#1rst single

[cmhcny]

im not supposed to be feeling this

#ikon #ikonsnet #ikon europe #ikon bobby #bobby #bobby solo #first single #1rst single #cherry blossom mv #mv #벗꽃 #아이콘 #김지원 #kim jiwon #im #speechless #gonna go to sleep #before i go insane #Bobby ikon #kim jiwon ikon

[wastelandbabyblue]

Ed's doc is about to knock me out

#only watched the 1rst ep and im already sobbing #like haven't stopped for a single second #it's so cool seeing more of cherry too she seems so sweet

[notscarsafe]

Okay, so in honor of all the Hermits stirring things up on Twitter today, let's REALISTICALLY consider Season Ten. What do we know, what are our clues, actually???

(Speculating and overanalyzing are really fun so I'm just going to embrace my tendency to Listify Everything and spill my thoughts on Season Ten under the cut!)

First Evidence: The Words of the Hermits.

Nine Days ago Scar said in his Jellie tribute video that Season Ten was “Just around the corner”. Five days ago on the 18th, right after the Hermit meeting that probably finalized their start of the season plans, Cub posted his cryptic tweet whose incorrect capitalizations spelled out “SEASON TEN SOON”. I can't imagine either of those hermits using that phrasing if the season start was more than a month away.

What's more, Gem posted yesterday the 23 that “If hermitcraft s10 doesn’t start soon I’m gonna explode!!!” I can't imagine Gem being that impatient unless there was only a couple of weeks or maybe just one week left before filming.

Second Point to Consider: Hermit Conscientiousness.

The Hermits sre generally really kind to each other and have known when the Hermitcraft Vault Hunters challenge was going to end (Jan 31st, midnight) for months. Per Iskall, the videos of the Herald Vault will drop February 1rst and I can't imagine they'd want video competition between that content and the new season.

Clue Three: The Streaming Activities of the Hermits.

The sheer amount of time Joe has spent playing Vault Hunters lead me to believe they can't have started filming for Season 10 yet. Seriously, when Joe finally has a day without a bonus Vault Hunters stream I'm gonna get mighty suspicious. Joe has streamed more than three hours of Vault Hunters every single day for a week. There was Wednesday when he did his art stream, but I wouldn't expect that to have been a launch day because:

Fact Four: Editing turn around times are so grindy.

The traffic series always has a several day turn around for editing time (IE film Monday post Friday) and several Hermits still struggle to get them out on those days. Even if the hermits were going to ignore the Vault Hunters conflict and start filming season ten this week, tomorrow even, they'd just barely have enough time to squeeze those videos out before the Herald Vault videos. As I'm editing this post Impulse just said he's trying to finish his office reorg this week and have a tour out next week. That does not sound like 'filming this week and editing the new season opener' behavior.

If it goes as Iskall indicated on stream, the Vault Hunter hermits will film the Herald Vault and post as soon as possible on February 1st, meaning the earliest they could kick off season ten would be Friday the 2nd. Even if they film on then I can't imagine them dropping new season videos/having them edited any earlier than Monday the 5th. Furthermore:

Clue Five: A lot of Hermits are very protective of their weekends.

Pearl for example almost didn't join the Decked Out visitor day because it was a weekend. It may be that Monday the 5th would be the more likely earliest useable day for filming after Vault Hunters ended. With editing turn around, we'd guess the start date to be Friday at least.

In Conclusion:

My totally bullshit overanalyzed but still blind guess is that the Hermits will film season ten starting February 5th and will drop videos sometime between February 7th and 9th.

That being said, Cub's cypher today that may have just been trolling said season ten would be “sooner than we'd think” so they may surprise me yet.

Keep an eye out for days where no hermits stream or days where Joe does a brief “1 hour chill stream” to see when the Hermits might be suspiciously behind the scenes. I won't be mad if I'm wrong, overthinking is fun. Either way I hope you join me in hypong up the new season and the new Hermits joining the Hermit Fam. I can't wait!

(Note: this post originally reported the herald vault videos as dropping the 2nd which was an estimate from a stream, but Iskalls video today reported they'd drop the first and this post has been edited to reflect that ❤️)

#hermitcraft #hermitcraft 10 #hc s10 #hermitcraft s10 #hermitcraft speculation #hermitcraft vault hunters

[knbmangareread]

Really interesting to see Seirin's reaction to this victory, they all have very different feelings and expressions.

1- Riko : She isn't even surprised, she is satisfied but not particularly overjoyed, she never doubted they would win and expertly guided them to victory. She really is an amazing coach

2- Hyuga : He is stunned, he didn't expect to win, their defeats against the veteran kings after Teppei had to stop playing last year are still very heavy for him.

4- Izuki : calm and collected as always, he is happy but not not surprised, he believed in their victory

5- Koganei : happy and excited

6 - Kagami : The most excited and happy of the group, it was his first exciting match since he came back to Japan so it's no surprise he is in such a good mood

Now the most interesting reaction

7- Kuroko : Not particularly happy, not particularly relieved, he looks at Kagami's reaction and it makes him think. That because for Kuroko winning is the default at this point, he haven't lost a single match since he joined Teiko (the 3rd strings don't play matches and the 1rst string never lost any match since the GoM joined the club) so being so happy at a victory for a simple practice game isn't something he can fully understand yet. Teiko affected those kids in so many ways, even something as simple as celebrating with your friends at a victory is now foreign to them.

Like all the Miracles he has to relearn how to fight desperately to win and the joy when he achieve it after doing everything he can

#knb #kuroko no basket #knb chapter 10 #knb volume 2

[a-random-fandom-friend]

review des trois mousquetaires (2023)?

Cons :

Athos is too old

Porthos doesnt have enough screentime (almost none at all, in fact)

Sometimes a bit too much shaky cam ?

In some parts they dont care about the canon at all. For example, Constance is just single, and there's nothing close to a relantionship between d'artagnan and Milady. I'm personally fine with it (mostly thanks to bbc musketeers) but i know some people will be put off by that.

It's part 1 of 2 movies; even tho they managed to do one complete movie (whith high stakes and a satisfying resolution), they have to set up part 2 so it does end on a kind of cliffhanger

I wish there was more swordsfights :c

Pros :

The swordfights that were here were EXCELLENT. The big one at the beggining ("We're 3 against 20 !"/"No, we're 4 !") is basically ONLY one shot, of several minutes people jumping and swordfighting ??? It was AWESOME

As I say, the movie is complete even without part 2 (and the maybe 10 last minutes), which i think is quite impressive

D'Artagnan is a puppy <3 proud and ready to fight the world, little gascon boy

The romance in this movie is genuinly very good. The men are so in love. Poetry and ache.

The dialogue (especially in the first half) is sooo satisfying. It's quick and witty and sarcastic, i love it.

They made one change with Porthos; well, more like made something canon that i thought was only implied in the book about his character. No spoil, but i reaaally liked it. I hope he gets more screentime

There is one scene with Aramis that is just... 👌 chef kiss. Duris will never be Santiago Cabrera, but the scene where he needs to get infos from a guy ? 👀

They got hats they got swords they got cape they got wordplay, I was satisfied

Btw costumes ? Very cool

And the locations too

(Also the king is autistic, he's me, i love how he talks, it's very fun)

Conclusion : a fine adaptation, not the funniest nor the most faithful but I enjoyed it a lot. However it's only the 1rst part of a 2 parts film so I will wait for part 2 (out in december) to know if the film overall achieves its goals !

#hope it answers your questions ! #also there were some set up for part 2 (porthos' backstory for example) which also read well if this was a single movie #les trois mousquetaires 2023 #i am a simple pal i see a good cape & sword movie - i like it #les trois mousquetaires

[marianetbarbara]

[blacky-nikki-art]

The next comic will be in two parts. The 1rst half gonna be 4 pages, 2nd one Idk yet but a bit longer, maybe 7 pages.

I post 1rst comic with all pages together here and on Twt too. On Instagram and Deviantart I gonna post single pages like usually.

Stay turned or something...

[caityrose]

Oooooo tell me about your au

More importantly...

HOW DOES PEARL LOOK LIKE??

Ok ok.. it's basically the same besides the fact that the gems have taken plant-like aspects in order to gain energy (Basically they just need to be in the sun longer and maintain nutrients by eating and drinking). Some gems don't have to do this, though that is only if they are built for harsh conditions meaning they can live longer without nutrients, or if they are rooted into the ground.

Some gems who only work in one place root themselves for max efficiency work wise and food wise.

Onto the Pearls/Pink Diamond!

Pink Diamond: She is based off a hibiscus flower because of "A Single Pale Rose". I considered making her a rose, but I think that it's better for her to be a hibiscus.

She has had 3 Pearls without her life: 1st being an unknown pearl we have never seen, 2nd being Pink pearl/Volleyball, and 3rd being pur Pearl. *more info on them later

When Pink Diamond forms into Rose, she turns presents/tells people she is a Pink Rose (quartz variant) in order to better convince the other gems, this is our she got away with passing as a rose (quartz)!

1rst Unknown Pearl: She was given to Pink very early on, Pink had only been alive a couple hundred years. This pearl was shattered, she had been playing with Pink while they were at one of Yellow's colonies, and got shattered when debri fell directly on her gem. Sadly they had not though or known how to fix her, it was very early on in Era 1. (This is why Pink was so protective over Pink Pearl/Volleyball later on)

Pink Pearl/Volleyball: She was given to Pink around a thousand years after the original was shattered, she never learned about the shattered Pearl. She is a hibiscus like her Diamond and behaves the same as she does in the show.

Our Pearl: She is a rose because they are more associated with maturity and romance. This Pearl was designed to be more mother-like in order to protect Pink rather than encourage bad attitude. She does introduce the idea of hiding as a Rose quartz, however, she tried desperately to convince Pink to stay eith the other diamonds; she didn't want any of them to be shattered. She eventually went along, because she had fallen in love with Pink and couldn’t resist any longer.

(I added another Pearl (1rst) because Pearl's reboot song has ".3" at the end and thought it would be interesting lol)

Here are the concepts for their appearance! Our pearl on the right, VolleyBall on the left.

I haven't rlly thought about it much so if anyone wants to add on feel welcome to

#caityrose infodumps #steven universe pink diamond #steven universe au #plant/gem au #steven universe #pink pearl #pearl steven universe

[thesensemedieval]

Some news + Important question to you all

Oyez Oyez,

As you probably noticed, I haven't post anything since quite a long time. I have been really busy these months, but I wanted to let you know that I will come back in june with new witcher buil/buy and cas conversion, Assassin's creed items, and will start Medieval Henford on Bagley. Rosenberg Mension should come out too, I know a lot of you have been waiting for it (sorry about that).

I will anwser the messages, and reblog the posts where I am mentioned.

I will also release the followers gifts and update the objects that need to be updated.

For now the objects that have to be updated are :

Bookcases (fix slots, add swatches)

Every single swatch releases (add more)

Bathtubs (Geometry state issues + maybe add swatches)

Beds (fix weight + add swatches)

You can also tell me if you think other objects need an update, don't hesite to tell in the comment section.

Now begings the important part on which I need your opinion.

Like I said, I have been really busy in real life, but another reason why I wasn't so active is that I was learning 3d modeling for personal use. But well, you know, I like to share and here comes the question.

I won't lie as I always have been slower or more "meticulous" than the others to do things, it often takes way longer to create something than it should. So to be honest I don't think I can afford taking much time to create, for free.

For those who know me, you know I love sharing my conversions (for free) because 1rst, I personnally don't think this is the kind of content that should be paid as it comes from other games and doesn't take as much time as creating on your own, (at least I don't think so) 2nd because, like rlly, who doesn't like free stuff ? lol. And 3rd I don't know but there is probably a third good reason.

So here is the question : Should I open a Patreon (you know I don't like it but well I don't think there is an other way), for early access of course, and then create more medieval content (bc, you know, I feel like there is never enough medieval stuff).

I must let you know too that if I create something that didn't take much time to do, it will be free of course.

I really don't know what I should do, go into this in addition of my free conversions or let it go and just publish for free quick time creating items when I can do so.

Your advice/ opinion would be great.

Also I thought I could create a Pinterest board and invite those who want to pin medieval ideas I could create for the sims 4.

You can leave your thoughts in the comments section or participate to the survey here : https://forms.gle/zLHE44PHkuVS7iLF8

Also if you were wondering, my future medieval mods (like Medieval Windenburg) will remain free.

#wip #survey #sims 4 #thesensemedieval #medieval cc #thesense4 #sims #ts4

[clemsimunch]

I watched TLOU last week with some friends, and they told me how much they loved Pedro Pascal and how they were very excited for The Mandalorian season 3.

I was never blind to the hype around that series, and it always intrigued me. It looked very cool, but the Star Wars legacy that came with it was scary to me.

I have never seen a single Star Wars movie. I had never seen anything Star Wars related before ! Sure, I've been on the Internet. I've seen the memes the reference. I know what a lightsaber is, but I never truly felt the need to actually watch the movies. They felt old and boring to me.

Then The Mandalorian came and won the Internet heart, and I felt left out. I wanted to see it, but I had no friends or family members who were fans of the universe, and I didn't want to tackle the journey of 9 movies all alone.

So I didn't.

That's how I came to tell my friends. " I'd love to watch The Mandalorian, but I have zero Star Wars knowledge, so I wouldn't understand anything."

This was the reason I stubbornly waited 3 years to start this series, and I hate and love myself for it. I hate that it took me so long, but I loved being able to watch 2 seasons in one go, and being this close to season 3 is a blessing.

As a non star wars fan, I had no expectation and no attachment to the world, and it still won my heart. I knew of "baby yoda," but I didn't know he would appear in the 1rst episode and would be the main character of the series !

I didn't know the main trope was badass. Man finds a child and fights to protect it ! I love that trope ! I loved it in the whitcher, in the last of us and now I love it in mandalorian.

I didn't expect how much I'd like the other character and the adventure aspect of the show. I love D&D and book adventure, and it really felt like you were discovering planet after planet and doing fun side quests to contribute to the main quest.

I also found so much fun in watching Star Wars fan reactions to the show and comparing it to my viewing experience. I had no reaction to the reference or iconic characters. HELL, when Luke appears in the last episode, I wasn't even sure who that man was. I was like "damn that an old haircut who's this. Why is he stuck in the'70s?" Also, I learned a lot by watching those reactions, and it gave me a new appreciation for the series.

I also watched episode 5 6 7 of Boba fett (I watched the first one as well, but I was bored, and I dont care about boba 😔 sorry) so I could be up to speed for season 3. I personally like where the story is going and am very excited for the new season!!

Still, I have no plans to watch the main Star Wars movies ... I'm not against the idea, but I can't be bothered to do it these days.

The next Star Wars series I'd be most likely to watch is the animated Clone Wars series, but it's not in my priority watch list right now.

#the mandolarian #i love that they made it accessible for newbies like me #grogu is now my son i love him #mando is a great dad #my sister said i liked this trop because i have father issues

[socksnstuff00]

https://socksnstuff00.tumblr.com/post/683920303041232896/i-remember-every-single-one-of-the-melt-downs-i

would u mind describe all these melt downs 😂 I love ur funny reactions

oh yes Annie! absolutely lmao just now i was looking for something to distract me from work.

first of all shoutout to @ilovethisgame-andiloveyou for the awesome compilation 💜

Christmas 2021. Not only bitch woke up and choose murder for Christmas but it was the first time she acknowledged us the shippers so this is basically how we confirmed she knows we know lmao also this pic gave us the confirmation that no one really needed that they were indeed “rommates” in Manchester. Wonderful :D

2. Titan’s Bday (2021). Everyone was walking on their tiptoes around this one and it was a whole mess cause someone took it from someone’s private account and we all had to act like the pic didn’t existed until Clementine went and posted it herself like “yeah we did spent her bday together, so what?” ending once and for all the whole mistery .. and our lives ofc lmao

3. 1rst send off game against Mexico AKA my favorite game of all time! The whole experience was magical but when they posted the pic after the game it was the cherry on top of the cake. I say THEY cause Thermometer also posted it and istg I cried lmao the interwebs went WILD lol even a “straight” friend of mine who’s a football fan of Telephone sent me the pic not knowing I was already obsessed with it lmao. I ascended for sure.

4. Walking for oneness (2021). Such a nice and serene shot and also posted on a random Sunday when no one of us was expecting it. To tell you I screamed lmao they’re so in sync and she decided to show us more of their cute rituals. Also some of the funniest comments from the deniers lmao.

5. Tokyo 2021. Istg she posted this one to let us know they found time for a little date while they were at the olys lmao. They’re so cute! I really love their faces in here. Everyone else were together doing whatever and these two in their own world .. like always 😉

6. Teasing us like this is a game lmao (London 2021) this one made us update our deduction skills lmao we all become sherlock for a day xD from the sneakers to the purple vest to the body language and the pose lmao conclusion? 100% pure gay

7. 3000m hi (2021) AKA the one that broke us all. I mean, I still look at it and I cant believe it exists and she posted it herself, gay on main! Look at them, just LOOK AT THEM! This is the gayest shit I have ever seen lmao I remember I received the notif and literally dropped my phone. Hell im still freaking out nowdays xD I don’t think I will ever be over it. As I said before, they’ll have to post a pic making out to outgay this one!

8. London good bye (2022) WAGging era at its finest.The beginning and the end of one of my fave eras of them all. also No one can convince me she didn’t posted this pic to let the world know the exact reason why she decided to spend her vacays in the UK lmao.:D look how cute they are. How proud Cocaine is of her girl and how incredibly happy Tusi looks of having her wife there for her. Fucking priceless T.T I might cry again

9. Couple’s photo (2022) this one im currently on the middle of the melt down lmao. as I said, I saw it in the morning while i was omw to work and I literally had to park on a random gas station so I could release some pressure lmao. I DIED, y’all interacting with a ghost now xD

[nbula-rising]

Freesia Square

Hook according to the yarn of your choice.

I used a Light Fingering / 3 ply yarn and 3mm hook.

ch – chain  •   sc – single crochet   •   dc – double crochet  •  sl st – slip stitch

Make a circle:  Ch 4 ,  join with sl st.

ch 1, 12 sc, sl st  in first sc. ch 3 (this is the first dc and ch1 of the round), * dc in next st, ch1*,  repeat   * * 10 more times, join with sl st to 3rd chain of the first ch3 (12 dc and 12 ch). sl st to next ch1 space and ch 1, sc in same space, * ch4, sc in next ch1 space, ch4 , sc in next ch1 space, ch8, sc in next ch1 space*, repeat * * 3 more times but in the last repetition don’t do the last  sc, just sl st in 1rst sc (12 loops, 8 ch4 and 4 ch8) sl st to 2nd ch of first ch4 loop, ch1, sc in same loop, *ch5, sc in next ch 4 loop,  in next ch8 loop make 6dc – ch 3 – 6dc, sc in next ch4 loop*, repeat 3 times and join with sl st in first sc. sl st to 2nd ch of ch5 loop, ch2, 2dc in same loop, *ch6, sc in  next ch3 space (the one made in round 4, between de pair of 6 dc), ch5, sc in same space, ch6, 3 dc in next ch5 loop*, repeat 3 times, join with sl st. ch1, sc in eah dc, 6 sc in ch6 space, 5 sc in ch5 corner loop, 6 sc in ch6 space, complete round. ch1, sc all around (to make a better shaped corner, make 2 or 3 sc in 3rd st of corner loop), sl st.

#crafts #pattern #crochet

[nat1vibes]

Disgaea Character inclusion Challenge:

taking on the challenge by @manygalaxiesinoneaxiesinone Rules and found in this post

Disgaea 1 and Dd2 New story character: Espio. (As an extra lil story in post game) An angel trainy like Flone. When he heard by Vulcanus preeches that Flone had gone rogue with demons. His sense of justice couldn't allow such promissing angel to fall in the cluches of demons! So he made his own way to the netherworld. Yet after humilliation and defeat at the hands of demons after demons. He started to adapt, Two red horns growing on his head, cutting and dyeing his long blonde hair into spikey black, his big white wings on his shrinking into black fallen angel aesthetic wings a bit above his waist. And contiues to create his own kinda mad max like force made by weak demons that resent the world and want to get stronger. When he finally comes by Flone by accident, he and his grunts stire up trouble and after Getting stompped by Laharl, join his army

New humanoid: Bounty Hunter. Good at swords and Bows. They are Demons sent by the dark accembly to capture those not showing up for trials. Pretty okay in physical combat, and having status effect spells with high chances but low range.

New monster: Snakemen: human like body, looong neck and a big bite. 1-2 normal attack range. special attacks come with either poison or stun.

New DLC: Wataru Mitani(Brave Story) Little boy will be scared out of his mind in the neather world. But his sword abillities would help him enough. I think it would be funny to have an other young looking boy to go with Laharl as he starts showing compassion to this lost boy, who he sees himself in him kinda.

Disgaea 2 New sotry character: Masked Boy. Probably can guess where we go from here. Adells long lost Brother??? a swordman of flames in black robes and a mask like those of his parents. After fake zenon was beat. And word across the land spreads. He visits Adells village and seen as a threat. After a fight with no clear winner. a series of events unfolds as Adell find out and is forced to accept his Demonic Haritege.

New humanoid: Humdevil(male). Humans turned demons by zenons curse. Average affinity with every weapon. Look kinda like Adell's dad after he became a demon

New monster: Humdevil(Female). Humans turned demons by zenons curse. They get access to all kinda of magic(element/star/heal/status/buff)up to giga level. Good versitile casters. Honestly they and the male counterpart could be interchangable with female getting staves and male being phycial attackers.

New DLC: Ragna the bloodedge(BlazBlue) from Hanakos summoning. They Try to summon ''the biggest edgelord of an other universe'' I think he would have a nice dynamic with Adell. He works like a monster unit. Attacking with his own sword, and his skills being 1rst[hells fang] which works like Adells 1rst skill. but with Ragnas black flames, 2nd[belial edge] goes up to the air and mounts his sword, propelling it with enegry down to foes( guessed it. works like adells 2nd skill) and 3rd[Black Onslaught] guessed it again. A single target combo skill.(all moves from his actuall game). He Magichanges to his Azure grimoire demon arm version

Disgaea 3 New story character: Balmaz von Balmandine Badamant An evil version of Almz with shark teeth, calling himself the True Anti-Hero(coz even evil almz can only be so evil). Close to about as eccentric as Mao. To which he hits it off great with. And Almz starts to feel inferior and maybe that princess Saphaire could fall for that, in his eyes, more confident version of him. Yet after both Balmaz and Saphaire confirm they are repulsed by eachother in a wacky scene. Almaz is more than accepting of his alter ego.

New humanoid: delinquent! Tough looking fist fighting demons. That go to class on time! water flowers all around the school! And help old ladies cross the street. Their battle grunts would be in tough voices ''For love!''(when attacking) ''Friendship sholves all!''(team attacks) ''Can't wait to do my taxes"(when hit)

New Monster: Teachers. Big demons with ties. baicisbly Rifle demons with both arms and less hanched. ''To detention''(attack) ''Lets sholve this together''(team attck) ''I'm not paid enough for this''(when hit)

New DLC: Iruma-kun (Mairimashita! Iruma-kun) Making his way in an other Demon school! Would hit it off with Almaz well. High avoid, Good bow skills. and a bunch of cool specials.

Disgaea 4 New story character: Vengence. A demon made up from all the human souls negative emotions that died in the war when Valvatorez was a tyrant and walked the earth. He might not end up as a playble character, or maybe when he is purified by the group he turns to Forgivness and lighter version of him. Good story chance for Artina and Valz to traumabond. (even though i don't like the ship ngl)

New Humanoid:Vampires! NGL some might call this a cheap effort. I'd love just kinda a more slik no cape ver of a vampire in the game. Evilities to steal hp and sp from target. Good at spears and sword. Yes a shameless generic copy of Valvatorez.(which some people might have liked. I know i love generics more than story characters gameplay wise some times.)

New monster: Roachmen. BIG, TANKY, BUFF, cocoroache demons. Big DEF big RES big Element res. An undying, force of the neatherwolrd.

New DLC: Alucard (Hellsing) Whats better than 1 badass vampire+ one more version of himself in post game? TOW BADASS VAMPIRES. Good with Guns. Alucard would be going on a walk across the neatherworld.

Disgaea 5 New story character: Vessel. A failed experiment of void darks when he was looking for ways to bring Lize back. With an overload taken by an overlord weaker than marjorita. So Void deemed him a failed product and thrown away. Brought up in postgame. As Void now tunred to good. Wants to find him and help maybe? They find him in a neather world whose peopel all die, alone. As it turns out. The nature of the overload had made it such that he would unknowgnly to him Suck the life force from those aroudn him. And grow stronger and healthier. When he found out he decided to stay there till he died. Being now the Overlord of the empty planet. The gang helps him short out his fellings after multiple battles and him running away to notindirectly kill them. And he finally gives for to his Overload ''Debt return'' which now lets him fight the sideffect of other overload. (mechanics it gives a % of his stats to close allies)

New humanoid: heroic spirit. (remember that old defender of earth in d1. Yeah they are like him but can use a bunch of weapons) unlocked after the story with Vessel. the souls of the people in the neatherworld he was in.

New monster: Laserbeast. A formless existence of plasma that thats diferent beastial forms with attacks. Movement. Specials and the like.

New DLC: Shiki Tohno (Thukihime/Melty blood) Kinda broken. His Specials might deathblow if enemy is at (HP% based on the skill) His Overload. He goes Nanaya mode.gaining a movement and Stat boost. Changing his specials as well. (Like valvatorez overload. coz i find transformation overloads sick as fuck)

#disgaea #disgaea 5 #disgaea 4 #disagea 3 #disgaea 2 #brave story #blazblue #mairimashita! iruma-kun #hellsing #thukihime #melty blood #crossover

[a-wandering-imagination]

Chapter 32

Anton awoke the next morning to a light tap on his shoulder. He sat up and squinted. There was sunlight in the room already. As his vision cleared he saw that Jake, Tommy and Gunnar were standing at the foot of his mattress. The three men had rather worried looks on their faces.

“What’s going on?” Anton mumbled. “Did I miss something?”

“That’s what we’re trying to find out,” Jake replied. “Nobody saw you leave last night. And Tommy said he watched the staircase very closely just to be sure…”

“Of course I didn’t leave last night,” Anton said, rubbing his eyes while he spoke. “I was right here. One of the best night’s sleep I’ve had in ages… what is going on?” He looked around at the group. Jake walked over to the window and pointed down towards the street. Anton stood and walked over to the window and looked down and jumped as if he’d stepped on a live wire.

“Holy shit!” Anton stared down at the street. The window was on the north side of the tower and looked down on 1rst Avenue. Anton counted six bodies lying in the street in various states of dismemberment. The most intact of the six was only missing the head. In fact, after studying the scene for a moment, Anton wasn’t sure there were six bodies. What he thought were separate bodies could have been separated halves of single bodies. The street and the sidewalks on either side were splattered with so much blood that it looked like maybe the bodies had fallen from the sky and exploded on impact.

Anton recoiled from the window and turned to Jake, “Who are..” The sentence hung unfinished in the air.

Jake stared into his eyes for a moment. “Not any of ours, if that’s what you mean,” Jake said. “Probably more tunnel folk. I figured they might try to come back.” Jake paused for a moment. “I even made sure we had an extra man on security.”

At this last statement, Tommy and Gunnar both looked up quickly and glanced sidelong at each other.

“It was me,” Jake said, as if to answer their unspoken question. “I stayed up all night. At least I thought I did. I remember watching the sun go down and staring out at the darkness. I remember seeing the sun come up.” He paused again. “What I don’t remember is hearing or seeing anything that would have made me think THAT was happening downstairs!” His finger jabbed viciously at the window as he spoke. “Did either of you see or hear anything?” he said, looking towards Tommy and Gunnar.

“Not a thing, Jake,” Gunnar responded. “It was quiet all night. Unusually quiet.” Tommy nodded in agreement.

Jake stood quiet for a moment, staring at the floor. His left hand rubbing at his chin. Finally he spoke. “I want to go out and have a look around today. Maybe right after breakfast. See what we can find out.” He looked at Tommy and Gunnar. “You two have each been up half the night. I’ll understand if you want to let someone else go out on this one.” They both shook their heads vigorously.

Tommy spoke first, “I don’t think I’ll be sleeping for a bit. Not after seeing that. I’ve seen some evil stuff in the last few months but I’ve never seen bodies like that. I won’t be able to relax until I have a handle on what’s going on.” Gunnar nodded his agreement.

Jake looked at Anton. “You feel like coming with us?”

“You trust me to come along?” Anton asked, looking each of the three in the eyes as he spoke.

“Let me put it this way,” Jake said, “if Billy is right about you, I’d rather have you with me out there should we run into something dangerous. The folks in the tower are pretty safe. We’ve got this place locked down pretty tight. Out there, however, we’ve got to depend on each other for our lives.”

Anton ran his fingers through his hair and shrugged. “If you think I can help, I’d be glad to tag along.”

“Let’s get something to eat first and check in with the rest of the group. We’re going to have to let them know about what happened down there, if they haven’t already noticed themselves. And I want to make sure everyone is accounted for before we leave.”

The four men headed down to the 18th floor again and found most of the other folks already there. From the looks on their faces, Anton immediately knew that word had gotten round about the destruction in the street below. Some of the children were eating at one of the tables and Sisi and Elsa were sitting with them. The three teenagers were whispering to each other at the far end of that table as Anton and the others walked in. Tony, Anna, Peggy and Scott walked out of the kitchen when they heard the men come in. Jake looked around the room.

“Where’s the Lymans and the Calhouns?” he asked after mentally counting heads.

“Ben went to get them,” Sisi responded. “Judith is up on the roof meditating. She said she’d be down in a minute.”

“Niki?” Jake asked.

“Haven’t seen her yet. Ben was going to go by her room as well.”

Almost as if on cue, Niki walked into the room. Everyone turned to look and she seemed a bit flustered and then walked directly over to the table where everyone was standing. She smiled at Jake as she passed, but walked directly to Anton and whispered into his ear.

“Can you please come with me?” her soft voice hissed in his ear. Anton could sense a little bit of fear there.

“What?” he whispered back, painfully aware that now everyone was watching the two of them with growing interest.

“Please,” she whispered again. “I need to show you something.”

“What’s going on?” Jake asked.

Niki turned to Jake, “I need Anton to come back to my room, just for a second. There’s… something he needs to see…”

“Niki, what are you-” Niki cut off Jake with a raised hand.

“Please Jake, we’ll be right back. It will only take a minute.”

Jake and the others exchanged confused glances. The kids' eyes were all wide as saucers. Niki stood staring into Anton’s eyes. Anton felt himself going soft in the knees. Her eyes were pleading with him to follow her. Anton looked at the others and shrugged half-heartedly. Jake nodded and then stepped out of the way and performed a flourishing gesture with his arm, ushering them towards the door. The sarcasm of the movement was not lost on Anton or Niki. She flushed again, grabbed Anton’s arm and dragged him to the door. In the stairwell they went up one floor to the 19th and there they stepped into another sunlight hallway on the north side of the building. Niki led him along the hall to the last doorway. She stopped in front of the doorway, with her hand on the knob.

“Wait here a second,” she said, and turned the knob and stepped inside the door, closing it quickly behind her. Anton stood outside for several moments and was starting to feel awkward when the door opened again and Niki stuck her head out, looked past Anton down the hallway and then pulled him inside.

“What is this about?” Anton asked as he stepped around her into the apartment. He paused for a moment as he looked around the room. The apartment looked very different from the other living spaces he’d seen so far. The entry opened immediately onto a tiny kitchenette on the right and the bathroom on the left. Straight ahead was the living room with a door to the left that Anton assumed would be the bedroom, since the floorplan was the same as the empty apartment he had occupied two floors up. The living room had a couch and a chair, and lots and lots of books. There were book shelves on all the walls as well as several crates on the floor. The kitchen also had bookshelves on all the available wall space. There was a pass-through counter from the kitchen into the living room and there was one small round bistro table on the living room side along with a single chair.

Anton was scanning the various books on the shelves as Niki walked ahead of him to the bedroom door. Anton’s pulse quickened as she reached for the door handle. She paused and turned to look at him. Again there was a little bit of fear in her eyes. She turned the doorknob very gently and pressed the door open and peeked inside. Then she looked back over her shoulder at Anton and cocked her head, signalling that he should look as well. Anton walked up beside Niki and leaned around her to see past her into the room. The closeness of Niki and the smell of her hair almost distracted him from what he saw on the bed… almost. There, sleeping under a heavy wool blanket, with her head resting on a white pillow, was the girl. Anton jumped and it was then that he saw that Niki had been watching him very closely.

“It’s her, isn’t it?” she said. “It’s the girl that brought you here.”

Anton nodded. He looked at Niki and saw both relief and concern in her eyes. She held a finger to her lips and softly closed the door and led Anton to the couch in the living room. She gestured for him to sit down and then she took the chair.

“Where did she come from?” Anton half whispered.

Niki sat bone still in the chair, she was leaning both of her elbows on her knees, sitting on the front edge of the chair. Her head was bowed and her face was hidden by her disheveled black hair. She said nothing. Anton thought she hadn’t heard the question and was about to ask again when she spoke.

“Has Jake told you anything about me?” She looked up at Anton as she spoke. Her green eyes held an expression of sadness and fear, as if she were about to burst into tears. Anton shook his head softly and he saw the look in her eyes harden a bit and she averted her gaze and stared down at her hands. “I am an investigator for Interpol… or I *was* anyways. I specialized in human trafficking cases, specifically sex-trade stuff. I… I have some experience with that. I was sold into the trade when I was 9. I was kidnapped in Debrecen, in Hungary, that’s where I was born. I didn’t escape until I was almost 17. A red cross volunteer in Dubrovnik helped me escape from the brothel there and smuggled me into Italy. From there I was able to get back to my family in Hungary.” She paused for a moment and looked at Anton once again. Her lip trembled a bit. “It changes you. In ways you cannot imagine. I tried to return to my life and my family and found that I couldn’t fit in anymore. Whenever anyone would try to touch me, I would cringe and begin to panic. My mother and father were crushed by it. They felt they were somehow at fault, even though I had been kidnapped from the school yard at my elementary school.” She paused again for a moment and rubbed her palms on her knees as if massaging sole muscles. “I graduated from high school with decent grades and moved almost immediately to Budapest. I convinced myself it was for college, but truthfully… I was trying to get away from my past. My family just reminded me too much about what had changed in me. I needed to start fresh. At the university, I floundered a bit until I met another young woman who had been through a similar experience. She had decided to fight back against her past by studying criminal justice with the intent of becoming a police officer so that she could bring traffickers to justice. Since I really hadn’t made up my own mind about my degree, I followed her lead.” Niki paused again and looked up at Anton. Now there was a hardness in her eyes, almost cruel. He saw strength there, but also darkness… something that made the hair on the back of Anton’s neck stand on end.

“Turns out, I was pretty adept at criminal psychology,” she continued. “I excelled in all my courses and quickly rose to the top of my class. Instead of joining the local police, however, I was recruited by Interpol. They hired me as a junior level caseworker at first. All I did was review evidence files to try and generate new leads. As an Interpol employee, however, I was required to gain proficiency with firearms and self-defense. Again, I had a natural ability for the work and I scored very highly in both fields. My krav maga instructor even tried to get me to become an instructor for new recruits.”

Anton was watching her as she spoke. Her slight frame and timid body language gave her an appearance of vulnerability that Anton found at odds with the personal history she was sharing. He found it hard to imagine this woman skillfully handling a gun or subduing an attacker in hand-to-hand combat. But even as this thought crossed his mind he saw that cold, hard look in her eye again and decided that just maybe, her vulnerability was her camouflage. Maybe that was how she gained advantage.

“I ended up staying with Interpol and became a field agent,” she continued. “I’ve been working mainly in Asia, but my last case brought me here to the west coast rather frequently. The Yakuza have been working with Russian organized crime to transport young girls from Thailand, Cambodia, and Viet Nam into the U.S. and Seattle has become one of the larger ports of entry. I was here following up on a list of suspect shipping container manifests when the government shut down international travel. The rest probably isn’t much different than what you’ve been through since then.” With that, she leaned back in her chair, blew a wayward shock of hair from in front of her right eye with a soft puff from pursed lips, and stared at Anton. “Which brings us up to now…” she whispered and turned to look at the bedroom door again.

“One thing I left out of the story was the difficulty I’ve had sleeping ever since I was kidnapped. Even after all the training and the years spent taking care of myself, I still often wake up in a cold sweat. And there are many nights that I lie in bed and am terrified of falling asleep. I have tried to rationalize away this fear by going over the various securities we have in place to prevent anyone from attacking us at night, but I still fear being asleep. I feel too exposed… too vulnerable.” Nikki paused and stared hard at Anton for several moments. Something in her expression changed and he was about to ask if something was wrong when she spoke.

“I heard it last night.”

“Heard what?” he responded.

“The fight in the street. It was surprisingly quiet and unbelievably quick. The whole thing was over in probably less than a second and probably didn’t make much more noise than someone tossing a bag of garbage in a trash can… but I heard it.”

Anton felt his pulse quicken and he sat up straight and stared into her eyes as she continued.

“I was lying in bed, wide awake, in the dark. I was having one of my panic attacks. I think it was probably around 2:30 or 3:00. Everything was quiet, but the darkness felt oppressive to me, so I was having trouble controlling my breathing. My heart was racing. Then I heard it. Like I said, it wasn’t loud or drawn out. It was quiet and very quick… but something about the sound scared me even more. It was the sound of sudden, savage death. There was no time for them to scream. There was no time for them to fight back. They were dead. I knew before I got out of my bed to look that they were dead. I walked over to the window and looked down. It was too dark to see anything but I knew they were down there. I started to shake uncontrollably. And that’s when I felt it.”

She paused again and looked at Anton.

“Felt what?” he asked, his voice squeaked a little with anxiety.

Nikki stared at him for a moment and now Anton felt like he was being interrogated. Her eyes had become hard and she was watching him closely, as if she were expecting something.

“Her hand.”

She left the words hanging there in the air and her gaze hardened once again and Anton felt as if she were trying to trip him up somehow, catch him in some sort of deceit.

Anton said nothing and after an awkward moment, she continued.

“I was standing there at the window when suddenly her hand was in mine. I couldn’t see her very well, it was dark, and I was terrified, but her touch didn’t startle me. In fact, it was just the opposite. I immediately felt at ease, my fear melted away.” She paused again and her eyes bored into his own, unflinching.

Anton flushed under her scrutiny as his mind returned to the many times the girl had taken his own hand and now, looking back, he had to agree that the feeling of familiarity was unusual. He hadn’t given it much thought before and now he realized that it was exactly because it felt so familiar that he hadn’t given it much thought. It just seemed ‘right’ whenever the girl took his hand. He smiled at Niki as these thoughts came to him. He found himself nodding silently in agreement.

“It was after she had taken my hand that she spoke to me,” Niki continued.

Anton sat bolt upright, eyes wide. “She spoke to you?!?”

Niki appeared to have expected this response from him. She showed no surprise to his sudden movement and just sat watching him, staring into his eyes. Anton was about to ask again when she spoke.

“Yes. She spoke to me. She told me not to be scared. She told me that she would keep me safe. She told me that she had been looking for me for some time and was glad to have finally found me.”

Anton couldn’t believe his ears. Here he’d been with this girl for what now seemed like a lifetime and had never heard her utter a single word and yet now, this woman, who had just met the girl, had been gifted with a conversation. Anton felt a pang of anger and jealousy now and was rather ashamed that he felt it.

“That’s not all she told me,” Niki continued.

Anton looked up at her again.

“She also said that she had come to take me away from here. That she was going onward to find the one who had started all this--the one who must answer for it. She said she would show me why this had all happened and I would see how it all ends. She said the balance had to be restored.”

Now Anton was completely baffled. “What the hell? What is she talking about? Did she tell you what she meant?”

Niki slouched a bit in the chair. Her hips slid towards Anton as her back slid down the chair. She clasped her hands in front of her with her fingers intertwined like she was praying, her elbows were propped on the chair’s armrests. She extended her index fingers, with just the tips touching above the other clasped fingers, reminiscent of a game Anton played as a child where the hands were the church and the index fingers were the steeple. She gently tapped her index fingers to her lips as she stared quietly at Anton. “I haven’t told you the most interesting part yet.”

Anton shifted nervously in his chair.

Niki looked down at her fingers then back at Anton. Now he saw the vulnerability in her eyes again. She looked like she was trembling. He waited quietly for her to continue.

“When the little girl spoke to me, it wasn’t her voice I heard.”

The look of confusion on Anton’s face caused her to smile a bit.

“It was your voice.”

“What are you talking about?” Anton asked incredulously.

“It was *your* voice, Anton. I know it as sure as I know anything.” Niki stared at him for a second. “And to make this even more awkward,” she continued, “I am pretty sure that she didn’t speak out loud.”

“What?” Anton was at a total loss now.

“It was very dark in the room, and at first I thought she had spoken, but afterwards I realized that the reason why I was not scared was that the voice was actually inside my head. She was there physically holding my hand, but her voice… your voice… came to me in my head. And it felt completely natural, like it had always been there. That’s why it didn’t scare me.”

Anton was trying to get his bearings. Now he was kind of worried that maybe Niki had some mental issues and she was trying to project them onto him. The girl sleeping in the bed in the other room, however, tended to lend credence to what she was saying.

“If it was in your head, how do you know it was my voice?” Anton asked, not really knowing what to expect in reply.

“Because of the feeling of familiarity,” Niki responded.

“What?” Anton asked once again.

“I didn’t tell you this before, but when you first arrived and spoke with all of us, I thought I recognized your voice. I didn’t know why, but for some reason I knew I had heard you speak before.”

“I don’t think that’s possible,” Anton replied.

“I know it isn’t,” Niki responded, “but I felt it just the same. And as soon as the girl spoke to me, I knew it was your voice and I had the same feeling that I had heard it before.”

“Have you figured out where you heard it?” Anton asked.

“No. And I am not sure I have. I just feel that I have, for some reason. But I’ve realized lately that my feelings about such things are important and I need to pay attention to them.”

“So what are they telling you now?”

Niki looked at him and Anton saw softness there. Trust even. “I don’t know,” she said. “But according to the girl, the one we are waiting for will be arriving tomorrow.”

Anton stiffened. “What?!?”

Niki shrugged. “I’ve no idea. She said it just before she… we… went to sleep.”

Anton shifted in his seat and then stood up. “We should go and get Jake. If the girl is here, he needs to know.”

Niki made no move to get up. “I don’t think he will see her.”

“What do you mean,” Anton asked.

“Just intuition, maybe. I don’t think that girl really exists. I think she is like the monster. She is just part of you. She appears when she is needed. For some reason, I think I am supposed to go with you and she needed to show up in the way she did to convince me to follow you.”

“That’s just silly,” Anton responded. “I’m not this monster guy. And that girl is not part of me. I can’t explain why she’s here or what that monster is doing any more than you can. And I don’t have any plans to go anywhere. So how am I connected to this any more than anyone else?”

“Because... without you… they don’t exist.”

“I don’t believe it.”

Niki looked at him for a long time. Then she smiled. “Fine. Go get the girl. Let’s take her down to meet Jake and the others.”

Anton didn’t know what to say. He looked at Niki. She just nodded her head towards the bedroom door, but otherwise made no motion to rise.

Anton walked over to the bedroom door and opened it. The bed was empty.

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Rise of the Rune Lords - Modo illspitter Part 1

It was known by the majority of my group that I used to write. So, I kinda got thrust into making them. This is the travel journal of Modo illspitter, a Ratfolk Alchemist. He was traveling with his friend, Grendel the Boggart Fighter. These characters were companion characters and are in some way, incomplete without eachother. The player who was Grendel was sort of pushed away because the group didn't like them. I did not always have fun in this group and half of the players were super strict on the rules yet also weirdly meta about everything. I would become nervous when taking turns because if I didn't move where they wanted, they would all sigh and mumble what I should be doing. Even my rolls got sighs like I should have just "thrown better". Anyway, part 1.

Chapter 1: The party finds each other in the town of Sandpoint. All gathered for personal reasons and pursuits. Aioda came to Sandpoint to participate in the annual festival as a fortune teller and mystic. Rotar arrived in search of the Skinsaw Man. Modo and Grendel came to Sandpoint from the north, slightly unaware of the grand festival they have walked into. Lastly, Gill came to town for what seemed to be personal enjoyment of the festival. While the party slowly got to talking about the festival and introducing each other, the mayor of Sandpoint, Deferin got started on a speech about the roots of the feast. It wasn’t long before the party started to engage in festival ground ‘games’. Grendel had bested Gill in a contest to grab a pig in a muddy pit, but Gill managed to beat Grendel at a small lizard race, while neither became 1rst mind you. Throughout the day the party got shallowly introduced to Sandpoint; its bars, glass work industry and the large cathedral in the heart of the town. Near the end of the day the party found itself admiring the cathedral. To everyone’s surprise, Goblins had found their way into town in alarming numbers. Taking swift action, the party was able to subdue the Goblins near the cathedral and ensure the safety of a notable noble; Marcus Foxglove. Taking haste himself, Foxglove thanked the party, but expressed his concern about the town gates. As the party rushed to the south gate, they found the town Sherriff, Baalor Hemlock, fending off goblins. Using some quick tact the party managed not only to close the gate door on the goblins but also render one unconscious for investigating purposes for Hemlock. The party was thanked and was invited to a boar hunt by Foxglove himself. The next day, the party used some of their time to sell some goods gained from the Goblin encounters. Rotar had found himself a curious statue in a general-magic shop. Enticed by its crafting, Rotar bought it only to discovered later it held a wand inside. The wand was of an odd nature. It seemed to be able to turn its targets invisible, but whether the target perceives it as such is still a bit of a mystery. We returned to Sherriff Hemlock later that day to check up on the state of the assumed Goblin raid and possibly a reward for the day before. Hemlock had few words to spare about the Goblin attack, but did mentioned the Gravedigger had encountered something unsettling. A corpse had been stolen from the graveyard, leaving 2 skeletons in his stead. As the party rushed to investigate, they found a small set of clue’s; A necromancer robe that had been used to raise the 2 skeletons the party faced and tracks on the ground. The tracks were composed of roughly 5 Goblins and a single human. Following the trail to the edge of town, we discovered that the ‘party’ they were tracking had taken a cart to escape, making tracking pretty much impossible when they reached the main road. With some insight, but ultimately at a halt in the investigation, they returned to the cathedral to inquire more about the stolen corpse.

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