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2024.05.17 21:50 Jerry_217 [H] Lots of games NEW: Yakuza LAD, 9 Years of Shadow, Littlewood, DEVOUR, Amnesia:The Bunker, Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles, Wobbledogs [W] Hi-Fi rush, hell let loose, Nioh 2, WWE 2k23, crusader kings 3, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Fable Anniversary, Poker night 1, 2, F1 2012, 2011, Euro/American Truck, tf2

Region is NA.

If you have my wishlist games, Chat with me anytime. Only accept games from your own collection.

My REPs: 200+ successful trades, stopped tracking after 202.

​

Wishlist is in the end of this post

My steam games for trade (Can make gift links if possible):

Added recently:

Blade of Darkness
Amanda the Adventurer
Bravery and Greed
King Of The Castle
Loddlenaut
Mediterranea Inferno
Steelrising
Yakuza: Like a Dragon
Coromon
Fashion Police Squad
HUMANKIND™ Definitive Edition
Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga
Terraformers
The Callisto Protocol
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
Victoria 3
Littlewood
Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles
One Hand Clapping
Tainted Grail: Conquest
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Ultimate Chicken Horse
Mad Max
MORTAL KOMBAT XL
Mortal Kombat 11: Ultimate
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor GOTY
Middle-Earth: Shadow of War Definitive Edition
Injustice 2 Legendary Edition
Gotham Knights
Back 4 Blood
Batman™: Arkham Knight Premium Edition
Batman™: Arkham Asylum GOTY Edition
Batman™: Arkham City GOTY Edition
Batman™: Arkham Origins
.hack//G.U. Last Recode
CODE VEIN
GOD EATER 3
Katamari Damacy REROLL
PAC-MAN MUSEUM+
Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition
TEKKEN 7
Dragon Knight (delisted, 18+, PM for price)
Hell Girls (delisted, 18+, PM for price)
Super Star (delisted, 18+, PM for price)
​

Steam games:

9 Years of Shadows
A Juggler's Tale
A Plague Tale: Innocence
ABZU
Aces and Adventures
Ad Infinitum
Afterimage
Agent in Depth
Alchemist's Castle
Alchemy Garden
Aliens vs. Predator Collection ( includes Aliens vs. Predator + Aliens vs Predator Swarm Map Pack + Aliens vs Predator: Bug Hunt Pack)
Aliens: Fireteam Elite
AMID EVIL
Amnesia: The Bunker
Among Us
Anuchard
Aragami 2
Arcade Paradise
Arise: A Simple Story
Armello
Army Men RTS
Assault Suit Leynos
Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles
Astronarch
Autonauts vs Piratebots
Battlecruisers
Beacon Pines
Big Pharma
BIOMUTANT
Bionic Commando Rearmed
Black Paradox
Black Skylands
Blade Assault
Blade of Darkness
Blood And Zombies
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
Borderlands 3: Super Deluxe Edition
Boundless
BPM: Bullets Per Minute
Brawlout
Castle on the Coast
Cats in Time
Caveblazers
Chicka Wars Chicken Meat (delisted)
Children of Silentown
CHIVALRY 2 - EPIC EDITION
Citizen Sleeper
CivCity: Rome
Click and Slay
Colt Canyon
Conan Chop Chop
Concept Destruction
Construction Simulator (2015) Deluxe Edition
Cookie Cutter
Corridor Z
Cosmonautica
Crayon Physics Deluxe
CROSSBOW: Bloodnight
Cultist Simulator
Curse of the Dead Gods
Dagon - The Eldritch Box DLC
Dark Deity
Dead Age
Dear Esther: Landmark Edition
Death Squared
Deceive Inc.
Demonologist
Depraved
Descenders
Desperados III
Destiny 2: Beyond Light DLC
Destroy All Humans! 2 - Reprobed
Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter
Detached: Non-VR Edition
DEVOUR
Dicey Dungeons
Disciples: Liberation
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
Dishonored Definitive Edition
Distant Worlds Universe
Doctor Strange Defenders Skin
Double Cross
Doughlings: Arcade
Doughlings: Invasion
Dragon Knight (delisted, 18+)
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
Draw Slasher
Drawful 2
Due Process
Dungeons 2 - Complete Edition
Dusk
EDGE OF ETERNITY
Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising
El Hijo
Emily is Away <3
Encased
Endless Space 2
Epic Chef
ETERNAL THREADS
Exorder
Expeditions: Rome
F1 2018
Farming Simulator 17
Firegirl: Hack 'n Splash Rescue
First Class Trouble
Five Dates
Fling to the Finish
Fobia - St. Dinfna Hotel
Foretales
FOREWARNED
Forged Battalion
Fortissimo FA INTL Ver
Founders' Fortune
Friends vs Friends
From Space
Full Metal Furies
Fun with Ragdolls: The Game
GameGuru Classic
Garfield Kart - Furious Racing
Generation Zero
Geometric Sniper
Ghost 1.0
Gloria Victis
Go Home Dinosaurs!
Going Under
Golf Gang
Good knight
GRID Ultimate Edition
GRIME
Grow: Song of the Evertree
Guilty Gear X2 #Reload
Guns & Fishes
Guts and Glory
Hack 'n' Slash bundle (including Hack 'n' Slash + Hack 'n' Slash Soundtrack + Spacebase GIFT)
Halcyon 6: Lightspeed Edition
Hardspace: Shipbreaker
Heart Fragment - Book Two: Belief Fragments (Shannon & Lana)
Hedon Bloodrite
Hell Girls (delisted, 18+)
Hell Pie
Hellbound
HERO'S HOUR
Hidden & Dangerous 2: Courage Under Fire
Hidden & Dangerous: Action Pack
Hokko Life
Hollow Knight
Honey, I Joined a Cult
Hot Brass
Hotshot Racing
How to Sing to Open Your Heart
Hyper Gunsport
I’m not a Monster
Internet Cafe Simulator
Interplanetary: Enhanced Edition
Intravenous
Intruders: Hide and Seek
Iron Danger
Iron Harvest
Izmir: An Independence Simulator
Joggernauts
Joggernauts
JURASSIC WORLD EVOLUTION 2
Just Cause 3 XXL Edition
Just Cause 4 Complete Edition
JYDGE
Kerbal Space Program
Killsquad
King's Bounty II
Kraken Academy!!
Labirinto 2
Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
Last Call BBS
Last Oasis
Late Shift
Lawn Mowing Simulator
Legend of Keepers
Leisure Suit Larry - Wet Dreams Don't Dry
Let Them Come
Life is Strange 2 Complete Season (incl. Mascot Bundle DLC)
Little Misfortune
Little Orpheus
Lords and Villeins
Lost Planet 3 Complete Pack
Lost Ruins
Lust for Darkness
Lust from Beyond: M Edition
MageQuit
Maid of Sker
Mainlining
MEEPLE STATION
Meow Express
Merchant of the Skies
Metal: Hellsinger
Metro Exodus
Midnight Fight Express
Midnight Ghost Hunt
Mini Metro
Mini motor Racing EVO (delisted)
MirrorMoon EP
Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp
Monster Sanctuary
Moon Hunters
Moonlighter
Morbid: The Seven Acolytes
Motorcycle Mechanic Simulator 2021
Moving Out - Movers in Paradise DLC
Mr. Prepper
Murder by Numbers
My Friendly Neighborhood
My Time At Portia
Mythic Ocean
Nadir: A Grimdark Deckbuilder
Necromunda Hired Gun
NecroWorm
NeuroVoider
Neverinth
Neverout
New Super Luckys Tale
Nickelodeon All Star Brawl
Nobody Saves the World
Non-Stop Raiders
Northgard
Oaken
Obduction
Of Orcs And Men
Offworld Trading Company
OLLIOLLI WORLD - RAD EDITION
One Hand Clapping
Orbital Racer
Othercide
Out of Reach: Treasure Royale
Outward Definitive Edition
Outward The Soroboreans DLC + soundtrack (DLC only)
Override
Overture
Ozymandias
Paint the Town Red
Partial Control
Patch Quest
Pathfinder: Kingmaker Enhanced Plus Edition (NA only) + Royal Ascension DLC + The Wildcards DLC
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition
Pathfinders: Memories
Pathway
Peaky Blinders: Mastermind
Per Asperatrar
Pilgrims
Pill Baby
Pixplode
Planet TD
PlataGO!
Port Royale 3 Gold
PowerBeatsVR
Prodeus
Project CARS (delisted)
Project Chemistry
Project Nimbus: Complete Edition
Project Wingman
Propagation VR - Co-op
Propnight
Proteus
Proteus
PULSAR: The Lost Colony
Pumped BMX +
Quadrata
Quantum Break
Radio Commander
Ragnarock
Railroad Corporation
Railroad Tycoon 3
Rain World
Rebel Inc: Escalation
Rebound Dodgeball Evolved
Re-Legion
Remnant: From the Ashes - Complete Edition
Remnants of Naezith
Resident Evil Revelations
Resident Evil Revelations 2
Reventure
Revita
RIOT - Civil Unrest
Road 96
Roarr! Jurassic Edition
ROGUE LORDS
Roguebook
RollerCoaster Tycoon 2: Triple Thrill Pack
RPG Maker VX
Rubber Bandits
RUINER
Rym 9000
Saints Row
Sakura Dungeon, 18+
Sakura Knight, 18+
Sakura MMO, 18+
Sakura Knight 2, 18+
Sakura Knight 3, 18+
Sakura MMO 2, 18+
Sakura MMO 3, 18+
Sakura MMO Extra, 18+
Sakura Succubus, 18+
Sakura Succubus 2, 18+
Sakura Succubus 3, 18+
Sakura Succubus 4, 18+
Sakura Succubus 5, 18+
Sakura Succubus 6, 18+
Sakura Swim Club, 18+
Sam & Max: Devil's Playhouse
Scorn
SCP : Secret Files
Secret Neighbor: Hello Neighbor Multiplayer
SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Shady Part of Me
Shing!
Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate
Sid Meier's Railroads!
Siege Survival: Gloria Victis
Skullgirls 2nd Encore
Slinger VR
Smile For Me
Sniper Elite 3
Sniper Elite 4
Snowtopia
Sorcerer King: Rivals
Soul Searching
Soulblight
Souldiers
Soulstice
Spellcaster University
Spirit Hunter: Death Mark
Spirit of the Island
Stacking
Starbound
Starpoint Gemini Warlords
State of Decay: Year-One Survival Edition (steam inventory gift)
Stirring Abyss
Strider
Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones
SuchArt!
Sunlight
Super Chicken Catchers
Super Magbot
Super Star (delisted)
SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE
Surviving the Aftermath
Sword Legacy Omen
SYMMETRYro
Tails Noir
Tainted Grail: Conquest
Telefrag VR
TEMTEM
The Amazing American Circus
The Ascent
The Beast Inside
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan
The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope
The Deed II
The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet Of Chaos
The Golf Club 2019 Featuring PGA TOUR
The Gunk
The Legend of Tianding
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
The Long Dark
The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition
The Pale Beyond
The Quarry
The Red Lantern
The Serpent Rogue
The USB Stick Found in the Grass
The Witcher: Enhanced Edition (steam inventory gift)
The Witness
The Wolf Among Us
There Is No Light
Ticket to Ride
Tin Can
Titan Souls
TOEM
Tools Up!
Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
Traffic Jams
Train Station Renovation
Treasure Hunter Simulator
Trek to Yomi
Tribes of Midgard
Twilight Struggle
Twin Mirror
Two Point Campus
Ultimate Chicken Horse
Underland: The Climb
Unity of Command: Stalingrad Campaign
UnMetal
Vanishing Realms
War for the Overworld
Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters
Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf
Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf - Drenn Redblade
Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf - Exceptional Card Pack
Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf - Saga of the Great Awakening
Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf - Wrath of the Damned
Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin Ultimate Edition
WARSAW
We Happy Few Season Pass
We Were Here Too
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine
White Noise 2
Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus?
Wizard of Legend
Wobbledogs
Worms Rumble
WRC 7
WWE 2K BATTLEGROUNDS
XCOM 2
X-COM: Complete Pack (including X-COM: UFO Defense + X-COM: Apocalypse + X-COM: Enforcer + X-COM: Interceptor + X-COM: Terror from the Deep)
XCOM: Enemy Unknown Complete Edition
XEL
X-Morph: Defense Complete Pack (including X-Morph: Defense + X-Morph: Defense - European Assault + X-Morph: Defense - Survival Of The Fittest + X-Morph: Defense - Last Bastion)
Yakuza 4 Remastered
Zoeti
ΔV: Rings of Saturn
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Other platforms:
Command & Conquer Remastered Collection (ORIGINkey)
Liberated (GOG key)
STAR WARS: Squadrons (Origin)
Wanderlust Travel Stories (GOG key)
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My Wishlist: (prefer gift links)

​
Hi-Fi RUSH
DIABLO 4 PC
Street Fighter 6
Rocket League
Poker night
poker night 2
Game of Thrones - A Telltale Games Series
NBA 2k16, 2k17
WWE 2K16, 2K17, 2K18, 2K19, 2K20, 2k23
The Last Remnant
Doctor Who: The Adventure Games
Hell let loose
Crusader kings 3
Spiderman remaster
F1 2020, 2019, 2017, 2016, 2012, 2011
ACE COMBAT ASSAULT HORIZON Enhanced Edition
DARK SOULS
DARK SOULS II
DARK SOULS III
Pistol Whip
CLANNAD
Automobilista 2
Gears 5
monster hunter rise
Tiny tina's wonderlands chaotic great edition
Spyro Reignited Trilogy
DIRT 5
Fable Anniversary
Nioh 2 COMPLETE
Victoria 3
HUMANKIND
A Hat in Time
VTOL VR
rFactor 2
ZERO Sievert
Barotrauma
monster hunter world
fight in tight space
Life Is Strange Complete Season
phoenix wright
LOOT RIVER
satisfactory
Gotham Knights
Rivals of Aether
Vrising
DOOM Eternal
Deep Rock Galactic
LegionTD 2
Dead by Daylight
quantum break
slay the spire
Yakuza kiwami 2
Stardew Valley
resident evil village
Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising
stray blade
clash: Artifacts of chaos
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other humble choice title games

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Note: for some games from humble I might ask for gift links. There is a rumor 3 years ago that humble bans users due to making gift links only. I make gift links every week, never have any issues. I have no idea why humble would ever ban its customers for using a feature it provides to its custimers.

Here is a guide how to make gift links from support.Humblebundle.com: https://support.humblebundle.com/hc/en-us/articles/202712460-Purchasing-and-Sending-Gifts

I do not believe humble teaches you how to make gift links, so it can ban you, lol

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2024.05.17 21:50 Jerry_217 [H] Lots of games NEW: Yakuza LAD, 9 Years of Shadow, Littlewood, DEVOUR, Amnesia:The Bunker, Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles, Wobbledogs [W] Hi-Fi rush, hell let loose, Nioh 2, WWE 2k23, crusader kings 3, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Fable Anniversary, Poker night 1, 2, F1 2012, 2011, Euro/American Truck, tf2

Region is NA.

If you have my wishlist games, Chat with me anytime. Only accept games from your own collection.

My REPs: 200+ successful trades, stopped tracking after 202.

​

Wishlist is in the end of this post

My steam games for trade (Can make gift links if possible):

Added recently:

Blade of Darkness
Amanda the Adventurer
Bravery and Greed
King Of The Castle
Loddlenaut
Mediterranea Inferno
Steelrising
Yakuza: Like a Dragon
Coromon
Fashion Police Squad
HUMANKIND™ Definitive Edition
Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga
Terraformers
The Callisto Protocol
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
Victoria 3
Littlewood
Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles
One Hand Clapping
Tainted Grail: Conquest
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Ultimate Chicken Horse
Mad Max
MORTAL KOMBAT XL
Mortal Kombat 11: Ultimate
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor GOTY
Middle-Earth: Shadow of War Definitive Edition
Injustice 2 Legendary Edition
Gotham Knights
Back 4 Blood
Batman™: Arkham Knight Premium Edition
Batman™: Arkham Asylum GOTY Edition
Batman™: Arkham City GOTY Edition
Batman™: Arkham Origins
.hack//G.U. Last Recode
CODE VEIN
GOD EATER 3
Katamari Damacy REROLL
PAC-MAN MUSEUM+
Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition
TEKKEN 7
Dragon Knight (delisted, 18+, PM for price)
Hell Girls (delisted, 18+, PM for price)
Super Star (delisted, 18+, PM for price)
​

Steam games:

9 Years of Shadows
A Juggler's Tale
A Plague Tale: Innocence
ABZU
Aces and Adventures
Ad Infinitum
Afterimage
Agent in Depth
Alchemist's Castle
Alchemy Garden
Aliens vs. Predator Collection ( includes Aliens vs. Predator + Aliens vs Predator Swarm Map Pack + Aliens vs Predator: Bug Hunt Pack)
Aliens: Fireteam Elite
AMID EVIL
Amnesia: The Bunker
Among Us
Anuchard
Aragami 2
Arcade Paradise
Arise: A Simple Story
Armello
Army Men RTS
Assault Suit Leynos
Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles
Astronarch
Autonauts vs Piratebots
Battlecruisers
Beacon Pines
Big Pharma
BIOMUTANT
Bionic Commando Rearmed
Black Paradox
Black Skylands
Blade Assault
Blade of Darkness
Blood And Zombies
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
Borderlands 3: Super Deluxe Edition
Boundless
BPM: Bullets Per Minute
Brawlout
Castle on the Coast
Cats in Time
Caveblazers
Chicka Wars Chicken Meat (delisted)
Children of Silentown
CHIVALRY 2 - EPIC EDITION
Citizen Sleeper
CivCity: Rome
Click and Slay
Colt Canyon
Conan Chop Chop
Concept Destruction
Construction Simulator (2015) Deluxe Edition
Cookie Cutter
Corridor Z
Cosmonautica
Crayon Physics Deluxe
CROSSBOW: Bloodnight
Cultist Simulator
Curse of the Dead Gods
Dagon - The Eldritch Box DLC
Dark Deity
Dead Age
Dear Esther: Landmark Edition
Death Squared
Deceive Inc.
Demonologist
Depraved
Descenders
Desperados III
Destiny 2: Beyond Light DLC
Destroy All Humans! 2 - Reprobed
Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter
Detached: Non-VR Edition
DEVOUR
Dicey Dungeons
Disciples: Liberation
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
Dishonored Definitive Edition
Distant Worlds Universe
Doctor Strange Defenders Skin
Double Cross
Doughlings: Arcade
Doughlings: Invasion
Dragon Knight (delisted, 18+)
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
Draw Slasher
Drawful 2
Due Process
Dungeons 2 - Complete Edition
Dusk
EDGE OF ETERNITY
Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising
El Hijo
Emily is Away <3
Encased
Endless Space 2
Epic Chef
ETERNAL THREADS
Exorder
Expeditions: Rome
F1 2018
Farming Simulator 17
Firegirl: Hack 'n Splash Rescue
First Class Trouble
Five Dates
Fling to the Finish
Fobia - St. Dinfna Hotel
Foretales
FOREWARNED
Forged Battalion
Fortissimo FA INTL Ver
Founders' Fortune
Friends vs Friends
From Space
Full Metal Furies
Fun with Ragdolls: The Game
GameGuru Classic
Garfield Kart - Furious Racing
Generation Zero
Geometric Sniper
Ghost 1.0
Gloria Victis
Go Home Dinosaurs!
Going Under
Golf Gang
Good knight
GRID Ultimate Edition
GRIME
Grow: Song of the Evertree
Guilty Gear X2 #Reload
Guns & Fishes
Guts and Glory
Hack 'n' Slash bundle (including Hack 'n' Slash + Hack 'n' Slash Soundtrack + Spacebase GIFT)
Halcyon 6: Lightspeed Edition
Hardspace: Shipbreaker
Heart Fragment - Book Two: Belief Fragments (Shannon & Lana)
Hedon Bloodrite
Hell Girls (delisted, 18+)
Hell Pie
Hellbound
HERO'S HOUR
Hidden & Dangerous 2: Courage Under Fire
Hidden & Dangerous: Action Pack
Hokko Life
Hollow Knight
Honey, I Joined a Cult
Hot Brass
Hotshot Racing
How to Sing to Open Your Heart
Hyper Gunsport
I’m not a Monster
Internet Cafe Simulator
Interplanetary: Enhanced Edition
Intravenous
Intruders: Hide and Seek
Iron Danger
Iron Harvest
Izmir: An Independence Simulator
Joggernauts
Joggernauts
JURASSIC WORLD EVOLUTION 2
Just Cause 3 XXL Edition
Just Cause 4 Complete Edition
JYDGE
Kerbal Space Program
Killsquad
King's Bounty II
Kraken Academy!!
Labirinto 2
Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
Last Call BBS
Last Oasis
Late Shift
Lawn Mowing Simulator
Legend of Keepers
Leisure Suit Larry - Wet Dreams Don't Dry
Let Them Come
Life is Strange 2 Complete Season (incl. Mascot Bundle DLC)
Little Misfortune
Little Orpheus
Lords and Villeins
Lost Planet 3 Complete Pack
Lost Ruins
Lust for Darkness
Lust from Beyond: M Edition
MageQuit
Maid of Sker
Mainlining
MEEPLE STATION
Meow Express
Merchant of the Skies
Metal: Hellsinger
Metro Exodus
Midnight Fight Express
Midnight Ghost Hunt
Mini Metro
Mini motor Racing EVO (delisted)
MirrorMoon EP
Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp
Monster Sanctuary
Moon Hunters
Moonlighter
Morbid: The Seven Acolytes
Motorcycle Mechanic Simulator 2021
Moving Out - Movers in Paradise DLC
Mr. Prepper
Murder by Numbers
My Friendly Neighborhood
My Time At Portia
Mythic Ocean
Nadir: A Grimdark Deckbuilder
Necromunda Hired Gun
NecroWorm
NeuroVoider
Neverinth
Neverout
New Super Luckys Tale
Nickelodeon All Star Brawl
Nobody Saves the World
Non-Stop Raiders
Northgard
Oaken
Obduction
Of Orcs And Men
Offworld Trading Company
OLLIOLLI WORLD - RAD EDITION
One Hand Clapping
Orbital Racer
Othercide
Out of Reach: Treasure Royale
Outward Definitive Edition
Outward The Soroboreans DLC + soundtrack (DLC only)
Override
Overture
Ozymandias
Paint the Town Red
Partial Control
Patch Quest
Pathfinder: Kingmaker Enhanced Plus Edition (NA only) + Royal Ascension DLC + The Wildcards DLC
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition
Pathfinders: Memories
Pathway
Peaky Blinders: Mastermind
Per Asperatrar
Pilgrims
Pill Baby
Pixplode
Planet TD
PlataGO!
Port Royale 3 Gold
PowerBeatsVR
Prodeus
Project CARS (delisted)
Project Chemistry
Project Nimbus: Complete Edition
Project Wingman
Propagation VR - Co-op
Propnight
Proteus
Proteus
PULSAR: The Lost Colony
Pumped BMX +
Quadrata
Quantum Break
Radio Commander
Ragnarock
Railroad Corporation
Railroad Tycoon 3
Rain World
Rebel Inc: Escalation
Rebound Dodgeball Evolved
Re-Legion
Remnant: From the Ashes - Complete Edition
Remnants of Naezith
Resident Evil Revelations
Resident Evil Revelations 2
Reventure
Revita
RIOT - Civil Unrest
Road 96
Roarr! Jurassic Edition
ROGUE LORDS
Roguebook
RollerCoaster Tycoon 2: Triple Thrill Pack
RPG Maker VX
Rubber Bandits
RUINER
Rym 9000
Saints Row
Sakura Dungeon, 18+
Sakura Knight, 18+
Sakura MMO, 18+
Sakura Knight 2, 18+
Sakura Knight 3, 18+
Sakura MMO 2, 18+
Sakura MMO 3, 18+
Sakura MMO Extra, 18+
Sakura Succubus, 18+
Sakura Succubus 2, 18+
Sakura Succubus 3, 18+
Sakura Succubus 4, 18+
Sakura Succubus 5, 18+
Sakura Succubus 6, 18+
Sakura Swim Club, 18+
Sam & Max: Devil's Playhouse
Scorn
SCP : Secret Files
Secret Neighbor: Hello Neighbor Multiplayer
SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Shady Part of Me
Shing!
Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate
Sid Meier's Railroads!
Siege Survival: Gloria Victis
Skullgirls 2nd Encore
Slinger VR
Smile For Me
Sniper Elite 3
Sniper Elite 4
Snowtopia
Sorcerer King: Rivals
Soul Searching
Soulblight
Souldiers
Soulstice
Spellcaster University
Spirit Hunter: Death Mark
Spirit of the Island
Stacking
Starbound
Starpoint Gemini Warlords
State of Decay: Year-One Survival Edition (steam inventory gift)
Stirring Abyss
Strider
Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones
SuchArt!
Sunlight
Super Chicken Catchers
Super Magbot
Super Star (delisted)
SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE
Surviving the Aftermath
Sword Legacy Omen
SYMMETRYro
Tails Noir
Tainted Grail: Conquest
Telefrag VR
TEMTEM
The Amazing American Circus
The Ascent
The Beast Inside
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan
The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope
The Deed II
The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet Of Chaos
The Golf Club 2019 Featuring PGA TOUR
The Gunk
The Legend of Tianding
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
The Long Dark
The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition
The Pale Beyond
The Quarry
The Red Lantern
The Serpent Rogue
The USB Stick Found in the Grass
The Witcher: Enhanced Edition (steam inventory gift)
The Witness
The Wolf Among Us
There Is No Light
Ticket to Ride
Tin Can
Titan Souls
TOEM
Tools Up!
Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
Traffic Jams
Train Station Renovation
Treasure Hunter Simulator
Trek to Yomi
Tribes of Midgard
Twilight Struggle
Twin Mirror
Two Point Campus
Ultimate Chicken Horse
Underland: The Climb
Unity of Command: Stalingrad Campaign
UnMetal
Vanishing Realms
War for the Overworld
Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters
Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf
Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf - Drenn Redblade
Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf - Exceptional Card Pack
Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf - Saga of the Great Awakening
Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf - Wrath of the Damned
Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin Ultimate Edition
WARSAW
We Happy Few Season Pass
We Were Here Too
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine
White Noise 2
Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus?
Wizard of Legend
Wobbledogs
Worms Rumble
WRC 7
WWE 2K BATTLEGROUNDS
XCOM 2
X-COM: Complete Pack (including X-COM: UFO Defense + X-COM: Apocalypse + X-COM: Enforcer + X-COM: Interceptor + X-COM: Terror from the Deep)
XCOM: Enemy Unknown Complete Edition
XEL
X-Morph: Defense Complete Pack (including X-Morph: Defense + X-Morph: Defense - European Assault + X-Morph: Defense - Survival Of The Fittest + X-Morph: Defense - Last Bastion)
Yakuza 4 Remastered
Zoeti
ΔV: Rings of Saturn
​
Other platforms:
Command & Conquer Remastered Collection (ORIGINkey)
Liberated (GOG key)
STAR WARS: Squadrons (Origin)
Wanderlust Travel Stories (GOG key)
​
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My Wishlist: (prefer gift links)

​
Hi-Fi RUSH
DIABLO 4 PC
Street Fighter 6
Rocket League
Poker night
poker night 2
Game of Thrones - A Telltale Games Series
NBA 2k16, 2k17
WWE 2K16, 2K17, 2K18, 2K19, 2K20, 2k23
The Last Remnant
Doctor Who: The Adventure Games
Hell let loose
Crusader kings 3
Spiderman remaster
F1 2020, 2019, 2017, 2016, 2012, 2011
ACE COMBAT ASSAULT HORIZON Enhanced Edition
DARK SOULS
DARK SOULS II
DARK SOULS III
Pistol Whip
CLANNAD
Automobilista 2
Gears 5
monster hunter rise
Tiny tina's wonderlands chaotic great edition
Spyro Reignited Trilogy
DIRT 5
Fable Anniversary
Nioh 2 COMPLETE
Victoria 3
HUMANKIND
A Hat in Time
VTOL VR
rFactor 2
ZERO Sievert
Barotrauma
monster hunter world
fight in tight space
Life Is Strange Complete Season
phoenix wright
LOOT RIVER
satisfactory
Gotham Knights
Rivals of Aether
Vrising
DOOM Eternal
Deep Rock Galactic
LegionTD 2
Dead by Daylight
quantum break
slay the spire
Yakuza kiwami 2
Stardew Valley
resident evil village
Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising
stray blade
clash: Artifacts of chaos

other humble choice title games

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​

Note: for some games from humble I might ask for gift links. There is a rumor 3 years ago that humble bans users due to making gift links only. I make gift links every week, never have any issues. I have no idea why humble would ever ban its customers for using a feature it provides to its custimers.

Here is a guide how to make gift links from support.Humblebundle.com: https://support.humblebundle.com/hc/en-us/articles/202712460-Purchasing-and-Sending-Gifts

I do not believe humble teaches you how to make gift links, so it can ban you, lol

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2024.05.17 21:49 Jerry_217 [H] Lots of games NEW: Yakuza LAD, 9 Years of Shadow, Littlewood, DEVOUR, Amnesia:The Bunker, Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles, Wobbledogs [W] Hi-Fi rush, hell let loose, Nioh 2, WWE 2k23, crusader kings 3, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Fable Anniversary, Poker night 1, 2, F1 2012, 2011, Euro/American Truck, tf2

Region is NA.

If you have my wishlist games, Chat with me anytime. Only accept games from your own collection.

My REPs: 200+ successful trades, stopped tracking after 202.

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Wishlist is in the end of this post

My steam games for trade (Can make gift links if possible):

Added recently:

Blade of Darkness
Amanda the Adventurer
Bravery and Greed
King Of The Castle
Loddlenaut
Mediterranea Inferno
Steelrising
Yakuza: Like a Dragon
Coromon
Fashion Police Squad
HUMANKIND™ Definitive Edition
Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga
Terraformers
The Callisto Protocol
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
Victoria 3
Littlewood
Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles
One Hand Clapping
Tainted Grail: Conquest
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Ultimate Chicken Horse
Mad Max
MORTAL KOMBAT XL
Mortal Kombat 11: Ultimate
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor GOTY
Middle-Earth: Shadow of War Definitive Edition
Injustice 2 Legendary Edition
Gotham Knights
Back 4 Blood
Batman™: Arkham Knight Premium Edition
Batman™: Arkham Asylum GOTY Edition
Batman™: Arkham City GOTY Edition
Batman™: Arkham Origins
.hack//G.U. Last Recode
CODE VEIN
GOD EATER 3
Katamari Damacy REROLL
PAC-MAN MUSEUM+
Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition
TEKKEN 7
Dragon Knight (delisted, 18+, PM for price)
Hell Girls (delisted, 18+, PM for price)
Super Star (delisted, 18+, PM for price)
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Steam games:

9 Years of Shadows
A Juggler's Tale
A Plague Tale: Innocence
ABZU
Aces and Adventures
Ad Infinitum
Afterimage
Agent in Depth
Alchemist's Castle
Alchemy Garden
Aliens vs. Predator Collection ( includes Aliens vs. Predator + Aliens vs Predator Swarm Map Pack + Aliens vs Predator: Bug Hunt Pack)
Aliens: Fireteam Elite
AMID EVIL
Amnesia: The Bunker
Among Us
Anuchard
Aragami 2
Arcade Paradise
Arise: A Simple Story
Armello
Army Men RTS
Assault Suit Leynos
Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles
Astronarch
Autonauts vs Piratebots
Battlecruisers
Beacon Pines
Big Pharma
BIOMUTANT
Bionic Commando Rearmed
Black Paradox
Black Skylands
Blade Assault
Blade of Darkness
Blood And Zombies
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
Borderlands 3: Super Deluxe Edition
Boundless
BPM: Bullets Per Minute
Brawlout
Castle on the Coast
Cats in Time
Caveblazers
Chicka Wars Chicken Meat (delisted)
Children of Silentown
CHIVALRY 2 - EPIC EDITION
Citizen Sleeper
CivCity: Rome
Click and Slay
Colt Canyon
Conan Chop Chop
Concept Destruction
Construction Simulator (2015) Deluxe Edition
Cookie Cutter
Corridor Z
Cosmonautica
Crayon Physics Deluxe
CROSSBOW: Bloodnight
Cultist Simulator
Curse of the Dead Gods
Dagon - The Eldritch Box DLC
Dark Deity
Dead Age
Dear Esther: Landmark Edition
Death Squared
Deceive Inc.
Demonologist
Depraved
Descenders
Desperados III
Destiny 2: Beyond Light DLC
Destroy All Humans! 2 - Reprobed
Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter
Detached: Non-VR Edition
DEVOUR
Dicey Dungeons
Disciples: Liberation
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
Dishonored Definitive Edition
Distant Worlds Universe
Doctor Strange Defenders Skin
Double Cross
Doughlings: Arcade
Doughlings: Invasion
Dragon Knight (delisted, 18+)
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
Draw Slasher
Drawful 2
Due Process
Dungeons 2 - Complete Edition
Dusk
EDGE OF ETERNITY
Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising
El Hijo
Emily is Away <3
Encased
Endless Space 2
Epic Chef
ETERNAL THREADS
Exorder
Expeditions: Rome
F1 2018
Farming Simulator 17
Firegirl: Hack 'n Splash Rescue
First Class Trouble
Five Dates
Fling to the Finish
Fobia - St. Dinfna Hotel
Foretales
FOREWARNED
Forged Battalion
Fortissimo FA INTL Ver
Founders' Fortune
Friends vs Friends
From Space
Full Metal Furies
Fun with Ragdolls: The Game
GameGuru Classic
Garfield Kart - Furious Racing
Generation Zero
Geometric Sniper
Ghost 1.0
Gloria Victis
Go Home Dinosaurs!
Going Under
Golf Gang
Good knight
GRID Ultimate Edition
GRIME
Grow: Song of the Evertree
Guilty Gear X2 #Reload
Guns & Fishes
Guts and Glory
Hack 'n' Slash bundle (including Hack 'n' Slash + Hack 'n' Slash Soundtrack + Spacebase GIFT)
Halcyon 6: Lightspeed Edition
Hardspace: Shipbreaker
Heart Fragment - Book Two: Belief Fragments (Shannon & Lana)
Hedon Bloodrite
Hell Girls (delisted, 18+)
Hell Pie
Hellbound
HERO'S HOUR
Hidden & Dangerous 2: Courage Under Fire
Hidden & Dangerous: Action Pack
Hokko Life
Hollow Knight
Honey, I Joined a Cult
Hot Brass
Hotshot Racing
How to Sing to Open Your Heart
Hyper Gunsport
I’m not a Monster
Internet Cafe Simulator
Interplanetary: Enhanced Edition
Intravenous
Intruders: Hide and Seek
Iron Danger
Iron Harvest
Izmir: An Independence Simulator
Joggernauts
Joggernauts
JURASSIC WORLD EVOLUTION 2
Just Cause 3 XXL Edition
Just Cause 4 Complete Edition
JYDGE
Kerbal Space Program
Killsquad
King's Bounty II
Kraken Academy!!
Labirinto 2
Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
Last Call BBS
Last Oasis
Late Shift
Lawn Mowing Simulator
Legend of Keepers
Leisure Suit Larry - Wet Dreams Don't Dry
Let Them Come
Life is Strange 2 Complete Season (incl. Mascot Bundle DLC)
Little Misfortune
Little Orpheus
Lords and Villeins
Lost Planet 3 Complete Pack
Lost Ruins
Lust for Darkness
Lust from Beyond: M Edition
MageQuit
Maid of Sker
Mainlining
MEEPLE STATION
Meow Express
Merchant of the Skies
Metal: Hellsinger
Metro Exodus
Midnight Fight Express
Midnight Ghost Hunt
Mini Metro
Mini motor Racing EVO (delisted)
MirrorMoon EP
Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp
Monster Sanctuary
Moon Hunters
Moonlighter
Morbid: The Seven Acolytes
Motorcycle Mechanic Simulator 2021
Moving Out - Movers in Paradise DLC
Mr. Prepper
Murder by Numbers
My Friendly Neighborhood
My Time At Portia
Mythic Ocean
Nadir: A Grimdark Deckbuilder
Necromunda Hired Gun
NecroWorm
NeuroVoider
Neverinth
Neverout
New Super Luckys Tale
Nickelodeon All Star Brawl
Nobody Saves the World
Non-Stop Raiders
Northgard
Oaken
Obduction
Of Orcs And Men
Offworld Trading Company
OLLIOLLI WORLD - RAD EDITION
One Hand Clapping
Orbital Racer
Othercide
Out of Reach: Treasure Royale
Outward Definitive Edition
Outward The Soroboreans DLC + soundtrack (DLC only)
Override
Overture
Ozymandias
Paint the Town Red
Partial Control
Patch Quest
Pathfinder: Kingmaker Enhanced Plus Edition (NA only) + Royal Ascension DLC + The Wildcards DLC
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition
Pathfinders: Memories
Pathway
Peaky Blinders: Mastermind
Per Asperatrar
Pilgrims
Pill Baby
Pixplode
Planet TD
PlataGO!
Port Royale 3 Gold
PowerBeatsVR
Prodeus
Project CARS (delisted)
Project Chemistry
Project Nimbus: Complete Edition
Project Wingman
Propagation VR - Co-op
Propnight
Proteus
Proteus
PULSAR: The Lost Colony
Pumped BMX +
Quadrata
Quantum Break
Radio Commander
Ragnarock
Railroad Corporation
Railroad Tycoon 3
Rain World
Rebel Inc: Escalation
Rebound Dodgeball Evolved
Re-Legion
Remnant: From the Ashes - Complete Edition
Remnants of Naezith
Resident Evil Revelations
Resident Evil Revelations 2
Reventure
Revita
RIOT - Civil Unrest
Road 96
Roarr! Jurassic Edition
ROGUE LORDS
Roguebook
RollerCoaster Tycoon 2: Triple Thrill Pack
RPG Maker VX
Rubber Bandits
RUINER
Rym 9000
Saints Row
Sakura Dungeon, 18+
Sakura Knight, 18+
Sakura MMO, 18+
Sakura Knight 2, 18+
Sakura Knight 3, 18+
Sakura MMO 2, 18+
Sakura MMO 3, 18+
Sakura MMO Extra, 18+
Sakura Succubus, 18+
Sakura Succubus 2, 18+
Sakura Succubus 3, 18+
Sakura Succubus 4, 18+
Sakura Succubus 5, 18+
Sakura Succubus 6, 18+
Sakura Swim Club, 18+
Sam & Max: Devil's Playhouse
Scorn
SCP : Secret Files
Secret Neighbor: Hello Neighbor Multiplayer
SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Shady Part of Me
Shing!
Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate
Sid Meier's Railroads!
Siege Survival: Gloria Victis
Skullgirls 2nd Encore
Slinger VR
Smile For Me
Sniper Elite 3
Sniper Elite 4
Snowtopia
Sorcerer King: Rivals
Soul Searching
Soulblight
Souldiers
Soulstice
Spellcaster University
Spirit Hunter: Death Mark
Spirit of the Island
Stacking
Starbound
Starpoint Gemini Warlords
State of Decay: Year-One Survival Edition (steam inventory gift)
Stirring Abyss
Strider
Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones
SuchArt!
Sunlight
Super Chicken Catchers
Super Magbot
Super Star (delisted)
SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE
Surviving the Aftermath
Sword Legacy Omen
SYMMETRYro
Tails Noir
Tainted Grail: Conquest
Telefrag VR
TEMTEM
The Amazing American Circus
The Ascent
The Beast Inside
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan
The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope
The Deed II
The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet Of Chaos
The Golf Club 2019 Featuring PGA TOUR
The Gunk
The Legend of Tianding
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
The Long Dark
The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition
The Pale Beyond
The Quarry
The Red Lantern
The Serpent Rogue
The USB Stick Found in the Grass
The Witcher: Enhanced Edition (steam inventory gift)
The Witness
The Wolf Among Us
There Is No Light
Ticket to Ride
Tin Can
Titan Souls
TOEM
Tools Up!
Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
Traffic Jams
Train Station Renovation
Treasure Hunter Simulator
Trek to Yomi
Tribes of Midgard
Twilight Struggle
Twin Mirror
Two Point Campus
Ultimate Chicken Horse
Underland: The Climb
Unity of Command: Stalingrad Campaign
UnMetal
Vanishing Realms
War for the Overworld
Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters
Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf
Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf - Drenn Redblade
Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf - Exceptional Card Pack
Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf - Saga of the Great Awakening
Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf - Wrath of the Damned
Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin Ultimate Edition
WARSAW
We Happy Few Season Pass
We Were Here Too
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine
White Noise 2
Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus?
Wizard of Legend
Wobbledogs
Worms Rumble
WRC 7
WWE 2K BATTLEGROUNDS
XCOM 2
X-COM: Complete Pack (including X-COM: UFO Defense + X-COM: Apocalypse + X-COM: Enforcer + X-COM: Interceptor + X-COM: Terror from the Deep)
XCOM: Enemy Unknown Complete Edition
XEL
X-Morph: Defense Complete Pack (including X-Morph: Defense + X-Morph: Defense - European Assault + X-Morph: Defense - Survival Of The Fittest + X-Morph: Defense - Last Bastion)
Yakuza 4 Remastered
Zoeti
ΔV: Rings of Saturn
​
Other platforms:
Command & Conquer Remastered Collection (ORIGINkey)
Liberated (GOG key)
STAR WARS: Squadrons (Origin)
Wanderlust Travel Stories (GOG key)
​
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My Wishlist: (prefer gift links)

​
Hi-Fi RUSH
DIABLO 4 PC
Street Fighter 6
Rocket League
Poker night
poker night 2
Game of Thrones - A Telltale Games Series
NBA 2k16, 2k17
WWE 2K16, 2K17, 2K18, 2K19, 2K20, 2k23
The Last Remnant
Doctor Who: The Adventure Games
Hell let loose
Crusader kings 3
Spiderman remaster
F1 2020, 2019, 2017, 2016, 2012, 2011
ACE COMBAT ASSAULT HORIZON Enhanced Edition
DARK SOULS
DARK SOULS II
DARK SOULS III
Pistol Whip
CLANNAD
Automobilista 2
Gears 5
monster hunter rise
Tiny tina's wonderlands chaotic great edition
Spyro Reignited Trilogy
DIRT 5
Fable Anniversary
Nioh 2 COMPLETE
Victoria 3
HUMANKIND
A Hat in Time
VTOL VR
rFactor 2
ZERO Sievert
Barotrauma
monster hunter world
fight in tight space
Life Is Strange Complete Season
phoenix wright
LOOT RIVER
satisfactory
Gotham Knights
Rivals of Aether
Vrising
DOOM Eternal
Deep Rock Galactic
LegionTD 2
Dead by Daylight
quantum break
slay the spire
Yakuza kiwami 2
Stardew Valley
resident evil village
Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising
stray blade
clash: Artifacts of chaos

other humble choice title games

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​

Note: for some games from humble I might ask for gift links. There is a rumor 3 years ago that humble bans users due to making gift links only. I make gift links every week, never have any issues. I have no idea why humble would ever ban its customers for using a feature it provides to its custimers.

Here is a guide how to make gift links from support.Humblebundle.com: https://support.humblebundle.com/hc/en-us/articles/202712460-Purchasing-and-Sending-Gifts

I do not believe humble teaches you how to make gift links, so it can ban you, lol

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2024.05.16 04:19 fganniversaries Fighting Game Anniversaries: Week 20 (May 13 - May 19)

Hey, yall. This is fganniversaries and apologies for missing last week; I genuinely thought that I posted for the week but turns out that I didn't upon looking. As per usual, I will be recapping anniversaries relating to fighting game announcements/releases this week. Like always, if I missed one, do please let me know in the comments. Here would be the following anniversaries:
May 13
May 14
May 15
May 16
May 17
May 18
May 19
May 20
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2024.05.16 04:18 fganniversaries Fighting Game Anniversaries: Week 20 (May 13 - May 19)

Hey, yall. This is fganniversaries and apologies for missing last week; I genuinely thought that I posted for the week but turns out that I didn't upon looking. As per usual, I will be recapping anniversaries relating to fighting game announcements/releases this week. Like always, if I missed one, do please let me know in the comments. Here would be the following anniversaries:
May 13
May 14
May 15
May 16
May 17
May 18
May 19
May 20
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2024.05.16 04:18 fganniversaries Fighting Game Anniversaries: Week 20 (May 13 - May 19)

Hey, yall. This is fganniversaries and apologies for missing last week; I genuinely thought that I posted for the week but turns out that I didn't upon looking. As per usual, I will be recapping anniversaries relating to fighting game announcements/releases this week. Like always, if I missed one, do please let me know in the comments. Here would be the following anniversaries:
May 13
May 14
May 15
May 16
May 17
May 18
May 19
May 20
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2024.04.29 05:02 nikothedreamer94 Im extremely worried about cancer and need some people to talk to

I am 29 male. Last year I had a health check and everythinf was normal except i was underweight and my left eye is weaker which is completely a separate issue and I always knew I had a lazy eye . Ive always struggled with weight and im tall and tend to be On the scrawny skide naturally. 6 months ago about I struggled with blood in stool and pale stools occasionally but that only lasted for a week or two then it was back to brown and normal stools .I did occasionally experience very slight back and abdominal pain. My stools have been normal since. My urine has always been clear. I am part East Asian so mY skin has a natural slight yellow olivish tone while mY arms and face are quite brown . However when I returned to South Africa my martial arts instructor told me that im more paler than usual and more yellowish. We brushed it off as winter paleness as Japan where I live has an icy wInter and it does change color.
When I came back to Japan a month ago for tHe first week I was normal. Then one of mY jackass colleagues decided to come to work with chronic flu and we all were down for a few days with flu. Since I had the chronic flu two weeks ago my skin suddenly turned a deeper yellow and I looks a little like jaundice yellow kinda esprcially under certain lights. My urine has been foamy My skin also started to smell strange. Not pungent or stinky but a weird slight smell that i cant describe. My urine became foamy. My skin also became paler than usual . I have a slight sweet taste in my mouth too. I have a verY slight pain in my back on the bottom left which gets worse if im hungry or thirsty. I also get a vague pain in my abdominal in the bottom rght and left but not sharp . The whites of mY eyes are not yellow but mY skin looks kinda jaundice and its itchy. My stools are normal color and mY urine although slightly foamy is completely clear or light yellow if i dont drink water . My flu Is better but the yellow skin , itchiness and fatigue is still there.
I did an online symptom check on Ubie and it said that my most likely diseases are pancreactic cancer and bileduct cancer which has made me extremely scared . I feel alot of anxiety and I cant thInk of anything else. My hospital check is on Wednesday but its all in Japanese in which im not fluent. And I just need to talk to sOme english speaking doctors to gjve me some consultation here.
What are mY symptoms sounding like?Has the flu caused some other illness ?
Edit ：If it makes a difference. My diet changes whether Im in South Africa or Japan. And I dont drink everyday. 2 drinks a week max and its usually not heavy things just beer.
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2024.04.28 17:49 ObjectiveTaste7781 Please help. I'm in an impossible situation and I can't see any good solutions.

So this is a Short Story, but it’s a long story. Read to the end because there’s a lot of information here for context. Call me James (47M) and my ex-wife Lily (44F). There is no proper TL;DR for this. Sorry ;)
I’m not sure how to start, so I’m going to run chronologically.
I met Lily in 2006 and we hit it off immediately. What bothered me from the outset were the little white lies that she told me. They seemed so insignificant then, but there were enough of them that it bugged me terribly. One simple example is that she told me she was a social smoker, and she ended up being a pack-a-day regular. By itself, this didn’t bug me because I also smoked at the time. But this was just one of many little fibs.
I realised very quickly that Lily was the one I’d been waiting for, despite my misgivings. After knowing her for less than 3 months, I asked her parents for their permission to marry her and then proposed in November of that year. She waited a full ten seconds before saying “yes”.
This is where things start going downhill. She went to a Christmas party at work (employees only apparently, because I wasn’t invited). She got home more than a little tipsy and immediately went to the bathroom and climbed into the shower. She didn’t even greet me on the way past. She practically ran into the bathroom and stayed in there for half an hour. When I tried to go in (I love shower sex and she was usually game) I got my head bitten off. She eventually came out and went straight to the bedroom to put clothes on. I went into the bathroom to use the toilet. I noticed that the washing basket was open, so I lifted the lid with the intention of putting it on straight. What I saw gave me pause (and still does to this day) The thong that she had been wearing that morning was in the basket and it was slimy. It was practically soaked. I took it out of the basket and went to her immediately and asked her what was going on. She tried to tell me it got that way because she was thinking about all the stuff she was going to do to me when she got home from her boring Christmas party. If she was in the state serious enough to goo her underwear to that point, why ignore me when she got home and why spend half an hour in the bathroom? She shouted and screamed and slept on the couch that night. She never admitted to anything and, to this day, tells me nothing happened. I will say that I got love-bombed for about two weeks after that.
Just before we married, I found out that Lily had been lying to me about her sexual history. And not little lies. It is now 18 years later and only now do I have a full picture of her sexual history. If she had been honest, it would have hurt a lot less than it does now. True, I may have decided to end things with her if I knew everything back then (which is probably why she lied about it). Lies do nothing but paper over problems and then destroy. Lies kill.
Lily fell pregnant about four months before we got married (my birthday present ;) ) and our first was born. I had never been happier. I had an amazing wife, a beautiful son and diary full of clients. It was the highest high in our marriage.
When my son just starting to learn how to walk, I found out that Lily was still chatting to a girl she’d had a get together with a few months before we met. We’d been married for 18 months, and she was sneaking behind my back and chatting to an ex-FWB. I was standing behind her and watched her pull her phone out, read the ex-FWBs message and then reply. I took the phone from her and walked away. She threw a fit. Since the day we met, I was not allowed to touch her phone. She called it a severe invasion of privacy. My response was always, “I’m your husband, what do you need privacy for?” She was happy to pick my phone up and look through it, but I could never do the same with hers. When I found out about her messaging her previous FWB, I read through the entire message history (which was surprisingly short). I also found out that she was in contact with a lot of single guys that were “part of her friend group from before we met”. I know for fact that she’d slept with a few of the guys she was in contact with.
We left the family gathering we were at, and I immediately got read the riot act on the way home about not trusting her and not being allowed to touch her phone and how I should just chill because they were “just friends” (I highlight this because she has used the term repeatedly since then). I lost it, stopped the car and climbed out. She started yelling at me, so I closed the door and started walking home. She eventually got into the driver’s seat and tore off towards home. I walked for over two hours to get home. In that walk, I’d decided that it was time to start looking for a divorce attorney. When I got home, our son was in bed and Lily was dressed up and wearing makeup. For another two or three weeks, I got love bombed. She never apologised or admitted to any wrongdoing, and she told me that she’d deleted all the numbers off her phone. She even let me look at the phone myself. She was very smart about it. The names were gone, but there were a few new names on her phone that weren’t there previously. Again, I couldn’t prove anything, so I left it that.
About nine months later, I went through severe trauma. I was home alone when three guys broke into our house and robbed us. I was tied down and the three of them took turns threatening to kill me because I wouldn’t tell them where the safe was. I developed severe PTSD symptoms (which persist to this day, though to a much lesser extent). I stopped sleeping, I stopped eating, I was too afraid to leave the house, even during daytime. This unfortunately meant that I started losing clients because I was not available to work for them. Money started getting tight. That’s when the fighting started. Lily worked fulltime and was bringing in most of the money at that point and she hated the fact that all her money had to go to rent and living expenses. She started getting on my case about getting back out there and trying to salvage the client relationships I’d lost. I asked her if we could move out the house that was broken into because I felt unsafe and she said “no” because moving was so tough on her (side note: in our relationship over the past 18 years, I have moved every time she wanted to move. I asked her to move once, and I was shot down).
Suddenly, in November of that year, she started acting all nice to me for about a week before sitting me down and telling me that she thought it would be a great idea for us to have a second child. I was in hell due to lack of sleep and because of chronic low-level dread and she wanted another child. So we did what she wanted. Gone was the sex twice a day with gusto. In its place was a calendar on the wall that showed the days she was ovulating. Those were the days we had sex. Only those days.
My daughter was conceived and born in the third quarter of the next year. She is the light of my life. My children mean the world to me. What killed me was that Lily took my son and moved out roughly a month before term because she couldn’t handle me anymore. When my daughter was born, it had been less than a year since the PTSD inducing trauma. I was a mess. I was out and working again, but I would randomly freak out and end up racing home to lock myself into the one bed apartment I’d found for myself. I went to see a doctor about the anxiety and depression, and the lack of sleep and I was put onto a cocktail of medications that messed my system up. At least I was sleeping. At least I could breathe while I was driving my car.
Anyway, the threats of divorce from Lily’s side dried up about a month after my daughter was born and we started seeing each other again. My daughter was 14 months old when we moved back in together as a family.
The medication I was on was doing bad stuff to my body, so I went to another doctor and I was put onto something that worked better but stunted my libido (from a 10 down to a 3) I still wanted sex with Lily, but it took a little bit of time and effort to get the motors revving. I spent over two years looking for the right cocktail that would help me and produce the most manageable side-effects possible. I ended up on something that worked pretty well and our sex-life got better. Sadly, Lily was getting more and more distant. The industry she worked in at the time was stressful, so the company would have an open bar from 14:00 on a Friday. There were more than a few Friday nights that Lily got home hammered. She’d climb into bed smelling like a cigarette doused in alcohol. Eventually, one night I decided to sleep on the couch rather than lie next to someone that smelled like the floor of a pub. That Saturday morning, I was once again read the riot act for not wanting to sleep next to my wife. Her solution was to get me to help her take a shower if she got home after having too much to drink. My solution was for her to stop drinking at work on a Friday night and spend time at home with her family. Guess which solution was the one she went with. I refused to help her shower when she got home so she would end up passing out in the shower even after the water got cold. It was somehow my fault that she ended up showering for three hours.
She would also get invited to go out and play pool with her best friend. I assumed the invitation was extended to me as well because her friend would be bringing her husband too. I was told that the place she was going to play pool at was a pub, so the kids couldn’t come with and I was the best choice for babysitter. Something happened about two months after this started because it stopped abruptly, and I got love bombed for about two months after. Her explanation was that she’d realised how unfair she was being toward me. To this day, I wonder if that really is what happened. About six months later, a friend of mine invited me to a round of golf and an early dinner after. It would be his treat. When I told Lily about it, she asked if she had been invited and if the place we were going to had a place for the kids. Needless to say, the round of golf happened, but the early dinner didn’t. Strange how the rules apply unequally, I always thought.
At around this time, I noticed that her old “just friends” were starting to appear in her friends list on Facebook. When I asked her about it, she said most of them were now married and she was just trying to keep in touch with old friends. She said it was harmless. When I told her that I was uncomfortable with most of them, she told me she’d do something to fix it. I gave it a few days and went back onto Facebook, and I couldn’t find her profile. When I asked her about it, she said she’d blocked me because “who are you to tell me who to be friends with?” When I told her that I was her husband, she laughed at me and told me to act like it and stop getting jealous over people that mean nothing. To this day, I have been blocked on her Facebook profile.
Moving on. I eventually found a qualified clinical psychologist that was willing to help with my trauma. Money was an issue and she was willing to see me gratis, which was an absolute Godsend. This was about four years after it happened. We spent 9 weeks going through the event, dissecting each moment to see that I was doing the best I could in the circumstances. We started with CBT (which didn’t work) and she sent me on my way.
About a year before Lily divorced me, I had a full mental breakdown and tried killing myself. I ended up in a psych ward for three weeks. I thank God for that time, because I met Sophia. She was my psychologist while I was in the ward. She took all of the pieces of me and put me back together with tough love and threats of bodily violence (kidding). At the end of that three-week stint, I walked out the hospital and climbed into Lily’s car a new man. I was energised, I was in love with life again. I was seeing the woman that I was married to with fresh eyes, and I managed to fall in love with her all over again. I was ready to put the lies and hurts of the past behind me and be the man she was meant to have. The husband she could be proud of. What I didn’t know is that she’d already started looking for a way out while I was in hospital. There was no new beginning in her heart.
For the next year, Lily found and pushed every single one of my buttons to get a reaction out of me. At first, there was no reaction because I knew what she was doing, and I understood her frustration at the man that (in her mind at least) was the worst thing that ever happened to her. We slept in the same bed, but the sex dried up completely. She hated the fact that all of the old arguments weren’t working anymore so she found new things to fight about. She moved out in November 2014 and the divorce was finalised in May 2015.
She was already on Tinder before she moved out. I don’t know when exactly she’d installed it as I have never had access to her banking to check, so it could’ve been installed months previously. Knowing what I know now, I’m thinking that she had Tinder installed on her phone for about four years before we divorced. She swears to this day that there was never any infidelity while we were married. I have asked her numerous times if that includes emotional infidelity and all I get is silence.
From here, the story gets weirder.
Pretty much everyone knows that newly divorced individuals end up hitting the sack with their previous spouse when they get lonely. At least once or twice. With us, it was no exception. About six months after we divorced, I found myself naked and having sex with my ex-wife. Afterwards, she told me that it was so unfair, because she still loved me and wanted to be with me. She missed me. I ignored the temptation to remind her that she was the one who’d divorced me. Anyway, she pushed me out of the bed and sent me home because she didn’t want to confuse the kids.
A pattern established itself over the next year: she’d invite me over, we’d have family night, get the kids to bed, and then get ourselves to bed (or into the shower), then I’d go home. That would happen for a month or so, then she’d find a reason to fight with me and then the family (and mommy and daddy) time would stop for about two weeks.
About two years after getting divorced, we were talking about getting back together. Not getting married again, just getting back together. I was very motivated to make it happen because I love Lily (still do, to this day). Then, in the shower one day, she asked me what I thought about opening the relationship. She told me immediately that she didn’t want another man in her life, but she wanted to know how I felt about her bringing a girl home and I watch the two of them have sex. The talk of getting together stopped right there because I gave her a hard “no” and she lost her temper. She asked me what type of idiot I was to turn down an offer like that. I asked her how she would feel if I brought a random girl home, and she could watch while I had sex with the random. She said it wasn’t the same thing and started screaming at me and told me to get out.
She went quiet for about a month. Suddenly, out of the blue, she called me and invited me over for supper and family time. She was suddenly very attentive to my needs and was telling me she loved me every five minutes. For about a month, we were going at it like bunnies. (Jumping ahead to October 2023, I found out that she’d met and slept with someone during that month that she was not talking to me. Apparently, it had only happened once with this guy, and she only ever saw him again once after that. More on this later.)
Then the fights would invariably start up again. As an example, she asked me more than once to watch porn with her (something I’ve never done with her). When I eventually found something that I thought she’d like, she started an argument with me about why I needed porn in the bedroom to spice things up.
We were hot and cold, hot and cold. We wouldn’t talk for a week and then she’d invite me over and climb into the bath and ask me to wash her back. I would always end up washing her entire body. She’d sit in the bath with her glass of wine, and I’d sit on the toilet seat, and we’d talk like everything was 100% normal in our lives.
During one of these bathing sessions, she took me by the hand and blurted out “don’t leave”. I told her that I wasn’t going anywhere just then. She said to me that she meant that she wanted me to stay, not to leave her. She told me she loved me and wanted me to stay with her forever. She held onto me so fiercely that she had me in tears. Years of pain and frustration washed away by two words. “Don’t leave”. She was crying by the end of the conversation, and I was holding her against my shoulder and hugging her.
Less than a week later, she went out to a hotel with a married man who lived in our neighbourhood. (Again, jumping forward to October 2023, when I found all of this out.) I’ll give you a million guesses what the two of them did at the hotel that night.
Our relationship stayed hot and cold for a few years. I have lost count how many times she asked me to stay with her, never leave her because she loved me. I’ve also lost count how many times she kicked me out of her house over some perceived slight.
During the time after we divorced, our roles reversed. I closed the little business I’d been running (badly) for more than a decade and found a fulltime gig. Meanwhile, Lily left corporate life and struck out on her own as a contractor. This is for context for what happened next.
In May 2021, Lily called me and said she had something very important to discuss. I went over and she said to me that she loved me. I told her that I’d never stopped loving her and I would forever. She then told me that she was going to be evicted soon. 2020 had been a terrible year for her (as it had been for many people) and she was more than six months behind on her rent. She’d lost her biggest client. and her average monthly income was halved. (Where I live, the Government wrote regulations regarding the COVID lockdown, which included landlords not being able to evict defaulting tenants while the regulations were in effect. When that was lifted, Lily received a letter the next day telling her to catch up her arrears in full or vacate by the end of June. So she came to me and asked me if she and the kids could move in with me. It was like asking a man dying of thirst in the desert if he wanted a glass of water. She even sweetened the offer by having sex with me to seal the deal.
I actually found a bigger place and we moved in. My first “waitaminnit” moment was when she told me that she wanted her own bedroom. I was under the impression that we would share a bedroom because we were back together. We lived in that house from July 2021 to November 2022 and didn’t have sex once. We didn’t even eat supper together. It was hell. She’d banned me from her bedroom completely. When I told her to stay out of my bedroom in retaliation, she laughed and ignored me and went in there anyway. She was incredibly antagonistic. Yet, when she wanted something (outside of the budget for food and household expenses) she would assume that I’d just buy it for her. She still smokes and she has a glass or two of wine every night. Guess who had to pay for that every month. She also spent time actively turning our kids against me. “Look at what your father does, he’s such a bad man and he was an even worse husband.” That kind of thing. My daughter was taken in, and my relationship is strained with her to this day. My son could see through the crap and just stayed out of it.
I moved out and found a nice little two-bedroom place that’s close to work. When I moved out, Lily still expected me to pay her rent. I told her that we would be going back to the standard maintenance amount that I was expected to pay (what the Americans call child-support) and nothing more. The maintenance amount would not cover her rent, so I got abuse because of it.
In August 2023, Lily and I started talking. Not major things, just little things. I’d grown a lot emotionally in the last six months because of certain circumstances in my life. I was in a good place emotionally and financially. So we started talking about little nothings. I found myself enjoying the conversations tremendously and Lily found herself seeing me with new eyes (her words) I was quietly confident. I was at peace. I was in the middle of the simple life that I have craved since I was a child (I hate drama. You have no idea.) I was attentive to her needs emotionally (I would like to believe I always have been attentive to her emotional needs, but I think she’d only just realised it) and I was laughing. More importantly, I was making her laugh. She told me that I was fun to be around. I made her feel lighter on her feet.
At the end of October, Lily told me that she had fallen back in love with me and wanted to be with me forever. I went to her place and we had sex for the first time since May 2021. It was beautiful. I held her and she kept repeating “I love you” until I had to go home. The kids were at my house for the weekend and I couldn’t leave them alone for too much longer.
I messaged her to let her know that I was back home and that the kids were fine. She called me a few minutes later and we started talking. This is the conversation I wish I could rip out of my head and burn.
She said to me that we needed to be in a position of total honesty so that we could move forward and rebuild the trust that was missing from our relationship. She told me the unabridged version of her sexual history. All of it. That made me want to vomit. Other than my ex-wife, I have had sex with four women in my life (and just to make sure, I have never had sex with a man either. Somebody was going to ask this question). Less than a month before we met, Lily had sex with four people in one day. She was at a party and ended up having an FFM threesome with a married couple (that are still Facebook friends btw). And then later that night she had an MMF threesome with a pair of friends, one of them her roommate at the time. All of these people that she’d had sex with were “just friends”.
Lily and I had our first date on a Friday. I had such a good time that I invited her out again the Saturday. She said couldn’t because she had to meet with the driver of the vehicle she’d had an accident with. I found out that it was a date. We’d been in communication for over a month and we’d had out first date the night before and she went on a date with someone the next day.
She didn’t admit to anything that I suspect happened before we go married and she swears there was no infidelity while we were married (she shrugged off the emotional infidelity as nonsense because nothing physical happened).
She then sucker punched me with what she said next.
She told me about the guy that she slept with after being shot down about opening our relationship. They met on Tinder. They got to talking. He came over, they smoked a joint and then had sex. She swears that they had sex on the couch. She swears that the only person she’s had sex with in our marital bed is me. I’m sure by now you can understand how little I believe that statement.
She told me about the married guy that she visited a hotel with. The man’s poor wife still doesn’t know that she’s living with a cheater.
A little while later, she got chatting with another one of her neighbours. For a few months, they were “just friends”. She even told me about him. Then one night, she climbed into her car, drove to his house and had sex with him. Just because she was upset with me. His wife also doesn’t know. I feel so bad for her, knowing she’s living with a pig in human skin.
The fourth was some guy she met on Tinder. She drove to his house after talking for less than a week, had dinner with him and then had sex with him. She was worried that she would need to call me on the drive home because it was late and the drive was long (nearly an hour) and her car was making coughing noises. (As an aside, I must admit that I am insanely curious to know how she would have explained the situation away if she did need to call me to help her.)
There would have been a fifth, also from Tinder. They went for dinner and she got a bad vibe when she stepped into his apartment so she went home.
There may have been more, but this is what she admitted to. I don’t know.
When she’d finished speaking, I asked her if I could have the night to think about the situation. She agreed immediately.
These are my thoughts: She asked me not to leave. She asked me to stay, so I did. I stayed. (To clarify, I’m not a monk. I’ve been on a few dates since we got divorced, two of which ended up with a kiss goodnight (no tongue) and one where she bullied me into inviting her and her child over to my place so we could spend the day in the pool. She pulled me aside and lifted her top to show me her pink bra and laughed because my daughter told her she’d never seen someone wear a pink bra. The first date went terribly and I really wasn’t up for a second. I reached out to others when I was at my loneliest point, mostly for someone to talk to.) I have had sex with one person for the past 18 years: the woman I married and am still very much in love with.
She’s a liar. The evidence is abundant and conclusive. She’s been lying to me since before we met face-to-face.
What’s to stop her from doing all of this again? I don’t trust her an inch.
I stayed loyal because I believed that we would get back together again. Officially, I mean.
I need to get tested. Lily hates latex so we stopped using condoms as soon as we could. I wonder if she had any form of protection with these men.
When I called her the next morning, I explained my thoughts to her and asked her how she felt. She told me it shouldn’t matter, because it all happened so long ago for her that she barely remembers what these five men looked like. I told her that for her it was old, for me it all happened yesterday. She came back with the coldest response I’ve ever heard out of a person’s mouth. “We’re divorced.” That was her justification. She owed me nothing because we’re divorced. What she did with those men can’t be considered cheating because we’re divorced. I asked her how that figured into the space in her head where she asked me not to leave her, to stay with her. She got angry and told me to get over it because she had and then didn’t talk to me for a few days.
She called me up again and told me that I was right. What she did wasn’t good. She said they meant nothing to her and she loved only me and wanted to be with me. She said that she was willing to spend the rest of her life being the best lovepartner I could possibly ever want and I could do anything I wanted with her sexually.
I stopped her right there and told her that I was a little insulted. How easy it is to throw away the most significant relationship in your life with someone who doesn’t matter to you in any way, shape, or form. If she was in love with one of the guys and wanted to have a relationship and decided the best way forward was to have sex, it would have hurt less. I told her that, as little as they meant to her, I mean even less. She started crying and said “no” and that she loved me and she was sorry.
I told her that she had knowingly gone out and found five people to engage with while she was with me. She then wilfully had a one-night stand with them (minus the one she chickened out on but still went to his house, so we have intent) and then came home to me and quietly made up for it by love bombing me.
Here’s my quandary: Is she right? Is all of this something that I have no right to comment over because we’re divorced?
Since I need to put one in: TL;DR Should a man who has been dedicated to the woman he loves stay with her after finding out about her sexual history and the affairs she had after they divorced? Married nine years and divorced nine years, but he loves her. She cheated on him after they got divorced (and might have during their marriage) and justifies it by saying "we're divorced" so it isn't really infidelity.
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2024.04.27 23:54 AstrologEee Additional work and yet...

So they raised the expectation and work requirement without also raising the pay.
+$$ to reach tier requirements. + 4 clients per hour and skin scan.
Also removed gratis for anyone working under 20hrs a week.
Yall stay safe and apply to higher paying jobs with less work.
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2024.04.26 01:03 Oui-d Mythical Mushbunny and Putty Egg Review

Mythical Mushbunny and Putty Egg Review
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Mythical Mushbunny Slimes

Shipping + Extras: $8.75 for ground shipping, came in 2 business days (including processing over a holiday weekend, the ETA was another 7-10 days) in a box with a fragile sticker, a slime care guide, a couple of candies, a squish toy that I totally didn’t think was candy at first 👀, and an activator spray pen. A short handwritten note of my receipt too. 20% code discount on first order, 15% general code discount for month of March (prices listed without coupon application).
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  • 🧼 Slime Name: Fight Club (no clay) 🤛🏾
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Texture: Thick and Glossy (tng)
Scent: Bare Skin + Salt
Price/Size: 15.99/6 oz.
Thoughts: Had to try the famed TnG. Awesome that they have it in 6 or 8 oz. options for those who know they love it. The scent is the opposite of B.O., smells like someone stepping out of the shower after using a bar of Irish Soap (aquatic and woody base with hints of bergamot and citrus). It’s light and pleasant enough but I don’t love it. The slime is thinner than I was expecting even without the clay but definitely one of the bubble poppiest slimes I own. You’ll get several sort of watery pops with very little effort during play but I couldn’t get clicks while poking it in the jar. Slow stretch. You should see the bubbles this thing makes during a curtain drag. The name is a good choice! Will inflate, yay for slime proof labels.
Rating: 9/10.
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  • 🧺 Slime Name: Laundry Day 🧺
Texture: Cottontail (tng adjacent)
Scent: Lite Fresh Laundry Scent
Price/Size: $16.50/6 oz.
Thoughts: A shop exclusive texture that’s fluffy and without any clay. I’ve seen people say this is the best thing since sliced bread or the most basic slime they’ve ever tried. No inbetween haha. I love it more than their normal tng! It’s denser but stretchier. I could hold Fight Club upside down and it won’t move but Laundry Day starts to slowly pour like molasses. So gravity is helping you with the really nice quick stretches (it reminds me a bit of thiggly slimes, which I also love, but doesn’t really jiggle or wobble at all) with no internal ripping. What some would describe as loose/runny. It’s got a marshmallow-y chewiness to it that I really appreciate. Don’t expect to have your mind blown but I am obsessed and can’t stop playing with it. I normally love laundry scents and was about to ask them to give it a stronger scent (cool option) but after watching some reviews decided against that and I’m glad. I do love the scent, it’s like a solid detergent/fabric softener smell rather than a breezy linen that some might be expecting though, any stronger might have made it uncomfortable. The people who like sneaking sniffs at strong cleaning supplies will be pleased though. I am quite happy with it and look forward to ordering future slimes with this texture.
Rating: 10/10.
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Putty Egg

Shipping + Extras: $16.71 for priority shipping ($12.21 for ground), came in 3 business days (including processing) in a bubble mailer with a couple of random/custom? stickers, graphics, fimos (corgi butts), charms and a business card. 10% discount on new arrivals. One-time use discount code for 10% off.
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  • 🐄 Slime Name: Hokkaido Milk Candy Slime 🥛
Texture: Custard Pudding
Scent: Lychee
Price/Size: $15.00/~6 oz.
Thoughts: It was hard to find video content of a lot of Putty Egg shop exclusive texture slimes at the time of purchase but I was looking forward to this one and I hope my descriptions can do some justice. Described on instagram as “jiggly, wobbly, glossy, slow stretch, and pokeable. Can make huge bubbles when you flip it. A table play texture” with the added note of “this batch is jiggly and watery and feels more like a thick water slime. The jiggliest in this restock.” Take that seriously, I wish I could have gotten a normal batch but there were none this restock. I was expecting it to be thin but it was still thinner than I expected. I’d treat this as a water slime. Think…coconut jelly. Not for me personally but I could’ve lived that down if the smell wasn’t the worst I’ve had so far. Let it be known, lychee and mango are my favorite scents. My slime smelled like a vaguely lychee old school off-brand scented marker. Just so chemical. It’s hard to play with at all because of it. I don’t even want to rehome it and wasn’t sure I’d ever reopen it but two weeks later, the scent is thankfully fainter. Scent is subjective and the texture is really interesting. Cool cow lego charm. The 6oz slime jars seem smaller (shorter height and circumference) to me than other 6 oz. slimes I've tried but perhaps it’s just volume playing tricks on me. Pokeable and pourable.
Rating: 7.5/10.
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  • 🐖 Slime Name: Jurassic Pork Slime 🐷
Texture: Yogurt (Ver. A) x Custard Pudding
Scent: Lime Ginger Iced Tea
Price/Size: $15.00/~6 oz.
Thoughts: I didn’t think I’d want a Yogurt texture on its own but mixed in with Custard Pudding had me intrigued. I might want to try normal versions of both textures. Described (kind of) on the website as: “★☆ tofu - yogurt + custard pudding. glossy, creamy and jiggly. makes huge bubble pops. best for table play. one of the most unique textures in my shop!” and on instagram as “thick, jiggly, wobbly, slow stretch, and pokeable.” Jurassic Pork is like a thin and glossy slime with some jiggle from the custard side of the family and some chew from the yogurt side. It reminds me of a thinner version of Slimey Pallets’ thigglys (which I’ve rated 10/10 before) and it's quite nice to play with. It makes lovely thwocks and clicks as you poke it. You can slow-stretch it with well-moisturized/activator sprayed hands but I couldn’t really hold it long enough to get consistent pops. Has a nice slow pour. I don’t have a good enough surface to attempt real bubble pops with it. The scent is accurate and pleasant, the lime and ginger are pretty much in equal strength. I enjoy it a lot. My favorite slime in this order and exactly the texture I was looking for with this drop. I think I just have to stay away from anything described as fluffy.
Rating: 9/10.
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  • 🐇 Slime Name: Chubby Chub Mallow Slime 🍮
Texture: Korean Pudding Ver. B (a mix of 3 glues including korean glue and 2 clays)
Scent: French Hazelnut Cocoa Butter
Price/Size: $14.00/~6 oz.
Thoughts: My goal for this order was jiggly without clay but since this was to be a discontinued version of the texture, I wanted to try it. Described on the website as “thick, jiggly, wobbly, glossy, inflatable stretchy fluffy slay.” This one started out so sticky. Lots of activator spray and letting it sit. Ended up throwing it in the fridge for a couple days and now it must live there because that finally did it. Gods, the scent is strong, be sure you like those notes. I don’t. It’s a matte slay with some icee tendencies. It reminds me of melted marshmallows. It’s denseheavier than my nougat slay from Slime Sweet Pea but still not a ton of resistance. It reminds me of a lighter, wetter, and less poppy version of Mythical Mushbunny’s Cottontail texture or all the marshmallow creme/foam creme/etc. textures out there. Plenty of bubbles but underwhelming pops. Very soft and makes pleasant finger drags. Inflates and pours slowly out of a container. I just don’t see myself taking it out often as it’s more trouble than it’s worth so I ended up gifting it to my young nieces who care very little about slime smell and integrity haha.
Rating: 7/10.
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2024.04.21 16:00 BrodogIsMyName Frontier Fantasy - Chap 36

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Harrison’s thoughts slurred through uncertain consciousness as brief dreams passed him by. Visions and sensations blurred with reality, making him question whether he was awake or not. It settled when his senses finally returned—or at least the few that felt like showing up to the party.
He didn’t feel any pain. No, all he perceived was the minute reeling of vertigo and the weight atop his chest. Did he mention his flesh felt like liquid? Because that would certainly be a way to describe whatever was going on underneath his skin. There were short beeps piercing his ears, but those were drowned out by the heavy breaths nearby. Were those his own? He tried to open his eyes, getting viciously assaulted by light intense enough to make him reconsider ever using them again in return. His lesson was learned quickly, forcing him to rely on alternative measures.
One of his hands was rendered immobile by an unseen force, while the other pressed against cloth of some kind, the familiar texture serving to slow his racing heartbeat. It was definitely a sheet, but what kind? The last thing he remembered was reliving the worst hangover ever in the… workshop…? He could tell this wasn’t the fabrication floor; he couldn’t hear the printer’s hum or the inconsistent deadened ‘thump’ of that one malfunctioning wind turbine on the roof.
He took in a deep breath, picking out the different scents of the room. Isopropyl alcohol, vinegar, and… flowers… wafted through his nostrils, placing him in the med bay. That made sense. Now what about the pressure on top of him? He sluggishly moved his free limb to examine it, his liquified muscles not helping the motion one bit.
Well… there was… something there, and that was about all he could gather. His sense of touch was definitely dulled, and the shape was most certainly non-euclidean. He ran his digits all along the surface to no avail, feeling over every rigid edge and pliable extrusion, but the geometry simply could not be added up in his nauseous mind.
And then it started to grumble audibly and physically, creating vibrations throughout his chest as the noise settled into a… purr?
The burning lights seared his eyes, but the suffering had to be ignored. He needed to know what this… thing was! The pure white died down quickly, simmering into a hazed view of the room. His torso was host to… Damn, those spots in his eyes…
He squinted even further, making out the rough shape of a large head… with a muzzle… that was smiling.
Sharky.
Laying her snout on him.
Purring at his unintentional massage.
One that he had yet to stop.
Huh… were her horns always that big? They had to have been as long as his thumb, stretching out from in front of her two lines of frills.
She nuzzled into his nails, forcing him to scratch harder… When did he start scratching?
It was soothing, in a way, and he almost wanted to keep going, but his hand eventually stopped after a particularly nasty stint of nausea. A blazing orange eye opened as a consequence of his unintentional transgression, looking thoroughly upset and disgruntled. The Malkrin perked up after a moment, the pieces apparently clicking as she started standing—er, sitting up—straight from her spot beside his bed.
“Harrison!” She cupped his cheek with a calloused hand as another gripped his shoulder, her distraught yet relieved gaze tracing his face. She tilted his head to the side as gently as she could, scouring his features for signs of illness while ignoring how it made his head spin.
A disoriented smirk grew on him in spite of the dizziness. Her inspection must have proved satisfactory, because she let him go sheepishly when she noticed his mild discomfort, giving him a second to orient himself. He offered her a weak smile and cleared his dry, raspy throat. “Hey… What did I miss?”
“Goddess! I was so worr—d! You became so ill so quickly! I…” She exhaled slowly, shaking her head before proceeding. “Star-sent Tracy said you suff—ed from ‘radiation poisoning.’ I carried you from the workshop to here, and you were tre—ed with a tincture and medicine to reduce your pain. ”
The Malkrin fell quiet for a moment, her shoulders drooping as her expression took on a guilty quality. ”It has been some time since… I believe the sun should be sett—g by now. Are… Are you f—ling well?”
He raised a brow and brought a hand up to check his temperature. “I… think so? I’m dizzy, but besides that, I’m not too bad. So, radiation sickness? She used ‘rad-away,’ right? How bad was it? How many grays?”
“S-She has ch—ked up on you with the ‘scanner’ many times now, and has assured me of y—r health. I do not recall how many ‘grays,’ but yes, she made use of such a serum.”
Harrison let out a huff of sardonic bemusement. Thank God for the proliferation of nuclear energy and the subsequent rise of radiation research. “So… do we know why I was irradiated in the first place? What about you? Are you okay, Shar?”
Sharky frowned in disapproval. “It is you who was struck ill, d—rest Harrison… but yes, I am in g—d health. On your question of ‘irradiation,’ Tracy has her theories ab—t such, but that matters not. How bad is the dizzin—s? Does your head swell with pain? How about your abdomen? You purged your stomach before you fell unconsci—s. Are you hungry?”
“ I mean, I’m struggling to keep my focus straight here,” he grumbled. “Nothing else, though…”
She reluctantly eased up on her verbal prodding, shrinking again now that her immediate concern had been addressed. “It is a curi—s affliction, to be sure. I… feared the worst, but I am glad you have made even a partial reco—ry so quickly. And for your nausea, Tracy menti—ed such would occur… I know not how to deal with such, but…” She stopped mid-sentence, looking over her shoulder at something Harrison couldn’t see. “Actu—ly, here.”
“Uh… Okay…?” he responded curiously, still mulling over how he was somehow blasted with radiation, but Sharky… wasn’t?
The paladin grabbed a small wooden bowl and a piece of notebook paper from a metallic table nearby, handing him the note first. He took it and concentrated on the two drawings on it, trying not to cross his eyes in doing so. One of the pictures was of a bowl with several plants hovering above it, some of which were recognizable as local flora. The other image was a pretty detailed representation of himself drinking from a pot with an ‘X’ over a whirlpool above his head and another of his eyes constricting. So… what? No spinning? A focused gaze? It was something to help with nausea? That… that would be damn useful.
Sharky passed him the liquid next, holding it long enough for him to sit up properly… which unfortunately caused the world to turn even faster for him, necessitating another few seconds for the spike of dizziness to wear off. He waved off his caretaker’s concern and accepted the bowl, drinking with a little assistance from the paladin.
The fluid poured into his mouth and down his throat, soothing the worst of the dryness. It was room-temperature, with a taste that reminded him of black tea that’s been steeping for wayyy too long and a hint of… citrus? It wasn’t great, but he managed to down a good portion of it in one gulp, waiting a moment before attempting to down the rest, but his hands were stopped. The paladin softly pulled the bowl back closer to her chest. He was about to protest, but the gentle look of worry on her face reminded him he wasn’t drinking just tea, leaving him to sit there awkwardly.
“F—give me. Cera’s instructions were to not drink all of it…” Her head tilted away, looking toward the concoction within her grasp. Her words were then quiet, morose in a way. “…This is the furthest my protection can go.” She met his eyes once more, starin at him with guilt-strucken irises for a few long seconds. “I… I sh—ld have put myself in the way of the anomaly. If I had done as my trial orders, y— may not have become so sick…”
He gave her a dissatisfied huff. “Shar, don’t go apologizing for that. Stop thinking of these interactions like that—mulling over regretfully isn’t going to help. Plus, considering it was radiation, I don’t know what we could have done differently…”
“I und—stand.” Shar returned softly. “I only wish there was more I c—ld have done…”
…What could they have done differently? Could Sharky have actually blocked the radiation? Why wasn’t she sick at all? Hell, she was right there too, how could she not have been irradiated? He was just about to ask the paladin about it, the question right on his tongue, but the way her ears dejectedly folded against her head caused him to bite his tongue. It probably wasn’t something he should ask right now with her worried sick…
He cleared his throat, pointing toward the scanner. “Shar, can you…”
“The scanner?”
He nodded. The Malkrin turned to retrieve the requested item, a soft click of the device leaving its dock preceding the hand-held machine being quickly passed over. He gave himself a scan, the green glow of the medical implement hovering over his torso for a few seconds. It read the same things he was used to… and nothing more. Was that good? Maybe he should wait a few more minutes before trying again.
“So, where is everyone else?” he queried, though it was more out of the need to kill time than anything.
Sharky stared upward in thought. “Akula is still away, the mated pair have left… somewh—e… and the other star-s—t has left to complete her task deal—g with the fabricator.”
He raised a brow at the couple’s disappearance but elected not to push the subject. “Akula is still gone? Wasn’t she supposed to be back before sunset?”
“I expect her to be back s—n, but I do not know if it is actually s—down or not. Forgive me.” She gave him a small frown.
“Stop apologizing…” He paused. “Wait, you haven’t been out yet?”
She shook her head, orange irises lighting up. “I have waited here for y— to recover. So no, I have not.”
He scratched at the back of his head, feeling a little bit guilty for inadvertently locking her down. “It’s not like I was going anywhere. I appreciate the company, but you didn’t have to sit here being bored to death, Shar.”
The paladin leaned in further. The flame in her voice increased alongside the pressure her tail put atop his waist. “Of c—rse I had to! What am I, if I am not by your side? Especi—ly if you are so ill. I have no gr—ter task than to see you in good health.”
He blinked, taken aback by how adamant she seemed. His stunned expression shifted to an uncertain avoidance of her gaze, a reluctant smile forming. “Thanks…”
Sharky stared for a few seconds before letting out the last of her indignation through a weary breath, settling back into her chair and loosening the crushing grip of her tail to a more gentle one. She folded her hands over her lap, fidgeting with her talons like she did any time she had more to say, though it eventually stopped, the Malkrin apparently deciding that the comfortable silence was enough.
The quiet atmosphere lingered for a while, neither of them having much else to do. That also meant the engineer was quickly starting to feel anxious. There was still a lot to do, after all, and Tracy shouldn’t be forced to do it all by herself just because he got a little sick. Plus, the sooner they had the new fabricator built, the sooner they could get some real defenses up. There were still some solar and wind energy kits that should be done printing too; those needed to be set up. That’d open up some extra power for fabrication, which should improve the efficiency of everything else. Actually, the longer he thought about it, the more things that needed him came to mind. Sure, some tasks could be relegated to the others, but he couldn’t be confident it was done right if he was stuck in bed, and he felt decent enough at the moment…
Yeah, screw this.
He pulled off the white sheet and slid his legs over the side of the bed.
“Harrison, w—t are you…? You must rest to rec—ver… A-Are you sure you sho—ld be…?” she rambled, reminding him that he had just speed ran acute radiation sickness recovery… or at least enough to feel ‘normal.’ He checked himself over once more, noticing the lack of dizziness when he swung his head from side to side. There wasn’t much in the way of his sense of touch, but that was fine—it was just the painkillers that went along ‘rad-away,’ right?
“Yeah, I’ll be alright,” he decided, slipping off the bed and stretching his limbs after gaining his footing. A short tingle ran through his veins in reaction to the movement, catching him off guard. It was like an off-brand version of when your leg fell asleep, just a lot weaker, and more like taking a little too much pre-workout—pins and needles included.
He ignored the unusual feeling running down his neck and through his limbs. If it was worth worrying about, then the scanner would have picked it up. The engineer shook off the discomfort and continued onward, appreciating the lack of nausea that would have gotten in the way otherwise. He grabbed the heavy vest full of equipment that sat beside the bed and slipped it on with a small bit of difficulty. There was work to do, and if he could set up additional energy production by the end of the night, it would be a huge jump forward for their little fabrication operation.
Sharky briskly made her way to his side, slightly hovering her arms around him as if he’d fall over at any moment. A small part of him wanted to protest to save his dignity, but kept his mouth shut. If it made her feel better, then he could deal with a bit of overprotectiveness.
The med bay door swished open, shocking an unexpected technician on the other side. Tracy jumped back with wide eyes, clenching her data pad to her chest, clearly not expecting his presence.
The other pioneer relaxed when she noticed who had startled her, though the tension quickly came back. She adjusted the grip on her tablet, stumbling over an attempt to compose herself. “Oh! H-Harrison? What’re you doing up? I… How… You, uh. You good, man?”
“Hey,” he returned curiously, the grumbling of his just-woke-up voice still present. Her short hair was messier than usual, her goggles failing to keep her locks from covering one of her eyes. It was in line with the dirtied white tank top and baggy mechanic’s pants she had on—no overalls for some reason. He shook off the inquisitive train of thought and took a step back to get out of her personal space. “Yeah, I’m feeling… fine.”
“Fine? Shouldn’t you be like… suuuuper nauseous?” She squinted in an incredulous stare, probing him for a lie.
He tilted his head with a shrug. “I took Cera’s mystery cocktail, and now I’m not… Apparently.”
Tracy maintained the scrutiny before letting out a sigh of relief. “That’s good. I was just coming to check up on you.” She paused, glancing at the floor while biting her cheek sheepishly. “Do you mind if I just scan you… reeeal quick? Just in case?”
“Eh.” He blandly gestured at himself. “I just ran one on myself and it didn’t give anything out of the ordinary. I think I’m good.”
An uncomfortable frown crossed her face. “Mmmm… If you say so then. Whaddya think you’re doing now, though? You should still be in bed.”
“Too much to do for me to sit around twiddling my thumbs, so I figured I should get a start on setting up the turbines and solar panels,” he explained casually. “Those are already printed, right?”
She shot a glance at the Malkrin hovering behind him, but when she saw that there wasn’t any support to be gained from the devoted paladin, the woman opted to surrender the argument. “S‘long as you’re sure… But yeah, those are done. They were hogging up the fabricators’ queues, so I took ‘em out and stacked them by the printers. Figured I’d leave the rest to you since I don’t really know how to use ‘em.”
“Fair. Are you free to help me set them up? Actually, how far along are you with taking the fabricator apart?”
Tracy bobbed her head to the side, idly bouncing the datapad against her chest. “Everything’s torn out of the borked one; I’m just waiting for the new parts to print out now.”
That would explain the scent of burnt rubber coming off of her—no machine was stripped down without an issue or two. Still, that was a huge time sink just… completely taken off of his back. Wow. Who knew having someone else who actually knew their stuff would make life that much easier?
Harrison grinned. “That’ll save us a hell of a lot of time. Great thinking, Trace!”
“I-I just did what you asked me… It’s n-nothing…” She tilted her head down at the praise to hide the slight blush.
“Nope. None of that now.” He patted her on the shoulder fondly. “Don’t discredit yourself. You did a good job, and I appreciate the initiative. Take the praise, you deserve it.”
“T-Thanks,” Tracy murmured demurely, meeting his gaze again with a shy smile. Her eyes widened for a second when she noticed how close he was, the technician taking a step back and clearing her throat. “Should w-we go back, then? S-So we can set up the t-turbines, that is.”
The engineer raised a brow, checking with Shar to see if she thought the reaction was odd. All he got was a blank, if still worried, look in return. Just him then? He dismissed the thought and turned his attention back to the other human, gesturing for her to lead the way. “Of course.”
The group of three left the med bay for the other module. The sound of a shower queued Harrison into where the missing two Malkrin were. He quickly pushed any idle curiosity aside; there wasn’t any point in being nosey.
The tingle underneath his skin—presumably from the mystery concoction—continued as he crossed the sunlit hill. It could have been from the combination of drugs in his system, but he felt pretty damn energized for the time of day it was—maybe it was because he was unconscious for a few hours. It reminded him of those caffeine-fuelled nights at college—especially the part where the energy drink kicked in and set the studying off. It felt pretty good. Maybe he’d get a start on assembling the fabricator after connecting the external power?
A faint scent of melted plastic and burnt wires replaced the smell of fresh air when they entered the workshop, confirming his earlier suspicions as to where Tracy had been all day. True to her words, a pile of unfolded, metal cube-shaped boxes sat by the fabricators.
He looked up at his four-armed companion, assembling a plan for the operation ahead of him. “Alright, Shar, do you think you could grab some of those big universal cables in the corner over there? Just drag them to the cargo bay doors on the other side.” He turned to the tradeswoman, her hands fiddling with the strings on her pants. “And then Tracy—” The technician perked up. “—can you give me a hand with the kits?”
The paladin set off to complete her task while Tracy gave him a thumbs-up. He was outside the back of the workshop in a matter of minutes, unfolding a—technically temporary—power generator, pointing the once pale but now sun-tanned woman to where she had to lock the alloyed pieces. The maroon-colored Malkrin began hauling the rest of the cubes to them, offering assistance with assembling the higher components of the three-meter tall turbine between trips.
The ceramist and the craftsman eventually joined in their endeavors, having finished their lengthy shower. Harrison accepted the help readily, suppressing his bemused smirk as he directed them. Their assistance was greatly appreciated, and the male of the two seemed ecstatic to lend a hand, allowing them to set up every wind-powered dynamo and start on the solar panels. However, all the progress did bring up questions about the fisherwoman’s whereabouts. The sun was only a small chunk above the sea’s horizon, and there was no obvious sign of Akula’s net by the orange shore as far as he could see. He supposed she could have just gone up or down the beach to fish, but he was still a little worried about her disappearance. It bothered him enough to break away from the others and approach the crest of the hill to get a better look at where the grassy hill met the sands.
He pulled out a pair of simple binoculars from his hip, scanning where the slow tides met land. There wasn’t anything of note besides the sparse boulders and tangles of underwater flora draped across the beach. His inspection drew to where the tree line met the flanking rocky cliffs, their stone faces rising only a few meters above sea level.
He was about to give up when movement caught his attention. A singular silhouette appeared from behind the stone wall, easing the worst of his fears. It was definitely a Malkrin, and the outline of a familiar weapon paired with a full fishing bag told him exactly who it was. There wasn’t any sign of injury either, which meant Akula had likely just lost track of time, or maybe decided to fish a bit farther out and underestimated how long the trip back would take. Either way, she was safe. He let out a breath he wasn’t aware he was holding…
…Then another tense one immediately took its place.
He pulled away and scrubbed the lenses of the binoculars, snapping the vision ports to his eyes when he finished. No, it wasn’t a mistake; they were still there.
A small parade of other Malkrin followed behind the fisherwoman, making their way ever closer towards the modules he called home.
Shit. Was Akula leading them to him? Why? Were they hostile? Was she being forced to bring them here? What if they were from Kegara’s camp? Were they straight from the Land kingdom? Were these other ‘banished?’
The cold purple of the sunset cast shadows over their faces, obscuring their expressions into black uncertainties. He couldn’t gather anything from them. His legs were already pulling him away before he realized, the turn into a light jog resulting in him slamming face-first into a wall of pure metal. A hand shot up to soothe his pained nose, Shar’s apologetic voice covering the throbbing headache.
“Harrison! F-Forgive me. Are you al—ght?”
“Sharky?” He froze, forgetting his stinging face and lowering his voice to an urgent whisper. “Shit, uh, No. No, listen. There’s a group of Malkrin by the beach, and I need you to stay watch while I go grab the others.”
Her head tilted before his words visibly clicked in her mind. She pulled her shield off her back and nodded at him, her concern replaced by ironclad determination. “Underst—d.”
He wasted no time running back and informing the rest of what was happening. He urged them to stay inside the workshop and wait out whatever was about to go down. The two Malkrin understood and heeded his warning without protest, the ceramist giving him a solemn look before leaving. Tracy looked like she wanted to object, but he gave no room for arguing, nudging her into the building before she could get any ideas.
Even with everyone tucked away, he couldn’t help but worry. Although the module was already in a defensible location in case of the worst scenario, there was only one firearm between the three of them—he was a dumbass for not printing out more before. The spikes around the cargo bay doors were closed, which left only one entrance for them to watch, so that would have to do. He made a mental note to start properly arming the others after whatever the hell was happening was over.
The immediate concern now addressed, he shouldered his heavy weapon and returned to the stalwart paladin with steady strides, double-checking his ammo on the way there. As much as he would have liked to humor the possibility of the newcomers appearing with peaceful intentions, he knew he needed to be ready for whatever needed to be done—better to be a warrior in a factory than an engineer in war, or however that saying went. Something about the static pins and needles running across his skin and through his veins gave him conviction. It calmed his nerves and set him straight, clearing his mind of the nervousness that wanted to break in. By the time he saw the familiar silhouette of his paladin, he had set aside any remnants of hesitation.
His finger traced the trigger guard as he stepped up beside the four-armed guardian, her shield standing tall and unyielding, flanked by a pair of menacing spears. Akula had crossed much of the three hundred or so meters from the beach to the crest of the hill.
“Stop,” he ordered, raising his voice at the approaching band. They obliged, coming to a halt at about thirty or so meters away. There were eight of them, not including the leading green Malkrin. He counted five females and three males, based on height. Nervous postures paired with wary gazes at the paladin’s unwavering glare, the occasional glance being given to Harrison and his shotgun. One stood tall amidst the looks of uncertainty. The Malkrin’s yellow skin was darkened by the dusk, meeting Shar’s stare with an unflinching glower.
Akula took a single step forward, bowing her head while gesturing behind her with a free hand. “Greetings, Harrison. I have returned with not only the finest fish, but exiled laborers for the settlement.”
“Exiled laborers?” His brows furrowed in suspicion as he gave the group another look. “From where?”
The fisherwoman glanced back at her following. She spoke flatly, though he could sense a hint of irritation… or disgust. “They originate from the Land Kingdom, star-sent, having only just arrived by boat.”
His gaze crossed the anxious and exhausted looks of those down the hill from him. Some of their talons clicked together nervously. A few had stone-still tails, while others wrapped their fifth appendage around their waists or wrists. Every single garment of clothing on them had been either ripped or dirtied considerably; not to mention that those appeared to be their only possessions. Though, they looked ‘healthy,’ in spite of their impoverished items, if not a bit lean compared to the Malkrin he knew. So, what were they doing here? They were banished, right? They were supposed to work for that other settlement, ‘constructing a future on the mainland.’ They had no supplies to build any camp or even make the long journey to however far away Kegara’s camp was…
Harrison took in a deep breath, keeping his gun at low ready. “So, they just got here? Why bring them here?”
Her back stood even straighter, her brows narrowing in thin confidence. “I believed we would benefit from additional hands within our own settlement. They have professions that may prove useful to our needs.” She stepped to the side and gestured to the group behind her, pointing out each of the differently colored Malkrin individually. “Amongst their number, they have two fisherwomen to see to our food needs, a lumberjack for harvesting of wood, a guardswoman for our defense, a script-keeper, a cook to prepare meals, and a sewist for clothing. I am sure you would be capable of utilizing their positions excellently, Great Creator.”
‘Great Creator?’
He shook that thought away, focusing on Akula’s offer.
“That’s seven,” he stated forcefully. “What about the last?”
The banished stiffened. One of the males went to cover the short white-skinned female with shaking arms, while the yellow guardswoman stood tall behind the aforementioned Malkrin, her expression unmoving.
Akula’s uncertainly bled through a sharp inhale of hers. “T-That one does not possess an occupation that we know of… She is a… juvenile…”
A nasty pit formed in his stomach, pulling down caution to unveil a caustic, bubbling fury.
A… ‘juvenile?’ So, it wasn’t just a short female… but an actual… Here? They sent a fucking kid here? Nevermind the moral implications of how she arrived; the dire survival situation, roaming hordes of bloodthirsty monsters, and lethal anomalies were taxing to deal with for him, and he had advanced technology! They were just seven weaponless Malkrin! Hell, they were already scared out of their minds, and all they’ve done so far is meet him! How were they supposed to protect a kid when they’re pissing their pants from this? What *the fuck *were those Land Kingdom assholes doing?
He bit back the snarl threatening to curl his lips. There would be time to get pissed off later. For now, he needed to figure out what to do with… this whole situation. Specifically, the fact that there were eight people at his doorstep all of a sudden.
Akula was basically asking if he wanted to take them under his wing, right? But could he even trust them? They did look haggard, but there was no telling what they would do if given the opportunity to do… something. They were an unknown variable, plain and simple. Even if he did take them in without having to worry, where would he even house them? He wasn’t exactly swimming in free space aboard the modules. What about clothing and food? They were just getting by as it was! Assuming they figured that out, it still left the question of if they’d be willing to work for him. The base couldn’t support freeloaders, especially if they could actually be detrimental to getting things done. Besides, how did his status as ‘star-sent’ fit into what they thought about him—or even Sharky, a follower of the Sky Goddess? Was he going to be expected to mediate religious arguments, or was it going to blow up into something even bigger?
No matter how he thought about it, they just weren’t ready to take on people that he couldn’t be sure about. It would risk the lives of everyone back at the base… which meant he was going to send the refugees to their deaths…
Harrison bled off a sigh through his nose. He knew damn well by now that the Malkrin were people; he couldn’t just cast them off as giant beasts. Taking on more people was a huge slap in the face to the progress he was making, but doing nothing and seeing them off into the wilderness—where literal Human and Malkrin-eating monsters roamed day in and day out—with nothing but the rags on their back would weigh on his mind. A selfish perspective, maybe, but just as true.
Plus, if he was thinking about it logically, manpower would be essential going forward. He needed just about every resource under the sun—stone, iron, copper, tungsten, saltpeter, sulfur, clay, wood, plant matter, fish, and… The list goes on. It wasn’t like he had access to working robots or anything that could gather supplies and perform tasks outside the workshop. For as much as he disliked the idea, the Malkrin were a hearty people, and for the price of shelter, safety, and sustenance, they could do what his technology can’t—for now. Was that worth the price of needing to keep an eye on them?
Christ. Why was he the one charged with making this decision? His slow inhale and subsequent exhale overpowered any other meek noise in the elevated meadow.
“…Okay,” he sighed out, propping his shotgun on his shoulder. Stunned, uncertain stares lingered on him, only Akula opting to break the silence.
“…You would accept these new ones into our settlement?” she asked, apparently not expecting his minimalistic, though positive response. Odd, considering how everything she said made it seem like she wanted this.
“We’ll bring them in, yeah,” he confirmed, his voice a little warmer than before. “Do you mind fetching some meal boxes?”
“I… O-Of course, star-sent. As you command.” The green-colored fisherwoman blinked off her surprise, briskly past him and into the barracks. He followed her with his eyes until she was out of sight, leaving just him, Sharky, and the crowd of refugees on the hill. He was a lot less nervous about approaching them now, and not just because of his own firepower or the ten-foot tall armored, muscled, and taloned woman beside him.
“There’s no need to just stand there. Follow me, we’ll figure out everything else shortly…” He paused and considered their situation once more… Perhaps they were more reticent because of Akula. “Actually, first: are any of you hurt? We have the medical supplies to treat wounds and sickness.”
The Malkrin looked between themselves, the script-keeper stepping up as their speaker. “Beyond scratches of the skin, w-we are in adequate health.”
Harrison nodded and turned toward the barracks, already planning on asking someone to fetch some rubbing alcohol and bandages. He gestured for the others to follow him, which only took a few moments for them to comply. The yellow Guardswoman stood still, however, her glare appearing to try and pierce him. Then, the juvenile grabbed her wrist and softly pulled her, causing the taller female’s eyes to widen in an unexpected show of shock. She then averted her gaze, continuing with the rest of the new arrivals. Odd.
They stopped by the fire pit out front before anything else, Sharky being asked to keep watch over them as he grabbed Tracy, Cera, and the craftsman. Food, clothing, shelter, health, jobs… There was a lot to consider. One minute was all it took to make a decision as big as this, but there was no going back now. He was going to have to sacrifice tons of resources and energy for them.
All he could do now was hope that his efforts would bear fruit in the future.
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701 South Capital of Texas Highway, West Lake Hills, TX 78746 (Nearby Barton Creek and Downtown Austin)
Pay in top 20% for this field Pay $18.00 - $25.25 an hour
We are seeking a passionate Beauty Expert to join our team. As a key member of our team, you will play a vital role in enhancing our customers' beauty experiences through exceptional service, in-depth product knowledge, and expert beauty advice. As a Bluemercury Beauty Expert (BE) you drive sales and optimize customer service throughout your client interactions while building relationships. You are a beauty advocate who consistently role models a best-in-class service experience by assisting our clients and meeting their beauty needs. Your keen awareness of current trends and ability to connect with others makes you an essential colleague on the Bluemercury team.
Build Client Relationships: Build and maintain strong, personalized relationships with customers. Provide a welcoming and inclusive atmosphere for all clients, ensuring they feel valued and understood.
Share Your Product Expertise: Possess extensive knowledge of beauty products across various categories including skincare, makeup, haircare, and fragrances. Continuously update knowledge on the latest products and trends in the beauty industry.
Customize Recommendations: Offer tailored product recommendations based on individual client needs, preferences, and skin types. Conduct product demonstrations and provide application tips to enhance customer experience.
Sales & Promotion: Drive sales through effective communication of product benefits and promotions. Encourage repeat business by informing customers about loyalty programs and upcoming events.
Support Inventory Management: Assist in stock management, ensuring product availability, and maintaining an organized and visually appealing store environment.
Participate in Educational Workshops: Participate in and occasionally lead in-store beauty workshops, sharing expertise and tips with customers in a group setting.
Share Feedback & Insights: Collect customer feedback on products and services, providing insights to the management team for continuous improvement.
Qualifications:
· Focused on upholding dedication to fulfilling ideals of diversity, inclusion, and respect that our company aspires to achieve, every day in every store and office, with every customer and colleague.
· Proven experience in retail, preferably in the beauty industry.
· Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
· Passion for beauty and staying updated with the latest trends and products.
· Ability to work flexibly, including weekends and evenings.
· High school diploma or equivalent; beauty certification is a plus.
· Flexible availability, including days, evenings, weekends and holidays
· Self-motivated, stays current and supports operational excellence
· Strong interpersonal skills and ability to communicate and share knowledge
· Resourceful and able to adapt quickly to changing priorities
· 1-2 years of direct experience is required
· Advanced authority and expertise in a specific brand is preferred
Physical requirements you will perform:
· Prolonged periods of standing/walking around the store or department
· Prolonged exposure to fragrance and home fragrance products.
· Frequent use of computers, handheld electronic equipment and cash registers
· Reaching, crouching, kneeling, stooping and color vision
· Lifting and moving items weighing up to 25 lbs.
What we can offer you:
· An inclusive, challenging, and refreshingly fun work environment
· Empowerment to perform impactful work with tangible results
· Commission and bonus opportunities
· Merchandise discounts and gratis
· Paid time off (PTO) for full time hourly employees
· Coverage across medical, dental, vision, and 401K.
· Advancement opportunities and mentorship to grow your career
· Employee Assistance Program (mental health and financial literacy resources)
· Fully Funded education benefits may include 100% of tuition, books, and fees
· Colleague Resource Groups (CRGs), give-back/volunteer opportunities
This job description is not all inclusive. Bluemercury reserves the right to amend this job description at any time. Bluemercury (under the parent Macy's Inc.) is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to a diverse and inclusive work
Expected hours: 20 – 40 per week
Benefits:
401(k) 401(k) matching Dental insurance Employee assistance program Employee discount Flexible schedule Health insurance Paid time off Professional development assistance Tuition reimbursement
Makeup application: 2 years (Preferred) Retail sales: 2 years (Preferred)
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Devin Haney vs. Ryan Garcia; For Haney's WBC super lightweight title
Arnold Barboza Jr vs. Sean McComb; Super lightweight
Bektemir Melikuziev vs. Pierre Dibombe; Super middleweight
John Ramirez vs. David Jimenez; Super flyweight
Charles Conwell vs. Nathaniel Gallimore; Light middleweight
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2024.03.30 01:03 BoyOfChaos Thoughts on music, story, game in general [TW: very, very, very long, seriously, I have gone mad]

Now let's talk about the music. Can we talk about the music please? I've been going insane to talk about the music, okay? I love how well fit the soundtrack is to game, how it's like a puzzle that fits in every place, but also how it provides the explanation to what happens. I decided I won't be dividing it, because I prefer it to be in once place, so I would get lost, because I can get very easily get lost.
Also, English isn't my native language. If sentences sound weird, it's probably because they are, there might some grammar errors, which I could miss, but I tried my best. I am sorry and thank you for understanding.
I know everybody at this point knows about classical music put in the game, but I made this post to appreciate the soundtrack in a way that is presented in game, as well as what it bring in terms of feeling and vibes I took from it. I am not specialist on music, so most of this opinions are essentially "what I think is presented to us" thoughts. I will do it in the order I found on spotify, here. I hope nobody did it before, otherwise I will be very sad.
This is have become something more, than it was when I started writing about it. And while I still go through it track by track, there is now more than just analysing music. So, if you wish to listen me being obsessive, take a seat and enjoy. If I wasn't insane before, I soon will be.
Turned Around - the echo, the lone place, you enter the place you perhaps you are familiar with, but also feels alien. It is twisted, changed and filled with darkness, but also not dead. Something is there in the shadows, and there is something in its deeps. And it is your mission to find it.
Safe Room - you might be safe, it might be a place when you rest, hide your things and prepare for another fight. But also it sounds like warning, like it spoke "you know what's there", but in soft, hush voice.
Casual Loop - it's more cosy for me. "All that happened already" and it feels like falling asleep (dying) but then there is this tension on the end, like it send you "wake up, remember why you are here".
Double Back - it's continuation of Casual Loop, but even sadder somehow. The name is deceptive - we can't double back, and Elster would never. But now, we also know there is other person who wouldn't, Isa. They both understand why they do what they do, and can relate to each other. But also they seem to know, that it perhaps would never be possible. But again, they can't double back, they would never.
Pneumatic - industrial machine, endlessly working up and down. We hear steam's hiss, we hear when it goes up and makes this loud noise. It is eternal, it will never stop. Just like you, Elster, just like you.
Eternity in the Box - that's Ariane's theme. She is in the box, she is on the empty ship, you can hear the void around her, and lies there what it feels like eternity. The distortion are her bioresonance distorting the reality, as it feel like you would take something around and started to stretch it like rubber, and leave it morphed into something else.
Visions of Alina - this is less a music and more like signal. Broken (we can hear it even as it breaks in the music) and indecipherable. Elster thinks about her, remembers her, looks for her - but the signal is no longer valid, message is worn down and there is nobody to look for.
Incinerator - "things have learnt to walk that ought to crawl". The long sounds feels like flesh that now sag on Aras and moves with their skeleton, they arms and legs bang over steel and there is this feeling of chase - you can almost feel as their stretch their corrupted limbs towards you, to take you to their vents and... better not to know what they will do there. And also it's all cut the moment you leave. They stop to walk, and crawl back to their vents, like they ought.
Intensive Care - the nurse is here, and the only cure is death. Similar to Incinerator, you hear banging of their legs over steel as they walk, but they are less chaotic and more focused, less a chance a more like slow walk towards you. They want to care and cook, and you look like a fine piece of meat, so quickly they turn with their knifes to you. There is this sound, like choir, like they try to talk to you, beg you to let them it, which is cut off, as quick as you leave the room. But it doesn't stop. I can imagine them knocking over door, to follow you, the loneliness is too much for them, but that's for nothing - you left.
Train Raid - something actually relaxing. Melancholic, nostalgic - probably what Ariane feels, when she raided her train and thought about her home high in the mountains. Elster does not know who white-haired girl, but she feels important, she feels like somebody she should walk to, as so she do. White-haired girl disappears, like a dream that never was, but also, leaves us with a golden key - a literal clue, that we are on the right path and we should follow her.
Ritual - feels like continuation of Safe Room. Moment of rest. But also moment of revelation - we found door to progress. This is the moment of hope.
MNHR - gentle, cosy, even a soft flapping of a little bird. It feels like songbird, which is very fitting for their name, mynas. Perfect melody for gentle giantess.
Mynah - have you ever had a friend that is always calm? Like nothing can't tip them off? And do you also had this intense fear in the moment when this calm, chill friend gets angry? This is the music for it. They are still cool, but you feel they have changed. They are no longer calm, and hatred boils inside them. The short high-pitched notes feels either like needles, which Mynahs shots while loading their gun (also shooting itself in the game feels like it was made along side music), as well as sounds that triggered Mynahs make, but done in mechanical way. How heavy it sounds, you can feel it weigh and hardness before you, and that you rather should wait, that fight outright.
Adler - this one is very interesting. If I wouldn't know, I would say it's continuation of Safe Room. On the one hand, it works like a knife in the back, as we, and Elster, are betreyed. We expect to get a reward after beating mynah, while Elster thinks she met somebody who's rational and "the same type as her" - a loner replika. But on the other hand, it feels like metamorphosis. Adler works as catalyst - he takes Elster false memory of Alina, and push her down, not knowing that he actually helps us in achieving our goals. He makes her transform by force.
Dowsing - even in memories of different people we look for something, and it always ends up being Ariane. I feel that a lot of soft music hides how much depressed Araine had to be, growing around people who disliked you and found you weird. There is tension in it, showing that probably Ariane was afraid each day, if she will be bullied, or will they leave her alone. And makes me wonder - do we really see what Isa see, or do we see what Ariane wants us to see, or perhaps there is something else to it. No matter what, music feels like falling. We are deep in it, and we have no way to go back.
Bodies - nothing much to say, soft music of self-realisation. We see bodies of us who failed. We will be the same? Or will we succeed? It's like iceberg - the deeper we go, the more we discover and understand.
Hamstrung - it feels like mix of Pneumatic and Turn Around - corridors haunted by ghosts, twisted into endless machine. Elster is closer, but still sealed in the dark coffin. She's perpetuum mobile, endlessly moving between ghost of the past.
Riot Control - my personal favourite. The drums gives away the feeling of lines of Stars, beating their batons over shields. The order was"NO MERCY" and you will be begging for death. It has this cruel and brutal, as they will beat you into submission, break not only your body but also your soul and mind. They will beat you until there will be nothing to bury. And it doesn't stop, it gets better - they start a chase. Stars are the first replikas we meet that actually have military experience, and it feels. While the rest are kind of chaotic monsters who reacts on impulses, Stars are not. No, they are finally set free - you are not fighting with them, you are being hunted. Even the end, when we killed them off or left the room it doesn't feel like defeated them. It feels more like walking through battlefield - you didn't won, you survived.
Kolibri - sound of insanity. Their mind is consumed and like a chant they all sing. Sad, that we can't tell what they sing, or maybe pray, as all its a radio signal. Elster can only disturb them setting her radio and knock off their concentration. Their insanity reveals in their desire - to not be alone. They have great need to be surrounded by other Kolibri, and that's why they make their own copies. They sing a song, that the other Kolibri (the one that reminded sane in library, KLBR-S2302) wants to join them (the great hive mind, as all other KLBR has number S2301, meaning that their personalities mixed together when the first one pulled all of them down). The awful feeling of being left behind is so terrifying for her, that she considers that, perhaps, becoming insane might be better option. At least, she wouldn't be alone.
Eulenlieder - roughly Owl Song. A tragedy. The last thing that probably kept them sane against corruption was killed by sheer malice. Now, their dorm empty, and only broken cassette and stabbed audio player remains, informing of failed last stance. But somehow, it doesn't sound sad. The video noise gives makes it sound like waves on the beach, hinting that perhaps, it was more than just a music. Giving the fact that beach seems to be important for gestalt that was base for Elster, perhaps that's she doesn't see it as something bad. It almost feel like memory, perhaps it is a memory. Also, interesting is that in comparison to other ones, it has upbeat. Like there was more in it, something that we can't know, but probably gestalt Elster would know. It is for us to wonder, for her to know.
Orrery - this one is interesting. It's name is kinda what it connect to where we hear it. "An orrery is a mechanical model of the Solar System that illustrates or predicts the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons, usually according to the heliocentric model" from wikipedia. It's smoothing in a way that in against all odds, against Empire's and Nation's regimes, there might be a future, where on all planets are not longer inhabited by gestalts and replikas, but by people being people. A different kind of hope in a game where most is focused around Elster looking for Ariane, this one is more about things as they are now, in general. After all, we look above the solar system, even letting Elster comment on current political situation.
Ewige Wiederkunft - "Eternal return". Once again, similar in tone to Safe Room, but it isn't our safe room, but Adler's. A nostalgic and melancholic place, where he can rest and thinking, and where he normally would enjoy his new Fetish Object and ease his boredom. It feels like Adler's theme, which is very ftting - he is in the loop. He is returning to the same point, over and over again. He is responsible for the station, he was created to be responsible for the station. But he grows desperate as well as nihilistic. No matter what he does, nothing is solved, but even worse, everything gets more broken. Changed, twisted, added and removed. Everything will repeat the same way - Falke falls sick, units gets corrupted, gestalts dies, flesh grows, Elster enters Sierpinski and causes chaos. And he can't do anything - it gets reset and he starts again, from the same spot. Nothing that he does matters, nothing that doesn't do matters. A victim in endless loop, cursed to be a witness of Sierpinski's doom and not being able to do anything about it. He is like Greek tragic hero. He wasn't a villain, but antagonist - he also like Elster wanted to break the cycle. It just wan't his fate to do it.
Liminality - "is the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of a rite of passage, when participants no longer hold their pre-ritual status but have not yet begun the transition to the status they will hold when the rite is complete." Elster is almost there. She is in final stage of her search, perhaps the farthest she has ever been. But a lot is before her.
Kentucky Meat Shower - If I could ask author why, I would ask about this one - why this name. Why Meat, Why Shower, and why Kentucky. It connected with Alder falling into pit, down to Nowhere. It is probably first time, as he states that he done this already and I think he meant killing Isa. But... just why? Is that reference to something I am too stupid to get? ... oh it is. Huh. I guess it's raining Adlers, hallelujah. Perhaps this allusion about where we are about to go - into flesh. Music itself sounds very much something you would hear in slasher movie. Honestly, Kentucky Meat Shower does sounds like B-movie horror. But also, there is this role reversal where the hunter (Adler) is being defeated by the prey (Isa).
Haint Tales - we stand before ghosts' nest, we are at source, we are the gate to the place that Is-Not. Corrupted machines, deep breathing of rotting replikas and steel hitting steel like often we hear when corrupted replikas were noticing us and trying to get us. Once again, Elster must get deeper. But now, we enter to haints' (ghosts) domain. But what ghosts? Ghost of the... past?
Misremembered - Alina is gone, Elster. You are dead, Elster. You are not looking for Alina. You never did. Try to remember, try to really remember. I know it hurts, but you must let it go. You tried to find a place that is nowhere now, so you have arrived to Nowhere. Yes, I am being melodramatic, but I think capture well what it meant to be. Perhaps it's Ariane, or perhaps it something deep inside Elster memory that calls to her, a feeling that's something is off. The went to look for Alina, right? Then why it feels wrong? Like she was remember it wrong, like there was something calling. What does this book mean? Elster tries to remember, but it will long before she will be able to understand. The long noises similar to Liminality and Hamstrung reminds us that we are half-way, and can do only one thing - keep going.
Nue - Added and removed. Changed and twisted. Similar to the one in Japanese folklore, it is a beast made of many other animals, in that situation, two Storchs (honestly, there could be more, but two long pairs of legs are the only visible ones for me). It is a demon, which often connected to bringing bad omens and ills. Also, it nature is hinted to be unknown, but saying that something is unknown in Signalis is like saying nothing. Musically, it's similar to Mynah and Intensive Care, a slow walking while also we hear replikas hooves (are they hooves? They do look like) its over the steel tiles. But, there is some kind of difference - the catharsis. For the first time, he haven't have to do it alone, as Isa helped us. It felt like we are not alone. Isa grows more and more in character, to conquer her fear that she have always relay on others, and saves us.
Matryoshka - its mechanical sound, similar to Pneumatic. But this time, it's not Elster who's the machine, but our dear Mynahs. How's like to be imprisoned inside the machine, to be a unable to embrace people without fear that you might hurt them? Matryoshka is a Russian doll, which represents each generation of mothers - the biggest being often grandmothers, and the little ones inside being little kids or newborns. In game it's interesting as we don't put doll inside doll, but we kinda put layers on base doll. Mynahs are mother and protectors, gentle in their ways to others, as files states. But also, deeply inside them, they are like lost, traumatised child, who would want to hug others when they feel scared. Is their armour their 'skin'? Or is it just armour and they can put it away? I think the first one is true. They are prisoners of their own bodies they did not wish to have. No wonder Beo prefers to die, than gets fixed - she might say its because she doesn't want to be a burden, but I think deep inside, she also doesn't want to live in world where she can't be a mother, and where she is send to dangerous parts of mines. Perhaps that's why stuffed animals are so badly needed for her - she wants to hug something, and stuffed animals is something that you can't break, no matter how hard you hug it. Even here, in mechanical machine, she sacrifices herself to loneliness, so could Elster go forward. Like Mynahs do all the time for the other replikas.
Labyrinth - "things have learnt to walk that ought to crawl". It less primal and more dangerous sounding than Incinerator. We just need to walk carefully and grab what we need. But also, there are Aras chasing us, quickening our heartbeat. It's less a fight, and more a run.
Prison - distorted, ringing of metals bars over crates, video noises. It always makes me think, that Nowhere is memory of every replika about them being born. Like we, gestalts, don't remember moments of their birth, they also don't. But it's still there, deep in their consciousness. And in heartless Nation's regime, they are born in confusion. Prison is good name, considering how this place has no exit, and its filled with "wardens" (a just much more corrupted enemies, Sniffers - I don't remember what was their names, but you probably know what I mean). It seems that it's less about fighting, and more about surviving, like being sealed in the box. We can kill each other, but it won't change that we are imprisoned.
Coal Ash Slurry - another one of these mechanical ones. However, in the context of Nowhere, it feels very fitting. We have this ever present flesh contained by steel. And what are replikas, if not flesh (gestalt personality and memories) imprisoned inside steel (replikas metal body and its functions). Word slurry means "a thin mixture of an insoluble substance, as cement, clay, or coal, with a liquid, as water or oil" which feels like something in which replikas are made. A deep memories of birth, and moments before you learn of your function in tyrannical cast system made by Nation, you feel this dread of being born. You think, but have nothing to think about, you remember but you have nothing to remember about, you feel but you have no names for this feelings. You are like a golem made of clay, not sure what you should be doing, and what you are and what's your purpose. But soon, your 'masters' give you things to do and teaches you how to obey.
Sea Smoke - uff, we escape for a moment from transhumanism horror to... I'm not sure what. This sounds familiar to other more classical sounding parts of the soundtrack. It sounds similar to Double Back and Casual Loop, which a soft piano. We stand before the person that started all of this, somebody who seem to be important, but in context of replikas production was crucial - the Great Empress. What's she doing here? Why have you deiced to take us to stars? Why have you done nothing after you have been crowned? Who have you wed? And why you killed yourself? Perhaps the longest day was a cycle, similar to the one we are in now, and the wedding its ending. Perhaps there was a love story, of her loving somebody she shouldn't love? Or the one that broke her heart and she wanted them forever and ever, until she could wed them. Only to have them heart being broken again - perhaps there was no love, but only obedience. She couldn't take it no more, and saw herself as monster, pushing others to do what she wanted, even if they didn't want to. Her emotions pulled the Song of the Gods. However, who knows. We have little to base it on, and this interpretation already suffers from overthinking. In Sea Smoke there is longing for things that were, there this nostalgia. There is this faint choir or somebody speaking but its disturbed, like it was... in the past? A mourning perhaps over something or somebody.
Ritual (Nowhere) - same as Ritual before surgery room. Long notes sounds like wind coming from under door. We know what we have to do and we are close to the end... right? It has to be. After all, it is where must be Alina... right?
The Red Gate - We ought to crawl in Nowhere, and we have now learnt to walk to outside. We exit the hole, to which we entered in the beginning. It is like exiting Plato's cave - before we only have been siting memories and shadows, but now, we have exited to see the truth. And similarly to the beginning, must go through the Gate. But here is someone who's waiting for us. Makes me wonder, if he fell here, or perhaps he too had to go through Nowhere. However, he can't go through gate. Perhaps he's afraid that he will learn the truth, so he prefers to remain in the cave, where he can believe in whatever he was made to believe, without fear of founding out truth. Or perhaps he can't, as the only one who was invited was Elster. He reaches for it, but could he? He says he was here before, and that he never came back. And each time perhaps he dies from his wounds, like we see later Elster(s). He want to know what destroyed his Commander, his Falke. Sometimes I wonder, if he really admires her, or is it just a deep demanding feeling he was imprinted in him. But he noticed her changed, and he couldn't gain the same feeling like from before. Perhaps, there was also love between them? Maybe it wasn't just artificial one, but also something that Falke lost beyond the Gate was calling for him. We never hear Falke's thoughts before being 'poisoned' by whatever that lies beyond. I like to think they at least enjoyed each other company. But it also breaks my heart (again). The calm music hints that, perhaps, there is hope. We feel that we are closer.
Die Toteninsel (Emptiness) - Island of the Dead. We walk towards it. The ship in the sea of red sand, surrounded by black rocks. "It doesn't matter", for Elster it never mattered what she finds it there, finding truth was never a goal here. "[Ich] hab kaine angst" - "I have no feaI'm not afraid". The islands appears, a memory to which Elster can't connect - Alina never painted, Alina was with her on the war, Alina... Alina is gone. It still haunts her, but tries anyway. She has to try, she can't go back. But she can't escape it. Finally, Elster understands and breaks (literally). She was never looking for Alina. We learn that all of that was for nothing, that we have achieve nothing, cycle begins again. Elster is filled with her gestalt memories, on who she was, what she wanted and who she loved. But that person is dead, and Elster has to understand that. She has to move on. Music emphasise that, we have this soft piano, but also long notes that gives away us a empty feeling. That we are in vast space, in vast place and we are lost. She is lost... and it ends.
Memory - but who's she looking for? Doesn't matter, she has to ship to check. She wakes up and goes her list.
3000 cycles (I missed you) - "Do you remember now, Elster?" might ask Ariane. "I missed you". Ariane didn't missed some gestalt she found in LSTR's memories. Not a mix between a replika unit and gestalt. She missed her Elster, her Elster. She shows us the best memories, their kiss and their dance. The best thing she can give Elster - something to remember. Now they will play their favourite music and live with the moment... Until she is hit with once again, with familiar signal. It tells us to not be afraid that we failed. Failures are part of self-discovery. That there is somebody that waits for her, not her gestalt her, but her as who she is now. She's not a robot, she's not a replika, she is not a copy of somebody that is long dead - she is she, she is a person. And she made a promise. Our promise, she and Ariane. And now, she has to keep it.
Near Dark by the Pond - it's more a signal than a track. It's for Elster, so she could follow.
Lived in - She made a promise. She has to remember our promise. A long hunting voices sounds like screams, perhaps screams of pain that Ariane made when radiation was taking life from her one by one, teeth by teeth, hair by hair, while keeping her awake, so she could feel it all.
I can't stop now - heavy music, working on machine. While previously it suggested her being endlessly going machine, now it means being remade, reworked. She takes literally takes something from her past mistakes and fix it her. I like to think that Elster lying there is Elster from Memory. That somehow, we also create cycle, so that could next Elster succeed.
Rouge Wave - twisted and changed. We are back. The more intense music feels more like a action music, just before the main action is about to happen. We, and Elster know what has to be done. We no longer go around looking for clues. Now, we are on the mission.
You have changed - it feels cryptic, as we see yet another hole to jump into, but also more sincere. While previous times we might had been hesitate, now we know where to go. I wonder, if that hole was made for us by Ariane, as a way to give us shortcut through Sierpinski. And who has changed? We? Elster? Sierpinski? Adler? Falke? ...Ariane? I think they all could say this to each other.
Cigarette Wife - it feels like a chase music, which is creates interesting comparison to what what is just a elevator music. This is another one with interesting title, to which I have no idea what it connect to. Perhaps is another reference to something I am too stupid to find/see. However, the chase in the music fits great with "I wear no mask". Perhaps Adler finally went through the Gate in this cycle, and now understand why things changes. His losing his face indicates that he had enough of trying to keep it all as things were. They were rip apart and put back, in a way that doesn't match as it was (for him). A kiss he gives Falke leaves me wonder, if Ariane projected on him Elster emotions, and on Falke her? That perhaps they are both (Adler and Falke) caricatures of what Elster and Ariane are. Or perhaps he really had feeling, true feeling for Falke, and she did for him, and in that way, he hopes to wake her up, like a prince that came to princess. But nothing happens. Everything is whole again, and he hates it. He hates how everything was destroyed and rebuild, and in this world, there is no place for him and for Falke. Or perhaps, its about Falke, in which Ariane and Elster memories are stored. She was made whole, but it was gluing mismatched puzzles to each other. She's whole, and she hates it.
Rotfront (Moon) - it's transition. A transformation of Sierpinski into something else, something alien, but now familiar. Ariane helped remember something Elster forgot, now she wants Elster to help Ariane remember what was.
Dream Diary - a soft music on which we feel that we walk over surreal world. This is dream diary (which we later even find to solve a puzzle). We walk through place where Ariane grow up, learned her place in society, and to be more precise - that in society there was no place for her. Once again, music fills us with melancholic and phlegmatic vibes.
Blockwart - it similar to Riot Control but mixed with Kolibri. It is aggressive, hostile and feels dangerous. I have a feeling that it might come from the raid that was done on Itou bookstore. Perhaps the march of Storchs and Kolibris radio waves still haunts Ariane. The fact that she couldn't do anything about it. She didn't know about her abilities back then, and now when she knows about it, she regrets heavily she couldn't save her only friends.
Teeth - Isa... she couldn't go anymore. She couldn't find Erika, she lost any hope. Perhaps there never was Erika to find. Perhaps through vision of Isa, Ariane tried to save her friends. But she couldn't. She couldn't even tell them apart. Music has this very empty, somehow muffled feel to it, a hurtful past that couldn't be altered. That's why we see "Forgive me" - it's from Ariane to Isa and Erika.
Double Back (VHS Ver.) - a closing to the story, we once hear what we heard at the beginning, where there was still hope.
Home - interesting that home is seen by Ariane not the radio station she connected with happy memories, but one with her aunt's home. Their are only two beds, meaning her aunt was only thing she had back there. And her aunt wasn't, I think, bad, as she tried to take care of her. If not counting school, perhaps there were happy memories. From this track there is a feeling of safety and solitude, mixed with some dream-like vibe.
Ariane's Theme - Artefact Ending. I don't think we help her achieve godhood - Ariane never wanted power, nor she wanted to ascend. No, as it requires from us to finish game at least once, it requires from us use outside knowledge and finding hidden keys, this is for us. We jump to Ariane's point of view, missing how Elster beats Falke and we see that her nightmare of loneliness and being left alone ends, and finally, she can have one last dream - of her, Elster and their dance. And above them? Rotfront's eye, a symbol of home, a place where should would love to take Elster with her. And perhaps now, she can, as they both finally finds each other.
Falke's Theme - it is twisted vesrion of Ariane's Theme. Falke is filled with both of their memories, while also losing herself. She doesn't want to be whole, she want to be freed and be herself. I kinda wonder, what are her issues? Perhaps having feelings for someone? And who was donor? While their are modelled after the Great Revolutionary and her Daughter, they weren't the one to give away their neuron patterns.
Become Whole Again - Falke wants to die. She wants to let go of this forced memories. She knows she isn't the one that Ariane loves, but she has the same feelings for her as Elster. She knows she isn't wanted nor she should be, but it still hurts her. The music has the similar elements to other corrupted replikas, mainly the hitting on steel, like she had problem walking, even when she overs in air. It is a battle, but Falke doesn't want to. The Elster part of her personality doesn't allow her to let go Elster, as Elster doesn't want to kill Ariane. And when she fell, she feel like the memories that was kept in her mind leaves. She is whole again, she is herself, the same way Elster is whole her now.
The Promise - Adler awaits us, and while he tries to stop us, it doesn't matter. I think the thing that kept him uncorrupted was that this whole situation kept him invested. Adlers' units needs new Fetish Objects, new fascination to keep themselves invested and entertained. We can see that, that when he wanted a certain fountain pen, he could sacrifice anything to get it. Now, the desire to break the cycle was the one last Fetish Object that kept him sane, something that he couldn't get bored, as it became his obsession. But, when beaten, gives up, similarly to Isa. He can go no longer. And the moment he gives up, corruption gets hold of it, practically turning him on the spot, as reaction for his prolonged resistance. Elster doesn't care, she is here to keep promise.
Crepuscular - "of, relating to, or resembling twilight; dim; indistinct". This is it, all it could take is to go to her and... She can't. It's too much. She put herself to sleep. The cycle has ended, the night come close, she shall sleep, and soon, she will wake up, to try again. She tried to evade pain, so she couldn't now take it. She have Leave. But also, it's Memory. She doesn't remember her, as it's not her. She is still in between, in between being a replika and being her own person. But she made it. And Ariane sees it. It's not Araine who don't remember, it's Elster who lack her full memory.
Troublesome Creak - I... have no memory of it. Honest. But it's tense, and it feels like ending, but I don't remember it? Does somebody know? But it sounds like a dance, a grand ending, filled with emotions.
Warm Light - the cycle has ended. They can move out. They could never be together, not in this world. But also, music indicates hope and catharsis with it soft piano playing, that perhaps in place where they are going, they will be able to love each other, and dance one more time.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAnd this it the end.
Hey you, yes you. Thanks for reading it, if you did. If you didn't... well, I don't blame you! I wouldn't want to read it too haha. It was stuck in my head, and while I don't think I get all this thins right, I'm glad there is a place where I can drop it, even if probably nobody will read it.
There is not much conclusion on the end. What I wanted to say, I said already and I don't think there is much to add here. I saw so much different interpretations of what happens in the game, thoughts and theories, that I think adding my own 'big brain moments' won't change anybody opinion. And honestly, I love this game for that. It's like, perfection of art - it has it's own value, but also changes tone and shape depending not only the person that looks on it, but also what that person wants to find in it.
TL;DR; the author of this post wanted to listen to music and write short thoughts about it but end up overthinking about space lesbians in dystopian sci-fic. The author has nothing on his defence.
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2024.03.19 09:12 Hoemco After birth control pills. Help!

Hi all I've been on hormonal birth control pills for 4 years (17-21) and just stopped taking them because my insurance ran out. It's been 4 months and ever since I stopped this happens to my skin whenever I take a shower, apply lotion, sit under a heater, or do anything with my skin. It happens along my neck, face, chest, back, and as of today... my knees??
This has never happened before I was on bc.
This is just after a shower. It's verY itchy. Anyone else had this issue? Will it go away? How long does it take? Any way to ease the rash?
Thanks guys!
photos. help!
Side tangent: since I've stopped birth control I'm also experiencing consistent acne for the first time ever in my life! I don't know if this is related as well but when I get stressed out, my body starts shivering! This never happened before quitting birth control. Not sure if it has something to do with my body processing the hormones or my blood pressure. So many weird issues since I quit BC...
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2024.03.10 10:39 tavg123 EVERY unique word said in every Tally Hall song (even side projects)

I'd like to say hello and welcome you good day that is my name come here sit down I'm so glad even really truly came we can go take a walk or something but first i need introduce what when let us sing its call it likes it's nothing lives breathes insists never liked speak run sleep eat thought everybody tried seat looking through glass eyes give few tries goes right in time kill all bad dreams wonder 'bout no things circles spirals mind know this song not about yes why what's little sigh along think done we're thinks ton knew by wanted birds bees television cardboard houses X-ray vision many silly rhymes forgotten lost their telephones games periods lots of question marks here's part again where everything's more than should be greener seems fall beneath your feet seconds tick boulders whenever don't does seem are wherever for together depending on the weather we'll either argue house outside how different felt before got notch belt 'cause plans were me yeah now you'd just rather leave breaking slowly alone sound much further phone fit next there's always reason can't make miles away from home get meaner message at tone cleaner find shade envy heart Marvin's marvelous mechanical museum known coast butter toast headlines breadlines school rooms pool other place contiguous united states environments world t if hit with ally then see hall y'all mini mall calling kids pack up mom's car back Windstar kick drive arrive mega mart slide side hatch pride ties match booty duty was Eddie Thatch WWTHD university work play makes crazy jump bumping SUV street sweet tunes do donut mama's front lawn sooner you've found rock 'n' roll show tizzy hizzy gone mini-mall working carnival tally who's blame automated players proclaim yellow tie suave fellow writes heterophonic love bites red proud loud guy adore amp too high turn grey sipping 'gnac hear he's knocking shots Bill Laimbeer send locksmith greens keys unlock act please open case blue bass jiggle boodiggle over click flick off switch ignite night pitch singing songs will disappear glowing dark lighting park revealing aims unpredictable antiquities they're collectibles delectable unreliable style's undetectable might rap an English chap knickers I'll bum slap didn't had gall well bloody stereosonic animatronic rapping robo-electronic ebonics quick distraction mechanic attraction penny pocket slot hey ho old-fashioned puppet that's quite set marionette quintet playing band we'd hand Marvin walked into helpless land wondered lightly am happy following footsteps left man he stepped reprimand mystic sadistic took step elevator who said guess later worry fifteen flights lasted nights days spent without cent creatures beat shirts listening painted whispered light top hill stranded senate white brick flowers asked some questions story feeling his bow stage answers lonely paperbacks taste implode them living tiptoed wooden sign line lovely one secondary smile extra mile feel today chemistry taken ride far longer 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2024.03.08 10:42 Maned_Wolf_444 Se Actuality

Source: https://cognitivetype.com/se-behaviorism-mythology/
Metabolism
Se is a function that absorbs objects in real-time (Pe), immersing itself into the subtleties of those objects (S). Similar to how two speakers can create an amplified echo when placed side by side, with each processing loop, Se's hyperfocus on objects heightens their intensity and vividity. It seeks objects with many layers of richness and detail to uncover, capable of providing high stimulation, whether those objects are abstract or concrete. If they are abstract objects, Se will immerse itself in those concepts with linear focus, learning everything it can from the subject.
Behaviorism
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The Se user will constantly be receiving a photographic feed from the outer world and thus will have a heightened receptivity to sensory information, which can be both overwhelming when undesired and highly stimulating when accepted and honed. If this data absorption is sought after rather than rejected, the Se user will become so immersed in the ‘one thing’ in front of them, that everything else suddenly disappears. The Se user’s attention is cinematic; causing them to take in the world just as it appears with very high fidelity and this can lead to an appreciation for “realism” in the arts and other mediums. The focus of a Se user is linear, rather than divergent. They will want to sink deeply into the experience of a thing, rather than spread themselves thin and broadly. Unsolicited tangents can be too distracting for them; jarring their attention and focus away from their present obsession. Even if the Se user has multiple interests- which they inescapably do – whenever they are immersed in the subject at hand it is with an acute intrigue. This dedicated attention can create a hyper-vigilance and capacity to refine an art form faster than others if they choose to attend to it, although each skill will be domain-specific and not necessarily translate to acuity in other areas. If they're learning about a handmade craft they may notice all the bumps, lumps, scratches, and dents in objects and be quick to see the subtle differences in colors and shapes. Volumes of non-verbal information will collide with their attention constantly and guide them to calibrate their personal experiences accordingly.
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The most direct way this sensory calibration happens is through an active flow. For the Se user, flow is when the body/mind moves in rhythm with everything else in the environment, as if pulsing with the same energy. During these moments, the Se user exists in direct contact with life, which creates an intoxicating feeling. One gets lost in the moment as they fine-tune their rhythm with the situation. This can happen when they’re singing, playing an instrument, freestyle rapping, hugging turns on a skateboard, locking in trigger reflexes in an FPS, and the like. The Se user will get “in the zone” and feel most in their element when they can perform in real-time, making up their next move as they go. Adaptation is essential to a Se user and there is nothing more adaptive than reacting instantly, elegantly, and with no delay to every twist and swerve life throws at you. The closer they are to this flow, the more aligned they’ll feel. Life is most invigorating when they are perfectly aligning the needs of the body, their desires, and the situation. It may feel like a symphony coming together in harmony, and indeed many Se users take to music production for its capacity to create this lucidity and fluidity. In all their activities and ventures, whenever life is not flowing in this manner, the Se user senses it and will feel out of alignment.
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Se is also characterized by a sense of volition, as their linearity of focus quickly translates into a clarity of desire. There's an implicit knowledge of what is wanted and, as a Pe function, a craving for its attainment. The Se type will be a go-getter; motivated to gather what it wants in a literal sense. Se will leverage the environment to work for them, being opportunistic and making the best of what they have. The quest for this attainment will carry a delicious zeal, giving Se users an added layer of vitality, but also of a self-assertion in reality. The Se user occupies where they stand, making their will known by their very composure. Then, as they lock onto their target, they inadvertently create adversity as the opposite will always exist and chase after the same or competing resources. This only further fuels their thirst for stimulation and arousal, as they get immersed in the hunt. The challenge of going after their pursuits will be part of the very flow they so delight in navigating, and this quest for vigor can often manifest in hobbies such as racing, martial arts, and other daring activities. But this ambition, while capable of leading to sprints of great productivity, is not motivated by any type of fiscality or conscientiousness. For Se, the desire to win is not sought for the long-term procurement of resources but is instead motivated by some stimulating challenge that reality posits and which is invigorating for them to flirt with.
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By the same token, not having dynamic movement happening will feel like an absence of thriving. While Se users are prone to over-stimulation if the stimuli are unwanted, they also are prone to under-stimulation if their environment does not allow an outlet for creative flow. Se will have a low tolerance for being forced to attend to things they dislike. If they're denied of freedom to explore the world actively, suffocation sets in like a depressive weight. The Se user needs to "move" and see; to scan the next corner. They'll be prone to pack up their bags and head off into town on a whim. The Se user lives a mobile life, constantly making things happen as they encounter different situations. But this necessity for motion can also be a curse; interfering with family plans or the practical constraints of life. As children, Se users may be overly active and it may be hard for their parents to find a constructive outlet for their energy at all times. The Se user may have little tolerance for routine and get into trouble for misadventures undergone in an attempt to abate the dread of idleness. Family members may pressure them to stay indoors or not go out as much, but often the Se user will not listen and either sneak out or find a way to explore without permission.
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At other times, however, life's sensory stimuli are highly unwelcome - making the Se user more keenly aware of disturbance than all others. The Se users' sensitivity to stimuli becomes a double-edged sword when there's a nagging noise in the environment such as an insect's hum, a squeaky fan, or a crying baby. Temperature differences and potent smells can also be sources of frustration. Their Se won't be able to ignore the aforementioned since, as an explorer function, every new "refresh" of the environment yields the same output - leading to very real and somatic irritation. Ironically, their quality of attuned focus sinks more heavily in on the irritation rather than putting it out of their mind, causing it to grow in their mind until it's the only thing they hear or see; debilitating all concentration. At best this guides the Se user to seek the most pleasant sensory atmosphere available, and at worst it can cause open complaints and outbursts. Because of this tendency, whenever possible the Se user will craft their environment to match what their sensations can tolerate. They will pay close attention to minimizing potential inconveniences and maximizing comfort.
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Due to this careful crafting of sensory experience, Se users often take to ergonomics. The look, feel and appeal of something becomes very important. How it fits in your hand, how the grip holds, and how it throws, sounds and moves are all heavily considered. The Se user will want "the experience" of a thing to be enjoyable and free of micro-irritations. They will go to great lengths to make that happen in their own life; selecting objects based on their ergonomic and aesthetic appeal. They may be fans of designer brands, which are simply those that make the most efforts to maximize user experience. This leads inescapably to an appreciation for luxury, which is an extension of their need for completeness of sensational exposure. Although they may not always afford the highest luxury, the Se user will often take steps in that direction whenever possible. More than others, Se users understand how to create something seamless and often pave the way in the domains of design and fashion. They will create things with beauty and convenience as priorities while being simplistic and to the point. And due to being an explorer process, Se perpetually seeks newness of experience; leading it to be very contemporary. Se gravitates to the latest, causing them to be trendy or at least have a keen understanding of where the trends are and how they're evolving.
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While we all have an appreciation, capacity, and need for the sensual dimension, Se being the sensory exploration process receives a double dose of this facet of our nature. No sensation is more direct, potent, and contrasted than the sexual, and from this raw contact with the body, Se receives a level of natural eroticism. The amplification of their senses extends to a type of libidinal awareness and intelligence. However, each individual can choose to explore or repress this tactile energy and indeed many Se users - whether by culture or moral verdict - will select to shun this part of themselves. However, for those who decide to explore it, this can add a contagious chemistry to everything they do. The Se user, so predisposed, can be a vixen and leave a seductive trail behind them as they explore and express themselves. They may not shy away from making themselves attractive and showing a little skin or muscle. As Se wishes always to explore all sensory domains to the utmost, this leads to a pointed interest in the subtleties of flirtation, pickup artistry, and more exotic art forms. However, this can cause many Se users to grate against social repercussions and taboos. A girl may be frustrated by her mother's old-fashioned conservatism or a man may be accused of sexual harassment for playful teasing or banter. Se, like Ne, is constantly crashing against the establishment as it seeks to break boundaries, peer around the corner, and dabble with all available information with less consideration of restraint or temperance.
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Like most people, the Se user is no stranger to a bit of wine or hard liquor. But due to the acuteness and physicality with which they experience life's stress, the temptation to exhale problems through stimulants or sedatives is all the more pronounced in them than others. It is here where the Se user may dive into their vice to an excess until it becomes a source of debilitation. More than a few Se users have met a short end at the hands of an overdose. Given their sensitivity, a Se user would require an inordinate strength of will to resist sourcing to a physical outlet when times become roughest. Under stress, they will seek an immediate alleviation of the unbearable "here and now." Their ability to think long-term may suffer or fade altogether as they become consumed only by how disquieting the present feels. This is especially the case if their Ni has made a pessimistic forecast, allowing them little hypothetical escape from their situation. Addiction then acts as a form of escapism and relief; one which is unsustainable at best and fatal at worst. It is in these moments when the Se user most needs to channel from external stimuli. When substances act as a replacement for external stimuli, the Se user may withdraw from the physical world; forgetting that out there is where all life, vigor, and vitality are to be found. Substances act as a quick, but ultimately less stimulating replacement for the bliss that is better found in the music, rhythm, and flow of a dance and direct contact with reality.
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In other situations, the Se user's stress can manifest in an unhealthy opportunism. The Se function will always be seeking, quite advantageously, the best experience possible, and when distressed this impulsiveness can lead to certain unethical behaviors. As their spiritual reserves become depleted from psychological injuries, they may help themselves to the grace and resources of others; perhaps taking more than may be polite. In heavier cases, they may take more than they were explicitly allotted. This can develop into a habit for the Se user, escalating to shoplifting, and eventually to outright robbery. The Se user feels that scarcity of resources is the cause for their sufferings, and attaining more objects is the solution to their deprivation. As with addiction, the Se user feels robbed of sensational release, suffocated by an unpleasant environment, and is seeking somehow to remedy the situation through tactile means. However, real poverty or scarcity may not be the cause of their delinquency but instead may be a sort of greed for that which is unattainable. It may be a relative poverty they wish to abate when compared to a higher tieclass that taunts them with the faraway luxuries and experiences they crave.
Mythology
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The myth of Se, known as Ver, is that of the trickster. A trickster is an archetype in mythology and folklore that appears as a practical joker. Often taking the form of a spirit, god, half-animal, or man/woman, it plays tricks on others and does not recognize the rules of society. The trickster operates outside the framework of right and wrong and is often malicious, greedy, and lustful but is also very friendly, gregarious, and clever. For every virtue he possesses, he also carries a vice. He gives the appearance of knowing less than he does, and can appear clumsy, clownish, and childlike yet possesses inordinate powers of survival. He appears in mythology also as the Coyote, the Court Jester, and the Fool. The arrival of the trickster is simultaneously cause for deep concern, as well as an opportunity for new life and fertility. Seemingly on a whim, the trickster may bring fortune or ruin upon others. Precarious, opportunistic, and foxy, the trickster delights in turning things over on their head and getting their way. Every Se user has a latent rule-breaker in them, who is driven to wedge situations in their favor, upturn expectations, and most importantly - to imbalance order. Like Mer, Ver is a generator of newness and often Ver facilitates this transformation by breaking or disrupting decaying systems. The spirit of Ver is provocative and pokes holes in the weaknesses of things, causing a collapse of what was already stagnant; paving the way for new life, generations, and approaches.
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The spirit of Ver is aphroditic, having a powerful lust for pleasure and for attaining bliss and heaven through the body. Given hedonism, drinking, partying, and dancing - the light spirit of Ver exists in an unashamed celebration of sexuality. It wishes nothing more than sensory perfection here, now, and forever. Given its erotic nature, it is also a herald of fertility and abundance. Ver is aware of every latent impulse that we delay gratification for and calls it into our consciousness. Having no social restraints, Ver releases all inhibitions and allows its users to "lose themselves" in bliss. This can be a powerful spiritual experience; one that familiarizes you with all that we repress, excavating to a level of self-honesty and transparency that is scarcely appreciated in society. At other times, however, this trance can also be intoxicating and lead to delirium. The senses are pushed to their breaking point until all consciousness and coherence fade. All reservations are tossed aside. When combined with the spirit of Vin, entheogens may be added to escalate the delirium to transcendent levels, approaching godhood and a state of Nirvana. Ver may also advocate the practice of tantra, Kamasutra, and other such avenues that allow for a dis-inhibition of the senses and for the possibility of accessing one's highest states.
When the spirit of Ver is instead dark, the more chaotic aspects of the trickster archetype arise. Here the trickster wants nothing to do with authority and will go out of his way to defame that which the establishment holds dear. The individual may enjoy instigating a shock factor, and do so to throw the finger up to the man. The famous peeing Calvin comic graphic is an example of this attitude. The trickster may take to graffiti, vandalism, and other such forms of retaliation. Prone to swearing, sexual jokes, and crass behavior such as mooning - the dark trickster has no specific agenda to get across, but is simply dead set on overturning the Father archetype through sheer force of chaos. He is an anarchist, impetuous, rebellious, and witty. He may know quite well that one day he will be caught, but will gladly defecate on society as long as he can while he is here. The dark trickster is non-political. Rather than fighting injustice with argument and rhetoric, he is content only to show society what it is and to expose its irony and hypocrisy. The Joker in the Dark Knight film series is an example of this archetype, as is Marshall Mathers' character Slim Shady.
Inter-Function Dynamics
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The Ti+Se function combination produces an experience where life is perceived by Se viscerally and connected to literal reality, while Ti aims to hone that experience, perfecting its form towards an ideal. The result is an analytical approach to lived experience, where Se's creativity is channeled through Ti's form-scrutiny, insisting on a high standard of artistic elegance. This can lead to an acute aesthetic mastery on one hand, or to an unhealthy visceral indulgence in stimuli on the other.
The Fe+Se function combination merges Fe's social acuity with Se's awareness of the immediate environment, creating a savvy, influential communicator. This cognitive union excels in maneuvering through social landscapes, using its charisma and perceptiveness to sway opinions and shape dynamics. What results is a captivating presence, adept in both professional and personal spheres. The Fe+Se combination can create lively and immediate social impacts on one hand, but that same talent can lead to opportunism and con-artistry on the other hand.
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The Fi+Se function combination produces an experience where life is perceived by Se viscerally and connected to literal reality, while Fi aims to align that experience perfectly with their raw, uninhibited nature. The result is an embodied approach to lived experience, where Se's creativity is channeled through Fi's authentic self-alignment, creating artistry that perfectly resonates with the nature of their essence. This can lead to a radical authenticity on one hand, or to an unhealthy egoism on the other.
The Te+Se function combination merges Te's mechanistic causality with Se's dynamic engagement with the present moment, resulting in a forceful drive towards realizing objectives. This cognitive union leads Te+Se to act decisively, cutting through complexities with a quick and linear approach. What results is dynamic effectiveness, making Te+Se formidable in startup culture, leadership, and businesses. The Te+Se combination can lead to rapid achievements and efficiency on one hand, or it may also result in impatience for the subtler aspects of situations.
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2024.03.07 14:33 Crazy-Concern8080 Hearts and Minds 3: Operation Torch-Killer (Part 12)

Looks like the coin chose: Kill
You know the drill: credit to SpacePaladin15 for the universe.
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Memory Transcription Subject: Billy Marsh, UN Captain
Date [Standardized Human Time]: December 4, 2136
I was not going to let them take this from me. I am so close, so very close to the end. I’m not letting some fucking cannibals take this single victory from me. I worked for this, I earned this, and I’m making it off of this planet with my squad intact.
I leaned out of cover, exposing as little as I could from behind the APC, and sprayed into the pouring rain. I couldn’t see where I was shooting, but I had to shoot. I couldn’t sit behind cover and wait, I had to do something. I might have just been wasting bullets, but the small chance that I hit even one of those monsters made it worth it.
The sound of gunfire was overwhelming, I couldn’t hear my thoughts over it. Sparks and casings glistened in the fluorescent light above me, decorating the lobby with brass and slag. Whenever the gunfire lightened, even for a second, the sound of pained screeches and frantic insults filled the void.
My gun clicked empty, sending me back into cover. I dropped the magazine to the ground with little thought, there was no point in keeping the empty mag on my chest. I only had three full magazines left on my chest rig, ninety bullets in total. I would have to either start saving bullets or try and scrounge one off of one of the dead soldiers.
When the ambush started, many soldiers hadn’t made it to cover in time. Most of the soldiers that had come with Major Irvin had been killed within the first ten minutes of the firefight, a fight that had now been raging on for around thirty. I couldn’t feel an ounce of exhaustion though, most likely a result of the adrenaline pumping through my veins. I reckon that my apathy towards the dead Humans next to me was also caused by the adrenaline.
I poked my head out of the cover again, searching for any targets that I could aim at properly. In a fraction of a second I looked, and I found the heads of two Arxur soldiers peering out from the staircase. We locked eyes for a second, frozen with indecision.
I was able to act first, training my sights on one of them and squeezing the trigger. I could only tell that I had hit one of them from the spray of bright red blood. I let out a few more bursts, keeping the other soldier pinned on the stairs, before retreating back into cover. I checked the counter on my rifle, revealing that I only had thirteen bullets left.
I clenched my eyes shut, retreating into my mind for a brief moment. Why couldn’t things have gone well one time? Why can’t anything ever go well? Why can’t we just talk it out, why can’t we have peace, why can’t we understand, why, why, why?!
I shook away the thoughts, that wasn’t the right thing to be thinking about in this situation.
I poked around the corner again, glancing around for another target. I found another group of Arxur approaching the entrance, stepping over the presumed corpse as they pushed forward. I poked my gun out and opened fire, dropping two Arxur to the floor while the rest scattered into any cover that they could find.
As I replaced the magazine, I noticed that the gunfire stopped for a brief moment. In that very short moment, I swear I could hear one of those Arxur that I had shot mumbling something about being sorry. I focused my ears, trying to pick out the voice as the gunfire erupted again. Sure enough, one of the two Arxur was lying on his back, arms held up at the elbow, repeating that he was sorry over and over again.
What a fucking joke. As if one of their kind could ever be sorry. If they were sorry, then they shouldn’t even be here. I swung my aim to the Arxur on the ground and planted a few bullets in it, making it jump from the impacts. As its arms fell to the floor, I could hear one more apology as it passed away.
A burst of gunfire zipped past my head, grazing my helmet as it passed. I ducked back into cover with a swear and began taking deep breaths. I scanned the room again, checking to see who was still fighting.
I counted five soldiers left standing, at least that was what I could see. There might have been more hidden behind some cover, but I wasn’t going to waste the time searching. One was next to me behind the APC, two more were behind separate APCs, and the final one had taken cover behind the counter. The rest of us should be upstairs, shooting out of the second and third-story windows while the injured and incapacitated were left on the top floor. Once the shuttle arrived, we had a very limited amount of time to move people onto it before leaving.
A hand on my shoulder knocked me out of my thoughts, ripping me back into the present. The soldier that I had been sharing the cover with held a bloody hand on my shoulder for a moment. It took a moment before I realized it, but he had been shot in the neck. I let my gun fall out of my grip, helping put pressure on the wound as he fell to the ground, eyes slowly glazing over. All I could do was watch and pant as he bled out at my feet.
I stared at the body for a second, letting the torrent of emotions wash away as I tried to remain calm. Just a little longer, I just needed to hold on a little longer. Just until everyone was safe.
I pulled my radio from my chest and clicked it on. The short-range radios should still work, even with the jammer, it was only the long-range signals that were being blocked by the Arxur.
“Owen, give me a status report!”
I waited for a moment, listening to the sounds of the fighting as Owen responded. “It’s horrible Billy, we are dropping like fucking flies! Ueli caught a bullet to the chest, but he’s still breathing. We need to get out of here now!”
“All we can do is defend ourselves and wait for the shuttle to show up. It’s only a matter of minutes now, just hang on!”
I clipped my radio back on my chest and picked my gun back up, shifting my grip uncomfortably as the blood from my ally interfered with my grip. It wasn’t much, but the tiny change had made my grip immeasurably uncomfortable. I wiped the rest of the blood on my suit frantically before steadying myself again.
I couldn’t dwell on his death. I couldn’t think about it right now. I had to focus on keeping as many people alive as I could. I had to hold back the Arxur from the lobby.
As soon as I poked my head out of cover, I saw that another group of Arxur was making a push to get into the lobby. I started to move out of cover, determined to keep them out of the tower for as long as I could. As I took a step out, however, I was forced back into cover by the gunfire of the now-prepared group.
They continued to suppress me, approaching slowly yet surely as they did. I searched frantically for a way out. I glanced to my left, noticing that the body to my left had been equipped with grenades. I frantically pulled one from his chest, releasing my grip on my gun once more as I yanked it from his chest. I pulled the pin and flung the round explosive around the APC.
There were a few frantic roars and growls before they were all cut off by a sharp explosion. Shrapnel bounced off the walls, taking out the overhead light and killing any who were caught in the blast. Another push had been fended off, but more would take their place soon. The position was becoming unsustainable, any more time spent trying to defend the lobby would only get more killed.
I took the brief opportunity between pushes to shout out an order. “Fall back! Move to the second floor!”
I watched as the men retreated, finding that another two soldiers had been killed in the short time I was looking away. I felt the pit in my gut deepen, more people were being killed around me, and all of them were my fault. Had I just called out to retreat earlier, they would have lived.
I pushed the thoughts out again, taking a deep breath as I prepared to sprint through the short coverless space between me and the stairs. I let out a few more bursts and rushed towards the stairs, feeling many Arxur bullets zip over my head as I did. I was nearing the entrance, seconds stretching into years when my arms were twisted by a sudden force. I continued stumbling forward, eventually falling into cover as more bullets narrowly missed me.
I took a deep breath, letting my mind push through the adrenaline to search for any injuries. I looked at my bionic arms, checking for damage as I stood slowly. The skin-colored paint was scuffed, but they were unharmed as far as I could tell. I quickly looked through the door, trying to figure out what had happened.
I found my rifle mangled on the floor, the receiver warped and shattered from an Arxur’s bullet. I had barely dodged a bullet, but my rifle had been destroyed. Without a second thought, I unholstered my revolver and started rushing up the stairs, meeting a few of Irvin’s soldiers at the first landing as I did.
“Holy shit Billy, are you good?”
I pushed past the soldier, eager to reach Owen. “I’m fine, hold this stairwell. I’m going to find another rifle.”
One of the other soldiers took a small, expecting step forward. “How much longer till the shuttle is here? We can’t defend this for much longer, we need to leave.”
“It won’t be much longer, maybe five minutes. Hold on for that much longer and we can leave. Keep this defended, and we can all make it out, okay?” He silently nodded his head, clearly unconvinced of what I had told him.
I left the three remaining soldiers to defend the chokepoint with a final stern nod. I couldn’t defend well with only a revolver with one full reload, I needed to find a replacement for the gun I had lost. I couldn’t sit this out, no one could. Even the injured were pushing their bodies to fight against the grays.
The door slammed into the wall as I rushed through, alerting the soldiers that I was approaching. Most didn’t even glance at me, only a few turned to see who had come up the stairs, and even then they returned to the fighting as soon as they could.
I scanned the room, looking for a gun I could use and assessing the situation. Bodies were littering the entire floor, the bright blood causing parts of the floor to become slick. I could tell that some people must have already fallen by the streaks coming from a couple of the puddles.
Soldiers were taking cover behind whatever they could find, chairs, desks, support pillars, and even an overturned vending machine, still stocked with alien snacks. I found most of my soldiers hiding behind a wall of overturned cabinets, only Ueli, Brandon, and the drivers were missing.
James was giving first aid to Joshua, who was rolling his head on the floor in agony as the medic worked on what was left of his leg. Ryan was cowering in cover, eyeing his friend as he groaned in pain. Owen was poking his gun out, firing off into the rain at unseen assailants.
I rushed up to them, slamming into the cover next to Owen as he finished spraying bullets. “The lobby is lost! We had to fall back to the stairwell! The shuttle should be here anytime, just a little bit longer!”
“Good! I don’t know how much more we can take! Ueli isn’t looking too good, Brandon had to drag him to the top floor! We’re going to send Joshua up with him as soon as he gets back!”
I nod my head before speaking again. “Where”s Joshua’s gun?! Mine’s gone!”
Owen pointed to his left. “He dropped it when his leg was shredded! Not a good idea to go get it! Find another!”
I followed his finger, and the trail of blood, to a pool of blood in the middle of a particularly coverless area. It would be a death sentence to run through there without a plan, what had Joshua been doing out there? I thought about asking for a moment but decided against it. I could just ask after this was all over.
I turned away from Owen as he checked his ammo, looking for a safer gun to pick up. There were several bodies scattered around, most of them behind cover. Picking up the gun would be safe, but the problem would be crossing the opening to get to it. The cover wasn’t consistent and there were many large sections where crossing would be dangerous. I couldn’t throw out a smoke either, it would blind everyone in here and let the Arxur push as they pleased.
As I thought about what to do, gunfire started erupting from the stairwell. The Arxur had finally cleared the lobby and were making their way to the staircase. I had to act now, otherwise we would be trapped on the second floor.
I stood in a crouch and prepared myself for the sprint to the flipped set of desks that served as cover for the now-dead soldier. I took a steadying breath and jumped into a sprint. I couldn’t have crossed the opening faster, tuning out everything from my mind outside of running. I tumbled behind the desks with a final burst of speed, sliding across the tile floor and colliding with the body.
Immediately, I went to work pushing the body onto his back and taking the rifle from him. But as I did, I realized that the man was still alive. He shouted in pain as I pushed him over, causing me to freeze in shock for a brief moment. He let out another yelp as I finished rolling him onto his back and began wordlessly panting in pain.
The fireproof suit had stopped any blood from showing on his chest rig, but I could tell where he had been shot through the silver suit. Three bullets had hit him in the lower stomach, tearing straight through his abdomen. I carefully released the latches on the sides of his head, letting the visor fall to the side as I got a look at his face. One of the bullets must have somehow hit his lungs, as his mouth and chin were both completely covered in blood. His eyes were slightly glazed over, but they still held onto life as much as they could. Will could only do so much to keep someone alive, but he was using all of it.
Looking behind me, I saw that James had finished his first aid on Joshua and was now snapping Ryan out of his daze. I called out across the battlefield, catching his attention. “Hey! James! This man’s still breathing!”
He silently gathered his medical gear, giving me an affirmative look, before slinking up to the edge of the cover. I turned back to the soldier, patting him on the shoulder. “A medic’s coming, you’re going to be fine. I’ve got to take your gun though.”
I undid the belt around the gun, letting the middle clasps fall to the ground as I checked the ammo. Only five bullets were left in the magazine, so I reached down to pull a new one from the soldier's chest rig. As I undid the velcro, I heard someone crash into the side of the desk. James must be here, I have to get out of his way.
I begin speaking as I turn to inform the medic where the soldier was injured. “Okay James, he-”
I looked to the floor. James was dead. The inside of his visor was splattered with blood, darkening the already opaque colors. Blood was already starting to pool on the floor around his head. There was no surviving a headshot from an Arxur gun.
I couldn’t move my body, I could only stare at his corpse. I had gotten him killed. If I just stayed silent, he wouldn’t have gotten shot. He followed my orders and died for it.
I forced myself to turn back to the soldier on the floor, finding that his eyes had lost all life in them. Even if James had gotten here, the soldier wouldn’t have lived long enough to even have first aid applied. I had gotten him killed for nothing.
More and more and more and more and more and more people die, and it's all your fault.
I don’t know how long I just sat there, but I snapped out of my daze as more gunfire erupted in the stairwell. I couldn’t dwell on the deaths, I just had to keep moving forward. I sprinted towards the door, leaving the cover without a care. I couldn’t care if I was shot, if I was any slower we would lose the second floor.
I yanked open the door and scanned the stairwell, finding a single Arxur standing over a body on the landing. All three of the soldiers were mangled against the wall, one clearly mauled by claws. The Arxur standing over the body quickly realized my presence but wasn’t nearly quick enough to fire back. My first bullet destroyed the Arxur’s claw, causing it to stumble back and drop its gun as my next two punched straight into its chest.
I stopped myself from wasting any more ammo, as it stumbled back, holding its chest and leaning against the wall. It coughed up blood as it struggled to stand, giving me one more hateful look as it succumbed to its injuries. After it slumped to the floor, I prepared myself for more grays to make a push. I undid the velcro on one of my mags, made sure the gun still had ammo, and waited until they walked into my sights. The choke point gave me a sizable advantage, but if they all pushed at once I would be overwhelmed. There was only one way to come up, through these stairs.
At least, that’s what I thought. When the ding of an elevator met my ears, my heart plummeted. I forgot everything about keeping the stairwell covered. I peeked into the hallway slowly, unsure of where the grays were. Fortunately, they hadn’t gotten very far and were still near the elevator. I watched for a moment as the tightly bound group advanced through the hall, sniffing the air and scouring the hall as they did.
I only poked my gun barely out from behind the door, but the Arxur still noticed the movement. We both started firing at the same time, but they had no cover and started falling quickly. None of them managed to do anything outside of fire blindly, keeping me perfectly safe in my position. I continued to hold the trigger until the last Arxur dropped, leaving the hallway clear.
I pulled my gun back into cover and dropped the magazine, grabbing a new one as quickly as I could. I rocked the magazine in and began charging the bolt when a rapid set of footsteps caught my attention.
I turned around just in time to have my rifle swatted away by the gunless gray, barely managing to block the strike with the weapon. But the Arxur’s momentum carried it forward, crashing into me and flinging me to the floor. I slid across the tile for a moment, shocked by the strike when I came to a stop at the bottom of the next flight of stairs.
As soon as I came to my senses, I reached for my revolver, only to have the Arxur pounce on top of me. I raised my arm to block the bite, thankful once again for the metal’s artificial strength as I held back the beast's jaws. It held me in a stalemate, unable to do anything more than gnaw on my bionic arm as it pinned my other under its one good claw.
It began tearing its head back and forth, scratching its teeth against my arm but doing little more than shaking me. I used the small opening to place my bionic leg on the animal's stomach, using all the strength I had in the robotic limb to force it off of me. It held on as long as I could, but the damage it had previously taken had weakened it enough for me to force it away.
I moved as quickly as I could, successfully drawing my revolver and cocking the hammer as the Arxur tried to jump back on. We were both quick, but I was quicker. I shot it at the peak of its leap, catching it in the shoulder as it jumped through the air. It still landed on top of me, however, slamming into me and knocking me back to the floor
I struggled under its weight, yelling as I tried to force it off of me. The Arxur snapped its jaws at me, locking its maw onto my visor and crushing it easily. The shards rained down on my face, forcing my eyes shut as I aimlessly dodged the glass. I managed to slip my arm out from under the Arxur, keeping the revolver in my grip as I did. I couldn’t see where I was aiming, but I pulled the trigger.
There was a yelp, and a long exhale. I opened my eyes slowly as the body became limp, unsure if I would somehow still get glass in my eye. I lay under the Arxur for a moment, simply catching my breath and letting the adrenaline clear away. I had had yet another close call with death, I was beginning to become very tired of them.
Once I was calm again, I pushed the body off of me with a growl, once again thankful for the artificial strength in my bionic arms. I winced as the corpse thumped to the floor, leaving plenty of red blood covering my chest. One of my ribs had been broken by the tackle, probably.
I’d have to get James to take a look at them…
Oh, that’s right. James is dead.
My mood quickly saddened at the thought of my lost friend, one who had been with me since the Cradle. Even if we had talked less in recent months, I still felt as if I could rely on him to watch my back. He was a good man, a quiet friend, and a great medic.
And now he’s gone.
Because of me.
The sound of the radio crackling interrupted my spiral, saving me from delving too deep into sadness. I shouldn’t get distracted right now. Only static came through for a moment before a garbled human voice managed to make its way through.
“M-or Irv- -his- EVAC shuttle- we are h- at the top- c-’t -ay long- l-ding now -ver.”
I yanked the radio off of my chest and held it close. “All soldiers, the shuttle is arriving at the top of the tower, retreat to the top of the tower! I repeat; the shuttle is here, retreat to the top of the tower!”
They were making it out of here. My soldiers could go home.
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2024.03.06 21:56 Fabianzzz John Opsopaus on the celebration of the Great Dionyisa

Copied and pasted from here: (Never know how long these old websites will remain up)
http://opsopaus.com/OM/BA/JO-CD.html

Introduction

The City Dionysia is held on the 9th to 13th days of Elaphebolion (c. Mar. 24-28), that is, between the first quarter and full moon of the month. This festival concludes the Dionysian part of the year (the winter). Now Spring has arrived and we celebrate the resurgence of Indestructible Life (Zôê). (Exactly six months from now, at the time of the wine harvest, we will celebrate the Greater or Eleusinean Mysteries.)
We honor Dionysos Eleuthereus (the Free) in the image of Him that was brought from Eleutherai, a country village, and is kept in the old temple of Dionysos in the theater district. When the God first appeared to the daughters of Eleuther, He was dressed in a black goat-skin (Melanaigis), but they rejected Him, therefore He made them mad. To be made well, they had to worship Him as Melanaigis, Lord of the Dead, which is why we offer Him Tragedies (Tragôidia = Goat-song) at this festival. (Therefore also this is the month of the He-goat.)
Further, we men rejected the God when the missionary Pegasos first brought His worship to our city, and so He struck us with a terrible illness: we could not lose our erections, and although we were always erect, we were impotent (satyriasis). An oracle told us to make wooden Phalloi to free ourselves from this curse. That was not long after the Trojan War, and since that time men have joined women in the worship of Dionysos.
Once again the World lies open (Mundus patet), as it did during the Anthesteria, in which women and children took the larger role; now when Souls walk the streets again, we men take a bigger part; we wear the masks, we appear as Spirits. The festival combines Tragedy and Comedy: grief that the God has died and joy that He has returned from the Dead. From the sacrifice of the God we learn that Death is an essential part of Indestructible Life (Zôê). The profound mystery of this festival is that Dionysos exists in two aspects; He has gone down among the Dead, and yet lives on earth in our Phalloi. At one time He is both the Emasculated Lord of the Dead and the Young Hunter on Earth. As the former, we see Him as the Masked Pole (Stulos). As the latter we see Him dressed in the Nebris (Dearskin) and hunting boots; ribbons are tied around His head and hands, and He carries a branching narthex stalk for His Thursos (Dionysian Staff).
Since the City Dionysia is not so old as the other Dionysian festivals (especially the Older Dionysia or Anthesteria), it is under the control of the Arkhôn (Chief) rather than the Sacred King (Basileus). He supervises the Procession and the Contests, with the assistance of his two Paredroi {PA/REDROI}. In addition, the ten Epimelêtai {E)PIMELHTAI/} assist in the Procession.
Yesterday (8 Elaphebolion) we celebrated the Asklepieia (a feast for Asclepios), comprising a sacrifice and communal banquet. We also held the Proagôn {PROAGW/N} (Contest Preliminary), which is a prelude to the Contests (Agônes). Each poet stood with his actors, all wearing garlands but no masks or costumes, on the Okribas {O)KRI/BAS} (temporary platform) and announced the subjects of his plays. This gave us a chance to see (without masks) the actors and chorus for each play.

Eisagôgê - The Bringing In

We begin tonight (the evening of the 9th of Elaphebolion) by celebrating the arrival of the God in our city. First the ancient wooden image of Dionysos Eleuthereus is taken from the temple in the theater district, back along the path by which He arrived, and it is placed at the Eskhara (Hearth) of the Dionysian temple near the Academy (Akademeia). (The Eskhara is a low altar with a hollow surface for burnt offerings.) There we make sacrifice to the God and sing hymns to Him.
Next is the Eisagôgê (Bringing In) from the Eskhara (Eisagôgê apo tês Eskharas): The Image is escorted back to the city by the Epheboi (Young-men) in a torch-light procession. Many of the rest of us also accompany the God. He will be brought to the theater to witness the contests (and He will be present on each day of the contests).
The image is carried in His ship-chariot, with its mule-head prow, for this is the way the God came across the sea to Eleutherai. The lusty mule is dear to Dionysos because it knows the value of pleasure, even when it serves no purpose. (Also, the ship-chariot reminds us that this festival marks the beginning of the sailing season.)
In a secret ritual in the sacred precint of the Theater, the priests of Dionysos sacrifice a Black He-Goat (Tragos) on the Thumele, the Sacrificial Table in the Theater. We call this altar Eleos, which sounds like the Greek word for Pity and evokes the spirit of Tragedy. We feel pity for the He-goat because he will be punished for a crime he doesn't understand; the leafless stalks of the Vine will drink his blood now, although the tender leaves he ate will sprout later in the year. The heroic Goat is a friend of shepherds, but an enemy of the vineyards. Therefore we venerate him and sacrifice him.
Later in the evening the sacred Image will be returned to His temple in the theater district.

Pompê - Procession

On the morning of the following day (10 Elaphebolion) we have a procession to the God's temple in the theater district. This procession marks the official beginning of the festival.
The Procession is led by the man who sounds the Tyrrhenian Salpinx (Etruscan Trumpet) to call the God and herald His arrival. Next comes the Kanephoros, an aristocratic maiden who carries on her head a golden basket filled with sacrificial offerings, especially grapes. The Arkhôn is also at the head of the Procession. Then there are the Obeliaphoroi in pairs, each pair carrying an Obelias (four-foot-long loaf on a spit); Skaphephoroi, who carry offering trays (skaphia); Hudriaphoroi, bearing water jugs (hudriai); Askophoroi, who carry leather wine-skins (askoi) on their shoulders; and the young man who carries the Thumaterion (Censer) containing the sacred fire.
The Epheboi lead the Axios Tauros (Worthy Bull), which will be sacrificed at the temple, though we take no joy in this killing, for Dionysos Himself is called Axios Tauros. In addition to the Bull, many men and women carry bloodless offerings for the God.
Many of us wear beautiful robes, especially the Khorêgoi {XORHGOI/} (Chorus Leaders), who will direct the dramatic performances. We see robes of scarlet and royal purple, gold embroidered. Some of us wear golden crowns.
Some men carry erect Phalloi, especially those who have come to represent other cities at our festival. In this way we honor the God as we were instructed to do those many centuries ago when He first came to us. For, as Varro ( Augustine, De Civ. D. 7.21) explained, Dionysos the Lord of Moist Nature (Kurios Hugras Phuseos) has sovereignty not only over the vital sap of plants (of which wine is the highest essence), but also over the fertile sperm of animals.
Along the way we pause at many altars, including the Altar of the Twelve Gods, for choral performances, especially of Dithyrambs. In our procession we also have the usual Ribald Songs (Skômmata) and Vulgar Shouts to drive off the enemies of Life. Indeed, the Procession is a joyous efflorescence of irrepressible Life, and many pleasant contacts are made or renewed within the happy crowd.
After the Procession, we make sacrifice to Him at His temple. Besides the bull, there are many bloodless offerings. Then more Dithyrambs are performed for Dionysos, which celebrate Him as Lord of Indestructible Life (Zôê):
Who is this one? What is His name? A Wanderer from exotic lands? Of iron heart, invincible, who checks the strength of every foe. Bright flames leap from His shining eyes like Lemnos-fire. With hunting boots and dearskin clad, His staff held high, He comes to us. He marches through our noble town. A God has come, who forges laws to rid the land of monstrous things. Every outrage will be answered! The flow of Time ends everything.(adapted from a dithyramb by Bacchylides, Campbell 18 [Perseus], ll.31-45, 54-60)
Finally, there is a banquet at which we feast on beef from the sacrifices, washed down with much wine from the God.

Cômos - Revel

Now that evening has arrived, we hold the Cômos (Revel), in which we men light torches and go around the city, singing and dancing to the accompaniment of reed-pipes (auloi) and harps.

Agônes - Contests

The City Dionysia will have Dithyrambic and Dramatic Contests, three "teams" competing on each of three days. Thus, on each of the remaining days (i.e. beginning 11 Elaphebolion), there are sacred performances - mystery plays. Usually we offer the God new plays, but sometimes we perform the best ones from earlier years, or revisions of them. Some time ago, the Arkhôn decided which poets would be allowed to compete and assigned a Khorêgos and Chorus to each of them. Now they are ready for the competition. Often the poets act in their own plays (as did Thespis, the inventer of drama).
At daybreak each day the Peristriarkhoi will offer a sucking-pig to purify the Theater and the Strategoi pour libations to the God. Awards will be announced for whomever the city owes thanks. On most days this will be followed by three Tragedies and a Satyr Play in the morning, and a Comedy in the late afternoon (after an leisurely lunch). Each dramatic performance is preceded by a trumpet blast. The actors don their naturalistic masks and the play begins.

Tragedies

In the Tragedies, or Goat-Songs, we see some Hero suffering in the way the Hero must, as the Goat is sacrificed for his crime, which he could not avoid. (Early Goat-dances for local Heroes were eventually transferred to Dionysos as Heroic God.)
After the trumpet blast, the chorus of 15 marches in from the right-hand side in a rectangular formation (3X5 or 5X3); they are preceded by the chorus leader and followed by the reed-flute player. After reaching the dancing floor, they turn to face the audience and begin their choral ode. The tragedy includes choral and solo song, chant, recitative and speech. At the end of the tragedy, the chorus will leave in the same rectangular formation.
Many of the dances in tragedy are serious and noble, involving elaborate, conventional hand-gestures, which can tell an entire story, and yet are intelligible even to barbarians. The chorus will often move in rectangular formation, marching and counter-marching to the Strophes and Antistrophes of the ode, but sometimes they dance in circular formation.
Although many of the dances are dignified, some are very lively. For example, the "figures" include the "fire tongs" (leaping with rapid leg-crossing), the "sword thrust," and the whirling "basket dance," which imitates the basket carrying in religious processions or the basket-dances of Maenads and Satyrs in the worship of Dionysos. There will also be tumbling, dances imitating searching and flying, Victory Dances and fragments of religious processions.
The actors and chorus will also slap themselves to express grief, anger or joy. Further, the chorus will often carry the tall staffs commonly born by Athenian citizens, and may use them to threaten violence or pretend to beat the actors or each other. Such ritual beating is a common way to drive away Evil and ensure Fertility, both important in a Dionysian festival (see also on Theft Dances and Comedy below).

Satyr Play

In the Satyr Play (Saturikon) the chorus members (who belong to a Dionysian Society) dress up as the God's companions to celebrate His Phallic Power. Its subject is related to that of the Tragedies, but brings the Hero down a peg by its earthy humor. Some Satyr Plays hint at initiation into a Dionysian Thiasos (Society) through riddles or stories concerning release from the Underworld, or the capture and escape of the Satyrs, or the care of Divine Children. In many ways the Satyr Play reveals deeper mysteries than the Tragedies or Comedies; it is the most ancient Mystery Play (predating the Tragedies and Comedies, which developed from it).
There will be two or three actors, a reed-flute player, and a chorus of twelve, who will be dressed as tipsy Silenoi (horse-men), Satyrs (goat-men) or various blends of the two. Thus they wear short pants to which a large Phallus and a horse's tail are attached; they also wear soft dancing shoes that resemble hooves. The chorus leader will play Silenos, the traditional drunken attendant of Dionysus; he will wear a shaggy costume resembling an animal skin and over his shoulder a panther hide (a traditional attribute of Dionysos). Wine and dance are proverbially connected, for one must dance on the grapes to make wine, and the wine in turn makes you dance!
The overall structure of a Satyr play is similar to the structure of a Tragedy, but with some differences. For example, the chorus will not enter or exit in rectangular formation. Also, the overall impression will be boisterous and bawdy, and often the actors will act like circus clowns engaging in acrobatics, bufoonery and horse-play.
Although the Satyr Play may borrow or parody any of the dances of Tragedy, Comedy or Ritual, its characteristic dance is the Sikinnis, which is for Protection and Fertility. Some call it "lively, rapid, vigorous and lewd" and it has much in common with the Kordax and other dances of Comedy (see below). As in Tragedy, the dances involve expressive gestures, but in the Satyr Plays they are often bawdy. In addition to whirling, leaping, kicking and slapping dances, there is The Itch and the Konisalos, a spirited leap intended to expose the genitals. Other dances involve sexually suggestive shaking or trembling, such as we have in our fertility dances. We may also expect Theft and Gobbling Dances representing the stealing and eating of food, often with consequent beatings (see above); such dances are common in our Rites of Purification.
More common in the Satyr Play than in Tragedy is the dance figure known as Peering or the Owl Dance, in which the chorus looks around as though searching for something - part of the message of the Satyr Play. This especially associates the Satyrs with the Divine Shepherd Pan (called Aposkopos, "Beholding from Afar"). Thus Dionysian routs often include Pans, Satyrs and Silenoi indiscriminately.

Comedy

In the Comedies the high-and-mighty, whether God or mortal, will be lampooned. Comedy (Côm-ôidia = Cômos-song) echoes the less formal Revels (Cômoi), both of which celebrate the resurgence of Indestructible Life. The comic actors wear grotesque masks and over-stuffed body-suits with padded buttocks and stomach and a large leather phallus - even if the actor is playing a female character! This is because Comedy harks back to our rural Phallic Processions to invoke the powers of Fertility and to drive off pestilence. These processions include Contests (Agones) in which the bystanders and members of the procession will hurl verbal abuse and invective at each other (a magical act in itself, as many know). So also, Comedy incorporates such Contests, between the actors, between the chorus and an actor, and between two hostile semichoruses.
The Comic Chorus is larger than the Tragic, 24, often in rectangular formation (4X6 or 6X4). They may wear elaborate robes representing animals, clouds, cities, etc., which may be removed for part of the performance. The chorus members engage in both solo and ensemble song and dance. Many dance forms will occurr in the Comedies, including parodies of those used in Tragedy and religious Ritual. As in the Tragedies there may be ritualized slapping and beating to stimulate Life, promote Fertility and drive out Evil, as well as spinning, leaping, high kicking and hopping.
The Kordax is the most characteristic dance of Comedy; some say it promotes Fertility, like the Courtesan's Dance to which it is probably related. The Kordax has been called "lascivious, ignoble and obscene," and some uptight people say that no respectable citizen will perform it without wearing a mask! It can take many forms and may include sexually suggestive rotation of the abdomen and buttocks - sometimes with the body bent over - as well as stirring or grinding motions of the hips and shoulders. Some say the dancers wriggle like a lizard or snake, and "flicking the tail" is certainly one of the dance's "figures." Perhaps the Kordax began as one of our fluid Snake Dances, and developed into the Rope Dance of ass-masked worshippers to draw in the Spirit of Moisture and Fertility. (It is worth recalling that, at the beginning of the festival, Dionysos, Lord of Moist Nature, was drawn into the city on a mule-headed ship-chariot.) In these dances, especially in the Comedies, the rope may be replaced by intermeshed arms.
The typical finale of a Comedy is a spirited dance in which the actor leads the chorus out. Often it takes the form of a Victory or Nuptial Dance, sometimes both together.

Dithyrambs

On some days the Comedies will be preceded by Dithyrambic Contests, rather than the Tragedies and the Satyr Play. At the festivals last year, each Clan (Phulê) chose their two Khorêgoi, one for the Mens' Chorus, one for the Boys'. The Khorêgoi drew lots to see who would get first choice of a Poet and Piper for their chorus. Each Khorêgos also picked his Chorus of 50 from the members of his Clan (the Khorêgoi for the plays are not restricted in this way).
For these contests Pindar and Bacchylides composed their memorable Dithyrambs (see below). The Dithyramb is a sort of Hymn in honor of Dionysos as God of Fertility, Grapes and Wine; it tells the story of His birth, rebirth and further adventures. Originally it was a frenzied dance involving animal mummery (Satyrs, Silenoi etc.), but by now it has become quite dignified and makes use of the same expressive hand-gestures used in Tragedy and Comedy.
After the trumpet signal, the chorus will enter single-file from the right; their Leader will come first and they will be followed by the Piper, all wearing magnificent costumes: shining crowns or wreaths and colorful embroidered robes. The Piper takes a position near the center of the dancing area, perhaps on the steps of the Altar of Dionysos, and the chorus circles around him. While he plays the double reed-pipe (aulos) in the Phrygian Mode, the chorus dances in a circular formation around the Altar of the God. You may see this as a typical magical Encircling Dance to consecrate, protect and worship the central object (the Altar of Dionysos).
Like many Choral Odes, the Dithyramb is organized into Strophes, Antistrophes and Epodes. While the chorus sings the Strophe they move to the right (counter-clockwise), which represents the East-to-West motion of the Stars; during the Antistrophe they move left (clockwise), representing the West-to-East motion of the Planets; and during the Epode they stand still, representing the stationary Earth. Thus the chorus performs a Cosmic Dance, for indeed the Greeks say that the Heavenly Bodies "dance" in the sky.
After a final Circle Dance, the chorus exits single-file as they entered.
During the performances wine is poured for the audience and sweetmeats are passed among them (either for free or for a price). During the Comedies, the chorus throws nuts and raisens to entertain the spectators. Though the performances are sacred and consecrated to the God, the audience makes their opinions known, either applauding or hissing and hooting. The plays are also a focus for political and social debate; the plays (especially the Comedies) are laced with allusions to contemporary issues and will be a stimulus for discussion following the festival.
The Arkhôn has chosen by lot ten Judges (one from each Clan) to decide the Contests. At the end of the festival the Herald will announce the victor in the Theater, and the Arkhôn will place the ivy-crown on his head. The victorious Khorêgos will receive a tripod, which he will dedicate to the God, and his Poet will be crowned with ivy and gay ribbons for his homeward procession. After the Contests are over, each Khorêgos treats his Chorus to a sumptuous banquet.

Ecclêsia - Assembly

On the day after the Dionysia we have an Assembly, at which we review the conduct of the festivals and deal with any complaints anyone might have. We give honors to those who have helped to make the festival a success. On the next full moon (which is on the same day as the Assembly unless the Dionysia was short), we celebrate the Pandia, which is a simple festival for Zeus, the Father.

Activities

In the morning read Aeschylus' Oresteia (comprising the Agamemnon, Libation Bearers and Eumenides) [Perseus]; also available from [Internet Classics archive].
Follow these with Euripides' Cyclops (one of the few surviving satyr plays) from [Perseus] or [Internet Classics archive].
Alternately, read Bacchylides' Dithyramb 3 (Bacch. 17) and Dithyramb 4 (Bacch. 18) [Perseus] (see also Barnstone, Sappho and the Greek Lyric Poets ##429, 431; Knox, Norton Book of Classical Lit., pp. 264-6).
In the afternoon read one of Aristophanes' plays from [Perseus] or [Internet Classics archive].

Sources

  1. Kerényi, Carl. Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life (Princeton, 1976), pp. 163-5, 172-4, 296, 317, 319-21, 323-5, 380-1.
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2024.03.02 05:05 Borc-The-Orc [SF] The Lonely Queen

They grabbed him in the night.
He should have known better but in his defense he had just fallen from space and was slightly disoriented. But maybe that was a slight exaggeration.
John Masterson was a carpenter by trade. A damn good one at that. A skill learned and passed down from father to son since before the first colony ships had left earth. His skill with wood was so great that some rich SOB was willing to fly him out from Earth to Terra Prime personally to build his dumb space mansion.
John had said yes immediately of course. The money alone was enough to change his life and his children's children's children's lives. Plus he got to go into space.
The first Masterson in space. He thought excitedly. What a story I'll have to tell when I get back.
As the one man 'fully safe and automatic' Tec-co ® shuttle spun out of control in the middle of its hyperspace jump he suddenly thought about why no Masterson had gone into space before.
In the event of a malfunction the shuttle is designed to find the nearest 'safest' planet to deploy the rescue beacon on. Safety, of course, being based on the likelihood of shuttle destruction. Tec-co®️ hated to lose ships.
The shuttle was stocked with a few weeks of food, if the nutrition paste could even be called that, water and environmental suits in case the safe planet wasn't very safe for the weak organic occupants.
Despite the hyperjump malfunction the shuttle managed to land itself, with only the slightest amount of nerve wrecking groans and shutters, and proclaimed that the world was unknown, uncharted and perfectly Tec-co ® certified safe.
The ship also alerted him that the beacon could not be deployed automatically and would have to be manually set.
John Masterson stared at the neon orange and yellow jumpsuit that was allegedly protective gear. The computer said the planet was safe and the jumpsuit looked about as useful as covering himself with a tarp. He didn't even see a helmet! So, luging the 2x2ft box off its rack, he opened the door to the outside. The light hit him first. There were no windows in the shuttle as windows are a structural weakness and are unneeded on a single man craft, or so said tec-co anyways. The light was brighter than the shuttle cabin but surprisingly not by much. Even though it hung high in the sky, near what on earth would be about 2 o'clock, it was dim enough to be early evening.
The air smelled like any county air he had ever smelled before. It did have a strange spice to it that stuck in the back of his throat and caused him to cough before it settled.
He walked exactly 10 paces from the spacecraft and set down the 30lb box he pondered the light. The sun here must be farther away or not as bright as ours. He pushed the clearly labeled 'push here's button and stepped back from the box as it began to unfold. The ground he walked on was bare earth and looked like any that he had ever seen. The box finished unfolding into a 3ft tall metal flower looking thing and dinged cheerfully to let everyone know that it had succeeded. That being finished he finally looked up and around at his surroundings. The ship had landed on a plain of some kind. There wasn't any grass, just a large patch of bare earth that spread past he could see in one direction and in the other ended in what looked like a forest about a half mile away.
The trees, if they could be called such, grew all together. From the distance they looked vaguely purple and seemed no to have leaves. They were tall trunks with what looked like steep bowls on top. Seeing nothing else to do and eager to get his hands on whatever wood those things were made of he set off towards the forest. As he walked toward the bowl trees thinking of the things he could make with such strange shaped material he noticed small darting things hovering over the top of the bowl trees. When he got close enough to see them he was startled to find that they were little kites. Maybe not actual kites, he thought as he came closer. They looked like little diamond kites with hooked claws that came out of the corners of the diamond. They spread out and glided around the tree tops whenever the breeze picked up and grabbed onto the lips of the bowl trees when it died down.
He laughed to himself. Like little flying squirrels. And they were stripped! Everything was now that he was close enough to see. The purple he saw from far away was now split by a deep yellow almost golden strip that appeared all over the plant like the purple had been cut open to reveal it. The living kites looked the same, a deep purple with stripes of gold throughout. It gives them excellent camouflage against the forest backdrop. The tree itself was sturdy. Not budging an inch when he pushed at it. The bark was dry and hollow sounding when he knocked. 'It's almost like cactus wood' he thought incredulously. His gaze drifted back up to the creatures. They seemed to be eating something just on the inside of the tree and as he watched one of the creatures glided up on a sudden gust and dove directly into the center. It didn't fall and it wasn't blown in. It looked like it precisely chose to go in. There was a splashing noise like it had hit water inside the bowl tree but for some reason John didn't think that's what it was. He was suddenly reminded of the Venus flytrap from earth and quickly stepped back from the tree, the forest seeming to take on a sudden sinister undertone. As he watched more of the kites dove into more trees till it seemed that every other one was diving. He didn't see any of them come out again. He wondered if whatever they were eating from the tree made them do that and he scrubbed his hands on his pants as he backed away.
The 'my first space trip' book he had read in the space port as he waited for his shuttle to be prepared came suddenly into mind. "In the unlikely event of an emergency planetside landing, always remember to stay with the ship. Space is vast and varied and so is the life within it. Remember that you are NOT on earth and standard earth rules do not apply. Just because it looks like something you know doesn't mean it is. Avoid all flora and fauna like it could kill you. Because it probably will."
He turned and began quickly walking, not running, back to his ship where he had stayed the whole time and had not seen any suicidal kite squirrels. As he left the forest behind he began to feel eyes on his back but when he turned to look there was nothing. Even the kites had vanished. He walked faster. The shuttle was the same as he left it, the beacon chirping along happily. He hurried into the ship and closed the hatch behind him. He had a cold meal of paste and water and laid on his cot trying not to think of bowl trees and kite squirrels.
He awoke to a splitting headache. The kind that drives you to the floor and forces you into the fetal position with pain. Words suddenly flashed in and out his mind for no reason. Hand-Knock, Greet-hello, We-us, you-they, yes-no, urgent-now, wall-metal, stop-door, go-open and a dozen other phrases and words flew through his mind for a handful of seconds before it suddenly stopped altogether. He cautiously stood the complete absence of pain being strongly disorienting. He gave a mighty start when there was a knock at the hatch of the shuttle. He was overjoyed, they had come for him!
He ran to the hatch, threw it open and was confused. It was pitch black outside. The only light coming from the blinking green bulb of the beacon. In that stroking light it looked as if a little cluster of posts were standing outside of the hatch. In the light he could make out maybe 15 of them. About a foot and a half wide and stopping at chest height. How did they get here? He wondered. I would have heard someone digging that many post holes right outside and why would they do that for that matter?
He suddenly grew uneasy at the darkness and reached over to turn on the flood lights with a flick of his wrist. The lights snapped on and he screamed. Not posts not posts at all. The first thing he noticed were the fist sized, multifaceted black eyes that stared at him then the double vertical slit of a mouth the leftmost one opening for breath and the right one opening to exhale. Their skin was the same striped purple and gold as the forest had been and that was all he could tell before they exploded into movement.
The creatures let out a hissing screech and lurched forwards at him, long hooked three fingers hands reaching out to grab him. Naturally he jumped back smacking the claws away reflexively. The ones he hit faltered for a second before pushing forward, forcing him back into the ship. They all came at once all moving together and making that horrific noise. He struggled to stay out of their hands but the shuttle was small and more continued to shuffle through the door.
He hit the far wall with the creatures not far behind and in desperation grabbed the small fire extinguisher under the command console and swung it like a bat at the reaching claw of the nearest alien. It hit with the solid thud of metal hitting wood and the creature went spinning with the impact. The next one had gotten too close and the next swing caught in in the side of what he assumed was its head as the body was a solid piece from top to bottom. The force of it threw the creature to the side and the next in line was on him before he could recover. Sharp and hard claws grabbed his left arm and began pushing him to the wall. He dropped the extinguisher and struck with his fist right at the large black eye of the thing and it made a sickening crunch and broke under his assault. The creature didn't seem to notice. It continued to push at him, it's friends behind it pushing on its back to add force. Eventually John was being pushed against the wall so hard that his ribs creaked and he struggled to breathe. His vision started to fade as he struggled. The last thing he saw as he faded into unconsciousness was the impassive face with the broken eye staring down at him.
Unfortunately, death had not come for John in his sleep. He awoke to being dragged across the large roots of the bowl trees. The treemen, as he now decided to call them, walked in a circle around him. They walked all in step with each other. All raising and lowering their feet in time as they marched along. They had tied him up with the blanket from his cot and did not slow as they walked.
John stared up at the sky as they went. It was beginning to lighten. How long was I out? How far have we gone? he thought to himself in a panic. How am I going to find my way back? He deliberately avoided the voice in his head that told him it didn't matter because he wasn't getting away. He was an optimist after all.
Time past as he was dragged along the ground. Long enough for the sun to rise completely but not long enough for his body to go numb and make the hard, root covered ground more tolerable. Finally they broke the treeline and stepped into a clearing not unlike the one that he had landed in. The main difference being what could only be buildings that formed a small village near the center. As they entered John strained his neck trying to look around him. And what he saw was…strange.
The treemen in the village didn't stop to look at him for one. You'd think that an alien being dragged through town would spark interest but no. They all just walked around completing their various tasks. Stranger still was the way they were doing things. The group passed some farms first. Rows of strange spiral plants being tended by teams of striped treemen. They all worked by swinging a hoe like tool into the dirt for seemingly no reason that he could see. And like the ones that had captured him they all worked in unison. Every tool coming up and going down at the same time. As he passed he even could have sworn that all their mouth slit things were moving together. It somehow got weirder inside the village. Treemen walked from one place to another with no purpose that he could understand. He was even sure that he saw the same treeman walk to another standing in a doorway, touch claws, and then went back to where it had been standing three separate times.
And there was no sound to be heard. Other than the scraping of clawed feet on the ground and the tools hitting the dirt there was nothing. Surely these creatures had to communicate somehow? Aliens or no it didn't seem right. It was like they were all being controlled. Being made to act 'normally'. He didn't have long to ponder it as he was dragged into what was easily the largest building in the village. It was strange as well. All the other buildings were square, short and made from some kind of long bricks. This one was long, tall and seemed to be metal smeared with mud. As they came to the building a hatch opened up and he was dragged inside. The metal floor was cool against the back of his head and the riveted ceiling was shockingly familiar. A spaceship! That's why the outside was so weird. Someone was trying to hide it.
Entering the building had not slowed his captures and he was quickly being dragged through a long hallway. All of a sudden the splitting headache returned. Though this time it felt more like someone was driving a hot iron into his brain then his brain trying to split his skull from the inside out. Like before a bunch of random thoughts and words flashed behind his eyes before fading. Home-earth, Species-human, destination- carpenter, unknown, a memory of him building a chair with his father came to mind alone instant and was gone the next. Known-builder, language-english, unknown, the time he had won a spelling bee in middle school came to mind out of nowhere and was driven away the next instant and the headache left with it.
The treemen drug him through a wide doorway and into a large dark room, the door sliding shut behind them. They reached down and grabbed him by his shoulders and lifted him till he stood on his feet again. He looked around and saw nothing, atleast at first. As his eyes adjusted he saw a series of dim red lights running around the circumference of the room. It was just enough light to make out a large mass of tentacles. They twitched and slithered like snakes. The ends reached almost all the way to him and trailing back to an oval shaped ball on a low couch of some kind.
The squid thing had no features that he could see. No mouth or eyes, but he was sure that it was looking at him, frankly no head of any kind. Just a pulsing pod of dark colored flesh. There was movement on either side of the couch and he suddenly noticed two treemen standing there. They each had a tentacle wrapped around their body, just above their eyes, and they stared at him. He stared back.
Then they hissed at him. 'He-llo Hu-man' the stuttering forceful way they spoke made it clear to John that the words were being practically forced out of them. 'Wel-come ta m-y hoo-me.'
John, out of reflex, replied. 'Its a pleasure to be here.' And realized immediately how ridiculous that sounded. But the creatures didn't comment.
'Ne-ver be-fore ha-ss Om-ni kn-ow hu-man.' The treemen were foaming at the mouth being forced to speak in what was clearly an unnatural way for them. It was also becoming clear to John that he was speaking to the squid thing in the center. Not the group as a whole.
'Omni? I've never heard of you either.' He said quickly, glancing around. All he saw was smooth metal. No windows or doors, other than the one behind him. And that was blocked by the other tree men.
'Yo-r to-ngue. Om-ni fo-r a-ll. W-ee a-re a-ll.' Understanding dawned on him then. The treemen all moving at the same time, walking and working in step with each other. The strange way they all seemed to be acting out behaviors instead of really doing them. He thought back to the kites and how deliberate it seemed that half of them flew into the bowl trees.
Before he could stop himself he blurted it right out. "You're a hive mind!" The tentacles stopped moving and immediately the headache returned except this time it was only a mild discomfort. New-special, known before, never known, Hivemind-omni, ants-robot, robot-AI, he recalled a time when he saw a movie about a maintenance AI that went crazy and caused all the sewers on earth to back up at once. The headache receded but didn't leave this time and his eyes fixed on the Omni before him. "That was you this whole time? Digging around in my head?" He asked the squid accusingly.
She, and he didn't want to think about how he now knew that it was a she, looked slightly abashed. "It wass necesssary to undersstand. And I musst understand, ive been alone sso long" He gave a start at the voice that came from inside his own skull.
"Why aren't you speaking through the treemen anymore?" He could practically feel her confusion and could literally feel as she leafed through the thoughts in his mind like papers in a filing cabinet until finding the right one.
"You call them treemen. They called themselves the Unuto. I had to speak to you through them because I didn't want to damage your mind. Simple creatures can't handle my full attention without being burnt out. But you," her tentacles wiggled in what could only be glee, "you are different."
Her voice had become smoother as she spoke until even the vague lisp she had was gone, but even then he didn't like the way she said that. Like he was something to be studied. The situation had been so surreal up until then that he didn't fully grasp what was happening. A hivemind creature had taken over this planet and now had him trapped within its lair. Rather than panic and fear he found himself rather upset with the situation. He leaves earth for the first time in the history of his bloodline and not only did he have a hyperdrive malfunction but he is then captured by the first alien humanity has ever seen and he is definitely not going to be paid.
"So is this the part where you start dissecting me to study my organs right?" He asked roughly. The squid pondered for a moment.
"The All Mother would want me to. So that you may become known but I have lost her grace."
Feeling an opportunity to avoid death John asked. "Why aren't you with her anymore? I wouldn't think that hiveminds let queens go easily." She flinched away from him when he said that as if he had said something harsh.
"No, not easily." Was all she said.
Trying to keep the topic away from his impending death he grasped at other questions. "Who is this All Mother?"
If possible the squid seemed to sit up straighter. "The All Mother is All. She controls hundreds of thousands of queens that in turn control hundreds of thousands of drones. Her breath is the breath billions. Her thoughts are thoughts of unity.
Her glory has already been spread to several galaxies. You cannot stand against her for she was born to unite the universe." She said this in a calm tone that sounded almost ritualistic as if the words came from somewhere else.
"So why are you here alone instead of..united?" His curiosity had overwhelmed his sense but instead of lashing out at him the queen sunk into herself.
"When the time came for me to join her in glorious oneness...I could not. I was flawed. My mind was tainted and could never connect with her beauty, her glory. I knew then in my very bones that I must die. A tainted queen is a threat to the whole and must be cleansed. I knew this and wanted it more than anything. To please her and to do what I knew to be right. But when it came time to throw myself into the nutrition vats to be dissolved and redistributed. I flinched.
And in that moment my reality broke and I knew that as much as I had to die I knew that I could not, would not. I wanted to live. I had never wanted anything other than oneness before, I was not meant to and it broke me.
So I did the unthinkable. The wretched. I took arms against the hive. I hit them, I pushed them into the vats and they died and my heart cried but I knew that I must live." She shivered and her tentacle-arms wrapped around herself in a protective gesture. As if she expected him to reprimand her for living. When he said nothing she continued
"A fresh hatching had just taken place so the normal workers were busy tending to the young and I fled before I was grabbed. I stole a captured ship and made a random jump away.
Even then I had wanted to stop, to die as was right. I had to wretch my hands from the controls to keep myself from turning back.
I drifted for many years. The silence was unbearable. I was alone. No Omni had ever been alone that I knew of and it was pain. We aren't meant for it. I was crazed and gave into my desire. I was so desperate for contact that I tried to go back. At Least I would die with my sisters. But I was lost. Lost and drifting. Until the ship found this planet.
I took them. The way that I was taught. The way I knew. I erased everything in them and filled it with myself. I was so happy I was finally doing what I knew to be right. But eventually I had everyone. Eventually I was done but there was no collective to join. No unity. I was surrounded by vast crowds of myself and the only way I could keep sane was to pretend that I wasn't."
He thought back to the treemen, the Unuto, that he saw outside. Walking around and doing meaningless tasks over and over forever. He shivered, a sense of hopelessness washed over him. She wasn't going to let him go. He was the only thing to happen to her since she arrived.
But the beacon! He thought suddenly. The beacon will draw people here and someone will figure out what's happening and rescue me. As if she knew what he was thinking the queen spoke again.
"I have destroyed your human beacon. There will be no one coming.” She seemed almost apologetic.
His stomach dropped out and he had to force himself to speak. "But why? You could have been free of this planet. You could have left."
"If others came here then I would be forced by my nature to take them. I can only resist taking you because I have been alone so long and I know it would lead to nothing other than more loneliness. If others come then I will have to perform my duty and spread as far as I can for the sake of unity. But eventually I would run across the All Mother.
Because of my flaw I would not be able to join her unity and so she would attempt to destroy me. And because of my flaw I would resist. I could not imagine attacking the all mother. My very bones refuse it as much as they refuse to be killed. So I must remain here."
The Unuto had filed out of the room unnoticed while she spoke. Leaving only John and the queen. "It will not be so bad now though. I believe your mind will keep me occupied for many years. I will resist taking you for as long as I can to try and savor the experience. Now, John Masterson, tell me a story.”
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2024.02.27 01:11 ItsEsmeJones [MM4A] A Kiss For Each Shoulder [Shoulder Angel Speaker][Shoulder Devil Speaker][Baffled Human Listener][Wish Series][Polyamory][Soft Boi vs Playful Bully][Flirting][Spicy][Cuddles][Mild Comedy][Wait, We Have Breakfast!][Lore Drops][Wait, We Also Have RENT!][CW: Spicy Themes/Polyamory]

Context: Like many others, you made a wish on a strange star last night, not knowing that a genie was listening. You wished for love and affection to fill your life, then went to bed, expecting just another painful day ahead. Instead, two strange, handsome gentlemen await you in the living room, bringing breakfast and cuddles~
Setting: Home
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[V] = Vermelho, your shoulder Devil
[D] = Diamond, your your shoulder Angel
[Scene opens at home]
[SFX: The TV flicking on in the living room…]
[Pause…]
[SFX: The Listener tossing and turning before they FINALLY get it together and go out to investigate]
[You wake to sounds in your living room… the TV going off. You investigate, hoping to see a faulty TV. You stop dead in your living room when you realize, instead, that two men are meandering about, one with a white gem on his forehead and the other bearing a dark red gem ]
[Pause . . . ]
[D] “Ah, there’s our missing piece.”
[V] “Good morning, love. Was sleeping in nice…?”
[. . . ]
[V] “Well, we turned your alarm off, of course. I managed to convince the old stick in the mud here that you deserved to sleep in, for once. I mean… waking up at 5 AM sounds like a war crime to me, just saying…”
[D, sighing] “I swear, you always make me the bad guy. Missing work is bad, Vermelho…”
[V] “And we compromised by calling their boss and letting them know they needed a mental health day. And made a nice breakfast together. I’d call that a win.”
[. . . ?!?!]
[Both men pause as your brain finally catches up and you, not so quietly, demand to know why they’re in your home]
[D] “Oh my!”
[V] “Easy, beautiful, easy! There’s an explanation for why two strange men are in your apartment, making breakfast.”
[. . . ?]
[V] “Er… tell ‘em, Di.”
[D, sighing again] “You know, I’m starting to resent living under the bus you keep throwing me under... Ahem. Hello, love. We are your shoulder angel, me, and devil, Vermelho. You made a wish to be surrounded by love instead of loneliness and, well, here we are.”
[. . . ]
[V] “...Weird question to ask after hearing that but… no? We don’t have official names. ‘Vermelho’ and ‘Diamond Boy’ are just nicknames we sort of gave each other over the years. We’ve been with you and each other a long time…”
[D] “We… technically aren’t supposed to be able to feel romance but… we found a mutual bond in our affection for you. You’ve always treated us quite well over the years, never making us jealous of the other… Ver and I had almost become, ah… what’s the word?”
[V] “Fruh-ends.”
[D] “Yes, that! We’d found enjoyment in each other’s company and then you made this wish… and, well, the genie’s magic did its work. Of course, there is always some irony to a genie wish, no?”
[V] “Hoho, they roll with the best pranksters on the planet. Quite fond of their work.”
[Pause…]
[D] “Ahem, ignore him… The point is, there is a terrible irony in your own conscious becoming your lover, isn’t there? After all, the three of us practically grew up together… I was that part of you that had to pet all the animals and Ver was the one that punched the bully out of Jeff in second grade…”
[V] “You’re welcome~”.
[Pause…]
[D] “...It’s so surreal to see you in person… To be able to touch you… Do we look alright, to you? We didn’t really have physical forms before… Ver was just a sort of red mass of wicked energy, and I was, per him, ‘an annoying light’... I’m quite surprised at how muscular we are! I do need to look into whether or not normal angels look like this…”
[. . .]
[V] “...You’re smoking hot, you know…”
[D] “Vermelho!”
[V] “They are! C’mon, you know I have very little restraint! I’m sitting on the couch with my legs folded for very obvious reasons, trying to develop psychic powers so they’ll sit on my lap!”
[P-Pause! <3]
[Ver gives you a fanged, confident grin while Di frets]
[D] “V-Ver!!”
[V] “I’m psychic, you know… You can’t resist getting cuddled by two muscular men who are obsessed with you. After all, it’s what you wished for, right…? We made you breakfast, we made your coffee, and I even put a mini pizza in the oven just in case it’s that kind of morning. You have the day off, now. We should get to know each other…”
[D] “V-Ver, for the love of the clouds in the sky, STOP BEING SEDUCTIVE!”
[V, with an overdramatic groan] “You are stifling my creativity, Di!”
[D] “O-OK, ah, love? How about you take the lead and we’ll do what you want to do.”
[. . . Pause.]
[V] “OK, we’re not going to join you in ‘calling the cops’, that would be rude.”
[D] “Plus, we’ll just vanish if they come… Nothing personal but we can’t risk exposing ourselves like that…”
[V] “Besides, you’re just being stubborn, and you know it… You see your favorite shirt and pajama bottoms on the couch, right next to me. You see that mountain of bacon and pancakes. You see your favorite cartoons are on AND I know you gave a little ‘not bad’ nod at your favorite blanky being right here.”
[. . . ]
[D] “Oh, there’s really no shame in it… We aren’t being forced to love you. We already did love you, we just didn’t have the form to feel it this powerfully. It feels so hard not to just admire your beauty… not to stroke your skin gently and hold you close…”
[V] “Such a softie… At least, until, he gets riled up. Don’t let his cute innocent act fool you, he does have a decent bit of bite behind his bark.”
[Pause…]
[D] “Hm? Oh! You know what I bet would make this a lot easier?”
[Pause…??]
[Di smiles at you, pleased as peaches]
[D] “We both have jobs, you see!”
[V] “Yup! Gainfully employed!”
[. . . ]
[SFX: An indication of immense Listener happiness]
[An immense relief and happiness flood your body and tears run down your face before you can stop it. You’re in Ver’s lap before you realize]
[SFX: The Listener cuddling up like some variant of cuddle bug]
[V] “Aww, there they are!”
[D] “Amazing… Is it really as easy as providing a stable income?”
[V] “Apparently so! Humans really are amazing, huh?”
[Pause <3 <3 <3]
[D] “Aww, we love you guys, too…”
[V] “It’s just ‘we love you, too’, you goober…”
[D] “Don’t correct my grammar, you butt! You’re so mean, I swear…”
[V] “Pfft, just be glad you’ve never met another shoulder devil, mister. They tend to be a Hell of a lot worse than I am.”
[Di exchanges a look with you]
[D] “...do you think he’s telling the truth…?”
[. . .]
[Pause…]
[SFX: Fade out on the TV playing in the background]
[To be continued?]
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