#freezers: 0/1

[alltherelicsofalifelonglived]

what if i just lit the entire kitchen on fire

[mumintroll]

our fridge has like bad temperature regulation or something idk but you cant put things at the back or else they'll continously freeze and defrost and become inedible and its sooo annoying bc i only get one small shelf anyway and i can only use the front half of it.... i cant do a lot of meal prep or anything i have like 1 dinner and a couple of lunches worth of food in there and its full

[anmolsmsblog]

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[wizard-finix]

LU Star Wars AU: Part 4

This time we got Twilight and Wild!

PART 1 | PART 2 | PART 3

Wild

Wild doesn't look very old, but he was actually a Jedi Knight in service to the Republic Army back during the Clone Wars. He worked closely with the other Champions at the time; the five of them were on a mission to protect King Rhoam and the royal family of a Mid-rim planet when Order 66 was enacted and the Republic Army turned on them. The other champions were killed, and Wild was nearly fatally injured.

In a last-ditch attempt to save his life, Rhoam and Impa used an industrial carbon-freezer to put him in a state of suspended animation and keep him hidden from any Imperial scanners. He was found and unfrozen many years later by Purah and Robbie, and the hibernation sickness on top of his injuries gave him some degree of amnesia.

0/10 experience, he would not recommend it.

Nowadays, he works closely with Purah and Robbie. Flora, who wasn't even born yet at the time of the incident, met him properly for the first time after he woke up again. They didn't get along at first, but after finding out she was Rhoam's daughter he's determined to stick by her side.

His old lightsaber is broken beyond repair, so he picked up a habit of collecting various weapons. He's also wanted by a group of bounty hunters known as the Yiga.

Twilight

Twilight is from a backwater planet in the Ordonian system, working as a rancher in a farming village. He met Midna when Zant came to the planet and forcibly tried to take over.

Long story short, the kids of his village went missing, and he ran across some of Zant's forces in a bad way. He actually came in contact with a dark Twili artifact that granted the user the ability to change shape and got stuck. Midna, being a shapeshifting Twili, bailed Twilight out of trouble and taught taught him how to change back, but to do that he had to learn the basics of the Force. (It took a while. He's not very good at it, but he can do the basics.)

In exchange for her help, Twilight helped her with her own goals along the way; eventually, he learns that the reason Zant showed up is because he followed Midna's trail there. With the help of some local Resistance members, they eventually even managed to get rid of Zant.

Somewhere along the way, Twilight and Midna followed a rumor of an old weapon hidden deep in the woods on the planet. Eager for any advantage they could get, Midna insisted they find it; they followed the trail until it eventually led them to an old intact lightsaber that had been deliberately hidden away there.

Midna left very suddenly after everything with Zant was over. Twilight decided to look out for her through his new friends in the Resistance, and eventually came in contact with other members of the Chain that way.

[pixiecaps]

so a guard went into tinas room and placed an elevator for her.. directly assisting her in finding this secret room with a level 1 keycard.. she then opened a locked door in her room and it was like an elevator and now she

shes watching the island video but its glitchy like corrupted with bugs and i think….. i think shes the first to escape

then it said she was loading 0% to 100% loading player data? and then it showed this screen with locations all over the island and then said welcome to the island :)

and now shes staring out a freezer door calling out for help

[phanbeats]

having a normal one today

(thinking about Dan and Phil's refrigerator situation bc in the 2023 Halloween baking video, Phil showed us a mini-fridge under the counter at 0:44. This implies one solid fact and two potential options. Fact: the freezer is not attached to the mini fridge; it's too small for that. Option One: They don't have a full sized fridge, and the freezer is fully separate and located elsewhere in the phitchen. Very funny if this is the case, bc it means they effectively told their builders that they only eat takeout and that they're never going to stop only eating takeout. Also a side note, as someone only four inches shorter than Dan, i genuinely cannot imagine having to bend down that far to grab milk out of the fridge every morning. Bad kitchen design, 1/10. Option Two: they have a second fridge, likely full-sized with a freezer attached. This one's also wild tbh. Unless you're a family of 4+ you probably don't need an extra fridge, especially if you don't cook a lot, right??)

[the-sea-anemone]

also i started packing up my kitchen and then realized i should probably get back to work so really all that's happened is the contents of my drawer in the kitchen is now in my bedroom

"i'm not moving for another five days but i'll pack up my dishes today so i have time to figure out how to keep them from breaking," i said, forgetting that i still need to. eat food

[dinner-and-a-show]

Does anyone have a solid number on how many people Hannibal actually killed? I know the ripper only had 9-10 official victims in season 1, and more as the monstro, but also-

The average human has, I think, about 70-75 pounds of edible meat, and the healthy amount of red meat per week is apparently 500g (~1.1 pounds) of red meat. But Hannibal isn’t eating all the person. Lungs are around 1000g, the average adult male has a leg weighing about 15 kg, so depending on his storage method, Hannibal could probably stretch his victims to a few monthes on average, and close to a year for the larger parts, but that’s with 0 waste, and without any dinner parties or other social events. So either-

Hannibal is killing people outside of being the ripper, but because they’re never found/displayed, it’s assumed they were killed by animals or freak accidents, or just went missing, and Hannibal uses them to supplement his diet when he isn’t being the ripper.

Or, much funnier, Hannibal supplements his diet with regular meat from stores, and will sometimes treat himself to the human meat if it’s about to go off or if he feels he deserves it. There have been several times when he reached into the freezer for certain cuts, and only realise halfway through that what he’s cooking isn’t actually pork.

(Also, if he killed, let’s say four people a year from ages 18 to 43, his age at the beginning of the show, that’s 100 people, roughly 10 more than the most prolific real life us serial killer. Although, he’d only need to do that if he wasted a lot of the body, or it went off before he ate it. Again, without any additional meat for guest or parties).

This entire thing was researched incredibly lazily, so feel free to comment correcting any inaccuracies.

[unicornpopcorn14]

Writing patterns ✨

rules: share the first line of your last ten published works or as many as you are able and see if there are any patterns!

Thank you so much for the tag @calmlb!! <33 Check out their post for immaculate skk fics!

Exposure Therapy [skk, 5+1, Chuuya learning to overcome his touch-aversion]

Chuuya was never a tactile person…

Hell is Wherever I'm With you [skk, angst, Dazai almost dies during a mission]

Silence...

The body beneath him is emitting nothing but silence...

Up a Blind Alley [skk, Chuuya dissociating and Dazai trying to help even tho it's his fault]

Gunshots, shouts, curses, wooshing, static, laughter.

Kindled Souls [sskk helping each other in their own ways]

Atsushi never liked the smell of Akutagawa’s coat.

Saccharine [qpr skk, Chuuya celebrating Dazai's birthday and Dazai hating it]

“You’re aware which day of the year it is, right?”

Rings a Bell [skk trapped together in a freezer lmao 😭]

You’d think being stuck with your former partner/enemy in a confined space is the worst thing that can happen to a person…

Qualms Unprompted [RanpoSano helping one another out when they're low]

Papers fall, medical utensils clank and disarray in a heap on the floor. She’s stock still.

Vagabond (In Name & In Practice) [Dazai gets shipped overseas 💀]

9 Days. 9 Days without proper sleep, that have resulted in 6 days that felt like hell on earth.

Gruesome, Gorgeous [skk, Dazai doing all he can to save Chuuya from corruption]

Dazai could tell this was a bad idea from the very beginning…

One Uneventful Night [skk, Chuuya keeping Dazai from dying at ungodly hours]

Chuuya gets a call from his boss at the middle of the night, which isn’t unusual.

So the only pattern I pick is that I rarely start with dialogue? And I don't describe the backdrop first thing, I prefer to start with a hook establishing which pov I'm writing from. Huh :0

Non-pressurized tagging hehe: @kauenelikha @cffeine @anticidic @bnesszai

[gingergofastboatsmojito]

TOP 3 - My favest scenes of my least favest season

Ironically, this is not my favest episode BUT...

3 - The one above, and not the Sydcarmy part, where for a moment he was back! But precisely what comes after. THE DISCONNECTION that starts at 0:13, right after she accepts his invitation. He was gone. Just like that. And she just gave up. That instant alone made me re-watch this scene about 50 times in a week. Carmy is mesmerizing and scary. I love him. (Fuck you, Storer! But I forgive you).

Then he went back to his polka dots sauce, that we all know is code for Sydney. Cool, that was just interesting but IDGAF about that.

But then, what he did with that dish is what got me:

He didn't want it. Which symbolically means that he didn't choose Syd.

Of course, this didn't end there because this was Carmy we were talking about, right? So what I then noticed and LOVED was that he didn't choose the alternative EITHER:

And then, after days of despair, because I knew he hadn't chosen Syd, even though I understand why he did it and I also think he needs some ALONE time, meaning: No C, no S, and just a good team of therapists, psychiatrists and maybe even yoga instructors and personal trainers, I figured this out:

2 - Being stuck in Claire's mud and being stuck in the freezer, are the same thing and he not only wasn't stuck but also he got out of there willingly after NOT CHOOSING C once again and then went into Syd's territory, the BOH. Syd represents what he went back to when got out of the freezer, Syd is the kitchen and C is the freezer. So he actually did choose her. Not consciously, of course. What he did choose consciously was NO MORE C, after remembering her saying ILY. But the one who would be his was the woman on the other side of the door he had recently invited to a dinner party. All of this happened at a very subconscious level, clearly. Carmy was not in the best place to make any solid conscious decision as I have been saying since June 27. He was operating at a very basic level of not the best self-awareness. He was blocked. He hit a wall the entire season.

Either way, that scene stayed with me for days, once I cracked that code a few days ago after exchanging some ideas with someone here on Tumblr, can't recall whom. Loved it. It was somewhat of a relief.

1 - And now MY VERY FAVEST (the subs are a bit off tho)

Here's what I could decode from the lyrics, as I cried at a coffee shop while listening to the song in an infinite loop.

After watching it over and over for days and crying to the song every time, all I get from it is that they are apart yet soooo close. It's perfection in blue and here's why:

Syd contemplates her life away from him by the water, and how she might lose herself if she makes the “wrong” choice, and Carmy thinks about the one time in his life when he was truly happy in Copenhagen when he found himself for the first time. Each one going through their own personal journey, separately to eventually be reunited at some point along the way ❤️

I know they will. They have to.

Storer, you are fucking killing me!

Remember to follow my tag #Gingerpovs 💋

[musicandgallery]

"I zati angi eku rau, i ui a mona kat poje lei, to apa na nebi ti sonii, o so mora e atun li stali fre, /0." This text was posted without translation on August 23, 2024 in the entry with the title "So you wanna play with magic?". The translation at that time was: "The wind blows together, and the moon is covered with snow, and the clouds are covered with snow, and the moon and the stars are cold, /0". Now on Sept. 1, 2024, it is no longer available. But removing the dot at the "/0." it gives: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, /0". This is a lie. Besides, the magic lies not in the translation, the magic lies in:

I zati angi eku rau, i ui a mona kat poje lei, to apa na nebi ti sonii, o so mora e atun li stali fre, /0.

So you wanna play with magic?

Yeah, y'all know what it is Katy Perry Juicy J Uh huh, let's rage

I knew you were You were gonna come to me And here you are But you better choose carefully 'Cause I, I'm capable of anything Of anything and everything

Make me your Aphrodite Make me your one and only But don't make me your enemy (enemy) Your enemy (your enemy), your enemy

So you wanna play with magic? Boy, you should know what you're fallin' for Baby, do you dare to do this? 'Cause I'm coming at you like a dark horse (hey)

Are you ready for, ready for (hey) A perfect storm, perfect storm? (Hey, hey) 'Cause once you're mine, once you're mine (hey, hey, hey, hey) (There's no going back)

Mark my words This love will make you levitate Like a bird, like a bird without a cage But down to earth If you choose to walk away, don't walk away

It's in the palm of your hand now, baby It's a yes or a no, no maybe So just be sure before you give it all to me All to me, give it all to me

So you wanna play with magic? Boy, you should know what you're fallin' for Baby, do you dare to do this? 'Cause I'm coming at you like a dark horse (hey)

Are you ready for, ready for (hey) A perfect storm, perfect storm? (Hey, hey) 'Cause once you're mine, once you're mine (hey, hey, hey, hey) Yup (Trippy) (There's no going back)

Uh, she's a beast I call her Karma (come back) She eat your heart out like Jeffrey Dahmer (woo) Be careful, try not to lead her on Shawty heart is on steroids 'Cause her love is so strong You might fall in love when you meet her (meet her) If you get the chance, you better keep her (keep her) She's sweet as pie, but if you break her heart She turn cold as a freezer (freezer) That fairy tale ending with a knight in shining armor She can be my Sleeping Beauty I'm gon' put her in a coma (woo) Damn, I think I love her Shawty so bad, I'm sprung and I don't care She ride me like a roller coaster Turn the bedroom into a fair (a fair) Her love is like a drug I was tryna hit it and quit it But lil' mama so dope I messed around and got addicted

So you wanna play with magic? Boy, you should know what you're fallin' for (you should know) Baby, do you dare to do this? 'Cause I'm coming at you like a dark horse (like a dark horse) Are you ready for, ready for (ready for) A perfect storm, perfect storm? (A perfect storm) 'Cause once you're mine, once you're mine (oh) (There's no going back)

https://lyrics.lyricfind.com/

[allbeendonebefore]

it's thanksgiving here, it's midterm season for those of you in post-secondary, and also just a time when the seasons are hopefully starting to change so why not indulge in my fave cookie recipe for this time of year to get you through stressful situations.

these are thiccybois, chewy and peanut buttery to get you through tough times without crashing. I always double the recipe so i can snack on them for a couple weeks, you can either bake them all at once or save some dough in the freezer to make later. They go great with tea/hot choco or pms/exam tears. i have swapped out 1/4 of the choco chips for salted caramel this time around so we will see how that goes :0

[skaiwrites]

Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream; No Ice Cream Machine Required. A Recipe*:

Total Time:

Like two days; this is not a short process

Ingredients: Total (Ice Cream Amount; Cookie Dough Amount [recommended adjustment due to weirdly specific measurements])

Butter, Unsalted**: 1 Stick (1/16 Stick***; 15/16 Stick****)

Light Brown Sugar, Packed: 15 1/2 Tablespoons (1/2 Cups; 7 1/2 Tablespoons)

Granulated Sugar: ~6 3/4 Tablespoons (1/4 Cups; 2 13/16 Tablespoons [measure 2 3/4 tbsp, add just a tiny bit more, whatever you believe in your heart to be an extra 1/16 tablespoon. Alternatively: 2 tbsp + 1/2 tbsp + ever so slightly less than 1 tsp])

Salt: ~1/4 Teaspoons (just a Dash, whatever you define that as; 15/64 Teaspoons [just do 1/4 Teaspoons]

Vanilla Extract: ~3 Teaspoons (2 Teaspoons; 15/16 Teaspoons [basically just 1 Teaspoon. measure a little light if you feel like it])

Gluten-Free All-Purpose Flour: 15 Tablespoons (0; 15 Tablespoons)

Pasteurized***** Liquid Egg Substitute: ~2 3/4 Tablespoons (0; 2 13/16 Tablespoons [see note for Granulated Sugar])

Chocolate Chips: 7 1/2 Tablespoons (0; 7 1/2 Tablespoons)

Milk: 2 1/4 Cups (2 1/4 Cups; 0)

Heavy Whipping Cream: 1 Cup (1 Cup; 0)

Chocolate Syrup: 1 Teaspoon (1 Teaspoon; 0)

Required Non-measurement Tools:

5 Bowls, preferably metal. 2 should be the same, roughly medium capacity size. A third should be large enough to fit one of the other two inside of it with room to spare. The fourth needs to be large enough to mix a very small amount of cookie dough inside of. The fifth just needs to be big enough to hold a cup of flour.

A lid to cover one of your medium bowls (it does not have to be a perfect fit).

Either plastic wrap or another lid to cover the other of your medium bowls (does need to be a perfect fit)

Some sort of mixing instrument. I recommend you use something electric.

Something to stir with, a wooden spoon or rubber spatula, for example.

Baking Sheet.

Saucepan.

Freezer.

Oven.

Stove.

Prep:

Night before starting, get out one of your 2 smaller bowls, whichever is best suited for mixing. Place it in the freezer to chill (we will call this our "freezer bowl")

At some point before making the cookie dough, you will want to Pasteurize your flour. This is the shortest part of the process and keeps you safe from deadly diseases, so it's not really worth skipping: Preheat your oven to 375°F (191°C). Spread your flour evenly on your baking sheet. Place in oven at 375° for 10 minutes. Take out of oven and allow to cool.

Immediately before making the ice cream, take your other two bowls. Fill the larger one partway with ice and water. Place the smaller one inside the larger one so that the ice water will keep it cold (we will call the smaller bowl our "chilling bowl").

Making the Cookie Dough:

(i recommend you wait until after you've already started making the ice cream since this takes not nearly as long)

Add 15 tablespoons Pasteurized Gluten-Free All-Purpose Flour to a small bowl.

Add 15/64 (~1/4) teaspoons Salt to your flour bowl.

In a different mixing bowl, add 2 13/16 (~2 3/4) tablespoons granulated sugar.

Add 7 1/2 tablespoons packed Light Brown Sugar.

Add 15/16 (~1) teaspoon Vanilla Extract.

Add 15/16 stick of room temperature Butter.

Beat mixture until creamy/thoroughly mixed.

Add 2 13/16 (~2 3/4) tablespoons Pasteurized Liquid Egg Substitute, mixing thoroughly as you add.

Gradually add flour/salt mixture into mixing bowl, mixing thoroughly as you go.

Add 7 1/2 tablespoons chocolate chips. (you may choose to break some [doing all will be very tedious] of your chocolate ships into smaller pieces to make them roll into small balls easier. if you choose to do this, i recommend saving the chocolate chip crumbs and instead of adding them to your cookie dough, adding them directly to the ice cream to give it an extra chocolate chip taste even when you aren't biting into a cookie dough ball)

Mix until chocolate chips are evenly distributed.

Roll mixture into small balls of cookie dough (i would recommend placing them in your now empty flour bowl as you go). Balls should be about 1/4 teaspoon or a little smaller than half the tip of your pinky finger. For reference, each ball should be big enough to contain exactly one chocolate chip and still have a little doughy padding on the side.

Place dough balls into freezer to chill so that when you mix them into your ice cream later, they don't break apart.

Making the Ice Cream:

Pour 2 1/4 cups Milk into a saucepan.

Add 1 cup Heavy Whipping Cream to the saucepan.

Add 1/4 cups Granulated Sugar. Stir lightly to avoid clumps.

Place saucepan on stove burner on low heat.

Take 1/2 cups of packed Light Brown Sugar, and sprinkle it into the saucepan (you don't want clumps of brown sugar in your ice cream. so, since you packed it to measure it, you need to de-pack/re-fluff it as you add it to the cream).

Stir until you can't feel any clumps (a little graininess is fine for the time being).

Add 1 teaspoon chocolate syrup. Stir briefly.

Add 1/16 stick of butter.

Sprinkle in a little bit of salt (measure with your heart. i think i shook a salt shaker like 3 or 4 times)

Stir until all ingredients are fully melted/dissolved, no grains of sugar can be felt, and the mixture is hot. A thin film of foam should have begun to form at the top of the cream and be sticking to edge of the saucepan a bit (little tiny bubbles, almost too small to instantly recognize them as bubbles. they'll make the top of the cream look a few shades lighter in color than the part underneath them)

Pour Cream Mixture into Chilling Bowl. (we are done with the saucepan forever)

Add 2 teaspoons vanilla extract. Stir until the vanilla extract does not separate from the cream.

Cover Chilling Bowl and let sit in its ice bath for 20 minutes.

Transfer cream mixture into Freezer Bowl.

a) Place Freezer Bowl back into the freezer.

b) Let sit for 30 minutes to an hour, or until edges just begin to solidify. (this may take many hours depending on the temperature of your freezer) (the amount of time you let it sit in the freezer between mixings will determine how creamy it is when you're done. The longer you leave it in the freezer without mixing it, the more ice crystals will form, and the less creamy it will be.)

c) Take the Freezing Bowl out of the freezer.

d) Beat the mixture thoroughly, until any frozen bits are well mixed into the cream. Your goal is to break apart any ice crystals that have formed and to whip extra air into the cream so it remains soft and easy to scoop when it becomes fully frozen later.

Repeat steps (a) through (d) until mixture has reached your desired level of creaminess. (i recommend making the cookie dough during the first or second (b) interval since you're going to be waiting a while anyways)

Beat the mixture one more time.

Slowly mix your ice cream as you add your chocolate chip cookie dough balls to the mixture. (the cookie dough recipe makes a little bit more cookie dough than you probably want [you would be disappointed if it made less than you want, and there's no way for me to predict exactly how much you want, hence overestimating], so you may not necessarily want to put all the cookie dough in the ice cream. you can use the rest to make 2 or 3 cookies if you want; just make the dough balls cookie sized and place in the oven at 375°F for about 9 minutes)

Mix until the cookie dough balls are evenly distributed to your liking.

Place bowl back in the freezer.

Once it freezes again, you will have chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream. do whatever you want with it.

*i made the recipe myself, based on a lot of different recipes for cookie dough and ice cream, separately. The measurements are a little bit weird in some places because of conversions required to not have to get out a whole extra stick of butter just to use half a tablespoon from it.

**i used unsalted butter because it's what i had in the house. if you want to use salted butter, just do your best to adjust the rest of the salt in the recipe accordingly

***1/2 tablespoons

****the rest of the stick (7 1/2 tablespoons)

*****please don't get people sick by feeding them uncooked and unpasteurized eggs

[zmasters]

The Void Crawler - Floor 1: The Main Promenade and The Lift

Introduction

Regardless of who hired you, you have accepted the job to explore the derelict vessel HA Void Crawler. Your mission: figure out what happened, extract the data requested from your patron, get out.

Good luck Lancer, and I’ll see you soon.

Mission Start (LL 0)

The designated insert and extraction point is a cargo hangar bay on the starboard side, near the bow. Schematics indicate that the hangar and hallways leading off from it are large enough to fit most of not all mechs on the market.

The cargo bay is devoid of anything of value. Many of the boxes have been opened, with whatever being inside being taken who knows where.

Scans indicate that the air is breathable, and rats can be found scurrying through the hold. This is despite that reports indicate that the life support systems are down.

As you and your team move through the hall, you notice that the ship is temperate. Despite a decade of being lost in orbit around a small moon, the Void Crawler is completely safe for organic life. You take a step, and feel something soft and wet under your foot.

You stepped on a patch of moss.

As you walk deeper into the vessel, the moss gets more and more prominent. With each step, the air gets crisper, and the moss gets thicker. Eventually the moss shifts to a tall grass, and you swear you saw something move through the brush.

The hall eventually leads to the main promenade. What once was the center of life within this ship, where people would eat, relax, and enjoy their time off. But now it is literally the center of life, as a forest has sprung up in the three floors. Vines hung over the edges of the upper floors as long twisting branches block out the ceiling lights. A pond has formed at the opposite end of the room, being fed from a waterfall pouring from an old cafe on the third floor. God only knows where this water is coming from.

The more eagle eyed lancer's can notice arrows and a blood trail in the dirt. But before this can be investigated, your team recieves a message from your transport.

"Heads up lancer's, we got company. I'm pulling back to a save position. You're on your own until you clear them out."

A reported 4-8 assault grunt mechs, 1 pyro mech, and 1 witch mech had made land fall in the hangar. One should note that while the assault and pyro mechs aesthetically match Harrison Armory (even if Harrison Armory was the company that hired the party), the witch appears to be combination ISP-N and HORUS. As well, the witch would avoid combat when possible. Should the witch be the last NPC mech standing, they will turn invisible and leave.

Once combat is offer, the party will receive the following message for their mech communications, spoken through a text-to-speech style voice:

"H 3 1 1 0 F R 1 3 N D =) 1 M C Y 1 A! 0 F F 3 R R 3 P 1 A R $! H 3 R 3!"

A map of the ship will be uploaded to the mech's systems, with a passage to nearby elevator being hilighted.

Should the party instead focus on exploring the rest of the area, they will find more signs of sentient life. A net by the pond. A carving on a tree. A few tents hastily buried underneath. It's obvious something had lived here. Was it the original crew? Are the rumors of the Void Crawler discovering alien life true? Are they coexisting? There isn't enough evidence to know for certain.

The Lift (LL 1)

Upon entering the elevator that the mysterious message pointed to, it is clear that this isn't a normal elevator. The dimly light room was large enough to fit around ten mechs without issue. Comparing the lift to the map or the vessel provided indicates that this area was too large for where it should be.

All the materials needed to repair mechs, alongside the appropriate printers to print parts and even new mechs are all set up and waiting for use. Alongside this, an appropriate amount of bunks for the party to sleep in, a large freezer containing enough food to last the party indefinitely if rationed correctly, a prototype growth vat to grow even more food if needed, a stockpile of spare clothing, a bathroom (with a shower and laundry machine), and a terminal connected to the omninet. Whenever an expendable resource (such as food or toilet paper) is used, it will be replaced when the party aren’t looking at where it is normally stored. On the terminal, a sloppily hand-written sticky note saying "for u. b ComfY. pLes stAy."

On the opposite side of where you entered, at the right corner, there is metal gray pillar that doesn't match the style of the rest of the lift. The best way to describe it is as if the pillar was phasing through the lift. It is warm to the touch and you can faintly hear the sounds of sloshing liquid coming from inside.

On the pillar, about chest height, is a collection of buttons that resemble to floor buttons of a normal elevator. The buttons are labelled 1-12 (note that the Void Crawler only has seven levels). The 1 button lit up, indicating you are on level 1 (also note you entered the vessel through the fourth floor hangar and did not change floors up to this point).

This lift will act as the main resting place for the party during this mission. The party can use the area to heal from injuries, repair damaged mechs, print out new ones, and acquire licenses. As well, this is also how the party will travel to the other levels of this "dungeon."

[karriethemechtech]

@navcommrelay

Hey Nate! Wish I were with you in person to be able to carry out the refit myself, but I wanted to give you something nice and light to address a couple of the issues you were having with modernizing your Emperor.

Turns out, stripping out those jump jets you don't want saves me 6 tons! ...unfortunately, I physically can't add more armor like you asked, and I'm guessing nobody's got Hardened armor compounds lying around (not that I'd recommend piloting something covered in that stuff without serious practive--yikes, it's like running through molasses), so instead I set about solving your ammo and heat issues.

New armament is the same, but I've added two more tons of LB10-X ammunition (specs call for slug since that's the most applicable ammo in the most scenarios but I figure you can probably switch that up if you really want to do AA duty or just like huge shotguns, and who's to blame you there?), swapped the CASE for CASE II (IS-spec so we don't have to deal with Clan-spec supply lines out to you), and replaced the heat sinks with Clan-spec freezers (ok, I lied, but there's enough folks around Islington toting clan tech around and I'm sure they could spare a few of those--tell 'em Karrie sent you), so you're not overheating unless you run and Alpha Strike (but even then the heat scale only goes up by...I think the sims said 3? So you can do it twice in a row without even stressing the internal components).

I've sent along detailed instructions to your techs, and I'm still on-call for whatever questions they might have--I get the feeling this might be some of your folks' first times working with a piece of clantech. That all being said, let me know what you think!

Emperor EMP-6A (Lindsborg)

Mass: 90 tons Chassis: Standard Biped Power Plant: 270 XL Cruising Speed: 32.4 kph Maximum Speed: 54 kph Jump Jets: None Jump Capacity: 0 meters Armor: Standard Armament: 1 Medium Laser 2 LB 10-X AC 2 Large Laser 2 Medium Pulse Laser Manufacturer: Unknown Primary Factory: Unknown Communication System: Unknown Targeting & Tracking System: Unknown Introduction Year: 3153 Tech Rating/Availability: F/X-X-X-D Cost: 18,960,100 C-bills

Type: Emperor Technology Base: Mixed (Standard) Tonnage: 90 Battle Value: 1,903

Equipment Mass Internal Structure 9 Engine 270 XL 7.5 Walking MP: 3 Running MP: 5 Jumping MP: 0 Double Heat Sink 15 [30] 5 Gyro 3 Cockpit 3 Armor Factor 279 17.5 Internal Armor Structure Value Head 3 9 Center Torso 29 48 Center Torso (rear) 10 R/L Torso 19 30 R/L Torso (rear) 8 R/L Arm 15 30 R/L Leg 19 38

Right Arm Actuators: Shoulder, Upper Arm, Lower Arm Left Arm Actuators: Shoulder, Upper Arm, Lower Arm

Weapons and Ammo Location Critical Heat Tonnage Double Heat Sink CT 2 - 1.0 Medium Pulse Laser RT 1 4 2.0 LB 10-X Cluster Ammo (10) RT 1 - 1.0 CASE II RT 1 - 1.0 2 Double Heat Sink RT 4 - 2.0 LB 10-X AC Ammo (20) RT 2 - 2.0 LB 10-X AC LA 6 2 11.0 Large Laser LA 2 8 5.0 Medium Pulse Laser LT 1 4 2.0 LB 10-X Cluster Ammo (10) LT 1 - 1.0 CASE II LT 1 - 1.0 2 Double Heat Sink LT 4 - 2.0 LB 10-X AC Ammo (20) LT 2 - 2.0 Medium Laser HD 1 3 1.0 LB 10-X AC RA 6 2 11.0 Large Laser RA 2 8 5.0

Features the following design quirks: Command Mek

[everydayzeus]

"It's all Shit, Ted" - Chapter 1

Authors note: This will be up on my ao3 once i have my account set up and a few chapters ready to go but for now enjoy <3

Word count: 434

Chapters: 0, 1

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“...I don't think it's a good idea.” 

That’s it then, his agent was right, no one wants him. It’s over. Staring at the front door of his old flat, Jamie wondered what the point of any of it was anymore. Why did he even bother talking to Ted, he's the one who sent his ass back to Man City in the first place. There's no way he can even go back to Manchester anyway, not with his dear old dad probably sat on his front porch waiting for him. 

When Jamie had awoken the morning after breaking the curse, he hadn't been expecting a call from Higgens. He thought after opening up to the team about his dad, even though he hadn't given all the details, that maybe it would be the start of a new chapter. Instead, it would seem that Lasso was done with him. So much for helping him become the best version of himself. The news that he was being sent back to Manchester broke him. He hung up the phone before Higgens could spew out some bullshit explanation, packed his bag, and skipped town without so much as a glance over his shoulder. 

At least he could blame the state of his home on having left in such a rush and being in the process of moving it all out, instead of the sad truth. It was the same as it had been the entire time he had lived there. No personal touches, just a plain old flat that could've been anyone's. It looked more staged than lived in. There was a reason he would always be at Keeley's place rather than his own, her place felt homey, it screamed Keeley. Fairy lights and picture frames, a ton of plants that he was convinced were fake because there was no way she could keep them all alive. She always had candles lit or incense burning and music playing faintly in the background, and when he was there… so was she. He never felt alone with Keeley, even if they were simply sitting across from each other on the couch scrolling on their phones. Of course, he had to go and fuck that up too, now here he was all alone, with no career, no friends, no home. 

Grabbing the half-empty bottle of Vanilla Vodka he had left in the freezer, Jamie sighed and dropped down onto the couch. Staring at the ceiling as he sipped Jamie didn't even notice when tears began to slip down his cheeks.