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Unlocking the Potential of Copper Nuggets with Koprex

Copper is an essential material in numerous industries, and its form as copper nuggets is particularly significant for various applications. Koprex, as a leading supplier of copper nuggets, excels in delivering high-quality materials that meet the diverse needs of manufacturers and craftsmen alike. This blog explores the advantages of Koprex copper nuggets and their uses across different sectors.

High Purity and Conductivity

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Versatility of Applications

Copper nuggets are incredibly versatile and find applications in areas ranging from jewelry making to electrical components and even in artistic sculptures. Their ease of melting and molding makes them a preferred choice for artisans and industrial manufacturers.

Sustainable Sourcing

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Conclusion

Koprex’s copper nuggets stand out in the market for their quality, versatility, and sustainability. Whether you are an industrial manufacturer or a creative artisan, choosing Koprex as your copper nuggets supplier guarantees you access to some of the best materials in the industry, enhancing the quality of your products and the efficiency of your operations.

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[diabelskoga]

okay but it just looks like he's going to serve you one singular chicken nugget

[neontaxidermy]

Vintage story mode

[ajl1963]

Chase ‘n Fiesta

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IF EVER THERE were a time when a human being might actually be capable of blowing steam from their ears, it would be this one.

Rafe Cameron has been pacing the length of the chapel's private lot since he dragged you out here who knows how long ago. Mumbling crudely configured sentences and half-baked schemes under his breath, he looks every bit the loose canon he's been branded as.

While not ideal, things could be worse—a lot worse. At the very least, he hasn't punched anything yet; concrete wall, tree trunk, or otherwise.

The "otherwise" in this situation (and most, to be frank) is JJ Maybank's pretty face.

Apparently, Rafe doesn't appreciate the way he's been touching you all afternoon.

"If that fuckin' pogue knows what's good for him, he—he'll keep his filthy hands off what's mine."

Strong words for someone who refuses to even attempt exclusivity, or make any sort of commitment whatsoever.

You gnaw on your cheek until copper stings your tongue.

JJ has to touch you, it's unavoidable.

Sarah, his younger sister and your lifelong best friend, has asked you to be her Maid of Honor and, to absolutely no one's surprise, John B, her fiancé, asked JJ Maybank to serve as his Best Man.

Sarah's older brother doesn't see it that way.

And why would he? That would involve rational thinking and a modicum of maturity—two things Rafe is allergic to.

In his perfect world, you would walk in the procession having left a him-sized gap, and, even then, he'd probably decide that wasn't enough. Knowing him, there would need to be an ocean between you two before Rafe was finally satisfied. And still, you know for certain he'd find something else to bitch about.

It's almost like he enjoys getting himself all worked up.

"Rafe, I'm not a pet or a toy to play tug-of-war with on the playground."

At your sudden burst of exasperation, the pacing comes to a screeching halt. And thank god for that; the repetition was starting to make you nauseous.

Just as firmly as his jaw, Rafe's fists clench at his sides.

"When did I say that you were?" he spews his venom at you, but his fervid attention remains fixed on the cracked pavement baking in the late afternoon rays. Rafe kicks a pebble into the side of a parked car, then continues, "—because I don't recall saying that. And you know how I feel about words being put into my mouth."

"No," you all but growl. "—but that's what you meant."

Your teeth ache from grinding them together. A migraine is forming at either temple, but you're already too exhausted by this conversation to massage it away before it takes root. You have your hands full with one headache right now, there's no room for another on your plate. But, like the eldest Cameron's emotional maelstrom, landfall is inevitable.

Rafe glares at you, but doesn't say anything to the contrary.

This begrudged acquiescence is the closest you ever come to Rafe admitting that you were right about something.

Or apologizing.

"Well, whatever you are, you're still mine. Something he doesn't respect and you seem to have forgotten—and I think we're overdue for a little reminder, sweetness."

He reaches for you, and you halfheartedly bat his hands away.

"Rafe, can we just... can we please do this some other time? I have to get back to—"

"—to your side piece from The Cut?"

"—to Sarah. Your sister. Y'know, the one who's getting married this weekend?" You cross your arms over your chest. Rafe rolls his eyes, clearly irritated you decided to cock-block his ogling. "—in case that bit of information got lost in your ego."

"Wow, you're really antsy to get back in there." His eyebrows jump, somehow unfettered by his audacity. The supplemental away from me is omitted, but deafening. "There's no need to be so defensive—if you have nothing to feel guilty for, that is."

You don't dignify his badgering with a response.

His tongue punches his cheek, and he looks away, as if depriving you of eye contact is a punishment in and of itself.

Rafe is trying to bait you into an actual fight so that he can exercise his big, bottled-up emotions without having to acknowledge their existence or their cause. There's too much left to do before the ceremony; you don't have time to spare for something as juvenile and pointless as feeding into his emotional scapegoat.

"If you're spreading 'em for Maybank, at least give me a head's up so I can get tested. It's common courtesy, sweetness."

Cold and debilitating, like a scorpion's venom, his accusation is devoid of the familiarity you've grown fond of. Under Rafe's prickly carapace of indifference, he is spiteful and chronically insecure.

This is what happens when you don't purge yourself of whatever is bothering you. Pent up, the negativity builds and builds day in and day out. The knot gets bigger, stronger, and harder to ignore the longer it's left undealt with. The conflict between inner turmoil and externalized chaos, often projected onto an underserving substitute, is harsh and bitter, persisting until there's nothing left to leverage. Denial is a dreadful opponent and an impenetrable armor.

You are the frog today, and you are more often than not. Perhaps there was a time when turns were frequently taken, but you can't remember.

In shooting to sting, he'll kill himself just the same. Yet, despite the assured detriment to your livelihood, you put your faith in rational deterrence and permit the arachnid to crawl onto your back.

A sense of duty is easily preyed upon, and a desire for benevolence can leave you blind to the true nature of things. Instinct, natural or nurtured, doesn't have to be a death sentence. Nor is it a prescription for life. Villainy, like goodness, is a choice.

The frog may not be able to sting or fight, but it can leap.

"Would you just shut up?"

You bring his mouth to yours before any more garbage can spill out.

He's keyed up on jealousy and, most likely, something else. Rafe's intent on pushing you away with tired cheap shots in a fit of anger. You've known him long enough to know that, in the absence of control, he does and says the exact opposite of what he feels.

He refuses to be vulnerable in any healthy way, instead preferring to throw double-edged rocks at your window from behind a wilting bush.

Words are incompatible with Rafe's trauma-soaked mind. He'll hear whatever it is you have to say—Hell, he might even believe it for a few minutes—but a life of too many broken promises and poorly disguised lies depreciated their value.

Action—that's what Rafe can grasp. For something to click and stick, it must be tangible. You kissed him to express your loyalty in the only way he understands.

And to make him shut up. Definitely that, too.

"I should've ignored Sarah when she said a spray bottle was a bad idea."

Your eyes are slow to open, but you jump away from Rafe anyway. As if you've been caught with your hand in the cookie jar, or like you betrayed some great conspiracy. Like he burned you.

It may not have a label, but your charged relationship with the Cameron heir is an open secret on Kiladare. Still, you're not too keen on public displays of affection—if anything you subject each other to could even be considered gentle or loving.

Intimate, sure. An attachment, definitely. The jury's still out on the health of such a volatile symbiosis, but such an entanglement is a bitch to bury.

You've tried.

Rafe's jaw clenches, annoyed by the irksome interruption now more than any slight you've perpetrated. "Wheezie, can't you see we're in the middle of something?"

"Something I saw a little too much of," she retorts with an exaggerated gag.

You bite down on your cheeks to keep your laughter at bay. You're in no mood to poke the bear further than he's already stabbed himself.

"Run along, the adults are talking."

Again, Rafe reaches for you. This time, you step out of bounds.

She means well, but the youngest Cameron has a big mouth and a propensity for gossip. She's also a compulsive eavesdropper. Wheezie might butt in and stir the pot far less now than she did a few years ago, but when it comes to Rafe, all bets are off. They may be each other's preferred sibling, bonded by their inability to best Sarah in the rat race for their father's attention and approval, but in their household, it's everyone for themselves.

And she's had her eye on the special edition Animal Crossing Switch console for weeks; she'll throw you both under the bus without a thought. Especially, if it means not waiting 'till Christmas to have it in her tween-age hands.

You throw her a bone, and yourself a lifeline. "What's up, Wheeze?"

She gives her brother a final glare, then turns to face you fully. Her features are twisted with exasperation, an understandable feeling considering who her siblings are and the family she's had the misfortune of being born into.

"Sarah wants to practice the rings. Again. So, hurry up and finish sucking face, adults. We have more important things to do."

Wheezie stomps off before either you or Rafe can get a word in. For her, the conversation ran its course. No need to stick around.

"Can I ask something stupid?" Rafe asks once his sister is out of earshot.

His voice is a bit wobbly, and while you know he'll make you regret it later, but you just can't help yourself: "Don't you always?"

Rafe clears his throat, then rubs his jaw like it might grant him the right words.

"We only... y'know with each other, right? I-I mean, I just figured since you're stuck to me like fucking velcro you're in the same boat. I mean—talk about stage five clinger. And, don't get me wrong, I would've unstuck you, but this," Rafe gestures to what little space remains between you. "—is way more convenient than all the hoops and shit of getting with someone else."

You know what he's actually asking—you've been fluent in "Rafe" since the fourth grade. Just one of the many, many joys of your fathers' life-long bromance.

He wants you to spill your guts before he does. He wants certainty; a safety net of prior knowledge.

—Rafe wants power.

"Totally," you drawl, humoring him with half the effort you normally would. Rafe squirms under your knowing gaze. "All for convenience, babe."

"Are you mocking me?" 

"Don't I always?" you counter through a smirk that makes Rafe feel as though he's staring into a splintered funhouse mirror.

Rafe watches you slip back into the chapel, wishing that he said more... wishing he'd said less. He follows your figure down the hallway until the metal door shuts with a rancorous thud.

When he shuts his eyes—a lukewarm attempt to calm his racing heart in the relentless summer sun—all Rafe can think about is your parting wink.

And the God-awful churn of emotion it triggered.

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[blazeball]

now picture her crying forever because she keeps running out of ammo and having to use that fucking whip and instead of her cool guns. and she asks tam Hey when you order next time can you get like 500 lead slugs. i will pay you for all of them. and he's like. No. take 30. and shes like Okay. because he's the only merchant shes found

mmy new coq character <3 her name is ivory. she is a weakly psychic gryphon centaur who dual wields pistols

[whencyclopedia]

Ghana Empire

The Ghana Empire flourished in West Africa from at least the 6th to 13th century CE. Not connected geographically to the modern state of Ghana, the Ghana Empire was located in the western Sudan savannah region (modern southern Mauritania and Mali) sandwiched between the Sahara desert to the north and the rainforests to the south.

Trade in the Ghana Empire was facilitated by the abundance of iron, copper, gold, and ivory and easy access to the Niger and Senegal Rivers and their tributaries. The Ghana kings, residing in the capital at Koumbi Saleh, grew immensely rich, building up stockpiles of the gold nuggets only they were permitted to possess. Consequently, the reputation of Ghana spread to North Africa and Europe, where it was described as a fabulous land of gold. The Ghana Empire crumbled from the 12th century CE following drought, civil wars, the opening up of trade routes elsewhere, and the rise of the Sosso Kingdom (c. 1180-1235 CE) and then the Mali Empire (1240-1645 CE).

West Africa & the Sudan Region

The Sudan region of West Africa (not to be confused with the modern state of that name), where the Ghana Empire would develop, had been inhabited since the Neolithic period as is evidenced by Iron Age tumuli, megaliths and remains of abandoned villages. The Niger River regularly flooded parts of this dry grassland and savannah, which provided fertile land for agriculture beginning at least 3,500 years ago, an endeavour greatly helped by the region's adequate annual rainfall. Cereals such as red-skinned African rice and millet were grown with success, as were pulses, tuber and root crops, oil and fibre plants, and fruits. Fishing and the herding of cattle and goats were other important sources of food.

Local deposits of copper were exploited and used for trade, while metalworking in the region, as indicated by archaeological finds, dates back to at least the 6th century CE. There have been many finds, too, of fine pottery, some of which was traded across the region, as indicated by chemical analysis of the clay. Similarly, gold was probably locally mined or panned and then traded along the numerous waterways of the region, but concrete evidence from this early period is lacking. Indeed, the whole history of the region and the Ghana Empire before the 11th century CE remains vague due to a lack of written sources and the rather meagre results of archaeology. However, the latter has increased dramatically in the 21st century CE, and both the antiquity and extent of West African trade, in particular, are now considered to have been greater than previously thought.

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[haveyouseenthisskeleton]

The skeletons are playing among us how well do you they do

The impostors: Papyrus - Pumpkin - Willow - Torpedo

Undertale Sans - He's a crewmate. Sans is pretty aware Papyrus is an impostor, very early in the game. He just knows. So Sans makes an alliance with his brother and becomes the fifth impostor. He makes sure to prove to everyone on the first turn that he is completely safe, then he simply encourages random skeletons to follow him in random corners where Papyrus waits to ambush to kill them. Sadly, Sans gets killed a few turns later by Torpedo who apparently didn't get the memo he was helping lol. Or he just hated his guts.

Undertale Papyrus - He's an impostor, and pretty good at the game. He kills quite a lot of people with Sans' help, but he's quickly discovered after that because it's a bit suspicious that all of these people die in the same corner where he is every time. He tried.

Underswap Sans - He's a crewmate, and he saw Torpedo kill someone. The problem is that everyone is ignoring him, and eventually, Torpedo manages to convince everyone he's actually the impostor and Blue is eliminated. Blue is raging behind is screen and goes to pout in his bed.

Underswap Papyrus - Honey is a crewmate, and he just does his tasks. At least until Sans told him he thought he saw someone die and then Papyrus showed up out of nowhere and stabbed him in the back. That's fair. He didn't see that coming.

Underfell Sans - He's a crewmate, and he's pretty much camping in the camera rooms, watching people. That's how he found out that Papyrus was an impostor and called him out, efficiently eliminating him. Sadly, because he said he would stay in that room, he didn't see Torpedo enter the room behind him and he got eliminated.

Underfell Papyrus - He's the one who screamed it was obvious that Blue was an impostor. Except he wasn't, and after that, Torpedo said it's clear he was the impostor one and he got eliminated instead. Edge took a deep breath, grabbed his cat and went to lie in bed, telling himself to not go and fight Torpedo again and again, hoping his murdering instincts would calm down.

Horrortale Sans - He starts to play, then after the first meeting, he kinda fell asleep in front of the screen and went AFK. He got killed by Willow, then Willow tiptoed in the room to shut his computer off so he could sleep without all the screaming.

Horrortale Papyrus - He's an impostor, but a slow impostor. He stays with the same people for a couple of turns, and when they least expect it and lower their guard, he kills them. No one is suspecting him, and he's going to win the game this way. He's really good at this.

Horrorswap Sans - Nugget is one of Willow's victims. He died right after he saw Torpedo kill Copper right in front of him, and got confused when he immediately died a second later. He's shocked, angry and sour. He refuses to talk to Willow all evening after the game.

Horrorswap Papyrus - Pumpkin is an impostor. But... Uh... He didn't quite get how the game works, so he accidentally killed Moon in front of everyone after a missclick and got eliminated immediately after that. He's not too sure what happened, but it was fun he guesses?

Horrorfell Sans - It was clear Torpedo was after him for some reason, following him everywhere for some reason and creeping him out. Copper stayed with a bunch of people, mainly from the farm, because they're all friends right? Torpedo killed him, then he witnessed Willow kill Nugget. Copper never felt so betrayed in his life. What the hell.

Horrorfell Papyrus - He heard his brother scream Willow's name in the room next door and ran for the red button to call him out. He lost his way and somehow ended up in a dead corner. Papyrus showed up out of nowhere and killed him. Chief screamed a bunch of insults at the screen, then got offended when he heard Willow laugh in the living room. HOW DARE.

Horrorswapfell Sans - He tried to play with sound because he can't really look at the screen without his eyes. Unfortunately, he's way too slow. Torpedo plays a bit with him, teasing him mercilessly, and then ends his misery after a few minutes.

Horrorswapfell Papyrus - He witnessed Torpedo kill his brother and went to report him, so angry. No one listened to him, somehow, Torpedo managed to turn everyone against him instead and he got eliminated. Bear had to physically restrain him to not go attack Torpedo. He's so mad!

Swapfell Sans - Nox is the one who made Torpedo fall, for his greatest pleasure. He saw him kill someone and rushed to report him as Wine saw him flee the room. The two of them convinced everyone he was the one who killed everyone and they evicted him. All the dead ones are cheering so hard in the dead vocal.

Swapfell Papyrus - He died first, because of Papyrus. He was excited because Sans witnessed everything, but Sans didn't report the body and just followed Papyrus as they left. Rus gasped so loud. What the hell? That's against the rules! Say the man that never play by the rules in any game, never.

Fellswap Gold Sans - He doesn't care if Torpedo is an impostor or not, he just wants to eliminate him because he talks so loud and his mic is so bad that he has a headache just hearing him scream. He's so happy when Nox finally offers him an opportunity to throw him out of the game. Finally, he can relax and start looking for the real impostors.

Fellswap Gold Papyrus - Another one that trusted Sans and got betrayed in the worst way possible. Coffee is way too nice for this game.

Outertale Sans - He's so confused. The game barely started and he just died in the crowd lol. Turns out Pumpkin missclicked and kinda killed him as soon as they all spawned. Then he got killed lol. He's not even mad.

Outertale Papyrus - He stays hidden in the lights room, hoping to catch one of the impostors. Well, he indeed caught Torpedo. Or more exactly Torpedo caught him as he was fleeing toward the meeting room screaming like he's getting murdered.

Dancetale Sans & Papyrus - They decided to stay together, not trusting anyone. Until they started to think the other was the Impostor and they split for two minutes. Rambo got killed by Willow, and Salsa by Torpedo not ten seconds later. Don't you know it's bad to split ways? That's how you die in horror movies!

Dancefell Sans - Rumba is not a big fan of the game so he kinda walked in the open until someone kills him. Satisfied, he shuts the game off and goes to play Minecraft lol.

Dancefell Papyrus - He's Papyrus' downfall. He noticed Papyrus dragging a bunch of people in the corner, and he was fast enough to report him before Papyrus managed to kill him. Tango won't stop saying he's the absolute best and showing off his skills. Torpedo got mad and made him shut up for good by killing him next round.

Farmtale Sans - He tried to play but his internet is so bad, all he hears is static noises during the meetings. Eventually, he gets angry, leaves the game and goes back to his fields. Stupid game, stupid technology, stupid people...

Farmtale Papyrus - Willow convinced him to vote against Fang in the very last round and Ben fell for it, making everyone lose. Everyone is screaming at him now and he gets quickly overwhelmed. He's a bit mad at Willow lol.

Mafiatale Sans - Torpedo targeted him first round. Demon is not even surprised honestly. The kid has to show who has the biggest, that's fine. He lets him have his fun. Also, as soon as he's dead, he goes to throw poop on his windows while he's distracting playing the game.

Mafiatale Papyrus - Creeper didn't want to play the game. No, he stayed behind his brother, absolutely still, staring at the screen intensely in complete silence. That's also one of the reasons Demon lost. He got pressured.

Mafiafell Sans - Fang managed to survive the entire game. After his brother died, Torpedo stormed in his room and told him that if the impostors lost the game, he would sleep outside. So Fang said nothing when Willow accused him of everything because he was a little scared, and then he got eliminated. Fine, happy?

Mafiafell Papyrus - Torpedo is the big villain of the game. He had so much fun torturing and teasing all of these little shits who think could outsmart him. Well. He still died in the end. And, uh, he was really not happy about that. He might have punched the screen so hard that his fist passed through actually.

Ink - He got Torpedoed quite quickly. He tried to scare him like he's used to, but turned out that Torpedo protected behind a screen doesn't fear Ink anymore and he killed him. That's fine. Ink waits for the game to end to send him in time out in space for a little hour to remind him who is in charge.

Error - His computer immediately overheated and broke when he touched it. It's not his fault, his magic doesn't like technology. At least he can enjoy the silence while Ink is busy.

Disbelief Papyrus - Sadly, Delta trusted Papyrus. He realized something was off, but when he tried to run away, Sans blocked the way and he died. Welp. That's life. Sometimes you just have to die by the hand of your adoptive brother... He's going to curl up in bed and pout.

Killer Sans - Killer got eliminated after he purposely accused random people, just because it's fun to see them get angry and everyone else screaming. Killer is the agent of chaos. Well, a short chaos as eventually everyone turned on him and threw him out of the game. But it was fun while it lasted.

Dustale Sans - He got killed by Papyrus. Oh, the irony... Wait, he hates the irony actually. He hates this game! And he's having an existential crisis now. Wasn't the game supposed to relieve his stress or something? He's even more stressed now!

[sillyozbee]

YAAAA

I actually love drawing this little goober so SO much!! Coppers my little sprinkle nugget

[justathingfromthebrainvoid]

Wild Life Episode 2 Items and their corresponding effects (to the best of my knowledge, there are definitely errors and missing bits): (under the read more because there was a lot)

Original: Sugar Cane- Jump Boost, Cobble- Nausea, Dirt-Levitation, Seeds- Water Breathing, Pointed Dripstone& Dripstone Block- .5 Food, Diorite- Night Vision 3, Stone Shovel- 3 Food, Copper Ingot- Absorption 5, Diamond- Infested 2, Cobble Deepslate- Jump Boost 2, Raw Iron- .5 Food, Pale Moss- 1 Food, Gravel- Speed 2, Granite- Weakness, Andesite- Nausea, Polished Deepslate- 2 Food, Grass Block- Portal Sound, Short Grass- .5 Food, Stone Hoe- ? Food, Dandelion- Health Boost 5, Cornflower- Levitation 3, Seagrass- ? Food, Allium- Health Boost 4, Redstone Dust- .5 Food, Redstone Torch- 3.5 Food, Tuff- Health Boost 4, Lapis- 1.5 Food, Obsidion- 3+ Food, Wooden Shovel- Haste 4, Torch- Infestation, Ladder- Hero of the Village, Sugar- Darkness 5, Paper- Infested 2, Stone Axe- Blindness 3, Skulk Vein- 2.5 Food, Oak Planks- Mining Fatigue 5, Crafting Table- Blindness 4, Birch Slab- Glowing 2, Polished Deepslate- 2 Food, Stone Bricks- Oozing, Yellow Dye- Elder Gaurdian Sound, Light Grey Dye- .5 Food, Sunflower- Infestation 4, Bonemeal- Poison, Oak Log- Ivisibility 4, Clay Ball- Night Vision, Calcite- .5 Food, Smooth Basalt- Poison 2, Pink Peatles- Wind Charged, White Tulip- Regen 5, Rose Bush- Wind Charged 5, Liliac- Water Breathing 4, Oxeye Daisy- Oozing 4, Wheat- Darkness 3, Sand- Levitation, Arrows- 2 Food, Blue Dye- Night Vision, Cobblestone Wall- Jump Boost, Pumpkin Seeds- Levitation, Bone- Nausea 4, Stick- Blindness 5, Iron Axe- Resitance 5, Gunpowder- 1 Food, Orange Tulip- Hero of the Village, Red Tulip- Instant Health 4, White Tulip- Regen 5, Stone Pickaxe- 2.5 Food, Gold Ingot- Oozing, Clock- Condiut Power 3, Name Tag- .5 Food, Skulk Viens- 2.5 Food, Red Dye- 3.5 Food, White Dye- ? Food, Iron Nugget- .5 Food, Bamboo- Resistance, Campfire- Night Vision 3, Light Blue Dye- Jump Boost, Polished Deepslate Wall- .5 Food, Scaffolding- 2.5 Food, Stone PIckaxe- Silverfish Sound Effect, Torch- Infestation, Feather- Glowing 5, Amathyest Block- 4 Food, Coal- Wind Charged 5, Raw Gold- Slow Falling 5, Pale Moss Carpet- .5 Food

After 1st Randomization: Pointed Dripstone- 3 Food, Short Grass: 2.5 Food, Oak Sapling- Strength 5, Peony- Speed, Polished Deepslate- Infestation 4, Cobble Deepslate- Water Breathing 4, Tuff- Invisibility 3, Torches- Weaving 4, Redstone Torches- .5 Food, Cobblestone- Slow Falling 2, Iron Chestplate- ? Food, Chisled Deepslate- Slowness, Deepslate Brick Wall- Night Vision, Cobble Deepslate Stair- Infestation, Cobble Deepslate Wall- Mining Fatigue, Deeplate Brick Slab- Night Vision, Deepslate Brick Stair- Mining Fatigue, Deepsltae Wall- ? Food, Polished Deepslate Stair- ? Food, Polished Deepslate Slab- ? Food, Lily of the Vally- Streangth, Pale Oak Leaves- Haste, Lilac- Glowing, Seeds- Darkness 3, Dark Oak Leaves- "Spooky" Sound Effect, Pink Peatls- Health Boost 3, Oak Planks- Posion 2, Birch Slab- Health Boost 3, Sticks- Wind Charged 2, Pink Peatl- Health Boost 3, Seeds- Darkness 3, Ladders- Infestation 4, Bowl- Slowness 5, Obsidion- Streangth 4, Stone Shovel- .5 Food, Pink Dye- .5 Food, Birch Leaves- 2 Food, Grass Block- .5 Food, Azure Bluet- Levitation, Dripstone Block- 2 Food, Amathyst Block- .5 Food, Oak Planks- Poison, Ink Sack- Blindness, Redstone Dust- Weaving 3, String- Poison, Lapis- .5 Food, Diamond- .5 Food, Iron Ingot- 1.5 Food, Cherry Sapling- Piglin Noise, Stone Hoe- Infestation 2, Wooden Shovel- 2.5 Food, Dirt- Blindness, Gold Boots- End Opening Sound, Crafting Table- Health Boost 3, Stone Pickaxe- Levitation, Rose Bush- Nausea 3, Raw Gold- 3.5 Food, Raw Copper- 2 Food, Birch Sign- Water Breathing, Gunpowder- .5 Food, Dirt- Blindness, Scafolding- .5 Food, Deepslate Bricks- Jump Boost, Barrels- 2.5+ Food, Arrow- .5 Food, Spruce Planks- Dolphin's Grace 5, Spruce Lop- Glowing 5, Gravel- .5+ Food, Wheat- Oozing 2, Dandelion- Night Vision 4, Clay Ball- Slow Falling, Pale Moss Carpet- Portal Sound

After 2nd Randomization: Seed- Jump Boost 5, Short Grass- Weaving, Dripstone- 1 Food, Chisled Deepslate- 3+ Food, Pointed Dripstone- ? Food, Coal- Regen 5, Raw Copper- 1 Food, Tuff- Hero of the Village, Cobblestone- Water Breathing 2, Pale Oak Leaves- .5 Food, Copper Ingot- Levitation 4, Pale Hanging Moss- ? Food, Stone Bricks- Condiut Power 5, Cobblestone Wall- Invisibility 3, Amathyst Shard- 2.5 Food, Dirt- Slow Falling 4, Birch Leaves- Ender Dragon Death Sound, Pale Moss Block- .5 Food, Stone Brick Wall- Oozing 3, Oak Log- Weaving 5, Dripstone Block- 1 Food, Cherry Leaves- 3 Food, Red Dye- .5 Food, Azure Bluet- Condiut Power 5, Light Grey Dye- 3 Food, Redstone Dust- Dolphin's Grace 5, Oak Sapling- .5 Food, Peony- Slowness 4, Pink Peatles- Streangth 2, Amathyst Block- Sheep Sound, Stripped Cherry Wood- Dolphin's Grace, Music Disk- .5 Food, Flint- ? Food, Gunpowder- 2.5 Food, Glow Lichen- Mining Fatiuge 2, Chest- Dolphin's Grace, Cobblestone Stairs- Regen 3, Spruce Leaves- .5 Food, Oak Sapling- .5 Food, Flower (Red Tulip?)- Blindness, Spruce Log- Water Breathing 5, Granite- Invisibility, Polished Deepslate- 2.5 Food, Raw Copper- 1 Food, Iron Boots- Resistance 4, Iron Pants- Instant Health 2, Iron Chestplate- 1+ Food, Gravel- .5 Food, Stone Shovels- .5 Food, Magenta Dye- Wither Sound Effect, Peony- Slowness 4, Bonemeal- Darkness 2, Sugar Cane- Night Vision, Dandelion- Poison, Clay Ball- Wololo Sound, Red Mushroom- Blindness 3

After 3th Randomization: Cobble Deepslate- 1 Food, Redstone Torch- ?? (Bad), Chisled Deepslate- Weaving, Cobblestone- Health Boost 4, Cobble Deepslate Slab- .5 Food, Raw Copper- 1 Food, Tuff- Weaving 4, Pale Oak Leaves- Fire Prot 4, Short Grass- .5 Food, Redstone Dust- Jump Boost 4, Sticks- Speed 3, Dirt- Posion 2, Torches- Weaving, Cobble Deepslate Stair- Conduit Power, Diorite- Infestation 4, Diamond Helmet- Anvil Sound, Iron Pants- ??, Pale Hanging Moss- Sound Effect, Iron Sword- Slow Falling, Dripstone Block- Posion 2, Stone- Slowness, Raw Iron- 4 Food, Peony- Regen 5, Clay Ball- 2.5 Food, Seeds- Levitation 2, Wheat- Night Vision, Pale Moss Block- End Open Sound, Stone- Slowness 3, Cobblestone Slab- Mining Fatigue 2, Pointed Dripstone- 2.5 Food, Birch Planks- Levitation ?, Copper Ingot- 1.5 Food, Polished Deepslate- ? Food, Sprunce Log- Jump Boost, Sugar Cane- Weakness 4, Lapis- Sound Effect, Blue Dye- Hero of the Village, String- Mining Fatigue 5, Arrow- 2.5 Food, Cobblestone Stair- Glowing, Scafolding- 4 Food, Bamboo Planks- ? Poison, Pink Petles- Haste, Amathyset Block- Dragon Sound, Birch Leaves- Poison 2, Spruce Leaves- 2.5 Food, Cobblestone Stair- Glowing 4, Arrows- 2.5 Food, Stone Sword- 1.5 Food, Pale Moss Block- End Open Sound, Birch Sapling- .5 Food, Polished Granite- .5 Food, Polished Granite Slab- Nothing??, Polished Diorite Slab- Firework Sound Effect, Sugar- Slow Falling, Red Tulip- Instant Health, Magma Block- Haste 4, Bonemeal- Health Boost 3, Pale Oak Slab- Hero of the Villiage 3, Gold Ingot- 2.5, Red Mushroom- Resistance 5, Gunpowder- 2+ Food

After 4th Randomization: Gravel- .5 Food, Short Grass- Abosrption 5, Cobble Deepslate- 4 Food, Clay Ball- .5 Food, Clay Block- 4.5 Food, Diorite- Health 2, Sugar- Resistance 4, Cobblestone Slab- Levitation 5, Dirt- Jump Boost 5, Torch- Night Vision 5, Cherry Planks- Water Breathing, Wooden Shovel- Nausea 4, Cobblestone- Resstaince 3, Stone- Weaving 3, Dripstone Block- ? Food, Pale Oak Planks- Invisibility, Bowls- 2 Food, Peony- Dolphin's Grace, Redstone Torch- Minecart Noise, Sand- Wind Charged 5, Polished Diorite- Darkness, Birch Leaves- 1 Food, Copper- Bell Sound, Pale Moss Block- .5 Food

[s0upjuice]

Could you tell us more about the association Ponkan works for? Or is that a spoiler?

Thank you again for the ask! Always love talking about DOL.

Special Agent Ponkan, the little nugget below, works for the PMDverse equivalent of Interpol (currently unnammed lol), dedicated to bringing the biggest and baddest crimes to justice. Local police forces can ask for their help or they can carry out independent missions as their intelligence department sees fit.

Ponkan specializes in criminal arrests, so she's the force the 'coppers' send to apprehend already identified criminals. She's pretty smart on her own, but her speciality is her sheer strength and stamina (if you've played with Ogerpon competitively, you know this little ogre packs a punch).

Currently, in the DOL story, this Interpol is investigating the string of crimes caused by a famous gang led by the wicked Babyface, who is the baddest loan shark of the Sand Continent. His lackeys had been selling poisoned mochis to small towns to brainwash its residents, leaving the town looted and in shambles by the end. Why they're doing this isn't exactly known, but Interpol suspects it may have something to do with bringing back Dark Matter by spreading negativity once more. Other crimes are also being investigated with a similar hypothesis.

For now, Babyface's three enforcers, Pretty Boy, Wise Guy, and Big Fella have been caught and sent to the maximum security penitentiary where only the most heinous criminals end up: The Alabaster Citadel, located at the very tip of the Mist Continent. They'll undergo interrogation and maybe we'll be a little closer to figure out what's going on.

A bonus for you: the Alabaster Citadel is run by its Master Warden, Rimes. He'll show up in the story eventually.

Thanks again for asking, have a great weekend~

[koprexmti]

How to Make Copper Nuggets?

 Copper nuggets are small, irregular pieces of pure copper, often used in smelting, jewelry making, and metalworking. They are popular due to their unique shape, high conductivity, and aesthetic appeal. At Koprex, a leading copper manufacturer, we focus on delivering high-quality copper materials, including nuggets that can be customized for various applications. If you’re curious about making copper nuggets, here’s a detailed guide on how to do it.

 1. Gathering Materials and Tools  

To make copper nuggets, you'll need a few essential materials and tools:  

- Raw Copper: The primary material for making copper nuggets is raw or scrap copper. You can use copper wires, pipes, or sheets. Ensure the copper is free from any coatings or contaminants.  

- Crucible: A heat-resistant container that can hold and melt the copper.  

- Furnace or Propane Torch: Required to heat the copper to its melting point.  

- Tongs and Protective Gear: High-quality tongs, gloves, and protective clothing are necessary for handling the molten copper.  

 2. Melting the Copper  

The next step is to melt the copper in a controlled environment:  

1. Prepare the Furnace: Set up your furnace or use a propane torch to achieve the necessary temperature. Copper has a melting point of about 1,085°C (1,984°F).  

2. Place Copper in the Crucible: Put your copper pieces into the crucible and place the crucible inside the furnace. Ensure the temperature is gradually increased to avoid any cracks in the crucible.  

3. Monitor the Melting Process: Once the furnace reaches the desired temperature, the copper will begin to melt. Monitor the process closely to prevent overheating or oxidation.  

 3. Forming the Copper Nuggets  

This step requires careful handling to create the characteristic nugget shape:  

- Pour the Molten Copper: Once the copper is fully melted, carefully pour the molten copper onto a heat-resistant surface or into a sand mold. The sand allows you to shape the copper into irregular, nugget-like forms.  

- Cooling and Solidifying: Let the poured copper cool down naturally. During this process, the molten copper will harden into nugget shapes, with each nugget having its unique pattern and texture.  

 4. Finishing the Copper Nuggets  

After cooling, the copper nuggets might have rough edges or impurities on the surface:  

- Clean the Nuggets: Use a wire brush to remove any leftover sand or oxidation from the surface.  

- Polishing: If you prefer a shiny finish, polish the nuggets with fine-grade sandpaper or a polishing wheel. For a more natural look, leave the nuggets as they are.  

 Applications of Copper Nuggets  

Copper nuggets are versatile and can be used in several industries. At Koprex, we manufacture copper nuggets for various purposes like metal casting, jewelry design, and electrical applications due to their high conductivity. Their unique aesthetic also makes them popular in crafts and decor.

 Why Choose Koprex?  

At Koprex, we pride ourselves on being a top copper manufacturer in India, delivering high-quality copper nuggets for all your metalworking and creative needs. Our focus on quality and consistency ensures that every piece meets your specific requirements. 

 Conclusion  

Making copper nuggets is a rewarding process that involves melting, shaping, and cooling copper into unique forms. With the right tools and safety precautions, you can create beautiful copper nuggets for your projects. At Koprex, we provide premium-quality copper and expert guidance to help you achieve the best results. Explore our range of products and elevate your craftsmanship with our top-grade materials!

This Blog Was Originally Published At: https://koprexmti.blogspot.com/2024/10/how-to-make-copper-nuggets-complete.html

[amazing-spiderling]

So my husband is a big ol' nerd and for his birthday this year he really wanted to have a party themed on the video game "Factorio". So being the ridiculous person I am, I came up with this. I found an oval shaped lazy susan that had a conveyor belt vibe, and after a round of a board game called "Factory Funner" the guests got to assemble it, and then I started bringing out all our various courses.

The idea was that everyone would have to assemble parts of their meal, just like you assemble all the components of your machines and factories in the game. They had to make their own soup, salad, sushi cake, smores etc. There were also some thematically appropriate treats that were ready to go like the "iron and copper ore" chicken nuggets and gear shaped shortbread cookies. I might have used two whole things of luster dust at this party. lol.

All in all it was a lot of work, even with people putting together a lot of their food on their own (look at those cute sushi cubes) but it was a ton of fun.

[whump-card]

Undertaking Alchemy: Chapter 4: Digital Exploration

CW: intimate whumper, restraints, noncon fingering, negative self talk

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Ailen labored long into the night, first divvying up the sample into as many separate tubes as he could, given the small amount; then he scoured his texts, making plans for each unit. He copied out rituals and recipes, tweaking them in the ways that his years of experience told him to; he referenced his past experiments, found a few instances where the presence of a new reagent might make a difference.

Once he had his plans in place, the real work began. Distilling, rendering, chanting, cooking, extracting, purifying, examining. The hours slipped away as Ailen was consumed by his passion for alchemy, for discovery, for new horizons. Concoctions bubbled, steamed, solidified, melted, transfigured under his guiding hand.

It was only the gold haze of dawn that brought him back to earth, scrubbing sand out of his eyes and yawning. He lowered flames on reductions, set aside trays of slurry to cool into sheets – of stone, hopefully. Once each project was paused and accounted for he retreated to his living space, washed up, donned clean clothes. Then he lay on his bed, intending to only relax for a moment.

“Ailen!”

The alchemist shot upright out of his slumber, heart pounding. The slant of the morning light told him an hour had passed. His eyes fell on Edelgard’s back as the wizard stood among the tables and cabinets, bent slightly over something.

Something that was glowing.

Ailen leapt out of bed and rushed over, his usual reluctance to be anywhere near Edelgard forgotten. He joined his captor in staring, astonished, at a green-glowing flask of bubbling liquid perched over a low-lit burner.

“What is it?” Edelgard breathed.

“I don’t know,” Ailen whispered back. He moved to his table full of notes, shuffling through them with shaking hands. “That’s… That’s number four, I… It’s a traditional Erminian wash, but I upped the transitory properties-”

“But what is it?” demanded Edelgard.

“I don’t know!” Ailen repeated, returning to stare at the green substance, “Let me run some tests.”

“How long will that take?” the wizard asked, stepping out of the alchemist's way as he darted about the lab, gathering materials.

“Just wait a moment, sir!” Ailen cleared a spot on a table and laid out a shallow glass dish; around it he drew a Bathsheba monitoring circle in chalk. Opening a small box, he dropped a nodule of lead from it into the dish. Finally, donning gloves and goggles, he lifted the flask of glowing liquid with a set of tongs.

Edelgard took a few more healthy steps back.

“Are you sure you know what you’re doing?”

“No,” Ailen laughed, and poured a drizzle of the mystery mixture into the dish with the lead.

Nothing happened instantly; Ailen returned the flask to the burner, and then leaned over the small dish to watch intently. After a few moments, the Bathsheba circle began to glow, indicating something was happening within its bounds.

“It’s reacting,” Ailen whispered in awe, “It’s reacting with the lead!”

He jumped over and scooped up a ream of blank paper, scribbling down his observations as the lead nodule began to crack and glow. Edelgard’s presence was nearly forgotten to him, so entranced he was by his new discovery.

It wasn’t long before the glow of the liquid in the dish and that of the chalk circle began to fade. Ailen continued writing until the light was entirely gone.

“Is it over?”

The wizard’s voice made Ailen jump – the old man had crept close, peering over the alchemist’s shoulder.

“We’ll – we’ll see,” he stammered. He plucked the now slime-covered nodule out of this dish with tweezers, holding it up. His free hand groped over cluttered surfaces until he found a rag, and wiped the nugget clean.

“Gold!” Edelgard gasped.

“Copper,” Ailen corrected, a broad grin on his face, “I made copper!”

“Bah!” Edelgard burst out angrily, “Copper?”

The dangers of his captor’s disappointment rose sharply in Ailen’s mind.

“Sir, I transmuted lead into a higher element,” he stressed, “That’s an incredible discovery, and it brings us that much closer to the philosopher’s stone!” He grabbed his notes and shook them, the paper crinkling, as he turned to face Edelgard. “I can keep developing this! I can keep going, I just need…”

Ailen froze, his eyes on the wizard’s shoes. The silence hung between them for a long moment.

“What do you need, Ailen?” Edelgard asked knowingly, his voice low, no longer frustrated but still just as dangerous.

Ailen picked his words carefully.

“If… I needed another… sample… from you, sir… I would prefer…”

“If I’m doing you the favor of providing vital reagents,” the wizard interrupted, “I think it should be as easy on me as possible, don’t you?”

Ailen swallowed hard. Easy on you?

“So it will be… the same,” he murmured, “What you did, that will happen again?”

Edelgard stepped closer to him.

“At the very least,” he purred.

Ailen took a breath, steeling himself.

“Can I ask a favor?” he braved.

Edelgard paused, then laughed, stiff and wheezing.

“I suppose you do deserve some credit for your progress! What do you want?”

“A day off,” Ailen said quickly, “Give me a day to rest, and to do my hair.” His voice almost cracked with exhaustion. There was another long moment, during which Ailen despaired in the certainty that he would be refused.

“I’ll give you two.”

Ailen’s eyes widened, and he almost looked up at his captor before catching himself.

“Thank you!” he gasped, “Thank you, sir, thank you so much.”

“After all,” Edelgard mused, “If you succeed, I’ll have all the time in the world.”

~~~

It was supposed to be Mila, doing Ailen’s hair. Picking apart the braids, brushing them out oh-so gently. Washing Ailen’s scalp with with ysaline soap, long slim fingers working through the roots. Massaging in wicker-seed cream, followed by oil of aramat. Spending the day together at home while his hair air-dried, lounging, chatting, laughing. The two of them could talk forever while Mila sectioned Ailen’s hair into tidy squares, slowly building up a uniform orchard of braids. They’d talk alchemy. Experiments. The past. The future.

But Ailen was alone, and his new self-inflicted braids were frustrating and uneven, and a heart-wrenching reminder of the love he’d left at home. But they were secure enough, and would last – though, Ailen shied away from imagining if he would be trapped in the tower long enough to need to do them again.

He slept through the remainder of his precious respite from research. Sleep was desperately needed, and better than stewing in the apprehension of the coming repeat of utter humiliation. Edelgard did not appear over the course of the two days, for which Ailen was grateful; his only interactions were with Marbles when the homunculus delivered his meals.

On the third morning, Ailen woke refreshed physically, but sick with dread. He fell into his routine with mechanical resignation. When he went to the windows to open one for fresh air, his breath caught; the ground far below, rippling through the glass, was a world of white.

Time had passed, surely as ever.

He didn’t open the window.

Ailen crossed to the cluttered alchemy station. Since being granted his time off, he’d done his best to ignore it in favor of rest and self-care, aside from safely neutralizing and disposing of his failed experiments and storing the half-successful copper-transmuting substance. It lost its glow when its temperature dropped, and became inert. An interesting aspect.

Now, Ailen realized, all he could do was plan, and wait for Edelgard to… deliver. He cleared a surface and began charting out different potential variations on the process that begat the green potion, filing away the need to name his discovery later. His excitement at his progress and his anticipation of further breakthroughs clashed with his sickly apprehension at the prospect of what he would go through to attain the necessary materials. Each time a vision of his debasement invaded his mind it felt like a knife to his heart, making him wince and shudder. But it was undeniable the possibility of escape lay beyond that degradation; as unbearable as it seemed to be, it also seemed to be the only option.

~~~

“Don’t look so down,” Edelgard chided, “You’re on the brink of a great discovery!”

The mage hands had Ailen half undressed already, shoe-less, with his shirt hanging open and his trousers being nudged down over his hips. The alchemist panted and trembled, tears coming unbidden, but he had struggled less this time. He kept his eyes fixed on Edelgard’s lined forehead, doing his best to bring his focus to a small pinpoint and ignore everything else – his fear, his shame, the heat between his legs, the wizard’s breath and self-pleasuring.

“Please hurry, sir,” Ailen whispered.

“That’s not a very becoming thing to say,” said Edelgard.

“I’m sorry, sir.” A sob crept into Ailen’s voice as his trousers and undershorts were slipped off, one foot at a time.

“Hm,” Edelgard tilted his head, a smile returning, “I believe it’s necessary for us to try something different.”

“What?” Ailen gasped, but before he could demand further explanation the mage hands pulled him down hard onto his already-bruised knees. The alchemist cried out in pain, tears running afresh; any focus, any mental wall he had erected was broken. The hands pulled him back until he was steeply leaning, a pair on his hips holding his pelvis up, fingers digging into the soft flesh of his ass. His arms were twisted and pushed through his shirt; then the garment was tossed aside while his arms were pinned behind his back, making his body arch farther upwards. Strong grips closed on his thighs and knees, pushing them apart. Ailen wept throughout, his panic rising as the instinctual need to struggle returned. He fought against the spectral hands, but they only held him tighter and forced his body to curve more in response. A hand pushed the back of his head up, making him face Edelgard once more.

“What are you doing?” Ailen pleaded, “What are you going to do?”

“Just keep looking at me, my little alchemist,” the wizard replied, “Just like that, you’re doing so well.”

Ailen’s teeth chattered with fear – but the next sensation made him scream. Cold fingers slipped between his legs, between his folds, circling in the slickness there.

“NO!” Ailen shouted, his voice cracked and desperate, “Stop! Don’t touch me!” He bucked wildly, and more hands clamped down in counter.

Meanwhile, Edelgard was staring at him.

“You’re wet,” he said incredulously.

Ailen froze.

“No, no no no no no…”

Not only was his shame discovered, but those two words also revealed that Edelgard could feel everything that the mage hands felt. Every inch of Ailen’s skin that had been touched – it was not simply mindless hands bending Ailen to his captor’s will, those hands were Edelgard’s, each and every one of them.

Ailen retched fruitlessly, and sobbed ever harder. Edelgard approached him slowly, his exposed cock in his hand, dripping precum.

“You’re enjoying this,” the wizard said.

“No!” insisted Ailen, shutting his eyes against the revulsion, “No, please, I’m not, no!”

“Look at me,” Edelgard hissed, and a split second later two cold fingers shoved inside Ailen. His eyes flew open, and he cried out, his body attempting to twist away with no success; his gaze met his captor’s. Edelgard had a devilish smile on his face, and began to stroke himself swiftly. The fingers inside Ailen started to fuck him in tandem, each thrust making him flinch and jolt against the hands that held him.

“No,” Ailen wheezed, each jabbing impact stealing his breath, “No, no…” He dared not look away from Edelgard’s eyes, and the vision of them burned into his mind; pale, blue, the thin eyebrows and crow’s feet – but more importantly, an undeniable hunger, a greed, a sick delight.

“Ah,” Edelgard panted, “You’re so pretty, Ailen.”

All the fight siphoned out of Ailen’s body, sucked into those hungry eyes. He went slack, sobbing uncontrollably, great heaving breaths rattling into his lungs and choking back out as strangled cries. The fingers inside him curled and pressed and plunged cruelly, seeking out every inch that they could reach, leaving no spot unviolated.

“Please,” he whined, the words coming out thoughtlessly, “Please…”

Edelgard took a step closer to Ailen, and fear surged afresh through the alchemist; Edelgard had no incentive to keep his word that he wouldn’t touch Ailen – he already hadn’t, if the mage hands were to be counted. A dreadful truth seized Ailen, forcing a whimper out of him: there was nothing to stop Edelgard from fucking him himself. Ailen was completely helpless. He could only struggle uselessly and hope against hope that this – this, being stripped, fucked by cold fingers, being put on display, was as bad as it would get.

“Beg,” said Edelgard, “Keep begging.”

“Please, stop, please,” Ailen sobbed out, and was immediately hit with a wave of embarrassment for so quickly debasing himself at the wizard’s order. But he couldn’t stop; if there was even the slightest chance that his pleas might get through to his captor his instincts overwhelmed him into taking that chance.

“Please, please, I don’t want this, it hurts, you’re hurting me, stop, please!”

“That’s right,” Edelgard breathed, “Just like that, you’re so good for me, Ailen.”

“No, no, please, I can’t…” Ailen’s words dissolved into weeping, his body shuddering and quivering. Edelgard’s breath rose, his eyes glazed over, lost in his own pleasure; he groaned loudly before turning away, snatching up a prepared empty vial. He released into it, tilting his head back, his eyes fluttering shut. Ailen looked away in disgust. A moment later the mage hands vanished, letting the alchemist fall to the floor with a thump that rattled his bones and refreshed his bruises. Wincing, whimpering, he extracted his arms from beneath himself and wiped uselessly at his tears, smearing them across his face. When his vision cleared he saw Edelgard looming over him; Ailen averted his eyes and pressed his knees together, hugging his arms across his chest.

“Say thank you,” Edelgard softly requested.

“Th-thank you,” Ailen shivered, the words like acid in his throat.

“Very good, Ailen.”

The wizard left his line of sight, and Ailen listened to him leave; the retreating footsteps, the slide of the iron bolt. Ailen lay on the floor in silence broken only by the occasional hiccuping sob, tears rolling across his temples and into his ears. He ached, bone deep, across his entire body; he became aware of an unsettling warm buzz in his gut, sensation built up unwillingly by the finger fucking.

Ailen hated it, and hated himself for feeling it.

He felt too weak to go back to work; too weak to stand, to dress, to continue on with his life as if nothing had happened. He wanted to melt, to disappear, to be gone from this place.

He wanted to go home.

The bolt of the door rattled; a soft “No,” escaped Ailen’s lips before he registered the movement pattern as Marbles. He slowly, painfully, pushed himself upright to watched the homunculus enter. It bore a tray of bread, cheese, sausage and fruit; it stepped forward, but stopped when it saw Ailen on the floor. The two of them regarded each other for a long moment, then Marbles moved forward and set the tray down on top of a cabinet, shoving aside a couple jars to make room.

“Thank you, Marbles,” Ailen whispered.

The glass eyes turned to look at the alchemist and even though Marbles was a mindless construct, an automaton of his own creation, Ailen had to look away. The shame of being seen in this state, of being used in such a way, was too great.

“You may go,” he choked out, evermore tears springing to his eyes.

Marbles stood there, swaying slightly, staring at Ailen. Then it approached; Ailen couldn’t help but shrink, wrapping his arms around his knees. To his surprise, though, Marbles bent and picked up his shirt. It fought through its poor coordination to find the collar, and held it open, moving to stand slightly behind Ailen.

Marbles was trying to help him dress.

The simple kindness of the act sent a fresh wave of sorrow through Ailen. His face crumpled.

“Thank you,” he said again, and lifted an arm; Marbles leaned in, and slid the sleeve over Ailen’s hand and up to his shoulder.

Slowly, awkwardly, the homunculus helped Ailen dress – but the alchemist didn’t mind the pace or the clumsiness at all. They got his shirt on, and a few buttons done; Marbles helped him stand on wobbling legs, and Ailen rested his hands on the construct’s shoulders while it held first his undershorts, then his trousers to step into. Once covered, Ailen felt almost human again.

“Thank you, Marbles,” he repeated once more. Marbles stood in front of him, looking at him blankly. Ailen’s emotions rose and he hugged Marbles tightly, desperately, feeling his own chest rise and fall against the cold, still body in his arms.

“Thank you.” The words felt useless, so Ailen hugged Marbles harder. He took a long, shaking breath, then released the homunculus.

“You may go,” he croaked.

Marbles turned and wandered to the door. It paused there, oddly, but made its exit. The bolt clunked into place.

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Stream Recap, PearlescentMoon, 07/08/24

((A nice, calm, chatty stream for three and a half hours where Pearl restocks her flower shop and adds a cute little cafe area, followed by a completely buckwild final half-hour in which Pearl meets Impulse and Skizzleman at Magic Mountain for acts of violence against one another and the server's PG boundaries.))

3:45 Pearl opens the stream in audio mode and greets Chat. Chat wants to know the plan for the day, but they know how Pearl’s plans to go. The plan is “Flower shop stuff!” No redstone today, all the failsafes are in and only hard mode audio is needed for Dyeductions. She will show Chat the redstone she and Xisuma worked on, but it’s functional and doesn’t need tweaked today. It all works! It is time to set a new Dyeductions word, though she doesn’t know if anybody has played the word for the week who wasn’t guinea pigging for her.

6:00 Chat wants to talk about the Doc Llama thing. Pearl said that whole thing was pretty off-the-cuff and as far as she’s concerned, that was totally his fault. She doesn’t deserve to be sued, she only helped Doc! Chat mentions Doc was mostly mad at himself, Pearl laughs and agrees that she had to cut out some of the words Doc used just after his ground-touch, but Doc thinks he has a way out of the consequences and he is okay now. She is also aware that he was trying to play on her sympathies after his death but gave him the moss block anyway. Chat generally thinks the llama thing was very, very funny.

8:00 A chatter says they hope to see Pearl at PAX, Pearl hopes to be at PAX! Another chatter points out that Cleo left Doc a pig to ride on but he immediately killed it. Pearl says that sounds like a very Doc thing to do. Chat wants to go see more Skydoc. Pearl likes the idea, but doesn’t want to be the one poking Doc all the time. She thanks subs and donos, then brings the stream to game view. Pearl is in her storage room. A chatter mentions how much they love the new portal. Pearl says that it’s possible, based on initial reactions, that the portal might stay. Pearl wonders if she can sue herself for the emotional damages. If it does stay, she’s definitely going to improve it so it at least isn’t so monocolored and terraformless. Chat likes the portal a lot.

12:00 Pearl flies towards the flower shop and pauses in Xisuma and Cub’s big new build. She’s still not sure what they are building, but it’s probably the new spawn area for when spawn chunks relocate after the update. It looks pretty thoroughly planned out, though at the moment it is all blank stone blocks. Pearl moves on and finds a single lonely floating tree outside Ren’s perimeter. She hates this tree and lands specifically to remove it. Hopefully nobody actually wants it. She’s interrupted by Nugget shenanigans, but Karn can deal with those. Pearl tells Chat that she has lost her silk touch pickaxe. She tells a story that involves a lot of burning zombies in her shop and an embarrassing death due to the way copper grates get waterlogged instead of spilling water onto burning Pearls, followed by her not finding her pick afterwards until after the time it would have despawned. It’s a roundabout story for “I died and lost my pickaxe,” but it works.

16:10 A chatter mentions that it’s funny that Scar also has an episode called “Malicious Compliance” about a portal. ((Scar’s malicious compliance involved building a nether portal designed to murder people.)) Pearl did not realize that and now feels slightly awkward about the coincidence. She shows Chat her portal. Chat loves the portal. Pearl put minimal effort into every part of it, including the terraforming. She double-checks the portal to make sure it works, it does although she comes out a different mouth. If she keeps this portal, she’s going to need to put a little landing zone in for anyone without an elytra. If she keeps it, which is a big IF. She doesn’t want to, but if the Hermits like it, she will. The Shopping District overall is a chaotic mess filled with indivudually awesome builds, and she is not helping that overall effect here.

19:30 Pearl tells Chat that she got a message from Cub on Discord that she is not being sued anymore because a portal has been built. So that’s something. Chat wants to countersue for the emotional damages of having to build that portal. She mentions that Impulse and Cub both assumed someone not Pearl was building the portal because it’s such an un-Pearl build. Pearl would not mind if other Hermits also wanted to add ridiculous portal bits to the ridiculous portal. Karn brings Nugget to Pearl, but Nugget only wishes to be with Karn. Chat tells Pearl that Hermits love creative ugliness. Pearl buys some books from Cleo’s shop to replace the lost pick. She does collect her coffee beverages, thinking that maybe she can put a little cafe area in the back of the flower shop. She also might be able to buy rockets for her sprinkler system from Cub now that he’s not suing her anymore. She talks about the exploding of Magic Mountain, which was great, but probably will not be in her next episode but rather the one after that.

26:00 Pearl tries to enchant her pick but she doesn’t have enough levels to do it. Bop N Go is probably empty too, so she goes hunting for some XP to harvest. She empties her furnace array, but it mostly fixes her elytra. She has not seen reactions from Etho on her roof prank or from Gem on her voice recording prank. Chat warns her that Etho plans on keeping the purpur roof. Pearl says that is Etho doesn’t put up his own roof, she’ll be back in a couple weeks to replace it with something even less desirable. She explains the principle of harvesting XP from a furnace to curious chatters. Eventually she accumulates enough levels to finish her enchanting and decides to name the new Silk Touch pick Smooth Criminal and the Fortune pick will be named when she has more levels.

36:30 Pearl heads back to the flower shop but is distracted by a strange noise from the Armor Trim shop. Someone has replaced the Ghast head in the alarm system with a goat head, making a godawful goatly racket. She heads to the shop and admires Flower Llama, remarking how surprised she is that it survived a creeper to the face so well. Two Hermits have played Dyeductions since the beginning of the week, but they did not records their scores. Pearl admits to doing some offscreen redstone, just so as not to make every stream a redstone stream. She shows Chat the system she put together with Xisuma’s help: a failsafe to allow for double letter use with no risk of softlocking. She checks the system to make everything is in good working order and that the prize bundles are adequate. Two Os and As are missing from the chest. She finds them in the droppers due to someone’s derpy game behavior, but at least it’s not broken! She will be adding the last four letters to the system soon, but rejects Chat’s suggestion to somehow reject non-word submissions. That would be more redstone than could be fit in the entire world.

51:00 Pearl checks on her rocket sprinklers. She shows off the redstone for it, which needs some refinement, but eating food, gliding with elytra and interacting with a mob will set off sprinklers. Today she’s going to add more decorations to the shop and also build the path up to the shop. As she heads back to her base for supplies, she explains how calibrated skulk sensors work. Pearl wants to use more calibrated skulk sensors now that she knows how to use them. She also mentions how she threw together a concrete converter and was happy because she knows how to make one of those without having to look stuff up or anything. Knowing redstone is neat! She shows Chat the concrete converter, located in her base next to the Mudificator, and talks with Chat about possible refinements.

58:00 Pearl is not sure whether Doc got the wither roses she gave him and that got blown up with him. Chat assures her that he does have them, so she doens’t need to drop by the Skyblock Prison. She gathers up the flowers and bonemeal she will need. Chat thinks it would be funny to set up a mailbox in the sky for Doc, but unfortunately the time it takes to set up a mailbox makes it prohibitive. Nobody’s using the mail that much right now anyway. She flies back to the flower shop, taking a moment to compliment False’s river terraforming and its lovely curves. Chat wants to give Doc more golden carrots. Pearl thinks Doc is just fine where he is.

1:04:00 Pearl restocks her flowers and seeds. The builds for her most recent video was finished less than 24 hours before it aired. Making the redstone failsafe put her way behind and it didn’t even make it into the video! Next video will have Dyeductions stuff in it. Chat is eager for the Dyeduction patch update. Pearl confides that she’d originally wanted to take Keralis on the Hermit tour, but he signed off before she was finished and so she went to find Doc. She also admits that she’s still using Tango’s nether portal after all these months. Maybe that can be her next episode. She considers that for five seconds, then remembers her previous two episodes have both been “Pearl Builds A Portal” episodes. What she really needs is a new storage room. Her storage room is terrible. Maybe she will build a new building onto the base and make it storage. Chat thinks a redstone storage system might be fun. Chat also thinks a Decked Out episode would be fun. Pearl laughs and says that’s not very likely, but maybe redstone storage.

1:12:00 Pearl collects up more pitcher pod seeds to restock her shop. Someone, she thinks Etho, has purchased all her pod seeds already. As she returns to the shop, she talks about possibly adding a single villager to her base just to have some emeralds for wandering traders. She makes a beautiful gliding landing into her shop and tells Chat they should appreciate that because adding the truck has made gliding entrances much more difficult. A chatter asks if this is modded Minecraft. Pearl hmms but says that most of what people think is modded on Hermitcraft is actually just a resource pack. Chat critiques Pearl’s click and drag techniques for arranging seeds in a chest. They are scandalized that Pearl does not use left-click-drag. Pearl tells Chat she will do it from now on.

1:17:30 Pearl feels like making just a quick little farm for pitcher plants. She is so tempted, but she thinks it will not be as simple as the concrete maker and she doesn’t want to do redstone all stream. She sorrowfully grows her pitcher plants manually. A chatter asks about the lily pad shop, Pearl has not planned it yet but she will. They are not urgent because nobody ever buys lilypads or ferns. She wants to make little shops next to her greenhouse, maybe even a little shop on the dock for lilypads. There is a conversation about whether villagers can harvest pitcher plants, chat is certain they cannot. Pearl has ideas about how to do pitcher plant farming, but she needs to figure out how to detect their final growth form. She needs to do some Science! Chat offers her a tutorial, but she wants to do it without tutorials this season.

1:25:30 Pearl gathers materials and prepares for science. She goes back to the pitcher plants and has an involved conversation with Chat about how to count and account for the growth of pitcher plants in a farm. She does some science and is annoyed to realize that a piston will destroy a plant before it is fully grown and curses the name of Mojang for their cruelty. She wishes happy birthday to a chatter and interrogates them on birthday plans and presents. She does more science to see if the plants will grow more than one tick at a time. This is the sort of science that takes awhile. Pearl and Chat talk about the weather. Pearl tries Googling it, but the wiki does not cover that issue. Pearl thinks that if multi-growth ticks are rare enough, she can make a farm anyway. Theoretically a rare jam condition just means that your farm will never overflow. Some chatters are curious about pitcher plants, Pearl shows off the sniffers in their chamber and explains the way sniffers dig up seeds in 1.20.

1:43:00 Pearl cannot resist the siren call of doing a little redstone. Karn raids into the stream. His chat is full of puns today. Pearl explains her idea for an observer-based farm to Chat, then talks with Karn about his stream. Karn sings to her to try and copyright strike her. ((He is unsuccessful.)) Karn has been playing Cult of the Lamb, he says it went “wool.” Pearl suggests it went terribwool. They fight for the affection of the Chat for their terrible puns. Chat is on Pearl’s side, but they are biased. Pearl and Karn are cute on stream for a few moments, then he heads out.

1:55:00 Pearl finishes pitcher plant farming and restocks her shop. She talks to Chat about farming some more, but she is _definitely_ not doing redstone today. She notes that her bundles are running a little low, but she hasn’t had to restock before. She does not realize until Chat tells her that False has her concrete shop open. She immediately goes to visit and critique’s False’s prices. People should have to pay more for concrete than powder! Chat says False has a super-fast converter so there is not much difference in effort to provide concrete. Pearl also spots the blaze rod shop for the first time and complains that she had to go farm blazes in the nether just the other day. There are a lot of shops she doesn’t know about! She investigates Ren’s skulk shop, then has to go see whether Tango or Ren is selling skulk sensors. Skulk sensors are an edge case, but it looks like they are Tango’s to sell.

2:02:00 A chatter makes a joke about suing over the use of “coming soon!” on a sign. Pearl tells Chat that while she likes all the content that lawsuits have made on the server thus far, she does worry that the culture is becoming overly litigious, mostly Chat. A little suing is fun, but it’s easy to go too far. Chat just really liked the court case. Pearl agrees the court case was great, but cases need to be spread apart a bit. She looks at the diorite shop Ren built, then goes and admires Tango’s Fun Gus shop. The shroomlights are expensive, but she hates farming them so she understands. She visits Keralis’s maze and tries it out to get the Boosh Maze trophy. Her strategy is “Always go left.” She finds her way there quickly and gets rewarded by fireworks!

2:08:00 Pearl visits Mumbo’s gold shop and is pleased to see that he’s restocked. She wonders if “improved price” means he has upped the price since last time. She examines his redstone with freecam. Mumbo is still out of item frames. Pearl is desperate to know why he won’t just make a leather farm. She looks at some of the remaining popup shops in the SD and wonders why they haven’t been removed yet, then remembers there is a countdown going. The countdown sand timer, though, does not appear to have gone down at all! She flies over to POE HQ to investigate and finds a trapdoor marked with “Ultra-Redstoners Only!” Deciding she is clearly worthy of the title of Ultra-Redstoners, she descends into the chamber below the sandclock. For all her burgeoning talent, Pearl is clearly not ultra-redstoner enough to understand the intricacies of Scar’s redstone and comes away believing that it does nothing except make a whole lot of noise.

2:13:30 Pearl looks through POE HQ but its interior is still not finished. She heads back to the flower shop and continues critiquing Scar’s immaculate redstone. She tells Chat she’s not going to go up to the Skyblock today in case Doc has been building up there. She doesn’t want to accidentally spoiler any of that. Chat asks her about future farms, she’s got nothing urgent on tap but does want to do that pitcher plant farm. She begins sketching out ideas for the cafe area of the flower shop. She wants hanging plants, but not like the traditional kind. She brainstorms with Chat. Chat suggests getting the table look she wants with armor stands, but Pearl doesn’t want to do too much with armor stands because she likes the vanilla look whenever possible. Maybe armor stands for the hanging plants. As it gets dark, she notes that she needs more lights in the shop.

2:20:30 Pearl tries composters with trapdoors on top for tables, they are not quite what she wants. Chat suggests extended pistons for tables. Pearl tries unextended sticky pistons instead. She likes it okay, but adds some regular pistons so the green is not so GREEN. Chat wants her to extend the pistons, she says she will but wanted the placement right. She goes outside and breaks down a whole stack of redstone ore. She talks with Chat about the difference between local cozy nursery shops and big industrial greenhouses. She wants the cozy vibe. She uses redstone blocks to underlay the piston tables and extend them out of the floor. Chat suggests using torches and saving a lot of redstone, but Pearl likes the blocks. She knows it’s weird, but it’s like using obsidian in the portal corners, she just likes it. And she has plenty of redstone blocks now!

2:31:20 Pearl asks Chat about the redstone difference between honey blocks and slime blocks, Chat explains it to her. Honey cannot be powered, and while both blocks stick to other blocks, they do not stick to each other. This is valuable information for Pearl. She flies home for more supplies. She has to use her new SD portal and considers suing herself. That’s actually a court case she could get behind, her as both sides of the argument, walking from one table to the other as she made her arguments. She wants to do different and unexpected entertainment this season. Hence the Doc hermit tour! She insists that despite what she just said, she did not intend to kill Doc with that creeper.

2:36:00 Pearl spends some time trying to figure out whether a Pina Colada floats. She decides it does not, and thus is suitable for the shop. She gathers plenty of plant matter, including pickles, and notes that she is running low on pickles. She has a hard time finding glow lichen, she needs more. Chat suggests vines, but she does not like how much they spread. She looks for dripleaf and wonders who has the permit. She would love that permit. Chat thinks Beef has Dripleaf, so Pearl will have to bother him about that. She goes on the hunt for dripleaf but cannot go to Gem because of Spoilers. Chat suggests Bdubs or Keralis. Pearl goes back to Keralis’ place and admires his weird diagonal tree. She nabs and replaces a bit of dripleaf and heads home with her prize. She bonemeals a very, very tall dripleaf and knocks it down.

2:44:00 A chatter talks about Hurricane Beryl, Pearl wishes them safety riding out the storm. A chatter asks if she could prank Skizz by adding a nail salon to his law office. Pearl doesn’t get the joke, apparently it is a Better Call Saul reference. Pearl’s decoration efforts are made more difficult by how easy it is to mine up beehives with axes, and also that moss just goes where it wants. Still she persists and decorates her cafe area. A chatter asks if Pearl deserves to be sent to the sky with Doc. Pearl doesn’t understand why she would deserve to be skyblocked. Chat mostly just wants Pearl Skyblock. Pearl very much does not want Pearl Skyblock, but she admires Doc’s fortitude in enduring it. Also if anybody’s going to get sued for not doing server stuff, it should be for not building the Nether Hub.

2:53:00 Pearl runs around underneath her shop and collects all the blocks she spilled while decorating, eventually ending up in the noodles of Dyeduction. A chatter says they feel sorry for Doc because he is just trying to do his thing and keeps being bothered. Pearl is amused by this and says don’t feel sorry for Doc, if he really wanted to be left alone to do his thing, he would have said something. He’s getting so much content! People need to remember that the Hermits are content creators, and if they wanted to be left alone, they wouldn’t be on a big SMP. Doc is having fun and he is a good sport, and he is very able to say something if he is truly bothered by something. She also points out that the Skyblock Prison is close to everyone for a reason, rather than being out by his base or the world border.

2:56:00 Pearl talks more with Chat about potential court cases. The snails v Scar and the Ore Snatcher case are good cases, a lawsuit over a portal, not so much. Chat is concerned that the snails have gone missing, but Pearl doesn’t know anything about that. She also does not know when or if there’s another Life Series. Someone asks if she saw another failsafe model that was posted on the Reddit, she did see it but she doesn’t think it’s better than the one she’s using. She explains why. She does appreciate that people want to help and who are excited about her redstone projects.

3:01:00 A chatter asks Pearl what her favorite series of the Life Series is, adding *wink wink.* Pearl takes that as a cue for silly answers and says Hermitcraft is her favorite, but eventually wraps around to saying that Double Life is her favorite and probably will be for a long time. She gives a chatter tips on making reskinned items for a custom resource pack. She examines the cafe area and likes what she sees, but tweaks the dripleaf chairs into campfire chairs. She talks with Chat about the difference between modded Minecraft (adding blocks) and resource packs (adding textures.) All these fancy hats and trophies look modded, but they’re just pumpkins. She heads home for campfires and thanks subs and donos. A chatter is getting foster kittens, Pearl is excited for them but she could not do it herself because she would get instantly attached and be a foster fail with many, many cats. A chatter suggests making an eldritch pickle monster near Gem’s base; Pearl assures Chat that she is not done with pickle pranks yet (and also that she has told Gem that Gem gets to decide when she is too tired of pickle shenanigans.) She flies back to the shop.

3:10:00 A chatter asks what Pearl’s favorite season of Hermitcraft is. Pearl has been on three seasons so far, a short one, a regular one, and a regular one where everyone is scrunched together, and they are all so different that she couldn’t possibly pick one as a favorite. She likes making her seasons extremely distinct from one another. In chat, Tango sees the new portal and yells “PICKLE PORTAL POWER!” Chat loves that. Pearl makes the new chairs and likes them very much. She needs to figure out lighting and realizes that if she wants froglights under the table, she needs to switch to redstone torches. She does so, with reluctance. It still doesn’t look very bright. She doesn’t think the light actually comes through the pistons.

3:16:00 Pearl thanks more subs and donos, including some missed very old ones. Chat asks if Pearl has tortured Doc today, but Doc is not online. Impulse is online, but he has already done this week’s Wordle, so he cannot be pestered right now. Pearl goes back to the lighting issue. She throws some froglights under moss and calls it good. It looks very nice and Chat is happy. Pearl points out one little secret area in the copper grating where the redstone for Dyeductions can be seen. Everywhere else, it is hidden by leaves. She and Chat brainstorm more decorations and Pearl heads home for more stuff. She mentions that she fully designed most of the flower shop interior beforehand because it takes so long going home and getting new supplies for this sort of freehanding.

3:25:00 Pearl buzzes Impulse over Magic Mountain. They land on the edge of the excavation and Pearl asks how his hole is doing. He says that’s an awkward question but he’s getting things cleaned up. She punches him and says he is terrible. He points out that anything they say these days is liable to be made into a horn. She says that what she said was fine, he’s the one who made it weird! “PG Hermit, my butt,” she mutters. She asks Impulse what the plan is from this point, but Impulse feels like he has done enough of the heavy lifting with his magnificent TNT drop machine and it’s time for the other Magic Mountaineers to step up. They both agree that Grian seemed pretty eager to have a crack at the mountain with his own TNT. Impulse is going to smooth out floating blocks and stuff, a little cleaning up. Pearl is a little sorry to lose all the cool dripstone caves, but there will be some still on the edges of the mountain. Pearl and Impulse’s chats say hello to each other. Pearl and Impulse talk about microphone sound levels, and Pearl tells Impulse that if the silly portal stays, she expects other Hermits to add onto it. Not Veggietales necessarily, but very silly. Impulse suggests the build is reminiscent of the whole Toon Towers vibe from Tango’s S7 build and Pearl agrees. ((The recapper agrees too!)) Pearl whines a little about having her malicious compliance portal be something that people want to keep, and Impulse points out that the gaming district portal is beautiful, so it’s not as though Pearl has anything to prove. Unfortunately, she points out, the SD portal is the one she has to see every day.

3:30:00 Impulse reminds Pearl that if the portal stays, she also needs to build the Boogervator to carry people from the bottom face of the portal to the actual portal level. Impulse suggested the Boogervator and he is still highly enamored of both name and concept. A few flaming arrows rain down from overhead and they idly chat about how Skizz isn’t quite at HotGuy levels of aim yet. But he’s trying! Impulse says he’s about to open the bottom of the hole to the void. Pearl wonders if he’s going to open the entire bottom of the massive hole, but he’s not that ambitious yet. A small void hole will do. Skizz shoots past at full speed, yelling “You guys suck!” during the moment he’s in range, then he’s gone again. Pearl protests that she’s standing still to get shot and everything, but finally Skizz gives up and lands.

3:32:00 Skizz tells the story of how he did not shoot Impulse and Pearl, which mainly boils down to bad angles and skill issues. Pearl and Impulse both loudly warn him that they are streaming, after his F word faux pas on Pearl’s stream the other day. He yells at them to shut up and flies away. “See you later *beep*face!” Impulse calls cheerfully, using his censor button to cover any potential swears. Chat is highly amused. Pearl says he’s not going to live that one down anytime soon. Impulse agrees and is surprised that the clip hasn’t spread further, but his thought is interrupted by Pearl’s death to Skizz’s FailGuy bow. Pearl laughs and admits she saw that coming as she respawns in her base.

3:34:00 Pearl equips some spare gear and heads back to Magic Mountain, still giggling. Impulse has been using dispensers to store Pearl’s dropped gear, and scolds her for not using the bed he placed down. He knows Skizz well enough to realize that Skizz was simply not going to stop until he managed to shoot somebody. He returns her pickaxe and comments on her fancy netherite tools; she can’t believe he’s still using diamonds at this stage of the game and tells him to get mining. Impulse does not like mining for netherite! Pearl points out that it’s kind of soothing to mine in a straight line like that, but Impulse points out that the Nether is pretty mined out at this point in the season. On top of the mountain, Skizz has found a Pillager patrol. Impulse reminds him not to start a raid, Pearl thinks a raid in this enormous dug-out hole would be kind of neat. The patrol enters the chasm area and Skizz begins swooping down to shoot at them, hitting Impulse in the process. Between the three of them, they put down the party quickly and Pearl finishes collecting her things. She polishes off the bannerman with a campfire.

3:38:00 Skizz makes a comment about the bannerman doing a Jojo dance on the campfire, Pearl is confused because her go-to Jojo is Solos, not Siwa. Impulse and Skizz bicker over which one of them is the fan of Dance Moms while Pearl attempts to punch Skizz to death with an unlit flint and steel. He eventually yelps and flies away. Impulse implores Pearl to set her spawn, even as Skizz flies back claiming that he could’ve shot her if he’d wanted to. They both mock him roundly for that, but he is quickly distracted because there is coal ore. Pearl asks Skizz what he wants to do with coal ore and he is not quite sure, but has something in mind with the what that coal ore looks when vines grow over it and it could be a cool look for something. He is not nearly as interested in iron ore, even though there is quite a lot of it exposed in the hole.

3:40:30 Skizz tells Impulse he can’t get over the TNT machine he made, and he’s disappointed Impulse took it down. He should’ve just moved it over a little bit and done it again. Pearl punches Skizz off the edge and into the hole, but he is wearing an elytra and catches himself during the long, long fall. Chat is still happy. Impulse agrees that the TNT machine was amazing, that’s why he did it, but it was in no way efficient given how much TNT it cost. Skizz laughs and backs up the conversation, saying that the casual flex of “It was amazing, that’s why I did it” is definitely Impulse’s next t-shirt design. Impulse writes that down. He says he’s already plugged his merch for the day, then takes a moment to plug the Imp and Skizz merch to Pearl’s stream as well. Skizz takes a moment to flash back to his accidental swearing incident. Pearl realizes she’s pulling a lot of big emotions from Hermits this season, terrifying the unflappable Doc, embarrassing usually-shameless Skizzleman. What will she do next? Skizz says, laughing, that being embarrassed makes him feel human and he doesn’t like it. Impulse and Pearl mock him for that, asking what level he thinks he’s on. Skizz says he can’t be down with these guys!

3:44:00 Impulse is surprised to see Skizz online at this hour, a time when he’d normally be working. Skizz says he started work early today and wrapped a bunch of stuff up, now he’s trying to decide what to do for his stream. Impulse tells his chat to decide what Skizz should do today. Pearl asks Chat as well. Chat wants “Chaos,” “Shenanigans,” “Pranks,” “Pickles,” “A Silly Dance,” and a lot of votes for Dyeduction. Skizz is thinking about Mission Possible. Impulse suggests combining Pearl’s chat’s suggestion with his chat’s suggestion and make Skizz do Dyeduction… as a musical. Chat likes that plan a lot. Skizz is less thrilled and tries to clarify if he has to sing what he’s guessing. Impulse demonstrates by singing “I’m going to guess the word “HORSE,”” and gets chided by Skizz for holding the first part of the last word way too long before putting the S on there. Doesn’t he know that Pearl is streaming? Impulse calls him *beep*face again and says Skizz should’ve seen how Pearl rolled in, asking all kinds of weird personal questions. The first thing she asked him was “how’s your hole”! Pearl insists she meant this one, the stone one they are all standing next to, while Skizz sighs and predicts they are going to get him in a lot of trouble if he sticks around. Chat is having an _excellent_ time. Impulse and Skizz make several more awkward hole-related jokes while Pearl is torn between giggles and grimaces. Impulse says that his chat is used to this sort of antics by now, that Gem corrupted them with the whole Mac and Cheese thing and it was all downhill from there. ((Back at the start of the season, there was a fad for standing around in groups and slapping a salmon head on a noteblock to listen to the squelching sound it made. Gem made a comment offstream about the salmon head sounding like mac and cheese, referencing a viral Vine about how stirring macaroni and cheese makes a noise like a very Not Safe For Work thing. Impulse thought it was just a comment about the funny way mac and cheese sounds and brought it up with her on stream a few days later, much to her chagrin given her very Safe For Work streaming image. She made Impulse watch the Vine onstream (on his phone with stream muted) and he was deeply traumatized.))

3:47:30 What Skizz really wants to do is play Phasmo sometime with Pearl. They’ve done it once for a charity stream, but he wants to again. Chat is so into it. Skizz tries to go sleep through the night, but Impulse sets him on fire and he can’t sleep while on fire. Impulse complains about how long it takes Skizz to sleep. Skizz tries to shoot Impulse with a crossbow from a couple blocks away but misses by a mile and takes off to find more rockets. Impulse and Pearl chat about the TNT drop filming. Impulse says watching Mumbo evaporate midair was so great in the replay mod, and he had to resist doing a Matrix-style slow-motion circle pan around him as he disintegrated. Skizz caught it on replay mod too and was struck by how Mumbo said “I’ll give it a go” and died _instantly._ The three of them all agree that until that point, they hadn’t realized midair collisions were a possibility at all. TNT minecarts are rather different than falling TNT blocks! Their dives through the downpour were reckless, but very fun.

3:51:50 Impulse spots a pink sheep, but they suspect it was probably dyed by Joel to match his city. Skizz finds some coal ore and gets busy with that. Impulse says he’d better get to work, his stream title promises he’s going to blow holes in bedrock. Pearl admits she’s titled at least three streams with “terraforming the flower shop” and it still has not happened. Impulse tells her she’s just addicted to redstone, and he’s happy for her. There’s always something new to learn in Minecraft and it keeps the game fresh. Skizz agrees, saying he’s the world’s worst builder, but he’s having a mini-arc of improvements. He built himself an office but now he needs to do an interior and he doesn’t even know where to start.

3:54:00 Pearl asks Skizz when he’s doing Musical Dyeduction. Impulse echoes that, asking what time Skizz is going to be streaming. Skizz waffles a bit, hoping he can get out of it because he’s already done the word for the week, but Pearl assures him that because it is Monday, she’s resetting the word. Skizz protests he’s not a singer, Pearl says he can go on a singing improvement and building improvement arc at once. He asks it he has to do it on hard mode, she says that’s optional. He asks if it’s going to be a word nobody knows anymore (ie Ergot from testing) or a real word that people know. She says it’s going to be a real and medium-easy word, but they should consider expanding their vocabularies. Skizz says he and Impulse are going to start their own Wordle and it’s going to be all 12-letter made up words. The first word will be “Shickshack,” and that will be fine because more people use it than use “ergot.” ((Shickshack is from an old Phasmo stream where the crew successfully used it to get Scar tongue-tied enough to say “Shit rack” on stream.)) Schnoogins and Nooch are other strong contenders. Impulse is afraid to play it without Pearl there, and Skizz doesn’t want to play it on stream. Maybe playing and singing on stream will be enough to kill his nerves permanently. They talk about Sweeney Todd, the musical Impulse watched recently, until it is time for Skizz to sleep the night away. Impulse shoots at him and hits the bed, catching it on fire. This does not preclude sleeping in it but does make Skizz look like the before image in a commercial for jock itch cream.

3:59:00 Impulse gleefully tells Skizz it looks like a part of his body is on fire, he’s not going to say which but he should maybe see a doctor. Skizz tells him he was having a good dream. Impulse, Pearl and Chat all yell about that, and Impulse says he’s gotta go. Pearl tells Skizz he deserves the musical. Skizz logs off in pretend shame. Pearl tells Impulse that she’s going to log off and send her Chat to him. Impulse promises to behave for the rest of his stream. Nobody believes him.

4:00:00 Pearl heads back to the shop and admits she’s done almost nothing in four hours of stream. She restocked her shop and made tables. She hopes Chat enjoyed it anyway. She reminds everyone that she has a pretty new episode up that they should watch, thanks subs and donos, raids into Impulse and ends her stream.

[ask-tfa-alarinthia]

[dollofiacon] A pair of piercing red lights illuminate within the darkest shadow cast under the nearest piece of furniture to Alarinthia, and quickly look at her. Then, a spindly servo with elongated digits slowly pushes a little makeshift satchel within view of the former Skydancer.

"Copper nuggets...?" Mourningstar's haunting drawl tentatively offered.

Uh... Sure. Thanks...

*Alarinthia seemed to be a little exhausted, so she was thankful for the meal*