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I’m no longer a twin mom (tw)
2024.05.28 03:24 imeanuh_says I’m no longer a twin mom (tw)
POSSIBLE TRIGGER WARNING
THIS IS A REALLY LONG POST
Hi.
After 2 years of trying for a 2nd baby, I (37f) became pregnant this past November via IUI on the first try, gratefully. Six weeks later we found out I was carrying twin girls! My husband (37m) and I were beyond shocked and so happy. I always had this idea that the men from my ethnic region only produce boys. I know it sounds nuts but the year my son was born (2021), a bunch of girls I grew up with (whom were the same ethnic background), all were pregnant & expecting baby boys! I was excited that our family would be complete after this pregnancy.
Neither my husband nor I have twins in our families, so this was a new exciting experience for everyone. People were already getting sweet gifts for the girls, my mom knitted two blankets, and my in-laws bought them matching dresses; I was so grateful for everyone for their excitement & joy, and just overall love for our family.
My pregnancy was great. Gratefully I had no morning sickness, the only issue I was having very vivid dreams. With my son, I gained about 100 lbs. & had IUGR so I was determined to stay fit - it took me over 2 years to lose the baby weight and more. I was safely exercising, eating right and just generally taking care of myself, more than the first time. My babies were healthy. I read the twins triplets book, started shopping for some clothes, matching cribs, car seats, & picked a beautiful wallpaper for their nursery. Every doctor, MFM, nurse, sono techs, all said everything was great; absolutely no concerns. Just 2 weeks prior,the pediatric cardiologist said everything was perfect.
Our lives forever changed on April 04, 2024. I was 24w+1d and getting ready to get my nails & eyebrows done, as j was going to host a fun dinner party for my immediate in-laws. I started feeling a little pain in the lower left side of my back, but I figured all was good. With my first, I had a ‘sunny side up’ delivery and it was brutal. All of a sudden, the pain intensified so quickly I was in labor.
My husband called 911 and I got in the ambulance screaming ‘it’s too soon!!! Not my girls!!!’ So many of my neighbors saw& were so concerned.
At 11:32 AM, my baby A popped out. She was already gone the second she came out. She was purple & blue, no cry, no movement…nothing. I kept screaming in the ambulance that she’s out and she’s dead, she’s not moving. It felt like they thought I was just complaining about early contractions & bullshitting. I kept screaming to them & was in such shock. I wished I held her and I will also regret it. There was no one with me while I gave birth. All of them were in the front. My husband was driving separately and I wish I had a person holding my hand.
Four minutes later, my Baby B was born. She actually came out in her sac so I had no idea she was in there or what just came outta me. Both babies were barely one pound. They fit in our palms.
In the ER, it felt like there was 13579 doctors and nurses in there. So many people were trying to talk to me, but I couldn’t stop screaming about my girls. This was probably when they gave a lot of Ativan to chill.
The doctors worked so hard to revive Baby A, but she was gone the second she came into this world. The NICU doctors said without saying it’s time to say goodbye later in the evening. When we went to see her,I thought she was still alive as I was on so much AtivanI was so out of my mind & not being able to accept the reality.
I held her so tight, I kissed her so many times and got to do skin to skin; I was in denial. When she started getting cold, it hit me she was really gone. She became ice cold and I could not believe my baby died.
I never once got to hear her voice. I never got to give her a bath, change a diaper, feed her anything, or put a bow on her head. Don’t know if anyone has ever felt this, but for no reason I just felt closer to Baby A when pregnant. In my head, she was going to be my responsible one, the protector of her siblings. Baby B was going to be my fiesty, hippie-dippy baby. She was protecting her sister.
My OBGYN said my case was the most unusual and rare case she’s ever dealt with, with 40 years under her belt. Why me. God, why me…
By the grace of God, Baby B survived, and the doctors said she survived only bc she came out in her sac. She’s staying in the NICU until she gets to 40 weeks.
I love Baby B. She’s doing so well in the NICU and all of the nurses and doctors always comment on how cute she is, but I think they say that to everyone.
I feel absolutely nothing towards Baby B. I suppose I love her & want her to survive, but I don’t want anything to do with her. I’m completely avoidant…like seeing her & touching her gives me the ick and my skin starts to crawl. She looks so much like her twin and it kills me. We bought my son two baby dolls to introduce him to the idea, so now he says Baby A’s name all the time. I die a little every time that happens. I’m so ashamed that I couldn’t save their sister. I apologize to her every time I see her. I apologize to my son daily too.
I cannot handle this pain. All I do is sit in the bedroom with my sadness. I’ve had a rough upbringing but this pain hits like nothing else. I would go through everything I dealt with everyday if it meant that she’d come back to me. I’ve shut out most of my friends and family and I barely step outside my house. I’m out of control. I drink a bottle of wine & plus some everyday, carving my baby girls name on my skin with a blade, wasting lots of money, and most embarrassingly, I’ve been begging my husband for sex everyday, multiple times a day, and we’re drifting apart bc of it. I’m trying to be respectful of his boundaries but the urge is so strong like a person dealing with a deadly addiction. This is definitely not the usual me.
I don’t know how to handle this pain or generally function in life. I’m going back to work tomorrow and I’m so scared to (virtually) face my colleagues that knows what happened. I can’t face anyone bc I’m so fucking ashamed I couldn’t save her. I apologize to everyone that I broke their excitement and brought sadness into their lives. I gained about 30 lbs. at 24w but then gained another 15 after birth. I hate everything about me.
I am in therapy, have a psychiatrist, and attend support group meetings. I don’t know how to recover from this. I am empty & completely dead inside. My heart is dead and so am I.
If you made it to the end, I sincerely thank you for taking the time to read my story.
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THIS IS A REALLY LONG POST
Hi.
After 2 years of trying for a 2nd baby, I (37f) became pregnant this past November via IUI on the first try, gratefully. Six weeks later we found out I was carrying twin girls! My husband (37m) and I were beyond shocked and so happy. I always had this idea that the men from my ethnic region only produce boys. I know it sounds nuts but the year my son was born (2021), a bunch of girls I grew up with (whom were the same ethnic background), all were pregnant & expecting baby boys! I was excited that our family would be complete after this pregnancy.
Neither my husband nor I have twins in our families, so this was a new exciting experience for everyone. People were already getting sweet gifts for the girls, my mom knitted two blankets, and my in-laws bought them matching dresses; I was so grateful for everyone for their excitement & joy, and just overall love for our family.
My pregnancy was great. Gratefully I had no morning sickness, the only issue I was having very vivid dreams. With my son, I gained about 100 lbs. & had IUGR so I was determined to stay fit - it took me over 2 years to lose the baby weight and more. I was safely exercising, eating right and just generally taking care of myself, more than the first time. My babies were healthy. I read the twins triplets book, started shopping for some clothes, matching cribs, car seats, & picked a beautiful wallpaper for their nursery. Every doctor, MFM, nurse, sono techs, all said everything was great; absolutely no concerns. Just 2 weeks prior,the pediatric cardiologist said everything was perfect.
Our lives forever changed on April 04, 2024. I was 24w+1d and getting ready to get my nails & eyebrows done, as j was going to host a fun dinner party for my immediate in-laws. I started feeling a little pain in the lower left side of my back, but I figured all was good. With my first, I had a ‘sunny side up’ delivery and it was brutal. All of a sudden, the pain intensified so quickly I was in labor.
My husband called 911 and I got in the ambulance screaming ‘it’s too soon!!! Not my girls!!!’ So many of my neighbors saw& were so concerned.
At 11:32 AM, my baby A popped out. She was already gone the second she came out. She was purple & blue, no cry, no movement…nothing. I kept screaming in the ambulance that she’s out and she’s dead, she’s not moving. It felt like they thought I was just complaining about early contractions & bullshitting. I kept screaming to them & was in such shock. I wished I held her and I will also regret it. There was no one with me while I gave birth. All of them were in the front. My husband was driving separately and I wish I had a person holding my hand.
Four minutes later, my Baby B was born. She actually came out in her sac so I had no idea she was in there or what just came outta me. Both babies were barely one pound. They fit in our palms.
In the ER, it felt like there was 13579 doctors and nurses in there. So many people were trying to talk to me, but I couldn’t stop screaming about my girls. This was probably when they gave a lot of Ativan to chill.
The doctors worked so hard to revive Baby A, but she was gone the second she came into this world. The NICU doctors said without saying it’s time to say goodbye later in the evening. When we went to see her,I thought she was still alive as I was on so much AtivanI was so out of my mind & not being able to accept the reality.
I held her so tight, I kissed her so many times and got to do skin to skin; I was in denial. When she started getting cold, it hit me she was really gone. She became ice cold and I could not believe my baby died.
I never once got to hear her voice. I never got to give her a bath, change a diaper, feed her anything, or put a bow on her head. Don’t know if anyone has ever felt this, but for no reason I just felt closer to Baby A when pregnant. In my head, she was going to be my responsible one, the protector of her siblings. Baby B was going to be my fiesty, hippie-dippy baby. She was protecting her sister.
My OBGYN said my case was the most unusual and rare case she’s ever dealt with, with 40 years under her belt. Why me. God, why me…
By the grace of God, Baby B survived, and the doctors said she survived only bc she came out in her sac. She’s staying in the NICU until she gets to 40 weeks.
I love Baby B. She’s doing so well in the NICU and all of the nurses and doctors always comment on how cute she is, but I think they say that to everyone.
I feel absolutely nothing towards Baby B. I suppose I love her & want her to survive, but I don’t want anything to do with her. I’m completely avoidant…like seeing her & touching her gives me the ick and my skin starts to crawl. She looks so much like her twin and it kills me. We bought my son two baby dolls to introduce him to the idea, so now he says Baby A’s name all the time. I die a little every time that happens. I’m so ashamed that I couldn’t save their sister. I apologize to her every time I see her. I apologize to my son daily too.
I cannot handle this pain. All I do is sit in the bedroom with my sadness. I’ve had a rough upbringing but this pain hits like nothing else. I would go through everything I dealt with everyday if it meant that she’d come back to me. I’ve shut out most of my friends and family and I barely step outside my house. I’m out of control. I drink a bottle of wine & plus some everyday, carving my baby girls name on my skin with a blade, wasting lots of money, and most embarrassingly, I’ve been begging my husband for sex everyday, multiple times a day, and we’re drifting apart bc of it. I’m trying to be respectful of his boundaries but the urge is so strong like a person dealing with a deadly addiction. This is definitely not the usual me.
I don’t know how to handle this pain or generally function in life. I’m going back to work tomorrow and I’m so scared to (virtually) face my colleagues that knows what happened. I can’t face anyone bc I’m so fucking ashamed I couldn’t save her. I apologize to everyone that I broke their excitement and brought sadness into their lives. I gained about 30 lbs. at 24w but then gained another 15 after birth. I hate everything about me.
I am in therapy, have a psychiatrist, and attend support group meetings. I don’t know how to recover from this. I am empty & completely dead inside. My heart is dead and so am I.
If you made it to the end, I sincerely thank you for taking the time to read my story.
2024.05.28 03:19 Training_Orange7556 my gf says she loves me but it doesn’t seem that way
i don’t really know where to start with this, i guess it’s more of a rant than anything. it’s been playing on my mind for a long time because i told myself im being crazy and overthinking things. but ive started to notice so many things about the way my gf acts and it honestly makes me feel like im her least favourite person to be around.
me (21) and my gf (21) have been together for a little over a year now. a few months ago i started to notice that she doesn’t respond to me during conversations, and when she does, it’s basic responses like “yeah”, “hmm”. i often stop talking mid sentence and she doesn’t notice, yet when i repeat myself she sometimes says “yeah i heard you the first time” despite not responding the first time. she doesn’t laugh when i tell jokes, or laugh when i find things funny. i brought this up to her and she claimed that she isn’t good at making conversation and she will try to be better. fast forward to now and im facing the same issue, except the same behaviour is now over text as well (we live around 2 hours away so texting is common). leaving me on read often, giving one word replies to everything. this might not seem crazy, but if i were to do this, she would start going off about how i don’t love her anymore, which has happened.
aside from this, ive seen her hang out with her friends and she has so much fun with them. non stop talking, laughing. however, when we spend time together, she hardly ever talks or laughs. i remember last week she laughed in front of one of our friends and i was so shocked because it had been so long since i had heard her laugh so genuinely. when i’m with her in person she is always texting multiple people and having these super long and in depth conversations with each of them, every day. one person sent her a 2 minute voice message and a series of long paragraphs, and i watched my gf reply to every single detail in those paragraphs. but if i talk about anything, no matter what it is, it’s one word or one sentence for the whole thing. or if we’re in person sometimes she will just nod. also in group settings, she has often spoken over me mid-sentence in order to strike up a new conversation with someone else.
another thing about my gf, which we have spoken about many times, is her extreme mood swings. my gf has a big habit of talking to those closest to her (me, her parents, her siblings) in a really shitty tone. she has called me stupid before, constantly roles her eyes, and just seems generally angry. i could go on about this and how badly it has affected me, but we’d be here a long time. she has cried a lot over this and said that she can’t control it and that she wants to change so badly because she doesn’t want it to affect me negatively. i will admit that her bad moods have gotten a lot less extreme in the past couple of months, but they’re very much still there, and are seemingly now exclusive to just me.
with all this being said, i really can’t tell if she likes me very much. i should mention that she recently told her parents that she sees herself marrying me. she says she loves me and that i’m such a kind person and she’s so comfortable around me, but it still feels like she doesn’t really find me that interesting as a person. we don’t have fun, when i tell jokes or laugh, she just has a straight face. she says she wants to change for me so that i’m not negatively affected by her bad moods, and she has, but then she acts like this instead. when we first got into a relationship we were totally in love and i could tell she really liked me, she would always go out of her way to spend as much time as possible with me, and get me alone. but now i feel like she’s gotten to know me, the novelty has worn off or something, and i’m nothing special. she loves me, not because she enjoys spending time with me, but because i provide security and comfort whenever she needs it? i’ve mentioned to her a couple of times that i think im an uninteresting person, and thats when she says im funny and interesting. but her actions say otherwise.
how do i approach this? in the past when ive mentioned stuff like this, she has kinda had this “idk what you’re talking about” kind of attitude. or she claims that she’s not very good at making conversation. she claims she’s just comfortable with me. i think she just sees it as a “not needing to fill the silence” type of thing. i don’t want her to force herself to act a certain way around me, but i just can’t wrap my head around the fact that im the one person she can no longer hold a conversation with. the one person who she doesn’t laugh with. how are we supposed to get married if it’s like this 1 year in?
there is a 10% of the time when she’s not like this. and that’s what i cling to. i miss the person she used to be, we were perfect for each other. every now and then i can still feel that, but it’s so rare and i just want it back
TL;DR my gf says she wants to marry me but she hardly talks to me and i feel like she hates me :)
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me (21) and my gf (21) have been together for a little over a year now. a few months ago i started to notice that she doesn’t respond to me during conversations, and when she does, it’s basic responses like “yeah”, “hmm”. i often stop talking mid sentence and she doesn’t notice, yet when i repeat myself she sometimes says “yeah i heard you the first time” despite not responding the first time. she doesn’t laugh when i tell jokes, or laugh when i find things funny. i brought this up to her and she claimed that she isn’t good at making conversation and she will try to be better. fast forward to now and im facing the same issue, except the same behaviour is now over text as well (we live around 2 hours away so texting is common). leaving me on read often, giving one word replies to everything. this might not seem crazy, but if i were to do this, she would start going off about how i don’t love her anymore, which has happened.
aside from this, ive seen her hang out with her friends and she has so much fun with them. non stop talking, laughing. however, when we spend time together, she hardly ever talks or laughs. i remember last week she laughed in front of one of our friends and i was so shocked because it had been so long since i had heard her laugh so genuinely. when i’m with her in person she is always texting multiple people and having these super long and in depth conversations with each of them, every day. one person sent her a 2 minute voice message and a series of long paragraphs, and i watched my gf reply to every single detail in those paragraphs. but if i talk about anything, no matter what it is, it’s one word or one sentence for the whole thing. or if we’re in person sometimes she will just nod. also in group settings, she has often spoken over me mid-sentence in order to strike up a new conversation with someone else.
another thing about my gf, which we have spoken about many times, is her extreme mood swings. my gf has a big habit of talking to those closest to her (me, her parents, her siblings) in a really shitty tone. she has called me stupid before, constantly roles her eyes, and just seems generally angry. i could go on about this and how badly it has affected me, but we’d be here a long time. she has cried a lot over this and said that she can’t control it and that she wants to change so badly because she doesn’t want it to affect me negatively. i will admit that her bad moods have gotten a lot less extreme in the past couple of months, but they’re very much still there, and are seemingly now exclusive to just me.
with all this being said, i really can’t tell if she likes me very much. i should mention that she recently told her parents that she sees herself marrying me. she says she loves me and that i’m such a kind person and she’s so comfortable around me, but it still feels like she doesn’t really find me that interesting as a person. we don’t have fun, when i tell jokes or laugh, she just has a straight face. she says she wants to change for me so that i’m not negatively affected by her bad moods, and she has, but then she acts like this instead. when we first got into a relationship we were totally in love and i could tell she really liked me, she would always go out of her way to spend as much time as possible with me, and get me alone. but now i feel like she’s gotten to know me, the novelty has worn off or something, and i’m nothing special. she loves me, not because she enjoys spending time with me, but because i provide security and comfort whenever she needs it? i’ve mentioned to her a couple of times that i think im an uninteresting person, and thats when she says im funny and interesting. but her actions say otherwise.
how do i approach this? in the past when ive mentioned stuff like this, she has kinda had this “idk what you’re talking about” kind of attitude. or she claims that she’s not very good at making conversation. she claims she’s just comfortable with me. i think she just sees it as a “not needing to fill the silence” type of thing. i don’t want her to force herself to act a certain way around me, but i just can’t wrap my head around the fact that im the one person she can no longer hold a conversation with. the one person who she doesn’t laugh with. how are we supposed to get married if it’s like this 1 year in?
there is a 10% of the time when she’s not like this. and that’s what i cling to. i miss the person she used to be, we were perfect for each other. every now and then i can still feel that, but it’s so rare and i just want it back
TL;DR my gf says she wants to marry me but she hardly talks to me and i feel like she hates me :)
2024.05.28 03:16 Humble_Fan6347 The Birth of the Kendu legend
The Birth of the Kendu Legend
It started with a whisper. Carried on the wind, barely audible. But for those who caught it, it was a signal, a great sign of a new dawn and a new legend. The alpha was undeniable. A mysterious connection to an ancient legend called Shytoshi who had promised enlightenment at the conclusion of the journey to the faithful.There was something breathing in the shadows. A new hero was to emerge, Kendu Miazaki, shrouded in a cloak to obscure his true identity.
The wind carried that legend, the Messiah, across the landscape and those who heard him speak carried his words in their hands like the infant saviour. This legend created by Miazaki had the power to wrap itself around the hearts of those who believed in the great prophecy.
These hearts became warriors. Dedicated to cementing the folklore and ushering it into being. They put their fucking helmets on and tightened the straps. They were ready to go into battle.
At the foot of the hill, amongst his small following of PFP's with helmets, Martini in hand, Miazaki stood looking down upon the small gathering of faithfuls - "I am one man. I am no one special. I am replaceable. If you unearthed me you would be disappointed as I am just a man" The words sounded eerily familiar. Right?
Who was this new messiah among us? Where had he been for 2.5 years? What was his purpose? Why did he return? And was that the sweet scent of Jager bombs on his breath?
At the foot of the great mountain, loyalists assembled, they saw the clouds shimmering at the peaks. "One step at a time. You $KENDU it" said Miazaki. "The 1 billion market cap party will happen when we reach the summit". His voice shrouded in a thick Australian drawl which seemed at complete odds with this type of prophecy narrative.
As the army set forth on foot, their eyes on the peak of the mountain, their hearts cradling the great prophecy, they had one goal in mind. Moon this bitch. Hard.
The journey was arduous, each step a test of endurance and resolve. Through rugged terrain and treacherous paths, jeet dumps, accidental maestro accidents, wen boys and moon bois, Miazaki led his band of loyalists with unwavering determination. The wind carried their whispers, a symphony of hope and determination, as they pressed on toward the summit.
They battled fierce beasts that lurked in the shadows, scammers, dips, dumps, long consolidation periods, their roars echoing through the valleys. They weathered storms that threatened to tear them asunder, their spirits unbroken by the fury of nature.
Many shady figures emerged, posing as the faithful. Offering to lend their armies to the cause in return for a 1% supply of Kendu tokens.
But Miazaki stood strong and saw these people of perceived influence as they were, tricksters with synthetic armies without heart and conviction, who would run at the first sight of resistence. Some of the Kendu army questioned Miazaki, saw these people of influence as a viable and easy option to lessen their workload on the way to the summit.
Miazaki stood before his doubters. "Go back down the mountain to the Solana cesspool from wence you came. We do not need those with Jeet hearts and minds among us". Challenged by their lack of faith, these few jeets who lacked the Kendu Attitude fell to their knees, cucked each other, slipped and tumbled into the Solana Swamp or back at base camp, never to be seen again"
At a time of need, one great titan joined the journey, Mike O'Hearn, his ripped organic body shaming the fat ass keyboard warriors and giving them renewed faith. Those who saw this Demi God were secretly beguiled by him, even if they couldn't admit it to themselves.
Even a Crowned Prince joined the army, bowing before Miazaki and offering his unwavering loyalty.
The now large army came across a small whining gollum like creature, Larky Poos, who lived halfway up the mountain, scraping pots of gold from others who had tried to climb the great mountain before.
"I'm glad you ave joined us" bellowed Pete, a loyal Kendu warrior.
"Peeete! What the heck??" cried Larky Poos, as Pete placed an extremely large helmet on Larky Poos tiny little jeet skull.
Resistance was futile. The legend was already too great to deny. And soon little Larky Poos joined the crusade and for the first time, without a secret bag of gold for his efforts.
Throughout the journey, Miazaki remained steadfast, a beacon of courage and resilience for his followers. With each passing obstacle, his legend grew, his name whispered in awe and reverence by those who witnessed his deeds. And in turn his army grew, assembling to 5000 strong. But there was a storm or resistance brewing that made some falter.
Miazaki turned to his army. "One step at a time, one heart at a time. And so the prophecy shall be deemed infallible. For each heart beats as one. A sentient heart. An organic legend borne of your blood, sweat and tears. Beating so loud through the land, that is has awoken the ancient spirits".
One faltering loyalist cried out. "What's next???! We need...."
But before the words could fall from his mouth, Miazaki bellowed. "There is no one coming to save you Jeet!"
Miazaki looked at all his children...
"You are all jeets"
His eyes cast across them, landing in particular on Larky Poos.
"What the Heck??" blubbered Larky Poos.
"Everyone has their price, Larky Poos" Miazaki continued... "You will not all be here when we reach the peak. You are all replaceable. We shall see who carries the spirit of the five Inus once we reach the peak".
After some time, the arduous journey saw the weak crumble. Jeeting themselves back down to the valley of Dead spirits, Solana Valley. Others who could not take another step, joined the cuck circus on the mountainside. So much cucking that a case or two of Covid 19 broke out and threatened to strike Miazaki down. But those who cradled the prophecy and aspired to be part of the great legend, continued, one foot in front of the other towards their ultimate destiny, and carried Miazaki until his health returned.
At last, they reached the mid point of the great mountain, its peak obscured by clouds that danced like wraiths in the sky. With a final glance at his comrades, Miazaki raised his Martini high, a symbol of their unwavering determination.
"All of you still here are great Kendu Chads! And for that I will reward you with a equally great utility. You are about to have your little jeet minds blown" he declared, his voice ringing out with a newfound strength.
As they climbed higher and higher, the air grew thin and the winds howled with ferocious intensity. Yet still, they pressed on, fuelled by the belief that they were destined for greatness.
And then, after what seemed like an eternity, they reached the summit, the clouds parting to reveal a breathtaking vista that stretched out before them. In that moment, they knew that they had achieved the impossible, that they had fulfilled the Kendu prophecy that had guided them from the very beginning.
With tears of joy streaming down their faces, Miazaki and his loyalists stood atop the mountain, their hearts filled with a sense of accomplishment that transcended words. For they knew that they had proven themselves worthy of the legend that had brought them together, and that they would forever be remembered as the heroes who had dared to defy fate itself.
A bright light emerged from the skies and Shytoshi himself descended from the clouds.
"Welcome to the promise land, Kendu Chads. I have been waiting for you"
2024.05.28 03:14 PoetrySmart3771 had a beautiful time with friends… just worked through the strongest urge of my life
i am visiting my hometown for the weekend and just had a beautiful time with friends. this memorial day weekend i have been very active and circumstantially probably under eating (very busy and on other people’s schedules). i felt weirdly proud this morning and then ashamed that i was proud.
for context i almost lost my life due to anorexia a little over three years ago. i genuinely don’t know if the people in my life know that it was that serious as i met them after beginning recovery (.. and i don’t want to come off like im bragging in the ED olympics. besides, i absolutely cannot go back to that and really shouldn’t be dwelling on my sickest moments)
i’ve worked so incredibly hard to get to where i am today. i have a happy and healthy relationship, just started graduate school for my dream career, and have been healthily reintegrating my sport. i discovered my love for creating and cooking and consider myself an artist! i’m about to move in with the love of my life in a beautiful place
and yet
when my friends had to leave i returned to the basement to clean up. having the strongest urge to >purge< even though i really haven’t successfully done so in my history. the conditions were perfect and no one would have heard me. ive been mentally listing all of the reasons i shouldn’t and the shallowest ones (my teeth 🙄) seem to be keeping me afloat for now.
i literally have never ever had an internal voice so violent and cruel. i know that >purging< is a behavior that is really difficult to stop …. so i have been really trying not to start.
and for some reason after solidifying i wasnt going to do it… i saw the corner of the scale poking under the couch. i bet my parents hid it down here (they used to weigh me in on during the very beginning of my recovery. we actually didn’t own a scale prior to my diagnosis) stepped on it. cried. but still didn’t engage … i guess thats a plus
perhaps change and a loss of control also coincide these beautiful events in my life. just feeling very isolated and overwhelmed
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for context i almost lost my life due to anorexia a little over three years ago. i genuinely don’t know if the people in my life know that it was that serious as i met them after beginning recovery (.. and i don’t want to come off like im bragging in the ED olympics. besides, i absolutely cannot go back to that and really shouldn’t be dwelling on my sickest moments)
i’ve worked so incredibly hard to get to where i am today. i have a happy and healthy relationship, just started graduate school for my dream career, and have been healthily reintegrating my sport. i discovered my love for creating and cooking and consider myself an artist! i’m about to move in with the love of my life in a beautiful place
and yet
when my friends had to leave i returned to the basement to clean up. having the strongest urge to >purge< even though i really haven’t successfully done so in my history. the conditions were perfect and no one would have heard me. ive been mentally listing all of the reasons i shouldn’t and the shallowest ones (my teeth 🙄) seem to be keeping me afloat for now.
i literally have never ever had an internal voice so violent and cruel. i know that >purging< is a behavior that is really difficult to stop …. so i have been really trying not to start.
and for some reason after solidifying i wasnt going to do it… i saw the corner of the scale poking under the couch. i bet my parents hid it down here (they used to weigh me in on during the very beginning of my recovery. we actually didn’t own a scale prior to my diagnosis) stepped on it. cried. but still didn’t engage … i guess thats a plus
perhaps change and a loss of control also coincide these beautiful events in my life. just feeling very isolated and overwhelmed
2024.05.28 03:06 Ok-Ingenuity9833 Marry Me Macbeth - A deceptive 4th wall breaking phycological horror pitch
"Marry Me Macbeth" would be advertised as an unpublished or "lost" film that finally gets to see the light of day. At first glance, it'd seem to be about a smooth and jazzy Romantic Comedy from the early 1990s, known as "Marry Me Macbeth," with a simple but enjoyable story. It would tell two different narratives at once: a surface-level story and a chilling story below the surface that we have to pick apart for ourselves.
Surface Plot: Macbeth is a damsel mourning her awful minimum wage job, so she comes up with the idea to find the perfect husband. Unable to bear the burden of paying her rent any longer, she believes that marrying him would solve her financial troubles. She quickly finds a good man and rushes the relationship, portraying herself as a simple housewife and discussing a wedding even though they've only been acquainted for a couple of days. The entire story unfolds over a week, requiring careful pacing before she somehow convinces this man to propose to her.
Hidden Plot: At the beginning of the film, we get pre-debut promotional interviews from the 90s with the stars of the film, hyping its greatness. In reality, the film we are watching was made in a haunted studio, and tragic events occurred during its production. The producers ignored the location's tragic events and attempted to complete the movie there due to cost constraints. Chaos ensues as the creation of the film progresses. Midway through, there's an extended cut of the pre-debut promotional interviews with the film's stars discussing their strange experiences on set. As the surface-level story progresses, minor eerie events and details occur throughout "Marry Me Macbeth," unrelated to the plot, such as visual and auditory malfunctions and apparitions briefly appearing in scenes without the protagonist acknowledging them, almost as if they're not part of the movie.
How it Blends Together: The idea of this movie is to create a deceptively horrific film that masquerades as an unpublished romcom but is actually a horror movie about a haunted film project made in a studio with a history of strange occurrences and bad luck.
Cinematography: The film would feel liminal, giving us only wide shots of interior areas in very specific angles, similar to liminal space photos. We'd never see any outdoor areas; the time of day would only be indicated by light behind windows or the absence of light. The camera would exclusively provide wide shots for scenes that are a part of the surface level plot, showing fully what is happening in a location, but it would create a strange sense of unease by focusing more on the background than the protagonist. For example, the camera might be positioned on the wall, presenting a wide shot facing Macbeth doing the dishes, with the living room behind her pitch black and an indistinguishable figure lurking. These eerie details should never dominate the screen entirely; they should be subtle enough that viewers can never fully get used to them but can vaguely perceive them. Even when the protagonist is in the room, it should always feel like the entity is focusing on the audience specifically, as if it's looking through the lens of the screen. Another way to instigate fear is to change the angle of the scene when nothing unnatural is happening, hiding the corridor from view when there's nothing unknown to be seen, or the audience is no longer intended to pay attention to that area.
Prevalent Scenes Throughout the Film:
Dishwashing Scene: The camera is against the wall, facing Macbeth as she does the dishes for her boyfriend before he comes home from work. Behind her is a dark corridor leading to the living room, with a face barely peeking out of the corner, or something that looks like a face, but it's too grainy and distant to describe fully, especially in the darkness. Before we become too fearful, the angle switches, hiding the corridor from view as the man enters to greet his future wife.
Date Night: Macbeth is having a date with her man at the table. The scene highlights the awkwardness of Macbeth waiting for her date, having no one to converse with while jazz plays in the background and extras engage in their own conversations. In the background, there's a symmetrical corridor leading down a dark hallway for no apparent reason. Something would move into the doorframe just outside the light, without physically moving itself. It would seem to have a face, but it's indistinguishable between male or female, and it's too far from the camera to identify clearly. When Macbeth's future husband finally arrives, the camera angle switches, offering a different perspective on their date.
Murdered Macbeth: This scene would show Macbeth performing in a slightly unfinished scene when suddenly a spotlight crashes down on her head, burning her vividly. She starts screaming wildly and running around the set as the camera crew panics. It is implied that this incident was the final blow that ended the film's production.
Bathroom Scene: Macbeth is cleaning the bathroom but leaves the shot to get supplies for an extended time period leaving us to feel like a child without a parent, Macbeth was the little comfort we had but now we don't even have her, there is a small compartment door on the wall beyond the corridor facing the bathroom, after 10-15 seconds of Macbeth being gone it slowly opens, so slowly in fact not a single sound can be heard from it but before it can open to the point we can see inside Macbeth returns back for the scene, as she begins cleaning the small door opens up quickly but the shot cuts off only showing it open half way revealing an eerie unhinged face that can barely be made out from the quick frame, and then it cuts to a normal version of the bathroom scene from the corridors perspective.
Ending: The film ends with a wide shot of an empty set, the fancy restaurant from the date night scene, dimly lit with a symmetrical corridor in the background. The apparition slowly creeps out of the corridor towards the camera, moving inhumanly. It whispers something in an indescribable voice, talking to the audience about how it will always be watching, how it will peel over our eyes with its sneaky fingers, even when we can't see it. Before the entity can be fully revealed, the film ends with the credits for the romcom "Marry Me Macbeth." The ending is ambiguous, leaving plenty of room for interpretation, as speculation is what keeps a film, or any media, alive.
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Surface Plot: Macbeth is a damsel mourning her awful minimum wage job, so she comes up with the idea to find the perfect husband. Unable to bear the burden of paying her rent any longer, she believes that marrying him would solve her financial troubles. She quickly finds a good man and rushes the relationship, portraying herself as a simple housewife and discussing a wedding even though they've only been acquainted for a couple of days. The entire story unfolds over a week, requiring careful pacing before she somehow convinces this man to propose to her.
Hidden Plot: At the beginning of the film, we get pre-debut promotional interviews from the 90s with the stars of the film, hyping its greatness. In reality, the film we are watching was made in a haunted studio, and tragic events occurred during its production. The producers ignored the location's tragic events and attempted to complete the movie there due to cost constraints. Chaos ensues as the creation of the film progresses. Midway through, there's an extended cut of the pre-debut promotional interviews with the film's stars discussing their strange experiences on set. As the surface-level story progresses, minor eerie events and details occur throughout "Marry Me Macbeth," unrelated to the plot, such as visual and auditory malfunctions and apparitions briefly appearing in scenes without the protagonist acknowledging them, almost as if they're not part of the movie.
How it Blends Together: The idea of this movie is to create a deceptively horrific film that masquerades as an unpublished romcom but is actually a horror movie about a haunted film project made in a studio with a history of strange occurrences and bad luck.
Cinematography: The film would feel liminal, giving us only wide shots of interior areas in very specific angles, similar to liminal space photos. We'd never see any outdoor areas; the time of day would only be indicated by light behind windows or the absence of light. The camera would exclusively provide wide shots for scenes that are a part of the surface level plot, showing fully what is happening in a location, but it would create a strange sense of unease by focusing more on the background than the protagonist. For example, the camera might be positioned on the wall, presenting a wide shot facing Macbeth doing the dishes, with the living room behind her pitch black and an indistinguishable figure lurking. These eerie details should never dominate the screen entirely; they should be subtle enough that viewers can never fully get used to them but can vaguely perceive them. Even when the protagonist is in the room, it should always feel like the entity is focusing on the audience specifically, as if it's looking through the lens of the screen. Another way to instigate fear is to change the angle of the scene when nothing unnatural is happening, hiding the corridor from view when there's nothing unknown to be seen, or the audience is no longer intended to pay attention to that area.
Prevalent Scenes Throughout the Film:
Dishwashing Scene: The camera is against the wall, facing Macbeth as she does the dishes for her boyfriend before he comes home from work. Behind her is a dark corridor leading to the living room, with a face barely peeking out of the corner, or something that looks like a face, but it's too grainy and distant to describe fully, especially in the darkness. Before we become too fearful, the angle switches, hiding the corridor from view as the man enters to greet his future wife.
Date Night: Macbeth is having a date with her man at the table. The scene highlights the awkwardness of Macbeth waiting for her date, having no one to converse with while jazz plays in the background and extras engage in their own conversations. In the background, there's a symmetrical corridor leading down a dark hallway for no apparent reason. Something would move into the doorframe just outside the light, without physically moving itself. It would seem to have a face, but it's indistinguishable between male or female, and it's too far from the camera to identify clearly. When Macbeth's future husband finally arrives, the camera angle switches, offering a different perspective on their date.
Murdered Macbeth: This scene would show Macbeth performing in a slightly unfinished scene when suddenly a spotlight crashes down on her head, burning her vividly. She starts screaming wildly and running around the set as the camera crew panics. It is implied that this incident was the final blow that ended the film's production.
Bathroom Scene: Macbeth is cleaning the bathroom but leaves the shot to get supplies for an extended time period leaving us to feel like a child without a parent, Macbeth was the little comfort we had but now we don't even have her, there is a small compartment door on the wall beyond the corridor facing the bathroom, after 10-15 seconds of Macbeth being gone it slowly opens, so slowly in fact not a single sound can be heard from it but before it can open to the point we can see inside Macbeth returns back for the scene, as she begins cleaning the small door opens up quickly but the shot cuts off only showing it open half way revealing an eerie unhinged face that can barely be made out from the quick frame, and then it cuts to a normal version of the bathroom scene from the corridors perspective.
Ending: The film ends with a wide shot of an empty set, the fancy restaurant from the date night scene, dimly lit with a symmetrical corridor in the background. The apparition slowly creeps out of the corridor towards the camera, moving inhumanly. It whispers something in an indescribable voice, talking to the audience about how it will always be watching, how it will peel over our eyes with its sneaky fingers, even when we can't see it. Before the entity can be fully revealed, the film ends with the credits for the romcom "Marry Me Macbeth." The ending is ambiguous, leaving plenty of room for interpretation, as speculation is what keeps a film, or any media, alive.
2024.05.28 03:03 Spike_Flings Chapter 2: The Second Son Saga [Fantasy, - 5485 words]
This idea came to me in college and I've sort of played around with it over the years. I would appreciate any constructive criticism, especially focused on the prose and characters. This would be the introductory chapter of one of the main characters, Karl Klug, who is an important noble in his country. I hope you enjoy!
KARL 1
Three men stood beneath a great oak branch, hands bound and nooses pulled tight around their necks. The branches connected to a mighty tree, old as the mountains themselves. The men were all silent, as were the other corpses gently swinging in the morning breeze. The air was still cold from the dew, not yet banished by the still rising sun.
“If you have anything left to say, now would be the time.” Karl Klug, Lord of the Wald said as he eyed them with disgust from the back of his chestnut horse destrier. He sat tall in the saddle, his close cropped brown hair and clean shaven face a far cry from the ragged appearance of the condemned. His heavy, black, woolen cloak was pulled tight, the hood up to block out the wind. Under the cloak he wore a simple brown doublet, with a crest bearing the black tree on a green field that was the sigil of his house. Karl always made sure to represent House Klug when acting as Lord, as was his duty.
These men were thieves, rapists, and murderers. They attacked travelers on the roads of the Wald, and it was Karl’s duty, as Duke of the Wald and Lawspeaker to the King, to keep those roads safe. The law demanded only one punishment for their transgressions. Their fate would serve as a warning to other would-be bandits.
The first man, a stern face and hard eyes, said nothing, but spat on the ground. The second man, fat and whimpering, managed to speak out in between choked sobs “Please m’lord. Mercy! They made me do it!”
The last man, a boy no older than fifteen, barked at him to be quiet. “We’re done for Ozzy. Go to the Wainman with some dignity, would you?” Such bravery in one so young. What could he have become if he followed a different path?
With that, Karl nodded to Jorivs, his household Resolver, who pulled hard on the ropes, them each one by one into the air, sending them kicking and choking into the Beyond. The second one, Ozzy, screamed and begged for his mother before the rope cut him off. Jorivs tied the final line off to a stake, while Wolter, his barber-surgeon companion, scribbled something down in a book. “They go to their doom in all different spirits, yet they all dance the hangman’s jig just the same.” He said as he turned a page.
“Amazing the lessons they teach at Spierpont.” Jorvis chuckled as the last pair of legs stopped kicking. “Shame Lemba couldn’t join us.”
“The Elf has seen his fair share of death. Let him enjoy his peace.”
“I only jest, my lord.” Jorvis said as he took a sip from his canteen. He motioned for Wolter to take a drink, but the older man was too busy furiously scribbling in his notebook to notice.
Karl looked to the east. The dawn was still cresting the horizon. “I’m off to the woods. I will not be disturbed.” Matilda and the children will still be sleeping. Best not to wake them with my return.
His pages nodded and replied in unison “Yes my lord.” By Karl’s standing order, Jorvis was peeling the boots of the dead men, better they should shoe a pauper than rot on the condemned. Wolter sketched the hanging men in his book, taking special care to note the lolling tongues and soiled breeches. Jorvis had the boots in a loose pile when he pulled a knife and a small pouch from his belt. “The eyes,my lord?”
He nodded grimly. “Hain will have his due.” Jorvis took a small stool and set to work, all six organs removed in a few quick flashes of the blade. Jorvis placed the grim package in its usual place on Baldur, Karl’s horse. With the bloody sack tied to his saddle, Karl rode off towards the thick forest nearby, a page in tow to hold his horse.
The page started to speak, and then stopped himself. He was a small boy, ten or eleven at the most. He had been to several executions before and not once had he been troubled by the sight of death.
Karl noticed the indecisive boy and helped him along.
“Something bothering you, Wiglaf?”
“The” came a squeak. Wiglaf cleared his throat and tried again. “The Resolver grumbles, lord. He grumbles that it would be easier to take the eyes before hanging the condemned.” He said meekly
“I know he grumbles. I know. But this is the way things are to be done. Taking their eyes before they hang is not the punishment for their crime. These men had their trial, and I sentenced them to die, not to be tortured. Do you understand, Wiglaf?”
“Aye, my lord. I understand.” Wiglaf nodded.
Wiglaf. So eager to learn but so nervous to offend. I’ll talk to his father the next time we meet.
This was the first time in months he had a chance to take in the forest. The influx in banditry in the past year had been a great source of woe not only to Karl, but to the Waldish people as a whole. They had enough to be fearful of without their fellow man adding to their problems. It had kept Karl up many nights, as he racked his brain trying to figure out the cause.
He had built roads, sick houses, held fairs, endorsed the Bard’s college, done all in his power to keep the people happy and content and quiet, and yet, there were some who still turned to crime. Why? No. Not now. Not here. Karl decided that he needed to rest his mind from constant affairs of state, and allow himself to relax before he made his offering.
They reached a clearing, and Karl dismounted. “Hitch up Baldur and rub him down. Have something to eat from my pack if you get hungry. I don’t know how long I’ll be gone this time.” The page nodded. Wiglaf, a good lad, if a bit timid at times. Weather had concealed his typical path into the great forest, but muscle memory lead his way.
He enjoyed his solitary walks in the woods, it gave him a chance to forget the woes of rulership, the frustrations of fatherhood, and the horrible curse that befell his bloodline. Now that things had quieted down with the bandits, Karl hoped he might have more time to be a husband to his wife, Matilda, and a father to their children. His three children, though nearly adults themselves, still tended to make a commotion. What they need is a firm hand. Their mother will spoil them rotten if she has her way. Karl laughed to himself. She always gets her way.
His feet knew where he was going, even if his mind did not. He always returned to the same place, no matter what direction he turned. Are the woods themselves magic, or just the creatures that inhabit it? He wondered as he found the well worn dirt path covered by a tunnel of tree limbs. The branches must have kept this clear from storms after all.
Few who entered the Wald came back alive, save for the Elves and their slaves, who usually came out in one piece. Most who walked too far past the tree line simply vanished. There were rumors, of course. Even his own grandfather had claimed that he was, in fact, the same Helm Klug that had vanished without a trace in the winter of 542. He had fallen through a tree hollow and into the myth shrouded realm of Cunnan, where time flows differently, or so the stories go. As such, though ninety-five years had passed from the time of the vanishing, Helm had only aged ten years or so.
Karl’s realm was a dangerous one, even without the recent rise of the highwaymen. To an outsider, walking alone in the duchy of the Wald was like strolling past a dark alley with coins jingling loudly. To Karl Klug, Lord of the Wald, it was like walking into his own bedroom. He had grown up here, he knew that danger lurked behind every tree, above every branch, and below every root. Not once had he seen anything like what Grandfather Helm had rambled about. No fairies or witches or traces of Hain. Still, one had to tread carefully here. Even Karl would not dare to venture in some parts of the forest, for an ancient force still had power in the dark parts of Bordrim.
I hope Hain will be pleased with my tribute. To survive here, one had to know when to fight, when to run, and when to submit. Some might call that heretical, going against the word of the church, But that was not something he wished to think about now, not when he was trying to be at peace.
The fresh air cleared his head and refreshed his spirit. Karl took a long, deep breath filling his lungs with the cold morning damp. He knew he would not be distrubed here, as none but the Duke of the Wald may travel to this part of the woodland.
He had been Duke ever since the death of his father when he was just four years old, though he had not ruled in his own right until he was fourteen. In that time, he had learned much from his regents, and his mother, who was far more capable than many made her out to be. She had taught him that most men, however pure their intentions may seem, nearly always had some ulterior motive that they wished to advance. Karl remembered that as his most valuable lesson, and it had assisted him greatly as he came of age. My father’s sycophants did not last long when I ruled in my own right.
The sound of rushing water came to his ear as he walked by the River Cember where his father had drowned. He used to intentionally go out of his way to avoid being near it, but now he barely gave it a second glance. I used to be so afraid of the water, until I understood why Father died. But by then, Mother had the Court Elf Lembe throw me in Sillac Pond. How I thrashed! It didn’t seem so scary after that. Fate is far more terrifying than any danger and far more comforting than any joy. Once you have been through the worst, everything else can be done with ease.
Karl heard a branch snap in the trees to his right, and his hand slipped to the silver coated dagger at his hip. He stood still as the trees around him, slowly moving his eyes from right to left as he looked for the source of the noise. Funny. I was afraid of harmless water for so many years when there were very real threats all around me the entire time. As long as I stay on the path, no beast would dare harm me.
There were no further noises, and judging by the humming of insects and the singing of birds, there was no real threat. Probably a stag or maybe one of Grandfather Helm’s Fae creature having a laugh at my expense. He continued walking for some time, climbing up small, rolling hills and ducking under fallen tree trunks, before reaching a final, gentle incline which led to Hidden Hill. That was where they found his older brother, Jasper, hanging from the tree at the top. That was the day his father had told him about the curse that stalked their family.
He made his way up the slope, as he had countless times before. The top of the hill was clear, save for one tree, planted by Karl’s grandfather Helm upon regaining control of the Wald after decades of Gaunt rule. His family adopted that tree, and made it part of their heraldry. A great black tree, sounded by the green of the forest.
The air seemed to resist being pulled into his lungs now. He had to unclench his teeth, relax his shoulders. He looked down at his fingers. He had scraped away the flesh near the nails on his thumbs and middle digits. How long have I been at it this time? It is difficult to relax when I am surrounded by some many painful reminders of the past. No matter how deep in this forest I walk, I cannot escape the memories that tears at me.
He kept his eyes low. Karl enjoyed seeing the blooming flowers and vibrant weeds that grew along the path he always walked. One particular group of plants caught his eye. A clover patch. The old folks said that in every clover patch, there was one particularly special sprout. And so Karl made a point to look over each and every patch he saw, even if only a passing glance.
What’s this? He said to the tiny green sprout as he crouched down for a closer look. A clover with four leaves. Lucky, lucky. Karl smiled as he plucked the clover and put it in his coin purse. And a good omen too. I know Otto will love this.
Karl continued up the path, and sat beneath the great black tree, looking out onto the castle that stood proud below in the clearing. Grey Hallow, it was called, and it was among the oldest in Bordrim, predating even the great fortresses of the Empire that many great houses now called their own. With two rings of thick, tall walls and towers covering every angle of approach, no enemy had ever successfully stormed the walls. Though a knife in the back is sometimes better than a ram at the gate, as history has proved.
Karl grabbed the now wet sack that Jorvis had provided. He quickly found a small knothole and stuffed the grisly offering side. The Dule clasped his hands together and bowed his head. “Haim, please take this offering that we may know quiet peace.” He sighed. Was Haim even real? Or just another story to make obedient children?
As Karl reclined in the unearthed roots of the black oak, he smiled. *Real or not, offerings to Haim aren’t all terrible.*This was the tree that he had married Matilda under, after he came back from the Siege of Hammerring, the last remaining Imperial stronghold in Bordrim. He had made a fortune by securing the ransoms of important Imperials, bringing House Klug from the embarrassment of near bankruptcy to extreme wealth in a single day. He had spent coins like a drunken gambler blessed with immovable luck that night, and from then on men had begun to say he was the richest man in the kingdom. I don’t know about any of that. But riches aren’t just measured in gold. Karl thought as he ran his fingers along the black bark of the tree.
Searching through the leather pack he took from his saddle, Karl grabbed the cloth that held the dried venison and cheese he had carried along for his breakfast. The castle will just be coming to life now. He thought as the sun began to climb higher in the sky. After he had broken his fast, he pulled a quill, a tightly sealed ink pot, and a piece of parchment from his sack. He began to write.
“Your smile, a joy
Your laugh, a pleasure.
When we are together,
Troubles are light as a feather.”
Karl would have a servant hide that among Matilda’s things, where she would discover it later. Even after fifteen years of marriage, Karl loved to create these little surprises for his wife, just as she loved finding his cumbersome gifts and clumsy poetry.
A long, steady drumming sounded over the tops of the trees, booming from the direction of Grey Hallow, but far beyond. In the west, birds squaked and scattered to the wind. By the cadence of their beat, Karl knew it was the Elves, come to pay their respects and receive letters of safe passage as required by the Pact. A little earlier than expected. No matter. I prefer early to late. No doubt my Chamberlain, Aldred, will have everything prepared. Karl sprang to his feet, dusted off his trousers, and rolled the dried parchment. He followed the path back to the castle at a quick pace, humming a song his Bard had sung the previous night while they slept under the stars.
The day had well and truly begun upon his return. Servants wearing the green and black of his house dashed about as their duties required. Men stood guard wearing the Great Black Tree of the Klugs on their livery. The halls were alive with chatter and the scuffing of feet. Karl knew a long line of petitioners awaited him in his hall, but everyone knew that an audience with elves took precedence over the squabbles of men. They had all heard the drums, and they would be pressed together like bees in a hive just for a glimpse of the pointy eared outlanders. Every year, young elves Elves embarked on a great journey that they called *THING* or “The Taste” in the Imperial tongue. They spent anywhere from one to one hundred years living among the mortals, learning their ways and customs. Some spent the rest of their millennia-long lives among the mortals, watching dynasties rise and fall, technological marvels stun the world, and should they be unfortunate enough to make friends or find lovers, they witness death on a scale previously unimaginable.
Lemba is due to return home by the end of the year. After seventy years of service to my family, he’s earned his rest. Perhaps one of the newcomers would like a position at court. I would very much like to continue my lessons. Karl flexed his fingers at the mere thought of magic. Outlawed in most realms of men, Karl had insisted on instruction. The training was hard and the consequences if discovered by the Church would be dire, but in a land as dangerous as the Wald, every advantage counted.
The drums boomed, growing louder as the elves approached closer. I must hurry. I cannot insult them by wearing the same clothes I just wore to an execution. Karl jogged down the path from whence he came. Wiglaf was holding Baldur by his reigns, and he snapped to attention the moment he saw Karl approach. “The drums my lo-”
“I heard. Ride ahead and have your father prepare clothing for court.”
“Right away, my lord.” The page said as he galloped away. Karl followed at a quick but more relaxed pace. No sense in appearing sweaty and exasperated for my guests. He reasoned as he rode down the winding path.
His servants were waiting at the gate for him. They grabbed their reins from Baldur, and Karl climbed down from the horse. “Andred has selected your clothing, m’lord. Right this way, if you please.” Onna, the fat seamstress said and she beckoned him to follow. She led him to the laundry, where Karl pulled the dirty articles he had worn for the execution and picked up the courtly clothing she had laid out. He pulled the white linen tunic on first and fasted it was a leather belt inlain with a large silver buckle. His slipped into brown wool trousers next and grabbed a pair of light leather boots. While I won’t appear filthy in front of my guests, high fashion is not something I care to waste my gold on.
Karl sat in his finely carved chair on the dais at the end of the hall. It sat to the right of an identical, but smaller chair where his wife sat*.* She wore a black and green dress with a modestly cut v-neck which exposed her pale skin. Her golden hair lay in one long braid along her shoulder. and her piercing blue eyes smiled back at Karl’s own green. This was the women he had fallen in love with the moment he first spoke to her. She had been less convinced, at first. While he had been the highest born of her many suitors, he had not been her first choice.
“I thought you were boring!” She would tease him later. “You barely said a word the first three times we met.”
“I was nervous.” He would reply. “You captured my heart and my wits that day in High Hibaltia.”
“Well, that wit is what won me. Perhaps I just borrowed it for a time.” She smiled.
Cleverness, justness, kindness. These are the things that make me love you.
The couple held each other's hands as they looked over the court. The chamberlain, Aldred, was quickly giving some last minute instructions to his son and another page, and they immediately scrambled to their work. Guards stood firmly at attention in front of the doors, knowing that they would be facing a hallway full of eager onlookers at any moment.
Their three children stood to the side, talking amongst themselves. Grimbold was the oldest. And doomed to die young, as my brother and uncle have. He was tall, taller than Karl even. He had the arms of a blacksmith’s apprentice and Karl’s own brown curls. He shared his mother’s sky blue eyes and slender nose, as well as her quick temper. He’ll want more responsibility soon. I’ve already denied him a squireship. Perhaps a minor position at court would assuage him.
Next to Grimbold was Charlotte, their only daughter. She too had Karl’s curly brown hair, but she wore it in a long braid, like her mother. She was just like Matilda, in fact. They were both skilled with numbers, and Charlotte’s fascination with bards rivaled Matilda’s own obsession. The two of them often pleaded with Karl to hire this performer or that one, and Duke Karl Klug, Lawspeaker of Bordrim, would not resist his girls, especially Charlotte. She had just turned fourteen, and would be expecting suitors soon. I doubt any of them would be worthy of her. The two of us share a thin patience for stupidity and love makes fools of us all. Especially this false, courtly love the Pawley’s have been peddling these last centuries.
And then there was Otto, the youngest of the three. He stood in between his brother and sister, obviously uncomfortable and being talked over. Nervous and shy, Otto had trouble making friends with children his age. He got along well enough with Wiglaf, but the two never actively sought each other out for play. Probably waiting for the other to make the first move. Karl thought to himself.
“Otto!” Karl yelled. The boy snapped nearly to attention. “Come here, lad. I have a surprise for you.” The boy warily came before his parents.
“Close your eyes and stick out your hands, Otto.” Matilda gently urged.
Otto did as he was told. “Karl dug around in his coin purse and pulled out the clover and a gold coin. He placed the two in Otto’s open palm.
His eyes beamed just before the rest of his face lit up. “Is it real?” He asked as he squealed at his gift.
“Just found it this morning. I figured, with you as my son, I already have all the luck I need.” Otto grinned wide, his missing baby teeth apparent in his otherwise toothy smirk. “Now, with that coin, I want you to find a book that we can read together. Would you like that?” “Yes, father! Yes, yes!” Otto exclaimed, almost shaking with excitement.
“Now get back to your place. The Elves will be here soon.:
“Yes, father!” Otto slipped the clover and coin into his own purse and hurried back to his siblings.
Matilda leaned over and kissed Karl on the forehead. “You’re a good man, Karl Klug.” His mind raced back to dawn, and the creaking of ropes. “I try to be, my love.” He kissed her forehead back. There was a commotion behind the doors to the hallway. It started as a low murmur, and then grew in size, becoming a roar of excitement.
Lemba, Karl’s tutor and resident Elf, took
The Elves had arrived.
Two figures, hooded in dark crimson cloaks, approached the dais. Less than a quarter of what I was told to expect. Behind them were six large, muscular, green skinned orcs bound together at wrist and ankle. Less than a tenth of what I had prepared for. Some Orcs had obviously suffered wounds in the recent past, black blood welling up through tightly wrapped bandages at shoulder, scalp, or thigh. Karl knew from past experience that were these wounds even a slight inconvenience to the Elves, the Orc would be killed with no more pity than lame donkey.
The two cloaked figures marched in a praticed cadence as they moved towards the Duke and Duchess. They all move like that in this room. Is it tradition? Or something more calculated? Lemba, can you enlighten me?
“In due time.” The elf’s voice answered in Karl’s mind. “For now, let us see who has survived the journey.
Karl cast a quick and silent spell to identify the travelers, his only tell was a twitch of the nose, which may have been mistaken for an aborted sneeze.
Viksna and Piske Dun Beske, twin siblings of a prominent Orhani family. Lemba leaned and whispered into Karl’s ear. “The youngest children of a powerful family of sorcerors. T
“Viksna and Piske you illuminate my land with your presence.” Karl’s voice boomed across the hall. It had been so long since he had shouted without magical amplification that he wondered if his throat could even yell anymore.
The two outsiders removed their hoods and stood with clasped hands and bowed heads. Their hair golden, their ears pointed, they were both of a similar height and build, shorter than most men in the room, and Karl could tell they were thin even under their robes.
“And you honor us with your hospitality, Lord Klug.” The pair said in unison.
“You’ve arrived sooner than expected. Was your trip pleasant?”
“We ran into some trouble with monsters, I’m afraid.” Piske said, matter of factly.
“ They devoured quite a few of our slaves.” Viksna added. And of course, the Shadow King must have his due. Our traveling companions were not to his liking. We two and The six Orcs you see behind us are all that is left, I’m afraid, out of the seventeen souls we departed with. Ah, yes. The older races call Haim by his title and dare not refer to him by name. A superstitious bunch, the Elves.
Three slaves for each of us is hardly fitting.” Piske scoffed.
“A shame. I will see that they are tended to. And my servants shall make up for your deficit. See these creatures to their quarters.” He ordered with a wave of his hand.
Guards cautiously herded the six chained beasts on the points of spears, but the broken creatures simply did as they were told and offered no resistance, not even a scowl. They were broken in mind and spirit, they simply existed to do as they were told. Even still, they looked as if they could crush a man’s skull without much effort, and so the guards insisted on caution. I cannot say I blame them.
The instant their slaves were gone from the room, the elves both went down to one knee, each pulling a small bundle from their cloaks. In unison they spoke. “We have come to pay tribute to the Lord of the Wald. Bordermaster, River Watcher, Upholder of the Pact. We offer these small tokens to you, Great Lord.”
Karl pushed up from his seat on the dais and walked towards the pair, gesturing them to stand. This well rehearsed speech never fails to delight my courtiers. “You have left your great capitol of Orhani to live amongst the lesser lived. You have endured freezing cold and driving rain. You have crossed river and mountain, field and fell, and traversed the Wald itself. You have fought beast and monster and seen many things that Man fears in his dreams. You have lost friends and companions along your way, and for that, you have our sympathy. However, all is not lost, and these deaths have not been in vain. You have proved yourselves worthy of fellowship through your very deeds. I bid you stand, as friends of Men.” The two figures stood, pulling back their hoods as the ritual demanded. They both looked as beautiful as painted godlings, young as if in their prime, though each must have seen a hundred years come and go.
The two approached, stepping slowly, deliberately, in unison to the dais where Karl sat. Piske stepped forward, leaving his sister still as a statue with her bundle still in her hands.
“For you, my lord. A gift.” He bowed and handed the package to Karl.
“Thank you, Piske.” Karl exchanged a rolled parchment for the gift. The container was small, and light. It could have been empty if Karl did not know better. He pulled the string holding everything together, and opened the paper wrapping. Inside was a ring, small and green, with all manner of beasts carved intricately on the sides.
“This is remarkable, Piske. You have my thanks.” Karl said as he turned the ring over in his hands. He spied an eagle, a fish, a rat, and a bear amongst the throng of creatures on the metal.
Piske looked to Lemba, eyes practically screaming for help. Lemba chuckled to himself for a moment and then cocked his head in Karl’s direction.
“May I approach, my lord?” the Elf asked in the elegant Elvish tongue, hands out stretched. Karl nodded his approval and he came forward. Piske leaned forward, taking the ring from the Lord’s hand and slipped the emerald ring onto his own left pointer finger.
“This ring is rather...peculiar, my lord. Observe.” The Elf cleared his throat and began to shout “Will one of you fellows come out? We’d like to make introductions.”
A heavy silence, followed by quiet, confused muttering amongst the onlookers. Then a shriek came from the rear of the crowd, growing louder and closer by the second.
That’s when it appeared before Karl’s eyes. It came forward at a run. Sharp claws, huge black eyes, and jagged yellow teeth.
“The ring summons rats?” Karl answered in Elvish in between laughs.
“Or maybe it makes the wearer forget his manners.” came a perfect Elvish reply from the rat. Karl’s eyes shot wide. Bhalik’s Maw. Did that rodent just speak? He regained his composure and looked around his court. Everyone was staring up at him. Had they all heard too?
“They can’t hear me, you big oaf. Only the ring bearer can.” Karl glanced at the green band around his finger. “My name is difficult to pronounce, but for the sake of simplicity, call me Ymaut. Piske tells me you have a rather large network of informants. How would you like to expand?
“We’ll discuss another time. Thank you, Piske. You honor me.”
Piske bowed. “Of course, my lord. My sister has brought you a gift as well” gesturing to his companion. He stepped back to take her place, while Viksna approached, bowed and held out her tribute. The thing she brought was bigger and heavier than her brother’s gift. When Karl had finished unwrapping it, he understood why.
“A Grimoire.” he said quietly.
“May I approach, my lord?” Karl nodded absently as he flipped through the pages.
Viksna whispered. “I am told you enjoy practicing magic. I would be happy to teach you, if you’d like.”
“This is too much to trade for a mere letter of safe conduct. Anything in my power to give you is yours, if you but name it.”
Viksna thought for only a brief moment. “Should there be an opening for a position in your court that I may be suitable for, I would like to enter your service.”
Lemba is leaving my service, to return to Outland. If you would care to remain here and assume his role upon his departure, I would welcome the company.” Karl said as he struggled to tear his eyes away from the book. That will be all for today. My servants will show you to your chambers. Should you want for anything at all, you need only ask and it is yours.”
The two bowed low. “You honor us, my lord.” the two Elves said as one. As they slowly walked from the hall, Karl’s Chamberlain, Aldred, whispered in his ear. “My lord, Sir Vanya has come to charge Baron Stevers as an oathbreaker. My duty calls. Karl thought, the grimoire still open in his hand.
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KARL 1
Three men stood beneath a great oak branch, hands bound and nooses pulled tight around their necks. The branches connected to a mighty tree, old as the mountains themselves. The men were all silent, as were the other corpses gently swinging in the morning breeze. The air was still cold from the dew, not yet banished by the still rising sun.
“If you have anything left to say, now would be the time.” Karl Klug, Lord of the Wald said as he eyed them with disgust from the back of his chestnut horse destrier. He sat tall in the saddle, his close cropped brown hair and clean shaven face a far cry from the ragged appearance of the condemned. His heavy, black, woolen cloak was pulled tight, the hood up to block out the wind. Under the cloak he wore a simple brown doublet, with a crest bearing the black tree on a green field that was the sigil of his house. Karl always made sure to represent House Klug when acting as Lord, as was his duty.
These men were thieves, rapists, and murderers. They attacked travelers on the roads of the Wald, and it was Karl’s duty, as Duke of the Wald and Lawspeaker to the King, to keep those roads safe. The law demanded only one punishment for their transgressions. Their fate would serve as a warning to other would-be bandits.
The first man, a stern face and hard eyes, said nothing, but spat on the ground. The second man, fat and whimpering, managed to speak out in between choked sobs “Please m’lord. Mercy! They made me do it!”
The last man, a boy no older than fifteen, barked at him to be quiet. “We’re done for Ozzy. Go to the Wainman with some dignity, would you?” Such bravery in one so young. What could he have become if he followed a different path?
With that, Karl nodded to Jorivs, his household Resolver, who pulled hard on the ropes, them each one by one into the air, sending them kicking and choking into the Beyond. The second one, Ozzy, screamed and begged for his mother before the rope cut him off. Jorivs tied the final line off to a stake, while Wolter, his barber-surgeon companion, scribbled something down in a book. “They go to their doom in all different spirits, yet they all dance the hangman’s jig just the same.” He said as he turned a page.
“Amazing the lessons they teach at Spierpont.” Jorvis chuckled as the last pair of legs stopped kicking. “Shame Lemba couldn’t join us.”
“The Elf has seen his fair share of death. Let him enjoy his peace.”
“I only jest, my lord.” Jorvis said as he took a sip from his canteen. He motioned for Wolter to take a drink, but the older man was too busy furiously scribbling in his notebook to notice.
Karl looked to the east. The dawn was still cresting the horizon. “I’m off to the woods. I will not be disturbed.” Matilda and the children will still be sleeping. Best not to wake them with my return.
His pages nodded and replied in unison “Yes my lord.” By Karl’s standing order, Jorvis was peeling the boots of the dead men, better they should shoe a pauper than rot on the condemned. Wolter sketched the hanging men in his book, taking special care to note the lolling tongues and soiled breeches. Jorvis had the boots in a loose pile when he pulled a knife and a small pouch from his belt. “The eyes,my lord?”
He nodded grimly. “Hain will have his due.” Jorvis took a small stool and set to work, all six organs removed in a few quick flashes of the blade. Jorvis placed the grim package in its usual place on Baldur, Karl’s horse. With the bloody sack tied to his saddle, Karl rode off towards the thick forest nearby, a page in tow to hold his horse.
The page started to speak, and then stopped himself. He was a small boy, ten or eleven at the most. He had been to several executions before and not once had he been troubled by the sight of death.
Karl noticed the indecisive boy and helped him along.
“Something bothering you, Wiglaf?”
“The” came a squeak. Wiglaf cleared his throat and tried again. “The Resolver grumbles, lord. He grumbles that it would be easier to take the eyes before hanging the condemned.” He said meekly
“I know he grumbles. I know. But this is the way things are to be done. Taking their eyes before they hang is not the punishment for their crime. These men had their trial, and I sentenced them to die, not to be tortured. Do you understand, Wiglaf?”
“Aye, my lord. I understand.” Wiglaf nodded.
Wiglaf. So eager to learn but so nervous to offend. I’ll talk to his father the next time we meet.
This was the first time in months he had a chance to take in the forest. The influx in banditry in the past year had been a great source of woe not only to Karl, but to the Waldish people as a whole. They had enough to be fearful of without their fellow man adding to their problems. It had kept Karl up many nights, as he racked his brain trying to figure out the cause.
He had built roads, sick houses, held fairs, endorsed the Bard’s college, done all in his power to keep the people happy and content and quiet, and yet, there were some who still turned to crime. Why? No. Not now. Not here. Karl decided that he needed to rest his mind from constant affairs of state, and allow himself to relax before he made his offering.
They reached a clearing, and Karl dismounted. “Hitch up Baldur and rub him down. Have something to eat from my pack if you get hungry. I don’t know how long I’ll be gone this time.” The page nodded. Wiglaf, a good lad, if a bit timid at times. Weather had concealed his typical path into the great forest, but muscle memory lead his way.
He enjoyed his solitary walks in the woods, it gave him a chance to forget the woes of rulership, the frustrations of fatherhood, and the horrible curse that befell his bloodline. Now that things had quieted down with the bandits, Karl hoped he might have more time to be a husband to his wife, Matilda, and a father to their children. His three children, though nearly adults themselves, still tended to make a commotion. What they need is a firm hand. Their mother will spoil them rotten if she has her way. Karl laughed to himself. She always gets her way.
His feet knew where he was going, even if his mind did not. He always returned to the same place, no matter what direction he turned. Are the woods themselves magic, or just the creatures that inhabit it? He wondered as he found the well worn dirt path covered by a tunnel of tree limbs. The branches must have kept this clear from storms after all.
Few who entered the Wald came back alive, save for the Elves and their slaves, who usually came out in one piece. Most who walked too far past the tree line simply vanished. There were rumors, of course. Even his own grandfather had claimed that he was, in fact, the same Helm Klug that had vanished without a trace in the winter of 542. He had fallen through a tree hollow and into the myth shrouded realm of Cunnan, where time flows differently, or so the stories go. As such, though ninety-five years had passed from the time of the vanishing, Helm had only aged ten years or so.
Karl’s realm was a dangerous one, even without the recent rise of the highwaymen. To an outsider, walking alone in the duchy of the Wald was like strolling past a dark alley with coins jingling loudly. To Karl Klug, Lord of the Wald, it was like walking into his own bedroom. He had grown up here, he knew that danger lurked behind every tree, above every branch, and below every root. Not once had he seen anything like what Grandfather Helm had rambled about. No fairies or witches or traces of Hain. Still, one had to tread carefully here. Even Karl would not dare to venture in some parts of the forest, for an ancient force still had power in the dark parts of Bordrim.
I hope Hain will be pleased with my tribute. To survive here, one had to know when to fight, when to run, and when to submit. Some might call that heretical, going against the word of the church, But that was not something he wished to think about now, not when he was trying to be at peace.
The fresh air cleared his head and refreshed his spirit. Karl took a long, deep breath filling his lungs with the cold morning damp. He knew he would not be distrubed here, as none but the Duke of the Wald may travel to this part of the woodland.
He had been Duke ever since the death of his father when he was just four years old, though he had not ruled in his own right until he was fourteen. In that time, he had learned much from his regents, and his mother, who was far more capable than many made her out to be. She had taught him that most men, however pure their intentions may seem, nearly always had some ulterior motive that they wished to advance. Karl remembered that as his most valuable lesson, and it had assisted him greatly as he came of age. My father’s sycophants did not last long when I ruled in my own right.
The sound of rushing water came to his ear as he walked by the River Cember where his father had drowned. He used to intentionally go out of his way to avoid being near it, but now he barely gave it a second glance. I used to be so afraid of the water, until I understood why Father died. But by then, Mother had the Court Elf Lembe throw me in Sillac Pond. How I thrashed! It didn’t seem so scary after that. Fate is far more terrifying than any danger and far more comforting than any joy. Once you have been through the worst, everything else can be done with ease.
Karl heard a branch snap in the trees to his right, and his hand slipped to the silver coated dagger at his hip. He stood still as the trees around him, slowly moving his eyes from right to left as he looked for the source of the noise. Funny. I was afraid of harmless water for so many years when there were very real threats all around me the entire time. As long as I stay on the path, no beast would dare harm me.
There were no further noises, and judging by the humming of insects and the singing of birds, there was no real threat. Probably a stag or maybe one of Grandfather Helm’s Fae creature having a laugh at my expense. He continued walking for some time, climbing up small, rolling hills and ducking under fallen tree trunks, before reaching a final, gentle incline which led to Hidden Hill. That was where they found his older brother, Jasper, hanging from the tree at the top. That was the day his father had told him about the curse that stalked their family.
He made his way up the slope, as he had countless times before. The top of the hill was clear, save for one tree, planted by Karl’s grandfather Helm upon regaining control of the Wald after decades of Gaunt rule. His family adopted that tree, and made it part of their heraldry. A great black tree, sounded by the green of the forest.
The air seemed to resist being pulled into his lungs now. He had to unclench his teeth, relax his shoulders. He looked down at his fingers. He had scraped away the flesh near the nails on his thumbs and middle digits. How long have I been at it this time? It is difficult to relax when I am surrounded by some many painful reminders of the past. No matter how deep in this forest I walk, I cannot escape the memories that tears at me.
He kept his eyes low. Karl enjoyed seeing the blooming flowers and vibrant weeds that grew along the path he always walked. One particular group of plants caught his eye. A clover patch. The old folks said that in every clover patch, there was one particularly special sprout. And so Karl made a point to look over each and every patch he saw, even if only a passing glance.
What’s this? He said to the tiny green sprout as he crouched down for a closer look. A clover with four leaves. Lucky, lucky. Karl smiled as he plucked the clover and put it in his coin purse. And a good omen too. I know Otto will love this.
Karl continued up the path, and sat beneath the great black tree, looking out onto the castle that stood proud below in the clearing. Grey Hallow, it was called, and it was among the oldest in Bordrim, predating even the great fortresses of the Empire that many great houses now called their own. With two rings of thick, tall walls and towers covering every angle of approach, no enemy had ever successfully stormed the walls. Though a knife in the back is sometimes better than a ram at the gate, as history has proved.
Karl grabbed the now wet sack that Jorvis had provided. He quickly found a small knothole and stuffed the grisly offering side. The Dule clasped his hands together and bowed his head. “Haim, please take this offering that we may know quiet peace.” He sighed. Was Haim even real? Or just another story to make obedient children?
As Karl reclined in the unearthed roots of the black oak, he smiled. *Real or not, offerings to Haim aren’t all terrible.*This was the tree that he had married Matilda under, after he came back from the Siege of Hammerring, the last remaining Imperial stronghold in Bordrim. He had made a fortune by securing the ransoms of important Imperials, bringing House Klug from the embarrassment of near bankruptcy to extreme wealth in a single day. He had spent coins like a drunken gambler blessed with immovable luck that night, and from then on men had begun to say he was the richest man in the kingdom. I don’t know about any of that. But riches aren’t just measured in gold. Karl thought as he ran his fingers along the black bark of the tree.
Searching through the leather pack he took from his saddle, Karl grabbed the cloth that held the dried venison and cheese he had carried along for his breakfast. The castle will just be coming to life now. He thought as the sun began to climb higher in the sky. After he had broken his fast, he pulled a quill, a tightly sealed ink pot, and a piece of parchment from his sack. He began to write.
“Your smile, a joy
Your laugh, a pleasure.
When we are together,
Troubles are light as a feather.”
Karl would have a servant hide that among Matilda’s things, where she would discover it later. Even after fifteen years of marriage, Karl loved to create these little surprises for his wife, just as she loved finding his cumbersome gifts and clumsy poetry.
A long, steady drumming sounded over the tops of the trees, booming from the direction of Grey Hallow, but far beyond. In the west, birds squaked and scattered to the wind. By the cadence of their beat, Karl knew it was the Elves, come to pay their respects and receive letters of safe passage as required by the Pact. A little earlier than expected. No matter. I prefer early to late. No doubt my Chamberlain, Aldred, will have everything prepared. Karl sprang to his feet, dusted off his trousers, and rolled the dried parchment. He followed the path back to the castle at a quick pace, humming a song his Bard had sung the previous night while they slept under the stars.
The day had well and truly begun upon his return. Servants wearing the green and black of his house dashed about as their duties required. Men stood guard wearing the Great Black Tree of the Klugs on their livery. The halls were alive with chatter and the scuffing of feet. Karl knew a long line of petitioners awaited him in his hall, but everyone knew that an audience with elves took precedence over the squabbles of men. They had all heard the drums, and they would be pressed together like bees in a hive just for a glimpse of the pointy eared outlanders. Every year, young elves Elves embarked on a great journey that they called *THING* or “The Taste” in the Imperial tongue. They spent anywhere from one to one hundred years living among the mortals, learning their ways and customs. Some spent the rest of their millennia-long lives among the mortals, watching dynasties rise and fall, technological marvels stun the world, and should they be unfortunate enough to make friends or find lovers, they witness death on a scale previously unimaginable.
Lemba is due to return home by the end of the year. After seventy years of service to my family, he’s earned his rest. Perhaps one of the newcomers would like a position at court. I would very much like to continue my lessons. Karl flexed his fingers at the mere thought of magic. Outlawed in most realms of men, Karl had insisted on instruction. The training was hard and the consequences if discovered by the Church would be dire, but in a land as dangerous as the Wald, every advantage counted.
The drums boomed, growing louder as the elves approached closer. I must hurry. I cannot insult them by wearing the same clothes I just wore to an execution. Karl jogged down the path from whence he came. Wiglaf was holding Baldur by his reigns, and he snapped to attention the moment he saw Karl approach. “The drums my lo-”
“I heard. Ride ahead and have your father prepare clothing for court.”
“Right away, my lord.” The page said as he galloped away. Karl followed at a quick but more relaxed pace. No sense in appearing sweaty and exasperated for my guests. He reasoned as he rode down the winding path.
His servants were waiting at the gate for him. They grabbed their reins from Baldur, and Karl climbed down from the horse. “Andred has selected your clothing, m’lord. Right this way, if you please.” Onna, the fat seamstress said and she beckoned him to follow. She led him to the laundry, where Karl pulled the dirty articles he had worn for the execution and picked up the courtly clothing she had laid out. He pulled the white linen tunic on first and fasted it was a leather belt inlain with a large silver buckle. His slipped into brown wool trousers next and grabbed a pair of light leather boots. While I won’t appear filthy in front of my guests, high fashion is not something I care to waste my gold on.
Karl sat in his finely carved chair on the dais at the end of the hall. It sat to the right of an identical, but smaller chair where his wife sat*.* She wore a black and green dress with a modestly cut v-neck which exposed her pale skin. Her golden hair lay in one long braid along her shoulder. and her piercing blue eyes smiled back at Karl’s own green. This was the women he had fallen in love with the moment he first spoke to her. She had been less convinced, at first. While he had been the highest born of her many suitors, he had not been her first choice.
“I thought you were boring!” She would tease him later. “You barely said a word the first three times we met.”
“I was nervous.” He would reply. “You captured my heart and my wits that day in High Hibaltia.”
“Well, that wit is what won me. Perhaps I just borrowed it for a time.” She smiled.
Cleverness, justness, kindness. These are the things that make me love you.
The couple held each other's hands as they looked over the court. The chamberlain, Aldred, was quickly giving some last minute instructions to his son and another page, and they immediately scrambled to their work. Guards stood firmly at attention in front of the doors, knowing that they would be facing a hallway full of eager onlookers at any moment.
Their three children stood to the side, talking amongst themselves. Grimbold was the oldest. And doomed to die young, as my brother and uncle have. He was tall, taller than Karl even. He had the arms of a blacksmith’s apprentice and Karl’s own brown curls. He shared his mother’s sky blue eyes and slender nose, as well as her quick temper. He’ll want more responsibility soon. I’ve already denied him a squireship. Perhaps a minor position at court would assuage him.
Next to Grimbold was Charlotte, their only daughter. She too had Karl’s curly brown hair, but she wore it in a long braid, like her mother. She was just like Matilda, in fact. They were both skilled with numbers, and Charlotte’s fascination with bards rivaled Matilda’s own obsession. The two of them often pleaded with Karl to hire this performer or that one, and Duke Karl Klug, Lawspeaker of Bordrim, would not resist his girls, especially Charlotte. She had just turned fourteen, and would be expecting suitors soon. I doubt any of them would be worthy of her. The two of us share a thin patience for stupidity and love makes fools of us all. Especially this false, courtly love the Pawley’s have been peddling these last centuries.
And then there was Otto, the youngest of the three. He stood in between his brother and sister, obviously uncomfortable and being talked over. Nervous and shy, Otto had trouble making friends with children his age. He got along well enough with Wiglaf, but the two never actively sought each other out for play. Probably waiting for the other to make the first move. Karl thought to himself.
“Otto!” Karl yelled. The boy snapped nearly to attention. “Come here, lad. I have a surprise for you.” The boy warily came before his parents.
“Close your eyes and stick out your hands, Otto.” Matilda gently urged.
Otto did as he was told. “Karl dug around in his coin purse and pulled out the clover and a gold coin. He placed the two in Otto’s open palm.
His eyes beamed just before the rest of his face lit up. “Is it real?” He asked as he squealed at his gift.
“Just found it this morning. I figured, with you as my son, I already have all the luck I need.” Otto grinned wide, his missing baby teeth apparent in his otherwise toothy smirk. “Now, with that coin, I want you to find a book that we can read together. Would you like that?” “Yes, father! Yes, yes!” Otto exclaimed, almost shaking with excitement.
“Now get back to your place. The Elves will be here soon.:
“Yes, father!” Otto slipped the clover and coin into his own purse and hurried back to his siblings.
Matilda leaned over and kissed Karl on the forehead. “You’re a good man, Karl Klug.” His mind raced back to dawn, and the creaking of ropes. “I try to be, my love.” He kissed her forehead back. There was a commotion behind the doors to the hallway. It started as a low murmur, and then grew in size, becoming a roar of excitement.
Lemba, Karl’s tutor and resident Elf, took
The Elves had arrived.
Two figures, hooded in dark crimson cloaks, approached the dais. Less than a quarter of what I was told to expect. Behind them were six large, muscular, green skinned orcs bound together at wrist and ankle. Less than a tenth of what I had prepared for. Some Orcs had obviously suffered wounds in the recent past, black blood welling up through tightly wrapped bandages at shoulder, scalp, or thigh. Karl knew from past experience that were these wounds even a slight inconvenience to the Elves, the Orc would be killed with no more pity than lame donkey.
The two cloaked figures marched in a praticed cadence as they moved towards the Duke and Duchess. They all move like that in this room. Is it tradition? Or something more calculated? Lemba, can you enlighten me?
“In due time.” The elf’s voice answered in Karl’s mind. “For now, let us see who has survived the journey.
Karl cast a quick and silent spell to identify the travelers, his only tell was a twitch of the nose, which may have been mistaken for an aborted sneeze.
Viksna and Piske Dun Beske, twin siblings of a prominent Orhani family. Lemba leaned and whispered into Karl’s ear. “The youngest children of a powerful family of sorcerors. T
“Viksna and Piske you illuminate my land with your presence.” Karl’s voice boomed across the hall. It had been so long since he had shouted without magical amplification that he wondered if his throat could even yell anymore.
The two outsiders removed their hoods and stood with clasped hands and bowed heads. Their hair golden, their ears pointed, they were both of a similar height and build, shorter than most men in the room, and Karl could tell they were thin even under their robes.
“And you honor us with your hospitality, Lord Klug.” The pair said in unison.
“You’ve arrived sooner than expected. Was your trip pleasant?”
“We ran into some trouble with monsters, I’m afraid.” Piske said, matter of factly.
“ They devoured quite a few of our slaves.” Viksna added. And of course, the Shadow King must have his due. Our traveling companions were not to his liking. We two and The six Orcs you see behind us are all that is left, I’m afraid, out of the seventeen souls we departed with. Ah, yes. The older races call Haim by his title and dare not refer to him by name. A superstitious bunch, the Elves.
Three slaves for each of us is hardly fitting.” Piske scoffed.
“A shame. I will see that they are tended to. And my servants shall make up for your deficit. See these creatures to their quarters.” He ordered with a wave of his hand.
Guards cautiously herded the six chained beasts on the points of spears, but the broken creatures simply did as they were told and offered no resistance, not even a scowl. They were broken in mind and spirit, they simply existed to do as they were told. Even still, they looked as if they could crush a man’s skull without much effort, and so the guards insisted on caution. I cannot say I blame them.
The instant their slaves were gone from the room, the elves both went down to one knee, each pulling a small bundle from their cloaks. In unison they spoke. “We have come to pay tribute to the Lord of the Wald. Bordermaster, River Watcher, Upholder of the Pact. We offer these small tokens to you, Great Lord.”
Karl pushed up from his seat on the dais and walked towards the pair, gesturing them to stand. This well rehearsed speech never fails to delight my courtiers. “You have left your great capitol of Orhani to live amongst the lesser lived. You have endured freezing cold and driving rain. You have crossed river and mountain, field and fell, and traversed the Wald itself. You have fought beast and monster and seen many things that Man fears in his dreams. You have lost friends and companions along your way, and for that, you have our sympathy. However, all is not lost, and these deaths have not been in vain. You have proved yourselves worthy of fellowship through your very deeds. I bid you stand, as friends of Men.” The two figures stood, pulling back their hoods as the ritual demanded. They both looked as beautiful as painted godlings, young as if in their prime, though each must have seen a hundred years come and go.
The two approached, stepping slowly, deliberately, in unison to the dais where Karl sat. Piske stepped forward, leaving his sister still as a statue with her bundle still in her hands.
“For you, my lord. A gift.” He bowed and handed the package to Karl.
“Thank you, Piske.” Karl exchanged a rolled parchment for the gift. The container was small, and light. It could have been empty if Karl did not know better. He pulled the string holding everything together, and opened the paper wrapping. Inside was a ring, small and green, with all manner of beasts carved intricately on the sides.
“This is remarkable, Piske. You have my thanks.” Karl said as he turned the ring over in his hands. He spied an eagle, a fish, a rat, and a bear amongst the throng of creatures on the metal.
Piske looked to Lemba, eyes practically screaming for help. Lemba chuckled to himself for a moment and then cocked his head in Karl’s direction.
“May I approach, my lord?” the Elf asked in the elegant Elvish tongue, hands out stretched. Karl nodded his approval and he came forward. Piske leaned forward, taking the ring from the Lord’s hand and slipped the emerald ring onto his own left pointer finger.
“This ring is rather...peculiar, my lord. Observe.” The Elf cleared his throat and began to shout “Will one of you fellows come out? We’d like to make introductions.”
A heavy silence, followed by quiet, confused muttering amongst the onlookers. Then a shriek came from the rear of the crowd, growing louder and closer by the second.
That’s when it appeared before Karl’s eyes. It came forward at a run. Sharp claws, huge black eyes, and jagged yellow teeth.
“The ring summons rats?” Karl answered in Elvish in between laughs.
“Or maybe it makes the wearer forget his manners.” came a perfect Elvish reply from the rat. Karl’s eyes shot wide. Bhalik’s Maw. Did that rodent just speak? He regained his composure and looked around his court. Everyone was staring up at him. Had they all heard too?
“They can’t hear me, you big oaf. Only the ring bearer can.” Karl glanced at the green band around his finger. “My name is difficult to pronounce, but for the sake of simplicity, call me Ymaut. Piske tells me you have a rather large network of informants. How would you like to expand?
“We’ll discuss another time. Thank you, Piske. You honor me.”
Piske bowed. “Of course, my lord. My sister has brought you a gift as well” gesturing to his companion. He stepped back to take her place, while Viksna approached, bowed and held out her tribute. The thing she brought was bigger and heavier than her brother’s gift. When Karl had finished unwrapping it, he understood why.
“A Grimoire.” he said quietly.
“May I approach, my lord?” Karl nodded absently as he flipped through the pages.
Viksna whispered. “I am told you enjoy practicing magic. I would be happy to teach you, if you’d like.”
“This is too much to trade for a mere letter of safe conduct. Anything in my power to give you is yours, if you but name it.”
Viksna thought for only a brief moment. “Should there be an opening for a position in your court that I may be suitable for, I would like to enter your service.”
Lemba is leaving my service, to return to Outland. If you would care to remain here and assume his role upon his departure, I would welcome the company.” Karl said as he struggled to tear his eyes away from the book. That will be all for today. My servants will show you to your chambers. Should you want for anything at all, you need only ask and it is yours.”
The two bowed low. “You honor us, my lord.” the two Elves said as one. As they slowly walked from the hall, Karl’s Chamberlain, Aldred, whispered in his ear. “My lord, Sir Vanya has come to charge Baron Stevers as an oathbreaker. My duty calls. Karl thought, the grimoire still open in his hand.
2024.05.28 02:57 Top_Lab_9647 What really happened to Security Breach? // Chronicles of The Sandbox Cut
INTRODUCTION
Hello there. As you may know, for the past couple of years we've been hearing a lot of complaints about how Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach was ruined by the cuts. While I don't deny that a lot has been removed, I feel like there is a lot of misinterpretation when it comes to what FNaF: SB was really meant to be.I'll be working with a lot of the information that's already known in the datamining community, but for those who are new to cut content, I will still try and highlight the crucial points.
The actual description of what Security Breach was supposedly meant to be is listed in the paragraph "SANDBOX CUT", but before that we have to take apart the elements that are falsely perceived as cut content. It's important to know what we are working with.
THE FALSE PERCEPTION
Online, you can find a lot of videos about the version of SB's story that we never got to experience. Was Freddy meant to betray you? Did Vanny have a bigger impact on the story? A lot of it mainly comes from the trailers. And that's an important point to explore.1. The Teaser Trailer
Altered or not, most of the areas in the teaser trailer are still in the game. But it's Vanny's dialogue that has caught everyone's attention.
More lines of hers can be heard in the NVIDIA RTX Demo as well. Minus "I See You". That one was confirmed to not be hers.
This version of Vanny was voiced by the actress Stacey Young. And during the casting Vanny was labeled as the Metal Femme Fatale. Hence the robotic undertones and alluring motif of her voice.
But the most important part is that Vanny's dialogue was never as extensive as Gregory's, Freddy's or even Vanessa's. As confirmed by Stacey Young herself, the script never exceeded a page. All the dialogue we hear in the trailers might as well be everything that Vanny has ever had.
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With that in mind, "Gregory, your friends are worried about you" — the one line that has caused a lot of discussion — may not have much significance at all, as it is akin to the lines other characters say in the game — "I bet your family is worried about you", "Let me take you to your parents". When neither of these statements are true. And just exist to lure Gregory out.
But what about the children's roles on Voices.com? (For the record, Voices.com is the website Scott uses to hire actors.) Well, perhaps we should consider that it may not be a bunch of kids, but just one. Gregory.
Each name you see on Voices.com isn't a character, but a role title. And just because someone appears on the review board doesn't mean they were indeed casted or meant to stay. Take Vanny for instance. She had two different roles with different direction and casting. The "Reluctant Follower" by Jessica Tang who then became the "Metal Femme Fatale" by Stacey Young.
The children seem to be one and the same. Kid in the Box, which may be referring to Gregory in the stomach hatch. What a Sweet Kid, No Evil Intentions, who is described to be a little boy calling out to his friend. I've seen interpretations of this kid being Gregory's lost friend or Vanny trying to lure him away. But perhaps the truth is more simple. Calling out for his friend is what Gregory does the entire game — Freddy, are you there? Freddy, I'm trapped! Freddy, this. And Freddy that.
There is also "Kid on the Run! This is a bad situation", who certainly resembles Gregory with the title alone. But the important detail here is that there were not one, but two castings for Kid on the Run — Male and Female. Similar both in the title and the amount of dialogue. Bear in mind, Male and Female doesn't indicate a gender of the character, but the actor. It appears Scott couldn't find the proper match for the role, hence the amount child actors who were attempting to fill in the spot.
The idea that there were many kids was born as a combination of these roles as well as Vanny's statement in the trailer. But given that Vanny's dialogue was a one-liner with no further elaboration, like the ones other enemies have, this concept may be a misunderstanding, especially considering that the flow of the game was already set in stone.
In the trailer, we can note a few things. For one, the map was mostly complete. At the very least, structurally. And the key points of the game were already in works. You can see the compactor reserved for Chica's Boss Fight, Fazer Blast arena used in the minigame as well as the Winner's Lounge where you get the blaster. The catwalk and the stairwell of Vanny's Hideout are also included, which are a part of the Vanny Ending. Plus we are shown the Loading Dock and the Lobby Entrance, meaning the gameplay was always focused on looking for the exit.
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We will explore the building structure and how it ties into the gameplay further down. But to lock the discussion of the teaser trailer, I have to mention a few elements that were solely designed for the trailer.
• Vanny in the Loading Dock. The shadow you see in the Loading Dock scene isn't a part of the gameplay. It has been added for the trailer, as it is listed in the data for the cinematic camera. (Which produces a planning shot seen in the trailer.)
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• Moon in the Kitchen. This one is easy to disprove, as this animation is literally in the files and is labeled "Marketing", implying it was only for the teaser. But did you know that this scene was initially supposed to tease Monty, with him walking past the kitchen?
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- The Gameplay Trailer
The important detail is this — the trailer was not made by Steel Wool. As confirmed by one of the workers, it was Scott who scripted it. The dialogue you hear may have never been in the game. It's certainly not in the files or any of the cut subtitles.
And the reason I'm highlighting the fact that it's made by Scott is because we've seen him add dialogue that never appears in the game and is just used as a teaser.
"You don't know what we've been through" and "Don't hold it against us" are the ones everyone has heard of. But did you know that Scott also planned the second Sister Location trailer that included a dialogue, which was never intended to be in the game, despite being crucial for the story? That's right, initially the cutscene with Afton's interview was just for the trailer. The only reason Scott put it in the game instead is because he thought it was too spoiler-heavy.
Even the trailer for RUIN has Gregory's monologue that never ever occurs in the actual game. Nor was it supposed to, seeing how the game has barely anything cut.
The trailer is also said to include cinematics, not just gameplay. And that's where we start dissecting the footage.
Specifically, the scene of Vanessa in the Prize Counter, leaning on the elevator. And what I am going to tell you is this scene could never occur in the game. It only existed to showcase Vanessa.
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It's a bold statement. How do we know that? It is all in the movement of the elevator. Note where it's going, or rather from where. It goes past the Prize Counter, which would never be possible, given there was no fourth floor. Technically, there still isn't, despite what the current map and fakelevators try to convince you. There are no volumes, no lighting, nothing to imply there was anything physical above Prize Counter.
The point is that the elevator comes out of nowhere, going past the Prize Counter, indicating that it isn't a real in-game footage. In the next part we will cover more concerning Vanessa's status in the game.
Peepaw, you know you aren't allowed upstairs.
And let me bring up another scene that highlights how the trailer was never supposed to perfectly reflect the gameplay. That would be the scene of Burntrap in the West Arcade. Some may argue that perhaps his boss fight was meant to happen there, but no. From the concept stage, the Sinkhole has always existed at Roxy Raceway. Even in the trailer itself you can see that the Raceway has been damaged, just like in the final game.
- Vanessa the Ally and Freddy the Traitor
Starting with Vanessa, we hear her helping Gregory and trying to get him out of the Pizzaplex. But there are already inconsistencies present, including the scene right at the beginning of the game, with Gregory hiding from Vanessa. The same scene seen in the trailer.
The unedited maps and the location files dating as far back as 2020 suggest that the intro was the same. It is your main tutorial. And it sets up Vanessa as your enemy, despite her just doing the job of a security guard. She was never an ally to you.
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But what about the dialogue in the files? She sounds kind, as if caring for your well-being. That is true, but I encourage you to read it, then you may realize something that doesn't add up — none of her friendly voice lines add up into a coherent conversation. She is just luring you out! "Gregory, I can keep you safe" and "Please come out, I am trying to help you." Unlike Freddy, she isn't directly speaking with you. She is hunting you down, just like everyone else.
As for the element that's never considered in these discussions, a lot of the gameplay is location-based. And Lost & Found exists both in the digital maps and older lighting scenarios. Vanessa was always meant to catch you and lock you up in the Lobby, where you'd face Vanny for the first time.
Other discussions include whether Vanessa was a playable character at some point. Once again, based on the dialogue. But it all comes to the same issue. None of these are real conversations. They are scripted and recorded in one take, meaning nobody is seen replying to Vanessa. Rather, it is something you eavesdrop on while she is in a different room.
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While there is more undeniable evidence for Freddy, the circumstances are unclear. Yes, Freddy is heard hunting you down and being evil, but people have different opinions as to when and where it happens.The popular interpretation suggests Freddy was meant to betray you in the Vanny Ending. However, the other cut dialogue may contradict it, as Freddy is the one talking to you about using the console to defeat Vanny.
In actuality, Freddy's "betrayal" wasn't even cut. Thing is, it wasn't a betrayal at all. We see Freddy turning evil in the Burntrap Ending. And that's where the voice lines fit perfectly. The thing that sets it in stone are Evil Freddy's animations. Mainly the one where he searches under the tables. Remind you, the Vanny Ending doesn't have any tables at all. But the Burntrap one does.
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- The Cut Maps Don't Matter
Most of them are just plain shortcuts or parts of extended challenges. Would being able to use a random corridor to go from the Lobby to Fazcade suddenly fix the game? Don't think so. And neither would getting the Faz-Cam by fixing a boiler in the Daycare basement.
But we can use older maps to see what did and didn't change in the progression through areas. And most of it is just the same things, only extended. The map didn't receive an overhaul, all the events are the same. Loading Dock and Kitchen, Prize Counter and East Arcade, the Backstage Office and Showtime, Parts & Service and the Endo Warehouse.
As we have addressed earlier, the game's story was never majorly altered. All down to Roxy Raceway being affected by the Sinkhole was planned from the concept stage.
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THE SANDBOX CUT
So what am I attempting to convey with the paragraph above? It sounds awfully like there was no oldebetter version of SB. Is that the point of the post?Well, yes and no. The story and missions were practically the same, only with more steps at times. But most of the cut content breakdowns focus on the wrong thing, attempting to locate more events and scripted scenes that would expand on the story. But perhaps we should do the exact opposite.
What if I told you that the current version of SB is far more storydriven than anything that came prior?
So what is the Sandbox SB? Well, it's just a nickname for what appears to be the older version of Security Breach that had even more focus on gameplay than story. And its main distinction is lack of scripted progression. The Six Hour Countdown.
For the first time, it appeared in the gameplay trailer. You can see the Faz-Watch doing something that we never see in the final game — it's actually counting time. And not the scripted timestamps, but every single minute.
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But wait, there is more. We have the Intercom's voice lines, recorded back in June, 2020. Months before we got our first trailer. And there you find the following announcements:
- Attention all personnel. This is your last opportunity to leave the building before the scheduled maintenance lockdown begins.
- I repeat. This is your last opportunity to leave the building before the scheduled maintenance lockdown begins.
- Lockdown complete. All animatronics, please remain at your recharge terminals until recharge cycle is complete.
- Recharge cycle complete. Building maintenance and other custodial activities may commence.
- Recharge cycle complete. Building maintenance and other custodial activities may resume.
- It is now fifteen minutes until the hour. All animatronics, please return to your recharge terminals.
- It is now ten minutes until the hour. All animatronics, please return to your recharge terminals.
- It is now five minutes until the hour. All animatronics, please return to your recharge terminals.
- All animatronics should now be at their recharge terminals.
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Which, obviously, is not true. Why would the tutorial teach you that? You can charge him anytime despite it practically colliding with the lore. Since we're told the recharge stations are specifically being powered at the end of the hour.
The game always reminded you about the time that's actively passing. This little detail — the active time flow — opens our Pandora's box of possibilities. It means that you could do virtually nothing and just wait for the gates to open.
But Steel Wool have thought of that, too. Not only do you need to pass the Daycare and meet Freddy not to fall victim to Moon, but you also have something else to care about, known as the Vanny Meter.
Well, some may recall Ray saying it was meant for Survival Mode. And he wouldn't be wrong, as it's the last place where it existed. But that's not the full truth, as the Vanny Meter is hardwired into the Story Mode as well. Ever seen Vanessa run away to the Atrium for no reason? That's the Vanny Meter in action.
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Now, to those who don't know, Vanny Meter is a special feature that reacts to your movement. The more you idle, the more it fills up. If you stand still for a while, Vanessa gets triggered. She runs towards a large bathroom and there she becomes Vanny. For one, it implies Vanessa must have patrolled the map since at least 1 AM. For two, the main purpose of the Vanny Meter is to make sure you don't leave the game running in the background while you are gone doing chores. No cheating allowed. You survive 6 Hours fair and square.
There are a few more things linked to the timer besides the Vanny Meter. Some of you may know about the Night Mode. The dark red lighting that appears to be the early version of the starry filter Moon has. These are the emergency lights. Just as Freddy said, at the end of the hour all the power goes to recharge stations. But do you know what happens if you activate Night Mode at 12 AM? Time starts going. Not in the Survival Mode, but in the plain Story Mode. Activating on its own.
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One more thing that caused a lot of commotion was the Plan A pop-up if you died at 6 AM. If someone still wonders what it is, the answer is right there in the files. And right here below.
Plan A [Mission]
The main doors open at 6AM
- Try to survive the night until the main doors open at 6AM
The doors are open!
- The main doors are now open! Head to the main entrance quickly!
Find the prize counter security office on the 3rd floor
- The Prize counter is on the third level above the main entrance. You should be able to escape there.
Find the door to the Security Office
- Look for the door with a security badge symbol on it.
Find another way into the Security Office
Take the security badge from the Security Office
Survive until Freddy shuts down the alarm
Find the VIP room at the back of the Prize Counter
- That security bot wont let you pass unless you are a VIP member. If you collect enough prizes he may let you in.
Well, it doesn't have an official mission breakdown, but it's pretty obviously linked to Loading Dock. Plus the trigger for it is signed accordingly.
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Now. What makes these missions so special is the fact that they are no longer special at all. The idea of three plans implies you could follow one while neglecting the other, which is obviously impossible in the current game, since you are forced to follow Plan A in both cases. And nor can you decide to follow Plan A without collecting the badges for the Loading Dock Ending.
But what if it wasn't meant to be this way?
What if you could find a different exit before the 6 Hour mark? I believe this is the exact reason why these extra exits exist in the first place. If you are skilled enough, you could finish the game way sooner.
It wasn't a step-by-step story, like RUIN. It was a gigantic mall simulator where you are the moving force of the plot. This is the reason why everything feels so forced and unmotivated.
- Why do I have to go into the building if I can just wait for 6 hours?
- Why do I have to destroy the Glamrocks if that was never the plan?
- Why can't I just hide and wait?
- Why do I have to put myself in danger?
It's a big sandbox puzzle where you look for anything that could aid in your motives, whether you just want to live till dawn or play detective and uncover all the secrets of the Pizzaplex.
Another important element of the Sandbox is the way enemies act. As you may have noticed, SB did something to the bots that changed them forever. Their pathing was limited. They can't walk away, even though that's their design. The natural state for the animatronics and Vanessa is to freely circulate around the map without obstacles.
Couldn't get a shot, but Chica is sometimes seen getting stuck in this corner. She wants to go outside. Through a phantom door.
That's why sometimes you can notice Chica get stuck at Customer Service locker room. She attempts to go off the rail and go through a shortcut that no longer exists. That's why Vanessa runs into a wall and disappears, as she can't reach the Daycare bathroom to become Vanny. That's the reason why the map is flooded with Security Bots, as the Glamrocks could walk to the far end of the building.
And that's why the map had so many various corridors, airlocks and passages. No elevators, no loading screens. Only the steady circulation of animatronics and Vanessa around the premises. The enemies could pick shortcuts and circle in on you. Or instead you could use a different exit and not end up in a dead end. That's why the large and interconnected web of Utility Tunnels used to exist. It was a reward. As you upgraded Freddy and opened more gates, you could then unlock more underground ways to reach your destination without the need to face the Glamrocks patrolling all the areas upstairs. Just like Freddy tells you at the start of the game: Utility Tunnels are the safest path. And they were intended to get you anywhere you want.
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RAY'S INTERFERENCE
So what exactly happened with this version of the game for it to just cease to exist? Well, if it wasn't obvious enough, it didn't run. Maybe it did without lighting and with the high end hardware Steel Wool tested it on, but once the last gen consoles and computers rolled into the picture, everything started crumbling. Though even the last gen appears to have a bit of a hard time with the game.Steel Wool put all their eggs into one basket, so the handle snapped. And all they were left with was an omelet. The game was unable to seamlessly load the areas without stuttering, which led to the creation of the elevators and map division. Their most prized mechanic has fallen. The enemies and the player could no longer freely roam the building without being stopped. It's not like they didn't try to keep the map's integrity though. In the files, you can still find the special gates that you needed to push (E) to go through them and load the next area.
There's also high probability of other errors linked to the concept. Like what if the hour ends while you are in the Boss Fight? Besides it's very likely that a lot of the missions, dialogues and areas still weren't finalized. Time was scarce. And Steel Wool needed to do something fast. Perhaps that's where Ray McCaffrey comes in.
I don't consider myself a conspiracy theorist, but how strange is that that Steel Wool gets a new producer in June, and that's exactly when the game gets labeled a Pre-Alpha as opposed to V1.0 that it was called just at the end of last month, May. There are two possibilities.
May 20th 2021 - The game is Version 1.0.
August 19th 2021 - The game reverted to Pre-Alpha. What happened in those couple months?
A) They came to realization that the game was raw and unworthy of being called V1.0.
B) Or the version I consider more interesting. It changed, because this is no longer the same game. The game that was 1.0 is no more.
The Sandbox SB has been cancelled, be it by Ray McCaffrey, Jason Topolski, Andrew Dayton or the whole team. What was now born is The Scripted Security Breach. The linear gameplay formula with scripted events. Sandbox SB was in development for years, so it was a Version 1.0. Scripted SB was just born, so it became a Pre-Alpha.
Believe it or not, Ray may have saved SB from either being delayed again or being cancelled. For instance, he was the one to call and hire Marta Svetek (Gregory, Roxy, Vanny VA), whom Ray knew from previous work experience. But the development still wasn't in a good place, as the dialogue was being recorded even after the release date announcement. Not to mention that there was no public casting call for Gregory, Marta was asked to fill in this spot, despite not being interested in child roles. She still managed to pull it through and now nobody imagines these characters without her. But it is clear something is not right when you, without arranging the usual casting calls, get an actor to do three characters at once, left alone a character they didn't even want to voice.
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Even then, Steel Wool never gave up on Sandbox SB. To some extent. They attempted to salvage what they had and revive it in what we now know as Survival Mode. Survival Mode isn't just a random feature. It is the remnants of what Security Breach was attempting to do, minus the story bits. The 6 Hour Sandbox mechanics were presented in a more simple mission to collect gifts scattered around the map. But even that has proven too much to handle. And thus, the tale of The Sandbox Cut ends here. The epic tale of love, hate, bloodshed and overambition.
Well, it had a bit of a continuation. Steel Wool wanted to include a Survival Mode in RUIN, but never went through with it. Whether it is for better or for worse is unclear, but only time will tell.
THE AFTERMATH
The Security Breach we have now feels incomplete not only because of the cut missions and mechanics, but because it's one game impersonating another. Trying to be something that it isn't.While I do believe this old route of progression would've made the game feel more complete, I still wish for the series to focus more on the story and its underlying themes. Come on now, we have a series of amazing books and short stories with thought out characters and unraveling mysteries, while the games get only a fraction of that in a form of scavenger hunt. I feel like RUIN was a step in the right direction. Surely, it has a lot of kinks to work out, but if the trend continues, eventually we'll get something truly special.
I would like to thank everyone for reading. I would also like to mention the Technical FNaF Discussion, which is full of talented people who helped to build the steps to this possible solution to the biggest mystery of Security Breach. And thanks to Pizza Gamer for some of the illustrative content seen in this post. Much obliged. See you next time. Toodles.
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2024.05.28 02:29 Ok_Coconut_2560 Noodles
My family has always been of great minds. I hated it. Growing up and having to study day and night to try and live up to them was extremely exhausting when I couldn't care how things worked as long as I was happy. I gave up but somehow everything kept turning out to be true.
Over my lifetime I have become the Gorden Ramsey of the science world. Known for my temper and also for huge things like curing world hunger using play-doe and cancer with baby powder I got in a back street ally while drunk.
To get my family off my back I started making random ideas so they could see me as a failure and leave me alone but...they keep working. And soon people started to praise me. Fame has left me with nothing but more and more attention. So today I plan to make sure that everyone can just think I'm insane and leave me alone and not some king.
I chuckled like a kid who was opening a Christmas present as I heard the crowd of people chatting and talking loudly as I hid behind my stage in a grey tight suit that my sister had picked out. I sighed and was ready to walk out and make a fool out of myself but my brother stopped me.
" Jack... I just want you to know how proud I am of you. Dad would have loved to see you right now. "
I thought it was ironic because last night while chilling on the couch watching TV and eating chips I made this theory up. He dusted off my shoulders held them tight and looked me in the eyes taking in the moment.
" go give them hell man. "
He had a goofy smile just like Dad but spoke with confidence.
" you got it, man. "
I heard my name being called onto the stage and the uproar startled me for a second but I collected myself and headed out after giving him a nod just to entertain him.
The lights were blinding as I grabbed the mic and looked at the table in front of me with a small box with the ingredients I needed and a chalkboard behind me.
After I stood still for a minute the crowd died down. I had not told anyone what I was presenting so the whole world was watching without a clue of what I was doing this time.
"Hello everyone. Today I believe I have my most important presentation yet..."
The crowd grew silent and hung on every word. And I heard my voice around the room through the speakers.
" Today I have with me a box...and inside is spaghetti I had for breakfast. "
The crowd laughed thinking it was a joke
" shut up "
The crowd grew silent once more
"Behind me is a chalkboard and I will now present my new findings to all of you...I have found out how to make portals to other worlds. "
A man in the far back of the audience yelled bullshit in a heavy Indian accent but he was so far it was a faint sound for me. I smiled at that thinking I had finally found something that would make me lose my title and I could go ahead and live a life without people making me feel like an evil man for not helping others.
I opened the box got a handful of the noodles and threw them at the chalkboard. I then grabbed a paper towel on standby to clean myself.
The noodles hit the board and slowly moved and rested on a spot on the board. I made eye contact with my brother backstage and he had a look on his face showing he believed in me.
I spun the board dropping the noodles to the ground I then grabbed the chalk and drew around the sauce and noodles that stuck to the board then drew my attention to the others that had fallen on the floor and drew an outline of that.
After it finished I threw the chalk in the crowd violently hitting an old lady in the face.
" Quickly I want a show of hands who thinks I'm a crazy guy "
Everyone raised their hands and I laughed to myself
I then went behind the board and laid it horizontally. I grabbed a small knife in my pocket and poked my finger with it. The crimson blood fell and hit the chalk and then as more and more blood hit the chalk it started glowing.
" you have got to be joking. "
I said out loud as it started to spark an orange glow and it slowly grew color to the rest of the chalk in orange sparks.
Once the symbol was fully sparking with orange the sauce began to swell and move around in a counterclockwise manner. I stepped away from it in shock as small parts of the blood in my finger began to float to the parts where it fell on the floor I drew my outlines on and started sparking those as well.
It started to smoke and hiss as if lightning could whisper and the orange began to take shape and the sauce made a doorway. The parts that were not on the board began to grow ice around them and started to make designs on the floor circling me and the board. Suddenly it grew in size and a large booming voice was heard through the portal as I felt panic of people start to set in.
A huge claw came out and scrapped the sides of my table trying to crawl out from the world it had been trapped in. Cold winds hit me as they cut my skin and threw around my clothes. As I saw the table was now melting from its touch.
A slimy green claw with mucus like a face-hugger egg from the movie Alien carved through the floor and pulled the rest of its body out slowly. A beast stood at 12 feet tall adjusting to our world as goop grew and shaped its body as people screamed, ran, and stood frozen in fear.
As it looked around it locked its spider-like eyes and swerled around coming out from the portal and twisting and turning around the body as it made its way to its head finding a place to rest. It then locked its eyes with me and its jaw twisted slowly from an ant-like maw to mine and slowly shrunk and it soon took the shape of me and knelt on the floor and spoke to me.
" master. "
I stood in shock as everyone seemed to calm down and watched to see what I would do.
"...umm "My family has always been of great minds. I hated it. Growing up and having to study day and night to try and live up to them was extremely exhausting when I couldn't care how things worked as long as I was happy. I gave up but somehow everything kept turning out to be true.
Over my lifetime I have become the Gorden Ramsey of the science world. Known for my temper and also for huge things like curing world hunger using play-doe and cancer with baby powder I got in a back street ally while drunk.
To get my family off my back I started making random ideas so they could see me as a failure and leave me alone but...they keep working. And soon people started to praise me. Fame has left me with nothing but more and more attention. So today I plan to make sure that everyone can just think I'm insane and leave me alone and not some king.
I chuckled like a kid who was opening a Christmas present as I heard the crowd of people chatting and talking loudly as I hid behind my stage in a grey tight suit that my sister had picked out. I sighed and was ready to walk out and make a fool out of myself but my brother stopped me.
" Jack... I just want you to know how proud I am of you. Dad would have loved to see you right now. "
I thought it was ironic because last night while chilling on the couch watching TV and eating chips I made this theory up. He dusted off my shoulders held them tight and looked me in the eyes taking in the moment.
" go give them hell man. "
He had a goofy smile just like Dad but spoke with confidence.
" you got it, man. "
I heard my name being called onto the stage and the uproar startled me for a second but I collected myself and headed out after giving him a nod just to entertain him.
The lights were blinding as I grabbed the mic and looked at the table in front of me with a small box with the ingredients I needed and a chalkboard behind me.
After I stood still for a minute the crowd died down. I had not told anyone what I was presenting so the whole world was watching without a clue of what I was doing this time.
"Hello everyone. Today I believe I have my most important presentation yet..."
The crowd grew silent and hung on every word. And I heard my voice around the room through the speakers.
" Today I have with me a box...and inside is spaghetti I had breakfast. "
The crowd laughed thinking it was a joke
" shut up "
The crowd grew silent once more
"Behind me is a chalkboard and I will now present my new findings to all of you...I have found out how to make portals to other worlds. "
A man in the far back of the audience yelled bullshit in a heavy Indian accent but he was so far it was a faint sound for me. I smiled at that thinking I had finally found something that would make me lose my title and I could go ahead and live a life without people making me feel like an evil man for not helping others.
I opened the box got a handful of the noodles and threw them at the chalkboard. I then grabbed a paper towel on standby to clean myself.
The noodles hit the board and slowly moved and rested on a spot on the board. I made eye contact with my brother backstage and he had a look on his face showing he believed in me.
I spun the board dropping the noodles to the ground I then grabbed the chalk and drew around the sauce and noodles that stuck to the board then drew my attention to the others that had fallen on the floor and drew an outline of that.
After it finished I threw the chalk in the crowd violently hitting an old lady in the face.
" Quickly I want a show of hands who thinks I'm a crazy guy "
Everyone raised their hands and I laughed to myself
I then went behind the board and laid it horizontally. I grabbed a small knife in my pocket and poked my finger with it. The crimson blood fell and hit the chalk and then as more and more blood hit the chalk it started glowing.
" you have got to be joking. "
I said out loud as it started to spark an orange glow and it slowly grew color to the rest of the chalk in orange sparks.
Once the symbol was fully sparking with orange the sauce began to swell and move around in a counterclockwise manner. I stepped away from it in shock as small parts of the blood in my finger began to float to the parts where it fell on the floor I drew my outlines on and started sparking those as well.
It started to smoke and hiss as if lightning could whisper and the orange began to take shape and the sauce made a doorway. The parts that were not on the board began to grow ice around them and started to make designs on the floor circling me and the board. Suddenly it grew in size and a large booming voice was heard through the portal as I felt panic of people start to set in.
A huge claw came out and scrapped the sides of my table trying to crawl out from the world it had been trapped in. Cold winds hit me as they cut my skin and threw around my clothes. As I saw the table was now melting from its touch.
A slimy green claw with mucus like a face-hugger egg from the movie Alien carved through the floor and pulled the rest of its body out slowly. A beast stood at 12 feet tall adjusting to our world as goop grew and shaped its body as people screamed, ran, and stood frozen in fear.
As it looked around it locked its spider-like eyes and swerled around coming out from the portal and twisting and turning around the body as it made its way to its head finding a place to rest. It then locked its eyes with me and its jaw twisted slowly from an ant-like maw to mine and slowly shrunk and it soon took the shape of me and knelt on the floor and spoke to me.
" master. "
I stood in shock as everyone seemed to calm down and watched to see what I would do.
Now that this creature knelt before me I realized that the room I was in was so terrible quietly you could hear everyone's ass get tight in anticipation of what would happen next.
" ...what...are you. "
I spoke carefully to the being that had taken the shape of myself. It still took my breath away and my throat was dry.
The beast was a deep green. The color mixed with shades of grey streaming from it. The longer I looked at it I could see it getting closer to what I looked like shaping itself.
From small flowing green tendrils to an arm they grew as they twisted and made bone then muscle and finally skin.
It locked eyes with me and it smiled deeply at me. As it formed the face finally.
" Your vassle. "
My eyes had not moved to the crowd at all but even though the lights hit the stage so hard it was enveloped in smoke.
The creature's eyes glowed as it answered brightly, not figuratively. This thing's eyes were glowing.
"To serve you, We are bound by blood magic. I am a reflection of your desires, Master, " it said, its voice now a whisper in my mind.
It began to stand up as my grey suit began to form on it and by the time it stood fully up it had copied what I looked like.
" let me explain everything. "
My body frozen in fear woke up with adrenaline as I blinked and a flash of green smoke covered my vision as he teleported right to me face to face.
Its body turned to smoke and went into the slits of my eyes. I felt visions follow me in my peripheral vision but surprisingly no pain followed power filled me and it felt like one hell of a drug.
My body and mind altered.
I was now in a very dark place with no walls or light except my reflection on the floor which waved like water.
I took a step back looking around and back to the reflection of me on the ground.
Soon the water rippled and my reflection fell through the floor like gravity was inverted. he flew upright and water fell off of him as he looked at me as he now stood straight ahead of me. He was just reflecting in the water but now eyed me down.
Collecting my nerves.
I begin to speak.
" what do you want..."
He was still in my form and stood perfectly straight. Now with water dripping from his...my hair.
Slight stubble with hair that hung down and my hazel eyes were not present within him but I was greeted with a swelling acidic green that doubled the size of my pupil.
" to serve you. "
He made no other movement than putting his hands behind his back like a soldier at ease.
I could not tell if it was lying or not.
" ...is that it? "
" I am the embodiment of your fear desires and brilliance. You have shaped me. Your desire for solitude birthed me. I will aid you in shaping the world how you see fit. Your reality becomes mine. "
There was a slight echo in the room as he spoke.
" wait...where are we "
I questioned haphazardly
" your mind. "
An awkward silence was in the air until I spoke
" so...am I just standing on the stage not making a sound? "
He gave me a concerned look.
" no...time has frozen outside for you. You may sleep here without having to in the real world so to others you look as if you never rest and you may think and plan what to do in battle here. For them, it will be about two seconds...Do...do you not have any knowledge of what I am? "
Suddenly I felt bad like I had encountered someone famous and I had no idea who they were. A slap in the face like a popular kid meeting someone who had never heard of them. Ego shattered.
" ok sorry no. I...don't go around reading about...monsters?"
I felt like was I saying the n-word of the demon realm not knowing if that word was offensive.
He folded his arms a little upset.
"Are you not a warrior? "
" well...no I...just watch TV and cook here and there- "
The demon cut me off
" weak. "
" excuse me? "
" look. I am an immortal being and after a while you get bored. So I'm sorry if I may be a little upset after being bonded with some nobody. "
I got quiet and I was a little annoyed that I was being roasted by some demon that I just met.
Its form wavers and eyes begin to open on its skin. Cheeks forhead etc.
"After being a god for so long it's fun to play with limitations. Makes things extremely exciting. "
" what do you mean by that? "
" look. You can only be so entertained by the same things. Life gets boring and now...you are going to help me with this. I get to have pure entertainment while you get every wish you could ever want. A mutual bond no? "
He then closed his eyes annoyed and the other eyes meshed back to his skin.
" though... the TV is not that interesting...life is what gets the blood pumping"
I felt the need to quickly change the topic
"Are there others like you? "
The room began to take shape very slowly as the water floor turned to wood and walls went around us.
" of course. You may meet them one day "
Confused and curious I pressed.
"Meet them? "
" yes. Summoning one of us is considered a threat to them. "
He spoke while opening and closing his newly found hand except backward.
" hm...no that don't look right "
I quickly responded
" Wait! How is doing that a threat! "
"Well, one doesn't just accidentally Summon one of us to suddenly get powers beyond human control. "
I thought back to how I summoned him by accident with some food I made.
" well...funny story but I summoned you using my breakfast..."
I had never regretted speaking so much as in that moment.
" What... "
Acid dripped from his words. Literally. His pupils split in half and his bottom jaw ripped open like an ant and curved giving sharpness to the bone.
"Please don't kill me. "
The room began to look like a cozy cabin with a fireplace and he slowly went back to normal.
" I would if I could. I've never felt so disrespected. We are bonded by your blood. If you die...I die. "
Suddenly I felt at ease by this new information.
Then a thought came to my mind
" ...God's can die? "
" you did hear me, right? "
The SAS from this guy was unneeded and I was starting to miss him being on his knees as weird as that sounds.
" so...all that power gone.... in an instant... "
" well...no actually God's powers don't just disappear they transfer to whoever killed them...wait...hold up."
He suddenly had an epiphany.
A smile grew on his face and he grabbed my shoulders
" you! You are going to help me kill the other gods! "
He sounded proud but I let him down.
" ha! No. "
" oh come on! Don't be like that. "
He did a pout.
"Look, man. I'm not killing gods for you. Just because you are bored. "
" hey...they might send people to kill you because you bonded with me. "
"What did I ever do to them? "
"They have a system to this stuff. They like to build and watch things play out. You're a problem. That can mess it up. So...they kill ya...to be honest, I don't know any other way to explain it, man. You know people normally just use my power to kill people and become a king and know this already. "
"This is outrageous. "
" bro. Look if you do this I will be able to get their powers and you will be able to do so much more than what I offer "
I tilted my head
" what can you do? Know what never mind. I will just talk to them and figure things out. "
He groaned and his form melted down sagging and it shot back up reforming
"Is there not anything that you want? Anything in the world? Gods don't put themselves in physical forms. They give people power and can make beings to hunt you. And if they care enough to come down themself. Ha, good luck."
I stopped and thought about it trying to weigh the options of pissing off higher beings.
Suddenly. I found something.
"Can you bring back the dead..."
He stopped confused.
" well...no "
" then I don't want anything "
" wait! "
He threw his arms out pleading
"I don't...but another God does..."
He crosses his arms smiling. He had left the question hanging letting me reconsider his offer.
I stopped and thought for a while before looking back up to him.
I let out a sigh and looked him in the eyes
" ok...you are going to help me get my father back. "
The demon smirked.
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Over my lifetime I have become the Gorden Ramsey of the science world. Known for my temper and also for huge things like curing world hunger using play-doe and cancer with baby powder I got in a back street ally while drunk.
To get my family off my back I started making random ideas so they could see me as a failure and leave me alone but...they keep working. And soon people started to praise me. Fame has left me with nothing but more and more attention. So today I plan to make sure that everyone can just think I'm insane and leave me alone and not some king.
I chuckled like a kid who was opening a Christmas present as I heard the crowd of people chatting and talking loudly as I hid behind my stage in a grey tight suit that my sister had picked out. I sighed and was ready to walk out and make a fool out of myself but my brother stopped me.
" Jack... I just want you to know how proud I am of you. Dad would have loved to see you right now. "
I thought it was ironic because last night while chilling on the couch watching TV and eating chips I made this theory up. He dusted off my shoulders held them tight and looked me in the eyes taking in the moment.
" go give them hell man. "
He had a goofy smile just like Dad but spoke with confidence.
" you got it, man. "
I heard my name being called onto the stage and the uproar startled me for a second but I collected myself and headed out after giving him a nod just to entertain him.
The lights were blinding as I grabbed the mic and looked at the table in front of me with a small box with the ingredients I needed and a chalkboard behind me.
After I stood still for a minute the crowd died down. I had not told anyone what I was presenting so the whole world was watching without a clue of what I was doing this time.
"Hello everyone. Today I believe I have my most important presentation yet..."
The crowd grew silent and hung on every word. And I heard my voice around the room through the speakers.
" Today I have with me a box...and inside is spaghetti I had for breakfast. "
The crowd laughed thinking it was a joke
" shut up "
The crowd grew silent once more
"Behind me is a chalkboard and I will now present my new findings to all of you...I have found out how to make portals to other worlds. "
A man in the far back of the audience yelled bullshit in a heavy Indian accent but he was so far it was a faint sound for me. I smiled at that thinking I had finally found something that would make me lose my title and I could go ahead and live a life without people making me feel like an evil man for not helping others.
I opened the box got a handful of the noodles and threw them at the chalkboard. I then grabbed a paper towel on standby to clean myself.
The noodles hit the board and slowly moved and rested on a spot on the board. I made eye contact with my brother backstage and he had a look on his face showing he believed in me.
I spun the board dropping the noodles to the ground I then grabbed the chalk and drew around the sauce and noodles that stuck to the board then drew my attention to the others that had fallen on the floor and drew an outline of that.
After it finished I threw the chalk in the crowd violently hitting an old lady in the face.
" Quickly I want a show of hands who thinks I'm a crazy guy "
Everyone raised their hands and I laughed to myself
I then went behind the board and laid it horizontally. I grabbed a small knife in my pocket and poked my finger with it. The crimson blood fell and hit the chalk and then as more and more blood hit the chalk it started glowing.
" you have got to be joking. "
I said out loud as it started to spark an orange glow and it slowly grew color to the rest of the chalk in orange sparks.
Once the symbol was fully sparking with orange the sauce began to swell and move around in a counterclockwise manner. I stepped away from it in shock as small parts of the blood in my finger began to float to the parts where it fell on the floor I drew my outlines on and started sparking those as well.
It started to smoke and hiss as if lightning could whisper and the orange began to take shape and the sauce made a doorway. The parts that were not on the board began to grow ice around them and started to make designs on the floor circling me and the board. Suddenly it grew in size and a large booming voice was heard through the portal as I felt panic of people start to set in.
A huge claw came out and scrapped the sides of my table trying to crawl out from the world it had been trapped in. Cold winds hit me as they cut my skin and threw around my clothes. As I saw the table was now melting from its touch.
A slimy green claw with mucus like a face-hugger egg from the movie Alien carved through the floor and pulled the rest of its body out slowly. A beast stood at 12 feet tall adjusting to our world as goop grew and shaped its body as people screamed, ran, and stood frozen in fear.
As it looked around it locked its spider-like eyes and swerled around coming out from the portal and twisting and turning around the body as it made its way to its head finding a place to rest. It then locked its eyes with me and its jaw twisted slowly from an ant-like maw to mine and slowly shrunk and it soon took the shape of me and knelt on the floor and spoke to me.
" master. "
I stood in shock as everyone seemed to calm down and watched to see what I would do.
"...umm "My family has always been of great minds. I hated it. Growing up and having to study day and night to try and live up to them was extremely exhausting when I couldn't care how things worked as long as I was happy. I gave up but somehow everything kept turning out to be true.
Over my lifetime I have become the Gorden Ramsey of the science world. Known for my temper and also for huge things like curing world hunger using play-doe and cancer with baby powder I got in a back street ally while drunk.
To get my family off my back I started making random ideas so they could see me as a failure and leave me alone but...they keep working. And soon people started to praise me. Fame has left me with nothing but more and more attention. So today I plan to make sure that everyone can just think I'm insane and leave me alone and not some king.
I chuckled like a kid who was opening a Christmas present as I heard the crowd of people chatting and talking loudly as I hid behind my stage in a grey tight suit that my sister had picked out. I sighed and was ready to walk out and make a fool out of myself but my brother stopped me.
" Jack... I just want you to know how proud I am of you. Dad would have loved to see you right now. "
I thought it was ironic because last night while chilling on the couch watching TV and eating chips I made this theory up. He dusted off my shoulders held them tight and looked me in the eyes taking in the moment.
" go give them hell man. "
He had a goofy smile just like Dad but spoke with confidence.
" you got it, man. "
I heard my name being called onto the stage and the uproar startled me for a second but I collected myself and headed out after giving him a nod just to entertain him.
The lights were blinding as I grabbed the mic and looked at the table in front of me with a small box with the ingredients I needed and a chalkboard behind me.
After I stood still for a minute the crowd died down. I had not told anyone what I was presenting so the whole world was watching without a clue of what I was doing this time.
"Hello everyone. Today I believe I have my most important presentation yet..."
The crowd grew silent and hung on every word. And I heard my voice around the room through the speakers.
" Today I have with me a box...and inside is spaghetti I had breakfast. "
The crowd laughed thinking it was a joke
" shut up "
The crowd grew silent once more
"Behind me is a chalkboard and I will now present my new findings to all of you...I have found out how to make portals to other worlds. "
A man in the far back of the audience yelled bullshit in a heavy Indian accent but he was so far it was a faint sound for me. I smiled at that thinking I had finally found something that would make me lose my title and I could go ahead and live a life without people making me feel like an evil man for not helping others.
I opened the box got a handful of the noodles and threw them at the chalkboard. I then grabbed a paper towel on standby to clean myself.
The noodles hit the board and slowly moved and rested on a spot on the board. I made eye contact with my brother backstage and he had a look on his face showing he believed in me.
I spun the board dropping the noodles to the ground I then grabbed the chalk and drew around the sauce and noodles that stuck to the board then drew my attention to the others that had fallen on the floor and drew an outline of that.
After it finished I threw the chalk in the crowd violently hitting an old lady in the face.
" Quickly I want a show of hands who thinks I'm a crazy guy "
Everyone raised their hands and I laughed to myself
I then went behind the board and laid it horizontally. I grabbed a small knife in my pocket and poked my finger with it. The crimson blood fell and hit the chalk and then as more and more blood hit the chalk it started glowing.
" you have got to be joking. "
I said out loud as it started to spark an orange glow and it slowly grew color to the rest of the chalk in orange sparks.
Once the symbol was fully sparking with orange the sauce began to swell and move around in a counterclockwise manner. I stepped away from it in shock as small parts of the blood in my finger began to float to the parts where it fell on the floor I drew my outlines on and started sparking those as well.
It started to smoke and hiss as if lightning could whisper and the orange began to take shape and the sauce made a doorway. The parts that were not on the board began to grow ice around them and started to make designs on the floor circling me and the board. Suddenly it grew in size and a large booming voice was heard through the portal as I felt panic of people start to set in.
A huge claw came out and scrapped the sides of my table trying to crawl out from the world it had been trapped in. Cold winds hit me as they cut my skin and threw around my clothes. As I saw the table was now melting from its touch.
A slimy green claw with mucus like a face-hugger egg from the movie Alien carved through the floor and pulled the rest of its body out slowly. A beast stood at 12 feet tall adjusting to our world as goop grew and shaped its body as people screamed, ran, and stood frozen in fear.
As it looked around it locked its spider-like eyes and swerled around coming out from the portal and twisting and turning around the body as it made its way to its head finding a place to rest. It then locked its eyes with me and its jaw twisted slowly from an ant-like maw to mine and slowly shrunk and it soon took the shape of me and knelt on the floor and spoke to me.
" master. "
I stood in shock as everyone seemed to calm down and watched to see what I would do.
"...umm "
Part two of the noodle demon.Now that this creature knelt before me I realized that the room I was in was so terrible quietly you could hear everyone's ass get tight in anticipation of what would happen next.
" ...what...are you. "
I spoke carefully to the being that had taken the shape of myself. It still took my breath away and my throat was dry.
The beast was a deep green. The color mixed with shades of grey streaming from it. The longer I looked at it I could see it getting closer to what I looked like shaping itself.
From small flowing green tendrils to an arm they grew as they twisted and made bone then muscle and finally skin.
It locked eyes with me and it smiled deeply at me. As it formed the face finally.
" Your vassle. "
My eyes had not moved to the crowd at all but even though the lights hit the stage so hard it was enveloped in smoke.
The creature's eyes glowed as it answered brightly, not figuratively. This thing's eyes were glowing.
"To serve you, We are bound by blood magic. I am a reflection of your desires, Master, " it said, its voice now a whisper in my mind.
It began to stand up as my grey suit began to form on it and by the time it stood fully up it had copied what I looked like.
" let me explain everything. "
My body frozen in fear woke up with adrenaline as I blinked and a flash of green smoke covered my vision as he teleported right to me face to face.
Its body turned to smoke and went into the slits of my eyes. I felt visions follow me in my peripheral vision but surprisingly no pain followed power filled me and it felt like one hell of a drug.
My body and mind altered.
I was now in a very dark place with no walls or light except my reflection on the floor which waved like water.
I took a step back looking around and back to the reflection of me on the ground.
Soon the water rippled and my reflection fell through the floor like gravity was inverted. he flew upright and water fell off of him as he looked at me as he now stood straight ahead of me. He was just reflecting in the water but now eyed me down.
Collecting my nerves.
I begin to speak.
" what do you want..."
He was still in my form and stood perfectly straight. Now with water dripping from his...my hair.
Slight stubble with hair that hung down and my hazel eyes were not present within him but I was greeted with a swelling acidic green that doubled the size of my pupil.
" to serve you. "
He made no other movement than putting his hands behind his back like a soldier at ease.
I could not tell if it was lying or not.
" ...is that it? "
" I am the embodiment of your fear desires and brilliance. You have shaped me. Your desire for solitude birthed me. I will aid you in shaping the world how you see fit. Your reality becomes mine. "
There was a slight echo in the room as he spoke.
" wait...where are we "
I questioned haphazardly
" your mind. "
An awkward silence was in the air until I spoke
" so...am I just standing on the stage not making a sound? "
He gave me a concerned look.
" no...time has frozen outside for you. You may sleep here without having to in the real world so to others you look as if you never rest and you may think and plan what to do in battle here. For them, it will be about two seconds...Do...do you not have any knowledge of what I am? "
Suddenly I felt bad like I had encountered someone famous and I had no idea who they were. A slap in the face like a popular kid meeting someone who had never heard of them. Ego shattered.
" ok sorry no. I...don't go around reading about...monsters?"
I felt like was I saying the n-word of the demon realm not knowing if that word was offensive.
He folded his arms a little upset.
"Are you not a warrior? "
" well...no I...just watch TV and cook here and there- "
The demon cut me off
" weak. "
" excuse me? "
" look. I am an immortal being and after a while you get bored. So I'm sorry if I may be a little upset after being bonded with some nobody. "
I got quiet and I was a little annoyed that I was being roasted by some demon that I just met.
Its form wavers and eyes begin to open on its skin. Cheeks forhead etc.
"After being a god for so long it's fun to play with limitations. Makes things extremely exciting. "
" what do you mean by that? "
" look. You can only be so entertained by the same things. Life gets boring and now...you are going to help me with this. I get to have pure entertainment while you get every wish you could ever want. A mutual bond no? "
He then closed his eyes annoyed and the other eyes meshed back to his skin.
" though... the TV is not that interesting...life is what gets the blood pumping"
I felt the need to quickly change the topic
"Are there others like you? "
The room began to take shape very slowly as the water floor turned to wood and walls went around us.
" of course. You may meet them one day "
Confused and curious I pressed.
"Meet them? "
" yes. Summoning one of us is considered a threat to them. "
He spoke while opening and closing his newly found hand except backward.
" hm...no that don't look right "
I quickly responded
" Wait! How is doing that a threat! "
"Well, one doesn't just accidentally Summon one of us to suddenly get powers beyond human control. "
I thought back to how I summoned him by accident with some food I made.
" well...funny story but I summoned you using my breakfast..."
I had never regretted speaking so much as in that moment.
" What... "
Acid dripped from his words. Literally. His pupils split in half and his bottom jaw ripped open like an ant and curved giving sharpness to the bone.
"Please don't kill me. "
The room began to look like a cozy cabin with a fireplace and he slowly went back to normal.
" I would if I could. I've never felt so disrespected. We are bonded by your blood. If you die...I die. "
Suddenly I felt at ease by this new information.
Then a thought came to my mind
" ...God's can die? "
" you did hear me, right? "
The SAS from this guy was unneeded and I was starting to miss him being on his knees as weird as that sounds.
" so...all that power gone.... in an instant... "
" well...no actually God's powers don't just disappear they transfer to whoever killed them...wait...hold up."
He suddenly had an epiphany.
A smile grew on his face and he grabbed my shoulders
" you! You are going to help me kill the other gods! "
He sounded proud but I let him down.
" ha! No. "
" oh come on! Don't be like that. "
He did a pout.
"Look, man. I'm not killing gods for you. Just because you are bored. "
" hey...they might send people to kill you because you bonded with me. "
"What did I ever do to them? "
"They have a system to this stuff. They like to build and watch things play out. You're a problem. That can mess it up. So...they kill ya...to be honest, I don't know any other way to explain it, man. You know people normally just use my power to kill people and become a king and know this already. "
"This is outrageous. "
" bro. Look if you do this I will be able to get their powers and you will be able to do so much more than what I offer "
I tilted my head
" what can you do? Know what never mind. I will just talk to them and figure things out. "
He groaned and his form melted down sagging and it shot back up reforming
"Is there not anything that you want? Anything in the world? Gods don't put themselves in physical forms. They give people power and can make beings to hunt you. And if they care enough to come down themself. Ha, good luck."
I stopped and thought about it trying to weigh the options of pissing off higher beings.
Suddenly. I found something.
"Can you bring back the dead..."
He stopped confused.
" well...no "
" then I don't want anything "
" wait! "
He threw his arms out pleading
"I don't...but another God does..."
He crosses his arms smiling. He had left the question hanging letting me reconsider his offer.
I stopped and thought for a while before looking back up to him.
I let out a sigh and looked him in the eyes
" ok...you are going to help me get my father back. "
The demon smirked.
2024.05.28 02:29 wellthenokaysir Got some enraging confirmations today
Mods might remove this post because this girl isn’t my MIL, but I find it fitting because she is a mother and also my in law. I don’t know what other sub this would go in so if it isn’t approved please direct me towards a place, and tbh I just need to rant to some like minded people.
This in law is my fiancés first cousin that he grew up with like a sister. Literally next door to each other, together every day pre-18, she’s in all of his pictures growing up. He’s always warned me about her being a major see you next Tuesday, but we never interacted much and when we did she was always okay so I tried to give her the benefit of the doubt. We started to get closer when I got pregnant for the first time because she and her friends all have kids. I started hanging out with her best friend and their other cousin they grew up with too. I felt like I was finally part of the girl group in his family after 3 years of being on the outside. Long story short, I miscarried and her best friend kept checking in on me, but she practically abandoned me. Sent an obligatory “I’m here if you need anything” text and then I didn’t hear from her for months until my birthday dinner that her friend planned. After hanging out at least twice a week prior. At that point I kind of felt like maybe she didn’t actually like me, but I didn’t think too much on it because I didn’t have any proof, she was nice enough, and she truly had NO reason to dislike me that I’m aware of. I’ve held this girl’s baby, crocheted her a custom baby blanket, given gifts, checked in on holidays, and always tried to be nice because I WANTED her to like me.
Well recently I got pregnant again and she’s been acting fish since. First of all, we announced to fiancés extended family via a group chat that about 20 of his family members are in, including her. I’m not in it. Immediately after announcing, she texts my MIL congratulations on being a grandma (I know this because MIL was in the room). She didn’t message me for almost 3 days. Didn’t respond to my response. Two days later asked if I was going to the family Memorial Day lunch on Saturday. I said I wasn’t because fiancé wanted to work on a project, and left my message open for a conversational response. All she said was gotcha and I haven’t heard from her since. Weird. At this point I really think she doesn’t like me for some reason, but I’m not going to press the issue or confront her on it over text. I still have no proof.
Today her best friend invited me over for Memorial Day for some BBQ and swimming. She was supposed to be there but claimed she was sick and didn’t want to go. I’m a blunt person, so when her friend and I had a private moment, I asked “Is there any reason that Sally doesn’t like me? I just kind of get the vibe that she doesn’t and I have no idea why” Friend asked why and I basically repeated the paragraph above. I was kind of expecting her to say no, but wasn’t surprised when she gave me a reason. And the reason is literally a non reason. Apparently she “doesn’t respect the way that (my fiancé) treats me” LOL WHAT? The irony, but I’ll get there. I want to defend my fiancé first. We’ve been together for 4 mostly wonderful years. Never broken up. Obviously our relationship isn’t picture perfect, but we’ve never argued in front of other people, we always work our issues out peacefully, he never puts his hands on me, we are each other’s best friend and confidant, he takes care of me and his unborn child financially, he spoils me, and is overall a sweet and amazing partner. There’s nothing to not respect about our relationship tbh. Especially about the way he treats me. His whole family and most people that we meet say we will be together forever and it’s a match made in heaven. He’s an only child and his mother WANTS me to marry her son.
So I find it incredibly ironic considering her baby father has cheated on her pre and during pregnancy, been caught on dating apps, has beat her and literally choked her out, thrown her car keys in a field when she tried to leave, kicked her parents from out of state out of their home with nowhere to go for defending their child, made her climb an 8 ft fence at 8 months pregnant, and done god knows what else she’s probably too embarrassed to tell people. But she tries to tell people that “the baby really changed him” (lol yeah, okay). Idk, it reads as jealousy to me. And apparently she’s been trying to force him to propose to her, virtually trying on rings, and constantly bringing it up towards him even though this man clearly has no intention of marrying her. With or without a baby. According to her friend. Again, reads as jealousy. But our relationship is the non respectable one. And the funny thing is, I’ve never treated her any differently despite all that shit because her shitty relationship should not define her. But this shit does.
Also, her baby father came to grab a plate of food today for before work and hugged everyone else at the party and didn’t even acknowledge my presence. Something is up with them and I’m over it. I think everyone else is noticing it too because after he left there was a collective “well that was rude as fuck”. Lol.
Any advice, theories, and/or requests for further context will be appreciated because I’m honestly mostly at a loss here. Kind of hurt, kind of enraged, kind of hormonal.
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This in law is my fiancés first cousin that he grew up with like a sister. Literally next door to each other, together every day pre-18, she’s in all of his pictures growing up. He’s always warned me about her being a major see you next Tuesday, but we never interacted much and when we did she was always okay so I tried to give her the benefit of the doubt. We started to get closer when I got pregnant for the first time because she and her friends all have kids. I started hanging out with her best friend and their other cousin they grew up with too. I felt like I was finally part of the girl group in his family after 3 years of being on the outside. Long story short, I miscarried and her best friend kept checking in on me, but she practically abandoned me. Sent an obligatory “I’m here if you need anything” text and then I didn’t hear from her for months until my birthday dinner that her friend planned. After hanging out at least twice a week prior. At that point I kind of felt like maybe she didn’t actually like me, but I didn’t think too much on it because I didn’t have any proof, she was nice enough, and she truly had NO reason to dislike me that I’m aware of. I’ve held this girl’s baby, crocheted her a custom baby blanket, given gifts, checked in on holidays, and always tried to be nice because I WANTED her to like me.
Well recently I got pregnant again and she’s been acting fish since. First of all, we announced to fiancés extended family via a group chat that about 20 of his family members are in, including her. I’m not in it. Immediately after announcing, she texts my MIL congratulations on being a grandma (I know this because MIL was in the room). She didn’t message me for almost 3 days. Didn’t respond to my response. Two days later asked if I was going to the family Memorial Day lunch on Saturday. I said I wasn’t because fiancé wanted to work on a project, and left my message open for a conversational response. All she said was gotcha and I haven’t heard from her since. Weird. At this point I really think she doesn’t like me for some reason, but I’m not going to press the issue or confront her on it over text. I still have no proof.
Today her best friend invited me over for Memorial Day for some BBQ and swimming. She was supposed to be there but claimed she was sick and didn’t want to go. I’m a blunt person, so when her friend and I had a private moment, I asked “Is there any reason that Sally doesn’t like me? I just kind of get the vibe that she doesn’t and I have no idea why” Friend asked why and I basically repeated the paragraph above. I was kind of expecting her to say no, but wasn’t surprised when she gave me a reason. And the reason is literally a non reason. Apparently she “doesn’t respect the way that (my fiancé) treats me” LOL WHAT? The irony, but I’ll get there. I want to defend my fiancé first. We’ve been together for 4 mostly wonderful years. Never broken up. Obviously our relationship isn’t picture perfect, but we’ve never argued in front of other people, we always work our issues out peacefully, he never puts his hands on me, we are each other’s best friend and confidant, he takes care of me and his unborn child financially, he spoils me, and is overall a sweet and amazing partner. There’s nothing to not respect about our relationship tbh. Especially about the way he treats me. His whole family and most people that we meet say we will be together forever and it’s a match made in heaven. He’s an only child and his mother WANTS me to marry her son.
So I find it incredibly ironic considering her baby father has cheated on her pre and during pregnancy, been caught on dating apps, has beat her and literally choked her out, thrown her car keys in a field when she tried to leave, kicked her parents from out of state out of their home with nowhere to go for defending their child, made her climb an 8 ft fence at 8 months pregnant, and done god knows what else she’s probably too embarrassed to tell people. But she tries to tell people that “the baby really changed him” (lol yeah, okay). Idk, it reads as jealousy to me. And apparently she’s been trying to force him to propose to her, virtually trying on rings, and constantly bringing it up towards him even though this man clearly has no intention of marrying her. With or without a baby. According to her friend. Again, reads as jealousy. But our relationship is the non respectable one. And the funny thing is, I’ve never treated her any differently despite all that shit because her shitty relationship should not define her. But this shit does.
Also, her baby father came to grab a plate of food today for before work and hugged everyone else at the party and didn’t even acknowledge my presence. Something is up with them and I’m over it. I think everyone else is noticing it too because after he left there was a collective “well that was rude as fuck”. Lol.
Any advice, theories, and/or requests for further context will be appreciated because I’m honestly mostly at a loss here. Kind of hurt, kind of enraged, kind of hormonal.
2024.05.28 02:28 Karmic_Backlash Best Mods - Day 1: Meta Mods
New to Rimworld and modding and want to actually know what the mods do before sinking 1000 (more hours) into a playthrough just to find it all breaks 50 hours in? Or maybe you're just looking for new mods to throw into your next 1000 hour playthrough hoping entirely they won't break 50 hours in? This is the place for you. I'm gonna be doing a series of posts talking about Rimworld mods based on a series of Collections by UI on steam simply called "Best Mods". I'm not taking credit for making the list, they're the one doing the heavy lifting in bringing these all to light. I just thought I'd discuss and cover why you might want to use them here.
This list isn't perfect or comprehensive, and as such I'll ask that if there are any mods you feel are missing, let me know in the comments and I'll add them to the next post. Today's is gonna be short(ish) and sweet.
Notably, I want to say that this mod has the same use case as the popular mod "EDB Prepare Carefully" and the newer mod "RimUI_ Pawn Editor". These mod's do the same this, but in the former case it can be a little unstable and mess with your save, while in the latter case its newer and doesn't have quite the feature list. To each their own, but I think Character Editor + Retexture is the best of the three for me personally.
The mod is also able to be used mid-game as well with a hotkey.
This mod is very useful for those mods that add things you don't like, but otherwise have something you really want, for example, lets say you wanted just the floors from a mod that add a bunch of things, you could go through and set each thing besides the floors in the mod options to be disabled, and after saving and restarting the game, it will be as though those removed items never existed.
Keep in mind that somethings aren't retroactive. They're still IN the mod, just inaccessable, so stuff like items and powers will still be there if removed afterwards, but generally this is something you should be doing at the beginning of a playthrough rather then half way through.
What it does specifically is take a screenshot and place it somewhere for you to later look at. Its just a screenshot though so if you wanted to make a gif or video of it thats on you. Still very nice.
I don't dislike this mod, don't get me wrong. However I have the philosophy of "Less is more" when it comes to modding, and this mod borders on being entirely too much. The sheer vastness of things it can do can be overwhelming and if I'm being honest, most of its features can be found elsewhere in other mods with stronger focus.
Go read the mod description, browse through the manual provided, and make your own decisions about using this one, because its not one for the faint of heart.
Side note, it can be optionally used with Rimsort, but not the native game or Fluffy's Mod Manager.
The only thing of note to say is that it doesn't support the multiplayer mod by itself (though that community has their own fork for compability) and rimthreaded, which you shouldn't be using anyway.
That's all for today, if I made any mistakes in my coverage or there are some themetically similar mods you want me to talk about later, let me know. Keep in mind that I'm basing this list off of UI's "Best Mods" collections on steam, so things might be covered here and there rather then where you think they should be.
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This list isn't perfect or comprehensive, and as such I'll ask that if there are any mods you feel are missing, let me know in the comments and I'll add them to the next post. Today's is gonna be short(ish) and sweet.
Best Mods - Day 1: Meta Mods
These are mods that don't affect gameplay, changes or adds no mechanics, and doesn't add new content. They simply add convenient changes to the game that better allow you to debug or mod the game yourself.[GMT] TicksPerSecond 1.5
This mod essentially shows you the TPS rather then the FPS in your game. To explain, TPS is how many "ticks" are happening in game per second, with every tick being one singular moment of movement or action. Its different from FPS because while you migh have a "high" FPS, your game might still be running slowly because the ticks are being dragged down. This is a good mod for showing that.Activate Mod Dependencies
Simple as it sounds, it gives you a few options to activate mod dependencies. If you're using either Rimpy, Fluffy's Mod Manager, or Rimsort this isn't needed. But if you're on a steam deck or something this might be useful.Character Editor + Character Editor Retextured
A very useful mod that allows you to specifically customize your pawns at character creation, allowing you to edit just about everything you possibly could about your pawns and allowing a very custom beginning. I also reccomend the Retexture mod alongside it because by default the mods interface is a tad rough. But its by no means required.Notably, I want to say that this mod has the same use case as the popular mod "EDB Prepare Carefully" and the newer mod "RimUI_ Pawn Editor". These mod's do the same this, but in the former case it can be a little unstable and mess with your save, while in the latter case its newer and doesn't have quite the feature list. To each their own, but I think Character Editor + Retexture is the best of the three for me personally.
The mod is also able to be used mid-game as well with a hotkey.
Cherry Picker (by asvc, formerly by Owlchemist)
Cherry Picker is a mod you didn't know you need until you really needed it. It allows you to fittingly cherry pick features, content, and gameplay from other mods and remove them non-destructively. What does that mean? Unlike going into the files manually and deleting stuff, this mod will not break other mods that might happen to rely on those removed features. At least, its less likely.This mod is very useful for those mods that add things you don't like, but otherwise have something you really want, for example, lets say you wanted just the floors from a mod that add a bunch of things, you could go through and set each thing besides the floors in the mod options to be disabled, and after saving and restarting the game, it will be as though those removed items never existed.
Keep in mind that somethings aren't retroactive. They're still IN the mod, just inaccessable, so stuff like items and powers will still be there if removed afterwards, but generally this is something you should be doing at the beginning of a playthrough rather then half way through.
Development Mode Hotkey
Simply as, just go to keyboard config and find "Toggle Development Mode" and set the key of your choosing. Just be careful you don't let power go to your head. :)Dubs Performance Analyzer
I'd be a liar if I said I knew how to use this mod to its fullest extent, but its essentially a performance monitor mod for Rimworld. Allowing you to dig inside the game and see where the lag or slowness is coming from. This mod does not hold your hand and asks a bit of technical knowledge from you to really use it to the best of its ability, but once you do break through the brick wall you'll be able to diagnose a lot of issues.Export and Import Mod Settings
The kind of mod you never really think abou until you reset your configs for the third time. This gives you the ability to externally import and export mod settings so that you don't need to keep remaking them every time you restart a playthrough. If you don't see how this is useful, then wait and see, you'll eventually know why.Incident Toggler
Another simple one, lets you disable incidents from happening altogether. Very useful if you don't want to fuss with disease or psychic storms. There is another mod called "Incident Tweaker" that is more indepth and lets you fuss with the details, but if you just wanna snap a few incidents out of the game this is a good way of doing it. Keep in mind however, Cherry picker does the same thing. Allowing you to disable incidents I mean, so you don't need both if you don't want.Mod Error Checker
To explain this quickly, some mods error out in a way that doesn't reach the dev log and thus isn't seen easily, this mod makes sure that they do. Useful, but not required if you're running a particularly light modlist.Multiplayer
So, this might be pushing the definition of "Nothing new" that I stated above, but technically it doens't add anything of note, just enables you to play Rimworld with others in multiplayer. Keep in mind that if you do play with this mod that not every mid will work. I don't personally use it so I can't say what does and doesn't work well with it, but they do maintain a compatibility list if you're interested.No Version Warning
A project by the prolithic Mlie, many mods work just fine on 1.5, but simply aren't tagged to work with 1.5, and rather then have Mlie fork and change one line of code, they're doing this. It simply patches a mod if its installed to say 1.5 rather then 1.4 or before so the game doesn't complain at you. This does nothing if you use external mod managers, but otherwise is very useful.Optimization: Leathers - C# Edition, Optimization: Meats - C# Edition, Better Wool Production - C# Edition
These mods all do the same thing for different items. In general, in vanilla what will happen is that you'll get individualized leather, Meat, and Wool types rather then a more generalized one that's more convenient to work with. These mods reduce the clutter down to a few more managable item types.Performance Optimizer
This is a mod that does what it says it does, patches the game to perform better. Now I want to make something perfectly clear, all mods have a chance to mess with each other, and especially mods with far reaching but subtle influences with the game like this one. I'm not singling out Performance Optimizer, but I am making it clear that nothing comes for free with modding and you can't just add things with reckless abandon.Progress Renderer
Don't you wish you could see the progress of your colony from beginning to eventual end, see all the challenges and expansions you underwent, re-experience the fire of day 50 that kills half your pawns, watch the slow crawl of the mine into the mountain base really taking off, all those things. Well guess what this mod does.What it does specifically is take a screenshot and place it somewhere for you to later look at. Its just a screenshot though so if you wanted to make a gif or video of it thats on you. Still very nice.
Real Time Clock Plus
Adds a fully customizable real-time clock to the game, you may wonder why you need this if that already exists in the main game. Well the whole point of modding a game is making it better, so why not this. It does have some extra features like session tracking, but the use is for those who want it, not the other way around.Resource Dictionary
You can think of this as the spiritual cousin of cherry picker. Sometimes mods will add similar or even the same things and not be compatible with each other, especially if the mod authors decide for whatever reason to explicitly not work nice together out of spite (This doesn't happen often but you'd be surprised how often it does.), this mod allows you to manually ease tensions by forcing the game to accept both in the same scenarios. Its pretty convenient in the cases where they work together, but generally speaking its a last resort as its always better to have more nuanced patches then manually putting it together yourself, if only for the convenience.RIMMSqol
This mod is a little hard to approach because it does so very many different things. If I had to break it down to its most simple points it: Lets you edit game objects, Customize Menus, Customize Pawns, search for things on the map, add restrictions to things, adjust pathfinding, and several other quality of life features.I don't dislike this mod, don't get me wrong. However I have the philosophy of "Less is more" when it comes to modding, and this mod borders on being entirely too much. The sheer vastness of things it can do can be overwhelming and if I'm being honest, most of its features can be found elsewhere in other mods with stronger focus.
Go read the mod description, browse through the manual provided, and make your own decisions about using this one, because its not one for the faint of heart.
RimPy Mod Manager Database (IMPORTANT - READ THIS DESCRIPTION)
This is not a mod, this a database for the RimPy Mod manager to use to better sort your mods using community rules. Do NOT put it in your load order. Its not a mod, it does nothing for you, and changes nothing, just leave it on the side and let it do its work.Side note, it can be optionally used with Rimsort, but not the native game or Fluffy's Mod Manager.
RimSaves
This mod should be vanilla, it overhauls the saving process substantially to be more user friendly. A must have for anyone who plays rimworld.Rimsential - Total Control: Continued
You can think of this mod for factions like Character Editor and the like are for pawns. It lets you microcontrol the factions in your game to your liking for better control. The mod also reccomends "Faction Customizer" alongside it, which I do as well.Rocketman - Performance Mod
Remember how I said about Performance Optimizer, same goes for this. Despite that, I, and many others, are of the opinion that RocketMan is an essential mod. I don't just mean that its essential like mod lists should always use it, I mean that you shouldn't really be playing rimworld in general without it. This mod by itself makes rimworld faster then it can be without.The only thing of note to say is that it doesn't support the multiplayer mod by itself (though that community has their own fork for compability) and rimthreaded, which you shouldn't be using anyway.
Visual Exceptions
This is a really useful one for those who get the inevitable redline errors. It shows you a really nice and understandable breakdown of what caused the issue and gives you several means to address it. I can't understate how useful this is, especially when diagnosing issues with mods feels like reading esoteric texts sometimes.What's That Mod
Another one that I feel should be a vanilla feature in some framework or something. It just tells you what mod something is from. Now, if you're used to playing pretty light modlists you may actually wonder what the point of this is, but trust me, when you get into anything over like 150-200 mods, and especially when you have a very themed load order like medieval overhaul or something similar. Its also useful to try and diagnose where certain things are coming from. Something you'll find is that with some mods, they'll have a main point, and then side content that you were unaware of. The only example off the top of my head is "Replace This" having overwall coolers for some reason. This mod would tell you where thats coming from even if you didn't read the description.2024.05.28 01:47 BlueFishcake Sexy Steampunk Babes: Chapter Twenty Eight - Part One
The dull roar of the crowd was only slightly muted by the small alcove they’d been tucked into prior to the start of the match. Rather than starting at disparate ‘duty’ stations as they would be in a regular match, the team was instead all grouped together.
Assumedly to replicate the idea of us landing nearby a downed airship, he thought.
Glancing back, he watched as Verity finished putting on the last of her kit as Marline helped with some of the straps.
“All good?” he asked.
The orc nodded. “Everything’s as it should be, except for the…”
She trailed off as her fingers brushed over the bandolier across her chest, careful not to brush against any of the orange tipped bolts it contained.
William nodded. “I wouldn’t worry about it. They’re not what we practiced with, but the change shouldn’t make any tangible difference on the field.”
Indeed, in some ways the wax rounds were an improvement over his original rubber design.
For one thing, they’d been enchanted. According to the dour looking Palace Guardswoman who’d handed them off to him and the rest of his team, the wax had been toughened so it wouldn’t melt or split when fired - but would do so on impact, leaving a visible mark on the foe.
Which was an improvement over his own design, which would have required the match’s many observers to call out a hit if it wasn’t self-evident.
Still, he thought. Fifty shots. Overnight.
That wasn’t cheap. Indeed, it equaled the entire spellcasting capacity of a mage for seventeen days.
…Or a night’s work for seventeen mages.
Menial mages to be certain, but mages all the same. Using spells that now wouldn’t be used creating weapons, healing people, growing crops or contributing to the nation’s stockpile of enchanted munitions.
There was a reason he hadn’t thought of enchanted wax himself. He didn’t have the time.
…Nor did he have the time or knowledge on how to make a conventional alternative, even if he knew such a thing existed.
Not with so many other projects that required his attention.
Still, he couldn’t help but be reluctantly impressed by his nation’s monarch. For he could think of no one else that had the kind of pull to have fifty disposable objects enchanted in a single evening.
Not because of said power, but because of the decisiveness required to make that decision and start implementing it mere minutes after hearing of his plan.
She’ll be one to watch out for, going forward, he thought.
Though it was only a moment later he was shaking his head, his attention turning toward the rest of his team. Thoughts of what would come after this match should be kept for after the match.
Lest they all become moot.
Here and now, he needed to focus on here and now. With that in mind, he spared one final glance at the arena ahead, gathering what details he could from what he’d memorized of the layout, before turning back to his team.
“Alright, gather up,” he said, prompting the girls to gather round. “I imagine Tala thinks she’s pulled a fast one on us by throwing us into an unexpected scenario, but I think we can make it work in our favour.”
To that end, he pulled out a dagger and started chanting.
“Mage-Smith: Clay. Steel. Fingers.”
“William, what the fuck!” Olzenya shouted. “We’re about to get into a fight here!”
And he’d just ‘wasted’ one of his three spell slots.
“Quiet please,” he said as he slowly started to move and shape the steel of the dagger with his bare fingers, the rigid material shifting under his ministrations as easily as clay.
He ignored the looming start of the match. He ignored the crowds. He ignored the upset and puzzled expressions of his team. He ignored… how much more upset they’d be when burned another spell charge in a few seconds. And a third not long after.
Though even as he rolled the steel in his hands into a long stick, he couldn’t help one final thought that flitted across his consciousness.
So much for getting to finally use my spell-bolt, he lamented. Still, needs must when the devil drives
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“Activate the crystal network,” Tala said without preamble as her team finished kitting up.
“For this?” Sala – a name clearly chosen to curry favour with House Blackstone – grumbled.
“Yes.” She snapped, in no mood for backtalk. “For this.”
She intended to leave nothing to chance. Not in something as important as this.
Even if it was ridiculous that she was pulling out one of her team’s trump cards against a bunch of first years.
Normally they avoided using the Crystal network if they could. It was far from obvious, but there was always a chance of someone catching onto the idea that her team was more… cohesive than they should be.
And they’d wonder why and how.
…And if they figured that out, they’d be well on the way to replicating the feat.
To that end, Tala’s instructions were only to use it on ‘important’ matches. Ones that would boost the prestige of House Blackstone over their political rivals and make the politically undecided reconsider their allegiances in the brewing civil conflict to come.
Tapping the side of her helmet as discreetly as she could, she felt the tiny spike of ethereal aether that jetted from her fingertip be absorbed through the grill positioned there. A low hum filled her ear as the orb next to it came to life.
Once the size of a watermelon, the orb in her helmet had been painstakingly shaved down until it was barely larger than a fingernail. A move that made it useless for conveying any kind of image visually, but still perfectly sized to transmit sound.
This, she thought. This is why House Blackstone will reign supreme in the end.
Where elves were content to stagnate and wither with the passage of time, humans only continued to change and adapt.
House Blackstone exemplified that.
The Shard Carrier they were constructing near the capital might have been the largest and most obvious example of that philosophy - but it was simply one amongst many.
Focusing her intent on her nearest teammate, she felt the connection form between their two micro-orbs.
“Cherie?” she asked.
“I hear you,” the other girl confirmed – though her voice echoed unpleasantly as Tala heard it both transmit from her orb and in real life.
Though that was a small price to pay for the ability to instantly communicate with any member of her team at will.
“Excellent.”
Though, it wasn’t perfect, given that she needed to manually cut the connection with her teammate before turning to the next. A move that took precious seconds – and wouldn’t be possible at all if the orb she was trying to connect to was already communicating with another.
The other downside was that every member of her team was now down a spell charge.
Fortunately, that’s less of an issue on the floats, she thought as she connected with her other teammates one by one to confirm their orbs were functioning.
The loss of an extra use of stone-skin or a… flashbang was well worth the use of near instant communications.
An advantage that would only grow in the relatively unfamiliar tangle of prefab structures and rubble that was the arena in front of them.
Having turned off her orb, she turned to her team. “Elsie, you’ll swing right at the start. Try to find a good firing angle, but hold back from fully engaging until I orb you to move. Maurine, you’ll do the same on the left flank. Sala and Cherie, we’ll be going up the middle to try and seize that spire.”
She gestured to the large jutting watchtower that had been reshaped slightly to look like an airship’s crow’s nest. One that had ‘fallen’ just slightly wonky. Reasonably well armoured, well positioned and with a commanding view of the battlefield, it was a perfect spot from which to snipe and direct the engagement.
Sure, one could achieve the same feat by simply flying up on a burst of aether, but a marine-knight couldn’t remain in the air indefinitely. And unless they remained moving they’d be an easy target for bolt fire, while simultaneously being poorly positioned to fire back.
Levitating in mid-air not being particularly conducive to forming a stable firing platform.
There was a reason marine-knights tended to perform strafing runs when firing from mid-air – the momentum of the act both acted to help evade return fire while also offsetting the recoil created by the bolt-bows firing gasses.
“Understood,” her team said as one.
And then there was no more time for talk as the ‘start’ bell rang out across the arena.
All five of them moved with practiced efficiency as they shot forth, Maurine and Elsie mere inches from the ground as they expertly used their thrusters to skim at breakneck speeds across the ground.
For her part, Tala waited but a half second after Cherie and Sala rocketed up into the air on a parabolic arc towards the spire. Doing so ensured the two girls would be the first to draw fire, allowing her to more effectively get a read on their enemies positions and relay that information.
Where her team’s two flankers normally acted as saboteurs, and were thus equipped with medium armour, the two she was sending up the centre were normally sentinels – on those occasions where the team wasn’t making use of Shards.
To that end, the pair’s plate armour was more than up to the task of deflecting any kind of incoming bolt fire at these initial ranges. And their close range volley-bows would make short work of any first years hoping to also seize the-
A salvo of cracks rang out from across the arena and Tala made out the dull thud of something striking the armoured plating of at least one of her vanguard.
How peculiar? That was unlike any kind of bolt-bow she’d ever heard-
“Cadet: Sala. Eliminated,” rang out across the arena.
What!?
Her mind roiled, but hundreds of hours of ingrained instinct had her orbing Cherie, even as indignant squawks erupted from Sala’s figure.
“Evade!” she shouted.
Ahead of her, the other girl twitched mid flight. “Tala? They-”
“Evade!” Tala shouted, putting her own words to action, flaring a burst of aether from her elbow and palm so that she darted to the side just as a second round of cracks rang out.
Four of them, she made sure to count, a quick glancing making out five distant figures barely a step beyond their starting position.
Ahead of her, Cherie had clearly heeded her words despite her confusion, dipping low in order to avoid the salvo. To the girl’s right, Sala was still cursing up a confused storm, but nonetheless had her hands high over her head as she slowly floated to the ground.
Zipping past her on the way toward the cover promised by the crow’s nest, Tala noted a distinct orange stain splattered across the girl’s plate armour.
Wax, her mind supplied near instantly, recalling the once confusing words of the match’s instructor.
Then she was past her ‘dead’ teammate, slamming into the rim of the crow’s nest with bruising force right next to her teammate.
One hand gripping the rim of the nest while the other held her rifle, she struggled to maintain her grip as the weight of gravity left her dangling for just a moment as the aether blasting from her feet and elbow that had maintained her forward momentum cut out in favor of flowing into the tank on her back.
In moments, the lighter than air gas filled the tank once more and the strain on her hand diminished as she became lighter. Though it was with long practice that she cut the flow enough to keep her buoyancy at that just below a fraction of her actual weight, lest she end up floating up over the rim of the nest.
Another salvo of crackles rang out, but it was more staggered than before as Tala also heard the distant ‘puff-puff’ of bolt-bows firing.
Maurine and Cherie had clearly come up slightly short of their intended flanking positions in favor of laying down long-range suppressing fire on the relatively clumped first years. The pair would have to be incredibly lucky to score any kind of telling blow at that range, but the risk of it would force the first years heads down and prevent them from easily moving to get a better angle on Cherie and herself.
“What the fuck was that?” Cherie shouted as the pair clambered into the crows nest itself, careful to keep as low as possible as they surmounted the lip of the ‘basket’. “Why’s Sala out?”
Tala scowled as she peaked over the rim of the basket to get a better view of the unfolding firefight below.
“Wax rounds,” she said simply. “Apparently the first years have something that can go through plate and they’re using wax rounds to signify it.”
And as much as she wanted to cry bullshit on that front, she didn’t doubt that if the Academy was simulating it on a match as televised as this, the capability did exist.
The Crown wasn’t stupid enough for it not to. Not with this many people watching, and the number of stakes that were riding on this match.
Of course, they’d need to prove it afterwards with some sort of demonstration, but for the moment it could be reasonably taken on faith that this weapon existed and the match was ‘legitimate’.
To that end, this was likely some secret weapon of the Crown they’d presented to William to curry favour. All the better to get their claws into the man who likely had the means to kill a kraken while simultaneously indebting them to him…
Unless this new capability was William’s, in that this weapon was what he’d used to kill the Kraken?
A human was a far cry from a kraken, but if the capability was scaled up?
She shook her head.
It wasn’t important right now. Later, but not now. For now, she needed to operate around this new… paradigm.
What did she know? The weapon was loud. It outranged her own weapon. It had a reasonably slow rate of fire relative to a bolt-bow as far as she could tell – or perhaps it had limited ammunition? Armor was useless against it, but given the limitations of its simulation, or perhaps the realities of the weapon itself, cover was still proof against it.
“We need to close range while staying close to the ground,” she decided. “Keep it close quarters.”
That would nullify the enemy range advantage while only making her own weapons more effective.
…She also needed an opening to get down from the watchtower as its shortcomings now outweighed its advantages.
“Through plate!? That’s such-” Cherie was still shouting over the occasional crack of the new weapon and the puffing of bolt-bows, but Tala cut her off.
“Quiet! I need to contact Maurine and Elsie. Vent your tank and get ready to drop fast on my order.”
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Maurine nodded as Tala’s voice cut out.
That was fine, she’d conveyed everything she needed to.
Mostly not to get shot by whatever was making that ‘cracking’ sound.
To that end, the plan was shock and awe. The moment their leader peered over the parapet of the crow’s nest and started laying down fire, both Maurine and Elsie were to advance low to the ground at speed while contributing their own suppression.
Under such circumstances, they weren’t expecting to hit anything, but it would give them the best odds of closing the distance, while also giving Cherie an opportunity to drop from the crows nest and advance herself.
With three dangerous targets advancing from three different directions at once, the first years stood a decent chance of being overwhelmed with targets and failing to focus down any of them.
…Assuming they were even experienced enough to recognize the inaccuracy of the incoming fire and continue shooting rather than duck down in the face of incoming suppressive fire.
A thought that sounded dismissive, but was really just sensible in Maurine’s estimation.
After all, it was an easy enough mistake to make in the heat of combat and a decent part of the reason why their instructors emphasized keeping a cool head. More often than not being able to do so was less about being able to make good decisions and more about being calm enough to be aware of the factors involved to actually make those decisions.
Instead of simply letting everything get reduced to noise and immediate threats.
No, being able to observe, think and then act was what made a decent marine-knight. Which was why neither she nor Elsie had hesitated to deviate from their earlier orders to draw up short and lay down covering fire when Sala ‘died’.
Yes, now they had to cover more ground than they might if they kept advancing, but there was every chance the match would now be a two on five rather than a four on five.
Three.
Two.
One.
On cue, she caught a glimpse of Tala popping up with bolt-bow in hand before Maurine jetted out of her cover on a burst of blue-green aether. Shooting across the arena she held down the trigger of her bolt-bow in the vague direction of one of the shorter first year’s positions.
The girl – the dwarf – flinched back as bolts clattered against the wood around her and Maurine grinned.
A talented first year was still just a first year after all – and some instincts could only come with experience.
Though that smile dimmed some as a loud crack rang out, something shooting past Maurine’s ear as another figure – the orc – poked her new wonder weapon out, utterly uncaring of the distant shots coming from Marline as most missed and the others simply clattered off her armour.
Still, even as Maurine darted into a nearby bit of cover, she knew she’d accomplished her task. The first years were clumped together and now she – and hopefully Elsie – had perfect flanking shots on the collection of debris the first years were using for cover.
They’d be exposed, and Maurine was close enough for her weapon to be reliable enough at finding chinks in armour.
She slid another magazine into place before poking out, just in time to catch the dwarf trying to reposition.
Only she’d defaulted to using her legs rather than a few bursts of aether.
Amateur mistake, the human girl thought clinically as she fired off a burst.
The dwarf dropped, her wonder-weapon abandoned where she’d dropped it in favour of trying to unlimber her bolt-bow.
A move she barely got halfway through before she’d fallen, dropped to the floor like a puppet with its strings cut.
Grinning, she ducked back behind cover just as another crack rang out from the orc – who had actually managed to reposition while Maurine was reloading.
That was fine.
Tapping her ear, she spoke. “Dwarf is down. Pinned down by the orc. Any help?”
God, the crystal network kicked ass.
“I see her. Don’t have a good shot from here. Cherie and Elsie will keep the others covered. I’ll be descending to help post haste. We’ll finish her and then roll up the rest of the team.”
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Tala smiled as she touched down into cover behind where she’d last seen the orc.
Oh, the first years had tried to shoot at her as she’d descended from the crow’s nest, but Elsie’s continued encroachment on their flank had forced the first years to switch targets lest the other girl get an easy shot on them.
Such was the advantage of the crystal network. Tala had been able to time her descent just as Elsie and Cherie started to move.
Indeed, things were going well after the upset in the opening moments of the match. For one thing, it seemed she’d been right about the first years’ new wonder weapon having limited uses.
From Cherie’s last report, two of the three she could see trying to hold off her and her two teammates were down to using their bolt-bows. Being attacked from two angles, the three remaining first years were perfectly pinned in place, giving her ample time to hunt down the one member who’d managed to break out of the ‘encirclement’.
Truth be told, she couldn’t even fault William for his approach to the match. Faced with the tangled maze that was the arena, and up against a team with more experience than his own, it made some sense to hunker down and force them to come to him by making use of his new weapons.
The alternative was venturing out to be split up, cut off and destroyed piecemeal.
At least by sticking to his starting location he could keep track of his people and use the backwall of the arena to protect his rear.
And it might have worked if it weren’t for his opening salvo failing to down more than one of her people and the crystal network allowing Tala to coordinate her people even as they attacked from multiple angles.
Admittedly, she’d have been capable of the latter even without the crystal network if she’d used Academy hand signals from her position in the crows nest, but that would have both kept her there and allowed her opponent to read her intentions as she conveyed them.
Certainly, Cherie wouldn’t have been able to make her initial descent if William had the time to command his people to focus her down even with Elsie and Maurine moving up the flanks.
Tapping her ear, she came to a stop as she caught sight of Maurine flitting between cover a few meters ahead.
Theoretically, that meant the dark elf was somewhere between them.
“Eyes on?” she asked, ducking back as a few shots from the first-years near the entrance struck the cover around her.
“Ahead of me. See that upturned shard wing?”
She did, though there were a few obstacles keeping her from seeing the base of it.
“Her back should be right to you. I think she saw you coming down, but I’ve got her pinned.”
“Alright. She’s probably watching for me, so we’ll move together on three. I’ll poke out just enough to flashbang her and you move up to finish her while she’s mindlessly spraying in my direction.”
Though it was tempting to float up and over the obstacles between them to get a shot, the last attempt proved that ran the risk of her being shot by the rest of the first-years who were still exchanging fire with the rest of her team. Indeed, those shots were likely an attempt to keep her off their teammate who would be utterly ignorant of her approaching ‘death’.
As she got ready to move, she couldn’t but think that it was a shame the first years didn’t have a crystal network of their-
A crack rang out and Tala flitted back just as she was about to turn the corner. The timing of it couldn’t have been worse though as Maurine had started to dash forward.
“Wait, Maur-”
Her words were cut off by a loud boom and as Tala turned around the corner she watched her teammate be blasted off her feet by… some kind of - some kind of multi-barrel volley-bow variant.
One that made use of the first-year’s new armour piercing technology.
Wax or not, the thing had enough power to visibly blow Tala’s teammate off her feet in a deluge of orange wax.
Tala didn’t wait to hear the girl’s ‘death’ proclamation before she started to bring her own bow up.
But the orc was already moving. As if she’d been expecting Tala just as she’d clearly been expecting Maurine.
The ingrate had the audacity to throw her weapon at Tala, bolts pinging off it as it acted as a moving barrier between the greenskin and Tala’s shots – right up until it smacked straight into the human’s chest.
And it was not soft.
Still, Tala was hardly a small girl herself while clad in armour and shrugged it off to keep firing at the advancing orc.
Instead of dodging, the savage ran straight at her like a bull, shots bouncing off her heavy armor. Seconds felt like a lifetime as Tala emptied half a clip into the massive beast, blasting aether from her feet to backpedal as she did.
“Oh no you don’t,” the thing grunted as she grabbed Tala’s ankle, grip like iron as she used it as a fulcrum to bodily slam the Blackstone heir into the floor.
“Ugh!” Tala grunted, stars dancing across her vision as her helmeted head smashed into the concrete.
The air was driven from her lungs and she could only blink blearily as the monster lifted her once more, only to slam her down again – the human’s aether tank making her light enough for the beast to physically swing around.
Blearily, the human tried to use a burst of aether to escape or… do something, but the orc’s grip would not relent. Fortunately, that did at least drain her aether tank enough that she quickly became heavy enough that the orc could no longer fling her about one handed.
Though not before she was slammed into the ground with bruising force a few times more.
With that in mind, it was hardly much of a surprise at all when she found herself able to do little more than lie there and wheeze as her badly bruised body protested the last few seconds.
“There, that’s… oh shit, you aren’t dead are you?” She vaguely heard the orc say. “I, uh, didn’t mean to hurt-hurt you.”
Tala didn’t respond.
She wasn’t dead.
In either sense of the word.
The Floats had specific rules around people being eliminated, and beating someone into submission was not counted amongst them. Even if it would have worked ‘practically’.
“Cadet: Marline eliminated!”
“Aw fuck, really.” The orc said, momentarily distracted as she stood up. “How?”
Which was all Tala needed as she rolled over.
Because beaten or not, it’d be a cold day in the void when that was enough to make a Blackstone drop her weapon.
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Assumedly to replicate the idea of us landing nearby a downed airship, he thought.
Glancing back, he watched as Verity finished putting on the last of her kit as Marline helped with some of the straps.
“All good?” he asked.
The orc nodded. “Everything’s as it should be, except for the…”
She trailed off as her fingers brushed over the bandolier across her chest, careful not to brush against any of the orange tipped bolts it contained.
William nodded. “I wouldn’t worry about it. They’re not what we practiced with, but the change shouldn’t make any tangible difference on the field.”
Indeed, in some ways the wax rounds were an improvement over his original rubber design.
For one thing, they’d been enchanted. According to the dour looking Palace Guardswoman who’d handed them off to him and the rest of his team, the wax had been toughened so it wouldn’t melt or split when fired - but would do so on impact, leaving a visible mark on the foe.
Which was an improvement over his own design, which would have required the match’s many observers to call out a hit if it wasn’t self-evident.
Still, he thought. Fifty shots. Overnight.
That wasn’t cheap. Indeed, it equaled the entire spellcasting capacity of a mage for seventeen days.
…Or a night’s work for seventeen mages.
Menial mages to be certain, but mages all the same. Using spells that now wouldn’t be used creating weapons, healing people, growing crops or contributing to the nation’s stockpile of enchanted munitions.
There was a reason he hadn’t thought of enchanted wax himself. He didn’t have the time.
…Nor did he have the time or knowledge on how to make a conventional alternative, even if he knew such a thing existed.
Not with so many other projects that required his attention.
Still, he couldn’t help but be reluctantly impressed by his nation’s monarch. For he could think of no one else that had the kind of pull to have fifty disposable objects enchanted in a single evening.
Not because of said power, but because of the decisiveness required to make that decision and start implementing it mere minutes after hearing of his plan.
She’ll be one to watch out for, going forward, he thought.
Though it was only a moment later he was shaking his head, his attention turning toward the rest of his team. Thoughts of what would come after this match should be kept for after the match.
Lest they all become moot.
Here and now, he needed to focus on here and now. With that in mind, he spared one final glance at the arena ahead, gathering what details he could from what he’d memorized of the layout, before turning back to his team.
“Alright, gather up,” he said, prompting the girls to gather round. “I imagine Tala thinks she’s pulled a fast one on us by throwing us into an unexpected scenario, but I think we can make it work in our favour.”
To that end, he pulled out a dagger and started chanting.
“Mage-Smith: Clay. Steel. Fingers.”
“William, what the fuck!” Olzenya shouted. “We’re about to get into a fight here!”
And he’d just ‘wasted’ one of his three spell slots.
“Quiet please,” he said as he slowly started to move and shape the steel of the dagger with his bare fingers, the rigid material shifting under his ministrations as easily as clay.
He ignored the looming start of the match. He ignored the crowds. He ignored the upset and puzzled expressions of his team. He ignored… how much more upset they’d be when burned another spell charge in a few seconds. And a third not long after.
Though even as he rolled the steel in his hands into a long stick, he couldn’t help one final thought that flitted across his consciousness.
So much for getting to finally use my spell-bolt, he lamented. Still, needs must when the devil drives
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“Activate the crystal network,” Tala said without preamble as her team finished kitting up.
“For this?” Sala – a name clearly chosen to curry favour with House Blackstone – grumbled.
“Yes.” She snapped, in no mood for backtalk. “For this.”
She intended to leave nothing to chance. Not in something as important as this.
Even if it was ridiculous that she was pulling out one of her team’s trump cards against a bunch of first years.
Normally they avoided using the Crystal network if they could. It was far from obvious, but there was always a chance of someone catching onto the idea that her team was more… cohesive than they should be.
And they’d wonder why and how.
…And if they figured that out, they’d be well on the way to replicating the feat.
To that end, Tala’s instructions were only to use it on ‘important’ matches. Ones that would boost the prestige of House Blackstone over their political rivals and make the politically undecided reconsider their allegiances in the brewing civil conflict to come.
Tapping the side of her helmet as discreetly as she could, she felt the tiny spike of ethereal aether that jetted from her fingertip be absorbed through the grill positioned there. A low hum filled her ear as the orb next to it came to life.
Once the size of a watermelon, the orb in her helmet had been painstakingly shaved down until it was barely larger than a fingernail. A move that made it useless for conveying any kind of image visually, but still perfectly sized to transmit sound.
This, she thought. This is why House Blackstone will reign supreme in the end.
Where elves were content to stagnate and wither with the passage of time, humans only continued to change and adapt.
House Blackstone exemplified that.
The Shard Carrier they were constructing near the capital might have been the largest and most obvious example of that philosophy - but it was simply one amongst many.
Focusing her intent on her nearest teammate, she felt the connection form between their two micro-orbs.
“Cherie?” she asked.
“I hear you,” the other girl confirmed – though her voice echoed unpleasantly as Tala heard it both transmit from her orb and in real life.
Though that was a small price to pay for the ability to instantly communicate with any member of her team at will.
“Excellent.”
Though, it wasn’t perfect, given that she needed to manually cut the connection with her teammate before turning to the next. A move that took precious seconds – and wouldn’t be possible at all if the orb she was trying to connect to was already communicating with another.
The other downside was that every member of her team was now down a spell charge.
Fortunately, that’s less of an issue on the floats, she thought as she connected with her other teammates one by one to confirm their orbs were functioning.
The loss of an extra use of stone-skin or a… flashbang was well worth the use of near instant communications.
An advantage that would only grow in the relatively unfamiliar tangle of prefab structures and rubble that was the arena in front of them.
Having turned off her orb, she turned to her team. “Elsie, you’ll swing right at the start. Try to find a good firing angle, but hold back from fully engaging until I orb you to move. Maurine, you’ll do the same on the left flank. Sala and Cherie, we’ll be going up the middle to try and seize that spire.”
She gestured to the large jutting watchtower that had been reshaped slightly to look like an airship’s crow’s nest. One that had ‘fallen’ just slightly wonky. Reasonably well armoured, well positioned and with a commanding view of the battlefield, it was a perfect spot from which to snipe and direct the engagement.
Sure, one could achieve the same feat by simply flying up on a burst of aether, but a marine-knight couldn’t remain in the air indefinitely. And unless they remained moving they’d be an easy target for bolt fire, while simultaneously being poorly positioned to fire back.
Levitating in mid-air not being particularly conducive to forming a stable firing platform.
There was a reason marine-knights tended to perform strafing runs when firing from mid-air – the momentum of the act both acted to help evade return fire while also offsetting the recoil created by the bolt-bows firing gasses.
“Understood,” her team said as one.
And then there was no more time for talk as the ‘start’ bell rang out across the arena.
All five of them moved with practiced efficiency as they shot forth, Maurine and Elsie mere inches from the ground as they expertly used their thrusters to skim at breakneck speeds across the ground.
For her part, Tala waited but a half second after Cherie and Sala rocketed up into the air on a parabolic arc towards the spire. Doing so ensured the two girls would be the first to draw fire, allowing her to more effectively get a read on their enemies positions and relay that information.
Where her team’s two flankers normally acted as saboteurs, and were thus equipped with medium armour, the two she was sending up the centre were normally sentinels – on those occasions where the team wasn’t making use of Shards.
To that end, the pair’s plate armour was more than up to the task of deflecting any kind of incoming bolt fire at these initial ranges. And their close range volley-bows would make short work of any first years hoping to also seize the-
A salvo of cracks rang out from across the arena and Tala made out the dull thud of something striking the armoured plating of at least one of her vanguard.
How peculiar? That was unlike any kind of bolt-bow she’d ever heard-
“Cadet: Sala. Eliminated,” rang out across the arena.
What!?
Her mind roiled, but hundreds of hours of ingrained instinct had her orbing Cherie, even as indignant squawks erupted from Sala’s figure.
“Evade!” she shouted.
Ahead of her, the other girl twitched mid flight. “Tala? They-”
“Evade!” Tala shouted, putting her own words to action, flaring a burst of aether from her elbow and palm so that she darted to the side just as a second round of cracks rang out.
Four of them, she made sure to count, a quick glancing making out five distant figures barely a step beyond their starting position.
Ahead of her, Cherie had clearly heeded her words despite her confusion, dipping low in order to avoid the salvo. To the girl’s right, Sala was still cursing up a confused storm, but nonetheless had her hands high over her head as she slowly floated to the ground.
Zipping past her on the way toward the cover promised by the crow’s nest, Tala noted a distinct orange stain splattered across the girl’s plate armour.
Wax, her mind supplied near instantly, recalling the once confusing words of the match’s instructor.
Then she was past her ‘dead’ teammate, slamming into the rim of the crow’s nest with bruising force right next to her teammate.
One hand gripping the rim of the nest while the other held her rifle, she struggled to maintain her grip as the weight of gravity left her dangling for just a moment as the aether blasting from her feet and elbow that had maintained her forward momentum cut out in favor of flowing into the tank on her back.
In moments, the lighter than air gas filled the tank once more and the strain on her hand diminished as she became lighter. Though it was with long practice that she cut the flow enough to keep her buoyancy at that just below a fraction of her actual weight, lest she end up floating up over the rim of the nest.
Another salvo of crackles rang out, but it was more staggered than before as Tala also heard the distant ‘puff-puff’ of bolt-bows firing.
Maurine and Cherie had clearly come up slightly short of their intended flanking positions in favor of laying down long-range suppressing fire on the relatively clumped first years. The pair would have to be incredibly lucky to score any kind of telling blow at that range, but the risk of it would force the first years heads down and prevent them from easily moving to get a better angle on Cherie and herself.
“What the fuck was that?” Cherie shouted as the pair clambered into the crows nest itself, careful to keep as low as possible as they surmounted the lip of the ‘basket’. “Why’s Sala out?”
Tala scowled as she peaked over the rim of the basket to get a better view of the unfolding firefight below.
“Wax rounds,” she said simply. “Apparently the first years have something that can go through plate and they’re using wax rounds to signify it.”
And as much as she wanted to cry bullshit on that front, she didn’t doubt that if the Academy was simulating it on a match as televised as this, the capability did exist.
The Crown wasn’t stupid enough for it not to. Not with this many people watching, and the number of stakes that were riding on this match.
Of course, they’d need to prove it afterwards with some sort of demonstration, but for the moment it could be reasonably taken on faith that this weapon existed and the match was ‘legitimate’.
To that end, this was likely some secret weapon of the Crown they’d presented to William to curry favour. All the better to get their claws into the man who likely had the means to kill a kraken while simultaneously indebting them to him…
Unless this new capability was William’s, in that this weapon was what he’d used to kill the Kraken?
A human was a far cry from a kraken, but if the capability was scaled up?
She shook her head.
It wasn’t important right now. Later, but not now. For now, she needed to operate around this new… paradigm.
What did she know? The weapon was loud. It outranged her own weapon. It had a reasonably slow rate of fire relative to a bolt-bow as far as she could tell – or perhaps it had limited ammunition? Armor was useless against it, but given the limitations of its simulation, or perhaps the realities of the weapon itself, cover was still proof against it.
“We need to close range while staying close to the ground,” she decided. “Keep it close quarters.”
That would nullify the enemy range advantage while only making her own weapons more effective.
…She also needed an opening to get down from the watchtower as its shortcomings now outweighed its advantages.
“Through plate!? That’s such-” Cherie was still shouting over the occasional crack of the new weapon and the puffing of bolt-bows, but Tala cut her off.
“Quiet! I need to contact Maurine and Elsie. Vent your tank and get ready to drop fast on my order.”
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Maurine nodded as Tala’s voice cut out.
That was fine, she’d conveyed everything she needed to.
Mostly not to get shot by whatever was making that ‘cracking’ sound.
To that end, the plan was shock and awe. The moment their leader peered over the parapet of the crow’s nest and started laying down fire, both Maurine and Elsie were to advance low to the ground at speed while contributing their own suppression.
Under such circumstances, they weren’t expecting to hit anything, but it would give them the best odds of closing the distance, while also giving Cherie an opportunity to drop from the crows nest and advance herself.
With three dangerous targets advancing from three different directions at once, the first years stood a decent chance of being overwhelmed with targets and failing to focus down any of them.
…Assuming they were even experienced enough to recognize the inaccuracy of the incoming fire and continue shooting rather than duck down in the face of incoming suppressive fire.
A thought that sounded dismissive, but was really just sensible in Maurine’s estimation.
After all, it was an easy enough mistake to make in the heat of combat and a decent part of the reason why their instructors emphasized keeping a cool head. More often than not being able to do so was less about being able to make good decisions and more about being calm enough to be aware of the factors involved to actually make those decisions.
Instead of simply letting everything get reduced to noise and immediate threats.
No, being able to observe, think and then act was what made a decent marine-knight. Which was why neither she nor Elsie had hesitated to deviate from their earlier orders to draw up short and lay down covering fire when Sala ‘died’.
Yes, now they had to cover more ground than they might if they kept advancing, but there was every chance the match would now be a two on five rather than a four on five.
Three.
Two.
One.
On cue, she caught a glimpse of Tala popping up with bolt-bow in hand before Maurine jetted out of her cover on a burst of blue-green aether. Shooting across the arena she held down the trigger of her bolt-bow in the vague direction of one of the shorter first year’s positions.
The girl – the dwarf – flinched back as bolts clattered against the wood around her and Maurine grinned.
A talented first year was still just a first year after all – and some instincts could only come with experience.
Though that smile dimmed some as a loud crack rang out, something shooting past Maurine’s ear as another figure – the orc – poked her new wonder weapon out, utterly uncaring of the distant shots coming from Marline as most missed and the others simply clattered off her armour.
Still, even as Maurine darted into a nearby bit of cover, she knew she’d accomplished her task. The first years were clumped together and now she – and hopefully Elsie – had perfect flanking shots on the collection of debris the first years were using for cover.
They’d be exposed, and Maurine was close enough for her weapon to be reliable enough at finding chinks in armour.
She slid another magazine into place before poking out, just in time to catch the dwarf trying to reposition.
Only she’d defaulted to using her legs rather than a few bursts of aether.
Amateur mistake, the human girl thought clinically as she fired off a burst.
The dwarf dropped, her wonder-weapon abandoned where she’d dropped it in favour of trying to unlimber her bolt-bow.
A move she barely got halfway through before she’d fallen, dropped to the floor like a puppet with its strings cut.
Grinning, she ducked back behind cover just as another crack rang out from the orc – who had actually managed to reposition while Maurine was reloading.
That was fine.
Tapping her ear, she spoke. “Dwarf is down. Pinned down by the orc. Any help?”
God, the crystal network kicked ass.
“I see her. Don’t have a good shot from here. Cherie and Elsie will keep the others covered. I’ll be descending to help post haste. We’ll finish her and then roll up the rest of the team.”
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Tala smiled as she touched down into cover behind where she’d last seen the orc.
Oh, the first years had tried to shoot at her as she’d descended from the crow’s nest, but Elsie’s continued encroachment on their flank had forced the first years to switch targets lest the other girl get an easy shot on them.
Such was the advantage of the crystal network. Tala had been able to time her descent just as Elsie and Cherie started to move.
Indeed, things were going well after the upset in the opening moments of the match. For one thing, it seemed she’d been right about the first years’ new wonder weapon having limited uses.
From Cherie’s last report, two of the three she could see trying to hold off her and her two teammates were down to using their bolt-bows. Being attacked from two angles, the three remaining first years were perfectly pinned in place, giving her ample time to hunt down the one member who’d managed to break out of the ‘encirclement’.
Truth be told, she couldn’t even fault William for his approach to the match. Faced with the tangled maze that was the arena, and up against a team with more experience than his own, it made some sense to hunker down and force them to come to him by making use of his new weapons.
The alternative was venturing out to be split up, cut off and destroyed piecemeal.
At least by sticking to his starting location he could keep track of his people and use the backwall of the arena to protect his rear.
And it might have worked if it weren’t for his opening salvo failing to down more than one of her people and the crystal network allowing Tala to coordinate her people even as they attacked from multiple angles.
Admittedly, she’d have been capable of the latter even without the crystal network if she’d used Academy hand signals from her position in the crows nest, but that would have both kept her there and allowed her opponent to read her intentions as she conveyed them.
Certainly, Cherie wouldn’t have been able to make her initial descent if William had the time to command his people to focus her down even with Elsie and Maurine moving up the flanks.
Tapping her ear, she came to a stop as she caught sight of Maurine flitting between cover a few meters ahead.
Theoretically, that meant the dark elf was somewhere between them.
“Eyes on?” she asked, ducking back as a few shots from the first-years near the entrance struck the cover around her.
“Ahead of me. See that upturned shard wing?”
She did, though there were a few obstacles keeping her from seeing the base of it.
“Her back should be right to you. I think she saw you coming down, but I’ve got her pinned.”
“Alright. She’s probably watching for me, so we’ll move together on three. I’ll poke out just enough to flashbang her and you move up to finish her while she’s mindlessly spraying in my direction.”
Though it was tempting to float up and over the obstacles between them to get a shot, the last attempt proved that ran the risk of her being shot by the rest of the first-years who were still exchanging fire with the rest of her team. Indeed, those shots were likely an attempt to keep her off their teammate who would be utterly ignorant of her approaching ‘death’.
As she got ready to move, she couldn’t but think that it was a shame the first years didn’t have a crystal network of their-
A crack rang out and Tala flitted back just as she was about to turn the corner. The timing of it couldn’t have been worse though as Maurine had started to dash forward.
“Wait, Maur-”
Her words were cut off by a loud boom and as Tala turned around the corner she watched her teammate be blasted off her feet by… some kind of - some kind of multi-barrel volley-bow variant.
One that made use of the first-year’s new armour piercing technology.
Wax or not, the thing had enough power to visibly blow Tala’s teammate off her feet in a deluge of orange wax.
Tala didn’t wait to hear the girl’s ‘death’ proclamation before she started to bring her own bow up.
But the orc was already moving. As if she’d been expecting Tala just as she’d clearly been expecting Maurine.
The ingrate had the audacity to throw her weapon at Tala, bolts pinging off it as it acted as a moving barrier between the greenskin and Tala’s shots – right up until it smacked straight into the human’s chest.
And it was not soft.
Still, Tala was hardly a small girl herself while clad in armour and shrugged it off to keep firing at the advancing orc.
Instead of dodging, the savage ran straight at her like a bull, shots bouncing off her heavy armor. Seconds felt like a lifetime as Tala emptied half a clip into the massive beast, blasting aether from her feet to backpedal as she did.
“Oh no you don’t,” the thing grunted as she grabbed Tala’s ankle, grip like iron as she used it as a fulcrum to bodily slam the Blackstone heir into the floor.
“Ugh!” Tala grunted, stars dancing across her vision as her helmeted head smashed into the concrete.
The air was driven from her lungs and she could only blink blearily as the monster lifted her once more, only to slam her down again – the human’s aether tank making her light enough for the beast to physically swing around.
Blearily, the human tried to use a burst of aether to escape or… do something, but the orc’s grip would not relent. Fortunately, that did at least drain her aether tank enough that she quickly became heavy enough that the orc could no longer fling her about one handed.
Though not before she was slammed into the ground with bruising force a few times more.
With that in mind, it was hardly much of a surprise at all when she found herself able to do little more than lie there and wheeze as her badly bruised body protested the last few seconds.
“There, that’s… oh shit, you aren’t dead are you?” She vaguely heard the orc say. “I, uh, didn’t mean to hurt-hurt you.”
Tala didn’t respond.
She wasn’t dead.
In either sense of the word.
The Floats had specific rules around people being eliminated, and beating someone into submission was not counted amongst them. Even if it would have worked ‘practically’.
“Cadet: Marline eliminated!”
“Aw fuck, really.” The orc said, momentarily distracted as she stood up. “How?”
Which was all Tala needed as she rolled over.
Because beaten or not, it’d be a cold day in the void when that was enough to make a Blackstone drop her weapon.
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For Hire PHP/Python/JavaScript Developer. Front-end/Back-end Development full remote (14+ years freelance exp)
Welcoming Projects of All SizesAccelerated Development: Opt for my beast-mode development service, perfect for MVPs and projects needing a quick turnaround. With timelines ranging from 28 to 56 days, I’ll ensure your product is test-group ready in just 1-2 weeks.
Long-Term Engagement: Ready to support your projects with consistent productivity for months or years.
Exceptional Rates Without Compromising Quality: Benefit from rates that are up to 2x lower than other counterparts, without any sacrifice in the quality of output. I make premium development services more accessible to you.
Reserved for Genuine Business: To ensure dedicated focus and quality, I reserve my schedule for genuine engagements. This includes high-value, long-term projects, or interesting mid-tier projects.
Effortless for Clients: I aim to eliminate any additional effort on your part.
- AI & Generative Technologies
- Automation & Web Scraping
- API Integration & Development
- eCommerce Solutions (WITH ACTUAL ROI)
- Custom Social Media Platforms & Communities
- Website Cloning & Reverse Engineering
- Advanced PHP/WordPress Development
- Data-Driven Applications
- Mobile App Development
- Blockchain Technology
- Web & 2D Games
Contact Me Directly for Offers/Tasks:
Please email me at [rmxttmgg@proton.me](mailto:rmxttmgg@proton.me) with any compelling projects (my response is guaranteed). I prioritize email communication and will not be monitoring comments or chat on Reddit. This helps me maintain focus and ensures I can respond to serious inquiries promptly. Upon receiving your email, I will quickly confirm my availability and discuss next steps. (more info below, keep reading)No small “fix issue” offers, I prefer trouble-shooting for long-term clients only.
If you're considering hiring remotely, it's best to avoid overly complicated formalities. Simplifying the process can be more beneficial for both end.
- Web & App Development: Expertise in PHP/Laravel, JavaScript/jQuery, NodeJS, ReactJS, CSS for mobile-responsive designs.
- Full Stack Development: Skilled in both back-end and front-end, ensuring seamless, full-cycle project execution.
- E-Commerce Solutions: Custom online stores with vendor management, shipping, subscriptions, and integrated payments (e.g., PayPal, Stripe).
- Dynamic Websites & CMS: Bespoke content management for text, images, and videos.
- Interactive & Social Media Applications: Development of chat, streaming, and social platforms for engaging user experiences.
- Data-Driven Interfaces: Creation of map, table, calendar, and data pages for insightful information presentation.
(progress and demo driven approach, no hassle, super smooth transactions, easy to work with!)
Specialized Technical Services:- AI & Automation: Advanced implementation of machine learning and AI for automation and smart scripts/servers.
- API Integration: Fluent in integrating diverse APIs for enhanced functionality and interoperability.
- Security & Quality Assurance: Commitment to rigorous testing, including penetration tests and code audits, to ensure top-tier security and quality.
- Blockchain & Cryptocurrency: Secure and forward-thinking development in blockchain and crypto projects.
- Interactive & Game-Based Web Solutions: Custom development for game sites, hobby platforms, and interactive dashboards.
- Adult, NSFW, and Sensitive Content: Experienced in handling projects of all content types with utmost privacy and professionalism.
- Application Cloning: Tailored cloning of existing applications to meet specific business needs.
- Migration & Conversion Services: Expertise in converting or migrating PHP apps to various platforms or updating to the latest versions with a modern stack.
- Continuous Improvement: Offering unlimited revisions for perfection, adaptability to changes, and comprehensive post-launch support.
- Diverse Technology Stack: Proficient with PHP, Python, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, and more to accommodate a broad spectrum of tech requirements.
- Problem Solving: Dedicated to identifying and implementing the best solutions to challenges.
- Precision & Adaptability: Ensuring projects meet exact specifications with meticulous attention to detail and design.
- Comprehensive Service: From conception to deployment, offering end-to-end services for long-term success.
| Rates: Starting at $15-20 per hour, payable in USD/GBP/EUCAD/AUD/NZD etc, BTC/ETH/USDT. Payment methods: Cryptocurrency(preferred), or Wise, Paypal. many other options to accept payments. |
|---|
| Open to negotiation. Higher payments are appreciated but not mandatory. I prioritize projects that genuinely interest me. |
| For Serious Inquiries: Portfolio and previous work available to legitimate buyers. Please email me at [rmxttmgg@proton.me](mailto:rmxttmgg@proton.me). I prefer to discuss projects via email and chat. |
| Exclusive Content: Access to my personal site, private demos, prototypes, and live sites is reserved for committed clients only. |
| Working Hours: Available 7 days a week. Task lists typically finalized within 1-3 days, depending on current workload. FLEXIBLE TIMEZONE |
| Adaptability: Open to any project changes, ensuring flexibility throughout our collaboration. |
| Dedicated Focus: Once a project is entrusted to me, it receives my undivided attention, allowing you to focus on other critical areas with peace of mind. |
| Guarantee: Avoid the frustration of unfulfilled promises from developers. With me, you're assured dedication, focus, and delivery as expected. |
Contact me (more options), Proof, Transactions, Feedback reddit.com/usermxttmgg/comments/155ghpi/web_developer_for_hire_short_or_long_term_projects/
Unfortunately, I am unable to offer my services for free as I have financial obligations to meet. The compensation I am requesting is both fair and necessary.
As a freelancer, I do not receive health insurance or similar benefits; my earnings are directly tied to my workload/output. Please consider this before offering a lower compensation, or realistically assess whether your budget can support the project you envision.I am more than willing to go the extra mile for projects or clients that offer a rewarding experience, especially for those projects in which I have a high level of interest. (your service provider eventually go MIA because of change in interests)
*
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2024.05.28 01:35 rmxttmgg [for hire] 2024 Q2-Q3: Is active and available for hire! Front-end/Back-end Development
For Hire PHP/Python/JavaScript Developer. Front-end/Back-end Development full remote (14+ years freelance exp)
Welcoming Projects of All SizesAccelerated Development: Opt for my beast-mode development service, perfect for MVPs and projects needing a quick turnaround. With timelines ranging from 28 to 56 days, I’ll ensure your product is test-group ready in just 1-2 weeks.
Long-Term Engagement: Ready to support your projects with consistent productivity for months or years.
Exceptional Rates Without Compromising Quality: Benefit from rates that are up to 2x lower than other counterparts, without any sacrifice in the quality of output. I make premium development services more accessible to you.
Reserved for Genuine Business: To ensure dedicated focus and quality, I reserve my schedule for genuine engagements. This includes high-value, long-term projects, or interesting mid-tier projects.
Effortless for Clients: I aim to eliminate any additional effort on your part.
- AI & Generative Technologies
- Automation & Web Scraping
- API Integration & Development
- eCommerce Solutions (WITH ACTUAL ROI)
- Custom Social Media Platforms & Communities
- Website Cloning & Reverse Engineering
- Advanced PHP/WordPress Development
- Data-Driven Applications
- Mobile App Development
- Blockchain Technology
- Web & 2D Games
Contact Me Directly for Offers/Tasks:
Please email me at [rmxttmgg@proton.me](mailto:rmxttmgg@proton.me) with any compelling projects (my response is guaranteed). I prioritize email communication and will not be monitoring comments or chat on Reddit. This helps me maintain focus and ensures I can respond to serious inquiries promptly. Upon receiving your email, I will quickly confirm my availability and discuss next steps. (more info below, keep reading)No small “fix issue” offers, I prefer trouble-shooting for long-term clients only.
If you're considering hiring remotely, it's best to avoid overly complicated formalities. Simplifying the process can be more beneficial for both end.
- Web & App Development: Expertise in PHP/Laravel, JavaScript/jQuery, NodeJS, ReactJS, CSS for mobile-responsive designs.
- Full Stack Development: Skilled in both back-end and front-end, ensuring seamless, full-cycle project execution.
- E-Commerce Solutions: Custom online stores with vendor management, shipping, subscriptions, and integrated payments (e.g., PayPal, Stripe).
- Dynamic Websites & CMS: Bespoke content management for text, images, and videos.
- Interactive & Social Media Applications: Development of chat, streaming, and social platforms for engaging user experiences.
- Data-Driven Interfaces: Creation of map, table, calendar, and data pages for insightful information presentation.
(progress and demo driven approach, no hassle, super smooth transactions, easy to work with!)
Specialized Technical Services:- AI & Automation: Advanced implementation of machine learning and AI for automation and smart scripts/servers.
- API Integration: Fluent in integrating diverse APIs for enhanced functionality and interoperability.
- Security & Quality Assurance: Commitment to rigorous testing, including penetration tests and code audits, to ensure top-tier security and quality.
- Blockchain & Cryptocurrency: Secure and forward-thinking development in blockchain and crypto projects.
- Interactive & Game-Based Web Solutions: Custom development for game sites, hobby platforms, and interactive dashboards.
- Adult, NSFW, and Sensitive Content: Experienced in handling projects of all content types with utmost privacy and professionalism.
- Application Cloning: Tailored cloning of existing applications to meet specific business needs.
- Migration & Conversion Services: Expertise in converting or migrating PHP apps to various platforms or updating to the latest versions with a modern stack.
- Continuous Improvement: Offering unlimited revisions for perfection, adaptability to changes, and comprehensive post-launch support.
- Diverse Technology Stack: Proficient with PHP, Python, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, and more to accommodate a broad spectrum of tech requirements.
- Problem Solving: Dedicated to identifying and implementing the best solutions to challenges.
- Precision & Adaptability: Ensuring projects meet exact specifications with meticulous attention to detail and design.
- Comprehensive Service: From conception to deployment, offering end-to-end services for long-term success.
| Rates: Starting at $15-20 per hour, payable in USD/GBP/EUCAD/AUD/NZD etc, BTC/ETH/USDT. Payment methods: Cryptocurrency(preferred), or Wise, Paypal. many other options to accept payments. |
|---|
| Open to negotiation. Higher payments are appreciated but not mandatory. I prioritize projects that genuinely interest me. |
| For Serious Inquiries: Portfolio and previous work available to legitimate buyers. Please email me at [rmxttmgg@proton.me](mailto:rmxttmgg@proton.me). I prefer to discuss projects via email and chat. |
| Exclusive Content: Access to my personal site, private demos, prototypes, and live sites is reserved for committed clients only. |
| Working Hours: Available 7 days a week. Task lists typically finalized within 1-3 days, depending on current workload. FLEXIBLE TIMEZONE |
| Adaptability: Open to any project changes, ensuring flexibility throughout our collaboration. |
| Dedicated Focus: Once a project is entrusted to me, it receives my undivided attention, allowing you to focus on other critical areas with peace of mind. |
| Guarantee: Avoid the frustration of unfulfilled promises from developers. With me, you're assured dedication, focus, and delivery as expected. |
Contact me (more options), Proof, Transactions, Feedback reddit.com/usermxttmgg/comments/155ghpi/web_developer_for_hire_short_or_long_term_projects/
Unfortunately, I am unable to offer my services for free as I have financial obligations to meet. The compensation I am requesting is both fair and necessary.
As a freelancer, I do not receive health insurance or similar benefits; my earnings are directly tied to my workload/output. Please consider this before offering a lower compensation, or realistically assess whether your budget can support the project you envision.I am more than willing to go the extra mile for projects or clients that offer a rewarding experience, especially for those projects in which I have a high level of interest. (your service provider eventually go MIA because of change in interests)
*
**
***
Cheers!
2024.05.28 01:33 rmxttmgg [for hire] 2024 Q2-Q3: Is active and available for hire! Front-end/Back-end Development
For Hire PHP/Python/JavaScript Developer. Front-end/Back-end Development full remote (14+ years freelance exp)
Welcoming Projects of All SizesAccelerated Development: Opt for my beast-mode development service, perfect for MVPs and projects needing a quick turnaround. With timelines ranging from 28 to 56 days, I’ll ensure your product is test-group ready in just 1-2 weeks.
Long-Term Engagement: Ready to support your projects with consistent productivity for months or years.
Exceptional Rates Without Compromising Quality: Benefit from rates that are up to 2x lower than other counterparts, without any sacrifice in the quality of output. I make premium development services more accessible to you.
Reserved for Genuine Business: To ensure dedicated focus and quality, I reserve my schedule for genuine engagements. This includes high-value, long-term projects, or interesting mid-tier projects.
Effortless for Clients: I aim to eliminate any additional effort on your part.
- AI & Generative Technologies
- Automation & Web Scraping
- API Integration & Development
- eCommerce Solutions (WITH ACTUAL ROI)
- Custom Social Media Platforms & Communities
- Website Cloning & Reverse Engineering
- Advanced PHP/WordPress Development
- Data-Driven Applications
- Mobile App Development
- Blockchain Technology
- Web & 2D Games
Contact Me Directly for Offers/Tasks:
Please email me at [rmxttmgg@proton.me](mailto:rmxttmgg@proton.me) with any compelling projects (my response is guaranteed). I prioritize email communication and will not be monitoring comments or chat on Reddit. This helps me maintain focus and ensures I can respond to serious inquiries promptly. Upon receiving your email, I will quickly confirm my availability and discuss next steps. (more info below, keep reading)No small “fix issue” offers, I prefer trouble-shooting for long-term clients only.
If you're considering hiring remotely, it's best to avoid overly complicated formalities. Simplifying the process can be more beneficial for both end.
- Web & App Development: Expertise in PHP/Laravel, JavaScript/jQuery, NodeJS, ReactJS, CSS for mobile-responsive designs.
- Full Stack Development: Skilled in both back-end and front-end, ensuring seamless, full-cycle project execution.
- E-Commerce Solutions: Custom online stores with vendor management, shipping, subscriptions, and integrated payments (e.g., PayPal, Stripe).
- Dynamic Websites & CMS: Bespoke content management for text, images, and videos.
- Interactive & Social Media Applications: Development of chat, streaming, and social platforms for engaging user experiences.
- Data-Driven Interfaces: Creation of map, table, calendar, and data pages for insightful information presentation.
(progress and demo driven approach, no hassle, super smooth transactions, easy to work with!)
Specialized Technical Services:- AI & Automation: Advanced implementation of machine learning and AI for automation and smart scripts/servers.
- API Integration: Fluent in integrating diverse APIs for enhanced functionality and interoperability.
- Security & Quality Assurance: Commitment to rigorous testing, including penetration tests and code audits, to ensure top-tier security and quality.
- Blockchain & Cryptocurrency: Secure and forward-thinking development in blockchain and crypto projects.
- Interactive & Game-Based Web Solutions: Custom development for game sites, hobby platforms, and interactive dashboards.
- Adult, NSFW, and Sensitive Content: Experienced in handling projects of all content types with utmost privacy and professionalism.
- Application Cloning: Tailored cloning of existing applications to meet specific business needs.
- Migration & Conversion Services: Expertise in converting or migrating PHP apps to various platforms or updating to the latest versions with a modern stack.
- Continuous Improvement: Offering unlimited revisions for perfection, adaptability to changes, and comprehensive post-launch support.
- Diverse Technology Stack: Proficient with PHP, Python, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, and more to accommodate a broad spectrum of tech requirements.
- Problem Solving: Dedicated to identifying and implementing the best solutions to challenges.
- Precision & Adaptability: Ensuring projects meet exact specifications with meticulous attention to detail and design.
- Comprehensive Service: From conception to deployment, offering end-to-end services for long-term success.
| Rates: Starting at $15-20 per hour, payable in USD/GBP/EUCAD/AUD/NZD etc, BTC/ETH/USDT. Payment methods: Cryptocurrency(preferred), or Wise, Paypal. many other options to accept payments. |
|---|
| Open to negotiation. Higher payments are appreciated but not mandatory. I prioritize projects that genuinely interest me. |
| For Serious Inquiries: Portfolio and previous work available to legitimate buyers. Please email me at [rmxttmgg@proton.me](mailto:rmxttmgg@proton.me). I prefer to discuss projects via email and chat. |
| Exclusive Content: Access to my personal site, private demos, prototypes, and live sites is reserved for committed clients only. |
| Working Hours: Available 7 days a week. Task lists typically finalized within 1-3 days, depending on current workload. FLEXIBLE TIMEZONE |
| Adaptability: Open to any project changes, ensuring flexibility throughout our collaboration. |
| Dedicated Focus: Once a project is entrusted to me, it receives my undivided attention, allowing you to focus on other critical areas with peace of mind. |
| Guarantee: Avoid the frustration of unfulfilled promises from developers. With me, you're assured dedication, focus, and delivery as expected. |
Contact me (more options), Proof, Transactions, Feedback reddit.com/usermxttmgg/comments/155ghpi/web_developer_for_hire_short_or_long_term_projects/
Unfortunately, I am unable to offer my services for free as I have financial obligations to meet. The compensation I am requesting is both fair and necessary.
As a freelancer, I do not receive health insurance or similar benefits; my earnings are directly tied to my workload/output. Please consider this before offering a lower compensation, or realistically assess whether your budget can support the project you envision.I am more than willing to go the extra mile for projects or clients that offer a rewarding experience, especially for those projects in which I have a high level of interest. (your service provider eventually go MIA because of change in interests)
*
**
***
Cheers!
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CompTIA certifications are a great way to kickstart or advance your IT career. With a wide range of certifications available, it can be overwhelming to know where to start studying. In this blog, we'll provide a comprehensive guide to CompTIA certification study resources, helping you prepare for online exams with confidence.
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Ultimate Guide to CompTIA Certification Study Resources: Prepare for Online Exams with Confidence
CompTIA certifications are a great way to kickstart or advance your IT career. With a wide range of certifications available, it can be overwhelming to know where to start studying. In this blog, we'll provide a comprehensive guide to CompTIA certification study resources, helping you prepare for online exams with confidence.
CompTIA Certification Levels:
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- Core Certifications: Entry-level certifications covering IT fundamentals, such as A+, Network+, and Security+.
- Specialty Certifications: Mid-level certifications focusing on specific areas like cybersecurity, data analytics, and cloud computing.
- Professional Certifications: Advanced certifications for experienced professionals, such as CASP+ and PenTest+.
Official CompTIA Resources:
- CompTIA Learning and Training: Download practice questions, exam objectives, and study guides.
- Certification Study Guides and Books: CompTIA offers study guides in both ebook and print formats.
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- AI & Generative Technologies
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- API Integration & Development
- eCommerce Solutions (WITH ACTUAL ROI)
- Custom Social Media Platforms & Communities
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- Advanced PHP/WordPress Development
- Data-Driven Applications
- Mobile App Development
- Blockchain Technology
- Web & 2D Games
Contact Me Directly for Offers/Tasks:
Please email me at [rmxttmgg@proton.me](mailto:rmxttmgg@proton.me) with any compelling projects (my response is guaranteed). I prioritize email communication and will not be monitoring comments or chat on Reddit. This helps me maintain focus and ensures I can respond to serious inquiries promptly. Upon receiving your email, I will quickly confirm my availability and discuss next steps. (more info below, keep reading)No small “fix issue” offers, I prefer trouble-shooting for long-term clients only.
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- Data-Driven Interfaces: Creation of map, table, calendar, and data pages for insightful information presentation.
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2024.05.28 01:22 clawhammercycle excessive blow by- fresh top end
 | hey yall. running into an issue with my girlfriends sportster. bike was running 100% fine prior to top end. i only redid it because the base gaskets and pushrod tube base orings were leaking and getting worse each year. submitted by clawhammercycle to Harley [link] [comments] so, had cylinders bored .010 over by the best machine shop in town. lapped the valves. put it all together with fresh gaskets and seals all around. a few hear cycles and then out to the road for riding below 65mph. the bike runs perfectly and no abnormal sounds but were getting a good bit of oil vapor and mist from the breathers once the bike is hot. today on a ride in 80 degree weather it took about 30 minutes before the breathers started misting/vaping… we did notice that on a long stretch of road where we had head wind (bike running cooler) it was less noticeable at the next stop. and when we had to ride through town and got home it was worse again (bike running hotter). oil temp hovered between 190-210 all day. oil level is at the low mark on dipstick. running 20w-50. my understanding is it could be a few things. i know oil level is usually the problem but like i said oil level is at low mark HOT. which i never have done with my old sporty or hers but its certainly notnoverfilled so i can rule that out. could be the umbrella valves but i out fresh ones in. they were james gaskets but i did feel like the nipple wasnt as sturdy as i wouldve wanted it to be. unbrella possibly popped out? and lastly, could be combustion getting past the rings and into crankcase causing excessive pressure. which would be the worst because it would mean tearing down to base gaskets, rehoning, and reassembling. i assume my next step would be a leak down test. i will be surprised if compression isnlow because the bike runs fine. also doing an oil change again tomorrow because of the fresh top end. anyway, loooking for any thoughts or advice. thanks! |
2024.05.28 01:20 forthelove13 Alright whose ready for a book? Does Matt change the narrative?
 | *get the popcorn. It’s LONG! And no I don’t care. 🤷♀️ I simply recorded my thoughts while I binged the show. Yes I have a lot of time on my hands right now recovering from spinal surgery. (I also walked 3.5 miles today, my longest yet!! Big day!!) No I normally can’t do this and I kept trying to shorten it but you know what?! I don’t care about your judgement ha. submitted by forthelove13 to LittlePeopleBigWorld [link] [comments] I highly recommend reading my last post to give more context here. Enjoy! I started this just to see if the narrative we know “the boys are lazy and entitled brats, who are withholding their grandchildren from Matt and caryn because they are mad they didn’t get the farm” was true or Matts narrative. I have my own thoughts on this, but I wanted proof that Matt is changing the narrative as zach states before I officially decided. Here goes! -Matt offers to buy Amy out for the rest of the farm (she already sold a little to him) and her shares of the business with an expiration date of December 2019. Amy doesn’t take it. -Jeremy comes in may of 2020 and places a bid to buy the farm and it doesn’t happen SUMMER OF 2020 -Zach tells Matt he is ready to throw their name in the ring to buy the farm -Matt has zach help encourage his mom to officially sell it off to him. He tells Tori once his dad buys his mom out it will make whoever buys the farm next more simple and Tori says “yeah cleaner for sure”. PAUSE: these are the quotes that Matt makes about Zach when he is trying to get Zach’s help to get the full farm. 1. “Zach is stepping up and currently keeps up with the maintenance and tours at pumpkin season” 2. “I know how much Zach does on the farm.” 3. “You are always humbled as parents when your kids want to carry on a family legacy” 4. “I have noticed Zach has stepped it up on the farm in the last 2 years.” 6. “Zach has really done a lot around here and both boys have made a lot of contributions…he doesn’t just say it… he’s been putting in the work!” (Zach also says he knows his dad sees the work he puts in)
PAUSE: During this time, Zach invites Matt over to his house to see the sandbox. Zach and Tori both come across as awkward but kind. Tori tells Zach to show Matt her ultrasound, they were all laughing. (Matt knows he is putting the farm up for sale and doesn’t talk to Zach about it in person.) Zach said it was good to have him there, we are learning the new normal and we are good where it is right now. Both say things went well and they are taking strides in the right direction.
I think this is one of the most important parts of all of this. this next part was a convo amy and Matt had 3 DAYS prior to the farm being put up. - Amy confronts Matt in the price, saying he knows the kids can’t afford that and Matt said “they knew the family discount” - Amy tells him she wasn’t stupid and knows they used an old assessment for their sale. They BOTH knew she left money on the table to pass along to the boys - Matt says the boys didn’t like that it was just 16 acres and he couldn’t make it more because there are more kids - Amy hit on the legacy dream HE built in their heads their whole lives - Amy tells him he has to take responsibility - He said he does take responsibility (my own side eye at Matt here) - Matt says that the feeling of entitlement ruined it for him. Amy asked him what that means and he says that they expected to get it for free, the work, theyre not going to work for it, take care of it. - Amy says (WHAT WE HAVE ALL BEEN THINKING) “what work? If you are selling it who cares what they do? Thats not your work…” - Matt ignores that and says “well it was the entitlement along the way, from the the beginning of time with the broken windows, there was a lot of entitlement. I get they were trying to have a lot of fun, but those kids tore the shit out of the place and you know that weighed on me.” Amy says “you can’t blame that on the kids. You would come to me complaining that the kids are spoiled and I told you then you can’t blame that on the kids. You aren’t born spoiled.” -They go on to fight about which one of them spoiled them more (Matt buying them atvs) -Matt says he was the disciplinarian and tried to FULLY point at amy for everything - Then Matt says “Amy tries to live in the past” after saying what the boys did on the farm 15+ years ago hit him hard - Amy and Zach have both said the biggest issue is that he doesn’t take ownership for his part in this all. Ok PAUSE: this is all RIGHT before Matt puts the house up for sale and posts this(only adding important parts): "My ultimate hope was that the entire Roloff Farms property would stay in our family for generations to come". Keeping that dream alive at this point in time was just not meant to be. Unfortunately, Roloff Farm farm cannot be legally divided into multiple parcels. My twin boys decided not to consider working together toward a possible joint sale. Both of them (along with their growing families) had moved on to other interests and investments.... and even tho a substantial family discount and a "gift of equity" was offered by both Amy and I.... (and I still owe Amy a bundle of money) they decided individually that the timing was not right for them to purchase a part of the farm at this time. Based on that, turning the big 60 in my cranky old body, the continuing maintenance/demands of the farm- the difficult decision was made so I could take steps toward my retirement goals.” Zach comments ON THIS POST (and note prior to this they at a minimum we’re still seeing each other and glad things were healing) "Once again like he has for most of his life not taking responsibility for his own actions and blaming others. Dragging the family drama that he created and then manipulate the fan base to make himself come out okay. This post his a new shocking low of cowardice and manipulation of his family and kids for his own gain” Ok now my thoughts: Guys this WHOLE THINGS HAS LITTLE to do with the sale of the farm. The whole thing is at most 25% who got the farm. The rest can be understood with a few things.
Matt saw dollar signs. Matt got caught up in the post COVID numbers. Matt… got greedy. Matt was willing to risk his entire families relationships so that he could build a mansion 400ft away from that house. Matt was willing to risk it all because the family time and time again (like his affair…) forgive him without him actually making changes. He will say he wasn’t perfect to appease viewers- but if he doesn’t change he wasn’t sorry for them. Ps. Matt says he can’t play favorites and have Jacob a 1960 VW bug -once owned by his grandpa for his 25th birthday. (And also, I love this for Jacob because man that kid has been through it.. he deserves this. But it shows we aren’t soooo worried about playing favorites…) |