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Danielle Bunten Berry (February 19, 1949 – July 3, 1998), formerly known as Dan Bunten, was an American game designer and programmer, known for the 1983 game M.U.L.E., one of the first influential multiplayer video games, and 1984's The Seven Cities of Gold.

In 1998, she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Computer Game Developers Association. In 2007, the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences chose Bunten as the 10th inductee into its Hall of Fame.

Bunten was born in St. Louis, Missouri and moved to Little Rock, Arkansas as a junior in high school. She was the oldest of six siblings. While growing up in Little Rock, Bunten's family didn't always have enough money to make ends meet, so Bunten took a job at a pharmacy. She also held a leadership role with the Boy Scouts.

According to Bunten, one of her fondest childhood memories involved playing games with her family. She was quoted saying, “When I was a kid, the only times my family spent together that weren’t totally dysfunctional were when we were playing games. Consequently, I believe games are a wonderful way to socialize.”

While attending the University of Arkansas, she opened up her own bike shop called Highroller Cyclerie. Bunten acquired a degree in industrial engineering in 1974 and started programming text-based video games as a hobby. After she graduated from college, she was employed by the National Science Foundation, where she created urban models before starting a job at a video game company.

In 1978, Bunten sold a real-time auction game for the Apple II titled Wheeler Dealers to a Canadian software company, Speakeasy Software. This early multiplayer game required a custom controller, raising its price to USD$35 in an era of $15 games sold in plastic bags. It sold only 50 copies.

After producing three titles for SSI, Bunten, who by then had founded a software company called Ozark Softscape, caught the attention of Electronic Arts founder Trip Hawkins. M.U.L.E. was Bunten's first game for EA, originally published for the Atari 8-bit family because the Atari 800 had four controller ports. Bunten later ported it to the Commodore 64. While its sales - 30,000 units - were not high, the game developed a cult following and was widely pirated. The game setting was inspired by the novel Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein.

Along with the success of M.U.L.E., Berry also had close ties with the games Robot Rascals, Heart of Africa, and Cartels & Cutthroat$. Throughout her career, she was involved in the creation of 12 games, 10 of which revolved around multiplayer compatibility. The only two which didn't have a multiplayer focus were Seven Cities of Gold and Heart of Africa.

Bunten wanted to follow up M.U.L.E. with a game that would have been similar to the later game Civilization, but after fellow Ozark Softscape partners balked at the idea, Bunten followed with The Seven Cities of Gold, which proved popular because of its simplicity. By the time the continent data were stored in the computer's memory, there was little left for fancy graphics or complex gameplay - the game had only five resources. It was a hit, selling more than 150,000 copies.

The follow-up game, Heart of Africa, appeared in 1985 and was followed by Robot Rascals, a combination computer/card game that had no single-player mode and sold only 9,000 copies, and 1988's Modem Wars, one of the early games played by two players over a dial-up modem. Modem Wars was ahead of its time, as few people in the late 1980s had modems in their homes.

Bunten departed EA for MicroProse. Allegedly, Trip Hawkins, CEO of EA, did not feel that pushing production of games onto a cartridge based system was a good idea. The shift was important to Bunten, as computer games had previously been distributed on floppy discs, and a changeover to a cartridge system would allow games to be played on Nintendo systems. This was a significant factor in her decision to leave. She then developed a computer version of the board game Axis and Allies, which became 1990's Command HQ, a modem/network grand strategy wargame. Bunten's second and last game for MicroProse was 1992's Global Conquest, a 4-player network/modem war game. It was the first 4-player network game from a major publisher. Bunten was a strong advocate of multi-player online games, observing that, "No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer.'"

A port of M.U.L.E. to the Mega Drive/Genesis was cancelled after Bunten refused to put guns and bombs in the game, feeling it would alter the game too much from its original concept. In 1997, Bunten shifted focus to multiplayer games over the Internet with Warsport, a remake of Modem Wars that debuted on the MPlayer.com game network.

Less than a year after the release of Warsport, Bunten was diagnosed with lung cancer presumably related to years of heavy smoking. She died on July 3, 1998. At the time, she was working on the design of an Internet version of M.U.L.E..

The game's primary premise consisted of players playing with and against one another to establish total control over a planet. The name of the game stands for Multiple Use Labor Element. The game was originally made for the Atari 400 and Atari 800 but was later developed to be compatible with the Commodore 64, NES, and IBM pcjr. The game has a maximum of four players. Players are given different options and choices, and are allowed to create their colony the way they see fit. This can be done by changing races and giving respective colonies different advantages that will impact the way the game is played and determined later on down the line.

Ultimately there are two ways in which players can win the game. The first way is by having the most amount of money out of all four players, and the second way is by being able to survive the colony itself. The game focuses heavily on going out and retrieving resources that can be used to benefit their character. Items such as food, energy, and crystite are some of a number of in-game items that players are able to retrieve and use to better themselves. In order for a player to be able to access these items, they will first have to have access to a M.U.L.E. The acquisition of these items has a direct reflection on what the player will be allowed to do. For example, if a player doesn't have enough food, they will have less time during their turn.

The Seven Cities of Gold was originally intended to be another multiplayer game. It was originally a single player format, focused heavily on having the players travel around the map and collect items to help them strengthen their colony. Once they felt as though they had a solid colony, the players could battle each other to see who could overtake who After much consideration, Ozark Software came to the conclusion that this would not be doable. Instead, they went with a formula that had the game focus solely on developing a colony.

Ozark Softscape was a computer game development team consisting initially of Danielle Bunten, her brother Bill Bunten, Jim Rushing, and Alan Watson. Ozark was run out of Bunten's basement. The company was based out of Little Rock, Arkansas and had profound success with a few of their early titles. Ozark Softscape had a publishing deal with Electronic Arts for several of its groundbreaking games. In the early 1990s, Ozark Softscape left its partnership with Electronic Arts over a dispute to port some games to cartridge format for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It began a partnership with MicroProse to produce two more titles: Command HQ and Global Conquest. A dispute occurred over creating a follow-up to M.U.L.E. with Sega in 1993, and the company dissolved. The employees of Ozark Softscape moved to different areas of the software industry.

Bunten was married three times. Bunten had three children, one daughter and two sons. After a third divorce, Bunten, who had until then been living as male, transitioned to living as a woman. Bunten underwent sex reassignment surgery in November 1992 and afterward kept a lower profile in the games industry. Bunten later regretted having surgery, finding that for her, the drawbacks of surgical transition outweighed the benefits, and wishing she had considered alternative approaches. She joked that the surgery was to improve the video game industry's male/female ratio and aesthetics, but advised others considering a sex change not to proceed unless there was no alternative and warned them of the cost, saying "Being my 'real self' could have included having a penis and including more femininity in whatever forms made sense. I didn't know that until too late and now I have to make the best of the life I've stumbled into. I just wish I would have tried more options before I jumped off the precipice."

After her transition in fall 1992, Bunten stayed out of the video game spotlight, mostly keeping to herself. She felt as though that after transitioning she was not as good at video game development as she had previously been, stating "So, I'm a little more than three years into my new life role as Ms. Danielle Berry, and her career looks to be somewhat different from old Mr. Dan Bunten's. For one thing, I'm not as good a programmer as he was." On July 3, 1998, Berry died of lung cancer.

Wheeler Dealers (1978)

Cartels & Cutthroats (1981)

Computer Quarterback (1981)

Cytron Masters (1982)

M.U.L.E. (1983)

The Seven Cities of Gold (1984)

Heart of Africa (1985)

Robot Rascals (1986)

Modem Wars (1988)

Command HQ (1990)

Global Conquest (1992)

Warsport (1997)

Although many of Bunten's titles were not commercially successful, they were widely recognized by the industry as being ahead of their time. On May 7, 1998, less than two months before her death, Berry was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Computer Game Developers Association.

In 2000, Will Wright dedicated his blockbuster hit The Sims to Bunten's memory. In 2007, the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences chose Bunten to be inducted into its Hall of Fame. Sid Meier, the mastermind behind the video game series Civilization, inducted her at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas.

Bunten was a true pioneer for the video game industry, especially its multiplayer aspect of it. She is regarded by many as one of the best designers to ever grace the video game industry. Her success has even led people to make the claim that the work she did with games like M.U.L.E and Seven Cities of Gold was the inspiration behind highly successful modern multiplayer games like World of Warcraft.

Bunten was known as someone who was very easy to talk to. If someone recognized her in public, she would be more than delighted to have a conversation with them.

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new chapter (lucifer fic)

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Ponder on the Narrow House, part 3

Mazikeen + Eve + Michael, gen fic (for now), warning for gun violence

Along the California coastline, the cruise ship Illustrious Voyager bore four thousand three hundred and ten passengers, one thousand two hundred and ninety-six crewmembers, and two guide dogs.

Five thousand six hundred and eight souls, in total.

At around 4pm, without anyone noticing, that number became five thousand six hundred and nine.

Hands clasped behind her back, Eve strolled down the promenade, admiring the vessel’s size and beauty. This fresh new millennium’s wealth astonished her. Sickened, sometimes. Entranced, sometimes. But always astonished.

Back in the garden, they’d slept on and under rocks. When it rained, they got wet. When large animals came by, they hid. No weapons. No shelter. No blankets. The only resource they’d had in abundance was food. Good grief – so much food. God had been so proud of all the different fruits and nuts and mushrooms he’d made available to them, and Adam had been so grateful. Eve supposed she had been, too.

It hadn’t stopped her from one day approaching her husband and the plump rabbits resting in his lap – two of several dozen pets – and asking if he didn’t think the cold nights would be much more endurable if they each had a warm pair of fur slippers.

Then she’d met Lucifer. Fallen in love. Bitten the apple. Learned how powerful he and his Father truly were. That was when the real questions, the sticky, prickly questions, had come bubbling up.

If Lucifer has such a vast family, with so many siblings, why can’t I have even one? she’d asked the sky. Why is Adam all I get?

And later: If You can simply bring people into existence, why must I scream and bleed and shit myself in order to have children? Am I doing it wrong? Is there another way? If there isn’t, why not?

And later: Why is nothing fair?

And, most recently, after meeting Mazikeen: Why isn’t everything at least equally unfair? Why do humans get a world of options while Maze and her family are expected to serve angels from birth to death? Why isn’t Maze allowed into Heaven, even after an eternity of loyalty and hard work?

“Sorry,” she said, flashing white teeth at a passing crewmember. “I’m trying to find a friend of mine. Can you tell me how to get to Room 835?”

Half an hour later, there was a splash and the ship’s population dropped to five thousand six hundred and seven.

Before binding his arms and legs, Eve had secured Andrew Bismarck’s lifejacket and gagged him. Furious and helpless, he bobbed alongside her as the ship moved on and Mazikeen rowed up in her inflatable raft, wearing a sunset-orange swimsuit.

“Should I be worried about those, babe?” she asked as she gripped Bismarck’s lifejacket and hauled him out of the water.

Eve smiled at the dolphin pod swimming in playful loops around her, and patted the nearest one’s nose. “No. They’re my friends.”

The inflatable wasn’t big enough for three people, so Eve held on to a friend’s dorsal fin and let him drag her back to The Choronzon.

Michael stood on the deck, looking bored. As they climbed aboard, their prisoner slung over Mazikeen’s shoulder, he drawled, “Seriously? This sad specimen’s worth two million dollars?”

“Actually, his net worth is eight hundred million,” said Mazikeen, dumping him down. “Two million is just what his ex-wife is willing and able to pay.”

Wringing out her hair, Eve added, “She took half his money in the divorce but she gave almost all of it to a chimpanzee shelter. I really like her!”

His lip curled. “How delightfully sordid. Isn’t this all a little beneath you, Ms Mazikeen? I mean, you’re a big deal in Hell. High Commander of Lucifer’s legions, head advisor to the king himself. Aren’t you worried taking jobs like this diminishes you?”

Busy handcuffing Bismarck to the railing, Mazikeen said, “Eve, honey? Do me a favour?”

“Boop!” Eve chirped, having already snuck up behind Michael, and pushed him overboard.

“I know it’s your whole gimmick,” Mazikeen called down as he splashed and spluttered, his face red with princely indignation. “And I know you don’t have a lot else going for you. But the next time you try that on me, I will stop being nice. Kapish?”

“Kapish,” he muttered.

The Choronzon had barely travelled a mile before Eve spotted Bismarck’s henchmen coming after them.

“Someone gimme details!” shouted Mazikeen, busy putting a bulletproof vest on over her bikini and opening up the box she’d told Dan contained a fishing rod, not a halberd.

Eve peered through her binoculars. “Two speedboats. Twelve guys on jet skis. Guns everywhere.”

“Heh. Awesome. Mickey – move that tight ass to the front and make like a nice juicy target.”

“Wait, what about-…” Michael began, trailing off as Mazikeen dove gracefully into the sea.

Bouncing from foot to foot, Eve shot him a grin. “Don’t look so glum, sourpuss. This is the fun part.”

She’d never spoken to Michael in Heaven, despite the millennia they’d both resided only two miles apart, her in a lakeside cottage on the outskirts of the Silver City, him in the crystal palace in its centre.

Granted, she’d not exactly had a warm and fuzzy relationship with any of Lucifer’s siblings. They all knew what had happened in the garden. Some had been nice – Amenadiel had visited often, even though he’d never had much to say and they’d spent their time together skipping stones across the lake’s surface. But the others had kept her at a distance. She was a bad influence.

Michael, however, was the only angel she’d not ever said one word to.

She’d seen him, now and then, in the early days, when she was the only human in Heaven and, as such, grudgingly invited to divine family get-togethers. On those occasions, she’d spent too much time feeling awkward and out-of-place to pay attention to the sullen figure lurking in whatever shadows were available. The one time she’d glanced his way, it had been to marvel at the stories of people getting the twins mixed up; beyond the raw basics of bone structure, Michael couldn’t have looked less like her old lover.

Bullets sprayed across the hull. Humming, Eve stepped daintily into Michael’s shadow, seconds before they started bouncing off his shoulders and chest.

“It is beneath her,” he muttered.

She made an ambiguous noise. “How d’you figure?”

There came a shout and a splash from the nearest jet ski. The bullets stopped.

“C’mon. She’s Mazikeen. Everyone in the Silver City knows about Mazikeen. Ordinarily, we couldn’t give two dry shits about Lucifer’s minions, but her? She’s a minor celebrity. The power behind Hell’s throne. Christ, it’s no secret my beloved twin couldn’t govern his way out of a paper bag.”

“Yeah,” she said, smiling fondly. “He’s kind of bad at everything. Except music. He’s a great musician.”

More shouting. More shooting. More bullets bouncing off Michael’s torso. Mazikeen rode by, one hand gripping her newly-acquired jet ski’s throttle lever, the other clutching her bloodstained halberd. Watching her circle the enemy, Eve was reminded of a sheep dog.

Michael went on: “And then there’s the fact that for a while, everyone thought Lucifer was going to marry her. It was all anyone could talk about. Jophiel was taking bets on when the proposal would happen. She’d have been High Commander and the Queen of Hell. Instead? All of a sudden, Lucifer takes an indefinite vacay to the mortal realm, drags her with him, and next thing anyone knows, she’s working behind a bar.”

The remaining jet skis and their terrified, wounded riders had been neatly rounded up, which meant it was time for Eve to open her purse.

“Um – how long have those been in there?” asked Michael, watching her take out three grenades.

“You want one?” she offered. “Don’t forget to take the pin out before you throw it. I did that my first time.”

One thing to be said for millions of dull, dull years spent sitting next to God’s Greatest Warrior, skipping stones across a lake; your aim got good.

The first blast was a warning, not close enough to actually kill any of Bismarck’s men, though the resultant waves did knock several into the water. They tried to retreat, turning their vehicles around, only to remember Mazikeen, corralling them single-handed and now armed with machine guns she’d confiscated from those already bested.

When they saw the second and third grenade incoming, they gave up and abandoned the jet skis, jumping into the sea and swimming for their lives.

“Fuck!” Michael yelped, blocking his ears at the concomitant explosions.

Gazing past the debris and smoke, Eve saw Mazikeen head for the nearest of the two speedboats. Its occupants, preoccupied with aiming a rocket launcher at The Choronzon, saw her coming far too late.

“I get your point,” said Eve, as her girlfriend and her halberd made short work of the crew. “But that’s a really… how can I put this? It’s a really angelic way of looking at things. Maze doesn’t consider anything ‘beneath her’.”

“Wow. Sick burn. You’re basically admitting she has no pride.”

“Oh, she’s got pride. Tons of pride. Her pride’s just dependant on how well she does a job, not on the type of job she has. She wasn’t happy working at Lux, but that wasn’t because she thought bartending was ‘beneath her’; it was because she prefers doing things she’s good at. Customer service isn’t really one of her strengths.”

The second speedboat was abandoned by its crew mere seconds before Mazikeen rammed the first speedboat into it, cackling victoriously.

“Actually,” Eve said, moving from Michael’s shadow to where Mazikeen had earlier set a crate of peach soda – her favourite – out on the deck, “now that you mention it, I guess I’m the one with no pride. Haven’t really ever had anything to be proud of. Your Dad never gave me the chance. I was never meant to do things. I was just meant to be.”

Michael snorted. “Lucky you. Trust me; he may have softened in his later years, but back in the day he never, ever stopped riding our asses. You think Lucy really rebelled because he had better plans for how the universe should be run? Because he was an innovator? Nope. Lazy dick just hated being told to do his chores.”

By the time Mazikeen swam back to them, saltwater had washed off the blood and her ponytail had come loose.

“Oh, hey,” said Eve, gripping her hand and pulling her up. “A mermaid.”

After pressing a rough kiss to her cheek and taking a swig of peach soda, Mazikeen asked, “You okay? He did his job?”

Eve patted the angel’s shoulder – the one that wouldn’t hurt. “He was terrific! Awesome addition to the team.”

“I didn’t do anything,” Michael mumbled.

Ignoring him, Mazikeen snatched up a towel to dry her hair. “Glad to hear it. Alright! Let’s get Bismarck back to shore, get paid, and find a place to have dinner so we can toast Team Hellrazor’s first successful mission.”

“R-A-Z-O-R,” Eve informed Michael. “To make it cooler.”

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Lucifer Season 5 Episode 16 Review: A Chance at a Happy Ending

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Lucifer Season 5 Episode 16

“Never loving anyone is far worse than loss.”

Heads up, humans, there’s a new God in town, and Lucifer fans couldn’t be happier. The near perfect season finale, “A Chance at a Happy Ending,” gives fans of the Netflix series some resolution regarding Lucifer and Chloe’s turbulent love story while at the same time setting up what might be the ultimate paradigm shift. Good triumphs over evil, the Devil sits on Heaven’s throne, and all’s right with the universe.

There’s no real crime to solve this time, but the spectacular crash of the prison bus in the opening scene subtly reminds viewers of Lucifer’s desert experience in the season two finale, and in the end, provides a source for the reinforcements Team Lucifer requires in the later confrontation with Michael and his angel army. Of course, the celestial battle for Heaven’s throne occupies the main thrust of the episode, but the individual, personal battles with which each character struggles receive sufficient attention and in some cases, even satisfactorily resolve themselves.

Make no mistake, however, God leaves his children to decide who will replace him, and Michael’s fear based approach to acquiring power plays nicely against his twin’s method which is grounded in desire. The opening exchange between the brothers deftly lays the groundwork for Chloe’s later role in taking down Michael. The writers provide a nice twist after Michael makes Lucifer an offer we know the Devil will refuse when he tells his brother that “Chloe will be down there with you.” Wait! What? Okay, you’ve got my attention. And while we understand the Lucifer premise significantly deviates from the familiar biblical account, it’s the shift toward guilt as the primary offense leading to divine damnation that creates a fascinating alternative.

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Season 5B plays heavily on the emotional component, and “A Chance at a Happy Ending” cranks things up several more notches beginning with the scene in Dan’s apartment. While all the characters weather more than their fair share of misery and suffering, it’s Mazikeen who engenders the most empathy as she continues to battle her fear of abandonment and low self-esteem. It’s positively heart wrenching to watch Lesley-Ann Brandt’s riveting performance as Maze sobs uncontrollably while she, Linda, and Amenadiel pack Dan’s things. It’s clearly far more than Dan’s death that troubles her, and to see her naked vulnerability so frequently this season beautifully sets up her eventual reunion with Eve.

On the other end of the spectrum, Linda’s obsession with little Charlie’s intellectual development temporarily takes viewers away from the intensity of the celestial conflict. Amenadiel makes a nice connection between his son’s propensity for falling down and the human inclination to learn through failure, but the scene’s humor lies in Linda’s refusal to hear a word he’s saying. We know she already knows what he’s saying is true, and that’s what makes it so endearing.

Though there’s no lack of complexity among the characters, it’s difficult to ignore that Ella alone remains in the dark about the celestials’ true identities. During her moving conversation with God, she admits that “it’s extra dark right now,” and momentarily questions whether God is even listening to her prayers and pleas for guidance. Of course, the irony here is that her faith remains true despite the chaos in her life and the lives of those she loves. Perhaps in anticipation of the harrowing scenes to come, we hear Ella playfully tease the fact that she’s figured out the truth on her own, and we half expect her to reveal that the feather she’s placed under her microscope actually belonged to an angel. We’re fairly certain she hasn’t and won’t, and her assessment that Lucifer hit an emu with his car sits perfectly in the mix.

Nevertheless, it’s the angelic battle royale that drives the episode, and we know there are dark times ahead when Remiel turns up at the penthouse and collapses dead on the floor. The quest for control of the Flaming Sword continues when detective Decker notices the lack of burn marks on Remi’s fatal wound. They realize Michael’s bluffing about the sword, and we get a nice call back to an earlier episode and the necklace which comprises the final missing piece.

I’m still not a fan of employing identical twins as a narrative device, but Lucifer’s confrontation with Michael and TJ gives Chloe and Lucifer a chance to show off their teamwork, hinting at a full reconciliation when this conflict ends. However, it’s Lucifer’s concern for Chloe’s safety in the upcoming fight that allows Amenadiel to utter a line that on its surface appears a bit cheesy. Whether it’s DB Woodside’s heartfelt delivery or the context of the moment, his insight reminds us of one of the season’s more important themes. “You have to risk falling if you want to fly,” he tells Lucifer as the tension mounts over the detective’s perceived vulnerability against Michael and the other siblings. Perfectly timed, Mazikeen appears and hands Chloe a blade. “You can have stabby.” It’s just a wonderful scene because we know how much pain Maze endures and finds it so difficult to come to terms with her place in Lucifer’s world on Earth, in Hell, and potentially in Heaven.

Lucifer: What Happened to Tricia Helfer’s Charlotte and the Goddess?

By Kirsten Howard

Lucifer: God Takes Charge As Dennis Haysbert Joins Season 5

By Dave Vitagliano

There’s no better location than the Los Angeles Coliseum for the angelic throwdown, and the initial standoff between Michael’s formidable army and the three member Team Lucifer combines a sense of gladiatorial combat with a little West Side Story vibe thrown in for good measure. The plot twists keep on coming as Lucifer, Amenadiel, and Chloe stall for time, but it’s the electric entrance of Maze and Eve with their jump suited demon army that instantly alters the balance of power and gives hope that Maze might finally get the happy ending she craves and deserves. Melting down Maze’s demon blade to make angel killing bullets is simply classic.

Ordinarily, we’d be fairly certain that one of the show’s leads is not going to die with another full season still to be aired, but this is Lucifer, and the opportunity to shift the narrative to the afterlife inherently looms as a possibility. The well executed action sequence between Michael and the Flaming Sword and Lucifer and Zadkiel’s staff sets up the devastating conclusion to this brotherly squabble. Now broken in two pieces, the staff becomes a murder weapon, and it’s up to the dying Chloe to convince Lucifer he’s not responsible for her death. On the surface it seems she’s concerned that he won’t go to Heaven if he’s wracked with guilt over her death, but we know that he can’t go to Heaven as a result of the failed rebellion. Still, it sets up the first of several highly emotional scenes.

We know immediately that Chloe’s in Heaven with her father, and it’s a nice touch that they’re both approximately the same age, allowing a chance to connect on a fairly equal level. She’s clearly let go of any guilt she had regarding Dan’s death, but when Lucifer crashes to the ground and meets Lee, we’re momentarily thrown for a bit of a loop. Yes, that’s an awkward nod to Lee’s prior Hell loop. Lee’s sweater tips us off that this is not Hell which then begs the question – how does Lucifer successfully make it to Heaven? The twists keep coming yet feel natural and make perfect narrative sense. Lilith’s ring protects him but with a caveat – his time in Heaven is limited. Nevertheless, it’s Lee’s appearance that provides an opening for the happy ending we so desire for Lucifer and Chloe. Am I the only one surprised that there were no “happy ending” jokes in the episode?

It’s easy to feel empathy toward Lee each time he appears on Lucifer’s radar, but here, the small-time criminal not only helps the Devil find Chloe, but sends the message that even Lucifer can have a second chance at happiness. Is there something other than God’s banishment that keeps him out of Heaven? Is another hand calling the shots here, and if so, we know who that will likely turn out to be. Lucifer realizes the ring doesn’t have enough power to return both him and Chloe to Earth, and he makes his choice. “The world still needs you, Chloe Decker,” he tells her, making what he thinks is the ultimate sacrifice. We’ve waited a long time to hear Lucifer utter the words we’ve known he was capable of speaking and are not disappointed.

Back on Earth, the celestial war still rages, with one status change – Chloe’s alive and possesses physical powers she didn’t have before her brief stay in Heaven. It’s only fitting she beats the crap out of Michael, and just as it appears she’s willing to kill him, Lucifer flies to Earth to stop her. It’s a wonderful role reversal that allows Lucifer to put his stamp on how things will be moving forward. “Everyone deserves a second chance,” he tells his twin after severing his wings rather than his head. But what makes this magnificent scene even greater than the sum of its parts is Lucifer’s delayed reaction to what’s just transpired.

Arguably the series’ most poignant scene gradually unfolds as the enormity of the situation strikes Lucifer and the celestials. Even he doesn’t understand how it happened, but it seems pretty clear that the Devil has made a 360 and holds the Flaming Sword aloft as the others acknowledge his new standing by bending the knee before him. The highly emotional scene puts an exclamation point on an outcome that once appears all but impossible.

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There’s no word yet regarding a return date for its sixth and final season, but Lucifer already exists as a television anomaly. Not many series get cancelled by one network only to be given a second chance, and the graphic novel based drama continues to defy the odds on so many levels. Looking back it’s clear that “A Chance at a Happy Ending” brilliantly closes one chapter of Lucifer’s journey while forging a path for unexplored narrative territory. The Devil becomes God. Now what?

Lucifer season 5 is available to stream on Netflix now.

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Franny’s NPC Music Pals

Alternatively: McKala rudely writes a novel about Daniel Maitland and everyone else just gets bullet points.

Obvs she’s got a million but these are her main NPC music buddies that will be referenced in game.

Daniel “Dan” Maitland (June 14, 1980)

FC: Martin Sensmeier

Born in Alaska, moved to Payne Lake, Georgia when he and Franny were in middle school

Alaska Native, Tlingit and Koyukon Athabascan

Beginning of his contact with Franny

Daniel has been Franny’s best friend since middle school. They were an inseparable trio with the late Molly Vaughn, who was Franny’s best friend since Kindergarten. The three of them got matching tattoos when they were twenty. It’s bluebonnets because of the song Cowboy Take Me Away

Daniel and Franny got a second matching tattoo the year Daniel was inducted into the Native American Music Awards Hall of Fame and they were both inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame -- it’s matching banjos on their wrists

His dad always liked country music so he got into it a little as a kid, but mostly listened to rock in the early 90s, got real into grunge, but in late high school he rediscovered country and bluegrass music

He and Franny played in a rock band in their last two years of high school but they were both getting really into country and bluegrass together at this time so they’d get together and jam

Acquiring a love for country/folk music

Daniel has said in interviews that, “Unlike Franny, my music taste wasn’t very diverse until I was in high school. I was a product of the 80s and 90s, you know, rock n roll, grunge, Franny and I were even part of a rock band with some classmates. I got a car and could drive us around. Franny usually commandeered the cassette player. She really opened my ears to influences outside of rock music.”

On how a Nirvana fanboy grew up to study bluegrass music academically and become a bluegrass musician; “It was really our senior year of high school that I fell head over heels for country and bluegrass music. He isn’t always considered country, but I discovered the music of John Denver in the late nineties. After his death, Franny and I went to a record store and purchased one of his Best Of compilation albums because all we really knew [...] Country Roads, the obvious. We sat on my bedroom floor, I had my guitar, Franny had her thrift store mandolin, we played with that album and came up with harmonies until my sister bangs on my door at almost midnight to tell us to shut up. I found a cassette tape we recorded from that day actually, I still have it. We have a lot of recordings of our early- I don’t even want to call it work, we were just playing around. That night sent me down the rabbit hole.”

He hasn’t just ditched rock music though, he’s a guitarist and backup singer in a female-fronted alt-rock band Venus and The Flytraps.

He has a prolific career as a songwriter, a successful career as a solo artist, he and Franny Robinson form an americana-bluegrass duo called Dara & Danny, and he’s one of the members of a kind of “supergroup” of musicians living in Appalachia called Pardon My Banjo. Daniel used to play mandolin in a band called NDN Cowboys- a country-folk band made up of all Native Americans, but he left the band on friendly terms in 2010, the year after Dara & Danny was formed.

Daniel went to East Tennessee State University to pursue a degree in Country, Bluegrass, and Old Time Music, the only place in the world to offer such a degree.

Personal Life

Daniel was born in Juneau, Alaska, to a Koyukon-Athabascan mother and a Tlingit and white father. His paternal grandfather is of English, Croatian, and Czech descent. Daniel maintains a home in his native Alaska, and in Kentucky, his primary residence. Shortly after his birth, he, his father, and his siblings moved to the Hoonah–Angoon Census Area where they lived in various communities with friends and relatives of his father, primarily Hoonah and Pelican, while his mother worked as a civil engineer in England and sent money home. He didn’t live with his mother until, in 1991, she got a job opportunity with the Georgia Department of Transportation, and the family relocated to the town of Payne Lake in Clayton County.

“Payne Lake’s this little nowhere town sandwiched between Jonesboro and Lovejoy, in the rural part of Clayton County,” Maitland explained in an interview. “You’re driving south from Jonesboro, you blink and you passed through Bonanza and Payne Layne, then you’re in Lovejoy.”

Daniel became a classmate of Franny Sor Robinson at Lovejoy Middle School and Lovejoy High School. “She’s been my best friend for 30 years,” Maitland said in a 2021 interview. “It’s been a gift to know her for long. We’ve been through marriages, kids, all of the good and bad in life together. It’s great to have somebody besides your family and partner to lean on and to knock some sense into you when you need it. Apart from my family, the only non-negotiable people in my life are Franny and, uh, Madalaine, my oldest kids’ mom. I’ve always just had a better time being one or two token guys in a friend group of mostly women.”

In 2009, he and Robinson formed the duo Dara & Danny together after having regularly collaborated since the start of their music careers.

Twice divorced, his divorces were the inspiration behind Dara & Danny’s “The Divorce Album”, a critically acclaimed and fan-beloved album about divorce and the lead up and aftermath. Daniel wrote most of the lyrics and Franny wrote the music to go with Dan’s lyrics, which was unusual because she usually writes most of the lyrics. In addition to his divorces, Daniel’s had several rocky serious relationships that have served as song inspiration.

In 2003, Daniel married Madalaine Snow, daughter of English banjo-player John Mitchell and North Carolina Cherokee and Lumbee Native American activist, sociologist, poet, and musician Atsila Snow in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. They had two children together, son Larkin Maitland Snow (b. 2003), and daughter Kalia Maitland Snow (b. 2004). They divorced in 2006 but they’ve remained friends.

Snow’s children and older step-children from her current relationship occasionally visit Kentucky with Maitland’s children. “They’re my kids’ siblings. They’re welcome in my home anytime for a trip to the mountains with or without my kids.” Maitland has said in an Instagram live with Kalia, where he was teaching other dads how to do their daughters’ hair. “Her brother -- okay, for the sake of clarity I’m going to say just once stepbrother and stepsister, but those aren’t words we really use in our family. Her brother and sister literally call me like ‘hey, Dan, can my friends and I come crash at your place some weekend this month? We want to go hiking and white water rafting somewhere different’ and I’m like ‘great, any vegans or food allergies I need to know about for dinner?’ If you are my kids’ family, you are my family too. I stay at Maddy and Eric’s house when I have a show within an hour and a half drive to hangout with them and Larkin and Kalia. Eric and I have gone on fishing weekends together. We’re very fortunate that our divorce was a very mutual, natural conclusion to that part of our relationship, and that we’ve gotten to maintain a wonderful friendship. I feel like our marriage ending made my family grow, not shrink. And I hope all of Larkin and Kalia’s siblings through Maddy and Eric feel welcome in my family. Like a weird bonus uncle.”

Larkin and Kalia mainly lived in Swain County, North Carolina, with their mother and attended New Kituwah Academy, a private Cherokee-language-immersion K-6 school. In 2019, Kalia moved to Cumberland, Kentucky to live with Daniel so she could graduate from high school there and get Kentucky tuition at University of Kentucky.

In 2006, Daniel began dating Canadian actress and Mohawk indigenous rights activist Gina Taylor, but they split in 2009. They have one daughter together, Ariadne Maitland (b. 2007). Daniel is on good terms with Gina, and Ariadne lives primarily in Kentucky with him.

He briefly dated Oscar-nominated actress Amanda Dunham in 2009.

He married Australian journalist Sasha Teller in 2010. They divorced in 2014 and had two children together, boy girl twins Jack and Maxie (b. 2011). In 2018, he sued her for primary custody, citing Teller withholding his right to see the twins. He won primary physical and joint legal custody of Jack and Maxie, and was court-ordered to have the twins spend Christmas and three weeks in the summer with Sasha in Australia.

In 2019, his son Larkin came out as pansexual and two-spirit. Dan retweeted their tweets that clarified their pronouns are “he/xe/they” and that “I don’t dislike the terms nephew, son, grandson, but do not call me a man.” He has been supportive of his son’s identity, appearing at North Carolina and Kentucky pride events with them, his daughter, and their mother.

In February 2016, Daniel began dating American artist, poet, writer, and singer-songwriter Whitney Sullivan (born April 8, 1991). Her mother is from the Zuni tribe and she grew up on the Zuni reservation with her siblings, mother, and her father, whose ancestry comes from the Lummi, Ute, and Omaha tribes, and one Irish great-grandfather, hence the last name.

On her friend’s current girlfriend, Franny Sor Robinson has said, “If Daniel don’t marry her, I might have to.”

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Serghei Adamescu (November 24, 1982)

FC: Andrei Tiberiu Maria

Romanian-born sound engineer that Franny regularly words with

Met when he was studying at Pride U when she was getting her Masters’ there and they #vibed

He’s a dope guy

Not much to say about him other than he’s damn good at his job

Lora Lopez (November 1, 1978)

FC: Sandra Hinojosa

Mexican-American singer and songwriter she went to NYU with

Franny’s collaborated with with and written songs for her

She stared in one of her music videos as the love interest and they got to makeout half-naked which Franny described as “fun as hell”

Lora makes music in English and Spanish

Padraig Chen (May 10, 1987)

FC: Lewis Tan

Irish-Chinese alt-rock singer and musician

Met through her Scottish Seoul Hanoi’d bandmate Max Cho

They’ve written together a few times

Mostly just jam and vibe together

He sends her a lot of his demos for her opinion

#&&...hc

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Dungeons & Shitposting Episode 47: Time to Meet the Happy Couple

After a billion years on hiatus (read: since April 17th), we finally came back... Well, by ‘we’, I mean half the party. A shame since a big plot reveal occurred but that’s life.

The cast:

Sir J. P. Fluffsworth aka Sir Fluffy, a shifter fighter/paladin who loves friendship and is just a sentient version of Greater Dog. (as played by @friendlyneighbourhood-spider-dan) Recently acquired a magical talking sword called Hollowblade. Original party member. [ATTENDED THE SESSION; MISSED THE REVEAL]

Orion Nebulorn, a half-orc barbarian who loves fighting and seafaring. (as played by @servantproto) Wielder of the Monster Execution Combative Heavy Axe Build 0.8.2 and recently hurt by the betrayal of a clanmate. Original party member. [ARRIVED AT THE END OF THE SESSION FOR THE REVEAL]

Cyrus Cormack, a human tempest cleric of Waukeen. (as played by @blangyouredead) Recently bitten by a werewolf and was earlier framed by Orion’s clanmate, Lyra. [ABSENT]

Drachedandion Bipen aka Bipen, a ‘dragon’ (tiefling) sorcerer who loves to fly and lives with his Mom and his Maam. (as played by @brokou) Inheritor of the magical helm, Trothar. [ABSENT]

Navitas Stormfey, a tiefling sorcerer/bard who parties hard and trusts few. (as played by @dovahheim) Wields the Horn of Blasting and is still unable to get in Rickert’s pants. [ATTENDED THE SESSION]

Naqine Stormfey, a tiefling demon hunter (homebrew) who lives to rib her older sibling and fight demons. (as played by @spectrefox) Currently freaking out about the fact that multiple demon lords have shown up in the Material Plane. [ATTENDED THE SESSION]

The events:

The session began with the rolling of initiative to kill Diam’Rem, a kuo-toa who hunts followers of Demogorgon. Party disliked the whole ‘harness demonic energy to power up weapons to kill demo and use their soul to ascend to godhood’ angle, despite Diam’s refusal to fight back.

This didn’t matter as Diam’Rem got first initiative, disengaged, and fucked off into the ocean. Most of the party is relieved because Navitas was the only one with a major murderboner over this.

The party takes a moment to harness some spoils from the dead dragon from the previous session and finally get a long rest. (They fought two deadly encounters with only a short rest in-between.)

Party wakes up and spot a flying creature approach. Navitas and Sir Fluffy recognize it as an eala, a sort of big swan thing that fae types like to take as pets/status symbols.

Some tiefling rides it down to the boat, jumps off, and runs up to hug Naqine, calling her ‘twin!’. Everyone is confused, especially Naqine, not knowing any twins, especially ones that have a completely different skin tone.

Party tries to calmly explain she is mistaken and the tiefling has a bit of a breakdown before summoning her ‘children’ out of her magic wand: an owlbear (later to be called Professor Hoots), a basilisk, a girallon, and a catoblepas (aka Cat-Platypus).

Tiefling reveals her name to be Credence and her twin’s name to be Creed, @dovahheim‘s characters in a previous one-shot. She has a strange marking that another one-shot character had: a diamond eye with a jagged line that glows red when stressed.

Due to a well placed Fear spell at the start of combat from Navitas, Credence flees early on her eala, with the girallon following.

Sir Fluffy spends almost all of his combat ability wailing on the catoblepas (due to it being able to shoot death lazers) and trying to make it fear him. He only succeeds in pissing it off (and doing like 85% of its health in damage) and it blasts him with the death lazer doing a whopping 65 necrotic.

The party makes quick work of the catoblepas, making sure it doesn’t get another attempt to pull that shit. Meanwhile, Professor Hoots mauls the fuck outta Naqine but she stands firm. They dismantle both the owlbear and the basilisk without too much extra trouble. Oh also, the mast caught on fire and burned up the sail.

As the party licks their wounds, Sir Fluffy decides to open up the dead animals, hoping for... something??? Honestly, it was weird. They find a pair of unbroken eggs: a white egg with sharp claws protruding the top (later revealed to be a hook horror egg) and a dull grey one with red flecks (later revealed to be a cockatrice egg).

Navitas cases the rest of the boat as Captain Creig Cornswaggle, the Courageous Commander of The Cruel Craven and Co-Owner of The Crow’s Call mourns his losses. She finds the wand Credence used to summon her pets and a locket. Inside the locket is a painting of three people: a halfling male in heavy armour, a human woman with a rapier and fine dress, and Credence (a tiefling barbarian). On the back of the locket, an engraving: “The Four Mulefolk of the Inconveniencing: Zizitoppah, Soleil, Creed, and Credence. Painted by Credence. Love you assholes.” (This is the party from the one-shot: Creed and Credence are twins because Creed got eaten by a purple worm before they even entered the mine they were casing.)

Another boat appears as they approach the continent of Faerun. An aarakocra approaches them, wearing the garb of the Lord’s Alliance, specifically the Border Security unit. Sir Fluffy recognizes him as a friend from his old military unit: The Green Sabres. Jackolas “Flappy Jack” Zakeem eagerly greets his old friend and grants the party (and The Cruel Craven) passage into Neverwinter.

The party gets caught up on some goings-on in Faerun (the up-coming wedding they were invited to, the recent battles they had with the giants before a peace treaty was signed). Fluffy begins explaining the party’s adventure but Flappy Jack points out that there’s a bit too much to unpack and that this would have to wait to have this discussion over some nice glasses of milk.

The party begins to splinter off: Orion is pulled aside by Captain Creig Cornswaggle, the Courageous Commander of The Cruel Craven and Co-Owner of The Crow’s Call to invite her to join as a full-time crewmember and assist in transforming the ship into a travelling tavern (Orion’s player’s new job’s hours make them staying an unfortunate impossibility); Cyrus leaves to speak with the local fishermen to find good spots to fish; Navitas attempts to go drinking only to be given false directions by Flappy Jack and end up at an AA meeting; Naqine follows her sibling, expecting disappointment but getting the world’s most satisfying surprise.

Eventually they all retire to The Sleeping Dragon and get a good night’s rest.

Except Navitas, who decides to go on a late night stroll and finds Egg-cellent Eggs!; a stand run by a young-ish human man by the name of Tomathan. They learn of the nature of the eggs that their companions possess and purchases one of their own: that of a remorhaz.

The next morning, the party notices Navitas has not returned from her night stroll. They are, in fact, sitting on the roof. As the party leaves, she assails Naqin with pebbles on the roof and a bizarre team-up from Sir Fluffy, Bipen, and Naqine attempt to fly up and lasso her. Tomfoolery ensues and eventually they all descend.

Flappy Jack takes them to Ye Olde Teleporte Housee and bids them farewell as they must return to their work on the Border Security unit.

Inside Ye Olde Teleporte Housee, they meet Tedrick, a very tired sounding elf who is in charge of conducting inter-continental teleportation circle travel. He asks some brief important security questions (such as the meaning of their visit to Gauntlgrym as well as if they were an animal what animal would they be) before taking them there.

Arriving at the Gauntlgrym teleportation circle, they meet Rickted, a shockingly similar elf in every regard, before leaving Ye Olde Teleporte Housee and into Gauntlgrym.

Rickted catches up to them and hands them official documentation to get them into Castle Feldrun so they can meet with the people who invited them.

As they arrive, their dwarven escorts attempt to inquire about the location of the soon-to-be-married royal couple before a regal looking elf male, that none of the party recognize, enters the room.

As the servants and the dwarven guards bow, he takes in the party before looking specifically at Orion and Sir Fluffy. He smiles and says “It has been a moment, has it not?” before the doors behind him burst open.

Barreling down the stairs, in a brilliant green tunic, shimmering silver scarf, with her long shock red braids flying behind her, a young dwarven woman tackles Orion and Sir Fluffy with a hug.

They recognize her as one of the jailmates they escaped from the drow with. They recognize her as someone they watched die and bury themselves. They recognize her as Eldeth.

The exuberant Eldeth turns to her fiancee: “Isn’t it nice to have them back with us, Derendil, dear?” (Prince Derendil was also a fellow jailmate; a quaggoth who claimed elven nobility and was secretly ‘dealt with’ by two former party members: Talinid and Kana, both alive but away from the party).

And that’s the end of the session!

#Evii plz #Dungeons & Shitposting #was happy with the reveal but was kinda wishing the whole party could be there #but at least one of the og party characters were there in person for it #looking forward to how this progresses as well

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Genesis chapter 46

In Genesis chapter 45 we saw the emotions of a brother who truly loves his siblings even though they had done grossly wrong to him. He finally broke down because of his deep emotions of being able to be with them once again. There is nothing more emotional than a family getting together once again once they have been separated. Joseph sent his brothers on their way with the admonition to bring his father and all their families back down to Egypt so they could all be together one more and so he could see to their, in particular his father’s, welfare.

1---So Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.

2---Then God spoke to Israel, in the visions of the night and said, ‘Jacob, Jacob!’ And he said, ‘Here I am.’

3---So He said, ‘I am God, the God of your father; do not fear to go down to Egypt, for I will make of you a great nation there.’ (Deut. 26:5----’And you shall answer and say before the Lord your God: ‘My father was a Syrian, about to perish, and he went down to Egypt and dwelt there, few in number; and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.)

4---’I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also surely bring you up again; and Joseph will put his hand on your eyes.)

5---Then Jacob arose from Beersheba; and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob, their little ones, and their wives, in the carts which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

6---So they took their livestock and their goods, which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and went to Egypt, Jacob and all his descendants with him.

7---His sons and his sons’ sons, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters, and all his descendants he brought with him to Egypt. (Ex. 1:1-5----vs 5----All those who were descendants of Jacob were seventy persons for Joseph was in Egypt already.)

8---Now these were the names of the children of Israel, Jacob and his sons, who went to Egypt: Reuben was Jacob’s firstborn.’

9---The sons of Reuben were Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.

10--The sons of Simeon were Jemuel Jamen, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman

11--The sons of Levi were Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

12--The sons of Judah were Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan). The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

13--The sons of Issachar were Tola, Puvah, Job, and Shimron.

14--The sons of Zebulun were Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.

15--These were the sons of Leah, whom she bore in Padan-Aran, with his daughter Dinah. All the persons, his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.

16--The sons of Gad were Ziphon, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.

17--The sons of Asher were Jimnah, Ishuah, Isui, Beriah, and Serah, their sister. And the sons of Bereah were Heber and Malchiel.

18--These were the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and these she bore to Jacob: sixteen persons.

19--The sons of Rachel, Jacobs wife were Joseph and Benjamin.

20--And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh, and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Poti-Pherah priest of On, bore to him.

21--The sons of Benjamin were Belah, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.

22--These were the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: fourteen persons in all.

23--The son of Dan was Hushem.

24--The sons of Naphtali were Jahziel, Guni, Jezir, and Shillem.

25--These were the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and she bore these to Jacob: seven persons in all.

26--All the persons who went with Jacob to Egypt, who came from his body, besides Jacob’s wives were sixty-six persons in all.

27--And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt were two. All the persons of the house of Jacob who went to Egypt were seventy.

28--Then he sent Judah before him to Joseph, to point out before him the way to Goshen. And they came to the land of Goshen.

29--So Joseph made ready his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel; and he presented himself to him and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while.

30--And Israel said to Joseph, ‘Now let me die, since I have seen your face, because you are still alive.’

31--Then Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, ‘I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and say to him, ‘My brothers and those of my father’s house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.

32--’And the men were shepherds, for their occupation has been to feed livestock; and they have brought their flocks, their herds, and all that they have.’

33--’So it shall be, when Pharaoh calls you and says, ‘What is your occupation?’

34--’that you shall say, ‘Your servant’s occupation has been with livestock from our youth even till now, both we and also our fathers; that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.’

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