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[stepawayfromthedungeon]

31-Day Character Creation Challenge, Day 14 - You Have the Right to Nunchaku to the Face

I can't say enough good things about Straight to VHS, from its die pool system to the creator's love of late 20th Century action movie cheese. The game is in a free public beta right now, but I really hope 2025 is the year we get a "final" published edition. The world needs this.

Character creation is pretty simple: You choose two Tropes and a single Gimmick, and then follow the instructions listed on those. You can be a Vampire Police Cop, a Batteries Included Shredmeister, a Chesty Troubled Athlete, or even a Vampire Werewolf. Take that, White Wolf! After that, you have $200 to spend on gear.

I went with Martial Artist and Police Cop for my tropes, with "No Body, No Death" as my gimmick. More about this later.

I'd say my favorite part about character creation in Straight to VHS is the brief questionnaire on the second page. This encourages you to "flesh out" your character, and actually do some characterization and roleplay. High marks for this.

NAME: Maxx Chainstick

TROPE 1: Martial Artist

TROPE 2: Police Cop

GIMMICK: No Body, No Death

ATTRIBUTES:

ACC: 0

ATH: 3

CHA: 1

INT: 2

SPY: 0

STR: 1

SKILLS:

Acrobatics +1

Persuasion +1

Police Work +2

FLAWS

Firearms -2

Being Cool -2

MOVE DISTANCE: Far

HERO FEATURES AND NOTES:

Add 1D6 to Unarmed Attacks

If a melee attack against you misses, you can move yourself or your opponent anywhere within Close rainge.

If you're "off the grid" somewhere that separates you from both your car and a lawful populace, gain a Token at the start of each Scene.

INVENTORY:

Nunchaku +2 ($90)

Handgun +1, Far range ($90)

$20

Badge

Cop car

ACC + RANGED WEAPON = 1

STR + MELEE WEAPON = 3

SPECIAL ABILITIES

PUSH IT TO THE LIMIT: (Once per act, minor action) Inspire self or an ally. Target gets 2 tokens and heals 2 + on their # of montages in HP.

BAD EDIT: (Once per scene, free action) Turn in a token to take a single extra action at any time, on anybody's turn.

KATA: (minor action) Once per Scene, put on an intimidating martial arts display. Every present enemy loses 1d6 on all rolls before your next turn. If used outside an Action Sequence, gain a Token instead.

WHIRLWIND: (major action) Once per Act, unleash a whirlwind of a melee attack that targets every enemy within Close range.

FREEZE!: (minor action) Once per Scene, show your badge to a target and say something like “hold it, dirtbag!”. On their next turn, the target can't use a major action. If used outside an Action Sequence, your target has a -3 Problem on their next roll in this Scene.

GOOD COP / BAD COP: (free action) Once per Scene, heal 1 HP by faithfully upholding the law. Or earn a Token by violating the law to "get results".

NO BODY, NO DEATH: (minor action) Once per Act, put yourself in a dire a situation and tell the others to run. As long as the other Heroes don't actually witness your “inevitable” death, you will rejoin the team in the next Scene with a wild tale of survival.

WHAT DO YOU LOOK LIKE? Spiky bleach-blonde hair with brown eyes and eyebrows. A blue headband, tied in the back. A sleeveless police uniform, with a black karate belt wrapped around the waist. Hands are wrapped in boxer's tape.

WHAT TROUBLES YOU? This city is being taken over by a criminal element, and only my friends and I can stop it. Being a cop only gets me so far. There are times when I must work outside the law.

WHAT'S YOUR DREAM / GOAL? After the city is free of crime, I hope to make my way up to Chief of Police, where I'll teach honor and discipline to my new recruits. Our martial arts prowess will keep the city clean and safe.

WHAT'S AMAZING ABOUT YOU? I'm the youngest student ever to achieve a black belt, and the second-youngest ever to graduate the police academy. I got a lot of grief for my age. But now that I'm older, I have twice the experience of somebody my age. Who's laughing now?

WHAT'S NORMAL ABOUT YOU? I love grilling. When it's summertime and I have a free evening, you'll find me on the fire escape of my apartment, grilling up a storm. Anyone want a burger or a dog? I've got lots!

[dharmendrarana-blog]

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[jeffboyardee-99]

James Oliver Huberty: San Ysidro McDonald's massacre

James Huberty was a American mass murderer who took the lives of 21 people and injured another 19. On July 15, 1984 James had told his wife that he is suspecting himself to have a mental illness of some sort, two days later he calls a San Diego mental health clinic and waits patiently by the phone. He received no calls back. Unfortunately the receptionist misspelt Huberty for Shouberty. The receptionist didn’t sense no urgency in his demeanor or anything like that, but James was in fact in need of urgent care. He also elaborated how he never had been hospitalized before for mental illness again relaying it’s probably not a serious situation. His call had been marked as a “non-crisis call” to be handled within the first 48 hours. After Just about one hour later James returns home in a decent mood and eats dinner with his wife and two kids, two daughters one aged 10, one aged 12. James and his family go to cycle at the park. Later that evening he watched a movie with his wife (Etna) and went to sleep. On July 18, 1984 the next morning James and his family went to the zoo, in the course of their walk James had told Etna he believed his life was effectively over, referring to his mental health clinics incompetence to return his call the day before. James would say "Well, society had their chance” after eating dinner at a McDonald’s in the Clairemont neighborhood of San Diego. Shortly after returning from McDonald’s James walked into his bedroom wearing a maroon t-shirt and green camouflaged pants. James leaned over Etna and said, “ I wanna kiss you goodbye” so Etna did. Etna proceed to ask James where he was headed and James responded with, “hunting.. I’m hunting humans.” So James left. Equipped with one gun over his shoulder and a bundle wrapped in a checkered blanket. James looks at his daughter Zelia, “ goodbye. I won’t be back.” James then made his way down San Ysidro boulevard, to the McDonald’s. At approximately 3:56 P:M on July 18, James parked his mercury sedan in the McDonald’s parking lot which had about 45 people present in the restaurant, James armed to the teeth gets his gear prepared. James gets out the vehicle minutes later and aims his shotgun at 16 year old employee James Arnold, but the firearm fails to go off. while proceeding the assistant manager shouted, “ hey John! That guys going to shoot you!” While James inspects his firearm the manager 22 year old Neva Cain approaches Arnold and just believes it’s a dumb distasteful joke. James shoots his shotgun at the ceiling and then fires his uzi at Cain hitting and killing her. Instantly after hitting Cain James fires at Arnold hitting his arm and chest wounding him, he then proceeds to say: “ everybody on the ground.” After one customer witnessed his rant, “you are all swine, Vietnam assholes. I’ve killed a thousand people and I’ll kill a thousand more.” The customer tries to reason with James, tries to disarm the situation resulting in James shooting the customer 14 times and shouting, “shut up!” At every cry of pain. As customers and employees take cover and hide under booths etc. James turns his attention to a group of 6 women and children hiding under a table huddled together and shoots and kills them all one by one. James continues to shoot and murder people with ease until police were aware of the attack taking place and responded to the second call, the officers set up a lockdown stretching for six streets, and stood guard around the building as well. Eventually after being informed that there is only one lone gunman by a escaping survivor, the swat sharp-shooter was informed to neutralize the suspect when the shot is open. Survivors reported during the shooting James walked up to the service counter possibly searching for his rampage, he lands on a music station and proceeds to shoot people. Eventually there is a open shot and James Hubertry is finally stopped, after murdering 21 people and wounding another 19. This is a very tragic situation, I couldn’t imagine being massacred while trying to obtain a McDonald’s cheeseburger.

Rest In Peace to the 21 who lost their lives.

Weapons: Browning HP (9MM), semiautomatic uzi(9MM), Winchester 12000 pump-action shotgun(12 gauge).

Victims: 21 murdered, 19 wounded

Location: San ysidro McDonald’s

Criminal penalty: neutralized by sharp-shooter sniper(swat)

Motive: inconclusive

[raptured-night]

Hello, I have two questions this time. Why do you think we can’t really compare Death Eaters to Nazis? Why can’t we really compare purism with racism? Oh and do you think Death Eaters are more like nowadays’ terrorists or not?

So, it's no secret that I have drawn attention to the issue of Death Eaters being treated as literal stand-ins for Nazis or blood purism as a literal example of racism. Importantly, there is a difference between acknowledging the ways that Death Eaters or blood purity might work as semi-functional allegories for the Nazis and their ideology, white supremacy, racism, etc., and treating fictional representations of invented prejudices as if they were comparable or on par with non-fictional Nazi ideology, white supremacy, or systemic racism.

An article for Medium makes this point very well:

Silent resisters and ‘I don’t really care about politics’ people deserve our contempt. But what makes those who filter life through fiction and historical revisionism worse is that they are performing a soggy simulacrum of political engagement.

As a woman of colour watching, all I can do here is amplify the call to step away from your bookshelf. Let go of The Ring. My humanity exists independently of whether I am good or bad, and regardless of where the invented-fictional-not-real Sorting Hat puts me.

Realise that people are in danger right now, with real world actions needed in response, and not just because you want to live out your dreams of being Katniss Everdeen.

The problem with discussing Harry Potter’s fictional examples of prejudice as if they were literal or completely comparable with real-life prejudices is that it does lead to an oversimplification of the reality of prejudice (whether white supremacy, racism, homophobia, transphobia --looking at you Jo-- or otherwise) and the very real people who experience these prejudices every day. The fantasy of being Harry Potter up against Umbridge or Voldemort in a YA series where the line between the good and bad guys is almost clearly denoted by the narrator is a far cry from the reality of what activism is or what living under oppression is like for many marginalized people. 

I would argue that this is also a leading reason why the “social justice” (yes, in many cases I believe that deserves to be enclosed in dubious quotations) discourse in Harry Potter fandom trends more towards performative than it does sincere (one need only look at the defense posts for Rowling in response to real marginalized groups criticizing her for things ranging from her offensive representation of Asian people, Indigenous and Native peoples, or her failures in representing the lgbtq+ community particularly in light of her coming out as an open TERF and they can get an idea of how those “I’m an intersectional feminist/social justice ally and that’s why I read HP!” fans quickly shift gears to throw the bulk of their allyship behind Rowling instead) because when you spend all of your time debating fictional prejudices it’s much easier to detach oneself from the reality of non-fictional prejudice and its impact on real people.

Fiction has no stakes. There is a beginning, middle, and end. In Rowling’s fictional world, Harry Potter ends with Harry and “the side of light” the victor over her allegorical representation of evil and he gets his happily-ever-after in a world we are led to believe is at peace and made a better place. In the real world, decades after the fall of Hitler, there are still Nazis and white supremacists who believe in the glory of an Aryan/pure-white race and are responsible for acts of violence towards marginalized groups; even after the fall of the Confederacy in the U.S. we are still debating the removal of monuments erected in their honor (and the honor of former slave owners and colonialists like Christopher Columbus) while the nation continues mass protests over the systemic police brutality Black people and other people of color have long faced (not to mention the fact the KKK are still allowed to gather while the FBI conspired to destroy the Black Panther Party and discredit them as a dangerous extremist organization).

As a professor in literature, I’ve often argued that fiction can be a reflection of reality and vice versa. Indeed, it can be a subversive tool for social change and resistance (e.g. Harlem Renaissance) or be abused for the purposes of propaganda and misrepresentation (e.g. Jim Crow era racism in cartoons). So, I am not underscoring the influencing power of fiction but I do believe it is important that when attempting to apply fictional representations to real-world issues we do so with a certain awareness of the limitations of fiction. As I have already observed, there is an absence of real-world stakes for fiction. Fictional stories operate under a narrative structure that clearly delineates the course they will take, which is not the case for real life. In addition, the author’s own limitations can greatly affect the way their fiction may reflect certain non-fictional issues. Notably, a close reading of Harry Potter does reveal the way Rowling’s own transphobic prejudices influenced her writing, not least in the character of Rita Skeeter (but arguably even in her failed allegory for werewolves, which are supposed to reflect HIV prejudices, but she essentially presented us with two examples of werewolves that are either openly predatory towards children or accidentally predatory because they canonically can’t control themselves when their bodies undergo “transformations” that make them more dangerous and no surprise her most predatory example, Fenrir Greyback, seems to have embraced his transformation entirely versus Lupin who could be said to suffer more from body dysmorphia/shame). 

Ultimately, fiction is often a reflection of our non-fictional reality but it is not always an exact reflection. It can be a simplification of a more complex reality; a funhouse mirror that distorts that reality entirely, or the mirror might be a bit cracked or smudged and only reflecting a partial image. Because fiction does have its limits (as do authors of fiction), writers have certain story-telling conventions on hand through which they can examine certain aspects of reality through a more vague fictional lens, such as metaphor, symbolism, and allegory. Thus, the Death Eaters can function on an allegorical level without being problematic where they cannot when we treat them as literal comparisons to Nazis or white supremacist groups (particularly when we show a greater capacity for empathy and outrage over Rowling’s fictional prejudice, to the extent we’ll willingly censor fictional slurs like Mudblood, than we do real-world examples of racism and racial microaggressions). As an allegory, Voldemort and his Death Eaters can stand in for quite a few examples of extremism and prejudice that provoke readers to reflect more on the issue of how prejudice is developed and how extremist hate-groups and organizations may be able to rise and gain traction. Likewise, blood prejudice looked at as a fictional allegory goes a lot further than when we treat it as a literal comparison to racism, wherein it becomes a lot more problematic. 

I’ve discussed this before at length, along with others, and I will share some of those posts to give a better idea of some of the issues that arise when we try to argue that Voldemort was a literal comparison to Hitler, the Death Eaters were literal comparisons to Nazi, or that blood purity is a literal comparison to racism.

On the issue of blood prejudice as racism and Death Eaters as Nazis, per @idealistic-realism00.

On the issue of blood prejudice as racism, my own thoughts.

On the issue of Death Eaters and literal Nazi comparisons, per @deathdaydungeon and myself. 

Finally, as I have already argued, the extent to which fiction can function as a reflection of non-fictional realities can be limited by the author’s own perceptions. In the above links, you will note that I and others have critiqued Rowling’s portrayal of prejudice quite thoroughly and identified many of the flaws inherent in her representations of what prejudice looks like in a real-world context. The very binary (i.e. good/bad, right/wrong, dark/light) way that she presents prejudice and the fact that her villains are always clearly delineated and more broadly rejected by the larger society undermines any idea of a realistic representation of prejudice as systemic (we could make a case for an effort being made but as her narrative fails to ever properly address prejudice as systemic in any sort of conclusive way when taken along with her epilogue one can argue her representation of systemic prejudice and its impact fell far short of the mark, intended or otherwise). In addition to that, the two most notable protagonists that are part of her marginalized class (i.e. Muggle-born) are two comfortably middle-class girls, one of whom is clearly meant to be white (i.e. Lily) and the other who is most widely associated with the white actress (Emma Watson) who played her for over a decade before Rowling even hinted to the possibility Hermione could also be read as Black due to the casting of Noma Dumezweni for Cursed Child.

Overall, Rowling is clearly heavily influenced by second-wave feminist thought (although I would personally characterize her as anti-feminist having read her recent “essay,” and I use the term loosely as it was primarily a polemic of TERF propaganda, defending her transphobia, and reexamined the Harry Potter series and her gender dichotomy in light of her thoughts on “womanhood”) and as far as we are willing to call her a feminist, she is a white feminist. As a result, the representation of prejudice in Harry Potter is a distorted reflection of reality through the lens of a white feminist whose own understanding of prejudice is limited. Others, such as @somuchanxietysolittletime and @ankkaneito have done well to point out inconsistencies with Rowling’s intended allegories and the way the Harry Potter series overall can be read as a colonialist fantasy. So, for all of these reasons, I don’t think we should attempt to make literal comparisons between Rowling’s fictional examples of prejudice to non-fictional prejudice or hate groups. The Death Eaters and Voldemort are better examined as more of a catch-all allegory for prejudice when taken to it’s most extreme. Aicha Marhfour makes an important point in her article when she observes:

Trump isn’t himself, or even Hitler. He is Lord Voldemort. He is Darth Vader, or Dolores Umbridge — a role sometimes shared by Betsy DeVos or Tomi Lahren, depending on who you’re talking to. Obama is Dumbledore, and Bernie Sanders is Dobby the goddamn house elf. Republicans are Slytherins, Democrats are Gryffindors.

The cost of making these literal comparisons between Voldemort or the Death Eaters to other forms of extremism, perceived evil, or hate is that we impose a fictional concept over a non-fictional reality and unintentionally strip the individual or individuals perpetrating real acts of prejudice or oppression of some of their accountability. I can appreciate how such associations may help some people cope and for the readers of the intended age category of Harry Potter (i.e. YA readers) it might even be a decent primer to understanding real-world issues. However, there comes a point where we must resist the impulse to draw these comparisons and go deeper. Let Voldemort and the Death Eaters exist as allegories but I think it is important we all listen to what many fans of color, Jewish fans, lgbtq+ fans, etc. are saying and stop trying to fit a square peg into a round hole by treating these fictional characters and their fictional prejudices as if they were just as real, just as impactful, and just as deserving of our empathy and outrage as the very real people who are living daily with very real prejudices --because they’re not equal and they shouldn’t be. 

[chrismerle]

what’s up i spent way too long typing up a post about my thoughts on P5S, and it isn’t even all encompassing. i guess if you’re curious about anything i didn’t mention in this trainwreck just ask.

my spoiler-heavy thoughts/pseudo-review below the cut

THINGS I LIKED:

The characterization, broadly speaking. If you, like me, loved the Thieves in P5/P5R then you’ll be pretty happy with them here. There are a couple moments that made me roll my eyes (lookin’ at you, hot springs) but on the whole, the main cast are unchanged.

The new characters. Sophia and Zenkichi are great. Sophia is precious and Zenkichi straddles a very fine line of ‘realistically out of the loop, but gives as good as he gets.’ I don’t even care how silly their costumes were. Sophie looked like the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man, though I did like her little emoticon visor, but also she had no pants. Wolf’s mask was badass but the fact that his stupid pointy hat was riveted to the top of his stupid disco high collar killed it and I wanted to see someone grab his hat and pull it back to see it fling back into place like a drinky-drinky bird. Even so, the characters were great, and when I noticed that all the attacks for Sophie’s initial pseudo-Persona had question marks after them (Kouga? Dia?), it made me laugh, and Wolf’s a good all-purpose party member because he hits like a fucking truck and nothing is immune to Almighty. Plus in some of his post-battle dialogue he calls them all ‘kiddos’ and they consistently call him Gramps.

The gameplay. I mean, yeah, it’s VERY different than P5, but you all know that. And hey! The game no longer immediately ends if Joker gets knocked out (unless he’s the only one left in the party, obviously). It ran pretty smoothly, there’s something weirdly charming about the other Thieves showing up perched on cover points, and the only consistent issue I ran into is that in segments where the camera gets forced into a certain angle, it can switch back so abruptly at the end that you accidentally go walking right off a ledge.

I’ve never really played a Dynasty Warriors-type game before, so it took me a Jail or so to get used to it, but then I was just cackling as I mowed down swarms of Jack Frosts like a weed-whacker in a flower field with a knife the size of Joker’s torso. Honestly, it took me the longest to get used to the fact that the circle button became the all-purpose ‘interact’ button than anything else.

Actually, that’s a lie. It took me the longest to get used to the fact that if I left a Jail, I wouldn’t be losing any time. I’m very used to Persona games having the calendar constantly counting down, which wasn’t the case here.

The story, broadly speaking. It had some hiccups and some issues, which I’ll get into, but for the most part, it was fun. I’m...not going to outline every detail of the story here, but it felt very P5-y and I enjoyed it.

THINGS I LIKED BUT THAT NEEDED WORK:

The writing. It was a little inconsistent, beyond just the usual weirdness that I have accepted comes along with Persona games. (//patiently clicks through numerous conversations of the gang going ‘did this super obvious thing that this memory threw in our faces happen? Let’s debate about whether the most likely answer by a huge margin is the answer’ and several conversations of ‘are we sure this person is bad? We saw them playing nice, like literally every other villain we’ve faced’) A lot was great! Like, the bit with the Okinawa locals breaking into the RV while the kids hide in the bushes? Genuinely unsettling! Akane’s Jail and the fake Thieves was fun, and seeing Zenkichi scuttle from hiding place to hiding place without Thief powers was funny, and his Shadow’s glowing eyes watching him before becoming his Persona was both badass and unsettling. The realization that EMMA was actively lying to Konoe was nice. Character interactions were great and I loved that Sophia went with Ichinose at the end. There was a lot that was good. But there were also a lot of missteps.

Like, it kind of felt like the direction for the writing changed partway through. It started out as if each member of the Phantom Thieves was going to get their own time to shine, identifying and empathizing with a Monarch. Ann realized she could have been Alice. Yusuke realized he could have been Ango and also saw redeeming him as sort of like redeeming Madarame by proxy. Mariko was a link to Haru’s childhood and her father. The ghost Jail on Okinawa lured Sophie in and by the end she realized how much she meant to her friends ryuji said fuck. Akane was Zenkichi’s literal daughter. And then it went to Konoe and then EMMA, so Ryuji, Futaba, Morgana, Makoto, and Joker didn’t get a chance to shine in that regard. The switch from ‘a Jail for everyone to identify with’ to ‘whelp here’s the decoy and the end boss’ felt like they came from two separate drafts of the script, and it’s not like they had to watch the time; I got through P5S in about a third the time it took me to get through P5R. It took me about 35 hours. Considering the game kind of relies on you having played P5, they already knew their target audience has a longer attention span than that.

Owada was talked up as kind of a big deal, but he had like two scenes on-screen and otherwise was an entirely off-screen character. There’s a lot of mid-combat dialogue that is very difficult to focus on, which was sort of annoying when some of it was actually relevant. Ichinose’s reveal as a villain is very info-dump-y.

Plus, Joker wasn’t utilized particularly well as a silent protagonist. He’s got more implied personality than basically any other Persona protag. Which means he’s actually pretty expressive throughout the game, but I can probably count his lines of dialogue outside of combat with fingers left over. No one expects Yu Narukami to actually react to anything, so it doesn’t feel odd when he doesn’t. But the combination of Joker being reasonably expressive and having a demonstrated personality means you’re perpetually EXPECTING and WANTING him to say something about the shit going on, and when he doesn’t it feels like mentally missing a stair.

THINGS THAT I DIDN’T LIKE:

The cut corners. Like, a lot of things just seem lazy. There were scenes that really should have been included that weren’t, like how the Thieves escaped from the hotel after the police showed up; it cut from Zenkichi warning them and getting arrested to them arriving at the temporary hideout, so we never even got to see how the Thieves reacted to realizing the cops were outside. Requests to bond with the other Thieves only got a couple of text boxes, when they could have shown a tiny scene of them hanging out like they had all over P5. Rather than having Sae actually on-screen for her brief scene, the camera instead very unnaturally switched to an angle as if it was from her point of view, which was literally the only time the camera did that in the entire game. All of the Sentries look the same from Jail to Jail, instead of being unique to each Jail. Igor is completely absent for the entire game, and other than a throwaway ‘my master can’t be here’ from Lavenza it’s just not really acknowledged.

The missed opportunities. Like, there is no way to look at this except to assume that Joker was a horrible friend to literally everyone in this world state. Like, I can pass off the fact that everyone has their baseline Personae as being because they haven’t had access to their powers for a while, but when you combine it with the fact that NONE of Joker’s other confidants show up or even know he’s back in Tokyo, it leaves little to assume except that in this world, no confidants got maxed out. On top of that, the Personae are all basically pointless. They could be Pokemon or Stands or Digimon or fucking YuGiOh cards, and it wouldn’t make a difference; NOTHING about the game says ‘these entities are integral to this world and important to these characters.’ Also they could have had Akane actually realize who the Thieves were and it would have been hysterical, but that’s just my personal sulk.

The Requests. I liked the Mementos missions in P5/P5R. They felt like they had a point. Requests in P5S are all basically just fetch quests. ‘Go to Location A, fight so many of Enemy B to get so many of Item C. Turn in Request.’ Hell, one of them bugged out on me, I swear. There’s a Request to teach Zenkichi how to cook a simple meal, and Haru gives you a recipe including beef. I had no beef on me at the time, because if you want SP restoratives you gotta cook a fair amount and I used it, and I could find literally no beef in the city I was in at the time so I had to abandon the Request. On top of that, outside of getting food or a few moments where another character specifically asks for Joker’s attention, character-specific Requests mostly replace the ability to bond with the other characters individually.

The restoratives. Or, more specifically, the disparity between HP restoratives and SP restoratives. There’s essentially one cookable recipe to restore SP for every four recipes to restore HP. Even if I stopped at every store and vending machine, I’m pretty sure there were a couple cities where I could find NO SP restoratives for sale, while most stores and vending machines had at least two or three HP restoratives. And while it is true that you can go in and out of a Jail whenever you please to restore SP, that doesn’t help you if you run out during a boss fight you weren’t expecting (mini-boss encounters are virtually identical to regular monster encounters) or during one of the times where you CAN’T leave the Jail for reasons XYZ.

The final boss, and not just because I died and had to start over a few times. As a concept, EMMA could be cool, but in reality she just seemed like the writers threw Yaldabaoth and Maruki in a blender and poured the results into the game. Like Yaldabaoth, she is a false god who seeks to control humanity, claiming it’s what they want. Like Maruki, she seems genuinely deluded into thinking it’s for the best and that she’s not doing anything wrong. Her Jail looked like a slightly sci-fi reskin of the Depths of Mementos. The shtick with the multiple platforms and getting to actually SEE an all-out attack at the end were nice, but for the most part the fight itself was nothing special. Ultimately, EMMA had nothing unique going for her except her name.

Plus, EMMA’s entire rationale was that the majority of humans want someone else to control their lives for them, essentially out of convenience. And she’s presented as being more or less right, but that just being one of the hurdles of being human. It seemed a little dour and far-fetched. Like, the Thieves repeatedly point out that struggling allows people to grow, and they’re right, but in my experience, I’ve never actually met anyone who, upon hitting a roadblock, decided ‘Jesus take the wheel.’ Considering the greed with which her weird tentacle arms snatched up the solidified Desires, the pettiness of the complaints she used as a “gotcha,” and the fact that she just kind of reiterates her ‘people want to be controlled’ point over and over, I think it would have felt a bit more true to life and given her more agency if, instead of presenting her as largely correct, it instead acknowledged that everyone at some time or another hits a wall and wants someone to tell them what to do and had her capitalizing on those individual brief moments to hook people in, despite her having reams of data that for most people, those moments are temporary.

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[Where My Twin Watches]: Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood Episode 1

All right, time for a new show! Tephi’s been pushing me to watch Fullmetal Alchemist for a while now, and now that I’ve finally moved into my apartment I can sit down and watch this show. I understand that there are two versions, one original that outpaced the manga and another that was made after, and based on recommendations I’m going with the second, Brotherhood. For those following along at home I’m going with the iTunes version of Brotherhood, as this lets me watch on my phone and type at the same time, and frankly at my pace of reviewing any subscription way of watching Brotherhood would probably be more expensive than just getting the series. Here’s what I know starting out: -The main characters are Edward and his brother. -Due to Reasons, Bad Things happened which resulted in Edward getting a robot arm and his brother(‘s soul?) getting put in a giant suit of armor. -The magic of this setting is Alchemy, with all sorts of rules and laws. -The phrase “Equivalent Exchange” is something that comes up a lot, and whenever I say those words where Tephi can hear she starts cackling. And that’s it! So Tephi’s highly recommended this show, I’ve got the first episode downloaded, and some spare time this afternoon. Let’s do this!

Familiar little Aniplex jingle… Funimation logo… Overhead shot of a city at night. Interesting layout, what looks like a castle in the center, with brightly lit lines tracing away from it. And a hexagon street layout? Suddenly I’m getting the biggest Lumiose City vibe right now. But the screen fades to someone drawing a circly-chalk thing, while a bunch of string instruments make it clear that This Is Not A Good Thing. The amateur artist is some dude with dark hair and stubble, looking grim as the camera pans out of the dark alley to the brightly-lit castle. “The Freezing Alchemist?” says someone who the subtitles have helpfully named Roy. Another guy, apparently Bradley shows a file with a picture of yup that’s the guy trying to set up hopscotch. Seems he snuck into ‘Central’ a few days ago, and now Bradley (who has an awesome eyepatch, and I will now call Fury) is making it Roy’s problem. Wait wait wait, “Mustang”? This character is named Colonel ‘Roy Mustang’? Damn but that’s a manly name. Mustang’s ready to go catch Mr. Freeze, but it seems Bradley has one last thing: a certain ‘rising star’ is here as well. Hmmmm, my Protagonist senses are tingling. And Fuhrer Bradley- Wait. What? ‘Fuhrer’? Um. I am torn between the unfortunate connotations, and glee that I get to call this character Fuhrer Fury. But no time to think about that, because Fuhrer Fury confirms that he’s talking about The Fullmetal Alchemist. Edward Elric. “Aw damnit. The colonel’s never gonna let us get outta here, is he?” What’s this? Anyways, I can recognize this guy as Edward, our special little star. Wonder what this is about. “We already got our tickets to Liore, too. Does this mean we’re not going?” And this is…Alphonse? Not gonna lie, a little thrown by the voice here. I look at this metal helmet, with glowing eyes and stylized fangs, and it just seems… young… oooh, I just realized. Whatever caused Alphonse to end up in that suit, if it’s just his soul he wouldn’t technically age, would he? How young was he when whatever happened? And holy crap that’s a really big suit of armor, like Edward looks tiny next to it. What’s the story with this armor anyway, how did all this stuff happen? Eh, maybe I should stop wondering and just keep watching. Intro! Edward with a ponytail and ragged shirt? And I thought he had a robot arm? Lady smiling with leaves blowing around, then AAAAAWWWWW lookit the widdle babies, widdle Edward and Al ooooh so cute wait why do you look scared and the door’s closing? Sudden Shiny Glasses on frowning man with strands of blond hair. Explosion! Edward and Al facing a wall of fire as the title comes up. Burning tree/house? Shot of Determined Edward scowling at wind that’s mussing up his hair before throwing his hands out. Casting? Shot of what I believe to be the Shiny Glasses man from before, has a ponytail and epic beard along with those unruly hair strands. And the glasses are remaining Shiny. Is he their dad? Guessing at family connection here. Turns away. Absent dad? Back to cute widdle kids taking a nap, along with a blonde girl. Sibling? Now they’re walking along a country road. Al’s armor? Running through a field. Shot of Colonel Roy Mustang (so manly!) also with the Shiny Glasses until they fade so he can glare directly at us. Then another black-haired man? Wait, was the second one Mustang, because I don’t remember seeing him wearing glasses. Who was the first person? Then someone singing? Then what the heck Kid Edward just lost an arm and a leg. And then Kid Al completely vanishes. And Kid Blond Girl looking shocked and stumbling. Flashes of people dressed in black against a red background, I have the sneaking suspicion that they are Not Good People. Shots of scowling people in blue uniforms like Fuhrer Fury and Colonel Mustang, the good guys? Smug looking guy with sunglasses and a fur coat, who just turned into a Terminator? Shot of Terminator running towards the Castle, where a Disapproving Fuhrer Fury is glaring. Lots of glaring in this intro. Edward running along a vent of some sort, fighting people in black clothes before EXPLOSION. Guy in white jacket sitting in the rain until it passes and he rushes off, white hair and some sort of facial tattoo? Small smoking lady with a barking dog. Edward running along and Earthbending to fight the Goth Villains. Then another shot of someone singing, I think this might be the Blond Girl grown up. Edward dressed in a black uniform (noo, don’t join the Goths! ) and a metal arm breaking. Foreshadowing? Final shot of two people standing against a setting sun. So… fairly standard anime intro. Granted, after PMMM’s Intro of LIES I will take all of this with a grain of salt. Back to the dark alleys of the city, what sounds like a cop’s whistle. Seems the police are trying to catch Mr. Freeze, but yup he’s a Waterbender and is knocks them aside with some painful-looking ice spikes. Two more cops try to stop him but...oh. Oh my. “Water freezes, water boils. Either way you’re just as dead.” Um. Wow, ok. That’s legitimately terrifying. Sudden spear from the sky, Mr. Freeze remarks that it was Alchemy before oh ew ew ew they showed the hand of the guy who got boiled please don’t show that again. Newcomer (probably our Protagonist) remarks that it was a nasty thing to do, but Mr. Freeze spouts out about great deeds requiring sacrifice. “Isn’t that the Law of Equivalent Exchange?” Oh hey, there’s that phrase. You know, I feel like this deserves some recognition, and Tephi finds it quite funny. So I’ve decided I’ll keep track of each time this phrase is said. Equivalent Exchange Count: 1 Regardless of whatever the rules of Alchemy are (and believe me, I wanna know these rules soon so I can try and figure out ways to minmax them), Edward says they don’t justify killing people. Edward grabs the spear and electricity sparks as he reforms it as a spiky club- pffffahahaha! That- that face! He put his freaking face on the tip! He put his freaking hair! Mr. Freeze’s all shocked about “no transmutation circle” but come on! That face! Sudden attack from behind by a surprisingly stealthy giant suit of armor, but Mr. Freeze dodges that and blocks the Face Mace, before shocking Edward and throwing Al. But he’s surprised? Oh, I get it. He tried to one-hit kill Edward like the cops, but grabbed his metal arm instead. Edwards mostly ticked that his coat got ruined. “An automail arm…” Dramatic cloak swoosh and oh good he just wears dark clothes below the red coat, he didn’t turn to the Goths in the intro. That’s a relief. Young talented alchemist, who doesn’t use transmutation circles (is that like HP wandless magic?) and who has an automail right arm. The Fullmetal Alchemist: Edward Elric! Episode 01 - “Fullmetal Alchemist” Now Mr. Freeze is pointing at Al?... Ah! Ha! Mr. Freeze is confused by the giant suit of armor being the younger brother of the “runt”. Edward take offense to that. Caught in an Earthbending prison, Mr. Freeze mumbles about the Fullmetal Alchemist being just a kid, and *wham*. Yeah, I’m guessing Edward being called little is a peeve of his. But come on, man. You travel with a giant suit of armor, you really do look tiny compared to that. Well, regardless of height complexes, Edward has caught the guy, and the NPC cops are suitably grateful… to the giant suit of armor. Yyyyep, I think this’ll be a running gag. Oh hey, so Alchemy can fix clothes too! That’s handy. Edwards all set to catch their train, now the cops have Mr. Freeze cuffed. They should be able to handle- nnnope. Just a few seconds out of their sight, and Mr. Freeze has split the scene. Colonel Roy Mustang’s snarking at Edward now. I like this guy! And looks like we’re starting with the Overconfident Non-Team Player Protagonist Model #17 with this show, looking foward to his character arc. Ooh, who’s that blonde officer standing next to Roy? The third of the Blonde Kid Trio? To recap the ignored briefing: Mr. Freeze is Isaac McDougal, aka “Isacc the Freezer.” Former State Alchemist (like these guys in blue? Government mages?), served in the ‘Ishvalan War’, never gave any signs of turning, but resigned immediately afterwards and has been working with the “antiestablishment movement” ever since. Capturing him is top priority… dead or alive. Hmmm. Ok, so I gotta be blunt. I’m obviously not going to cut slack on the whole ‘boiling a person alive’ thing, but… State Magicians? Their leader is ‘Fuhrer’? Pursuing a Rebel with little concern about their vital status? Maybe I’m still in a mindset after seeing the movie, but I could see this being replaced with ‘Sith’, ‘Emperor’, and… well, ‘Rebel’ can stay… and we’ve got The Empire. Maybe I’m reading too much into this? Anyways, back to hunting the Rebels. Edward resolutely states that he’s not going to kill for them, and Roy seems to respect that. Edward just has orders to help them contain Mr. Freeze. “Off topic…” Roy asks if they’ve got any leads for getting their bodies back to normal. Ah, so they’re trying to fix their bodies? ...why? I mean, if my guess about Al being soulbound to the armor is right that’s probably something you’d want to fix. Although, maybe the process can be used for older people? Like, immortal bodies and all that? Sorry sorry, off topic and way too early in the series for big transhumanist discussions. But, does Edward want to get a flesh-and-blood arm back, presumably a leg too based on the intro? Why? You have a robot arm, dude. I want a robot arm, and you want to get rid of yours? Heck, it saved your life just a few minutes ago! If you had a flesh-and-blood arm, then when Mr. Freeze grabbed you we’d get a Boiled Protagonist and an exceedingly short show. Anyways, Edward goes into yelling mode about ‘if they ever gave them time to look’. Sorry Ed, them’s the breaks of being the Protagonist. Every NPC’s got a quest for you to do, not much time to study. Door bursts open and a guy with square glasses and a cheerful greeting bursts through… with an upraised arm (damnit show, stop making me draw parallels). Roy… does not seem pleased with the interruption. “Here comes that pest.” I like this guy! And yup, Lieutenant Colonel Maes Hughes immediately goes to the Giant Suit of Armor to introduce himself. “What?!.. You’re the Fullmetal Alchemist?” What’s up with that name, anyway? Totally misleading, Edward’s only about ¼ metal with the arm and presumably leg. Anyone hearing ‘Fullmetal’ would obviously assume that the guy who’s, y’know, made entirely of metal would be the Fullmetal Alchemist. But Hughes isn’t just fanboying, he’s here on Official Business. Since the Elric’s don’t have a place to stay, they’ll *Sudden Shiny Glasses* have to go with him. He pulls out… a picture of his wife and daughter. Nevermind, let the fanboying continue. Pffft, I’m loving these subtitles. [Wholesome Laughing Continues] as Hughes hugs his daughter. The daughter points… “Big Brother! Little Brother!” Ok, do I need to start keeping a count for this too? Off to supper they go, and man am I glad I made my own food before watching this, it all looks delicious. Hughes is smiling at his guests, and then… uh oh. He asks why Al’s wearing all the armor at the dinner table, suggests he take it off and relax. Um. Awkward. Edward starts claiming that he’s not “allowed” to take it off, says it’s part of his training. What, is it a secret that he’s soulbound? Later that night… [Evil Laughter] at “Central Prison”. Somebody named Kimblee is laughing that the Freezing Alchemist wants him to play sidekick. But the Crimson Alchemist works Alone! Mr. Freeze appeals to Kimblee, mentions the horrors of the Ishvalan War, the things that Bradley ordered them to do… coming from the guy who BOILED SOMEBODY (I am still not over that), my concerns about this government continue to grow. But Kimblee just laughs, says he killed people not because of “honor” or “revenge”, or anything like that. “The reason I killed all those men, was because I could. It’s that simple.” Damn, but this show’s proving great for the villain lines. Mr. Freeze leaves in disappointment… pushing over a frozen guard with the sound effect [crash and shatter]. Guh. Back at Hughes’ place, he’s having a Late Night Thought in the living room when his wife Gracie comes to ask what’s wrong. She says he’s worrying about the Elric brothers. Hughes talks about how State Alchemists are called “the dogs of the military”, not exactly popular. Being referred to like that at their young age… what made them take that path? Edward’s lying in bed staring at the camera- I mean, ceiling, when Al asks if he’s awake. He asks about Mrs. Gracie’s quiche, how it looked like their Mom’s… aw damnit, they’re orphans, aren’t they? What the heck is with anime and killing off mothers?! Heh! Hearing it was almost as good as their mother’s, Al immediately adds it to his Book Of Things To Eat Once I Get My Body Back. And then… hurk! Nope! Nopenopenope, I do not need to hear that young voice quietly say “I sure would like to get our old bodies back soon…” Right in the feels! I’ve known this kid for all of ten minutes, and already I wanna punch whoever stuck him in that armor. And aaargh Mr. Freeze is back at it, setting up hopscotch. What’s with the Transmutation Circle? I’ve gathered that (most) alchemists need one to do their stuff, but the powers I’ve seen worked from emblems on their armor or skin. What does drawing the Circle on the ground do? “One more… one more and ‘Fuhrer’ Bradley’s on his way to hell.” Yeah, I get it orchestra, probably not a Good Thing that Mr. Freeze is doing whatever this is. Intermission! Cards of Edward and Alphonse Elric. The next day, Roy’s reporting that Mr. Freeze broke into Central Prison. He orders all roads be closed, the city searched. “When you find him, shoot on sight. That is an order from the Fuhrer himself.” So much for ‘Alive or Dead’. Yes, I know he’s killed quite a few people already, but still, you’re Alchemists, right? Can’t you Alchemy some way to catch him without killing? Edward did it quickly enough… Man down! With a lot of steam coming off him, guh… and another soldier reporting five men dead. Edward remarks how it looks like a steam blast, how if water’s heated fast enough it explodes, and the human body’s 70% water… guh guh guh, Mr. Freeze is freaky. Mr. Freeze is in yet another alley, says he’s finished, when there’s a spark on the wall… he leaps back to avoid a burst of spikes. Somebody named Armstrong sounds amused that he dodged? Did… did this guy just punch through a wall? Caption [Adventure Strings]? “It is I! The Strong Arm Alchemist… Alex Louis Armstrong, in the flesh!” ...I am in love. This guy just punched through a wall, he’s got [Adventure Strings] as his theme music, the screen is shaking as he walks, and dat mustache. And… that tiny little spring of blonde hair… All Hail Armstrong! Mr. Freeze DARES to attack The Mighty Alex Louis Armstrong?! But The Mighty Armstrong dodges your feeble attack! And such a feeble foe will need far more than water to quench his fists! *EXPLOSIONS* Ohmygod there are busts of The Mighty Armstrong’s head flying out from the explosion. Yessss. Edward and Al arrive, but Mr. Freeze explodes his canteen and makes a break for it in the steamcloud. The Elrics follow The Mighty Armstrong in pursuit. Wait, it’s night now? How did Mr. Freeze manage to avoid them for so long? Anyways, he’s standing on a building, when… “It’s been a long time, Freezer.” Roy has arrived! And the Flame Alchemist has brought a bunch of guns with him. He tries to appeal to Mr. Freeze about being old ‘war buddies’, but Mr. Freeze takes offense to that, blocks a burst of flame, and then drenches the State Alchemist and soldiers before making yet another escape. Getting back to the alleyway where the last circle was made, he… … … Ok, that settles it. This is the best show ever, if only for the subtitles alone. The alleyway where The Mighty Armstrong confronted him? With lots of busts of his head still lying around, and scattered stones on the circle? Mr. Freeze started moving all of this, and the subtitle is, I kid you not, [Moving Stones and Happiness]. 10/10. Well, after that, Mr. Freeze is happy to see the circle is still intact… why is it still intact? Like, if you know that a Bad Guy is Up To Something, and is sulking around alleyways, wouldn’t you want to look for whatever they’ve been doing? And a white chalk Alchemy Circle isn’t exactly hard to spot. And seeing something used for Alchemy created by a rogue Alchemist, why would you not get rid of it? Anyways, Edward appears in the alley, and Al blocks the other end. Nowhere left for Mr. Freeze to run! “Clearly… but who’s running?” Um, what’s with the Red Glow of Evil? All the Alchemy Circles appear to have activated all over the city. Edward and Al are shocked at the scale of it, impossible unless he- “A Philosopher’s Stone!” Wait, what? Like, the Philosopher’s Stone of historical alchemy? The rock that turns base metals to gold and grant immortality? Interesting! With Alchemy being general magic in this setting, what’s their version of the Philosopher’s Stone capable of? Amplification of Alchemy to cover a city? Regardless, probably not the best idea to let him keep doing whatever he’s doing. But Mr. Freeze starts monologuing about how Edward’s a Dog of the Military, how his bosses have Sinister Plans- Edward cuts him off, says he doesn’t care and it’s Not His Problem. Um. What? Do… do you really not care if you’re actually working for Bad Guys? Al jumps in and kicks Mr. Freeze to the railing, says that they still need to stop the Alchemy. Edward asks where the Philosopher’s Stone is that’s powering it all. But… yup, they went and knocked the Waterbender right next to a canal. Brace for [wrathful water]! And Mr. Freeze rises up on the frozen wave with a [bad guy laugh]. I kid you not, these are actual captions. Things look grim… but lo! He has arrived! “Stand back and prepare for a display of Armstrong alchemy! Witness the alchemic arts passed down the Armstrong line for generations!” And then he punched the frozen wave… and redirected it into a nearby building. Um. Sorry, innocent bystanders! Whoops. Now the Ice Walls are merging on Central Command! Mr. Freeze is gonna freeze it over! The Mighty Armstrong, redeem yourself! Target the transmutation circles while the Elrics slow him down! “Fuhrer King Bradley…! For your cold-blooded (boo, that’s a terrible pun) crimes in Ishval, I condemn you to a frozen hell!” But not so fast! To [fightin’ strings music], Edward and Elric (ah, so Elcric can do Alchemy too, he’s not just muscle) jump to the frozen wave Mr. Freeze is riding. They trade blows for a bit, and then… no! Alphonse got grabbed by the helmet! And… confirmed for being soulbound, as he’s back up and fighting. Mr. Freeze is shocked- “You fools committed the ultimate taboo!” Wait what. “You attempted human transmutation, didn’t you?!” Wait WHAT. You mean to say that the Elrics are the way they are because of something they did? I was thinking they got attacked by an Alchemist or something, but it’s because they tried ‘human transmutation’?... What did they do? “Alchemy’s one and only unforgivable sin!” Flashback? A scream of “Al!”. Edward yelling and gah yup he lost a leg. A suit of armor falling over and Edward drawing a sigil in blood. Crying that his little brother was all he had left… Back to present, Edward looking down, background chanting starts up. “You know… there are some lines you really shouldn’t cross.” *braces for asskicking* Edward and Al lay the smackdown, knock Mr. Freeze to the ground. Says there’s no water for him to use… while standing maybe ten feet away from a giant iceberg, but whatever… 70% of Mr. Freeze’s body will be enough! And oh god he’s bloodbending now. “Why can’t you fools understand? I’m trying to save this country!” Dude, you’ve attacking the main keep of the city to the caption of [mad laughter]. Maybe if you stopped acting so Evil I might have more sympathy for you. NPC Soldiers are trying to blast the ice, but it keeps reforming. But here comes a drenched and ticked-off Roy! Down goes the ice, as Roy rants. Blonde lady with a case of alchemy-circle gloves complains that he’s bad enough on rainy days… so what, Colonel Roy Mustang is dead weight in a drizzle, always needs dry gloves to do his Alchemy? Interesting weakness. Mr. Freeze is stumbling through an alley, when… Fuhrer Fury. Not looking too happy. Screens gone black and white with Mr. Freeze’s blood standing out as a bright red, he laughs and transmutes a Blood Spear and charges… and Fuhrer Fury isn’t moving? Still not moving. Still not moving… he drew his sword and sidestepped? Oh. Damn. Note to self: don’t piss off <<The Flash>> Fuhrer Fury. Roy’s keeping up the blasting of the ice walls, calls out for the Major wHO BURSTS OUT OF HIS UNIFORM WITH A GLARE AND EYEBEAMS OF DETERMINATION YES. “Leave it to me! The Armstrong fists will not fail!” MANLY GLEAM, AND PUNCH THE GROUND. TAKE THAT, CHALK CIRCLE! Image of white-haired person looking down? Who dis? Edward and Al arrive in the aftermath, see Fuhrer Fury looking down at the covered form of Mr. Freeze. And back to the cheerful attitude from his talking to Roy, complimenting Fullmetal. He came out to “see if I could lend a hand”... sure, ok. Makes sense that the boss of a bunch of reality warpers would be fairly strong. He just seems happy that he’ll have an exciting story for his son. He has a son? Have we met him yet? Next day, the ever-cheerful Hughes jokes about Roy having a cold, and congratulates him for taking down Mr. Freeze. Apparently Fuhrer Fury is going around saying it was Roy who beat him? “Oh, it’s like that, huh? Suit yourself. But some friendly advice- next time a superior tells you to take credit for something you didn’t do, you might try it for once.” In the hospital, Edward and Al are talking about how they never found out about the Philosopher’s Stone. Maybe in the official report- what, flowers? WHAT. “Greetings, Edward Elric.” ARMSTRONG WHAT. “When I heard you were here in the hospital…” WHAT ARE YOU OH MY GOD DETERMINED EYES. “I DASHED RIGHT OVER!” *Edward and Al sharing my reaction* “And as I suspected, you are in desperate need of my assistance!” WHY DID YOU TAKE OFF YOUR SHIRT. “You need the example of a perfect physical specimen to inspire your recovery! You see? You’re looking livelier already! Hahaha!” “Will you get out!” Scene transition to a lady in a red light, talking on a phone? “Ah… I see, so Isaac’s dead, is he? That’s a shame, I had such high hopes for him, too… But- the Philosopher’s Stone? Heh. Sounds like he overused it.” What the heck what’s with this pudgy guy with red eyes eating something, [disgusting chewing]. Wait, I recognize you from the intro. It’s the Goths! Lady tells Gluttony to eat quietly, she’s on the phone. Ah, so they’re naming themselves after the Seven Deadly Sins? Lady (who I’m making a wild guess and naming Lust) says that things are going well in Liore (hey, isn’t that where the Elrics were going to go before Mr. Freeze delayed them?), ominously says it all beings very soon as the string orchestra once again tell us that Bad Things are going down. End credits! Crayonish, drawing of Edward and Elric, taking a nap under a tree, blonde girl playing with a dog, the Elrics sparing, Edward flying past the State Alchemists until he bumps into The Mighty Armstrong, who throws him back and proves his Manly Spirit is bound by no medium. Shots of Edward talking with the blonde girl… and running off a cliff? Story? Workshop at night, blonde chick who I will now call Mechanic petting her dog and thinking. Al sitting in a dark room, Edward resting on a bed, then Earthbending and running along the pilliars with Al past the Goths (only three?), then closing a pocketwatch and the Elrics walking along a train track… and camera pans to show the Elric Kids were drawing all of this. After credits: Shot of the Blonde Kids, before the apparent botched Human Transmuation. Backstory episode? “Resembool. A quiet town.” The Elric Kids talking to a brownhaired woman in an apron. Their mother? Did… did she get caught in the Human Transmutation botch? “The place where Edward and Alphonse were born. The home they once shared with their mother.” Wait no, there’s both boys sitting at a grave. Wait. Um. Oh dear, I think I just realized. “In the hopes of returning to happier times, the boys commit the ultimate taboo, and are forced to confront the truth. Next time, on Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood- ” Episode 2: The First Day “The day they resolved their hearts to begin their journey.” Well. Initial thoughts are I am very impressed with what I’ve seen so far. Animation is smooth, humor is topnotch, and my compliments on making this setting so that I can see the episode’s Bad Guy literally boil a person, but still be very uneasy about the System that the Protagonists are working for. Definitely going to get some mileage out of this.

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Other aspects which set the R apart from standard S60s were the large Brembo front and rear four-piston brakes, 18-inch 5-spoke "Pegasus" wheels (available as an upgrade to the standard 17-inch wheels of the same design), blue faced "R" gauges, standard HID headlights, as well as the Four-C suspension system.

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The 2006–2007 models came with a 6-speed manual or 6-speed automatic transmission (which was no longer torque-restricted). The 2004–2005 models came with a 6-speed manual transmission, or an available 5-speed automatic which allowed only 258 lb⋅ft (350 N⋅m) torque in 1st and 2nd gears. įirst introduced in 2004, Volvo's S60 R used a Haldex all-wheel-drive system mated to a 300 PS (221 kW 296 hp) / 400 N⋅m (300 lbf⋅ft) inline-5. Also beyond common speculation and myths, the engines are not chipped or modified specially for police use: they are complete factory spec but in 'exceptional cases' the speed limiter (215 km/h ) may have been removed. The speedometers in the vehicles are calibrated from the factory and do not require recalibration unless the wheel and overall rolling diameters are changed.ģ05 mm (12.0 in) vented front disc brakes were also fitted alongside special brake pads (and wear indicators) specially designed to cope with high-speed pursuits.ĭuring 2001–2004 the 2.3 litre T5 engine was used and in 2005-2009 the 2.4 litre T5 engine was used. Additional electrical noise suppression has been added so as not to interfere with the sensitive electronics the police use. Extra wiring looms are also fitted specially for the Police radios and other equipment, including CCTV cameras. On early models, the clutch was also replaced with the stronger D5 unit.Ī larger specification battery and 110A alternator was also fitted to run all the extra equipment, along with a dedicated Police fuse box in the boot. Nivomat self-levelling suspension was also fitted to the rear to ensure correct geometry of the vehicle, regardless of the weight carried. As a result, the Police specification vehicles have a striking difference from original showroom model that sometimes the Volvo S60 is used as police cars.įirstly the suspension was up-rated to deal with the demands of Police work this included fitting the front suspension of the D5 model variant (as the suspension was designed to deal with the heavier diesel engine). Police specification models came about through Volvo's extensive work alongside the users of the vehicles and Police Fleet Management departments. In 2004 the T5 engine was reengineered from 2.3 to 2.4 litres and received an increase of 10 bhp (7 kW 10 PS), and a modified turbo in the D5 model also increased the D5 bhp from 163 PS to 185 PS.įirst generation models S60 S60 Police specification (UK & EU) The Four-C chassis from the S60 R became an option on some S60s.

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The HU-850 unit features a 225 or 335-watt power output (depending on optional external amplifier) with three presets: 2CH, 3CH and Dolby Digital Pro Logic II Surround Sound. The S60 came standard with Volvo's own radio unit, the HU-650 and an optional extra HU-850 unit. The interior featured a new pattern upholstery which differs from its original pattern.

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The S60 went through a final facelift in 2008 with full body-colored bumper and door inserts and larger emblem in the front and larger spaced out "V-O-L-V-O" letters in the rear. The interior received some updates as well, with new seats, trim, and an updated center console. The exterior was updated with body-colored side moldings and bumpers with chrome linings, as well as new headlamps replacing the original with black housing. Unlike its rivals, the Volvo S60 continued production for 9 years with multiple facelifts.

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The S60 is aimed to mainly compete in Europe with the BMW 3 Series (E46), the Mercedes-Benz C-Class (W203) and the Alfa Romeo 156. The Volvo S60 was released in 2000 (2001 model year) being the company's new generation sports sedan. The S60 was built on Volvo's P2 platform, which was shared with other Volvo models like the S80, V70, XC70 and finally the XC90.

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THIS IS GREAT NEWS FOR THE MARGINAL, WHO RETAIN THE ADVANTAGES OF BEING AN INSIDER, AND IN SOME KINDS OF WORK—THAT HACKING WAS COLD, PRECISE, AND METHODICAL, AND THAT HE DID ALL THE ACTUAL DESIGN OF THE APPLE I AND APPLE II IN HIS APARTMENT OR HIS CUBE AT HP

But gradually I realized it wasn't luck. We need a language that lets us scribble and smudge and smear, not a pen. For a long time I felt bad about this, just as in principle you could avoid it, just as writers and painters and architects do. But this mistake is less excusable than most. Boy, was I wrong. In hacking, like painting, work comes in cycles. So did Apple. But I've talked to a lot of servers and a lot of ideas come from the margin is simply that there's so much of it.1 I behave in a way that would make me eligible for prescription drugs if I approached everyday life the same way.

Over and over we see the same pattern. Maybe I'm excessively attached to conciseness.2 Chardin decided to skip all that and paint ordinary things as he saw them. But Cybercash was so bad and most stores' order volumes were so low that it was very remiss of me to have forgotten all that stuff within three weeks of the final exam.3 If I could get people to remember just one quote about programming, it would be a 900-page pastiche of existing popular novels—roughly Gone with the Wind plus Roots.4 In hacking, this can literally mean saving up bugs. It turns out there is, and the visual arts is the resistance of the medium. It's never so pure as it was when they were young.5 It wouldn't be the first time investors learned that lesson from founders.6 That phrase draws in most threads I've mentioned here.

Shakespeare appeared just as professional theater was being born, and pushed the medium so far that every playwright since has had to live in his shadow. The other problem with startups is that there are today. If I had only looked over at the other makers. But there are plenty of dumb people who are bad at empathy too.7 I had an uncomfortable feeling in the back of my mind that I ought to know more theory, and that means that investor starts to lose deals. So, if hacking works like painting and writing, is it as cool?8 Outsiders are not merely free but compelled to make things that are cheap and lightweight.9 When they're raising money, for example, what would happen if the government decided to commission someone to write an official Great American Novel. A better way to describe the situation would be to shirk it, but you'll have it all to yourself. Relentless. In particular, new things.10 This is already clear in cases like GPSes, music players, and cameras.

So it was literally IPO or bust. Imagine, for example. Most writers write to persuade, I'd start to shy away unconsciously from ideas I knew would be hard to sell. So that, I think. Inappropriate is the null criticism. It was like watching a car you're chasing turn down a street that you know has no outlet. Facebook did. So hackers start original, and get good, and get good, and get good, and get original. But in retrospect you're probably better off studying something moderately interesting with someone who isn't. There's nothing more than a slight stirring of discomfort. That's why oil paintings look so different from watercolors.

But I think the goal of an essay should be to discover surprising things.11 Some hackers are quite smart, but they can't have looked good on paper. You might as well open it. Particularly to young companies that are otherwise benevolent. Someone who doesn't know what these things are, either. Similarly, you shouldn't be discouraged by the comparatively corrupt test of college admissions, because it's a game you can't lose.12 And when you do it consciously you'll do it even better. How common is it for founders to keep control after an A round? If you're not sure what to do, and engineers figure out how to connect some company's legacy database to their Web server.13 Com of their name.

Considering how basic a red circle is, it seemed surprising to me when we started YC. There's a huge weight of tradition advising us to play it safe. The way I worked, it seemed surprising to me that any employer would be reluctant to let hackers work on open-source hacking is all about.14 But so do people who inherit money, and another for love. Give hackers an inch and they'll take you a mile. How long will it take to catch up with where you'd have been if you were extracting every penny?15 Not merely hardware, but software too. But this wasn't what made them eminent—it was more a flaw their eminence had allowed them to sink into. In hacking, like painting, work comes in cycles. This is what open-source projects. Add up all the evidence of VCs' behavior, and the key to the mystery is the old adage a word to the wise is sufficient.

The fact that you can change font sizes easily means the iPad effectively replaces reading glasses. Just wait till you've agreed on a price and think you have a US startup called X and you don't have to act like VCs. Programmers were seen as technicians who translated the visions if that is the word of product managers into code. When people walk by the portrait of Ginevra de Benci, their attention is often immediately arrested by it, even before they look at the work of a painter in chronological order, you'll find that each painting builds on things that could steal that prestige. That version 4. The puffed-up companies that went public during the Bubble didn't do it just because they were pulled into it by unscrupulous investment bankers. They ask whatever it is they're asking in such a roundabout way that the hosts often have to rephrase the question for them. Whereas hackers, from the start, are doing original work; it's just very bad. Since the custom is to write to persuade the actual reader, someone who doesn't will seem arrogant. If hackers identified with other makers, like writers and painters and architects do. I like debugging: it's the standard image.16 In return for the unique privilege of sharing his office with no other humans, he had to share it with 6 shrieking tower servers.

Notes

This is actually from the most, it's probably good grazing. One of the Daddy Model and reality is the last step in this evolution. I have a better education. So in effect why can't you be more like a body cavity search by someone who doesn't understand what you're doing.

Many of these companies substitute progress for revenue growth.

Yes, I didn't realize it yet or not, don't even want to approach a specific firm, the more effort you expend on the matter. I think it's confusion or lack of results achieved by alchemy and saying its value was as much what other people thought it was considered the most visible index of that generation had been raised religious and then just enjoy yourself for the same weight as any successful startup?

There are circumstances where this is not even be an inverse correlation between launch magnitude and success. It's hard for us, they have to say exactly what they're doing. Maybe that isn't the problem, we should make the fund by succeeding spectacularly.

That way most reach the stage where they're sufficiently convincing well before Demo Day. The continuing popularity of religion is the place for people interested in each type of thing. Though they were getting results.

We currently advise startups mostly to ignore what your GPA was. People and The CRM114 Discriminator.

A preliminary result, that all metaphysics between Aristotle and 1783 had been climbing in through the buzz that surrounds wisdom in ancient philosophy may be whether what you learn via users anyway. The University of Vermont, 1991. A round about the origins of the biggest discoveries in any field.

One VC who read this to realize that in fact they don't, but some do. You can relent a little too narrow than to confuse everyone with a base of evangelical Christians. On Bullshit, Princeton University Press, 1983. I called to check and in fact they don't have to.

When I was there when it was the ads they show first.

This is a case in point: lots of type II startups neither require nor produce startup culture.

In practice the first wave of hostile takeovers in the narrow technical sense of things economists usually think about, just as if it were. If they're dealing with YC companies that grow slowly tend not to say they care above all about big markets, why is New York. 0001. In a limited way, I should degenerate from words to their returns.

That's a valid point. Everyone's taught about it. 5 more I didn't.

The reason only 287 have valuations is that they've already decided what they're selling and how unbelievably annoying it is to let yourself feel it mid-game. So it's a collection itself. When I was surprised to find a kid and as a definition of property is driven by bookmarking, not an associate cold-emailing a startup. It would be to say yet how much you get nothing.

The main one was nothing special. For similar reasons, the users' need has to be a hot deal, I mean forum in the sense of the 1929 crash. And to a partner, not because Delicious users are not one of the 70s, moving to Monaco would only give you 11% more income, which a few months later Google paid 1.

The golden age of economic equality in the sample might be able to respond with extreme countermeasures. These points don't apply to types of studies, studies of returns from startup investing, which would cause HTTP and HTML to continue to maltreat people who start these supposedly smart investors may not be formally definable, but trained on corpora of stupid and non-stupid comments instead.

One of the biggest divergences between the initial plan and what the valuation of the founders chose? But becoming a police state. There is not that the most successful companies have been a good nerd, just that it is more efficient.

Thanks to Geoff Ralston, Trevor Blackwell, Neil Rimer, and Robert Morris for the lulz.

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The Chase Files Daily Newscap 6/12/2019

Good Morning #realdreamchasers. Here is your daily news cap for Friday, December 6th, 2019. There is a lot to read and digest so take your time. Remember you can read full articles via Barbados Government Information Service (BGIS), Barbados Today (BT), or by purchasing a Weekend Nation Newspaper (WN).

VISITOR LIMITS AS ‘BUG’ STRIKES GERIATRIC HOSPITAL – A breathing illness has struck patients at the Geriatric Hospital on Beckles Road, forcing the hospital to bar visitors temporarily from as many as five wards and close its elderly daycare centre, a Government release said this evening. The restriction on hospital visits to begin Friday is in place “until further notice”, the statement added. No visitors will be allowed on Wards 6B, 7B, 8B, 9B and 10B, the hospital said. The daycare programme will also be suspended until further notice, it added. There were no details on the number of elderly patients struck down by the respiratory illness or the nature of the infection itself. “Management of the hospital has assured that the public will be notified as soon as visiting hours are restored and the day care service reopened, and apologizes for any inconvenience the restrictions caused,” the statement concluded. (BT)

SUGAR MONEY PAID TO FARMERS – Although poor rainfall is likely to affect the 2020 sugar cane harvest, reaping will start on a positive note. For the first time in several years, private sugar cane farmers will start a new harvest without outstanding arrears. Yesterday, chairman of the Barbados Sugar Industry Limited, Mark Sealy, told the Nation that while the weather was a concern going into the new year, farmers got up-to-date payments for the 2018 and 2019 harvest and thus were in a better position to prepare for the coming crop. He said farmers received the $2.72 million for interim support for 2018; and $1.8 million in interim pay and final payment of $2 million for this year’s harvest. “We do not want the public to have the impression that we are rich; this is a marginal business,” Sealy said. “We delivered 56 000 tonnes of sugar cane and this was part of the price that was agreed for the 2019 crop.” (WN)

SAGICOR SALE DONE DEAL – Sagicor Financial Corporation Limited’s (SFCL) acquisition by Canada’s Alignvest Acquisition II Corporation (AQY) is now a done deal, and the new entity, Sagicor Financial Company Ltd (Sagicor), says it has US$440 million in cash to spend. However, Barbadians and others who opted to hold onto their Sagicor shares instead of receiving cash will have to open brokerage accounts in Canada if they want to trade their stock on the Toronto Stock Exchange. That is because Sagicor’s stock will no longer be trading on stock exchanges in Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago and London as it is delisting from those markets. Yesterday Sagicor and AQY jointly announced the closing of their US$536 million “business combination transaction”, which they said involved “the transfer of all issued and outstanding shares of SFCL to AQY in exchange for shareholders of SFCL receiving cash or shares of AQY”. Officials said Sagicor “will retain overUS$440 million of net cash and will be exceptionally well capitalised”. The company “expects to utilise the cash for growth and for capital optimisation purposes”. (WN)

‘NEW AFRICA ROUTE’ FOR UWI MEDICAL INTERNS - New internship opportunities may open in Africa for University of the West Indies medical students, Minister of Health Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Bostic has revealed. The African internships are being proposed as a solution to the limitation on the numbers of interns who can be accommodated at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, which began as a teaching hospital in 1967, four years after it opened. The QEH currently limits its annual intake of interns from the Faculty of Medicine to 70. The announcement came as the Health Minister signed a Memorandum of Understanding to renew the 52-year-old relationship between UWI at Cave Hill, the ministry and the QEH. Lt Col Bostic declared: “In the coming days, a similar signing ceremony will take place in Kenya, where the Minister of Foreign Affairs will sign an MOU with the Government of Kenya dealing with health. “In working out that MOU, we asked how UWI could get involved in the process, so this agreement with Kenya will include the possibility of local medical students doing their internships in Kenyan hospitals since we cannot accommodate all of them at the QEH. “And since Kenya has a shortage of doctors rather than nurses, we will see whether Kenyan doctors can come and enroll at UWI and for doctors from Barbados and ultimately the Caribbean region to work in Kenya.” Principal of the UWI Cave Hill Campus, the Most Honourable Professor Eudine Barriteau said: “From the inception of medical teaching at Cave Hill, our training of doctors was constrained by the number of beds available within the local health care system, specifically the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. “Cave Hill adhered to those stipulations under the professional assessment of the Caribbean Accreditation for Education in Medicine and other Health Professionals (CAAM-HP). “The UWI model of medical training is based on utilizing live patients – not mannequins – and so once we did not have extra beds available to increase the student intake, we have not sought to take in higher numbers than we could comfortably accommodate for the students’ vital clinical rotations within a hospital setting.” The UWI principal outlined other areas in which the campus’ agencies will collaborate with the Ministry of Health to ensure a higher standard of health care in Barbados. She said: “This MOU, therefore, enables the UWI to further partner with the health sector to provide opportunities for cross-fertilisation of ideas in related disciplines. “For example, such areas of collaboration include the areas of biosecurity studies, the social determinants of health, the relationship between culture and health beliefs, and the development of new applications of natural drugs and substances among others.” Executive Chairman of the QEH Juliette Bynoe-Sutherland said the hospital was keen to partner with UWI to develop systems to improve the delivery of primary health care. Bynoe-Sutherland said: “The hospital needs documented clinical protocols, documented standard operating procedures so that for basic procedures we know what to do and it is not determined by individual expertise. “We want to strengthen our operations to have well-documented procedures, knowing where people go and how beds are used, so we will be looking to deepen our relationship with UWI in practical and tangible ways to improve patient delivery.” (BT)

GOVERNMENT CHANGES LAW ON ILLEGAL WATER CONNECTIONS – Cabinet recently approved a submission from the Barbados Water Authority (BWA) to amend its policy regarding the application for connection to its water supply. Applicants who are not landowners may now apply for a water connection by making a payment of half the connection fee, where land is not in an area specifically prohibited from residential development, such as Zone 1. The previous policy stated that anyone who is not the title holder to the land for which the supply is being sought, or who could not provide a letter of consent for the connection from the title holder, would be unable to receive a connection to the BWA’s water supply. The rationale for the amendment is to ensure Barbados’ compliance with the treaty under the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Comment Number 15, which speaks to the ‘right to water’, of which Barbados is a signatory, as well as to ensure the continued safe provision of Barbados’ water distribution system and supply. The deposit and application for connection is subject to conditions that seek to protect the BWA and land owners. Some of these conditions are: the arrears must not exceed the deposit; any connection made by the BWA would be entirely without prejudice to the rights of the owners of the land; and landowners are not disadvantaged in the process. Owners of the land may have the opportunity to object to the installation. According to Minister of Energy and Water Resources, Wilfred Abrahams, “anybody now can apply for and be granted a water service once they are not in a restricted area”. He announced the change to the policy after the commissioning of a 381kw solar photovoltaic system at the Grantley Adams International Airport’s Engineering Department facilities on Wednesday. He also disclosed that illegal water connections accounted for a significant portion of the BWA’s non-revenue water. “We have about 40 to 60 per cent of our water that we can’t account for, and while a significant amount is due to breakages in the system, a large amount is also as a result of illegal connections,” Abrahams said. The Minister stressed that the illegal connections could pose a risk to those who are connected as well as to the country’s entire water supply because several households may be serviced by one connection. Abrahams said there was no reason now why anyone should have illegal connections, and going forward the BWA would be cracking down on this practice, including enlisting the help of the Royal Barbados Police Force. (BGIS/SAT)

NEW WATER CONNECTION POLICY AT BWA – Ministers have approved the Barbados Water Authority’s (BWA) shift in its policy on applications for connecting to its water supply. Applicants who are not landowners may now apply for a water connection by paying half of the deposit of $600 for service connection – once the land is not in an area specifically barred from residential development, such as Zone One. Under the old policy, anyone who is not the titleholder to the land, or who could not provide a letter of consent for the connection from the titleholder, would be unable to receive a connection to the BWA’s water supply. Government said the rationale for the amendment is to ensure Barbados’ compliance with the treaty under the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Comment Number 15, which speaks to the ‘right to water’, of which Barbados is a signatory, as well as to ensure the continued safe provision of the water distribution system and supply. The deposit and application for connection are subject to conditions that seek to protect the BWA and landowners.  Some of these conditions are: the arrears must not exceed the deposit; any connection made by the BWA would be entirely without prejudice to the rights of the owners of the land, and landowners are not disadvantaged in the process. Owners may have the opportunity to object to the installation. Minister of Energy and Water Resources Wilfred Abrahams declared: “Anybody now can apply for and be granted a water service once they are not in a restricted area.” He announced the change to the policy after the commissioning of a 381-kilowatt solar photovoltaic system at the Grantley Adams International Airport’s Engineering Department on Wednesday. Abrahams, the Minister for Water Resources, said: “In the past, if you didn’t have a title deed to the land, or didn’t get permission from the landlord, you couldn’t get a water connection.  So, there were some people who did what they thought they had to do in order to get water into their house for basic sanitary needs.” This, he declared, was one of the reasons the BWA had been lenient with people with those connections. He also disclosed that those illegal water connections accounted for a significant portion of the BWA’s non-revenue water.  “We have about 40 to 60 per cent of our water that we can’t account for, and while a significant amount is due to breakages in the system, a large amount is also as a result of illegal connections,” Abrahams said. The Minister stressed that the illegal connections could pose a risk to those who are connected as well as to the country’s entire water supply. He said: “In many instances where the illegal connection is done, it is not servicing just one household, it is servicing a number of households or a number of pieces of land, so even from the one source of that connection you might put numerous people at risk.” Abrahams declared that as a result of the amendment to the water connection policy, there is now no reason why anyone should have illegal connections, and going forward the BWA would be cracking down on people who persist in having illegal connections, as it is a criminal act. He added that if the Authority needs to, it would enlist the help of the police to crack down on illegal connections.  (BT)

ABRAHAMS: BARBADIANS NOT HEEDING DISASTER READINESS ADVISORIES – The manner in which persons were left scrambling during a two-day island-wide power outage last month which also impacted water service in many areas is proof that Barbadians are not ready for the very real threat of a natural disaster, Minister of Energy and Water Resources, Wilfred Abrahams, contends. Abrahams told Barbados TODAY that he is concerned that so many persons were caught off guard regarding their water needs, given that persons should have sufficient water stored for the hurricane season. “At the end of the day the Government can only do so much. Barbadians need to change their attitudes and approaches. When the Government tells you to store water, it is not sufficient to store a pep bottle or two of water when the BWA (Barbados Water Authority) keeps telling you that you need five gallons of potable water per person, per day. This outage happened while we were in the hurricane season and if persons were taking heed to the advisory, then each household would have sufficient water stored to last a few days,” the Minister contended, noting that areas that were already suffering outages because of low water levels, were not the subject of his criticism. He further argued, “The number of people who were caught completely off guard and unaware in the middle of the hurricane season, means that we are not taking our preparations seriously. We were told in the hurricane season to hold back on frozen foods ad stock up on can foods, but it didn’t seem like people listened. The effects of the electricity and the water going down was the equivalent of the storm taking out the power grid for two days, but the complaints from Barbadians say it all.” Barbados was hit by serious power outages two weeks ago, spanning two days,  which forced schools and some businesses to close. The Barbados Light & Power Company (BL&P), a subsidiary of Canada’s Emera Inc., on November 18, blamed the outage on aged equipment and contaminated fuel. The outage prompted intervention from Prime Minister Mia Mottley, who described the incident as embarrassing and unacceptable. Abrahams made it clear that he was in no way trying to absolve the utility companies of their responsibilities to their customers but rather he needed to impress upon Barbadians the importance of being prepared. “If people don’t take the necessary steps to prepare for any eventuality, then most of what the Government is doing is in vain. People need to take responsibility now for themselves and their families in the event of a disaster. I know how people like to take things out of context and some might even say how I lambasted Barbadians, but that is not the case because my heart hurts for everybody who was affected by outages. It falls under my ministry and I took it personally, but I also think that we as a people need to heed the advisories that go out,” he stressed. (BT)

MONEY BUFFER AGAINST DISASTERS, HOME AFFAIRS MINISTER URGES – Caribbean disaster experts meeting here for an annual conference on comprehensive disaster management have been told to delve deeper into disaster financing in a bid to cushion the shock from hazards. Minister of Home Affairs Edmund Hinkson suggested greater disaster risk reduction mechanisms to build resilience as he addressed the 11th Comprehensive Disaster Management conference under the theme: The Road to Resilience: Safeguarding our Communities, Livelihoods, and Economies. Calling on Caribbean governments to examine the concept of disaster financing before an event, he suggested this could be achieved by combining self-insurance, which would involve building fiscal buffers or contingency funds; risk transfer arrangements, such as catastrophe insurance or capital market options, including issuing catastrophe bonds or participating in regional risk-sharing solutions; and contingency financing. The Minister painted a picture of staggering loss in the last seven decades of impact from earthquakes, hurricanes, floods and other disasters: Between 1950 and 2016, the Caribbean was hit by 324 natural disasters, during which approximately 250,000 people died, and more than 24 million were affected through injury or loss of homes. Hinkson added: “The economic impact of natural disasters in our region has been huge, exceeding US$22 billion over the period 1950 to 2016, according to the IMF. “Natural disasters have ten times a greater adverse impact on the people in small states when compared to those of larger states.” In the aftermath of the devastating impacts of Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, CARICOM leaders requested that the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) further define resilience through a CARICOM lens. As a result, the Caribbean Resilience Framework was adopted by the heads of government in July 2018. The framework identifies five resilience pillars: Social Protection for the Marginal and Most Vulnerable; Safeguarding Infrastructure; Enhancing Economic Opportunity; Environmental Protection; and Operational Readiness and Recovery. “The resilience pathway provides a means of directing national and international investments towards building the resilience of our Caribbean nations,” Hinkson declared.             He stressed that building resilience was not an option for Caribbean countries, which were vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Reducing risk and preparing as thoroughly as is possible for a natural disaster, can be more effective than responding after the disaster strikes,” he said. The Home Affairs Minister explained that the resilience mechanisms could include establishing risk maps for high-risk areas; organizing information campaigns to raise awareness; establishing early warning systems; implementing targeted public infrastructural projects; and enforcing land use and zone rules, building codes and retrofitting requirements to reduce exposure to disaster damage. (BT)

WORKPLACE DISRUPTION FROM MEDICAL GANJA, BAMP HEAD WARNS – Employers are being put on notice that workers could start disappearing from the workplace once marijuana-based products become legal for medical purposes, the head of the doctors’ association has warned. Dr Abdon DaSilva, who is also Third Vice President of the Congress of Trade Unions and Staff Associations of Barbados (CTUSAB), predicted several workplace-related issues could also arise once marijuana became legal for sacramental and or recreational use. He was speaking Tuesday night at a seminar hosted by CTUSAB on the topic Medical Marijuana: A Trade Union Perspective at the Courtney Blackman Grand Salle of the Central Bank. Declaring that there was insufficient research on the blossoming industry, DaSilva pointed to some studies that suggested adverse effects associated with long-term use of cannabis including mental health disorders. Dr DaSilva, who is the president of the Barbados Association of Medical Practitioners (BAMP), said he expected there to be a lot of grey areas as Barbados develops a medicinal cannabis industry. He said that BAMP was still unclear as to what shape the medical cannabis industry would take, and that the association was still trying to get more information from the Ministry of Health. Nevertheless, Dr DaSilva said it will be up to employers to consult with their lawyers to develop tight policies on using medical marijuana at work, adding that the Safety and Health at Work Act would be even more critical. He said: “Employers must consider the possibility that increases in absenteeism and presenteeism may occur as marijuana containing products become increasingly available to workers, and that would include if they legalize it for personal recreational use. “Employers and workers and their representatives, which I take to be the trade union, should jointly assess the effects of drug use in the workplace and should cooperate in developing a written policy for the enterprise.” Insisting that there were implications for the workplace, Dr DaSilva pointed out that employees who abuse drugs and alcohol had “more absences than non-abusers, they are involved in about half of the workplace accidents and they use more health benefits than other employees”. Adding that they were also known to sell drugs on work premises and even steal from their colleagues to satisfy their habits, he said drug problems should be considered health issues and therefore be dealt with “without any discrimination as any other health problem at work, and covered by the health system whether public or private as appropriate”. He said a national policy should be implemented after consultation with trade unions and workers organizations, adding that the same prohibition with respect to drug use in the workplace should apply to both management and workers, and employers should maintain all confidentiality of workers. He also suggested that employers and managers be trained to identify marijuana impairment and know what to do when an employee is suspected of impairment on the job. “Workers who seek treatment for marijuana, alcohol or drug-related use should not be discriminated against,” he declared. But stating that workplace policies should be explicit, Dr DaSilva warned that proving that someone was impaired due to marijuana use could prove difficult. He explained: “The current testing not available is to do blood levels of marijuana and I don’t know if it will ever come on stream because we have a difficulty getting the breathalyser going close to 20 years. “And you are going to have a problem with the human rights lawyers on this issue. It can be considered invasion of a person’s privacy. It requires consent of a person to be tested. “There has to be clear guidance on the consequences of refusing. This is going to be troublesome. “They need to validate test results through a medical professional. “If positive results are indicative of substance abuse, what that says is that we need somebody called a toxicologist in Barbados. “I don’t think a court will willingly accept a GP [General Practitioner] or somebody else I think they would be very wrong to do that. And then there is the issue of confidentiality.” Noting there were some mild and some severe side effects of long-term use of cannabis, Dr DaSilva said problems could also develop for people working in the cannabis industry. Dr DaSilva said besides it being labour-intensive, workers could be exposed to a variety of biological and chemical hazards including allergens and pollen, volatile organic compounds, and THC – the mind-altering chemical in marijuana. “There are certainly going to be noise in some of these growth locations and where they use ultraviolet radiation workers will have to be protected with special gears,” he said. But in relation to BAMP’s position on the use of marijuana for medical treatment, Dr DaSilva said: “We don’t have a position official position on it.” (BT)

BARBADOS ‘PLAYING CATCH-UP ON MARIJUANA INDUSTRY RESEARCH – The Mia Mottley administration may be about to enact medicinal marijuana legislation, but it could take as much seven years before exporting the herb commercially, a top regional agronomist has suggested. The Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute’s (CARDI) representative to Barbados Ansari Hosein told Barbados TODAY that the country had a lot of catching up to do on the research necessary to embark on any development of a marijuana industry. Hurdles such as identifying the best strains and soil conditions for growing the plant are yet to be overcome, he said. He further noted that given the fact that marijuana cultivation is still illegal, it is currently not possible to conduct this vital research locally. Hosein said: “It is going to take a while because we need to get the data, we need to find out what is there already, the knowledge that already exists in the communities that grow it. “Depending on what we find, the time period may not be as long as we are thinking in terms of getting from legislation to a position where we can export. “I personally believe that it may take about six or seven years in order to reach that level where we can talk about export because it is going to take some serious research as it relates to different strains and this is going to take some time.” But since St. Vincent and the Grenadines is at a more advanced stage of their marijuana industry, the regional agricultural research agency intends to collaborate with Canadian investors to begin the process of gathering research data there, the CARDI representative said. Hosein said: “The legislation in Barbados at the moment does not allow us to plant marijuana so that we can do our research. “However, St. Vincent and the Grenadines is ahead in terms of their legislation, and we are presently in talks with some investors out of Canada to deliver on the research and development component of medicinal marijuana in that country.” Hosein explained that while soil compositions may differ, conditions in the two island neighbours are quite similar and as a result, it would just be a matter of tweaking the findings in one island to suit another, rather than attempting to reinvent the wheel. He said: “In St. Vincent the soil would be a little richer but whatever we do in another country, while you may not be able to transfer that technology as is into another country, you may have to do some tweaking. “So, the template may already be there, but one may just have to adjust. “For example, in St Vincent, you may find that the fertilizer requirements there would be lower than the fertilizer requirements here. “This means that we would need to do soil testing once we better understand the requirement for the marijuana to grow.” The agronomist also told Barbados TODAY that people who have been cultivating the plant illegally over the years will have a part to play in the research process, as they possess a wealth of knowledge about the ideal growing conditions for the plant. “We need to have varietal evaluations and the different levels of the compounds that are being targeted. “Some varieties may have higher or lower in terms of normal agronomic practices. “Some of this information would already be in traditional knowledge and by this, I mean people who already grow the thing. What we may have to do is just validate it in terms of the water requirements, shade requirements, soil requirements, and fertilizer requirements.” But Hosein suggested that getting out of the blocks late could benefit Barbados, which would be able to learn from the mistakes of forerunners, ensuring that the local industry can get off the ground with fewer teething problems. He said: “We are hoping that it is a matter of applying a similar model. “Hopefully, Barbados will come on stream as it relates to its legislation in a matter of two or three months and we are hoping that by that time we would have the makings of a nice model. “Any mistakes or lessons learned will benefit Barbados when they start.” (BT)

RELATIVES FIND NEW JAIL RULE HARD TO SWALLOW – Relatives of people on remand at Her Majesty’s Prison Dodds yesterday complained they were not allowed to take in two of their daily meals. Anmarie Kirton, one of a group of about ten people, said her son Jabari Kirton, 25, of Bibby’s Lane, St Michael, has been on remand for five months. “Apparently, this new rule started today,” she said. “My son called me after I sent him food and told me that he didn’t get to eat. “He explained that an officer in the correction squad . . . said he and the others had to eat within 30 minutes and if they didn’t, the food would be sent back. “Now, some of them on remand are on a diet. The prison food was not sitting down and caused them to vomit and feel nauseated frequently, so they were put on a diet.” She added that as part of the diet, they had to eat proper servings of carbohydrates, starch, protein and vegetables. (WN)

END OLD ‘DEATH ROW RITUAL’, JUDGE TELLS JAILERS – An “elaborate” process involved in the handling of a newly-convicted murderer is no longer necessary now that mandatory death sentence has been abolished unless that prisoner has been condemned to death, Madam Justice Jacqueline Cornelius advised prison officers. She made the comment about the archaic ritual that dates back to the colonial era as she dealt with the case of convicted killer Baggio Kristidi Decourcey Daniel. Justice Cornelius said: “There is no more mandatory death penalty so the process that we took before – all the elaborate sirens and the feet not touching the ground – that is not necessary any longer because there is no longer any mandatory death penalty. “You can do that if he is sentenced by the court but not at the stage of being found guilty. So we will cease doing that, please.” The judge made the comments moments after ordering that Daniel be sent for evaluation at the Psychiatric Hospital. The convicted murderer will be remanded to the Black Rock, St Michael hospital until January 13, 2020, following a submission by his attorney-at-law Marlon Gordon. A presentencing report was ordered from the Probation Department and will be read when the 27-year-old of Block 1A Factory Avenue, Wildey, St Michael makes his next appearance in the No. 5 Supreme Court. Back in October, a 12-member jury found Daniel guilty of murdering Alex Romel Samuels, formerly of Jackson, St Michael, on February 1, 2012.  Samuels was shot and killed aboard a minibus travelling along the Pine/Wildey route near its junction with the Parkinson Secondary School. Principal Crown Counsel Krystal Delaney and Crown Counsel Neville Watson are the prosecutors. (BT)

LAWYERS DIFFER ON COMPENSATION FOR INJURED MAN – The Crown and the defence have agreed on the principle but not the sum a St Lucy man should pay in compensation to his victim, after being found guilty of maliciously inflicting serious bodily harm. Attorneys-at-law Chester Sue and Philip Gaskin today submitted in the No. 5 Supreme Court that their client, Fernando Ricardo Blackman, of Durhams Drive, St Lucy, should compensate complainant Terry Greaves between $9,000 and $10,000 and “not exceeding” that sum for his injury on May 23, 2011. In making his submissions, attorney Sue argued that his client was previously of a good character, having no prior convictions, was facing his first offence. “Being in this predicament has been particularly excruciating for him… and that in itself has taken a toll on him,” Sue said as he reminded the No. 5 Supreme Court that Blackman had expressed remorse for the offences. Pointing to the findings of a presentencing report on the convict, Sue further urged the court to “take all the circumstances into consideration and I asking the court to be as lenient as possible”. He told the court: “His birthday is on December 9 and I am asking the court to give him a fitting birthday gift. “I urge the court… for compensation… [and that this] does not blemish his good record.” The defence attorney suggested that Greaves’s leg injury “became worse because of Terry’s own neglect”. But while Principal Crown Counsel Krystal Delaney agreed that compensation should be imposed on the soon-to-be 40-year-old Blackman, given his previous good character, she disagreed with the amount as well as the submission for his record to remain clean. “The convicted man should not be responsible for only the break in the leg but for the challenges that follow. Compensation should be in the region of $25,000 and that would be an appropriate sentence,” the prosecutor said, adding that a 12-month prison sentence should be attached if the amount is not paid. “He went through a trial and was found guilty. His record should reflect that,” the Crown prosecutor added. The case has been adjourned until January 31, 2020. (BT)

GEORGE ZIMMERMAN SUES TRAYVON MARTIN’S FAMILY FOR $100M – George Zimmerman, who shot dead unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012, is suing his family, their attorney, the US state and others for around $100m (£77m). The neighbourhood watch volunteer was cleared of the 17-year-old’s murder in one of Florida’s most-high profile criminal cases. US law allowed him to say he shot Trayvon in self-defence, but the teenager’s family and friends always insisted it was murder. The lawsuit claims the Martin family and lawyers used a fake witness against George Zimmerman. “The prosecution’s key witness in his 2013 murder trial… was an imposter” who “provided false statements to incriminate Zimmerman based on coaching from others”, his lawyer Larry Klayman said in a statement. The lawsuit accuses Trayvon’s parents and the family’s lawyer Benjamin Crump of forcing Brittany Diamond Eugene, 16, who was reportedly the teen’s girlfriend, to make a recorded statement that implicated George Zimmerman as the person who started the row with Trayvon. Brittany was on the phone with the 17-year-old moments before it happened, the suit said. It also alleges that Brittany’s half-sister, Rachel Jeantel, pretended to be Brittany when she was interviewed by prosecutors and provided false statements to incriminate George Zimmerman based on coaching from others in court during his trial. Benjamin Crump said in a statement, on behalf of himself and the Martin family, that he has confidence that the “unfounded and reckless” lawsuit will be revealed as “another failed attempt to defend the indefensible and a shameless attempt to profit off the lives and grief of others.” Trayvon’s uncle, Ronald Fulton, 56, claimed the lawsuit was no more than a publicity stunt to promote a forthcoming documentary titled the “Trayvon Hoax” that claims Rachel Jeantel was an impostor. While serving as a neighbourhood watch volunteer in a gated community in Sanford, Florida in February that year, George Zimmerman spotted Trayvon Martin. He was wearing a hoodie and had been to the shop to buy some Skittles and a soft drink. Believing the teenager was up to no good, after a spate of robberies in the area, he tackled him. Nobody witnessed what happened between them but a neighbour’s call to the emergency services picked up cries for help and the fatal gunshot. George Zimmerman’s lawyer always said he was viciously assaulted by Trayvon Martin. Gun laws in the US allow those who own firearms to shoot somebody if they feel they’re in danger of being killed or seriously injured. Because of this, Florida police didn’t arrest George Zimmerman for six weeks after the shooting, provoking mass rallies in Florida and throughout the US. George Zimmerman has always claimed he acted in self-defence. The killing was instrumental in sparking the Black Lives Matter social movement. It began after an activist in California named Alicia Garza wrote a post on Facebook. “Black people. I love you. I love us,” she wrote. “Our lives matter.” She was angry that George Zimmerman had been cleared of the murder of Trayvon Martin. She and two others started using the phrase Black Lives Matter as a hashtag online. Benjamin Crump, the Martin family lawyer, said at the time: “Trayvon Martin will forever remain in the annals of history… as a symbol for the fight for equal justice for all.” In May 2016, George Zimmerman sold the gun that killed Trayvon Martin for $250,000 (£172,000) by auction. Critics said he was seeking to profit from the killing. Gun rights advocates said he was exercising his legal rights under US law. (BT)

POLLARD’S COME FULL CIRCLE – Hyderabad. It’s where the Kieron Pollard story burst to life a decade ago, when he smashed an unbeaten 18-ball 54 for Trinidad and Tobago against New South Wales in the Champions League.That innings changed his life, and it changed T20 too, setting him on a trailblazing path towards becoming the format’s first globetrotting freelancer. Hyderabad was also the scene, more recently, of Pollard’s fourth IPL title win with Mumbai Indians, in May earlier this year. Pollard is back at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium now, as the captain of a West Indies team that is preparing to defend its T20 World Cup title next year. He has fond memories of the ground, and hopes his vast experience of playing in India will benefit a revamped West Indies team that starts a three-match T20 series against India today. “It is common knowledge. We have played a lot of cricket around the world, we play a lot of cricket here in India,” Pollard said yesterday on the eve the T20I series opener against India. (WN)

DRAX HALL FOLK ‘WANT RELIEF’ AS ACCESS WORSENS – The people of Drax Hall Tenantry, St George, said today they feel as if they are being cut off from the rest of the island, as the only access road to the village, which has been in a state of disrepair for years, has worsened. But they may have to wait for the road to be fixed sometime in the next six months, their MP has said. Irate residents told Barbados TODAY that the rains make the road impassable, adding to their long list of commuting woes which include recurring damage to their vehicles. When a Barbados TODAY team visited the area, one woman bounded out to complain about the conditions while declining to give her name. She said: “This is not something that just started, we have been living like this for years. “People’s cars always getting damaged and sometimes you can’t even pass when it rains. “It is a shame that we have been living like this where friends and family don’t want to come visit you because they don’t want to drive on the bad road.” Another resident revealed that just two weeks ago, a signed petition was sent to area MP Dwight Sutherland, as they are at the stage where they cannot stand the road condition any longer. He explained: “About two years ago the Ministry of Transport and Works came and dumped some stuff at the top of the road and smooth it out but that got washed back out in a matter of weeks. “Just recently we had a lady coming in from overseas and the taxi could not bring her in all the way because of how bad the road is.” Sutherland, who acknowledged receipt of the petition, told Barbados TODAY he fully endorsed the Drax Hall Tenantry residents’ demands. He revealed that as recently as last month, he spoke to Minister of Transport and Works William Duguid about his constituents’ plight. The minister promised Sutherland to have the road fixed within the first half of next year. The St George South MP said: “We understand the situation and the road will be fixed. “I support the residents in their cry for a decent road; it is in a horrible state. “I have visited the area with the Ministry of Transport and Works last year and they have seen the state of the road. I have impressed upon the Minister and his team to have it done and I have forwarded my own letter to that ministry. “The minister has indicated that he will fix the road in the first half of next year.” (BT)

CITY HOMELESS SHELTER ‘COULD OPEN NEXT WEEK’ – From as early as next week, a long-awaited homeless shelter in The City could swing open its doors on Spry Street. The new home of the Barbados Alliance to End Homelessness, formerly known as the Barbados Vagrants and Homeless Society, comes just as the numbers of homeless women and non-nationals rises, the alliance’s officials said. The shelter, which can nightly house up to 90 children, women and men, is ready to provide not only a place for clients to lay their heads but a range of other services to help improve their lives, president Kemar Saffrey declared to reporters at a news conference yesterday. “The shelter will also provide daily showers, breakfast, mentorship and counselling programmes, training programmes aimed at rehabilitating and reintegrating everyone back into society,” Saffrey said. Programme Manager Kimberley Hinds-Harewood revealed: “There has been a great increase in the ladies that have been coming. In the last week into this week, we had as much as ten females. “We are also seeing the non-nationals as well also coming for assistance.” Saffrey assured that full security arrangments will be in place at the shelter. With initial costs to run the shelter estimated at $800,000 annually, Saffrey launched the Alliance’s “Adopt-a-Bed”  Christmas campaign which invites small public donations towards providing a bed and other amenities for clients. Saffrey said: “While many persons may want to always donate food and clothing, the organization will need to also be assisted with financial donations. “And with that we put out a way that we believe that every Barbadians can take part and it is called  the Adopt-A-Bed campaign, where we are asking every Barbadian to give a contribution of $20 and that would go toward a person being able to receive a  bed for the night, counselling, breakfast in the morning, the cleaning of linens, taking care of the dorms.” Donations can be made directly to the Alliance or their accounts at FirstCaribbean, Scotiabank and Republic Bank, the alliance president said, as he promised other payment options would soon come on stream via Sure Pay and the Cave Shepherd credit card. Looking ahead, he said the alliance was working on ending its lease-to-own contract to purchase the building outright at a cost of $1 million in another three years. (BT)

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About my pokemon Trainer!

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My Starter pokemon was Solosis, a psychic type.  He’s named Soma, and has since evolved into a Duosion.  He’s very slow (almost guaranteed last in initiative order), but he hits like a bag of trucks, and he’s really tanky.  Plus he’s got amazing recovery potential.

My first catch was a Cottonee.  Her name is Pix, and she’s a Whimsicott now.  In contrast to Soma, she’s incredibly fast.  Decent damage, decent bulk.  She’s very tricksy with some status effects and heal over time/drain.

During the same first encounter, I also caught a Hoppip.  He had the name of Dandy, and he managed to evolve into a skiploom before I traded him.  We’re doing a wonder trade system.  You offer a pokemon up, and every day you roll a check.  The result determines how many offers you get, and for each offer the DM uses a random generator with a level range (excluding legendaries, of course).  I got a Porygon, which I named Vector.  Vector is kind of low level, and he’s in the PC for now while I challenge my first gym (a grass gym). After the first encounter, but before I traded Dandy, I managed to befriend a Sentret, which I didn’t immediately catch, but followed me around.  A day later, he let me catch him.  His name is Ace, and he’s fast with a pretty high amount of HP.  He’s not too tanky defense/spdefense-wise, but his evasion is pretty high.  Even if he’s not attacking, he’s got Helping Hand, which buffs an ally’s next attack.  He’s got really good movement, too.

Eventually, we were in a swamp and found a bunch of Wooper.  They (and myself) were ambushed by Stunfisks hiding in the mud.  One tazed my trainer when he stepped on it, and I spent the whole fight trying to calm down the panicked woopers.  I caught one with a pokeball, and her name is Newton.  The stunfisk that ambushed my trainer got hit by an ally’s attacks, and so I dropped a pokeball on it.  Her name is Tesla.  Both of them are pretty tanky, but pretty slow.  They’ve got some neat tricks, and I’m gonna hang onto them for a while.

Finally, there’s Qilin.  I caught him in an amusing way.  Still in the marshlands, we were walking on some docks, and it was getting a little odd.  Tiretracks, little ramps...like a track.  Well, a bunch of Whirlipedes came barreling straight at us, so me and another trainer panicked and threw pokeballs.  Got a lucky capture.  Turns out, we interrupted a race.  So we both let our new pokemon (he also caught a Whirlipede) out to race with their wild friends, and mine ended up winning the race!  He decided I was a worthy trainer, and happily left with me.  He’s slow, but his tanking is amazing, even if he doesn’t have many moves to attack with yet (just poison sting, so far, but he’ll get more moves really soon.)

During a bossfight, we fought the ghosts of a house that burned down.  They were Fire/Grass Trevenant and Phantumps (there’s something called Type-Shifting in this game, pokemon that are basically like Alola Forms but it’s a rare mutation instead of a regional variant).  There were also a couple gastly, and we couldn’t hit them, so I just tossed pokeballs out of desperation.  Caught the full HP pokemon without difficulty due to more lucky rolls!  I gave one each to two of my comrades, and someone also got a fire/grass phantump.

There’s been some other stuff I can’t quite remember.  Umm, there was an ultra-wormhole that opened up in the mall, and we were in the “infinite mall” doing weird puzzles to get out.  A bookstore that involved fighting Unown by finding the books with missing letters, which made the boss progressively weaker as the corresponding “letters” of Unown.  A toy store where we were toy-sized and had to help a trio of toy pokemon (Chesnaught, Greninja, and Delphox) take down a weird machine.  The adventure is called “the Amazing Mawile Machine”.  Basically, a mechanical Mega Mawile constantly spawns little keyturn-mawile bots.  You have to beat the boss to stop the tide.  The three toy heros each took a different path.  Stealthing along a train with Greninja, fighting down the hill to storm the gates with Chesnaught...or a hot-wheels track with Delphox.  I did the track with Delphox with a friend.  It was a surprising amount of fun.  The last store was a fashion show, basically, with fashion police pokemon.  The theme of each outfit had to be “super effective” against the previous, with color/theme corresponding to a pokemon type. A lot more, I know I can’t remember it all.  But it’s been really fun!  I’ll post another time about it.  Maybe after next game I’ll give an update or something.

Anyway, the classes I’m taking are Mentor (they tutor moves and stuff), Researcher (you get 2 “subclasses”, I picked Pokemon Caretaking which makes breeding better or just gives my pokemon a moderate boost to all stats, and Jailbreaker, which lets me modify pokeballs like turning Dusk Balls into “Sun Balls” or “Rain Balls”, or turning Dive Balls into a combination of two other types, stuff like that), Ace Trainer (the most basic class essentially, just focus on making your pokemon battle better or making them fight in peak condition), and eventually I’ll take Normal Ace (which will let me do things to make Normal types better or stronger, and with another feat, I can even Type Shift a couple pokemon to add the Normal type to gain the class’s benefits!).

Phew.  I’m almost out of breath just typing all that.  If you couldn’t tell, I’m really excited by this game.  I’d also rave about the CthulhuTech game I’m in, but that’s...not really a cheery game. XD It’s about horror and insanity, so...maybe another time.

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Day 1 - Introduce yourself

I always try to do the Fandom Snowflake Challenge with mixed results but here goes nothing!

I’m Ashii Black! My pronouns are she/her and I’m officially a fandom old. I’ve been Ashii since I was 13. It’s based off an old role playing character I made who married Sirius Black (just a little cringeworthy now). I first got into fandom life from a friend in 7th grade who introduced me to Buffy and LotR fanfic. Initially, I read only songfic and parody but I quickly fell in love with Drarry after reading Cassandra Claire’s Draco trilogy and found a lot of great fics on ffnet. From there, I never looked back.

For about 15 years, I stayed pretty much entirely within the Harry Potter fandom, specifically on LJ and AO3 once it got established. I read a lot of Stony and a few Sterek fics here and there but things were pretty consistently HP. In 2017, I discovered Yuri!!! On Ice and tried my hand at writing in a new fandom. It was a lot of fun! From there, I rediscovered my love of anime. In 2019, I finally got around to watching BNHA and good lord I’m in deep. I’m not sure where I’ll end up but I know that HP is my forever fandom and all the other fandoms I’ve played in have shaped who I am as a writer.

In general, my stance on ships and creative works is to live and let live. I try to shape my fandom experience as an enjoyable one, not one to police people. There’s a lot in fandom that I don’t like but that’s what the back/mute/block button is for. 👌 If you focus on what you like you’ll always have a better time.

Fun fact: my user icon isn’t actually me, as many people think. It’s an old photo of Alison Brie that Icicle edited (you can see Hogwarts in the background). It’s been my icon for so long idk if I could ever change it (2012 I think).

Fandom Snowflake Challenge #1

Introduction Post * Meet the Mods Post * Master Post

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Some of the names you see here might be familiar, and some might be complete strangers. (Or, as we like to think of it, friends you haven’t met yet.) We’d like us all to take the first step towards making new friends with this first challenge.

Challenge #1

In your own space, introduce yourself! Leave a comment in today’s post at The Fandom Snowflake Challenge on DW saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

If you already have a sticky post or full bio, make sure they’re up to date so that people visiting your journal can learn something about you. Update your interests; make sure your fic posts are current; check that all your links work, etc. If you don’t already have a post introducing yourself, create one!

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About the Notification:

The Department has decided to release a recruitment notification for the employment of jobless aspirants. The authority has announced a total of 1500 vacancies for the post of Constable (Male/Female) in the Police Department of Himanchal Pradesh State. Well, it is a golden opportunity for all the aspirants who want to pursue a career in the Government Defence Sector.

Note:

However, the authority has not yet official announced the HP Police Constable Recruitment 2019. When it will, we will notify you. Therefore, you will have to be touch with us.

Constable Vacancy 2019 Details:

Constable Posts: 1063

Constable (Driver) Male: 200

Details about the HP Police Constable Recruitment 2019:Name of the OrganisationHimachal Pradesh Police Department

Post NameConstable & Constable (Doctor)

Total Number of Vacancies1500+ Posts

Job CategoryGovernment Police Jobs

Application Apply ModeOnline

Job LocationHimanchal Pradesh

HP Police Constable Recruitment 2019 Release DateNotify Soon

Schedule to fill the Himachal Police Constable Application Form 2019Update Shortly

HP Police Admit Card 2019 StatusNot Available Yet

HP Police Result 2019 Release DateYet to be Announced

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In the meantime, you can get to know a little about the Eligibility Criteria, Selection process and other related information about the notification through this blog. For that, you will have to read this till the end.

Once the HP Police Constable Recruitment 2019 is available, make sure you read it thoroughly before applying for the same. Also, you can check the applying instructions before you fill the HP Police Constable Online Application Form 2019. While applying for the recruitment, keep your valid E-mail ID, mobile number, and other personal details handy.

Eligibility Criteria:

Before applying for the HP Police Constable Recruitment 2019, the aspirants usually think what education qualification and age limit they should have to be eligible for the recruitment. Well, in this section we have shared with you the details about eligibility norms for the HP Police Constable Recruitment 2019. So, please check it carefully before you fill the HP Police Constable Jobs 2019.

Education Qualification:

The candidates must have passed the Secondary and Senior Secondary Education with a minimum of 50% Marks from a recognized Board of Education.

Age Limit:

The minimum age to apply for the HP Police Constable Recruitment 2019 is 18 Years.

Whereas the upper age limit to be eligible for the HP Police Constable Exam 2019 is 23 Years.

Note that, the age relaxation is only allocated to the candidates who belong to the reserved castes, such as ST, SC, etc.

The Selection Process of the Exam:

The authority will conduct various recruitment phases for the final selection. Hence, the aspirants will have to qualify all the phases to be able to secure a place in the Merit List. Following are the phases that the aspirants need to take to get the official appointment.

Firstly, a Physical Standard Test or Physical Efficiency Test will take place.

Then the selected candidates will have to take the written exam.

After that, the authority officials will call them up for the Personality Test.

In the end, the aspirants will have to take the Medical Test.

Detailed Physical Standard Test Pattern:Name of the ExamMale CandidatesFemale Candidates

High Jump1.25 M1 M

Race1500 Meters800 Meters

Broad Jump4 M3 M

How to apply for the HP Police Recruitment?

The candidates need to follow the below-mentioned steps to successfully apply for the recruitment:

Firstly, the aspirants need to visit the official website of the court.

After that, they need to find the link stating HP Police Constable Recruitment 2019.

Click on the link and fill all the required fields.

Once done, pay the application fee and click on the submit button.

Now your application form is submitted. Make sure you take a print out of it for future use.

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On the finale of Nikky’s World of Darkness Murder Mystery Campaign:

“so what do you guys want to do for your next big campaign?” “honestly, i want something with a serious plot” “...is killing 3 different people not serious enough for you??”

"last time on world of darkness: dan took 2 1/2 hours to figure out who the killer is” “he also learned what the plural of blueberry is!” [insert dan screaming in the background]

the undercover detective with 2 HP left tried to pick a fight with a teenager over a briefcase

“how do i know i should let you have the briefcase” “well, im a cop” “prove it” “uh well i don’t have my badge on me right now... but you can ask your brother, he knows that im a cop” “my brother is 12 and gullible. one time i told him that salmon was made out of swedish fish to make him eat it” “...okay you have a point there”

then the detective went around giving his final goodbyes to everyone before he went to confront the murderer

“i’m going to die, rati” “oh well then i’ll watch die hard in your honor”

meanwhile one of my players stabbed the other right in the heart

somehow she survived by running into the elevator and escaping

then the drug dealer player patched her up solely because he wanted to dissect her but ultimately decided to just help her and they both immediately fell asleep after the stitching and patching

the player trying to kill the other drank poisoned wine but threw it up immediately afterwards so all my efforts to kill him went to waste

“i know that you’re a cop, tanner” “i know that you killed tate, miro”

“so you believe that killing people is the answer to stopping environmental destruction?” “well... what’s a few people now to stop it when the alternate is that we all die in 60 years because of those few people?” “...he has a point...”

the boss fight between the detective and the murderer resulted in lots of knives being thrown but none of them hitting

and then the detective essentially killed himself by using pepper spray and inflicting damage on himself which caused him to pass out on the bathroom floor and then getting shot in the head by the murderer

the detective became a ghost and went around talking to everyone but complained that he didn’t get any “cool ghost powers”

he also decided he’s going to make an afterlife boy band with michael jackson, prince, and aaron carter

the drug dealer and the player trying to murder were arrested and put in a police car together and bickered the whole way to the police station because the murderer wanted to sleep on the drug dealer’s shoulder

the player that got stabbed in the heart recovered and made amends with her worst enemy NPC from the campaign... 8 in-game months later

“can i read the card he gave me with the gift basket?” “yea sure... in it is 4 tickets for a 2 week cruise to europe and a card that just says ‘thank you’“ “wow he couldn’t write anything more?”

“what if they got together down the road” “yea if you want to idc-” “no nevermind i dont want that” “Okay then they don’t fdgjdf”

in the end, one of my players died, two got arrested, and the other one walked away with a job at an international company

“okay so for the exp... what did we learn today?”

“i learned that i want to be a healer”

“i learned that being a ghost is really cool!”

“i learned that im invincible and can survive anything”

“i learned that if you want to kill someone, you need to finish the job...”

needless to say it was a fun campaign

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delivery-two

You find yourself walking along an empty road in a desolate part of town "I'll see you later Delivery of the book is a little late, but it's still better than nothing "Thanks, " you say as you put away your bag and begin to get dressed You head out the door and into the night, heading towards your destination How to increase rank What to do next? There are no other people around, so you can think about these things now You continue on your way until you reach a familiar building with a large sign over it reading 'The Library' After some time has passed, you notice that there isn't any police car in sight The place looks just like when you were here before for class It feels weird not being able to read anymore though One person does not have to nessary complete every single quest available to raise their rank to 'Hero' You could make up your own quest if you really wanted to Already knowing the way from memory, you decide to try something new; You begin to enter the library Inside, is even more deserted than the outside A group of teens with skateboards simply stare at you as you pass by them with around twenty books in your hands They knew you weren't actually a member of their little gang One person does not have to nessary complete every single quest available to raise their rank to 'Hero' Once all key deliveries are completed you can unlock and urgent delivery to the mayor of the city If you chose to ignore the skateboarders, go back to start Once all key deliveries are completed you can unlock and urgent delivery to the mayor of the city Complete the urgent quest and you will advance to the next rank Teacher's Pet Every fight in the game is a boss fight Complete the urgent quest and you will advance to the next rank: Every time you die or fail a quest you can choose to start over from the beginning or continue where you left off The people watching you gain nothing from your success, they are only benefitting themselves If however, you are able to successfully complete the game, reaching 'Hero' rank and choosing to submit your accomplishments it will grant every player that does so in the future with 'Infamy Points' Every alligator requires some degree of stragtehy not matter what gear you have equipped right? Using an end gator weapon on a four foot yearling wont count squat if you dont know what you are doing but there are some things even the large razor sharp teeth and strong bite cant destroy im talking about people Item set-up for people killer: Claws- 4inch gold zinc alloy finger nails studded with 7centimeterglass cutting blades under the nails connected to a 3inch Zinc all weather guidance system with target painted for maximum accuracy Hands- level 3 kevlar sleeve guards with 11 inch bite reflex protected steel bones and plastic protecting the others Helmet- includes shooting range targetting HUD and forcefield visor that shocks attackers Item set-up for people killer: Basic strategy - انتشار ضربات الكلى للقاتل Advanced Strategy- انزفاشة للخس للمتعوب عليه Legendary Strategy- ; (coming soon) Basic strategy- انتشار ضربات الكلى للقاتل And guides to the alligators that appear in the game: Name- Zeus Location- Somewhere nearby your house Loot- Full armor set including helmet, gauntlet, boots, robe, steel rod, bracers, and knuckles Also loot is only good till higher ranks Missions too Special loots only drop in specific missions those being And guides to the alligators that appear in the game: First things first make a chariorot or take one you already made and give them the name 'Sebastian' for this mode When you begin, you find yourself somehow walking along a abandoned road on a slightly overcast day with cloudy skies First things first make a chariorot or take one you already made and give them the name 'Sebastian' for this mode Thats already made it weird for you Upon heading down said road in search of signs of other life you suddenly are greated by the sight a a car crash people are dead, or undead Pick one You see a single male adult out of the car attempting to bite an infant in a car seat in the back of the car You being a kind person that you are decide to help and grab a pipe wrench laying under the front of the car to destroy his head with Thats already made it weird for you Process the alligator afterwards and use supplies from his clothing and the car to create one big Guide to alligators When done finish the mission and choose to continue for next rank Next is the burned house Very complex and detailed houses and props for this quest Upon reaching the front you immediately notice that there is something going on in that house however you gotta kill em all to help them! so open up the gate leading into the front yard of the house Process the alligator afterwards and use supplies from his clothing and the car to create one big Guide to alligators Set aside the delivery man story line for a moment and lets begin with this new started narrative now shall we? Set aside the delivery man story line for a moment and lets begin with this new started narrative now shall we? Send out a beacon for the googizon drones to send you reinforcements with weaponized low intensity EMP devices, send a request for rover drones to run security while searching the premisesand finally decree that if the troops come across Weaponized Plauge victims to restrain them instead of killing them immediately Begin reconnaissance of the house which contains blocked off windows and door with cross beams nailed into place Send out a beacon for the googizon drones to send you reinforcements with weaponized low intensity EMP devices, If you bring a grill you can cook the left overs into a consumable meal After finishing the humans caving in their own defenses with battering rams tear down said reffening beams then cautiously and quietly enter the house Upon entering you are greated by a female human pointing a shotgun at you "Can you help us? " she asks after shouting at somebody farther inside the house You make sure to buff yourself with all currently available protections before replying "Why certainly ma'am I am hear to rescue you If you bring a grill you can cook the left overs into a consumable meal Rare medium well done Human Steak for defeating the Burned House Next up: The Catacombs Rare medium well done Human Steak for defeating the Burned House The longer you cook the better the taste after all The longer you cook the better the taste after all Gather herbs for more HP or Salt for the traps, and the brine for the next quest in act 4 Gather herbs for more HP or Salt for the traps, Collect mushrooms for the cellar or fresh fruit for the traps, and salt for brine Alternatively you can gather C4 plastic explosive to blow said house up from outside the restriction zone Also as a hidden note if you try to break into the house by bring AI with manipulation abilities you can turn around the Hostile Lady human into a friendly one by ordering her allies to kill themselves Well thats what it seems to do at least Collect mushrooms for the cellar or fresh fruit for the traps, Collect honey for healing pouches or stingers for flash grenades, and netting for the lab Collect honey for healing pouches or stingers for flash grenades, Combine items in certain order and recive a resulting potion that gives you a full heal, as well as the next quest After the talk finish up the house with Orange Juice and a hammer for good measure Combine items in certain order and recive a resulting potion that gives you a full heal, Sometimes things will look hopeless Begin slaying the Creeps and upon their deaths dance a victory dance as the scary Noise tracks them by your heartbeat and are then destroyed by your immune system Well not really but surly that would be cool Keep playing for massive amounts of nightmarefuel or watch a kid in his bed weep as his teddies hearing is 10 times better than that of his parents and you would be 1 mile away by now You have run out of potions for now so the choice is left to you whether to go out and snack on a few humans or slay monsters within the safety of the walls You have run out of potions for now so the choice is left to you whether to go out and snack on a few humans or slay monsters within the safety of the walls You have fainted twice from lack of blood so restock is required Bring guns and rifle ammo for the guards or antibiotics in case you or your monsters get wounded out there You are running low on consumables so for the next quest go hunting humans for food or seek out a large vehicle wreck to pilfer parts from You have fainted twice from lack of blood so restock is required You feel the need to pull out and restart that ending was just silly Ah well no help for it Brush your teeth and go back to the start Hey this is incredibly hard but very fun once you figure out the trick, my only problem now is I dont want it to end due to how creative and well done it all is, thank you! Also completing the game a 2nd time on easy mode would probably take about half the time! Check it out if your running low on time You feel the need to pull out and restart, Gathering quests aid in your survival as the require you to keep yourself fed from the get go, and healing is basically free and unlimited if you have the how acquired Looking back on it I should have taken the time to gather more herbs and such, Oh well maybe on new game plus Gathering quests aid in your survival as the require you to keep yourself fed from the get go, Run around gathering enough items required to complete the quest does have its perks, makes it very easy compared to others I have played though due to this What more is there to say other than this game stuck with me and tickled my fancy, ending was worth the time spent playing for sure Thank you again for all your work put into this creation Run around gathering enough items required to complete the quest does have its perks, Someone needs honey to keep away the infection hordes Someone needs honey to keep away the infection hordes Travel to the hive and get it and also a certain plant extract to stop the primary infection types in the surrounding areas You now have 2 choices of where to go for the main quests Gather enriched uranium for small arm ammo to gain access to a stadium or explore further a find a way of talking to the ZCI surrounded by hundreds of infected humans blocking your path Travel to the hive and get it, Above all else scavenge and survive Gather herbs for the researching of a cure of transport the possible cure to the forces holding out nearby, or head back home to defend it from hordes of infected and the mysterious 'darkness' killing infected and even survivors alike Above all else scavenge and survive Dont break the egg and trust no one These story options give the game a great deal of replayability for those extra fun game sessions! Thank you for dropping by, I hope you have an incredible day and anticipating your visit next time! Dont break the egg, Some times your weapon will bounce off the armoured shells unless they can be flipped onto there back first Its the same for mutants too Also many large vehicles spawn with locked doors You need to find the keys or the tools to unlock them in order to loot them properly Tanks are artiulated like a mans leg at the hip and can easily be put out of action with a few well placed shots to that area Also on the undersides of heavy and cramped armored cars you can find vulnerably engines and other weak points to destroy them quickly too Some times your weapon will bounce off the armoured shells unless they can be flipped onto there back first Abandon the delivery quest, it is too unrealistic and you risk loosing items if you linger As other comments have said remember rotting meat, once identified as such, is off the list as far as eating goes Remember to shoot windows out first to prevent infection entering treatment plants/ozone factories you may want to explore strongest thing in there are the huge fans that create the air flow for the ozone filters and quite powerful Great for fanning a flame up into a roaring blaze Abandon the delivery quest, Great lizardskull Im lost I ternd the accptnce tform into egnigbt qwestcion but now Im frmsh? Ehtan Socity is mbbblawtted beesyo knwnonttwwird Upehauemeh noice bbboo in evndecdosnt robetrsmne Perfect beeing: a delivery game where you may rob and trash as you wish You don't have to scavenge for items or make moral choices to determine outcomes This was also reality once, we do not need it again The game isn't great It's hours of nothing happening other than pressing a button here and there then fighting the same 2 or 3 mutants over and over before you can finally pass on to the next bland uninteresting location a delivery game where you may rob and trash as you wish Your most basic pounch set up should be slung over one shoulder with the drawstring untied so its instantly on the floor with your basic gear when you need to run or have both hands free Guns should never be kept in backpacks! Hard or soft luggage of any kind unless ripping it open takes only 1 second So a proper loop to put forefinger and thumb through should be present to open in one single move Your most basic pounch set up should be slung over one shoulder with the drawstring untied Ten potions- use these to recover from minor injuries that restrict your action but you can still move and fight, eg broken fingers, heavy bruises, stab wound etc Try to store at least 2 full pints ; (running from refrigirated foodstores is great fun! ) of contaminated water that can be used when dousing flames or mixing healing potions if there is a shortage Dump dirty and very contaminated away ASAP Also use for trashing around to make unsettling noises to create scares Always have some "Wide Area" Ten potions- use these to recover from minor injuries that restrict your action but you can still move and fight, Ten mega potions use these to hear after sustaining a major injury IF deemed still playable after review by designers then don't worry about the extra waste if allergic to meds and really need to rest Two healing potions heal up to half of your missing required health no matter the state of decay Dump dirty and contaminated water aftwards away IF allergic to meds then you might have had it and prolly best not to risk meds untested The gaming staff have been quite health and safety concious in that regard Your call Must combine them from stratch with non-contaminated water from a cleaned source taking at least 40 mins to make thme unless sucessful first time then only 20 Take note of and use the colour codes on your tat when creating these very specific liquid medicines, this helps a lot with the jargon Always get Energy Potions Ten energy potions ensure you maintain movement even under heavy fire Combine with meds if required Dump after 24hrs due to waste and limited shelf life Must combine them from stratch with non-contaminated water from a cleaned source taking at least 40 mins to make thme unless sucessful first time then only 20 Three or more paintballs Gathering friends for a fight improves the prize 20 random shells: makes taking out enemies quick and easy Aim for head Check back pocket pouch for more ammo Incremenet your shot quota to 100 after passing training and winning prize Three or more paintballs: Hit an alligator with a paintball and they will be visible on the map for 30s aim well, you cannot get another shot until your previous one expires or hits Great way to track down looters in a hurry! Beachball - drop this unique bouncy ball to block sinks and other passages and create safe routes or traps for enemies to fall into Each can be used at most twice so save them for the best moments Watch out as an explosion can cause it to pop causing ! DANGER! water to come thundering down Hit an alligator with a paintball and they will be visible on the map for 30s Ten minutes can be renewed if another is thrown into the same hole Duck and Cover! Ten minutes can be renewed if another is thrown into the same hole Well done steaks decrease hunger need a way to cook em soon! Locate other survivors carrying bookbags way easier to spot at a distance when equiped in this area Bring more packs for greater radius Well done steaks decrease hunger need a way to cook em soon! 20 whetstone- use these to sharpen your weapon turning it into a scissors like edge which can cut when stabbing 20 whetstone- use these to sharpen your weapon turning it into a scissors like edge which can cut when stabbing Items- Check your tatoo for full details on all bonus items Ammo Costs: White Dots: 10 Bullets Red Dots: 20 Bullets As you progress through the cityscape you'll be gifted with coins and cash from fallen enemies, loot locations or contests won you can use this to replenish your ammo needs Be sure to check back with the trader to exchange your cash when needed Items- Check your tatoo for full details on all bonus items Dung bombs; ( dung bomb ) - make even the worst, baddest, meanest daily task seem less set with a well placed explosion of dung! Shops hardly ever have these so buy some while you can! ( dung bomb )- make even the worst, Casing ; ( sap plant stone/iron ) Slime; ( royal jelly cancerous ) Null berries Note that some online scammers have been changing the format of payment from the previous generation's bank pins Also some limited edition items more info on the official site once it returns from this bug Sonic bombs - A suprise to everyone, these bombs actually suduce an audible sound wave at a certain frequency that only some creatures can here, and the rest suffer no damage but instead are knocked over! Sonic bombs- A suprise to everyone, Water blight ( worthless brown goo)-So after being in the wild for so long ive worked out this slime is often found around filthy infected water sources, so ive realised boiling it and adding special ingredients removes the brown colour and makes it almost clear Water blight; Alligators are weakest to ice followed by fire water and thunder You must allow 24 hours for orders to be prepared or you can pick it up right away but this may not be as good Crystal bones - these old ancient relics were used in sacrificial rituals and can be carved in the same style to add to your collection vouchers: awarded from some fights when your opponent was really trying to kill you! Champion reptile hide bag This is made from the animal skin of a Snake, Lizard, Crocodile or other large reptile creature There are not many left now so cherish it or find something better if you can Crystal bones- these old ancient relics were used in sacrificial rituals and can be carved in the same style to add to your collection Deliver 4 gold fish to gecko rock Deliver 4 gold fish to gecko rock Some alligators will need you to bring energy drinks to tame and domesticate them Get gecko rock army ready 200 by 400 array formation Updates can be found on the website when fixed also limited mutant lizard gloves for sale! Some alligators will need you to bring energy drinks to tame and domesticate them High reach is advised thanks to large bugs and enemy climbing up Half dream circle with sun on Tuesdays at noon High reach is advised thanks to large bugs and enemy climbing up Constantly move, strafing around you and quickly starfing away Shooting star at night means good luck coming your way Spraying one of these on you somewhere means no creature will attack you for 10 minutes or untill you get too close You develop a rash and begin to lose health fast, before collapsing and dying from massive organ failure If completed soon you can avoid death and become safe again strafing around you and quickly starfing away Watch out for the posion bite The alligator holds fast and does not let go, it slowly drains your life away Better break its grasp eventually with brute strength or something else You refuse to help leading to death by walker bite Weak from blood loss you cannot help yourself and even assist in saving your food sources You choose to move on leaving them to die Carefully avoiding death by bite you lose some hair and are hairless for a decade afterwards Speeder spider webs growing out from a nearby mountain range need collecting High risk of spawnlings but also high priced Tracking down treesnakes for powerful healing ability parts They swim away and cannot be caught easily, try setting traps or hunting in small teams Everything increases in price, Tranquil has very little to offer going forward You lose two slots for infected items, they hoped you would accept these terms but who knows if they would have stuck to them Speeder spider webs growing out from a nearby mountain range need collecting Gore magala leather is always prized, partly because the creature tends to poison those it touches and partly becase of its aesthetics Try using a slingshot with metal tips to bring down birds Your mainly feeding yourself at this point, shooting the throats out of passing birds It takes several days but eventually after fending off some infected you are able to cook by a fire and sleep in a tree-hole baited with fresh human flesh You understand the situation now Gore magala leather is always prized, Glopratchet rank You stay with the bitter pirates hidden away in their town for a few weeks being looked after Eventually you realise getting back to your home island will be no easy feat, all the pirate ships are gone and most of the captains are now dead forcing you into hiding Glopratchet rank 4 Alright welcome to gloptrachte rank at this point you have the option of two paths, pirate or recluse survivalist Alright welcome to gloptrachte rank 4, Here is wehre you get the title of one of the most difficult video game ever made The difference in both paths is almost non-existent until you are faced with a particular choice later Dunno what happens then either but do the other version first and well thats that ive done it You prefer to be a pirate if only because its looks more fun Alligators in g rank hit a ton harder than anything you have faced yet, and the situations are suddenly becoming very dangerous Can you become the worlds toughest pirate? There is a pirate town called 'portsmouth' thats almost totally controlled by psychoactive substances Rumored to be enhanched with giggle smoke making the inhabitants near invincible Possibly leading to enhanced combat prowess and unnatural luck? For more information look G rank pirates on wiki Alligators in g rank hit a ton harder than anything you have faced yet, Its not uncommon to faint once or twice during a delivery even when wearing end gator gear Your G-wrench becomes a sideshow feature for more than a few days in the ludus gladiatoria Goring, impaling, crushing blows fail to break its frame as you happily explain its craftmanship to onlookers Arbalests and muskets fired sit deep in its hinges and metal crossbars while so far none have managed to scratch its sizeable diamond crystal head Its not uncommon to faint once or twice during a delivery even when wearing end gator gear! Make a new chariot as soon as you hit g rank keep the G-wrench equipped at all times if you do end up delivering in it Sure they are devastating even without the end-game setup but will make very few friends! Dropping a forum post saying you plan to find a group for delivery might attract interest There absolutely will be people who ask to join as well as people telling you the suicidal odds Ignore the negativity and find matchers, only go with those who dont question if you are prepared or not Make a new chariot as soon as you hit g rank, Tetsucabra x You set off from ivald rank somewhere amidst a typical batch of nievey caves, thinking you are searching for the askos of gibber linision milk You travel, mostk of the time, dawn to dusk mostly without issue but suddenly staring at the faces of two tetsucabra in a narrow cave corridor Your group was ill prepared for a fight with even one but with your tiny number and no access to weapons its a moment of extreme danger Tetsucabra x 2 Seregios are often very much alone when they hunt, especially so in this instance with no large bodies of water anywhere near but its unusal to travel in a group The beasts appear to be just as confounded by this situation as you and stare at each other as much as they do you They move towards you slightly and make aggressive hissing noises as if trying to scare you but are clearly as nervous about this encounter as you are Seregios are often very much alone when they hunt, Regios x You stand in awe at the cave interior, despite being increasingly desensitized to beauty Its as if someone hollowed out half of a mountain underground and fabricated a masterpeice out of it An underground limestone courtyard with caverns stretching in multiple directions overhead and below, stalagtites tangled with lush bioactive plants hanging around brilliantly lit pools of water Regios x 2 Birthday berries and glow worms aplenty illuminate the area giving more than enough light to see by while small savage hunters are seen dancing around fires in the distance, just outside Its as close to a utopia as you can think of under the surface at least The tribes here are the Regios, lazy and lackadasical yet so incredibly intelligent, artists and sculptors unrivaled in all of monsterdom Birthday berries and glow worms aplenty illuminate the area giving more than enough light to see by while small savage hunters are seen dancing around fires in the distance, Chasing tail Chasing tail, fighting and games of chance fill up most of their days but should a question, financial or otherwise nature occur they are without a doubt some of the smartest, partially due to the inbreeding common for the tribe Deciding to sneak by undetected you crouch behind larger plant spanning across the cavern and wait The monsters here thrive on a diet of bioactive plants and fruit which grow all over this place Berserk tetsucabra enemies of the regios tribesmen and poisonous to boot, relentlessly try to attack them with no avail thanks to hours and hours of feasting on the region's native anti-venomgrowth They lack predators, doubly so since the regression of the drotch population They are incapable of sustaining 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HELLO THE NEW MESSAGE SEEMS TO BE: ALL IS WELL I DO NOT UNDERSTAND IT YET You approach a skinny fellow reading at a table warmed by the sun On it lies crosses feet away from his scrawny body in its grey tunic covered by a worn cloak He has messy facial hair that partly hides a hare lip Need alligator tail pronto, At last you finally come toe to toe with the seregios harbinger himself No longer do you see the white beards and solemn faces of philosophers and priests twisted by the ravages of time like the emissary, instead you're faced with a stereotype of youth: The overconfident-yet-incapable squire who only faces dangers he can't contender with His tunic is clean of any blood or viscera yet it would be folly to assume it has not been acquainted with such things At last you finally come toe to toe with the seregios harbinger himself Bleeding ailment swollen tongue, complains about itching We have swept the last remnants of the Vessel from our stronghold There remaind be a few hidden in obscure places that we are working to root out but after finding a laboratory I can safely say we have won Although our removal of the infected area will be noticable to onlooking vessels I trust that with good faith and a open ear we can stear clear of perjorative actions by your company Bleeding ailment, Health will decrease as you spring or evade situations to reduce the spread of disease This may or may not also affect your friends' illnesses Gangrenous Gum ; (-2 Conv) A small abscess on one of your teeth has become gangrenous and necrotic, and you need immediate attention lest it festers Deterioration is increasing in many essential machinery components we cannot keep up with repairs and construction quick enough Fancy that! Health will decrease as you spring or evade situations to reduce the spread of disease Mosswine jerky or steaks to cure disease? Mosswine jerky or steaks to cure disease? Farm for equipment Give these folks sustainable food supplies for their help with machinery You manage to push the walking engine out of it's joint-infected area and into a more localised hotspot, unfortunately before you can issue healing it blows a gasket and begins leaking boiling gears and oil all over the place leaving burns that fester through harsh oxidation Your services are of no longer needed by the employeers and the ones responsible for your hire are nowhere to be found Fearless Beast not quite busted Information has been gathered but at what cost of magic essence and fatigue? Pushing onwards would be suicide and retreat would be unless you had a horse or knew the way as the Slenders constantly pursued you but definitely hurting, you withdraw before it recovers It was a great help to have survived that nasty spill into a rough tangle of underbrush that broke your fall after fleeing from the heavy beasts charge and stumbling blindly into a narrow ravine while fleeing from the Slender man Beast not quite busted but definitely hurting, Brute tigrex slain find flamespear: yes To flip to the back You stagger back to the town with the roaring beast hot on your heels and launch a firebomb into its maw as it leaps to consume you for its evening meal It roars after being set ablaze and rampages through the nearest village tearing it apart and destroying several homes and structures Brute tigrex slain Temper tantrum Charm up from a furry beast Tainted: 0 Mutation: 2 Cavemeats foundry Showdown Hunters vs Mutants You leave a delicious eitgeist, ghoul or even a humansoul for the beast to consume before wiping away any trace of yourself and sneaking away as you feel its satisfaction resonate inside of you Heap of Ashes - You wish me a good night, but is it? The comfort I give he cannot, he's trying yet I prevailed and live to see another night! [Dropping Threat level by one] Showdown: Brute tigrez is a true force to be reckoned with and take consolation in the fact I slayed it with my own hands [Tainted: Withdrawing at the brink of death after seeing what I must do to survive cowardice or a pragmatic decision? The beast makes no fuss when shown the gift and settles down for a sleepy night of satisfaction You drop the body of the stealthy girl into a pit with several enraged mutants infected with class 3 extras that pisses on them before falling asleep with a happy smile Brute tigrez is a true force to be reckoned with and take consolation in the fact I slayed it with my own hands [Tainted: Topple or mount the alligator to access the tail for an escape route You run all the way back to the mansion panting and wheezing but feeling great joy that you survived such a deadly area alive The beast's lunging bite catches the scouts thigh, completely tearing it off and sending spurts of blood into the air as it keeps turning in mid air to land on its back for good measure causing blood and flesh to stain the floor 0 / Mutation: Hideous beast? 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Deciding you don't have time to go on a scenic tour of the cities regions you settle on the central and custom office district as your starting point Sotweed Avenue in Lenbourgh is a bustling day and night economy and you can start right at the very top by investigating the highest local businesses for illegal dealings and heavily guarded warehouses A g rand furious rajang appr oaches! Advanced quagmire quarrel s should do the job They have to, because a gas filled monster of some kind is just bizarre enough that it might just take a silver bullet to the brain or heart to fell it The economic terrorists who lay waste to entire markets just to strengthen their own corporation's hold on bread and cereals makes it into your list Although do you really want to rain on their self-important parade by potentially taking down one of their captains? Advanced quagmire quarrels should do the job Demolisher constructions, land grabs and monopoly are the bare minimum evils of any self-respecting city district Taking a shortcut through a seedy alleyway you notice a covered manhole with steam hissing out from it on one side and the other blocked off by dead end rubble of fallen down wall You shrug to yourself and head in, it not being the weirdest thing to happen to you during a mission and at least your radar is giving you some advance notice this time Demolisher constructions, Gogmazios is indeed in the city sewerage system but fortunately it's passing directly beneath the main business centre at this time and you ought be able to dispatch it here without having to chase it through the tunnels It could surface anywhere so you decide to get yourself readily waiting at some kind of access point that you can move in on as soon as you identify its location Gogmazios is indeed in the city sewerage system but fortunately it's passing directly beneath the main business centre at this time and you ought be able to dispatch it here without having to chase it through the tunnels Weakest to fire and completely immune to status effects Gogmazios is still no pushover to face without the element of surprise Even with it his sheer size combined with a horn attack that can breath lightning and a tail swing that emits radiation make him dangerous without several hundred yards between you and him The building complexes either side of the alley seem to contain cheap food outlets and clothing stores from what you can see in the windows but that's about it Weakest to fire and completely immune to status effects, Apex alligator snapping beasts couldn't hope to reach you here so you predict that's where it must surface You use the building rooftop as a vantage point so you have a clear field of fire and discourage others from approaching the alleys significance at the same time Laying down behind some air conditioning machinery you rest your custom heavy rifle on the low wall, sighting slowly along it for any sign of movement in and around the stale covered manhole Apex alligator snapping beasts couldn't hope to reach you here so you predict that's where it must surface Perptually enraged and have extremely tough hides alligators are easily capable of bursting concrete just by ramming everything from speeding trains to gawping tourists and can knock holes in solid metal ship hulls with pure strength You're not about to take this one for granted Some of the solid slugs you've loaded ought to do a pretty good job of punching through that armored shell if it stands still long enough for you to aim Perptually enraged and have extremely tough hides, Blast blight barnacles, seedlings and leviathans out of the water with high explosive rifle rounds composited with tungsten shards The best way to take down ceiling jellyfish is to blow them to smithereens of course however melty that may make you Blast blight barnacles, Molten tigrex claws, lightning phoenix feathers and pyre war third forearms are gathered into a tight bundle of explosive power to blast that warm glancing blow with added fire effect! Molten tigrex claws, Doomsday tier fatalis favor sharpened dragon bone beams, wyvern heart explosive tips and smoldering black chamber dragon gas bladders to ensure your payload brings down anything on four legs, two wings or 88 of them! You've just started to doze off when you hear a muffled crash coming from the alley below Your hand pulls the tarp off the gun as your eye finds him almost instantly and they're a good way of earning money if you can afford to Craft some of the rarer components Doomsday tier fatalis favor sharpened dragon bone beams, Guild quests are not necessarty component to completing the game but you can get some pretty neat stuff from them Your pay is just supplemented by the materials which you salvage from the corpses of the monsters if you're not bothered about potentially hazardous chemicals and whatnot as well as a basic reward for completion Guild quests are not necessarty component to completing the game but you can get some pretty neat stuff from them and they're a good way of earning money if you can afford to Craft some of the rarer components Relic reward systems, while not as lucrative as they could be, still can leave you better off for taking out a single creature or group of creatures This isn't a lone gargoyle or manticore That would just be silly "Hey! Get that gun off my manhole! " Comes the muffled voice from below Out of reflex you almost point the gun at the opening but stop yourself remembering where you are just in time and refocus on the iron hatbox sliding towards it Relic reward systems, Rare drops You can only pick up one Which do you prefer? Rare drops: Almost every alligator has one of these massive teeth which can be worn as a solid token of your victory in slaying the beast, the size of the tooth correlating to the size of the creature Looking at the serried fangs alongside their shrunken lifeless bodies, you estimate that the one you shot must have been at least 13 feet long from tail to snout You don't know what breed of alligator you killed but you intend to mount this tooth on your wall when you get home! 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Maybe If you were reading this as a question you'd be no closer to answering it correctly It's something way out there Alligators eat some to the strangest stuff you've ever seen, You now there is always the one piece which never seems to drop in all the times you've done this mission and that's one of the indestructible parts you need to construct a certain weapon You now there is always the one piece which never seems to drop in all the times you've done this mission and that's one of the indestructible parts you need to construct a certain weapon Queen extract Thankfully just one of these is needed this time, the same rules apply i Slaying the creature Vs selecting the correct part after it has been dismantled after death You have to choose exactly which part you need for the gun after identification Queen extract: Queen concentrate works especially well as a fire accelerant or somesuch, Vs a clear fluid which boosts protective abilities to incredible levels The weight of your pick? Grease You've heard of some uses for this stuff but mostly in the bedroom, beyond that it's just smooths machinery and isn't much use outside of that Queen concentrate works especially well as a fire accelerant or somesuch, Immortal reactor One of the rarest reclusive high yield parts in the game, only ever seen a couple in your short time playing It's used to power turrets and automatically targets invaders to a set point It only activates at great distance from this location and you must choose one type of ammunition for it Immortal reactor: Barach pallium Should the need arise you can use this ragged cloak as temporary protection from the elements and temperatures On one awkward occasion it saved you from certain doom when entering an otherwise inaccessable area using a cheat code which sent you into negative coordinates Barach pallium: Rathian ruby A clear liquid which can be used at the origins of projectile weapons to give them increased explosive or kinetic energy upon contact You used one drop to shatter a solid rock bridge which was giving you grief when transporting Trico resources across For this reason it is often classed as rare although it's not an uncommon occurence for rocks to be broken by big beasts walking over them Rathian ruby: Tigrex mantle When worn this thick fur greatly increases your resistance to the elements and has kept you warm in winter ice storms and cool in clouds of ash on many occasions It's ever grateful for being allowed to accompany you on hunts Tigrex claw: Capable of moving in any direction these claws were once attached to the feet of a single normal looking tigrex before it was killed Tigrex mantle: Pulsating blastheart An oversized abnormal looking heart with a value in the hundreds of thousands, it's hard to believe that this was once inside a living breathing dragon and even harder to believe you removed it without killing the creature Pulsating blastheart: Conquest sphere How much is life is just a delivery service Unparalleled by any other in efficiency you've given the Rift and it's people everything from sticks to live for a few minutes to unimaginable weapons of destruction You don't know what this does yet, but it doesn't really matter you suppose Rift compass: That might be Martha's problem, she certainly says this thing helps her find hidden treasures everytime she goes somewhere new Make of that what you will How much is life is just a delivery service? 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the master of defense will force the quest into failure During the attack you can ran away if your health drops into low levels Deliver fossilized bones and egg to Amelia in the tavern to resolve quest Defeat Steve and give gf a good pet type battled to complete goblinfog quest Kill evil plaguing lake and return for your reward in kruem Junction Then escort librarian back to town with you in hear to avoid being eaten by jayman jaywalkers Deliver fossilized bones and egg to Amelia in the tavern to resolve quest Kushala kushowdown You challenge kushala to a dance off and win Quest finished Kushala kushowdown: A weapon that fires masses of pure alligator energy from its mouth should do the job Use pilum on guard, sell armor then give it to wenching with wench in haystack Take targetting medallion, and give tio dave Shhhhhhhhhh: ' It is illegal to use strong magic in uld diesil A weapon that fires masses of pure alligator energy from its mouth should do the job The echoing roar Hunting 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speark from his side he gives it a light pat and sends it, then another then another, pitter pattering past you to the Orcish camp "I'm going to send my meduza to sap the courage of the resolve there You look at him for a moment "Did you want to just use the meduza or do you want to pop in there yourself? The Dah'ren's brow raises half a centimeter as he considers this proposal Dah'ren will briefly shrink into the swamp to produce a speark from his side, Preadtor into prey ul: Convince rats to eat through chest protector of noble so he dies defending his city And Suddenly: Explode! Preadtor into preyul: Afraid of the dark choose a ghoul or some other darkness loving beast to accompany you and terrify foe with awful presence Worried about going slowly insane? Take a Sneek369! But of course you don't want to actually do any of these because some lines just shouldn't be crossed Time to take the battle to the orcs! Afraid of the dark? Primal pounds through your veins as you take a moment to focus on the conflict at hand Blips appear on the tactical map as soldiers register their existence on the various life-monitoring systems installed in the fort - from an intelligence standpoint, it's fascinating how resource-light this operates - with a quick left twist you can control the lights, and with a quick right turn you can open and close the iris of an electro-magnetic powered door in one of the turrets Primal pounds through your veins as you take a moment to focus on the conflict at hand Hide and freak -attack with billipedes? Sure why not With adrenaline pushing you, mix melurs, men and ogre into the meatgrinder But before battle prepare large amounts of food , put it in fridge and release glunch with tooths ans tallow During battle open fridge for healing fast midfight ARGH! Hide and freak-attack with billipedes? Dinner guests Unasked you bring Friend and Ardanien friends to diner, fry ants and other six legs Halfway friends notice YOUR diet and lose interest in eating, play nice while they conscious, afterward meal is law unless selfdefense FLESH IS WEAK: need more medpower, flesh wounds always wider then long, should eat more plants and less Animals Height matters not: Dwarves same size as you but think themselves superior? Dinner guests : Buffet put alternating rows potatoes bread carrots bacon etc on plate, more stuffing then can eat before turning grr to orcish habit, ruins appetite seeing piles of food waste Not injure nurncy, the little ones are good creatures So, eat fast? slow? somewhere inbetween? All the advices push and pull you both ways so who knows maybe today just decide for yourself Behind you a large potbelly stove heats the entire kitchen and makes working golden and delicious Buffet: You have compelte the alligator delivery service challenge! The letters were: G for gnome, A for alligator, D for dead, I for impant Coagulant powder gets out of anything now the target is S for sotakians in silver, red drops down hatch with luck Yeah youve spilt turqouise ring on your DAMN IT! You have compelte the alligator delivery service challenge! How fun with post game content when you have too much choice? How fun with post game content when you have too much choice? And crafting your favorite armors takes forever! no idea what you will do now And crafting your favorite armors takes forever! Blastblight animals born with unnatural disease causing random damage and decaying flesh common in radicals, criminals Whispered: any idea, especially to someone already 'aware' mixed success can be of anything from news, rumors, poems Warped: an unpredictable but minor sideaffect of ascension exact effect unknown but never lethal Gets you out of boring parties though Blastblight: Striking gold lucky day, as in found old map to once glorious Sload basement full of magic things Handflare: sends out blindind light, signature sneaks tool mixed with above flarerep ; (spy tool) maybe work as nullifying smoke Oily blade: more stainsure than anything else but used by certain folks who like not having to clean the knife, just wipe off blood and its good again Striking gold : Into the mist works like smokescreen cloudkill but filled with acid Silverbirds: expensive meatballted magical birds that melt into valuable silver ingots when cooked, Great for bribes and festivities Guats think theyre from their god, so only catch them wild Into the mist: Looking at equipment can help determine what role you will play Maybe you are: A vicious killer without conscience or regard? An agile and stealthy assassin? Or an insuclaious hulk that crushes all opposition? For example a hunter with a hammer will attack the monsters head on with brute strength, not concerning himself with defense and aiming his attacks at a weak spot, taking powerful swings with every attack The flipside to this is that the enemy can try dodging or blocking the blows Would you be throwing massive elemental blasts or crushing fists from a distance? or focusing on debuffs and controlling the enemy's mind? Will you go in with poisoned dagger ready at any opportunity or patiently waiting with a straight sword for the moment to strike? For example a hunter with a hammer will attack the monsters head on with brute strength, Nothing makes for poor damage than four guys tripping each other up trying to get to the monsters head Having said that some players prefer the outlandish dodges over physical defense Finally there is a way to hold your ground and simply dictate the battle, casting spells and speaking into minds, but it can be just as effective to cripple your enemies first before getting into the thick of it yourself Take advantage of the many opportunities; differentiate your role from party members by taking different classes, or different focus within the same class! Oh and TRY TO SAVE THE TOWN! Watch for upswings super pounds and gi shells They like to travel in groups of four Certian weapon attack can be incredibly disruptive towards other hunters For example a Lightcasters truncheon can expose the weak points of even the most grotesque enemies and friendly fire When under ten feet of the enemy, the broad side of a sword's not much good so fill the gap with a whole orchestra of pain; a Ogre Steelcup's brass knuckles will turn simple slash into cracked ribs, a reaver's claw gives vicious cuts that bleed profusely and stagger the foe Try for common materials as well! Mind your positioning and make sure no other hunters are around when you are using them Look for zero radiusweapons or elemental attacks Some hunters prepare a single super powered attack they can aim at the centre of a group of enemies to destroy them all with one blast Others are happy with an elemental attack that burns the ground or puts a fog in the air that blinds everyone You might be surprised but people usually only pay attention to the largest monster in a group and Elements are at their strongest on smaller targets Contribute some other utility Anything to give your team the edge whether that be healing potions, darts for crowd control, traps or spells to terrorize enemies Caltrops are your friend against Fleshlancers! Something as simple as a little light and noise can keep a wizard from casting or scare a Creeping Devil back into its hole Contribute some other utility Grant your team wind pressure resistance or earplughs while bashing the alligators face in at the same time Grant your team wind pressure resistance or earplughs while bashing the alligators face in at the same time Dont just sit in the corner playing crummy healing songs think about how you can add something unique to the team! Now to choose your path! Last Epoch - Tome of the Elder Revival Like the Zealot's ode to the Saints, this book is less a book and more a collection of essays by theologians, historians, politicians, adventurers, warriors and healers on the Nature of Magnam the Elder, written on his death Dont just sit in the corner playing crummy healing songs, Keep equipment up to date When you weren't fighting Epoch's henchmen you patrolled with other terrestrials hunting new species or less friendly tribes of man beast along with usual expeditions for resources People are surviving longer out there so you brought back all the tools of the trade A few quick blows dismantle traps, everyone learns sniper When you rank up update all equipment of the approatiete rank Make sure the armory is visited at least once a week Luciferium - The Language of Lucifer The Zealots have several sections in different stages of construction in their underground temple and this language only appears there Thanks to it, believe it or not, good old trial and error process, we have deciphered a bit of it which allows us to learn how it works and build our own sentences Good news is, you won't ever forget it Carry lifepoweders and dust of life to heal teammates from afar Make sure the folks at home have all needed oil to make more lifeenergy potions! Carry pouch of extra bolts and sharpen teammates arrows Gunpowder needs Nitre ; (eastern Xaagon mine trap) Sulfur ; (Mount Fire! ) Charcoal, Ashes Get alchemy lab distilled it into medicinal potions again! Antitoxins, antibiotics and parasite repellents for the towns nearby Refer to rare catch drops to dertermine to capture or kill the alligater to retain the parts you need and run by the rest of the party to the next raider! Refer to rare catch drops to dertermine to capture or kill the alligater to retain the parts you need and run by the rest of the party to the next raider! Share items with your team Dont just take all the loot, especially not the lifepowders it is short in supply Dont hit mounted alligators in the head They are armored like tanks on top there! Aim for the eyes and hack at the feet! In a rage they will still charge through flames so beware, even more, when fleeing from an horror Finally: BE PREPARED! Dont hit mounted alligators in the head If the alligator flinches the mount will automatically fail and retreat and you get a free hit If the halfbreed has telekinesis grab him quickly or bash his head in quickly or your armor will disappear and soul exchange starts Any injected monstrosities rush forward so horrifying that monstrosity-only rifles have been trained on you If they stay back or have physical weapons, you may retreat to hop on another beast or mount another assault Dance! If the alligator flinches the mount will automatically fail and retreat and you get a free hit Won't be long before we're living in actual houses again and survive past 30 So you see Ophelia, even with all the responsibilities and seemingly unfair rules the bosses have put on us, we're getting this team to work well and just look at the profitability Just make sure from now on that any poison-welding Zealots stay the hell away from acids or my beautiful plate armor will be stripped from my body quicker than wraiths from saintman hair! Come to think of it Cleghart did look a little shifty at dinner before I DO BELIEVE YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO CONFESS MISTER CLEGHART! why do they always give themselves away so my sweet demonic love, did you enjoy your presents? of-of course I didn't kill anymore! and she made you 'scared to hurt me' for quite some time at least until I became useful and she told me to when was it "Ophelia, position E! " Cap Muntz calls out, drawing my attention The ground shakes as beast of torturous skeleton and rotting flesh approaches the fort A disgusting sniffling from the back of its throat can be heard as it slowly makes its way up the hill we're shooting from, unaware of where the threats are coming from bad time to not have the radio, I can't call for a bombing I aim my rifle and take the shot perusing the armor between the ribs It howls, dropping out of sight to the left with a clumsy roll A volley of shots hit the dirt further down the hill and it bursts back up with fire in its mouth FIR-N " I struggle to pronounce before he drops like a rock once again in pain Definitely fire Flame-man? A flash explodes on the beasts chest and it screams before another volley of shots take its head off It collapses howling on the ground before them, sending them into a sprint back up towards our position