know human games by now I have played enough of them. Is that a win condition? Get rescued? I dunno..."
Spiffle carries on building for a little and gets a storage system up, spending a few in-game days transporting resources to his new base. He returned to the pod and played a new radio message, again from the Sunbeam.
RADIO - "This is Sunbeam. Y'know, Aurora, we're from a little trans-gov on the far side of Andromeda, and we have a saying there.'
'There's no bad without the good, no good without the bad.'
'Sounds like you tasted a bunch of the former, but that only means you're overdue a whole lot of the latter.'
'Might just be we're it.'
'We're scanning for somewhere to park, we'll be in touch when we find it. Sunbeam out."
"Ohh... That... that's a lovely saying! What was that uh... There's no bad without the good, no good without the bad. I like that! I think i'll have that framed on my wall! Now lets see.. i ca- I CAN GIVE THE SEAMOTH A NAME? OOHHHhh okay, okay.. I can customize the color too! I think I'll just do this..."
Spiff leaves the name as 'Seamoth' for now, changing the color to a mix of purple for the main, and blue for the trim and name color. His two favorite colors. Spiffle does a little more work, acquiring the last fragments for the Cyclops and starts gathering together the resources necessary to build it.
"Hmmm.. Cyclops... Personal large scale submarine capable of carrying other vehicles! Ooohhh I want to build that! I need to fetch the Vehicle Bay though. Im almost done moving house!"
Spiff returns and packs up the last of his resources, then gets another radio message.
RADIO - "Aurora, we're approaching the planet now, and we have a landing site for you that's... well, it's better than the alternatives.'
'We've sent you the coordinates.'
'It'll take us a couple of days to align our orbit, we should be able to establish direct contact with you during that time, then we're coming in to get you.'
'Cross your fingers the weather holds, and don't leave us waiting. Sunbeam out."
Spiffle gets a new beacon on his HUD. Sunbeam Landing Site.
"What!? Is this game over If I'm there!? Okay... well. At least it's no longer terrifying! I'll get the Seamoth and go for the beacon then. I hope it's okay... Strange... this... doesn't feel like the end, you know? But if it is then it is."
Spiff heads home, deploys the Vehicle Bay and deposits his gear and resources. He heads towards the location, occasionally squealing 'WHEEE!!' as he uses the Seamoth to jump out of the water like a dolphin. However, he miscalculates and the Seamoth jumps up, out and sustains a bit of damage as it hits a rock formation close to the surface. He gets out, repairs it and looks at the camera.
"Why no I didn't just damage my Seamoth by having too much fun. I don't know what you are talking about. Hehe."
Spiffle smirks at the camera with a glare and carries on. Eventually, he encounters the largest of the Islands in the world.
"Wh... WHAT. This has been here the whole time!? Is this an island? Who cares! LAND! Sweet land!"
Spiffle now notices the timer and hops onto the island from his Seamoth. He walks up to the landing zone and stops dead in his tracks at the sight of the massive al;ien structure known as the Quarantine Enforcement Platform. In essence, a giant alien cannon.
"What... the *beep* is THAT?"
Spiffles' editing has gotten better, his editor learning how to censor Spiffles foul language, in both English AND Eridani. He moves closer to the building, scanning the broken tablet and the Forcefield Controls.
"What is this? I mean it's clearly alien... What do the codex entries say... 'possible to reconstruct the device' Oh... hmm.. I can make more of these then. 'Matches no known technologies... functions like a lock'. Okay then so... Standard video game logic I guess. That's nice! So A purple tablet will unlock the gate there. What are those?"
Spiff moves towards the Cairns marking the way into the island, pathways leading up the mountainside. He follows them, finding a Purple Tablet in the process on one of the pathways.
"Oh! Lovely! That saves me resources and a trip I guess. This pathway keeps going though. hmm... Welp, we still have thirty minutes, so let's go."
Spiff explores the pathway, getting lost a bit before finally figuring that following the large cables is a good idea. He comes across the Teleportation Arch and scans it, in between dodging the Cave Crawlers.
"Right, let's see... Alien Arch... not much to speak of here. Maybe this thing will be useful later I guess. Likely.... Hmmm..."
Spiffle continues exploring and eventually finds himself back at the forcefield with another twenty minutes to go.
"Screw it, let's go."
Spiff activates the forcefield platform and the animation of the key being placed plays out. He moves into the building, activating both data platforms and acquiring two Ion Cubes for later, scanning everything he thinks he can scan. He enters the Moonpool in the bay and gets two more Ion Cubes, plus data on a rifle and a Doomsday Device. He ignores it for now, acquiring one more purple tablet and accessing the control room.
"Right... what's in here? Hmm... Energy Core, right. I shall scan that and... press button?"
Spiff presses the button. An animation plays where a device locks his characters hand in place, viciously stabs it with a pointy metal bit and then releases it.
"OH GODS what the hell! Why is that?! That's just nasty!"
"THE TERMINAL IS BROADCASTING A MESSAGE. TRANSLATION READS: 'Warning, infected individuals may not disable the weapon. This planet is under quarantine.'"
"Quarantine! What? Infected? I-Hold on...."
Spiffle gets his scanner out and performs a self-scan. It is only now he notices something very bad has happened.
"I-infected!? Wait, what!?"
"SELF-SCAN COMPLETE - DETECTING STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT BACTERIAL LEVELS. NO ADVERSE EFFECTS DETECTED. BE VIGILANT FOR SYMPTOMS."
"Oh brilliant! Does that mean I can't leave? I KNEW IT! Wait... weapon!? This is a weapon!?"
Spiffle panics and runs out of the facility as fast as he can and waits the last few minutes for the Sunbeam to arrive. Sure enough, it does. In the last 30 seconds, the Sunbeam plays a message.
RADIO - "Survivor, we see you!
'Man, I don't know how you held out down there.'
The sunbeams message plays, and Spiffle gasps in terror from the sound of the gun platform starting up and starting to move around.
RADIO - "We've broken atmosphere and we're descending towards the landing site.'
'Is that a building down there?! What do you mean you can't identify it?"
The weapon powers up and turns, aiming itself high at the sky.
RADIO - "Hold on, no turning back now.'
'Positions everyone, touching down in 10, 9, 8-'
The weapon charges up and a loud vicious hum can be heard echoing through the valley.
RADIO - "It's coming from the building?! Change course, set thrusters to (full)-"
The radio goes to static, the weapon fires and the Sunbeam is vaporized instantly by a massive blast of bright green light. The sunbeam disappears, its hull structure completely disintegrated. Spiffle sits in stunned silence as the platform returns to a stable position, shuts down, and everything goes quiet.
"Well... Okay then... That was... horrifying. I guess thats all we have time for! Hehe! Oh dear..."
Spiffle looks a bit defeated as he sits back in his seat.
"S-see you next time! I guess... Holy shit..."
Channel Outro plays.
TOP COMMENT: "Are you okay? You seem a little bit too disturbed by that. Its fine though, compared to what happens in the Rise Of The Ancients Mod, this is tame! Lol! I love that mod!"
Spiffles Response: "Please don't make me play that mod..."
((Authors note - due to how bastardingly huge Subnautica is, this will be a multi part series. Other Spiff stories will come inbetween. Hope you enjoy!))

Highly reccomend his journal.
Francisco de Cuéllar (Valladolid, Spain, 1562)was a Spanish sea captain who sailed with the Spanish Armada in 1588 and was wrecked on the coast of Ireland. He gave a remarkable account of his experiences in the fleet and on the run in Ireland.
Life before Ireland
Cuéllar's place and date of birth are uncertain, but undoubtedly he was of Castilian origin. The surname refers to a village in the province of Segovia called Cuéllar, and is a common Castilian family name. According to recent research ("El capitán Francisco de Cuéllar antes y después de la jornada de Inglaterra", by Rafael M. Girón Pascual), there was a captain named Francisco de Cuéllar, perhaps our man, born in the city of Valladolid, who was baptized on March, twelve, 1562 in the parish of San Miguel.
Cuéllar was a member of the army that conquered Portugal during the War of the Portuguese Succession in 1581. Following Rafael Giron, he served in the Diego Flores Valdés navy, which sailed to the Strait of Magellan, aboard the frigate Santa Catalina. He was later in Paraiba, Brazil, where he participated in expelling French settlers from the area. After that he served under the Marquis of Santa Cruz in the Azores.
Spanish Armada and hitting land.
The Armada suffered heavy losses during an extraordinary season of storms in the autumn of 1588. Cuéllar had been captain of the San Pedro, a galleon of the squadron of Castille, one of the front-line squadrons of the Spanish Armada, when the ship left its position in the Armada formation in the North Sea in order to make repairs. He was accused of disobedience and was sentenced to death by hanging by the Major General of the fleet, Francisco Arias de Bobadilla. Cuéllar was sent to the merchantman, La Lavia, for execution of sentence by the Auditor General, Martin de Aranda.
The sentence was not executed, and Cuéllar remained on board until the merchantman, a member of the Levant squadron, which suffered heavy losses on the return voyage (less than 400 survivors returned out of 4,000 who set sail), anchored in the company of two others on the Irish coast, a mile off Streedagh Strand in present-day County Sligo. On the fifth day at anchor all three ships were driven onto the beach, where they broke up. Of the 1,000 men on board, 300 survived.
Local inhabitants beat, robbed and stripped those who came ashore. But Cuéllar, having clung to a loose hatch cover, floated to shore unobserved and concealed himself among rushes. He was in poor shape, and was joined by a naked fellow survivor who was dumbstruck and soon died. Cuéllar kept drifting in and out of consciousness; at one point he and his fellow survivor were discovered by two armed men, who covered them with rushes before going to the shore to loot. At another point he saw 200 horsemen riding across the beach.
When Cuéllar crawled out he saw 800 corpses littering the sand, with ravens and wild dogs feeding on them. He moved on to the Abbey of Staad, a small church which had been torched by the English after its friars had fled. He saw twelve of his countrymen hanging from nooses tied to iron bars of the windows within the church ruins, who had been hanged by English Lutheran soldiers. A local woman who was driving cattle into hiding in the woods warned him to stay out of the road, and he then met two naked Spanish soldiers, who informed him that English soldiers had killed 100 captive survivors.
The Spaniards saw 400 corpses on another beach. When they stopped to bury the bodies of two officers they were confronted by four locals who demanded the remainder of de Cuellar's clothes. Another local ordered them to leave him alone and directed the Spaniards to his own village. They made their way there barefoot in cold weather, through a wood where they met two young men travelling with an old man and a young woman: the young men attacked de Cuéllar, and he received a leg wound from a knife-thrust, before the old man intervened.
De Cuéllar was stripped of his clothing, and a gold chain worth 1,000 ducats and 45 gold crowns were taken from him. The young woman ensured his clothes were returned, and took a locket containing relics, which she hung about her neck, before departing. Then a boy came to treat his wounds with a poultice and brought food of milk, butter and oaten bread.
Heeding the boy's warning not to approach the village, de Cuéllar limped past and went on his way alone, living off berries and watercress. He was set upon by a group of men who beat him hard and stripped him of his clothes; he covered himself with a skirt of plaited ferns and rushes. He came to a deserted settlement at the edge of a lake, where he was surprised to find three other Spaniards. Having stayed some time at the settlement, the group met a young man who spoke Latin and directed them to the territory of Sir Brian O'Rourke in present-day County Leitrim.
In O'Rourke's country they found greater safety, at "a village belonging to better people, Christian and kindly", where 70 Spaniards were enjoying refuge. Dressed in lice-infested cloak and trousers, Cuéllar set off northward in a party to meet with a Spanish ship at anchor for repairs, but was disappointed to hear the ship had already sailed. He returned to O'Rourke's country, where he was entertained by the lord's wife, who he described as "very beautiful in the extreme, and she showed me much kindness".
She took a shine to the Spaniard's ability for telling fortunes: ″One day we were sitting in the sun with some of her female friends and relatives, and they asked me about Spanish matters and of other parts, and in the end it came to be suggested that I should examine their hands and tell them their fortunes. Giving thanks to God that it had not gone even worse with me than to be gipsy among the savages, I began to look at the hands of each, and to say to them a hundred thousand absurdities, which pleased them so much that there was no other Spaniard better than I, or that was in greater favour with them. By night and by day men and women persecuted me to tell them their fortunes, so that I saw myself (continually) in such a large crowd that I was forced to beg permission of my master to go from his castle".
Cuéllar observed the society, noting that the people lived in a savage manner but that they were friendly and followed the usages of the church. The people constantly engaged in nightly raids and were harried by English garrisons. He reckoned that, were it not for their hospitality, he and his fellows would not have lived: "As to ourselves, these savages liked us well because they knew we came against (to oppose) the heretics, and were such great enemies of theirs; and if it had not been for those who guarded us as their own persons, not one of us would have been left alive. We had goodwill to them for this, although they were the first to rob us and strip to the skin those who came alive to land". He concluded: "In this country there is neither justice or right, and everybody does what he likes".
In November 1588 Cuéllar moved on to the territory of the MacClancy with 8 other Spaniards, staying at one of the lord's castles, probably at Rosclogher, on the south of Loch Melvin. News arrived that the English had sent 1,700 troops to MacClancy's country. In response, the lord opted to take to the mountains while the Spaniards resolved to defend the castle. They had 18 firearms (muskets and arquebuses) and considered the castle impregnable because of its location in bogland, which precluded the use of artillery.
The English arrived under the command of the brother of Richard Bingham, governor of Connacht, and the siege lasted 17 days. During that time they were unable to cross the boggy terrain and, having had their offer of safe passage to Spain turned down, they hanged two Spaniards in full view of the castle so as to terrorise the defenders. A storm closed in with heavy snow, and the English were forced to raise the siege and march off.
MacClancy returned and bestowed gifts on the defenders, including an offer to Cuéllar of the hand of his sister in marriage, which was declined. Against the chieftain's advice, the Spaniards secretly departed his country ten days before Christmas, bound for the north. They sought out the bishop of Derry, Redmond O'Gallagher, and found he had twelve other Spaniards in his care, whom he intended to assist in a crossing to Scotland.
After six days, Cuellar and 17 others set sail for Scotland in a pinnace. Two days later they reached the Hebrides, and soon after landed on the mainland. Cuéllar had heard the Scottish king "protected all the Spaniards who reached his kingdom, clothed them, and gave them passages to Spain". However, following his six-month ordeal within the kingdom, he concluded "the King of Scotland is nobody: nor does he possess the authority or position of a king: and he does not move a step, nor eat a mouthful, that is not by order of the Queen (Elizabeth I)".[3]
The Duke of Parma's efforts eventually procured him passage to Flanders in the Low Countries. However, the Dutch were waiting on the coast to cut off the return of Armada survivors, and Cuéllar was shipwrecked in a firefight in which many of the survivors were drowned or killed after capture. Once again he found himself clinging to flotsam as he came ashore in Flanders, where he entered the city of Dunkirk wearing only his shirt. He wrote an account of his experiences and returned to Spain some time after.
O'Rourke was hanged at London for treason in 1590; the charges against him included succouring survivors of the Armada. MacClancy was captured by Bingham's brother in 1590 and beheaded.
After Cuéllar served in the army of Philip II under Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, Count Fuentes and Count Mansfeld. Between 1589 and 1598 he served variously in the Siege of París, the enterprises of Laon, Corbie, Capela, Châtelet, Doullens, Cambrai, Calais, and Ardres, and in the siege of Hults. In 1599 and 1600 he served under Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy in the war of Piemonte. In 1600 he was in Naples with viceroy Lemos.
In 1601 he was commissioned to return to America. He was a pattern of infantry captain in a galleon to islas de Barlovento (Windward Islands), but did not sail in don Luis Fernández de Córdova's navy until 1602.
It was Cuéllar's last military service living in Madrid between 1603-1606 in the hopes of receiving commissioning in America.
Source is wiki , went on a dive after reading about naval tactics during the age of sail. The war being fought in the middle of the Tudor Conquest of Ireland, a very shit time to be alive.

But mostly Portuguese in the sense that he was born and raised in Portugal and was part, an important part, of the portuguese high-society in the 15th century.
The main takes:

• Colombus married a noblewoman, the daughter of the governor for Madeira island. One couldn't do that in 1480 being a commoner that landed in a shipwreck.
  
• He had quite a few "brothers" all of them involved in the secretive sailing operations of Portugal at that time, even with access to the secret maps of the king. Implying he was a member of a military order, also not something in the cards for the lost son of a wool weaver.- He called himself Colon and not Colombo. It means “member”, for that military order. And not from an obscure genovese family called Columbus.
  
• He dealt in person with the most important kings of his time and in those dealings obtained for himself the title of hereditary Viceroy. He was a really important dude, but how come?
  

Lack of evidence:
The Italian case for Columbus is really lacking on credible sources

• His son writes, but something like: people say my father is genovese and he allows that because it suited him. In the context of saying his father's life was full of mysteries and deception.
  
• He was called "Colon" and not “Columbus”. He signs with "Christofer /" reading Christofer semicolon (without the semi) the "Colon" means "member of", referring to a military order that had so many influential members, often referred to as brothers.
  
• The Columbus family from Genoa are obscure wool weavers. It's nonsense that one of them got to be an Admiral, even worse for 3 or 4 of their sons ending up as map-makers.
  
• A lot of later sources from after the british established themselves in north america pushing for imaginary Italian "navigators" myths (such as john cabot or Vespuccio) to legitimize their presence in the new lands.
  

This is the basis for the Italian case, quite weak.
Then we have:

• Colon not only married a noble woman, he was able to negotiate personally with both King John II of Portugal and Queen Isabella of Castile.
  
• When returning from the Americas he landed in Lisbon met with King John II and left with a letter of recommendation and praise (not compatible with him being an Italian double-crossing).
  
• On his second journey he left a letter asking for one of his brothers to go and meet him in the Americas (which he did), meaning the "brothers" knew how to reach America.
  
• His terms agreed with Isabella included he would personally own all the lands he would find, and be a vassal to the Queen. For that he was named hereditary vice-roy. Which is not a title bestowed to a commoner.
  

Example:
Gama is considered a sailor, but he was mostly a diplomat, and from a quite important family. The Same for Cabral, the discoverer of Brazil. Both (Gama and Cabral) were named Viceroy, that is not a small title to get.
People like Bartolomeu Dias (who did found the end of Africa and the way to India) or Magallens (around the world he went), were not considered blue blooded enough (although being quite above a wool weaver) to lead important missions, even less to become viceroy.
Not possible:
The official life of "Columbus" is too fast to make sense.

• One day he is drowning in the portuguese coast as boat crew (a job for convicts, the lowest of the low in that society).
  
• The next day he his meeting with his brother, that was a map-maker in Lisbon.
  
• Then he settles in Madeira Island (that was property of Prince Henry and his military order) off limits to everyone else, to marry the daughter of the local governor, from a very noble family.
  
• Then he's selling some wild goose hunt of Japan in the Caribbean, to whoever is willing to listen to him, that includes a couple of the most powerful kings in Europe.
  
• Then he is invited to watch the conquest of Granada as a royal guest. Because that's what Kings do to a nobody with a wild plan.
  
• The queen agrees to fund his exploits, despite him having no idea where he was going, and to offer him viceroy of all discovered lands, what a sweet deal.
  
• And for the first time he gets to pilot a ship, he's the first guy to cross a whole ocean. With a lot of luck, maybe, but then he can go back there 4 more times.
  
• After the first trip, he lands in Lisbon and instead of being imprisoned by King John II, he gets praise for his exploits. Not the treatment a foreign traitor would get.
  

Nonsense really.
In reality:

• He was from an important family. Established in Madeira Island, controlled by the military order.
  
• He joined the order as a member, "Colon". And erased his former name, although people still knew who he really was.
  
• He married and worked within the Portuguese sea explorations, which were like a secret society back then. He was very good at it. Respected for his skills, and proved it by crossing the ocean.
  
• He has a plan to colonize new lands (create a new christian kingdom, new Jerusalem), with him as king (back then known, but though to be some backwater).
  
• The Portuguese king agreed with the plan but did not wish to participate. The king thought Colon deserved leading that mission, which means that King John II recognized Colon had the right to be a King. A big deal.
  
• He goes to Spain that had been fighting with Portugal for the succession of Castille. Portugal lost, and part of the dealings were that they would go their separate ways (example the Canary Islands were given to the Spanish) and the the Spanish agreed not to go south, but would go west (called Tratado Alcaçovas, 1479)
  
• The Catholic Kings agreed Colon would be King of the new land. And as long as Isabella and King John II lived, they respected that deal.
  

Conclusion:
Colon was King material, no one doubted that at the time. One does not get to be King material for being the son of a wool weaver and a castaway. He was born inside the Portuguese society and had a very high rank.
Consequences:
Colon was right. His new kingdom, although not promising at first sight, was oh sooo wealthy with the Inca and the Aztecs empires and all that gold. He delivered to Spain the biggest prize ever. It’s hard to even grasp the value of his exploits.
Interesting to note how the Viceroy title (hereditary) was canceled in 1526, just 4 years after Cortez had conquered Mexico.
Quite a coincidence and a betrayal of Colon, by Joana the Mad, as queen and Charles V, emperor, a guy that was terribly indebted after buying the Holy Roman Emperor crown.
Who could he be:
Historian Manuel da Rosa makes a fantastic case for Colon to be the son of a former polish king and crusader.
On top of having strong evidence supporting the theory, it simply makes sense. And the Italian theory does not.
Why we are lied about Colon:
Because he was betrayed and stolen by the Spanish kings. And they wanted to hide that. And the English wanted to exploit that case to grab some land in the Americas.
If he was Italian, and a traitor, and lost. No harm was done in stealing his lands.
So, they made him that.
https://youtu.be/BIwF-mNfOeg

These were the first English language newspapers published by the Soka Gakkai - the publication only ran from 1963-1965.
Evaluation of the early US members as portrayed through the Soka Gakkai's The Seikyo News: Soka Gakkai's early American members: "Relatively poorly educated" and quite gullible
A new series about how the Ikeda cult has been obsessed with its image from the beginning - news reports abroad "almost entirely negative"
Here's something unique: A genuinely EXCITING Soka Gakkai "experience"! Shipwrecked and marooned at sea!
The Soka Gakkai shows its deep compassion weighing in on the "Nature vs. Nurture" debate
The Soka Gakkai leaned HARD into the faith-healing superstition; just LOOK at these headlines!
Referenced in this 1963 Chicago Tribune news report: News Report from 1963: Soka Gakkai "compared to Hitler's Nazism" - also referenced here
Referenced here: The Gohonzon is also said to be able to control the weather! - same reference here
Per the Soka Gakkai: Three Possible Life Paths - scan of Seikyo News page here
Songs of the Soka Gakkai
Ikeda initiating a shakubuku program for foreigners
Your Daily Dose of Cringe: I think you'll easily see why "The Seikyo Cartoon" was discontinued
How about some more Seikyo Cartoons? Keep in mind the indoctrinational purpose of these

Status: 54 year old English bloke with 920 hours, ZERO speaking practice, currently in week 9 of 12 in a tourist area of Spain. No other languages.
Scenario: Wifey hurt her foot badly, we’ve been through all the hospital processes (in English) now we need a shoe insert to help correct the damage, in Spain you buy these from a shop, they are custom made. The lady in the shop (possibly 60 years old) spoke no English, which is really rare here.
Progress report: We started by showing a picture of what the hospital said we needed, (everything from this point forward was carried out in some form of Spanish).
She then took ink pressure measurements of my wife’s feet, thank you Andrea la Mexicana, of course I understood when the lady asked for the socks off. Then she showed us the insert and said it would take 3 days to make. We then “chatted” about if my wife needed a pair or just one insert, then about wanting 2 pairs, and that the lady thought it wasn’t good to get two pairs at once as my wife needed to try them.
Key points from the discussion, 1. I understood around 95% of what she was saying, even though a little bit was medical 2. My vocab was not sufficient to say all that I wanted, but we pulled out google translate for a few sentences. 3. I did deliver around 10 to 15 short sentences, THEY JUST APPEARED IN MY BRAIN. 4. My accent lined up with how my brain wanted it to come out immediately, but I didn’t need to say perro or correr 😂.
There is a problem with having 920 hours of listening and not as much vocab “over the line” as I’d like, my accent was “too good” for the level of language I have, it’s strange for the recipient if you have a good accent but struggle with basic sentences! They are more accustomed to poor accents with my level of vocab.
Overall my wife was very impressed, I haven’t spoken before and neither of us knew how it would go, but I’m pleased myself how it went, which makes the next 1100 hours much easier.
Another issue was that I was translating some of the conversation for my wife, and my English brain and my Spanish brain are two different brains, me cuesta mucho to translate from one to another, and I said to my wife “solo tengo una cabeza” by mistake, which the Spanish lady found hilarious, but my wife (no Spanish) not so much.
Useful phrase… Entiendo mucho pero solo hablo un poco

English	French	German	Italian	Portuguese	Spanish
clergy	clergé	der Klerus	clero	clero	clero
question	question	die Frage	questione	questão	cuestión
inch	pouce	der Zoll	pollice	polegada	pulgada
view	Vue	der Blick	vista	visão	vista
above	au dessus	über	addirittura	acima / em cima	encima
member	membre	das Mitglied	membro	membro	miembro
intervene	intervient	interveniert	intervenire	intervir	interviene
acid	acide	die Säure	acido	ácido	ácido
production	production	die Produktion	produzione	produção	producción
curtain	un rideau	der Vorhang	tenda,cortina	cortina	cortina
bishop	évêque	Bischof	vescovo	bispo	obispo
shipwreck	naufrage	das Schiffswrack	naufragio	naufrágio	naufragio
attorney	avocat	der Anwalt	avvocato	advogado	abogado
useless	inutile	nutzlos	inutile	inútil	inútil
clock	montre	Uhr	orologio	relógio	reloj

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English: shipwreck

1. a ship wrecked or destroyed upon the water, or the parts of such a ship
   
2. the breaking in pieces, or shattering, of a ship or other vessel by being cast ashore or driven against rocks, shoals, etc., by the violence of the winds and waves
   
3. destruction; ruin
   

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• Catalan: naufragi
  
• Esperanto: ŝippereo
  
• French: naufrage
  
• Galician: naufraxio
  
• German: das Schiffswrack
  
• Hindi: पोतभंग
  
• Italian: naufragio
  
• Portuguese: naufrágio
  
• Romanian: epavă
  
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Here's my modlist, if that helps: "DLC: HearthFires" "DLC: Dragonborn" "DLC: Dawnguard" "Creation Club: ccqdrsse001-survivalmode" "Creation Club: ccbgssse037-curios" "Creation Club: ccbgssse025-advdsgs" "Creation Club: ccbgssse001-fish" "Creation Club: unockatja" "Creation Club: msjm01_arquebus" "Creation Club: morthal" "Creation Club: legendarydungeons-dwemer" "Creation Club: kinggathcreations_eastempirecompany" "Creation Club: echoesofthevale" "Creation Club: ceejsse001_lodge" "Creation Club: ccrs001" "Creation Club: cbgs_tdowwinterfrost" "Creation Club: ccvsvsse004-beafarmer" "Creation Club: ccvsvsse003-necroarts" "Creation Club: ccvsvsse002-pets" "Creation Club: ccvsvsse001-winter" "Creation Club: cctwbsse001-puzzledungeon" "Creation Club: ccrmssse001-necrohouse" "Creation Club: ccqdrsse002-firewood" "Creation Club: ccpewsse002-armsofchaos" "Creation Club: ccmtysse002-ve" "Creation Club: ccmtysse001-knightsofthenine" "Creation Club: cckrtsse001_altar" "Creation Club: ccfsvsse001-backpacks" "Creation Club: ccffbsse002-crossbowpack" "Creation Club: ccffbsse001-imperialdragon" "Creation Club: cceejsse005-cave" "Creation Club: cceejsse004-hall" "Creation Club: cceejsse003-hollow" "Creation Club: cceejsse002-tower" "Creation Club: cceejsse001-hstead" "Creation Club: ccedhsse003-redguard" "Creation Club: ccedhsse002-splkntset" "Creation Club: ccedhsse001-norjewel" "Creation Club: cccbhsse001-gaunt" "Creation Club: ccbgssse069-contest" "Creation Club: ccbgssse068-bloodfall" "Creation Club: ccbgssse067-daedinv" "Creation Club: ccbgssse066-staves" "Creation Club: ccbgssse064-ba_elven" "Creation Club: ccbgssse063-ba_ebony" "Creation Club: ccbgssse062-ba_dwarvenmail" "Creation Club: ccbgssse061-ba_dwarven" "Creation Club: ccbgssse060-ba_dragonscale" "Creation Club: ccbgssse059-ba_dragonplate" "Creation Club: ccbgssse058-ba_steel" "Creation Club: ccbgssse057-ba_stalhrim" "Creation Club: ccbgssse056-ba_silver" "Creation Club: ccbgssse055-ba_orcishscaled" "Creation Club: ccbgssse054-ba_orcish" "Creation Club: ccbgssse053-ba_leather" "Creation Club: ccbgssse052-ba_iron" "Creation Club: ccbgssse051-ba_daedricmail" "Creation Club: ccbgssse050-ba_daedric" "Creation Club: ccbgssse045-hasedoki" "Creation Club: ccbgssse043-crosselv" "Creation Club: ccbgssse041-netchleather" "Creation Club: ccbgssse040-advobgobs" "Creation Club: ccbgssse038-bowofshadows" "Creation Club: ccbgssse036-petbwolf" "Creation Club: ccbgssse035-petnhound" "Creation Club: ccbgssse034-mntuni" "Creation Club: ccbgssse031-advcyrus" "Creation Club: ccbgssse021-lordsmail" "Creation Club: ccbgssse020-graycowl" "Creation Club: ccbgssse019-staffofsheogorath" "Creation Club: ccbgssse018-shadowrend" "Creation Club: ccbgssse016-umbra" "Creation Club: ccbgssse014-spellpack01" "Creation Club: ccbgssse013-dawnfang" "Creation Club: ccbgssse012-hrsarmrstl" "Creation Club: ccbgssse011-hrsarmrelvn" "Creation Club: ccbgssse010-petdwarvenarmoredmudcrab" "Creation Club: ccbgssse008-wraithguard" "Creation Club: ccbgssse007-chrysamere" "Creation Club: ccbgssse006-stendarshammer" "Creation Club: ccbgssse005-goldbrand" "Creation Club: ccbgssse004-ruinsedge" "Creation Club: ccbgssse003-zombies" "Creation Club: ccbgssse002-exoticarrows" "Creation Club: ccasvsse001-almsivi" "Creation Club: ccafdsse001-dwesanctuary" "Creation Club: _ResourcePack" "SkyHUD" "SkyUI" "SkyUI SE - Flashing Savegames Fix" "Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch - USSEP" "Unofficial Skyrim Creation Club Content Patches" "PapyrusUtil SE - Modders Scripting Utility Functions" "Address Library for SKSE Plugins" "Address Library (Anniversary Edition)" "SSE Engine Fixes (skse64 plugin)" "SSE Engine Fixes - Modified .toml File Only For SSE v1.6.1130 and v1.6.1170" "Actor Limit Fix" "MCM Helper" "UIExtensions" "Achievements Mods Enabler" "powerofthree's Tweaks" "powerofthree's Papyrus Extender" "Keyword Item Distributor" "Spell Perk Item Distributor" "ConsoleUtilSSE NG" "Fuz Ro D-oh - Silent Voice" "JContainers SE" "Project New Reign - Nemesis Unlimited Behavior Engine" "Improved Camera SE" "Improved Camera SE.ini" "RaceMenu" "Animation Motion Revolution" "Animation Queue Fix" "Paired Animation Improvements" "Open Animation Replacer" "Payload Interpreter" "KiLoader for Skyrim" "ENB Extender for Skyrim" "dMenu" "Nether's Follower Framework" "IFrame Generator RE" "IFrame Generator RE AE Support" "MergeMapper" "FormList Manipulator - FLM" "Object Categorization Framework" "SSE Display Tweaks" "Dynamic Activation Key" "Custom Skills Framework" "Inventory Interface Information Injector" "Constructible Object Custom Keyword System" "Scrambled Bugs" "Dual Casting Fix" "ConsolePlusPlus" "More Informative Console" "Console Commands Extender" "Native EditorID Fix" "KreatE" "Experience" "The Notice Board SE" "Headhunter - Bounties Redone" "True Directional Movement - Modernized Third Person Gameplay" "Know Your Enemy 2" "Know Your Enemy 2 - Armors" "Point The Way" "Relationship Dialogue Overhaul - RDO SE" "Immersive Citizens - AI Overhaul" "EVG Animated Traversal" "SkyClimb" "Convenient Horses" "NPCs Take Cover - Smarter Anti-Cheese AI" "Animated Ships" "Carriage and Ferry Travel Overhaul (Formerly Complete Fast Travel Overhaul)" "Boats - Operational Animated Travel" "Animated Carriage" "Animated Carriage Additional Route" "Immersive World Encounters SE" "Read Or Take SKSE" "Use Or Take SKSE" "Better Jumping AE" "Sandwiches of Skyrim" "Forget Spell" "Simple Hunting Overhaul" "Smart NPC Potions - Enemies Use Potions and Poisons" "Ultimate Animated Potions NG" "Dynamic Mercenary Fees" "Sun Affects NPC Vampires" "Sensible Bribes - Based on Speechcraft Not Level" "Sleeping Expanded - Animations and NPC reactions" "NPCs Wear Amulets of Mara PLUS" "Immersive Rejections" "Take a Peek - New Stealth Mechanic" "Flute Animation Fix" "NPCs React To Necromancy (And More)" "Security Overhaul SKSE - Lock Variations" "Security Overhaul SKSE - Regional Locks" "Security Overhaul SKSE - Some More Locks" "Animals Swim (Sort of)" "Locked Chests Have Keys" "Use Those Blankets" "Carriages and Stables Dialogue Bundle" "Skyrim on Skooma" "Taunt Your Enemies - Taunting Matters" "Remote Interactions" "NPCs React To Invisibility" "Immersive Death Cycle" "Press E to Heal Followers" "Simple Fishing Overhaul - Animations and Improved Quest Dialogue" "NPCs React To Frenzy" "Bandit Lines Expansion" "Dark Elf Voices - Bandits Lines Expansion" "Werebeasts Don't Talk - Bandits Lines Expansion" "Civil War Lines Expansion" "Forsworn and Thalmor Lines Expansion" "Vampire Lines Expansion" "Orc Addon - Vampire Lines Expansion" "Brawl Lines Expansion" "Dremora Lines Expansion" "MorrowLoot Ultimate" "Bandolier - Bags and Pouches Classic" "Functional Bags SSE" "Alternate Perspective - Voiced Addon" "The Choice is Yours" "Missives" "Simply Better Movement Speeds (SSE)" "Better Dialogue Controls" "Aetherius - A Race Overhaul" "Mysticism - A Magic Overhaul" "Mysticism - Jump Spell Addon" "Adamant - A Perk Overhaul" "Mundus - A Standing Stone Overhaul" "Arena - An Encounter Zone Overhaul" "Scion - A Vampire Overhaul" "Manbeast - A Werewolf Overhaul" "Apothecary - An Alchemy Overhaul" "Pilgrim - A Religion Overhaul" "Thaumaturgy - An Enchanting Overhaul" "Thaumaturgy - Jump Boots Addon" "Stormcrown - A Shout Overhaul" "Journeyman - A Fast Travel Overhaul" "Sorcerer - A Staff and Scroll Overhaul" "Artificer - An Artifact Overhaul" "Candlehearth - An Inn Overhaul" "Gourmet - A Cooking Overhaul" "Vivid Weathers - Definitive Edition" "Enhanced Volumetric Lighting and Shadows (EVLaS)" "Picta Realis - Weather Mod" "Picta Realis - Better FX Lights" "ENB Worldspace Weatherlists" "Static Mesh Improvement Mod" "Switch Camera During Dialogue" "SmoothCam" "SmoothCam Vanilla Enhanced 2" "ZeusCam - A Next Gen Cinematic SmoothCam Preset" "Alternate Conversation Camera" "Improved Alternate Conversation Camera" "No Camera Collision (..no Fade out any more)" "Majestic Mountains Main" "Skyland AIO" "Skyland Bits and Bobs - A Clutter Overhaul" "Northern Roads" "Water for ENB" "Book Covers Skyrim" "Quality World Map - Vivid with Stone Roads" "Simple Item Spawner" "QUI" "Beyond Skyrim - Assets" "Lux - Via" "Lux" "Lux Orbis" "Embers XD" "ImGui Icons" "PhotoMode" "MIF - Mu Impact Framework" "Eviscerate" "The Handy Icon Collection Collective" "Aura's Scrumptious Supplement" "Phenomenally Enriched and Nuanced Ingredients for SkyUI" "B.O.O.B.I.E.S (aka Immersive Icons)" "Mr Krabs Money Money Money mudcrabs" "Wet and Cold SE" "Dirt and Blood - Dynamic Visual Effects" "Veydogolt Trees" "SMP Wind" "Skygazer Moons SSE - Masser and Secunda HD Textures - WITH GLOW" "Night Skies - Natural Fantasy (8K) - No Cross Stars" "Infinity UI" "moreHUD SE" "Sovngarde - A Nordic Font" "NORDIC UI - Interface Overhaul" "Static Skill Leveling Rewritten" "TrueHUD - HUD Additions" "Nordic...ish - A TrueHUD preset based on Nordic UI" "Nordic...Ish - TrueHUD Recent Item Widget (Made by SwitchbackModding)" "QuickLoot EE" "QuickLootEE.1170-fixed" "Convenient Dialogue UI - SE" "NORDIC UI - QuickLoot EE" "Better Third Person Selection - BTPS" "Wheeler - Quick Action Wheel Of Skyrim" "Wheeler Icon Embellishment - Naturally Exquisite Refinement" "Simple Activate SKSE" "Skyrim Souls RE - Updated" "MEMOSPORE - UI Sound Effects" "Show Player In Menus" "Compass Navigation Overhaul" "Compass Navigation Overhaul - Nordic UI Skin" "CoMAP" "CoMAP - DLL Hotfix for SkyrimSE 1.6.629" "NORDIC UI - Compass Markers Restored" "NORDIC UI Markers" "Dragonborn Voice Over" "Solid Spy - a DBVO voice pack" "Geralt of Rivia DBVO Pack Patches" "Cutting Room Floor - SSE" "Beyond Skyrim - Bruma SE" "Skyrim Extended Cut - Saints and Seducers" "Moon and Star" "Wyrmstooth" "Midwood Isle" "Falskaar" "VIGILANT SEAE" "VIGILANT Voiced - English Addon" "The Wheels of Lull SE" "Beyond Reach" "Legacy of the Dragonborn" "SIRENROOT - Deluge of Deceit" "Moonpath to Elsweyr SSE" "Paarthurnax - Quest Expansion" "Leaps of Faith - A Misc Quest" "Nilheim - Misc Quest Expansion" "House of Horrors - Quest Expansion" "The Only Cure - Quest Expansion" "Caught Red Handed - Quest Expansion" "College of Winterhold - Quest Expansion" "The Whispering Door - Quest Expansion" "Innocence Lost - Quest Expansion" "The Heart of Dibella - Quest Expansion" "Oakwood" "Immersive College of Winterhold" "Elysium Estate SSE" "ELAF POI Restless and Shipwrecks (Points of interest Two)" "Northern Scenery - Whiterun's Tundra" "Northern Scenery - Angarvunde" "Northern Scenery - Ansilvund" "Northern Scenery - IronBind Barrow" "Northern Scenery - Ysgramor's Tomb" "Whiterun Watchtower Doesn't Start Broken" "Dungeons - Revisited" "Snowhawk Expanded - City Ruins" "Settlements Expanded" "Unmarked Locations Pack" "Ancient Land" "s6o6t LORE - Oblivion gates AE" "Oblivion Gates Remade" "Unique Border Gates SE" "Man Those Borders SSE" "Daedric Shrines - All in One" "Hidden Hideouts of Skyrim SE" "Hidden Hideouts of Skyrim City Edition SE" "Ryn's Valtheim Towers" "Ryn's Standing Stones" "Ryn's Farms" "Ryn's Robber's Gorge" "Ryn's Bleak Falls Barrow" "Ryn's Alchemist's Shack" "Ryn's Crabber's Shanty and Titanclaw Lair" "Ryn's Bleak Falls Tower" "Ryn's Goldenglow Estate" "Ryn's Bleakwind Basin" "Ryn's Secunda's Kiss" "Ryn's Halted Stream Camp" "Ryn's Western Watchtower" "Ryn's White River Watch" "Ryn's Saarthal" "Ryn's Anise's Cabin" "Ryn's Lund's Hut" "Ryn's Snazzy Last Vigil" "Ryn's Karthspire" "Ryn's Mistwatch Folly" "Ryn's Dragon Mounds" "Ryn's Ustengrav" "Ryn's Azura's Shrine" "Ryn's Mehrunes Dagon's Shrine" "Ryn's Riverwood Trader" "Ryn's Alvor and Sigrid's House" "Ryn's Faendal's House" "Ryn's Sven's and Hilde's House" "Ryn's Hod and Gerdur's House" "Ryn's Sleeping Giant Inn" "Ryn's Broken Tower Redoubt" "Ryn's Lost Valley Redoubt" "JK's Skyrim" "JK's Arcadia's Cauldron" "JK's Belethor's General Goods" "JK's Warmaiden's" "JK's The Drunken Huntsman" "JK's The Bannered Mare" "JK's Dragonsreach" "JK's Riverfall Cottage" "JK's The Winking Skeever" "JK's Angeline's Aromatics" "JK's Bits and Pieces" "JK's Radiant Raiment" "JK's Blue Palace" "JK's Candlehearth Hall" "JK's White Phial" "JK's Sadri's Used Wares" "JK's New Gnisis Cornerclub" "JK's Palace of the Kings" "JK's The Bee and Barb" "JK's Elgrim's Elixirs" "JK's The Pawned Prawn" "JK's The Ragged Flagon" "JK's Mistveil Keep" "JK's The Temple of Mara" "JK's Silver-Blood Inn" "JK's Arnleif and Sons Trading Company" "JK's The Hag's Cure" "JK's Understone Keep" "JK's Temple of Dibella" "JK's Temple of Kynareth" "JK's Temple of the Divines" "JK's Temple of Talos" "JK's Haelga's Bunkhouse" "JK's Jorrvaskr" "JK's High Hrothgar" "JK's Sky Haven Temple" "JK's Septimus Signus's Outpost" "JK's Sinderion's Field Laboratory" "JK's The Bards College" "JK's Castle Dour" "JK's Whiterun Outskirts" "JK's Windhelm Outskirts" "JK's Riften Outskirts" "JK's Markarth Outskirts" "JK's Solitude Outskirts" "JK's Fort Dawnguard" "Faster HDT-SMP" "XP32 Maximum Skeleton Special Extended" "RaceMenu High Heels (Height Fixes)" "BodySlide and Outfit Studio" "High Poly Head SE" "Expressive Facegen Morphs SE" "Expressive Facial Animation -Male Edition-" "Expressive Facial Animation -Female Edition-" "Caliente's Beautiful Bodies Enhancer -CBBE-" "Highly Improved Male Body Overhaul" "Better Argonian Horns" "CBPC - Physics with Collisions" "CBBE 3BA" "Seamless Males SE" "BnP male skin (Replacer+Player version)" "BnP female skin (Replacer+Player version)" "BnP - Child Skin" "EyesMod" "BnP - Eye Pack" "BnP teeth overhaul" "High Poly Vanilla Hair" "Vanilla hair remake SMP" "Valkyr HDT-SMP Hairstyles" "Valkyr HDT-SMP Hairstyles 02" "HG Hairdos" "KS Hairdos SSE" "Hvergelmir's Aesthetics - Brows" "Hvergelmir's Aesthetics - Beards" "Beards by Hvergelmir for High Poly Head" "Hvergelmir Brows for High Poly Head" "Beard stubble" "High Poly True to Vanilla NPC Overhaul" "Tragedian's Fabulous Followers AIO" "Beards of Power" "Beards of Power - Sons of Skyrim" "Beards of Power - Sons of Skyrim - Vanilla Hair Remake SMP" "Bed Head - A Vanilla Hair Replacement" "Facial Hair" "Northborn Scars" "Northborn Scars for High Poly Head" "Skin Feature Overlays SE - Freckles Scars Birthmarks Stretch Marks Moles and More for Face and Body RaceMenu Overlays" "DVA - Dynamic Vampire Appearance" "Additional Dremora faces" "Height Adjusted Races with True Giants SSE port" "Interesting NPCs SE (3DNPC)" "Ryn's Snazzy Last Vigil - An Ebony Warrior Overhaul" "Song of the Green (Auri Follower)" "The Thalmor's Shadow - Taliesin (Custom Voiced Follower)" "INIGO" "Lucien - Immersive Fully Voiced Male Follower" "Merlin the Corgi" "Aniya - A Custom Voiced Follower" "Katana - Journey in the Shadows" "Remiel-Custom Voiced Follower" "Xelzaz - Custom Fully Voiced Argonian Telvanni Follower" "Recorder - Standalone Fully Voiced Follower" "M'rissi's Tails of Troubles SE" "Thogra gra-Mugur - Orc Follower and Quest" "RS Children Overhaul" "Project ja-Kha'jay" "Children of the Hist - An Argonian NPC Overhaul" "Interesting Follower Requirements for 3DNPCs" "Face Sculptor Expanded" "Weapons Armor Clothing and Clutter Fixes" "Immersive Equipment Displays" "Relentless" "Immersive Weapons" "Archmage Khadgar's Robes SE" "Archmage Khadgar's Robes - HIMBO Refit" "Armor of Intrigue SE" "FB - Einherjr Armor 3BA-BHUNP" "Asura's Guard" "Armors of the Velothi Pt. I" "Armors of the Velothi Pt. I - HIMBO Refit" "Armors of the Velothi (Beast Race Support)" "Armors of the Velothi Pt. II" "Armors of the Velothi Pt. II - HIMBO" "Believable weapons" "Grandmaster Ursine Armour - Special Edition" "Common Clothes and Armors" "Colovian Leather Armor and Outfit SE - UNP - CBBE by Xtudo" "Regalia of the Scorned" "The Lily - Armour Mashup" "The Lily - SSE CBBE BodySlide" "Traveling Mage HDT-SMP Armor" "Traveling Mage CBBE 3BA" "Travelling Mage - HIMBO" "Kozakowy's Falka Armor UNP - SSE" "Kozakowy's Falka Armor - CBBE 3BA Bodyslide" "Crimson Ranger Armor for SE" "CBBE 3BA Creation Club" "Toughened Traveler Outfit" "Toughened Traveler Outfit (3BA) with Alternate (CBBE Bodyslide)" "Toughened Traveler Outfit - HIMBO Refit" "EGIL Shadow of Akavir BHUNP" "EGIL Shadow of Akavir 3BA" "The Hinterland Ranger - HDT-SMP" "Bosmer Armor Pack" "Bosmer Armor Pack - HIMBO Refit" "Armor Variants Expansion" "Armor Variants Expansion - HIMBO Refit" "Traveler's Armor Pack - Visually Upgradeable Outfit - Vanilla - CBBE" "Black Gambeson retexture" "Black Shirt retexture" "Black Pants retexture" "Traveler's Armor Pack - 3BA Conversion" "Traveler's Armor Pack - HIMBO version" "Dark Brotherhood Armor SE" "Dark Brotherhood Armor SE - CBBE 3BA" "4thUnknown's Dark Brotherhood Armor - HIMBO conversion" "Dust Adept Armor SE" "Daedric Armor SE" "Daedric Blades SE" "(ESL)HDT-SMP Daedric Armor Patch (4thUnknown Version)" "Lazy Weapon Pack 2" "Artifact of Might" "One-handed warhammers" "Sentinel - An Equipment Overhaul" "Skyrim Weapons Expansion" "Conditional Armor Type Animations" "Vanargand Animations II - Male Idle Walk And Run" "Vanargand Animations II - Female Idle Walk And Run" "Vanargand Animations II - Sprint" "Leviathan Animations II - Female Idle Walk And Run" "Leviathan Animations II - Male Idle Walk And Run" "Leviathan Animations II - Sprint" "Runway Walk Animation" "Goetia Animations - Female Idle Walk And Run" "Goetia Animations - Male Idle Walk And Run" "Goetia Animations - Sprint" "Skill Based Dynamic Animations" "Simple Dual Sheath" "Disable Turn Animation SE I AE" "Immersive Interactions - Animated Actions" "Take a Seat - New Sitting Animations for OAR or DAR" "EVG Conditional Idles" "EVG conditionals extended" "Super Fast Get Up Animation" "Dynamic Torch Idle Animations" "Eating Animations and Sounds SE" "Comprehensive First Person Animation Overhaul - CFPAO" "Precision" "Dodge MCO-DXP" "Dodge Framework" "MCO Universal Support" "Attack MCO-DXP" "Valhalla Combat" "SCAR - Skyrim Combos AI Revolution" "SCAR AE Support" "Additional Attack" "Precision Trail Replacer - Simple" "Wider Block Angle" "3rd Person Camera Stagger Remover" "(SE) Ashes of War Weapon Art Via Additional Attack" "Divine Smite" "Eldritch Blast" "Frenzy and Enraged Throw" "HDT-SMP Force Fields" "Judgement Cut End - ap05's Remake" "Elden Ring Law of Causality" "Elden Ring Law of Regression" "MCO Elden Ring FlamingStrike" "Tasha's Hideous Laughter" "Cancel Attack" "Maxsu Block Overhaul" "Dynamic Block Hit" "Smooth Moveset" "Enhanced Blood Textures" "(SE) Ashes of War for NPCs" "Dynamic Impact - Slash Effects X" "separated Slash Effects X" "No Recoil" "Dual Wield Parrying SKSE" "Know Your Enemy 2 - Integration Patch" "Beyond Skyrim - DLC Integration Patch" "SMP-NPC crash fix" "Ryn's Standing Stones - Moon and Star Patch" "Ryn's Standing Stones - 3DNPC Patch" "Xelzaz Anniversary Edition Plugin 1.10.1" "Xelzaz Sirenroot Patch" "Xelzaz Follower Wyrmstooth Patch" "Lucien - Anniversary Edition - All-In-One Creation Club Patch" "Lucien - Beyond Skyrim - Bruma Patch" "Lucien - Moon and Star Patch" "Mirai - the Girl with the Dragon Heart (Skyrim Special Edition)" "Convenient Horses Anniversary Edition Patch" "Thogra gra-Mugur - Remiel Patch" "First Person Animation Teleport Bug Fix" "Sandwiches of Skyrim - Gourmet Patch" "Leap of Faith - Legacy of the Dragonborn Patch" "Caught Red Handed - USSEP Patch" "College of Winterhold - RS Children Patch" "Carriages and Stables Dialogue Bundle - CFTO Patch" "The Heart of Dibella QE - RS Children patch" "Settlements Expanded - CFTO Patch" "UniqueBorderGates - Beyond Skyrim Bruma - Patch" "Man those Borders USSEP patch" "Unmarked Locations Pack - Fixes" "Lux (patch hub)" "Comprehensive Falskaar Fixes" "Inigo - Bloodchill Manor patch" "Carriage and Ferry Travel Overhaul - Companions Radiant Quest FIx SSE" "Carriage and Ferry Travel Overhaul - Fixes and Winterhold" "Immersive College of Winterhold Patch Collection" "MorrowLoot Ultimate - AE Patch" "Legacy of the Dragonborn Patches (Official)" "JK's Interiors Patch Collection" "JKs Guild HQ Interiors Patch Collection" "Ryn's Riverwood Patch Collection" "Interesting NPCs SE - Cutting Room Floor SSE Patch" "MLUC - Beyond Skyrim - Bruma Loot Cap" "RS Children Cutting Room Floor" "RS Children Falskaar" "RS Children Height Adjusted Races TG" "RS Children Interesting NPCs" "RS Children Moon and Star" "RS Children Settlements Expanded" "RS Children Wyrmstooth" "RS Children Beyond Reach" "Beyond Reach CBBE 3BA and HIMBO Patch" "Sky Flip for Beyond Reach" "TrueHUD - Wheels of Lull Patch" "The Wheels of Lull CBBE 3BA and HIMBO Patch" "JK's Skyrim - Arthmoor's Patch Pack" "JK's Skyrim - Mirai Patch" "JK's Skyrim - Carriage and Ferry Travel (CFTO) Patch" "Ryn's Standing Stones Ryn's Farms PATCH" "Apothecary - Bruma Patch" "Apothecary - Fishing Patch" "Apothecary - Rare Curios Patch" "Apothecary - Saints and Seducers" "Apothecary - Wyrmstooth Patch" "Ancient Land Patches" "kryptopyr's Automated Patches" "CFTO Bittercup Compatibility Patch - JK's Skyrim" "Weapons Armor Clothing and Clutter Fixes - CBBE Patch" "MLU - Cutting Room Floor" "MLU - Extended Saints and Seducers" "MLU - Inigo" "Legacy of the Dragonborn - Creation Club Patch Hub" "Myrwatch - House Fix" "MYrwatch - House Fix - USCCCP Patch" "Sunder and Wraithguard - Vault Fix" "Sunder and Wraithguard - Vault Fix - USCCCP Patch" "Daedric Shrines by Mandragorasprouts - Legacy of the Dragonborn Add-on (LotD)" "Northern Roads - Patches Compendium" "Northern Roads Patch Collection" "JK's Markarth Outskirts Patch Collection" "FB - Einherjr Armor 3BA-BHUNP - ESP LOOT Error Fix" "Face Discoloration Fix" "Lucien - Moonpath to Elsweyr Patch" "Unofficial Moonpath to Elsweyr Patch" "JKs Bannered Mare - Immersive Citizens Patch" "DynDOLOD TexGen Fixes" "CFTO - Immersive Citizens AI Overhaul Patch" "JK's Skyrim - Immersive Citizens Dawnstar Patch" "Picta Realis - Water for ENB Shades of Skyrim and Lux Patch" "WiZkiD-Compendium-Patches" "Alternate Perspective - Alternate Start" "Alternate Perspective - Anniversary Content Patch" "Alternate Perspective - RS Children - Patch" "DynDOLOD Resources SE" "DynDOLOD DLL NG" "TexGen_Output" "DynDOLOD_Output" "Trainwreck - A Crash Logger"

“There is a bit of a problem with the application.”
Those words, seemingly innocuous, had become the bane of Maria’s existence over the past few years. When the International Space Station first received the signals over 5 years ago, it was assumed to be a sensor malfunction. After multiple tests, backup sensors, and a physical check were done and determined it was real, most shifted to thinking it was a hoax. How could it not be? Aliens, part of some kind of federation, were on their way sending offers of peace and cooperation.
Most countries agreed to inform the public once more thorough tests could be done. But as they say, two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead. And if it doesn’t involve aliens. Before the day was over, someone had released most of the data collected to the public, including the translated message.
Initially, it didn’t get much attention. As it turns out, most people aren’t willing to believe a guy just saying “Trust me, I work for NASA”. But once governments saw someone had told the press what had happened, they scrambled to release their own statements, seeing it as just a matter of time before everyone caught on. Better to look as if they weren’t concealing critical information from their own citizens.
So now major governments across the world were all confirming that ‘yes, aliens exist’ and ‘no, we aren’t sure if they’re lying or not.’ This was evidently not what people wanted to hear in such a confusing time. Many jumped to the conclusion of an alien invasion, while others still believed it was a trick perpetrated by the lizard Illuminati to draw attention away from failing code in their bird drones. There was a period of civil unrest. Riots gripped major cities, people fled into the countryside, and bunker construction was at an all-time high, surpassing peak numbers during the Cold War. But eventually, things calmed down.
Included in the message sent was a large document detailing the many rules and regulations of the Peaceful Collection of People that Move in the Endless Sky (I am told it sounds much more eloquent in Federation standard). This included what was required of a planet to join as a fully-fledged member. The United Nations set up a new agency to handle the mess created by the alien’s announcement. While militaries and governments started planning in case their intentions for Earth were less than honest, the United Nations Extraterrestrial Organization hired teams of experts to prepare for a peaceful first contact. Linguists crafted the perfect lexicon to use, one that was soft and non-aggressive while including multiple major languages. Lawyers and Judges poured over the legal codes, searching for potential pitfalls, loopholes, or general problems. Engineers designed and constructed a landing pad up to the specifications given, sprucing it up with architectural additions from a wide range of cultures. Artists crafted masterpieces in every medium, from graffiti to chiseled marble, all assembled near the landing pad as gifts to be given to the first extraterrestrial visitor to Earth.
When the day finally came, it felt like the entire world was watching with bated breath. Large screens had been constructed in every city and town square. Bars were packed, their televisions at full volume. New York City, the location of the landing pad, was filled to the brim with onlookers hoping to see this momentous occasion. Even those who retreated to bunkers kept a TV or radio on, if solely out of a desire to be proven right.
It had been monumental in its mundanity. The ship, a small, sleek vessel made from flowing lines of metal, landed silently and a party of four walked out. Actually, they didn’t all walk out. One of them had been encased in what we later learned was an environmental suit. It had treads instead of legs and acted as a sort of wheelchair.
When the leading delegate approached the Secretary-General of the UN surrounded by world leaders, all of humanity held their breath. Then a hand was extended in a timeless greeting, and with no pause save a small glance, the alien grasped the outstretched hand. The first handshake with an extraterrestrial was broadcast around the globe.
But when the pageantry and showmanship ended, it was time for paperwork on a galactic scale. And Maria had been on the receiving end of that deluge for the past 5 years.
“What is it this time?” Maria was getting tired of dealing with every little snag in the Federation's frankly Byzantine legal code. Apparently, Federation law was looser in daily life, with local systems being given high levels of autonomy. But a new species joining would affect the entire Federation. Anything of that scale meant regulations and oversight, and lots of it.
Her liaison, a blob-like alien isolated from Earth’s apparently toxic atmosphere by an environmental suit, projected a scrolling wall of text from its holo-emitter. “Well, there is a part of the Rules of Integration that specify all groups on a potential member planet must have had their lives improved before they can join. Usually, it’s skipped over, because ‘improved’ has been interpreted to be very broad. Basically, if you have explored the whole planet and life, in general, has gotten better for everyone, then you’re good.”
She leaned back in my chair. The slight stretch drew cracks from her back, a gift from Maria’s perpetually poor posture. “So what’s the problem? It sounds like we fit the bill.”
The blob’s artificial arm moved through the hologram, searching for a specific section. “Have you ever heard of the North Sentinal Islanders?”
The name rang a bell, but as Maria turned to her computer, an aid leaned over and whispered in her ear. “Quarantined island tribe off the eastern coast of India.”
She tilted her head, hoping the gesture would be picked up by the fancy translators the Federation had. “Seriously, that’s the problem? A tiny stone age tribe?”
“This is a very serious issue. Differences in culture and customs often lead to misunderstandings and social strife between federation member states, so the baseline requirements are valued highly.”
Maria sighed, wishing for not the first time that she could drink without sparking an interplanetary incident. The Federation had been friendly so far, but no one wanted to test how fragile their egos were with a drunken rant. Lifting her head up from her palms, she asked wearily. “How do we fix this?”
“You would need to provide them something that helps improve their daily lives.” They said it so casually like she could just wave a magic wand and know what to do.
“But we have helped them. The whole reason they are quarantined is to prevent any outbreaks of disease among the Sentinelese population.”
The blob gyrated back and forth. Maria hoped that was their species’ equivalent of nodding no, compared to the alternatives. “Unfortunately, not doing negative things to them doesn’t count as improving their lives. You don’t give people accolades for not murdering people, do you?”
Maria had been quickly skimming an article her assistant had pulled up on the Sentinelese while her liaison spoke. One part of the summary of their situation caught her eye. “Well, what about that iron they got from shipwrecks? That’s probably the only metal on the island.”
Again the blob gyrated. “If anything, that takes away from your argument. Improvement by salvaging is the type of thing that happens in rebellions or during wars. Even in your case, it was merely a byproduct of your actions, not the main goal.”
“So we have to purposefully provide them with something that improves their daily lives?”
Their response was, in Maria’s humble opinion, curt for a diplomat. “Yes.”
A heavy breath accompanied Maria’s next statement. “But we can’t go there in case we infect them with a disease that might wipe them out.”
“Which would then be classified as genocide, automatically rejecting your current application until sufficient governmental reform is enacted or a new government is established.” They spoke robotically, repeating a line Maria had heard a few dozen times by now. How much of the code did this blob memorize?
She paused, her face scrunching up in frustration. “And you can’t provide us with any fancy space tech to prevent such a scenario from happening because?”
“Federation protocol is to not share any sufficiently advanced technology with non-federation members.” There was a slight pause as they seemed to think about something. “Plus we just don’t have the right equipment for that type of thing with us.”
Maria leaned back in her chair, staring at the ceiling to focus her thoughts. “What would count as improving the Sentinilese’s lives?”
The question seemed to raise their spirits. They brought up the hologram again, pulling up a dense block of text with numerous footnotes. “At the very basic level, it has to be something that lasts multiple generations and that they can utilize. For example, you can’t give them a spaceship because they don’t know and can’t learn how to fly it.”
Maria thought about what made her happy. What in her life would be useful to a tribe whose most advanced technology was the bow and arrow?
As she pondered, her eyes drifted across the room. They settled on the windowsill, or rather what was hanging from it. A row of potted plants. “What if we sanitize and then perform an aerial seeding of some non-invasive plant? Something useful, or at least pretty.”
The blob paused for a moment. Then it spoke again in its strange, goopy language. The translator relayed their response in English. “That could work, it would just have to be suited to the climate and relatively safe for the island’s biome. Nothing that would outcompete the local species or cause an ecological collapse.”
Maria nodded in satisfaction. She stood up and offered a handshake to her guest. “I’ll have our top researchers find the best specimen by the end of this week. Were there any other hiccups?”
The blob didn’t have to stand up, seeing as it didn’t, or couldn’t, use a chair. One of its tentacles wrapped around Maria’s arm, the mucus that made up its body still encased in the rubber-like suit. “Yes, apparently the English to Federation Standard translator is malfunctioning. On a related note, why did you ask me if there were any involuntary contractions of the throat just now? I don’t possess a throat.”
~
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Let’s admit it, this track slaps. It gets the physiological juices flowing and the emotional gland opened.
That being said, the lyrics are also poetic and socially reflective in a beautiful and harmonious way.
Just wondering if others regard it as highly as me?
Dark and grey, an English film, the Wednesday Play We always watch the Queen on Christmas Day Won't you stay? Though your eyes see shipwrecked sailors you're still dry The outlook's fine though Wales might have some rain Saved again Let's skip the news boy, I'll make some tea The Arabs and the Jews boy, too much for me They get me confused boy, puts me off to sleep And the thing I hate, oh Lord Is staying up late, to watch some debate on some nation's fate Hypnotized by Batman, Tarzan, still surprised You've won the West in time to be our guest Name your prize Drop of wine, glass of beer dear what's the time? The grime on the Tyne is mine, all mine, all mine Five past nine Blood on the rooftops, Venice in the Spring Streets of San Francisco, word from Peking The trouble was started by a young Errol Flynn Better in my day, oh Lord For when we got bored we'd have a World War, happy but poor So let's skip the news boy, I'll go make that tea Blood on the rooftops, too much for me When old Mother Goose stops and they're out for twenty-three Then the rain at Lords stopped play Seems Helen of Troy has found a new face again

Background
A year ago I was on a yet another work gig in Madrid, and I was already thinking that these repeated work assignments might turn into a permanent position in Spain. I wasn’t sure if I’d want to change countries and leave behind a big part of the life I had built in one place and take on the challenge of building a new one. One day I went on a date with a person living a nomad life, and I talked to her about my choice. She said something that made me not worry anymore, and the next day I started studying Spanish on Duolingo.
Disclaimer
In this case, having gone “through” means finishing section 8 on my one year anniversary. This is the point at which new content stops. I set that as a goal about two months ago, when I realised that I just have to pick up the pace a little bit to hit that target. I still have a lot of reviewing to do.
The journey
I have been putting in maybe 10 hours per week on average, at least lately. It’s not necessary to study as hard (a couple of hours per week is good for most), but I have wanted to be able to integrate with the locals as soon as possible. About six months ago I went to an event where I thought I could meet likeminded people and talk to them in English, but it was a fiasco. You really can’t assume that even urban, educated people in Spain will speak English. The only good thing about that event was that it gave me a boost to study even harder.
Most of what I have learned has been from Duolingo.

• Probably more than 99% of my vocabulary comes from Duolingo. The best thing about studying with a course is that they will focus on the core vocabulary. Your Tiktok influencer might want you to know how to say “no thanks” in five different ways before you know how to explain having pain in your ear.
• When it comes to grammar, I have benefited a lot from having studied many languages before, having a native language that is not the simplest (Finnish), and googling
• Listening is hard. No class will prepare you for talking with mumbling or speedtalking locals, nor having conversations in noisy environments or over bad phone lines. Whenever possible, I’ve tried to listen instead of reading prompts on Duolingo. And a friend made a playlist of songs in Spanish.
• For pronunciation, I’ve benefited a lot from watching the pronunciation videos of “Ten Minute Spanish” on Youtube, and with Duolingo I’ve practised by reading out loud a lot more than the course requires and until I’m satisfied. Sometimes I also sing along to the aforementioned Spanish songs.
• I have one friend with whom I’ve had conversations in Spanish. And no matter how much I butcher the language, it’s important to practise having a conversation. Most other conversations have been with myself, in the shower and elsewhere.

Where did it get me?
First, I will say that you can definitely learn a lot with Duolingo. The breadth and depth of the courses vary, but at least with Spanish you can say that you become conversational. My level is at least strong B1, maybe even early borderline B2 (or more, I’m very self-critical). And if I remembered everything that Duolingo has tried to teach me, I think I’d definitely be on level B2.
Here are some examples of what I have done:
A little while ago, maybe while doing section 7, I started reading the autobiography of Britney Spears' “La mujer que soy” in Spanish. I chose it as I thought it would be a book for people who use simple language… There are words I need to check to understand, and there are words I want to check in order to learn more, even though I could enjoy the story without a dictionary. Luckily, checking words is quick on Kindle.
Duolingo podcast had an episode about Pedro Almadóvar’s “Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios” and I wanted to watch it. On the Spanish Netflix the movie is available only with Spanish subtitles. Watching it with Spanish audio and subtitles, I don’t feel like I missed anything.
Speaking is hard for many, including me, because of shyness.I have called my phone company and electricity company, handled bureaucracy at the ayuntamiento, talked to my landlady, visited a doctor, and asked for help from neighbours. I’m also having long and meaningful, even though somewhat fatiguing, conversations with two patient people.
Review
I have had great success with Duolingo. Duolingo, its repetitions, its sentences, many of them funny, has helped me to build my vocabulary. The app is engaging and even though I have not hunted for XP, the desire to stay in the Diamond league and sometimes in top 3 has pushed me even on the weeks that have been rough.
When it comes to grammar, I’ve learned quite a bit by googling. I think that Duolingo does a decent job at the beginning explaining things like grammatical gender and conjugation, but later on you either have to have had experience with other languages (like I do) or you have to google (like I do). I don’t know if it’s possible to learn how to use present and past subjunctive without using other sources, for example. Duolingo is great for helping something start to sound natural and instinctive through repetition, but I think everyone would benefit from having the concepts explained well so that the sentences have a framework to attach to. And to avoid frustration. Frustration is the worst state of mind to try to learn in.
Some people will say that you can’t learn to speak on Duolingo, but I beg to differ. If you speak mindfully and constantly when learning on Duolingo - even with exercises that don’t require it - you can make great strides in that skill, too. Oh, and speak to yourself as well. Naturally, speaking is best practised in a dialogue, but you don’t have to start there. However, you’ll need it in the end and you’ll either have to get a tutor (like I did a month ago) or Spanish-speaking friends or colleagues.
I got Duolingo Super for this project. I had had it earlier when studying French but I was livid at losing the old tree form and at first I did not renew my subscription when it expired. I think I wasn’t completely wrong in my criticism, but I wasn’t completely right either. The current model is great for someone who starts from the beginning, but harder for those who start a course when they are already at a level like B1 as my French was. Anyway, Duolingo is a bargain. It has given me 500 hours of engaging content for the same price I get 5 hours with my tutor.
I admit that many people fail with Duolingo, but I think they would fail with any app because they don’t put in the hours. Learning a language is really hard, much harder than people selling language learning apps and courses make it seem.
What’s next
I don’t have any new vocabulary or grammar to learn from Duolingo. However, I have noticed that I have quite a bit of already forgotten content to relearn. I’ve started section 9 (review), I have only about half of the course golden, and I have finished less than a third of the sidequests. I will keep doing those in more or less random order to revise and to make my own spaced repetition. All in all, I think I have about 2500 lessons left.
One thing that I have decided to do is leaving the stories last when I make lessons golden. Writing longer texts is a challenge of its own, and when I do the stories, my goal is to write the most amazing text you can fit in 60 words using all my vocabulary.
What worries me the most is how I can keep learning new vocabulary after Duolingo. Duolingo has been great for me thanks to the repetition of words in different sentences. As the next best alternative I have already downloaded Anki and I will add new words in the deck as I come across them in different contexts: TV, books, music, conversations… The problem is trying to distinguish between more and less relevant words to learn - well curated content is really worth it. In addition to words, I’ll also add expressions as I come across them, the latest addition being “ni pies, ni cabeza”.
Using is learning. While working on finishing the course, I will keep using Spanish in other contexts and learn practically. That being said, I will use the language strategically:

• I will watch Spanish series with Spanish subtitles. I’ve recently experimented with having Google camera translator open and my phone in my hand ready to translate anything I need
• I will keep listening to music but I will focus more on translating the lyrics - and singing along
• I will get more books in Spanish and add key words in Anki
• I will try to find good podcasts in Spanish. In the meanwhile I will consume Duolingo podcasts - which are well made but have way too much English (for B2 level).
• Hopefully, I will make new Spanish-speaking friends or I will dare to start speaking Spanish with the current ones.

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Welcome, everyone, to Wilkie Collins's Armadale! Here we have a story of murder, betrayal, poison, identity theft, shipwrecks, death bed confessions... and that's just the prologue!
Below is a recap of this week's section, and you'll find the discussion questions in the comments. Please remember to use spoiler tags if you discuss anything beyond this week's section, or when discussing other stories.
We begin our story in 1832, in Wildbad Germany, a spa town that attracts sick tourists from all over Europe. Two such tourists have just arrived: the cantankerous Scotsman, Mr. Neal; and the deathly ill Englishman, Mr. Armadale.
The doctor shows up late to his appointment with Mr. Neal the next morning, with an interesting excuse: he needs Mr. Neal to help him assist Mr. Armadale. Mr. Armadale has a "paralytic affliction" as the result of a "wild life, a vicious life..."--look, the dude has syphilis, okay? Wilkie couldn't come right out and say it, but he's describing syphilis. Anyhow, Mr. Armadale needs something written, and the doctor can't write it for him because his English is too limited. Mr. Neal is the only person in Wildbad fluent enough in English to help. Oh, there's his wife, of course... but the thing he needs to write is a secret that he doesn't want her to know. (Ooooh, intriguing!)
The doctor informed the wife of this, and it turns out she approves of Mr. Neal assisting Armadale. She knows that her husband loves another woman and that, after learning that the other woman has a son, her husband insisted that he needed to write a letter to his own son, to be given to him when he's older. Her husband already wrote most of the letter, but the progression of his illness has prevented him from continuing. He is dying, and by the time another English speaker can reach Wildbad, it will be too late.
Mr. Neal insists on meeting Mrs. Armadale before agreeing to anything. Mrs. Armadale turns out to be a stunningly beautiful biracial woman, Mr. Neal immediately falls head over heels in love with her, and now has no more reservations about writing the letter, as long as Mr. Armadale agrees with Mrs. Armadale's request to be allowed to hear the letter. Mr. Armadale agrees, provided that Mrs. Armadale leave when the letter reaches a certain point. And so, Mr. Neal reads the following out loud:
Dear Son,
Hope your life is going well. I may be about to ruin it. Sucks to be you.
I grew up a spoiled rich boy in Barbados. I was named for my godfather, Allan Armadale, and took his last name at twenty-one so that I could inherit his estates in Barbados, because he'd disowned his son (also named Allan Armadale, because Wilkie Collins does not care about the One-Steve Limit). Around this time, I hired a clerk named Fergus Ingleby. He had terrible references and my mom hated him, but I was a spoiled rich boy so I got what I wanted. Fergus and I became BFFs.
In an attempt to separate me from Fergus, my mom suggested I go to England, since I'd never been off of Barbados. She found out that an old beau of hers was in Madeira with his daughter, and she wanted me to go there, meet up with them, and then accompany them back to England. I was opposed until I saw a portrait of the daughter and decided that I had to marry her, because falling in love with someone based on a drawing of them is normal and healthy. (Son, do not tell your mother about this letter, and especially do not tell her that I have a crush on a white chick.)
The day before I was to sail to Madeira, I suddenly took ill because I had been poisoned. This didn't actually surprise anyone--I'm kind of a jackass and have numerous jilted lovers. What did surprise me was that Fergus had disappeared. Anyhow, I set sail once I was well again, but arrived in Madeira to learn that Miss Blanchard had already gotten married... to Allan Armadale! Fergus Ingleby was my namesake's disowned son! (This was especially shocking because it meant that he willingly chose the alias "Fergus Ingleby.")
Fergus had told the truth to Miss Blanchard, and the two of them deceived her father by having Miss Blanchard's maid (a 12-year-old girl) forge a letter allegedly from my mother, identifying Fergus as her son. Mr. Blanchard didn't learn the truth until after the wedding, when my sudden appearance forced them to confess.
Of course, there was only one way to settle this: pistols at dawn mid-afternoon the next day. But while I was waiting for him to show up, Fergus and his new wife slipped away onto a ship, La Grace de Dieu, headed for Lisbon. Mr. Blanchard prepared his yacht to chase after them, and I disguised myself as a sailor and joined the crew. It was a good thing we'd followed them: a thunderstorm ended up wrecking the ship, but we were able to save everyone... well, everyone except for Fergus, who had "mysteriously disappeared." Fergus's body was found later in the ship's cabin, the door of which had been locked on the outside....
...Not to interrupt at such an intense spot, but, back to the present, Armadale interrupts Mr. Neal's reading of the letter to demand that his wife leave the room now. It turns out that the secret he doesn't want her to know isn't "I only married you because I couldn't score someone who conforms to racist Victorian beauty standards." It's worse.
The letter continues. We learn that Allan Armadale was the one who locked Allan "Fergus Ingleby" Armadale in the cabin.
Thump. Oops. Mrs. Armadale was listening at the door, and she fainted. So much for that secret.
Armadale was never formally accused of his crime, although he's sure that his victim's widow has figured out the truth. His mother died shortly afterwards and he went to Trinidad to try to get a new start. He met his wife there and, since "I enjoy long walks on the beach and drowning people" is a shitty pick-up line, didn't tell her his secret.
Here's where the story gets complicated (because it wasn't complicated already). The Armadales have a son named Allan Armadale. Mr. Armadale was prompted to write this letter when he learned that Fergus's wife gave birth to a son, also named Allan Armadale. (In case you lost track, there have been a total of five characters named Allan Armadale mentioned so far in this story. Given Wilkie Collins's love of identity theft and doppelgangers, I can only assume he was giggling maniacally at this point.) Believing in the idea that the sin of the father shall be visited on the child, Armadale now fears for his son. Armadale begs his son to "Avoid the widow of the man I killed—if the widow still lives. Avoid the maid whose wicked hand smoothed the way to the marriage—if the maid is still in her service. And more than all, avoid the man who bears the same name as your own."
Thus ends the prologue. Yeah, that was just the prologue. We're just now getting to the real story.
We skip ahead nineteen years, and meet a new character: the Reverend Decimus Brock. He's sitting in a room in the Isle of Man, pondering how he got here. He thinks back to fourteen years ago, when a woman with an eight-year-old son moved to town. The woman, Mrs. Armadale (presumably the widow of "Fergus," since she's described as having a fair complexion), requested that Brock tutor her son Allan, because she's afraid to be apart from him, and therefore doesn't want to send him to school.
Jump ahead eight years (wow, this is a lot of back and forth on the timeline). They didn't have the term "ADHD" back then, so instead we get a long description of how Allan is impulsive, has a short attention span, and is hyperfixated on boats. We also learn that Mr. Brock has feelings for Mrs. Armadale but, since she doesn't return them, he contents himself to be her friend and a father-figure to Allan.
One day, Mr. Brock is shocked to see a notice in the newspaper from a law firm, trying to contact a fifteen-year-old named Allan Armadale. When he shows it to Mrs. Armadale, she's adamant that it's not her son: the age is off by a year, and there is another Allan Armadale that she knows of, but she refuses to talk about him, and begs Brock to not tell Allan.
Okay, one more time-skip. We're in 1850 now, and Allan is twenty-one. Nothing much has changed except that Allan, who is still obsessed with boats, is building his own yacht. But then one day a stranger shows up in town, and immediately collapses due to "brain fever." (It's a Victorian novel, okay?) A paper is found on him that testifies that he was a school usher (assistant) who was dismissed due to his brain fever. His name is Ozias Midwinter. Allan is fascinated, and impulsively offers to pay for the unconscious man's medical treatment.
Mrs. Armadale is immediately suspicious, and even suspects that "Ozias Midwinter" may be an alias. (Mr. Brock argues that no one would choose to go by a name like that, but then, I would have said that about "Fergus Ingleby.") Allan and Ozias are quickly becoming best friends, but Ozias remains secretive about his past, and Mrs. Armadale continues to distrust him. Mr. Brock eventually confronts Ozias, saying that he needs to explain who he really is, and Ozias reacts by guiltily saying that he isn't a worthy friend for Allan and will leave the next day. Despite Ozias's tears and Allan's anger, the two are separated, although Allan does manage to get Ozias's address in London.
Three days later, a mysterious woman visits Mrs. Armadale. Mr. Brock notes that she was wearing a black dress, red Paisley shawl, and a black veil that prevented him from seeing her face. After the woman leaves, Mrs. Armadale has a panic attack and tells Mr. Brock that she and Allan should move to another part of England to hide from the woman. The woman, it turns out, is the maid who forged the letter back in the prologue, and she's come back to extort money from Mrs. Armadale. While Mr. Brock does not know the full story, Mrs. Armadale says enough to let the reader know that she fears the maid telling Allan the truth about his parents' marriage. Unfortunately, the shock is enough to kill Mrs. Armadale (again, this is a Victorian novel), and she dies making Mr. Brock promise to protect Allan from the woman (whose name she never bothered to reveal).
Mr. Brock convinces Allan to go with him to Paris to help distract him from his grief. Allan agrees, provided he can meet up with Ozias when they're in London. While in London, as Allan goes out to find Ozias, Mr. Brock sees an ad in the newspaper: a law firm is trying to determine whether the other Allan Armadale is alive or dead. Allan returns disappointed: Ozias wasn't home.
Three weeks later, Allan hears from Ozias and learns that he'd been out because he'd been contacted by relatives and was now receiving an income. Then Allan receives another letter: he has inherited his mother's family's estate in Thorpe Ambrose, because everyone else who was in line to inherit it has suddenly died under mysterious circumstances. (Sure, that's not weird at all.) One of the deaths involved someone saving an attempted suicide victim... a woman in a black silk dress, thick veil, and red Paisley shawl. OH COME ON, WILKIE, REALLY? SHE WORE THE SAME OUTFIT AND EVERYTHING?
Allan doesn't want to kick the surviving widow and daughter out of their home, so he decides to spend a couple of months at sea on his yacht before moving to Thorpe Ambrose. Mr. Brock and Ozias Midwinter both accompany him, which is how the three of them ended up together in the Isle of Man, an island famous for its weird-ass flag and tailless cats.
Mr. Brock receives a letter that he has to return to his church, which leaves him in an awkward situation: can he leave Allan and Midwinter alone together? We've finally looped back to the beginning of the chapter. Mr. Brock still doesn't trust Midwinter, whose past remains shrouded in mystery. Fortunately, Ozias Midwinter realizes that Mr. Brock must be struggling with this, and he shows up at Mr. Brock's door, offering to finally reveal his story... starting with the letter from the prologue.
Thankfully, Mr. Brock is a decent person and does not hold anything in the letter against him. Ozias then reveals his own story: Mr. Neal married his mother. His mother and stepfather were abusive toward him out of hatred for his father's crime, although Ozias didn't know of the crime until recently. At the age of eleven, he ran away from school and was taken in by a gypsy named Ozias Midwinter. Ozias Sr. trained Ozias Jr. as a travelling performer. Mr. Brock is horrified to hear that Ozias Sr. beat him, but Ozias seems to think of the man as a father.
Two years later, Ozias Sr. drank himself to death. Ozias ends up working as a servant (for the guy who killed his dog, just in case this story hasn't crossed the line from depressing to ridiculous yet) until he gets fired for a crime he didn't commit, becomes a cabin boy, runs away, works for fishermen, gets sent away due to a famine, almost gets caught by Mr. Neal again, becomes a sailor, gets into a fight and spends time in prison, and finally ends up working for a bookseller, who underpays him but at least he gets to read. Then the bookseller dies, he gets a job as a school usher, and we're back where we first met him. Whew. TL;DR: it sucks to be Ozias Midwinter.
Thanks to the advertisement, Ozias received both an income from his inheritance, and (the morning of his conversation with Mr. Brock) his father's letter. Ozias has decided that he will continue going by "Ozias Midwinter," and hide the secret of his identity from Allan. He considered obeying his father's command to stay away from Allan, but he loves Allan too much to leave him. (I may be crying a little. I may also be shipping them.)
Mr. Brock is a good guy and totally supports Ozias. He's also astute enough to pick up an important detail in the letter: Allan's mother had a maid who knows all of this. Obviously, this is the woman in the black dress, veil, and red paisley shawl.
Finally, before he burns the letter, Ozias consoles himself by realizing that, if he were really haunted by his father's past, he'd have ended up on La Grace de Dieu when he was a sailor. Perhaps he isn't doomed by his father after all.

I have been trying to crack this one for a while now, and even my (Heritage Speaker, Mx Spanish) wife can't help, so I am hoping someone can!
'El Monstruo De La Laguna' is a song by the Argentinian group Canticuénticos, who make wonderful music for kids. The song (Youtube link below) is about a Cumbia-dancing monster and follows a regular verse pattern for the most part:
El monstruo de la laguna
empieza a mover la panza,
para un lado y para el otro,
parece una calabaza.
and so on through all the different body parts the monster moves while dancing (los hombros, la cadera, los pies etc), always with a (half) rhyme between the body part and the last word of the verse - panza/calabaza, hombros/asombro etc.
Here's my problem: there's a moment (it's at 2:13 in the video linked below) when the percussionist interrupts and wants to sing a verse. He sings:
El monstruo de la laguna
se para con la cabeza
con las patas pa'arriba...
but the singers interrupt him before he can finish the verse: " ¡ Mira, que broma traviesa!".
Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but it seems like there's a linguistic joke here; just like an English limerick traditionally either flirts with or outright uses a vulgar or rude word to make up the final rhyme, his verse was going to end with something inappropriate that the other band members don't want to give him the time to say.
But I can't for the life of me figure out what he would have said. Any ideas? Or am I seeing something that isn't actually there?
If it helps, the band are from Santa Fe (the Argentinian one) I believe.
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFdUXU9ZGls&t=11s