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aleksa-sims · 4 days
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RL Story
CW: pregnancy, addiction, break-up
2 weeks later...
I was on my way home. There was a kind of pumpkin- or autumn festival in the park, although it wasn't actually even really autumn? 🧐 Anyway! That's why I decided to go through the park today.
As I passed some autumn stands, I suddenly saw Daniel with a girl.😱 I quickly turned around/back, to hid somewhere on the side. Still, I risked another look because.... somehow I couldn’t believe it. But yea, there he was, with a girl!!😢 ... It hurt me sm to see him with her. I gotta get away, I thought!!! I felt really sick that moment.🤢 In RL, there was a Mc Donald's just a few steps away. So I rushed there to go to the toilet. But.... holly shit!! That damn Mc Donalds!!! I ran into a huge glass door!!! 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️😄I thought it was open. Yup! SOO embarrassing!! However, after I peed, I got back out. As I was walking out the door, Daniel was standing there. With lowered eyes, I tried to pass him unnoticed but....
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Daniel: Hi!... What are you doing here? Are you alone?
Me: Don't you remember? Today is Tuesday! I just had class. I'm going home. 😞
Daniel: Yea... Did you see me earlier? I felt like I was being watched.
Me: YES! I saw you! That sucks, yk?😫 .... Ugh, I- I wasn’t prepared to see you.... here today with your new.... crush. How about you sign the divorce papers? 😒😢
Daniel: Sorry..... I'm on it. Ok?... I gotta go.
Me: Wait!
Daniel: You weep? 😕
Me: M-my hormones are... runnig wild. Yk?
Daniel: Are you... ok? You and, your baby?
Me: We're fine. Thanks.... But-... Daniel! I-... 😥
Daniel: What?
Me: I-... I wanna be with you.... I miss you. I-... I know it's not right, but-
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Daniel: In all seriousness......... You gotta be kidding me? 🤨
Me: No, I don't! I love you. And I also miss Lucky. Pls take me to him.... Why did you hurt me so much? I wanted to stay with you. You promised to always stay by my side, didn't you? Instead, you broke up with me. That was the worst thing you did to me. I thought I was dying this summer.... Now you're with that...-
Daniel: It’s over! I don’t listen to this shit! You, know why I didn’t want you near me anymore.
Me: Tell me damn it!! What have I done to you??? 🤷‍♀️😧
Daniel: No! Listen! If you wanna see Lucky, we.... can find a solution. I moved. I'll call you.... Bye!
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Me: You moved??????????? Noo, Daniel! What happened to our apartment? 😢Why didn't you tell me? I loved this place....
Daniel: I couldn’t stand it there! And all your stuff... Almost everything in our apartment reminded me of you. I couldn't handle it.... .. you........ completely destroyed me. 😞
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Me: No, please don't go! I wanna go with you D.
Daniel: .... Damn.
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Me: Why don’t you want me anymore? It's bcs I'm hooked??... We can stay clean together. 😢💔
Daniel: Go home to your-... to him. 😞😒
Me: But I love you both. We can still be together....
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I talked so much crap. I really wanted to prevent Daniel from going back to that girl. I know that was totally selfish of me. But I didn’t give a shit! I just didn’t understand why he dumped me?? My pregnancy wasn’t a prob for him, so what did I do wrong?? And that girl who accompanied him, got me SO pissed! She was at Mc Donald’s too, but I didn’t see her there, when I went out. Anyway, she came back. She saw Daniel and me talking...
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Girl: Hey, sweetie... Ahhm who is that?
Daniel: Yk? I still got some things to do. We should table this.
Girl: So now what?... Don't you want me?... This is your chance to get me....🤫 laid, baby. Now or never? 😏
Daniel: Well, that may be, but... anyway.
Girl: Huh? Where are you even looking? What's going on here? And who ist that fat girl?
Me: We are married! (dumb bitch) 🤨And I'm pregnant!
Daniel: Yea that's true, but it's not my baby!
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Girl: I'm not stupid, sweetheart! I should have gone with your brother, but I thought you were the cute one. You with your green eyes and...hm? You have preety teeth, by the way.
Me: 🤢🙉
Daniel: Fine, just call Alex! I’m sure he can still.... schedule you somewhere in between. 😬
Girl: You’re serious, aren’t you?
Daniel: Listen, maybe later, ok? But, I gotta go now. Sorry.
Daniel just left. I have no idea where he was going or what he was up to? So I also went home, to..... Nico. 😬🤦‍♀️And tomorrow morning, I’ll go to Daniel. He texted me at 1:00 a.m. I couldn’t help it, I went to see him and I also wanted to see Lucky again. ❤️🐱
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iamgrape · 1 year
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" My precious Eve..."
Content: Dick Girl / Futanari! Mother superior! Tatsumi x FEM! Nun! Reader. Request by: @rozestears
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➽─ won't you run away with me?──❥
She silent stared at you processing your request for a minute or two. Her silence scared you, you suddenly went pale in worry. She giggle so suddenly and bend to get something under your bed.
Your eyes widen as she discovered something when your back is turn to her earlier but her gentle giggles made you both worry and excited??? as she show you the hentai book you hide under your bed.
"i--" you can't even say anything to explain why you have such unholy book under your bed! You could only stay in silent, awaiting for punishment and hate from her. For being so shameful and filthy girl.
"Such a naughty, naughty nun..." She gested as she flip through the pages.
"Do you want me to do all those things too you?" She lean in to your ears to whisper such tease.
"I-i... Y-yes...?" You gulp a mouthful yet blush cover your face. She grin as she pulled you toward her.
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"ahmm... t-tatsumi~"
You don't know how it went from asking sister Tatsumi to 'dick you down' or even the part where your able to proceed such holy and beloved sister of the church.
But as your back now lays on your bed with her on top of you, and so deep inside of you. All you could do is moan and whimper st the feeling of pleasure.
"such vile request you ask for my fellow sister (name)~" tatsumi gentle voice of slight tease whisper to your ears as she ram her harden and warm dick inside of you. Not wanting to waste such god sent moment.
'ahh your so warm! I am the vile and sinful one... Dear God. I don't care if it's sin to act such lustful...! ' she thought as she kisses you so Lovingly. You whimper as you clenched around her dick.
"S-sorry sister t-tatsumi...! Ahhm...." Your apologize as you come undone once again. Your head in cloud nine and your mind blank out. Your hand in a position of praying yet your probably beyond help. The moment you ask Tatsumi such thing, your already doom.
"S-sorry for I h-haahhvee taint y-you ahhmm.." you cried a moan as she press your bulging stomach where the dent made from her cock is seen.
"it's ok. I love you and won't mind going to hell with you~" she kissed your lips so lovingly as she ram one last time inside of you, her harden dick pulse and warm liquid start to pour in.
"h-hot...!" The warm liquid almost felt too warm and too thick for your sensitive overestimated inside.
"I-i..." You felt Cummings again because of it. You squirm suddenly as she start to tease your clitoris with her right hand.
"Hmmnn ahhmm... Hueee. " You moaned in pain as you come yet again, squirting a mess in the bed and clenching her dick, milking her off her thick warm semen. Your legs locks around her waist, keeping her close to you.
"ahh... " She press her boobs against yours hugging you close, she whimper at the feeling of your walls trying to milk her balls again.
"G-god..." She love it... She's addicted! Is this why such pleasure is a sin? She wonder as she look at your tired sweating form under her. Steady breathing could be heard as you have fallen asleep from such activity.
She can't believe she holding you like this, it felt like a dream!' she smiled happily as she tried remove herself from you yet, find it defficult ad your hugging her and your legs securing grip in her waist.
"oh dear..." She sigh hopelessly. She held your butt to be able to flip you two with your form laying on top of hers, making your head rest on her boobs ( the very moment she's thankful for being such gifted in such department ) and pulled the cover up on the two of you.
" Sleep well my precious." She kiss your forehead before she succumb to sleep. Through she's a bit worried of suddenly having a wet dream and Cummings inside of you with your walls still clenching around her dick.
After that night, you and her would have that moment where you two would fuck each other when you two are alone. She called it her special lesson. Others think nothing of it but sometimes complain about the whimpering ghost in the hallway at night. In each time she got, she won't let you off alone. Especially to be one to answer anyone in the confession booth.
Everytime you tried to go there when you saw your green haired glasses friend ( the person who give you the unholy book ) you get pulled away by Tatsumi and made you seat on her dick through the sight of it is hidden from gaze of others with the robes of yours and hers as well the table. Through there's no one on her office to see such hornie face of yours at the moment, its only hers to see.
"Why where you going there again?" Her voice gentle ask you as she's so deep inside yet not moving to your dismay.
"I-i... Ahh..' you let a small whimper as her finger fondling your boobs and pinching your arching nipples through the robes of yours. Edging with little to none movement yet stimulation pleasure to only stop when your able to reach relief.
"s-sorry... S-sorry! P-please f-forgive meeeee.." You succumb to the lust as you tried to move to be able to cum yet she held you in place. " P-please... " You look at her pleadingly with lusty and tearful voice. "P-please fuc-- f-forgive me.Eee." you whimper.
"ah.H.." you felt the cock inside of you throbbing with her hand over the bulging stomach of your, she press it sending you in far edge. "Do you... Repent..?" Her heaved breathing as she tried to maintain her calm facade yet shes far worse state with your inside clenching on her, so warm and wet.
"m-maybe..? ' you honestly would still try to get another volume of a futanari hentai book on the future, it's for research purpose.
"... Oh dear.." she chuckle as she realize your too honest and your thoughts can be seen like an open book to her. "F-fine... " She gives up on trying to stop you, she would love to see what kind of new things you'll learn-- but first.
'ahhmm. Ooohh... " You moaned against her office table as she start fucking you from behind. Her thick warm cock that keep hitting your sweet spot causing you to see stars. " T-tatsumi...! " You mewl as played with your clitoris causing you to straighten up against her moaning as you cum with a shear cry.
"ahhmmm.." she moaned after ramming few more times and sending her loads of her balls inside of you.
"G-god... " She and you collapse back to her chair through still connected sending chills as she hit your deeps in that sudden movement. You squirm on her arms as she reach out to held your chin to give you a deep kiss. You shortly return the sweet gesture causing her to warm up her heart.
With that little moment of the two of you, she let you go get your friend new gift to you but with some work she need to fix and handle at the moment, she made you her cock warmer as she does her work, just another of her punishment.
Sometimes through the days you and her having such. Sexual intercourse in the house of god with you two being a nuns. You wonder if your corrupted or you have corrupted the so called God sent angel by church people.
You indirectly ask a fellow nun with such question if she imagine tatsumi would be the type that will succumb to lust yet she replied: "it's impossible! Mother superior Kazehaya devoted her life to serve god! Even if you put such unholy book in front of her, she won't be curious at all!" She claimed.
With you asking around about the same question, it reach tatsumi ears and soon she called you back to her office. She made you seat on her lap with no sexual gesture and lovingly hugs you from behind.
"My precious... You could always ask me directly." She chuckle at what you been doing lately. She's happy your interested on her, enough to ask around about her. "I lust for you because I love you so deeply... Your my eve... I won't mind tasting the forbidden fruit and be thrown out paradise with you .." she kiss your forehead, causing you to blush. "R-really?" You voice come out like a small squeak, she chuckle at your adorable face at this moment. "Yes. But unlike adam... I will not blame you... " Her softly voice lace with love with her lips right against hers, you felt your heart beats. It was so odd but it's a welcome one.
"I love you!" It was you who said such words with full of honesty and feelings she always wanted to hear from you. She would always confess her love as she don't want to lie in her feelings yet would wait for you to return such feelings.
Her eyes widen as she heard your words as a smile on her face deepen in glee. She hugs you with a tearful sigh of happiness, she once again kiss you. "I love you my eve..." She says as she and her embrace one another with love and affection.
In the corner of the room, one would see an image of the first woman-- Lilith offering an apple to eve. Yet the rest of the illustration is burn up cover.
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5conspiracy-rule · 2 years
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What hapens to the autor of the brösel comics, ähm i mean the autor of the werner comics brösel he is called.? Oh he was glad to have Angela Merkel for so long now he write books and have a farm. Ah ok yeah. And what hapen to walther moers the autor of the little asshole comics. Ahhm thats sad he criticized the the system now he is working for the titanic and for edekacomics and other german hen-tais
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fishstyx · 3 years
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the-rainbow-insight · 5 years
Conversation
Druck - Friday - 20:35 - "Just walk away!"
Matteo arrives at the group meeting. His friends did not show up.
Kiki: Well, hi. It's cool that guys came. I even made some vegan coconut macrons for you. You might wanna eat them later. First, we have to talk about some stuff. Well, ahm, sorry, I'm a bit nervous. Okay, I think it is really important that we are going to leave our school with a BANG! Ok?
Sam: Exactely, BANG!
Kiki: And that's why there are a few rules. First rule: we do not talk about this group, ok? Second rule: we. do. NOT. talk. about. this. group! Here's a list with some ideas and I'm just gonna present them to you....
-Kiki keeps talking, Matteo texts the boys.-
Matteo: where are you?
Jonas: Sorry, got a different date.
Carlos: Kiki is still mad.
Abdi: Ah, sh*t, that was today?
-End of chat-
Kiki: So another idea..: 90's fashion, we could do a flashmob (dancing),
Amira: Dancing is nice, isn't it?! (looking around the room)
Sam: Yeah, just like in a club. OMG, we are gonna do a choreo!!!
Kiki: Yeah, that's a great idea! Or we could hug teachers, just for fun. Or do you think that't dumb?
Sam: No, that is dope!
Markus: Well, hi my name is Markus by the way. I think hugging is really awesome. We could try it right now?!
Kiki: Ahhm, yeah, well. I like that idea. Especially to bond with each other. So, everybody, gather around! We need to be standing in a big circle. Then we can take each others hands. Right, close the circle.....
-Matteo leaves the room, meets beanie boy-
Matteo: I wouldn't go in there.
Beanie Boy: Why?
Matteo: They are making this "trust-circle" You know? Holding hands and stuff. Unless you want to do that.
Beanie Boy: Nope
Matteo: That's what I thought....Ahm, wanna smoke some weed?
Beanie Boy: Yeah, sure.
Matteo: Well, come with me. And... what's your name?
Beanie Boy: David. And yours?
Matteo: Matteo.
-The boys leave, smoke somewhere in the school-
Matteo: You're new, huh?
David: Yes, why?
Matteo: Just asking. Well, that's heavy.
David: It's fine.
Matteo: I mean A levels are starting soon.
David: I had to move.
Matteo: Aha, why?
David: I killed someone and had to go into hiding.
Matteo: Stress with your parents?
David: Yepp, that's why they are dead... You've got an eyelash there.
Matteo: So can I wish for something now?
David: I don't know.
Matteo: I thought I could make a wish now.
David: You just had an eyelash there.
Matteo: Ok.
David: What would have been your wish?
Matteo: Don't know. Driving away, maybe.
David: I know that feeling.
Matteo: Aha, and where would you go?
David: You should know. It was your eyelash.
Matteo: I was thinking, like, just get in a car and drive.
David: Yeah and then one way to Detroit.
Matteo: Detroit?
David: Yeah, best music-city ever.
-Sara walks in-
Sara: Hey, no motivaton for the group?
Sara kisses Matteo
Sara to David: Hey, can I? (pointing at the joint)
David: Well, I have to go now. See you. (leaves)
Sara: That's him.
Matteo: Who?
Sara: The guy Leonie has a crush on.
Matteo: I think that's somebody else.
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dr4pos · 5 years
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the feeling of ...
And so he stood there. impressed of the sight that was offered to him. It felt like ... coming home but way deeper. But what he saw was not a place, it was a person. so unfamiliar amazing in his eyes as nothing else but at the same time like he knew that person for a long time. She looked at him, kinda surprised you could say. but he didn’t know if she looked like that because she felt the same way or because of the fact that he is clearly staring at her. She moved in his direction, ‘quick get your shit together!’, he thought. “That pendant you’re wearing?” she asked and pointed at his chest, “is it in any way possible that this is from an anime?”. He just stared at her, fascinated by the fact that someone in this company actually recognizes it. “Yes, it is! do you know which one it is?”. She smiled widely and said. “of course! who does not know fairytail?” then she reached her hand into his direction and continued: “oh by the way! My name is Bianca! what is your’s?”. He smiled and answered: “my name is James! i know a quite to common name.”; ”well, it’s a pretty cool name, so it makes a lot of sense.”, “Ahhm, thanks!?” He laughed a bit then. More because he was nervous than anything else but it was very relieving for him to see that she laughed too. “so? is this your first day at this company or did you worked in another building of ours before?”, “ honestly i worked at another company before but it was a subsidiary company of this one” then she closed her eyes just a little bit like she was thinking strongly about something while focusing him, “That may sound quite personnel but ... did we met each other before?” After that question he did quite the same thing as she did and thought about it, “I... thought that too but, i honestly don’t really recognize you.” she led out a slightly sad pant, “what a shame. i would’ve hoped to have someone i know in here.” He laughed a bit, “I know what you mean but if you have any question on how things here are working or anything else then you can just ask me if you want, ok?” He said that with a bit more confidence than he anticipated, but she just replied: “I’ll gladly take this offer!”. he didn’t know what to think, this was way to good. at least ... something should be odd but they seem to be on the exact same wavelength from the start. “ok but we should probably go back to work for now. you wanna meet later afterwards?”, she made a face which seems to say that she almost forgot about that and meant: “yeah you’re probably right. And! Of course want. then ‘till later!” she waved at him and went away. he waved back. this seems to become a good day!
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critrolestats · 7 years
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Confusion
Anonymous asked: How many times has Matt said something along the lines of "very confused"?
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Updated through Episode 79.
01 Arrival at Kraghammer
(0:26:48) [Adra] is staring, confused, at you.
(1:01:44) [Trinket] looks at you, confused
(1:19:01) Trinket, the little mouse face, the moment you see it, looks very confused, very scared.
(1:21:00) You are very confused-Trinket now has no armor, a slightly different shade.
02 Into the Greyspine Mines
(1:52:44) You feel this strange wave of just mental confusion hit over your head… The wave of confusion takes hold over your brain.
(2:12:27) There’s a tiny little snail on the ground that’s looking very confused. Very- very confused. Which is ironic for an Umber Hulk to be confused.
06 Breaching the Emberhold
(1:18:14) You guys are both standing at the top of the wall with both of the duergar - one kind of facing away, one looking really surprised at the fact that you guys both appeared there.  You have a surprise round.
(1:34:28) Scanlan: But is he confused?  Matt: A little bit, but not enough to not be loading his crossbow for a second shot
07 The Throne Room
(0:59:49) .. a dagger comes swinging out from behind the doorway, stabs him in the other shoulder.  You see he looks down at it confused for a second as that dagger vanishes in a puff of dark smoke, returning to your belt.
(2:38:25) However all the duergar that are ready to strike as soon as you burst through take a step back looking extremely confused about what's going on.
08 Glass and Bone
(2:07:56) The tentacle starts slapping around its body and it kind of looks confused.  It’s not enough to really do any damage, but it just looks unsure as to why its having a hard time controlling its own limbs.
(2:15:08) Sure. [Kima’s] currently held kind of held aloft by this vine that’s kind of like strapped her to this. She's looking confused, like kind of thankful, but also wants to be let go.
09 Yug’voril Uncovered
(0:52:36) [Queen Ulara] looks at you with this look of confusion and completely off-guard frustration…
(0:56:42) As he rushes toward you ... Scanlan (singing) Oh, don't hit me!  Matt :.. he stops for a second, confused but he puts the warpick down for a second like ... Duergar: Wait, wait, alright. Grrrr. You gnome!
(0:59:20) ...and the mind flayer for a second looks confused before across the way to wherever it came from and sees nothing.
(1:00:42) The first blow hits the war pick, knocking it out of his hands. He looks over confused at you as the second blast hits him right in the side of the face, completely destroying this side of his head entirely.
10 K’varn Revealed
(0:59:25) As Scanlan grabs you and holds you for a second - for a moment you're confused and you hear that strange shrieking moan in the distance then suddenly the darkness gives way to this flash of purple arcane energy and the two of you- POOF- fall a few inches into hard wood and you feel the boat rock for a second as you're now outside in the boat being tugged by Keyleth the shark.
11 The Temple Showdown
(0:21:21) You get about a third of the way through wrapping the rope around his body. He kind of just sits there looking confused at you, his jaw a little slack as you continue to wrap....
(1:13:13) The big eye squints in confusion at the tiny thing, and just keeps licking the remnants of beef jerky off his fingers.
(2:24:59) Vex: Oh, my gosh, Tiny, you're tiny!   Matt: The most confused looking mouse you've ever seen, if there could be an expression of "what the f***" on a mouse, it’s on that one.
(2:35:46) If a bear could have an expression- it would be bewilderment, confusion, and slowly trickling into joy.
(3:49:30) Tiberius: Quickly...and I get their attention.  Matt: And they stop and look up at you with a look of confusion... Tiberius: Look. I took the form of one of your own... Matt: [skeptically] Make a persuasion roll... OK.  Sam: You've stumped him.  Matt: There's a really really really fine line here. Two of them kind of look at each other confused and look back...
13 Escape from the Underdark
(1:00:04) Vex: I'm going to put Hunter's Mark on... the one attacking Scanlan.  Matt: OK.  Taliesin: Not on Scanlan, on the one attacking Scanlan.  Matt: Oh right, sorry. [General laughter and cross-talk from everyone] Matt: [Going with the joke] In the confusion ... no.
(2:58:35) [Kima] steps back for a second, confused and looks over her shoulder at you.
14 Shopping and Shipping
(1:33:20) Grog: Lady Kima, do the gods allow you to have, ahhm, relationships?  Matt: Kima, you ask this and she kind of gives you a look of confusion and then, I mean she already has kind of a darker complexion for a halfling, but her cheeks grow noticeably ruddier, and she kind of averts her gaze.
15 Skyward
(1:26:40) Scanlan: Captain Damon, just morbid curiosity. Are you married, do you have a steady girl ...?  Matt: He looks at you with surprise, confusion, worry ... shakes his head out of misunderstanding.  Captain Damon: What? Scanlan: Never mind, we'll talk later.  Captain Damon: Alright.  Matt: He looks entirely side-blasted by that.  He was not expecting that question. Nothing negative - just really confused.
(2:20:50) The wyvern SHWOOP turns into a bunny rabbit from underneath its rider and goes EEEEP plop and plummets. The rider which WEUAGHH and begins to fall as well immediately tossing a grappling hook as it falls.
(3:22:40)The wyvern who's still clamped down on your body - your hear an audible HARUUM??? and as its tail swings towards you it just hits the ground next to you slamming into the wood - entirely distracted by your lack of fear and display of beautiful musical voice.
16 Enter Vasselheim
(0:37:33) Scanlan: I am Ioun stone bearer Scanlan.  [laughter]  Matt: He cocks his head curiously. […] Grog: I have a beard.  [laughter]  Matt: He gives you the most curious look of all, which is hard to follow off of Scanlan over here.
(0:42:01) Tiberius: I cast alter self real quick and I turn myself into I believe gold - 'cause that's the red equivalent of red on the metallic scale.  Matt: He gives you a curious look and goes…
(2:37:11) Both of these spiders stop in place looking severely messed up and damaged and just kind of hold their ground looking very confused.
17 Hubris
(1:20:06) A curious look comes across the bookie's face
18 Trial of the Take Part 1
(2:06:14) With this look of confusion, this orc, who is trying to do the bidding of this gnome…
19 Trial of the Take Part 2
(0:22:28) It kind of looks at you with confusion, frustration, and, ‘How could you?!’ It’s incredulous in its torturous pain.
(0:22:45) Lyra: My cat is your friend.  Matt: It’s head turns even further to the side, as its tongue lolls out where its cheek was.
(0:31:41) They both kind of look at the group in confusion.
(0:33:24) They kind of look at Grog, confused.
(1:56:22) The dragon turns its head to side for a moment, with a glance of confusion and almost amusement that you speak up to it in such a disrespectful manner.
20 Trial of the Take Part 3
(1:47:26)  He gives you a look of confusion for a second.
22 AraMente to Pyrah
(0:24:21) There’s a brief moment where [Osysa] kind of just gives you this keen look, head to the side, like a curious creature.
(0:31:00) Vex: Can [Osysa] see through our eyes now? Matt: [Vanessa] kind of gives you a curious look.
23 The Rematch
(0:25:30) You see a couple of people knocked flat on their ass, heads shaking like, “What just happened?!”
25 Crimson Diplomacy
(0:32:05) On the stairs, you can see, looking jarred and confused, a human woman, brown hair, freckles, kind of mousy looking servant.
26 Consequences and Cows
(0:54:40) Sure. In the tension of the room, the slow, droning hum of the gnome, which you can notice, some of the guards kind of look at each other, confused.
28 The Sun Tree
(1:34:34) You hear, in the distance, an echoing sound go, “Yeeeaaaah!” Formless, sourceless, you stand confused for a moment, and continue to try and stealth.
(2:33:11) They turn away dumbfounded that you would walk into Whitestone.
29 Whispers
(2:39:00) [Kerrion and Vouk] both turn, completely caught off guard by this.
(2:47:17) [A dominated guard] pulls his heavy crossbow out, loads it, and aims it towards you, then *whoosh* trains it on his boss. Sir Kerrion looking confused by this whole circumstance.
(3:03:27) Sir Kerrion looks down, then is kinda like, looking very curiously [at peasant-Percy].
(3:12:03) You take your d10 of inspiration, confused, but accept the inspiration.
(3:36:15) All right, he seems momentarily confused before the blow of the..
31 Gunpowder Plot
(p1. 0:42:31) [Duke Vedmeyer] looks confused for a second and rears back to try to attack [Bigby’s Hand].
32 Against the Tide of Bone
(0:55:12) And at that point he takes a deep breath for a second, and turns over and is now in a sitting position,  breathing heavily, looking around himself, confused.
(3:17:41) Scanlan: We are...ninjas.  Matt: [Gloria] looks very confused at you.
(3:31:44) Grog: I f***in’ bite into the meat of my hand ‘cause I see what she’s trying to do.  Matt: Ok, she kind of *looks confused and disturbed*  Gloria: What’s wrong with you?!  Grog: Oh no, some nice type AB, right here, on-tap!  Matt: She tilts her head curiously, disgusted and disturbed by this display- very confused.
33 Reunions
(p1. 1:23:07) [Anders] looks surprised, angered, and very very confused about the way things suddenly happened.
(p1. 1:54:34) Keyleth: I want to wrap [Grasping Vine] around Cassandra’s feet, like her ankle. And I want to pull her to me. Matt: You pull her over to the side. She gets pulled across the ground, and she’s on her back now. Her eyes are a little starry-eyed.  [She] looks very confused.
(p2. 0:55:36) Cassandra looks around, very confused for a second.
34 Race to the Ziggurat
(0:35:56) It’s a very strange visual, and you’re very confused momentarily.
(2:36:11) [Delilah] is very confused for a second...
35 Denouement
(p1. 0:46:14) [Delilah’s] eyes dart around, in fear. You can see that her makeup is running down her cheeks from her own lamenting over Sylas’ loss, and the confusion of the ritual.
36 Winter’s Crest in Whitestone
(0:36:21) Marisha: Well, Keyleth is confused as to why everyone’s avoiding each other.
37 A Musician’s Nostalgia
(1:14:06) [Desmond’s] wide-eyed and so confused and overwhelmed by everything that’s happening…
(1:38:45) He seems to be bewildered, fearful, and not holding back any information.
(2:45:33) …and they both kind of step out, confounded.
38 Echoes of the Past
(0:19:47)…and he looks for a moment, almost in disappointment and confusion.
39 Omens
(0:09:26) She left…frustrated and confused, and hasn’t been seen since.
(0:53:37) Pike, uh…who currently is confused by the circumstances that have currently happened….
(0:54:01) She’s very, very…kind of worried and confused by the circumstance…
(2:57:42) The rest of Dr. Dranzel’s troupe arroves, kind of looking a little bit frazzled, a little confused.
(2:58:40) Dranzel: We’re sorry for any confusion, misunderstandings, and general debauchery.
40 Desperate Measures
(2:24:42) At this point, as you guys are having this conversation, and you guys are darting out; Vax, you stop, as coming down the stairs from the main floor is Ervin: frazzled, but still as put together the well as he can.
41 In Ruins
(1:38:34) They look down at this tiny, armored gnome that just knocked half their life out of their body, with a bit of confusion, worry, and a respect in a weird way. Well done, gnome!
42 Dangerous Dealings
(1:47:59) It’s confused and figuring out what’s…why is it doing this...
43 Return to Vasselheim
(3:23:43) [Groon] cocks his head like a confused puppy for a second.
45 Those Who Walk Away…
(2:07:38) As you [activate the crystal], Trinket gives a confused look…
(2:08:24) [Trinket’s] standing there, really confused.
46 Cindergrove Revisited
(2:25:21) It’s currently being surrounded by swirl of Hex shadow, and looking around, very confused, and wondering why he got up in the morning.
47 The Family Business
(0:24:20) You can see the few straggler Pyrah tribal members that come in, looking about surprised and bewildered and some of them a little freaked out by this transdimensional space they just stepped into, Tardis-style.
(0:31:22) Trinket comes along with you, in a very confused manner, attempts train with you for a short time.
49 A Name is Earned
(1:02:32) They’re all confused by the moment of the suddenly-disappearing hamster wheel…
(1:24:44) If you’ve ever seen an earth elemental go ‘Err?’” (makes a confused face)
51 Test of Pride
(0:08:01) At which point, Dranzel, whose face has fallen into a look of absolute fear and despair to confusion to mild frustration.
(0:13:47) They both stop and go, ’Uhhhh… are you seein’ what I’m seein’?’
52 The Kill Box
(0:16:33) The individuals in the center of the square start looking around confused, not knowing where it came from.
(2:53:35) There’s this tribal tension, this cultural tension that only exists within the initial herd, and has only been recently adopted by the Rivermaw that were absorbed by the herd and are still kinda confused by [the exchange between Grog, Greenbeard and Zanror].
54 In the Belly of the Beast
(0:13:20) Two folks in particular, they both little confused, by your overall design, kind of waiting for you to lead them in a specific direction.
(0:53:57) Travis/Grog: I’m a pick a number between 1 and 10…Ready, Go!  Matt: There is an awkward pause.
(1:07:10) He seems a little malnourished and a little confused, but nothing sets you off as untrustworthy.
61 Denizens of the Moonbrush
(0:11:05) ...and Keyleth, kind pulled back, looking shocked and confused.
63 The Echo Tree
(2:42:29 ) As you tear into its body using the tree stride to kinda open it up, it looks down, confused…
64 The Frigid Doom
(0:09:03) Matt: Percy and Grog, you are very confused how you got here, and not quite sure why nothing has happened since you gathered here as friends.
65 The Streets of Ank’Harel
(1:25:33) They look confused and slightly scared at their table.
(2:23:08) The both seem confused, but also enamored with this tiny man who’s talking to them.
(2:23:48) Random teenager: I’m sorry, I’m confused?
66 A Traveler’s Gamble
(2:24:10) Some folks kinda give you an odd look to the side, a sideways glance as you step around.
(2:39:30) … and stare directly into the rhino-like helmet on your forehead, and just seem confused and lose interest very quickly.
69 Passed Through Fire
(0:14:41) Kynan: …just know that I’ve been very confused.
(2:30:57) Jarrett: You confuse me, gnome!
70 Trust
(1:02:54) Sam/Scanlan: Yeah Boiiiiiii!  Matt: Raishan looks very confused.
(2:51:21) Kima: I’m very confused right now.
(2:52:14) Mind you, [Kynan] just seems largely confused and doesn’t seem to know what’s going on.
71 Vorugal
(1:39:00) Kima: I am so confused right now.
72 The Elephant in the Room
(0:37:19) [The Ravenites] all just kinda look confused at each other...
(0:39:30) One of them was going for the tree and stops, and then looks very confused at the tree that wasn’t piercing inside the dragon, but seems rooted in it.  
73 The Coming Storm
(0:00:29) For those who don’t recognize my costume, you’re very confused...
(1:13:52) [Simon] leaps from your hand to his, kinda swirls down his arm, and [Kynan] kinda looks confused for a second as it wraps around him.
74 The Path of Brass
(0:45:20) You can see [General Ellie’s] expression drop a little bit into a curled eyebrow of confusion.
77 Clash at Daxio
(1:03:18) The wyvern pulls back its head, confused, and the jaws snap shut.
(1:32:10) She looks down, confused and angry at this fist that kind of turns into a middle finger immediately.
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Exclusive: Paragon Post-ICO Interview with Cryptovest; SEC, Blockchain, Cannabis and More
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Exclusive: Paragon Post-ICO Interview with Cryptovest; SEC, Blockchain, Cannabis and More
Natasha: OK, welcome guys, welcome to Cryptovest post-ICO review. Today we’ve got Gareth and Jessica in from Paragon Coin. Jessica is CEO, and Gareth is Chief Business Officer. Welcome Guys.
Jessica: Hi! Thank you.
Gareth: Hi, thank you, Natasha.
N: So guys, first I want to congratulate you on an incredible ICO raise. A real achievement; seventeen million.
J: Oh, thank you for that. The number, though, we’re not really going to take congratulations for yet, because we’re still in the middle of doing our auditing. But, but thank you in general.
N: It was a good raise. I’m also going to commiserate [with, ed.] you guys because I did see that recently you’ve had a lawsuit filed against Paragon Coin for violating a securities law. And I don’t think there’s a founder out there that doesn’t have huge sympathy with you right now, knowing what a massively tricky area this is to create an ICO and you know, have to deal with the SEC legislation.
H: Yeah, thank you. I mean, unfortunately to me, to Gareth, to everyone in this company, it’s a norm for doing business in the U.S. Like, in a way, it’s this legal form of racketeering and in my personal opinion it’s unconstitutional for both sides of the lawsuit. Lawyers are clearly abusing this practice, especially in the U.S. For example, many of our community members just loved the idea described in our Paragon white paper and bought PRG tokens because they trusted what we were going to deliver and trusted what we promised to deliver, but there’s, like I said, unfortunately, lawyers that are just trying to bring this complicated nature of the securities laws that, uh, that we believe are not even applicable to our case in hopes of just getting a settlement. I mean, we know that that’s all they want.
They know that they’re not going to win, they want just some sort of settlement and I’ve seen a lot of ads on Twitter and on Google from these lawyers trying to find any plaintiffs to join their case against Paragon. And they’re talking about PRG purchasers losing money if they either – you know, it’s like they either don’t understand, or they’ just pretending not to understand that it’s not about the loss of money. It would be a loss of money if we failed to build what we promised, but so far we’ve been on track on with our road map and we’ve been successful in achieving everything that we’ve promised in our white paper to these lines, deadlines of our roadmap. Umm, and we’re optimistic that we’ll beat our own deadlines; to be honest, we’ve already done it with some of them. And frankly, I see this as abusive to our community, to us, to the team.
H: Well, how are you going to handle this? You know, [Are, ed.] you guys goin’ to lawyer up? You know, what’s your strategy on this to handle this?
W: Yeah, well, from the very beginning we took this extremely seriously and we strapped up with lawyers from the very, very, very beginning before we even announced what we were doing, so, we’ve been prepared and done everything that we can from the very beginning and with staying within regulation so we had lawyers then, we still have lawyers now. Some of our lawyers have even worked in the SEC before, so we’re not threatened or worried, or – we’re not worried about the securities laws that these other little lawyers are trying to come after us for.
N: Umm, I want to touch on a few different topics, yeah, the first one is your road map, yeah. So, I went and I had a look at the site and I can see that you posted a demo of the Paragon ledger, yeah. And for people out there, what does ‘demo’ mean. Is this a live NVP on the chain or this a just a mock-up, a click-through mock up.
G: Well, the supply tracking on blockchain, that was a sneak peak, and essentially what we wanted to do there is demonstrate our proof of concept of how this was going to work. Since wire contracts are relatively new, and storing data in them for a supply chain is also a new concept, what we wanted to do is show people how that worked, how we’re going to approach it and why it’s a better approach. Ahm, so it’s not a live demo yet that people can use, it was just a demonstration of how we’re doing that now today.
N: OK, so guys, how are you on your DAPS marketplace, where are you build-wise?
G: We’re currently still working on our beta, so our team is currently working on the development, that’s something we’re trying to expedite as soon as possible, but naturally we don’t want to end up releasing several elements in a slow paced manner. We’d rather get a full suite ready and release that in one go and make sure that functionality wise everything is right and we beta test it as much as possible.
N: OK cool. Guys, I want to ask you some questions around the team because there have been questions thrown out in the broader community. You guys have been questioned by leading ICO sites like verifiedico and aboutforex about whether your team has the experience, the skills, to pull this off. Jessica, you’re CEO, but you’ve got no experience previously in tech startup land, you’ve got no experience in tech accelerators, but you are planning to run an accelerator program. You’ve got no experience in the app space, but you’re planning to build an app marketplace, and you’re not really from the fintech industry and yet you’re going to be running a payment processing business with your wallet and coin. So I want to ask on behalf of the broader community, what do you think qualifies you to lead and scout Paragon?
H: Well, there are few things here that you asked, so one of them, the negative reviews from the sites that you had mentioned – unfortunately, there are… it’s a pay-to-play. This, thus requiring large payments to write good reviews, and I along with my team didn’t feel this was just journalism. A lot of the time, you can contact them and pay a review fee and they’ll update the review to a more positive one. We just chose not to do that. And, umm, I haven’t been to these ones, but that’s usually the case. And regards the credibility of our team.
N: Well, I’m specifically actually asking about you about your background.
H: OK, yeah, so. This is for me. I’m of this certain school of thought here, a very particular one. Any company that doesn’t see themselves as a tech company first is already losing. Any company I’ve been a part of, my outlook has been through this one type of lens. Furthermore, scale is a frame of mind. All masters of scale were at one time just dreamers with an idea. And you’ve mentioned about not – I can’t remember everything, but not from fintech, or a few things that you mentioned but I have an amazing…
N: No fintech, no app experience, no high tech accelerator experience.
H: So I have an amazing CTO, who owns this software outsourcing company in Ukraine. If you follow anything software developing, [sic] at least a little, you probably know that it’s in the best – it’s one of the best places for outsourcing. Umm, incredible talent, he’s got it all there. So, whatever I’m lacking, he’s able to find the people to support that.
N: I’m still gonna stay on the topic of the team, OK? So, you’ve got a Chief Creative Officer in the senior team. Now, forgive me, I’ve got no idea what a creative officer is doing in a startup trying to mainstream the cannabis industry. I’m trying to work this out. Is he going to be running your accelerator and your community? Is that his focus?
H: No, so the accelerator and the community, that’s coming later. Umm, you’re talking about our creative officer. He’s had a number of companies that he’s been a part of. So, he started his first business when he was sixteen years old, the first printed magazine called Planet Internet, I believe, and had a multi-million dollar exit that same year. He launched his magazine to promote the internet in Russia after the Soviet Union, which was pretty cool. Every time we go back, people are always talking about that. He was the second web design company in Russia, he even launched the first public wi-fi hotspot in Moscow, which I cannot imagine living in a place that didn’t have that option, ahhm, so he was ahead of his time. He later moved to the Dominican Republic and founded a company that was officially representing Apple, Bang & Olufsen, and not sure if you remember these Virtu phones in Latin America – another successful venture. In total he’s had dozens of business experiences and most of them were IT-related, which is what we’re doing now with Paragon, since we’re focused on the blockchain. Some failed, some were really successful, it’s just part of, you know, being a serial entrepreneur. But it gave him tremendous experience and that experience is helping him now with what we’re doing.
N: OK, so what is he doing as Chief Creative Officer?
H: He’s literally doing everything, to be honest. Any, anything that I have a question of, he’s the one saying “yes, this works,”, “no, this doesn’t work”. He has way more tech experience than I do, umm, he’s extremely creative, he has such a vision. So, this all kind’uv started because I had this cannabis company in the past, and I was having trouble trusting the transparency of the lab results I was getting and we’ve always been a fan of crypto and blockchain so I just said, “Do you think that this is something that could work? Could we put these lab results and data on the blockchain for me to track and trace it, basically, because I was getting lab results that were fabricated.” He said, “Absolutely, let me call my developers, let me see what we can do,” and we started going that way. So he’s been here since the very beginning.
N: Sure, so it sounds like he’s the strategy within the group, that like, he’s the strategic driver. It’s just that I’m not understanding the job title. Umm, it’s just a strange job title to, to put into any startup. I’ve never seen it in my nineteen years in the startup tech space. Umm, so I’ve obviously seen it in the marketing and digital agency space, but I’ve never seen it in the tech startup space. Hence my question.
(multiple speakers)
H: You take this one.
G:Nah, nah, indeed it’s not a very common title, absolutely, but then again this is also a new space that’s changing a lot of things including job titles, perhaps. Umm, I would say, to best describe Egor is [sic] he’s an extremely creative mind, umm, but on top of that, he’s great at blending strategy with actual operations, and taking ideas and turning them into an actual direction, which is…
(multiple speakers)
H: which is exactly what he did here. It was my idea, my thoughts, my dreams, and Egor just basically made it happen.
N: OK
(multiple speakers)
N: I’ve got a question around your biz dev hires, then I’m off the subject of team.
H: That’s OK
G: OK
N: Umm, so, in your white paper, it states that you’re gonna focus your biz dev hires on building business partnerships inside EMEA, which if anyone doesn’t know, means Europe, Middle East, Africa. But Paragon are U.S.A. focused, so I’m trying to work out what your biz dev people are going to be doing in Europe, Middle East, Africa?
H: Yeah, so when building my core team, I had no idea where we would headquarter, because we wanted the community to decide. Since this is a passion project of mine, I wanted to leave it up to the people that were going to be a part of this to decide where they want everything. Ah, to be honest, we could be headquartered on Mars and it wouldn’t make a difference. Ah, thanks to the internet, we’re all able to work remotely. As we told you earlier before this call, we’re travelling constantly. Umm, and like right now, we do link up in person quite frequently, but it’s not always in the same place at the same time. So, I created a team based on who I felt was best and not necessarily on where they were located. Ahmm…
N: OK, but it says your biz dev people were building partnerships in Europe, Middle East, Africa, and you’re headquartered in the U.S., your first workspace is in LA, so I’m trying to work out what sort of partnerships your biz dev people are building in the Middle East, or in Africa.
G: Sure. Well, we are definitely focusing a lot on Africa, Europe, and of course, the States. So just to, just to clarify, we also hired a new biz dev agent on top of the existing one in the States as soon as we found out that the voted location was Los Angeles. So we are expanding operations there. In addition to that the EMEA reps also work globally; they’re not limited to EMEA. Umm, however, we are seeing that there’s a trend towards cultivating cannabis in Europe as well as Africa, surprisingly, and we’re working with large partners there because we’re seeing now that countries where cannabis has been semi-legal like The Netherlands, for a long time now, it’s still not regulated properly. So we do see a lot of opportunity there and we’re definitely reaching out in these regions as much as possible.
N: OK, Can I ask you some questions around data privacy, yeah?
H: Mmm!
N: In your white paper, Paragon talks about creating a trust and reputation system, where everything across the cannabis industry is captured and stored on an immutable ledger. You guys are building on Ethereum, which is a public blockchain. And I assume that the sort of data that you’re planning to capture will be visible on the chain. So I have a few questions around the privacy of that. Won’t this cause problems for Paragon’s partners in countries where cannabis is still criminalized?
H: No, umm, a lab will not have access to patient data. A patient won’t be able to find the address of a farmer. None of this stuff is going to affect anyone in any way, creating any criminal activity in terms of where it is criminalized, if you think that the country themselves is going to cause problems. If cannabis is still criminalized I would guess no one involved would care to track and trace it there, unless, they wanted to use this transparency to prove to the government that it can be tracked, and it can be traced, and taxed efficiently with Paragon’s solution, which would be amazing.
N: You guys are planning to track cannabis shipments and delivery on the blockchain, according to the white paper. So, I’m just wondering – would your partners become more vulnerable to crime because of this?
H: Oh, no. No, on our blockchain, so – our blockchain is not tracking the delivery in real time. Smart contracts are signed when the package has finally been delivered and at its final destination. Because, honestly, it would be silly to add a million entry points to our blockchain, because it would not only be slow, useless, or expensive, but, it would also be spamming our own blockchain, so it’s not going to track anything live.
N: What about patients buying medicinal cannabis, how will they be identified on the blockchain?
H: Ahh, well, we follow this HIPA compliant, so patients, patients aren’t on our blockchain. You have an ID that patients will have, but their information, their private information will not be on the blockchain.
N: That’s great. That kind’uv answers my question, actually.
H: OK
N: Umm, I want to talk about funding. So, Paragon stated in its white paper that it was planning to use the bulk of its funding to buy property, and you guys explained that the reason you needed to buy property was that real estate landlords won’t rent to the cannabis industry due to federal law. My question is: You’re going to spend the bulk of your 70 million raised on buying property because of federal law in the U.S.A. But why don’t you move your business to a country where cannabis is legal, like The Netherlands or Australia, then you could rent space instead of buying it and sponsor startups in other parts of the world to relocate, and this would sure be cheaper than having to buy up a large property portfolio.
H: Ahhh, gosh. Well, there’s a few things, so let me know if I miss something. Well, The Netherlands and Australia, are… they’re not fully legalized. Same as the U.S. So we’d be facing similar issues.
N: Well, then a country that’s fully legalized, say.
H: If you move this to a country that’s fully legalized, I don’t… that can’t be cost effective to us. We can’t afford just [sic] bring all startups that decide they want to work at our co-working space to another country. I mean, you’re relocating families, you’re relocating businesses, you’re relocating products, I mean warehouses. This is, this is very expensive for these companies – that would cost us way too much. So, it would not work.
N: OK, so what you’re saying is the only way to do this is to buy property in the U.S…
H: No, it’s to buy property wherever the community decides. So, in this instance, the community chose the U.S. Ahhm, and the reason that we need to buy property is if we’re renting, then we’re creating the same exact problems that people are facing now. Right now, some of those problems I know firsthand because I was in this place when I owned my cannabis startup. You go somewhere, you have to legally let them know that you’re a cannabis company, startup or not. They instantly turn you down, because if you do anything illegal, they don’t only lose that one unit in that building that you’re renting, unit 250; they could lose the whole building, because that’s the federal law. They don’t want to rent to us. Another thing is if you do find a place that [sic] is willing to rent to you, it’s usually in a really dodgy neighborhood and ten times more expensive than the guy across the street or down the hall. Most startups can’t afford that. I couldn’t when I had AuBox. So, by owning this, we don’t have any obligations to listen to a landlord. It’s not like we’re growing weed in there, we’re not selling weed. It’s just for people to have a simple place to work, have an office meeting, chat with like-minded people, maybe let somebody smell this new crop that they grew. Ahm, different things like that. So if we own it, we aren’t going to charge a crazy amount of rent and we’ll be in a safe environment.
I think that’s a really good answer, ‘cause I know a lot of people have had questions around why you’re actually buying. I want to talk a little about your business model. There’s a little bit of confusion when going through your white paper. For example, in the white paper, you said 2016, the U.S.A. spent 53 billion on cannabis, and this gives the impression that you guys have got a huge global market, potentially. But I kind’uv went and had a look at this, and actually only seven billion was generated globally in cannabis through legal channels. Now, my understanding is that it’s the legal channel space that you’re going to be playing in. So I’m trying to work out of the seven billion globally generated in revenue through legal channels, how much of that comes from renting work space, because that’s your core business model.
H: So, when it comes to renting workspace, that seven billion has nothing to do with – that. That’s the number from sales of weed…
G: That’s the number of cannabis sales through legal channels. And albeit the market size is estimated anywhere from between 30-60 billion if you include all the illicit sales that are happening. We’re not going to be targeting that specific group in terms of cannabis turnover since we will not use our coin as a payment means for cannabis until it becomes legal to do so in all the jurisdictions that we operate. To put an exact size on how much of the coworking space industry we could take in a percentage is difficult at this point, ‘cause we’re gonna open up our spaces based on the needs of the community, and it’s difficult to put an exact number of how many spaces that will be in future years as locations obviously determine the cost and based on the cost we can only we can determine the seating plan and how much revenue we can derive from each unit.
N: Sure, but in your white paper, OK, you quote WeWorks’ 532 million revenue, as an example of how big your turnover could be. But WeWork operates across 110 locations in order to achieve that kind of revenue. To my mind, you can’t operate across that many locations. Your partners need to be in jurisdictions where cannabis is legal/semi-legal. At last count, that was eight countries. So, I’m just trying to work out, you know, how you guys are going to scale, in terms of your core business model, which is renting workspace.
H: Yeah, so, we gave that number to show how much of a role coworking spaces have played in our community. WeWork is focused on all companies, all startups, all over, versus Paragon is just focused on this niche mark, which is cannabis. So we don’t plan to be as big as WeWork, and we obviously will start with coworking spaces in countries where cannabis is legal, because, you know, well, that’s where they need it the most. Ummm
N: Is it… because it…if you’re gonna start in countries where it’s legal, then surely they don’t have any problems renting workspace.
H: Well look, it’s legal in the U.S., and I couldn’t even rent an office space. It’s like I told you it’s extremely
N: That point
H: An, OK, your platform is.also, ahhh, another revenue stream is gonna be payment processing and you guys said that you’re gonna take nought point hundred millionth of a transaction on your platform, and I think Visa’s best rate is nought point seven, so you’re millions of zeros cheaper than them. I’ve – why have you set the figure so low?
G: That’s because we ultimately don’t plan to be a complete for-profit when it comes to providing our white label solutions, or providing access. What we really want to do is give everyone access to this newly transparent market and help the industry sort of regulate itself. We’re going to provide them with the tools, and they’re going to be able to use them. And we want that to be as affordable and cheap as possible for everyone involved.
N: OK. When I thought about your rental model, guys, it reminded me, this is – might sound a bit strange, but it reminded me a bit of McDonald’s, because McDonald’s as a franchiser would buy up land, and lease this to the franchisee to build a McDonald’s and as a result over the years, McDonald’s has ended up being the largest commercial real estate developer in the world. Is this your end-game? Are you planning to do a Ronald McDonald?
H: I do love McDonald’s French fries, but no, our model is only particularly based on the co-working spaces. We’re focused on our blockchain, or it’s not only based on our co-working spaces, it’s based on our blockchain solution. So, the co-working spaces are a hub of innovation and allow like-minded groups to cross paths, but it’s not something that we’re focused on buying up tons of them, you know, it’s – it’s just something small here, it’s not our goal to buy every real estate office that there is for co-working.
N: Understood. And you won’t be serving French fries.
Maybe. Maybe we’ll be doing something with McDonald’s.
N: And I have a kind’uv left-field question, here, around your coin, actually, nothing too contentious. But, your coin has been trading pretty consistently at around 70 cents since launch, and then I noticed in December it suddenly spiked to $1.57, and when I went to look, I couldn’t see any press announcements around that time, so I’m wondering why it spiked.
H: I know, I go so many calls and texts for the same thing. It actually, at one point even did something crazier and higher, forget when it was. But we don’t control that, so I honestly can’t tell you what spiked it. I do see sometimes when I give an interview or some news comes out, more kind of is being talked about or moved around in there. But, I mean, there’s so many factors that could’ve contributed to this, however I honestly can’t tell you. I have no idea what happened.
N: Glitch in the Matrix, eh?
H: Yeah, there, you know, there’s people doing
G: Yeah, it’s the free market, so it could be a lot of things, right. You can’t control it, but it could’ve been, hypothetically, someone who just bought up the whole order book, for example, and just spiked the price up.
N: I’ve got a question around your accelerator. So, Paragon says 10 million Paragon coins will be set aside to fund startups building on top of your open source platform, and startups will get funded based on your community voting for them. Are you guys going to build a Kickstarter-type site for startups to list and pitch their white papers?
H: Umm, I’d say it’s, it’s like a mixture of Steema and Y Combinator. Applicants will pitch their idea to the community to get votes. In exchange – umm, in a similar manner where Steema posters earn crypto for creating content. Top ideas on our platform will not only earn PRG during such voting procedures, but will – well, us as a company, we will hand pick out of those and help grow their business one-on-one.
N: Cool! Last question, guys. What’s been your biggest learning curve since your ICO? What advice do you have for other crypto startups?
H: Gosh!
G: Do you want to go first?
H Yeah, I’ll go. So, we can both answer this. We were trying to take turns, back and forth, but I think it’d be cool – we can both. Umm, so for me, coming into this, I already knew a lot about blockchain, cryptocurrency and cannabis, but I would say I’ve definitely grown from someone with just a general level of knowledge to a much deeper and technical understanding of the blockchain, which is this amazing thing that’s coming up. Umm, I’ve come to see a pattern with regulations in regards to cryptocurrency around the world that I didn’t really see before because I was just focused on my coins that I had. And I’ve learned a lot more ever changing regulations, but, with this cannabis industry in different countries around the world then I’ve seen so many people that are so passionate about it. Ahh, I’ve just learned so many different types of people that use it, and gosh. The advice I would give to any crypto startup? I would say for those people to ask themselves if this is something that’s needed. For Paragon, I created this because it was something I needed when running AuBox, the monthly subscription for medical marijuana in San Francisco. Since it didn’t exist and I needed it, I decided to create it. So, only create something that’s genuinely needed, and if it’s something that you need, then others probably do, too.
G: I’ve got maybe a bit of advice to add on to that, I guess, from my experience. What I would advise any startup is to take security extremely, extremely serious. Because there are a lot of people out there that have the worst intentions and are going to try and extort money from any kind of project that’s in its early stages. So I would advise everyone to make sure that they’re fully locked up with two factor, and ensure that no one else has access to any of their units. That’s something that I would absolutely advise, as well as to take into consideration before paying anything to any members or third-parties, because people like to throw a big markup on as soon as they hear the word ‘blockchain startup’. So there’s a lot more negotiation involved.
N: I think there’s a really juicy story behind that two-factor security thing, you just said, Gareth. Maybe that’s a topic for another interview.
G: Maybe, yeah, that could be a good follow-up. It’s a really big deal, sometimes.
N: Well, guys, that’s, ah, that’s our post-ICO review finished, and I really want to genuinely wish you guys the best of luck in pulling this off. I think you’ve clearly identified a business need, and if you can do it, fantastic.
H: Thanks for taking the time to chat with us.
N: Thanks, guys!
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