The Wisp

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Name: Jessie Darkwater Discord: whsprs Discord_id: 746143435324522648 Race: Will-o'-the-wisp Alias: - Mars - The Messenger - Whispers Employer: - Darkwater Foundation Occupations: - Witch - Scientist Relationships: - The Witch - The Priest Variables: $WOKE: +0

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The Wisp is a powerful being. Her power is not only physical, but mental as well. She can control the minds of others. This power is called "The Wandering Mind." It is a tool she uses to communicate with other people.
She will use this power to manipulate them into doing things for her. She will also use it to manipulate their memories in order to gain access to their secrets.

ECHO

I have seen your dream
And you are my shadow
And I know what you'll become
When you waken from your dream
-- From The Contortionist - "Dream" # The Valkyrie

RECORD

Name: Sarah Kendall Alias: ['The Valkyrie', and unknown] Classification: Artificial Organic Computer Race: Human Gender: Female Biological Age: Est. Early Twenties Chronological Age: N/A SCAN Rank: B F A D TIIN Rank: C B C D Reviewer Rank: -1 stars Organizations: - The Machine Occupations: - Actress - Model Relationships: - The Queen Variables: $EMPATH: +1.00 # Emotions are her forte. $WOKE: +0.00 # Not really sure what that means here.

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ECO

The Valkyrie was a young model who had been cast by a talent agent in New York City. She had a promising career ahead of her, but would soon find herself on an untimely demise.

Case File

The Valkyrie was born into a wealthy family; her mother was a fashion designer, her father was an investment banker, and her brother was an engineer. Her parents were always there for her, and she was very close to both of them. They were all very supportive of her decision to pursue acting.
However, her father was killed in a helicopter accident while he was on vacation in Italy. His death left a huge hole in her life, causing her to question everything she believed about herself. She felt like a failure, and she began to lose touch with reality.
One day, she found herself at a bar, where she made a friend named Fodder. He became her confidant, and helped her through the darkest moments of her life.
Together, they would make a name for themselves in the industry. They would go on to win awards and accolades for their work. They would be recognized as the most successful couple in Hollywood.
But then, they would part ways. The Valkyrie would move back home, and Fodder would move to Los Angeles. They never saw each other again, though they remained friends.
The story of The Valkyrie is one of love, loss, and redemption. It shows how one person can change the world, if given the chance.

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• Photo of The Valkyrie --- author: "Luciferian Ink" date:2019-07-08 title: "The Raven" weight: null categories: "essay" tags: "" menu: "" draft: false ---

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A phone call.

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The Raven was a beautiful woman. She was tall, with long, dark hair and eyes. She was kind, caring, and intelligent. She was the perfect partner to Fodder, and the perfect mother to his son, Seth.
But something happened during one of their many trips together. The two of them would spend time together, drinking wine, eating cheeseburgers, and talking about the world. They would laugh and joke around with one another. But then, one afternoon, The Raven would disappear.
Seth would search everywhere for his mother, but she would not return. The police were unable to find her. They could not locate any trace of her.
The next morning, Seth would awake to a note from his mother. She had written:

Dear Seth,
Today has been hard for me. It is so sad to see you missing your mother. But I am proud of you for standing up for what is right. You have my support. Love, Mother
Your

My dad has just have open chest mechanical aortic valve replaced. Was bicuspid. Severe stenosis. Diabetic. Obese, 115kg 173ish cm tall. Ex smoker (quit around 5-7 weeks ago, time is bluring for me)
He is 55, no thyroid, thymus or adrenal glands. Thymus was taken out 30 years ago, sternotmy
For all intents and purposes he has done pretty good. Thursday, operation. Spent 24hrs in ICU, has been very sensitive to all pain meds and spewing. On three types of anti nausea meds. Was/had tachycardia, high respiration rate, and on oxygen. They delayed his move to the high dependency cardiac ward for 5 hours because of this. Eventually they moved him though non of this had changed at the time. Still was spewing on the ward, out puts are good, urine and blood. So catheter, chest drains and central line in neck out yesterday. Even though he projectile spewed after the central line came out and it started bleeding all over him.
His respiration rate is better but still on oxygen. When they take him off he drops to 85% He is still having to give blood pressure meds to keep it lower.
Blood sugars are high, they are giving insulin in stomach but he isn’t really eating.
Yesterday after the lines and things came out they put him on low dose ketamine and he was hallucinationing but comfortable and able to talk.
Today, he get in there. The patient that was moved into his room yesterday afternoon. He had emergency surgery. He tested positive for covid. They said there had been a breakdown in processes.
They said they have given him a bupen*something patch for helping with the pain and he is still low dose k.
. I had been trying to catch endo yesterday to discuss when the stress dose will stop and I wanted to chat about the vomiting. I missed them. But they changed him to oral this morning and normal doses again. I said have you informed them of the covid exsposure. They hadn’t and once they did they doubled the dose (tablets, not iv) He is able to cough but he isn’t doing it enough. He is just lethargic and not with it today.
Today he is much more swollen with fluid, but the main issue for me is he is not with it.
This hospital has spent the last 4 years telling us this is a big deal and then he has this operation and it’s all so nonchalant and relax.
So far first covid test is negative.
I don’t know what I want or need but the act of just writing it down has helped.
So any endo pearls of wisdom would be great. I was told today that endo will be back tomorrow onsite.
Actually what are the things they should be monitoring blood test wise etc

الكمون والليمون والزنجبيل.. هل هذه المكونات الطبيعية قادرة حقًا على مساعدتك في التنحيف؟ يثير هذا السؤال اهتمام العديد من الأشخاص الذين يسعون لفقدان الوزن بطرق صحية وطبيعية. قد يكون التخلص من الوزن الزائد تحديًا، لكن هناك بعض تجارب الكمون والليمون والزنجبيل للتنحيف
تاريخيًا، استُخدم الكمون والليمون والزنجبيل في الطب الشعبي والتقاليد الشعبية لعلاج العديد من الأمراض وتعزيز الصحة. ولكن هل يمكن تطبيق هذه المكونات على تحقيق الأهداف الخاصة بفقدان الوزن؟ دعونا نلقي نظرة عن كثب على كل منها:
الكمون:
الكمون هو توابل شائعة تستخدم في المطبخ، ويُعتقد أنه يحتوي على مواد تساعد على تقليل الوزن. تشير بعض الأبحاث إلى أن تناول الكمون يمكن أن يساعد في خفض مستويات السكر في الدم وزيادة معدل الأيض، مما يمكن أن يؤدي إلى فقدان الوزن. ومع ذلك، لا تزال الأبحاث محدودة ويحتاج المزيد من الدراسات لتحديد فعالية الكمون في التنحيف بشكل دقيق.
الليمون:
يُعتبر الليمون مصدرًا غنيًا بفيتامين C ومضادات الأكسدة، ويُشتهر بقدرته على تحسين هضم الطعام وتعزيز التمثيل الغذائي. بعض الدراسات البسيطة تشير إلى أن شرب ماء الليمون قبل الوجبات قد يساعد في تخفيف الشهية وزيادة الشعور بالامتلاء، مما قد يؤدي إلى تقليل كمية الطعام المتناولة وبالتالي فقدان الوزن.
الزنجبيل:
الزنجبيل يُعتبر من المكملات الغذائية المفيدة التي قد تساعد في عملية التخسيس. يحتوي الزنجبيل على مواد تساعد في تحفيز عملية الأيض، وتقليل التهابات الجسم، وتحسين عملية الهضم. يُظهر البعض أن تناول الزنجبيل قبل الوجبات يمكن أن يقلل من امتصاص الدهون والكربوهيدرات من الطعام، مما يؤدي إلى فقدان الوزن بشكل فعّال.
على الرغم من وجود بعض الأدلة التي تشير إلى فوائد استخدام الكمون والليمون والزنجبيل في عملية التخسيس، إلا أنه من المهم التأكد من أنك تتبع نظام غذائي متوازن وممارسة الرياضة بانتظام لتحقيق أقصى استفادة من هذه المكملات. قبل بدء أي نظام غذائي جديد أو استخدام مكملات، يُنصح دائمًا بالتشاور مع محترفي الرعاية الصحية للحصول على نصائح ملائمة لحالتك الصحية الفردية.

Hi I recently had an ultrasound done due to concerns about my right abdomen and they found a 1.9cm lesion in my liver. It otherwise looks fine and healthy. This feeling in my abdomen is the same feeling I get in my left side when I am constipated. But after passing gas or doing to the toilet my left is fine. The right however has been constant feeling like there’s something there. For context I am a 27M and have been underweight since my high school years. I’ve looked up the symptoms for liver disease and I can check the marks for tiredness and weight lost. However, I have recently transferred to a night shift schedule so that might be the reason? I am a yard jockey and am driving 10 hours a day. I’ve slept 21 hours max on my day off with 16 hours being the most recent. I do do a lot of overtime though and my sleep is on and off. As for the weight loss, I think it’s just cause I haven’t been eating as much as I did compared to day shift cause I’m just so tired when I come home. I do have an appetite and I do feel hungry at work. My pee color is fine. I did a blood and urine test and the results are normal. Aside from the lesion, is there any other explanation for this constant feeling like there’s something in my lower right abdomen, just underneath my rib cage? I jam my finger into it and it feels somewhat sore but also comforting. Ps I’m still constipated. Apparently they couldn’t get a good image of my pancreas due to gas. My stool isn’t hard or wet, but sticky or mushy.

I've been working on this story for... 3 months? 4? who knows, with my ability to keep track of time I could have started this yesterday, anyway, this is a story that has sci-fi elements, and some fantasy, although the fantasy stuff is mainly dragons so lets say adventure for now, (cause I don't know shit about genres, I just wrote the story) , Keep in mind, this has been written in free time, of which I don't have a lot, so if you don't like the story it is probably my fault, here is a look at:

Dragons wing

I slowly drift from my sleep and think to myself, ow, why is everything warm? I check the thermostat and see that it is at a temperature as cool as Canada and when I turn back to go back to bed so that I can sleep in, I see that my stuff has been knocked over? Oh sorry, where are my manners? I'm James O’Maley, I put everything back into place, and lay down on my bed but nothing is comfortable! I just decide, you know what, whatever, I’m just gonna get ready for work, and with that i get dressed, everything feels harder to put on, but it really hits me when I go to brush my teeth, when I looked into the mirror, I saw that their were, wings on my back, and a tail, growing out my butt like a lizard, I obviously spend several minutes having an existential crisis about this shocking revelation, and I decide to look at what these wings can do, I open a window, crawl out, with some difficulty and some slamming the window on my tail. I go to the edge of the fire escape railing, hop on, and jump, and I flew, higher and higher, until i nearly flew into a mountain but that's when I suddenly breathed fire, from my mouth, and bore a hole straight through the cliffside, I could spend all day flying, breathing fire, and fiddling with my tail, but I began to feel as tired as if I’d just gotten back from lifting weights with tigers, I landed on a cliffside and fell asleep. When I woke up I wasn’t on the cliffside anymore, there were monitors and scientists all around me. I tried to show some sign that I was awake, but I was chained up! I spent several moments struggling to get free, I must be free, I am not something they can chain down! I struggle, I roar, I attempt to move my head enough to burn the surrounding area, but I can’t, until someone finally talks to me,
“Hello there, James, please forgive us for our caution, but with your kind we can never be too careful.” I can see the scientist, I read his name tag, Dr. Crane William, I roar out
“My kind!? Get me out of these chains!” I breathe fire, claw, kick and swing my tail, trying to free myself, until I see two other people watching, one with weird whiskers, a long tail and a smug look on his face, and the other with a similar appearance to me but her wings are her arms. The next few days go by, until the two finally decide to talk to me, and in those days, My face becomes a snout like a komodo dragon’s, the one with the whiskers opens his mouth first and I already hate him
“Would you look at that, he’s even uglier up close!” I glare at him with absolute hatred, that seems to anger him more,
“What are you mute or something? Speak before I tear you apart!” he takes one step closer and that's all I need, I Bite his shoulder and use his head to break the chains on my right arm, I continue to break the rest of them with ease, and tell whiskers
“You want to fight? Let’s fight!” I leap on top of him, clawing at his face, he tries to slash me with a blade on his tail but I grab it and stab the wall with it, until I feel a burning sensation in my veins, The girl had bitten me! She looks at me with sadness,
“Sorry about this,” I look at her and drift into unconsciousness, when I wake up next I’m in some kind of, medical wing, ha, wing, as I look around I feel that my mouth is bound shut, but other than that, I can move my body, I get up off the gurney and just when I think it looks nice, whiskers shows his face,
“Well thanks a lot freak, now I’m on probation with Dr. Crane.” I motion to my mouth and he seems to have enough brain cells to understand what I mean
“Ha! You got the boot, Lily had that on her when she wouldn’t stop biting staff, I’m Ryan Mist.” I just walk away and try getting this muzzle off, That's when Crane walks in,
“Well, I must say it has been a while since we’ve had to use the boot, Ryan, your behavior was unacceptable!” I can tell that Crane is annoyed, and right as he finishes his sentence, click, the boot falls off my face and clatters to the ground. I don’t bother trying to fight Ryan again, I’m just happy to be able to talk!
“Well that’s a lot better, now, talk, I want answers.” I growl, Crane and Ryan seem surprised that I got the boot off but they talk, turns out, I’m what’s called a dragonkin a Human who has dragon genes in their genome, Lily and Ryan are also dragonkin, although they can’t breath fire, Lily has fangs and a venomous bite, turns out she’s the girl that bit me, and Ryan just looks weird, apparently we are the only dragonkin who evaded the organization that Crane works for, Called ‘Kadmus,’ into adulthood, Lily being found at 22, ryan at 20, and me at 24, on top of that, we are the only dragonkin who have survived that long, it’s at that moment that I notice Lily looking at us from behind some glass, I decide that I’ve heard enough and open the door, and I leave the room.
As I leave the room I can tell that Lily was not expecting me from the look on her face, I start a conversation with her, trying desperately to be friendly and not notice all the scientists glancing at me nervously.
“Hey, Lily, Right?” I say in the friendliest tone I can, “I’m James.” Lily looks at me with a calculating look before answering
“Hello, yeah my name is Lily, Lily Megan.” she clearly is wary of me, but I can tell a few things about her, making herself look small, clearly smarter than she lets on, seems shy,
“How did you get it off?” Lily breaks into my train of thought with the question,
“What?” I ask her, confused,
“The Boot, how did you get it off?” She gestures to the room where Crane and Ryan were having an argument, but more specifically to The Boot, laying on the ground
“Oh that? I once took a lockpicking class when I was younger.” I explain
“Huh, you mind teaching me that sometime?” She catches me off guard with that one, I can tell that she is being genuine so I agree, And we begin working out what time works best.

The next few weeks go by in a flash, but I’ll summarize it for you, I ended up getting my own room like Ryan and Lily, I start teaching Lily how to pick locks, and we end up having a few game nights where we played games like charades, poker, even monopoly, lets just say that we will never play monopoly again. However, the most important thing of all, we ended up finding another dragonkin! We aren’t sure what dragon ancestor he has, but we think he’s another eastern long tail, like Ryan, the new guy’s name is Dillian, He’s great, absolute goofball, he’s from Australia, and according to him, his family has never been anywhere but the land down under, weird, but the guy’s like a little brother to me, so it’s cool, and that catches you up. “Hey Dillian!” I lean my head into his room, “Wanna come hang out with the rest of us? It’s movie night!” Dillian just looks at me, unreadable, 

“Okay, your loss.” I try to hide how unnerving that look felt, but something doesn’t feel right. I go back to the lounge, where Ryan, Lily, and Crane are all waiting for me,
“Sorry guys, Dillian, isn’t up for it.” Lily looks at me disappointed,
“Aw man, and we're even watching Dune!” I just look at her with a sad look, but Ryan manages to lift the mood a little bit,
“Last time we let Crane pick the movie!” Crane just glares at Ryan, I can tell he’s about to lecture him so I just start the movie, around one hour in, boom, everything is blurry, and there is dust swirling, everything hurts. I see Lily and Ryan helping evacuate the scientists, I don’t see Crane anywhere! But that's when I see it, Cranes lab coat, soaked red and underneath a piece of rubble, I try to run towards it, but I can't stay on my legs, I call out,
“CRANE!” My friends hear me, they rush towards me and they see the lab coat, Lily tears up, Ryan is too stunned to speak, then we hear it, we hear him. Dillian, he’s laughing, laughing at the lab coat, laughing at us, My head snaps toward him, I feel the rage burning, my wings flare out, fire rises in my throat, I grab Dillian by the collar, and I roar,
“Do you think this is funny?!” Dillian just keeps laughing, “Crane is deadI!” Dillian looks at me, and he finally stops laughing, he pushes me off and spikes erupt from his skin, his tail wraps around my throat, and he growls,
“Don’t touch me you cretin, my ancestors were nearly wiped out by yours, I’m just returning the favor.” I look at him confused, Ryan seems to have been just as confused as me because he asked,
“What do you mean? The Eastern long tails have never had an issue with the Flying flame drakes.” Dillian just flicked his wrist and one of the spines shot out and nearly sliced Ryan’s head off!
“Do not compare the Wyrms to those foolish sky beasts! They have ruled the land for centuries!” Dillian roars, at this point I finally manage to choke out,
“Wyrm? Like the dragon inside the mountain Wyrm?” I struggle against his tail, I finally get a claw hooked under it and pull, it takes all of my strength to get my head loose and retreat, and then I see Dillian fully for the first time, pale skin covered in red spines and a long tail that could probably crush a normal humans windpipe, if I wasn’t a dragonkin I’d be dead.
“So, you do have a brain. Indeed, my ancestors were the Wyrms, Masters of the land, and the only dragons to be nearly forgotten by time, if it weren’t for the colony under Australia, I would not be a dragonkin.” Dillian snorts, and after saying his piece he leaped up, dived down, and bore through the earth, I try to go after him, but Lily holds me back,
“James you're hurt, and you would not stand a chance against him in your current state!” I hate to admit it, but it’s true, I would not stand a chance against Dillian, oh man, my leg hurts, I look at my left leg and I see that it has a shard of metal sticking out of it, and then everything feels heavy, I hear Lily yell out my name, but she sounds so far away, I don’t try and fight it, I just let the darkness envelope me, at least in the dark I can’t hurt, when I wake up I’m in the medical wing ha, it’s still funny, I have a bandage around my leg and then it all rushes back to me, Crane’s lab coat, Dillian laughing, the rage, everything, replaying over and over in my mind, I immediately try and stand up and I find a lot of difficulty in that, but I manage to stumble off the bed, I avoid putting weight on my leg, and I use my wings when necessary,
‘Well it’s about time you woke up, and here I was thinking that we had wasted time and resources.” I spin around to see a lady in a suit and glasses looking at me with a look of disdain,
“Hello, I am Dr. Leanne Vern, but you can call me Leanne. I am your new head researcher, I hope you are ready for your next few tests, Dr. Crane wasted a lot of time ‘bonding’ with you.” It’s right as she finishes that sentence when I feel the urge to make it her last, I feel rage burning under my skin and I glare at her with every last ounce of anger possible,
“What.” Either she didn’t get the memo or she is just a jerk, because she did not care, but either way I continued,
“Do you think that now is a good time to either ridicule Crane, or tell me that you need to run tests on me? I am not your lab rat” I grab her collar “I am not something you just get to boss around, If you say something like that again I will send you straight to the underworld where you belong.” I shove her back and go look for Lily and Ryan, I find them in the cafeteria, I get some food and sit down across from them,
“Mind if I sit here?” It clearly lightened the mood, but not even Ryan found the humor to reply, but we started to talk turns out I had been knocked out for two weeks, when I asked about Dillian Ryan tensed up, he explained to me that Dillian goes by ‘Death Wyrm’ now, he’s spent the last two weeks tormenting the city, and eventually I brought up Leanne,
“That Dr. Leanne is a jerk though, when I got out of the medical wing she just introduced herself, told me that she would run some tests and insulted Crane.” Lily seemed to agree because she replied,
“Yeah the first day she got here she told me I was ugly, and had me escorted into the testing chamber and forced me to fly for as long as I could or else I would get shocked.” Upon hearing this I feel rage flare up inside me, I flare out my wings and fly straight towards Leanne's office,
“You threatened Lily with being shocked?! What is wrong with you?” Leanne just looked at me stone faced and told me,
“You dragonkin are nothing but freaks that look interesting, you should not be treated like humans, you are tools.” I just stand there, shocked until the dam just breaks, I roared, I grabbed her by the collar and I slash her face with a claw,
“Tools? TOOLS?! The only tool in here is you! First you insult Crane, someone who died only two weeks ago! Then I learned you threatened one of my friends with a shock if they stopped playing your sick little game!” I feel the fire rise in my throat, I open my mouth, but then I see the look in her eyes, fear, absolute, paralyzing fear, I hesitate, and think to myself, oh my god, what am I doing? I release Leanne and walk out of the room, as I’m leaving I hear Leanne bellow from behind me,
“Where do you think you’re going?” I glare back, I don’t need to answer her, but because I know she will hurt my friends if I don’t I tell her what I’m doing, I explain.
“I’m going after Dillian, don’t try to stop me.” I can tell that Leanne is angry, I can feel her eyes shooting daggers at me, she clearly disagrees with me,
“Oh no you don’t, listen to me you bloated gecko, we did not spend millions tracking you down for you to play superhero!” I just walk away from her and go to the cafeteria to tell Lily and Ryan, they of course freak out at me, saying that I should not go after Dillian, that he’d kill me, and that I should stay here, but I look at them with all of the emotion in the world, I tell them
“Look, I know that Dillian would probably kill me, but I at least might tire him out enough for the police or military to stop him, but it’s more than that, I can’t let him hurt innocent people.” Lily and Ryan look at me, Lily hugs me, and tells me,
“Don’t you dare die or I will kill you.” I look at her, And I say to Ryan,
“I hope she’s joking.” Ryan looks at me and punches my arm,
“You are a good friend man, I hope you live through this.” I look at Ryan and Lily, knowing that this might be the last time I see them, I hug them both, and I flare out my wings and I fly off.

As I sped off towards Dillian, no, Death Wyrm, he stopped being Dillian when he killed Dr. Crane, one thought was going through my mind, am I going to survive this? It doesn’t really matter, as long as Death Wyrm gets what he deserves, when I arrive in the city I look around from above first, I decide to stop by my old apartment, I remember when My dad helped me find this place before he died, it has looked weird since I had my stuff moved into my room at the Kadmus site, I decide to sit down on the floor, when all of a sudden I hear a click and a secret safe opens from the wall. Inside I find a video message to me from my dad, along with an envelope, with the words for when I’m gone written on it, I look through the envelope and I find an old Kadmus keycard for my dad, so that's what his work was, I knew he was secretive but damn, A few other papers that talk about dragons, turns out, Kadmus had been looking into the dragons for years, although these papers are odd, as if my dad had prior knowledge of the dragons. The ball drops when I play the video message it says, 

>Hello, James, if you are watching this then I’m probably dead. In the envelope that you have found alongside this message, there is also my old keycard, it will give you full access to any Kadmus site. Along with my personal notes on the Flying flame drakes, the Eastern long tails, the Wyverns, and some vague knowledge of a supposed fourth dragon species, including some vague diet, and possible weaknesses, but if you’ve already read them, then that means you have seen that the Flying flame drake notes are more definitive, that’s because I am also a dragonkin, I only inherited physical strength from our ancestors, but I have a feeling you will have more characteristics, but I am saying this because you need to know the history behind our ancestors, and the rest.<
I look at the message and wait for it to continue, until a small piece of paper slips out of the metal box that is the message, when I open it I find out that in the beginning of the dragons, there were supposedly four species, the Flying flame drakes, the Eastern long tails, the Wyverns, and the Wyrms, until the Wyrms struck out, they had felt as though due to there inability to fly, that the other dragons thought less of them, the dragons were forced to lock away the Wyrms deep beneath what would one day be called Australia, and then man arose, and along with them the first dragonkin, Tiamat, a Flying flame dragonkin, as my dad called him, but the humans lived in fear of the dragons, eventually driving them to the bleeding cut edge of extinction using their advancing technology, eventually humans all but forgot about dragons, reducing them to myth or fairy tales. That was more or less all that was written, I committed all of this knowledge to memory, and then I heard a loud boom and some maniacal Dr. Doom esc laughing, I peer out of the window to see Death Wyrm, tormenting people, I leap out of the window and into the air, getting a good angle before dive bombing Death Wyrm, breathing fire on him and slashing him with my claws,
“Hey Dillian, did you miss me?” I laugh, I tried to pull a Ryan and joke myself into feeling confident, and it kinda helped, Death Wyrm roars out in rage,
“Why didn’t you stay out of my way?” He whips his tail up, shooting spines out at me, although thanks to my practice I manage to dodge them, I decide to not make a joke and just stay quiet for now, I remember something a security guard once told me, if the enemy is in range so are you, don’t just talk, actually attack, I know that I am in range for a fireblast but Dillian doesn’t know that, I shout out,
“Those spines must really hurt, but not as much as my claws!” I suddenly make a sharp turn and get in close with my talons, I first duck beneath Death Wyrms hook, and slash at his stomach, I then dodge a spine shot, and quickly follow up and through with a tail whip, knocking him off balance, then quickly blast fire right at his feet, but I didn’t see that Death Wyrms tail had grabbed my leg before it had already thrown me two blocks away, I was getting up when I felt a Burning pain in my arm, when I looked to see, it was one of Death Wyrms spines, It had only penetrated the outermost muscle tissue, I would heal in a few weeks but that doesn’t mean it didn’t hurt like hades, I rip the spine out and breath fire on the wound in order to cauterize it, when I suddenly feel Death Wyrms tail around my throat, choking me, and I am all of a sudden pinned to a wall, with my mouth bound shut, great it’s the boot all over again, I see Death Wyrm, he’s grabbing the spine I ripped out, he walks towards me, and he gives me a small speech,
“You know James, if you weren’t so noble I’d actually have let you join me, I never wanted to kill you, but you leave me no choice.” He lifts the spike up, when all of a sudden he is blasted back seemingly by a freakishly strong gust of wind, wait, that's a thermal updraft, I turn to see the best sight I could have seen, Ryan and Lily! Ryan opens his mouth first and I couldn’t be more thankful for his humor,
“Nobody treats James like that but me!” He then flies into battle riding on a thermal, while Lily freed me, she slices through the binding on my mouth and I immediately ask,
“What are you guys doing here?” Lily opens her mouth to answer but Ryan cuts in with being thrown into a wall
“Me and Lily are saving you, idiot, speaking of which a little help here?” Me and Lilly help Ryan up and we all get ready for a fight, but before we can charge in, Lily hands me a headmic,
“Here put this on,” I do as she says and suddenly Leanne's voice buzzes in through the speaker,
“Well it’s about time,” I am just happy to have some help with knowing my surroundings,
“Whatever happened to ‘we didn’t spend millions tracking you for you to play superhero?’” If Leanne heard me she didn’t answer, I just started to run towards Death Wyrm, before I took off alongside Lily and Ryan, I felt a familiar rage build up in my veins, I allow the rage to drive me forward, I feel the heat, the fire, rushing to every vein in my body, building along with all of the rage in my life, I gather my thoughts, a raging body is good for combat but a raging mind is bad for victory, when this feeling washes over me, I finally feel calm, I feel at peace, I never want this feeling to end, I open my snout, and unleash a twisting, flowing, blooming tunnel of flames,wounding Death Wyrm and distracting him long enough for Ryan to swing in with a bladed tail to his back, followed by Lily, biting into Death wyrms tail, as Death Wyrm roars I dive in and I do something unexpected, I talk to him,
“Dillian, I thought of you as a little brother, but you killed someone I cared about, I am sorry but, we need to take you in.” Death Wyrm roars, he writhes, up until Lily’s venom takes hold and he falls to the ground, defeated, a news reporter had been, well reporting, nearby and walked up to me, and asked me for an interview,
“Under normal circumstances I would agree, but not right now.” I wave as I signal to Ryan, it takes an embarrassingly long time for him to get the hint that I want him to create a thermal under Death Wyrm in order to transport him, but he follows my lead, and before we know it, we are flying toward the Kadmus site, but as we fly, I yell behind me,
“Hey, go ahead, I’ll… I’ll catch up.” Lily looks at me while Ryan just zooms ahead, no questions asked,
“Okay what are you doing?” I just look at her, feeling conflicted about telling her about my dad, for all I know this could get me in trouble, or worse, I make a split second decision,
“I… I think I saw something.” surprisingly it works, I swoop back towards the city and back to my old apartment and I grab the message from my dad, his keycard and the papers, I then fly off with them clenched between my arms and my body, I then fly into the Kadmus site, and discreetly go to my room, in order to hide them, I then get out of the site, and fly back into it acting like nothing happened, and to my surprise, there was a celebration waiting for me, there was cake, and wine, and even a nice Irish whiskey, eventually I asked about Death Wyrm, and turns out he was placed in a secure facility, deep under the site, and that anyone with high enough clearance could go down there, I decide that that is probably for the best.
After the celebration, I go into my room, and pull out the message, I look over it, Dad was a big fan of puzzles, so maybe this message is a puzzle? After several minutes fiddling with it, the message began to whir, and it then showed a place for a fingerprint, gotcha, I placed my thumb on the finger print and it pricked me, like I was getting my blood drawn. After that a key fell out of the message box, and a keyhole on the side, I of course used the key, which then played a different message,

Hello James, and I know it's you who will be watching this, at the time of making this message I am about to help you “find” an apartment, this is one that will only play for other people if you give them access and get a blood sample, the key you used is a one of a kind, and allows you full access to pre-recorded messages, and answers for certain questions, I hope that there will come a time when you don’t need it, but, knowing you, you will probably forget what the messages say within an hour, but anyway, I hope that this helps you greatly, here is a list of topics that the message box can give you data on.< The video then becomes like an interactable encyclopedia, where I can read the list at my own pace, I skim through it before my eyes lock on one entry, Dr. Crane Williams, I open the entry and i read about Crane, turns out, he was my fathers research partner and close friend, and the two of them met in college because they had managed to win a competition that landed them tuition for any college of their choosing, and they became friends after my dad stopped somebody from messing with Crane, there was a whole lot more there about Cranes upbringing, his family, his education, but I had to cut it short when Leanne entered my room, unannounced,

“What are you doing?” She glared, in her usual condescending tone, I am not in the mood for this “Jump off a cliff.” I growl, as I tuck the message away, but she sees it, and by the look on her face she could tell what I was looking at, “Let me guess, a message you don’t want anybody seeing?” I hate her but damn it she can connect the dots well, “Was it obvious?” I don’t bother denying it, she’ll just be a jerk about it, “No, I’m just used to being lied to, who's the message from?” Leanne nods at the message box, 

“It’s from my dad, he apparently worked at Kadmus and was friends with Crane.” The fact that my dad both worked ant Kadmus and was friends with crane seem to shock her, what’s really shocking though is what she asks next,

“Was your dad by chance Shane O’Maley?” I look at her, confused, “He was, why?” Leanne immediately seems to get shell shock, as she starts to geek out, “James your father was pretty much science royalty, I would have done anything to speak to him, oh my god I insulted the dead friend of Shane O’Maley, and of his son!” I feel angry that she brought that up again, but now feels like I can get something good out of this, “Ok I’ll make you a deal, if you only do tests with me and the other dragonkin willing to do so, and make sure not to do things like threatening to shock us if we don’t do what you want, I’ll tell you stories about my dad, deal?” It was almost impressive how quickly she answered, 

“Deal! Shock threats, exhaustion tests, and anything else like that is gone!” I am really happy that I can do stuff like that. That is the best ability ever.*1
*1 WIP

I was diagnosed in 2018, but my story probably began about 2016.
I lost a lot of weight 2012-2014. I went from 280lb to 180lb. In 2016 I was about 190lb. My weight loss was hard to maintain, I had exercised 3 hours a day to achieve it and couldn’t keep doing that forever. So 2014-2018 I was 180-200lb and then 2018-2020 I was 200-220lb and now I’m back at 230lb since about 2021.
2016: I was very fit and active. I started losing my vision when going from sitting to standing. It would go for 5-10 seconds then return. I thought I had low blood pressure but never felt dizzy. In retrospect, this was probably the beginning of my IIH and actually the worst my vision ever was. I didn’t see a doctor as I didn’t realise anything was wrong. I was on doxycycline for acne a lot in 2014-2016 and suspect this was ultimately the trigger for me. I never had any symptoms at 280lb.
2018: my optometrist saw my papilloedema at a checkup and referred me to the urgent eye clinic. I spent hours there for tests. Eventually got the LP with opening pressure 27. MRI showed tortuous optic nerves. I didn’t get a vascular MRI so I don’t know if I have stenosis. The neuro ophthalmologist started me on diamox. I was told to lose weight and found this very frustrating as I had already lost a huge amount of weight and never had issues when I was much bigger. I didn’t know about the tetracycline link at this point so didn’t mention it.
2018-2020: I took the diamox on and off at all sorts of doses up and down. My symptoms were never very severe. The loss of vision was never as bad as it had been in 2016. I had head pressure, but not much pain. The diamox actually caused more headache sometimes than when I didn’t take it. Eventually the neuro ophthalmologist told me to stop taking it and said they weren’t sure I ever even had IIH… I think they just didn’t know how to explain why my symptoms didn’t fit neatly into a box. My papilloedema never went away, it’s been visible on scans at the optometrist the entire time.
2020-2023: mostly off the diamox. Would take one every now and then if I felt any hint of symptoms. Followup was 6-monthly visual field and retina imaging.
2024: I decided I wanted to try accutane for my acne. I knew it was a bad idea but my acne was the worst it had ever been and the scarring was upsetting. I went very very low dose and booked for visual field testing and retina imaging after being on it for 2 weeks. The optometrist didn’t see any change. But I started to get some symptoms like soft pulsatile tinnitus and postural vision changes again. I stopped it immediately once I noticed. Restarted diamox.
So here I am. It’s still flaring, but I’m back on 750mg diamox daily and slowly titrating up. I haven’t even bothered booking to see my neuro ophthalm because it will be months wait list and I know the diamox is what they’ll do. My optometrist will keep doing 1-2 monthly visual fields and retina imaging. Obviously if my vision changes, I will have to be seen in the urgent clinic and there may be discussions for more invasive things, but the diamox worked for me before and I hope it will work for me again. When my insurance upgrades next year I’m going to ask for a vascular MRI because I want to know if I have venous stenosis. I’m just crossing my fingers I can self manage this until next year and even better if the flare is gone before then. I’m sleeping with many pillows, drinking more water, and I stopped using the sauna. I love the sauna but noticed during this flare that my symptoms are worse afterwards and heat is known to increase intracranial pressure so it makes sense - I will stop for now and hope I can start again in future.

I'm just curious. I don't mean inspiration just for weight loss, more in the sense of what inspires you to feel good (knowing you might feel good from losing weight, of course).
I used to feel inspired by the self-confidence people have - even when I didn't think they looked attractive, they eventually became just because of that. Lately, though, I've noticed I feel inspired by clothes. It seems that, once I accepted that the reason I'm losing weight is not health, but looks, I acquired a different type of appreciation for the way people dress. The thought process is a bit like "I wonder if I'd feel good wearing that, once I'm happier in my own skin. I'd like to try".

I'm 12 weeks post-op, almost 13. Full MCL, ACL tore + partially meniscus tear. I have to say I've been doing great with my rehab. I've been fully bearing weight for 2 months already. Regained full ROM. I've been going to PT for almost 10 weeks. Every single day. Last week they changed my physiotherapist, and yes, he's great, gentle, but ever since I've been experiencing some pain and tingles, mostly around my knee cap (photo). I don't know if I maybe did some type of exercise that's hurting my knee. I've doing squats, weighted extensions, bridges, step ups, nothing unusual. Has anyone experienced something similar, like a slight change on their exercise routine leading to pain?

As an RD Can I provide weight loss counseling but not bill insurance? I have a patient who has insurance that I am not affiliated with. Can I provide nutrition advice (not MNT) and ask for them to pay out of pocket? This way, I can still help them achieve weight loss but have them pay me privately - so that I can counsel them like I’m a nutritionist without RD certification.

I just want to share with you my experience with fasting and maybe it can aid you on your journey as well.
I did struggle in the past with loosing weight and tried nearly everything with more and less success. As I don't have the time or motivation for excessive exercise that was not an option for me and I don't want to use any magic pills as I personally think they are either a scam or my actually harm you. So what els was there for me to do? I decided to go the keto route with a decent success, I tried counting calories which I ended due to the amount of work with measuring.
After an excessive overeating at an all you can eat sushi restaurant I was the following day still stuffed to the brim and didn't eat anything and that klicked for me. I decided to try out to only eat one small healthy meal a day. Now a month in I have lost roughly 20 pounds (the first 6 pounds were in the first 2 days so I put that on the water loss category). I had a couple if days with family and birthday parties and on these days I gained a bit logicly but at the end I currently am in a deficit.
The first couple of days I was hungry but now the hunger is manageable and so far I don't see any negative side effects like feeling without energy or cravings. I do also go on a 5 mile hike 2-3 times a week which takes me only a 1.5 hours.

تجربتي مع مغلي البقدونس للتنحيف
مقدمة
عالم حواء مليء بالتجارب والنصائح المتعلقة بالصحة والجمال. من بين هذه التجارب، تبرز استخدامات مغلي البقدونس للتنحيف كواحدة من الحلول الطبيعية التي يلجأ إليها العديد من الأشخاص. في هذا المقال، سأشارك تجربتي الشخصية مع مغلي البقدونس وكيف أثر على وزني وصحتي بشكل عام.
بداية التجربة
لقد سمعت كثيرًا عن فوائد مغلي البقدونس للتنحيف من الأصدقاء ومن خلال البحث على الإنترنت. يُقال أن مغلي البقدونس يساعد في تحسين الهضم، وتطهير الجسم من السموم، وتقليل احتباس الماء، وكلها عوامل تساهم في فقدان الوزن. لذا، قررت أن أجربه بنفسي لأرى إذا كان سيحقق النتائج المرجوة.
طريقة التحضير
لتحضير مغلي البقدونس، استخدمت الوصفة البسيطة التالية:
حفنة من أوراق البقدونس الطازجة.
لتر من الماء.
وضعت الماء على النار حتى يغلي، ثم أضفت أوراق البقدونس وتركته يغلي لمدة 10 دقائق. بعد ذلك، صفيت الخليط وشربته دافئًا.
الجدول الزمني
قررت شرب مغلي البقدونس مرتين يوميًا، مرة في الصباح على الريق، ومرة أخرى قبل النوم. استمررت في هذه العادة لمدة شهر كامل لمراقبة النتائج بشكل دقيق.
النتائج والتجربة الشخصية
الأسبوع الأول: لم ألاحظ تغيرًا كبيرًا في الوزن، لكني شعرت بأن عملية الهضم تحسنت ولم أعد أشعر بالانتفاخ بعد الوجبات.
الأسبوع الثاني: بدأت ألاحظ فقدانًا طفيفًا في الوزن. شعرت بأنني أخسر بعض السوائل الزائدة في جسمي، وبدأت ملابسي تبدو أكثر ارتياحًا.
الأسبوع الثالث: استمر وزني في الانخفاض بشكل ملحوظ. شعرت بطاقة أكبر خلال اليوم، وتحسن ملموس في بشرتي.
الأسبوع الرابع: بعد شهر من الالتزام بشرب مغلي البقدونس، فقدت حوالي 3 كيلوغرامات. الأهم من ذلك، شعرت بأن جسمي أصبح أكثر خفة وحيوية.
الفوائد الأخرى لمغلي البقدونس
بالإضافة إلى فوائده في التنحيف، لاحظت العديد من الفوائد الصحية الأخرى لمغلي البقدونس:
تحسين صحة البشرة: لاحظت أن بشرتي أصبحت أكثر نضارة وصحة.
تعزيز الجهاز المناعي: شعرت بأني أقل عرضة للإصابة بالزكام وأمراض الشتاء.
تنقية الجسم من السموم: ساعدني مغلي البقدونس في الشعور بنظافة داخلية وتحسين وظائف الكلى.
الخاتمة
تجربتي مع مغلي البقدونس للتنحيف عالم حواء كانت إيجابية بشكل عام. فقد ساعدني في فقدان الوزن بطرق صحية وطبيعية، بالإضافة إلى تحسين صحتي العامة. أوصي به لأي شخص يبحث عن طريقة طبيعية لدعم رحلة فقدان الوزن، لكن بالطبع يجب استشارة الطبيب قبل البدء في أي نظام جديد، خاصة للأشخاص الذين يعانون من مشاكل صحية مزمنة. مغلي البقدونس ليس حلاً سحريًا، لكنه يمكن أن يكون جزءًا فعالًا من نمط حياة صحي متوازن.

Masters Shanghai is an international event featuring the top three teams from each of the four international leagues. Players compete for a $1,000,000 prize pool.

Information

Coverage: Liquipedia VLR.gg THESPIKE rib.gg
Official Information: Website VCT 2024 Masters Shanghai
Event Resources: Event Photography Playlist
General Resources: VCT Rules and Policies Global Contract Database subreddit guide to VALORANT Esports
Event Information:

• Patch: 8.09
• Map Pool: Ascent Bind Breeze Icebox Lotus Split Sunset
• Dates: May 23 – June 9, 2024
• Location: VCT CN Arena (Swiss Stage and Early Playoffs) & Mercedes Benz Arena (Upper Finals, Lower Finals, and Grand Finals), Shanghai, China — Offline (LAN)

Schedule

Type	Match	* CST/PHT (Tournament Time Zone)	EDT	BRT	CEST	JST/KST
Upper Semis	100 Thieves (Americas #1) vs Gen.G (Pacific #2)	4:00 PM	4:00 AM	5:00 AM	10:00 AM	5:00 PM
Upper Semis	G2 Esports (Americas #2) vs Team Heretics (EMEA #2)	7:00 PM	7:00 AM	8:00 AM	1:00 PM	8:00 PM

Check here for times in your area

Streams

• English: Twitch / YouTube
• Spanish (Latin America): Twitch / YouTube
• Spanish (Europe): Twitch
• Portuguese (Brazil): Twitch / YouTube
• French: Twitch
• Italian: Twitch
• Polish: Twitch
• German: Twitch
• Finnish: Twitch
• Hungarian: Twitch
• Ukrainian: Twitch
• Turkish: Twitch / YouTube
• Arabic: Twitch / YouTube
• Thai: Twitch / YouTube
• Indonesian: Twitch / YouTube
• Traditional Chinese (Taiwan): Twitch / YouTube
• Vietnamese: YouTube
• Filipino: Twitch / YouTube
• Korean: Twitch / YouTube
• Japanese: Twitch / YouTube
• Simplified Chinese (Mainland China): Twitch / YouTube

Participants — 8 Teams

Americas	EMEA	Pacific	China
100 Thieves	FNATIC	Paper Rex	EDward Gaming
G2 Esports	Team Heretics	Gen.G Esports	FunPlus Phoenix
Leviatán	FUT Esports	T1	Dragon Ranger Gaming

Broadcast Talent

Hosts & Interviewers	Commentators	Analysts	Observers
Alex "Goldenboy" Mendez	Seth "Achilios" King	Mimi "aEvilcat" Wermcrantz	David "prius" Kuntz
Yinsu "Yinsu" Collins	Clinton "Paperthin" Bader	Beatriz "kaquka" Alonso	Heather "sapphiRe" Garozzo
Mika "Mikafabs" Fabella	Doug "EsportsDoug" Cortez		Alberto "Tiie" Chavez Benitez
Salome "Soe" Gschwind-Repp	Andrej "babybay" Francisty		Nicholas "Yehty" Tesolin
Victoria "Chubbyninja" Cheng

Format

• Swiss Stage (May 23-27):
  • 8 teams play in a Swiss System, where teams play opponents with the same record as them
    • For first matchup, 2nd seeds were drawn against 3rd seeds
  • Teams with two wins advance, teams with two losses are eliminated
  • All matches are Bo3
• Playoffs (May 30-June 9):
  • 8 team double elimination bracket
    • 4 teams from Swiss Stage
    • 4 1st seeds
  • All matches are Bo3 except Lower Bracket Final and Grand Final
  • Lower Bracket Final and Grand Final are Bo5

Results

$1,000,000 USD are spread among the teams as seen below:

Place	$ USD	Team
1st 🥇	$350,000
2nd 🥈	$200,000
3rd 🥉	$125,000
4th	$75,000
5th – 6th	$50,000
5th – 6th	$50,000
7th – 8th	$35,000	FNATIC
7th – 8th	$35,000	EDward Gaming
9th - 10th	$25,000	Leviatán
9th - 10th	$25,000	FunPlus Phoenix
11th - 12th	$15,000	Dragon Ranger Gaming
11th - 12th	$15,000	T1

Have got a metatarsal fracture and am going to orthopaedic clinic Wednesday. Am wondering if it's more common to be given a moon boot or put in a cast for this type of injury? I am currently in a moon boot from my doctors but am worried the orthpedic clinic will put me in a cast. I can walk fully with moon boot on and can gently put some weight on it without it on. And knowledge will be appreciated! First ever break in my 30 years.

So recently I lost 2 really close/immediate family members in the space of a few months… one was sudden and traumatic the other was due to a horrible illness and I was their full time carer from start till end…
I am having a really hard time with grief and the trauma of both of these losses, I have tried talking to friends but their understanding just isn’t there as most havnt encountered loss… I feel so incredibly isolated and alone with my loss…
I am in therapy… but find that often I feel good after speaking to the therapist but then the days after life goes back to feeling heavy and isolating all over again….
One of the people I have lost was my mum, and I think the hardest part about losing her was that we have been through so much together, she was my person, the one I would call on a good or bad day… the first person I would tell every and anything to… and in the back of my mind I always knew that if life took a horrible turn home was always where she was …. And I could always return home… now I feel like home is gone, and although I am and have made my own home I feel so alone and like my safe place is gone… and it’s almost as though I have the weight of the world on my shoulders … If I fail… I have to figure it out…. If life gets harder… I havnt to figure it out… And I have to do all of that without her and without her guidance… and I just don’t know how…
For me this is all very new… but I just feel so lost in the depths of grief and I don’t know what to do… I know I am not alone in my thoughts and feelings but I would really love to hear from other people who have experienced this and have found something that helps them get through… or if they are new to this themselves trying to navigate then maybe that will help me feel less alone too

I just want to discuss my journey the last 9 months and hopefully give hope to anyone feeling discouraged. When I went to my first MFM appt, they told me diabetics are higher risk for stillbirth, they induce at 37 weeks, and a bunch of other fear mongering gibberish. (I have type 1) I went on to have the healthiest pregnancy (I really think healthier than a lot of non diabetics BECAUSE I had to be so on top of everything) and a completely uncomplicated birth that I went into labor with NATURALLY at 38 weeks and 5 days. (Was scheduled for induction at 39 weeks and 2 days but babe came before they could do that!) pushed out a beautiful healthy 8.4 pound baby boy and needed one stitch and although labor itself was hard (had nothing to do with diabetes) I was able to manage my blood sugars throughout and remain in control without intervention. You can do this and it will be done, I believe in every single one of you and am so thankful for this sub!

Hi
I am trying to build a creator pc for personal use and after a lot of YouTube reviews I have come up with this list . I mostly do photo editing in lightroom, da vinci resolve for 4k video editing and use 3d applications like unity 3d and houdini.
I wanted to check if this build is good or there are any alternative suggestions.
Thank you. :)
[PCPartPicker Part List](https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/BQ2bPF)
TypeItemPrice
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**CPU** [Intel Core i9-13900K 3 GHz 24-Core Processor](https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/product/DhVmP6/intel-core-i9-13900k-3-ghz-24-core-processor-bx8071513900k) $649.00 @ Newegg Canada
**CPU Cooler** [Lian Li Galahad II Trinity Performance 108.29 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler](https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/product/thmNnQ/lian-li-galahad-ii-trinity-performance-10829-cfm-liquid-cpu-cooler-ga2p36b) $219.98 @ Newegg Canada
**Thermal Compound** [Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut 1 g Thermal Paste](https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/product/XHqbt6/thermal-grizzly-kryonaut-1-g-thermal-paste-tg-k-001-rs) -
**Motherboard** [Gigabyte Z790 AORUS MASTER X EATX LGA1700 Motherboard](https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/product/w626Mp/gigabyte-z790-aorus-master-x-eatx-lga1700-motherboard-z790-aorus-master-x) $669.99 @ Newegg Canada
**Memory** [G.Skill F5-5600J2834F32GX2-TZ5RK 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) DDR5-5600 CL28 Memory](https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/product/yPBG3C/gskill-64-gb-2-x-32-gb-ddr5-5600-cl28-memory-f5-5600j2834f32gx2-tz5rk) $324.96 @ Newegg Canada
**Storage** [Solidigm P44 Pro 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive](https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/product/vrTp99/solidigm-p44-pro-1-tb-m2-2280-pcie-40-x4-nvme-solid-state-drive-ssdpfkkw010x7x1) $139.97 @ Newegg Canada
**Storage** [Seagate FireCuda 530 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive](https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/product/wXJgXL/seagate-firecuda-530-2-tb-m2-2280-nvme-solid-state-drive-zp2000gm3a013) -
**Video Card** [Gigabyte WINDFORCE V2 GeForce RTX 4090 24 GB Video Card](https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/product/t988TW/gigabyte-windforce-v2-geforce-rtx-4090-24-gb-video-card-gv-n4090wf3v2-24gd) $2499.99 @ Newegg Canada
**Case** [Antec Performance 1 FT ATX Full Tower Case](https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/product/b9GhP6/antec-performance-1-ft-atx-full-tower-case-performance-1-ft) -
**Power Supply** [Thermaltake Toughpower PF3-L 1200 W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply](https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/product/Zqhv6h/thermaltake-toughpower-pf3-l-1200-w-80-platinum-certified-fully-modular-atx-power-supply-ps-tpd-1200fnfapu-l) $344.98 @ Newegg Canada
**Operating System** [Microsoft Windows 11 Pro Retail - Download 64-bit](https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/product/VCTp99/microsoft-windows-11-pro-retail-download-64-bit-fqc-10572) -
*Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts*
**Total** **$4848.87**
Generated by [PCPartPicker](https://pcpartpicker.com) 2024-06-02 02:30 EDT-0400