Hi all, So I'm a college student and I'm staying with my parents for the time being. I usually don't like staying with my parents because of their views on literally everything. Both of my parents are upper middle class but they're in the higher echelon, not quite rich but they have more money than most workers (it makes them really out of touch with other people but that's another convo for another time). Anyways today my mom came downstairs and said that she wanted to hire a Philippine OFW to do work around the house (in an almost proud, gloating way). Both she and my dad work all day so the house is under managed. I saw them with the application to apply for a domestic worker today. I got really upset at her and told her that a lot of human rights violations happen to Philippine OFWs (see this article) and that it's basically a crime. She got uncomfortable and laughed at me. I demanded that if she were to hire this person she at least pay them $14 an hour (this is what I *thought* the minimum wage in our county was until I researched it, its been upped to $16 an hour). She laughed even harder at me and got uncomfortable, which tells me that she had no intention to pay this person *at least* minimum wage. I told her that if she actually went through with bringing someone from overseas to work for less than minimum wage this would be a crime and I would report her to the labor bureau. She tried to justify it by saying that she "was going to bring over one of her cousins" which is a common justification and loophole for bringing over domestic workers and underpaying them (see excluded employees here). When she saw that none of her excuses were getting through to me she got really defensive, kept laughing uncomfortably, and went "fine, I won't do it. I shouldn't have brought this up with you." I saw her and my dad with the application so I feel like they're going to go behind my back and do it anyways. I don't like this at all and I think that someone could essentially become a live-in slave if my parents went through with this. I already did my research and have the number of the labor bureau of my state so if they went through with it I *would* report them. Also my parents are genuinely racist so I don't think that they would treat this person very well if they were to bring them over. I just want to make sure that this doesn't happen at all costs and make sure that they don't go behind my back. Is there anything that I can do? Does anyone have any advice? I'm not beyond getting my parents fined or sent to prison, I literally do not care, I hate that they'd treat another human this way and think it's okay. I also didn't know what other sub to post this to and thought this sub might be best. Thank you for reading this far!!
tl;dr My family wants to hire a Philippine OFW which I am not on board with because its illegal, how do I make sure that they don't go behind my back and do it/what can I do if they *do* illegally hire and underpay an OFW?

So I know this is kinda stupid but my ADHD brain led me down memory lane the other day and I remember this online story series from an old iPad app called “Read Me Stories” about this Pony called Tuffy who eventually becomes a “ponycorn” unicorn/pony, after saving a few animals he finds on his adventure in a magical dark forest. I think there was a dog named Chip, a frog, and another animal I think and at the end he meets a majestic large blue unicorn who decides Tuffy is worthy to become a unicorn because of his good deeds. This all happens in book 1 and then there was a second book/story where he is asked by a blue leader unicorn to find a magical key to unlock a door I think. Here is the thing I have been able to find video of the first 2 chapters of the first book (up until just after Tuffy saves Chip the dog) on YouTube but even after searching the original website/app on the Internet Archive and across the web I couldn’t find the rest of the chapters or stories. Again I know this is silly but I’m really determined to find these full stories just for nostalgia sake and also to know that these actually existed the way I remember. If anyone also remember these stories, knows more details, or has video please respond to this post!!

A number of Adelaide’s arterial roads are set for a shake-up, with 40km/h zones to be enforced around schools and 30 new speed cameras to be installed over the next four years.
On Sunday, Treasurer Stephen Mullighan and Police Minister Dan Cregan announced an $80.1m road safety funding boost at Marryatville High School – where, last year, two students were seriously injured after being hit by a truck that allegedly ran a red light.
As part of the package, speed limits will be reduced to 40km/h at a number of “priority locations” where schools sit on major roads.
Military Rd, Port Wakefield Rd, Lonsdale Hwy/Ocean Blvd, the Port River Expressway and Greenhill Rd have been highlighted as potential sites for changes to be enforced.
The new limits will apply on weekdays, during school drop-off and pick-up times, but not on weekends, school holidays and public holidays.
They do not replace existing 25km/h school zones on local streets.
More than $2.5m will go towards new electronic speed limit signs at those locations where new limits will apply, with locations to be determined by the Department of Infrastructure and Transport in consultation with SA Police.
Mr Cregan said crash statistics, driver behaviours and presence of vulnerable road users – such as children – and would be used to choose sites most in need, with the limits to come into effect from 2025 to 2026
.$38.7m will also be allocated to install 30 new speed cameras across the state over the next four years, with 12 additional red light speed cameras in 2024-25 and three new point-to-point cameras in 2025-26.
The remaining 15 speed cameras are expected to be fully operational by mid-2026.
Mr Mullighan brushed off suggestions the new cameras were a revenue-raising exercise, saying the government made no apologies for clamping down on dangerous and irresponsible drivers.
He said all funds from the state’s speed and mobile phone detection cameras were returned to the Community Road Safety Fund.
“The number of lives lost on our roads is devastating and, far too often, entirely preventable,” Mr Mullighan said.
“We put these (cameras) in to send a clear message to motorists that we need them to slow down on the roads and we need them to pay more attention, and that’s particularly the case when it comes to our schools.“It’s entirely unacceptable to have motorists speeding past schools, especially at pick-up and drop-off times.”
The 2024-25 state budget will also allocate $35 million over three years for road safety maintenance, including road resurfacing, and #3.8m for the construction of a new heavy vehicle rest area at Salt Creek, along the Princes Hwy.
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Not sure if it is exists. But did anyone download a backup of all the fiction that was on Pomme de Sang and Sourdre de Sang before they were taken down? Archive.org only has a surface backup of the links not the stories. I am mainly looking for the rated R and N-17 AnitaBlake/Edward stories. I can not find any since the sites have been taken down 😞

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Long sleep deprived noodley rambling ahead. TLDR: if you, like me, felt weird about Ally’s bits seeming to fill inappropriate times and places, it’s possible we were sharing a media literacy failing.
Anyway, I just finished binging the season and was reading a few comments about possible senior year character development for Kristen Applebees, and I saw someone say they hoped Ally would ease off the bits. I had this same feeling when I watched at first. Kristen Applebees is the only character who handles the world in a way that makes me pause and run through the scenario in my head differently than they do rather than just watch and enjoy. I was often finding myself annoyed whenever they did something that seemed inappropriately silly.
For me though, it was something where the only way out was through, and now I think Kristen is actually the most adapted to the world of spire out of all the PCs. I’ve gotten to the point where I realized that “jokes are the deepest lore” in the world of spire. In a world that took the rules of dnd seriously the Principle would never have been able to clock Sol in the head with a brick in a sock (or whatever the specifics are) in freshman year, and in a world of more pure adventurous fantasy a lot of the last minute saves and big swings would fail because they weren’t firmly set up ahead of time or just from bad luck. In the world of Spire, where comedy is so obviously potent, and where big swings succeeding is rewarded far more than then failing is punished, it only makes sense to swing big and do something absurd at every possible moment.
It’s not like the story of the simulacrum that said Blimey while being heroic and was rewarded by the goddess of mystery with true life in another world is any weirder than the night yorb getting summoned from a failed attempt to break an anagram, or even the weirdness of the denim vest rock babies (to show that Brennan does all the same shit). The only difference is that Ally’s character is the only one acting like the world is a fundamentally unserious place even when the audience “knows” it’s time for serious stakes.
I think that’s because Ally’s the one that shy’s away from the nature of the world the least. We can’t pretend like Ally’s not taking a serious world seriously. They took crown of candy super seriously, because the joke existed nearly exclusively on the meta level. The problem that I realized with it was that I wasn’t actually using real media literacy, and was treating the bits like they were all meta humor and retconned out by there not being serious consequences for unserious behaviors.
That was just me blinded by my expectations that D20 was like games I’ve played in, or even the critical role I’ve seen (not a lot). In those experiences there were jokes between the players that went on for a while, and then we retconned anything that was exceptionally silly as either an in character joke, or just goofing around with your friends and getting out of hand, but Hilda Hilda is canon, Chumble-down Bimm is canon, sexy rat is canon. Figg and Riz pretending to be a doctor in freshman year and saving someone from mummy rot is canon. Gilear is a canon character who matters a lot to the party and is absolutely a joke both in and out of character.
Kristen still isn’t my favorite of the Intrepid Heroes but I think Ally might be the player that’s figured out playing the world of Spire the best. In a world where you’ll succeed on anything you attempt 5% of the time no matter how ludicrous the attempt, Ally is the one attempting the most ludicrous, the most often.

Hello everyone, long story short I have been a YouTuber owning various channels since 2014. I recently got a private funny videos playlist removed unexpectedly. It had me thinking of archiving all my old privatized content that could be labeled as bad by today’s standards. I did not want to risk getting a strike and losing both channels I currently use. I have a program able to download an entire channel onto a disc, so my question is does it break the terms of service if I am the copyright owner downloading my own content? Also would any harm be done announcing to my viewers that the content had been archived? Thanks for all the help!!

I am looking for M/f recommendations (books or AO3, Wattpad etc. fiction) like *If I Can’t Have You (IICHY) by Deathsdoll** on AO3:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/28680387/chapters/70311993
The story is a contemporary dark romance that centers around employers at a big four accounting firm in Boston. Boss/employee dynamic. Non-con and dub-con. Gaslighting. Blackmail. Wounded bird.
What I liked was that while the MMC acts horribly when he thinks she has rejected him (non-and dubious-con, gaslighting and blackmail) he also is very sweet with her, loves the fact that she is great at her job, and gently helps her take better care of herself.
The only other story I have found that comes close to it is Dovetail by Whipperwill on AO3:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/47631763/chapters/120054208
Dovetail is a contemporary dark romance between a wealthy college professor and a poor college student. Non and dub-con. Gaslighting. Blackmail. Wounded bird.
I have read the fics listed below and didn’t like them because they involved holding the FMC captive for most or all of the book and constantly abusing her. This made both the MMC and FMC feel very one-dimensional and unlikable:

• Bought and Paid for by Deathsdoll
  
• The Community by Deathsdoll
  
• Spare the Rod by Deathsdoll
  
• Matryoshka by Takes_One_To_Know_One
  
• Service by Takes_One_To_Know_One
  
• In the Pursuit of Happiness by starbunny7
  
• Loving One Self by AbigailYoung
  

*Archive of Our Own (AO3), a free website where people can post and read fan fiction (which includes original fiction such as IICHY).
Thanks!

https://archive.is/CeFZ6
Time was when summer theater in the Valley was typically produced by a number of mainstays, including Chester Theatre Company, New Century Theatre, and the Ko Festival at Amherst College.
But New Century Theatre shut down a few years ago, as did the Ko Festival, which today operates mostly as a consulting service for actors, directors and others in theater.
Now Silverthorne Theater Company, formed in 2014 in Greenfield, is stepping into that production gap with three summer plays, both to mark its 10th anniversary and to provide a fresh forum for Valley directors and actors, and in one case a noted playwright.
Silverthorne will debut one new work each month, beginning June 7 with “The Broken Machine,” written by Valley playwright Liz Duffy Adams, whose most recent play, “Born With Teeth,” was produced a few years ago in several cities, including Houston and Minneapolis, winning excellent reviews.
The company will stage a second play, “Bulrusher,” in July, and a third, “Smart People,” in August. And after being strictly a Franklin County operation for much of its history, Silverthorne will stage “The Broken Machine” and “Bulrusher” at Hampshire College. “We’re really excited about this new direction,” said Harley Erdman, a Silverthorne board member and a key part of the Valley’s theater scene.
He’s a longtime University of Massachusetts Amherst theater professor, a playwright, a translator, and a librettist whose work includes two noted operas staged in Northampton, “The Scarlet Professor” in 2017 and “The Garden of Martyrs” in 2013.
“This is a great opportunity to showcase some of the talent in this region, from actors to directors to playwrights,” Erdman said.
In fact, “The Broken Machine,” which will run June 7-9 and 13-15 at Hampshire College, will have its world premiere here in the Valley. Adams, who splits her time between this region and New York City, “has been incredibly generous in giving her new work to us,” Erdman said.
“She’s a super-talented playwright whose work has very much exploded over the last three years,” he said.
“The Broken Machine,” Erdman said, “is totally wild,” an imaginative fantasy set in the not-too-distant future in which the ravages of climate change have only worsened. “One of the main characters,” he noted, “is a fox.”
Set in a forest, the play centers on, as Adams’ website describes, “a burnt-out coder” who’s become a hermit and is “making lists from memory — of lizards, endangered species, Moments of Lost Time — in company with her only friend, a gray fox with a bad attitude.”
The play’s other characters include bumbling forest rangers and a madcap Psychopomp. “It has some pretty dark humor, though it’s also serious,” said Erdman. “And it considers the differences between animals and humans.”
The play is directed by Gina Kaufman, who also teaches theater at UMass and has worked with Erdman on a number of productions there. Her resume includes directing work in many other settings, including the Williamstown Theatre Festival and with Shakespeare & Company in Lenox.
“Gina and Liz have also worked together on the script” of the play, Erdman noted. “They’ve had a great collaboration.”
“Bulrusher,” by New York playwright and actor Eisa Davis, will have its East Coast debut beginning July 5 at Hampshire College. It’s directed by Michelle Ong-Hendrick, a UMass graduate and Northampton resident who teachers theater at Trinity College in Connecticut and is the founding artistic director of Hartford Opera Theatre.
“Bulrusher,” which Silverthorne calls “a lyrical, uplifting coming-of-age story of a clairvoyant Black girl in Northern California in 1955,” was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2007. The company’s season closes with “Smart People,” by Boston playwright Lydia R. Diamond, beginning Aug. 2 at Hawks & Reed Performing Arts Center in Greenfield.
Directed by Michael Ofori, a visiting lecturer at Hampshire College in film, media and theater, the play, according to Silverthorne, “is a comedy of errors in which a white, male professor proves white people are racist — a conclusion not appreciated by the prestigious university that employs him.”
Erdman says the three plays will all feature a mix of regional actors — including a number who have appeared in past Silverthorne productions — as well as some equity actors from outside the region, such as New York and Boston.
“We think we’ve put together a really good mix of people,” said Erdman.
Silverthorne was started in 2014 by longtime theater professional and teacher Lucinda Kidder and David Rowland, a former teacher at the Northfield Mount Hermon School. The company expanded from initially doing two summer plays at the school to offering a greater range of productions year round, centered eventually at Hawks & Reed.
Kidder stepped down from the company at the end of 2021, but she is still a member of the board, Erdman said, and offers key input on decisions.
Her legacy of highlighting underappreciated voices and work, especially those of regional theater professionals, remains a guiding principle of Silverthorne, he explained.
Earlier this year, for instance, Silverthorne held three staged readings of work in development by area playwrights. By coincidence, all three of those of those playwrights are women, as are the playwrights whose full plays will take place this summer.
“That’s not by design,” said Erdman. “But it’s in keeping with our mission to produce really thoughtful work that can challenge and entertain.”
More information on Silverthorne Theater’s summer productions can be found at:
https://silverthornetheater.org/

Let's start here: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-106hhrg74430/html/CHRG-106hhrg74430.htm
This is a joint U.S Congress and DEA meeting in the late 90s-2000 to discuss political influence swaying potential criminal investigations featuring one of Drake's very own father figures, J Prince.
This is a very long meeting with lots of dialogue, but here are the most important pieces of information to consider:

This summer, we heard about an investigation of drug trafficking in Houston, TX. There was an investigation involving a man named James Prince. He owns a record company called Rap-A-Lot. He and his associates were believed to be large-scale drug dealers. This investigation produced more than 20 convictions. There were allegations that political pressure was brought to bear, and the Drug Enforcement Administration killed the investigation.
In July, the staff was briefed by the head of the DEA's Houston field office, Mr. Earnest Howard. Mr. Howard assured the staff that the DEA's investigation was active and ongoing. He was very convincing, so we didn't pursue the matter any further.
Then, in October, we were told there were e-mails that contradicted what we were told.

This leads to an interesting conversation about how the investigation was tampered with:

The e-mails flatly contradicted what Mr. Howard told us. We have a March 14 e-mail from Mr. Marshall to DEA headquarters in Washington. He states, ``I understand that the situation involving Rap-A-Lot and James Smith, a.k.a. James Prince, has only gotten worse. To eliminate any further difficulty in this matter I have decided that the Houston division will curtail any enforcement against this subject.'' He concludes by saying, ``at any rate, it is over; and we are closing our case on Prince.'' The next day Mr. Howard sent another e-mail to Washington. This one states, ``now we bow down to the political pressure anyway. It is over now. The Houston division will terminate all active investigation of Rap-A-Lot except for those persons who have already been arrested or indicted.''

Not only was the investigation stopped, J Prince was also involved with the actual police force within Houston and leveraged his political support:

Last month, we interviewed several local Houston City policemen. They were assigned to a joint investigation of Mr. Prince with the DEA. They told us that they were removed from the case about a month after the Congresswoman's letter arrived. They told us they were called to a meeting with Special Agent Howard, the head of field office. Mr. Howard told them that the investigation was over, and he cited the Congresswoman's letter.

The meeting calls forth witnesses, and Congress sent out subpoenas to the DA, DEA members involved as the information they received did not match with the investigation at hand.
This led to an example of the power J Prince has in that community:

Discussing Mr. Prince, Mr. Burton further stated, ``he gives a million to a church, the Vice President goes to that church, and 2 days later somebody says they are closing the case. Something is wrong. They're blocking us because I think they're afraid that this might be an embarrassment to the Vice President.''

Now the actual hearing is incredibly long, I did not read through all of it but I encourage people to do so because it might go into more depth into Jay Prince's history.
I bring this all up because everything we found so far is connected in some way:
a) How Drake got involved with Birdman and J. Prince
a1. This investigation took place between late 1990s (1998 - 1999) to when the actual meeting happened in 2000, the same time frame that Birdman said J Prince didn't have the structure to support Cash Money Records and went to universal which potentially started the feud between Jay Prince and Birdman.
a2. J Prince's feud with Birdman was over his son finding Drake and bringing him to Cash Money, only to never get fully compensated and he even went as far as threatening his children with Lil Wayne being referred to as Birdman's "other son".
This prompted Birdman to settle it out of court for $11,000.000.
a3. Despite Lil Wayne's issues with Birdman and Birdman's issues with J Prince, Drake was the biggest profit margin for both of them including UMG.
Drake had earned YM and UMG an insane amount of money with both his Views + Scorpion catalogue before he left YM in 2018 and started OVO with UMG. This means he still has Birdman's support.
Jay Prince and his son were executive producers on Thank Me Later, Nothing Was The Same, and other projects and were entitled to 33% of profits from these albums. This means that he still has Jay Prince's support.
And UMG profited from all of it including the current OVO/Gamma branch, leading to his support from Lucian Grange himself.
a) Conclusion: Despite a public J Prince/Birdman feud and contract disputes, Drake has the support of two very dangerous gangstetrafficking entities in Hip Hop along with the biggest musical entity, UMG through his early deals with them.
b) How Trafficking is connected to the industry and Drake
b1. Birdman was Jay Prince's protégée, he took after him in many ways and even began associating with our friend Sabah Nissan who has a history with trafficking overseas, notice how it says #OceanDrive. The same Ocean Drive where Nissan met Diddy who provided him connections to the music industry.
Nissan also is connected to DJ Khalid who is a Global Creative Consultant at UMG, another connection into the music industry.
b2. The Nissan family can be seen with stars like Future, Lil Uzi, and even Ariana Grande. But the most important of them all is the 69 god himself, Drake and Drake even attended their bar mitzvah. (Go read https://www.reddit.com/usePractical-Major-9814/ posts about it, he broke down the Nissan story one by one before he was threatened to stop.)
b3. The Drake-Nissan connection goes deeper where Drake's right hand man co-owned a hotel with Nissan as well as the Jungle Security which coincidentally was scrubbed from the internet after we exposed it.
b4. The most interesting situation is a drug called 2C or "Tusi", which Nissan's family has commented under pictures which Drake has also referenced in tracks like "Toosie Slide" and even bars where he mentions the exact drug as well.
It's other name is "Pink Cocaine", which Diddy is involved in having trafficked which goes back to his earlier connection with Sabah Nissan.
b5. Aside from Drug trafficking, Drake is also implicated with J Mulan and DJ Eric who host controversial clubs that traffic girls for celebrities. Coincidentally this is found in Houston, the same place J Prince operates and has a control of.
b) Conclusion: There is no picture or video evidence of Drake's direct involvement which is why EP is so interesting and why there hasn't been a public case against him, but what we did find long paper trail that implicates himself, his LLCs along with connections from within the OVO camp that not only acknowledges but at times is directly involved with trafficking of drugs and sex with the people facilitating it.
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If I missed anything or messed up, please let me know and i'll edit it.
But so far this is my research and the connections I was able to make.

Anyone have a link to an archive? I’ve been able to find three episodes with Bobby so far. Bobby’s first appearance on there, the one where he brings Steve for the first time and the one where he brings Kahlyla for the first time. Both are hilarious, so I wanted to check out some of the rest.
I know that David had mostly everything wiped due to some stories and possible SA allegations, but wondering if any of you know where we can check out some of the other episodes, even if it’s audio only. I feel like I just keep running into dead ends with broken links.

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Sorry for the delay. Reddit was being Reddit, and the Old Reddit trick didn't fix it. I had to add everything in markdown mode and switch back to the rich editor before it would let me post. So there's that workaround now, I guess.
“So that's what happened,” Ryn'Ala said as her magical servants set out plates loaded with food. They had decided on a late dinner of dried meats and cheeses, once their host had seen her other guests off for the night.
“I remember my first ghoul encounter. It was a roamer, split off from a nest and wandering the countryside. We had been asleep after clearing out a pack of wolves that were terrorizing a farming village, and it managed to get the drop on us. I still think Randolph was asleep instead of keeping watch, but he always maintained his innocence. Anyway, Randolph shouted as he tried to hold the thing off with his axe, and the rest of us had to fight in our sleepwear. It's a good thing there was only the one.”
“Yeah,” Fulmara agreed, “I got bit even through my armor. I shudder to think what would have happened if it managed to grab a proper chunk of me.”
“It wouldn't have been pretty,” the elven woman said, shaking her head. “Spells and potions are all well and good for scrapes and bruises, but it takes something truly powerful to staunch a cut artery or regrow limbs.”
There was a moment of silence as they all contemplated the implications of their new lives. Finally, Jeron grabbed a roll from the basket and they all started eating.
“So,” Verrick began, breaking the silence, “good news first?”
“Right,” Ryn'Ala agreed, “I did promise you some news. Good news first then! The two gentlemen you met earlier are some of my colleagues, here to study the egg like I promised. They were able to determine that the material is indeed onyx, which hasn't been documented before, and that the engravings are related to the Celestial tongue, but are not a known dialect. If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say they were possibly the written form of the Muses' own tongue. We're trying to find any commonalities we can to start deciphering it, but as none of us speak Celestial, it's a slow process. The other good news is for you, Verrick.”
“Me?”
“Yes, you. I managed to find some old books from when Jeron was young. They're aimed at teaching the children of nobles to read, and should help to get you to a basic level of competency. Once you get the basics down, the rest of it is just a matter of experience.”
Verrick blushed slightly. “You don't have anything suited to teaching adults to read, do you?”
She laughed. “Unfortunately, no. Though I suspect the subject matter would be much the same, but with less color in the pictures. I'll help you get started tomorrow, if you like.”
“I'll help get Fulmara up to speed while you're working with him,” Firun agreed. “Between the two of us, we'll have them reading like functional members of society in no time.”
“Hey!” the dwarf snapped. “I can read! Just not very well. The big words trip me sometimes.”
“The big words are some of the most important, dear,” Ryn'Ala countered. “How else would we know what alchemical reagents are in a flask, or what stuffy old monarch is buried in a newly discovered tomb?”
“I know that,” she replied, looking down at her food. “I just don't think it was very funny.”
“Also fair,” the elf agreed. “But he still makes a valid point. As you are now, you will struggle, especially if you're to continue your travels. Give us a little time to work on your reading comprehension, and you'll have a much easier time whenever you need to purchase supplies, or conduct research.”
“What's the bad news then?” Jeron asked, spearing a piece of fish.
“Our options are more limited than I originally thought. As... talented individuals, groups like yours naturally attract attention. It's something I went through in my younger days. Some attention is a good thing, of course. Having the right eyes on you can open doors in the most unexpected places, after all. The problem is that some of the attention you'll receive is significantly less beneficial. The Imperial Order of Inquisitors has taken an interest in you, as a new group with connections to the Imperial Court.”
“We know someone important?” Verrick wondered, confused.
Ryn'Ala finished her wine and held her glass out for a magical servant to refill. “As a classically trained performer of the Imperial College of Performances, and as a citizen gifted by the Song, I have some influence in the Elven Court. The Inquisitors don't particularly care how little the influence is, just that it exists. As long as they're watching us, I won't be able to leverage my connections as much as I would like.”
“So we're not really any worse off than before, right?” Jeron asked.
“Not entirely. The Egg research is still going to happen, but I can't exactly help you make new friends like I'd hoped. You'll have to do it the hard way.”
“So not really any different than before,” Firun confirmed. “We weren't exactly expecting elven royalty to help, although it would've been nice.”
“In any case, I have one more bit of news to share, and this one is a bit more concerning.”
She left the room for a moment, returning with a small stack of parchment in her hands. Jeron cleared a space on the table and she spread the stack for them to see.
“I took your descriptions of the warlock's benefactor and contacted a few of my colleagues in the royal archives. Don't worry,” she said, seeing the concerned look on Jeron's face, “I didn't give them any information about any of you. I just told them I had received information about interference from a powerful being. While we do not have an exact identity, our information does match descriptions of a being that has been encountered before.”
“What is it?” the dwarf asked. “What do we need to kill?”
“While I admire your enthusiasm,” Ryn'Ala began, “I must warn you that beings like this can't be killed. Not truly, in any case. But knowing what it is can help you to lessen its influence on the world.”
She pointed to the first sheet. “It is, as Jeron suggested, fond of presenting itself as a cloud of powdered bone. To the casual observer, it's not much different to a cloud of ash or dust, but it's a fitting appearance that drips with symbolism to those who know. The being is a powerful entity residing in the space beyond the Pale Reach, the realm of undeath.”
“The Pale Reach is a lifeless corruption of our realm,” Jeron explained, noticing the confusion on the faces of his companions. “Both it and the Deepwood were created by the Echoing, twisting the parts of the Song that created life in the world to create unlife and a bountiful overgrowth respectively.”
“Exactly,” his mentor continued, pride in his studies evident in her voice. “The Pale Reach, while not exactly the source of undead, still resonates with their energy. It's a place beyond life and light, where the sun is pale and weak. The air is as stale and unmoving as a tomb, and yet a howling gale tears at your very soul. It is a place no living being should tread, and in the darkness beyond even that, your adversary lurks.”
Fulmara shuddered, her face pale as she remembered the touch of the being's energies as it fed on her father and corrupted her mother. She felt Verrick's hand on her shoulder, and soon her friends were with her, driving back the memories with their presence.
“Exactly,” Ryn'Ala said, noticing her discomfort. “You have felt the touch of a being that was never meant to be. A thing that has no soul yet craves one above all else. It is an existence that should not be possible, even for the Echoing. That is what you have sworn to thwart. Knowing this, do you regret your Oath?”
Fulmara's answer was immediate. “No. I do not regret swearing vengeance on this vile thing, and if I cannot kill it, then I will kill its ambitions.”
“Well said. I believe you will make for a fine champion of Fulmos.”
The morning was frigid as Jeron entered the archives, nestled beneath the monolith of the Tradespire. His footsteps echoed on the marble floors, rebounding from the shadowy recesses of the vaulted ceiling above. Between the columns along the walls, statues of knights stood at attention, their stone swords as tall as Jeron himself. At the back of the room stood more, carved to resemble accountants. A dwarven woman sat at the wide desk ahead of him, watching his approach while she sorted paperwork. Finally, she called out to him.
“How can I help you this morning?” she asked, clearing a space in front of her. “If you have an appointment, I'm afraid there's been an emergency cancellation for anything before midday.”
“I'm here for research, actually,” Jeron clarified. “I'm looking into some events from a couple decades ago.”
She opened a drawer and began rummaging through more papers. “Alright, one moment then while I locate the form you'll need. If everything is valid, I'll also need your entry fee of fifteen silver, to help us maintain the files and our equipment.”
The receptionist brushed a lock of blond hair out of her face as she sat back up with a sheet of paper. “If you'll just fill this out, we'll get you started.”
The form was a simple one, with wide spacing for each category to allow for individuals with larger hands. Jeron scanned the page as he walked a short distance to the standing desks at the edge of the chamber, working over the wording he would use for each line.
Name, that's easy enough...
Benefactor, Ryn'Ala Leth
Group or Organization... I'll have to think about that.
Reason for request, Research on recent plagues and the means by which they were cured.
Additional Notes... Possible link to recent ghoul case in crossroads village of Caldren.
Jeron filled in the answers he could, but he was stumped by the request for a group name. He knew they'd need one eventually, and if they didn't start introducing themselves properly, then someone else would come up with a name for them. Those names were rarely ideal, if the Mud Biters were any example. Deciding to leave it blank for the time being, he returned to the receptionist and made a mental note to bring the topic up later.
“Alright, Mister Blackbough,” the dwarf muttered as she scanned the page, “let's see here.”
She narrowed her eyes at him. “Plague research? Not planning on spreading one, are you?”
“More looking into the cures,” he countered. “Never enough Clerics to cure a population once it gets out of control, so I'm looking into the alchemical cures that have been used recently. Easier to stockpile and transport ingredients than powerful people, after all.”
“Fair point, but what makes you think you'll find the answers you're looking for here?”
“If I don't, then I'll at least find something that will point me to the right answers. And besides, Do you honestly expect me to believe the formulae aren't kept here? Having them accessible may lose you a little money, but having them locked away where nobody can find them could completely kill a market.”
“Well done,” she said, filing the form in another drawer. “You pass, although we technically could keep the formulae in a separate section that the typical trader couldn't access.”
She clapped her hands, the sound echoing unnaturally throughout the chamber, and a statue peeled itself away from the wall behind her. The golem, Jeron realized, thudded forward and halted just behind her.
“Take our guest into the archives,” the woman said, turning to look up at the living stone. “Section four, subsection three. He has four hours to research before you bring him back.”
The golem grunted, a hollow groaning sound, and motioned for Jeron to follow.
“Stay with the guide,” the receptionist ordered. “Their default instructions include removing anyone who strays into areas they haven't been invited into, and they can be a lot faster than they look.”
“Got it,” Jeron said, turning to follow the lumbering accountant. “Lead the way.”
The golem led him deep into the building, through rooms filled with shelves and tables. More than once, he had to sidestep a gnome or a dwarf with stacks of scrolls so tall they couldn't see where they were walking, and he could swear he saw a wheeled golem zip across the hall at one point. Finally, they stopped in an unmarked room, which looked almost exactly like the ones they had already passed through. The golem gestured to a section of the wall, and the indicated shelves began to glow with a pulsating blue color.
“The focus of my research is a plague from about twenty years ago,” he said, turning to face the statue. “Any chance you can narrow that down a bit?”
The golem shrugged before gesturing to the wall again. The illuminated shelves did not change.
“Right, on my own then. Let's see how these are organized.”
His search took almost an hour to truly get started, but once he determined the pattern by which the information was stored, he was off. Books held verified accounts of events as recorded by city officials, merchants, and adventuring groups, which had all been corroborated by third parties. Scrolls with a blue end cap held accounts which matched the established timelines but could not be fully verified, such as the accounts of a group called The Dawn Star, which had claimed to have killed a necromancer responsible for an outbreak of Crushing Syndrome some sixty years ago. Accounts which were found to have possible merit but did not line up with the official account were written in scrolls with a red end cap.
Jeron sat down with a small stack of books, scanning each before setting it aside and taking the next. He jumped decades at a time, clearing the gaps between major disease outbreaks each time, until finally, he found it. Almost twenty years prior, the city of Varien about a month's travel bowlward, an outbreak of Leadbone. Admittedly, there wasn't much to go on. The disease was almost always fatal, and was magical in origin. Little was recorded about the cure, and nothing at all about the alchemist who discovered it. The scrolls, red and blue markings alike, shared in the dearth of information, and Jeron suspected the information had been deliberately withheld.
As he began returning the books to their shelves, the golem grunted, signaling the end of his time in the archives. Jeron gestured to the books, and the golem nodded, allowing him to finish returning them before it lead him back to the front desk. It returned to its place along the back wall as the receptionist sat back up from her search through yet another drawer.
“Find everything you needed?” she asked.
“Not quite, but I did get some clues. Quick question, if you have a minute,” he added, glancing at the sunlight streaming in through the bowlward window.
“Go on.”
“If I wanted to join a caravan headed toward Varien, who would I speak to?”
“Caravan offices are near the dawnward wall, about three streets from the gates. You'd have to ask about the schedules there.”
“Thank you very much,” Jeron said, bowing slightly. “You have been more helpful than you realize.”
“Tell that to my boss, maybe I'll get a raise.”
Jeron laughed, and was soon on his way home. His notes were folded and tucked into a bag at his waist, and he puzzled over the questions that had arisen in his research. Why was that plague so poorly documented? Was it even the right plague in the first place? The questions swirled in his mind, but above all of them, one rose to the top.
What do we call ourselves?
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Seriously, do what the title says. Local libraries are the best source of information you have, because if you can't find something online, the librarian will often know where to direct your search. They're also a great place to play D&D if nobody can host. Just be sure to keep your celebrations to a low roar.

Hi.

A few days ago, I finished this awesome game!
I'm not going to get into the stupid controversy of people who didn't understand the game, the type of game, the story, etc. If you are one of those people, please don't continue reading.
https://preview.redd.it/jej2qeh3204d1.png?width=456&format=png&auto=webp&s=aedf86ddaa84d01c0fd7ed08c0eff471ff81b124
Yesterday I complete all the archivements and unlock the "Alternate narrators" option, so today I start a new game with this option and truly it's like another game because it literally change the perspective of who is telling the story, I really recommend to replay it a few more times to get the complete perspective of the story.
Have you replay it yet?

This is my first fic that follows the anime and focuses on the relationship between Ash's Pikachu and Dawn's Buneary that started in the Diamond and Pearl series.
I'm currently posting chapters on Fanfiction.net and Archive of Our Own. For the latter, I've commissioned each chapter to get artwork or even something else. The commissions are featured at the end of each chapter with proper credit given to the artist including their preferred accounts.
New chapters released around every Saturday (unless I'm taking a break at which point I will announce it in the story).
As of 06/01/2024, this story is still being updated. The story is uploaded first to Fanfiction.net and then later to AO3 when the chapter's commission is finished.
Rated T.
Fanfiction. net: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14149212/1/About-Her
Archive of Our Own: https://archiveofourown.org/works/46410670/chapters/116850952

SO close to getting a gold medal...

At the very end of TWMF, Kvothe has gained exactly 20 talents from the bursar, he is surrounded by friends, and he says that he will lose both of those soon.

“Money in my pocket for the first time in my life. Surrounded by friends. That’s a good place to end for the night...... If we go much farther, things get dark again.”

"For Wrongful Apprehension of the Arcane not leading to injury of another the offending student may be"

• fined no more than twenty talents...
  • I tore open the heavy envelope and poured its contents into my hand: two gleaming gold marks worth ten talents each.
• whipped no more than ten times...
  • It was only three lashes, after all.
  • Six lashes this time.
  • third time pays for all
• suspended from the Arcanum, or expelled from the University.
  • I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in.

Kvothe will trick a demon and kill an angel to gain and keep his heart's desire.

Kvothe had gone looking for his heart’s desire. He had to trick a demon to get it. But once it rested in his hand, he was forced to fight an angel to keep it.

Kvothe's heart's desire is for the power to get revenge against the Chandrian.

I want revenge against the Chandrian.... to become so powerful that no one will ever be able to hurt me again.

Kvothe will steal secret magics from the university.

He stole secret magics from the University. That’s why they threw him out, you know.
So Kvothe uses a dark magic that he found locked away in a secret book in the University.

These are the dangerous, old, forgotten secrets hidden behind the four-plate-door.

There were other locked doors in the University, places where dangerous things were kept, where old and forgotten secrets slept: silent and hidden... But they all paled in comparison to the four-plate door.
I wanted to get inside so badly I could taste it. It probably shows a perverse element of my personality that even though I was finally inside the Archives, surrounded by endless secrets, that I was drawn to the one locked door I had found.

Devi seems to want to get to the four-plate door even more than Kvothe. Since they seek the same thing, it makes sense that she would be the 'demon' he tricks to gain this secret knowledge and power.

“That information would be worth quite a bit to me,” she said overcasually. Though she tried to hide it, I could see a fierce, lean hunger in her eyes.
They don’t call her Demon Devi for nothing

This will result in Kvothe being brought up on the horns for Wrongful Apprehension of the Arcane, with Hemme as Chancellor.

As admissions approached, Master Herma remained weak and fevered. So it was with a knot of sour dread in my stomach that I prepared for my first admissions interview with Hemme as Chancellor.

Kvothe has his heart's desire, he has tricked a 'demon' to get it, but he must kill an angel to keep it. Demons aren't real, and I think angels aren't real either. UNPOPULAR TINFOIL: I believe the 9 angels from Skarpi's story are based on the 7 Chandrian plus Andan and Ordal, just like on Nina's pottery. Skarpi is a bit of a liar, a rumormonger, and his stories are only mostly true.
THEORY: Nina's pottery depicts all nine angels trapping Encanis. : KingkillerChronicle (reddit.com)