#aq classic

[jhonatheshiny]

I implore old AE fans to steal this meme and send it to AE newcomers.

[aq-s74]

Eddy's phonk track, Phonk Elise. Edited and posted to YouTube by yours truly :)

From TwoSet's video:

I hope they decide to post it someday because I can't stand hearing the imperfections I made with this ;-;

[cyraen-ae]

AdventureQuest OC Character Sheets

Still moving forward with character sheets for Artix Entertainment games, this time it’s AdventureQuest! And a lil bonus of Warpforce too

Guardian

Non Guardian

Warpforce

[farorasf]

A series of comics I made for my guild back when I played WoW Classic. All comics are based on true events!

[cat-arsenal]

They didn't have to make drakels so hot but I'm glad they did

[aq-s74]

(y'all I think he hates me)

hello Mr. Prokofiev.

this is definitely our first interaction together ignore whatever happened before

I have drawn some art that I think you might like? ...well it's not art; an amateur drawing, if you will...

... of you! I hope you like it. and if you don't, that's understandable as well...

…This is actuallu a pretty nice drawing. Thank you.

(I won’t forget our… past interactions, though).

[reason-with-the-underdog]

highkey tho cyno & kaveh's friendship is my favorite

1) when kaveh is like "i won the interdarshan competition and all i got was massive trauma, a concussion, & this rare TCG card. hey cyno, you wanted this right?"

cyno: wait but this is rare 🥺🥺🥺 kaveh: eh i dont need it and then cyno is like "yo. srs tho. ARE YOU OK?? i will help you"

LIKE SWEETIE.... and then him giving kaveh mora which kaveh immediately spends on a fancy meal out for the family

at this point cyno doesn't know about kaveh's bankruptcy and tbh im not sure he ever finds out?

2) THE POST-COMPETITION MEAL WHERE EVERYONE JUST MAKES FUN OF KAVEH FOR TALKING ABOUT ALHAITHAM SO MUCH....

kaveh & cyno are both so earnest like neither of them should be sarcastic they're not good at it 😭😭😭

KAVEH GENUINELY THOUGHT CYNO WAS WARNING HIM ABOUT ALHAITHAM'S PRESENCE

anyways kaveh in his voiceline about cyno says that he needs a beer before cyno's jokes but that means he DOES like them sometimes

3) the fact that cyno had a bad impression of alhaitham pre-AQ bc he only knew of alhaitham from hearing kaveh rant to tighnari & collei about his insufferable roommate (& maybe seeing their message board debates)

& being the sweetheart that he is, he's going into this thinking

"that's him. that's the man who stole the show from my carefully planned jokes at dinner the other night by being terribly annoying to kaveh. apparently he doesn't put away his books??? which is a serious trip hazard actually. i'm on my guard 👁️👁️"

and then in classic alhaitham fashion, alhaitham makes a horrid first impression (he would rather make zero impression at all, thank you)

like of course cyno & alhaitham are naturally suspicious of each other bc of their akademiya affiliations but like STILL

it brings me much joy to know that before they became genuine friends (going from "nodding at each other in passing on the street" to "we always go to the tavern to celebrate" 🥺)...

cyno was primed to dislike alhaitham bc "you seem to upset kaveh??? so i dont think i like you"

i think cyno listened to kaveh rant about alhaitham's latest injustices (he took kaveh's favorite house slippers) and took them very seriously

look at how upset kaveh is when recounting them!! clearly kaveh is truly upset & this alhaitham fellow must be a real problem

like at that point i dont think kaveh & cyno were all that close? they met through tighnari but kaveh was pretty busy before finishing the palace & afterwards he managed to keep his bankruptcy a secret from cyno

but still cyno was already kinda protective of kaveh & his feelings

4) basically i think its amazing that if you cross kaveh, not only do you have kaveh's temper to worry about

..but also you have the legendarily scary & imposing general mahamatra himself on your tail... (+ the grand scribe & the general watchleader & lambad & half of sumeru city)

5) tl;dr is kaveh & cyno are both extremely earnest people who are very intense about their chosen professions and have very strong hyperfixes/hobbies

which can lead to miscommunication bc they take each other too srsly and then have to backpedal/explain BUT STILL THEYRE SO GOOD!!!

& i love that there's no judgement from each other

kaveh isn't all "wow cyno's love for tcg is so weird/too nerdy" instead he says "oh i got the prize my friend wanted, lets give it to him free"

while cyno's just like "ok kaveh your life is a mess but its a life you chose so 👍"

[socially-awkward-skeleton]

tagged by @mkdecimation to share a little something this week and considering i've done nothing but share the absolute worst of my ship or smut as of late I figured I'd go with something a little more chill. So here's a bit from the last chapter of Evening of Score:

Seabirds strained against the wind blowing at them as dark clouds amassed in the sky, stormy seas crashed against the shore and waves broke with white crests of foam. Late autumn was rolling into winter and the ocean’s angry tides stood in fierce opposition to the Christmas lights strung up along the pier twinkling brightly. In the distance, over the cry of gulls, the tinny sound of Paul McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime” traveled over the briny air. 

Two lone figures stood out at the end of the wooden slats, silhouettes against a backdrop of somber gray on gray broken by the subdued glimmer of colored bulbs rustling in the marine breeze, resting against the railing of the pier.

Rory’s hair blew around her face as rain pelted down against her, matting it with the deluge; her long coat flapping in the wind as she dug her hands into the pockets, collecting her cigarettes and lighter. Cupping her hand around the flame as she lit her fag, the inhale of coiling smoke filled her lungs before all being blown back up towards the sky. “What are we doing out here, John?”

Leaning forward, shoulders hunched, bristling against the torrent, his blue eyes reflected the stormy scenery around them while puffing away on his cigar like a smokestack. “Wanted to have a chat.”

She hummed, “And you chose a soggy fucking pier over your apartment?” Her sideways glance cut into him, already determining the meaning behind his course of action. 

This was another classic from the Captain Price playbook. He was going to ask her something that needed a quick answer, doing so in a situation where she couldn’t take the time to think in comfort. Making her act, think on her toes. Immediacy.

“Starting a Task Force,” he said, shifting his weight between his feet. “I want you on it.”

“Me?” Her brows knit together with incredulity. “Why?”

“You are kidding, yeah?” His voice was gruff as he took another pull from his cigar, brow furrowing at her reply. 

“Is it so you get to keep an eye on me?” Her gaze slid sideways to meet his, her brow lifting.

Meeting her look in kind, he returned the same lifted brow at her accusatory tone. “You’re a good soldier, have skills I want and need.”

Endless ocean blurred into the horizon, and as Rory stared out, lost in thought, her jaw clenched. “People are going to claim favoritism.”

“Let ‘em claim what they bloody like,” he husked, bouncing on his heels.

The pungent scent of salt and decaying seaweed on the beach scoured her throat more than any whiskey could as Rory breathed in the sea air. “So, now not only will I be in a secret relationship with a superior officer, but my commanding one as well?” She scoffed and shook her head before taking another drag. “Just digging the hole deeper for us, eh?”

“Not under British military rules anymore, love. It’s my rules now,” he said, full of conviction.

The cigarette dangled from the corner of her mouth, clinging by her lipstick as it hung off her lip. Staring at him skeptically, she grimaced. “Don’t know whether that worries me more or not, quite frankly. Considering you’re the man who ignores rules on a good day and outright breaks them on a bad one.”

“Rules were made to be broken, my girl.” A sly grin pulled at his lips as his thumb and finger wrapped around the stub of the cigar in his mouth.

She brushed her hand through her wet locks, sighing briefly. There were variables in this equation that she worried John wasn't focused on in his bid to get what he wanted. Despite being the tactical type, planning and preparing, thinking steps ahead, a part of her wondered if he wasn't rushing into things with this decision.

“And what of my work with the SRR?”

“You were focused on AQ. Not much is changing,” he said with a shrug.

Resting her elbows on the railing, Rory brought her hands to her face, fingers steepling in front of her. “What about my plans to become an officer?” She pointed a finger toward him judgmentally. “You were the one who bloody convinced me to go for it.”

“I did, yeah.” He flexed his shoulders, fixing his collar against the rain. “You still can.”

“My rank is going to freeze,” she said, continuing to debate.

“You’re telling me what I want to hear.” Her smile grew as she laughed and her dimples became more prominent. “Fucking Satan could be out of a job with you about.”

“Yeah, it can freeze at Lieutenant after you finish your training.” He turned to face her, leaning his elbow against the pier, needing to make his point known and have it sink in. “I’m not gonna deny you your career, love. But I do want you by my side, fighting together. It’s what we do best… well – one of the things we do best together.” His self-assured smirk lit up his eyes as they crinkled at the corners. “Come on, darlin’,'' speaking in a low, conspiratorial rasp in her ear as he bumped his shoulder against hers, “You know you want this. No more restrictions. The action. Boots on the ground, weapon in hand. Going where the real threats are, dealing with them the way only we know how to.”

Shaking her head as she snickered to herself, the wet strands of her hair slapped against her cheeks. “Christ, you know if you weren’t a soldier, you’d make a very good businessman. Certainly know how to sell something and make a deal, don’t you?”

“I’m just telling you what you already know.”

John laughed loudly, the barking sound traveling across the seaside. “I’d at least give ‘im a run for his money.”

Rory rubbed her hands down her face. “Fine,” she conceded, with an overt heavy sigh. “Fine. I can hardly argue with you, now can I? I’ll finish my officer’s training at Sandhurst and then I’ll join your task force.”

“Atta girl,” his proud grin overwhelming his face as his hand cupped the back of her neck and squeezed it tightly, kissing the side of her head. “Gonna make this worth your while, you know that, yeah?” He purred into her ear, lips pressing to her wet strands of hair.

“Is that right?”

He circled behind her, his hands resting on the pier’s railing, caging her in between his arms and body with no escape. His mouth lowered to whisper in her ear, “You. Me. Wherever this war takes us.” Pressing a kiss to the side of her neck, his breath hot on her compared to the ocean air, he wrapped an arm around her waist and held her tight against him. “We’re gonna stir up a lot of trouble.”

She hummed, “I bet.”

Rolling her eyes, Rory took another drag of her cigarette. “Are we sure I didn’t just make a deal with the devil?”

“Gonna take care of you too,” he promised, nuzzling up against her, his whiskers rasping her skin. “No more time apart. Missions together. You’re gonna get sick o’me.”

Her giggle was soft, hidden by the roar of the ocean. “I don’t doubt that.”

“Either way, you’re stuck with me now, love.”

He tipped his head to the side slightly as if pondering the rhetorical question. “I’m better looking.”

“Sometimes,” she said with a soft purr.

Her body shook in his arms with laughter, the rumble of his own vibrating through her back. “Jesus, you’re an arrogant bastard sometimes.You know that, yeah?”

Price’s lips pursed, seemingly unfazed by her remark. “You love it.”

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[zhongrin]

Ms Rin, since you did the AQ, do you have any theories about the fake sky?

cw. wild unfiltered thoughts without any fact-checks whatsoever utc

honestly speaking, i don't think i'm familiar enough with the sources in which hyv draws their inspiration from, and i'm pretty damn sure i don't remember/am not smart enough to memorize all the indepth lore of this game, so i'm really not sure.

but if you don't mind this grandma's smooth brain, i guess seeing the destroyed space behind the fake sky, my immediate thought was something along the line of:

wait, what if we've been in khaenri'ah all along… what if that khaenri'ah door was an exit and not an entrance… what if celestia modified the ley lines to conceal this fact and the loom of fate was actually meant to revert that change…. what if that's why the mages and lectors and heralds are willingly accepting the abyssal powers and are fighting; because they just want to reclaim their land…. IS THIS THE CLASSIC "WE WERE THE BAD GUYS ALL ALONG"….

hskdjskdjsk it's very unlikely and there are probably hundreds of things in-game that would disprove this series of wild thoughts of mine. but that was my initial thoughts lol and i've heard how honkai impact likes to use that deus ex machina approach where in the end everything becomes possible so what's to say they won't do it in genshin-

[theroseempress]

My friend, how do you do? I was not sure if you had already received this but its better to be safe than sorry.

I am afraid I will be talking for a while, might melt your brain in the process.

Solve these puzzles and you shall know who I am.

Listen to me carefully. And remember these two things

Some of the questions hold the answers in them

Some questions are more literal than you think, follow the words exactly as they say

For this is the first step. Two keys you must find to understand the next step. 

I have two words

They are from the same family

They share the last name with a triangle

They speak in another language

But they do not speak the same language

This is the first word

This word is good friends with a salad

Yet it was assassinated 

You have to jump the number of times it was stabbed

The next is a word is what describes a classical hero

Handsome and strong, both together are the word

Make sure you speak the language of love to tell exactly him that

And make sure to remove the first word of this line while you tell him

What word do you tell him?

Have you gotten it? Have you gotten the answer? Well then this will be easier then. To get past the door you must insert the keys in proper order. And I suggest you use this door to get to the right answer: https://cryptii.com/

Here is what you have unlock: 

Xoi ocl dluit borkkebs? X msgic drm. Zv kiqnm mac hco msgd.

Bmm tv vrmoy hlu.

Cfzbb nudt pbdlcr ydb fml hzm tlhv uiortv vzy qsc gsh awnm yktyeb msxri

Xyfg gd zcm fod zi elng woslauv opmis

Aiaj tjfm lbr lmdrnkd tur, mda uiortvw cfzbb zbs tjobv cbux ebxaji csb

Ikjieebi voey, ari kaizh qzxvgzfqs hhbnn tzbx qcoch nbt csub aii nrbh cvtxbo

Zbs tjfm ‘wxvzg yb gkv tjb’ clkd zcm mrmlbm myv nemis fh  ‘hr jzfsp voi xbf’ waru.

I nqvol mdc X hzrmg fsw G dxmfv. 

R wgiqv ru lemkrsh oij nbxggru, fxkvw vzn qfrb.

Cmfbn R wged fsw vvbmn azdk hzrt nq jywmy.

Yuc tjfm rw zfqm X lbko nr. 

X hzrmg, srg o zyzc cl G zvimb.

Dhvt qt X?

R oj tjb rmk cy xbuo aq oclo fbnwwbsvwd, uc alm,

Sntjrlg cr, ocl'ov fbux fslvoiz 'f,' lmlhzm.

Hrf'xr lwm rmk vaicng o cfzrst,

Bh uxfswabt, dr nrbp-mfrst whzk.

Hbg, sntj tb, bab'bf eb wgdtisdg, wkimv,

Wfwc cmbq nk cfzbb hzvkmn evhnzn, srg aubiplv.

Wtidm fml tidm, xu kvkj jfixnyz vxodrj xyb lvoiz jyzv zywuc yk kilm?

Mvogyxn yztr tmf efv ciq rsoq dywsch dncm myv oiuubo dk iimc.

Osqji qsc Ikvucs elvo mzb xnzhvxfsg nbt csub oc hiong wcib 

Fuogcizfmrai ey fuha nabrogoit uybik nu pbzrbd

Ocl qiaiywsdv soo uxmsabt csb zw nt csub cvcmn rmk dywsc

Wa iyx abzx cfm tfak qyz bfxh kedb xh oi mdnjvx ziizyrbp ydb xm o zyzc

Mskei qob gsh qqhn ga gmyn msgd aqgb, lbr ey feltr mdc msk htjbo zv qeznm tdvzob

Ovcrapbo gheim ftlbp mfu cl bht qcc ga cfm jbriot ca msk zyzc

well this is certainly an interesting thing to wake up to! hey @enne-uni didn't you get this as well?

[jhonatheshiny]

For those who want to interact with my DF/AE feederism content, and for those in the DF/AE fandom into feederism, I have a treat for you!

I MADE A DISCORD SERVER! Link below!

[threemarys1927]

vegan blueberry meringue pie

[hushed-hydra]

Incredible MMORPG VR Game in the Works!!

I'm a HUGE fan of MMORPGS, and I'm bewildered why no one is talking about Ascent Quest!! I usually gripe about how VR games don't look very good once you start looking at details, but AQ looks gorgeous. Incredible amounts of detail!

I also enjoy how the mission or dungeon system works. The massive multiplayer instances are only in big cities, and when you want to explore the world, it's just your party vs the world. I really like that because it feels more personal to me, no need to worry about 20 veteran players spawn camping a boss. I'd rather go on an adventure with my friends that I've made in the local tavern. ALSO the classes!! Are super cool!!

Your class is made from TWO specializations, so there's tons of ways to play the game!! Like in a lot of classic MMOs, you get to pick what skills you want to invest in. Lots of replayability, I really want to try all the Guardian specializations.

Speaking of skills, there's not just combat skills, we also have talents! Stuff like, hunting, gathering, smithing, etc. But what makes these so special to me, is you have to actually do them!!

If you want to smith something, you have to play a little mini game where you strike a hammer on a piece of metal you've heated up! That is so much more fun than just pressing a button and being done with it. There is so much more I can go on and on about, because this game is going to be incredible! The complex lore, the ability to buy and decorate your own house, absolutely no pay to win, fun ziplines, awesome magic, fully voice acted!! I'm so excited for this game, please, please, please, go support it!! They have less than 2000 subscribers on YT, and less than 800 people in their discord. Ascent Quest – The great online co-op RPG in virtual reality (ascent-quest.com) Farworld Studio - YouTube The devs are so incredibly nice, if you have a question you can ask it in their discord and they'll answer it as soon as they can. They also have a suggestion box set up in there, if you'd like to suggest something that would improve the game!

[eishtmo]

Why Your Inventory Sucked Part 2

One of the positive things about working inventory is all the places I've been. I have seen more of the world of retail than most people even know exist. I've been in the back rooms and break rooms of so many stores I have to remind myself I shouldn't just go back there when I walk around a store.

I've been to warehouses and distribution centers. I counted book fair supplies in storage units, and a pharmacy distribution center with 3 giant round machines to fill bottles. One was a company that sold parts to oil drillers. Another was a warehouse where you could by anything for classic cars from doors to the manuals. I've also been in the backstage areas of amusement parks, and eaten in their cafeterias. I've walked through massive freezers, and sweltered in sheds.

And on top of that I drove to small towns you didn't know existed, down poorly marked roads and close enough to both the Canadian and Mexican border that I could wave to the residents and they could wave back. I drove a lot is what I'm saying. It was an experience I really enjoyed.

PART 2: Bad Accounts

Most inventories can be divided into two groups: Quantity and AQ-1.

Quantity is where you scan the barcode of the item and count how many of those items there are. It's fast, but not necessarily accurate. The accuracy issue is because sometimes two items look the same, may even BE the same, but have different barcodes so come up as different in the system. Otherwise it's just miscounting them.

AQ-1 means Auto Quantity 1. Scan the item barcode and it inputs a 1 for the quantity automatically. It's very accurate, as you do have to scan every bar code, but very, very slow. It's best for stores where nearly every item has a different bar code or they're so mixed there's no way to count them as a group.

Most store are a mix of both, but the majority of a store is either one or the other. But when the wrong choice is made, things go downhill quickly.

I have so far avoided naming stores, not out of any desire to not say, but mostly because it wasn't really important. Here it is important, so let me tell you the tale of Bath and Body Works.

You know the store, it's that hole in the wall mall store that sells candles and lotions that only come in like 4 scents, but have 30 different labels for those 4 scents. You've been in one, likely around Christmas. Now when I started, it was owned by Victoria's Secret, and I know you know what that is. Victoria's Secret is a proper AQ-1 store, as you're not going to open a drawer and have 15 of the same bra inside.

So when it came to BBW, they wanted the SAME inventory done. Now it kind of makes sense. The audit process for VS, which I won't go over but know by heart, is what they really wanted, and the stores had about the same amount of product, so that should be an easy fit, and it'll be accurate too!

Except it was miserable. VS needed 20+ people and 6 to 9 hours to complete, sometimes longer. BBWs are NOT as big as even the smallest VS, so now I'm trying to cram in 20 people into a tiny store to scan every item on a shelf that has 50 of 2 different products on the shelf over the course of 8 hours.. No one liked it, and it took forever. Also we made one hell of a mess because, again, we had to reach EVERY barcode.

They would eventually change it from AQ-1 to Quantity, and the results were immediate. That changed it from 20 people taking 8 hours to 5 people doing it in 4 hours. Hell, I had a store with me and the two worse counters in the office, and still got one done in 5 hours.

Understanding how the inventory is supposed to go is the job of the Account Instructions. This represents the agreement between the client and our company on how the inventory is supposed to go. Usually it contains things like the tag ranges to use, how many people should be there, what kind of audit system to use, what the final reports are to give to the store and weird things that might happen. A well written set of instructions can make an inventory go smooth as butter, and once you've done one a few times, you may never look at them again. Something that happened with VS for me after a bit.

Then there was the Apple Store. Yes, I've done the inventory for an Apple Store. Nothing terrible, it's AQ-1 as any high dollar store like that, and aside from the giant wall of aluminum that made it hard for the scanners to communicate with the laptop, it shouldn't be very hard.

And yet, the instructions insisted on having 2 Inventory Supervisors. This is odd because it's not much of a store. So we sit down to do the inventory and everything is going well until it's time for the audits and they require a special report printout, as per the instructions.

The report isn't there.

In fact, NONE of the reports I'm supposed to print are listed in the the program. There's a lot of reports, but not the ones we need. Now the two of us are pretty smart, and know the program pretty well so we can fudge it, but we're still not getting the reports we need.

Eventually, after bashing our heads against it for a bit we figured it out. The reports ARE there, but they don't have the same names as in the instructions. And that's when we realized why there were two supervisors. With the wrong report names, one IS would spend all their time trying to get the correct reports printed, which made Apple think we were all fire stupid, so they figured 2 would fix the problem.

The worst part is the person that wrote those instructions was NOTORIOUS for bad instructions, often leaving very old, out of date information in them literal years after they were no long relevant. And she resisted changing them. She retired a couple years or so before I left, and I do hope the new account manager could fix the mess.

The worst part about the job was giving bad news. Most stores know what they should have in the building. I often ask because it helped me gauge how long the whole thing should take. My experience also let me figure out how close they would be. The goal was to get within their Shrink, the amount of difference between what's on the books vs what's in the store.

Now I am kind of a wizard when it comes to the inventory program and I could, BUT DID NOT, change the numbers in practically any way I wanted. I had a few people ask me to do this and I had to deny them. But it also meant I can see where the numbers are short, and help guide them to the issues or even catch the mistakes before they even got to the store staff. That said, there were more than few occasions when the answer was bad. If it the product isn't there, going over those numbers again and again is NOT going to make that product appear. If it isn't there, it isn't there

One particular store started pretty rough to begin with. It was being sold off as part a merger agreement between two big corporations. The inventory was part of the sale process. It was raining cats and dogs, and the neighborhood was not the greatest. There was a cop car just parked in the parking lot of the minimall this dollar store was in. I arrive a little early, and since it's a local store, I'm waiting for the rest of the crew to arrive. But the store is locked. The store manager hadn't arrived yet to unlock the door. This is a BAD sign.

The store's District Manager arrives before the store manager, but she doesn't have the keys so we have to wait. He does show, not strictly late, iirc (it's been quite a few years), and the crew, as always, trickles in. The store is a mess to being with, but I tag it up and we get started. As we get to the end though, it's clear the numbers aren't looking good.

Dollar stores typically have between $250,000 to $400,000 worth of stuff in them. It varies on location, size of the store, the type of dollar store, etc, etc, but 300k is pretty common. They gave me this number for this store. The dollar value of the store after the inventory was 200k.

$100,000 dollars short. That's, a lot. Typically stores don't want more than 2.5% shrink, so they shouldn't be more than $10,000 short. Yeah, it was bad, very, very bad. There were a few minor corrections that could have been made (there was a stack of foil pans that was counted as one upc when they should have been another), but the DM and her boss (yeah, HER boss came in), said not to bother.

I couldn't, and by rights shouldn't, fix that. As I packed up the SM was sadly flipping through the final reports. He was already going to lose this store, but I wonder if he was going even have a job after that.

There was another time when I had good news. A truck stop we stopped doing after a couple years, and one I sharpened my skills in, hadn't had a good inventory in a long while. We also had issues even getting an inventory going due to crew issues and such. Anyway, for these stores the DM would basically be the contact person for the inventory.

I'm counting the inside of the cooler and the DM comes in and tells me point blank if this inventory is bad, he'll have to fire the store manager. This was the worse thing he could have said to me because I always strive for accuracy, but now a guy's job is on the line. I could not fake it, even though I could. But I could hunt for product.

Which I did. This store had a map that determined where each tag was set to go, and tagged the store accordingly. As we're going through though, I ask about a door near the food places in the truck stop. It didn't have a tag assignment and looked to be part of the food place. Inside was gatoraid, LOTS of gatoraid, amongst other things, all of it belonging to the store.. Tag and count it. I wondered if it had been missed repeatedly because it wasn't on the map.

At the end the numbers came in, and I was able to give the DM the good news. He thanks me, then promptly calls the SM in and in a stern, you're fucked, voice told him the inventory was fine. He would not be fired. The manager LOVED me after that day, and I generally got stuck doing the entire local chain until they switched to doing it themselves.

Next time, I'll get into the last major category why inventories suck. Until then.

[rikyos]

i've finally written up kazuha's fatui au and added it to his carrd if anyone would like to take a look but here's the basics

having a little fun with the idea of scaramouche's alterations to irminsul having much more drastic effects on current events & their roles as foils for each other: after changes are made, kazuha is known as the sixth fatui harbinger while the wanderer is freed.

he has an electro delusion ( refurbished from tomo's masterless vision shell ) and tomo is unbound from the plane of raiden's mnh and instead tethered to the delusion i.e. kazuha ,,, classic 'coming back wrong' trope where he's more of a grave presence who can't stray too far but he is there.

due to the weird dynamic going on there with tomo and the delusion and how inseparable they are, his (their) formal title is innamorati — the lovers, and he takes on the code name akahito in acknowledgement of the figure from prominent inazuman legend; the five kasen.

he returns to inazuma with signora at the same time he did during the canon plotline and intercepts the shoguns fatal strike against the traveler — he is there with his sights set on her, seeking vengeance more than he should be her gnosis.

after the events of the inazuma archon quest, he is based in snezhnaya again but does travel around giving assistance to other harbingers/divisions where needed. i plan on writing him into the natlan aq, following dainsleifs words " the rules of war are woven in the womb: the victors shall burn bright, while the losers must turn to ash. " and the assumed themes of war / ambition all being things that seem like they would have v interesting implications for kazuha and his involvement but ofc that will wait for further crumbs of information on natlan from the game

[puppywritesthings]

hello there batman it is i the riddler i am here to have you answer my devilish qna questions three

question the first: what fic of yours is your favourite ?

question the second: which of your own fics do you think are underrated ?

question the third: what fics from other authors are your favourites ?

question the fourth: what fics from other authors do you think are underrated ?

that is all. goodnight

hello riddler, i shall now answer these.

This may just be because of recency bias, but Chained to the Rhythm has to be my favorite. I put so much work into it and spent so much time... It's like my baby. All of my fics are too, but still.

Taking Advantage of the Moment is also up there. It's the first fic that I submitted to AQ. Well, the first fic I think that's legitimately good. It's got Max, so that's a selling point in of itself. 100% will recommend IGN.

2. Underrated fics... I *could* say anything before my s14 era, but also my Sashea duology is good shit. Also "My Love, Take Care of Yourself"

3. Favorite fics from other authors... The list is longer, but I can only write so much, y'know y'know?

What Baking Can Do by @buffyathena - cute, fluffy rosenali with cooking as a love language.

Our Brains Can't Change From Hand Grenades by @theredrugirl [the fact that this fic isn't on AO3 isn't a crime but it's been living rent free in my head since i read it] - a pearlet girl, interrupted AU. it's four parts long and it got me interested in seeing the movie. fair warning, it gets ready. read the content warnings.

Where Every Wish Comes True by @plegdoctor (and also her Bagpuss fic. Both of them)

If you want one of the classic fics™, then Tree House Kisses by @veronicasanders

4. Underrated fic from other authors...

I'm Not Here to Make Friends (But I Think I Did Anyway) by @hannahlovesdance07 - i'm not saying this because it's got irene, but maybe i ammmm /lh

panacea by @winterboxx

Somewhere In The Crowd There's You by @missjanjie

(sasha velour voice) i have more of these, but i also don't want to take forever.