#ping redux

[kmp1983]

Ping Redux going for 2nd Platinum of 2024 come say hi, spin 🦴’s and chat for a bit.

[imperotenebre]

Ping Redux PS5 gameplay 4K - prime impressioni

Almeno è gratis

[bonefall]

I am very inspired to make Df oc based on your df ideas!!!!

By all means, go ahead! Feel free to take what ideas you like and leave what you don't. I redux close to canon so there's nothing that I really 'own' about the idea of having a Dark Forest that has more shades-of-gray type characters.

Ping me if you do so I can see your guys!

[slainesthrone]

So trying to recreate the qsmp mos pack (Personal use ig, just sawa bunch of mods I've never seen before and when Oh Shit thats exciting, then just diecided "Fuck it gonna gather as many of the mods they're using)

I Do Not have any of knowledge of any of the dungeons that they have so I ask if you have any insight let me know.

Here's the full list I have of confirmed mods and possible mods;

server runs on 1.20.1 qsmp 2024 mods: 1.Regions Unexplored 2.Croptopia 3.Biomes o plenty 4.born in chaos 5.exotic birds 6.enmey expansion 7.chocobo mod 8.farmers delight + some other food mods (Possibly multiple) with delight in the name. 9.Candlelight(?) 10.Handcrafted 11.Alex's mobs 12.Alex's caves (I can confirm because of a TRAP DOOR in the egg bakery. I'm in the trenches) 13.supplementaries 14.Beachparty 15.create 16.journey maps (Idk some map mod) 17.aquaculture 2 18.cluttered 19.chimes 20.fairy lights 21.FramedBlocks 22.Chipped 23.paraglider 24.Another furniture mod 25.waystones 26.connected glass 27.Create deco 28.Candlelight dinner 29.MOA DECOR 30.Tanuki decor 31.Orcz 32.Modern life 33.Bakery 34.Friends&Foes 35.Meadow 36.Abyssal decor 37.Twigs 38.lootr 39.when dungeons arise(to be confirmed) 40.nether's delight 41.rats 42.Additional lanterns 43.Alex's delight 44.Additional Lights 45.AstikorCarts Redux 46.Athena 47.Awesome dungeon net..(work?) 48.BOZOID 49.Apothic Attributes 50.AppleSkin 51.Balm 52.Better Archeology 53.Better ping Display 54.BetterF3 55.Aquaculture Delight 56.Bookshelf 57.Bygone Nether 58.CC: Tweaked 59.Artifacts 60.Camera Mod 61.Cataclysm Mod 62.Catalogue 63.Citadel 64.Cloth config v10 API 65.Clumps 66.Comforts 67.Configured 68.Controlling 69.CorgiLib 70.CoroUtil 71.Corpse 72.CosmeticArmorReworked 73.Create : Encased 74.Create Confectionery 75.Create Slice & Dice 76.Create: Interiors 77.Create: Steam 'n' Rails 78.Create: Structures 79.CreativeCore 80.Creeper Overhaul 81.Cristel Lib 82.Cupboard Utilities 83.Curios API 84.Customizable Player M(???) 85.Delightful 86.Distant Horizons 87.Domestication Innovations 88.Duckling 89.Dynamic Lights 90.Elevator Mod 91.Embeddium 92.Emotecraft 93.Enderman Overhaul 94.EntityCulling 95.Nether's exoticism 96.YUNG's (x) Mods (bridges, better dessert temples,mineshafts only ones i can confrim, might be all but idk for sure) 97.Securitycraft 98.Vinery (Confirmed because of Tubbo's drinking binge at spawn yesterday) 99.Mr.Crayfish (Furniture confirmed, possibly more) 100.Naturalist 101.Tom's simple storage

If you know or noticed mods that haven't been listed, reply/reblog with them please.

Things are numbered for my archival reasons, as some mods come in multiple separate mods (such as YUNG's) the numbering will not show the true number of the mods on the server.

I also have not checked the needed mods that any of these mods may need so.

(Please note that there may be spelling/grammar mistakes in the names of this mods!)

[cressida-jayoungr]

One Dress a Day Challenge

October: Gold Redux

Curse of the Golden Flower / Gong Li as Empress Phoenix

This is a twofer, as we also have Emperor Ping (Chow Yun-Fat) in an equally magnificent golden robe. These are their ceremonial outfits for a festival, referred to as the Dragon Robe and the Phoenix Gown. According to IMDB, it took 40 people and two months to create them. So much gold, so much detail, so much opulence, but the thing that generated the most discussion was the amount of cleavage on display. That's movies, I guess!

The exact time setting of the film is a bit vague, but it seems to be roughly the 10th century. The English version gives the year as 928, but this is not in the original Chinese version.

By the way, note the sprig of holly(?) in her headdress.

[sploonswagtournament]

character list so far

under the cut are all the splatoon characters ive written down so far. please tell me if theres anyone missing! id be happy to add them

also, it seems 3 members of Riot Act dont have official names yet. it may very well be that their names get revealed before i start this tournament due to my general slowness. if not then ill just add them as "unknown riot act member" or smth similar, if thats okay.

Agent 3/Captain

Agent 4

Agent 8

Neo agent 3

Callie

Marie

Pearl

Marina

Shiver

Frye

Big man

Craig Cuttlefish/Capn Cuttlefish

DJ Octavio

Little Buddy

C. Q. Cumber

Judd

Li'l Judd

Mr. Grizz

Great Zapfish

Zapfish

Mini Zapfish

Iso Padre

O. R. C. A.

Sheldon

Annie

Moe

Jelonzo

Crusty Sean

Spyke

Flow

Craymond

Jelfonzo

Bisk

Murch

Gnarly Eddy

Nails

Jel la Fleur

Mr. Coco

Harmony/Paruko

Shelly

Donny

Fred Crumbs

Telephone

Nami

Ichiya

Ikkan/Quinn

Murasaki

Clash

Orion

Sid

Taka

Kuze

Nishida

DJ Lee Fish

Bob Dub

Turquoise October (the entire band i guess)

Mizuta Ahato/Dedf1sh

Keaton

Mizo

Ryley

Neil

Candi

Bertie Feeder

Murdoch Feeder

Finn Feeder

Tangle Feeder

Jawn Feeder

Yoko

Karen

Bibi/Zuzu

Oonie

Maya

Kitamura

DJ Real Sole

The Firstborn Child of Alkyne, the Hidden Blade of Yakiharas

The Valiant Green Flame Born in Jigo

The Faithful Servant of the True Salmon Emperor Hizunamasu

Karla

Ryu Chang

Myron “Ronnie” Swamps

Paul

Mashup/Warabi

004Clam

Beika/Baker

Kikura/Kiki

Uotora/Walter

Shy-Ho-Shy (Squid Sisters’ producer)

Barry C.

Sally (graffiti artist)

Hara Wataru (graffiti artist)

NILS Statue

human scientist

Glen Fiddler

Sea angel

Ping-pong tree sponge

Deep-sea jellyfish

Predatory tunicates

Gulper eels

Flashlight fish

Birdbeak dogfish

Siphonophores

Blobfish

Garris

Vinny Mack

John Goose

Octolangelo

Octotrooper

Shielded Octotrooper

Octodiver

Blobby Octotrooper

Octohopper

Twintacle Octotrooper

Shielded Twintacle Octotrooper

Rocket Twintacle Octotrooper

Twintacle Octodiver

Octoball

Octosniper

Octocommander

Octostamp

Amped Octostamp

(enemy) Octoling

Tentakook

Octohurler

Octoballer

Octocopter

Rocket Octocopter

Octobomber

Rocket Octobomber

Octostriker

Missile Octocopter

Speedy Missile Octocopter

Octomissile

Octozeppelin

Octodisco

Squee-G

Industrial Squee-G

Flooder

Octopod

Oversized Octopod

Octorpedo

Octostamp DX

Octowasher

Octoseeker

The Octostomp

The Octonozzle

The Octowhirl

The Octomaw

Octo Oven

Octo Samurai

Neo Octostomp

Octo Shower

Octo Oven XXL

Octo Samurai (sanitized)

Octostomp Redux

Octo Shower Supreme

Sanitized Octoling

Fuzzy Octoling

All of the other octarians again but sanitized/fuzzy but im not writing those down

Chum

Smallfry

Cohock

Snatcher

Steelhead

Flyfish

Steel Eel

Maws

Stinger

Drizzler

Scrapper

Fish Stick

Flipper-Flopper

Big Shot

Slammin' Lid

Griller

Goldie

Chinook

Mothership

Mudmouth

Cohozuna

Horrorboros

Megalodontia (Joe)

Marigold

Super Sea Snail

Master Mega

Frye's Moray Eels

Fresh Fish

Monkey Crab

The Professor

Ammoses Shellendorf

Baby Jelly

Cool Jelly

Aggro Jelly

Acht

Asynchronous Rondo

Pinging Marciale

Parallel Canon

Cipher

Lionel

Cory

Tao Blu

Tosh

Martin

Jessika

Oonie

Kitamura

Swarming Languendo

Marching Andante

Battering Lento

Portal

Drizzling Capriccioso

Panicking Alla Mambo

Whirling Accelerando

Springing Spiccato

Gushing Trionfale

Spawning Accordo

Homing Arpeggio

Towering Nobilmente

Smollusk

unknown riot act member #1

unknown riot act member #2

unknown riot act member #3

no particular order

[helpmeimblorboing]

Sneak Peek of a chapter from my story that probably won't make it's way into the final draft of either version - Crimson or Crimson Redux (feat : Tumblr's shitty formatting)

The next day, Riptide found himself shuffling uneasily inside a local bus, shooting wary glances at anyone wearing anything even slightly resembling the Deathbringer’s threefold cross... or, for that matter, anything that seemed just a bit too white to be wearing on a public bus, no matter how clean the interior was

A long pause, and then he pulled out his phone, scrolling down to the last text Serenity had sent him, about ten minutes ago, in that awkward, clipped way of someone clearly uncomfortable with texting, who was making a valiant attempt at trying anyways

Serenity (6:46 PM): Got us a booth 🎉

Serenity (6:47 PM): Restaurant’s p cool. You should see it

Right. The restaurant they were going to. Because they were going there. On a date. Riptide sucked in a sharp breath through pursed lips at the thought, feeling his heart hammer in his chest, as his fingers pulled up the keyboard, tapping out a rapid response

Riptide (6:57 PM): I still don’t know why we have to go at different times -_-

Riptide (6:57 PM): I mean, we live in the same hotel suite...

Serenity (6:58 PM): It’s about the vibes, Riptide

Riptide bit back a faint huff of laughter at that, looking at it for a second, imagining the way the skin at the corner of his lips folded when he smiled, the sparkle that glinted in the depths of his eyes when he laughed, like a new winter’s frost

Riptide (6:59 PM): Vibes ?

Serenity (7:00 PM): If we’re doing this, we’re doing this properly

Riptide bit back a smile, chewing slightly at the inside of his cheek as he tries to think up a response. Before he can, however, a new message pings into the chat

Serenity (7:01 PM): ❤️

Even if he’s getting used to this, to the way Serenity peppers his messages with heart emojis , it still makes his heart pound. Makes his belly twist. Especially the red one. It felt like an... official declaration, or something – you are my boyfriend. I love you

And that ? That made his breath speed up

Riptide (7:03 PM): ❤️

After a few long seconds of silence, Serenity messages him his location in the restaurant – a Cheesecake Factory, apparently one of the very few brands of the old, pre-parahuman world, to remain extant without collapsing in on itself or expanding outwards into a global empire – and asks him his drink choice so he can go ahead and order it for him

“Sorry if I eat all the bread before you get here”, Riptide receives as the bus rattles to a halt in front of the glass-and-steel facade of a boutique that stood within walking distance of the Cheesecake Factory, both of them set a ways away from the majority of the city, overlooking it’s jagged skyscrapers and glinting glass-and-steel monoliths

He smiles and sends him a middle finger, before pocketing the phone

The restaurant, Riptide can’t help but notice when he finally gets there, is packed to the gills, people bustling about basically every single table, packed so close together that it’s difficult for him to maneuver past them. He does manage, somehow, but it’s still difficult

It’s fancy too, fancier than any restaurant Riptide’s ever been too – mostly because he never really went to restaurants. His mother wasn’t the “eating out” type. He’s got on something he threw together in about twenty minutes that afternoon, and even though everyone else is dressed in tourist shit, red-faced and sweaty from a day of sightseeing, he feels weirdly underdressed

It was called the Cheesecake Factory, for God’s sake. It’s interior should look like a local McDonalds, not the lobby of the Ritz, all dim and marble-y and orange

It takes him a moment to locate Serenity, seated in a two-person booth in one dark corner of the restaurant, idly poking at the basket of bread kept in the middle of his table, occasionally looking over to give the tall glass of something red beside it long, meandering looks. The shadows splayed about him were darker than usual – seems like he wasn’t the only one nervous about this date

He looks great, good enough that Riptide’s heart catches on his throat for a moment, dressed in dark wash jeans that clung sinfully to the lithe length of his legs, black dress shoes that looked ridiculously out of place on his feet, and a khaki green T-shirt that stretched over his chest tightly, leaving very little to the imagination. Black bands of cloth snaked their way up the curving lengths of his exposed arms, effectively hiding his wrists from view. Riptide just watches him for a few seconds, chewing at his bottom lip as he sees him reach forward to take a sip of the tall red glass, before setting it down and peering at it like it was a particularly enthralling puzzle

At last, he blows out a breath, shakes and flexes his hands to steel himself, and slowly makes his way over to the table

When he’s two booths away, Serenity looks up from the tall glass of red he’s examining intently, and spots him, his lips curling into a smile so beautiful that Riptide forgets how to breathe for a moment

“Hey”, he greets, standing up – and shreds of the shadows he had unconsciously summoned around him seemed to cling to his torso in thin, translucent flakes of sooty ash as he did, “You made it”

Riptide smiles back, leaning forward to press a kiss to the other man’s forehead, right in the furrow between his eyebrows, Serenity’s skin warm as a furnace under his lips, before finally breaking away and murmuring, “Course I did”

A long pause, and then Serenity reaches forward with one hand to pull Riptide into a quick hug, his face pressed into the smooth fabric of his T-shirt. The smell of men’s bodywash and some kind of flowery detergent fills Riptide’s nose, and there are strong arms wrapped around his torso, and he was fairly certain his heart was beating hard enough that everyone in the restaurant could hear it

He blows out a breath through his nose as Serenity finally releases him

“You smell good”, he says, sounding a twinge nervous, shuffling his feet idly. He looks up, and the orange lights of the Factory catch his face at just the right angle, glinting about his features like the halo of a saint, and Riptide just wants to grab his face and kiss the life out of him

But he doesn’t, much to his own dismay

He intead just raises his eyebrows at the other man in a meaningful gesture. Tilts his head slightly in a wordless acknowledgement, before shuffling awkwardly over to his seat to sit down

But just before he can, Serenity leans in and gives him a quick press of a kiss that’s probably meant for his lips but instead ends up landing on the space right under his nose. A flash of fire sears its way through the nerves of his face, and he feels the tops of his cheeks brighten with a scarlet blush, even as Serenity snickers his way out of the kiss, whatever mouthwash he had used that morning hitting Riptide in the face with the smell of spearmint gum

A moment later, they’re seated, both blushing like a couple of kids on a first date – which, Riptide supposed, they were – and Riptide reaches forward to poke at the bread basket, only to find it half-empty

He levels a look at Serenity, lifting his eyebrows, the corner of his mouth twitching into a crooked grin, “Really ?”

Serenity simply shrugged, lips curving into a ghost of a smile, sweet enough to give Riptide calories, “I did warn ya”

Another pause, and then Serenity awkwardly clears his throat into the silence, before waving at the glass of tall and red that had been set on his table, drops of condensation peppering the surface with a hazy translucence, “Is raspberry lemonade made of raspberry or lemon ?”

Riptide blinked. That was... a terrible ice-breaker, so much so that he couldn’t keep the faint huff of laughter that welled up at the base of his heart off his lips. Reaching forward, he picks up a piece of bread – something fancy, white and hard-shelled- idly passing it from hand to hand, even as he looks up to shoot Serenity a look that was no doubt unbearably fond, “Both, I think”

Serenity leans back, turning to give the glass of raspberry lemonade a wondering look, peering into its redness like it held the secrets of the universe, his lips parted in an “O” of surprise. The light reflecting off of his face ignites it’s sharp lines into shades so striking that Riptide was half-certain he was going insane

After a moment, Serenity seems to catch onto the fact that Riptide was staring, shooting him a smirk that sent a rush of fire blazing an ashy trail down the skin of his torso. Adrenaline rips through him at the sight, and his lips are moving before he can even comprehend it fully

“Can I kiss you ?”, his voice is breathless. Fragile and reverent, like a prayer in a temple

“You can do anything you want to me”, Serenity’s response is more neutral, even as he rises from his seat in one fluid motion, walking over to Riptide and dipping down. It’s a good thing he’s already seated, because he’s fairly certain his legs were too weak to support his body weight at the moment

Riptide is a bit too eager and lifts his face forward too much. Their foreheads knock together and he lets out a hiss at the sting. They readjust and their lips finally meet. Serenity giggles against his mouth and Riptide lets the sound fill up the hollow of his chest. Wants to hold it there, like a shrine houses the divine, and keep it safe forever.

He wonders vaguely if they should be doing this somewhere more private, feels the searing pulse of hundreds of eyes on them both, but that only serves to send more adrenalin through his veins – Serenity isn’t ashamed of me. Serenity’s willing to do this in front of an audience of this size. The thought is gone completely when Serenity’s lips opens up under this, replaced with a searing buzz at the meeting of hot tongues. It sets something in his stomach alight.

Serenity lifts a knee between Riptide’s thighs to press their bodies closer. The kiss deepens and Riptide feels nothing in the world except all the points their two bodies are connected. Heat and desire rip through his flushed skin like a forest fire.

And then it’s over, and Serenity gently, slowly, breaks away, shooting Riptide a phantom half-grin, before turning to stalk back over to his own seat, lounging carelessly in it, a smug grin pulling at his lips as he glances up at Riptide’s expression, dizzy from the ecstasy he’s just now beginning to come down off

“So”, he begins in a low drawl, and Riptide notices his lips, flushed-red and swollen with the remnants of their kiss, “what do you want to order ?”

Riptide pauses his buzzing, leachy thoughts. Stares at him. His lips part, “Oh my god, you asshole”

“What ?”, Serenity’s cheeks puff out in an indignant pout, and Riptide wants to reach across the table, grab him by the tantalizingly low V-neck of his shirt and kiss him until he’s a moaning mess, but he doesn’t – because enough people were levelling scandalized looks at them already without pouring twenty more cans of gasoline on the fire, “You liked it, didn’t you ?”

“That doesn’t – you can’t...”, Riptide sputters for a moment, cheeks lava-red, and lava-hot, “Fuck you”

“If you insist”, he shoots him a suggestive grin across the table and Riptide’s face was about to melt clean off, “Though I suspect you’d rather I don’t do it here, huh ?”

He reaches forward to playfully smack Serenity across the shoulder, only to falter and feel his breath catch painfully in his throat as the other man easily catches it, lacing their fingers together, something light and happy bursting across his face at the touch.

His stomach twists, that romance-twist that flushes his skin and makes him sweat, and as he looks down at their hands, he goes a little breathless, too, because he can’t believe that he’s holding a man’s hand in public.

He can’t believe that he’s holding his boyfriend’s hand in public.

He can’t believe that he has a boyfriend.

And from the stunned, breathy gasp that slips through Serenity’s lips, neither can he. A long pause, and then the other man’s thump rubs a small circle over the skin that stretched between his thumb and pointer, snapping him out of his thoughts

“Whatcha thinking about ?”, Serenity hummed, sounding a little breathless, a little excited. Riptide could relate

Riptide pauses. Thinks about saying “You”. Decides it’s too sappy to say in public. Remembers that they had made out in public not five seconds ago. Decides that hiding your emotions is for chumps, “You”

Serenity’s breath catches in his throat in a faint “hic” of noise, and he looks up with eyes so full of adorable surprise that Riptide desperately wants to kiss him again. A long second, and then the corners of his eyes go soft, so soft, so kind, “Is that... Is that good ?”

Riptide smiles, this stupidly gentle thing, and pulls the other man’s hand a little closer, causing him to lean forward, before he tilts down and pecks a kiss to Serenity’s warm, bony wrist--so quick, so soft, it’s almost like it never happened.

“Asshole”, he murmurs into the skin, in an almost reflex reaction to the kiss, and Serenity squeezes his hand, and Riptide chews his bottom lip and looks up at him with an expression that he thinks probably reveals all, if you know what you’re looking at

The service is slow, which isn’t surprising considering the restaurant’s so full.

The two of them play with each other’s fingers, even turning it into a thumb war once, as they talk about work and movies and music. Well, work. Mostly coded. Encrypted. Idly, Riptide wonders what the restaurant-full of people thought about their cousin Edna, who had apparently been through enough to put most veterans’ PTSD to shame

Even more idly, he wonders if they should come up with a better code name for Eagle

When the food comes – cake, because of course it is, it’s the fucking Cheesecake Factory, it was practically a capital offense to not order cake – they each give their connected hands a long mournful look

It was a single slice of Oreo Dream Extreme, which Riptide privately thought looked like a cookie drowned in frosting, but whatever, and the waitress brings two forks with it, giving them a fond look as she turns to leave. He wonders if she witnessed the kiss, too, or if they were just that obvious

Serenity looks at Riptide and plays with his fork, clearly thinking about how he’s having cake with his boyfriend, how the waitress had smiled at them like it was perfectly fine for him to have something like this. His eyes glisten slightly, and before Riptide is aware of it, he’s already reaching over the table to wipe away his tears

Serenity gives him a bashfully wide-eyed look, and it’s all Riptide can do to not stutter as he grumbles out, “Yeah, yeah, fuck off”

They eat the cake slice together, fucking around the whole time, battling forks, fighting over the Oreo on top, and debating who gets the mousse – it was Serenity for both, since Riptide was convinced he looked too thin to be in any way healthy.

“I’m just saying”, Riptide began, waving his frosting-dusted fork in a manner that could only be described as “pointed”, “you’re way too thin !! When’s the last time you ate properly ? 1995 ?”

“Oh my God”, Serenity let out a theatrical groan, stabbing disgruntedly at his share of the cake for a few seconds, before rolling his eyes and slicing off a miniscule triangle of mousse, shoving it in his mouth in one fluid motion, “There !! Happy ?”

Riptide smiles, a soft, curling thing, and he means it as he says, “Very”

They shuffle out of the Cheesecake Factory, stepping out into the cold night air. Evidently, it had started raining sometime earlier that night, a sprinkling, quick thing, for the ground is slick and shiny in the sun-yellow of the street lamps, and the earth is drenched in the sharp scent of coastal petrichor

The earth splashed below their feet as they walked, the wet, puddly stones reflecting the night sky above, peppered with the thin, pale pinpricks of the burning stars, the brilliant silver stamp of the moon, burning as a brand in the stillness of the night. Inky darkness pools in thick, viscous puddles all about them

They talk for a moment, but Serenity seems... different, somehow. Subdued, and distant, as if his mind were a thousand miles away, or years in the past. It takes only a few moments for the conversation to peter out into still silence, and Serenity barely seems to notice

So they remain in silence as they trudge down the street, broken only by the faint horns of cars on the expressway, laughter from far away. The distant noises of humanity

Nocturnal light spills down from the heavens, pouring over them both, all celestial and night-thin. It clings to the edges of Serenity’s form like the heavens themselves can’t help but worship this boy, the early-autumn-moon laying him in her silver silks and the stars kissing his hair, his long lashes.

Riptide’s breath catches in his throat and he averts his eyes. Looks back. Averts his eyes. Clenches his jaw

Serenity’s eyes are on him, and it’s almost unbearable. Riptide’s gaze skitters away, but he can still hear the gentle sawing of Serenity’s voice, as the raven-haired boy speaks, slow and shy, as if terrified of rejection – as if rejection, now, would shatter him irreversibly, “I...I wanted to show you something”

Riptide’s heart stutters in his chest at the soft plaintiveness in that melodious voice, and his eyes flick back upwards to alight on Serenity’s too-wide, too-eager ones. The other boy shapes starkly against the dark, all hard, bright edges. Starlight kisses his hair and the early-autumn moon lays him in silver. An otherworldly thing, he looks, a creature of sharped steel and sorrow. His hands are in his pockets.

They’re surrounded in street lamps, and not much else – a small outcropping in the sidewalk, jutting over the brink, thrusting out into the too-cold night air, the cityscape glimmering up at them from the bank of shadows at the base of the hill, shaded in warm contrasts, its popping colors glowing neon in the darkness. The noises of humanity are muted to almost nothingness here, rendered soft and silent ripples in the air

However, where they stand, lies only the slow, puddling smeariness of sodium vapor, and the trickling, inspid blue-silver of the stars. To his left stands Serenity, and darkness seems to puddle in great shadowy pools about his feet.

His lips part, colored a dried-rose pink in the soft light of the street lamps, yellow lamplight puddling in the sharp hollows of his face like liquid gold, “When I was young...”, he begins, in a soft, feathered voice, and Riptide’s breath catches in his throat again, “I was alone. Well, no... not..”, he drew in a rattling breath, before conceding, “...not entirely. Caz was there. Always there. But there was only so much she could do. Mostly ? I was alone. And so I... came up with this world. An endless sandy beach. Endless sun. Waves lapping at the seashore. And I escaped there... whenever”, the words clung to his throat like rotting flesh, “...everything... got too much”

A long momen, and then he chanced a glance upwards, eyes meeting Riptide’s confused gaze. His lips quirked further upwards, “Caz believed it was a... metaphorical thing. Psychological. Imaginary”, he shook his head, a slow, measured motion, “...she was wrong”

Riptide paused. Blinked, as a cool breeze wafted past their face, scented with salt and seaspray, fresh and sweet and warm, tinged with the heat of the sun. The sun, that was nowhere to be spotted in the sky. A moment, and his eyes blew wide, his lips curving into an “O” of surprise

He had heard of this before. A second trigger. When the host suffers such incredible, indescribable pain, that the universe itself seems to take pity on them, to grant them a secondary power. Riptide isn’t sure whether to laugh or cry

Serenity’s lips twisted wryly, his head dropping into an almost-miserable-looking smile, as his hands flex, before abruptly moving. His fingers rise and the street lamps bleed gold and yellow and white all over them. Shaded in their smeared glow, he looks like a burning thing

His voice is faint, but it carries, echoing through the crags and crevices of the hillside, off the concrete planes and sharp, cutting corners of the brutalist buildings that surround them. Somewhere in the distance, a phantom bell tolls, loud and resonant, “The sound of the Gion Shoja bells echo the truth that all life must end”

His fingers twist, thumbs and the very tips of his index fingers pressing together, the rest of his fingers splayed apart. The curving whorls inscribed into their soft-looking pads darken, leaking shadow down his arms in trickling threads of pale gray, fuzzy and hazy, like a build-up of dust, “The color of the sala flower reveals that to flourish is to fall”

His fingers press together, splaying out to make way for his palms. The threads of dusty gray seem to darken, somewhat, and Riptide catches a whiff of something cold and sweet in the air, ice water and strawberry rot, “The strong do not endure, a dream on the night of spring”

And finally, he pulls his hands apart, fingers of each hand stiff and rigid, pressed together like a Hamsa, the palms floating about five inches apart. His lips part, and a boundless darkness seemed to swirl inside his mouth, writhing shadows pressing against the backs of his teeth. At least, that’s what Riptide saw, before a hazy grayness seemed to envelop everything in a bank of thick, smokey fog. It obscured his vision, but still Riptide could make out the hard edges of Serenity’s figure through its hazy opaqueness. It dampened all noise, but still Riptide could hear the final line of the incantation, sharp and clear as if Serenity had spoken it directly into his ear, “The dauntless must wither, to become dust in the wind”

When the hazy grayness finally recedes, the first thing Riptide notices is the brightness that lay against Serenity’s skin – not the smeary glare of the street lamps, but something warmer, softer. Daylight, that puddled lazily against his form, ran down his sharp edges in trails of honey gold, highlighting him and flowing about his form like the halo of a saint

Serenity looks softer, in this cloudy lighting. It sands his sharp edges and dusts his colors into something more pastel. The black of his hair shades gray, and the striking edges of his features become less stark. Even the worried line of his frown looks soft like this. His lips are dried-rose pink.

The second thing he notices is the fact that there was sand beneath his feet, shifting as he shifted in place, as the hazy grayness of Serenity’s powers withdrew to linger at the corners of his vision in barely-visible splotches of feathered blurriness

As his eyes dropped, he noticed the stretch of sand that lay beneath his feet, shining like gold in the brilliant sun, curving off into the distance – a never-ending beach – dotted with palm trees that were almost certainly out-of-place here. To his right stood the lush greenery of an endless forest, colors rich and green, almost abnormally so

His powers told him that there was no water here, but to his left, an endless ocean lapped at the curving edge of the beach, surface held as smooth and polished as a mirror, gleaming sapphire in the golden sun, not even a ripple spreading across its surface. In fact, it looked like it was barely moving at all

But there was something off. The blue of the water was too bright, the yellow of the sand too pale, the green of the forest too smeared-together. And, as his eyes rise to where Serenity was pointedly looking away from him, a faint dusting of pink peppering the high tops of his cheeks, the sun was too smooth, less a burning star, and more a ball of molten gold hanging in the sky

The sun, that hung high in the sky, and yet poured down none of its burning fire. The sun, that at this time of the day should be coloring the sky a burning blue-raspberry, but instead was embedded into a sky as fleshy and pink as a sunrise

The whole thing looked like a child’s approximation of a beach. The whole thing looked like something a child, hurt and alone, would come up with as an escape from all his pain

This wasn’t a real beach, and this wasn’t a real world. This was something... inner. Almost like a....

His lips part, but Serenity beats him to the chase, “Make a Jujutsu Kaisen reference and I will kick you out”, he warns, and his voice is candy-soft and sweet. Riptide feels his heart warm at its sound

“Alright, alright”, he huffs out a quiet laugh, the sound echoing oddly in the not-real beach air, before shuffling slightly, feeling the imaginary sand shift around his feet, “Honestly, I’m surprised you don’t use...”, he gestures vaguely, “...this... as a Domain Expansion more often”

“Can’t”, Serenity muttered, refusing to meet Riptide’s eyes, his blush deepening into streaks of crimson, lying dark and gleaming against his pale skin, “Only people I.... t-trust”, his voice caught on that word, and Riptide felt his heart stutter slightly, “...can be brought in here”

Riptide stared wordlessly for a moment, his chest feeling tight and painful, before a single, choked-off sound slipped past his lips, “Oh”

“Yeah”, Serenity scratched sheepishly at the back of his head, and the air seemed to smear around his arm as he moved it, space distorting into blurry ripples of smeared graininess, like he were moving his arm through water, the colors of the backdrop running together like drips and trails of wet paint on a painting, greens melding with yellows with blues.

A moment later, the colors seemed to straighten out, the bleed petering out into nothing, ripples smoothing out like wrinkles in cloth, until finally, the undisturbed vista of the beach stared back at him once more

“I’ve”, his eyes flicker over to the other man, and Riptide can’t help but suck in a sharp breath at the sheer beauty of them. Here, in his own little world, the molten gold of his illusory sun glinted off the ice-blue of his irises, making them gleam, sharp and cold and brilliant, like the edge of shattered glass, like all the ocean, all at once, like the galaxy, but blue. His eyes are multilayered, made of reflections and refractions, fragmented shades of blue. Honed. Intense. Unlike every other part of him, his eyes are not softened in the cloudy lighting, they remain severe as ever, bright and sharp as the edge of shattered glass.

Because they reflected the truth of him – all that hurt and cold and pain he kept pressed down and hidden in his heart, like trying to hold back the flood. Because Serenity had always considered himself Atlas, trying to hold up the sky. But the sky was not a holdable thing

His lips part, dried-rose curves lifting into a faint ‘O��, delicate and fragile, “I’ve never brought anyone... here, before. Never been able to bring anyone here, before.Never... trusted anyone enough for it”. His eyes are fixed on Riptide, as if he still wasn’t entirely able to reconcile this – the sight of someone else, standing in the gates of his soul, submerged in the depths of his heart

Serenity looked away for a moment, staring out, across the boundless blue of his ocean, red peppering the high arches of his cheekbones, before finally turning back to him, “Yeah”, he said, after a long moment, “I...I... trust you. Riptide, I... I....”, his voice falters, before he seems to steel himself, “...I love you”

Something wet slicked against Riptide’s skin, and the ice-water strawberry-rot scent of the air took on a freezing quality. The cool touch of the water seems to snap Serenity out of his trance-like state, and one of his hand lifted to his face, coming away glistening wet, “...ah. It’s raining again”

Riptide blinked, trying his best to ignore the catch of his heart in the hollow his chest, the way it stuttered against the bars of his ribcage, beating out a staccato pulse of desire and love and longing, grateful for the distraction, “Rain ?”

“This beach is an illusory realm”, Serenity said, his voice soft and faint, more water slicking soundlessly against his skin, his khaki-green T-shirt streaked with dark streaks of wet, “How permeable the barriers to it are depends almost entirely on what I want”

“And you... didn’t block out the rainfall ?”

“No”, he shook his head, a stuttery, faint motion, looking up to meet Riptide’s eyes, his voice catching for a moment, before continuing, “I... it seemed rather pointless. We’re only becase... well, because I wanted to... show you. My soul. My self. My heart. Because you... um... you showed me yours. Yesterday”

Riptide simply stares for a moment. His heart feels so full that he’s sure he’s seconds from drowning in it. The water trickling against his skin is cool and icy, a stark contrast to endless rose-pink of the perpetual sunset sky, the molten golden sphere of the sun

Serenity looks pointedly away, “Sorry, that’s... I guess that’s pretty cheesy, huh ? Igno-“

And then Riptide was moving forward, before Serenity could react, and his lips were dipping down to press against Serenity’s, soft and gentle, and Serenity tasted so good against his tongue, sweet like strawberry lip-balm, and the rich bite of the chocolate cake they had just had, and the other man’s lips were parting under his, and –

And there were flowers blooming at his feet, brushing against his ankles, impossibly pushing their green stems and brilliant petals through the golden sands, the rubied bleed of red rose, the golden gleam of ambrosia, the deep purple of aster, and a hundred feathered white silhouettes of balsam.

He draws back, breaking the kiss apart, much to his own dismay, “I love you too”, his heart catches in his throat. For a moment, Serenity looks stunned

All around them, the golden sands of the beach are dusted a faint rose-quartz in the perpetual sunset. Pink like dried rose. Pink like valentine’s hearts. Pink like the blush suffusing Serenity’s pale skin

And before Riptide could part his lips, could ask if Serenity was okay with that, his lips are on his, sweet and sharp and cold, “I love you like that too”, he says into the corner of Riptide’s lips, and he feels like crying, “I love you too”

And overhead, the fleshy pink of the sky splits apart, edges hazy and gray as it slowly separates into a receding dome to reveal the stormy sky beyond, rendered in patchy blacks and grays. The cold scent of rain grew stronger, but Riptide hardly cared. All that existed in the world was the softness of Serenity’s lips on his, his earthen scent, his soft skin. All that mattered was him

Overhead, a shower of glittering water dripped down onto them, slicking against their skin, though the sand at their feet remained as dry as ever, a curtain of glistening wetness, rendered in translucent rainbows from the molten gold sunlight passing  through its thin surface

And in the distance, a thundercrack sounds, and white flashes of lightning fork through the black patchy clouds, spearing the final traces of the illusory beach, burning it up, as the sand beneath Riptide’s feet fades into wet, puddly stone, and suddenly they’re standing by the corner of the street once again, and Serenity’s lips are on Riptide’s and his back is pressing into the railing keeping them from falling of the cliff, the metal sharp and cold through the thin, wet fabric of his T-shirt

The rain building in the clouds begins to spill over. It’s no longer just a sprinkle. All around them, the asphalt tap-tap-taps with droplets. The sky isn’t a holdable thing, it’s liquid, it’s storms and rain. And if Serenity kept trying to hold him up, he would surely drown

But that was fine. His eyes closed, and he pressed hard into the kiss, tasting the iced strawberry taste of Serenity’s tongue against his, cool and sharp, sweet as chocolate. That was fine. His fist clenched, and the raindrops hammering against them froze in mid-air, hanging like crystal beads inches from their skin

That was fine, because Riptide was there, would always be there, to breathe air into his lungs, to protect him, like he protected so many

Axiomatic truths were things that were so sure, so true, so known, that they were the philosophical baseline. They were the things you could be sure of, when you were sure of nothing else. When the solid truths of your world – parents are meant to protect their kids, children are meant to be loved – start to fall away, you could always rely on them

Here are some of them, some of the truths that Riptide relies on. The sun will always rise. The tide will always fall. And Riptide will always love Serenity

[wolf-of-hearts]

TOME OC REDUX

SO i redesigned all my tome ocs (bar onyx, hes perfect and needs no redesign) and re wrote all their back stories too. all that info under the cut

Felix Kitsune AI Standard - He/Any Demon - He/it

Felix is an AI and the former guardian of Mech City.  He got infected by the virus. in an attempt to destroy him, the netkings tried to delete him. the virus and him wanting to stay alive. fused to be strong enough to stop the deletion. now Felix still gaurds mech city as a weird AI vigilante. but he can still lose control of his virus side and turn into a large demon fox. because of this, he isolates himself only showing himself when needed --- Sage She/Her Hamster AI

Sage is a hamster AI, and the guardian of Sancutary An AI built to be a surveillance and communication system for tome. Her friend Cherry is one part of a massive hivemind of plants and roots all through the region, she uses this to watch the area and pings the mods if any players attempt to fight or cause issues. 

She lost her eye (and in turn some of her programming) to Lady Trojan, after refusing to tell the program anomaly where Sofdti is. This effected her ability to watch the region and things have begun to slip through the cracks. --- Mercury He/Him Snake Ai

Mercury is an AI built to be the guardian of Lavendera. he is competitive and cocky. trying to encourage all battle to take place in his region. much like Sage and Felix, he also watches over the region and reports to the mods if anything gos bad.

a piece of the anti-virus was placed in him by tigerlilly as a safety precaution in case something bad happened to the current holder of the anti-virus, and/or keep the region safe if the primary holder is offline. he can use this anti-virus in the form of venom.  --- Lady Trojan (Renamed from Lady Tigerlilly) She/They Chimera AI

Lady Trojan is AI Chimera. an anomaly. Originally a fragment of Sofdti used to keep Kajet sealed, after he broke out, she became corrupted. a conflicting desire to create everything and destroy it manifested into a drive to consume. she goes around stealing and consuming player character models, stray programs and code. Including a piece of the anti-virus recovered from zettos broken arm in episode 10. because of this she has visual aspects of all programs shes consumed.  --- Leon Formally Dragon-Bug/D-bug He/It Kirin Dragon Anti-virus

A mechanical kirin dragon anti-virus. a recreation of the anti-virus from fragments scattered after the end of the series. He's depressed because hes literally built to kill but enjoys simple things like knitting, planting and tea. His hair turns into flames when hes in klilling mode. 

[january-summers]

Tag someone you want to know better OR just want to say hello to!

I was tagged by @uweiy thank you for tagging me~

Favourite color: Purples and Blues 💜💙 although I do also like greens 💚

Last song: Contact Redux by Trocadero (Feat. Meredith Hagan), but I have Bullet by IMY2 stuck in my head, so that's sort of ongoing?

Last movie: Carnifex, an Australian creature horror, though it is a slow build for two thirds of the movie. (Not based on the book of the same name, though it does share a name and 'monster')

Currently watching: My Group Watch is currently doing Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty, which is a rewatch for me but so good, and I'm also making my way through Lady in the Butcher's House. Oh, and I'm also in season 3 of Battlestar Galactica (2004)

Currently reading: Mostly fanfiction at the moment, I just got back into an old fandom I haven't been in for over a decade, so I'm making my way through that, though if we're talking books, I'm technically most of the way through one of the A Song of Ice and Fire books, but I haven't picked it up in months because the fandom is just so unbelievably toxic and it does impact the reading experience. Been thinking about re-reading Kenobi.

Currently working on: *nervous laughter* I drew a bird the other day, wrote a fic for the roulette in august which was my first real fanwork of the year, I haven't been very creative lately. I either have nothing, or my brain is doing ping-pong against the inside of my skull with all the thoughts, I think I'm in burn out rn tbh, kinda want to work on some original stories, but, uh.... yeah...

Currently obsessed with: Agent Washington of Red Vs Blue fame. Some of y'all might have noticed 😅

Tagging @none-sex-left-gay @clockworkspider @vyther15 @favvnsongs if an of y'all are feeling it

and a free @ for anyone who wants a go~

[dumpster-of-the-lost-souls]

Magic Rambling

So I’m back talking about my Winx Club au Dragon’s Flame and Tempest’s flare again. Inspiration hit again after re reading through @dragonflyxparodies​‘s A Fable, Agreed Upon series linked here: https://archiveofourown.org/series/2165049. @drops-of-moonlights​ Winx Redux AU @emsartwork​ Winxems and retreading the fic Feel Like a Fraud by @dorkwingdad​ link here:https://archiveofourown.org/works/29289360/chapters/71924991. Please check their works out they are seriously amazing, they deserve your support. (I hope you guys don’t mind the pings) This is a long post and is practically an essay I’m warning y’all now.

Types of Casters 

So all people who can wield magic in any capability is known as a Caster, even if the only thing a person can really do with their magic is levitate small objects they are still a Caster. A more advanced Caster will eventually be categorized into either Witch, Fairy, or Wizard, ones gender or Homeward has a small influence of what category they will become but it is not cut and dry. For example Wizard is a masculine coded word Wizards can be Female or Feminine presenting. 

The distinction between Wizard, Witch and Fairy depends on how the Caster uses magic to perform spells whether they draw on the ambient magic around them or draw from their internal magic reserve. Witches and Fairies tend to draw on their internal magic reserves while Wizards draw from the ambient magic around them. 

Fairies and Witches can use any type of spell any where they want while Wizards are limited by the ambient magical energy they have available at their current location. A Wizard is going to be shit out of luck trying to use a Fire spell in a tundra or underwater. A Wizard can use other spells than whats available near them if they have enough but wizards on average have smaller internal magic reserves than Fairies or Witches, which is why Wizards draw on their environment. This also means that Wizards are most effective in Magic rich areas where there is a lot of ambient Magic they can utilize. Witches and Fairies draw from their internal magic reserves a majority of the time with the main difference between the two is the pull to get that magic working in the first place.

The main big deciding factors are Intent, Choice, Temperament, and Emotion. Intent is simple, what is the magic being used for? The Intent helps shape the magic if the same spell is performed with different intents the spell is going to have slight but noticeable differences. A ball of magic thrown with the intent to hurt an opponent is going to be more condensed, making it harder to dispel before contact and when it makes contact is going to hit with a harder impact due to the magic energy being confined to a smaller area. A ball of magic thrown to knock a projectile off course, to push an ally or civilian out of harms way, or to simply bind an object in place is going to be looser in form being larger on average wrapping around the target to knock it off course spreading the impact over a larger area so less damage is done on impact. 

The Intent of a Caster and what they do with their magic is one of the biggest factors on whether they are classified as a Witch or Fairy. This main Intent being a big core of who they are as a person.. Do they wish to use their power to protect or to harm? A Witch working as a doctor could have the intent of hurting and destroying harmful bacteria, viruses, and parasites. A Guardian Fairy could have the intent of protecting their planet and home from whatever threat shows up with no regards for the consequences of their actions as long as those consequences have no bearing on their home. Casters with main intents based around hurting or destroying have a higher chance of being Witches while Casters with Intents based around protecting or healing have a higher chance of being Fairies. Intents that doing fall into the above category tend. to be more of a case to case basis on whether or not the Caster is a Witch or Fairy.

Some spells of both Witch magic and Fairy magic have certain emotional triggers that are required to cast that spell successfully, a Caster’s temperament kind of decides what emotional triggers are easiest for them to use. A caster who is a ray of sunshine will find positive triggers easier, while an Oscar the grouch will find negative triggers easier. 

Choice is the most important factor since it trumps all the other factors, since Casters fit into the categories or Witch, Fairy or Wizard each of those terms being essentially a label or title for what type of magic a Caster is the most adept in. Given the right circumstances any type of Caster can perform any type of magic. It's this active voice on each individual Caster’s part why schools like Cloud Tower, and Alfea exist, so young casters who are learning magic have an environment where they can learn the magic they want to learn and have adults who are there to teach them. Some Casters are homeschooled having access to a community that will teach them the magic they want to learn.

Homeworlds

Homeworlds are planets that when the Great Dragon was creating everything there was enough Magic contained in the matter that would form planets that those planets formed a “soul” of their own. Some planets did not form souls but were still able to support life Earth and Domino are examples. Once sentient life started using magic it created a feedback loop with the homeworld, the types of magic the people prefer slowly affected the homeward and the type of magic its ‘soul’ is aligned with affecting its plants and animals and the cultures of its people which affects what types of magic they prefer leading to a self perpetuating cycle that lead to the Homeworlds we see today.

Domino does not have a soul but it does have the Great Dragon, who gave the sentient people of Domino its blessing in the form of its Creation and Fire magic. The Great Dragon is aware of everything but chooses not to influence the world of mortals. It gives and takes away its power as it sees fit, The Domino royal family had the Dragons favor and had a much larger blessing compared to their countrymen. So when the Ancestral Witches attacked Domino it personally made sure those three suffered for their arrogance and greed. The witches are responsible for Domino being forgotten as an unfortunate side affect of their attack on Domino the Dark Magic locked away many memories of those who were not directly involved any records that were based in magic about Domino were destroyed leaving most physical records of it the only ones remaining being old books which were no longer a main source of information, while people who were directly involved had some of their memories altered which when compounded with the issue with the records made Domino’s fall seem a lot older then it actually was.

Earth never had anything like that most of its magic is ambient magic from immigrant Casters and magical creatures. Earth does not have a soul in the present day but possibly several millennia in the future could gain one.

Types of Magic

Magic comes in different elements some are simple like wind, fire, light, water, or electricity while some are more complex and atypical, illusion, sound, gravity, null, metal. The categories of Fairy, Wizard and Witch serving as an alignment chart. A caster or magical creature having a magical core of just 1 element is incredibly rare. 

[yandepostal-fanfic]

WEAPONS SO FAR

"Steel Karate" Steel-Toes, Dusters, & Karate Knowledge

"In case the Katana sticks out like a sore thumb."

- Suitable For Stealth-Based Melee Combat

- Attacks slightly faster than Katana

Beretta

"My First Gun ever."

- Starting Pistol

- Burst-Fire Is surprisingly very accurate, but each shot does sorta-weak damage

- Infinite Ammo!

"Italian Boomstick" SPAS12 with Wooden Furniture

"My Second Gun ever."

- Semi-Auto Shotgun

- Resembles Beta Shotgun from Postal 2, with Wooden Pump & Grip

- Has a little Keychain shaped like a Pizza Slice

- Devastating Weapon; Cheesy Italy joke

Katana

"Ol' Reliable since Teen Years"

- Primary Melee Weapon

- Attack Damage can down certain enemies in few hits

- Functions like Katana from P2 Paradise Lost

- Tsuba/Hand-Guard Resembles the Running-With-Scissors logo

Silenced Garand + Rocket (not used, but mentioned)

"Blam! Blam! Blam-DING!"

- Silenced, but does the “ping” when fresh out of ammo, at the cost of alerting enemies of your presence

- Works like the Revolver from Postal 1/Redux

- Also has a “Garand Rocket” to work as the Rocket Launcher, at the cost of temporarily removing the silencer

- Rare “Garand Thumb” effect When Equipping that bites a bit of health off the Player

Explosive Cucumber

- A Firecracker strapped to a Cucumber.

- Works like a Pipe-Bomb from Left 4 Dead, but exclusively for Kappas

[yeonchi]

Warriors Orochi: The Recollective Redux Part 5.3: Samurai Warriors Story B

Nobunaga’s had his fun now. With an army, he managed to work together with Shingen and Kenshin to defeat Orochi. But now, let’s see how one man can unite three clans together to respond to a new threat…

Initial characters: Huang Zhong, Guan Ping, Xu Huang, Sakon Shima, Yoshihiro Shimazu, Musashi Miyamoto, Kanbei Kuroda, Muneshige Tachibana, Toyohisa Shimazu

Chapter 9: Battle of Luosang Village 楼桑村の戦い

Coalition Army and Yellow Turbans vs. Dong Zhuo Army Allied characters: Sakon Shima Third-party characters: Zhang Jiao, ??? Enemy characters: Dong Zhuo, Goemon Ishikawa

Unlocked character: Zhang Jiao

Sakon Shima walks in a village. He decides to visit Shingen Takeda, but he sees an explosion up ahead. Dong Zhuo is attacking the Yellow Turbans led by Zhang Jiao. As Zhang Jiao cowers in fear, Sakon jumps in to save the day…

Following the defeat of Orochi, numerous skirmishes continued to break out across the land. Lu Bu, Masamune Date and Cao Cao all mobilised their armies in an attempt to seize power. On top of all this, Dong Zhuo suddenly made a play for power. Sakon Shima had to face Dong Zhuo’s army and rescue Zhang Jiao…

The Zhang Jiao Army 張角軍 is known as the Yellow Turbans 黄巾党 in this version.

Defeat Goemon and Dong Zhuo’s troops to rescue the Yellow Turban officers. Additional troops will arrive to assist them.

A mysterious man will arrive to assist Zhang Jiao. If Sakon reaches the man, he will only introduce himself as a friend. Defeat Dong Zhuo to win the battle.

In the aftermath, Zhang Jiao will thank Sakon for his “miracle from the heavens”. Sakon asks Zhang Jiao if he knows the mysterious man, but Zhang Jiao does not.

Sakon will comment that they are heavily outnumbered compared to the other armies in the land. Officers such as Musashi Miyamoto, Toyohisa Shimazu, Yoshihiro Shimazu, Xu Huang, Kanbei Kuroda, Huang Zhong, Guan Ping and Muneshige Tachibana will join him.

Chapter 10: Battle of Ji Province ���州の戦い (uses DW5 Yellow Turban map)

Coalition Army vs. Da Ji Army Allied characters: Xu Huang, Musashi Miyamoto, Muneshige Tachibana, Zhang Jiao Enemy characters: Da Ji, Himiko, Kojirō Sasaki, Hisahide Matsunaga

Unlocked characters: Yukimura Sanada, Shingen Takeda, Kojirō Sasaki

Dong Zhuo and his army were left with no choice but to retreat. As Sakon went to visit Shingen, he wondered if the mysterious man from the last battle was driving him towards something.

Sakon comments that they need the assistance of Shingen, Kenshin and Nobunaga to defeat Orochi. He decides to start by talking with Shingen. In the meantime, Xu Huang and Musashi are attacked while they are training. They find Da Ji, along with a mysterious girl…

After defeating Kojirō Sasaki at the eastern altar, enemy ambush troops will appear at the central altar or in the southeastern area depending on where you go. Hisahide Matsunaga will appear in the opposite area as reinforcements.

When Himiko arrives in the south, Muneshige Tachibana will appear in place of Gao Sheng to stop her, but she will escape to the west as enemy reinforcements arrive to assist her (instead of later on in the original). As Himiko arrives in the west, however, Zhang Jiao will appear in place of He Yi to stop her. Defeat Da Ji and Himiko to win the battle.

In the aftermath, Kojirō will join Musashi and Xu Huang. Meanwhile, Sakon meets with Shingen, who agrees to lend assistance to him.

Chapter 11: Rescue at Hasedō 長谷堂救出戦

Coalition Army and Naoe Army vs. Sun Wukong Army Allied characters: Sakon Shima, Yukimura Sanada, Kojirō Sasaki Third-party characters: Kanetsugu Naoe, ??? → Fu Xi Enemy characters: Sun Wukong, Diamondback, Kotarō Fūma

Unlocked characters: Kenshin Uesugi, Kanetsugu Naoe, Kagekatsu Uesugi, Aya, Fu Xi

Sakon tells Shingen that he is also asking for help from Kenshin. Yukimura Sanada will report that Kanetsugu Naoe is under attack from forces unknown. Shingen suggests to Sakon that this is a wonderful opportunity. Sakon heads out with Yukimura.

Kojirō Sasaki will appear in place of Zhang Jiao in this battle.

When Sakon reaches Kanetsugu in the flaming forest, the mysterious man from Luosang Village will arrive to reveal that the fire is an illusion. He reveals the position of the sorcerers causing it. Defeat them to extinguish the fire. The man will introduce himself as Fu Xi. He also states that Sun Wukong is also from the mystic realm like himself, working for a half-man, half-demon, Kiyomori Taira, to recruit troops for his army. Their plan is to revive Orochi.

Break through the northern gate out of the forest and defeat Sun Wukong to win the battle.

In the aftermath, Kanetsugu takes Sakon to Kenshin. He agrees to join Sakon along with the others. Fu Xi also complements Sakon for uniting the Takeda and Uesugi, saying that he is the one who can stop Orochi’s resurrection. He also joins Sakon as atonement for “testing” him.

Chapter 12: Battle of Changban 長坂の戦い

Coalition Army vs. Date-Da Ji Army Allied characters: Shingen Takeda, Kanetsugu Naoe Enemy characters: Masamune Date, Da Ji, Motonari Mōri, Keiji Maeda, Kojūrō Katakura, Takakage Kobayakawa

Sakon suggests having Masamune join his army along with Nobunaga. However, Kanetsugu believes that Masamune is still loyal to Orochi. Sakon decides to have Shingen set off for Changban in order to convince Masamune to join them.

Motonari Mōri will appear in place of Sima Yi in this battle and therefore, will not be unlocked when the battle is cleared in this version. Takakage Kobayakawa will appear in place of Dōkyū Yamagami in the ambush unit alongside Kojūrō Katakura.

In the aftermath, Shingen talks to Masamune, but he declines the offer, saying that no one has been able to keep the peace since Orochi’s death. Shingen gives the bad news to Sakon, who then remembers that there is someone that they can ask. Kanetsugu reports that Lu Bu and Kiyomori have joined forces and are laying waste to the men of Wu. Huang Zhong, Yoshihiro and Kanbei offer to assist them.

Chapter 13: Battle of Liang Province 涼州の戦い

Coalition Army and Lu Meng Army vs. Lu Bu Army Allied characters: Kanbei Kuroda, Yoshihiro Shimazu, Huang Zhong Third-party characters: Lu Meng, Gan Ning Enemy characters: Lu Bu, Sun Wukong, Diaochan, Chen Gong, Lu Lingqi

Unlocked characters: Lu Meng, Gan Ning

Lu Bu and Kiyomori had joined forces to attack Liang Province, which was being defended by the warriors of Wu. Kanbei set off to Liang Province along with two veteran warriors to save the Wu Army, for if they were rescued, their assistance could be procured.

Kanbei Kuroda appears in place of Sima Yi for this battle. Han Dang will be replaced by another Wu generic officer when reinforcements arrive.

Lu Lingqi and Hou Cheng will appear with Chen Gong’s reinforcements when they arrive.

In the aftermath, Lu Meng and Gan Ning will join Sakon’s army on behalf of Wu.

Chapter 14: Battle of Hulao Gate 虎牢関の戦い

Coalition Army and Toyotomi Army vs. Taira Army Allied characters: Katsuyori Takeda, Sakon Shima, Guan Ping, Toyohisa Shimazu Third-party characters: Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Nene, Masanori Fukushima, Kiyomasa Katō, Hanbei Takenaka, Mitsunari Ishida Enemy characters: Kiyomori Taira, Diamondback, Sun Wukong, Hisahide Matsunaga

Unlocked characters: Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Nene, Mitsunari Ishida, Hanbei Takenaka, Kiyomasa Katō, Masanori Fukushima

Sakon moved to the next phase of his plan. He set off with Guan Ping and Toyohisa Shimazu to gain the cooperation of Hideyoshi Toyotomi. They spot Kiyomori and Dong Zhuo up ahead at Hulao Gate.

As I stated previously, Nobunaga Oda originally appeared in both the Wei and Samurai Warriors stories for Part B, which is illogical and it robs Mitsunari Ishida of any relevance; in addition, it also robs Hideyoshi Toyotomi of prominence as he was only seen in the original games as an underling of Nobunaga. As such, Nobunaga and Nō only appear in the Wei story, leaving Hideyoshi and Mitsunari for the Samurai Warriors story.

Zhang Ren does not appear in this battle. Toyohisa Shimazu and Yoshihisa Shimazu will swap places in this battle, meaning the former will be defending the main camp alongside Guan Ping while the latter advances with Sakon.

The Hōjō officers among the enemy are replaced by Mōri officers and Hisahide Matsunaga will appear in place of Dong Zhuo.

When the Toyotomi Army arrives, Mitsunari Ishida, Masanori Fukushima and Kiyomasa Katō will appear alongside Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Nene and Hanbei Takenaka.

In the aftermath, Hideyoshi joins Sakon’s army. Sakon asks him to assist Mitsunari and Kenshin at Baidi Castle.

Chapter 15: Battle of Baidi Castle 白帝城の戦い

Coalition Army vs. Taira Army Allied characters: Kenshin Uesugi, Kagekatsu Uesugi, Aya, Mitsunari Ishida, Masanori Fukushima, Kiyomasa Katō, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Nene, Hanbei Takenaka, Hideie Ukita, Muneshige Tachibana, Lu Meng, Gan Ning Enemy characters: Kiyomori Taira, Sun Wukong, Dong Zhuo, Kotarō Fūma

The alliance to prevent the resurrection of Orochi was finally complete. In response, Kiyomori quietly concentrated his forces at Baidi Castle. Believing that Kiyomori was now attempting to revive Orochi, Sakon immediately ordered Hideyoshi and Kenshin to attack Baidi Castle…

Kenshin, Kagekatsu and Aya will advance to Baidi Castle from the east, Mitsunari, Masanori and Kiyomasa will advance from the south and Hideyoshi, Nene and Hanbei will advance from the west. Muneshige Tachibana, Lu Meng and Gan Ning will appear as the ambush troops engaging Dong Zhuo’s officers in the central path to the northwest.

Defeat Kiyomori to win the battle, but he will say that it is too late…

In the aftermath, Sakon is depressed over his failure to prevent Orochi’s resurrection, but Fu Xi convinces Sakon to put his final plan in place to defeat Orochi. Shingen accepts Sakon’s offer to join him again on the battlefield.

Chapter 16: Battle of Sekigahara 関ヶ原の戦い

Coalition Army vs. Orochi Army Allied characters: Shingen Takeda, Sakon Shima, Fu Xi Enemy characters: Orochi X, Da Ji, Masamune Date, Kojūrō Katakura, Hisahide Matsunaga, Motonari Mōri, Takakage Kobayakawa

Unlocked characters: Kiyomori Taira

Some variations have been made for the Chapter 16 battles against Orochi X. In each faction’s version, they will fight four of Orochi’s main generals. In this version of the battle, those generals will be Da Ji, Masamune Date, Hisahide Matsunaga and Motonari Mōri.

Orochi had been resurrected and was surrounded by Da Ji and Masamune. The final battle lay ahead at Sekigahara…

Hisahide Matsunaga will appear in place of Keiji Maeda with his sneak attack unit in the northwest. At the same time, Motonari Mōri and Takakage Kobayakawa will also appear with their sneak attack unit in the centre. Due to the fog around Sekigahara, both sneak attack units will reveal themselves as they approach the main camp.

Defeat Da Ji and the officers outside the enemy camp, then enter the camp and defeat Orochi X to win the battle.

[justices-blade]

☆ august wanted prompts

redux of this again! i wrote the discord version right before bed, so i wanted to expand a little more:

edward (you are here!) ☆ gauntlets. he's probably a regular sauna-goer — thrilled to bits over the whole thing, probably needs to be kept out of temperature contests for his own health. if he sees a doppelganger though, he's quite inclined to fight it. is it really a doppelganger? is it just a person? either way, i think we could have some fun here! ☆ any weapon. classroom mishap or classic freaky friday? he'd've heard the rumors about warp powder, even back home, and gone to give it a look out of curiosity. if ever you wanted a day in the life of an active and plucky teen boy, nows your chance.

chad (@lycianlynx) ✧ faith. chad has hidden soft spots for both flowers and stories, and the story behind the lady-of-mourning would intrigue him — they'd very much like to see it bloom, but while they've experience in gardening, they're no green thumb. want to help, or just surprised to see him?

denning (@beholdenning) ¤ axe. as a knight of seiros, perhaps word of the students' dares reached them, and they were sent to investigate — or perhaps someone cajoled them into joining the basement excursion. they're duty-bound to protect any students and faculty... just make sure they don't get blown up by fellow constructs from their zeal. ¤ reason. if the newly departed can be shaped into soul-bearing constructs, then there is little preventing ghosts to wander, is there not? or perhaps he's the one who's been mistaken for the ghost...

feel free to ping me in plotting or dm me if you'd like to pick any of these up!

[babyawacs]

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[gamenu]

RED.

    Skin to skin contact is far different from that of partially gloved to clothed skin, the wanderer notes, just as he always does when any blue moon instance of it starts him. He can’t say he minds, though. The surprise is a pleasant one, the zephyr-like brush of their fingers testament to comfort they’ve found within this friendship that harbors no pretenses.

    Out of appreciation for the moment, Red pays mind to little else apart from simpler sensations. A faint tickle of grass about his ankles. The largely distant cry of what would sound to be a spearow. They do, however, have time sensitive plans—or perhaps it would be more truthful to say that he has a plan, the details of which have yet to be divulged in full.

Speaking of which... We’d better get moving. Don’t want to miss the main event.

    With the thoroughly emptied ramune bottle tucked away for recycling at a later time, Red bids this hilltop he’s gravitated to time and time again fond goodbye, doing Nicole the courtesy of extending one relatively clean hand before he goes about dusting off his pants.

Can any of your pokémon fly? If not, would you be comfortable riding with Charizard and myself?

          Despite the uncomfortableness of talking about her birth place, how whack people’s judgement can be before and after tragedy...at the very least, Red was accepting of it. Whether he actually liked the situation or not, he listened. He listened and made sure that Nicole felt heard and understood. And that was more than she could ask of anyone around her at this point.

          As Red stood, Nicole looked up to him with a small hint of confusion. They had simply been here relaxing together. Did Red mention some plan and she forgot to make a mental note of it? There’s a small scratch to her head as she read over his notes before giving a small, confused nod.

          From a Pokeball nestled in her bag comes her Swanna. Large, proud, and very much intent on preening Nicole and Red. It’s with a small laugh and gentle bat to the beak as she gets the bird to cease for just a moment. Affectionately kissing the top of her head, she murmurs softly asking if she wouldn’t mind carrying her and following Red’s Charizard. A joyous trill is her answer, and she unfurls her wing to let Nicole climb on.

         “Blythe can carry me. Don’ wanna add extra weigh’ on yer Charizard, ya know? Bu’...where are we goin’?”

[brokehorrorfan]

Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits will be released on July 14 via The Criterion Collection. The Blu-ray box set includes five martial arts classics starring Bruce Lee: The Big Boss, Fist of Fury, The Way of the Dragon, Enter the Dragon, and Game of Death.

1971's The Big Boss is directed by Wei Lo and stars Lee, Maria Yi, James Tien and Tony Liu. 1972's Fist of Fury (also known as The Chinese Connection) is directed by Lo Wei and stars Lee, Nora Miao, Maria Yi, and James Tien.

1972's The Way of the Dragon is written and directed by Lee, who stars with Nora Miao, Ping Ou Wei, Robert Wall, and Chuck Norris. 1973's Enter the Dragon is directed by Robert Clouse and stars Lee with John Saxon, Ahna Capri, Robert Wall, Kien Shih, and Jim Kelly.

1978's Game of Death is written and directed by Lee, with Robert Clouse completing the film after Lee's death. Lee stars with Gig Young, Dean Jagger, Colleen Camp, Hugh O'Brian, and Robert Wall.

The Big Boss, Fist of Fury, Game of Death, and The Way of the Dragon have been newly restored in 4K with uncompressed original mono audio. Enter the Dragon includes its 102-minute special edition version and its 99-minute theatrical version, each restored in 2K.

The set also features Game of Death II, the 1981 sequel to Game of Death directed by Ng See-yuen, and Game of Death Redux, a new presentation of Lee’s original Game of Death footage, produced by Alan Canvan.

In addition to the original Japanese soundtracks, alternate audio is included for the films, including the English dubs and a 5.1 surround soundtrack for Enter the Dragon’s special edition.

Gian Galang designed the cover art. Special features are listed below, where you can also see the individual covers.

Special features:

The Big Boss audio commentary by Bruce Lee expert Brandon Bentley

The Big Boss audio commentary by Hong Kong film expert Mike Leeder

Fist of Fury audio commentary by Hong Kong film expert Mike Leeder

Game of Death audio commentary by Hong Kong film expert Mike Leeder

The Way of the Dragon audio commentary by Hong Kong film expert Mike Leeder

Enter the Dragon special edition audio commentary by producer Paul Heller

Interviews on all five films with Lee biographer Matthew Polly

Interview with producer Andre Morgan about Golden Harvest, the company behind Hong Kong’s top martial-arts stars, including Lee

Featurette on English-language dubbing with voice performers Michael Kaye (Lee’s English-speaking voice in Fist of Fury) and Vaughan Savidge

Interview with author Grady Hendrix about the Bruceploitation subgenre and a selection of Bruceploitation trailers

Blood and Steel - 2004 Enter the Dragon making-of documentary

Bruce Lee: The Man and the Legend - 1973 Bruce Lee documentary

Bruce Lee: In His Own Words - 1998 featurette

Interviews with Linda Lee Cadwell, Lee’s widow, and many of Lee’s collaborators and admirers, including actors Jon T. Benn, Riki Hashimoto, Nora Miao, Robert Wall, Yuen Wah, and Simon Yam and directors Clarence Fok, Sammo Hung, and Wong Jing

Promotional materials

Booklet featuring an essay by critic Jeff Chang

In the early 1970s, a kung-fu dynamo named Bruce Lee side-kicked his way onto the screen and straight into pop-culture immortality. With his magnetic screen presence, tightly coiled intensity, and superhuman martial-arts prowess, Lee was an icon who conquered both Hong Kong and Hollywood cinema, and transformed the art of the action film in the process. This collection brings together the five films that define the Lee legend: furiously exciting fist-fliers propelled by his innovative choreography, unique martial-arts philosophy, and whirlwind fighting style. Though he completed only a handful of films while at the peak of his stardom before his untimely death at age thirty-two, Lee left behind a monumental legacy as both a consummate entertainer and a supremely disciplined artist who made Hong Kong action cinema a sensation the world over.