I thought I had been seeing Greg for a while, but everyone kept telling me he was in La Pine. Anthony told me, Harrison told me, Sam told me. Greg skipped out on a 3mo unpaid rent and damaged the shit out of my floor. I just kept trying to know if he was around, because he and Katie Reznik are Bonnie and Clyde, I wanted to know if trouble was around. I had not yet realized that I had long since marked myself as a pigeon to more people than Greg, but I evicted him so he had a grudge. Larry Cerrulo finally confirmed his location, just a stone’s throw away, in my same development. It was hard to swallow how foolish I had been, and when I realized I was seeing Greg, I realized I was seeing Dylan Roof too. I know that central Oregon is a small community, Larry told me that, I was slapped in the face with how small right then.
Then Larry came over, but not to my house. He paid a visit to his friend and “ears in the area” Ritchard Auker. What I can’t even convince my family of are the thin walls in the boulder brook development, particularly back near my bathroom. I listened to Larry sit and chat with Dick about how “useful the Brondum’s were, you could use them up.” After a while I got mad, and I have a big mouth. “is this the guy you have watching me Larry” is what I shouted “you mean he can hear us is what I heard.” I don’t claim to hear everything, but my stress was very high and I can be very quiet when I think I’m listening to an enemy plot against me. I can also be very stupid, I should have made audio recordings, I tried to write things down and hide them around my house, I can be very stupid.
I had been shouting for a while when another voice joined in, Anthony Chris George. He had recently skipped out on a 3k interest free debt and abandoned a trailer in my garage. I guess I only go outside to smoke, and it had only just happened, but that he was living with Dick made me real mad. I started running my mouth about “debts must be paid” and “leverage” and “you could have just asked them to pay their rent Larry” so maybe I started it. Maybe I even deserve this for not being a better person, if they were more wrong they wouldn’t have been able to hurt me like this. I tried writing some things down on paper, like I said, but I am a shame based creature, and I had a tally counter for asshole that topped 30+ in under 2 hours. I am “incapable of doing anything” “nutless asshole” “spineless little coward” “lazy ass landlord” “deserve to be rolled”. I can’t hear everything, but my stress turned my hearing up enough I was certain that a background siren I kept hearing was the whistle from airgaps in my house when it was under negative pressure from outside, it stopped whenever the AC came on or the wind changed.
I could think of nothing that could see me to victory. Everyone including Larry hated my guts, wasn’t ever going to pay me, explicitly conspired to dick me over and clap each other on the back about it, even Dick was pitching in. It seemed as if all of my old coworkers were sitting in front of my face laughing at me, I thought I was seeing ghosts, and they celebrated my blindness. Even Larry. So I came up with the dumb plan of going to Lowes and getting dangerous stuff. I did get high concentration roundup, and some 3k test chain, and a knife. I am sure I heard people discussing what I was doing and which aisle I was going too, they even walked up to me at the checkout, big latino guy, Greg’s friend, don’t remember a name, but he was connected to Brittany Lyman-Snyder and the disc golf crew. On the way back I watched kids play in the street and I knew I wasn’t going to do anything so dramatic it got kids involved. So I came up with a dumber plan. If my world was ash all I had left was to spoil their fun, so I had to get them in trouble. I had debt on Greg and Anthony, I tried to talk to my mother about legal advice but met resistance. So my big dumb plan to screw them all back was to commit suicide and try to provoke some kind of manslaughteconspiracy charge. I sent what I considered to be big red flag messages to my father and Natasha (a girl in SF I talk to) and turned off my phone. I can see now how much damage I could have done to my family, I thought I was trying to motivate them to fulfil my revenge, but I was just crippling them first. I had a bottle of pills from a recent tooth extraction, I had almost no paid so I had only used 1 and put them away, I had wine, and I had that knife. I couldn’t work up the nerve the first night, too lazy I guess. The 24th was hard, I had a plan, but even then I didn’t like it. I tried to set the cat out, but they kept sending her back “asshole deserves an asshole” I didn’t understand what that meant at the time but I think I have Dylan’s cat named asshole, and I think they knew about my big dumb plan because I have a big mouth, and this was a hedge against me doing anything but sitting there crying like a loser. I tried to call my family and explain that I was in trouble and needed help, but I didn’t explain what I was doing I was still trying to use them for my revenge. Then my planning started getting stupider. I came up with the idea to hide the notes I was writing around my house. “easter eggs” I kept calling them, as proud as I was that I could listen to dylans frustration at trying to pick my locks, my big dumb mouth just would not shut. But I still couldn’t do it. There was another tally counter next to “Asshole” I kept hearing “Oh my God” there was a ghost of my past involved who I hadn’t recognized, and when the peanut gallery decided to really put the screws to me they started running their mouth about Annie. I had been engaged to her once upon a time, when she left she told me I would never go anywhere or do anything. I tried once before to kill myself because I couldn’t find a way out of the hole she left when she left. I turned into a zombie. According to the Chorus that “OMG” was Annie, she had been living around the corner from me, Larry had known but thought I had cheated on Annie so I was a piece of shit for that, and Dylan had been “fucking her outside your window you stupid moron, did you think that was porn?”. So early on the 25th I finally found the Balls to crawl into my tub and try to finish the job. I can’t bring myself to bet it all on black, so I split the pills in half and told myself I had a second try. I downed about half of a half-gallon bottle of wine, and tried to find the will to finish my dumb plan. I was disappointed the knife wasn’t sharper, I couldn’t find the HPS filament I use to sharpen. All I could to were test cuts, I tried to position it and fall on it, but the bath is very small. I said it was my new cat Vega that saved me, and partly it is true, but I hated them not myself, and I really do struggle to finish projects.
The day of the 25th was a continuation of the siege. I was periodically collapsing from the drugs in my system, not unconscious, just no motor control. I continued to listen, I continued to run my mouth. I still had to go outside for cigarettes, Dick would smile at me as he patrolled his position outside my living room window on the street, in that windbreaker and baseball cap. I don’t know him well enough to pick his voice from a crowd, I suppose a lot of the “asshole”s were his. By now Larry was trying to convince people “this asshole actually has an asshole family”, and telling a story about mom buying units one buy one and evicting people, and trying to convince Annie to knock on my door. I shouted that I didn’t want that. He shouted “that little asshole’s dead to me” enough times for me to know he wasn’t trying to help me. I tried to change the course by calling out a cease fire, and trying to call Larry and talk about what was happening, but it is maybe naive of me to think he was fulling steering the events by that point. When things continued I tried to escalate things by being more explicitly clear to my family that I was trying to get them to reach out an avenge me, but I was far from coherent by then, and the story too fantastical for them, “Larry fixes problems, Alex just causes them” is something my father recently said somewhere in another part of the house.
I had made enough sense to my family by then that they called the Redmond police to do a welfare check just before 11pm. Two officers came over, I focused on Harrison because of latter events. I turned over the knife because by now I knew I wasn’t going to be able to finish my sad exit, either I didn’t have the balls, or I didn’t hate myself enough. I tried to turn over some of my “easter eggs” but by then I had begun making false ones, and what I handed Harrison was one of those. One of the things I considered genuine was my journal of overheard voices, only about 30min long, but I had been running my big mouth about it. I got to listen to officer Harrison walk over to Richard Auker’s door, go in and discuss the notebook with larry. “did you say this” “yes” “how can he hear that” “I don’t know, he doesn’t know”. I should have recorded it all on audio, I make very stupid plans, I should have made copious written notes and not just brief flurries of logs, all I really managed to focus on was officer Harrison works for Larry Cerrullo and was not there to help me. The siege continued into the night, it was about this time they made clear to me it wasn’t a stray cat, it was Dylan’s cat asshole.
By the dawn of the 26th I was running out of dumb plans. I hadn’t slept in days, I had a lot of drugs that seemed to just kick in and collapse me to the floor running through me. I knew I couldn’t find the nerve to kill myself, I knew I had nothing on these people and they were clearly winning, I knew Larry had a cop friend involved, I knew I had no one to call for help in the state. I talked to my sister, and by that time I was ready to just listen to her tell me what to do. I think she gave me the right advice, that I needed to leave, take what I could, and drive to San Francisco. I tried to pack things into my jeep, things for my cat Vega, things for my computer, all of my “easter eggs”, a load of laundry, and I tried to sober up.

Is it really easy to get banned? Also which programs can be flagged as cheats so i can watch out for those. I have battleye and faceit ac

I met my boyfriend through work. We have a healthy relationship. We are both into cars and food, so we often attend car shows and try out new restaurants.
Long story short, one of my close friends (let's call her "F") works in the same department as him, and F told me that my bf often likes to tease this girl ("G"). I initially ignored F because my bf teases everyone from my experience. It was honestly one of the reasons why I fell in love with him. However, recently, F told me that G put her legs on my bf's chair. He not only did not push her legs off but he caressed her ankles and calves while continued working on his desk. F said my bf seemed hesitant at first and overheard him telling G that he is cold due to the blasting AC and is trying to get warm by touching her. F said he was literally rubbing the sides, middle of her calves and her feet mindlessly while working. I gave him the benefit of the doubt and thought perhaps he didn’t know how to say no. He also calls G “girl” apparently to stay platonic I’m guessing.
Their department head is a senior lady (work grandma) and invited them to her house for lunch. F said she saw my boyfriend putting his hand on the small of G's back. It was for a brief second. He also took a sip of her drink right after she took her first sip during lunch. He tickled the side of her waist when she made witty comebacks. He would for the most part follow her and his body would turn towards her wherever she stood.
I took all these observations in and asked my bf what is going on? I said I don't feel comfortable despite knowing that he's naturally touchy even among his friends (regardless of gender). He said that was never his intentions then got mad that I even suggested the possibility of him cheating on me. The vibe has been off since then and I'm not sure what to do. I feel bad because I don't know if I'm only overreacting because I don't personally know G. I seriously have no clue and not even sure if I overreacted.
edit: please advise in terms of what should I do next? Is it a dead end since he likes that girl or can this be solved? We also have an 3-week asia trip coming up.
Even though some of you are giving some major hard core tough love, I’m so glad strong women like y’ll exist. I hope you’re all glowing and getting all the success & love you deserve 🩷

So i have been attempting to begin a modded playthrough of Fallout 4 on my PC for about two weeks now, yet it does not start or even reach the main title screen at all. I have used LOOT to sort my load order and view conflicts/errors with my mods, and VORTEX mod manager to install them. Once I took care of all the red error messages, I began to "clean" about 11 plugins that had ITM records attached to them-- using FO4edit (xEdit).
As of right now, i have no other error messages besides the NPC_Records override warning that unfortunately comes with the Next Gen Fallout 4 update (version 1.10.984.0). I would like to know what else i could possibly be missing at this point. Please be patient with me as I am a first time modder.
Here's my (LOOT sorted) Load Order:
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1 1 DLCRobot.esm
2 2 DLCworkshop01.esm
3 3 DLCCoast.esm
4 4 DLCworkshop02.esm
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254 FE 4 ccBGSFO4096-AS_Enclave.esl
254 FE 5 ccFSVFO4007-Halloween.esl
254 FE 6 ccBGSFO4046-TesCan.esl
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3DNPC_FO4-Patch.esp
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FunctionalDisplays-Collectibles.esp
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FunctionalDisplays.esp
FunctionalDisplays-MISC-VIS.esp
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CheatTerminal.esp
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Thematic and Practical.esp
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74 4a VAFS Redux.esp
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254 FE 42 IW_AIO Patch.esp
254 FE 43 Bullet in the Chamber.esp
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254 FE 4d Attach Pack Modcol.esp
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254 FE 4f JSRS BitCH_Fallout4_DLC.esp
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254 FE 5d SCOURGE - Fallout4.esp
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254 FE 5f MTs255-3dScopes.esp
254 FE 60 Grenades.esp
254 FE 61 SimpleImpact.esp
254 FE 62 1CAS_ServiceRifle 1stP PA Footstep Fix.esp
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254 FE 64 StartMeUpShaunDefaultAppearance.esp
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254 FE 65 Physics Sound Overhaul.esp
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103 67 The Eyes Of Beauty.esp
254 FE 66 subwayrunnnerMap.esp
254 FE 67 There It Is x Minimalist.esp
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254 FE 68 VAFS Redux - LEO Patch.esp
105 69 VAFS Color PATCH.esp
254 FE 69 Vanilla_Parallax_Project.esp
254 FE 6a DakLindaPistol 1stP PA Footstep Fix.esp
AWKCR - Mod Power Armor Engine Glitch Fix.esp
More Power Armour Mods.esp
Consistent Power Armor Overhaul.esp
Brotherhood Power Armor Overhaul.esp
FunctionalDisplays-AID-WI.esp
254 FE 6b Dank_INNRoverride.esp
PAMAP.esp
More Power Armour Mods - Automatron.esp
M8rDisablePipboyEffects.esp
dD - Screen Blood Duration Medium.esp
Immersive Fallout - Movement (DLC).esp
Immersive Fallout - Realistic ADS (DLC).esp
Immersive Fallout - Realistic Jumping.esp
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254 FE 6e 4estGimp - RO1 No Varied Raiders Face Mod.esp
109 6d AR2 Attachment Pack Patch.esp
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254 FE 71 Attack of the Lobotomites - Lesser Loot Patch.esp
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254 FE 72 Bastion.esp
254 FE 73 BAM-BetterArmoryMod.esp
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254 FE 75 CROSS_2077.esp
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134 86 CustomCamera.esp
135 87 Glock19x.esp
254 FE 7c Remington870.esp
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139 8b EasyHacking.esp
140 8c dD - Small Splatter Size.esp
254 FE 7f M8rDisableCreationClub.esp
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254 FE 81 Backpacks-EliArmours.esp
141 8d DakCRRedux.esp
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254 FE 83 FOVSlider.esp
143 8f Scopes.esp
254 FE 84 JSRS_FarHarbor.esp
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254 FE 86 FN FAL - MUNITIONS PATCH.esp
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145 91 OWR_GOP.esp
146 92 KSHairdos.esp
147 93 Companion Infinite Ammo.esp
148 94 CompanionStatus.esp
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254 FE 8b Seasons_NAC-X.esp
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254 FE 8e Elzee Have a Seat.esp
254 FE 8f HK_MP5 1stP PA Footstep Fix.esp
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254 FE 91 Dank_ECO-Munitions.esp
254 FE 92 IW_Sound Patch.esp
254 FE 93 CombinedArmsIntegrationProject_EyDits.esp
254 FE 94 IW_LIF Patch.esp
254 FE 95 AER15_IW_LLI.esp
254 FE 96 AER15_Munitions.esp
254 FE 97 Backpacks of the Commonwealth - FIStags.esp
254 FE 98 BitCH Munitions_ChinaLakeandHolorifle1.5x.esp
254 FE 99 BitCH_22Pack.esp
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254 FE 9b BitCH_AshlandStation_IAF - FIStags.esp
254 FE 9c BitCH_CHAOTIC SUN_IAF - FIStags.esp
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254 FE 9e BitCH_LString_Bow_LL - FIStags.esp
254 FE 9f BitCH_MM LFAW - FIStags.esp
254 FE a0 BitCH_MTs255 Revolver.esp
254 FE a1 BitCH_RaiderOverhaul.esp
254 FE a2 BitCH_Remington870.esp
254 FE a3 BitCH_SouthOfTheSea_IAF - FIStags.esp
254 FE a4 BitCH_TheZone_IAF - FIStags.esp
254 FE a5 BitCH_Zapgun.esp
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254 FE a7 ECO_workbench - FIStags.esp
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254 FE ac IW_ITO Weapons Patch.esp
254 FE ad IW_InTheFlesh_IAF - FIStags.esp
254 FE ae IW_Location Patch.esp
153 99 PMC_extended.esp
254 FE af Look At Me GE.esp
254 FE b0 IW_CROSS Armors SW Patch.esp
254 FE b1 Look At Me AE.esp
254 FE b2 whisperDelayDLC.esp
254 FE b3 IW_Quest Patch.esp
254 FE b4 IW_SelectBlaster.esp
154 9a Immersive HUD.esp
254 FE b5 Immersive HUD FIStag.esp
254 FE b6 Immersive_Molotovs NAC-X Patch.esp
254 FE b7 Dank_WOP-M1Garand.esp
254 FE b8 JSRS BitCH Munitions_M1Garand - WOP.esp
254 FE b9 JSRS BitCH Munitions_RussianAssaultPack.esp
254 FE ba JSRS BitCH RPG-7 Projectile Patch.esp
254 FE bb JSRS Combined Arms Integration EyDits Patch.esp
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I love the idea of the undying Warlock but the execution is a bit sub par. Here is my revised version of the Undying Warlock.

Expanded Spell List

The Undying lets you choose from an expanded list of spells when you learn a warlock spell. The following spells are added to the warlock spell list for you.

Undying Expanded Spells
Spell Level
1st Cure Wounds, Cure Wounds
2nd Blindness/Deafness, Silence
3rd Animate Dead Speak with Dead,
4th Aura of Life, Death Ward
5th Contagion, Legend Lore

The spell list is pretty thematic. My main change is swapping:
feign death -> Animate Dead
ray of sickness -> Cure wounds

Among the Dead

At first level Additionally, undead have difficulty harming you. If an undead targets you directly with an attack or a harmful spell, that creature must make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC (an undead needn't make the save when it includes you in an area effect, such as the explosion of Fireball). On a failed save, the creature must choose a new target or forfeit targeting someone instead of you, potentially wasting the attack or spell. On a successful save, the creature is immune to this effect for 24 hours. An undead is also immune to this effect for 24 hours if you target it with an attack or a harmful spell.
You learn the Spare the Dying cantrip, which counts as a warlock cantrip for you and you can cast as a bonus action at a range of 30ft a number of times equal to your charisma modifier. When cast in this way the target receives the effects of your among the dead feature until the end of your next turn. You regain all uses when you finish a long rest. You also have advantage on saving throws against any disease.
Undying Gift
Also at your first level in this class your patron blesses you with the knowledge to extend your life. For every 10 years that pass your body ages 1 year and you cannot be magically aged.

Undying Nature

Beginning at 10th 6th level, you can hold your breath indefinitely, and you don't require food, water, or sleep, although you still require rest to reduce exhaustion and still benefit from finishing short and long rests.
Additionally your patron has taught you the true nature of undeath and your body stops aging and you gain resistance to necrotic damage.
In addition, you age at a slower rate. For every 10 years that pass, your body ages only 1 year, and you are immune to being magically aged.
Master of Undeath
Also at 6th level any undead you raise gain temporary Hit Points equal to your Warlock level + you CHA modifier. While they have these temporary Hit Points they add your CHA modifier to their AC and saving throws.
Additionally, when your raise undead you can choose a number of creatures equal to your CHA modifier that the undead will be unable to harm, even when your control of the creatures ends.

Defy Death

Starting at 6th 10th level, you can give yourself vitality when you cheat death or when you help someone else cheat it death. You can regain hit points equal to 1d8 + your Constitution modifier (minimum of 1 hit point) half your warlock level rounded down + your CHA modifier when you succeed on a death saving throw or when you stabilize a creature with Spare the Dying.
Additionally, you can add your proficiency bonus to death saving throws a number of times equal to your CHA modifier and regain all uses after a long rest or being revived from death.

Indestructible Life

When you reach 14th level, you partake of some of the true secrets of the Undying. On your turn, you can use a bonus action to regain hit points equal to 1d8 + your warlock level half your maximum hp. Additionally, if you put a severed body part of yours back in place when you use this feature, the part reattaches.
Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
Strength from Death
Also at 14th level, once per long rest when you hit 0 Hp, instead of becoming downed and rolling death saving throws, you can choose to release the undying energy within you as a sphere with a radius of 30 ft centered on you, dealing half your Warlock level in necrotic damage to every creature of your choice within the sphere, dealing double damage to undead. You regain 1 hp and gain a number of temporary hit points equal to the damage dealt.
If the temporary hp run out while you still have less than half of your maximum hp you must immediately succeed a death saving throw or die.
Reject Death
At 14th level, as an action and bonus action, you gain the ability to revive someone from death as long as they died within the past 7 days. When you revive them they come back to life at a place you know exists within 1 mile of you with half of their maximum hp and have a -3 penalty to all of their attack rolls, ability checks, and saving throws, every long rest they take reduces this penalty by 1. If the place you revive them if occupied they will instead be revived at a random empty place within 1 mile of you. When someone is revived with this feature they recover from all major injuries (such as missing limbs) but will continue to have any diseases or curses that afflicted them before they died. Once this feature is used it can not be used again until 1d4 long rests have passed.
Alternatively, if you die you can choose to have your patron apply this effect to you but instead you take a -10 penalty and you are sent to an empty demi-plane for the duration of your recovery. You then cannot use the reject death feature until 10 + 1d6 long rests have passed.
If your patron saves you from death through this feature they may choose to punish you in a way your DM deems appropriate.
This is obviously a serious buff from the regular undying warlock. I wanted this to have a very different play style that the undead warlock. Where the undead warlock is a blaster and heavy damage dealer I wanted the undying warlock to be very hard to kill and have a bunch of tricks up their sleeve to keep themselves and their allies alive.

I'm a new player to animal crossing and started with new horizons and I've been playing since the game came out. I absolutely love this game and have been playing almost every day since I bought it! I have only ever had one island and it will always be my forever island. I still have my original two villagers, Renee and Buck, because I love them to death and always want to be reminded of my first animal crossing days! I've never time traveled, or "cheated" in any other way. I absolutely love this game for how it is and always will!
The point is, I've been seeing lots of comments on other posts about people being biased towards New Leaf, whether it be the music, the relaxing gameplay, the villager dialogue, etc. I really want to know what kind of a game it is and how it's different from new horizons or another ac game, and if I can buy it and the console for cheap somewhere, because I am very open to playing it! I want to buy some of the older games, but some of them are very expensive and I can't afford to spend over $200 on video games lol.

I've found it difficult to find electronic craps location info outside of reddit/craps forums which are not all that reliable. I don't want to wade through 50 comments about casinos in Mississippi and Florida when I live in NYC. I wish someone would have written about this in a review so I will now.
Concerning casinos "cheating", MGM Inc and the game manufacturer are not going to risk their gaming license esp when the odds and human nature lead to the same losses, the game is designed to favor the house as it is.
I've been playing Craps for 35 years. Prior to 2 months ago, I wouldn't consider an electronic version. Then I was in Vegas and every table was $25 min. The Roll to Win craps was easy to try at $5 + full Odds. Bubble craps is 2x's Odds which is a sucker's game imo. So unlike the Bubble, the electronic versions RTW or Stadium better resemble the Live game. The Stadium min at RW/NYC is $3 with 3/4/5 x's Odds.
Stadium version = a large amount of terminals, sometimes in rows like a stadium. Cameras highlight the dice on screens. The roll is either like the Live game, shooters rotate on a common felt table or a central auto Bubble. It is much less social than RTW where you actually shoot dice on a plexiglass "felt". The surface has ridges which many dislike but unscrupulous players were sliding the dice across the plastic preventing the dice from rolling and thus, sliding an 11 = an 11.
What did we learn from RTW in Vegas that leads us to abandoning the felt whenever possible? Many social issues are affected including a negative of not easily communing with the other players BUT... Drunks and rude aggressive folks are not a factor since outbursts, yelling at croupiers and other players no longer figures in. Ditto on the spilling of drinks or being leaned upon by wasted strangers. No inappropriate conversations like bringing up politics or crass comments about women/races. In PA last year, we had a group openly discuss the Gilgo Beach killings in detail. I love my ID murder porn but I don't want to think about anything so sad while gambling. In Vegas last year, I had to say, "The only Presidents I care about come on small pieces of green linen."
Makes dumb $1 bets less annoying. Slowing down a Live game to toss out a nickle and ask for "All the Hard Ways high on the 6" can feel like a cheap time waster for everyone else at the game. No late betting. No walk-ups who shove btwn people to throw down a one roll cash bet. No grinders or Don't Pass players to deal with. Since you don't know how anyone else is playing, you have no idea who they are. No chips = a similar cloaking of play and success, harder to case a player for robbery, less germs + less disaffecting by the casinos, one less thing to replace. No chips = no need to interrupt the game for bank issues. Ticket redemption = machines = less cashiers. Good for casino but not so great for humans.
Financially, there are no errors. Payouts are always correct so no arguing with Croupiers and Pit Bosses. Prevents cheating by staff, no overpays or losing bets remaining for a cheating player and his Croupier partner.
And probably my favorite is not having newbies on my back poorly explaining the game to another slightly less knowledgeable rube esp when they bring up the number that cannot be mentioned. My Dad used to tell people we fear that number so much we call the 11 a Yo simply b/c the word Eleven rhymes with the word Seven. As an experienced player who plays full odds Pass and Come and avoids the proposition bets, I want to turn around and teach them about the game but I'm too busy trying to tune them out while I play. Now they have empty terminals to peruse or 2x's odds on Bubble craps to keep them busy.
RW/NYC has Stadium with plenty of shiny new terminals. This much larger than expected casino looks like every single machine outside of the vintage 3 wheel slots is fresh out of the box. All functioned perfectly. The Stadium craps moved quickly. Some might say too quickly but as a Live player, fast electronic is so much better than the RTW that gives everyone 60 seconds btwn each roll. Everything from the terminals to the restaurants to the bathrooms were spotless.
As good gamblers, there are changes we need to make about tipping. If there are no Live felt tables like RW/NYC then tipping only changes for the cocktail server. Since all your money is electronic vs chips, few people have small bills for tipping and the person gets screwed. Before we start playing, we get $25 in $5's and $1's and put it in the drink holder btwn us. Tip $5 first pair of drinks and you'll have drinks all night long.
Here's the big rub for the Croupiers. In the mid-west, I had one clue me into the issue. You can tip on the machine BUT... any shift where the RTW is open, they receive a draw tip around $200 a shift. The reason you shouldn't tip electronically is how the casino absorbs the 1st $200 as a draw. The Croupiers will not receive any tips unless the table is tipped more than $200 a shift. So, if you want the Croupiers to get tipped, wait until you are done, walk over to a Live table, place it on the felt and say "Cash tip for the kitty". Then they get the $200 + what you are tipping. Keep in mind live craps requires 4 staff vs the electronic games requiring 1 person max. Why are we paying the casino's "salary" due their employees? It's one thing for the odds to be in their favor on a game but...
And finally, if you are a NYer, the A train practically lets out into the lobby. At a $3 min where I can play max odds all the time, I found my AC. So long NJ!

Ever since I stumbled upon D's account and realized there's an entire EP community, I've been very intrigued and gone "down the rabbit hole", for lack of a better term.
A common thing D and other EP fail to realize is: Going NC doesn't stem from ONE issue. Or one incident. I've seen other EAC say that, too. It made me want to start a thread to discuss some of our reasons that made us go NC. I completely understand if anyone is uncomfortable with sharing. 🩵
I always joke about how I could write a book with how much I have to share, but I'll try to keep it short here lol.
GOING NC WITH MY MOTHER: As a young child, I was actually a "Mommy's girl." My mom was a yeller, door slammer, etc. To the outside world, we were the perfect family. Beautiful house and yard, dad worked while mom was a SAHM. Kids and a dog. My mom had the nickname "Martha Stewart" cause she kept the house clean and decor was a cozy vibe, cooked and baked, and was crafty. But behind closed doors it was a lie. If my parents were fighting or if she was frustrated with us kids, you could cut the tension with a knife. You were scared to come to her for anything out of fear she'd yell/scream. Within a few months of having my youngest sister, my mom was introduced to ebay by my aunt {her twin sister}. She started spending more and more time online. Money was tight but she'd steal cash from my dad's pockets and shop on ebay. Then my aunt told her about classmates.com and she found an old friend on there and they'd talk on the phone. I started noticing the calls became more private. If she wasn't on the computer, she'd be in her bedroom with the door locked on the phone. She said this friend lived out of state and wanted to visit her. My dad bought her a ticket even though I'm pretty sure we couldn't afford it. I told her to take pictures. When she got them developed, only photo she showed was of her on some bridge. No photos of the friend. When she got home, her neglect got worse. She stopped doing laundry, cleaning became the kids job, stopped cooking dinner to the point where she would just tell me to eat cereal. When she was on the phone, I would notice her laughing this fake laugh. And she'd tell us to leave the office when she was online. Couldn't even talk to her about our day at school. Long story short she was cheating on my dad. I had accused her and she'd lie to my face or threaten to send me to my aunts or grandma's. My older sister and I found dirty emails, photos and I listened in on the phone one time and she was talking to another man {her current bf, actually} and she was telling him she loved him, wanted to be with him, etc. I confronted her and she flat out lied to me and called my aunt and said "Will you tell Carly I was just on the phone with you? She seems to believe I wasn't" then calls me a liar. I called my aunt later on and told her what my sister and I knew and she promised me she wouldn't say anything. When my mom was visiting her, she told her everything. So my mom called us at home and said if we told our dad she'd make our lives "a living hell." That's just a tiny part of all that hell she already did put us through. My parents did divorce eventually. My mom then moved out of state to live with that guy on the phone and took my youngest sister with her. I was so angry for awhile because I felt she broke up our family and hated she was leaving us for a guy and taking a daughter and sister away. She would visit once in awhile and during one visit, she was saying she regretted what she did and wanted to get the family back together. Turns out she just assumed my dad had a lot of money since his business was doing well. Told him she wanted the family back but then went back to her bf after saying "this isn't what I signed up for." And her bf had no idea, he assumed it was just another visit. Due to fights and whatnot, we'd go off and on without talking. One day my dad tells me she had been diagnosed with cancer. That prompted me to reconcile with her. After treatment, she was declared "in remission." I thought it would give her a new outlook on life, but she never changed her ways. She and her bf decided to move back but while he took care of the selling of their house and whatnot, she came to stay with me. My husband and I had just moved in together. She would constantly complain that I didn't have cable set up even though I had Netflix and dozens of DVDs and told her after paying for everything to get into our place, we didn't have the extra money to get it. She didn't respect my "rules" of waiting till the weekend or after 6 pm to do laundry, turned my AC to the 60s, ruined my decorative towels, left lights on, rearranged stuff in my kitchen, let my golden child sister come over without asking me first, etc. My electric bill was ridiculous. Then I came home from work one day and all of her stuff was gone and my key I had let her use was on my door handle with a hair tie. Earlier that day she had told me my uncle was gonna pick her up and drop her off at my aunts. I told her she would need to drop off my key at my work {I literally worked around the corner from my apartment} and when she tried saying she would put my key on the handle, I said absolutely not. She did it anyway and put my home at risk. But it turns out she lied and her plan was she was gonna stay with my sister and didn't want to tell me. When I got pregnant with my son and my husband and I got engaged, she wanted to be able to announce it and kept asking "so who can I tell?" I said she could tell my aunt and my grandma. We wanted to tell family and friends personally before posting anywhere. She didn't like that. She would ask daily "When can I tell ppl?" I gave the same answer and she'd get mad or quiet. Mind you, I had a miscarriage a few months prior and wanted to wait before announcing to make sure baby was healthy and she knew this, too. She texts me one day going off on me saying I was only caring about everyone else's feelings and not HER feelings and she should be allowed to tell ppl about her new grandchild. I went OFF and basically said it was our baby, NOT hers and she had no right to get mad and it wasn't about her. For my baby shower, she and golden child said they wanted to plan it and put their names on the invites. Long story short, I planned the entire thing myself. I picked where it would be, the theme, the food, provided the food and drinks other than the 2 of them bringing a dish. I paid for everything, put the decor and prizes together, etc. It was at 1 pm and I asked them both to show up at 11 to help set up. My husband and I were on our way and I texted my mom saying "we're grabbing coffee then heading over." She said "She's picking me up at noon." I said "Noon?? I told you guys 11." Mind you the location was 20-30 minutes away. And my sister blew off helping me that morning at 8 and said "I have to get ready so.." They didn't show up till 1245. I was stressed and rushing and for some reason calls kept going to me and not my sister of ppl needing directions. My sister looked like she rolled out of bed and she and my mom left for a bit to go smoke weed, then come back bitching at me for inviting family from my dad's side and asked if we were serving alcohol. They sat there the whole time, complained, and didn't help. And neither of them got me a gift. Never did. Only thing my mom ever gave me were 2 old bras of hers. When my son was born, I had a c-section that was planned. She was wanting us to pick her up before going to the hospital. I said no cause it was opposite direction plus I couldn't have visitors for 2 hours post-op and said my husband would call when ppl could come. As I'm being rolled into the recovery room, my mom and younger sisters were in the hall watching my son through the window. First thing my mom says "Can we post pictures??" Said they were gonna go get food then come back. She didn't come back until the next day. In another post on here I mention that I didn't speak to her for 4 months then gave her another chance. A couple years prior I was going through a really hard time and confided something in her. I would call her crying about it and make her swear not to tell anyone and she'd say she promised not to. It wasn't until this point {that was about a couple years later} that I found out from a COUSIN when she slipped and I realized my mom had blabbed. I immediately tried calling her, she ignored and said she was heading up north with her bf but then said she knew what it was about and wasn't gonna answer my call. "I'm not gonna let you yell and cuss at me and berate me." I said I'm not discussing it over text. And she said "I already know what this is about and I will NEVER apologize for it. She's my sister, your aunt. We talk about our kids. It's what sisters do." When I mentioned what she did was a betrayal and she used my pain as gossip instead of being my mom. Her excuse was it wasn't done in malice. When I said I would never talk to her again, she would say the punishment didn't fit the crime, how dare I keep my son away from her, etc. That's how she tells the story. That she talked about her kid with her sister and I decided to punish her by keeping "that baby" from her. My aunt called me "mean and evil." And her side of the family would pull the whole "but she's your mom" bullshit. Another cousin even said one day "Can you please make up with your mom so we can all have a big Christmas together?" This July will be 9 years since I cut contact and never looked back.
I cut contact with my dad for good last May. We were low contact for almost a year prior. Growing up, I remember him working a lot and then would work from his home office a lot after as well. When I was 5, my golden child sister was born. She's now almost 32 and still lives with him with no job other than selling paintings. Has never in her life paid a bill or had a long term job. She was diagnosed with chrohns disease and that was always the excuse. But she had surgery a few years ago and is in much better shape but he still doesn't expect her to work. He'd tell me "I know what things cost out there" as if that was the new excuse. Her being the golden child at times meant he was abusive to me and my older sister. When I was a kid he shoved my whole hand up to my wrist in a bowl of scalding hot baked beans cause she cried and told him I burned her on purpose. He would hold me down and let her hit me if she and I were being sisters and fighting and I hit her. She got big birthday parties and extra gifts at Christmas. She was a spoiled brat and they never told her no. When my youngest sister was a baby, my parents took golden child and her best friend to Disneyland and my older sister and I had to stay behind and babysit. In high school when I was in dance or a school play, he only showed up one out of the four nights. When GC was in plays, he showed up all 4 nights and her junior year she was Jan in Grease and he went all 4 nights, invited family from out of town, donated dinner to the cast and crew and had a cake made. When I'd ask him why he didn't do that for me, he'd avoid it until one day he finally admitted he didn't think it was necessary cause I didn't have a lead role. He never got on her about helping around the house cause she was getting good grades and wanted her to focus on school and theater. He let her have parties with alcohol even though she was 15-16. She would steal my stuff and instead of telling her to stop he'd tell me to lock my door. He wouldn't let my sister have her baby shower at the house cause someone GC didn't like was invited. In 2009 my older sister and I had enough and moved out. Not long after, my grandma was in the hospital pretty much on her death bed. My older sister and her now husband and i took a day off work and went to visit her. First thing she said to me was "How important is family to you?" And during awkward silence my aunt was like "she wants you guys to make up." When my sister and I had a falling out I asked my dad if I could move back in. He said I could but would have to pay rent. I had just quit my job cause it was too far so I was looking but he wanted me to look nonstop. If i was at home first thing he'd say is "how's the job hunt going?" I said "Well I applied at 4 different places that day." He said "That's it?" At the time I was looking for jobs in childcare since that's where my experience was but he was wanting me to apply anywhere and everywhere. I got a job telemarketing but it was commission and wasn't working out. I had won $5 in a game and told him and I jokingly said "put this towards my rent" and he actually took it and put it in his wallet. He wanted me to cook dinners and clean the entire house while GC did nothing. One day I said she wasn't helping and he said "Well we agreed you were gonna do the chores until you got a job." Never happened but he said that's how it was gonna be. I landed a job at a daycare but it was part time and an afternoon shift. He said "Well what are you gonna do in the mornings?" My pay was a joke but he still wanted $200 a month for rent. I didn't mind paying some rent but I hated that GC was never expected to get a job and pay rent, even at 18. And never expected to clean or cook. He wanted me to cook but never bought the groceries I would need for a recipe. I'd cook and then never got help with the dishes after. But if GC threw a frozen meal on the stove, he'd have his last bite then tell me to get up and help with the dishes after. Every first of the month, first thing he'd say to me in the morning "Where's my rent?" Things got so bad I would leave/enter the house through my bedroom window to avoid him. He was always an asshole to me and if I would cry he'd say "If you're so unhappy here why don't you just move out?" Even called me "you little bitch" one time with his whole chest. I was dating this guy and when my dad found out, he kept asking why he hadn't met him. Looking back, I think my bf didn't want to meet him due to how I was being treated but used the excuse he wasn't ready. So I respected that but my dad didn't. So he resented me and it showed. I finally moved out and not long after he let GC bf move in and only charged him $100 for rent and never had to help with the house. And came and went as he pleased and when his car stopped working my dad let him use one of his vehicles. Didn't even make him pay for gas. After my husband and I got together, my husband and I went to pick up my younger sisters {we were okay at this time} and he was out front doing yard work and my husband introduced himself. We were good after. So when my son was about to turn 1, I was planning a birthday party for him. When I told my dad, he ended up telling me he wouldn't come cause GC wasn't invited {she took my mom's side after I went NC} and said he couldn't "abandon" her. And that she was his "family unit" since she lived with him. I was livid and said it wasn't about her, this was about celebrating his grandson. He still wouldn't agree to come and said I was putting him in a tough spot. I went NC for a year and a half. During that time, I moved out of state and had my daughter. But before I moved, I found out my Papa was in the hospital from Facebook. When i asked my youngest sister, she said my dad had made her promise not to tell me or my older sister. I decided to write him a letter venting everything, including that thanks to him my last memory of my grandma was her being mad at me. He wrote back asking if he could come visit so we could talk in person. I agreed. He came here and everything went fine and we talked A LOT and he was a great grandpa to my kids. We were better than ever. I even reached out to GC in 2020 cause I didn't want beef with anyone. She and I were fine too. In June of 2022, my older sister was moving. When asking my mom and GC to help, they made excuses why they couldn't but on the day they did help it was the bare minimum and GC caused special items from a late aunt to break. My dad helped on one day but cut it short cause I think he had plans. My sister has endometriosis and had days where she was in too much pain to move. Her inlaws helped pack, hired off-duty firemen to help move the furniture, bought dinner, helped clean, etc. So when the house was empty, my sister took a photo and made a post saying what good memories were made there and thanked her inlaws for all they did. My mom and GC saw the post and got mad they weren't mentioned. She showed my dad the post and he got mad, too. It was strange considering he doesn't use social media and used to say FB was stupid and ppl needed to stop getting mad over posts and talk TO each other. But this made him mad. He called me up and asked my opinion. I said I think it's dumb to get so mad over a FB post. My mom even told her she needed to rewrite it and include them. My dad was frustrated I didn't see his side. I said "If your feelings are hurt, that's fine but I don't think it's worth getting so mad over. It's FACEBOOK. Who cares?" And he said "It was like a kick in the nuts!" So he and my sister weren't speaking and fathers day plans were canceled. He used to call me once a week or vice versa but that stopped. I'd only hear from him maybe once a month. I took it as he was holding it against me that I didn't take his side. And GC had blocked me on socials but he was expecting ME to reach out to her. I refused. My birthday came along and he just sent me a Happy Birthday gif in text, but a week later I had gotten a card with cash from him. I sent him photos of my kids on the first day of school and on Halloween. I'd get one sentence response like "That's very nice." But no calls or even texts asking how they were doing. On Thanksgiving he sent a gif again, same on Christmas. He normally would send me a large Amazon gift card early December in a card and tell me ahead of time "That way you guys can pick out what you want and the kids want and it'll arrive in time." But that year he sent a dutch oven and 1 gift for each kid but didn't attach a card so I had to ask if he sent em. I sent him one of our Christmas cards and a gift. When my son's birthday came around he didn't acknowledge it. No gift, no call, no text. That was my last straw. I told my husband "It's one thing to treat me this way but you don't fuck with my kids. " I didn't reach out but still declared to my husband and myself that I was done for good. A few months later on my daughter's birthday he texted and said he's sorry he didn't acknowledge my son's birthday but said it wasn't on purpose. K..? And asked if I'd be willing to have a "no holds barred" conversation with him. I sat on it but finally decided on no. I texted him back saying I can't be on this roller coaster anymore. GC will always be his number one and always has been and I'm done competing and not gonna let my kids go through that either. Also pointed out she's the one who decided to cut ties with me but yet always expects me to be the one to reach out and fix things even though 1. I already did that in 2020 and 2. She was the one mad at me, not the other way around. I ended it with I didn't want him to respond and was going to block his number.
I'm so sorry this was still long 😆😆 but if you made it this far, I so appreciate it 🩵 And to my earlier point, it's never an isolated incident and I hate that D perceives her story and other EP stories that way.

Hello! I'd thought I'd share my experience with Reach for the Stars and my suggested improvements. Thanks to others in the sub, I used your experiences/posts before I ran it and it helped tremendously.
I’ll list the changes (there’s a lot) I think you should implement followed by the reasoning- skip that if you want because this will be a bit long.
I used Meera as a hook for the golden vault. Meera is a new handler and is panicked that her first crew has gone missing. She’s heard of the adventurers and needs help quickly. As a city clerk, she was able temporarily get access to blueprints of the Delphi Mansion and copy a rough map. She gave the map to the first crew and can’t get access to the plans again on short notice- she suggests finding signs of the first crew as a start.
Rewards: 150 gp each for return of codex, 100gp each for safely returning Markos, a magic item of your choice from Golden Vault for figuring out what happened to the dead crew and bringing back their bodies safely.
Arriving at the mansion:
Don’t have Elra appear and guide the group to her camp.
While searching for the camp they may encounter two cultists and a mutated dog (use blink dog stat block) scavenging for mushrooms for the head alchemist’s experiments in the surrounding forests. (Roll stealth and perception checks for both groups as necessary.) The cultists can surprise the adventurers.
Suggested description: Vagith (Ken) and Ghrougnurc (Samantha), wearing dark-purple silk robes, are scavenging for eldritch-tainted mushrooms in the area using a mutated hound. The hound's eyes are covered over with skin and a tentacle sporting an eye protrudes from its forehead. It has a mottled inky coat. The cultists grumble about the task and periodically insult the dog to hurry up.
What the cultists know/have:
Cultists know: “Markos has a room on the third floor where he performs rituals.
Cultists know: That the alchemy room/head alchemist is on the second floor. That there are odd far realm surges happening in the mansion.
A note in one of cultist’s pockets: “Mansion windows can be unlocked using the password ‘Krokulmar.’” (their cheat sheet, bad memory)
When and if the players find Elra’s camp:
Describe an eldritch-like surge when a player begins a search and Elra appears. You can read the blurb EXCEPT:
Elra DOES NOT know about the cavernous room in the basement OR about the mansion windows password.
She knows about the third floor ritual-like area and that there is a hooked horror creature there. That is where the group was killed.
In the camp: The drawn map (I had this printed out and cut into pieces) except DO NOT show the players anything behind the secret door of the basement or the beneath the house chamber. Explain that the drawn door in the basement is a printer error and that there are no exits in the basement.
Reasoning: This lengthens the module, but I think it’s worth it. As written, they show up and get handed all the information, the whole map, and all the clues from a floating head- there’s no player agency and it’s not interesting.
The encounter has the players getting a glimpse of the eldritch energies effects and gives them options of how to get the information they need.
The players will find out about the basement and the secret ritual from the mansion itself- this will give them a sense of discovery and sleuthing.
Third floor changes: Remove the ghouls in D22. (added ghouls in basement)
Second Floor Changes: Markos’ Office-
In the desk or file cabinet, they find notes and sketches about expanding the basement. They get the map of the rest of the basement (D24-D26). Do not show D27. They find information about him gathering large purple crystals and taking them into some cavern below.
If they do not go to the office then place this information/designs somewhere else appropriate, preferably on the second floor. Or not- they will have an information disadvantage on the final fight.
Reasoning: This is an “aha” moment hopefully; they get another piece of the map and know an important element of the final boss fight. Makes the second floor more interesting.
Basement Changes: If they find and force open the secret door before exploring the rest of the house, then a force field prevents them from D26B from D26A. They need the password to deactivate it (from 3rd floor).
When the players enter D25, with the dead original crew, if the statue in D24 has not been destroyed, then an eldritch surge occurs, and two are raised as hostile ghouls.
Reasoning: Allowing them to force open the secret door and then to go to the final boss fight immediately with one skill check is just bad design. This allows them to benefit somewhat from succeeding- if they topple the statue then they won’t have the detrimental surges throughout the building. Also some NPCs might be friendlier if the surges stop.
Raising the old crew as ghouls gives the players an interesting fight here rather than a boring general ghoul fight on the 3rd floor. They need to bring back the crew bodies somewhat intact for the bonus gold, so they can’t just pew pew here.
Final fight changes:
Each pillar gives the enemies +2 AC and +2 to saving throws.
Increase the health and/or AC of the pillars- I didn’t and they died really quickly, even with the bonuses to AC and saving throws. Not sure about the tuning. Maybe keep AC13 and health of 25 each.
If the fragment of krokulmar dies and at least one pillar remains, Markos can take an action to summon another fragment on the decapitated body.
Bring back surges to the fight! (see expanded surge table below)
Add a bonus action for the Fragment:
The fragment calls out to Krokulmar and applies an eldritch surge to the room, the fragment/body is immune to any negative effects from the surge.
(You may have to adjust a surge to make it affect the fight- for example teeth/door one I had the pillars sprout teeth and try to bite players.)
The fight is over when all the pillars and the fragment of krokulmar are dead…or Markos is dead.
This fight is WAY too easy and boring without changing it IMO. One hit can destroy the fragment and it’s over. Turn this into a fight where the players need to keep Markos at bay while destroying the pillars and interrupting the fragment.
Expanded Eldritch Table surges for below mansion suggestions:
5) The room is filled with Deep Speech whispers and all creatures' speech is twisted into Deep Speech. Characters do not gain the ability to understand Deep Speech nor can cast spells with a verbal component without knowing Deep Speech.
6) A protective magical force surrounds each creature in this room, manifesting as spectral tentacles that covers you and your gear. You gain 5 temporary hit points for the duration. If a creature hits you with a melee attack while you have these hit points, the creature takes 5 cold damage.
7) In this room, random items from each creature's inventory get teleported into the air.
8) Madness attempts to enter the mind of every creature in the room. Each creature holding a weapon must make a DC13 wisdom saving throw. On a fail, they make a melee attack against themselves.
Let me know what you think!

unnamed NPC stats
Armor: AC:8 (padded) AC:7 (ring) AC:4/5 (chain +/- shield) AC:2/3 (plate +/- shield)
Fighter Lvl 0: THAC1: 20, save vs Spells: 19
Fighter Lvl 1-2: THAC0: 20, save vs Spells: 17
Fighter Lvl 3-4: THAC0: 18, save vs Spells: 16
Figther Lvl 5-6: THAC0: 16, save vs Spells: 14

loot	Lvl 0	Lvl 1+
AimaEdrin (6hp/Lvl)	4hp 2d6 sp	2d6 sp + d6 gp/lvl
Ram's Head (8hp/Lvl)	5hp 2d10 sp	2d10 sp +d8 gp/lvl
Royal Guard (8hp/Lvl)		d6 sp + d6 gp + d4 pp/lvl

SET ENCOUNTERS

LUSIAN FOREST - 2 in 6 chance per day to encounter a nymph
The hired bandits who attacked the Prince were killed by Kirkroy's forces (scenario A1 and A3), and their bodies are buried on the outskirts of the forest (choose a convenient hex).
Deep within the forest, "the path routes through a clearing, nearly reclaimed by the forest, where a statue of a man ascends the first step of a stone platform." From a wedding ceremony, long ago, he clawed at the necklace of strangulation still at his throat. The spell stone to flesh saved his life but was never reversed. The name of the bride-to-be graces this forest, but the true history, and even the legends and lies, have all been forgotten in Dunador.
Lusian, alone, wanders this forest she cannot leave. She wears a crown of flowers that has turned her into a Nymph (AC:9 MR:50% save vs Spells:17 HD3 20hp if seen, save vs Spells or blinded, she casts spells as a 7th Level Druid) If she gains surprise, she will warn PC's not to look at her; if the PC's gain surprise, they will definitely see her and be potentially blinded. If the PC's aren't hostile or scary, she can offer safe harbor and magical assistance (cure light wounds, cure disease, neutralize poison, dispel magic). She can also report that she witnessed the Prince's "rescue" from bandits and subsequent escort north along the road by Aimar's forces (golden lion crest), but not Kirkroy, specifically. Though starved of human contact, Lusian is likely to let you leave. She can also be trusted to babysit a blinded or blindfolded Prince, if asked. Note: Patriarch Clavin will arrive at Fontenmere on d8 and can cure blindness
NOREN WOOD
Each night, there is a 2 in 6 chance to encounter d8+1 Shadows (AC:7 +1 or better weapon to hit Save vs Spells:17 HD3+3 15hp THAC0:16 d4+1 and strength drain) There are a total of 16 Shadows here. Any turned by a Cleric can return in a later encounter, but it is possible to clear the forest of all 16.
MONTINELLE
Note: Peasant Huts, Marketplace, and Jousting Field are now outside the walls. The Huts remaining within the walls are now for respected (-ahem- paying) merchants and, presently, the mercenaries.
Peasant Huts and Marketplace: 4 pairs of Lvl0 Fighters (AC:7 mace) are "security"
Peasant Huts: Lemus the drunkard (in Peasant Huts outside the walls) Lvl0 AC:10 1hp non-combatant

• original clues: identified the disguised Prince and his company on Day-16, heard that they feared they were being followed; a monk arrived, presumably from Fontenmere, on Day-2 with an arrow in his back but not seen since
• "The monk probably got what's coming to him - those monks have their own agenda"
• "If you didn't want to be found, you'd head to the forests or Moorlands" (everyone in Dunador fears the forests of Andevar, but Lemus is correct in a roundabout way - Griffon Castle is on the outskirts of the forest across the River)
• "Ha! If you want to get into the citadel, get arrested and thrown in the dungeon."

Marketplace: inns and taverns and rumors (d12 patrons, 1 in 6 chance of d6 Ram’s Head mercenaries, 1 in 6 chance of d4 Aimar's off-duty guards)
Gate: guards Rene and Monty (Lvl2 Fighter AC:4 16hp 16Str speashort sword) and Sergeant-at-Arms (Lvl3 Fighter AC:4 24hp broadsword)
(The PC's probably aren't wearing any markings, like the cross of Dunador, lion of Aimar, raven of Edrin, or ram of the Ram's Head mercenaries) What is your business here? What news from the south? Are you joining the wilderness patrols searching for the Prince? (because the huts and market are now outside, the PC's will not be permitted through the gate without adequate explanation)

• original clue: in addition to the mercenaries' 60 names on the sign-in sheet are Prince Edmund's pseudonym coming (d-16) and going (d-15), comically annotated in Rene's handwriting as "Prince"; Kirkroy's coming (d-18) and going (d-15); registering with an arrow in his back, Theran's arrival (d-2) is also recorded, because the gate guards were just following procedures (Aimar never expected Edrin to sack the abbey, but Bracken now knows the abbey was attacked by someone and sent Dumas to investigate)
• these guards are familiar with honest merchants, the best pub, and most peasants. They hold a dim view of Lemus
• "Those muttonheads arrived [d-5]" - Rene (she doesn't like the boorish mercenaries) "Duke Aimar didn't even bother to greet them" - Monty

Castle grounds: 4 pairs Lvl0 Fighter (AC:7 mace), 6 War Dogs (AC:6 save vs Spells17 HD2+2 15hp THAC0:16 2d4) and their 2 handlers (Lvl1 Fighter AC:8 mace)
Castle grounds: Ram's Head mercenaries: Captain (Lvl6 Fighter AC:3 17str THAC0:15 battle axe d8+1); 4 Sergeants (Lvl3 Fighter AC:2 longsword/javelin); 30 veterans (Lvl1 Fighter AC:2 longsword/javelin); 10 recruits (Lvl0 Fighter AC:2 longsword/javelin)

• "We are in the employ of the King." (they mean Edrin, in contrast to the Ram's Head mercenaries at Capel Tower under Aimar's secret son, Dram)

Barracks (the night shift): 8 Lvl1 Fighters (AC:10 short sword), 16 Lvl0 Fighters (AC:10 short sword or mace)
Citadel: 8 Lvl2 Fighters - 2 on the roof (AC:7 shortbow, longsword), 2 at the door (AC:7 spear), 4 sleeping in Room 2 (AC:10 longsword)
Citadel Room 1 Bracken's room: Bracken (Lvl6 Fighter AC:2 42hp THAC0:15 broadsword+1 2d4+1 and net of entrapment) TREASURE: chest of linens and silks (100 gp), chest of 300 gp 400 sp, jeweled short sword (200 gp), saddle with silver inlay (600 gp), delete chime of opening

• original clues: journal entries about Kirkroy, and now includes reassignment of troops for the wilderness patrol seeking the Prince and for "the castle" (clearly this does not refer to Montinelle)
• when Bracken inspects his troops, it is clear that he is antagonistic to the Ram's Head commander here; he may mutter that he doesn't take orders from the Captain, only the sub-commander (unspecified, but it's Dram at Capel Tower, and Bracken knows Dram's parentage)

Citadel Room 2 Barracks: TREASURE: spear +1, sack of 300 sp
Citadel Room 3 Kitchen and Pantry: Matlocke (Lvl3 Thief AC:10 hp12 Pick Pockets 40% THAC0:20 weaponless), Lurulu (young woman, taking a name from King of Elfland's Daughter) and Pip (young boy) are Matlocke's assistants (AC:10 save vs Spells:19 Lvl0 1hp non-combatants)

• Original clues: recognized the Prince on Day-16; Aimar left Montinelle on Day-6; Kirkroy arrived Day-18 and left Day-15
• Pip or Lurulu: Matlocke is mean; Matlocke cheats or steals from guards; Pip recently brought food down to a prisoner when Matlocke was too lazy; Bracken usually takes meals with Aimar, but Aimar isn't here; Kirkroy had dinner with Bracken while here between d-18 and d-15

Citadel Room 4 Storage Chamber: TREASURE: behind a secret door, casks of fine brandy/ale/mead, a small box with a potion of sweet water
Citadel Room 6 Study: TREASURE: paperweight (gold lion worth 200 gp), delete the scroll trap

• Original clues: financial records and affairs of state - King Halfred's seizing of lands north of the Abbey to be ceded to the monks, tax revenue, taxes and tithes paid, and regular payroll, which now includes repeated separate line items for Kirkroy (substantially more this month, which Kirkroy collected on the day before chasing the Prince) and an unnamed Ram's Head mercenary (Dram)
• secret stash of clues: (delete the scroll with feeblemind curse) supplemental ledger including gifts for Riannon, a mysterious large lump sum of money (from Edrin), and Aimar's own payments of bribes that notably include routine payments to "Bruce" (alias of a criminal widely known throughout Dunador, head of the Thieves' Guild in Dunthrane), payments to Dumas, and a single sizeable entry for someone named Kell on Day -21.

Citadel Room 7: Great Hall: TREASURE: 3 candelabras (200 gp each), locked box with silver serving set (1000 gp)
Citadel Room 8 Servants' Quarters: TREASURE: giant beaver pelt (rug) worth 1000 gp
Citadel Room 9 Duke's chamber: delete the Invisible Stalker, add an Imp in raven form (AC:2 silver or magical weapons to hit, MR:25% save vs Spells:13 immune to fire, cold, electricity HD2+2 15hp THAC0:16 d4+poison) if the PC's start looting, the "raven" will speak and cast suggestion "go upstairs to get help to carry this stuff" and will avoid combat (turns invisible at will and/or flies out a window) TREASURE: chest 1500 gp, 500 sp; ducal collar (200 gp), chainmail +2, battleaxe +2, broadsword+1, Keougtum's Ointment (5 doses), spellbook: Read Magic, Wizard Lock, Fireball
Dungeon D1: the jailor, Ranu, is vigilantly sleeping (Lvl4 Fighter AC:7 26hp club) TREASURE (hidden): 50 gp, 50 sp, 300 cp, jewelry worth total 10 gp
Dungeon D2: TREASURE: wine
Dungeon Cell D5: Theran (Lvl0 AC:10 dying with 0hp of 3hp non-combatant)

• original clues: "I fled [d-2] fron Fontenmere Abbey. We were attacked by bandits, and Patriarch Hobb dispatched me to Montinelle to seek aid from Duke Aimar. Instead, I was met and imprisoned here by Sir Bracken - that villain!" (note: in scenario M2, Theran would be stashed in Citadel Room 1, Bracken's room under better treatment)
• Theran will declare that Sir Bracken follows Duke Aimar's treachery, but Theran does not know that Aimar is not at Montinelle and Theran's certainty will waver if told by the PC's
• -gasp- "Seek the Scepter of Dunador at the Abbey. Though Aimar's minions would know the Scepter, if these truly were but bandits, they might not have taken it!" -croak-

FONTENMERE ABBEY
Abbey Room 2: delete the spiders
Abbey Room 3: delete the handwritten note "Capel"
Abbey Room 4: delete crossbow+1
Abbey Room 6: found here between day0 - day4 is Dumas (originally named Menlow) (Lvl4 Thief AC:7 leather 15dex save vs Spells:15 15hp THAC0:20 short sword) TREASURE: two altar cloths (50 gp each), gold cross of Dunador (150 gp can't be fenced locally), 10 gp, 40 sp

• Original clue: Patriarch Hobb's letter addressed to HOLLEND at Dunthrane, now dated as d-3: "Edrin's forces have entered Andevar. I fear for the Prince's safety. You know better than I the motives of the nobles and Royal Council. Can Aimar be trusted to protect the Prince?"
• Dumas tries to worm his way out of trouble (or uses Patriarch Hobb's ghostly appearance as a distraction); he will claim to be from the Westlands and heading to the Drake & Castle Inn; he will deceptively advise PC's that there are bandits on the roads and taking the forest paths is best
• Dumas knows the Royal Guard and Ram's Head mercenaries were in Andevar before day-3, but he assumes other agents of Edrin sacked the Abbey on day-2 and must report back to Bracken and track down the Scepter

Abbey Room 8: spirit of Patriarch Hobb (originally named Menote) - now appears in 3 rounds after PC's enter the Abbey (this might freak out Dumas) TREASURE: delete ring of spell storing, replace with clerical scroll of remove curse, scroll of cure serious wounds, scroll of dispel magic, scroll of spiritual hammer

• Original clue: "A spirit materializes and declares itself as the Patriarch Hobb, murdered by villains who have stolen the Scepter of Dunador. He exhorts you to recover it, then fades." (true, but not specifically naming the culprits)

Abbey Room 10: cross of Dunador (500 gp can't be fenced locally), delete Manual of Bodily Health
Abbey Room 11: delete the giant boar
Abbey Room 12: delete the 40 pp and detoxin
Occupying Fontenmere on Day8 are monks from Dunthrane, led by the new Patriarch Clavin and accompanied by a caravan of supplies and an armed escort of Edrin's mercenaries and soldiers from Edrin's southern province.
Armed escort: 60 cavalry, 300 foot soldiers
Monks: 12 Lvl0 non-combatants, 2 Lvl1 Clerics, 1 Lvl3 Cleric, and Clavin (Lvl8 Cleric can neutralize poison, cure blindness, etc.)
DRAKE AND CASTLE INN - pub patrons are as usual, except any Ram's Head mercenaries here are loyal to Dram, not Edrin
TREASURE: locked chest with 200 gp, 400 sp, 200 cp, delete longsword+1
Graf and his wife, Pappiaye (Lvl 0 AC:10 2hp non-combatants)

• original clues: description of riders dressed as bandits heading north (these are Harkin's, who is unaware that Edrin is sending this subset to the Barbarians, not to search for the Prince); candid assessment of his cousin Dumas; delete the story about the Prince
• For all the talk about the search for the Prince, we've not seen any of the Royal Guard around here
• One of the guards from Barbarian Bridge recently came here with fresh wounds or scars (combat with Elli on d2)

Fenn & Swaine (Fenn Lvl0 AC:10 2hp non-combatant) (Swaine Lvl2 Fighter AC:5 16hp short sword) TREASURE: Fenn has 80 gp, Swaine has 35 gp

• original clues: a couple of weeks ago, spotted riders (bandits?) on the road heading north, possibly adding that an adolescent was with them (these are Kirkroy's forces)
• speculation: perhaps they were Barbarians? Or they are going north to attack the Barbarians? Or to bring the Barbarians south? We can alert Montinelle or Capel Tower, while you alert the other!
• We did not learn of King Halfred's demise until hearing from Graf (the news had not traveled that far north)

2 of Kirkroy's 4 guards from the Barbarian Bridge (Lvl3 Fighter AC:4 splint 24hp short sword/light crossbow) will be here on day 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15 (rem: the Prince will be executed on day 14)
Harkin (Lvl4 Thief AC:4 bracers AC:6 dex16 save vs Spells:15 21hp THAC0:19 longsword+1 d8+1) TREASURE: 40gp

• Harkin will immediately return to Dunthrane in disguise after Dumas unexpected arrives on d5 and exchanges threats in Thieves' Cant, a confrontation that Graf & Pappiaye can only struggle to describe. If the PC's encounter Harkin here, he is awaiting an update from the "pilgrims" he assigned to watch the Shrine of Nevron.

VERONIAN MOUNTAIN AND SHRINE OF NEVRON
delete cave bear, possibly diminish the Shrine's benefit (originally a primary ability score increase, now substitute with increasing current and maximum hp by 1HD, so a magic-user gains 4hp, a fighter gains 10hp - no Constitution bonus)
Aimar has openly stationed six guards at the Shrine (Lvl1 Fighter AC:7 short sword)
Harkin has four disguised pilgrims (Lvl2 Fighter AC:10 15hp d4 dagger). The four disguised pilgrims will not provide rumors as other pilgrims.

• Shrine's original clue: "You seek the true heir of the kingdom. Look for him in the west, where the waters flow, where the bird [joins] the lion." (Griffon = bird+lion, lion = Aimar's crest, raven = Edrin's crest)

CAPEL TOWER
Moat: 6 giant leeches (AC:9 save vs Spells:16 HD:1 8hp THAC0:19 d4 and drain blood, 50% disease)
Entrance and Gatehouse: 2 on-duty and 2 off-duty gate guards (Lvl2 Fighter AC:4 or AC:10 6hp speashort sword) and Sigmund (Lvl4 Fighter AC:3 28hp longsword)
Towers (4): 4 pairs of Lvl1 Fighter (AC:8 short bow/short sword) - if the Tower is tipped off by Dumas, then the mercenaries and other guards need only corral the PC's in the open courtyard, where the archers can shoot the PC's (this is an original TPK scenario)
courtyard: Ram's Head mercenaries: 2 Sergeants (Lvl3 Fighter AC:2 longsword/javelin), 20 veterans (Lvl1 Fighter AC:2 longsword/d6 javelin)

• "We serve the Regent." (this subset of Ram's Head mercenaries, under Dram, would betray Edrin)

Room 4 Jailor's office: old Oswald (Lvl4 Fighter AC:8 leather 8hp retired non-combatant but treat as THAC1:20 with short sword if pressed)
Room 5 Sigmund's Room: TREASURE: 5 pearls, 6 rubies (30 gp each)
Room 6 Barracks (night shift): 4 Lvl1 Fighter (AC:10 short sword)
Room 7 Barracks (night shift): 4 Lvl1 Fighter (AC:10 6hp d6 short sword) TREASURE: delete loot from Fontenmere that Harkin's forces should have
Room 10 Cookhouse: Dewey (AC:10 save vs Spells:19 Lvl0 2hp non-combatant) TREASURE: 10 sp Dewey isn't very helpful with information, speaking almost like Eeyore in single sentences. "You're dripping blood." -pause- "Get out of the kitchen." -pause- "I'll get a mop."

• "We receive caravans of supplies regularly." "They've come more frequently for several months." "Some loaded wagons always continue north."
• "Guards from Barbarian Bridge are here every other day." "Only two, not all four." "They come for supplies." "They also go to the Drake & Castle...probably."

Room D1: Rob & Don and the recently deceased spy, Baron, are shackled here.
Rob and Don (names from The Dark Knight Returns) are brothers who recently inherited their father's farm and are imprisoned for tax delinquency (being clueless about taxes altogether) Lvl0 AC:10 5hp non-combatants

• original clue: These two are dimwits, but they will recommend speaking to Elli the hunter, who lives across the river (now east of the Barbarian Bridge), if the PC's ask any questions about the local area, forests, etc.
• They know a little about the corpse, Baron, because Oswald the jailor, being sloppy, did not separate Baron from the other prisoners and occasionally interrogated him in room D1. Baron was a disillusioned former monk who became one of Edrin's spies, but he was intentionally sent to be caught, an overt act to deflect attention away from other operatives, like Riannon and Harkin. Rob or Don will claim that "Even I could tell when that guy was lying." Abandoned by Edrin, Baron was not very reticent. Rob and Don learned that "Baron was looking for Aimar's third stronghold, which is dumb, because there are only two, Montinelle and Capel Tower." Baron also divulged whichever M1 M2 M3 scenario is currently active.

Room 14: delete composite long bow +1
Room 15 Captain's Tower Room: Ram's Head mercenary subcommander Dram (secretly Aimar's son) (Lvl5 Fighter AC:2 40hp 16Str THAC0:15 longsword+1 d8+2) delete war dogs and hawks
Room 17: crossbow trap d6 damage (delete the poison), invisible Mendal (Lvl6 Assassin save vs Spells:13 AC:1 bracers AC:5, cloak of protection+1, dex:17, 31hp THAC0:17 dagger+2 d4+2 two potions of invisibility) TREASURE: trapped chest with THE SCEPTER OF DUNADOR, a bandit cape that Harkin used at Fontenmere), and hidden sack of 1000 gp; hidden in desk drawer are a potion of levitation and potion of gaseous form)

• Mendal will be in Dunthrane in scenario A2 to track the PC's but is here in Capel Tower in scenarios A1 and A3. Aimar co-hired and somewhat trusts this Assassin or trusts that he can hold him as a bargaining chip or scapegoat. Mendal doesn't mind, because he can freely escape with Thief skills and invisibility, as evidenced by his retrieval of the Scepter from Harkin.
• If encountered outside of Capel Tower, Mendal is subordinate to Lann in the Thieves' Guild and knows what Lann knows (and can sell that information). He knows the doppelganger Kell is a fellow member of the Thieves' Guild but doesn't know Kell's current assignment or location. Even if the PC's show the wax-sealed scroll tube from HOLLEND, Mendal is not so easily duped as Harkin - he will greet the PC's but complain "this is no way to greet your brother" to prompt a response. Mendal may then nod assuringly, but he knows there is no real sign or password
• In scenario M3, the SCEPTER is cursed by the monks but is not affecting Mendal, who does not "possess" or wield it. In addition to rumors, suspicions, and Baron's posthumous testimony, there are several other clues and solutions: 1) when the symptoms of disease arise; 2) detect magic; 3) dispel magic and remove curse; 4) cleansing the SCEPTER in the Waters of Nevron (this notion was disseminated by the Thieves' Guildmaster, Lann, to try to maintain the status quo between Lann and Clavin).

BARBARIAN'S BRIDGE
Camped on the northern side of the bridge, Kirkroy will bar the way, issuing a challenge to a joust (see p.24). If a PC foolishly agrees, when the jousters wheel around for the second pass, Kirkroy's guards will shoot his opponent in the back! TREASURE: in their nearby camp is Kirkroy's profit-sharing bonus from Aimar - two small chests of 500 gp each
mounted on medium warhorses:
Kirkroy (Lvl6 Fighter AC:3 splint+shield 48hp 17str THAC0:14 longsword+1 d8+2 or medium lance+1 d6+3)
two guards (on d1, d3, d5, etc.) or four guards (Lvl3 Fighter AC:4 splint 24hp light crossbow/short sword)
ELLI'S COTTAGE (now east of the Bridge)
Toughnut the sprite (AC:6 but also invisible - save vs Spells:17 HD1 6hp THAC0:20 bow d3 or sword d4)

• original clue: Toughnut can report: 1) Elli is healing in the nearby hills after being attacked by "people who had been riding with the Prince, heading to 'the Griffon.'" 2) there's a nearby boat to take on the river (flowing west, it's a one-day ride, same as mounted travel along the northern side of the river)
• Elli (if PC's visit her in the hills): reports that her attackers wore Aimar's crest (golden lion) and that the abandoned Griffon Castle is about a day's ride away. Note: she is recovering from the attack on Day2 (1 hp/day + 2hp/full week from 16Con). Sufficient healing by the time the PC's meet her or cure light wounds to maximum hp might permit her to join the PC's. Lvl2 Ranger AC:5 studded leather 16Dex 17Str 19hp THAC0:19 short sword/short bow

GRIFFON CASTLE
Courtyard: 4 Lvl0 Fighter (AC:7 speashort sword)
Parapets: 4 Lvl0 Fighter (AC:7 speashort sword)
Room 2 SE gatehouse: 1 Lvl1 Fighter (AC:7 speashort sword)
Room 3 Tower Chamber: 1 Lvl1 Fighter (AC:7 short sword)
Room 4 Tower Chamber: 1 Lvl1 Fighter (AC:7 short sword)
Room 5 Great Hall: TREASURE: trapped chest with gold serving set (1000 gp) and sleep gas
Room 8 Barracks (night shift): 8 Lvl1 Fighters (AC:10 short sword), 4 Lvl0 (AC:10 short sword)
Room 10 NW gatehouse: 1 Lvl1 Fighter (AC:7 speashort sword)
Room 12 Tower Chamber: 1 Lvl1 Fighter (AC:7 short sword)
Room 13 Stables and Traitor's Gate secret passage leading to outside the walls
Room 18 Aimar's Sanctuary doubles as Kell's quarters: Kell is only here after day11, brought to Griffon Castle by Dumas. doppelganger Kell (AC:5 save vs Spells:11 HD4 30hp THAC0:15 d12 Lvl4 Assassin abilities) TREASURE: 2 gold candlesticks (50 gp each), silver poker and shovel and rack by the fireplace (200 gp), maybe delete Libram of Gainful Conjuration (worth 40,000 gp which would yield 40,000 XP to level up, but the PC's may receive ample gp and XP from the endgame award in scenario H1, anyways), Secret Room with locked chest of 500 pp, 2000 gp, 2000 sp, delete Stone of Good Luck (again, some of this treasure seems excessive - I think Aimar's spellbooks should be the best treasure in the adventure)
Room 20 West Tower Antechamber: 2 Lvl1 Fighter (AC:7 short sword)
Room 21 Prison Chamber (now a comfortable, if not lavish, room): 12-year old Prince Edmund (Lvl0 AC:10 2hp non-combatant) is still determining the difference between "protective custody" and "imprisonment"
Room 23 Aimar's locked Bedroom: TREASURE: Bracers AC:6, locked cabinet with locked chest 100 gp, 200 sp, scroll with Edrin's message to Aimar "Deal with our friend, the pilgrim," spellbook with Read Magic, Magic Missile, Shocking Grasp, Fireball
Room 24 Tower Chamber: 4 servants (Lvl0 AC:10 2hp non-combatants)
Room 25 East Tower Antechamber: Lom (Lvl6 Fighter AC:3 46hp two-handed sword d10) Lom will arrive in Room 26 in 1 round after any sounds of combat. Duke Aimar will arrive in Room 25 in 3 rounds after any sounds of combat, while Riannon casts invisibility on herself.
Room 26 Aimar's Quarters: Duke Aimar (AC:2 bracers AC:5, ring of protection +1, dex16 save vs Spells:11 with ring+1 dual class FighteMagic-User Lvl3/Lvl5 30hp THAC0:16 longsword+2 d8+2 Spells: 2x Magic Missile with 3 missiles each, Shocking Grasp, Ray of Enfeeblement, Fireball), Riannon (AC:7 dex17 save vs Spells:12 half-elf multi-class Magic-UseThief Lvl3/Lvl4 17hp THAC0:19 dagger+1 d4+1 Spells: Sleep, Feather Fall, Invisibilty and she also wears a ring of control linked to her pet's collar) delete hawks, brown chicken, brown cow TREASURE: chest with a collection of gems (1000 gp), a gold lion statue (200 gp), silver lion statue (100 gp), bronze lion statue is hollow with 200 gp gem, Riannon's spellbook: Sleep, Feather Fall, Invisibility.
Aimar doesn't want to nuke this room, but he might fireball himself and Riannon (she can make her saving throw, right?). If caught unawares and not invisible, Riannon will act helpless and may try to rush out the door or may cast Sleep then Feather Fall out the window into the courtyard, where she will call her pet Griffon "Beaker" for an airlift (riding the Griffon).
if Riannon is taken as a prisoner to the parapet, she will summon her pet Griffon (AC:3 save vs Spells:13 HD7 44hp THAC0:13 d4/d4/2d8) to attack for 1 round while she will feather fall down the outer wall for retrieval by the Griffon next round. Similarly, if she escapes to the parapet, she will feather fall down the outer wall, start running away from the castle, summon the Griffon, and be whisked away (in this case, it may appear to the PC's that she is being carried away as prey.

I spend a lot less money on groceries. If I get myself snacks they’re not gone in a day or two and I can actually enjoy them over a period of time.
Following this I don’t have to make 3 sides with dinner it can be as little or as simple as I want it! I also don’t have to force myself to eat from being guilt tripped if they made something without asking if I was hungry.. even if I just ate.
I’ve lost weight!
Electrical bill is a quarter of what it used to be. No more blasting the AC 24/7. Even if the weather outside is cooler than what the AC is set on. There was no opening windows or even blinds! So fresh air and sunlight!
The messes are my messes and they’re a lot easier to clean up. No longer an every day thing.
My period is more regular and my face is a lot more clearer!
I can do my hair and makeup if I want to. I can dress how I want and if I want to go commando for a day I can!
If I want to wait an extra day or two to shave I can. No more saying I’m unhygienic or manly.
I can visit family without the stress of coming home to either them drinking or them doing their famous Houdini act for a couple of days because I left them alone.
I took a vacation with no stress of what they were up to or what I was returning to! And my place was exactly how I left it.
If I had a stressful day at work I can come home and actually relax and rewind without someone in my face saying I have an attitude just because I’m not smiling and giggling as soon as I walk through the door. I also don’t have to change the pitch in my voice because I’m very monotoned.
I can actually wake up in the morning. Never thought I would be a morning person. My sleep schedule is more routined.
Although weekends are still lonely I’m not being second choice to drinking buddies. Or video games. Or whatever new thing they were hyper fixated on.
If I have something planned I can do it. Nothing comes up or gets in the way and no tags alongs if I don’t want them.
I’m learning to just say no and that it’s okay to say no without some negative reaction. I’m learning it’s okay to say yes without the fear of it being hung over my head at a later time. No good act was ever for free.
I don’t have to be in constant worry of when I’m going to have to step up and take care of both of us do to their lack of responsibility and priorities.
I can have emotions. If I want to cry I can cry without being a crybaby or sensitive. Or if I can handle it on my own I’m not told I’m too masculine and too hard and I’m just not feminine or soft enough.
My character hasn’t been belittled. Not accused of cheating. I’m not made out to be the bad guy, or the crazy one. I haven’t even argued with anyone.

When I was nine years old, I got placed into foster care because my biological mother’s boyfriend sexually assaulted me. It wasn’t the first time one of her boyfriends had done something like that to me, but I made sure it was gonna be the last because I realized nothing was ever going to change if I kept quiet. On the morning that I told my guidance counselor, my sister knew that some thing was up and she asked me over and over again if something was wrong but I told her no because I knew that I could only tell the story one time, and if I had told her, I knew she would try to tell me not to report it. I was nine years old in the third grade when I reported it and she was 12 years old in the six grade. When we got home that day, ACS was waiting for us and she glared at me because she knew something was wrong and I think she was just mad that I didn’t tell her. We got taken away from my biological mother and placed into an ACS facility until they could find a appropriate foster home for us. The first foster home we were and was terrible. There was six beds in one room and there were two other girls that we kept accusing my brother of things he didn’t do like hitting on them and such. As much as I hate my biological mother when she found this out, she raised hell and got us remove from that home and placed into the home that I will be discussing now.
At first, I thought everything was perfect. They had a big house and the family structure that we never had. It’s important to note that before we steppef foot inside that house I froze when her husband opened the door and he was like “come in come in” and I feel like that was a sign that things weren’t as perfect as they seemed because some thing in my nine year old gut told me to run the other way .
When I walked in, I met my foster mother her children and they all were nice and welcoming. Everything was fine up until my sister left for college in 2016. At that point I was sad because she was gone but I was also happy that I had my own room but little did I know that he would use this opportunity to prey on me. I would always notice him spying on me by cracking the door open when I wouldn’t see him just to see if I was doing anything wrong. I thought it was normal because I thought your mother would always call him and ask him what I was up to so I just thought he was checking in. My foster mom I call her DD was a nurse so she worked late nights so that was his perfect opportunity to strike.
at first, he would just come into my room and lay behind me and stroke my leg, and I would just freeze because I didn’t know what to do. This was a family that had saved me from my previous abuse, and I just felt like it could be worse so I should just shut up and take it. He worked in the basement so then I would come down there sometime to talk to him and then one day he touched me down there and again I froze because I didn’t know what I could do When I told my biological mother about her boyfriend, she looked me in my eyes and told me she didn’t believe me, so how could I expect someone who wasn’t related me to do any different I started smoking weed to cope with the pain and this was a Haitian traditional household to my foster mother found out she was livid when thing I noticed that she never asked me why she just told me that it was bad and I shouldn’t do it. Eventually, she kicked me out because of it but before that she kept asking me what the weed was for and as I was about to tell her my secret, I noticed her husband peeking into our conversation like he always used to do and I knew I couldn’t say anything, so I just took the L and let myself get sent to the group home. The group home was one of the worst thing that ever happened to me because people were so mean and it was nothing like I ever experienced before and I just had so much rage because I knew that it wasnt fault and I was so angry with her, because she never asked me why child she met at the age of NINE, who is a bookworm and love school suddenly turned into a pothead couldn’t care less about her future. I feel like she could subconsciously knew something was up, but she never wanted to confront her fears , because that would mean that she made a mistake.
Recently, I’ve tried to tell her why those events occurred and it’s like she knew what I was about to say because she cut me off and said that I’ve always taken care of you my kids love you my husband loves you and nothing in that house would hurt me 😐😐
Now I don’t know what to do because I know her husband is a monster who is lying to her and it’s like she doesn’t want to hear it and I can understand because she’s been with this man since she was 20 years old but I feel like the truth matters more than anything and when I first walked into her house, she said there will be no secrets, so why is she trying to stop me from revealing the biggest secret?? I love my ex foster mother, but because of my past I feel like she automatically thinks I’m manufacturing these things in my head and I’m not. I’ve tried to convince myself that these things didn’t happen by smoking weed but I know they did and I feel like subconsciously: She knows they did too.
Recently, I’ve tried to open up to her, and in the middle of it she just shut me down and that just confirm all my worst fears that no matter what I say she’s not gonna hear me so I told her I’d be blocking her and she’s been ignoring my calls ever since .
I sent my biological sister - Snapchat about this a couple years ago and she left me on opened and I don’t know if that’s on purpose or if she just didn’t read it or if she just doesn’t care me personally, I think she just doesn’t care because she finally has the life that she always wanted but she seems to forget that id I never opened up my mouth about the abuse, she would never be there in the first place. My sister, when we were living with my grandmother was made to be a house slave essentially, and she never spoke up about that. I don’t know why maybe it’s because she’s was scared. She’s always been shier or than I am but when ANOTHER one of mom‘s boyfriend did that to me I knew it was time to go .
Now I feel like I’m in between a rock and a hard place. I don’t wanna go to the police because I don’t want to ruin the life of the woman who saved me, but I also don’t want to man who got me sent to a group home to live happily ever after .
Reddit users what can I do? How can I get her to listen to me without ruining everything for her? I know the first answer is go to the police or tell the foster care agency but I really don’t wanna have to resort to that because I don’t want her to lose everything she’s worked, for she immigrated to the United States at a very young age and she built her life from the ground up and I don’t want to be the reason why it’s all torn down . I just want her to believe me when I say that her husband isn’t the man she thinks she is and I know she won’t do that without proof and I don’t have any proof. One time I went through his phone (passcode was his birthday bc old people always do that) and I saw him sending messages in Spanish with heart emojis and she doesn’t speak Spanish, so I feel like he’s been cheating on her as well which is the least of her problems, because he is a pedophile he’s watched me grown-up, and he waited for the perfect opportunity to prey on me.
As much as I love my former foster mother, I don’t know how much longer I can keep this inside of me. I might write a book for some thing, but she’llfind out anyways.
I’m tired of suffering in silence I’m tired of being the crazy kid or the bad kid or the fuck up. I just want to be heard and listen to and loved. My sister has always been the golden child in that family so maybe that’s why she left me on opened all those years ago because she didn’t want to be the black sheep again but I just want to heal.. I just wanna move on and I can’t do that if my former foster mother won’t listen to me, what do I do?

TRIGGER WARNING I have a live in partner, 2 years na kami and we have baby na 1 year and 4 months palang.
Yung mga time na lagi syang late umuuwi, akala ko non dumadaan sya sa mga vape shop (nag bu business kasi sya ng pagsusupply ng vape) which yun ayun kasi sinasabi nya saken, pumapasok sya every saturday RD OT daw kasi wala daw support sya production ( SME kasi sya, we are working in call center industry) kasama nya pala yung babae. Nung time na nagpunta kasi cebu, naka leave kasi kami non a day before out flight pero sya pumasok sya kasi need daw ng tao, ayun pala pinuntahan nya yung babae nya, and yung babae is nag sick leave pa. Nag start yung change nya nung March, nung time na nagalit ako kasi nag iinom sya and sabi nya pauwi na sya. tas inabot na ng 4 hours wala pa din. Hindi sya nagrereply and all kaya sa sobrang pag o overthink ko pinagbalot ko yung mga gamet nya and pinapaalis na sya. Sya nung matapang aalis talaga, pero nung aalis na sya ang tagal nyang nakatayo and tinatanong ko na sure na daw ba ko sa desisyon ko (ngayon ko lang na realize na pano nya ko na mamanipulate na sya yung may kasalanan and ako yung mag sorry) nag sorry ako non. After non sunod sunod pa din inom nya, tas same routine paulit ulit. Then after a while sabi nya non hindi na daw sya mag iinom. Which is hindi totoo nabawasan lang. Ang pumalit naman is yung pumapasok sya ng sabado, pero pang time na nagsabi sya sakin iinom sya ng sabado. Birthday daw ng barkada nya pinayagan ko kasi nga ako there is nothing wrong sa paglabas pero wag naman araw arawin nya. Hindi sya nag text whole night as in, tas nagagalit na ko. Nag send sya ng picture ng labas ng office namen, pinapasok daw sya. Pagdating dito sa bahay sabi nya hindi ka muna nagtatanong bago ka magalit. So ako for the guilty , pero fuck kasama nya pala yung babae non. Kaya pala ayaw nya magpa yakap and kiss kala ko pagod lang sya (6am ang out nya, ako is 9am), nakakasira ng ulo na pag naiisip ko na umuuwi sya saken tas may inuuwian na din syang iba. From March till this month pag nag aaway kami laginsya very nonchalant lang, ako yung mag so sorry sa huli kasi sasabihin nya saken kung tratuhin ko daw sya ganto ganyan (i know i became nagger and marami ako nasasabi pag galit ako pero kasi, imagine 5 na sahod syang hindi lagi nag aabot saken, yung sinasahod ko is napupunta lang for expenses and bayad ng ibang utang nya. Sasabihin nya sakin pinasok nya sa vape shop. so since wala sya mahingan ng tulong financially. Ako yung nanghihiram tas sasabihin nya sya bahala daw don basta hiram ako ganyan, sabi ko sige as long as hindi ka papalya pagdating ng due. tapos pag due na wala syang maibigay saken, syempre mag start nanaman ako magalit like san ako huhugot ng ng iaabono. Yung milk nga din ng baby namen hindi nya na na ba buy e. So nagagalit ako sakanya tas magtatampo sya, like wtf kelangan maintindihan ko lagi, ikaw yung provider, all of pinaghihirapan ko is kulang pa tas sya hindi ko alam san napupunta sahod nya) Yung time na unang beses ko sya pinaalis is sinasabi nya sa ka team nya is wala na kami, casual nalang. Yung baby nalang pinag uusapan. Ang sakit, nung time na nag away kami meron yung umalis talaga sya ng bahay tas umuwi sya sakanila pero bumalik din kinabukasan kasi pinaalis daw sya ng fam nya and nag away away sila ng kapatid nya , hindi ko bet fam nya kasi feel ko non is magaling sila pag may need. si expartner kasi ang dami nyang utang. as in. Nung kahit nag i start palang kami nanghihiram sya ng 5k sa 5.6 pambayad ng bills daw nila sabi ko wag na, ako nalang para hindi na tumubo kasi sayang. Though nababayaran naman nya yon that time. Pero ang dami kong di alam, sinisiraan nya yung fam nya saken lagi nyang sinasabi dati na sya daw nagbabayad ng bills nila tas sya yung walang higaan. Tas walang willing magpahiram sakanya kapag wala syang allowance pero pag sila may need, ready'ng ready sya maglabas ng pera. Tas madalas kasi mag chat tita nya parang nanghihingi ng ganto ganyan akala ko literal na hingi lang, ayun pala sinisingil sya, kaya pala sya kinukulit kasi may mga utang din sya don na hindi nya nababayaran, pero kwento nya saken na pinipiga sya lagi maglabas ng pera. tas sinasabi naman nya sa fam nya na nasakin daw sahod nya wala daw sya access, ang luho ko daw ganyan na i stress sya (ang gago). Matagal na syang nagloloko yung mga ka team nya is nagtataka, kasi nasa iisang production floor lang kami and everyone is aware na mag partner kami and may baby kami, so nagtataka sila kasi ang lambing nya don sa bago nya, kinikiss nya sa harap nila and all. Sinasabi nya is hiwalay na daw kami, and ako daw yung unang nagloko. kaya malinis daw sya. Lagi nyang sinasabi sakin yan na may iba daw ako, ako sobrang dalang ko sumama sa mga ka team ko kasi na gui guilty ako na hindi ko naalagaan anak ko or lagi ako wala sa tabi nya sa gabi tas pag araw naman tulog ako, iniisip ko weekend na nga lang yung time namen e ,aalis pa ko, wala naman sya mapatunayan. Till now na nagtatalo kami nung nalaman ko na lahat sinasabi nya humahanap lang daw ako ng butas para ma justify ko mali ko, nag away kami last tuesday kasi hindi ko sinabi sakanya na nag file ako ng leave ng monday para pumunta sa pinsan na kakauwi lang galing canada. Sinasabi nyang talagang sinadya ko daw di ipaalam, sabi ko bat kaba nagagalit e diba ganyan lagi ginagawa mo saken, ang sagot nya sakin is hindi ako nagagalit, bahala ka sa buhay mo. Bahala din ako sa buhay ko, hindi kita papakealam, wag mo din ako papakealam, medyo nagpantig tenga ko non, so sabi ko anong point nya diretsohin nya na ko hanggang sa nagtalo kami tas napipikon ako sa mga sinasabi nya na "feeling mo ikaw nanaman kawawa" "feeling mo ikaw lang naghihirapan," "ayan ka nanaman sa pinapabayaan kayo, puro mali ko nakikita ko" like tangina pag naiisip ko now ang gago nya sa part na yun kasi sya tong hindi nakakapag bigay ng share nya sa expenses kasi ginagastos nya sa babae nya, that time sa sobrang galit ko nasakal ko sya pero di naman mahigpit, like nagulat din ako that was the first time na naging physical ako sakanya, pinapaalis ko na sya kasi i cant deal with this shit anymore na talaga. una sabi nya wag ka mag alala aalis ako ganyan, tas maya mya sabi nya bat ako aalis ikaw lang ba naghirap magpagawa nito. hanggang sa huminahon ako and nakatulog nalang sa pagod umiyak, mas maaga kasi pasok nya saken sya 9pm , 12am, nung papasok ako nakasalubong ko sya dire diretso lang ako hidni ko sya pinansin. Sabi nya sige ganyan gusto mo, tas wednesday nung dumating akong bahay di ko talaga sya pinapansin, natulog ako sa kwarto ng mama ko, then nag send ako sakmaya ng list ng expenses and bills na babayaran and magkano babayaran nya. Thumbs up lang reply nya, nung thursday na pag uwi ko, which is sahod daw na sabi ko asan na yung share nya. Sabi nya, iaabot daw nya ng cash kinabukasan bago sya umalis. Sabi ko i sure mo lamg tas pumunta sa uli ako sa kwarto nila mama, nung nagising ako nag text sya aalis na daw sya this week, si baby ang bills nalang daw pag usapan namen, yung mga atraso daw nya babayaran nya yun. ang reply ko lang is "go" kasi ayoko na yung ako nanaman yung mga attempt na ayusin, nasanay sya ng ganon na kapag sinasabi nya na bills and baby nalang, bigla ako nag sosorry kasi ayoko nga maghiwalay kame, tas sya sasabihin nya ayaw mo mag hiwalay pero ganto trato mo saken, sa ako naman si tanga, mag so sorry kasi nagalit, hindi ko lang alam kasi san ako kukuha pera then okay na. ayoko na uli ng ganon super exhausted na ng puso ko that time pero nasa isip ko non is need namen ng space para makahinga kami kasi sunod sunod away namen. pag gising ko naka received nanaman ako text galing sakanya na pag nagising daw ako punta daw ako sa kwarto namen and usap kami maayos, edu pumunta ako nung nagising ako tas tulog sya so ginising ko, sabi nya eto gusto mo, sabi ko diba ikaw may gusto mangyare neto. tas sabi nya ok. tinalikuran ako. edi lumabas na ko ang bumalik sa kwarto. kinabukasan nauna pa ko makauwi sakanya, tinext ko asan sya kako, sabi nya nasa bangko daw nag a antay. kasi offline daw. Tas nung dumating sya, sabi ko asan na inabutan ako 2k, sabi ko ang laki ng bayarin natem hidni kaya i cover ng sahod ko pano ko babayaran yun, sabi nya ibibigay jya din daw mamayang gabi tas yung kulang is sesend nya daw ng linggo. So nag start na ko magalit kasi lagi syang ganyan kaya nga umabot na limang cut off syang hindi nagbibigay kasi lagi sabi i aabot ng ganto ganyan tas hanggang dumating next sahod wals nanaman sya naibibigay. Sabi nya offline daw kasi sbol sabi ko ayos yung app ah. sabi nya diba lock out online account ko sabi ko nung nakaraan lang naa access mo ngayon lock out nanaman. tas sabi nya basta mamaya nga. tas pinipiga ko sya and sya sabi nya lumabas na daw ako kwarto tas sa sobrang bwisit ko binato ko sakanya yung laundry basket ng baby namen. tas bigla syang tumayo na sabe tangina aalis na talaga ako tas ayun nagsisigawan na kami hanggang sa si mama is chineck na kame, tas bago sya umalis nagpaalam sya sa baby namen iiyak iyak pa sya non. After non sa office dedma pa din, maya maya lumapit saken friend ko sabi nya nakita nya daw partner ko may kasamang babae galing sa part ng parking lot na wala masyadong tao tas dikit na dikit as in siko to siko, nakasabay nya daw sa elevator tas si girl daw pinapagpag likod nya. tas nung napansin daw syaa bigla daw inalis yung kamay nung babae. so si ako nakutuban na, kasi kilala ko yun kahit gano nya ka close babae is hindi sya nagpapahawak basta basta. Tas bago ko malaman yun nag chat pala ako sakanya na nireremind ko about sa pera uli. nagagaliy sya kasi ni no choice ko daw sya kasi alam ko daw wala syang mapupuntahan, instead na bayad na daw sana lahat dinown nya daw sa apartment. Nung nakauwi ako naglabasan na yung mga taong may alam, tas ayun. sa mga ka team nya ganon na pala matagal na hindi ko din magawang magalit sakanila kasi nasa part sila na ayaw nila manghimasok. pero since kumalat sa office na alam ko na, ayun. kinonfront ko yung mga ka team nya, matagal na daw ganon, lagi daw sinasabi na malinis daw sya kasi ako una nagloko. Im so drained and exhausted, naawa ako sa baby ko , sobrang na caught off guard ako, never ko naimagine na magagawa nya yung saken, i have my bad days hindi naman ako perfect, pero alam ko sa sarili ko na i always got his back. Pano nya nagawang itapon yung buhay na bi build namen ng ganon ganon lang. Saturday night magkasama sila, nag iinom sa resto bar may nag send sakin na vid na nakahawak sya sa legs nung babae. Tangina, tas malalaman ko sya gumagastos inom nila. Sobrang napapakitang gilas sya dun sa babae, hinding hindi ko talaga maiintindihan how cheater thinks. How can you hurt someone na ganon ganon lang, disrespect ng ganon, considering na may anak kami. Naikwento nya saken before na kaya sya nag cheat sa ex nya kasi nauna daw yung babae and ganon na ganon ginagawa nya ngayon( btw na i kwento nya lang sakin yon kasi nag kwe kwentuhan kami ng exp namen and yung time na kinuwento nya yan hindi kami and hindi pa sya nanliligaw non) . I dont know san kukuha ng ipang aabono sa mga bills na due na kasi wala pa din sya inaabot till now, nag away kami saturday night habang pumaparty sila ng bago nya na alam ko na and all sagot nya lang saken is naghahanap nanaman daw ako ng away, hinahanapan ko nanaman daw sya ng butas para ma justify ko ginawa ko sakanya. paulit ulit ganon sagot nya saken. as in. sinabihan nya pa ko na, ano daw ba pakealam ko if nagpaparty sya ngayong gabi e. feeling ko daw ba magkakabalikan pa kame. like wtf. usapan namen before whoever cheats automatic wala ka ng right sa bata sinabi ko yan sakanya sabi nya saken, magkakaubusan daw kami kasi kukunin nya daw yung anak namen. i dont know where to go at this point, i know i have to be strong para sa anak ko, pero fck sobrang sakit, and i dont know if libog lang ba yung nararamdaman nya sa bago nya pero ang sure ako is gusto nya yon kasi how he treats her is how he treats me before, nung nanliligaw sya. Sinasabi ng papa and mama ko is ano daw ba nagustuhan ko don, natapos naman ako, maganda naman ako (not to brag po kasi maputi, matangos ilong and may dimple na super lalim, not super slim pero syempre I had a baby may fats tyan ko kapag nakaupo, dun sila lumalabas pero if naka fit na dami man ako and nakatayo di sila halata basta stomach in. char hahahaha) tas kaya ko naman mag work hidni naman ako nakaasa sakanya, sya kasi dark skinned tone, maliit 5'2 ako and sya is mas maliit pa saken tas basta ang laging feedback or sinasabi ng tao pag nalalaman na mag asawa kami is "ano pinainom nya sayo" "pano ka nya napikot" "malabo mata mo" dumating sa point na na i insecure na sya, ina ask nya ko if ganon ba sya ka panget kasi lahat hindi makapaniwala na naging jowa nya ko and nagka anak kam, so si ako, naawa ako sakanya for the comfort ako. tinone down ko yung pag aayos. Anyway im 25 yrs old, syaka mag twe 29 na this november, last text na sinend ko sakanya is mahal nya na ba si girl? worth it ba? ay ko don't answer it kasi malamang mahimbing tulog mo sa tabi nya ngayon. nag reply sya sunday morning " buti ka pa ganyan lng iniisip no? tangina ako iniisip ko san naman ako matutulog tonight" " tangina nakitulog ako sa bodega hahahahahahaha" "si aki magaling na" "sarap ba matulog sa maayos na higaan at ac? haha" " ano gab? sana all ganyan katulog ka nanaman no? tangina samantalanh ako nasa bodega puta hahahaha" hindi ako nagrereply. tas around hapon nag text uli na kamusta na daw baby namen, hindi pa din ako nagrereply sarap ng buhay ko daw, naka ac and maayos tulog , kinakamusta nya lang daw anak nya hindi daw ako makapareply man lang. Tas nung kinagabihan nag chat sya saken with screenshot , tinext pala sya ng papa ko pinag mumura sya. sabi nya ano daw nanaman pinag kwe kwento ko. hindi ko pa din nirereplayan. kasi last time ako yung text ng text and chat ng chat and lagi nya kong binabara ayaw ko na makipagtalo, and feel ko imamanipulate nanaman nya ko. tas chat nag chat sya "yang anak ko sure mo na iingatan mo yan mabute :) ako di naging pabaya sainyo para ganituhin mo lang, yun lang bye" shuta hahahaha diba nagloko ka, yung time na dapat kasama mo kami ng anak mo, mas pinili mo kasama yung kabet mo. walang ka remorse remorse. how could you do that to someone na sumugal at pinagkatiwalaan ka. wala ng turning back or i dont think kaya kong lunukin mga ginawa once na natauhan na sya. pero i dont see that happening soon. Pero ako i know i have to be strong for my baby pero tangina ang sakit sakit pa din talaga.

With #FixTF2 just around the corner, I think it would be great to get a map of the current problems as the community sees it and gather some ideas. I will assemble any useful links on the topic below.
We all know TF2 has gone to the dogs with all the cheaters but I'd love to hear from server moderators and long-time players, what are the differences between "the good old days" and now? Is it just numbers of cheaters/bots or are there other issues such as low detectability? What barriers are there to moderating your servers? Are there any tools/approaches you think could help? Have you had any success stopping/discouraging cheaters in your games, how have you done it?
Below are some current tf2 anti-cheating tools I'm aware of.
NOTE: I'm not endorsing these tools necessarily, just assembling them for discussion. If you have used them, let us know what you thought of them, any concerns and how effective they were, or if you have any suggestions for other tools we could build to help the situation.
megascatterbomb has created a cheater database in a public register. Explained here.
Bash's TF2 Bot Kicker - RCON GUI.
Bot Detector (bd) - Automatically kicks bots and cheaters.
Pazer's TF2 Bot detector - Automatically detects and votekicks. There are some concerns regarding Pazers and a more up-to-date fork of Pazers by surepy.
Little Anti-Cheat - SourceMod plugin.
Steph's AntiCheat (StAC) - SourceMod plugin.

The movie begins with a group of 6-7 kids accidentally killing a girl so they pinned the blame on a trouble making kid. Said troublemaker is sent to jail for a couple of years. Said couple of years passed and the kids are now teenagers about to graduate. It’s prom night and they all have plans for it. The first half focus on the characters while the second half focus on prom night and their attempts to escape a slasher villain. It’s a first believe to be the troublemaker since they did frame him all those year ago but it turns out to be the glasses nerd of the group. His first victim of the night was his cheating girlfriend and the man she was having affair with in his car. There’s an earlier scene where she gets mad at her boyfriend for taking her to prom in a taxi(much to her embarrassment).
In the end, only three of the main case survives(two girls and the troublemaker). One of the surviving girls wore a long white dress and goes barefoot for the rest of the movie after shedding her high heels escaping the killer(she manages that by climbing out the window and hiding out on the AC unit)
It was on Netflix for a while and it’s not the 2008 remake of Prom Night

I'm making this post in the hope of finding a partner to be my person for a LTR or if you are averse to something serious, we can talk about any other labels/avenues/ideas you have or are open to. We don't have to be alone lol. Let's enjoy all that 2024 has to offer while we decide! I'm down to grab an egg cream or milkshake in some quaint small out of the way town. Who doesn't want to enjoy some cool beverage while looking at old shops (sample some fudge in a general store and buy some old-fashioned whatchamacallit) with some light hand holding? Ooooh maybe a kiss? Maybe try a new waterslide or float a river if it's hot enough outside? I'm always down for some adventure. lol
To start I have to disclose that I mainly like women, but I also like a very, very, very specific type of guy and certain trans men as I'm partially bi. (It's off-putting I know but I'd rather be upfront about it) Chances are you aren't that type but feel free to ask if you are. (Didn’t want to offend anyone so I’d rather say in private) Just throwing that out there as it's a deal breaker for most women in general. Which why would it be? The number one reason I get is I'm going to cheat on them with a guy if we were to date. As if being bi has any bearing on cheating and not the person's character.
I'm a 36-year-old guy living in the middle-ish of Texas looking for a female partner. Partner as in LTR. That's Long-Term Relationship meaning boyfriend and girlfriend and holding hands type of stuff. You know, adult things? I had someone comment I was too vague, so this is me being specific. I'm gonna be honest and kinda sad so bear with me.
So, I've spent the past two New Years alone. Rang in this one just like last New Years in bed staring at the ceiling listening to fireworks go off into the night. The next day I cried randomly while browsing for a movie to watch on TV. At first, I didn't know why as I'm not much of a criefeeling's person, but I realized for the first time that I genuinely felt alone. I have no partner, no family that I speak to, no friends just acquaintances, really no one there for me. That's my own doing which took years to accomplish through me being closed off and just shutting people out, so I figure it might take just as long to fix. I'm not complaining as I got myself into this predicament. It's gonna sound dumb but I wanted a New Years kiss. I'd never had one and it seemed like a fun dumb silly thing to do. Eh maybe one day. Ok well back to my spiel. (I'm not depressed or anything or wanting attention) Some of my hobbies and interests are movies, reading, cooking, kayaking, records, video games, board games, snorkeling, bowling, swimming, escape rooms, puzzles and antiquing. I would describe myself as more goofy and dorky than nerdy. I like to go out and do fun things but also stay in and cuddle and relax. I guess it depends on my mood and the weather. I prefer the cold and would love to live in a state with actual seasons and snow. I'm 5'10, stocky AKA fat and open for adventure and new experiences.
I posted in a poly sub looking for a throuple/triad because I'm curious about being in one. I've never been in one nor have I ever been in a poly relationship. I've been 100% monogamous all my life. I'm merely curious about it. Apparently merely being curious about it disqualifies me from even talking to a fair number of women. So be it, I guess. This doesn't mean I'm solely looking for anything poly related. Just means I'm open to exploring it. I'm mainly looking for a partner. If she happens to be poly then that's ok. If she's not, then that's ok too. I keep getting people judging me for posting in the poly sub as if I'm only looking for that. I'm not. Just thought I'd clarify my experience and what I'm looking for in that regard. (For the record I'm 100% ok with being monogamous)
Here are some random facts about me:
Some of my favorite bands are: The Black Keys, Kings of Leon, The Beatles, Creedence Clearwater Revival and The White Stripes.
Christmas is my favorite holiday, mainly because of the cold and festive activities. (Seriously let's go do some festive activities!)
I come from a medium-ish family.
I'm exceptionally patient but every person has a breaking point lol
I like traveling a lot. It's a basic thing that lots of people like. But I've found lots of people hate to leave their house, town or state so if that's you we probably might not be a good match. I also enjoy the mountains. But I don't like roughing it (give me that sweet AC in the summer). Hiking is so hard on my knees, and I haven't done it in a while that if I were to, I think about doing it I'd about die or twist a cankle.
I don't eat seafood, mushrooms, artichokes or pineapple on pizza (Who cares about this? Doesn't mean I won't go to a restaurant with you that has these things)
Never went to college as I'm horrible in a classroom setting and at taking tests. (I'm slowly bettering myself)
I used to have probably the most boring job imaginable (Ask me about it)
Overweight but trying to work on it and make better choices (Get healthier and lose weight together maybe?) Slowly getting there!
Non-religious but no issue with what you believe. (If anything)
Looking into sterilization. If you are already maybe you can give me some info or tips?
My own red flags 🚩
I work too much and oftentimes can't talk.
I send selfies often. I'm a visual person and like receiving photos. Apparently, it's a generational thing. Hopefully you think pictures are neat as well? Is it really that weird to want to see you and your life and show you mine?
I sometimes speedily become attached to people, not in a weird way, but if I like you and we have some kind of connection, I will enjoy talking to you and want to do it often.
I'm a very organized person and will plan out pretty much anything from a vacation to a road trip to a birthday. This makes being with a go with the flow type of person hard at times I've learned but still very much doable.
Due to childhood trauma I'm secretive which can be annoying.
MY own "HELL YES" 🏁
I know how to cook.
I will always drive if you want. (Within reason)
Great at escape rooms and jigsaw puzzles.
Can read a map and follow directions.
Decent at reading backwards upside-down writing.
What I'm looking for:
Is my age or older. But I'm willing to go quite a bit lower if you are neat and we have stuff in common. But super young isn't my goal here.
Mature, considerate, responsible and funny (Dorky wouldn't hurt)
Someone who never cheats, honesty and trust are important to me.
Someone who is open-minded, willing to try new things, be adventurous, funny and nerdy.
Someone who believes in sharing household chores equally because we are both adults.
Be open and frank about issues you or I are having. Not pushy or jealous. Won't yell or argue about stupid things, I've had enough of that.
Willing to push me to become a better version of myself (Can you turn me into Batman?)
If this sounds like you then feel free to reach out and say hi or challenge me to a game of Scrabble/Pictionary/hand to hand combat maybe? Maybe Wordle or some online vidya game?
P.S. I realize my post isn't for everyone but if you're seeing red flags from my post then I'd say trust your gut and please don't message me as we probably aren't compatible. I honestly don't mean that in a mean or hurtful way. I've just been messaged quite often with women saying they pushed aside red flags to get to know me. Please don't, it never ends well, and you end up wasting both of our time. Wouldn't you rather spend it finding your person with no flags?

I'm making this post in the hope of finding a partner to be my person for a LTR or if you are averse to something serious, we can talk about any other labels/avenues/ideas you have or are open to. We don't have to be alone lol. Let's enjoy all that 2024 has to offer while we decide! I'm down to grab an egg cream or milkshake in some quaint small out of the way town. Who doesn't want to enjoy some cool beverage while looking at old shops (sample some fudge in a general store and buy some old-fashioned whatchamacallit) with some light hand holding? Ooooh maybe a kiss? Maybe try a new waterslide or float a river if it's hot enough outside? I'm always down for some adventure. lol
To start I have to disclose that I mainly like women, but I also like a very, very, very specific type of guy and certain trans men as I'm partially bi. (It's off-putting I know but I'd rather be upfront about it) Chances are you aren't that type but feel free to ask if you are. (Didn’t want to offend anyone so I’d rather say in private) Just throwing that out there as it's a deal breaker for most women in general. Which why would it be? The number one reason I get is I'm going to cheat on them with a guy if we were to date. As if being bi has any bearing on cheating and not the person's character.
I'm a 36-year-old guy living in the middle-ish of Texas looking for a female partner. Partner as in LTR. That's Long-Term Relationship meaning boyfriend and girlfriend and holding hands type of stuff. You know, adult things? I had someone comment I was too vague, so this is me being specific. I'm gonna be honest and kinda sad so bear with me.
So, I've spent the past two New Years alone. Rang in this one just like last New Years in bed staring at the ceiling listening to fireworks go off into the night. The next day I cried randomly while browsing for a movie to watch on TV. At first, I didn't know why as I'm not much of a criefeeling's person, but I realized for the first time that I genuinely felt alone. I have no partner, no family that I speak to, no friends just acquaintances, really no one there for me. That's my own doing which took years to accomplish through me being closed off and just shutting people out, so I figure it might take just as long to fix. I'm not complaining as I got myself into this predicament. It's gonna sound dumb but I wanted a New Years kiss. I'd never had one and it seemed like a fun dumb silly thing to do. Eh maybe one day. Ok well back to my spiel. (I'm not depressed or anything or wanting attention) Some of my hobbies and interests are movies, reading, cooking, kayaking, records, video games, board games, snorkeling, bowling, swimming, escape rooms, puzzles and antiquing. I would describe myself as more goofy and dorky than nerdy. I like to go out and do fun things but also stay in and cuddle and relax. I guess it depends on my mood and the weather. I prefer the cold and would love to live in a state with actual seasons and snow. I'm 5'10, stocky AKA fat and open for adventure and new experiences.
I posted in a poly sub looking for a throuple/triad because I'm curious about being in one. I've never been in one nor have I ever been in a poly relationship. I've been 100% monogamous all my life. I'm merely curious about it. Apparently merely being curious about it disqualifies me from even talking to a fair number of women. So be it, I guess. This doesn't mean I'm solely looking for anything poly related. Just means I'm open to exploring it. I'm mainly looking for a partner. If she happens to be poly then that's ok. If she's not, then that's ok too. I keep getting people judging me for posting in the poly sub as if I'm only looking for that. I'm not. Just thought I'd clarify my experience and what I'm looking for in that regard. (For the record I'm 100% ok with being monogamous)
Here are some random facts about me:
Some of my favorite bands are: The Black Keys, Kings of Leon, The Beatles, Creedence Clearwater Revival and The White Stripes.
Christmas is my favorite holiday, mainly because of the cold and festive activities. (Seriously let's go do some festive activities!)
I come from a medium-ish family.
I'm exceptionally patient but every person has a breaking point lol
I like traveling a lot. It's a basic thing that lots of people like. But I've found lots of people hate to leave their house, town or state so if that's you we probably might not be a good match. I also enjoy the mountains. But I don't like roughing it (give me that sweet AC in the summer). Hiking is so hard on my knees, and I haven't done it in a while that if I were to, I think about doing it I'd about die or twist a cankle.
I don't eat seafood, mushrooms, artichokes or pineapple on pizza (Who cares about this? Doesn't mean I won't go to a restaurant with you that has these things)
Never went to college as I'm horrible in a classroom setting and at taking tests. (I'm slowly bettering myself)
I used to have probably the most boring job imaginable (Ask me about it)
Overweight but trying to work on it and make better choices (Get healthier and lose weight together maybe?) Slowly getting there!
Non-religious but no issue with what you believe. (If anything)
Looking into sterilization. If you are already maybe you can give me some info or tips?
My own red flags 🚩
I work too much and oftentimes can't talk.
I send selfies often. I'm a visual person and like receiving photos. Apparently, it's a generational thing. Hopefully you think pictures are neat as well? Is it really that weird to want to see you and your life and show you mine?
I sometimes speedily become attached to people, not in a weird way, but if I like you and we have some kind of connection, I will enjoy talking to you and want to do it often.
I'm a very organized person and will plan out pretty much anything from a vacation to a road trip to a birthday. This makes being with a go with the flow type of person hard at times I've learned but still very much doable.
Due to childhood trauma I'm secretive which can be annoying.
MY own "HELL YES" 🏁
I know how to cook.
I will always drive if you want. (Within reason)
Great at escape rooms and jigsaw puzzles.
Can read a map and follow directions.
Decent at reading backwards upside-down writing.
What I'm looking for:
Is my age or older. But I'm willing to go quite a bit lower if you are neat and we have stuff in common. But super young isn't my goal here.
Mature, considerate, responsible and funny (Dorky wouldn't hurt)
Someone who never cheats, honesty and trust are important to me.
Someone who is open-minded, willing to try new things, be adventurous, funny and nerdy.
Someone who believes in sharing household chores equally because we are both adults.
Be open and frank about issues you or I are having. Not pushy or jealous. Won't yell or argue about stupid things, I've had enough of that.
Willing to push me to become a better version of myself (Can you turn me into Batman?)
If this sounds like you then feel free to reach out and say hi or challenge me to a game of Scrabble/Pictionary/hand to hand combat maybe? Maybe Wordle or some online vidya game?
P.S. I realize my post isn't for everyone but if you're seeing red flags from my post then I'd say trust your gut and please don't message me as we probably aren't compatible. I honestly don't mean that in a mean or hurtful way. I've just been messaged quite often with women saying they pushed aside red flags to get to know me. Please don't, it never ends well, and you end up wasting both of our time. Wouldn't you rather spend it finding your person with no flags?

I'm making this post in the hope of finding a partner to be my person for a LTR or if you are averse to something serious, we can talk about any other labels/avenues/ideas you have or are open to. We don't have to be alone lol. Let's enjoy all that 2024 has to offer while we decide! I'm down to grab an egg cream or milkshake in some quaint small out of the way town. Who doesn't want to enjoy some cool beverage while looking at old shops (sample some fudge in a general store and buy some old-fashioned whatchamacallit) with some light hand holding? Ooooh maybe a kiss? Maybe try a new waterslide or float a river if it's hot enough outside? I'm always down for some adventure. lol
To start I have to disclose that I mainly like women, but I also like a very, very, very specific type of guy and certain trans men as I'm partially bi. (It's off-putting I know but I'd rather be upfront about it) Chances are you aren't that type but feel free to ask if you are. (Didn’t want to offend anyone so I’d rather say in private) Just throwing that out there as it's a deal breaker for most women in general. Which why would it be? The number one reason I get is I'm going to cheat on them with a guy if we were to date. As if being bi has any bearing on cheating and not the person's character.
I'm a 36-year-old guy living in the middle-ish of Texas looking for a female partner. Partner as in LTR. That's Long-Term Relationship meaning boyfriend and girlfriend and holding hands type of stuff. You know, adult things? I had someone comment I was too vague, so this is me being specific. I'm gonna be honest and kinda sad so bear with me.
So, I've spent the past two New Years alone. Rang in this one just like last New Years in bed staring at the ceiling listening to fireworks go off into the night. The next day I cried randomly while browsing for a movie to watch on TV. At first, I didn't know why as I'm not much of a criefeeling's person, but I realized for the first time that I genuinely felt alone. I have no partner, no family that I speak to, no friends just acquaintances, really no one there for me. That's my own doing which took years to accomplish through me being closed off and just shutting people out, so I figure it might take just as long to fix. I'm not complaining as I got myself into this predicament. It's gonna sound dumb but I wanted a New Years kiss. I'd never had one and it seemed like a fun dumb silly thing to do. Eh maybe one day. Ok well back to my spiel. (I'm not depressed or anything or wanting attention) Some of my hobbies and interests are movies, reading, cooking, kayaking, records, video games, board games, snorkeling, bowling, swimming, escape rooms, puzzles and antiquing. I would describe myself as more goofy and dorky than nerdy. I like to go out and do fun things but also stay in and cuddle and relax. I guess it depends on my mood and the weather. I prefer the cold and would love to live in a state with actual seasons and snow. I'm 5'10, stocky AKA fat and open for adventure and new experiences.
Here are some random facts about me:
Some of my favorite bands are: The Black Keys, Kings of Leon, The Beatles, Creedence Clearwater Revival and The White Stripes.
Christmas is my favorite holiday, mainly because of the cold and festive activities. (Seriously let's go do some festive activities!)
I come from a medium-ish family.
I'm exceptionally patient but every person has a breaking point lol
I like traveling a lot. It's a basic thing that lots of people like. But I've found lots of people hate to leave their house, town or state so if that's you we probably might not be a good match. I also enjoy the mountains. But I don't like roughing it (give me that sweet AC in the summer). Hiking is so hard on my knees, and I haven't done it in a while that if I were to, I think about doing it I'd about die or twist a cankle.
I don't eat seafood, mushrooms, artichokes or pineapple on pizza (Who cares about this? Doesn't mean I won't go to a restaurant with you that has these things)
Never went to college as I'm horrible in a classroom setting and at taking tests. (I'm slowly bettering myself)
I used to have probably the most boring job imaginable (Ask me about it)
Overweight but trying to work on it and make better choices (Get healthier and lose weight together maybe?) Slowly getting there!
Non-religious but no issue with what you believe. (If anything)
Looking into sterilization. If you are already maybe you can give me some info or tips?
My own red flags 🚩
I work too much and oftentimes can't talk.
I send selfies often. I'm a visual person and like receiving photos. Apparently, it's a generational thing. Hopefully you think pictures are neat as well? Is it really that weird to want to see you and your life and show you mine?
I sometimes speedily become attached to people, not in a weird way, but if I like you and we have some kind of connection, I will enjoy talking to you and want to do it often.
I'm a very organized person and will plan out pretty much anything from a vacation to a road trip to a birthday. This makes being with a go with the flow type of person hard at times I've learned but still very much doable.
Due to childhood trauma I'm secretive which can be annoying.
MY own "HELL YES" 🏁
I know how to cook.
I will always drive if you want. (Within reason)
Great at escape rooms and jigsaw puzzles.
Can read a map and follow directions.
Decent at reading backwards upside-down writing.
What I'm looking for:
Is my age or older. But I'm willing to go quite a bit lower if you are neat and we have stuff in common. But super young isn't my goal here.
Mature, considerate, responsible and funny (Dorky wouldn't hurt)
Someone who never cheats, honesty and trust are important to me.
Someone who is open-minded, willing to try new things, be adventurous, funny and nerdy.
Someone who believes in sharing household chores equally because we are both adults.
Be open and frank about issues you or I are having. Not pushy or jealous. Won't yell or argue about stupid things, I've had enough of that.
Willing to push me to become a better version of myself (Can you turn me into Batman?)
If this sounds like you then feel free to reach out and say hi or challenge me to a game of Scrabble/Pictionary/hand to hand combat maybe? Maybe Wordle or some online vidya game?
P.S. I realize my post isn't for everyone but if you're seeing red flags from my post then I'd say trust your gut and please don't message me as we probably aren't compatible. I honestly don't mean that in a mean or hurtful way. I've just been messaged quite often with women saying they pushed aside red flags to get to know me. Please don't, it never ends well, and you end up wasting both of our time. Wouldn't you rather spend it finding your person with no flags?

I'm making this post in the hope of finding a partner to be my person for a LTR or if you are averse to something serious, we can talk about any other labels/avenues/ideas you have or are open to. We don't have to be alone lol. Let's enjoy all that 2024 has to offer while we decide! I'm down to grab an egg cream or milkshake in some quaint small out of the way town. Who doesn't want to enjoy some cool beverage while looking at old shops (sample some fudge in a general store and buy some old-fashioned whatchamacallit) with some light hand holding? Ooooh maybe a kiss? Maybe try a new waterslide or float a river if it's hot enough outside? I'm always down for some adventure. lol
To start I have to disclose that I mainly like women, but I also like a very, very, very specific type of guy and certain trans men as I'm partially bi. (It's off-putting I know but I'd rather be upfront about it) Chances are you aren't that type but feel free to ask if you are. (Didn’t want to offend anyone so I’d rather say in private) Just throwing that out there as it's a deal breaker for most women in general. Which why would it be? The number one reason I get is I'm going to cheat on them with a guy if we were to date. As if being bi has any bearing on cheating and not the person's character.
I'm a 36-year-old guy living in the middle-ish of Texas looking for a female partner. Partner as in LTR. That's Long-Term Relationship meaning boyfriend and girlfriend and holding hands type of stuff. You know, adult things? I had someone comment I was too vague, so this is me being specific. I'm gonna be honest and kinda sad so bear with me.
So, I've spent the past two New Years alone. Rang in this one just like last New Years in bed staring at the ceiling listening to fireworks go off into the night. The next day I cried randomly while browsing for a movie to watch on TV. At first, I didn't know why as I'm not much of a criefeeling's person, but I realized for the first time that I genuinely felt alone. I have no partner, no family that I speak to, no friends just acquaintances, really no one there for me. That's my own doing which took years to accomplish through me being closed off and just shutting people out, so I figure it might take just as long to fix. I'm not complaining as I got myself into this predicament. It's gonna sound dumb but I wanted a New Years kiss. I'd never had one and it seemed like a fun dumb silly thing to do. Eh maybe one day. Ok well back to my spiel. (I'm not depressed or anything or wanting attention) Some of my hobbies and interests are movies, reading, cooking, kayaking, records, video games, board games, snorkeling, bowling, swimming, escape rooms, puzzles and antiquing. I would describe myself as more goofy and dorky than nerdy. I like to go out and do fun things but also stay in and cuddle and relax. I guess it depends on my mood and the weather. I prefer the cold and would love to live in a state with actual seasons and snow. I'm 5'10, stocky AKA fat and open for adventure and new experiences.
I posted in a poly sub looking for a throuple/triad because I'm curious about being in one. I've never been in one nor have I ever been in a poly relationship. I've been 100% monogamous all my life. I'm merely curious about it. Apparently merely being curious about it disqualifies me from even talking to a fair number of women. So be it, I guess. This doesn't mean I'm solely looking for anything poly related. Just means I'm open to exploring it. I'm mainly looking for a partner. If she happens to be poly then that's ok. If she's not, then that's ok too. I keep getting people judging me for posting in the poly sub as if I'm only looking for that. I'm not. Just thought I'd clarify my experience and what I'm looking for in that regard. (For the record I'm 100% ok with being monogamous)
Here are some random facts about me:
Some of my favorite bands are: The Black Keys, Kings of Leon, The Beatles, Creedence Clearwater Revival and The White Stripes.
Christmas is my favorite holiday, mainly because of the cold and festive activities. (Seriously let's go do some festive activities!)
I come from a medium-ish family.
I'm exceptionally patient but every person has a breaking point lol
I like traveling a lot. It's a basic thing that lots of people like. But I've found lots of people hate to leave their house, town or state so if that's you we probably might not be a good match. I also enjoy the mountains. But I don't like roughing it (give me that sweet AC in the summer). Hiking is so hard on my knees, and I haven't done it in a while that if I were to, I think about doing it I'd about die or twist a cankle.
I don't eat seafood, mushrooms, artichokes or pineapple on pizza (Who cares about this? Doesn't mean I won't go to a restaurant with you that has these things)
Never went to college as I'm horrible in a classroom setting and at taking tests. (I'm slowly bettering myself)
I used to have probably the most boring job imaginable (Ask me about it)
Overweight but trying to work on it and make better choices (Get healthier and lose weight together maybe?) Slowly getting there!
Non-religious but no issue with what you believe. (If anything)
Looking into sterilization. If you are already maybe you can give me some info or tips?
My own red flags 🚩
I work too much and oftentimes can't talk.
I send selfies often. I'm a visual person and like receiving photos. Apparently, it's a generational thing. Hopefully you think pictures are neat as well? Is it really that weird to want to see you and your life and show you mine?
I sometimes speedily become attached to people, not in a weird way, but if I like you and we have some kind of connection, I will enjoy talking to you and want to do it often.
I'm a very organized person and will plan out pretty much anything from a vacation to a road trip to a birthday. This makes being with a go with the flow type of person hard at times I've learned but still very much doable.
Due to childhood trauma I'm secretive which can be annoying.
MY own "HELL YES" 🏁
I know how to cook.
I will always drive if you want. (Within reason)
Great at escape rooms and jigsaw puzzles.
Can read a map and follow directions.
Decent at reading backwards upside-down writing.
What I'm looking for:
Is my age or older. But I'm willing to go quite a bit lower if you are neat and we have stuff in common. But super young isn't my goal here.
Mature, considerate, responsible and funny (Dorky wouldn't hurt)
Someone who never cheats, honesty and trust are important to me.
Someone who is open-minded, willing to try new things, be adventurous, funny and nerdy.
Someone who believes in sharing household chores equally because we are both adults.
Be open and frank about issues you or I are having. Not pushy or jealous. Won't yell or argue about stupid things, I've had enough of that.
Willing to push me to become a better version of myself (Can you turn me into Batman?)
If this sounds like you then feel free to reach out and say hi or challenge me to a game of Scrabble/Pictionary/hand to hand combat maybe? Maybe Wordle or some online vidya game?
P.S. I realize my post isn't for everyone but if you're seeing red flags from my post then I'd say trust your gut and please don't message me as we probably aren't compatible. I honestly don't mean that in a mean or hurtful way. I've just been messaged quite often with women saying they pushed aside red flags to get to know me. Please don't, it never ends well, and you end up wasting both of our time. Wouldn't you rather spend it finding your person with no flags?

I (f39) and my husband (m40) have been together for 20 years and we generally have a pretty good relationship. We live in a one-bedroom apartment in a small complex (the Bayou) just outside of town in Baton Rouge. I work as an AP clerk at a small insurance company and my husband is the deli manager at a grocery store (not Albertsons but about that size).
Anyway, we were having dinner one night at our small metal dining room table. The AC wasn’t keeping up again and we were both kind of hot and tired from the day. We were eating some almost-expired Cajun salad he had gotten at a discount (one of the perks of his job!) and he gets a real sour look on his face. “Got a bad piece of gator?“ I asked, I knew it wasn’t that but I was just trolling him a little. I’ve known him long enough to know he only gets that look on his face after talking to some customer about politics while they’re buying a couple of pounds crawfish etoufee or he reads something on Reddit (it was the second thing).
No, he says, and starts rambling on about women cheating and DNA tests and making sure the children are his. I put my fork down and looked at him because this was kind of incoherent, even for him. “Cleteus,” (not his real name), “what are you on about? We don’t have kids, what, would we DNA test the dogs? I hate to tell you but I’m not their mom, and I hope you’re not their dad.” Our dogs Crawdad and Gator (their real names) just looked up for a second and then put their heads down because they were hot, too.
“Brandee” (not my real name), he says and his face is getting a little red, “you know what I mean! You know how women are!“ And this is where he takes it to 11 to press his point, “I mean if I ever came home and found you in bed with another man, I’d shoot you both, grab my bug out bag and disappear to a country with no extradition before the blood was dry. You know I have a bug out bag!”
I should have just let the hurricane pass, but it was hot, and the whole thing was just so stupid and I had had enough. “I don’t know how women are! Is that something you read on Reddit, or did you make that up yourself?“ He sputtered a little bit and I pressed the point, “how would you get to one of these magical no extradition countries? Just go to the airport and buy a plane ticket? You don’t even have a passport, let alone a visa, how would that work? And you keep talking about your bug out bag, I want to see what’s in it.”
[As a note, if you live along the coast, a bug out bag isn’t a bad idea. Tropical storms and hurricanes can be really bad and last year was the drought and we had wild fires! So having some essentials in a bag if you have to leave quickly is a good idea.]
Clete went and pulled his bug out bag from under our bed. It was a camouflage “tactical” backpack he had picked up at Walmart. He set it in the center of the table. I had never really thought about what was in it, but I was curious now so I opened the bag up. Cletus started to protest but just watched as I pulled out the clothes from the top. There were couple of worn t-shirts and a pair of jeans that definitely didn’t fit him anymore. Underneath the clothes was an old promotional first aid kit from my work that was from 2008 and an envelope with a dollar and a couple of quarters in it. He said there had been more money in it, but he’d borrowed it out when he needed money for beer.
There was some more stuff like random dried food packs (beets! And all very expired), a couple bottles of yellowish looking water, an old rusty pocket knife, some rope? It was all pretty anti-climactic. But there was one box still at the bottom of the bag. When I pulled it out he tried to grab it out of my hands, but I kept it away from him and opened the plastic lid. It was Yu-Gi-Oh cards, and not even the good ones! Just doubles of the mids from his collection. “You have Yu-Gi-Oh cards in your bug out bag?“
I couldn’t hold it in anymore and started laughing so hard I had to sit down.
Then Clete did grab the box out of my hand and put everything back in the bag. And then he put the bag back under the bed and played Minecraft or Roblox or whatever for the rest of the night. He’s been kind of cool to me this week.
So, AITAH for laughing at his bug out bag?
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