#Cantor Accounting

[beebrown80]

Hope you all enjoy this magical reimagining of one of my favorite tally hall albums! Excited to make more art like this >:)

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[zhari-daily-th-art]

Day 1

woah I made a daily art blog woah!!!! (I’m not back from my hiatus yet I just created this because i could.)

uhhhh insert funny caption or something

without background text:

[edgecaseof]

Find yourself someone that adores you the way Hilbert adored Cantor

[traegorn]

you never read the lilith question from the first edition of lilith magazine you twisted presumptuous fraud and antisemite

So I'm probably giving you more attention than you deserve, but I also hate leaving someone who keeps repeatedly shouting something at me that's so wrong uncorrected.

You brought this up back in September (yes, this has been going on for that long), and at the time I hadn't read it so I assumed it supported your argument. I gave you the benefit of the doubt and trusted that it said what you said.

But here's the thing, I've since read it.

And it doesn't support what you're saying at all.

(Putting the rest under a cut since this gets long...)

So going to the actual piece we have to remember what "Lilith Magazine" is. It's a Jewish Feminist magazine writing primarily for a Jewish audience. Cantor-Zuckoff is talking about how Jewish women may want to look at her story differently. I don't find anything in there arguing for Lilith to be some pan-feminist icon for non-Jewish people. In fact, in the article Cantor-Zuckoff says:

What we have to explore are the uniquely Jewish aspects of the Lilith story, and how they relate to the Jewish experience, to Jewish history. After all, Jews lived among many different peoples and were subject to a bombardment of cultural and religious concepts and myths from all sides. What they accepted is important because it shows us what Jews perceived as necessary and appropriate to Jewish life and its continuity. How they transmuted what they accepted is also significant for this reason. The account of Lilith’s revolt in the Alphabet is, to the best of my knowledge, intrinsically Jewish; no non-Jewish source tells of a female struggle for equality or gives it as a reason for the vengeful behavior of a female demon. This is especially important to us in exploring how the Lilith myth connects with our unique history.

The only comments about universality in the piece are when Cantor-Zuckoff says that there are stories with some similarities in other cultures just prior to those last two paragraphs:

These legends of Lilith-as-demon, the vengeful female witch, are, of course, not unique to Jewish culture and tradition. Many scholars theorize that vengeful female deities or demons, like the Greek hecatae, represent the vestiges of the dying Matriarchy or are an attempt by men to discredit the Matriarchy.

What Cantor-Zuckoff is arguing here is that there are myths in other cultures that have been influenced by patriarchy and serve some similar functions. This is not an argument for other people using Lilith, only that there are elements she shares. To claim they're the same though is bizarre, as you wouldn't claim that, say, Kinich Ahau and Helios are the same god just because they're both associated with the sun.

I think this really goes back to the fact that you've started with a conclusion and just reject anything that contradicts it. You really want it to be true. What I have said from the start is that Lilith is a figure who is unique to Jewish folklore. I backed this up with with the evidence we find in the historical record. I debunked the supposed "non-Jewish Lilith" sources.

And I said listen to Jewish people about what's okay or not okay to use from their culture, as they are a closed ethnoreligion, and not listening to them would make someone an asshole. You've been having a bizarre tantrum at me for like half a year now, and it's getting sad.

I don't know why you seem to care that I, a random person you will never meet, thinks you're being an asshole, but this has to stop.

(Context Note: For anyone who is seeing this post first in this ongoing "conversation" -- this anon has been harassing me for months because I dared say in my podcast that Lilith is a figure who comes exclusively from Jewish folklore, and that members of the Modern Witchcraft Movement should listen to Jewish people when they ask us not to appropriate her. That's right -- my saying "listen to Jewish people" is apparently an antisemitic act.)

[jennamoran]

Some of the reminders to self that have been sitting on my amazon account for six years since I stopped using my Echo:

the door was a bitch to west

cantor or paris

the prince of cats card aware

drive corruption

eleven

the word vestments

how do you say

typical me action the sentence looking for my dream

how

pause royalty

turn on time if only and fruits on seven minute cost for the m.

ideologue to gate fence

review sing options

the she disproves the hypothesis at the hip and kill them

ads like a superior skill

hi

three should be conversation

dare the shins

spirit waiting

add portals to awakening

cough drops elemental cycle

angel oh wait can I do

never lose

do you

song songs

freezer bread

[who-is-page]

CoHost Closure & Hurricane Helene/Milton Updates

[Cross-posted from my Patreon]

Social media platform CoHost, which started in 2022, announced Sept. 10th that it would be closing its doors by the end of 2024. Per the staff team's post, CoHost will go into read-only mode on October 1st, and the team will make their best efforts to keep the lights on until the end of the year.

Although not universally well-known, the site was beloved by its members and had a thriving alterhuman community. Because of this, my system has been scouring the tags for public essays to preserve and add to the Alterhuman Archive. So far we've completed looking through #otherkin; all archivists are collectively still working on getting everything summarized, tagged, and mirrored through the Wayback Machine. We've also got some new folks on the Alterhuman Archive team to help with the effort, including Sivaasonikaan, Rudy Cantor, The Dragonheart Collective, and the Draconic Wizard Workshop. Huzzah!

The one problem we're running into is that CoHost disabled new member accounts shortly after its announcement. My system, as far as I'm aware, are the only ones out of the lot of us who had a CoHost log-in. This has slowed down the effort somewhat. I'm focusing on just grabbing what I can from the tags, and then chucking its links into the collective work pile that anyone can work on (unless the work is marked as 18+, it seems). Not an ideal situation, but we're making do. If you have a CoHost piece you want to make sure ends up archived, please send it our way!

Our efforts to archive CoHost (and to work on everything else that we mentioned in the last post) have also been a little hampered thanks to back-to-back hurricanes Helene and Milton. My town was devastated by both in rapid succession, and I've been without power for a majority of the month. Because of Milton, a large portion of my city is now without Internet access as well, as a large amount of cell towers completely toppled in the storm. Thankfully, my family evacuated and we're all okay-- unfortunately, my job stayed open the morning and afternoon of the day that the hurricane was set to make landfall, having had me scheduled to come in, and calling out of that shift is likely to come with termination (albeit when, I couldn't say; this job has been known to wait up until 363 days after an infraction to terminate or write someone up). Job hunting will shift my plans around quite a bit and losing this job will postpone my degree by a while, unless I can graduate before I lose access to this job's tuition assistance. So we'll have to play these upcoming few months by ear, and I'm going to keep my eyes locked forward as I apply for better positions prior to my formal termination.

[blindedby134340]

guys what if i made a timely rob cantor tie account. like it's just photos of rob's various ties. with his face cropped out

[whencyclopedia]

Red Horse's Account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn

Red Horse (Tasunka Luta, l. c. 1822-1907) was a chief of the Miniconjou Lakota Sioux best known for his firsthand account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn (25-26 June 1876) and his 42 ledger book drawings depicting the engagement. The account was given in 1881, the same year that Red Horse drew the images, which were rediscovered in 2016.

Red Horse Pictographic Account of Little Bighorn

Red Horse (CC BY-ND)

Little is known of Red Horse outside of his participation in the Battle of the Little Bighorn. He was a subchief, married twice, and had three children. In his accounts of the battle (there is another beside the one given below), his focus is on the event itself, not his participation in it, although he makes clear that he was in the thick of the fight. In 1881, Dr. Charles E. McChesney of the Smithsonian Bureau of Ethnology commissioned a study of Native American sign language and art ("picture-writing") which inspired the drawings of Red Horse and his account of the battle, which he gave using sign language which was then translated to English.

The best-known version of the account was published by Garrick Mallery in Picture Writing of the American Indians (1893) along with copies of some of the drawings, but these were not seen by many outside of the Bureau of American Ethnology, and the original artwork was sent to the Smithsonian Institution's National Anthropological Archives where they were carefully stored in drawers and forgotten, until Professor Scott D. Sagan of Stanford University, California, and his research assistant Sarah Sadlier (a Miniconjou Sioux) brought them to light in 2016 when they were featured in the exhibit, Red Horse: Drawings of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, at the Cantor Arts Center, California.

Today, the ledger drawings and account are more widely known and, like the Cheyenne and Arapaho description of the Battle of the Little Bighorn and Washita Massacre, Yellow Hair: George Armstrong Custer, present the Native American view of the battle and the wider conflict known as the Indian Wars of the mid- to late 19th century.

Background & Red Horse's Account

The Battle of the Little Bighorn is the best-known engagement of the Great Sioux War (1876-1877) and among the most famous in American history. Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer (l. 1839-1876), leading the 7th Cavalry, met the combined forces of Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho, gathered by the Sioux chief Sitting Bull (l. c. 1837-1890), near the Little Bighorn River in modern-day Montana. Custer and five divisions of the 7th cavalry were wiped out, and the US government retaliated by pursuing the bands of the Plains Indians, eventually pushing them onto reservations.

The battle was presented in the US press of the time as "the massacre of our troops", as though the 7th cavalry had been out for a jaunt one day when they were suddenly attacked and killed by "savages" for no reason. Actually, the Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapaho, and other nations had been trying to negotiate peaceful relations with the Euro-Americans since the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851. This treaty was never honored by the United States, and neither were the others, including the Medicine Lodge Treaty of 1867 and the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868. Westward expansion in the name of Manifest Destiny would not be paused just because the Plains Indians had been living on the land long before the first Europeans reached North America.

Red Horse Depiction of Sioux Casualties at the Little Bighorn

Red Horse & G. Mallery (Public Domain)

Sitting Bull called for the great gathering at the Little Bighorn (known to the Natives as the Greasy Grass, and so their name for the conflict is the Battle of the Greasy Grass) to hold council with the other chiefs and try to find a way to defend their lands from the ongoing invasion. Custer had been sent to find their camp, kill the warriors, and capture the women and children to be held as hostages.

Although he had been warned by his Native American scouts that Sitting Bull's camp was larger – and had more warriors – than anyone had expected, Custer ignored them. He divided his troops to surround the camp – as he had successfully done at the Washita Massacre – and launched the attack, which would result in his death and those of five divisions of his cavalry.

Red Horse's account does not touch on any of these details but focuses on the battle itself. The details he includes match those of other Native American reports later given on the chaos of the conflict, including the one by the Sioux warrior Rain-in-the-Face (l. c. 1835-1905) and the one by the Oglala Sioux medicine man Black Elk (l. 1863-1950) given as Black Elk on the Battle of the Little Bighorn from Black Elk Speaks. Although Red Horse mentions Custer in his account, most of the reports make clear that no one knew Custer was on the field that day owing to the cavalry's swift attack and the dust raised by the horses.

Accompanying Red Horse's account were the 42 ledger book drawings of the battle depicting casualties on both sides, hand-to-hand combat, and each side leaving the field. Ledger art was drawings or paintings done on cloth or paper used in ledgers and was adopted by the Plains Indians in the 1860s. Previously, Native Americans of the region used hides (primarily of buffalo) for their art, but, as the US government systematically exterminated the buffalo herds to deprive the Plains Indians of their major food source, the animals became scarce, and so cloth or paper were used as canvas.

Lakota Chief Red Horse

D.F. Barry (Public Domain)

Ledger art of the Plains Indians depicts many aspects of everyday life including courtship rituals and hunting parties but primarily focuses on battles. The artist was always careful to depict the events in detail and so, as in the case of Red Horse's work, one can tell who the people are, what nation or band the warriors belonged to, and even, roughly, the locale and terrain. Taken together, Red Horse's account and artwork present one of the most interesting depictions of the Battle of the Little Bighorn extant.

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[rjzimmerman]

Charging stations are failing to keep up with the EV boom. (Washington Post)

For the past few years, electric vehicles have flooded onto America’s roads: Tesla Model 3s, Hyundai Ioniq 5s, even the occasional electric Hummer. In 2023, automakers sold almost 1.2 million all-electric cars to U.S. consumers, accounting for over 7 percent of total new car sales and a new national record.

But all those cars also need a place to plug in. And while the country is also expanding public charging, data show that EV sales are far outpacing growth in the U.S. charging network — endangering the transition to electric cars just as it’s starting to take off.

Between 2016 and 2023, EV registrations in the United States grew almost three times faster than the United States’ public charging infrastructure. In 2016, there wereseven electric cars for each public charging point; today, there’s more than 20 electric cars per charger.

“You often hear about the chicken and the egg question between chargers and electric vehicles,” said Corey Cantor, senior associate for electric vehicles at BloombergNEF, an energy research organization. “But overall the U.S. needs more public charging.”

[perkwunos]

A philosophically satisfying account has to take into consideration the historical fact that the “great revolution in rigor” in mathematical analysis, led by the German mathematicians Cantor, Dedekind, and Weierstrass (henceforth, CDW), took place when philosophy in Germany was dominated by various currents of neo-Kantian philosophy. Some of the neo-Kantian philosophers had a keen interest in science and mathematics. Indeed, the issue of the infinitesimal was vigorously debated in neo-Kantian quarters… Our main thesis is that the Marburg neo-Kantians elaborated a philosophically sophisticated approach towards the problems raised by the concepts of limits and infinitesimals. They neither clung to the obsolete traditional approach of logically and metaphysically dubious infinites- imals,1 nor whiggishly subscribed to the new orthodoxy of the “great triumvirate” (Cantor, Dedekind, Weierstrass) that insisted on the elimination of infinitesimals from any respectable mathematical discourse in favor of a new approach based on the epsilontic doctrine. Instead, the Marburg school developed a complex array of sophisticated, albeit not always crystal-clear, positions that sought to make sense of both infinitesimals and limit concepts. With the hindsight enabled by Robinson’s non-standard analysis, the Marburg stance seems wiser than that of Russell, Carnap, and Quine who unconditionally accepted the orthodox epsilontic doctrine, along with its simplistic philosophical ramifications stemming from a strawman characterisation of infinitesimals as a pseudo-concept.

Thomas Mormann and Mikhail G. Katz, “Infinitesimals as an Issue of Neo-Kantian Philosophy of Science”

[mihimelolz]

The pinned post about me Hello hello :3

★ My name is Neil/mihime/ryan/moon/Andy!

★ I use to they/him/it/its/star/starself pronouns,

★ adhd + autistic, INFP-T, minor (14 y/o)

★ i am from 🇯🇵 and I speak English and Japanese👍

★ agender, acearo, bisexual, xenogenders, queer

★ I love do art, animation, stimboard and oc x Canon and founding tally hall or other band or fandom stuff post from 2010s in this app!

★ fandom and Interests I’m in:

tally hall, wordgirl, spooky month, tf2, family guy, Pico school, newgrounds, my little pony, pizza tower, touhou project, your favorite martian, total drama island, splatoon, madness combat, homestar Runner, homestuck, Vocaloid, south park, Friday night Funkin, baldi’s basics, smiling friends, Telly hole, evil hall, lemon demon, super mario, SpongeBob, metalocalypse, the aquabats, they might be giants, happy monster band, hpii, moral orel, roblox, regretevator, the normal elevator, will wood, doctors who, Gorillaz, clone high, scott pilgrim, Parappa the rapper, cuphead, undertale, deltarune, muppets, milky way and the galaxy girls, fandomstuck, Sanrio, andrew kepple’s animation, objects show, fnaf, gravity falls, Pokémon, htf, breaking bad, psychonauts, steam powered giraffe, dandys world, sprunki, oddbods, portal, mouthwashing the simpsons, vs Dan, fallout, ace attorneys, half-life, athf, ihnmaims, the Stanley parable, Futurama, king of the hill

★ my favorite band or artist:

tally hall, lemon demon, will wood, weezer, blur, insane clown posse, korn, tv girl, jack stauber, the Beatles, kmfdm, mitski, slipknot, they might be giants, devo, System of a Down, the b-52’s, oingo boingo, malice mizer, Gorillaz, the cure, cojum dip, mf doom, limp bizkit, your favorite Martian, that handsome devil, strawberry switchblade, Mr bungle, roar, kitties, mother mother, my chemical romance, radiohead, weird al yankovic, the garden, machine girl, aphex twin, bunk-tick, bôa, chonny jash, creature feature, edu, queen, descendents, fake type, goreshit, ghost, hot freaks, lamp, ludo, miracle musical, plus-tech squeeze box, polusics, s3rl, rob cantor, joe hawley (I don’t support him), rob zombie, self, scary bitches, serain poji, the aquabats, the scary jokes, Toby fox, XTC, Green Day, Tyler the creator, deftones, linkin park, björk, Pink Floyd, nirvana, daft punk, the smiths, steam powered giraffe, a verbal equinox, the stereosexuals, Operation ivy, reel big fish, of Montreal, heavenly

★ DNI!:

-Tallyshipper & pro/Darkshipper

-dream smp Stans

-Joe Hawley Supporters

-n$fw artists (it’s okay to say n$fw joke)

-AI “Art” account

-weirdo bot

-lgbtqphobia & fatphobia

-f3tish artist

-zionist person

-dsmp fans

-Alfred playhouse fans

-boyfriends webtoon fans

-weirdo person in the fandom

-furry hater

-z00 and p3d0 person.

[beebrown80]

Some fanart inspired by Tally Hall's Spring and a Storm, Definitely want to make a full tribute poster for the album one day!

[4gn0l0tt1-dud3]

Have you listened to the 2 songs rob cantor sung in white collar prison?

(oh god finally an ask that isn't some bot account asking for my non-existent money...)

erm... nope. i have heard that Mr. Cantor has worked on musicals these days apart from his Disney-related stuff, but I never really looked into those. i'll try finding out more about White Collar Prison when i can!

[pargolettasworld]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff1gFSEfx90

Not to take away from the perpetual thunder that is Gaza, but Ukraine is still fighting for its life against Russia.  Now, Ukraine has not always been the greatest place for its Jewish population -- if that were true, my family would still be living there -- but it has come a long way in recent years.  Not just the President, of course, although how cool is it that Ukraine is holding off Russia under the leadership of a Nice Jewish Boy With A Sense Of Humor?  But from all accounts, Ukraine is currently one of the better places in Europe to be Jewish.

So here’s an Adon Olam from Pinchas Minkowsky, who was the cantor at the Brodsky Shul in Odesa about a hundred years ago.  Back in the day, this kind of choral writing would have marked the Brodsky Shul as very modern.  Today, it sounds old-fashioned, but such is the curse of everything that was once highly modern.  It’s still absolutely beautiful, though.

[dailyweezer]

Not a request, but!! Thoughts on Pinkerton?

pinkerton is their best album easily. or at least my personal favourite (i could see arguments for blue and ewbaite).

pinkerton is definitely the most exciting and interesting album musically, it has a feel to it that i don’t think any of the other albums truly capture. the louder, rougher sound is unique for them and an incredible listening experience and the lyrics are truly something special. rivers writes so well on this album and it’s really interesting to hear the brutally honest wording.

pinkerton was my 2nd most listened to album last year (just after black parade) with like a full 25 hours spent listening to it it’s incredible, 10/10 album

you know what screw it, track by track opinions:

Tired of Sex - really good opening to the album, it introduces the tone of the whole project perfectly. i’m amazed at how well it translates onto pinkerton from SFTBLH, they managed to change it just enough to provide a fantastic opening. the kind of drone on the vocals emphasises rivers exhaustion with his current lifestyle very neatly and the sudden bursts of noise starting up as the lyrics become angrier is gnarly as hell i love the loud guitar

Getchoo - this one hits like crazy i love the sound of the chorus, the little ah-hAH right at the end of it when it goes slightly higher scratches the brain itch just right. the actual characters of the song feel so real, the whole album feels real, and it’s actually mint.

No Other One - same deal with the characters, this is gonna mostly just be me reiterating that Rivers killed it with the songwriting here. absolutely love this song, the long, winding intro kicking in suddenly with the bM-bm-Bm-bm-BM is heavenly, it’s a truly lovely melody (i have no clue how music actually works) and makes for a fantastic song, one of the best on the album

Why Bother? - this one makes me go bananas it’s so quick and fast and speedy and other synonyms and it just mmmmm good track good song everything explodes and i love it. also you guys know Rob Cantor from Tally Hall did a cover of this song for a Pinkerton tribute album and it’s really sick

Across the Sea - oh boy this is it this is the track where my opinion gets the account shut down. it’s good man it’s really good this song really hits. like obviously the lyrics are- they’re fucked they’re fucked up, but they’re honest and the fact that this song even exists at all and weezer put it on the album means a lot and made huge strides in musical lyricism as a whole. i honestly really enjoy it. and like it sounds good instrumentally as well the little piano noodles are so funny and chimey and cool and the repeating of the actual “i got your letter, you got my song” tune by the guitar immediately after it is nice it makes me happy

The Good Life - fucking insane track blam blam blam i love it i love it i love it. it’s time he got back. the actual historical elements of Rivers life that tie into this track is very interesting in regards to the weezer lore. this is a loud song and it’s a crazy song and everything about it is good and everyone should go listen to the good life

El Scorcho - now this is the song of all time. the lyrics are so silly goofy i adore them, he’ll bring home the turkey if you bring home the bacon man (the sudden slam i tot he chorus from that line is so good as well). Matt Sharps back in vocals are really nice to listen to, it isn’t his best vocal performance in the songs he was on but it’s very nice, and Brian Bells first ever vocal performance on a studio album (pretty sure he sang on the longtime sunshine recording earlier) is slaying honestly. that whole section of the song slams me violently back into the wall with some invisible force everytime i listen to it i mean how stupid is it i can’t talk about it i’ve gotta sing about it and make a record of my heart. anyway el scorcho good song ay carumba

Pink Triangle - funny funny gay song. unironically though this one is pretty perfect the instrumentals throughout the entire song is completely solid and i mean the lyrics are- they put my kind in the weezer lyrics. (actual history element of this is one of my favourite pasty’s of weezer lore, girl it’s about heard the song and it turns out she isn’t even a lesbian)

Falling For You - this one is my favourite weezer song. in my top 3 songs of all time alongside MCR - Mama and Komm Sußer Todd. it is, and it doesn’t feel like it the first time, but it is genuinely one of the greatest songs ever made. just listen to it. listen to the album. every little detail from the japanese voicelines in static at the beginning to the perfect melody and loudness of the chorus to the way all of the verses flow like that to the way he says little old three chord me (such a good line such a good line i am so normal) to the screaming the title in the final chorus. it’s immaculate. i love weezer pinkerton

Butterfly - this track is divisive. most people either think it’s the only good part of the album or it isn’t worth listening to after the rest of it. these people are incorrect. it’s a perfect closer for the album, after all the bangers, this is the mash to make, the full- bangers and mash. i actually do love the concept of winding it down at the end of the album like this and butterfly is really exactly how to do that. it’s beautiful and a really profound and perfect way to call back to the rest of the album and reflect on all the beautiful themes and concepts touched on. and hey, if butterfly doesn’t do it for you, you always have…

THE BONUS TRACKS ON PINKERTON DELUXE

oh baby those bonus tracks

i won’t talk about all of these specifically but Devotion, I Just Threw Out The Love Of My Dreams, Longtime Sunshine and Tragic Girl are all favourites of mine. blast off! too even though that’s not actually on pinkerton deluxe. Songs From The Black Hole was an incredibly interesting concept and a lot of the unused tracks from it or parts that were worked on to pinkerton also stand as incredible pieces of art

so in conclusion:

what have we learned today

pinkerton is one of the greatest albums of the 90s, one of the greatest albums of all time, and everyone should listen to and love pinkerton

i am so normal about weezer

[nothingrpgzone]

Tales in the Land of Blood Ch 1. The Voyage of the Saint Demelza

There is Something Below Deck

Dramatis Personae

Anica The Polnenza Caravan Guard

Fuora The Piskaro Sailor

Giancarlo Debitore The Clerk

Holly The Farmer

Igore Chromsfelt The Siberskian Armorer

Lenora The Creedhall Student

Len The Farmer

Licorice Roc The Blind Creedhall Student

Nicholas Cantor The Farmer

Oleksandr The Hemlock Lumberjack

Richard Johnson The Farmer

Rorschach O’Gannery The Big Game Hunter

Sagittarius The Siberskian Serf

Through-perseverance-the-gods-shall-be-restored The Church of Saintly Blood Flagellant aka Percival

Yulia The Herder

Boarding the ferry from Veil to Piskaro an assorted group boards the Saint Demelza, a steam powered ferry. It is a standard affair, the passengers board the top of the ship as cargo gets loaded below the deck. Fuora the Sailor makes sure that all the tickets are accounted for and familiarizes the passengers with the layout of the ship. The passengers are told of the two lifeboats, when the food for their day-long journey will be served, and where the rooms are.

The passengers enjoy the day at sea, it’s mid autumn and the while we may have been on the tail end of the good weather before the winter storms began it was still good weather. It was a crisp and cool day, they spent it muttering amongst themselves, Richard Johnson attempting comedy based on his chicken he had brought with him, a few milling about, eating, a few reading in the library below deck.

They head off to bed, expecting to be roused just before sunrise as they arrive in the bustling port of Piskaro.

There is a lurch and a sound of thunder, the passengers are jolted awake. A storm has consumed the ship. With no hope of sleep they begin to explore with the ship made alien by storms. A life boat is missing, and there is no sign of the captain above deck. Rorschach yells that the captain is missing, rousing Fuora from her sleep, in a daze she stumbles towards the top deck. The passengers accost her about the missing life boat and she assures them that it could have only dropped intentionally. She only then just rouses from her sleep to realize the danger of a ship with no one piloting, and assumes control of the ship as soon as she can.

Below deck in the library people begin to realize something is afoot. There is a book written in a script no one recognizes, sitting in the middle of the table. And the bookshelf doesn’t have any missing books in it. Percival claims it is heretical and starts heading to the top deck in hopes of casting it out to sea, but Oleksandr grabs the books before he can fully do that, thinking it might be of some use. 

A few still below deck begin to explore the lowest deck. All of the doors of the crew’s sleeping quarters are open. And a closer inspection reveals the doorknobs for every room except for Fuora has been crushed. Braving deeper and deeper in each room seems to be in a state of disheveledness, until they get to the fourth room.

It’s like a spider web, the viscera and intestines draped across the cramped living space. Holly lets out a scream as she sees it.

There is a crash of glass breaking from the front of the ship where Fuora is.

The passengers all run down to where the scream comes from, Lenora helps Holly look through the remains and realizes one thing clear, these bones were crushed as if bitten by a large animal. 

The rush towards the pilots house and see it, glass shattered inwards and a train of blood leading from where Fuora once stood, following it leads towards the edge of the ship, where it smears downwards into the darkened sea.

Rorschach ponders in his time big game hunting in hopes of knowing some kind of sea beast that could have done this but as he does the sea riots underneath them, turning the boat to a dramatic degree, thankfully no one is harmed but as they all manage to right themselves once more they concoct a plan.

Len, Anica, Nicholas, and Igore stand guard on the top deck in case whatever killed Fuora comes back from the terrible sea. The rest of the group is to investigate the below deck, in particular the cargo bay.

As they make their way towards the cargo bay they are immediately greeted with three bodies hanging from the ceiling on hooks, their throats bitten out. Lenora vomits and Holly screams in terror. The others begin to investigate the cargo and realize one of the boxes has been broken from the outside in. There is hay and a small amount of blood inside the box, massive claw marks on the inside of box.

Suddenly Nicholas hears something, the sound of claws on metal. He alerts the others and readies his pitchfork hoping to kill the thing. As he looks down he sees the face of a human woman with pitch black eyes.

He misses as he Anica rushes forth and readies her musket. She has just been able to keep the match cord dry and unleashes a shot directly at the face. The head blasts off, the gun did what it needed to do.

Before she even has time to calm down one hand reaches out from the darkness and grabs the falling head, crudely reattaching the gory skull to the neck. Panicking, she tries to buttstroke the beast but it’s too quick. In a single bite it has removed her throat.

Len rushes forth and tries to beat it into submission but it’s no hope, with it’s lightning speed it claws at him, the claw catches the stern and rips it clean out of him.

Lightning flashes and for a brief second the stormy night is lit a sickly green and they can see it, the shape of a nude woman with terrible claws, covered in owl fur. Upon its head is a human face warped by gunshot, and a second set of jaws where the neck should be.

Those below hear the commotion and begin to rush upwards, maybe there is still hope.