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solastia · 3 years

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Love And Lies | 2

Pairing: Kim Seokjin x F!Reader

Summary: You are a simple maid. When your lady and dearest friend need help escaping an arranged marriage with King Seokjin so they might be together, you do the only thing you can - take her place.

A/N: Obviously their manner of speaking is somewhat modernized for easier reading. I don’t think you guys want a bunch of thys, thous, and such in your fanfics lmao.

You and Eleanor had your heads poking out from the carriage window, ungracefully observing the landscape after a guard knocked to let you know your destination was near.

The castle that loomed before you was not just a castle. No, this was a palace. The sheer magnitude of presence this massive pile of stone gave off was intimidating. You could quite easily fit twenty of The Dukedom of Never’s keep across the land this spanned across, and Never’s was vast.

The land that surrounded it was magnificent on its own. Behind the castle was one of the grand seas, with a harbor large enough to contain the Royal Navy - a massive force that was rumored to be over a hundred ships and growing. In another direction was a large forest, one that according to Jungkook was teeming with wildlife and supposedly an evil witch. The fields surrounding the village seemed lush and plentiful and the people they passed appeared healthy and content. You were impressed by the obvious care that was put into the lands by the King.

Jungkook was riding alongside the carriage on his massive black charger, staring at the palace with as much awe as you.

“Do you think it takes him an entire hour to find a garderobe? Or did he just give up after a while and uses a chamber pot every time?” He asks thoughtfully, grinning down at you from atop his horse.

“Why is that your first thought?” You ask with a roll of your eyes.

“It’s a serious concern, sis! Say you just ate some pickled eel that doesn’t agree with your stomach. And the only room they have for such things is in the tallest tower on the other side of the palace…”

You snort, shaking your head at him. “I’m certain in a castle this vast there will be more than one garderobe, Sir Jungkook. I dare say there are perhaps several for every floor and wing. And no doubt the king has one all to himself near his chambers.”

He cocks his head thoughtfully, nodding after a few seconds. “True.”

A trio of guards stops your carriage right at the entrance to the long stone bridge leading to the palace grounds. Jungkook presents them with their scrolls of passage and the guard nods after looking over the seals.

“All clear, Sir. I’ll send word to His Majesty that you’ve arrived.”

Jungkook nods briskly at the guard and turns to the both of you with a wink. It was time to begin your charade.

The two of you bring your heads back inside the carriage in preparation for a more refined entrance once the carriage starts up again, the wheels clicking loudly across the stone leading to the inner bailey. It wouldn’t do to have the servant’s first impression of you to be gawking in wonder like the poor maid you actually were.

And that’s who you knew you would have the most difficulty trying to fool. The nobility had their head too far up their own arse most of the time and you weren’t as worried about trying to pass off your ruse on them. But the servants saw and knew all. Even with you dripping in jewels and rich fabrics you were worried one of them could tell at a glance you were no better than them.

You slide your hand across your gown nervously, picking at the costly fabric. You and Eleanor had spent most of your journey here adjusting each other’s gowns to fit. She was now clad in the finest one that you owned, a simple woolen dress in a blue that nearly matched her eyes, with a brown apron and cape. You were amused by how lovely she looked in such a simple garment as she sat across from you bouncing with excitement like a carefree dairymaid.

You were in a gown that no doubt cost more than you’d ever see in a lifetime. Dark crimson brocade embroidered with gold silk billowed around you like a stiff cloud. The sleeves were nothing more than a flowing golden lace, which also trimmed the scandalously low décolletage. Eleanor had even gone so far as to pile her best jewels on you and you were now glittering in gold and rubies that matched the gown. Broaches, rings, bracelets, even tiny pins placed strategically throughout the massive piles of curls on top of your head. The centerpiece of it all seemed to be the gold-chained necklace from which hung a ruby nearly the size of an egg that settled on the very top of your overly-exposed chest.

She’d even dabbed some of her cosmetics on your face. Your lips and cheeks were pinkened with rose paste and a touch of kohl was rimmed on your eyes. You’d absolutely refused to put the horrid white paste on your face that was becoming popular in some circles of noblewomen.

So, you certainly looked the part of a pampered daughter of a Duke. Your insides were still a mess of jumbled nerves and fear.

Eleanor’s hand lands on your shaking knee, her eyes soft with compassion.

“Are you that nervous?”

“Are you not?”

She sighs quietly, squeezing your knee before bringing her hand back to her lap.

“I am, of course. But I have you and Jungkook watching out for us, so I’m not frightened as I should be, perhaps. I’m more worried about you. So many things could happen and I can’t do anything if I’m supposed to be a servant. What if some nobleman drags you into a dark alcove, or someone tries to poison your meal to eliminate a rival in the bid for being Queen, or...heavens, what if the King falls in love with you?”

You guffaw at that, shaking your head. “There is little chance of that happening, My Lady.”

She huffs, waving her hand dramatically. “I’m not ‘My Lady’, remember. I’m just Ellie. You can’t mess that up. And anyway, you haven’t seen yourself from my seat. You are absolutely stunning. You look like you’re a Queen already and that man is going to take one look at you and beg you to be his.”

“There’s going to be other ladies here, you said?” You ask quickly, changing the subject with your cheeks blazing with embarrassment. As if a King would find you worth a look. No doubt His Majesty had a veritable army of mistresses at his disposal.

She nods distractedly, head turned to people-watch as they entered the busy courtyard. “Even though I was mad at him, I listened when Papa told me what to expect at court. The King’s council declared it was time for him to find a wife. They summoned five ladies in total - three Duke’s daughters, an Earl’s Daughter, and supposedly a Princess from some far off exotic land. Naturally, the Princess is the one the council is trying to push at his Majesty the most, but so far he’s shown no preference for anyone in particular. Papa was only able to suggest putting me in the running because he and His Majesty’s father were good friends. The only reason he didn’t come along with us is because he’s busy with...something about irrigation. I lost interest after that.”

You hum as you digest what she’s telling you. What it sounds like to you is that the King will have to try to stretch his no doubt incredibly busy schedule to accommodate entertaining five different women, most of whom were probably spoiled and not used to having to share anyone’s affections. It shouldn’t be too hard to simply fade into the background and let the other four battle over the King’s attention. With any luck, he’d eventually forget you were even there and you’d be able to escape without issue once Jungkook received the deed to his keep.

The carriage rattles to a stop and your breath hitches nervously. You gulp, the contents in your stomach from breaking your fast that morn lurching dangerously. Eleanor clasps your hand and squeezes.

“Remember that we have Jungkook on our side. He won’t let anything happen to us.”

You nod shakily and exhale deeply. A hand turns the carriage door handle and you stiffen, trying to recall all the lessons in deportment that you’d been forced to attend with Eleanor over the years. Be mindful of your posture, don’t breathe loudly, don’t fidget, keep your head high, and your eyes low. You could do this.

Eleanor leaves first with the help of Jungkook, as he grasps her hand to help her down the carriage steps. Once she is safely lowered and waiting patiently off to the side, he reaches in for you.

“You look magnificent and I have no doubt that you will do well. I’ll be right at your side,” he whispers as he gently holds your fingers to help you gracefully exit the carriage.

You nod and send him a grateful smile before letting your face fall into a façade of polite interest as you look upon the gathered party for the first time.

The appearance of a few councilmembers and a handful of servants to assist with luggage and escort you through the palace was expected. The tall figure standing in the middle, resplendent in crimson and gold attire that mirrored your own was not.

The King himself had come down to greet your arrival.

You eyed him in pleasant surprise as Jungkook escorted you towards him. You knew that he was a fairly young King, but this man was at the very peak of health and good looks. His hair was a dark ebony, although the sun shining on him seemed to bring out flecks of brown. It was surprisingly shorn short, but it seemed to flatter him. And his face...you weren’t the poetic sort, but he seemed to have a face that would belong to an angel. Thick lips and big soulful brown eyes all set in a face of flawless skin. He looked to be nearly as tall as Jungkook, with broad shoulders and a tapered waist atop incredibly long legs.

He was dressed in what you guessed was his courtwear - a crimson tunic over dyed leather breeches, and tall leather boots. Gold accents glittered from his shoulders and waist, with gold embroidery coloring the edges of his tunic and emblazoned over his chest in the form a wolf. His crown was surprisingly simple, as you’d always imagined some huge thing the size of a melon with a mismatched decoration of every jewel they could grab. The one atop his head was a simple golden band inlaid with rubies and diamonds. Perhaps he saved the other one for more important affairs.

His warm brown eyes appeared to widen as you came forth, his mouth dropping open slightly as he seemed to stare at your face.

Was he that horrified by what he saw?

You release Jungkook’s hand after one last comforting squeeze and drop low into a formal curtsy, keeping your eyes on the ground.

“Thank you for inviting me, your Majesty. I am Lady Eleanor Rose D’Aily, the daughter of the Duke Of Nevers,” you say softly, realizing as the words leave your mouth that you’ve just sealed whatever becomes of your fate.

A hand quickly reaches down and grasps yours to help you up, and you glance up to meet the King’s gaze. He still appears a little surprised - about what you didn’t know - but his lips turn in a welcoming smile. You’re surprised to notice the little lines outside his lips and eyes, like he smiles quite often. He also hasn’t released your hand yet, and you note that it’s soft and a little damp, like yours get when you’re nervous. But whoever heard of a nervous King?

“It’s a pleasure to have you, My Lady. We are so glad you’ve made the journey safely. We have made arrangements to have you placed in the apartments in the west wing, nearest my own. When your parents used to frequent court here, that’s where they always stayed. We thought it would be nice to continue the tradition.”

“I thank you, Your Majesty,” you respond quietly, distracted by the way the sun hit his eyes. At first glance they appeared brown, but the way that the sun reflected on them made them appear almost amber. How beautiful.

“Yes, I...err,” he began, and you noticed the way his eyes roamed all over your face, quickly down to your lace-trimmed décolletage, and back up with a blossom of color on his cheeks. “I have some meetings to attend now, but I have some time before supper so we might become better acquainted. Perhaps in the library? My Chancellor, Namjoon, will come for you when I’m free. In the meantime, please make yourself comfortable and ask for anything you might need. My Kingdom is at your disposal,” he says earnestly, with a charming grin.

You are overwhelmed by just how genuinely kind and anxious to please he seems to be. You’d thought for certain the most you would receive was a single servant and perhaps a note to tell you when you were required to show yourself. Instead, he stood before you with his hand still gripping yours, seeming to be genuinely apologetic that he couldn’t speak with you sooner.

And he smelled wonderful, like cedar and clove…

The man next to him cleared his throat meaningfully, causing King Seokjin to jump slightly. He released your hand and bowed shallowly.

“Until later, My Lady.”

You curtsied in return, watching as he turned and strode up the stone steps, whispering furiously with the man next to him.

Behind you Jungkook and Eleanor share a look, nervously observing as you follow the King’s retreat with your eyes and release a heartfelt sigh that both of them were intimately familiar with.

“Oh dear,” Eleanor gasps quietly.

#bts #bts fanfic #bts fanfiction #bts scenarios #kim seokjin #seokjin #jin #seokjin scenarios #mxr #jin x reader #historical!au

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sleepylixie · 3 years

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The Prince of Pearls

Seawalker/Merman! Yang Jeongin

Word Count: 1.6k, Fantasy, Beware of suicide, mentions of depression I’m sorry you guys

A/N: THIS FIC DOES NOT REFLECT THE CHARACTER OR LIKENESS OF THE REAL YANG JEONGIN IN ANY FORM OR MANNER. ONTO THE FIC!! I love this for so particular reason, I really don’t know why,

( @aliceu and @rebecca-noona welcome to the cult yet again. Today we’re serving Sex on the beach with a side of Fantasy Fries)

Requests are open for SKZ and BTS! || Masterlist

Every heard about a time when the lines between natural and supernatural were so blurred, they lived as one? Ever heard about a mortal loving the sea so much, he became one with it? Come, let me tell you the story of the Prince of Pearls.

The sea was an entity of dread to mortals, bringing fear in its unpredictability and terror of the unknown that lay within it.

But for this village off the coast of what would become Busan, South Korea, the sea was nothing more than a god- given blessing for it brought them a bond other inlanders couldn’t even fathom-

Merpeople.

Not more than 80 years ago, the first Mermaid queen had reached out to the Busan chief, hoping to find themselves an agreement of mutual benefit.

Despite strong disagreement, the chief agreed to the Queen’s behest,

And it was evident, soon enough, that his decision had been for the best.

Her people were curious and benevolent, she claimed, if not slightly impish in nature- They were curious of their land counterparts and wished to observe them from as close of quarters as they’d allow-

They brought with them deep-sea treasures like the pearl and opal for the village to trade in return for their acceptance of her kind.

Busan thrived with their newly acquired trade of rare gems and medicinal weeds from the sea floor, and quickly warmed up to their newest neighbours.

Soon enough, it was no oddity to see a band of children splashing and laughing at each other in the shallow waves with a trio of mer-children

It was commonplace to see the mothers sitting at the rocks at the edge of the beach, talking marketplace gossip with their underwater counterparts responding with their own equivalents.

Busan grew well with the merpeople’s companionship, the village blossoming into a robust little trading town.

Yang Jeongin was the name of the current chief’s son, a young boy with a polite, if not a little shy disposition which was often mistaken for coldness.

He wasn’t of the chief’s blood, for his wife was too weak to bear a child. He was picked up by his wife at an orphanage, being swept away by the baby with hair like ebony and a smile like nectar.

He wasn’t a child of many words, often choosing silence and smiles as much as he could.

That is, until he saw the ocean.

The second the waves touched his toes, Jeongin seemed to evolve- no more was he the timid, reserved child his school friends knew him as.

He was a bright, vivacious little thing, unashamed in his loud laughter and witty in his responses, attracting every mer-child’s attention without a smidgen of hesitance.

It was like he bloomed into his true self when he was in the ocean only to retreat into himself again on land, much to his parents’ exasperation.

“Your life is here, on land, Jeongin,” his mother would reprimand him every time he came back past midnight, tracking sand off his feet and pockets full of coral. “You give too much of yourself to the ocean.”

He would smile his shy smile again, complete with the shiny puppy eyes, and his mother would melt, yet again.

And so grew Yang Jeongin, from a reserved child with an affinity for the ocean, to a young man with a love for it.

He was never curious of his true parentage, for his adoptive parents had never made him feel less than their own son by blood- What was the need to look into history, when the present was as beautiful as this?

His hair was black as midnight, cut short so they hung slightly over his coral-brown eyes, brushing at high cheekbones. He stood tall and proud, like a chief’s son should, with swimmer’s shoulders and work-roughed palms. Despite his nature, he was loved by the village, an unconscious charmer who had eyes for nothing but the sea.

Jeongin had begun to spend as much time as he could in the underwater world, loving it all way too much to be able to stay away.

He could stay underwater for long minutes, swim unnaturally fast with his human limbs, even understand the merpeople’s underwater tongue like it was his own.

There was no doubt, of course, that the merpeople loved the chief’s son. He was forthcoming with his questions, nimble with his trickery and brilliant with his words, all qualities that they treasured very greatly amongst their own people.

“Join the sea,” they’d mock him, laughing their bubbly laughs when Jeongin would frown for he knew he had responsibilities on land that he had no choice but to shoulder. “I wish, my friends.” He’d respond in their tongue, a wistful look in his eyes.

But at least his underwater friends would always be there for him, no matter what-

but one day, they disappeared.

One winter morning, Busan woke up to find the merpeople had retreated into the deep sea, far beyond measure.

Busan was lucky that their trading season was over and that they could tide away a few months without the precious cargo the merpeople used to bring for them

But what were they to do if they never returned?

The pressure of the decisions fell onto the chief’s family- who were facing an entirely different kind of dilemma altogether.

Their son had fallen into a spiral of darkness after the merpeople left, retreating so deeply into himself that he was barely a shadow of his old self.

It felt like something was missing inside Jeongin, even when he stood at the sea. It was a sickly, poisonous sensation that left him unable to even stand the sight of the ocean- a place he couldn’t stay away from not too long ago.

No amount of talking from his father or pleading from his mother could get him to leave his room- the windows closed, the bed turned away so he would not catch whiff or sight of the sea and it’s breeze.

The healer came up with nothing that could allude to his strange behavior; his body was entirely fine, she said. His mind, on the other hand....

If only they knew.

If only they knew how he cried at the edge of the beach every night, where nobody would hear him, screaming and begging for the underwater race to come back, bring their ocean magic back with them

The water felt like a trap without their presence, a dark shroud falling over his senses that used to be open and clear even under water.

Maybe that was why Jeongin gave up, one night.

He couldn’t take the emptiness inside him anymore, he couldn’t take having to watch the very thing he loved so much tighten a noose around his head every time he so much as smelt it’s air

So he gave himself to the sea, walking right into the water that felt so poisonous, allowing it to rise from his knees, to waist, chest, shoulders, nose, eyes....

and let go.

It was a full moon that watched the boy with the midnight hair walk into the very water that gave him life, only to never come out again.

When he felt water rush into his nose, Jeongin’s immediate reaction when he came around to consciousness was to panic and try to push his way to the surface until-

The water wasn’t constricting his lungs at all. The water didn’t feel suffocating, like it did for all those months before.

Right in front of him floated the same people who he’d cried for, all those nights when he felt hopeless and lost in the land.

“I am sorry you had to live that way, young one.”

The oldest spoke, his merman tongue unfamiliar with his language.

“Where am I,” he breathed out, finally allowing his eyes to rove over his surroundings- his extremely clear, unblurred vision.

That was when he looked down at himself- and nearly blacked out in shock when he saw not two legs, but one tail. A strong streamlined tail with shimmering bronze dorsal fins, obsidian scales rippling throughout the length of it.

“Welcome to Atlantis.”

He took to life underwater better than he could have ever imagined.

Word went out about the newly arrived merman, formerly of human nature but unforgiving in his love for the sea, much like the rest of them. They accepted him graciously, offering him room and tutelage with his true-blooded peers.

He learnt about how merpeople were formed- first by divine intervention, then procreation and rarely, like in his case, when a mortal with a great love for the sea gave his life away to it.

What Jeongin never understood, however, was why the merpeople that had resided in the waters next to his town decided to leave so suddenly.

When asked, he was told that the merpeople royal court had decided against further interaction with the humans with no explanation at all.

It was sad, he was told.The mer people loved the companionship of their land counterparts, and it pained them to leave the little town that had quenched their curiosities and accepted them without question.

He thought long and hard, over his tutelage, about what the relationship between the merpeople and his human ancestry could bring to the both of them- and then it struck him.

As a human child turned merperson, he could be the perfect conduit between both the worlds- a seawalker who could broker a peace with the landwalkers.

He threw himself into his studies with new vigour, for it felt like he had found a new purpose in life.

Jeongin rose through the ranks with just the lure of his voice-

For it was easy to accept his words, especially when they were paired with his easy charm, simple smiles and fox-like cunning now veiled behind new sapphire-blue locks.

His new home wondered about him,

“Is it true that he’s part siren??”

“His land family wasn’t his blood family, what’s to say he truly has our blood in him after all?

Atlantis took to calling him the Prince of Pearls, a fond nickname for the newest addition to their large family who had ideas bigger than them all, a heart filled with compassion and beliefs clad in iron and adamant.

Everybody knows about the seawalker from Atlantis, all midnight hair and trickster allure, the tale of a mortal from the wrong side of the sea now a voice of reason for everything he had learned to believe.

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myth-lord · 3 years

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Why don’t you just DIE! (already)

Sometimes when you kill an enemy it isn’t exactly the end of the fight, sometimes it is just the beginning!

These are all the monsters from my list/project that can metamorphic into a new form after you seem to have beaten them.

KHALKOTAUROI

First Form:

Much like a mechanical/golem-like bull made from metal, strange red fiery spiritual fire leaks from its cracks, eyes and nostrils.

Reborn Form:

After you destroy the mechanical body an full HP Aatxe spawns, this red bull spirit was trapped inside the metal shell and is more angry than before.

ALP-LUACHRA

First Form:

Like a very pulsing big human, almost bursting and very disgusting, intelligence isn’t in its eyes, it just wants to eat, instead of a tongue however an Olm/Amphibian-like creature bursts from its mouth, seemingly controlling the human host.

Reborn Form:

After killing the human host, the small Alp-Luachra bursts from the corpse and is forced to fight for itself, it tries to enter the bodies of your playable characters, so you better kill it fast.

MANANANGGAL

First Form:

Much like a female version of the Aswang, which are demon-possessed humans in my project, much like the creatures from the movie Evil Dead.

Reborn Form:

After you do enough damage to the Manananggal it will turn into a different form, it sprouts bat-like wings from its back and its torso rips itself free from the lower body, its intestines dangle beneath it and it can use these organs to attack enemies with.

Third Form:

Doing even more damage to this flying form will morph it into the final form, which is just a head with bat-like wings instead of ears, much like a more crazy and scary looking Chon-Chon (my other flying head which is unrelated to the Manananggal), in this final head-form the Manananggal is extremely desperate and it attacks with tentacles which dangle from its neck.

AWD GOGGIE

First Form:

Like a horrifying giant green caterpillar.

Reborn Form:

After you seemingly kill it, it will turn into a cocoon, and while you may think this will turn into a butterfly monster you are wrong, the Awd Goggie is loyal to its giant Caterpillar form and will become an bigger, more colorful red spiky caterpillar, it gains very different attacks and abilities in this new form. You can destroy the cocoon before it hatches, so the second form can be stopped, if not, it is a pretty tough enemy to fight!

EINHERJAR

First Form:

Much like a bigger Berserker (wild humans bred for combat and war) with stronger armor and instead of two small axes like their Berserker brothers use, the Einherjar uses a giant axe.

Reborn Form:

Even after the death the Einherjar won’t stop fighting, it turns into a Draugr first, which is a zombie-fied version of the Einherjar, it behaves much like the Draugr-enemy, but it can’t re-spawn as a Draugr after being killed, as it has a third form as well.

Third Form:

Killing the zombie form of the Einherjar also doesn’t stop it from fighting, now it will turn into a powerful spirit and picks up his axe again to fight once more, instead of striking flesh and bones the Spiritual Einherjar targets and destroys the soul/spirit of its victims.

BINAYE AHANI

First Form:

These twin aberrations are also found as a duo, you can target each of the two twins separately.

Reborn Form:

The best way to deal with these monsters is trying to kill them both at the same time, as when you kill one of the twins first the second will go berserk and transforms into an even more abominable and powerful form, raging with anger and emotions after losing its other half, it gains some new lightning-based abilities in this new form.

BUBAK / TATTY BOGLE

First Form:

The first half of this monsters fight is mostly magical as it seems to be just a scarecrow hanging from the famous wooden crosses they are mostly found on in real life, in this form it just summons fear-magical attacks, illusions of your worst fears and supports the other enemies on the battlefield with its evil magical buffs.

Reborn Form:

After doing enough damage to a Bubak it will turn into a physical attacking enemy, it will jump from the wooden cross and now replaces the magical attacks for physical attacks, it’s attacks can still cause the fear-effects on your playable characters.

DJIEIEN / DEATH WEAVER

First Form:

While still alive, these macabre Lich-like spiders look pretty much like giant monstrous spiders, while they have undead features, they aren’t really undead, YET.

Reborn Form:

After being killed the Djieien’s own necromantic poison automatically reanimates its corpse into an undead, much like a lich, but instead of a human it is a giant spider. While alive the Djieien are already terrible horrors with abilities to create undead minions with their necromantic poison, but in their undead forms the creatures becomes even more powerful and harder to defeat, it can create mummy-like minions with its magical webs and only critical hits can fully destroy them.

FAFNIR / GREED DRAGON

First Form

: Vile but beautiful, that is the best way to describe these golden dragons of extreme greed. A Fafnir looks like wingless golden dragon surrounded by its own treasure and covered in precious jewels and legendary items of value.

Reborn Form:

Even after the death these dragons can’t part with their own treasures, their avarice-cursed spirits will possess their treasures and animate them into a living treasure heap. While not as powerful as the dragon itself, this form gives the Fafnir a second chance to defeat their foes and still being in control of their treasure.

GOBLIN / ELOKO

First Form:

At the start of the battle these green, envious, small humanoids start in a trio, standing on each other’s shoulders, the highest Goblin on top uses a ranged weapon to attack.

Reborn Form:

After some damage is done, one of the three goblins dies and they are now a duo, this changes their entire tactics and they use a new weapon together, they use a very long saw (used to saw through trees) together, they run through enemies both holding the saw on one side.

Third Form:

After receiving more damage the second Goblin also breaths out his last breath and joins the dead, leaving a single Goblin behind to fend for its pathetic existence, in this form the Goblin mostly tries to escape, leaving the players characters without the deserved exp, so you have to kill the Goblin before it escapes.

SPRIGGAN

First Form:

Spriggans are Goblins infected with fey-energy, this mostly happens to goblins that live in the fey forests or which have friendships with fey. They have blue skin instead of a green skin, but they are still pathetic like their goblin cousins, however when they become scared or angry they turn into their reborn form.

Reborn Form:

When angry or scared (in other words when their HP is almost depleted) these blue fey goblins increase in size and strength and become a giant version of their former self, pulsing with fey magic. Why the Spriggans gained this ability is unknown, though wizards think it has something to do with the goblins/and/spriggans envy for the size of bigger creatures, fey magic helped them in achieving this goal, though the progress of turning so large isn’t without pain and stress for the otherwise pathetic creatures. After their anger or stress has gone away the Spriggan will shrink in size again.

HEIKEGANI

First Form:

I’m still experimenting with this creature, but I think I have a start now: The first form of the Heikegani in my project is of a human-corpse which head is replaced with the body of these demonic crabs, the crabs replaced the victims head and ride the corpse like a rider would ride a horse. The reason the Heikegani are so obsessed with “wearing” human bodies is because the fact that humanoid hands can hold weapons, and Heikegani are addicted to fighting and weapons, mostly swords and katanas.

Reborn Form:

After you reduce all the Heikegani’s HP its mounted body will perish and the small crab-creature will have to fend for its own, it has some nasty painful attacks even in this form though, so it isn’t defenseless to say the least.

KERIT / CHEMOSIT

First Form:

While Kerits appear to be just Black Bears, the real creature is actually an alien parasite made up from only pink and purple tentacles, they thrive inside the bodies of bigger predators, in general most are found in bears, but big cats or wolves are also possible, some were even found in predatory fishes like sharks. Anyway, in my projects game-sprite the Kerit is always a Black Bear, just to make things less complicated. While they appear to be just black bears, three tentacles sprout from their maws, hungry for the brains of other creatures, as Kerit (the parasite) needs brains to stay intelligent and alive.

Reborn Form:

After enough damage is done to their bear-host the pink/purple tentacles burst from their fleshy-shell, the creature now appears like a messy undead bear with a LOT of tentacles coming out of its torn-off lower-maw and from its belly, the largest tentacles replaced the bears sluggish locomotion. In this new form the Kerit gains more psychic attacks, and it can hit multiple enemies at the same time.

LOU CARCOLH

First Form:

This giant horrifying snail still has its shell on its back during its first stage.

Reborn Form:

After doing enough damage, the shell will break and the entire slimy snail creature is visible, while it loses a lot of defense in this shell-less form, it gains speed, and its slime-like abilities become more powerful in this stage as well.

MOROI / VAMPIRE

First Form

: Much like a vampire from twilight (just kiddn), more like a vampire from Interview with the Vampire, a beautiful man/woman (my project has both these) holding some (blood) wine in a royal-looking glass, it is dressed in fine clothes and both the male and female Moroi look like noble and rich humans.

Reborn Form:

Doing enough damage to these undead however, will release their real forms, which are far less noble and pretty, more monstrous and hungry for the blood that was denied from them, you see, the Moroi needs blood on its skin regularly to stay this pretty and civilized, without blood it turns into the monstrous, bestial undead it was intended to be.

STRIGOI / NOSFERATU

First Form:

The parents of the Moroi, these look more like the Nosferatu (cool and actual-scary vampires for newbies) and they embrace their monstrous nature, they have the power to control the blood of themselves and others, this gives them their ability to control animals, mind-control and such as well.

Reborn Form:

While already monstrous and ugly in their first form, their true form is even more bestial, they sprout giant fleshy bat wings from their backs and their fangs grow even more out of proportion, their power over blood becomes also stronger in this form, as anger turns the Strigoi more powerful.

OTSO

First Form:

In this form they are just bears with a row of green hairs running along their backs, just a cool looking bear, while they don’t have any magical abilities in this form, nature seems to protect them and after every physical bear-attack the Otso makes, nature makes a move for it as well, this can be healing the Otso randomly, giving it more strength, or summoning plant-based creatures to aid it, the Otso has the intellect of a real bear, so it doesn’t even realizes it is being helped by higher spirits.

Reborn Form:

After you kill this beautiful bear creature however, nature will embrace the bear and merges its spirit and corpse with the plant matter around it, turning the Otso into a bear made from wood, plants and other natural material, now the bear doesn’t need nature anymore to fend for itself, as it became a force of nature, natures protector, natures soul warrior, it gains intellect of its own and many magical abilities involving plants and nature, while its first form is a BEAST, its new form is a PLANT.

POLONG / CARNAGE

First Form:

What seems to be just a bloody zombie is actually a horrible blood-parasite in a corpse shell. In this form the Polong is actually very weak, and its true form is far more dangerous.

Reborn Form:

After you destroy its corpse-home, the Polong bursts out as an water elemental-like creature made from blood, the blood of murderers, thieves and other criminals to be exact. A creation of the vile Strigoi, these blood parasites gather more blood to grow larger and split into multiple Polongs after they absorbed too much of it. In this form its far more dangerous, it can harden its own bloody mass into red obsidian-like spikes to do some serious damage to its victims and enemies. The worst thing is that after another enemy or playable character dies the Polong can enter the corpse again and regenerate all its lost hitpoints, be sure to first kill the Polong and then any other creature on the battlefield.

POLTERGEIST

First Form:

These psychic spirits (also called Psychic Elementals) can enter and animate almost any tiny, small and medium object they encounter, I’m not so sure what object the Poltergeist in my project is found in, but it is probably some furniture like a chair or maybe cutlery.

Reborn Form:

After you destroy their inanimate shells the psychic spirit of a child burst out, it is a very vague humanoid spirit though, more like an insane mind of a child coming to life, it loses any physical attack it had in its object form, but gains powerful psychic abilities in return, if you keep it alive for multiple battle-rounds, it sometimes finds another object and becomes a physical attacker again.

DYBBUK

First Form:

While the Poltergeist is the psychic energy and soul of a paranormal child, the Dybbuk is the psychic energy of a demon, unlike the Poltergeist which can only possess inanimate objects, the more powerful Dybbuk can possess almost any living creature weaker than itself, it is hidden in random other enemies, and gives these monsters/creatures not only more HP but also powerful psychic abilities.

Reborn Form:

After you kill this other monsters the real Dybbuk bursts free, now losing any psychical attack it had and focusing entirely on its extremely powerful psychic abilities, it can also posses other monsters now, and if not protected by spells, your own heroes/characters can also be possessed if they are unlucky. The Dybbuk’s real form is even more insane and disturbing than the Poltergeists form, much like a demonic mind gone wild.

POLUDNICA / LADY MIDDAY

First Form:

In their first form these Nymphs of Light, sunrays and heat are still pretty, hiding their burned faces underneath their golden waving hair, almost appearing like Hesperids, the gentle nymphs of the sun or even muses.

Reborn Form:

After these ladies become angry and almost perish however, their real nature becomes apparent, their hair turns into solar-like fire, and now their burned faces become visible. Their already deadly scythes become even more deadly and become double-sided and they glow like the sun, an aura of heat becomes visible and everything around them catches flames, you really shouldn’t anger these ladies!

RAIJU

First Form:

Being playful shapeshifters, the Raiju is mostly encountered as a tanuki/badger/small predator in the wilds, in their true form they aren’t as cuddly though.

Reborn Form:

After being attacked a lot the Raiju sheds its fake form and turns into the lightning elemental it was born to be, just a wild mess of lightning and electricity without any form of its own. This Raiju isn’t as playful anymore as it is now angry that you hurt it, all it wanted to do is play with you, it didn’t know nor cared for its lightning hurting its playmates in the progress… These lightning elementals are very hard to hit and magic or magic enchanted weapons are needed to dispatch them once and for all, earth magic does great against them.

RAT KING

First Form:

Rat Kings are bizarre creatures, they appear to be just larger-than-usual rats with bright red eyes that collect swarms of non-intelligent rats around them to become a living swarm of rats (not bound by the tails though, like in the real folklore, I left that bit out of my version). All the rats in the swarm are controlled by the Rat King and they are more than willing to fight and die for their “King”.

Reborn Form:

After defeat is in range, the desperate little creature rapidly starts to devour all the death rats that made up its swarm, increasing the Rat Kings own size until it rivals the size of a bear, in this form I like to compare it to the Ugjuknarpak, a giant rat from Inuit myths. The rats that were still alive swarm all over the now giant Rat King like a living coat, functioning as a living armor of suicidal rodents.

RAUDKEMBINGUR / TROLUAL

First Form:

These red-painted monstrous whales make Moby Dick seem like a wussy, their biggest hobby is destroying ships which they use their entire mass upon, one of the biggest enemies in my project, the Raudkembingur in Mythica is like all the Evil Whales (they are all found in ABookOfCreatures) into one in my project, spare for the sharp-finned Sverdhvalur which most important feature (its sharp dorsal fin) I gave to the Japanese monster shark Isonade.

Reborn Form:

Sometimes when you defeat/kill a Raudkembingur it will turn into a Bakekujira/Ghost Whale, born from vengeance these ghostly skeletal whales never stop attacking and tracking their killers. Bakekujira are also found in the seas on their own in my project, but they can also spawn from killed Raudkembingur on the spot.

GASHADOKURO / BONE LORD

First Form:

A gigantic skeleton, nothing more, nothing less. They are created from the merged combined bones from the victims of starvation, a vile creation of the Horseman of Famine (Limos in my project)

Reborn Form:

After you defeat these giant skeletons, they will fall apart into a small army (5) of lesser skeletons (called Spartoi in my project).

STELLA

First Form:

These small Crown Of Thorns starfish monsters are burning with heat, in their first form they are red with almost red-hot spikes covering their bodies, Stella can control their own temperature and turn the water around them very hot.

Reborn Form:

After they are defeated however, their temperature and abilities changes to colder climates, they now can freeze the water around them and also the blood in their enemies bodies, their color changes to a beautiful blue with almost frozen spikes covering their entire starfish bodies.

SUCCARATH / SU

First Form:

See the artwork for what it looks like.

Reborn Form:

The Succarath doesn’t really change into a different form, it just spawns its children on the battlefield, and when you kill the Succarath while there is still a child alive, the soul of the Succarath will be transformed into its psychic child, morphing it instantly into the Succarath itself, you have to kill all the children first to really defeat this creature.

BOLOTNIK

First Form:

These fat, lazy and spoiled toad-humanoids sit on a mobile-throne which is carried at all times by four lesser Vodyanoi (frog-humanoids), the Bolotnik do all their magical attacks, which involve water, mud and quicksand, from their throne, using their magical muddy staff.

Reborn Form:

After you do enough damage, the poor four Vodyanoi slaves of the Bolotnik will perish and the mobile-throne will fall apart, so now the Bolotnik has to fight without it. It can still use magical attacks but also adds physical attacks to its list.

WENDIGO / WINDIGO

First Form:

The first form of the Wendigo has it hovering in the air, wearing the skull of a stag and mostly bestowing terrible magical curses of hunger and cannibalism on its victims/enemies and allies as well, which become more dangerous during the battle as they become more hungry for your flesh, it doesn’t attack physically at all during this stage.

Reborn Form:

After you do enough damage to the Wendigo its skull-mask breaks off and its true form becomes visible, the Wendigo falls from the sky and turns into a raging, hungry ghoul-like horror, instead of influencing others to become hungry it becomes gluttony incarnate itself, attacking with powerful claws and horrid overgrown teeth. You see, you can please both fans of the Wendigo at the same time! In my version it still wears the skull of a deer, but turns into a more accurate-to-the-real-myth version in its second form.

SLUAGH / WRAITH STORM

First Form:

Like a living swarm of spirits/wraiths, hovering together in an enormous tornado of souls and evil.

Reborn Form:

After you defeat the Sluagh, it turns into three ordinary Wraiths, the last three wraiths that survive, much like a spirit-version of the Gashadokuro turning into Spartoi Skeletons.

DRAUGR

First Form:

Draugr, in my project, look like veteran zombie warriors, arrows sticking from their bodies and into their eyes, daggers and swords are stuck in their undead flesh and it doesn’t seem to bother them at all, they only make great use of all these weapons and arrows inside them in their attacks and abilities.

Reborn Form:

The Draugr doesn’t change form at all, it just has the annoying ability to not stay dead for long, it has a 50% chance of resurrecting itself during the battle, and this can go on FOREVER if luck is on the Draugrs side, of course there is the option to just escape from battles.

@rtwork of Succarath and Heikegani = Paizo/Pathfinder

#Mythology #Folklore #Monsters #Fantasy

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androgynoussublimeangel · 4 years

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The Price of Freedom (Chpt.1)

AO3

Summary:

Alastor isn't sure what's gotten into their resident drug-addicted pornstar but something is different about the determined set of his shoulders and a vengeful glint in his eyes. And just where does he keep slipping off to each day returning with more money than any prostitute could make in a single day.

Alastor is beginning to realize Angel Dust might not be the demon Alastor assumed him to be. And has he always had a trio of strange imps following him around?

But Alastor isn't one to miss out on what could prove to be some very promising entertainment.

Angel wanted his freedom. The freedom that Valentino had stolen before Angel even knew what freedom was. He’d spent his whole lifetime being trapped under someone else's control, first his father’s, then his drug dealers, then his clients. Now that he was dead he’d only traded one pair of shackles for another.

As long as Valentino had power, Angel knew he’d never have more than a gilded cage. And Angel was fucking tired of cages. But the overlord wasn’t going to just give up his throne willingly.

But Angel wasn't going to give up without a fight.

With a final horse scream, Angel toppled to the floor, pained tremors wracking his limp body. Flinching as Vox roughly tore his cords from the base of his skull. The TV demon carelessly kicking the prostitutes' prone form as he stepped over him. Angel could only moan softly in pain, his long limbs curling inwards cradling his still trembling body. Barely aware of the sound of the door opening behind him.

“Sorry for the wait Angel Cakes,” Valentino’s smoky voice prickled unpleasantly over Angel’s still pain addled consciousness. Angel blinked blurrily up at the looming figure of his pimp. “Just took Vox a lot longer to find what we were looking for in that empty fucking brain of yours. Don’t know how you find anything in there babe.” The other demons voice dripping with cruel amusement. Digging the toe of his shoe into Angel’s sore ribs. His sharp smile twisting as the pornstar whimpered, trying to wiggle away uselessly.

“Must be all that shit you’re always snorting, might wanna lay off the angel dust, sweetheart.”

Valentino laughed sadistically, sidestepping his employee’s crumpled body, striding towards his desk with Vox following close behind. The overlord settling into his overly luxurious chair, carved from ebony wood with gold inlays and lined with crimson velvet, auspicious enough to be called a throne.

Angel had always thought it looked less like a symbol of the overlord's power and more like he was overcompensating. Not that he ever dared share that with Valentino.

The pimp steepled his fingers together, propping his feet atop his enormous desk. The TV demon standing to Valentino left, screen flickering as a cruel grin warped his face. The lights leaking through the enormous penthouse windows haloing the overlords in neon colors.

“But Vox is the best at what he does,” Valentino smirked at his fellow overlord, the smirk growing wider as the other demon cackled in response. Angel tried to lift his head, weakly glaring at his boss, eyes still unfocused and vision blurring at the edges. Still fuzzy from Vox’s invasion of his mind.

“Come on Angie, baby, don’t be that way. You forced my hand sweetheart, I couldn’t trust you to remember to tell me everything.” The pimp scolded, voice thick with false sweetness. “Just like I’m sure it slipped your mind to mention your whole little “going-clean” schtick.” His smile dropping suddenly, eyes steely. “I don’t appreciate learning about my employee's apparent plans to quit from those fucking pigs running the news.”

Angel shuddering under the force of the overlord's anger, the air practically pulsating from the power exuding from the pimp. Forcing his aching body upright, legs still too weak to hold his weight. His lower set of arms wrapped protectively around his throbbing torso. Valentino’s enraged expression becoming pleased at the sight of Angel’s pained grimace. His face twisting into a pseudo-sweet smile.

“But you’re ain’t gonna quit are you, Angel?” The pimp crooned. Legs falling from his desk as he leaned forward in his chair. Propping his elbows on the desktop and hooking his chin on his intertwined fingers. Glowing red eyes watching the prostitute expectantly, dark promises flickering behind the tinted lenses of heart-shaped glasses. Angel swallowed back the disgust curling in his throat.

“No daddy.” He replied obediently. Eyes downcast and posture demure, the perfect picture of compliance.

“Good, good, we wouldn’t want to have to punish you again now would we.” Angel shook his head vehemently, ignoring the splitting headache pounding behind his eyes. Valentino hummed in satisfaction as he leaned back into the plush velvet lining his chair.

“Now,” The overlord purred, the tapping of his nails against the armrest of his chair deafening in the quiet room. “You wanna explain to me what all this ‘redemption’ bullshit is about?”

Angel didn’t reply. Refusing to look at the overlord.

Valentino sighed, rising smoothly to his feet, sauntering over to Angel’s kneeling form. Angel gazed up at the other man, fighting to not flinch away from the hand that began petting his hair. “How ‘bout I make this easier,”

The clawed hand that had been carding through his hair suddenly gripping a fistful of white locks. Angel winced as his head was yanked back, Valentino’s sharp teeth suddenly inches from his face. “What makes you think you’re even worthy of redemption?” The pimp growled, ignoring Angel uselessly clawing at the hand tangled in his hair.

“A stupid, worthless, whore like yourself, whose only redeeming quality is your cock-hungry holes.”

Angel averted his eyes, unable to hold Valentino’s hateful gaze as verbal poison spilled from the pimps lips. A sudden sharp grip on his chin wrenched his face forward, Valentino’s claws digging harshly into the soft flesh of Angel’s cheeks. The overlord forcibly lifting Angel’s body upwards with his tight grip. The pornstar whimpering but knowing better than to retaliate.

“You look me in the fucking eye when I’m talking to you!” Valentino snarled, eyes flashing before his expression relaxed, melting back into a saccharine sweet smile.

“You just can’t do anything right can you dollface?” A drop of blood sliding down Angel's cheek where Valentino’s claw pricked his cheek. “So fucking useless huh, that dumb royal bitch didn’t know what she was doing picking your pathetic ass to be a part of her stupid pet project.”

The bitter taste of copper filling Angel’s mouth as he bit harshly into his lip to stop himself from spitting in the overlord's face. Surprised by the force of his own anger as Valentino mocked Charlie’s dream. Girl was as naive as they came but she genuinely wanted to see the best in everyone, she truly believed demons could be redeemed. She believed Angel could be redeemed.

The overlord noticed the defiant spark in the pornstar's eyes, his grin growing sharper until he was baring his teeth more than he was smiling.

“Oh this is rich,” The pimp laughed through his teeth, still gripping Angel Dust’s hair. Valentino smirked over his shoulder at Vox, shaking Angel roughly by his hair. “This little bitch actually believes in this redemption shit.” Vox’s snickering joined Valentino’s own cruel chuckling.

“Let me make one thing clear, Angel.” Valentino’s voice dropped to a hiss, his face inches from Angel’s. Close enough that Angel could taste the other man’s alcohol tainted breath. “Even if redemption wasn’t a load of horseshit, you’d never have a chance in hell. You wanna know why angel cakes?”

The overlord drew back to his full height, sneering down his nose at Angel. “Cuz your nothing. You ain’t worth nothing to nobody. Even your own family down here doesn’t want you. The only reason you’re not dead in a fucking ditch is because of me.”

Angel winced as the nails pricking his cheeks dug deeper into the soft flesh. “Who do you belong to Angel cakes?”

“You.” Angel’s voice was barely more than a whisper.

“That’s right, and I’ve got your contract to prove it.” Valentino releasing his intense grip on both Angel’s face and hair sending the pornstar toppling to the floor again.

“Now get out, I’m sick of looking at your face.” The pimp spun on his heel, returning to his seat without a backward glance at the trembling demon struggling to stand. Angel tottered dangerously but managed to get his legs underneath himself, one arm still cradling his slowly mending ribs. Angel was half-way out the door hand hovering on the door handle when the sound of Valentino’s voice caused him to pause. “Oh, and Angel?”

Angel Dust glanced warily over his shoulder. “Next time, you answer me when I call, got it, babe?”

“Yes, boss.”

The door closed with a click.

Angel kept his head held high, marching to the elevator. The moment the doors slid closed behind him, Angel all but collapsed against them. Exhaling deeply, wincing as a sharp jab of pain from his protesting ribs, Angel groaned. Valentino had really put him through the wringer this time. Angel knew he’d be sore for weeks but the pimp always made sure he’d still be able to work. Never leaving an injury that couldn’t regenerate in a few hour's time. Didn’t want to damage the merchandise after all.

Mutilation wasn’t Val’s style anyway, the sadistic roach preferred to aim for where the skin was thinnest. He always knew which bruises to dig his fingers into. Valentino was equally as fond of emotional abuse as he was of inflicting physical pain. The pimp overlord was able to ascertain someone's most emotionally vulnerable cracks and once he did, he’d ruthlessly pry those cracks open until whatever was left was practically unrecognizable.

Angel moaned softly as the elevator jolted, his sore body complaining at the rough treatment. He silently willed it to descend faster, he was itching to get the hell out of there before he suffocated under the weight of Val's overwhelming presence.

This wasn’t his first time getting on his boss’s bad side. He’d seen the back of Valentino's hand more than once. It was rare if he was without a bruise or two, either from his clients or his pimp. It was one of the unfortunate side effects of being covered entirely in velvety fur. A lot easier to hide bruises, which Val seemed to take as a challenge.

Angel could handle pain, he even enjoyed it in the right scenarios. Even as Valentino’s punishments grew more and more brutal. Angel could handle him.

Vox was a different story.

Vox was the kind of demon Angel hated the most, though Valentino was a close second. He even preferred Alastor and his creepy smile over the TV demon. Despite Angel’s previous unawareness about the radio demon, Vaggie’s very vivid and detailed story of other demons ventures painted a clear picture.

Alastor was direct, merciless and efficient. Alastor slaughtered demons but his bloodlust was simple and honest. The radio demon even seemed to have some weird moral code about who he killed. Despite his terrifying abilities and rumored cannibalism, he wasn’t a mindless killer.

Unlike Vox and Valentino who enjoyed causing pain just for the sake of pain. Heedless of who they hurt as they made an overblown show of power through senseless and gratuitous killing.

Angel had always found Vox’s unique brand of torture was invasive, cowardly, and unrefined. The TV demon wielded the numerous cords connected to his body and at the slightest inclination could bury them deep in his victims' flesh. Vox’s powers granted him the ability to forcibly search someone's mind, which was painful in it itself. But he could also forcibly create a recurring nightmare of traumatic memories that played on a loop.

Angel had one of Vox’ victims who’d been plugged in for over a week, reliving their darkest moments again and again. They’d been barely more than an empty husk of a demon, eyes empty and blank, completely unresponsive. It had scared Angel badly enough at the time he’d behaved for an entire year.

This wasn’t even the first time Valentino had felt Angel’s disobedience merited Vox’s intervention, but it wasn’t usually as unbearable. Normally Angel was so strung out on whatever cocktail of drugs he was offered it was barely more than a, particularly bad nightmare. A bad dream that would be forgotten easily enough as soon as Angel Dust got his hands on more of his namesake.

But this time Angel had been completely stone-cold sober.

Each excruciating second had been in agonizing clarity. The feeling of Vox forcibly entering his mind had felt like his head was being split open from the inside and left his brain feeling like it’d been scraped raw with sandpaper. Painful memories lingering too close to the surface after being buried underneath the haze of drugs and sex for so long.

Angel shuddered, moments of his past life that he’d tried his best to forget flashing behind his eyelids. Shaking his head, trying to rid himself from the lingering horrors Vox dredged up from his own mind. He only succeeds in further agitating his throbbing headache.

The elevator dinged and Angel stumbled backward as the doors slid open. Catching himself on the wall with a groan, Angel whined unhappily as he clambered back to his feet. Brushing off imaginary dust from his jacket and smoothing back his hair, only for it to bounce forward again.

Beginning his trek down the hall, eyes brushing over familiar faces of other demons trapped underneath Valentino’s thumb. Some offered him sympathetic looks but otherwise didn’t approach. Angel couldn’t bring himself to be offended. After all, they all knew Valentino would only use it as an excuse to punish him again.

Angel took in the tired faces of all the demons that passed him, everyone looking a little worse for wear since he’d been here last. It had been a few days since he was released from house arrest, or would it be hotel arrest Angel wonders, after his little territorial genocide stint with Cherri. Charlie (only after Vaggie’s very loud protest) had insisted there be some kind of punishment for his actions. If it could be called that, Angel would take a few days of lazing around with his pig over Valentino’s punishment anytime.

Angel sure as hell didn’t believe in redemption or any of that “being a good person” bullshit Charlie was always trying to sell him. But looking at the haggard faces of the demons around him he felt a twinge of concern for them. They weren’t good people that was for damn sure but a lot of them weren’t exactly bad people either.

Angel huffed, cursing Charlie for infecting him with her mushy feelings and empathy. He shuddered just thinking the word. This would be so much easier drugged out of his mind and completely unaware of anything besides his own high.

Drawing closer to the rear exit of the studio Angel straightened his hunched posture, the ache in his ribs finally having subsided somewhat as the bones mended. It would ache like a bitch for a few days at least but nothing Angel wasn’t used too. He’d just have to avoid his left side when he was on the pole.

He exited the studio quickly, striding down the alleyway, eager to get as far away from the building as possible. He wanted to get back to the hotel, where he at least had a room that wasn’t monitored 24/7 and he didn’t have to worry about anyone trying to sell Fat Nuggets for drug money while he was gone.

He paused mid-step, eyes catching on a garishly colored image splashed across the alleyway wall. Angel glared up at, what was no doubt the work of one of Valentino’s, admittedly talented, goons. An enormous portrait of Valentino’s sleazy face splashed across the alley wall. It practically dwarfed him, nearly twice Angel’s height and wider than his arm span.

Standing there, glaring up at the pimps painted likeness. Skin tacky from the cold sweat drying on his skin, breathing slowly growing more ragged with each breath. Angel felt a powerful tidal wave of emotion well up inside him. All four of his hands curling tightly into fists, his claws digging painfully into his palms.

A sudden familiar, grating voice boomed over the loudspeaker causing Angel to jump in surprise. Grimacing in disgust as one of Valentino’s many degrading “reminders” that played on an hourly loop echoed through the studio, leaking into the alleyway.

“Remember to serve your customers with a smile, a happy customer is a paying customer. Now go out and make daddy his money you worthless whores.”

Valentino’s voice wrapping tightly around Angel, slowly constricting around him, squeezing the air from his lungs. Just another reminder of who he belonged to.

The thin thread of Angel’s temper finally snapped.

A loud crack reverberated through the alley. Angel’s fist burying itself in the brick wall, directly in the center of Valentino’s smarmy painted smile. Long, jagged cracks spidering across the surface obscuring the image of Valentino’s grinning face entirely.

Angel’s entire form trembled with rage, the fury burning inside him climbing higher and higher. A small flame of indignity that had spent centuries growing into a blazing inferno of hatred and savage determination.

As long as Valentino had power, Angel knew he’d never have more than a gilded cage. And Angel was fucking tired of cages. But the overlord wasn’t going to just give up his throne willingly.

Angel tugged his fist free from the brick and mortar wall, unflinching despite his now bloodied and broken knuckles. They would heal quickly enough anyway. Angel wanted his freedom, but there was only one way to get it. It wasn’t going to be easy, and Angel knew he might die trying, but he’d already made up his mind. A sharp, determined grin spread across Angel Dust’s lips.

He was going to kill Valentino.

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ao3porcelainstorm · 3 years

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poison ivy & stinging nettles 5

On Ao3

Pairing: Sherlock/OFC

Rated: M

Warnings: eventual violence, torture, swears, adult themes (no explicit smut)

Chapter 4 - Chapter 6

Chapter 5- Fungi

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Despite the initial tension regarding Jessica Reynolds, things seem to be progressing well with Amelia’s case. Sherlock was able to pull a number of shipping manifests from the assistant’s computer, each bound for the manufacturing factory in Manila.

It was fortunate that it confirmed almost every compound Amelia had noted when she stole the data set, at least in the cancer drugs.

The problem was the secondary product bound into the cancer drugs that caused adverse effects. The details on the manifests were less than helpful…

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“Psilocybe mushroom components,” Amelia read the computer screen out loud for the third time since Sherlock had passed it to her, annoyance in her tone. “That’s it?”

“Magic mushrooms?” John asked, passing her a cup of tea, she immediately set it aside, scrolling through the computer logs further. “Seems straightforward enough.”

“John, there are over 200 different types of Psilocybe spores,” Amelia pinched the bridge of her nose, taking a deep breath. “Sherlock, please tell me you have an idea for how we can possibly narrow it down?”

“How many did you use in your research?” The detective asked, reaching for his own tea cup.

“47,” she answered. “Two were almost identical hybrids, so maybe 46.”

“There you go,” he smirked over the rim of his cup. “Narrowed down.”

“You know we’re going to have to get samples, even if we run the equations, some might work but not technically be the component. Not to mention the cancer drugs might be different,” she groaned and set her cup aside, throwing her head back against the sofa.

“Sherlock, it might be time to contact your brother,” John suggested quietly, earning a glare from the brunette.

“You have a brother?” Amelia asked, her head still flung back with her eyes closed. “Please tell me he’s a reputable drug dealer because it’s going to be a pain in the ass getting these things.”

“Even better, he’s a member of her Majesty’s Royal Government,” Sherlock chimed back. Amelia snorted, remaining still.

“He could also order seizures of the shipments,” John reminded the group coolly, sensing the rising tension between the group.

“Unhelpful if we can’t properly determine the malicious components, John,” Sherlock shot back, picking up on Amelia’s frustration. “The idea is that Chemco’s random samples are unable to be traced, and random.”

“Certainly a shipment would contain some variations?” he asked the pair. Amelia threw her arms up hopelessly, and he frowned. “Sherlock, don’t tell me you’re at a loss?”

“Short of breaking into a hospital, stealing their current supply, and testing it against the 46 varieties of mushroom Mia has worked with, this doesn’t lend a more efficient solution,” the detective hummed, drumming his fingers on his chin in thought.

Silence fell over the group, each person thinking through potential solutions.

“Monty!” Amelia shot up, nearly startling John into dropping his tea.

“What on earth-?” The doctor grumbled while Amelia fished out her phone.

“Ruthie’s brother in law, Monty, he’s an, er, herbal enthusiast,” she explained, tapping into her phone. “I bought a few illicit plants from him when I first moved over. He’s basically got everything you could think of. If not, he’ll know someone who does.”

“Is he in London?”

“Canterbury, lives down the road from Ruthie and her husband,” Amelia got a ping back. “Says we can swing by tomorrow if we’d like. I know offhand, I saw at least a dozen spores in one of his cold storages. I’ll dig up my research list, I can probably narrow down the list from 46 to something more reasonable if I look through what moved to the second stages of trials.”

“And then we go shopping for illicit drugs,” John replied dryly. “And what about the cancer medications?”

Sherlock and Amelia exchanged humored glances. There was certainly something that the doctor was missing.

“What?” John gawked between the pair. “You’re not actually breaking into a hospital, are you?”

“We wouldn’t need much, maybe one or two treatments?” Sherlock asked Amelia, who nodded after doing a quick calculation in her head.

“The binding components are easy enough to track down over the counter, though we might need a better equipped lab than what you’ve got in the kitchen,” she noted.

“That’s not a problem,” Sherlock waved her off, skimming through the list of components from the shipping logs. “Easy.”

“I don’t like it when you two conspire together. It always leads to some sort of trouble,” John pressed, frown deepening.

“John, you’re a doctor,” Amelia reminded him excitedly. “Prescribe poor Sherlock Holmes a chemotherapy treatment for the tumor in his ego.”

“No, absolutely not,” John stood up. “That violates so many ethical rules- besides, you’re a licensed pharmacist. It’d be easier for you.”

“Not here, not yet. I mean, we can let innocent, immune compromised patients die,” Amelia shrugged, leaning back into the sofa. “What a shame about the little babies with leukemia. All because my wicked mother wanted a second mega yacht.”

“What truly is the core of medical ethics Dr. Watson?” Sherlock inquired, slowly closing his laptop, his gaze boring into his friend. “Is it not to protect life?”

John Watson, caught between an American and a hard place, was less than thrilled when he finally, begrudgingly, scribbled his name on a prescription pad and passed it to Sherlock.

“If my license is revoked-,” he threatened, holding it away from Sherlock briefly.

“Will you kill him?” Amelia asked, grabbing her crimson scarf from the back of the sofa and wrapping it around her shoulders. “Because I’d be very interested in seeing that.”

“Don’t think you get off that easy,” John turned his attention to Amelia while Sherlock scampered to his coat, mocking Amelia over John’s shoulder with a smirk. “You’re equally responsible for anything that goes wrong.”

“That’s not fair, I’m an innocent bystander to your collusion,” she pouted, catching her navy pea coat when John tossed it at her head.

“Careful John,” Sherlock warned, passing the doctor his jacket, shielding his friend from Amelia’s sad eyes. “Keep her pouting like that and she’ll convince you to clean her hair out of the shower drain.”

“Just go,” John shoved the detective through the doorway, not bothering to wait for the grumbling Amelia as she pulled her boots on and stumbled her way out the door behind them.

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“And you’re going to be administering the medications at home?” the chemist studied the prescription order, glancing over the paper to John with a quirked brow.

“That’s right,” he answered with a curt nod, his hands stuffed in his pockets to try and stave off the nervous energy that radiated through his core.

“To a Mr. William Holmes?” the chemist looked to Sherlock next to him. “Is that you?”

“Yes,” he pulled out his ID and passed it to the woman, flashing a quick smile.

“Did you guys know that Beyonce is pregnant again?” Amelia held up a tabloid to Sherlock. “Oh wait, never mind. Just a rumor.”

“Who is this?” the chemist paused, looking up at Amelia.

“His fiancé,” she replied, setting the magazine aside and looping an arm through Sherlock’s. “Here for moral support. He’s just starting treatment and is nervous as all get out, isn’t that right, love?” For added effect, she snuggled closer, pressing her cheek against his arm.

“I wouldn’t have made it in one piece without her,” he nodded, giving her cheek a quick peck. “Just an absolute blessing.”

“We’re just so lucky to find Dr. Watson,” Amelia continued with a long sigh. “Not a lot of doctor’s are willing to do home treatments within the NHS, you know. And of course I’m completely out of my element with all of it!”

The chemist chuckled empathetically, asking how the pair met as she typed up the order for the supplies. Sherlock and Amelia shot back and forth, exchanging little tidbits about their “relationship” enough to almost convince John it was real.

“The order will be ready tomorrow morning,” the woman smiled at the trio and reached for Amelia’s hand. “I’ll be praying for you both.”

“You’re an angel,” Amelia replied, giving them a squeeze before ushering the group out of the pharmacy with a final wave at the woman.

Back on the street, Amelia slipped a hand into Sherlock’s pocket, pulling out his wallet.

“I did not know your name was William,” she studied his ID, trying to memorize the details before he snatched it from her. “And you’re only three years older than me? I don’t believe that.”

Sherlock grabbed the wallet and ID out her hands, returning them to his coat pocket with a huff.

“Is there no privacy with you?” he grumbled. “And what’s so surprising about how old I am?”

“I just figured you were older,” she shrugged. “I mean, I’m almost thirty, right? I figured you were like, almost forty or something.”

John sputtered out a laugh.

“That’s spectacular,” he threw an arm around her shoulders. “How old do you think I am?”

“John, in all honesty, I have no idea,” she answered. “Sometimes I’m convinced you’re fifty, other times you have to be my age.”

Sherlock snorted under his breath.

“It’s a fair assessment,” she insisted, frowning apologetically at John. “You get very grumpy in the mornings, and the matching flannel pajamas don’t help very much.”

“They’re warm.”

“I’m sure they’re wonderful,” Amelia smiled, patting his arm in a placating tone. “I’m just a terrible judge of age apparently. I should have know how old you actually were with all of the part-time super models you bring by.”

“Mia, you’re digging yourself into a hole you’ll regret for the foreseeable future,” Sherlock warned.

“Shush,” Amelia swatted his arm.

“That reminds me,” John glanced down at his phone. “I have a second date with Ann tonight.”

“Is she the one with the Pomeranian?” Amelia asked hopefully. He shook his head and she sighed. “I liked that one.”

“You liked the dog and I’m very allergic,” John reminded her. “Ann is a barrister.”

“Maybe you should make sacrifices for your relationships, John,” she countered. “Have fun with your boring lawyer date.”

“Ann is the boring one, that’s right,” Sherlock perked up.

“She is not boring,” John insisted, flagging down a taxi.

“We’ll call with an ‘emergency’ in a bit,” Amelia promised earnestly. “Get you out of talks about law and order. Blegh.”

“I’m turning my phone off,” he called, slipping into the backseat of the taxi.

“If it wasn’t so cold, I’d be half tempted to follow them,” Amelia mused, continuing down the street with the detective.

“Don’t, they’re seeing that action movie that just came out,” he sighed dramatically. "Boring."

“Movies never make sense as an early date,” she noted. “You can’t talk. How do you get to know anything about the other person? They could be a serial killer for all you know.”

“Exactly, hardly an intimate setting,” he shook his head in disappointment. Amelia looked at him in surprise, stifling a laugh. “What?”

“It’s hard to picture you trying to take someone on a date,” she confessed lightly.

“You’re one to talk,” he countered quickly. “You never leave the flat.”

“You literally don’t let me?” she replied with another laugh. “And arguably, I’ve gone at least one more date than you in the last month.”

“Jessica Reynolds does not count,” he shot back.

“She has the remnants of my favorite shirt on her bedroom floor,” Amelia shivered at the memory. “She counts. John’s been on half a dozen dates since then, yet I’m fairly certain I heard you making love to your calculator the other night.”

“Why did I allow you to move into my building?” Sherlock kept his focus forward. “And I’d be a wonderful date, assuming I knew who i was meeting and could plan accordingly.”

“You’d stalk your date for ideas,” Amelia bit back a smirk. “It’d almost be endearing if it wasn’t super illegal.”

“I do not have to stalk someone to take them on a decent date,” he insisted. “What about you? What would you do aside from a bar?”

“First of all, I would never take someone to a bar on a first date,” she held a hand up, stopping in front of him. “It’s tacky. Would you want to date someone tacky?”

“Ok, where would you take me?” he offered, folding his arms across his chest. Amelia considered his challenge, pulling out her cell phone and tapping at the screen. Grinning at the device, she looked up at him.

“I get a little leeway because I’m not from here,” she warned, flagging down a passing cab.

“What are you doing?” he watched her chat with the driver, and look up at him expectantly.

“I’m taking you on a date,” she answered. “Get in Mr. Holmes, and prepare to be wooed.”

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The Barbican Conservatory wasn’t very busy at midday in the middle of the week, so they were able to secure entrance and tour around the large space without too much interruption from other guests.

“There are over 1,500 different plants in 23,000 cubic square feet of space,” Amelia tucked her hands behind her back. “And the ponds feature koi and carp from Japan and America respectively.”

“Did you just read the pamphlet?” Sherlock asked, looking over the informational packet. “Because you quoted the first paragraph verbatim.”

“It’s because I’m well versed in what I sought out,” she answered with a grin. “Look, flowers.”

She pulled him toward a large selection of tropical flora, naming the species as they moved through in both their common names and scientific ones.

“This one is particularly rare,” she gestured to a bright red flower, the pamphlet long discarded in her coat pocket. Sherlock listened intently, occasionally chiming in his own facts about the flora that surrounded them. He could tell she was pleasantly surprised at his own knowledge on some of the more obscure plants.

“Waitwaitwait,” Amelia pulled him by the wrist toward a large swath of sunflowers. “They’re taller than you, that’s so cool!”

“Does that make them extra haughty?” he retorted, letting her shove him in front of the flowers. She snapped a picture while he continued to quip, ignoring his comments a moment while she saved it to her phone. “Do not show that to anyone.”

“I would never,” she promised. “It’s a good picture, though.” She held her phone up, and sure enough, she’d captured a flattering angle while he’d been laughing.

“I’m not haughty,” he quickly stated.

“You know that isn’t their only meaning,” she hummed, tucking the phone away. “They also mean strength, happiness, confidence… I think they sum you up perfectly.”

“Happiness?”

“Oh that’s right, you were happy once and it was terrible,” she replied coyly. “How could I have forgotten? Happiness can mean bringing it to others as well, Sherlock.”

She turned to look at some lilacs, absently chatting while he stood frozen in place, the words running on repeat in the front of his mind.

Who did he make happy?

~~~

Amelia had a mouth full of falafel when Sherlock decided on where he was going to take her next.

“Mmwha mwean?” she asked, tilting her head in confusion. “Dwon’t swteal mwwy dawte!”

“You did an adequate job,” he answered. “But I still think I’m the superior date planner.”

She swallowed her food, eyeing distrustfully.

“I’m only interested if it’s a very old cemetery,” she replied, stealing one of his chips. “And it better be nighttime and there had better be ghosts.”

“There is no such thing as ghosts,” Sherlock clarified sharply.

“Consider this date over,” she stood up from the public bench they’d settled on. “It’s not me, it’s definitely you.”

“Amelia, come back,” he called, but she continued down the road, night starting to swallow the city. “They’re theoretically impossible.”

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Amelia had to admit (though never out loud), Sherlock Holmes did know a thing or two about impressing a date (despite his disbelief in ghosts).

He purchased her a pink peony, her favorite flower, from a street vendor.

Next, they went to the aquarium, where they wandered away from the main tour and Sherlock gave his own version of the tour, naming the fish and telling her random facts about their origins. Together, they came up with complex names and origin stories for all of the fish.

“The puffer fish is obviously fed up with the whale shark’s nonsense,” Amelia laughed, pointing out the fish blowing up as the white shark passed it in the tank. “He’s probably having an affair with the puffer fish’s wife.”

“I don’t know, the whale shark was eyeing the sea turtle…” Sherlock mused, watching the mesmerizing scene next to her.

Every once in a while, Amelia would steal a look at him. The way the light reflected around them, and how it flickered through his blue eyes- should almost wished she had a paint pallet to try and capture the almost perfect cerulean color.

They left the aquarium chuckling about an octopus that had escaped during a demonstration, night having finally swept over the city.

“Ok,” she relented. “You win this round.”

“I’m not done yet,” he pulled his phone out and glanced up. “We have a final stop.”

“What else could you have planned on such short notice?” she asked, letting him grab her hand and pull her along.

“I told you, I know what I’m doing,” he teased, stopping after a few blocks, looking up at the glowing carriages of the London Eye. “It’s not a cemetery.”

“Might be better,” Amelia admitted.

And it was.

Amelia had never experienced anything so spectacular in her life. The lights over the Thames and the London skyline were unlike anything she’d seen before. The old city had a different energy to it compared to New York, and from the top of the famous Ferris wheel, she could see it all.

“I can’t believe we live in the same city as all of this,” she gestured below them. “It doesn’t seem real.”

“It looks like stars,” he agreed, looking over the edge.

“And the reflection on the river?” Amelia continued to gush in excitement, practically jumping around the edges of the capsule as they moved through the sky.

It was over far too quickly, though Amelia knew they needed to get back. John was probably long home from his date.

“You win,” she sighed. “You definitely win, but only for today.”

“That means there’s a second date?” he smirked, offering her his arm as they walk. She took it, falling in step while they tried to track down a taxi.

Amelia knew he was teasing. It was more of an outing between friends, a means to prove a point with no real intimate feelings involved. A challenge.

She repeated this to herself as she stared at the peony in her hands on the taxi ride home. Or when Sherlock made a quiet quip about extra marital whale shark affairs.

He had to prove his point, and he did. She was sufficiently surprised, and very much felt conflicted about it.

When they returned, Amelia cut into the conversation before John could ask where they’d been. He told her all about his date, and that while Ann was very nice, there probably wasn’t a third date in their future.

“Because she’s boring?” Sherlock joked, pulling out his laptop and checking his email.

“We have different interests,” John clarified sharply. “I think I’m going to take a break from dating for a bit. What about you two? What did you do all day?” His eyes fell on the peony in Amelia’s hand, and she froze, not sure how to respond.

“We went on a date,” Sherlock spoke up confidently from his perch, eyeing John and waiting for a reaction.

“You… on a date?” he looked between the pair. “Both of you? Together?”

Admittedly, it was a bit fun watching their friend process the information. Amelia just braced herself for when Sherlock clarified their challenge with one another.

“Yep,” he answered, popping the “p”. “It was a lovely day, wasn’t it Mia?”

Dazed, Amelia choked out an affirmative, her head still catching up with the fact there hadn’t been any specifications as to the motivation behind everything.

“A long day,” she forced out a yawn. “I’m going to put this in some water and head to bed. We’ve got an early morning tomorrow, don’t forget. I have our train tickets already, but one of you needs to get the chemotherapy into the fridge before we go.”

Both men said goodnight and she slipped downstairs to her apartment, sneaking a final glance over her shoulder, in case he was going to add anything else to the date conversation.

“A date?” John waited until Amelia was out of earshot. “You never mentioned being interested like that. In fact, you mocked me.”

“We were merely getting to know one another,” he shrugged. “Initially we were trying to prove a point, but it turned into an enjoyable afternoon. Though, I wouldn’t get too excited about it, John.”

“And why not?” John asked. “She’s been here for two months now, you two get along in your weird, mad scientist way, it could be a good match.”

“I’m far too busy to have time for romantic partners,” Sherlock shot the suggestion down. He stilled, his hands resting on the keys of his laptop. “And she seemed odd just now, didn’t she?”

“No more than usual,” John replied. “Worried she didn’t enjoy herself? You got her a flower, I’m sure she was enthralled.”

“A peony,” Sherlock corrected quietly. “She likes peonies. They’re in the perfume she wears.”

“Maybe she’s just deep in denial, much like yourself, and needed to sleep to get her head straight?” John snorted, standing up from his chair. “Speaking of, don’t stay up too late.”

Sherlock waved him off, staring down at his computer and re-reading the same sentence over and over. He couldn’t focus on any of his cases right now, his head was all over the place.

Grabbing his violin, he plucked away at the strings, trying to find a sound for the chaos in his head.

Meanwhile, laying in bed with her eyes closed, listening to the soft sounds, Amelia decided she had more important things to think about besides date challenges and eccentric roommates.

Things like corrupt CEOs and fungi.

Chapter 6

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6 Summer Adult Romances!

Click here to view the full post on my blog, or read more to find out more about these books!

Despite still feeling kinda new to the romance genre, I wanted to compile a list of some of my favorite romance novel’s I’ve read, that I think are perfect for summer.

Whether you’ll be reading on the beach or nice and comfortable in air conditioning, these books will be the perfect addition to your summer!!

Read more for descriptions of each book, plus check out my blog to see 6 YA Romances that are perfect for summer!

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THE HATING GAME BY SALLY THORNE

Page Count: 387 pages Publisher: William Morrow Release Date: August 9th, 2016 Purchase Options: Amazon, Indiebound, Barnes and Noble [ Click Here For My Full Review ]

“Lucy Hutton has always been certain that the nice girl can get the corner office. She’s charming and accommodating and prides herself on being loved by everyone at Bexley & Gamin. Everyone except for coldly efficient, impeccably attired, physically intimidating Joshua Templeman. And the feeling is mutual. Trapped in a shared office together 40 (OK, 50 or 60) hours a week, they’ve become entrenched in an addictive, ridiculous never-ending game of one-upmanship. There’s the Staring Game. The Mirror Game. The HR Game. Lucy can’t let Joshua beat her at anything—especially when a huge new promotion goes up for the taking. If Lucy wins this game, she’ll be Joshua’s boss. If she loses, she’ll resign. So why is she suddenly having steamy dreams about Joshua, and dressing for work like she’s got a hot date? After a perfectly innocent elevator ride ends with an earth-shattering kiss, Lucy starts to wonder whether she’s got Joshua Templeman all wrong. Maybe Lucy Hutton doesn’t hate Joshua Templeman. And maybe, he doesn’t hate her either. Or maybe this is just another game.”

This book is what finally pushed me into reading adult romances. Yeah, I had read a couple before this one, but this is the book that made me fall in love with the genre. I know it’s been talked about by most everyone, but if you haven’t read it yet, this summer is the perfect time (especially with the movie in the works)!

THE KISS QUOTIENT (THE KISS QUOTIENT #1) BY HELEN HOANG

Page Count: 333 pages Publisher: Berkley Release Date: June 5th, 2018 Purchase Options: Amazon, Indiebound, Barnes and Noble [ Click Here For My Full Review ]

“Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases — a job that has given her more money than she knows what to do with, and way less experience in the dating department than the average thirty-year-old. It doesn’t help that Stella has Asperger’s and French kissing reminds her of a shark getting its teeth cleaned by pilot fish. Her conclusion: she needs lots of practice — with a professional. Which is why she hires escort Michael Phan. The Vietnamese and Swedish stunner can’t afford to turn down Stella’s offer, and agrees to help her check off all the boxes on her lesson plan — from foreplay to more-than-missionary position… Before long, Stella not only learns to appreciate his kisses, but to crave all the other things he’s making her feel. Soon, their no-nonsense partnership starts making a strange kind of sense. And the pattern that emerges will convince Stella that love is the best kind of logic… ”

Firstly, if you aren’t a fan of series, don’t worry. This is just a series of companion novels, so you don’t have to commit to them. But trust me when I say, after reading this, you will want to. I just love this book so much. These characters are just absolutely amazing and you will not regret picking this up!

JOSH AND HAZEL’S GUIDE TO NOT DATING BY CHRISTINA LAUREN

Page Count: 309 pages Publisher: Gallery Books Release Date: September 4th, 2018 Purchase Options: Amazon, Indiebound, Barnes and Noble [ Click Here For My Full Review ]

“Hazel Camille Bradford knows she’s a lot to take—and frankly, most men aren’t up to the challenge. If her army of pets and thrill for the absurd don’t send them running, her lack of filter means she’ll say exactly the wrong thing in a delicate moment. Their loss. She’s a good soul in search of honest fun. Josh Im has known Hazel since college, where her zany playfulness proved completely incompatible with his mellow restraint. From the first night they met—when she gracelessly threw up on his shoes—to when she sent him an unintelligible email while in a post-surgical haze, Josh has always thought of Hazel more as a spectacle than a peer. But now, ten years later, after a cheating girlfriend has turned his life upside down, going out with Hazel is a breath of fresh air. Not that Josh and Hazel date. At least, not each other. Because setting each other up on progressively terrible double blind dates means there’s nothing between them…right?”

I have two Christina Lauren books on this list because I am addicted to their books. However, this one is by far my favorite of theirs. It’s a friends-to-lovers done so well, you won’t be able to put it down. I know I wasn’t able to.

RED, WHITE, AND ROYAL BLUE BY CASEY MCQUISTON

Page Count: 423 pages Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin Release Date: May 14th, 2019 Purchase Options: Amazon, Indiebound, Barnes and Noble [ Click Here For My Full Review ]

“First Son Alex Claremont-Diaz is the closest thing to a prince this side of the Atlantic. With his intrepid sister and the Veep’s genius granddaughter, they’re the White House Trio, a beautiful millennial marketing strategy for his mother, President Ellen Claremont. International socialite duties do have downsides—namely, when photos of a confrontation with his longtime nemesis Prince Henry at a royal wedding leak to the tabloids and threaten American/British relations.

The plan for damage control: staging a fake friendship between the First Son and the Prince. Alex is busy enough handling his mother’s bloodthirsty opponents and his own political ambitions without an uptight royal slowing him down. But beneath Henry’s Prince Charming veneer, there’s a soft-hearted eccentric with a dry sense of humor and more than one ghost haunting him.

As President Claremont kicks off her reelection bid, Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret relationship with Henry that could derail the campaign and upend two nations. And Henry throws everything into question for Alex, an impulsive, charming guy who thought he knew everything: What is worth the sacrifice? How do you do all the good you can do? And, most importantly, how will history remember you?”

You all knew I would have to put this book on here. It’s my obsession. The love of my life. I know this book is getting a lot of hype right now, but let me tell you, it deserves all of it. This book is really something special. Not only is it an adorable romance with enemies-to-lovers and plenty of wit, but it’s also a powerful read that you don’t want to miss.

THE UNHONEYMOONERS BY CHRISTINA LAUREN

Page Count: 400 Publisher: May 14th, 2019 Release Date: Gallery Books Purchase Options: Amazon, Indiebound, Barnes and Noble [ Click Here For My Full Review ]

“Olive is always unlucky: in her career, in love, in…well, everything. Her identical twin sister Ami, on the other hand, is probably the luckiest person in the world. Her meet-cute with her fiancé is something out of a romantic comedy (gag) and she’s managed to finance her entire wedding by winning a series of Internet contests (double gag). Worst of all, she’s forcing Olive to spend the day with her sworn enemy, Ethan, who just happens to be the best man. Olive braces herself to get through 24 hours of wedding hell before she can return to her comfortable, unlucky life. But when the entire wedding party gets food poisoning from eating bad shellfish, the only people who aren’t affected are Olive and Ethan. And now there’s an all-expenses-paid honeymoon in Hawaii up for grabs. Putting their mutual hatred aside for the sake of a free vacation, Olive and Ethan head for paradise, determined to avoid each other at all costs. But when Olive runs into her future boss, the little white lie she tells him is suddenly at risk to become a whole lot bigger. She and Ethan now have to pretend to be loving newlyweds, and her luck seems worse than ever. But the weird thing is that she doesn’t mind playing pretend. In fact, she feels kind of… lucky.”

While Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating may be my favorite Christina Lauren book, this one is pretty close. Enemies-to-lovers, fake datings, and basically every other classic trope everyone loves found their way into this extremely fun read.

WELL MET BY JEN DELUCA

Page Count: 336 Publisher: Berkley Release Date: September 3rd, 2019 Purchase Options: Amazon, Indiebound, Barnes and Noble [ Click Here For My Review Teaser ]

“Emily knew there would be strings attached when she relocated to the small town of Willow Creek, Maryland, for the summer to help her sister recover from an accident, but who could anticipate getting roped into volunteering for the local Renaissance Faire alongside her teenaged niece? Or that the irritating and inscrutable schoolteacher in charge of the volunteers would be so annoying that she finds it impossible to stop thinking about him? The faire is Simon’s family legacy and from the start he makes clear he doesn’t have time for Emily’s lighthearted approach to life, her oddball Shakespeare conspiracy theories, or her endless suggestions for new acts to shake things up. Yet on the faire grounds he becomes a different person, flirting freely with Emily when she’s in her revealing wench’s costume. But is this attraction real, or just part of the characters they’re portraying? This summer was only ever supposed to be a pit stop on the way to somewhere else for Emily, but soon she can’t seem to shake the fantasy of establishing something more with Simon, or a permanent home of her own in Willow Creek.”

Okay, I know this one won’t be published until summer is over, but I need to mention it. It’s absolutely amazing! Seriously, it’s completely worth the wait. The relationship is so perfect, the characters are all amazing, and it takes place at a Ren Faire!!! What more could you ask for?

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What is your favorite summer romance? I really need some good recommendations!!

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Taken in Yadda Yadda Berries. Star and Marco will learn something about Toshi and Rasticore’s relationship.

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Somebody. A traitor or some assassin or a hired hitman, was planning to kill Eclipsa and his dad by using Yadda Yadda Berries in the pie and wine. Fortunately, the royal taster has risked his life for her and Toshi have saved his father from drinking the spiked wine when he picks up the scent of poison from the drink.

Now he, and his pals are on the case of who is behind the assassinations. When Toshi finds out who was trying to kill his dad and Eclipsa, he’s going to teach them a thing or two for being murderers on their new queen, who is not evil at heart. And his dad is no longer the villain they thought he was after Kurogane, the legendary spinosaurus, calmed down and became a family ally after he barfed out his dad, and they were able to reunite and rekindle their relationship.

The informant has informed them that it was the work of an assassin from the guild of assassins. When they reached there, the trio spotted an oh-so-familiar, but small face in the kitchen.

After a little greeting, much to Rasticore’s exasperation and frustration since he is still healing from whatever did this to him (Toshi did joke that he ever wondered he fell onto his side because of the weight of his large arm). Thankfully, the recovering frilled lizard gave them the info they need.

“Babs, eh? That’s our new lead,” Star figured, “Thanks little guy.”

And she pats him on the back and she left. Toshi stayed behind, putting a hand on his shoulder after he sighed miserably for being called little guy.

“Oh man, whoever did this to you, must have been real pissed,” he spoke to him, “Would it be okay if you tell me what happened?”

“I don’t wanna talk about it,” Rasticore grumbled.

Star and Marco returned when they noticed Toshi is missing, “One question though. Is it me or do you two know each other?” she wondered.

“Yeah, it’s like you guys are chums,” Marco agreed.

Rasticore turned around and rested his fists on his waist, “Cause I’m the kid’s godfather.”

They paused to digest that new information about their friend, muttering and whispering to each other that explains why their friend and Rasticore know each other.

“You’re Toshi’s godfather? That explains why you two are so close,” Star muttered, “I actually noticed you two meeting up in our last fiascos.”

Toshi blinked, and held his chin in trying to remember the times he meets Rasticore in their previous adventures and how Star noticed them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C65hL9d1ANM

(Flashback 1)

Rasticore tracked through the aisles of Quest Buy, searching for any signs of his targets through this maze using his tracker. He senses a presence not far and turned to face the person.

When he and Toshi noticed each other, the green lizard eased down his scowl and lifted his hand in greeting. And Toshi returned it before they departed.

(Flashback 2)

“Rasticore, bring me Princess Marco’s bones!”

And Heinous threw what’s left of Rasticore’s hand directly at Marco, the Diazs and Star. But the hand fell worthlessly. Toshi gently picked him up.

“Dude, when did you become a cougar magnet?” he asked him.

The claw made spasms and wild gestures that the young lizard translates as, “WHAT!?”

“Me too, I don’t get why she likes you,” he whispered awkwardly.

(Flashback 3)

“LEAVE THIS PLACE, HEINOUS!!!”

The former dean spun around and saw Gemini being held hostage and put at gunpoint by a pissed off Toshi. When she was busy preaching, he approached the minion quietly and whipped out his cybernetic pistols. The sight of the hostage situation stunned the princesses of the former school, Star and Marco. Since everything is seen on the big screen.

“Leave now! Or your friend here GETS IT!!” he threatened, jabbing the muzzle of his pistol into the golem’s temple.

“Oh please,” she huffed, folding her arms, “As if that would scare me.”

“Wow, she doesn’t care about you,” Toshi whispered to Gemini, making him sigh in exasperation. When that didn’t work, he gently pushed him away and quickly grabs the still recovering Rasticore, who is just a torso. Feeling the gun aimed at his heart, the healing lizard dropped his chainsaw and lifted his arm in surrender.

He got a reaction from the elder.

“DON’T HURT HIM!!!” she wailed in total horror.

“Sorry I had to do this,” he whispered to Rasticore.

“It’s okay, kid, I get it,” Rasticore answered, using hand signs.

“When you’re fully regenerated, you’re have to put a restraining order on her,” he reminded.

Rasticore replies with a thumbs up, “Agreed.”

“Now GET OUT OF HERE!!!” Toshi roared at Heinous, waving his pistol to tell her to get into her car.

“Okay, okay!” she wailed, quickly getting into her car. Without warning, Gemini snatches a rock and throws it. Toshi thought he was aiming at his face to save the lizard but the rock smacked into Rasticore’s stomach, displaying a terrible wince. He made rapid hand signs.

“Hey, what the hell man!?” Toshi translated for the golem after reading his sign language.

“Sorry, I was aiming at you!” Gemini apologised.

Seeing the display and accepting the fact that Turdina, their liberator, is a boy, the princesses, with Pony Head rebelled, battle crying.

“VIVA LA REVOLUTION!!” Toshi yelled in fluent French, “WOOOOOOOO!!!”

In his total glee and adrenaline rush, he simultaneously kicked the torso down.

“Sorry!” he called out to Rasticore.

(Flashback 4)

“Heinous!?”

Toshi, with Ruby following behind him when they hear something happened to Star and Marco, marched in with a slow scowl and slowly pulling out his pistol.

“How many times do I have to warn you that if you ever come back -!”

He let out a bloodcurdling scream when The nearly formed Rasticore quickly whips out a taser and jolted him in the side. Dropping his gun and collapsing, he panted in pain.

“Toshi!” Star and Marco cried with alarm.

Leaning down until they are at earshot, the green lizard whispered, “Sorry I had to do that.”

“Hey man, it’s okay,” Toshi whispered back with a slight chuckle, “Now we’re even now.”

The two shared a short laugh fest that confuses Star and Marco, making them wonder.

Does Toshi and Rasticore know each other?

(End of flashbacks)

“Yeah, I forgot to explain that to you,” Toshi smiled sheepishly, “Been busy with our mishaps.”

“How’s your mom?” Rasticore asked normally.

“Oh, she’s doing great!” he answered with a smile, “You heard what happened to my dad and my mom that day?”

“Yeah, yeah, I heard,” he answered, “I didn’t know Kurogane was frozen all this time! But I’m glad you got your dad back.”

“Yeah, it surely does,” he sighed with nostalgia, “I better leave, Rast. We gotta catch the culprits before they strike again.”

“Tell your parents I said ‘HI!’” he called out as the trio ran off.

“I WILL!” Toss’s voice is heard calling back.

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Each of the flashbacks are Gift of the Card, Heinous, Princess Turdina and Monster Bash.

I hope you like it!

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here is a little preview to a new fic i’m working on, AKA The Tangled AU No One Asked For

Pairing: Jeon Jungkook/Kim Seokjin

Rating: T for language in this preview, unsure of final rating

Word Count: 1,744

The stars have always fasciated him.

He’s mapped them in his room, sprawled endlessly across his ceiling and trailing down the walls. On most days he can admire them, both out his window and within in his room, but other days he resents them; wants to throw paint at the delicately painted scenes and scream into his pillow. They were outside and he was in. They had freedom, he did not.

Kim Seokjin doesn’t know the meaning behind freedom, can only watch it with glistening eyes as it streaks across the skies.

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So in reality Jeon Jungkook’s track record sucks. It’s really awful, to be honest. In fact, it might be the worst. He was probably on par with serial murderers, he just doesn’t like to get his hands dirty. Well, he doesn’t like to get blood on them, let’s put it that way. In terms of the symbolic meaning of dirty Jungkook’s hands should probably be black with filth.

He’s humming this to himself as he sits in a prison cell, again. In his defense he was sort of in the wrong place at the wrong time, so it wasn’t entirely on him, just mostly. So yes he orchestrated the whole thing, but he didn’t actually do anything but stand watch and utterly fail at that. It’s not his fault Jimin and Taehyung bailed out on him, and it’s also not his fault that his previous record eliminated any chance of the guards hearing him out.

Okay, so maybe not so much the last bit but still.

“Here’s your food, scum,” comes the straggled voice of one of the castle guards. He kicks in a tray of what Jungkook probably thinks is stale bread and moldy cheese, and it bumps unceremoniously into his scuffed brown leather boot.

Jungkook flashes a toothy smile. “Cheers, mate,” he sings happily, but makes no move to get the food. He’s starving, but he won’t give them the satisfaction of giving himself food poisoning because that was the only option. It wasn’t like he was going to be in here much longer anyway.

The guard stiffly laughs at him and trudges away, flashy armour clinking with him as he walks. Jungkook straightens himself from where he was leaning against the wall and tilts his head side to side to try and crack his neck. He’s still humming under his breath and starts to rap his fingers against his knee to match the nameless song he has going. When he hears the first sound, a sly smirk splays across his face and he has to suppress his outright laughter.

There’s confused yelling and a string of obscenities before a loud clunk of what was no doubt the self same guard from earlier crashing to the ground. He hears a distinctive cackle followed by a stern scolding, although he can’t make out the words. He already knows who it is anyway, and stands to walk over the bars of his cell to drape himself dramatically against them.

“Oh woe is me,” he laments to the approaching footsteps, “How I have wasted away in this cell, my only thoughts being of my beloved who waits with bated breath to see me safely returned!”

“You’re an idiot,” Jimin says as he rounds the corner. He blows up a puff his ridiculous orange hair in something that was probably defiance but the effect is lost under his grin he’s unable to hide. Terrible actor.

“A beautiful idiot,” Taehyung supplies as he stumbles and skids to stand in front of the cell. He triumphantly jingles a ring of keys with his rectangle grin, waggling his eyebrows. “One who does not belong in the confines of a filthy castle dungeon,” he says, pouting at the end.

“Just open the damn cell before I leave both of you here,” Jimin sighs, running a hand through his hair, “The palace is bound to notice something is amiss if we don’t hurry the hells up.”

Jungkook shrugs, he can’t argue with that logic. “Then let this damsel in distress out,” he returns a pout, like a child who doesn’t get what they want.

“Jesus Christ,” Jimin says while Taehyung laughs and opens the cell.

— — — — — — —

If Jungkook was going to be a crybaby, he hasn’t had the best life. He lost his parents before he can even really remember them, and was stuck in an orphanage that was, if he was being nice, not that great. A fucking hell if he isn’t. It was there he grew up with the grand wish of becoming a swash buckling adventurer, always envying the stories that were read to him. It was when he was struggling to reach one of them as a small child that he had met Taehyung and Jimin, also orphans like him. That was the start of their friendship, and the beginnings of an entourage of misfits that probably belonged in a dungeon.

The misfits in question would be those the Terrible Trio (as he called them, and it just stuck) came across when they kept getting in trouble with the law in the beginning. One of them always ended up in some dungeon, jail, thing that was probably supposed to keep them there for a very long time. The thing was, that during their time at the orphanage Jimin discovered he had a strange talent for picking locks so it never lasted long. It was either the times changing or the region getting sick of their acts of debauchery, but dungeons etcetera had started to use more sophisticated locks, ones Jimin had more of an issue with if his relentless cursing was anything to go by.

Enter Kim Namjoon, some poor sod they had met when “accidentally” robbing a shop in a local town. He stared them down from behind the counter, only having been noticed when he cleared his throat. Jimin had bowed and pled for forgiveness, Taehyung had wondered out loud if a blacksmith really needed so many tools, and Jungkook had just offered a weak shrug. It was a wonder they weren’t thrown out, but Namjoon had felt bad for them (or something) and even though he didn’t let them walk of scot free, he did agree to help them not be criminals.

Only that lasted for about five seconds when he realised the Terrible Trio were very cemented in their ways so he gave up a life of peace to drag himself along with them. Jungkook finds him rather relaxing to be around, always a voice of reason and comfort when he doubts himself. Namjoon was also rather genius, and stopped having issues being a criminal when he would design heists and the Terrible Trio would return with enough riches to probably last them until their graves.

Their graves almost came too soon one night that Taehyung had gotten himself stuck in a dungeon. He was whining endlessly at Jimin who was insisting he was going as fast as he could to get the damn lock to give way, and Jungkook had to keep slapping Taehyung’s hands away. Namjoon had been standing behind them, not wanting to wait outside in the cold, and somehow between the four of them they didn’t notice when a guard came up.

The bastard had been watching for a while, and only became known when he laughed particularly hard at Taehyung physically gnawing on Jimin’s knuckles as he tried to work the lock open. When they all turned in unison the guard had lifted his hands in mock defense and swore he wasn’t trying to start anything, just honestly wanted to see if Jimin could get it. And he did, about twenty minutes later and with enough curses to condemn the worst witch to hell. The worst part was the guard had produced the ring of keys that went to the cell right after, laughing brightly with his mouth in the shape of a heart, wiping at his eyes at the look on Jimin’s face.

Jung Hoseok he had introduced himself as, and actually begged to join them because guard duty was, as he put it, “worse than watching after a dying pig—one that was dying from a serious case of cholera.” Namjoon had piped in cholera wasn’t commonly present in animals other than humans, which earned him a whack on the head from Hoseok and a threat that he still could technically throw them all in jail. That had shut Namjoon up and cemented Hoseok’s place in their grand band of horrible mistakes.

The five of them had stayed like that, knit together and never straying too far from one and other, only when one or two of them fucked up and ended up in jail, but that was normal. Jungkook was probably the worst at that, but they still followed the small boy from the orphanage proudly, never shying away from anything he proposed to do. Jimin and Taehyung were practically tied at the waist so they followed Jungkook blindly, Namjoon always wanted money and took a sick pleasure in devising heists, and Hoseok was just content in screwing over the justice system. They made it work.

Only one night it hadn’t worked, one night they messed up badly, and Hoseok ended up wounded beyond what was thought repair and the whole royal city after them. They had no choice but to bail, not even having a way to stay hidden in time to get Hoseok to something akin to a doctor. Taehyung had been sobbing while Jimin cursed, Namjoon being the one to carry him bridal style through the woods, nearly tripping over the trembling Jungkook that was leading them.

By some act of God, the five of them had come across a somewhat unimpressive pub in the middle of the woods. It was far away enough that the likelihood of the proprietor knowing who the hell they were was low enough, so Jungkook had jumped on the opportunity and blasted through the door, ready to come up with some excuse for the break in, or at least hold the person down until they could tend to Hoseok’s wounds.

And Jungkook had certainly blown the door wide open, off its hinges, and it slammed down in front of a man looking at them not with fear, but perhaps annoyance more than anything.

“That was mahogany,” he had said, and thus they had met Min Yoongi, Hoseok’s saviour and the final member of their gang.

#i don't know how to tag this #BTS fic #i guess #Jeon Jungkook #Kim Seokjin #i don't know their pairing name #Jungjin?#Seokkook?#someone help #JINKOOK #that sounds the best

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15 OF THE BEST INDEPENDENT AUSTRALIAN ALBUMS FROM 2018

It’s end-of-year list time and we thought we’d highlight some of our favourite independent Australian albums from 2018 that might have slipped under your radar. All of these were either released by the band themselves or through an independent label.

Tropical F**k Storm - A Laughing Death In Meatspace (Mistletone Records) Our biggest seller of the year and a near unanimous choice in staff & customer Top 10’s for 2018. Featuring Gareth & Fiona from The Drones, TFS expand on the weird & wild vibes of their final record “Feelin’ Kinda Free”, combining a gnarly mix of avant-garde psych, glitchy art-rock and apocalyptic noise punk. Essential listening.

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Cat Heaven - Living Room Self-released (cassette only!) debut mini-album from the Sydney post-punk trio. Featuring members from some of our favourite Sydney bands of years gone by (Hira Hira, No Art and Mere Women to name a few). This one’s been on high-rotation in the store all year long.

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Harmony - Double Negative (Poison City Records) Third album from the beautifully bleak Melbourne ensemble. Formed back in 2010 by husband and wife team Tom & Alex Lyngcoln, Harmony’s wall of sound weaves between moments of hope and despair, a unique experience best described as “majestic cacophony"

Double Negative by Harmony

Snape - Always (One Brick Today) Anticipated debut album from the Sydney quartet. A live favourite over the years at Black Wire and Beatdisc, these self-professed sad sacks can be filed somewhere between shoegaze, drone and emo.

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Den - Deep Cell (Paradise Daily Records) Another debut album met with anticipation given the strength of their 2016 s/t EP - "Deep Cell” moves into darker territory, mixing gothic rock with synth-heavy darkwave.

Deep Cell by DEN

Nasho - Nasho (Nopatience Records) 9 tracks of staunch, cavernous hardcore from the short-lived Sydney quartet feat. members of Royal Headache & Dispossessed.

NASHO - S/T LP by Nasho

Carb On Carb - For Ages (Black Wire Records) Sophomore album from the hardest working “emotive-punk” duo in the South Pacific. They may be from Auckland, but this pair of adopted Aussies keep releasing albums so good we can’t help but claim them as our own (not to mention the fact they tour here 5 times a year)

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The Goon Sax - We’re Not Talking (Chapter Music) Being the son of a Go-Between musn’t be easy, but luckily for him (and us) the songwriting genes run strong in the Forster family. Effortlessly catchy songs, delivered in a heartfelt-yet-idiosyncratic manner. “We’re Not Talking” is a measured follow-up to the 2016 debut, displaying songwriting maturity well beyond their age.

We're Not Talking by The Goon Sax

BB & The Blips - Shame Job (Thrilling Living Records) Debut album from another newly-formed Sydney punk band. Featuring Bryony Beynon (BB) of UK legends Good Throb, backed by a tight, melodic and terse quartet (the Blips!). Heavily influenced by first wave Sydney punks Thought Criminals and Tactics.

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Ned Collette - Old Chestnut (It Records) Sprawling double-album from the nomadic songsmith from Melbourne-via-Berlin. Sombre, finger-picked folk with the occasional dose of avant-garde jazz noodlings. Worth investing some time in.

Old Chestnut by Ned Collette

Camp Cope - How To Socialise And Make Friends (Poison City Records) Second album from long-time Beatdisc favourites Georgia, Kelly & Thomo. They keep going from strength to strength and continue to be one of our biggest selling Australian artists in-store.

How to Socialise & Make Friends by CAMP COPE

Infinite Void - Endless Waves (Black Wire Records) Posthumously released sophomore album from the former Melbourne mainstays. After calling it quits last year, these nearly-discarded final recordings were thankfully given life by our friends at Black Wire Records, leaving us with a fitting end to this great bands discography.

Endless Waves by Infinite Void

Idle Threat - Rope Burn Another self-released debut album on our list (DIY or Die). These Sydney locals mix 90’s melodic skate punk with riff-heavy power metal.

Rope Burn - Full Album by Idle Threat

Tom Lyngcoln - Doming Home (Solar/Sonar) After being in the game for 20+ years and releasing dozens of albums with the likes of Harmony, The Nation Blue and Pale Heads, 2018 has brought us the debut solo release from Tom Lyngcoln. 11 tracks of stripped-back dissonant guitar and harrowing vocals, recorded in a suburban living room.

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Mod Con - Modern Convenience (Poison City Records) Ramshackle, melodic post-punk from the Melbourne trio. Their first full-length album and another entry from the hard-working folks at Poison City Records.

Modern Convenience by MOD CON

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Neighbors - Someone to Look Up to

NEIGHBORS

TJ Hammond and Steve Rogers (between TWS/CW) are neighbors who, after trying to find comfort on sleepless nights through baking and music, have forged a lasting friendship.

(my inbox is open for ideas, prompts and headcanons)

NEIGHBORS fluff | gen [platonic friendships] / Steve & TJ Hammond [SERIES of oneshots]

Many thanks to @avenger-nerd-mom for the idea behind this snippet (as well as her continued cheer-leading)

TJ let himself into Steve’s apartment, looked around the orange, brown, and black autumn decorations and saw why he’d heard the muffled “come in” when he’d rang. Steve was in an orange t-shirt and a black apron with a full-sized skeleton, and he was piping icing onto cookies.

“Um,” TJ hesitated, cleared his throat, and started again, “I hate to tell you this, because you look like you’re having a great time with those spooky cookies.”

“What?” Steve flicked his eyes toward TJ, not moving a muscle as his hand hovered over the latest perfect pumpkin cookie in the lineup. The piping bag stilled and a line of royal icing dangled from the tip.

“Well,” TJ’s voice rose an octave. “Parents don’t trust homemade treats. There have been too many urban legends about poison and people believe them. Then there are the dozen or so cases of pins or needles found in treats, which have clinics offering free x-rays of candy bags.”

“Why does everything have to be so –” Steve looked a bit deflated, and TJ felt terrible for opening his mouth.

“Shitty? I don’t know.”

“Why even do any of it then?” Steve set the piping bag to the side and broke the cookie in half that the stray icing fell onto. “Test cookie?”

“Yes, please. You know? Kids still get excited, they don’t typically know anything about the shitty stuff. Parents like to let ‘em dress up and they do the routine without making a big deal. I’m sure you can hand out cookies to the kids we know, whose parents know you. The rest we can take to the retirement home down the block. Unless you just wanna eat them all.”

“I’m sure I have a volunteer for that mission.” Steve smiled. “Y’ know, Ma used to call dressing up guising, she’d make soul cakes and she called trick-or-treating souling. It wasn’t ‘til I met Bucky that I knew that and trick-or-treating were one and the same.”

“Since you spend most of your life dressing up, have you decided not to?”

“Nope. I have a costume.”

“Oh really?” TJ asked around the bite of cookie. “I’m shocked. Or am I looking at it?”

“An actual costume. How about you?”

“I used to go to parties, not house-to-house. They were too busy for that. We did have a party once, at the farm. Apple bobbing, ghost stories around a bonfire, hay rides and scarecrows – please tell me you’re not going as a scarecrow?”

“Scared?” Steve laughed, before pulling back. “Sorry. If you’re scared – I mean…”

“As terrified as others are of clowns,” TJ laughed. “My brother was an idiot. He got his friends to prank me with a scarecrow. When I freaked out, he laughed and decided I should be a crow for Halloween or, as he put it, ‘a fraidy cat’.”

“Rest easy, it’s not a scarecrow. Or a clown. By the way, I was asking about your costume. Not that I’m not interested in your Halloween stories, because I am.”

“Oh, I might have to pick a different one,” TJ hesitated. Steve’s expectant look prodded him to continue. “I was actually going to be Tinkerbell.”

“Why would you have to pick a different costume? I hope you don’t think I’d judge something as important as self-expression?”

“I’m sure others will pick up the slack.”

“Do you have the costume? Maybe more important, do you have the legs for it?”

TJ laughed, relieved that he had one friend who was on his side, and amused at the important question. “Hell, yeah, I’ve got the legs for it.”

“Then do it.” Steve picked up another cookie, this time with no icing, and broke it in half. He chuckled as he offered the cookie. “We’re gonna look like a couple.”

“You’re gonna be a super-buff Peter Pan?” TJ asked, taking the cookie half.

“Pirate. Not Hook, but…” Steve stopped as TJ busted up laughing.

“But there’s no difference once people see Tinkerbell.”

“Exactly. Are you expecting anyone you’d rather not have think you’re seeing someone?”

“Cute dads,” TJ said with a smirk. “Single cute dads, of course.”

“Of course.”

“My homewrecker days are through. You really believed the Tinkerbell thing, didn’t you?”

Steve returned to the cookie side of the island and pushed a bowl and tray in front of TJ. “Ice these and talk to me. You do know I tend to take you at your word, right? You wanna be a jealous little pixie, you got the legs for it, like you said.”

“If I’m targeting single, cute dads, I need to be a little less over the top. I do think about it every year, but I just don’t have the guts.”

“You should do it. You’ll either love it and be glad you did, or hate it and know you don’t want to do it again. The one thing you won’t have to do is worry about whether you can pull it off or not.”

TJ was quiet, thinking about advice that he might not get from anyone else, even Nana would caution him to be careful because of his mother and the press. He concentrated on the outlines for the ghost cookies, and pondered where he’d get a decent costume on short notice.

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Steve rushed to the door, plastic pumpkin full of candies in one hand, he hesitated as his free hand touched the knob. Taking a deep breath, he opened it, expecting to see costumed kids. He smiled wide when he saw TJ had followed through with his costume idea. “TJ, come in.”

“Hey, you look like a real swashbuckler,” TJ said as he entered the apartment, taking in Steve’s costume and the plastic pumpkin.

“And you weren’t kidding about your legs,” Steve laughed. “Remember, I traveled with showgirls. I know a great pair of gams when I see ‘em.”

“Whoa, gams huh?” TJ chuckled along with Steve. “I keep forgetting you’re older than Nana. You shoulda gone for the noir gumshoe if you’re gonna talk like that.”

“I lived through that era.” Steve shook his head, “Besides, I always wanted to be a pirate, the closest I got was a pair of Buck’s shorts that went below my knees, one of Ma’s scarves tied around my waist, and a hankie on my head. I wanted some boots or a hat, but those were too extravagant. I did cut an eye patch out of paper and scribbled it black with a piece of charred wood. I hated it, it looked ridiculous.”

“Sounds adorable,” TJ disagreed. “Is this your dream costume then? Your hat is very – commanding.”

“It’s over the top. I’m considering changing into my uniform, either of them.”

“As much as I love a guy in uniform, keep the pirate get-up. It’s Halloween, not work. That’s just cheating you.”

Just then, the doorbell chimed and a chorus of “Trick or Treat!” trailed after it.

“I guess I don’t have a choice.” Steve shrugged. “Why is this so nerve wracking?”

“Want me to get the first one? You can see how it’s done.”

“No. I should be able to manage this. They’re kids.”

TJ smiled and stepped away from the door, resisting the urge to mess with the skirt of his costume, or his wig. The door opened to three little ones, six and under if TJ guessed it right. Their parents stood across the hall, watching the trio. His smile grew as he noticed the littlest one, hiding behind a slightly bigger Harry Potter. The child’s blue costume was a little too big.

TJ wondered if Steve had spotted the tiny version of himself yet, and he stifled a giggle as he thought about the idea that he’d just talked Steve out of donning his super suit. He got his answer the second Steve saluted the child and lowered himself to one knee to offer the kid their choice of candies.

“Captain, are you keeping these wizards safe? Or are they keeping you safe?”

The tyke pulled a plastic shield up to hide their face, covering all but part of one brown eye.

“I think either way, it’s a very good plan. How about some treats?” Steve asked, careful to give the kid space.

Once each bag was a handful of candy heavier, they said “Thank you” in a staggered chorus. Steve and TJ both waved and wished them a Happy Halloween before closing the door.

“You did great,” TJ offered as he walked to the front window. “Looks like there will be more in a bit, they’re a building away.

“That wasn’t so bad,” Steve admitted. “You hungry? I’d thought about ordering a pizza, but decided to put one in instead. It should be ready in a bit.”

“Next time I’m ordering out so you can sit and relax.”

“It’s relaxing.” When TJ gave him the look, Steve leaned against the arm of the sofa. “You’re right, make it a local place and not a chain, and you have a deal.”

“As if I didn’t know that by now. That Mini-Cap was pretty cute.”

“They were all cute,” Steve countered. “You know, I should have talked you out of that costume after all.”

“I can’t tell if you’re serious or not,” TJ turned away from the window. “Why?”

“After I talked you into it, I had a dream about the show I did back in the war, when I took off after Bucky. A soldier yelled from the jeering crowd ‘nice boots, Tinkerbell’.”

“Flashbacks? You should have called me.”

“It didn’t bother me – well – doesn’t bother me. I was just teasing. Your costume is impressive. I’m glad you didn’t give in to self-consciousness.”

“There were a couple of minutes there,” TJ sighed. He put his hand into the pumpkin bucket, shuffling the candies inside. “You got the good stuff. Full size? Trick or treat!”

Steve laughed, “there are several packages, I know there will be plenty of extras, help yourself.”

“I’m fine, I’m holding out for pizza and some of those cookies. Did you end up doing soul cakes too?”

“Nah,” Steve was interrupted by the ringing doorbell. “Just the ghosts and Jack-o’-lanterns.”

TJ snickered as the door opened to a little more than a half-dozen kids, ranging in age from elementary to middle school. The older kids had turned word puns into their costumes. TJ thought it might be interesting to make a game of it and keep score.

He was rethinking his plan as Steve guessed every single one. TJ barely managed to figure out the slender girl in the cottony cloud costume with pictures tucked into the fluff: The Cloud, and there was the one he himself couldn’t figure out at all. A boy wearing a ponytail wig, a Starbucks cup, and the letters ‘R’ and ‘E’ on his chest: Ariana Grande.

The small ones were dressed as a fire fighter, two witches, and Max from Where the Wild Things Are. TJ was impressed that the only correction Steve received was that the witches were ‘princess witches’.

As that group left, two visitors replaced them. a two-foot Hulk with an Iron-Dad had Steve’s face alight. Hulk showed his muscles and roared. He held up his plastic Hulk fists, which were bigger than his little head. Steve crouched in front of him, “Can you show me your best Hulk Smash?”

The little green guy punched Steve’s palm, Steve groaned and rolled backward. With a smooth somersault, he landed upright on his feet.

“That was one super smash!” Steve announced with a grin, while TJ applauded both performances. Iron-Dad had a very cute smile as he pulled off his mask, and TJ chewed his lip before smiling back.

Hulk roared again before taking the offered candy and saying, ‘thank you’.

“Would you like a homemade cookie?” TJ found his guts and started toward the island, perfectly aware of how good his ass and legs looked walking away. “When he’s not moonlighting as a pirate, my neighbor here, is a great baker.”

“Sure, sounds great.”

TJ wrote his number on the napkin before placing one of his best ghost cookies in the center. “What about Hulk?”

“Hulk has enough candy to keep him green for the rest of the year.”

“I’m not going to take all the credit for that cookie, TJ decorated the ghosts.” Steve winked at TJ as he put a few more candies in Hulk’s bucket.

“It’s beautiful. Thank you.”

Steve’s grin was beyond devilish when he closed the door behind the pair. “He deserves to know how talented you are.”

“I’m improving, after almost a year.”

“Well, just wait until he hears you play. You did give him your number?”

“I did.” TJ was beet red and trying not to smile. “You’re a decent wingman. Thanks. He’s a very cute dad. couldn’t tell if he was single, but…”

“He was clearly interested. Just make sure he is single, you told me you weren’t into homewrecking.”

“Okay, remind me never to tell you anything.”

“No way, you tell me everything.” Steve laughed as he answered the door to another Captain America, this one in a tutu with blonde curls poking out of her helmet. She’d brought Thor and Falcon along. “My goodness, it’s a night for Avengers! Did you guys see Iron-Man and Hulk?”

“No. Have they been here?” Little Miss Cap asked.

“You just barely missed them.” Steve nodded, again getting on level with the children. “Look at you all. You look just like the bigger versions.”

“Hulk wrestled the pirate for his,” TJ announced. “Which one of you thinks you can beat this scallywag?”

“Tinkerbell? Did mean ole Captain Hook kidnap you again?” Falcon asked eagerly, “I would fight him for that.”

“You’ve mistaken my friend for nasty old Hook? No, Captain Blond Beard is my friend.”

“Oh, good. He’s a pretty big pirate.” Falcon admitted.

“I love your Tinkerbell costume. You look really neat.” The quiet Thor finally said. “I wanted to be Black Widow, but my mom said I had to be one of the boy Avengers.”

“I happen to know someone who knows the Black Widow,” Steve said, sitting back on his heels. “I’m pretty sure she’d be flattered. I think she might disagree with your mom, but she’d tell you to do what keeps you safe. I also know that if we had her ask Thor, he’d agree.”

“I think the Captain has some good advice.” TJ agreed, watching as the kids took candy and said, ‘thank you’. He looked down the hall as the kids left, seeing a couple of parents at the end of the hallway. They seemed stunned when the kids caught up to them, engrossed in whatever they’d been talking about. “Well, at least the mother didn’t hear us giving the ‘you be you’ talk.”

“Well, you know I wouldn’t get into a discussion of that sort in front of the kids, but in adult company, I’d have a few things to say.”

“More kids, more Avengers.”

“What? Aren’t they tired of us yet?”

“Not gonna happen.” TJ grinned, holding the door as one family approached followed closely by a second. A pop star, several pun costumes, a couple of princesses, a princess cat, two pirates, Jedi and Sith, and more superheroes filled the night and emptied several buckets of candy, ate cookies, and enjoyed both TJ’s Tinkerbell and Steve’s pirate.

Once the knocks and doorbell rings had tapered off, Steve pulled the ‘treats’ sign from his door and locked up after what he’d determined would be their final visitor. He looked at TJ where he was sitting on the sofa. The pizza had been removed from the oven sometime during the festivities, and TJ was piling pieces onto plates.

“You really think people are going to tire of you and your team?” TJ asked, looking up at him through glitter tipped false eyelashes.

“You really think Iron-Dad isn’t going to call you?” Steve countered, falling onto the sofa next to TJ. He took the plate TJ handed him. “There sure were a lot of little Avengers. I lost count.”

“Twenty-nine. Including eight mini-yous. I hope Iron-Dad is single and doesn’t throw the napkin away before seeing my lame attempt at a pick-up.”

“You were so shy, you shoulda been Bashful. You know one of the dwarfs?” Steve teased as he took a bite of the cold – but still good – pizza.

“Hahaha! You’re very funny. I just didn’t want to upset the little green guy.”

“Wise.” Steve chuckled.

“You were so nervous when this started. How do you feel now that it’s ended?”

“Like I could eat a whole pizza and a few cookies.”

“You were having so much fun with the kids, you didn’t give yourself time to eat. Did you even sneak a candy bar?”

“No. I figured after all of the sample cookies earlier…”

“Don’t you even think of finishing that statement. I’m the one who’s had to increase gym time.”

“You don’t have to come up every time I tell you I’m baking.” Steve shrugged. He put a large piece of his pizza slice into his mouth and shrugged again.

“I don’t come for the baking.” TJ tossed his head back against the sofa cushion. “You do know that right? I don’t come because of your hero status or your famous name. Fame sucks.”

“It has its moments,” Steve agreed. “But seeing those kids, happy and excited. They think some guy in tights is worthy of a Halloween costume?”

“They do. They plan their costumes with excitement too. You know, kids get these things in their heads and they don’t think twice. I want to be Captain America, but I’m a girl? Ok, make it a skirt. It’s not about tights, and you don’t wear tights anymore. That’s a combat uniform and you know it.”

“Thank you, TJ. I really didn’t expect to see anybody dressed as me, and as weird as it is, it’s really –” Steve set his plate aside and laced his fingers together across his middle, gazing up at the ceiling before turning to look at TJ. “– it’s just flattering, you know?”

“Only when you’re someone to look up to. When you’re the president’s kid, it’s far from flattering. Especially when you’re the family disappointment.”

“Yeah –” Steve sighed, “– well, I look up to you. As for being the family disappointment? No. You were let down. You know your father’s history, you know your mother’s ambition. Consider, coming from those examples, and the neglect you experienced, you and your brother made it.” He looked at TJ, knowing an argument was imminent. “Better late than never, you know?”

“Thank you, Steve.”

“It’s the least I could do. You still wanna deliver cookies with me tomorrow?”

“Yeah. Yes, I do.”

“How about a scary movie? No clowns or scarecrows, unless you’re feeling brave?”

“Not feeling brave. Not the least bit. Hit me with whatever else you’ve got.”

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There is very little time left to protect what little freedom remains for people on Earth.

It's a "Row, row, row your Joe, gently down the stream" event of some kind, where the "row" is the British kind, a heated discussion, and, there are two-Joe's. The "Cup of Joe, runneth over" is also included in there, a "Covfefe" event, in duplicity.

Two cups of Joe, will usually result in at least one visit to a restroom, so, it's also a "Holy Shit" moment, in some way, at the White House.

The "Row your boat song", is what is called a "Canon" in musical terms. That is an important component to the terror comm presented here with that Holy Shit news.

The events that are said to be taking place at the WH today, with Bahrain, UAE, and Israel, considering what is being reported, turns the whole thing into a "Holy Bullshit Moment" at the WH, one that comes with a Canon, and a peice prize... a "Two-Piece Prize", with events that happened deep inside the WH as the Middle Eastern Leaders were invited, an inside job, invitational, all internal.

A "Canon", is also a "Fugue" when composed by Johan Sebastian Bach.

Assessment: There is a Royal Sodomy occurring at the White House today, in three part "Harm-Money", Trump leading the trio.

"Manage a Twah", or whatever.

When Trump mounts the stage, it turns into a "Quart-Tit", or, Alpha Breast filled with a vat of denominations.

Vatican Bank.

Maybe Dave Grohl will write a song called "Vatican Bank" soon, by the Foo Fighters.

Eastwood Guitars mailer from Justin Trudeau HQ says that you can play a Base Guitar through your existing Guitar amplifier rig. I am skeptical.

What they are saying, is the equivalent of trying to shove ten pounds of shit, into a five pound bag.... it won't work, and everyone gets covered in shit.

The Eastwood terror comm from Trudeau says that since their Base Guitar is equipped with a "blade" style pick-up, the base will work through the regular guitar amplifier.

It's sabotage. They are bringing a blade, to cut through the guitar rig. Assessment:The election, is rigged. The system, is sabotaged. The terror base, will play through, with screaming high's, and moaning lows. A French horn disguised as a Trumpet, all brass canon, played through a Marshall Stack... comes with a "Fox Hunt" today also, in search of "four hours of Row"... a quartet, or, "Quart-Tit Alpha Breast" dispensary.

All eyes should be on Mnuchin today, the Vat Lady might sing, Wagner at the Opera, German style. The "Vat Lady", is where that "Nobel Peace Prize" is said to have been nominated from. (Wagner is pronounced "Vaugner")

The Guitar, is a 1958 Flying V, Gibson. This one, is a base V, four strings. The money will be flying out of the federal reserve, and treasury, when the bottom of that five pound bag of shit, is cut with that blade that comes standard on that Eastwood Trudeau base.

I have a feeling that there is a stealth B-2 being transferred to a new owner, as a bonus in the WH invitational Royal Sodomy that is happening today. The airplane, is not being sold, it is being given to the Vatican.

That's my read.

That Base Flying V, has only four strings, the way the comm reads. The two strings that are missing, as a Flyning V is a six string instrument, are the "E", and the "B" strings. Those, are the two Highest note strings on the guitar. E = Vatican Power. Energy. Trinity arms projecting horizontally, from one, common stance.

B = B-2 Bomber.

The strings are missing = stealth.

Also: B = Two Breasts projecting horizontally from one common stance. Treasury and Reserve. The stance, are Stanza's, and are part of the Canon being played by the Vatican Choir.

(add here recent news about "Astra Zenica" to see the reversal of the AZ componant, and also consider Arizona recent news, all part of the set-up so that terror opera-tives in the field can read this story about the two Joe's, as the terror comm, that it truly is.

The A and the Z are part of the Stanza's, the ones that are derived of those common "Stance" on the "E" and "B" string of that Flying V.

(Presidential terror communications are complicated, but are not impossible to read, when presented on Twitter, through Google, to SAG, from Britain)

Leasure Suit Larry Kudlow is also going to be one to watch as this unfolds.

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More dastardly reading of this set of comm is... heart breaking.

My read, includes the recent news that 8,000 jumbo jets are required to deliver a vaccine to the world, to "combat corona virus, globally.

My read, includes that the "grounded Boeing 737 MAX airplanes, many hundreds or maybe thousands of them around the world, have been custom fitted for containment and release of poison gas, maybe nitrous oxide/medazolam as has been used as a weapon for fifty years, but more likely to be a more asphyxiating chemical, one that has no odor, no color, no taste, like the Nitrous gas is.

As I have been reporting for many years, we only had until January of 2020 to stop the terror coup. Now, we are far beyond that date, that deadline has passed. The terror coup of the world, may be unstoppable at this point. January 2020 came, and it brought with it, the emergence of the sleeping giant, the people who are all wearing masks, insisting that there is a horrible plague that is killing hundreds of thousands of people world-wide.

That, is the distraction, and the preparation for that massive extermination that will take place.

A Christian Cleansing.

The world population, will be reduced to only very few select survivors. I was there in 1971 when this plan was revealed in California. I was at the table, where the British leaders were meeting with the musicians of Hollywood, and of Britain. At that time, the plan was that only 500,000 people would be selected to survive at the end of the terror cleansing. The plan, was a fifty years plan, and they are right on schedule.

I think that half-million survivor number may have been updated to include more selected survivors, but, maybe not. So far, I have not seen anything that suggests there has been any compromising in the details of the original plan I was privy to being part of at that table. I was about nine, or ten years old at the time, and I was there, and I remember.

"With two sqirrels and an owl, we can rule the world" ~Elizabeth Windsor, in my living room, 1971.

She was referring to the ease of which the terror takeover is done, with the invisible gas, nitrous oxide. Later, the addition of the drug Medazolam, created a super-gas, capable of eliminating the possibility that any witnesses, will remember anything that they saw when the mass murders began in the shopping centers.

January 2020, came and went.

Now what?

September Fifteenth, Two-Thousand-Twenty: 2:39 pm.

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Baker’s Four - part two

Last Part | Masterpost | Next Part

A/N I said give me an hour and it ended up being two hours + another 1000 words and a new character. Here it is anyway!

Pairing: neutral, eventual poly but implied royality

Genre: AU, baking AU, fluff, human AU

Word Count: 2 320

Warnings: some swearing

Summary:

The day Ann arrives from Patton’s perspective. He’s curious about this odd boy and his somehow more odd (but just as pleasant) brother.

Patton had to admit, when the first few times he saw Ann, he didn’t think too much of him. He had seen the kid around in the bakery quite a bit, placing small orders and always seeming to hide underneath the same old hoodie. If he was truly honest, he didn’t exactly trust Anxiety then. Stereotypes and all that, you know?

But seeing him turn up on the bakery doorstep that morning, watching Ann look longingly inside and seeming so nervous when talking to him made Patton change his mind quite quickly. With little to no thought, he offered Ann a chance at the job. And he didn’t regret it one bit.

Anxiety worked so hard that first day, trying to do everything perfectly and getting frustrated with himself whenever he screwed up. Morality thought it was endearing but the kid only apologised before getting straight back into the swing of things.

However, no matter how hard he worked, Patton knew bringing up his decision to take Anxiety under his wing wouldn’t settle well with Roman. He was right.

“You did what?!” Prince whisper-shouted, throwing his hands up. They had no customers at the moment, so they were free to talk. Or in this case, argue. Patton had figured that it was best to bring it up now rather than later.

“Look, Roman, I know I should’ve talked to you about it, but Ann is a good kid! He’s been working himself to the limits all day!” Patton defended. He wasn’t going to let him go without a fight.

“All day? You mean to say that you let him in this morning? We had an agreement! Things like this need to be talked about before you go off and make a stupid decision. Besides, we can’t just let anyone in. He could be secretly poisoning our food, for all we know!”

“Prince, stop being overdramatic.” The feuding two looked up to see Logan walking up to the counter, as calm as ever. “You didn’t hear me come in. Imagine how bad this would look if I were a customer.” He had a point.

Roman huffed, crossing his arms. “So you’re on his side? But he let in some weirdo from the street! Who knows what kind of bad reputation we could get from this?”

“I’m sorry, okay?” Patton cried, rubbing his forehead. He had had enough of this. “But we’re not kicking him out. Look,” he lowered his voice, “Ann needs this job. He told me so. And until he gives me a reason to otherwise, I’m going to trust him. He deserves a chance, at the very least.”

Logan nodded. “Patton has a point. Also, perhaps we shouldn’t be talking about this so rudely in front of… what was his name? Ann?” Morality and Prince spun around to see Anxiety standing in the kitchen doorway, expression closed off.

“Anxiety-“ Patton reached out to him, but Ann shrugged him off.

“It’s fine. It’s not the first time I’ve been told I’m not wanted somewhere.” He pushed up the hood of his jumper and brushed past the others. Morality’s hand fell flat.

Long after the bell above the door rang, signifying Ann’s departure, and long after they silently went back to work, Logan filling in Anxiety’s spot despite being on time off, Patton didn’t mention the tears he swore he saw falling. But that didn’t mean that he wasn’t constantly thinking about it.

Later, Morality trudged out of the kitchens to go see what the others were up to. He hadn’t talked to them for the past few hours.

“Roman, if that kid comes back, you damn well better apologise to him,” Logan hissed, undeniably annoyed. “You need to learn how to trust people. We founded this fucking bakery together, so you listen to us. That includes Patton.” Somehow, they thought that their conversation in a tiny workspace wouldn’t reach the person in question’s ears.

“I know I overreacted.” Roman almost sounded sincere. “It’s just, this is our thing, you know? I didn’t even want to hire anyone new in the first place; that was your idea. Maybe it was just some part of me that was hoping this could continue to only be us. After all, this is our dream.” Morality’s sympathy grew, and suddenly he wasn’t as mad. “Not that kid’s, who Patt found on the street, by the way.” Never mind.

“Don’t speak about Ann like that,” Logan warned. “That completely contradicts any chance for you to sound apologetic. And while we’re on the topic, you need to apologise to Patton as well.”

“Fine,” Prince whined. They turned around, only to see Morality leaning against the counter, arms crossed and eyebrows raised. “Ah, Patton.” Roman rubbed the back of his neck and adverted his gaze. “So, I’ve come to realise that my earlier actions were a little-“

“Little?”

Roman winced. “Very harsh. You shouldn’t have been the one saying sorry when it was my fault for losing my temper. I know you probably don’t want to forgive me right away, and that’s okay. I’d be pretty pissed at myself if I were in your shoes, too.”

Patton immediately brightened, uncrossing his arms and moving in for a hug. “That’s alright, kiddo!” He ignored Roman’s grumble of “we’re the same age” in favour of continuing. “I’m glad you realised your mistake, and I’m willing to look past it. This time.”

Logan saw Prince’s surprised face and chimed in, amused. “It’s because he’s a better person than you.” Getting whacked lightly by Patton was definitely worth the comment, in his opinion. Then he saw the time. “Shit. We were supposed to be closing up half an hour ago. Roman, go shuffle the last few customers out, Patton, come help me clean up.”

“Aye, aye, captain!” Morality mock-saluted, before going off to grab the cleaning supplies. “Hey, Logic, you know how I give nicknames to everyone?” he asked whilst rummaging through the lower cupboards.

“Mmm?” Logan absently replied, already wiping down the benches.

“Well, Ann, or Anxiety, as I called him, had the brilliant idea of calling me Morality! He’s so creative, and good at baking. Like, the kid was so unsure of himself, but he really was a natural at it. I was impressed.”

“He sounds like the perfect employee,” Logic commented. He was perfectly aware that their conversation could probably be heard by Prince, but, he supposed, that was the entire point. “I wish I could’ve met him.”

“Alright!” Roman called from the other side of the bakery. “You’ve convinced me. If the kid- Ann, comes back here again, I’ll not only apologise but I’ll also give him the damn job.” The last few remaining customers chuckled at the trio’s theatrics.

“You mean that?” A quiet voice piped up over the tinkling of the bell.

Roman spun around, jaw dropping. Morality popped up from where he was squatting behind the counter and even Logan paused his work to stare. There, Anxiety stood, somewhat wet from the rain outside and looking even smaller than usual.

“Ann!” Patton was the first to speak. He waved the kid over, who didn’t seem to be enjoying the sudden attention from everyone, and led him into the haven of the kitchens. “I’m so glad you came back. I talked it over with the other two and they’re willing to give you a shot!”

“Really?” Ann asked, eyes wide. Roman entered then, nodding. “Oh my god, thank you,” he breathed in disbelief. “Thank you so, so, so much, I promise you won’t regret it.”

Morality watched quietly as Roman said his apologies, humble for once. Logan merely continued cleaning and Ann brightened up even more once he was officially given the job and details. Arrangements were made and a schedule was discussed until they had finally come to an agreement on who worked what days.

Patton taught Ann how to close up shop. They went through the procedures and Morality found himself admiring how hard Anxiety worked all over again, as the kid was attentive and watched everything that the others did, mimicking it when he had to.

“You know, I think I know why you call Roman ‘Prince’, now,” Ann piped up all of a sudden.

Morality looked down at him from the stool he was stood on to put away ingredients. “Why do you think that is?”

Ann hesitated. “Well, for starters, he’s a royal pain in the ass- I mean butt,” he corrected, “but also because of how well he handled those customers. He seemed to woo them, even the rude ones who argued about their orders.”

“He is quite charming, isn’t it?” Patton smiled wistfully. “One might even say he’s Prince Charming!”

Anxiety’s curious look was quickly replaced with begrudging amusement. “Did you call him that just so you could make that joke?!” Even though he was kidding, he did seem surprised about it.

‘I wonder if he’s figured it out yet…’ Morality wondered. “Jokes are my speciality! Don’t worry, you’ll got used to them.” He also wondered if Ann knew that that was his way of promising to keep him around. “Oh, by the way, why did you come back? Especially so late. And in the rain.”

The boy stiffened. “Uh, had to pick up some stuff for- fuck.” He slapped his forehead. “I’m so stupid. Sorry for swearing, Morality, but I need to go. Before I do that, do you have any spare food that you don’t need? If not, don’t worry about paying me later this week and please buy it for me! I know it’s a lot to ask, especially considering we just met, but I’ve got a brother I need to take care of and I didn’t mean to stay so late-“

Patton firmly grasped Anxiety’s shoulders. “Kiddo, calm down. It’s fine. As a matter of fact, we always seem to have leftover food. Feel free to take as much you want! And you have a brother? I don’t know why, but I kind of pegged you as an only child.”

“Definitely not. My brother is one of the best things to happen to me, if I’m honest. He’s one of the sweetest boys you’ll ever meet.” Ann seemed so content, talking about his brother, that Morality didn’t want him to stop. “He’s way smarter than I could ever hope to be. He’s in his second last year of high school and he’s hoping to get into a community college at the least, although, I personally think he can do much better. That may just be me projecting my hopes, considering I dropped out, so I generally don’t push him about it.”

“Oh!” Patton exclaimed. “I thought you were still at school. Not that there’s anything wrong with dropping out, I was just surprised. How old are you?”

“I turned twenty last month. My younger brother is turning seventeen this year.”

“That makes you the youngest of the lot! Prince is the next, about two months older than you. What’s his name? If you don’t mind me asking, that it!” Morality was becoming more and more interested in Ann’s family. Or, at least, the bit he was willing to share.

“His name is Missy. And before you say anything, I’m perfectly aware of how weird our names are. Missy, however, is the kind of person who accepts he’s weird and makes it a part of himself that people love...” Ann trailed off, before remembering what he came here for. “So, the food?”

“Oh, yeah.” Patton was somewhat reluctant to end the conversation, but if Ann needed to go home, then so be it. “Also, if you need a lift, don’t be afraid to ask! I know it’s raining out there, and it’ll probably be easier and safer for you to go with me or Logic, as Prince lives nearby and often just walks. Obviously, I get it if it’s weird and I could also call a taxi for you!”

“No, its fine- well, actually, it’d be nice if you could drop me off. It’s not too far away, only like a forty minute walk, so you don’t have to worry about it.” Anxiety packed as much food as he could into one of the paper bags, before scrunching up the top and following Morality out into the carpark.

“No worries.” Patton unlocked his car and got in, Ann sliding in the other side. “Seatbelt on,” he ordered, watching the other clip it up. Once that was done, he smiled. “Alright, now where do I need to go?”

Ann directed him for the next few minutes. “Here! Stop here.”

Patton pulled up outside a tiny house. The light flickered on inside and soon, the front door was opened, revealing a teenaged boy, who he assumed to be Missy.

“Where have you been?” Ann’s brother called out, racing down the driveway to the car, which Anxiety was just getting out of. “You said only an hour, and it’s been three! It’s 11pm!”

“And you should be asleep,” Ann laughed, ruffling Missy’s hair. “It’s a school night. You also have exams tomorrow. Don’t think I don’t know this.”

Patton furrowed his eyebrows. Anxiety was acting like a parent, but surely, surely, they had an actual parent to do that for them. He didn’t ask then, not wanting to ruin their happy moment, but he made a mental note to enquire about it later.

“Whatever.” Missy poked his tongue out at Ann, before suddenly realising another person was there. “Who’s this? Is he your boyfriend?”

Anxiety blushed. “Shut your teasing mouth. This is my new co-worker, Patton.”

“You got the job?” Missy started practically bouncing up and down. “Hi, I’m Ann’s brother, Missy! Thank you so much!”

Morality smiled. “Your brother is a good person. He’s really good at his job. I hope he’ll stick around, despite how weird the rest of us.”

He could tell that both brothers were pleased to hear this.

A/N Ta da! Watch me not update for a month. Kidding. Maybe. Anyways, hoped you liked part two!

#thomas sanders #sander sides #sanders sides #human au #baking au #au #baker's four #fics #my fics #mine #poly #neutral #royality #fluff #humour #my posts

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Fortnite updates: The longer term is now as Season 9 kicks off with v9.00

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Launch date: Might 9, 2019.

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There are tons of modifications to the map, in addition to a brand new weapon known as the fight shotgun. The pump shotgun, balloons, and others have been vaulted, however grenades have been introduced again.

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Tight unfold and quick hearth price.

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On the primary day of Season 9, there are 18 Fortbytes out there to search out. Not less than 1 new Fortbyte will likely be unlocked every day. Test the Challenges Tab for detailed data on which Fortbytes are at present out there and when the others unlock.

Fortbytes can’t be collected after Season 9 ends.

Disconnected gamers will keep on the planet for 60 seconds. They nonetheless take injury and rely for elimination factors.

Bug Fixes & Enhancements

Resolved a difficulty with the UI displaying well being features incorrectly if the participant canceled the consumable near completion time.

PS4 controller lighting not all the time matching your pin coloration when in Squads.

Gamers not ready to make use of Maintain to Swap in the event that they beforehand picked an merchandise up usually

Adjusted turbo constructing to be extra forgiving underneath poor community situations

Fastened circumstances of jittery motion underneath sure situations.

Restricted Time Mode Rotation:

Trios

Traditional Battle Royale with Three-Individual Squads.

Strong Gold

Battle to the end utilizing Legendary weapons!

One Shot

Low Gravity. Each participant has 50 well being. Sniper weapons are the one weapon, Bandages are the one therapeutic merchandise. Soar excessive and goal properly!

Occasions

Gamers who’ve already certified to be within the World Cup will likely be marked with a World Cup badge on the occasion leaderboards

Leaderboards now have a button to type video games by the variety of prime leaderboard gamers in them. This may assist establish essentially the most vital lively video games from a leaderboard standing view.

The in-game HUD now has completely different icons for factors for Area matches and weekend event matches.

Efficiency

Improved body price on Nintendo Swap, significantly when giant numbers of characters are onscreen.

Addressed some circumstances of invisible characters after skydiving.

Audio

Higher tactical audio when inside player-built constructions:

Enemy Pickaxe influence inside ~one constructing tile radius has new, louder sound.

Wallbreak by enemy shut/behind participant a lot clearer/louder.

Explosion audio improvements- shorter, increased dynamic vary sounds that can make explosion audio clearer and punchier.

Bug Fixes & Enhancements

“Swap” textual content showing within the pickup UI will not seem when selecting up extra sources than the participant can carry.

The preliminary storm warning timer was incorrectly displaying as 0.

Spectators and replay watchers can now report customers.

Fastened social gathering invitations not displaying up within the UI if the person logged out and again in once more.

Spectating

Cell

Auto hearth will now set off on autos.

Added possibility for growing elimination feed line rely within the HUD Format Device.

Dragging/Dropping from the quickbar is now allowed whereas leaping.

The placement of the increase button on Android for the X-Stormwing has been moved to keep away from triggering the House button.

Squad formation is now accessible.

Bug Fixes & Enhancements

The delay with interacting when utilizing the quickbar slots has been resolved.

Weapon icons now accurately show icons on the quickbar.

Fastened sliders that have been damaged within the Lifeless Zone tab of the Controller Choices.

Auto hearth changes:

Semi-automatic weapons now hearth accurately.

Elevated acquisition delay for shotguns.

Dynamite trajectory indicator is now accurately displayed throughout use.

Ziplines can not be ridden previous their endpoints.

Autorun not takes greater than two faucets to provoke after leaping from Battle Bus.

Cooldown Timer visible for increase buttons on autos is now displayed accurately.

The digital camera not shakes when getting into the X-Stormwing.

Left digital thumbstick not turns into invisible when holding left or proper and urgent the hearth button.

The Harvest Device UI button in HUD structure is not invisible.

The stair railing in Nice Park not clips by the door.

Variant numbers partially hidden within the preview display by the “X” button.

The Dream beauty is now accurately displaying:

The butterfly

Eye glow impact

Widow’s Chunk pickaxe visible impact challenge has been resolved.

The Cooldown ring timer displaying briefly when switching seats in Cannon.

Work together Icon is not lacking with sure consumables.

Enter Blocked textual content will not seem when opening the stock.

The Merchandise Store arrows now show accurately on iPhone XS Max.

Basic

Reworked default button structure to be constant throughout autos (Enter, Exit, Swap Seat and Enhance)

Bug Fixes & Enhancements

Improved visibility of squad icons on foyer participant pads in giant events

Squad icons in giant events can not present an empty slot as prepared

Deciding on a highlighted workforce member within the foyer with a controller can not present choices for a distinct member

Gamers will now seem accurately as a hologram, when becoming a member of a participant at present in match

Reworded Squad formation messaging to be extra clear

Fastened invisible character elements of gamers who’re nonetheless loading into the match.

Social

Gamers now stay within the Occasion voice channel by default when getting into a match. The Recreation channel remains to be out there, however the swap is not automated.

Added a setting for the show of voice chat indicators.

Bug Fixes & Enhancements

Instructed pals within the social panel match the options within the launcher

The “Sit Out/Jump In” button in Squad Formation is now displayed accurately

Sending a pal invite to a instructed pal not fails

Can now nonetheless ship social gathering invitations after becoming a member of and leaving a celebration whereas set to “Friend” social gathering privateness

Fastened doubtlessly incorrect notification message when becoming a member of a channel

Voice indicators are not caught on display when leaving a celebration whereas members are talking

Fortnite replace historical past

Fortnite v8.51 replace overview

Launch date: Might 2, 2019

Fortnite V8.51 introduces a brand new merchandise, the shadow bomb, giving gamers momentary invisibility, elevated motion pace, and double soar and wall soar capabilities.

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WEAPONS + ITEMS

Shadow Bomb

Shrouds your self in shadow, briefly turning into invisible to enemies.

6-second length

Consumer turns into extra seen to others close to the top of the impact.

Will increase your motion pace, supplies the power to double soar, and wall soar.

Gamers are unable to assault, construct, or loot whereas underneath the results of the Shadow Bomb.

Rarity: Unusual

Can maintain a most of 6

Will be discovered from Ground Loot, Chests, Provide Drops, and Provide Llamas.

GAMEPLAY

Bug Fixes & Enhancements

Sound results for Jetpacks have been sometimes enjoying a lot louder than they need to be.

Bug Fixes & Enhancements

The Victory Royale UI animation was displaying for all gamers in Restricted Time Modes with respawning enabled.

SAVE THE WORLD

WHAT’S NEW?

Duet

Create a Duet between you… and the Husks!

WEAPONS + ITEMS

Duet

A excessive injury assault rifle that’s good for sustained hearth because of its giant journal capability.

Accessible within the Weekly Retailer from Might 1 at 8PM ET till Might Eight at 8PM ET.

CREATIVE

WHAT’S NEW?

PREFABS

New Prefabs and Galleries primarily based on Fortnite Battle Royale’s eating places and diners.

Durrr Burger Prefab

Uncle Pete’s Pizza Pit Prefab

SofDeez Ice Cream Store Prefab

Four Diner Galleries

SOCIAL

Bug Fixes & Enhancements

Any Instructed Buddies couldn’t be added to pals.

Fortnite v8.50 replace overview

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Endgame – Restricted Time Mode

Be part of the battle for the Infinity Stones! Battle as Chitauri and Thanos or wield Avengers gadgets within the Endgame LTM.

LIMITED TIME MODE: ENDGAME

Abstract

Thanos and his Chitauri invade the Battle Royale island, in quest of the six Infinity Stones.

Mode Particulars

Endgame encompasses a workforce of heroes preventing to cease Thanos and his Chitauri from claiming all six Infinity Stones.

Each groups respawn when eradicated till the opposite aspect completes their goal.

On one aspect is the Hero workforce. Heroes respawn when eradicated till the enemy workforce has discovered all six Infinity Stones.

Heroes begin with a treasure map that leads on to a Mythic Avengers merchandise.

Different Avengers gadgets might be present in Chests all through the map.

The aim for the Hero workforce is to destroy the Chitauri military and defeat Thanos.

Crew Thanos is comprised of Chitauri Invaders and Thanos himself.

Chitauri Invaders begin with a strong laser rifle, an anti-structure grenade assault, and a jetpack that lets them briefly leap excessive into the air.

The primary Chitauri to recuperate an Infinity stone will likely be remodeled into Thanos.

Thanos has a strong punch, a harmful beam assault, and the power to leap excessive into the air after which smash something in his means when he comes again down.

Every time an Infinity Stone is claimed, Thanos’ talents develop extra highly effective and the Chitauri acquire well being.

Actuality Stone (Crimson) = Heath & Shields doubled (1000->2000)

Soul Stone (Orange) = Siphon activated (grants Thanos shields solely)

Thoughts Stone (Yellow) = Soar peak doubled

House Stone (Blue) = Floor Pound AOE measurement tripled, injury x6

Time Stone (Inexperienced) = Huge knockback added to every hit, injury x3

Energy Stone (Purple) = Laser injury x6

If Thanos is eradicated from the match, one other Chitauri will grow to be him after a brief wait (except Thanos is the final one standing).

If Thanos & the Chitauri discover all six Infinity Stones, Heroes will not be capable to respawn.

The aim for Thanos and his military is to search out the stones after which eradicate the remaining heroes.

WEAPONS + ITEMS

Bug Fixes & Enhancements

The Maintain to Swap performance is now confirmed upon releasing the Use button moderately than when initially urgent it.

This could assist with the difficulty of by accident swapping.

If a participant is eradicated by fall injury whereas inside a automobile, the participant that final broken that automobile will obtain the credit score for that elimination.

Re-enabled hit markers to be server-side authoritative as a substitute of client-side.

This may assist stop cases the place gamers see hit markers however no injury.

Gamers that have been Rebooted into Rifts have been teleporting into the sky however wouldn’t enter skydiving mode.

Autos weren’t getting impulsed away from the Reboot Van.

Collision for the Reboot Van was not affecting some autos, permitting them to cover within the Reboot Van.

The yellow “invulnerability” impact wasn’t showing on gamers who have been revived by the Reboot Van.

The Reboot Card was nonetheless enjoying its spawn sound even when the participant disconnected.

Dropping stock gadgets whereas in autos with weapons is now blocked to forestall varied digital camera points.

Traps have been sometimes being positioned in the midst of a tile moderately than in opposition to a wall when utilizing Builder Professional.

When exiting autos, the equip animation will now all the time play earlier than weapons might be fired.

This may stop the difficulty the place gamers would sometimes see themselves hearth proper after exiting a automobile earlier than the server had time to register the shot.

The elimination feed textual content will not show the “eliminated by ally” message if an ally interrupts a participant reboot animation.

Fall injury was being taken when utilizing a Jetpack (in supported Restricted Time Modes) after being launched from the Pirate Cannon.

Gamers weren’t in a position to negate fall injury utilizing a Flintlock Pistol whereas crouching.

Gamers couldn’t see the nameplates of social gathering member’s Reboot Playing cards within the UI.

Gamers wouldn’t drop a Reboot Card in the event that they have been eradicated after confirming a Reboot however earlier than their teammate really spawned.

GAMEPLAY

Bug Fixes & Enhancements

We’ve resolved a difficulty that was stopping the right amount of Survival XP from being granted after video games and have gifted XP to gamers as compensation.

You’ll obtain this compensation by way of the Gifting system.

COMPETITIVE

New Match – April 27 & 28: Fortnite World Cup On-line Open Week 3 ($1,000,00Zero whole prize pool!)

Solo Recreation Mode

Participation on this occasion requires gamers to succeed in Champion League in Area.

Area Lock is in impact – gamers might solely take part within the qualifier for a single server area every week of the On-line Opens. The server area of the primary match entered for that weekend’s event would be the one the participant will likely be locked into for that total weekend.

Format:

April 27 – Spherical One: All Eligible Gamers.

April 28 – Spherical Two: Prime 3000 Gamers from Spherical One.

Streaming Replays – At the moment solely out there on PC & Mac.

Added event Match Historical past, which might be seen by choosing a participant on the leaderboards.

Replays might be seen from every match that participant has performed.

Added the power to spectate dwell matches throughout tournaments by choosing a participant on the leaderboards.

Observe: Match will need to have been working for 10 minutes for dwell replay to be out there.

Added the power to view a selected match by sport session ID utilizing the “View Streaming Replay” button within the Replay Browser.

Area & Tournaments will now document profile stats to Solo/Duo/Squad classes moderately than as an LTM.

Bug Fixes & Enhancements

Gamers in Area have been incorrectly seeing themselves demoted to a decrease division after dropping Hype.

This was strictly a visible challenge and all Hype values and division unlocks are as soon as once more being displayed accurately.

Match posters in-game have been incorrectly displaying sure occasions as beginning in ‘2 Days’.

Match posters and the Area Panel weren’t loading correctly on cellular units.

PERFORMANCE

Bug Fixes & Enhancements.

Resolved a trigger of great hitching throughout skydiving. and through late sport fight.

ART + ANIMATION

We’ve added a singular animation for petting the canine and different Pets.

AUDIO

Added Sound Visualizer with out Spatialization (panning) of sounds in-game.

By introducing this mode, in case you are a hearing-impaired participant, then you’ll now be capable to play the sport with audio and the visualizer turned on concurrently!

Drop in and provides us your suggestions about these modifications both in-game or on our social channels to assist us proceed to make enhancements for the longer term!

Bug Fixes & Enhancements

Varied gameplay sounds (gunshots, strolling, reloading) will not retrigger at incorrect/random instances.

This was inflicting “ghost” sounds to be heard when nothing was inflicting the precise sound impact.

Fastened a difficulty that may trigger sure issues to not have looping audio when they need to.

REPLAY

Bug Fixes & Enhancements

When therapeutic with foraged Banana or Apples, the total visible results weren’t enjoying when seen in replays.

MOBILE

The reactive results weren’t working correctly for the Marshmello Outfit.

MSAA anti-aliasing enabled on P30 Professional, Mate 20, Mate 20X.

The work together button now has context-sensitive icons.

Now you can transfer whereas the map is open by offering enter on the left aspect of the display.

Bug Fixes & Enhancements

Made enhancements to stability and to resolve some crashes.

Made efficiency enhancements on the iPad Mini Four and Air 2.

The motion joystick wasn’t showing on the HUD for sure units.

Push notifications weren’t being despatched after updates completed downloading.

Blocked gamers on participant’s pal lists weren’t showing as ‘Blocked’.

The hearth button and proper fire-stick wouldn’t perform after anchoring the Baller grapple with faucet to fireside.

The proper fire-stick was not permitting digital camera motion whereas within the Baller.

The Baller grapple was not releasing on the primary faucet.

Gamers may get caught in an infinite hearth loop after exiting the Baller whereas it was anchored with the grapple.

Double tapping was required to detach the Baller’s grapple when utilizing faucet to fireside.

There have been visible points on the Again Button within the menus.

Voice Chat icons from gamers set to “sit out” weren’t showing.

Ammo bins weren’t opening.

The Affirm and Cancel buttons in Squad Administration have been troublesome to the touch/work together with.

The Possibility menus have been closing the unapplied modifications was closing the complete menu as a substitute of simply the popup immediate.

Menu icons could possibly be faraway from the HUD Format Device.

Car increase icons have been showing completely different between viewing them in a match vs within the HUD Format Device display.

The Rating Monitoring widget can now be faraway from the Cell HUD

Rating Monitoring widget can now be faraway from Cell HUD

It was troublesome to see character and weapon animations whereas utilizing the Increase Bow.

The Map widget was setting its anchors inappropriately when moved within the HUD structure software, making some hooked up sport mode UI push the Map widget off the display.

It’s possible you’ll have to reset the Map widget within the HUD Format Device to resolve this challenge.

CREATIVE

WHAT’S NEW?

Recreation Rounds

Play a spherical! New sport settings are actually out there, similar to the power so as to add rounds! Discover out extra within the Gameplay part beneath.

Section Mode

Section mode permits you to toggle collision with objects and the world On & Off. While you’re in Section mode you possibly can cross freely by all terrain and convey objects with you.

Pirate Ship Prefab

Avast, ye mateys! Develop into the captain of your very personal Pirate Ship! Think about and create your individual Pirate Cove utilizing this new prefab.

ISLANDS

Added two new featured Island portals to the Inventive and Playground Hub.

Decreased participant Island portals from Eight to six within the Inventive Hub.

Bug Fixes & Enhancements

Materials sources weren’t being reset when returning to the Hub.

Infinite materials sources weren’t being toggled correctly when Island permissions modified.

GAMEPLAY

New Rounds sport settings

Now you can add rounds to any sport.

Every part will likely be reset to the unique pre-game state when beginning a brand new spherical.

Every spherical makes use of the top sport Rating and Winner show settings to announce a winner, and in addition shows a spherical scoreboard.

The variety of wins per workforce or participant is displayed on the scoreboard.

Sooner or later, we will likely be including an total winner for the sport show.

The Whole Rounds setting units the variety of rounds from 1 to 100.

Up to date choices for Eliminations, Creature Eliminations, Aims to Win, and Acquire Gadgets to:

Win to be Off, 1-10, 15, 20, 30, 40, 50, 100, 200, 500, or 1000.

Bug Fixes & Enhancements

Gamers may trigger injury to one another after a sport had ended.

Video games have been taking unexpectedly lengthy instances to begin on Islands with Inventive Spawners.

Foyer music would play on a steady loop after successful a sport.

Gamers in a celebration that was set to “Sit Out” would go into the sport if the social gathering chief joined a sport in progress.

CREATIVE TOOLS + PHONE

Added Section mode:

Whereas flying, now you can activate Section mode to cross by objects and terrain!

Phasing might be very helpful for rapidly navigating your Island whereas enhancing.

To activate or deactivate Section mode:

On the keyboard, press the N key(this may be reassigned in Settings).

On controllers, maintain down the Left Thumbstick.

On cellular units, you possibly can assign a brand new Section button to your HUD which lets you toggle Section.

Your Section setting will likely be remembered, so that you’ll proceed to section after you cease and begin flying.

Bug Fixes & Enhancements

Fruit consumable couldn’t be chosen by the Telephone.

Some props or tiles may vanish when copying close by objects after Multi-Deciding on them.

Participant construct partitions could possibly be scaled and rotated if chosen alongside one other object utilizing Multi-Choose.

Prop orientation would change unexpectedly when Grid Snap was toggled.

PREFABS

Added the Pirate Ship Prefab.

Added the Pirate Ship Gallery.

Added six Pirate Cove Prefabs.

Added the Pirate Cove Gallery and Pirate Cove Prop Gallery.

Bug Fixes & Enhancements

The steel trash can in Basic Props Gallery B was prevented from being lower or copied.

The draw distance for the trash bag has been improved, permitting them to be seen from additional away.

Roof items from the Navy Base Set have been turning inexperienced after being positioned with Multi-Choose.

The pillars within the Ice Citadel Set couldn’t be positioned after being rotated on a modified axis.

Canceling a lower of the rings from the Rings Gallery would trigger that ring to be unaffected by the Telephone.

The Ice Citadel Balcony was unable to be positioned accurately.

DEVICES

Added new choices to Stormwing Spawner to configure whether or not objects are destroyed once they’re hit:

Boosted Well being Threshold – Whereas boosting straight into an object with this quantity of well being or much less, it will likely be destroyed instantly (Default: Every part)

Direct Hit Well being Threshold – After a head-on collision into an object, if it has this quantity of well being or much less it will likely be destroyed (Default: 300)

Breakthrough Well being Threshold – Something the Stormwing bumps with this quantity of well being or much less will likely be destroyed. (Default: 0)

Choices (Battle Royale, 0, 150, 300, 450, 600 or Every part)

Battle Royale – Use the present stability as outlined by Battle Royale (This may change over time primarily based on the Stormwing’s present state in Battle Royale)

0 – 600 – The present well being the thing should be beneath for it to be destroyed.

Every part – There is no such thing as a threshold, the whole lot will likely be destroyed.

New choices for Goal Machine

Up to date well being bar look with a selectable figuring out letter.

Added choice to establish the target NONE, A, B, C, D, W, X, Y or Z

Added possibility to point out the target well being within the HUD

Be sure that to pick Goal because the HUD Sort within the UI Settings.

Added Conceal Well being Bar At choices 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, and 45

Added choice to Goal Units to set their Beacon Coloration:

Crimson, Blue or Orange: The beacon will all the time seem with the chosen coloration.

Pleasant/Enemy: The beacon will likely be coloured both Crimson or Blue relying on whether or not it’s on the opposing workforce or not.

Bug Fixes & Enhancements

Spawned Creatures and Sentries have been remaining lively even after a sport had ended.

The Increase Bow was not inflicting injury to Sentries.

Incorrect textual content was being displayed after a Sentry eradicated a participant.

Two Sentries may spawn on prime of one another when beginning a sport.

Sounds wouldn’t play when scoring in a Seize Space whereas the Radio was enjoying.

Elevated the draw distance of cash by Three instances their earlier distance.

Made the Pinball Bumper the identical draw distance because the Pinball Flipper.

UI + SOCIAL

Now you can show the Scoreboard in sport by urgent the Map button whereas a sport is in progress. This selection is on by default.

Use the Map Show Widget possibility to decide on between Scoreboard and Default Map.

Added Aims to HUD Sort that permits for Aims well being to be proven on HUD

Bug Fixes & Enhancements

The fabric sources icons weren’t displaying the “infinite” graphic.

The UI in Inventive Mode was nonetheless showing after switching to Save the World if the sport was not restarted.

Scoreboard Fixes

Solely two gamers with similar scores may present as tied for a similar place.

The scoreboard was not showing when selecting a slim time distinction between “Winner Display Time” and “Score Display Time”.

Typically displayed the identical participant’s title a number of instances.

Participant’s row was not persistently being highlighted.

Placement placards would all the time present “1st” when on groups.

Varied workforce settings prompted scoreboard columns to be offset.

The Rating Monitoring widget was unable to be faraway from the HUD on cellular.

The Time setting within the UI Settings was not counting upward.

The Time setting was showing in each the UI Settings tab and the Recreation tab. It now solely exhibits within the UI Settings tab.

There was a typo within the Radio observe “Fortnite Remix”.

A celebration chief becoming a member of a Inventive server would generally take Sitting Out gamers with them right into a sport.

MOBILE

Bug Fixes & Enhancements

Gamers couldn’t enter Ghost Mode.

SAVE THE WORLD

WHAT’S NEW?

Cottontail Eagle Eye.

Bounce into battle and drop eggs on the Husks with this new Legendary Outlander.

Bowler

Extra cannons? No downside! Launch bouncing cannonballs at these Smashers with this returning launcher.

MISSIONS + SYSTEMS

Twine Peaks tweaks!

Missions have been added to the highest finish of Twine Peaks with increased difficulties, and higher rewards.

Hero, Schematic, and Survivor XP

Increased Gold rewards

Higher world loot

Higher supplies (Brightcore / Sunbeam)

These are the primary steps we’re taking in including tougher content material to Save the World.

Beta Storm Resupply returns!

New major targets have been added:

Harvest sufficient rocks earlier than the timer runs out!

Acquire 10 Provide Crates!

The Acquire Mushrooms and/or Barrels are actually bonus goals moderately than major goals.

The smallest protected space circle radius has been elevated to permit for safer harvesting.

Bug Fixes & Enhancements

Fastened a difficulty that prompted mushrooms in Plankerton to not rely in direction of the Resupply mission goal.

Bug Fixes & Enhancements

Mac gamers will not get kicked again to the map display when attempting to affix a foyer.

We lately mounted this challenge for different gamers previous to the discharge of v8.50.

Further loading screens have been showing when leaving the foyer.

The foyer “manage player” affirmation display was displaying an incorrect banner and energy degree.

Descriptions for schematic rewards weren’t displaying when seen within the mission rewards part on the map.

Some Schematic/Heroes had textual content and numbers lower off their descriptions.

Armory slot gadgets have been displaying unrelated tabs when previewing it from the store.

The Launch button would seem enabled however could be unusable when attempting to launch an SSD mission.

Assortment E book Hero rewards weren’t displaying correctly after claiming a random Hero reward.

Assortment E book completion pages weren’t updating when unslotting gadgets or including new gadgets to a web page.

The wooden harvesting UI was getting caught on participant screens when rejoining a mission or re-enabling the HUD.

Gamers becoming a member of a sport in progress wouldn’t seem within the workforce checklist HUD.

Participant energy ranges have been showing as “1” as a substitute of the proper energy degree.

Up to date tooltip assault pace stats for melee weapon schematics.

PERFORMANCE

Made enhancements to gameplay modifiers to assist with efficiency points.

Bug Fixes & Enhancements

Gamers have been hitching whereas shifting by/interacting with the menus.

HEROES

Introducing Cottontail Eagle Eye, a brand new Legendary Outlander!

Customary Perk: Un-eggs-pected Departure

Section Shift leaves Three egg bombs, which deal 18 base injury to close by enemies.

Commander Perk: Un-eggs-pected Departure+

Section Shift leaves Three egg bombs, which deal 45 base injury to close by enemies.

Accessible within the Occasion Retailer on April 25 at Eight PM Japanese Time.

The Legendary Constructor Miss Bunny Penny Returns!

Customary Perk: Plasma Overdrive

Decreases Plasma Pulse Power Value by 38%.

Commander Perk: Plasma Overdrive+

Decreases Plasma Pulse Power Value by 75%.

Accessible within the Occasion Retailer on April 25 at Eight PM Japanese Time.

Bug Fixes & Enhancements

The Escape Artist+ tooltip was displaying an incorrect length.

The Vital Blast+ and Certain Shot+ tooltips have been displaying incorrect values.

WEAPONS + ITEMS

The Bowler returns!

Fires cannonballs that injury and knockback teams of enemies. The cannonballs can bounce earlier than exploding, damaging close by enemies with every bounce.

Accessible within the Weekly Retailer from April 25 at 8PM ET till Might 2 at 8PM ET.

The Bowler has been added to the Flintlock Weapons web page within the Assortment E book.

AUDIO

Up to date the audio for the Noble Launcher charging up.

Added audio when gamers are biking by traps.

Bug Fixes & Enhancements

Sounds have been lacking on Dashing Hare Ken’s martial arts animations.

GENERAL

We’ve reworked the Prepared / Not Prepared logic in a number of locations. This could stop/resolve cases of gamers involuntarily being marked as Not Prepared.

Solely the Occasion Chief will likely be marked as Not Prepared when the next occasions happen:

A celebration member leaves

A celebration member joins

The chosen playlist is modified

Everybody however the Occasion Chief will stay Prepared after returning to the foyer from match.

Added some further textual content to the Play Button space to point out which social gathering members nonetheless have to prepared up.

SOCIAL

Added an choice to view your present voice channel (and toggle between Occasion / Recreation channels) within the Escape menu.

Lively Voice Indicators now seem for all social gathering members, not simply these which can be Sitting Out.

The Auto-Be part of Recreation Voice Channel setting is now restricted to circumstances the place your squad has been crammed with different non-party-member gamers.

The Occasion Member checklist within the Social Panel signifies the Occasion Chief.

Bug Fixes & Enhancements

Gamers within the foyer would generally have one another’s in-game standing textual content moderately than their very own.

Gamers on Xbox One may expertise intermittent failure when accepting a sport invite or when becoming a member of a sport session earlier than the sport has been launched.

PERFORMANCE

Added a UI choice to disable the Render Hardware Interface Thread that was added in 8.30.

RHIT supplies efficiency enhancements PC’s with quadcore CPUs and better however can lower efficiency on low-end machines.

Improved efficiency by decreasing the variety of audio elements created when a weapon drops.

Improved automobile efficiency.

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Fortnite v8.40 replace overview

Launch date: April 16, 2019

This Fortnite replace brings the wacky new Air Royale restricted time mode, the place gamers take to the skies in prop planes. It’s solely out there in duos, so seize a pal and don’t contact the bottom!

If planes aren’t your factor, there’s one other restricted time mode known as Meals Battle. It’s just like the earlier Ground is Lava mode mixed with the sport’s single participant Save the World mode. There are additionally now Epic and Legendary variations of the Infantry Rifle.

Fortnite v8.40 replace patch notes

WHAT’S NEW?

Air Royale Restricted Time Mode

Pilot the X-Four Stormwing on this Restricted Time Mode as you struggle to grow to be the final aircraft flying! Full free Challenges to unlock model new Wraps as you rule the skies.

Infantry Rifle

New rarities for this exact, semi-automatic weapon can be found now! Discover and wield the Epic/Legendary variants and ship correct hearth downrange.

LIMITED TIME MODE: AIR ROYALE

Climb aboard a aircraft and take to the skies on this fast-paced mode the place gamers struggle to be the final one flying!

Air Royale is lifting off as a Duos-only mode.

Every aircraft has three lives, gamers will respawn till they lose their aircraft’s final life.

Touching the bottom will immediately eradicate gamers.

Parking a aircraft on the bottom for quite a lot of seconds will trigger it to blow up – keep airborne!

Hijacking one other workforce’s aircraft will add that aircraft to your present variety of aircraft lives (and value the workforce who misplaced the aircraft a life).

The storm has a ceiling that regularly lowers in the course of the match. Watch out to not fly too excessive late within the match!

Loot chests of 5 completely different rarities will fall from the sky, permitting gamers to improve the weapons they’re carrying in addition to boosting their aircraft’s weapons for a short while.

To obtain the contents of a Chest, merely fly by it.

If gamers obtain loot from a Chest containing a weapon they have already got that’s of the identical or worse high quality, they’ll obtain further ammo.

Chests with increased high quality weapons will routinely substitute the decrease high quality weapon that’s being carried.

Floating restore kits can be discovered, these heal broken planes, and grant well being and shields to gamers.

LIMITED TIME MODE: FOOD FIGHT – DEEP FRIED

Two groups on both aspect of the map. An enormous barrier down the center. Lava steadily rising up from beneath. Construct a fort to guard your restaurant mascot. When the Barrier lowers, destroy the enemy’s mascot after which eradicate the remaining enemies to win the match!

An impassable barrier will likely be spawned alongside the middle of the map for the primary a number of minutes. Lava begins rising from beneath the map a couple of minutes into the match.

Every workforce can have an under-construction restaurant close to the middle of the map. Inside is a huge mascot head representing that workforce.

If the mascot head is destroyed, that workforce loses the power to respawn when eradicated.

Gamers ought to use the time that the barrier is as much as assemble a defensive fortress round their restaurant.

As quickly because the barrier lowers, struggle to take out their mascot earlier than they destroy yours!

Particular pink provide drops spawn at match begin. These maintain a handful of weapons, ammo, consumables, traps and some hundred steel constructing supplies.

Gamers will respawn when eradicated, retaining their stock & dropping some ammo and sources.

100 p.c further sources are gained from farming.

Constructing sources discovered on the bottom elevated from 30 to 50 per occasion.

No explosive weapons or gadgets are on this mode.

A small quantity of free constructing supplies are granted to every participant each second.

The eating places are actually a lot increased, requiring gamers to construct as much as them.

Might the very best meals win!

WEAPONS + ITEMS

Egg Launcher

Everybody’s favourite egg-themed Grenade Launcher pores and skin is again!

It is a visible solely change for the Grenade Launcher.

Infantry Rifle

Added Epic and Legendary Infantry Rifle variants.

Offers 42/44 injury.

Will be discovered from Ground Loot, Chests, Provide Drops and Merchandising Machines.

Makes use of Medium Ammo.

GAMEPLAY

Now you can pet the canine… and different Pets!

The Battle Cross Good friend XP Bonus has been upgraded!

As an alternative of giving a small XP increase to every pal in your social gathering, you now get a bigger XP increase for partying with a number of pals.

The general whole XP Bonus stays the identical (120%) and can now be a lot simpler to maintain lively

Briefly, play any match with any variety of pals and also you’ll be getting the identical quantity of XP as somebody who’s been enjoying with a full squad of Battle-Cross-owning pals.

Bug fixes

Fastened a difficulty the place the Season Eight trailer wouldn’t play in some circumstances.

Fastened a difficulty the place the embers from environmental Campfires would linger if the ground they have been hooked up to was destroyed.

Fastened challenge the place Coconuts couldn’t be pinged.

Fastened a difficulty the place turbo constructing may cease in the event you ran out of the present sort of fabric you have been utilizing.

Fastened a difficulty with Traps being be positioned inside partitions, making them troublesome to see.

Fastened a difficulty with Traps being positioned inconsistently when auto-placed.

Fastened ‘Emotes’ not enjoying when sure to particular keys.

Fastened a difficulty when utilizing ‘Replay Last Emote’ earlier than utilizing some other emote, so it now performs the emote within the default slot.

COMPETITIVE

New Match – April 20 & 21: Fortnite World Cup On-line Open Week 2 ($1,000,00Zero whole prize pool!)

Prime performers in every server area will qualify to the Fortnite World Cup Finals in New York Metropolis.

Full Fortnite World Cup particulars and official guidelines might be discovered right here: https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/aggressive/occasions/world-cup

Duos Recreation Mode

Participation on this occasion requires each gamers to have reached Champion League in Area.

Format:

April 20 – Spherical One: All Eligible Gamers.

April 21 – Spherical Two: Prime 1500 Groups from Spherical One.

Added Fortnite World Cup Qualifier slots onto the prize breakout for On-line Open tournaments.

Visible enhancements for Foyer panel throughout On-line Open tournaments.

Up to date how Nameless Mode works in tournaments to offer an improved expertise for stream viewers whereas nonetheless defending streamers.

When a participant is eradicated, their title will likely be proven within the elimination feed.

When a participant eliminates an opponent, their title will likely be proven to the eradicated participant solely.

Most Display screen Facet Ratio can not be better than 16:9.

PERFORMANCE

Resolved a efficiency regression occurring on PCs with lower than quad-core CPUs.

In the event you’re nonetheless experiencing efficiency points on PC, strive manually including the “-NoRHIThread” to the Epic Video games Launcher settings for Fortnite.

ART + ANIMATION

Elevated the scale and depth of the Increase Bow explosion results to higher symbolize the injury radius.

AUDIO

Adjusted the attenuation of the Reboot Van cooldown and Reboot Chip ambient looping audio, in order that it’s not as loud.

Bug Fixes

Fastened a difficulty that may trigger the Shotgun equip sounds to often not play.

Mimic! When mentioning your emote wheel there’s now an possibility that seems in the event you’re taking a look at one other participant doing an emote you personal, to mean you can play the identical emote.

When hiding HUD components within the choices, a few of them now collapse to release the area they have been taking on – the minimap for instance.

There’s now a HUD UI possibility to cover the automobile management hints.

Bug Fixes

The Restricted Time Mode Victory display is not pushed misplaced on cellular/Swap.

REPLAY

Bug Fixes

Fastened a difficulty the place drone pace was not saved when scrubbing

Fastened a difficulty the place scrubbing a replay whereas in Drone Connect mode would end result within the digital camera being left behind.

MOBILE

Up to date the Baller controls on default and customized HUDs.

Baller controls can be found to be adjusted within the HUD Format Device for customized HUD gamers.

Audiovisual shot indicators will not show for gamers in the identical automobile.

Bug Fixes

Fastened a difficulty with the Android app icon being incorrectly displayed.

Fastened a difficulty with Voice Chat whereas spectating

Push-To-Speak button can also be not hidden whereas spectating

Fastened a difficulty the place Auto-run wouldn’t activate in autos.

Fastened a difficulty the place the Reboot Card description was lacking.

Fastened a difficulty the place the Area overview panel was not displaying.

Fastened a difficulty with the FPS counter being proven twice.

Fastened a difficulty the place the weapon icon wouldn’t show in stock scorching bar generally.

Fastened a difficulty the place textures would seem stretched when on a Inventive Island.

Fastened a difficulty that displayed a checkmark icon on sure instructions of autos.

Fastened a difficulty the place a second storm wall would seem within the desert biome in the course of the first closing interval.

Fastened a difficulty the place some chests couldn’t be opened.

Fastened points the place weak wifi halted gameplay and will trigger some disconnects.

CREATIVE

WHAT’S NEW?

Explosive Machine

Destruction and demolition are made simple with The Explosive Machine, now in Inventive Mode.

Scoreboard Customization

Customise the in-game scoreboard in new methods! Open the “My Island” menu to find the completely different potentialities.

ISLANDS

When on the Hub, Featured Island portals now seem as doorways to those featured video games.

Simplified the textual content above the portals to point out the Creator’s title and the Island’s title.

Approaching the portal will trigger an outline for the sport to animate into view.

GAMEPLAY

Bug Fixes

Fastened a difficulty the place the participant’s character would face the unsuitable path when beginning a sport.

Fastened a difficulty the place video games could possibly be began concurrently on completely different islands when initiated by a participant in the identical server.

Fastened a difficulty the place gamers may injury one another after the scoreboard seems.

Fastened a difficulty the place gamers who be part of a match that’s in progress wouldn’t see progressive Outfit modifications on the Peely Outfit.

Fastened a difficulty the place some gamers have been unable to goal down sight when enjoying video games.

Fastened a difficulty the place gamers could be scored as “Knocked Down” whereas spawning right into a sport in progress.

Fastened a difficulty the place Reboot Playing cards have been incorrectly showing in Inventive video games.

WEAPONS + ITEMS

Infantry Rifle

Epic and Legendary Infantry Rifle variants

Offers 42, 44 injury

CREATIVE TOOLS + PHONE

Bug Fixes

Fastened a difficulty the place a brilliant blue gentle would seem whereas copying and pasting objects with the Telephone.

Fastened a difficulty the place gamers couldn’t enter Construct Mode when the Telephone was geared up, whereas utilizing a controller.

Recognized challenge: Delete sound impact performs twice when deleting an object.

PREFABS

Up to date Automotive Gallery A with a Submarine, Arctic Submarine and Helicopter.

Up to date the Jungle Temple Props Gallery with Three completely different sized Moai Statues.

Bug Fixes

Fastened a difficulty within the Navy Behemoth the place exterior wall vents may look like floating.

Fastened a difficulty within the Navy Behemoth the place gamers may unintentionally drop off some stairways.

Fastened a difficulty the place Navy Gallery B Blue had a few constructing items displaying up as pink.

Fastened a difficulty the place the collision field was too giant round some property within the Ring Gallery.

DEVICES

All new Explosive Machine

When broken throughout a sport, the machine will explode and injury objects and gamers round it

Restricted to 100 Explosive Units per island

Modify the next choices:

Participant Injury – The quantity of injury inflicted on surrounding gamers (0, 2, 5, 10, 20, 25, 50, 75, 100, 150, 200, elimination)

Construction Injury – The quantity of injury inflicted on surrounding constructions (0, 5, 25, 50, 100, 500, 1000)

Injury Indestructible Buildings – Turning on this selection will destroy buildings, even when “Building Damage In Game” is “Off”..

Well being – The well being of the Explosive Machine (1, 25, 50, 75, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 1000, 2000, 5000)

Blast Radius – How far the explosion will attain from the purpose of origin (0.25, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3)

Knockback – How forceful the explosion will likely be at knocking again gamers (off, low, medium, excessive, very excessive, tremendous excessive)

Ignore Crew For Injury – Activate to disregard a specified workforce when dealing injury (none, 1-16)

Explode on Proximity Vary – Activate to blow up when a participant is at a set distance from the machine (off, 0.5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)

Ignore Crew For Proximity – Activate to disregard a specified workforce when getting into designated proximity vary (none, 1-16)

Time To Detonation From Recreation Begin – Activate to begin a timer for automated detonation when a sport begins (off, 5 sec, 10 sec, 15 sec, 30 sec, 1 min, 2 min, 5 min, 10 min, 30 min, 1 hr)

Creature Spawner has been up to date to visualise the spawn radius across the machine.

Added a “Spawn Through Walls” choice to the Creature Spawner.

Turning this off will stop creatures from being spawned on the opposite aspect of partitions.

Added “Preferred Spawn Location” choice to the Creature Spawner with “At Max Distance” or “Random” choices.

“At Max Distance” will spawn creatures on the fringe of the Max Spawn Distance.

“Random” will spawn them at random factors inside the spawn radius.

For the next units, turning “Visualization” off will cover the machine instantly upon beginning a sport, as a substitute of ready for the sport begin countdown to complete.

Barrier

Injury Quantity

Participant Checkpoint Plate

Participant Spawn

Merchandise Spawner

Radio

Music Sequencer

Bug Fixes

Fastened a difficulty the place the Billboard had improper collision when reloading the Island or copying with the artistic software.

Fastened a difficulty the place the Merchandise Spawner “Time Before Initial Spawn” possibility was not functioning as meant.

Fastened a difficulty with the Capturing Gallery that may stop gamers from hitting the bullseye on some targets.

Fastened a difficulty with the Capturing Gallery the place you couldn’t hit the bullseye till you had began a sport.

Fastened a difficulty with the Capturing Gallery that prevented sniper rifles from with the ability to register hits on the bullseye.

Clarified the items of time (eg. seconds, minutes) for associated choices on the Goal Dummy Monitor within the Capturing Gallery.

Fastened a difficulty the place the Goal Dummy “Proximity Pop Up Range” setting solely triggered at half the anticipated distance.

Fastened a difficulty the place the Billboard was inflicting stretched textures to seem on participant’s Islands when enjoying on cellular units.

Fastened a difficulty the place the participant character’s head would seem floating over the Cannon when making an attempt to fly whereas inside.

Fastened a difficulty with the Seize Space machine having inconsistent collision across the base.

Fastened a difficulty the place the Creature Spawner destruction animation would set off although visibility was set to “Off”.

UI + SOCIAL + AUDIO

“UI Settings” might be discovered within the “My Island” menu. Offering the power to switch varied person interfaces.

Time – Select whether or not the clock counts down or up

Rating Show Time – The period of time the scoreboard is displayed after a match (Don’t Present, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 seconds)

Winner Show Time – The period of time the Winner UI is displayed (Don’t Present, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 seconds)

HUD Sort – Select the optimum heads-up-display for the kind of sport you created (Default, Creature Elimination, Rating)

Scoreboard Stat 1-5 – Select the statistics which can be tracked and proven on as much as 5 columns on the scoreboard on the finish of the match (None, Eliminations, Assists, Knocked Down, Acquire Gadgets, Well being, Creature Eliminations, Rating, Aims, Time)

These statistics will function a tie-breaker (in sequential order) within the case that there’s a tie underneath the first guidelines of the sport

The top of sport Scoreboard has obtained a visible makeover to coincide with the brand new scoreboard choices out there for creators.

Winners are actually prompted with new celebration animations, just like the Victory Display screen in Battle Royale.

Bug Fixes

It’s best to now be capable to see workforce member names over their heads primarily based on the My Island Choices.

Fastened a difficulty the place positioned entice sounds overlap and have been very loud when spawning right into a sport.

Fastened a difficulty the place automobile destruction sound results would play loudly when spawning right into a sport.

Fastened a difficulty the place favourite Island codes couldn’t be faraway from the Featured Island Code checklist when utilizing a controller.

Fastened a difficulty the place the Fly Up immediate exhibits ‘Unbound’ within the Tooltip when utilizing a controller.

Fastened a difficulty the place the ammo rely wasn’t displaying as infinite on weapons when infinite ammo was enabled.

PERFORMANCE

Bug Fixes

Fastened varied efficiency and stability points.

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