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sirenologyyy · 1 year

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ATWOW MODERN AU!

(a.k.a my hot take if the kids were in highschool)

part 1 part 2

tsireya

- a glossier girlie through and through

- she's the most popular girl in their whole school and it is really hard not to hate her

- she listens to kpop specifically NEW JEANS, her bias is Minji, her bias wrecker is Hyein, she loves the song Ditto and would memorise ALL THE DANCES

- this is basically connected to the one before this but is a dancer, she did ballet as a kid then her parents enrolled her in a professional dance school. She had to quit because that on top of being the student body VP, her work in the animal shelter and being a farm hand in her family's farm it's just too much work

- her and ao'nung are irish twins so even though they were both born in the same year she had to step down a grade (hence why she's classmates with Lo'ak and Kiri)

- the Maihoa family are loaded so you'd expect her to be snobby and uptight right? HELL. NO. Tonowari and Ronal raised her better than that (she would make do with whatever she has, she's literally so low maintenance and would appreciate ANYTHING)

- they have this private strip of land where they converted into a golf course where they'd go golfing any time (it's literally a 5 minute drive away from their estate) she and Ao'nung would golf every weekday if they didn't have any homework and would stay there until sunset

- literally just good at everything she does ahsjsnz

- everyone expects her to be that one coquette girl but nah let's be honest, she's the coastal grandma

- this girl cannot LIE she's such a goody two shoes (one time Lo'ak and Ao'nung decided to sneak out to go to some party the swim team were having after hours and they asked her to cover them but she ended up selling them out nonetheless (both of them got an ass whooping the next night but hey, at least she waited 24 hours to rat them out)

- she runs hot so she always wears shorts and bra tops

- dosen't swear if necessary, maybe mutters a 'fuck' or 'dick' but only if she's royally pissed, if she starts swearing in Māori GET UP AND RUN no, wait scratch that, don't run, SPRINT

- her makeup is always organised in tubs by most to least used, her beauty blenders are always washed, her makeup brushes are cleaner than when she first bought them, her room is basically an Ulta branch with a bed and books laying around

- MAKES FRIENDSHIP BRACELETS ‼️ everyone from the group has one, sometimes she strings seashells and beads she found in her travels onto the thread (Lo'ak takes his off everytime he swims or takes a shower because he dosen't want it to get wet)

- a hardcore people pleaser, she'd brutally exhaust herself if it meant people would be happy with her assistance (that's why Ao'nung rarely asks her for favours)

- would ditch you for a chance to advance study

- she was that one person in the class where in between subjects the other girls would line up by her desk as she does their hair

- she and Lo'ak went as Amy Santiago and Jake Peralta the first Halloween they were officially together

- her favorite subject is Chemistry (she's memorised every quantum formula there is) and Advanced Lit because let's be honest Tsireya is a book worm (Ronal would walk into her room at 2 in the morning to find her bundled up in the covers while wearing a headlight reading some 10 inch book she borrowed from their library)

- is a cancer, must I go on?

- let's be honest, she's vegan too

- multilingual, she can speak French, English, Māori, and Dominican (learnt that to impress Neytiri)

- won an award in 4th grade for being the person in their batch that borrowed the most books

- she and her father would bond over the Percy Jackson series because it's what statted her love for books (they'd talk shit about the movie adaptations LSNSZKZ)

- she likes collecting seashells, everytime they'd visit their father's home town in Rotorua or literally any beach Tsireya would not leave until she'd find a shell (this was never an issue until they came down for a visit where she spent her 12th birthday, it was raining cats and dogs when they left and Ronal didn't allow her to grab some random shell off the sand before they climbed in the car and she was upset the whole 17 hour flight back)

- she does her own nails, they'd always be white French tips but sometimes she'd use coloured nail polish

- wears Jo Malone perfume

- she's always active in class let's be fr, she studies like a junkie, she gets conscious about it though so she decided that in every subject she'd only raise her hand 5 times

- you CANNOT trust her in the kitchen, when she says she'll be trying out this recipe from tiktok you need to watch her or she'll slice her palm open

- you need 20 bucks, she'll give it to you, if you can't pay her, no problem, if you can, she won't be reminding you (she literally forgets everyone she lends money to)

- rarely gets mad, if she is though she'll bite your fucking face off

- girls ask her what product she uses for her eyebrows and she's like what product (baby girl has naturally thick eyebrows she does not need to touch them to look that good)

- her favorite movie growing up was Cars (specifically Cars 2), when she was a teen it was Pitch Perfect and now it's the 2005 Pride and Prejudice adaptation (she hates the Netflix Persuasion one)

- "Hey whose got some acetone? My nailpolish looks real streaky" "Oh I do!"

- has only drunken 3 times and she's always the spacey kinda drunk that laughs at like literally everything

- had that huge ass barbie doll house with the working lights, elevator, slide, and garage when she was a kid

ao'nung

- when he'd cook meals with his mother (I know, shocking) they'd always make a shepherd's pie and they'd practice her Māori, when she'd pronounce a word wrong or forget what the Māori translation would be he'd pretend to be angry at her but he ends up in a laughing mess

- listens to Rob Zombie

- when he was a kid he could not sleep without a night light on, Ronal and Tonowari decided to take it away one night and they wake up to a cranky 7 year old smashing plates in the kitchen at 2 in the morning

- he sleeps at 10 pm or at 4 am. Strictly.

- his wardrobe consists of Ralph Lauren and Nike (the duality 🤌🏼)

- Ronal and Tonowari never had any problem feeding him and Tsireya, what she wouldn't eat he'd eat, what he wouldn't eat she'd eat

- he wants everyone to think he's the living epitome of basketball bro, shooting hoops everyday because ball is life bro... and he is

- no one would think he's on the honor roll, he'd never brag about his test scores to anybody except Tsireya, all that seems to leave his mouth is basketball, basketball basketball, he'd never ace tests because most of the teachers do a roll call of the students with perfect scores and he'd hate to be standing by the blackboard with Neteyam and Rotxo so he purposefully gets one question wrong, wether that be forgetting to add the negative sign to an exponent, being a year off of important dates in history, forgetting to add the correct unit of measurement

- used to vape as a joke but now he just does unconsciously

- has and always been a momma's boy

- he picked up on Ronal's british accent and Tonowari's Māori accent and sort of have this unique hybrid accent when he talks, it was hard to understand him when he talks really fast but especially hard when he was in preschool with his speech impediment, his teachers and classmates could not understand a thing he said

- plays chess and will obliterate you in a matter of seconds, you'd be too focused on getting your rook to his side and by the time you got there he's already taken most of your chess pieces and your king 💀

- plays Royale High with Neteyam's baby sister and Mortal Kombat with Lo'ak

- everyone expects him and Tsireya to attend private school (mostly because Ao'nung's an entitled douchebag) they only stayed because the school they were supposed to study at didn't have any more spots so they studied at Pandora High instead, they went back the second year because he'd been acquainted with Rotxo at the time and his parents decided he was a good influence on Ao'nung (also they wanted Tsireya to run for the student body so)

- flirts with too many girls but never takes anything a step further, there are about dozens upon dozens of rumors circulating the school of him getting it on with this one girl in the auditorium, making out with this one girl in the science lab, taking this one girl to his car and Tsireya hears all of it 💀

- never raises his hand to recite and if he does it's during the last 5 minutes and he's trying to kill time by making their teacher talk about their children or the Vietnam War or something until the bell rings and all the students bolt out of the classroom before their teacher could get another word in. If he gets called on out of the blue he'll always get the answer right

- sleeps in class lol

- he drives an Audi to school everyday

- he dosent speak Māori as well as Tsireya but he understands just as well as her

- watches kid cartoons when he's stressed like the magic schoolbus, pink panther, angelina ballerina, but he's always stayed true to his roots which was cartoon network like Ed, Edd, and Eddie, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, and Camp Lazlo

- zones out when he's upset

- they have loads of beach houses scattered along the coast but the one they always go to is their Fairfield house in Connecticut where they'd surf from dawn to dusk, his parents would join him and Tsireya in the first 5 hours but they'd leave after that and let them surf on their own. When they'd be done they'd have seawater in their ears, sand in places they never would have imagined, and their hair would start turning golden because of how long they spent under the sun

- he's the type to never tell you anything unless you ask him about it, you'd never know how his day if you don't pester him about it, you won't know if he's feeling alright or not because he is so incredibly hard to read.

rotxo

- drinks tea but has a raging caffeine addiction

- spends his off time watching sitcoms with some popcorn

- does not have any clue what is going on

- since everyone agrees on this, yes, he was raised by his grandmother

- he has all the ap classes too let's be fr

- HE SAYS SUCH OUT OF POCKET THINGS SOMETIMES, he says it how he sees it, he'd literally go out of his way and call you a perforated ballsack if he felt like it (and he never got a citation for it EVER) it almost fazes Ao'nung how someone so sweet could say such BOLD things 😭

- he wears cargo shorts and blue t-shirts and vans and/or black converses

- A HUGE SZA FAN, has been since the release of CTRL and we all know he was there the moment SOS was released also because he was literally blowing up the groupchat with the countdown (GUYS 5 MINUTES GUYS 5 MINUTES) a week after the release he's already memorised almost all the songs

- he sometimes asks the most obvious questions that some of his classmates start laughing as a result 💀 jokes on them though they didn't ace the test like he did

- he just gives Charlie Kelmeckis energy

- he's the type of person to stutter when he's nervous so when he came to Kiri's house to meet their parents for the first time it took him 1 whole minute to say hello to Tuk who opened the door asking him if he was the doordash guy

- wouldn't be opposed to a night in as much as a night out

- he isn't exactly that well off but will pay for EVERYTHING he won't even let Ao'nung (whose father is a billonaire) pay for 2 fries and 2 sundaes at McDonald's

- really likes Spiderman (went as Miles Morales 2 years in a row, he only went a second year because Kiri thought it would be a good idea to play Spidergwen and you best believe they got a lot of candy)

- is the type to remember the littlest things about you

- very emotionally intelligent

- he tutors Kiri sometimes but those sessions always end up with them getting take out or watching poorly made hollywood films and laughing their asses off at the cringy dialogue and shit special effects

- he's in film club and the school newspaper column he loves writing and wants to work in a real film set one day

- with that in mind, when they were younger Rotxo produced plays with Tsireya and Ao'nung during family gatherings, they made all the props, asked Rotxo's grandma for help with costume design (of course they always get standing ovations)

- is an only child

- canonically a teacher's pet and Ao'nung makes fun of him for it

- GOLDEN RETRIEVER ENERGY THROUGH AND THROUGH

- the unluckiest luckiest son of a gun ever (got detention for dropping a weight on a girl's head, said girl gave him a kiss on the cheek when she left to go to the hospital, the script he'd been working on since middleschool got lost, immediately gets invited to a film set on a bigshot Hollywood movie for a day)

- surfs A LOT, not as much as ao'nung since he competes in surfing classics but Rotxo could if he wanted to (he has stage fright poor baby)

- is a peace maker - Duane Evans Jr.

- puts his hands over his ears when he's scared

- HAS LITERALLY NO SENSE OF DIRECTION, his first day in Pandora high he was 20 minutes late to all his subjects because he's always miles away from his classes, if his Chemistry class was in the the second floor jit'd be out in the football field asking Seniors where the chemistry classroom was and they'd purposefully give him the wrong directions making him another 20 minutes late and he literally just missed the entire Chemistry lesson 😭 you can give this boy a dozen compasses and he'd still be lost (Ao'nung actually did give him a compass for his 12th birthday before he realized that Rotxo did not know the difference between his East and his West)

- he can hold his breath for 3 minutes (imagine you're just relaxing on the beach and you see two 7 year old boys floating on the surface of the water)

- literally just unintentionally funny

- he's always been the friend that was almost NEVER allowed outside, if his grandma does allow him outside she only gives him an hour or so but Ao'nung has already used up like 15 minutes for begging so...

- animals love him, it's almost annoying really

- he says sorry to inanimate objects if he bumps into them

- HE NEVER SLEEPS, he's shit at time management too so he just crams extra credit assignments the night before it's due and ends up getting a 90% on them like it's witchcraft???

- sings songs out of nowhere like some broadway star

- parents and grandparents love him, (they once stole beers from Tonowari's mini fridge in their vacation house in Martha's Vineyard in Massachusets and Ronal caught them and Rotxo lied to her face when she asked them what they were doing in Tonowari's private study, he told her that they were throwing the beers out because the fridge was on the fritz again, which dosent seem so believebale granted they were two teenage boys but Ronal took one good look into Rotxo's puppy dog eyes and FELL FOR IT. They drank them on the rooftop that night while they watched the sunset (and scrambling down when Tsireya spots them halfway across the beach)

- braids Kiri's hair for them (they could literally be eating lunch together with the group and next thing she knows Rotxo's asking for a rubber band to tie her hair off)

- plays the pianoforte

- wears those puca shell necklaces and sometimes wears a sweatband to school (I know im describing Michael from Duckrockers but HUSH)

- used to always eat in the classroom of his favorite teacher who teaches AP Lit, that is until Ao'nung found out and invited him over to eat with him and his swim team friends, until they eventually just started eating on another table, Tsireya joined them as well because her friend group was getting a bit too tight iykyk (fake ass bitches) then Lo'ak started sitting there because he Tsireya started dating, then Lo'ak invited Kiri over because he had a bet going with Ao'nung that Kiri would be the first one to ask Rotxo to be their boyfriend, then Neteyam decided to eat with them too because someone had to ratio the absolute havoc these 4 wreak during lunch time (2 to 4 is better than 1 to 4, poor Reya)

PART 2! Finally got through to finishing Tsireya, Ao'nung, and Rotxo! I had sm fun doing these which ya'll can clearly tell given the amount of headcannons I wrote 😭 anyway, I might be writing more atwow fics in the future who knows honestly...

#avatar #avatar the way of water #tsireya #ao'nung #rotxo #metkayina #avatar modern au

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suometar · 8 months

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Fic stats game

Thank you so much for the tag @robthegoodfellow @disdaidal @spaceofentropy 💜

Rules: Give us the links to your fics with the most hits, second most kudos, third most comments, fourth most bookmarks, fifth most words, and your fic with the least amount of words.

Most hits: Dream a Little Dream of Me (4288) - Harringrove - rating: E. Summary: Steve works as VP of marketing in a Fortune 500 firm. He starts to have a recurring dream of a relationship where he feels content in a way he'd never felt before. "It's just another dream" he tries to tell himself. But then it suddenly isn't just a dream anymore. It's not like you can dream someone perfect alive, can you?

Second most kudos: also Dream a Little Dream of Me (115) 💜

Third most comments: Is She For Real (35) - Harringrove - rating E. Summary: It's 1994. Billy and Steve return from California to visit Hawkins for Nancy's baby's christening. Steve doesn't know it, but Billy has a dream and he's at Hawkins to learn if it's really what he wants.

Fourth most bookmarks: Fever dream (26, most of them private, I see you fellow whores) - Harringroveson - rating E. Summary: Billy had always dreamed of having a threesome. Specifically with Steve and Eddie. And now he was finally getting it.

Fifth most words: Trinity (24,529) - Preacher AMC, Eccarius/Cassidy - rating E. Summary: Swearing never to leave home again, Eccarius and Cassidy return to New Orleans. They're accompanied by Cassidy's crush who they have invited to stay with them as long as she needs to. Her stay takes things into a whole another direction.

Fic with the least amount of words: Doubt (733) - Preacher AMC, Eccarius/Cassidy - rating No Rating (this was written when I didn't really yet grasp the whole rating etc). Summary: Cassidy and Eccarius go through the motions in the deep of the night.

Tagging anyone who sees this! Feel free to tag me as the one who tagged you 💜

#I was tagged #Harringrove #Harringroveson #Metalsandwich #harringrove fic #Preach AMC #Eccarius #proinsias cassidy

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fastesthe1 · 7 months

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What Fire Emblem Fates Loses Without Online Functionality

As many know by now, Nintendo announced that they will be shutting down the online functionality for the Wii U and 3DS in April 2024. Among these affect will be the Fire Emblem games for the 3DS, all of which I love dearly.

So out of curiosity about what we are going to be losing, I decided to turn off my 3DS's internet and see how Awakening, Fates, and Echoes: Shadows of Valentia reacted. As it turns out, the My Castle feature in Fates was heavily designed with online in mind. Without online, out of battle prep is going to be harder for the average player, and worryingly so.

The first thing is rather obvious: players will lose the ability to visit any other castles (outside of potentially via Streetpass, but I have no easy way to test that). This of course means no more buying player skills for your units (including the fun yet illegal ones like Aptitude) from quick castle battles. You will also lose the ability to recruit any other players' units or form Bond Units between those you visit and visit you frequently. While sad, I would say these features are mostly not needed for Fates' overall gameplay loop.

However, quick castle visits are also used to obtain other resources like ore and food, as players randomly start with different ones. Ore can be traded in at the Smithy for other ore types (at the steep price of 5 for 1). Since ore is needed to forge weapons, you will need to grind for the required amounts. As for food, you're going to have to hope that someone in your army finds some to give to you while wandering the castle. If you have at least one of any ore or food, you can use it at the Arena in an attempt to gain more of it.

Very unlikely players will have 99 of each item in post-online files without the long grind (or hacking).

Players will also lose access to the other paths' shops and vendors from other castles. Unless you're playing Revelation, you will be forced to primarily stick to weapons of the country you've sided with at Chapter 6. This includes weapons like the Dual Kanata that flips the weapon triangle or the Armorslayer that is effective against armored units. Players with the Museum Melee DLC will be able to farm for out-of-path weapons, but it will be a luck-based grind.

Quick castle visits are a great source of Dragon Vein Points, or DVP, as well. DVP is used to build and upgrade facilities around My Castle. Outside of castle visits, you can still obtain DVP through chapter battles, skirmishes, invasions, DLC battles... This is actually a major blow to Conquest in particular because, unless the player has previously downloaded DLC before the shop went offline, they might have no infinite source of DVP! This also makes thing like support grinding difficult, especially if you want second generation units. Birthright and Revelation will still have the infinite skirmishes at the very least, but it will certainly take longer.

Unfortunately for Fates, losing access to online features might end up harming the game's Streetpass functions as well. I hope I am wrong about this, but it appears that you can only update your castle if you are connected to the internet. In other words, once the 3DS online is taken down, you might not be able to update your Streetpass castle, and any future new players might not be able to send out a Streetpass castle at all!

Losing online also comes at the cost of losing your Visitor Points (VP) and Battle Points (BP). Along with showing off how popular your castle is, VP and BP are used to unlock rewards. Many of these rewards are harder to obtained weapons and permanent stat boosters. Without being able to update your points, any future files you start will not be able to access and use these rewards.

Visiting other castles has always be fun!

In short, while none of the online features are absolutely necessary to complete any path in Fates, it does hamper one's abilities to obtain many valuable resources. Forging will be much harder, building up My Castle will take much longer, and it will be trickier to build supports. Conquest players in particular will have to care much more about resource management in general (unless they have DLC).

But what about Awakening and Echoes: Shadows of Valentia? Do they lose anything?

I checked these two as well, and fortunately for them, losing online is basically a non-issue! (Unless you want the DLC, in which case you are already out of luck.)

Unlike Fates, both Awakening and SoV can continue to update their Streetpass (even though it's just a player card for the latter). In fact, as far as I can tell, all SoV really loses is the ability to see how the player ranks in the Global Rankings, which is inconsequential for the gameplay.

Priam, a character exclusive to Awakening's Spotpass chapters.

I've seen some people bring up the possibility of losing Spotpass in Awakening, which contains bonus content like extra paralogue chapters, bonus units, and unique, harder to obtain weapons. As it turns out, as long as you have previously downloaded Spotpass at least once before, all content related to it will continue to be available for all current and future playthroughs! So only future new players will be losing out on it once the online functionality is gone.

Will Fates still be playable overall?

Oh, absolutely! Just because players will lose many of the wonderful features My Castle has to offer doesn't mean it's all gone. You should still get enough weapons and resources to reach the end of the game regardless of the path chosen. I suspect several players have already done so, either for not caring about My Castle or just not having their 3DS connected to the internet in the first place.

My hope is that Intelligent Systems will put out an update to alleviate the loss of online functionality. Perhaps it could be a resource pack, containing 10 of each ore and food and some weapons. Sadly, I believe this to be very unlikely, especially this late in the 3DS's life...

While more a replacement, a port or remake of Fates would be nice as well! It could contain the three paths (à la Three Houses) along with all of the DLC (including the two festival maps that never left Japan). I for one would absolutely be down for it, as Fates is unironically one of my favorite games.

Azura from Fates, and one of my all-time favorite characters!

In the end, this is all merely speculation on my part. We won't know for certain how much will truly be lost until the day Nintendo shuts down the 3DS and Wii U online services for good.

TLDR; Fates will likely lose easy access to obtaining resources and weapons once the Nintendo shuts down the online service for 3DS and Wii U, primarily related to My Castle. Overall this will make items much harder to obtain or, in a few cases, outright unobtainable. The game will still be completely playable however, just a bit harder.

#fire emblem fates #nintendo 3ds #fire emblem birthright #fire emblem conquest #fire emblem revelation #fe fates #streetpass #my castle #i love this game #fire emblem awakening #fire emblem echos: shadows of valentia #Pulled out my saved Miiverse screenshots for this!#my first post #psa

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jamesshawgames · 1 year

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Neon Fire: More Details

Here, as promised, are more details on what will await you in Shadowrun: Neon Fire!

The game will begin with character creation. Rather than fiddling around with numbers at this stage, the game will simply ask you a series of questions about the character that you want to play, and will generate you a starting character sheet and gear based on your answers. Later, you’ll earn Karma points, and have regular opportunities to spend them on upgrading your character’s Skills and Attributes as you choose.

You’ll be asked to set your character’s gender, real name and street name. You’ll also choose your metatype (human, ork, elf, dwarf, troll), which will have a slight effect on your starting Attributes. You’ll also be able to choose what kind of runner you want to be. Options are:

Shaman (magic user who specializes in spirit summoning, and has a selectable Mentor Spirit)

Mage (magic user who specializes in spellcasting, and has a selectable spell type affinity)

Adept (magic user who uses magic to enhance their physical attributes)

Rigger (expert vehicle and drone specialist)

Decker (can enter the Matrix in VR and do cool hacky shit)

Street Sam (a combat specialist, probably cybernetically enhanced).

This will have a big impact on your starting sheet. Also, you can choose a background. It’s fixed that your character was born into a privileged corporate family, the child of execs, but Something Happened, which resulted in them falling into the shadows, and you get to choose what. Selectable backgrounds include disgraced Lone Star detective, disgraced Mitsuhama exec, disgraced ex-Mitsuhama military (are you seeing a pattern yet?), rebel who got caught up in gang life, or one or two others. This will have a moderate effect on your starting stats.

Once you have a character, you’ll be thrown right into the Prologue. Here, you’ll be teaming up with your established crew in Seattle (rigger Porkchop, street sam Kurt, shaman Catspaw and decker Jackp0int) for what should be a simple job. You need to break into the headquarters of a small local corp, Puget Systems, and plant a strange device on the computer terminal in the office of Puget’s VP. Your client promises you a bonus if you can do it without raising any alarms. Simple, right?

The Prologue is mostly meant to introduce players to the world, to what shadowrunners do, and to the major rules and systems. At the end of this “milk run”, you’ll discover that you’ve received a message from your long-estranged sibling. They have discovered troubling things about your mother’s death years earlier, things which they think you should know. They also believe that they’re in danger. They want you to go out and meet them. In Neo-Tokyo.

Act 1 follows your arrival in Neo-Tokyo and your attempt to reconnect with your sibling. It doesn’t go smoothly. Soon you’re on the run from powerful but mysterious enemies, and on the trail of dangerous knowledge. You fall into the claws of Endo-san, a shady but powerful fixer, who promises to help you figure out what’s happening, in return for you working for him. And so you come to be part of a new runner crew, alongside new fellow runners whose respect you need to earn fast. (And maybe more than respect, too: your new crew are all romanceable!)

Act 2 (by far the largest chunk of the game) sees you living the life of a Neo-Tokyo runner, taking on jobs from a range of shady clients, attempting a variety of different run types, often incorporating difficult moral choice, drawing deeply on Shadowrun’s outstanding and deep lore, and going up against memorable and distinct enemy factions. At the same time, you’ll undertake special assignments from Endo-san which will advance the main plot and help you get to the bottom of the mess that your sibling has stirred up.

Act 2 will also introduce your all-singing, all-dancing new hub, Ameya-Yokocho Market. Here, between missions, you’ll be able to do a whole bunch of stuff. This is where you’ll level up. You can also hang out with your fellow runners here, getting to know them and maybe pursuing a romance. You’ll be able to hit your safehouse computer to keep up with your messages, check the media to inform yourself of current affairs, sell loot and paydata, and review your currently available missions. You can shop for delicious new gear. You can pick up small side-quests which can net you cash, store discounts, or juicy, juicy lore-drops. You can get to know the denizens of the Market and learn their secrets.

Act 3 is the concluding section. This is where you have enough info to take the fight to your enemies, to wrap up the main story, and to uncover a secret which could have a major impact on Neo-Tokyo and the world!

#shadowrun #neon fire #dev update #hosted games #choice of games #interactive fiction

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tani-b-art · 4 months

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It’s an older livestream but is resurfacing because of her recent sit-down with VP Harris (that “conversation” made people question why her points seemed so odd in addition to not very much action or solution was provided).

Dr. Jackie Walters…it is absolutely deplorable, dangerous and anti-Black that this sentiment is her actual feelings. She is part of the problem and for it to come from an actual Black (woman) OB-GYN is heinous. It’s scary. Putting more Black mothers at risk with these insane generalizations and stereotypes. (I see some folks saying because she herself has not had children that she wouldn’t know…it should not have to be because you can’t relate with not having children of your own that you somehow can’t be empathetic)!

“A bit more dramatic” and “cry wolf”. I’m heated!

I don’t care if that pregnant soon to be mommy comes to you twice a day for thirty days straight! There is a literal life growing inside of her. You don’t know what her body is experiencing (I mean, yes you do as a physician but it also is very personalized)! You should care for her well-being and her unborn’s well-being at every turn. Ease her concerns by showing compassion and empathizing AND most importantly assuring her that she’s being heard. And these women are selectively choosing you because you are a Black OB-GYN and a woman —assuming they’ll get better care given the horror stories we consistently hear when the physician isn’t Black and isn’t a woman.

The “a bit more dramatic” is probably because of your sentiments! So then consistently never being heard or taken seriously results in Black mothers-to-be having no choice but to be overly expressive in making their voices heard!

We know the stories of other Black pregnant women (non-famous & famous alike). We know the stats. We know the racism Black women receive from health care personnel who are not Black. We know the bias. We know the systemic racism and implicit bias. We know this all and it’s sickening to hear this come from her. Her Anti-Blackness is harmful.

((and taking days off from work during a woman’s pregnancy…wouldn’t that be the best time to use pto?? taking off a day or more is ideal during pregnancy. some jobs are already stressful as it is and showing up to work while also pregnant is double that for expecting mothers. what business is it of yours that she needs to request days off—she earned that))

#Black doctors #Black maternal mortality #Black mothers #Black pregnancy #birthing #Dr Jackie Walters #Jackie Walters #Black pregnancies #Black expecting mothers #infant mortality #health care #health industry #married to medicine

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lesbian-vergil · 3 months

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Instead of sleeping I went into the garage to make minor tweaks to my laserswap setup. I changed my arms to the Melander C3. I only lose 230 AP (which isn't too big a deal when I still have 12,700 and TA) and gain 30 firearm specialization. I could use the nachtreiher arms to squeeze more FAS out of it but I feel like the Melander C3 is a great compromise between the FAS and defense stats that I want. Tested it out in two ranked matches and felt a solid difference in how many hits were landing.

Left is the Melander C3 version and the right is the VP-46S version.

#armored core 6

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pondsphuwin · 8 months

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fic stats meme

Tagged by the loml @seamayweed <3

rules: give us the links to your fic with the most hits, second most kudos, third most comments, fourth most bookmarks, fifth most words, and fic with the least words.

most hits: speeding through all of these red lights (kp, rated E) - this is also my longest fic so it's understandable it has so many hits

second most kudos: breakfast can wait (liankuea, rated E) - idek why this one is so popular lol

third most comments: mirrored hearts (kp, rated E)

fourth most bookmarked: ultraviolence (vp, rated E)

fifth most words: down for three (lukaimark, rated E, 27k) - lol my superm cheerleading au from my kpop rpf days... i didn't want to include my kpop fics here but oh well, i still love this one ngl

least words: a little closer (showho, 664w)

i don't think i have any writer friends here on tumblr besides sea, so i'm tagging any mutuals who write and want to do it.

#tag game #fic talk #thank you for tagging me my lovely sea #was tagged

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hungrydogs-if · 2 years

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"the only place he felt like he belonged was whenever he and VP hung out " I wonder how Dane will react if VP betrays him/ the HDMC 👀 not that my mc would ever do that! They are the biggest Dane simp (so am I) and would sooner take a bullet for him.

oh wonder no more, i have a draft i wrote up one night thinking about bad endings and this is the very first one that was both written and cut from the story. not canon, as one would say haha

i am physically restraining myself from spoiling you what he could become like as well, because there's a few choices you can make that pushes dane onto a... different path. more deranged, so to say. and it starts at the very beginning of the game ;) i love my hidden stats.

(so, tw for gun violence, blood, and death. plus heartbreak for dane lovers. sorry 🤭 )

You've never seen him cry. Now the tears spill freely while the gun in his hand shakes, barrel barely leveled at your head. The wind picks at your hands, still lowered while you're half-turned his way. A wound by his side oozes dark blood, too dark to be anything superficial. That same red colors the droplets that hiss through his teeth, heavy breaths wracking his entire body.

Stormy, bloodshot eyes. They meet yours in rage, but there's something there, something you can only imagine as hope. Hope that the person he trusted the most in this world didn't turn their back on him. He finds no reassurance.

The phone in your hand pings, another message from your new life. Somewhere in the city, a police siren wakes to life. It would've made both of you turn at some point, but now you're locked in a situation neither can look away from.

Gravel crunches when Dane staggers a step closer to you. The gun wavers.

"Why?" He breathes, almost inaudible in the narrow alleyway. "Why?!" He repeats, louder this time, voice raw and broken. You have no answers, you doubt he would believe if you did. In thirty-odd years, you'd never seen him cry. And now, you're the first and only cause he ever will.

Somewhere across the street, a sniper glint catches your attention.

[["I'm sorry."|dbe_baz]]

[[Close your eyes.|dbe_baz]]

A shot rings out. You're taken back to that day, years ago, when the same sound took your friends from you. The choked noise sounds like a sob, but it doesn't come from you. A thump follows, and the clatter of metal on hard ground.

The shot doesn't kill him immediately. You should've known, Dane was the strongest, most stubborn man you've ever met. Now he's on the ground, kneeled over, bracing one arm against the harsh terrain. Blood flows from the open wound in his chest, pooling on the ground before he collapses.

He doesn't scream. No second shot comes.

Somewhere, sirens get closer, louder.

You consider walking away, eyes flitting to the end of the alleyway, beyond the darkness. It would be easy to walk away, to let the paramedics do what they do. This wasn't your life anymore. Something pulls you back, a groan. A plea, whispered, weak, and dying.

"Please," it begins, and gravel shifts under your boots. "Don't - " A cough, raspy and wet. "Don't leave me." A sob, and you force yourself to look at him. The dying form of a man you once called your best friend. His eyes are pleading, pale, lifeless.

"I don't want to die alone, please, don't let me -" He grits his teeth and his head drops, forehead to the ground with a pained, rattling gasp. One hand reaches towards you, the other pushing against the ground as if trying to push him upright, if for one last time.

You made your choice. There's only one thing left to do.

[[Leave.|dbe_baz_fin]]

#asks.#dane.#oops it's sad hours #snippet.

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