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eliotquillon · 4 years ago

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the h.i.v.e timeline

(this is going to end up massive, so sorry in advance to all my none h.i.v.e followers).

obligatory disclaimer that while i’m trying to follow canon fairly closely here, i know i might have missed some details; this is a writeup of a google doc i made immediately after my feb reread and while i have reread books 1 and 2 since then, i haven’t had the time to double check anything from dreadnought onwards. there are also canon elements that i am deliberately ignoring/reordering, and i will make it clear that i am doing so when those details come up.

part one: student ages

currently, we only have two canon ages: raven, who is thirty-one in deadlock (or thereabouts; i’m basing this off her being 16 when she tries to kill nero and that being in the 15 years ago flashback), and otto, who we know turns thirteen just before he is sent to h.i.v.e (the specific age comes from the blurb of book one). we also know that nero taught diabolus and duncan cavendish as students, and that h.i.v.e was founded in the 1960s, which seems vague but actually gives us a lot to work with; cavendish’s records being faked implies that h.i.v.e does provide public examination results for its students, and that h.i.v.e’s entry year was deliberately chosen to parallel the english private school system (which, unlike the state system, is split into pre-prep, prep, and senior), where entry to senior school coincidentally takes place at the same age of entry to h.i.v.e

when it comes to making age estimations for students during the various points of the series, i’m making three assumptions:

1. all students in otto’s year are thirteen when they start h.i.v.e, just like otto.

2. otto turns thirteen in august 2006, making him one of the youngest students in his year, assuming the h.i.v.e school year starts in early september like most british schools. most of the ‘age’ section of this hinges off otto, because he’s the only student who is given an age and is seen celebrating a birthday.

3. the six years spent at h.i.v.e span what would be year 9-13 + the first year of university in the british system. in the american system this is grades 8-12 + the first year of university. therefore, students graduate at the age of nineteen.

h.i.v.e:

every first year alpha is thirteen.

the overlord protocol:

this is still set in first year, but is months after the events of book one. otto is still thirteen, but we can assume that, at this point, some people have turned fourteen. my money would be on wing, shelby, and possibly franz as being the older kids in their year (and therefore fourteen), but the semantics don’t really matter.

escape velocity:

this is the first book with a sizeable time skip - we see otto trying to steal the end-of-year exam for second years. this means everyone is now at least fourteen, and because (in my personal experience) late july/august birthdays aren’t very common, i’d wager that shelby, wing, laura, and franz are all fifteen; i’m excluding nigel here because i think, based off his physical description, he’s probably one of the younger kids in his year, and otto is obviously still fourteen, nearly fifteen. this is supported by raven telling otto that she was almost exactly the same age as the core four when she went on her first mission; we know from deadlock that she was sixteen, which would only be a year (max) older than the alphas at this point in time.

dreadnought:

dreadnought is set at the start of third year; we know this because the 93-percenter is specifically a third year field trip. this means that everyone, including lucy, is fifteen.

rogue:

rogue is where our perfectly constructed timeline slips, because it seemingly ages otto backwards - it is set thirteen years after we see otto being cloned in the tank, which would make otto thirteen even though he ends dreadnought at fifteen. there are multiple potential explanations for this - i favour the idea that otto is registered as older than he is biologically because he’s a clone/genius and was left at the orphanage with no birth certificate - but either way, i’m still going to say that otto is fifteen and that everyone else is a third year and either fifteen or sixteen. side note: otto’s benjamin button trick here is one of my least favourite ‘slips’ of the series and ruins what is otherwise one of my favourite entries.

zero hour:

there is a year between rogue and zero hour, meaning zero hour is set in fourth year and that otto is sixteen (and again, everyone else is either sixteen or seventeen). in my original doc, i made a note saying that apparently everyone is still in third year, but based off a quick search for ‘three’ and ‘third’ in the ebook, there’s no proof for that. lucy dies when she’s sixteen/seventeen.

aftershock:

there’s another short timeskip here, and based off the fact that this is when penny and tom join and that it’s the introduction of new security chief dekker, we can guess that this is the beginning of fifth year (incidentally, the fact that nero and raven are available at the beginning of the book to go meet joseph wright in london does appear to suggest that nero wasn’t needed to teach that day, meaning that there is some form of summer holiday at h.i.v.e). i also think it’s likely that this is fifth year because penny and tom a) had time to gain relative notoriety for their thefts and b) would’ve needed to be at least sixteen to leave school and local authority care (although tom is apparently a year or two older than otto and penny according to book one) and it being fifth year sets everyone at seventeen. seventeen is actually pretty old for the alphas to be taken to the glasshouse (raven went at age eleven), but i think it does make sense that the hunt was targeted, and not the third years on the 93 percenter; tom and penny actually had time to go to lessons pre field trip, and lucy didn’t, meaning that the 93 percenter mostly likely happens in the first few days of the school year and was organised before dekker became a member of staff, which wouldn’t have given the disciples the necessary time to plan and execute a retrieval. also, laura was obviously in fifth year and not third, making the hunt a far more attractive choice for anastasia to target.

deadlock:

deadlock is similar to rogue in that it fluffs an important timeline detail, but it’s not relevant to ages here, so i’ll revisit it later. it’s set several months after aftershock, but seeing as no other students are recruited to pad out the three left in the alpha stream and that aftershock was only set in the first month or so of the school year, i think it’s safe to assume that everyone is still in fifth year at this point, so either seventeen or eighteen. my gut feeling is that shelby, franz, and wing are all eighteen, and that’s because they’re allowed on the mission to break into the glasshouse; obviously we see them get into danger/be involved in plans before this point, but this is the first time we see nero actively sign off on them being allowed into a tactical situation with a known risk to life (and i’ve made a shitpost on this, but raven does say that nero would “have her shot” if she brought thirteen year old otto into a tactical situation back in the overlord protocol, so i think the only way nero would’ve allowed this to happen was if the remaining alpha students were all legal adults). the exception to this is otto, who would still be seventeen, but seeing as he isn’t an enrolled h.i.v.e student at the time of the mission, i don’t think nero’s no-student policy applies to him.

book nine:

obviously none of us know what’s going to happen, but i think it’s safe to say book nine will probably be set in otto’s final year, when he’s eighteen.

part two: adult ages

really, i should just be transparent and call this what it is, which is just blatant nero age speculation. while it’s implied that nero is immortal in book one, this is also literally never mentioned again, and the only physical indicator we know is that he has a streak of grey in his hair. however, i do have a bunch of info that can give some clues at how old nero really is.

1. nero taught diabolus, and is implied to have been headmaster of h.i.v.e at this time. we’re not really sure how old diabolus is, either, but seeing as he has a teenaged son and was old enough to have had a considerable career and be made head of g.l.o.v.e, he can’t be any younger than his late thirties by the time he pops up in escape velocity, and i’m guessing he’s inching towards fifty purely because he isn’t described as being particularly young when we see him in hong kong with nero 15 years before the events of deadlock. (i am, however, aware that this means nothing, because walden sucks at describing people). that means nero’s been teaching some forty years, which lines up with him co-founding h.i.v.e with his father in the 60s, and seeing as h.i.v.e is nero’s great passion project, i don’t think he could’ve been any younger than 25 when h.i.v.e opened in the original icelandic facility. basically, this tells us what we already know: nero is old as shit, and doesn’t look it.

2. the duncan cavendish thing interests me a lot more, because we see that nero actively switched cavendish from polfi to alpha. again, it was already implied that nero was headmaster from the beginning, but this shows that nero was always running the show and wasn’t just initially his father’s apprentice as deadlock almost seems to hint at.

3. nero has a doctorate. “well duh”. but again, if nero had that doctorate when he founded h.i.v.e, he has to be nearing seventy. he could’ve gotten it earlier, sure, because nero is a very intelligent man, but he’s not otto-levels of academic genius. i don’t think he could’ve been any younger than 15/16 when he got his phd.

i did say that this would be an ‘adult ages’ section, so i’ll do a bit of background on raven, the only adult with timestamps. her being thirty one in deadlock makes her twenty seven in book one (if we follow the logic of otto being seventeen in deadlock), and because i personally believe the h.i.v.e timeline starts with book 1’s publication in 2006, this means raven was born around 1979 (which, if you subscribe to the theory that raven is elena and nero’s kid, makes her born after h.i.v.e was founded, which has some interesting implications about the origins of the glasshouse).

i know we’re all in mutual agreement about the soviet training being a bullshit throwaway line that walden wrote in before deciding to make raven a major player, but i’ll do the work of disproving it anyway: if raven was born in ‘79 and she came to the glasshouse at 11, that means she started her training in 1990. the soviet union officially fell in 1991, but the berlin wall fell in 1989, and the cold war was pretty much over by the time raven came to the glasshouse thanks to gorbachev’s new policies and military cuts. there is absolutely no way that the furans were soviet-funded, or that raven was trained by the soviet government. in fact, the only feasible way raven could’ve been trained by the soviet union in, quote from book 1 here, “their cold war prime”, would be for her to have been born almost a full 20 years earlier in the early 1960s, which would’ve made her middle aged in book 1. but, like, you tried walden.

part three: overlord

the overlord incident - the one that led to the destruction of the chinese facility and inadvertantly led to wing’s birth thanks to wu zhang and xiu mei shacking up together - is probably the most crucial part of the h.i.v.e timeline. without it, number one never would’ve been corrupted, otto wouldn’t have been born/manufactured, the seed code for h.i.v.emind wouldn’t have existed, cypher never would’ve launched his assault on h.i.v.e and nero (or felt the need to come into existence at all), and, of course, overlord himself wouldn’t have been the world’s most annoying LED lightshow for five books (because book one hardly counts). but even though raven had nothing to do with the original overlord incident, she’s still strongly linked to it. i’ll explain.

the overlord incident had to have happened before raven met nero. i can’t stress that enough, and this is the conflicting detail that i mentioned in deadlock. the nero’s internal monologue in the fifteen years before flashback appears to indicate that the overlord incident hasn’t happened yet - but that can’t be true, otherwise wing wouldn’t exist.

like i’ve laid out, wing is thirteen in late august 2006, and most likely eighteen (but at least seventeen) in 2010/11, aka deadlock. this gives him an approximate birth year of 1992/3, and all roads lead back to raven, who would’ve been fourteen when wing was born. already, that makes her too young to have met nero pre-overlord incident. but even more importantly, wu zhang and xiu mei only ended up together because of the overlord incident. like i said, if it weren’t for overlord, wing would not exist. we don’t know when wu zhang and xiu mei‘s friendship turned to romance, but if xiu mei got pregnant in 1992 (which fits with either of wing’s birth years - either he’s late ‘92 or early ‘93), i’d wager they got together in 1991 at the latest. raven would’ve been twelve.

i’m putting the overlord incident at a tentative year 1990, which would’ve allowed plenty of time for xiu mei and wu zhang to escape china together and fall in love before wing’s birth, and also gives overlord a handful of years to start corrupting number one to convince him into cloning himself to make otto (who was dropped off at the orphange in august ‘93). raven came to the glasshouse in 1990. there is absolutely no way she could’ve met nero while he was still making arrangements for overlord, unless wing was born after 1995 when raven tried to kill nero, in which case wing wouldn’t have been at h.i.v.e at the same time as shelby and laura (and nor would otto, come to think of it).

anyway, i’ll do a tl;dr with the final timeline below.

TL;DR (final timeline)

1960s: h.i.v.e is founded.

1979: raven is born.

1980s: both duncan cavendish and diabolus darkdoom presumably attend h.i.v.e during this period. the zero hour contingency plan is drawn up.

1990: overlord is created in a lab in northern china, and is destroyed by number one. it then takes up host in his body. there are three named survivors: nero, wu zhang, and xiu mei. raven is sent to the glasshouse.

1991: wu zhang and xiu mei move to japan and rename themselves as the fanchus. they fall in love around this point. this is also the year where raven tries to escape from the glasshouse and claws out pietor’s eye.

1992: overlord/number one starts work on cloning himself. xiu mei falls pregnant, and possibly gives birth.

1993: otto, shelby, wing, nigel, franz, laura and lucy are all born at varying points throughout the year. this is most likely also the year where dimitri is shot by anastasia furan, and raven is forced to murder tolya.

1994: presumably the year when h.i.v.e’s original location is compromised, and plans start being made to relocate from the icelandic facility.

1995: nero meets with the architect/his father to discuss his plans for the new h.i.v.e facility. raven tries to kill him. the first glasshouse burns.

1996-2005: construction on h.i.v.e 2.0 is completed. overlord slowly takes over more and more of number one’s body. survivors of the overlord incident start disappearing. xiu mei dies of unknown causes. nero receives his half of the amulet. lucy’s parents die of natural causes and she is sent to italy. gregori leonov’s son, yuri, attends h.i.v.e and graduates. cypher pops into existence around this time. diabolus darkdooms fakes his death.

2006: otto, wing, laura, shelby, franz, and nigel start attending h.i.v.e (cue the events of book one). duncan cavendish becomes prime minister.

2007: cypher launches his assult on nero after successfully convincing the contessa to join his cause. after cypher is captured and his identity is revealed, nero keeps him alive unbeknownst to number one. by august, everyone is fourteen.

2008: cue the events of escape velocity. number one and the contessa die. diabolus darkdoom is elected leader of g.l.o.v.e. cue the events of interception point. otto turns fifteen. lucy joins h.i.v.e at the beginning of september and the events of dreadnought take place. otto does not return to h.i.v.e.

2009: events of rogue. cypher and pietor furan die. otto turns sixteen at the end of august. laura’s baby brother, douglas, is conceived.

2010: douglas is born. the events of zero hour occur. lucy dies. overlord is destroyed. nero becomes leader of g.l.o.v.e and fires the ruling council. duncan cavendish steps down. construction of the new glasshouse is completed. otto turns seventeen. penny and tom join h.i.v.e. the events of aftershock occur, and otto is expelled.

2011: the events of deadlock occur. raven turns thirty one. tom dies. the new glasshouse is destroyed. the countdown for the disciples’ new batch of clones begins at 99 days. the artemis project discover the existence of h.i.v.e. at the end of year, otto is eighteen.

2012 onwards: otto turns nineteen and hopefully graduates h.i.v.e.

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jq37 · 5 years ago

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The Report Card – Fantasy High Sophomore Year Ep 6

The Fall of Fabian Seacaster

OK, let’s do this.

We pick back up with Kristen and Riz who are still outside Garthy’s room. Kristen’s Detect Good and Evil from last week pings Garthy as well as the general aura of the Golden Gardens which is protected in the way a sanctum sanctorum would be but with celestial energy. Riz and Kristen improvise a not super cogent plan that involves ribbon dancing and knocking over barrels before Riz just decides to cut to the chase and ask Garthy’s guards to send for Sandra-Lynn. Once she comes out (still looked sexed up and pretty annoyed) they’re not quite sure what to ask her and Riz wants to bail but Kristen (who has cast Zone of Truth, tried to muscle into Garthy’s house, and gotten smacked down physically by Sandra-Lynn) says that she’s worried about Sandra-Lynn because she’s “not poly but [she’s] acting poly.” Being directly called out is enough to snap Sandra-Lynn out of it (and to think about Fig’s reaction) so she agrees to get her stuff and come back to the gang’s suite.

Meanwhile, Fabian is hanging out with Bill’s cult of 20-ish warlocks. They’re all super glad to see Fabian--who they assume has been sent by Bill to help them--and they want him to regale them with the tale of how he slew his father in battle. Fabian tells them the story which, as you all know, isn’t a story about besting his father in a hard-fought battle so much as it is about a story about bittersweet mercy killing. They are less than impressed, especially considering they want Fabian to defeat Captain James Wicklaw who has promised to kill all of Bill’s followers. Ego stung, Fabian says that he may not have bested his father but he did (help) kill a dragon and, more importantly, he’s gonna lead them into an ambush against Captain Wicklaw (who he sees, presumably looking for him, with 30 men).

Oh boy.

Fabian telepathically alerts the Hangman that he’s about to get into a big fight before slamming down a door and full-out attacking Captain Wicklaw. He’s able to get a good couple of attacks in and Wicklaw misses his first couple of attacks but then Fabian fails an intelligence save with a Nat 1 and gets stunned while Wicklaw tries to open his skull and eat his brain.

Meanwhile with the rest of the Bad Kids, the Hangvan alerts Gorgug that the Hangman has sped off and everyone assumes Fabian is in trouble. They all do their best to get to him as quickly as possible and, even though these scenes are intercut with Fabian’s I’m going to summarize them all at once:

Fig (w/ Gorgug in tow) Dimension Doors as close to the Hangman as she can. Then, Gorgug has the idea to try the classic pirate move of grabbing a rope, cutting the weight, and instantly flying to where on the ship you want to go. They try that and begin flying towards Fabian at terminal velocity, both dislocating their arms. Fig passably disguises herself as Jemina Joy (even with quadruple disadvantage) and tries to get a wizard to teleport her to where Fabian is but they’re going way too fast for anyone to hear her. Gorgug (also with quad disadvantage) tries to throw a hand axe and, on a nat 1, almost cuts the rope they’re swinging on.

Gilear is fully passed after a back-slap from Fig.

Adaine casts fly on Riz (because his rogue speed means he can make the most use of it) so he can go get Garthy to see if they have any teleport spells. Then, she gets on Baxter with Kristen and Sandra-Lynn (plus Tracker who follows in spectral wolf form). Kristen tries to bring up Sandra-Lynn’s relationship stuff again and Adaine casts Tasha’s Hideous Laughter on her. Adaine tries to pull from the jacket to get something to help her get to Fabian faster and she gets a Razor scooter.

Ragh drives the Hangvan towards Fabian’s.

Riz finds Garthy who takes him to a room, pops out neon angel wings, and does some kind of teleport spell that almost seems like it moves the space closer to them rather than the reverse.

But, none of this really matters because Brennan says none of them will be able to make it to Fabian before 22 rounds of combat. Woof.

Still in the first round of combat, 2 of the warlocks manage to hit Wicklaw and break Fabian out of his grapple (right after Wicklaw says that he’s eaten many of Fabian’s siblings but let’s put a pin in that because we have so much to get through here). Fabian declares that all spells are on him for the remainder of the fight (which is maybe the last funny thing he says all night). Then, 6 of the 20 warlocks on Fabian’s side die to gunshots from Wicklaw’s men. Fabian sends his men forward then falls back and attacks with his crossbow. Wicklaw mocks him for abandoning his crew so viciously that I feel like he should have spontaneously taken a level in bard. Brennan rolls for the ten still living pirates who never got names and only one survives. Then he rolls for the named pirates (Alistair and the three I haven’t mentioned yet because this episode is A Lot--Chungle-Down Bim, Old-Young Benjamin, and Creaky McBarrel) and only Creaky dies. In two rounds, Bill’s cult is down to four (plus one guy who peaced out after Fabian said he didn’t actually brutally murder his dad).

Fabian’s tactical retreat shakes the confidence of everyone but Alistair who stays loyal (even as he gets wrecked on his next attack on Wicklaw). Chungle-Down Bim is so disgusted by Fabian’s cowardice and performance that he tries to Eldritch Blast him and misses. He says, “Yeh ain’t no pirate and Bill would spit in yer eye.” Fabian has to hold back tears. He, with a heartbreaking mix of trepidation, reluctance, and resolve, asks if there are any ropes he can use to escape. Roll a perception check. He does.

Natural 1.

Sure, Brennan says. There’s a rope that looks like it will 100% guaranteed hold Fabian’s weight. Fabian goes for it--leaving behind a stunned and crushed Alistair--and finds that it’s actually a clothesline. He goes plummeting down a quarter-mile towards the ground but, before he actually hits, he hits a bunch of other ropes and, on his last possible chance, is able to save from splatting and taking max fall damage. Lou opts to take some damage anyway because he’d feel like he was cheating otherwise.

The rest of the group shows up through their various means and all immediately assume that Fabian got jumped. Fabian is meek in a way we’ve never seen before. I’m talking Adaine with Jawbone in Prompocolypse meek. He doesn’t tell them what happened and he answers all the questions with short yesses or no’s as much as possible. The healers heal him (plus Fig and Gorgug) up and take him back to the suite. The Hangman asks if he’s alright. “No Hangman,” he says. “It’s all bad.” Cathilda brings him kippers but he feels like he doesn’t deserve them.

Garthy has a little tete-a-tete with Fig about their tryst with Sandra-Lynn. Garthy is all about getting down but not if that person is in a monogamous relationship (even though they’re against them on principle). Fig (who has been avoiding her mom since the top of the ep) says she’s only mad at Sandra-Lynn (she says Sandra-Lynn, not Mom--oof) since Garthy didn’t know better. It just sucks that this happened to Jawbone. Jawbone as in Jawbone O'Shaughnessy? asks Garthy. Turns out he’s visited (many times) and they’ve boned (super hard) which, honestly, totally tracks.

Because she didn’t get a full night of sleep, Tracker can’t keep the Moon Haven spell up all night which isn’t great. Kristen can also gather than she’s too tired to remember anything that happened earlier in the night (ie: things about Sandra-Lynn and Jawbone). Fig, concerned that she might get mind controlled again without the Moon Haven up asks Adaine to tie her up (this actually happens before the above conversation with Garthy).

Sleeping arrangements are Fabian, the Hangman, and Riz as a bodyguard in one room and everyone else in another. Adaine trances a little early so she can regain her spells and be awake in case anything happens. Brennan makes everyone do wisdom saves. Kristen and Adaine roll high and Adaine gives her TWO (2) NAT 20 portent rolls to Fig and Gorgug. That leaves Riz and Fabian, but we’ll get to them in a minute.

Adaine wakes up from her trance and she sees Ragh get up early as well. He says he’s going to get some food. Adaine, vigilant as ever asks Ragh who his first kiss was. Ragh acts confused for a second, and then screeches and attacks her, waking everyone up. He’s been dominated. Adaine goes for a Tasha’s Hideous Laughter and subdues him. Also Fig is able to escape Adaine’s magical ropes so maybe she’s not the best person to do that next time.

Meanwhile, Fabian is having a nightmare. He dreams of Wicklaw trying to eat his brain and Chungle-Down spitting in his face and his betrayal of Alistair. He sees the ghosts of the warlock cultists entering hell and his disappointed father. And then, he’s approached by a man. A man with a familiar, non-threatening sounding, yogurt-offering voice. Fabian, like Adaine before, feels very strongly that if he looks at this man’s face, something terrible will happen but he does take the offered yogurt and agrees to go with him without looking at him. He’s taken to a lovely, sunny, kind of museum area dedicated to Bill Seacaster. Fabian thinks it’s very nice but he starts to notice that though there are many pictures of Bill and Hilariel, there are none of him. He asks why. The man says that Fabian needs to look at him. Fabian is hesitant. The man says that Fabian really needs to look at him. The yogurt in Fabian’s stomach curdles, weakening him (and me because yogurt grosses me out on the best of days and this is not the best of days). The man turns Fabian’s face to look at him and Fabian finds himself looking at a doughy, middle-aged Fabian Seacaster. He laughs hysterically and Fabian wakes up, plunged into the sea.

Elsewhere, Riz wakes up in his room. Fabian is gone, he’s paralyzed, the Hangman has been stabbed through by Fabian’s sword and is leaking oil, and Kalina is sitting on his bed. She was able to get in with the Moon Haven spell down. She speaks to him unsettlingly casually. She sounds almost friendly as she demands Riz and his friends stop looking for the Nightmare King’s crown on the pain of their lives. Riz, a grizzled old knight to his core like all of Murph’s characters, can’t wrap his head around why she would be doing this. It’s simple. Power. She psychologically toys with him, saying that Riz throws himself into his cases (which she seems to know quite a bit about) to distract himself from how sad he is about his dead dad. Then, she says that Fabian is in massive danger and if Riz doesn’t play ball (pun not intentional but it’s staying in), he’ll die. Riz assumes she knows where the Nightmare King’s crown is and she asks why he’s sure she knows which makes him think she actually doesn’t know. Riz, who sleeps with his sword because he’s rightfully paranoid, uses it to Misty Step outside but he’s still paralyzed so he just hits the ground and breaks his arm.

Kalina meets him outside, tells him Fabian is long gone, and tries to bargain with him: information about his dad for information about what he knows. Riz counter-offers that he’ll tell her about where the Nightmare King’s crown is if she guarantees his friends’ safety. She doesn’t care about the crown. She wants to know what Riz knows about her. Riz agrees (to save Fabian) and tells her everything he knows except that he withholds the information about Adaine’s mom being involved and tries to withhold the information he got from Ragh but he accidentally gives himself away without saying Ragh’s name. That’s enough for her to put two and two together though and she leaves to kill Ragh’s mom.

Back in the sea, Fabian has to make three Constitution checks. He rolls two nat 20s in a row for the first two and is rescued two flying imp monsters (presumably sent by Kalina) who drop him off at the edge of town. Fabian, absolutely destroyed, rips off his eyepatch and takes off his Owlbear jacket as he makes his way back. He rolls one last Constitution check. Nat 1. He’s got pneumonia. Cathilda shows up in the Hangvan to pick up Fabian.

The rest of the group is still shaken up by Ragh’s attack. They snap him out of it and someone gets Garthy. Post Riz’s encounter with Kalina, Ragh bursts in, devastated and says that someone from home called and said that his mom died. The whole group is immediately suspicious because--post Gorgug/Zelda debacle--they know they shouldn’t have signal. Ragh tries to call another number and all he hears is laughing on the other end. When Riz (healed up by Garthy) looks, he sees that his phone shows 5 bars for a second. Riz, Tracker, and Sandra-Lynn also see the flicker. Possibly illusion magic. Tracker and Garthy can also now suddenly see the Shadowcat in the picture (but it doesn’t seem like the rest of the Bad Kids can). Riz thinks Ragh’s mom is in serious danger but not dead yet.

Garthy has the idea to send the group to the Leviathan Library so maybe Adaine can learn a Sending Spell to communicate with their various parents and allies in Solace. They give Adaine a note that says to let the group safely use the library addressed to one Aida Aguefort.

Fig checks in with Sandra-Lynn to see if maybe she was under the influence of something more malevolent than alcohol when she cheated. Sandra-Lynn cries, and admits that she just F’d up but that they should deal with the problem at hand for now and that’s where we end, with the bulk of the group en route to the library.

Detention

Fabian for Everything

Oh Fabian.

Fabian, Fabian, Fabian.

I don’t think I have ever seen a series of events so driven by a single character’s careless actions.

Truly, almost every single bad thing that happened in this episode can be traced directly to Fabian losing his entire chill at the worst possible time.

All those warlocks, dead (And Alistair either dead, seriously hurt, or set on the path to show back up with a vendetta later on down the road).

Because Tracker didn’t get her 8 hours, she couldn’t do the Moon Haven properly which is why Ragh got mind-controlled, the Hangman got stabbed, and he got brain-jacked and dumped into the ocean.

It’s why Kalina got to Riz. It’s why Lydia’s in danger.

And it wasn’t just that what he did was dumb, it was also completely unnecessary. There was no plot reason for what he did and he wasn’t forced into it. It was a completely character driven decision and it was bad, y’all. It was pretty much an absolute fail parade.

Honor Roll

Brennan and Lou for Absolutely Stellar Roleplay

Everyone had their moments this episode.

Siobhan and Zac made some clever choices. Ally brought some needed levity. Emily subtly continued her emotional threads about Fig’s relationship with her mom and her distress over her actions while mind controlled. And Murph had that absolutely stellar scene in the back half of the back half of the ep with Kalina.

But Brennan and Lou 100% carried this episode.

Brennan is such a good DM that I feel like it’s almost easy to take for granted. Like, if you visit a town, you’re gonna talk about how how cool the shops, and food, and events were. Not about how well the roads are paved. But if the roads are all janky and potholed and stuff then it’s a big issue.

This episode clearly took a major turn from whatever was supposed to happen but Brennan deftly kept pace with all of Fabian’s wild choices and made sure the roads were paved before he got there.

So much of this episode was just Brennan talking to one other person (Fabian and then Riz during the Kalina scene) and he nailed all of it. The disgust from Chungle-Down. The betrayal from Alistair. The concern from Cathilda. The quiet but sinister lilt of Nightmare Fabian. And the affable, dispassionate, Just Business evil from Kalina.

And Lou. Everything Fabian did this episode was an extremely bad idea but it is exactly what Fabian would do in the situation. Lou played him completely consistently, even when it clearly pained him to do so.

When Lou rolled a nat 1 on his perception check for an escape rope, Brennan essentially handed him a fully loaded gun and said shoot yourself, and Lou grit his teeth and he did it.

Mad respect to both of them for keeping the tension and gravity going for a full three hours basically. That was lightning in a bottle. D&D is an amazing game.

Random Thoughts

I know there’s a significant chunk of the fandom that ships Riz and Fabian and, can I just say, RIP to y’all.

It really was narratively cool that we started out with the Sandra-Lynn plot in this crazy, over the top, comic scene and then ended with the quiet conversation between Fig and her mom on the same topic. It really was a through line throughout the episode without over-shadowing the main drama. This episode had a clear A and B plot just like a scripted show.

Also if Garthy is a powerful as Brennan is making them seem, wild that the NK and Kalina were able to bust through what is supposed to be super sanctified ground, especially since Tracker--a jr. cleric--has been keeping them at bay by herself.

Zac: This is a real Axford move.

Also Zac: I don’t understand what’s gonna happen if this goes well.

Riz and Murph Equally: We’re so stupid.

I think it’s funny how players in D&D tend to treat Zone of Truth like it forces them to spontaneously say things that are true rather than just preventing them from actively lying.

The kinda wild thing about how this whole mess started is that Fabian’s character development is part of why it happened. When he told the warlocks about the dragon and his dad, he gave everyone else their due credit, didn’t hog the spotlight, and didn’t lie/embellish the truth to make himself sound cooler. That in turn disappointed them which made him relapse into S1 Fabian who attacked Gorgug on the first day of school for absolutely no reason. I was actually going to give him major credit for that before he, you know. Made some other choices. He absolutely gushed about how cool his friends were and then invited exactly none of them to his terrible plan.

Lol at Lou being like, “I rolled to get Alistair to make a better speech?”

Bill’s cult of about 20 guys has collectively sent him like 350k gold. That’s insane! They’re all so poor!

Lou playing Fabian very confidently making an absolutely suicidal decision, and then surfacing to laugh hysterically for a full thirty seconds out of character about how he’s for sure gonna die, was such a mood. It was like Lou was being held at gunpoint by Fabian for the entire first half of the session.

Big props to Zac for trying to get everyone in on the action by suggesting the Hangvan would see that the Hangman was gone and let the group know.

OK, so now let’s talk about that line about Wicklaw having eaten many of Fabian’s siblings. Hoo boy. You know this episode was wild because that line was said and never followed up on. What might have been a headline in a different episode was a footnote in this one. No big surprise that Bill would have fathered a ton of kids. That pretty much tracks, as Adaine said last ep. I feel like this was something that was going to come up regardless, Fabian just forced it to be right then and there. This dude hates Bill so going after his kids seems like an obvious move (unless he’s bluffing I guess, but I doubt it). But, like, did Bill know about these kids? Was he fully ignorant? Willfully ignorant? Did they know they were Bill’s kids? Are there any left? Can Fabian please have a little pirate sister because I would love that so much you don’t even know.

You think Lou expected to say (loosely quoting), “I try not to cry in front of Chungle-Down Bim,” when he woke up that morning? Idk but I can tell you that I didn’t expect to hear it and feel strong emotions about it.

Chungle-Down Bim, which is short for Bimothy.

Lol, Brennan makes Emily rolls with Quadruple disadvantage and she still gets a 15 because she has a plus 11 to persuasion. No wonder she’s so quick to slam the disguise self button if there’s even a sliver of a chance it’ll work.

Adaine getting a useless Razor scooter on the way to try and help Fabian and then being like, “Well, I’m still gonna keep it,” was such a funny beat during the tenseness of that fight scene.

I need you guys to know that this is a mindflayer ability: Extract (Ex): An Illithid that begins its turn with all four tentacles attached and successfully maintains its hold automatically extracts the opponent’s brain, instantly killing that creature. Truly what was he thinking? You’re gonna eat his brain? Go ahead because he clearly isn’t using it!

You know the part of Princess Bride when Wesley is giving the “To the Pain” speech to Humperdinck? I feel like that’s what Brennan did to Fabian this episode. “Oh you think I’m going to kill you? No, that would be too easy. This fight is to the pain. You will watch your allies get slaughtered until you are forced to betray them or die. You will escape but in the most clownish fashion possible after breaking your most loyal ally’s heart. You will be beset by your concerned friends and forced to either own up to your horrible life choices or stew with them and lie by omission. You will be the reason your ultimate enemy is able to break in and attack your friends and you will be forced with your worst nightmare before being unceremoniously dumped into the sea. You won’t die. You’ll just wish you had.” Absolutely brutal.

Anyone else feeling a possible villain turn from Allistair? Dude’s a warlock so he’s already prone to dabbling in questionable power sources. And Fabian really did him dirty. I was hoping he’d at least get Kristen or Tracker to try to see if he was around anywhere for a heal but he just went into shellshock shutdown mode and they bounced. We didn’t see him die on screen so I feel pretty strongly that we’ll be seeing him again in some form.

Also, maybe I’m way off, but did you guys feel like Fabian missed a clear opportunity? I thought he was gonna ask his dad for help. Or, at least try and talk to him before the fight. Clearly it’s possible because the warlocks are doing it. Just pray for some infernal intervention or guidance or powers or something? Worth a shot when you’re in such a bad situation anyway.

Fabian never did tell the party what was going on. They all still think he was ambushed and forced into a fight somehow. I really can’t wait for the truth to come out. I wonder how long he’ll sit on that info. He better tell them before they fight Wicklaw again and they find out that way.

Every single player playing up their concern for Fabian and making a point to presume he was in the right and that it had been a wrong place/time situation to make him feel even more like garbage was *chefs kiss*.

The Hangman basically acting like a big metal dog and pressing itself up against Fabian to comfort him is weirdly adorable.

“Anyway, I’m gonna go get tied up.”/“What?”

Also I love Adaine’s reaction to being asked to do it. She’s like, “What? I mean, I’ll do it but, what?” Sidenote, Fig said she was gonna ask Riz as her first choice but that’s also a terrible choice! He has like a minus 2 strength modifier I think. Ask Gorgug!

Truly, the entire episode can be encapsulated in the fact that Siobhan was sitting there with two nat 20 portent rolls but sidelined and useless because Fabian decided to go completely rogue.

I have to give Adaine big credit for checking to see if Ragh was mind controlled because whenever I’m watching a show where a bad guy can shapeshift or possess people, I always think, “Why don’t they just have a codeword or something?” This is one of the few times I’ve seen it properly executed. Genre savviness saves lives people.

Fabian’s rolls really matched his decisions this week. It was like the dice were punishing him with all those nat 1s on crucial checks.

Also, Brennan being like, “You get pneumonia” was lowkey hilarious. Just like, insult to injury. What’s next? He’s gonna die on dysentery on the Oregon Trail?

I wonder if Fabian is considering chronomancy-ing this away? The thought for sure crossed my mind. Also, everyone was joking about everything being all a dream, but that’s something that could happen in this campaign without it being cheap because it’s been set-up that that’s the kind of bad guy they’re up against so I’m staying vigilant.

Ragh coming into the room and, voice cracking, announcing that his mom was dead cut me up so bad. And I thought it would be not as bad on my rewatch. Nope, still awful. I can’t believe I like him so much now. This is like a Steve from Stranger Things level turnaround for me. Also, the chat was absolutely blowing up when Murph was like, “I tell her everything,” without excepting Ragh’s info at first. Brennan is a nice DM for reminding him about that (despite the absolute ravaging of Riz and Fabian otherwise this ep).

Also gotta give a shout out to Murph this ep for playing Riz so well during the confrontation with Kalina. His steadfast, simple, “We can’t stop. It would be wrong. Fullstop,” mentality is so pure. Riz is such an interesting character. When he tried to withhold info, Murph said, “I have low deception.” That’s who Riz is. He’s a rogue with low deception. He’s sneaky but only in pursuit of justice. No guile at all. Kalina, who is as casual as he is wound up and amoral and he is knightly is such an interesting foil for him. I’m very intrigued to see how this develops.

Like I said in the recap, Garthy and Tracker can now see Kalina in the picture, even though neither of them saw her when she broke in (that they know of) so the plot thickens there. I’d go into it more but I really don’t have any new theories off the top of my head and this was honestly the least of my worries re: this ep.

Also, she says that all of her abilities come from serving the NK, and she had the abilities since she was working with Pok so this doesn’t seem to be a new development. I will say though, based on the info the group got, I really thought she was gonna be a more ancient being, you know? Maybe it’s just a title and she’s just the latest tabaxi to serve him and get it? I dunno.

Truly the mood for this episode was dawning horror. Things just got progressively worse in new and interesting ways every single scene.

Speaking of, let’s talk about Fabian’s vision. First of all, Brennan did a great job real-time DJ-ing that scene. The switch to that creepy music was very unsettling. Second of all, the chat exploding when Brennan started doing That voice and everyone for a brief moment thought that maybe, Maybe, Gilear was the Nightmare King, was delicious. But, on to the important stuff: When this happened to Adaine, my guess was that if she had looked at figure, it would have been a representation of her anxiety which I think was like 65% correct based on what happened to Fabian. Her worst possible future for herself is probably herself ruled by anxiety to the point of uselessness so she would have seen that version of herself. Fabian’s worst possible future self is essentially Gilear. Which, on behalf of Gilear, ouch. But, yeah, I see why it would be. And, honestly, NK-Fabian was worse than Gilear. Gilear is pathetic, sure, but he’s pathetic in pursuit of his own goals. To be stuck in his dad’s shadow, devoid of any other purpose is the antithesis of Fabian’s whole making a name for himself thing and a sick twisting of his very real pride in his dad. It’s a real raw nerve to hit, especially right after his colossal failure that left him feeling unworthy of even his favorite snack.

I’m really glad Fabian looked at the face of his nightmare. Brennan pushed him a little (in that fantastically unnerving, cajoling yet demanding voice) but I think he would have done it anyway. Like, it’s good information for the team to have and, if anyone was gonna get hit, it made most sense for it to happen right then, when Fabian was already at basically his lowest point. Both Adaine and Fabian felt like something horrible would happen if they looked at their nightmare and I’m wondering if there’s a mechanical effect to that or if it’s just psychological. I feel like there might be some not yet revealed mechanical effect going on but, when your players are as devoted to the RP as Lou (who, again, asked to take damage from his fall even after Brennan was gonna let him off with just the shame) you can get away with just giving the character trauma and having the player hinder their own actions based on it.

Titles for this recap that I rejected include Actions and Consequences and Keyfish 2: Pirate Boogaloo (because the first part of this episode truly felt like the CritRole Keyfish incident but spread out over an hour and a half).

Yet another thing that would have been a headline item in another recap but is just a footnote here: Aida Aguefort. That’s gotta be a sibling, ex, or parent (in my order of probability). What is an Aguefort doing running a pirate library? Are they as chaotic as the other Aguefort? I think it would be very funny if Arthur is this dude in a high position in a “normal” town who is just feral and Aida is living on this insane pirate island but, like, a completely normal librarian.

Oh, speaking of Aguefort, Kalina called him out on his child soldier factory and, listen, I know she was just trying to hurt Riz but she doesn’t not have a point.

Kristen was able to discern that Tracker probably won’t remember what happened with Sandra-Lynn but I hope she keeps track of that info because if Tracker rolls high perception and finds out that she semi-willfully kept that information from her, she might be miffed.

Are all of Bill’s dead warlocks gonna work on his hell ship now? Didn’t they become warlocks specifically because they were bad at being pirates?

I notice the group didn’t wait for Fabian even after Riz presumably told them what happened. I also notice that Cathilda was able to find Fabian right away which is interesting.

Adaine solemnly Razor scooting at the front of the party towards the library is low key hysterical.

Fig better hope it doesn’t get back to Jemina that she was being impersonated.

Also, that plan was crazy but super not the craziest thing Emily has ever done and Brennan backed her up on that. He was like, “This is good. This isn’t Hilda Hilda,” which is where the bar is because Emily is crazy.

Fig: We’re gonna fail./Gorgug: We’re gonna die./Adaine: And, more importantly, we’re gonna fail school.

Riz’s “How about no dead friends,” one-liner was so good. Unfortunately, it didn’t do anything to stop his paralysis. Ouch.

I’m assuming Kalina was asking what he knew to see if there was anyone she needed to kill because they knew too much about her? Because, otherwise, it seems like unimportant info for her. I was thinking when it was happening that she needed him to give her that information so they could take it from him and he wouldn’t have it anymore, like in a weird Fae way, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. It’s probably just the simple thing.

Garthy doesn’t leave the Golden Gardens which is probably good for game balance. You don’t want to give the players a super powerful ally who has no reason not to help them at any given time. That’s rife for PC abuse.

I have to say, after last week, I was hoping we’d be done with the pirate stuff halfway through the ep and en route to Falinel but this was such a turn. I was saying to someone last week, it’s very tempting to try and predict where a D&D game is going by using typical narrative structure as a guide but that only halfway works because you really can’t account for the improvisational nature of it. I absolutely could not have guessed that this is what this episode would be and I’m glad.

Goes without saying, this ep totally snatched the crown for Most Heart Attacks Given To Me By BLM from Family in Flames.

“The game isn’t about what you plan; it’s about what happens,” sounds like a line from an inspirational Ted Talk, and not from a man who, minutes later, said that a pirate named Chungle-Down Bim wanted to use a teenager’s mouth as a toilet.

“I feel drunk from anxiety.” Same Ally.

You wanna know how many pages of handwritten notes I have for this episode? If you guessed 16, you’re right. And I was so into the ep, I forgot to keep track of crits, which is why I had to watch it a second time.

Emily proposing “felettes” as the feminine version of fellas.

“How many HP you at?”/”I’m not telling you.”

Just, the idea of this warlock drawing on Bill’s power to try and attack his son is so raw.

Brennan, being asked by Zac if he can help with Emily’s crazy plan: You absolutely may not and, in fact, take five points of damage.”

Siobhan: What do you have to lose?/Gorgug: *Rolls a nat 1 and almost severs the rope he and Fig are holding on to*

Garthy plays the harpsichord (I have in my notes harpsichord and not harp so I’m going with that) post-coital which is definitely a choice.

The shot of levity that Brennan injected between the big fight and the NK invasion by having Garthy know Jawbone was great. I knew it was coming as soon as Fig said his name, but the comic timing was still perfect. Apparently, Jawbone’s stories are crazy even by Garthy’s standards, which is wild.

Also funny, Fig being tied up as combat started. It didn’t end up making a difference but, at a certain point, when enough bad things have happened, piling more bad stuff on top just becomes funny like, yeah. Of course. That tracks.

Ally: Sleep when you’re dead, which might be this episode.

Riz and Gorgug (and Allistair) each roll one nat 1. Kristen rolls a nat 20. Adaine has 20s for both of her portent rolls (which she gives to Fig and Gorgug). And Fabian rolled an amazing 2 Nat 20s (in a row) and FIVE nat 1s.

Edit: Oh, forgot to say! Next week there won’t be a game because Thanksgiving is happening in the States. Early Happy Thanksgiving for y’all in the U.S. who are celebrating. I’m thankful for a week off to recover after the ordeal that was this episode.

[Footnote: This ended up cracking 6000 words, in case you’re wondering about the ways I choose to spend my time. Shoutout to y’all for reading these and justifying the dissertation length brain dumps my dumb, former English major brain compels me to produce for absolutely no good reason.]

#fantasy high #fantasy high spoilers #dimension 20 #dimension 20 spoilers #report card

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money-man-mundo · 5 years ago

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(We lost this game) There are only three champions so far that I fear in toplane as Mundo. I always ban Illaoi, because there’s very little counter play one can do against her. Second is Yorick, but depending on his skill level I can sometimes get the upper hand still.

Now, there is Urgot, who apparently is a very strong counter to Mundo. Or maybe this player is just very good. Here’s what he did that made my life a pain.

Reason #1 is Urgot’s ult, which is probably the best true damage execute for dealing with Mundo. Normally, my ult would regen me back to the point where I can’t die, but once Urgot starts reeling you in healing above his execute threshold won’t save you (since technically his ult doesn’t deal true damage, it just kills anyone reeled in) so the only way to survive a reel is either to have someone else kill Urgot before it finishes, or to somehow become untargetable, like maybe with a bard ult.

Reason #2, he rushed Merc Treads. Mundo’s Q (which I max first) deals magic damage based on the target’s current health, so the magic resist both limits my actual damage output and the passive reduces the slow time on the Q. As he got tankier throughout the game, it wasn’t even worth it trying to fight him.

Reason #3, Mortal Reminder obviously inflicts Grievous Wounds, which just about invalidates everything Mundo does.

Reason #4, Urgot’s E is a shield based on his %max health and physical damage, which kind of trumps Mundo’s %current health Q.

Reason #5, Urgot’s Q, not really the worst thing in the world, but kind of counters my playstyle. The slow pretty much prevents me from using the Mundo Q+Approach Velocity combo.

Despite getting First Blood, I made some dumb plays early game (ex. in a 1v1 a cleaver hit a minion that I chose to just hope it wouldn’t, otherwise I would’ve won the fight) that gave Urgot the lead on me, and by the time I was 1/3 it had already been my worst game as Mundo this season (and maybe ever).

By the end of the game I’d decided to ignore Urgot and Nunu mostly unless they got caught by themselves, choosing instead to peel their backline damage dealers, which had some success, but even after selling my boots for merc treads they had so much CC that charging head-on (a tactic that most team comps can’t do anything about) didn’t prove very effective, and other than Veigar no one was really able to capitalize on it. I would normally have starting building more offensive items (typically Titanic Hydra and then Shojin’s Spear or Phantom Dancer) but I felt like with Urgots raw damage output even on his own I needed grievous wounds on him and then started building towards Thornmail, just searching for the right answer

That being said, there were other factors that negatively affected the game. Akali was very roamy, while in the meantime WW told us he was just gonna farm jungle unless we pinged for help (which I’m pretty sure... junglers should just be aware of the map and when they should gank? That’s their job?) Xayah wasn’t doing too hot early game, especially with Nunu and Akali consistently ganking them and the enemy team having better grouping and teamfight power.

#league of legends #bronze 2 14 lp #mundo #top lane #loss

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fortairsoft · 5 years ago

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Best Airsoft Shotguns – The Definitive Guide

In the market for a new airsoft shotgun? One that will really up you’re game and help you become a seasoned pro?

This guide will show you exactly what the best ones on the market are and which one we recommend the most.

We will go over everything from

The most powerful

The most affordable

The best built and best looking design

What we believe to be the winner among them all

So if you want to go from a beginner to a pro in airsoft, then this guide is for you.

Lets get started!

The Best Airsoft Shotguns

CYMA Polymer M870

Our first one on the list is one of the most classics, and for good reason.

The M870 is an affordable option that packs a ton of features.

Sporting a tri-shot system which allows it to shoot 3 BB pellets with the single pull of a trigger.

This allows multiple sprays of the pellets over a long distance, making it much easier to hit a moving opponent.

This comes with a fairly high fps at 280 – 306 FPS, which is a monster for a shotgun.

This is a high powered spring design, but don’t let that deter you, this thing is incredibly quick to reload and provides enough power to hit even the fastest of moving targets.

The build of the M870 is fantastic

The outer design is made from aluminum and sold plastic and feels just like the real thing. You will not notice any weak points in this, meaning that it will last a long time before you encounter any issues.

For the lower price point, this is a great option for anyone wanting to try out how an airsoft shotgun works and feels while playing, which is why we recommend it so much.

Pros

Very affordable

Good fps for the type of gun

Solid build quality

Shoots triple BB’s at once

Very easy & quick to reload

Cons

Not enough accessories to add

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FABARM STF12

If you’re after something with a little more bang for your buck, then this is the option for you.

With a fps of 300-310, this is one of the more powerful weapons out there, and it will really help you stand out from the other players.

Like the previous one we mentioned, the STF12 has a triple fire mechanism, which allows 3 BB’s to be shot at once, ensuring that you cover a greater range when trying to hit an opponent.

The reason why we like this one much though is because of the add-ons you can apply to it, they’re almost endless!

You can remove and upgrade the front and rear sight and comes with a built in hop up.

The top rail allows you to add everything from larger optical scopes, all the way through to a holder for your phone.

And did we mention that this is a pump action design, which makes the realism of using it even that much more sweet.

The build quality of this is fantastic, and we never had any issues when using it.

This is one of the better airsoft shotguns out there and can really help you up your game for your next match.

Pros

Large range of add-ons

High fps at up to 310

Tri shot mechanism

Fantastic build quality

Pump action firing

Cons

For some may be a bit on the pricey side

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Hwasan Double Barrel

If its power you’re looking for, then have we got the right gun for you!

This is an absolute beast of an airsoft weapon, they do not come much more powerful than this.

The Hwasan green gas powered airsoft shotgun is one not to be trifled with, and you better hop someone on the opposing team doesn’t have one.

Like we said, this is a green gas powered product, so it has far more grunt than the spring powered options, and has a fps range of 420 fps.

That is a ton of power packed into such a small design, but it benefits you greatly.

As you can imagine, this fires two rounds of BB’s with the single pull of a trigger, meaning you can cover a large area , making it ideal for opponents who are on the move.

Due to the compact design, this can easily be carried on a belt with a holder, or even in the side of a backpack, allowing you to carry multiple weapons.

The design and build of this are fantastic to, with a solid wood grain handle and metal barrels and components, this one one of the best designed and crafted products out there.

Ive had this weapon in my tactical loadout for quite sometime not and I can say with out a doubt that its one of the finest airsoft guns you can play with, so we would highly recommend it if you’re looking for something that has the power and build quality of the real thing.

Pros

High 420 fps

Full metal and wood construction

Shoots dual BB’s at once

Green gas powered

Weight close to the real thing

Cons

The price may put some people off

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CYMA M3

Now this is a design that will shriek fear in your opposing team.

The M3 is a design that resembles something more along the lines of the terminator, with its beefy pump action, all the way down to its matte black finish.

This houses a triple pump action firing system that will shoot 3 BB’s with the single pull of a trigger, meaning your opponents aren’t going to get out of this one easy, so they better have their body protection on.

The triple shot design makes it so you can spray the other team with pellets from a greater distance, but while still covering an area that will be hard for them to escape from.

The velocity on the M3 is around 280- 306 fps.

While not one of the most powerful out there, the triple shot makes this a worth while purchase, and the accessories that can be added is a big selling point.

It comes with a built in hop up system, ensuring you have a straighter shot and can be customized with endless scopes and sights due to the built in railing on the top of the weapon.

The matte black coating not only looks hardcore, but it feels great on the plastic and metal, giving it a much more realistic feel than some of the other products out there.

The pump action is also so smooth, there is no jamming, no awkward movements, nothing, just a smooth back and forth and the BB’s are ready to be fired.

This is a great option for the more experienced players looking for something a little more realistic and for people wanting a triple shot system.

Pros

Beautiful matte black finish

Triple shot firing

Up to 306 fps

Tons of accessories like scopes can be added

Built in hop up

Cons

Would be good if it held more shells

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Final Thoughts

While there are a large range of airsoft shotguns out there, we believe these ones to be the best of the best.

We have tested and tried these and have had no real issues with any of them, meaning you shouldn’t either.

Using this type of gun during a match is a little different than using a pistol or rifle. While those weapons that be used in a stealth type way, crouching behind a bush, aiming carefully, the shotgun is more of a run and fire type weapon.

This means that you need to choose one that has a solid build quality, at least a dual firing setup and one that can store shells and is very easy to reload, and you are going to be doing a lot of it.

We hope this list was helpful and you find the exact airsoft shotgun you are looking for, happy playing.

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verticaljump33-blog · 6 years ago

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It’s another gods-be-damned Time Travel Concept Fic

Yeah so I’m calling this one A Widening Gyre because I’m not at all pretentious. XP

IN FAIR KONOHA WE SET OUR SCENE

Rin was a jinchuriki and we all know that those people don’t die easy, so she totes survives the chidori to the chest. The need to heal from near-death let Obito have his dramatic breakdown in the rain over her (not-quite) dead body plus gave Minato enough wiggle room to fix the faults and traps in Rin’s seal.

Rin was declared KIA though, and her survival was classified to protect her from Kiri trying to get the Sanbi back and also to keep the Elder Council from fucking with her. “Turtle” joins ANBU under the command of “Wolf” and they are the scariest dual act ANBU has seen for a long time. Like, holy shit. Then “Tiger” joins their team right after “Wolf” gets his Captain promotion, and the addition of Mokuton is frankly ridiculous. Then “Crow” joins the team right as Kushina announces her pregnancy and this is just. They are all approx. 4 feet tall and the most terrifying ANBU team Konoha has and no one knows how to deal with this. (There are rumours about an ANBU trainee going by “Raven” and FFS T&I isn’t paid enough to deal with this nonsense.)

Obito is a sensor (natural or trained IDK but he has that skill set) and he gets sidetracked on his way to Naruto’s birth b/c “That’s... that’s Rin.” Things happen, reunion of the Team plus “You’re alive!” drama is interrupted by Danzo being a giant bag of dicks, ROOT shenanigans ensue because Kinoe is also “Tiger” and KakaRin are possessive little shits. To say nothing of how Shisui reacts to the idea of someone being more important to his teammate than him. (Fucking Uchiha drama queens I swear...)

This is all taking place while Kushina is in labour BTW. WTF people how are you fitting this many feels into less than 12 hours I am impressed by this. Danzo was expecting Zetsu and “Madara” to back him up r.e. disposing Minato and getting the Kyuubi shoved in a more manageable host but Obito is la~ate and also KakaRin have v. strong grips, like wow do you work out?

Kakashi and his-name-is-Tenzo-now’s weird bromance drama comes to a climax when Danzo is chased back to his HQ by the Hokage’s v. pissed off guard team. (Hi Genma and Raido welcome to the madness.)

So it turns out that Danzo took over Tobirama’s old lab as ROOT’s main base but missed a few experiments pretending to be part of the security system. Oops. So Kamui plus experimental seals plus the Hiraishin markers carried by Genma and Raido and Kakashi plus an attempt to interfere with Rin’s containment seal means it all goes BOOM

Upside: Kyuubi stays sealed.

Downside: Sanbi goes on a rampage instead.

This is the last we see of the future Konoha timeline kthnksbye~eee...

NEW SCENE SETTING: THE WARRING CLANS ERA

Rin is out of it b/c Sanbi was forcibly removed from her chakra coils

Upside: She gets to keep a larger reserve of chakra than what she was born with naturally, keeps a few of the jinchuriki perks like rapid healing, and her chakra control is back to medic-inn levels for the first time in almost 2 years!

Downside: Motherfucking ow.

Rin is down, therefore Danzo did something to her so KakaObi don’t hesitate in aiming to kill. Genma and Raido trust Kakashi and back him up but oh look Danzo has stolen sharingan eyes implanted in a creepy zombie arm oh very shit forever.

EPIC SHOWDOWN!! FIGHT!!

KakaObi are scary AF and also apparently share a brain. Danzo is made v. dead before they even realize that they’ve been shot-put through time as well as space. But leftover Zetsu shit/heart seal is triggered when Danzo tries to not die but Kakashi gets in the way b/c he’s not losing Obito again. MAGIC NINJA DEATH CURSE NO JUTSU idk I’ll figure out the details later but OH NO Kakashi is poisoned and Obito is distraught b/c Kakashi just jumped on the sword for Obito again this is not a theme Obito likes to see reoccur fuck you universe.

The antidote only grows along the seashore so ANBU Team Baby Genii Ne minus Wolf do a suicide run to Wave Country and back.

Without Danzo around Kakashi, at 14 years of age, is the highest ranked Leaf Shinobi. ROOT proceeds to imprint like ducklings.

Shit friends I just realized that Kabuto is still in ROOT at this point excellent now Genma can be the poison specialist and Kabuto can be the baby medic and they can work together to keep Kakashi alive while Obito threatens to kill everything (except Rin) if Kakashi dies.

Alrighty fuck it let’s make it a party. Anko’s there too b/c she followed the mayhem b/c she knows that Danzo had something to do with Orochimaru’s defection but her Curse Seal gets the same yoink treatment as Rin’s Bijuu Seal and now Anko’s 100% doing the deputy thing while Raido arranges the patrols. (Radio may not have the highest rank in their group but he is the oldest so that’ll have to do)

Tiny baby Sai and Shin are the cutest murder babies aww... (Also get to indulge my HC that newborn Uchiha have red eyes instead of blue so Itachi and Shisui know from the get-go that Sai is an Uchiha.)

Speaking of murder babies Itachi is trying v. hard not to think about never seeing Sasuke or his parents again. (FFS Itachi is the only one of these jackasses to canonically have living parents at this point in the TL. Except Rin but TBH she’s been pretending to be dead for the last 2 years so I don’t think she counts anymore.) Itachi is going to latch onto Sai so hard as a replacement baby bro omg Itachi stahp

War interruptus via Kakashi’s ANBU team plus All The Baby ROOT Agents. This will be fun!

Team Ne is gonna bulldoze through a Senju patrol on their way out to the shore. Tobirama was not expecting a hostile Mokuton user to defend a couple of Uchiha and also the girl they were with broke a tree with her fist and then it melted. Toka definitely saves Tobirama’s pasty ass b/c his instincts forget to dodge IRT Mokuton jutsu.

Team Ne is also going to trip over an Uchiha patrol and Itachi is high-key going to not!cry b/c Izuna looks hella like Mikoto/Sasuke and Itachi misses them. Shisui does a lot of high velocity absconding with his teammates come on ppl keep running pls. Izuna is so confused by tiny Uchiha not knowing who he is and running around with some random not!Uchiha WTH?

For max drama Team Ne will blast through a big battle, interrupt Hashirama and Madara’s posturing, accidentally save Izuna’s life (thanks, Shisui) and then bravely run away without ever slowing down. Senju and Uchiha call truce while they figure out WTF is up with those kids and track them down.

This team-up thing does give both sides a chance to see the “Hashirama And Madara Show” up close. Madara lovingly and eloquently details all the many and varied ways Hashirama is an idiot (it sounds an awful lot like Tobirama’s most uncharitable thoughts re. his brother. Only blunter.) Hashirama just laughs and agrees with Madara WTF Anija? The Hashirama does his best to hug Madara to death b/c they are apparently the cuddling type of sworn enemies (Izuna is horrified and so offended. He’s the only one allowed to snuggle the grumps out of Madara!) Izuna and Tobirama are the world’s most resentful team-up ever but they’re doing their v. best to keep their older bros apart b/c no, Anija, just no.

They find the Konoha camp b/c Tobirama is a stupidly strong sensor and Hashirama can tell where the trees got bent by Mokuton. They were not expecting to find nothing but children. Raido is the oldest and he’s only like 19-ish I think? Plus ROOT kiddos are suu~uuper creepy-tactic omg.

NOW BACK IT UP A LITTLE!!

SR timeskip mostly consists of Kakashi escaping his medic, making Obito panic, and bonding with the ROOT minions (this involves a lot of spitting on Danzo’s grave TBH. They all find it v. therapeutic.) The worst of the poison’s effects are being mitigated by Genma’s antidotes and Kabuto’s treatments but that’s just a delaying tactic to prevent total system shutdown so Team Ne really needed to hurry the fuck up.

Obito is A Mess b/c Zetsu/Danzo were just using him to hit Kakashi (just like the Iwa-nin who took Kakashi’s eye and you know that means something more to an Uchiha than the standard shinobi but Obito can't fix the poison damage from progressing though spontaneous organ donation.) Kakashi keeps Obito distracted and busy growing a fortified encampment for all his adorable new minions. Genma and Raido are just glad not to have the terrifying Uchiha powerhouse threatening to turn them inside out every 10 minutes thanks muchly.

Captain Wolf has already managed to take over as the focus of the ROOT agent’s personality cult. Obito is now the leading member of the Kakashi fan club (b/c Tenzo is off on the SR at the time, nat.) Genma and Raido are Concerned b/c Kakashi hasn’t been emotionally stable since he was 6 y/o there’s no way him being a role model for 100 brainwashed baby assassins will end well.

Anko thinks everything is hysterical and she’s so glad she stuck her nose in where it wasn’t wanted this is better than Icha Icha. Izumi’s just happy someone got her away from Danzo before he could fuck up her head/mess with her eyes too much. (This was the most horrible side effect of her betrothal to Itachi being announced how did Danzo even get her out of the compound FFS?)

11th hour arrival by Team Ne with the antidote means Rin, Genma, Kabuto, Obito, and Tenzo are all v. busy when the Uchiha/Senju combo team find the Konoha camp.

So then Kakashi wakes up after being cured and there’s more weirdness b/c Obito has both his eyes but Kakashi’s left eye is still red and works like a Sharingan but it isn’t a sharingan obvs. but they still share a field of vision and Obito’s left eye is silver when the sharingan is turned off and Rin is 100% done with both of them defying medical convention. There is a lot of head scratching and pointing of fingers before they hug it out is what I’m saying.

Team Ne thinks this is adorable and super romantic and the entire camp ships it so hard you have no idea. I might make this Rin Demi-Ace b/c then her crush on 9 y/o Kakashi when she’s 13 is much more understandable. (A squish just fits better to the situation IMHO.) Also ace!Rin would 100% be the one to join forces with bb!Kabuto to create (recreate? precreate?) Orochimaru’s test-tube-baby no jutsu in the WCE.

SRTS IS DONE NOW YAY NOW TO FUCK WITH THE FOUNDERS

Raido is A Wall and he never anticipated using his ANBU training to waylay the 1st and 2nd Hokage WTF is even his life but Teamwork! and TWOF means Standing Strong even if Uchiha Madara is Scary AF wow and Raido thought seeing Fugaku-dono walk into a room was bad.

Kakashi is cured (yay!) and also gets to arrive dramatically on the scene of confrontation and verbally bitchslap everyone into calming TF down b/c I Have A Headache And I’m Tired Of Your Shit. Rabidly overprotective ObiRin are rabid and overprotective. Also Obito is super Uncanny Valley b/c he looks just like Madara and Tobirama is busy having a heart attack b/c this “Captain” person has Itama’s eyes (red and grey) and Tenzo has Mokuton and is maybe reminding him too much of Kawarama and also Itachi has the same grump lines as Madara and Shisui has Izuna’s smile.

Yeah so everyone from the WCE is pretty much convinced that their “dead” siblings were kidnapped instead and the large number of Clan children Danzo kidnapped for ROOT doesn’t actually do much except convince them they’re right. Kakashi OFC decides to play along WTF you giant troll and what the Captain says goes so the tiny minions aren’t arguing and Genma’s like FFS it’s the WCE I want to live agree with the terrifying figures of legend already you idiots.

Note that at this point Obito is still gaslighted to believe that Madara wants world peace and no wars ever and irony at it’s best is that this iteration of Madara is still at the point in his life where he actually does still have solid moral objections to children dying b/c their Clan Leaders can’t keep a fucking peace treaty. So yeah.

Tobirama and Madara are in raptures over their “little brothers” still being alive and also found. Obito is v. affectionate b/c he “remembers” Madara. Shisui is also super cuddly. Itachi mostly just stares and is confused by human interaction. Kakashi is Fierce and nearly feral and makes Hashirama cry a bit and Tobirama is So Mad b/c Itama was a gentle boy what happened and Tenzo was Kinoe until literally just last week and he’s v. much not the happy kid Kawarama was.

So much jealousy when Kakashi lets Obito cuddle him. Kakashi Ignores Them and just keeps commanding everyone around while being princess carried by the homicidal Uchiha. Which... Obito having Mouton confuses the Senju team so much but Hashirama is so excited b/c Tenzo (”Kawarama!” / “My name is Tenzo, Senju-dono.”) has Mokuton too and now he has people to practice with!

So that whole thing where the Senju and the Uchiha HATE each other b/c dead kids gets massively derailed like whoa b/c look they’re alive and also someone else has been playing silly buggers to make all the Clans keep doing the War Things so. So the Senju and the Uchiha still don’t like each other much but they hate ROOT more. Zetsu circa. WCE finds it 111% impossible to manipulate things from behind the scenes b/c They’re On To Him.

So Konoha gets founded like 10 to 15 years earlier than in canon b/c none of the Konoha-nin are willing to leave their Captain and also strength in numbers b/c someone’s been stealing our babies is really up there so far as motivation to maintain cordial relations with other Ninja Clans goes. Other Clans joining Konoha happens both faster and with more issues b/c ROOT kids are many things but normally socialized is not one of them.

Do I hate Kakashi enough to make him Shodaime? TBH it’d be hella funny and the other Nations Are Not Prepared for trolling on Kakashi’s level even if it’s just baby troll Kakashi.

POLITICS and ninja diplomacy ensue.

TBH I just wanna see Tobirama slam Madara up against a wall and fuck him crosseyed. Hashirama was Not Emotionally Prepared to realize that his little brothers and their libidos were already acquainted. Izuna decides that Itachi is his favourite b/c Itachi’s the only one not fucking a Senju. (Joke’s on him though b/c both polyamory and Senju Toka are things that exist.)

Endgame is for TobiMada, ObiKakaRin, ShiTen, MitoHashi, TokaIzuKanna (Kanna is my OC stand-in for Izuna’s unnamed canonical wife), ItaIzumi, GenRai. Not sure that it’s much important b/c Romance not really a major plot point and also Kakashi is 14 y/o through this whole thing but also ninja mature quick so maybe it’s more important that I think it’s gonna be? I dunno whatevs guys that’s all I’ve got except for maybe some timestamps later.

TA DAH THE END!!

Anyway yeah, I needed to get this written down somewhere b/c it would not Leave Me Alone while I was trying to write other things.

#Sanjuno Monolouges #Sanjuno's ficwork #naruto fanfic #fic I haven't written yet #A Widening Gyre #Because pretentious fic titles are my jam #I do what I want #I derailed canon #In two different way #At two different times #getting this off my mind #bad brain worm #No buiscuit #All the Senju #All the Uchiha #All the ROOT agents #And a few random Konoha Nin #In the wrong place #at the wrong time

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How to Play Ashe Like a Pro

Ashe saw a steady rise in popularity throughout the LEC Summer Season 2020, and the Frost Archer is currently the highest contested marksman choose at the World Championship 2020. Why do our groups have such a high priority on Ashe recently? A few take a look. Abilities Ashe’s passive, Frost Shot, allows the girl basic attacks to slow their target. Ashe’s fundamental attacks always critically strike, but only deal extra damage based on her critical strike chance, and also twice Frost Shot’s slow strength. This makes Ashe a kiting monster who becomes even stronger once she is in a position to hit multiple enemies with Frost Shot via Runaan’s Hurricane. After attacking champions or minions four occasions, Ashe can activate her Q, Ranger’s Focus. Ranger’s Focus gives Ashe bonus attack speed and locations a flurry of arrows with each basic assault. Each arrow in the flurry activates Frost Shot, coping its bonus damage and slowing enemies. Ranger’s Emphasis aids Ashe in dealing tons of damage in both skirmishes and full scale fights later on into the game. Volley allows Ashe to catch opponents with Frost Photo at a longer distance than normal. This can help her to help kite multiple opponents, or to catch up to them. Volley is definitely an incredible early game tool which helps to dictate the end result of the lane, thanks to its poke and pick possible. Landing Volley on the opposing marksman or support can result in them being out of position, and can end in a free eliminate for Ashe and her team. Hawkshot is an extremely strong tool for competitive play, and is one of the biggest causes of Ashe Guide prominence. Hawkshot can reveal where the opposing squad is on the map. Having knowledge of where the enemy team's jungler is on the map is quite possibly the most important info a team can get. You’ll see the likes of G2 Esports and MAD Lions abuse this knowledge a great deal in order to get advantages elsewhere, where the enemy jungle can’t react. Ashe’s ultimate is Enchanted Crystal Arrow. This is a worldwide stun which is usually used to engage fights. The most important thing to understand Enchanted Crystal Arrow is that the stun duration increases depending on distance travelled. This means that a long ranged arrow can potentially stun someone for almost four seconds. That's an incredibly long period of time in League of Legends, and is almost always long enough that will spell the demise of whoever is struck. Luka “Perkz” Perkovic, known for being one of the best Ashe players in the West, will almost always manage to land a clutch arrow to make a massive pick opportunity for his team, which can often result in huge advantages and even wins. Anyone who was watching professional League of Legends at the time will remember this famous moment at the 2016 World Championship, where ROX Tigers’ Kim "PraY" Jong-in snipes SK Telecom T1’s Shelter "Duke" Ho-seong with an across-the-map Enchanted Crystal Arrow to prevent his teleport and win the game for his company. Needless to say, Ashe is deadly in the right hands. Ability Max Order During the LEC Summer Playoffs 2020, Matyáš "Carzzy" Orság managed to pick up a win against G2 on Ashe. Let's look at what his skill purchase was for that game. He started off by maxing their W, Volley. This is for stronger lane presence and kiting potential. Volley also has the most use early on, as it does not have any conditionals that have to be met like Hunter’s Focus offers. Hunter’s Focus is maxed second, as it scales nicely later into the game once some items are completed. This grants Ashe most of her damage in team arguements, especially once she has Runaan’s Hurricane. Hawkshot is remaining for last, as it has no real benefits from extra factors, and the combat effectiveness from the other two abilities are much more important. Enchanted Crystal Arrow gets points at stage 6, 11, and 16. Runes Perkz and Carzzy will always choose Lethal Tempo as their keystone rune. Provides Ashe a nice ramp up in team fights, right around whenever Ranger’s Focus can be activated. This allows her to put away more damage in that time window. There are some slight changes with regards to minor runes on Ashe. These usually change based on what the core first item will be. Overheal is almost usually the first minor rune taken, and is then followed up through either Legend: Alacrity or Legend: Bloodline. The final rune in the precision tree is Cut Down. They follow up with the actual Inspiration tree, taking Approach Velocity and either Cookie Delivery or Magical Footwear. Item Build Ashe participants will often change their core first item depending on the team comps. If Ashe has to deal more damage because of the enemy having a lot of tanks, players will go forBlade from the Ruined King, and if she wants to be more utility targeted players can pick up an Essence Reaver. We’ll check out how Perkz built Ashe in his game against Group Liquid during their Group Stage win at Worlds. Perkz starts off with a Doran’s Blade and Health Potion for your laning phase. On his early recalls, he picks up the B. F. Sword and Berserker Greaves. He applies to an Essence Reaver as his first item, followed up by Runaan’s Hurricane. He then decides to purchase an Infinity Edge before grabbing a Quicksilver Sash and Enthusiasm, which he likely would’ve finished into a Phantom Dancer or Rapidfire Cannon. This build allows Perkz to supply tons of utility for his team while still as being a DPS monster in team fights, able to deal amazing amounts of damage to whoever he can get in range of. This develop also provides a decent amount of cooldown reduction, allowing the dog to have his abilities, but most importantly his ultimate, on the lower cooldown, which allows him to use it to go with regard to picks more often.

Laning Ashe will usually have the advantage whilst taking trades in lane. This is due to her ability to kite her opponents, or keep them in range of her with her recurring slow. She deals a moderate amount of damage and it has a decent amount of poke with Volley. Try to poke your own opponents and take advantageous fights with your support. You may also help to set up a gank by slowing your competitors, or with an Enchanted Crystal arrow when you hit levels 6. You’ll usually see Perkz walking out of eyesight or into a bush in order to use Enchanted Crystal Hare out of vision from his opponents, giving them less time towards react and move out of its path. Below is simply one example of how Ashe can punish out of position people. Perkz and Mihael “Mikyx” Mehle use their slows down to keep Team Liquid’s Edward "Tactical" Ra and Jo "CoreJJ" Yong-in from retreating, allowing Marcin "Jankos" Jankowski to come in for a gank and G2 to two times kill them. Here’s another example of the same thing happening so that you can G2. Carzzy keeps Perkz in combat for lengthy enough to almost finish him off, making sure he can not join in on Jankos’ gank attempt. Carzzy then changes his focus to Jankos and keeps him retarded for long enough to make sure he isn’t able to back out, making him to try and commit to killing Norman "Kaiser" Kaiser, however ends up with nothing. Team fighting Ashe likes to search for picks with her ultimate which, in turn, allows her group to start off a fight pretty easily. Once the fight’s began, Ashe will normally sit on the outskirts of a battle, hitting anyone she can without being in too much risk of dying. Ashe’s job is to do as much harm as possible to as many targets as she can along with help of Runaan’s Hurricane, allowing her to keep Ranger’s Target up for almost the entire duration of most fights. It’s close to impossible for enemies to simply run away from Ashe due to the potency of her slows, meaning that she is probably focused heavily and, with no escape tools, she is a sitting duck if left to her own devices. Therefore, our pros, such as Kaiser and Mikyx know this particular all too well, and know how to keep their carry secure. If Ashe manages to melt through the front type of the enemy team, she can usually wipe out a crew – or allow her team to – ready ability to perma-slow a team and stop them from running. Here during the Summer Playoffs, Carzzy lands a stun on Perkz with Enchanted Crystal Arrow, keeping him or her in place long enough for Carzzy to take him down. Carzzy then helps to clean up the rest of G2 with the incredible staff fight damage Ashe gets from Ranger’s Focus as well as Runaan’s Hurricane combo. Conclusion Ashe is a utility centered marksman who has the agency to carry games with her capability to slow, stun, and melt through the enemy team's wellness bars – not to mention her ability to find enemies hidden in the fog of war with Hawkshot. This capability alone gives her team a huge advantage in both expert and personal play. If you are in the market for a new, fun, utility-focused marksman who can aid your team to victory, then Ashe could be what you’re looking for.

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Biomed Grid| Training Implications for Firefighters through objective Measurement of the Physiological Demands of Firefighter Job Tasks

Introduction

It is well known that firefighting is physically demanding occupation often requiring high intensity work in a continuous or intermittent manner. Additionally, other aspects of the job such as long shift work, reported sleep deprivation and the necessity to rapidly respond to emergency calls place firefighters at even greater health risk [1]. It is important to acknowledge and evaluate the various demands of career firefighters to inform exercise training design to directly target the observed health risks of persons in this profession. Previous studies examining large cohorts of career firefighters report specific health risks that are associated with the job, such as the documented decrease in cardiorespiratory fitness, increase in body mass index (BMI), and higher incidence of occupational injury among firefighters as they age [2-6]. Korre et al. [7] further supported the link between cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk and BMI, specifically the correlation between increased BMI and left ventricular mass increase in this population of which both are indications of CVD risk. These studies support the need for exercise training that addresses cardiovascular endurance for heart health and body weight reduction in this population.

Regarding type of exercise training and propensity for injury, Lentz et al. [8], conducted a systematic review examining the relationship between physical fitness and occupational injury in emergency responders and found a consistent trend between lower levels of aerobic fitness and increase in injury risk. They concluded that future research should focus on interventions that address both aerobic endurance and components of fitness such as muscular strength, balance, and agility to determine the optimal level of fitness conducive to effective job performance and injury prevention. While aerobic endurance and muscular strength are important health-related components of fitness needed for successful job performance in first responders, skill related components of fitness (balance, agility, speed, power, coordination and reaction time) are also important requirements for safe job performance in this population.

Recent work conducted by Gerstner et al. [9,10] discussed the age-related changes in muscle quality required for peak torque in career firefighters. The ability of firefighters to produce maximal strength at both slow and fast velocities is necessary for successful, injury free completion of job required tasks. These authors reported a decrease in peak torque and an increase in intramuscular fat infiltration both of which are associated with metabolic and cardiovascular risk factors. They conclude by suggesting the implementation of tactical strength and conditioning exercise training to target performance requiring strength at fast velocities. Persons interested in becoming a career firefighter are oftentimes required to demonstrate their physical capability to perform firefighter job tasks prior to getting hired for the job. Men and women interested in this job are usually young adults in peak physical condition prepared to be tested on their fitness and specific aptitude for the required job tasks. Many fire departments have adopted the Candidate Physical Ability Test (CPAT) to determine candidate physical readiness for the profession.

The CPAT was developed in 1997 by the Fire Service Joint Labor-Management Task Force Technical Committee to measure critical skills of firefighting job tasks. This committee conducted a job analysis and administered job task surveys to more than 1000 fire fighters across ten departments, to ascertain the necessary skills needed to perform firefighter job tasks. The aim was to develop an authentic and valid evaluation tool to ensure that all fire fighter candidates had the physical ability to complete critical tasks effectively and safely. Currently, the CPAT is approved by the International Association of Fire Chiefs and the International Association of Fire Fighters as an appropriate pre-employment physical test to determine physical capabilities of firefighter candidates [11]. The CPAT is comprised of a series of eight firefighting tasks completed for time with an established a pass/ fail time of 10 minutes and 20 seconds. However, when on a fire or emergency scene, firefighters are often required to work for longer periods of time and pace themselves rather than work at their maximum level for 10 minutes. We are just beginning to investigate the cumulative physiological effect or metabolic demand of firefighter job tasks when performed for a prolonged period rather than for a shorter time at maximal intensity [1].

It has been reported that firefighters often face health challenges that can be related to the job such as increased incidence of cardiovascular events over time while the job task demand remains high [2-6]. Moreover, we know that as a part of the natural aging process, there is an age-related decline in cardiorespiratory fitness [12]. There is also literature supporting a decrease in regular physical activity among firefighters as they age [2,13,14]. The purpose of this study was to further describe the direct measurement of physiological demands of firefighter job tasks within a modified CPAT course broken out by specific task. Knowledge of physiological work required of specific and accumulated firefighter job tasks could inform type of training, timing and fitness ability needed to safely perform job tasks and directly target fitness maintenance for the job.

Materials and Methods

Experimental approach to the problem

The National Fire Protection Association recommends a minimum cardiorespiratory fitness capacity of 12 metabolic equivalents (METS), which is approximately 42 mL·kg -1 ·min -1 VO2 for firefighters to adequately and safely perform firefighter job tasks [15]. It is important to note that the 42 mL·kg -1 ·min -1 VO2 is a peak value not a value that firefighters normally maintain for a prolonged period of time.

Previously, our team examined physiological requirements of completing a modified CPAT course in a continuous manner [1]. For that study, the modified CPAT was not used as a full effort test for completion time. The test was used to mimic a typical series of job specific tasks. The firefighters in that particular municipal fire department were required to complete a yearly VO2 max test as a part of their job. We took their reported value above 42 mL·kg -1 ·min -1 VO2 as “fit for the job” and were really asking the question, “What is the VO2 required to do the 8 job related tasks in a steady state manner over 15 minutes time and could the VO2 required of the typical work move in a favorable direction (e.g. would heart rate be lower on the total or specific task over time)?”. The current methodology expands scientific knowledge by further describing the physiological demand (HR, VO2 and RER) by breaking out each individual CPAT task as compared to the number/length of other CPAT tasks. This is one of very few studies to use an actual direct measure of the firefighter job tasks rather than MET calculations, field or treadmill testing to determine the work of the job [2,6,16].

Participants

Twenty firefighters from a large municipal fire department in the southwest United States participated in the study. Participants ranged in age from 33 to 57 years old (M=44.10, SD=6.43) and averaged 16 years on the job (M=16.6, SD=6.62). Both male and female firefighters with 8 or more years on the job were recruited (N=22) although only males chose to participate in the study. Two participants dropped out for personal reasons after the first round of testing. No additional exclusion or inclusion criteria were included although after inquiry of the department under study, it was noted that no participants had been on light duty in the past year prior to participating in the study. A signed letter of support from the fire chief of the fire department under study was obtained. The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board at the sponsoring University. All participants signed the approved informed consent prior to taking part in the study.

Procedures

To directly measure cardiorespiratory demands of firefighting job tasks, the study incorporated the direct measurement of individual firefighter physiological demand on four different physiological variables (VO2, Heart Rate-HR, Respiratory Exchange Ratio-RER, Energy Expenditure per Minute-EEM). These four variables were measured during participant completion of a modified version of a standardized physical protocol for firefighters (CPAT- Table 1); 8 tasks repeated for 15 minutes in duration at baseline, 6 weeks post-baseline, and 14 weeks post-baseline, using the Cosmed K4b2 portable metabolic system. Participants were instructed to work at an even pace over the 15-minute time frame in order to elicit a steady state aerobic response to typical firefighter job tasks. After completion of task 8, they re-started task 1 and continued completing tasks until they finished 15 minutes of total work. However, few firefighters completed more than 8 tasks during the 15-minute time frame. Therefore, to adequately perform statistical analyses, VO2, HR, RER, and EEM values were averaged across the first set of 8 tasks for each participant at each time point. The Cosmed K4b2 portable metabolic system was calibrated per system protocols (turbine, room air and reference gas) prior to use on the first participant each day of testing. The specific course used during the study was modified to accommodate what was available at the site training center yet closely mimic the official CPAT course (see Table 1 for modifications to CPAT). This course was held outdoors, and ambient temperature was monitored during each testing session ranging between 63- and 82-degrees Fahrenheit. Participants’ wore their full turnout gear which included turnout pants, coat, boots, and helmet although did not wear their selfcontained breathing apparatus. Weight (lbs.) was measured with and without prior to performing the physical tasks at each testing time point (Table 1).

Table 1:CPAT Course Task Descriptions and Modifications. [1].

*Candidates wear 50 lb. weighted vests and walk 85 feet (85’) between events in actual CPAT course. Participants in study wore Cosmed K4b2 unit (2.7 lbs.), FF gear without air bottle (weight in gear was measured), and also walked 85’ between events.

Statistical Analysis

Means and standard deviations for all continuous descriptive data were calculated. Additionally, frequencies and percentages were determined for categorical descriptive data (Table 2). To determine differences in responses between tasks, a 2-level model with a random intercept, unstructured error structure, maximum likelihood estimation, and between-within method for denominator degrees of freedom was estimated using SAS Proc Mixed. Least squares mean with Tukey’s HSD comparison test evaluated differences between specific tasks for all outcome variables (i.e., (VO2, RER, HR, and EER), while adjusting for multiple comparisons. Table 3 provides these differences of least squares means adjusted for multiple comparisons, and identifies significant differences at the p=.05, .01, and .001 levels. Group mean values were determined for each of the eight tasks at each time point. Figure 1 provides graphical representations of the eight tasks performed versus each group mean outcome variable (i.e., VO2, RER, HR, and EER) for each of the three time points (i.e., baseline, midpoint, and final).

Table 2: Demographic Characteristics and Descriptive at Baseline.

Figure 1: Mean values for outcome variables (VO2, RER, HR, and EEM) at each time point (baseline, midpoint, final) by task (1-8).

Results

Demographic and variable descriptive data are included in Table 2. All 20 participants with complete data were male, with a mean age of 44.1 (±6.43) years at baseline. Significant differences among VO2, RER, HR, and EEM for comparison among tasks are indicated in Table 2. Among all the comparisons, tasks 2 and 5 are most similar to each other in terms of the outcome variables. Tasks 1 and 3, tasks 1 and 7, tasks 3 and 8, tasks 5 and 7, and tasks 6 and 8 were significantly different from each other for all the outcome variables. Figure 1 shows the mean VO2, RER, HR, and EEM for each task during the baseline (red), midpoint (green), and final (blue) testing times (Figure 1 & Table 3)

Table 3: Differences of Least Squares Means with Tukey’s HSD Adjustment.

Discussion

Physiological Measures

The traditional method of evaluating firefighter’s fitness for service is commonly a standardized cardiorespiratory fitness evaluation via a graded exercise test (e.g., VO2 max or Sub-max test such as the Bruce Treadmill Protocol). While this remains a valuable instrument for evaluating both cardiorespiratory fitness and cardiac risk, it does not adequately represent the job-specific physiological demands of firefighting. The CPAT and the modified version we created, on the other hand, appears to represent the net physiological demand as a combination of aerobic and anaerobic challenges, similar to those experienced within a fire-fighting scenario.

This investigation demonstrates the varied physiological demands of the different tasks that compose the CPAT. Because this is a continuous test, the heart rate values steadily increased throughout the test, despite some peaks and valleys in VO2 values, which were much more acutely responsive to task changes. This alone is an interesting finding, as HR and VO2 are often considered to be linearly related and is the concept used to predict VO2 max from submaximal tests [16]. Because VO2 assessment via expired gas analysis is most commonly used during graded exercise testing, and not variable intensity exercise tasks, this linear relationship may not hold true in all circumstances. The traditional CPAT is a continuous and modulating intensity test, and is an entirely different task, in that it allows some degree of recovery during easier tasks, such as with tasks 4 and 8, during which VO2 dropped while HR did not. Additionally, while this group of firefighters did not demonstrate particularly high VO2 max values, their training specificity related to their job tasks, near or at lactate threshold, may have resulted in high sustained RER values.

Comparing between the VO2 and RER measurements, there are some unusual features present. First, the average VO2 measurement has a distinct peak during task 3, whereas the peak in RER is spread out across tasks 3 and 4. Second, moving from task 4 to 5 results in an increase in average VO2 and a contrasting decrease in RER. Finally, moving from task 7 to 8 results in a decrease in VO2 with a contrasting and drastic increase in RER. This final difference may be skewing the RER measurement when averaged over all tasks. Further investigation of this phenomenon, which was consistent across all 3 time periods, needs to be performed for more information. It would be possible to make similar comparisons with HR as well; however, HR increases consistently with each task. This means that there is likely an exhaustion factor that is confounded with the progression through each task that makes any type of comparison difficult. A new set of data would need to be collected in a way to eliminate this confounding between exhaustion and task in order to make comparisons with HR.

The most notable spikes in VO2 occurred during tasks 3 and 7, in which a heavy weight was carried or dragged. Unlike a standard graded exercise test, which is largely a measurement relative VO2 max, the introduction of additional weight is a relevant job-specific task that relies upon not only relative VO2 max, but also anaerobic and muscular strength components. This may help explain the apparent lag in the RER responses to the firefighter tasks. RER spikes occur in the tasks immediately following the most strenuous tasks (tasks 4 and 8), despite those tasks having much lower VO2 values. This is likely an effect of delayed CO2 production associated with bicarbonate buffering of hydrogen ions in response to an anaerobic workload. While RER values were higher than expected considering this was not a maximal test, the incorporation of anaerobic and lifting tasks may be responsible for this observation. Again, these observations demonstrate how different the CPAT is to a graded exercise test in terms of physiological strain. As was described in a previous paper [1], the participants were tested at three time points. At the final time point, VO2 values increased at each task, while RER trended lower, but the relationship between each task remained stable. The increase in VO2 over time for each task reflects an increased work output, as the total number of tasks completed within the 15-minute job task performance increased from an average of 10.72 to 12, meaning the tasks were completed more quickly.

Practical Applications

Based on these data, it is recommended that firefighter exercise program design include intervals of work that incorporate continuous cardiorespiratory work with intermittent bouts of high intensity work. High intensity interval training (HIIT) would suit firefighters in this regard, as it employs intermittent bouts of vigorous activity followed by lower intensity periods of recovery [17]. Several studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of HIIT in eliciting cardiorespiratory adaptations when compared to more traditional steady-state endurance training (moderate-intensity continuous training; MICT), citing significantly reduced time commitment and training volume to achieve similar improvements to cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF), as well as increased participant enjoyment [17-19]. Specifically, improvements to CRF resulting from HIIT are attributable to body-wide adaptations that include increased lactate threshold and increased mitochondrial biogenesis and respiration in active skeletal muscle, as well as increased VO2max, left ventricular mass, stroke volume, and contractility [19-20]. Further adaptations include increased resting glycogen content, adaptations to peripheral vascular structure and function, and improved exercise performance [17].

Traditional HIIT protocols usually employ large, continuous movements associated with cardiorespiratory exercise, such as cycling, running, stair climbing, or multiple muscle group, body weight resisted exercise. HIIT is especially unique, as it can elicit improvements to muscular strength alongside simultaneous improvements to CRF and presents a potent training stimulus for firefighters that can directly parallel the nature of job-specific tasks. This is clearly exemplified in the CPAT course itself, which in its very nature constitutes HIIT (Table 1). The course consists of eight vigorous job tasks requiring the use of multiple muscle groups to move heavy loads (e.g. tasks 2, 4, and 8), often over long distances (e.g. tasks 1, 3, and 7), separated by intervals of rest (i.e. walking a distance of 85 feet between each station).

Including a similar style of HIIT into firefighter physical conditioning programs could induce adaptations to CRF that could potentially improve job task performance when on a fire or emergency scene. Transitioning firefighter cardiorespiratory exercise from more traditionally practiced MICT to HIIT would result in significant reductions to time commitment and training volume needed to improve markers of CRF. Additionally, incorporating a HIIT style of functional movement training could potentially serve to reduce exercise-related injuries within this population, of which constitute up to a third of injury reports in some municipalities [21]. Functional movement training should address mobilization of the stabilizing muscles along with training supporting muscle groups that facilitate dynamic firefighter job tasks. Lastly, when thinking about the timing of when job demands of firefighters are performed (e.g. under high stress situations and/or middle of the night) and the potential for injury, it is prudent to consider training programs that target pre-habilitation such as functional movement training [22].

Conclusion

With respect to fitness, designing effective exercise prescriptions to impact firefighter health and longevity is the aim of every municipal, volunteer or wildland fire department. Knowing the actual physical requirement helps us to create exercise programs specific to the demands of the job. Specifically, these data indicate an increase in VO2 over time when performing firefighter job tasks with a lower RER as a result of repeated exposure to performing interval-type job tasks in a continuous or aerobic manner (Figure 1). Therefore, employing dynamic, job-specific exercises through HIIT protocols could stimulate functional training adaptations to muscular strength and aerobic capacity, mimicking the vigorous demands of firefighter job tasks to promote pre-habilitation against on- and off-duty injuries.

Author Contributions

Authorship is limited to those who have contributed substantially to the work reported. Conceptualization, Dierdra Bycura; Data curation, Dierdra Bycura and Anthony Santos; Formal analysis, Dierdra Bycura and Christopher Ropak, Investigation, Dierdra Bycura and Anthony Santos; Methodology, Dierdra Bycura; Writing – original draft, Dierdra Bycura, Christopher Ropak and Anthony Santos.

Acknowledgments

The study was funded through a competitive intramural grant program at the sponsoring University to allow for equipment purchase and maintenance, travel expenses and incentives for participants’ study participation.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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