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vintagexherry · 8 months

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Treasure for Three Days [3]

Pirate!Miguel x Princess!Reader

// Arguments, denial, consumption of alcohol, Ooc Miguel, Miguel is mean

A/N: This ones a bit short since im a busy for a moment but I'll still post dw

Previously

"Shut up."

He didn't shout this time, but you know better than to disobey, he gripped your forearm, and you both head back to the ship.

This night marks the end of Day One

Day two [Early in The Morning]

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The ship was quiet aside from the on and off chatter, the birds squaking and waves crashing. The ship's sails have wind, and the weather perfect.

The ship also has a thick tension in the air, and everybody felt it deep in their bones, but everybody decided to ignore it for their safety.

Except for two.

Two crewmates looked at Miguel, who was looking at the distance by the helm, his eyebrows furrowed with a frown on his lips.

Usually, they wouldn't mind, but his frown was deeper than usual.

"So.... Wutz up with big man ovah der?" A man with dark skin and braided locs asked another crew with a bandana on his forehead while his hair was styled with to an mini black power style.

"Im actually not sure, Hobie , He's been like that since yesterday night." The crewmate replied.

"Bet it was da fight wid da princess and all that."

"Fight?"

"I tell you what, Miles, I wuz just comin back from the bar, but didn't wana go in. Herd shoutin and all" Hobie shrugged.

"They had a fight?!" Miles whipered-shouted.

Hobie shrugged again and got quiet.

Then, as if a light bulb went out of his head. He smirked.

"I don't like that smirk" Miles deadpanned as he felt like his life is in danger.

"Tell you what."

"Im not gonna gonna sneak you into Miguel's cabin with you again to get another stash of gold." Miles shivered from the memory, Miguel didn't let it slide and gave them both all of the crew's chorework for a week.

"Nah. You want to know why he's moody?"

Miles knows where this is going.

"Oh hell n-"

"Ask him."

"Hobie! I can't just!-"

Hobie suddenly produced a stash of coins and smirked with his eyebrow raised.

Miles contemplated long until his brain could burn.

"Fine! But if I get punished again, im blaming you for mutiny." He didn't wait for Hobie's reply and marched straight to Miguel who was standing by the helm.

Miles gulp the closer he got.

"What do you want now?" Miguel groaned as he heard Miles not-so-subtle steps toward him.

"I...uh... Just wanna know how's the best captain in the world doing."

Miles started to sweat even if the weather wasn't even hot. He didn't know why he said that. He'll make sure Hobie pays double.

"None of your business." Miguel's frown deepened with his words.

"We-well-"

"I recommend you to go back to your duties, Morales."

With that, Miles didn't waste time saying goodbye and head back to Hobie, who was busy chuckling.

Miguel sighed as he remembers again what happened last night.

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You and Miguel got back from the ship, letting the crew enjoy the night, but Miguel only led you back to the cabin and once he forcefully sat you down on the bed he didn't waste time scolding you.

You swore you felt as if you're a child all over again, adults telling you to go back to your room when they caught you slipping your hand in a cookie jar.

"Didn't I tell you to stay where I can see you?!"

You remembered him shouting, his deep voice slightly echoes throughout the room, the volume making you wince.

"You think I want to actually stay with you? You think I asked to be here?!"

You also remember shouting back, furious that he expects you to be alright with your situation.

"Fine then! Go out on your own! Go and get your ass touched by another man!You should be thankful that I was there to save you! Is going out on your own the safest thing you could think of?!"

"Safe?" You chuckled with no humor.

"You kidnapped me, threatened me, and held me hostage with hands behind my back and a sword to my neck. And you're talking about 'safe'."

You pushed yourself to stand up and look at him dead in the eyes.

"Don't talk to me about safety when I'm not even safe with you." You calmly stated as you jabbed a finger to his chest.

And with a puff of annoyance, you turned around and decided to watch the scenery outside instead of Miguel's face cus you swear you want to slap it if you look at it more.

While you looked out the window, you heard Miguel's anger huffed and took a bottle of rum off his shelf and, finally, with his heavy footsteps, he left you alone with a loud thud of the door.

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Now here he is seething.

Your attitude.

Your ungratfulness.

Your spoiled ass.

Your exposed cleavage.

Your words...

Your face

Your eyes.

Your....

Just you.

You drive him crazy. Who do you think you are?

With one swipe of his sword, he could kill you, make you bleed into the floor, and after that, burn your kingdom to the ground.

Wait, no, maybe he could make you watch him burn your town, and after that, he kills you.

Yea...

That...

He ignores the feeling deep in his guts saying that you wouldn't be happy.

Who cares, right? Why does he care for your happiness? He kidnapped you just to get the treasure he wants. He doesn't care if you cry or scream for help.

With that thought, He took another big gulp of his rum.

Damn that guy for touching you. Maybe he should have killed him more, damn him for wasting his time.

He feels a rising headache upcoming, and he sighed heavily. He was about to drink more, but as he tilted the bottle to his lips, he realized he had already finished the bottle.

How long has he been here thinking bout you?

He shook his head out of his thoughts. He stood straight from his position and decided to man up and talk to you.

He ignores how his brain buzzes back to you.

Maybe it's just the alcohol talking.

Yeah....It's the alcohol.

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You paced around the cabin for a while.

Back and forth

Forth and back

Repeat.

Should you feel sorry for shouting? No.

You had a point in what you said.

But so does he.

You were thinking of thanked him, but thanks to his mouth, you didn't.

He was right. You aren't safe out there, and you should have sticked the company you know. Plus, once you did ask for help, how would you know their trustworthy?

Then again, trusting a pirate doesn't seem like a good idea either.

You groaned.

You can't trust people outside, and you can't trust people from the inside.

You don't have a plan of escape since you barely know life outside tall, golden encrusted walls of the palace.

Do you remember trying to learn about the ocean, forests, or different lands.

But such knowledge is forbidden for a lady like you.

All you could gather is how to handle the people, the law, and the land as the future queen.

Aside from hobbies you learned from your mentor, such as stitching, gardening and embroidery.

You sigh as tough as she was. You kinda miss her nagging. You never thought you would say that, but here you are.

Negative things aside.

At least you get to experience, the world as it was.

Children find happiness in the simplest things, such as bugs, random plants, and flying kites.

Adults go by their day to work, open up their shops, and sell bread,vegetables or live stock.

Then you met pirates.

Miguel, specifically.

You don't really talk to the others since you'll probably be reported to the captain.

You can admit during the first day of your captivity, the stories he told you were amusing. Even more interesting than reading it on a book, hearing it from an actual person who experienced it first hand just felt different.

Your heart wishes you could hear more of his adventures, know the stories behind each treasure, gruesome or not.

You suddenly shook your head out of this thoughts, it's still early in the morning and your head is already filled with unnecessary thoughts.

Maybe you just need to suck it up and just thank him for what he did.

Granted, you might not completely forgive him for kidnapping you and all that, but the least you could do is thanked him for a part of it.

Yeah.....You're gonna thank a part of it.

Before you could head out, you hear the door open with slam.

Your eyes widened, and you flinched hard from the impact. But your shoulders slightly relax upon seeing Miguel's form in the doorway.

Miguel saw your frightened eyes and cursed himself for slamming the door, so much for an entrance.

He went in with a slight wobble in his footsteps thanks to the alcohol.

He stopped in front of you, and you froze.

Is he gonna hit you? Shout at you more?

You gulp as you wait for his words.

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princess-of-the-corner · 5 months

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Toontown: Corporate Clash Recap: Make A Toon and Toontorial

Toontown Corporate Clash is a massively multiplayer online role playing game created by fans of the now defunct MMORPG: Disney’s Toontown Online.

The Corporate Clash Crew’s goal was to expand on Toontown Online’s mechanics to create a more challenging, strategic, and fun game.

The title screen shows a view of a tunnel on a generic Toontown street, with Toons running back and forth, interacting with each other, and sometimes getting chased away by robotic businessmen. Upon pressing any key, the camera zooms up to the tunnel, where the Pick a Toon screen appears.

There are six, color-coded slots for your characters. Clicking on a character will cause that Toon to appear in front of the tunnel, and make the button for going into Toontown appear. Confirming you want to play as that toon will have them do a happy little jump before running into the tunnel.

Clicking on an empty slot will instead prompt you to Make A Toon, and confirming will send you to the titular Make A Toon. (The “Make A Toon” is themed after an animation studio. You are creating a cartoon character, after all.)

Ever since the Corporate Clash Team abolished gender, your first choice has been what species you want your Toon to be. You can make a Dog, Cat, Horse, Mouse, Rabbit, Duck, Monkey, Bear, Pig, Deer, Beaver, Alligator, Fox, Bat, Raccoon, Kiwi (the only armless species, though they do have floating hands), Kangaroo, Koala, Armadillo, or (during the Thanksgiving or April Toons events) a Turkey.

Then you choose your head shape. Then eyelash style (no eyelashes is an option as well). Then whether you want a fat, skinny, or long body. Then whether you want short, medium, or long legs. Then you can choose your color (either a solid color, or have each “section” of your body be a different color). If your chosen species has visible ears, you can customize their color here as well.

You then chose an outfit. There are 23 shirts and 16 bottoms (8 pairs of shorts and 8 skirts, I believe), with different color options. Whatever you don’t choose can be purchased later on in the game, if you so wish.

Finally, you can name your Toon. You can either use the preselected options (building a name out of a title, first name, and/or one-or-two-part last name), or type-a-name. Typed names must be approved by the moderation team. Until then, you are given a placeholder name (“Colorful [Toon Species]”). You can change your appearance and name later on, if you so wish.

After this, if you have any other Toons, you are asked if you want to skip the Toontorial. Otherwise, if this is your first Toon, you are sent straight in.

A short, fat, red dog named Lord Lowden Clear leads your Toon into a classroom, introducing you to the Professor as the newest recruit of the Toon Resistance, asking the professor to show you the ropes.

The professor, a blue cat named “Professor Pete” complies, and asks that Lord Lowden Clear to set-up the training room while he teaches you the basics. Lowden heads to the back and Professor Pete teaches you the controls. After which, he invites you to run around the classroom until you have a handle of the controls, and talk to him when you feel ready.

When you talk to him, he welcomes you to Toontown, a place of happiness and fun!

Well, it should be, but some recent events have complicated things. Lord Lowden Clear will explain things further in the training room, which is now open for you to manually enter.

Lowden opens by giving you a Laff Meter (it’s shape is based off your Toon’s species, and it’s color off of the color of your Toon’s head). It signals how happy your Toon is at any time, and you start out with a maximum of 15 Laff. But if it hits zero, it will turn green, and you’ll Go Sad and be sent back to the nearest Playground. Thankfully, there are treasures you can pick up that’ll restore your Laff, but what could possibly lower your Laff in a town as happy as this?

Robotic capitalists the locals call “Cogs” have been invading, taking over local businesses to expand their corporate empire. And worst of all, they can’t take a joke.

Fortunately, that’s also their biggest weakness, as Toontown Toons are all about jokes!

And lo and behold, they’ve set up a Level 9 Desk Jockey, a Cog-like training dummy with a patchwork suit and a head made out of office supplies, in order to teach you how to fight these cogs. In order to start the fight, all you have to do is touch the Desk Jockey.

Toontown was a turn-based RPG, and so is Corporate Clash. The camera pans out to a top-down perspective, the Cogs at the top of the screen, and the Toons at the bottom. At the bottom, you can see Panels showing each Toon’s Laff and what action they currently have queued up for that turn. At the top, you can see the Cog’s panels, which show their names, levels, and remaining HP. Your inventory of Gags is right in the middle. Each row represents a Gag Track, and this practice battle will teach you the ins and outs of each one.

You’re given the Level 1 Squirt Gag: A Squirting Flower, to begin with. Just click on the Gag to attack the Cog.

The Cog takes some damage, and is Soaked. This is a status effect added by the Corporate Clash Team to give Squirt Gags a specific purpose. The status effect is slotted onto the Cog’s panel. Soaked makes Cogs less likely to dodge. This is handy for Drop Gags, which deal high damage but have low accuracy.

(Not said in the tutorial is that, unlike other tracks, each hit or miss with Drop Gags is calculated per-Gag instead of per-Cog, so one Drop Gag missing doesn’t make them ALL miss.)

You’re given a Flower Pot, the level 1 Drop Gag, to attack the Desk Jockey with, with Lowden queuing up the same Gag.

Once you select the Flower Pot, both connect, which causes the Cog to take additional Combo Damage.

Throw, Squirt, and Drop Gags deal Combo Damage when multiple of the same track are used on the same Cog.

Unfortunately, on the Desk Jockey’s turn, it uses Light’s On Initiative to summon a Level 1 Desk Jockey.

Lord Lowden Clear then gives you a Joybuzzer, the Level 1 Zap Gag, and queues up a Squirt Gag to use on the Level 1 Desk Jockey.

Zap Gags (new to Corporate Clash) have perfect accuracy on Soaked Cogs, but deal 0 damage to dry Cogs. However, their electricity can jump to neighboring Cogs that are also soaked, but only if they connect to their initial targets, and only in a single direction.

Lord Lowden Clear’s Squirt Gag hits the Level 9 Desk Jockey, dealing some splash damage to the Level 1 and Soaking it as well, and your Joybuzzer hits the Level 9 and jumps to the Level 1, finishing the weaker Cog off.

Squirt can ALSO be used to damage multiple Cogs, Soaking and dealing Splash Damage to the Cogs to the immediate left and right of the target.

Lowden then gives you the Level 1 Lure Gag, a $1 Bill, and tells you to use it to Lure the Cog. Lure Gags deal 0 damage, but Lures a Cog for a set number of turns, and stores “knockback damage” that’ll be dealt to the Cog if attacked with a Throw or Squirt Gag before the Lure wears off. Lured Cogs ALSO can’t attack until the “Lured” Status wears off.

To demonstrate this, he gives you the Level 1 Throw Gag, a Cupcake, and has you attack the Cog alongside him. (Not shown in the Tutorial: Throw Gags give the “Marked for Laff” Status Effect, which makes any Gag that hits after Throw deal extra damage. The Status Effect wears off at the end of the turn it was applied on.)

This has the side effect of unluring the Cog, however. With the exception of Splash Damage from a Squirt Gag, almost ANY damage dealt to the Cog will unlure them, as will attempting to use a Zap Gag on a Lured Cog that hasn’t been Soaked.

He then gives you the Level 1 Trap Gag, a Banana Peel.

It doesn’t really do anything to the Desk Jockey, just sitting on the ground in front of it, and the Desk Jockey both attacks Lord Lowden Clear and calls in more Level 1 Desk Jockeys.

Lowden was NOT expecting to be attacked, and figures Pete must’ve changed the script without telling him. He also explains that Trap Gags only deal damage when a Cog is Lured into them, and queues up a Magnet to Lure all the Desk Jockeys (not wanting ALL of them to attack) while also giving you the Level 1 Toon-Up Gag, a Feather, and having you use it on him.

Toon-Up is used to restore the Laff of other Toons, applies the “Cheer” Status Effect (which causes any Gags they use that turn to deal extra damage) and restores a percentage of the Laff given to the target back to the user. However, it can ONLY be used on other Toons, so you can’t target yourself with it.

With the Level 9 Desk Jockey damaged and Dazed (debuff inflicted by Trap Gags that makes the Cog less likely to dodge on both the turn it’s inflicted AND the following turn), and the other 3 Cogs lured, Lowden decides it’s time to teach you how to use THE go-to AOE Gag Track: Sound, and gives you a Level 1 Kazoo while he queues up his own Sound Gag.

Sound doesn’t deal Combo Damage (anymore) and if it misses ANY of the Cogs, it will miss ALL of them, but thankfully all Gags have perfect accuracy in the Toontorial, so the two Sound Gags deal enough damage to destroy the three Level 1 Desk Jockeys, and put the Level 9 on its last legs.

It then attacks the Player’s Toon, dealing some damage to them.

Lord Lowden Clear then reveals the other big strength of the Sound Gag Track: using it gives the Encore Status Effect to the user, which powers up the next gag use. Using Sound while under the effect of Encore, however, will inflict the Winded Debuff, which keeps you from getting Encore and weakens Sound Gags until it wears off.

So, he queues up a Toon-Up gag to restore you to full Laff, and also gives you your choice of a Cupcake, Kazoo, Squirting Flower, or Flower Pot to finish off the Desk Jockey with.

After it’s destroyed, he takes your remaining Gags, and asks you to choose your two Gag Tracks to start out with, tells you to meet back with Professor Pete once you’ve done so, and then heads back to HQ via a portable hole.

For context, the order Gags are used in battle when Toons choose different tracks are Toon-Up > Trap > Lure > Throw > Squirt > Zap > Sound > Drop. Additionally, each Gag Track has extra bonus effects that can be unlocked if you Prestige them, but I’ll explain more on that in my next post, because this one is getting pretty long as is.

After choosing your Starting Gag Tracks, you’re booted from the Training Room and sent straight back to the Classroom. You cannot revisit the Training Room at any point.

Professor Pete welcomes you back, and asks if your training went well. He’s also got a few gifts for you, which are part of this game’s UI.

First is the Shtickerbook, which is placed in the bottom right corner of the screen. Clicking on it will begin the segment of the tutorial based around the in-game “Pause” Menu (even if it doesn’t actually pause anything because it’s an MMO).

It opens to the District Page first. Each district is a copy of Toontown (basically a Server), so if you’re gonna meet up with someone in game, make sure they know what district you’re in.

The next page is the Map Page. Clouds cover any part of Toontown you haven’t been to yet. There are three buttons at the bottom. “Go Home” sends you to your Estate, “Minigames” sends you to the Minigame Area, and “Playground” sends you back to the nearest Playground.

BE WARNED: The Minigame Area is a Playground. Using the “Go to Playground” button in the Minigame Area will just cause you to teleport back to the Minigame Area. Make sure you unlock your neighborhood’s Teleport Access before going to the Minigame Area. You won’t soft lock your game, but it’s a LONG walk to get back to Toontown Central from there. The Estate doesn’t have this problem, as it just sends you back to the Playground of the last Neighborhood you were in before you went “home”.

The next page is the Toontasks Page, where you already have the “Welcome to Toontown” task. You’ll have to speak with Flippy after the Toontorial is done. Aside from that, you’ve got three empty slots you can put other tasks in, after you’ve spoken with Flippy.

The next page is Items & Codes, where you can customize your Toon. He has you click on the “Clothing” tab (where you can customize your outfit), but your only clothes you currently own are the ones on your back. That will change as you progress through the game.

Next is the Cog Gallery. It’s separated into different sections based off the “Departments” the Cogs are divided into: Sellbots, Cashbots, Lawbots, Bossbots, and (new to Corporate Clash) Boardbots. The Toons don’t know a lot about the Cogs, so you’ll be filling this in yourself as you encounter the Cogs during your adventure.

There are more pages (which I’ll cover in the next post), but Professor Pete leaves you to figure that out on your own.

He asks if everything he said makes sense, and you don’t reply. Why? Because he hasn’t taught you how to talk yet!

He then gives you the Speedchat button, which goes up to the top left corner of the screen. You can click it and select any phrase or emote from the drop down menu. After using your newfound ability to speak, he gives you the Speedchat + and (new to Corporate Clash) Sticker buttons. Speedchat+ lets you type in custom phrases (with words that aren’t part of the whitelist being turned into animal noises in the speech bubble), while Stickers let you physically display emoticons.

He also gives you an Experi-o-Meter. This allows you to gain Toon Experience from Tasks, Achievements, Battles, and other sources. You’ve also got more Levels and Experience to gain than JUST Toon Levels and Experience, but that’s a topic for later. Each level up increases your Max Laff by 1, and certain level Milestones will even give you Training Points to spend. I’ll elaborate more on that in my next post.

With that explanation, Professor Pete turns you loose on the world of Toontown, and your Toon jumps through a Portable Hole to go straight to Toontown Central Playground.

And you officially join the multiplayer environment.

Welcome to Toontown Corporate Clash. It only gets crazier from here.

Fascinating! Sounds fun.

#submission

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moonsdancer · 2 years

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#MelJay AU Week | day four: movie au - the mummy (1999)

Art historian, Mel Medarda is slowly but surely building a career for herself as the assistant curator of the Nashmarae Museum of History in Shurima. Ever since she was a little girl, reading about the histories of her dead father's people, she's dreamed of exploring the mysteries of Shurima first hand. Of course, cataloguing an endless pile of precious objects and translating ancient texts isn't always so thrilling. But she's content, albeit ever searching for something truly special, revolutionary even.

Then, her brother Kino shows up toting a strange ancient box covered in hieroglyphs she has the wherewithal to translate. What the glyphs and the box's contents promise is world-changing, a fragment of a map to the Lost City of Gardens, a mystical place thought long buried beneath the sands of history and time.

Before she knows it, an obnoxious disgraced inventor and ex-mercenary, Captain—no, Mister Jayce Talis, the only creature alive who claims to have seen the Lost City in person, joins their motley crew on the hunt for treasure and glory. But, they aren't the only ones on the trail, with greedy competitors and explorers pouring in from all over Runeterra to plunder a new discovery.

Even worse, something terrifying and ancient, awakened from beneath the dunes, arises to hunt them all.

Read a snippet from the story, tentatively titled, dawn of the chalicar, below + twitter here

(If you are familiar with The Mummy, then this scene's inspiration should be obvious. I had a lot of fun writing it, hope it's vaguely fun to read. Sorry for any mistakes in it, nothing is beta'd yet. The story will also ft. Akshan {the hottest bae in Shurima - Kino AND Jayce know}, Ezreal and others, currently trying to include as many P&Z faves as possible lol.)

dawn of the chalicar

Bel’Zhun Prison, Shurima

“Are you quite certain this ‘associate’ of yours is on the up-and-up, Kino? I’d like to escape this adventure with my head still firmly attached to the rest of my body.”

Mel looked askance at the prison yard in which she now stood, very much against her will, ignoring the salacious jeers and disturbing invitations being thrown her way from a motley crew of inmates. The absurd warden had trundled off with a pair of lackeys to locate a Captain Talis—the individual she was using a good chunk of her savings to bail out from his sentencing. All on the assurances of her brother who claimed he would prove somehow useful in reaching the location of the very first clue that had been embedded in the glyphs she’d deciphered a few nights ago.

Kino was a poor judge of character at the best of times so Mel held little hope that this nefarious individual would be of much help. But Kino had insisted.

“How are you acquainted with this Captain Talis, anyway?”

“Oh, we’ve done some business in the past, you know, a bit of this and a little of that.”

There was a shiftiness to Kino’s eyes, and he was fidgeting with his shoulder-length locs a little, his usual tell. Mel’s gaze narrowed. Either this Talis person was a criminal associate or Kino had conned the man, both possibilities boded ill.

Before she could interrogate him further, the warden of Bel’Zhun Prison, a portly gentleman draped in blindingly colourful robes, returned. He dragged a dusty, scraggly-haired giant behind him. Without preamble, he kicked the chained prisoner to the ground in front of them and said, “So, how much for the criminal?”

Frowning, Mel opened her mouth to remind the man of the five hundred crowns they’d already agreed on but Kino beat her to the punch with an offer of one hundred-and-fifty. Really? Was now the time to haggle?

The warden grinned, revealing a sizeable snaggle tooth that was a fascinating shade of orange. “Ah, my friend, you must be joking. I guess you don’t need our dear, disgraced captain that much after all.” He pulled on the prisoner, who’d stayed hunched over as if in pain, clutching the locks of his scraggly hair. “I feel the need for an execution today, maybe I can start with him. He’s something of a troublemaker anyway, always starting fights with the others, and pestering me for toothpaste, it’d be good to see him die.”

Mel gasped in horror. “You can’t—we need him to find the treasure—!”

“…Treasure, you say?”

Oh, blast it. She hadn’t meant to say that out loud.

Kino, always swift to act when something threatened his potential money-making schemes, piped up in denial, “Don’t pay attention to my sister. She’s mad, barely literate, and recently released from an asylum! This time yesterday, she was plucking her own underarm hair out and eating it.”

Mel looked at him out of the corner of her eye. Surely that was a bit over the top. But now that he’d set up such lofty expectations, oughtn’t she do something to play the part? Perhaps start scratching at her armpits? Oh, the indignity of it all. She was going to kill Kino.

“Listen,” the warden half-whispered. “I know you’re probably telling the truth about the treasures—I will keep it quiet, and release the prisoner into your hands, in exchange for maybe a special gift.” He smiled at her, his tangerine tooth fairly glowing in the midday sun as he leaned in close to rub his finger along her elbow. “And sixty percent of your treasure.”

Mel shoved him away in disgust and fury. Mostly disgust. “Excuse me, you foul-breathed miscreant. You are not—."

“Twelve percent!”

Mel cut herself off and faced her brother who had apparently rediscovered his desire to barter. Over her!

“Fifty-five.”

“Fifteen!”

Affronted beyond belief, Mel stepped aside while the two men went at it, both of them becoming increasingly shrill as they got thoroughly invested in their negotiation.

The prisoner, this Captain Talis, was sitting up on his haunches. No longer hunched over as if in pain, instead he was looking straight at her, his whiskey-coloured eyes only barely visible between locks of dank, near-black hair. An unkempt beard covered his chin, and what she could see of his face beneath smears of filth and gods knew what else, wasn’t particularly remarkable. And yet still, for some inexplicable reason, she found herself arrested by his steady gaze.

This man couldn’t be worth all the trouble they were going to to get him out of jail. She had to double check.

Stepping closer to him—but not too close for he stank like someone who’d spent the better part of a year in a Shuriman port prison.

“Captain Talis, I must implore you to tell me the truth, can you truly tell us how to find the Lost City of Gardens?”

When she spoke, the captain tilted his head, watching her with the wariness of a very large and very dangerous, and likely rabid animal. She noted, with an artist’s eye, that even though he’d probably lived through all manner of harsh deprivations, there was still a rangy power to his frame, his shoulders were broad—almost absurdly so—beneath the tatters of a faded doublet and shirt. The threadbare trousers he wore did little to hide the sturdy trunk-like thighs beneath, hugging him to an almost improper degree. Mel jerked her eyes upward away from inappropriate territory only to find him scrutinising her with a crooked smirk.

“Mister Talis, actually,” he drawled, his voice rusty. “Why do you want to find the Lost City? Fancy lady like you wouldn’t survive more than five minutes on the journey.”

Stomping her foot in frustration, Mel informed him in no uncertain terms that she was more than capable of an expedition across the Great Sai. She was much hardier than she looked.

He didn’t seem to believe her but he still asked, “Why take the risk?”

“Because—anything worthwhile involves risk, Mr Talis. I was told you are the sort to understand that.”

He snorted. “All right, I might be willing to consider telling you how to get there but it’s a tricky thing.”

Sensing an opening, however minute, Mel shuffled closer. “What… would convince you further?”

He lifted his filthy chained hands, and gestured at her to come nearer, as if to tell her a secret, a conspiratorial slant to his head. An excellent idea given the sensitivity of their subject. Mel moved forward until she was less than a foot away, intrigue percolating in her breast. If the man told them how here and now, then maybe they could just depart from this foul place and be on their way.

“Come a little closer, I can’t holler this kind of thing out in the middle of a jail, or your little expedition’ll be over before it even starts.”

He was right, so Mel sidled in almost scandalously close. So close she could see the glints of gold and flecks of green in his surprisingly fetching eyes.

“All right, thank you ever so much for telling m—hmph!”

Whatever she was about to say was muzzled by a pair of chapped lips pressing against her own in a rough kiss. It wasn’t like any kiss she’d had before. None of the too-soft chivalry of warm candlelit evenings in the teak-panelled gallerias and posh soirees during her university days in Piltover. No, there wasn’t a trace of gentility or sweet questioning here. It was demanding, and a little bit mean, a bite of teeth that made her whimper. In protest. Mostly.

But then, almost in a flash, the contact shifted. The sly swipe of a warm, wet tongue that tasted a little sour and yet had her opening her mouth to grant it entry, a curious lap of her own as she moved to meet it.

He reared back and growled in her face, “If you want to know how to get there, lady, get me the hell out of here!”

Before she could respond, one of the guards clubbed the captain over the head and he dropped onto the sand with a thump.

Shaken, as much by the easy violence as she was the kiss, Mel reached up to touch her stinging mouth watching as Captain-Mister-whatever-he-called-himself Talis was tugged away. More like Captain Cretin! Or Monsieur Libertine! Or—

“You know, if I’d known you were willing to dole out kisses to sweeten negotiations, we could’ve gotten a deal much quicker, little fox.”

The warden loudly agreed.

“Oh, do shut up, both of you.”

Hope someone enjoyed. Thanks for reading if you made it this far.

#meljay au week #mel medarda #jayce talis #meljay #arcane #my fic #snippets #akshan #kino medarda #ezreal #otp: nothing feels impossible when i'm with you #i tried

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Fermented Grape Cookie

Avast ye of crisp salted dough and make way for Fermented Grape Cookie; the most infamous purple petulance to scourge the 7 seas! As far as tall tales go, you'd sooner find that a long stroll down a short plank is the easier way out than get on the wrong side of this menace. With a hut 1, hut 2, and a yohoho under their boot, no treasure is safe when they're on the prowl! Simply stowing the precious prize away just makes this fabulous pirate want to sink their teeth in even more. Time to wipe away the grime from a long day of pirate pickpocket with hearty hahs over a nice mug with the crew yar!-

Cheers to the next adventure ahoys!

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-Holds the highest aims to be as popular as can be through the wrong reasons

-Quick with their fancy footing and sleight of hand to make off with the glittering booty right from under one's beard

-Can utilize locs as a means in making that reach or an extra set of hands ready to grab that sweet sweet coin

-Confidence radiates from their sun-kissed smirk though shade is where they strike best

-Lost eye when they were a wee cabin cookie and everything simply jumpstarted from there after their old boss took a soggy tumble overboard. Whoops~!

-Trusts crew with all they have and leaves no room for treacherous mutiny though it stings when it does happen…so they manage alone until others came along to soften 'em right back up

-The worst one to boot came about the deepest wound from when Fermented Grape lost their best first mate to the pirate's greed and paid personal penance through permitted poke-out; Darn cookie can't work a telescope now.

-Is very much a glampire with a taste for the finer jam and not too keen on making do with just a hapless drunk off the shore. There are STANDARDS to be had people. Not a flipping monster gasp!

-Never…mess with their greatest treasure (their crew) or face something so terrifying that juice curdles in fear

-Very much inclined to the sneaky portion rather than starting a fight and ending up with more rips than they even know what to do with. Silken drip isn't cheap y'know!

-Proud to be thicker than a snicker. After all they have more style than most washed up caps

-Still sucks to be alone though!

-They pull put their feather and oop it's a big a sword! Huh. Neat!

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Got this prebby purble gender mood from ZibijilPtelemieu on DA (Check out their Toyhou.se of the same name too for the cookie goodies)

I love them i will die for them I'll give my monies to them

I have much more cookies to go

Save meee heheh

#Cookie Run #Cookie Run Ovenbreak #Cookie Run OC #Adopted Bean #Fermented Grape Cookie #Ah yes purple pirates. My favourite gender!#I'll have what they're having #Teehee loc n loaded hee hee

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Human name: Empress Chun Hei Kim

Draconic name: Chaimol Champion Of The Red

Species: Half Human Half Dragon

Subrace:

Red fire magma and lava chromatic dragon, Blue lightning storm and thunder chromatic dragon, Green plant nature and wood chromatic dragon, White water snow ice and frost chromatic dragon, Orange wind air mist fog and sand chromatic dragon, Brown earth rock stone and metal chromatic dragon, Black poison and acid chromatic dragon,

Aluminum metallic dragon, Brass metallic dragon, Iron metallic dragon, Lead metallic dragon, Tin metallic dragon, Copper metallic dragon, Silver metallic dragon, Gold metallic dragon, Mercury metallic dragon, Platinum metallic dragon, Tungsten metallic dragon, Steel metallic dragon, Titanium metallic dragon, Zinc metallic dragon,

Underworld celestial dragon, Dilong celestial dragon, Fucanglong celestial dragon, Horned celestial dragon, Panlong celestial dragon, Treasure celestial dragon, Jiaolong celestial dragon, Shenlong celestial dragon, Ryu celestial dragon, Lung/Long celestial dragon,

Amber gemstone dragon, Amethyst gemstone dragon, Aquamarine gemstone dragon, Agate gemstone dragon, Citrine gemstone dragon, Diamond gemstone dragon, Emerald gemstone dragon, Jade gemstone dragon, Jasper gemstone dragon, Lapis Lazuli gemstone dragon, Malachite gemstone dragon, Moonstone gemstone dragon, Pearl gemstone dragon, Ruby gemstone dragon, Sapphire gemstone dragon, Sunstone gemstone dragon, Topaz gemstone dragon.

Racial identity: Afro Asian

East Asian coded

Birthday:

Height: 5’7”

Weight:

Shoe Size:

Body Type: lean, tone, slender

Appearance:

Bust, Waist, Hip Measurements:

Hairstyle:

Human form: Afro centric braids, locs, & twists.

Draconic form: Tendril like locs with red scales growing in her scalp

Hair color: black

Hair texture:

Hair look or state:

Eye color:

human: light brown eyes

Draconic: golden eyes

Eye sight: myopic wears magical prescription glasses

Skin color:

Human: terra cotta brown

Draconic: Human scales with crimson, white, & golden scales growing on certain areas

Extra:

Scales on face, neck, chest, back, arms, legs, & feet

Fins on face

Horns on forehead

Wings on her back

Age: Several Millennia

Tattoos:

Traditional and modern Asian tattoos

Traditional and modern magical human tattoos

Traditional and modern magical draconic tattoos

Tattoos on her face, neck, chest, back, arms, & legs

Markings:

Scars:

Jewelry: Magical necklaces, bracelets, & rings with gemstones

Horns on her forehead are adorned with rings with gemstones

Piercings: Piercings with gemstones:

Pierced ears, pierced face, pierced nose, pierced tongue, pierced lips, pierced eyebrows, pierced cheeks, pierced nose, pierced chin, piercing on their chest, pierced navel, pierced nipples

Sex: Female

Gender: Cis

Sexual Orientation: Bisexual

Pronouns: She/her

Religion: Polytheistic draconic paganism

Spirituality: Korean Buddhist

Languages: Human, Elvish, Giantkin, Goblinoid, Dwarvish, Gnomish, Draconic

Disabilities:

Relatives:

Parents:

Father:

Mother:

Siblings:

Cousins:

Children:

Marital Status: Married:

Relationship Model: Polyamorous

Love interests:

Spouses and Partners:

High King/Queen Kittsak/Kaeo Alin Pramoj or Lysander Alphonse/Luciana Jacqueline Norwood, Queen Zhou Zhen/Zhou Chen, Bernadette Shultz, Valeria Nadia Garcia, Amelia Himmat Mishra, Maysa Nabila Uzun

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Books of 2023

Book 12 of 2023

Title: Redcatcher MP: 199th Light Infantry Brigade Authors: Mickey M. Bright & S. Fay Risner ISBN: 9781490457482 Tags: FSB Alice (Vietnam War), Interrogator, KOR ROK Republic of Korea Army, Military Intelligence, Military Police, US Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, US USA 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, US USA 17th Cavalry Regiment, US USA United States Army, USA 199th Light Infantry Brigade, USA 199th Light Infantry Brigade - 152nd MP Platoon, USA 552nd MP Co., USA 90th Replacement Bn, VNM 1968 Tet Offensive (1968) (Vietnam War), VNM Bien Hoa, VNM Bien Hoa Airbase (Vietnam War), VNM Highway 1, VNM Long Binh, VNM RVN ARVN Army of the Republic of Vietnam, VNM RVN ARVN General Tran Van Minh, VNM RVN ARVN MP Quan Canh Military Police, VNM RVN Chieu Hoi Program/Force 66 - Luc Luong 66 (Vietnam War), VNM RVN Kit Carson Scouts (Vietnam War), VNM Saigon, VNM Tan Hemp, VNM Tu Do Street, VNM US USA 24th Evacuation Hospital - Long Binh (Vietnam War), VNM US USA II Field Force (1966-1971) (Vietnam War), VNM Vietnam War (1955-1975), VNM Xuan Loc Rating: 4 stars Subject: Books.Military.20th-21st Century.Asia.Vietnam War.US Army.Military Police

Description: Mickey put his heart and soul into his book about his three tours in the Vietnam War. He brings to life the men he served with and treasured as friends as well as the Vietnamese people he grew to know and respect. He describes everything he saw and felt about the country in vivid detail. That includes the horrors of war as well as the men's feverish efforts to block their worries and fears in their off duty hours. Mickey's humor comes through when he writes about being invited to supper at a Vietnamese Police Officer's house and finds he's eating dog meat. Or when he becomes really nervous on patrol alone and thinks he's going to confront VC in a village cemetery only to find he's face to face with the harmless village bum.

Men felt pressure and stress all the time. They didn't know where the enemy was. There wasn't a front lines or a safe area even on base. They could never fully relax. The horrors of this war led many soldiers into a fog of drugs just to cope. Smoking marijuana was as popular as smoking a cigarette. The young men were drafted during the hippy drug era. Many of them had tried drugs, marijuana and drinking alcoholic beverages in the states. In Vietnam, drugs were cheap and very accessible. Beer was cheap at the PX and kept under the bunks by the case. Most times, it was consumed warm. The camaraderie between the men in their off time led to addictions that had to be faced when they went home. For many, drugs became a way to sleep in a stupor without fear and nightmarish images of death haunting them. The years that Mickey Bright was in Vietnam, statics show that more men went to the hospital because of their addictions than those with wounds. At the time, his war stories wouldn't have been wise to write about in letters to his worried family. We see the standoffs as Mickey describes them and get a feel for what his duties were like as a military policeman. Often something about Vietnam reminded him of his family and home in Nevada, Missouri. It's only when he was midway through his third tour of duty that he felt he'd had enough of this strange land and war. With new men coming in all the time, he dwelt more on the friends he lost, and the ones that went back to the world that he missed. Then there were his memories of Lei, the pretty Vietnamese girl he loved. When she was killed during a fire fight in Saigon, Mickey didn't have a reason to stay. He was ready to come home.

Review: Let me first start out by saying the book has a good flow to it. It's engaging, it's an interesting subject, and it's not just a collection of short stories thrown together like many of these books are.

In fact, it reads more like a novel than a memoir, and the book is better for it.

The primary negative is that, like many other independently published books, it screams for an editor. There are constant errors in spelling, errors in formatting, repeated paragraphs, and the like that a good proofreader and copyeditor would fix - and it does effect the readability at times.

Having said that, Mickey was an MP REMF, and while most books about MP's involve a lot of fighting, a lot of throwing around authority, Mickey took a different tact. Serving 3 tours with the 199th and temporarily with the 11th ACR, you get a little action here and there, an occasional rocket, an occasional law enforcement issue, but mostly it details a lot of drug use, a lot of drinking, and a lot of boredom and trying to fill hours in between shifts. Normally that would make for a boring, tedious, and uninteresting book, but because of the cast of characters, and the prose, it's actually still worth a read.

#books #ebooks #booklr #bookblr #vietnam war #us army #military police #199th LIB #military history #history #nonfiction

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