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"That weird dodgy dude who owns a shitty warm couch, but for some reason you were always at their place. Picture cracked vinyl and faux-leather, goon-stained carpet, a roof discoloured by tobacco smoke, old chunky TVs used as coffee tables, yellow copies of On The Road on the floor next to the toilet, surrounded by a penumbra of pubes and dust."
2023.05.28 14:48 milkclerk Will wood movement be a problem with this design
 | I'm working on a coffee table design where I'd like to do a through tenon so that end grain of the legs show on the surface of the coffee table. I'm using cherry for the project. submitted by milkclerk to BeginnerWoodWorking [link] [comments] The surface will be ~7 boards laminated together. Each leg has a 3-5/8th" square core that is 2 pieces laminated together. Then each core is wrapped in a mitered box that brings the total dims of the leg to 5-1/4" square. The red lines represent the 7 boards + the end grain of the legs showing through the surface. I know wood moves across the grain so I matched the orientation of the leg cores to the surface panels so that they would expand and contract with each other, but what about the mitered box wrapping the cores? Will that be a problem? https://preview.redd.it/r9mhod6g0m2b1.png?width=3510&format=png&auto=webp&s=19476402cb9813c5f25bd85c05fa4bd6df5ad23d |
2023.05.28 14:41 losttforwords HHP house design advice
 | I just finally bought HHP and am working on my first house (so please keep that in mind when viewing my design lol I’m trying my best). I can’t decide if I should include the magazine stand or not. I have a magazine on the coffee table so I figured it makes sense to have one, but I don’t know if I like the way it looks in the room. It’s not a big deal of course, but I’m still looking for opinions about it anyway haha. submitted by losttforwords to acnh [link] [comments] Here are some pics, with the stand and without. (Also sorry I forgot to crop the pics) Thanks 🙂 |
2023.05.28 13:57 Colt_Leasure The family next door disappeared. The answer to their vanishing is in the woods.
1
I live in a suburb surrounded by forest. My house is in a row of other properties built next to a tree line. The neighborhood was always quiet. The sounds of crickets, birds, and sight of black bears were routine on most summer days.
The scenic area was something I was always grateful for. I lived completely alone since the death of my parents. An accidental fire took both of their lives. Once I collected my inheritance, I relocated to a much more peaceful region. I had always fantasized about moving there.
I tried to start a relationship with Samantha. I had gone to High School with her sixteen years before. She had gone on to become a respected Detective. My attempt at something long lasting with her failed. She was too career oriented. I was reeling from grief. Focusing on building something meaningful with her was a pipe dream.
Things around my community changed once the Murphy family went missing.
The first sign that something was off on that Wednesday was how their blinds had closed. Their silver Chevy Chrysler remained parked in the driveway.
A tennis instructor at the country club noticed the wife of that house did not show up for the program. He called their number to make sure everything was alright. When no one responded, he notified the authorities. Rumors abounded immediately among the home owners association about an alleged affair. The gossip only furthered when the married couple and their three kids were not found in the abode.
I watched from my balcony as the patrolmen roped the place off with caution tape. The domicile was a three story building with brick chimney’s and a few peaked roofs in the style of English towers. They were beige, light blue and crimson.
On the morning of the Murphy’s desertion of society, the architecture became a hollow image. It was one that was once filled with activity and life.
The law did what they could. Any success they may have had in the investigation was secret. A few months passed by and they removed the caution tape.
I followed the on-line police logs. The weather was pristine and clear the day they vanished. The fact that there were no witnesses to what direction they may have gone disturbed me.
I had heard how the man, Frank Murphy, had a bit of a temper and always had a bourbon in hand. I had heard mutual friends describe him as an alcoholic in denial of his servitude to liquor. He was an indignant individual who knew no true repercussions for his behavior. He always had bail money from a software company he founded and sold a long time ago.
I was never close to that family, but I peered out at their vacant house far more than I ever had. I was in need of an answer. What could have happened?
2
I called Samantha one evening as I sat on my bed, wondering how she would respond to my reaching out. We were never argumentative or on bad terms. I still worried about her reaction, and hoped it would not be a dismissive one.
I heard her say hello. Her voice still impressed me. I had almost forgotten how silky her tone was. I knew it could change to a much firmer pitch when she was interviewing a suspect.
“Hi, Sam. I’d like to know if you’d be free tomorrow for a cup of coffee. We can go to that place, The Bean Field, off Pond road. It’s been a while and I know you have a lot to tell me about what’s new in your life.”
There was a pause on the other end, and for a second a bout of anxiety hit me. I judged my own words as robotic, stilted, and sure to push her away. I reasoned she was summoning an excuse to get out of having to interact with me. How dare I presume she would even entertain the notion of having a meeting.
“That sounds great,” she said. “Tomorrow is my day off, luckily for you. I’m in the middle of an incident right now. It’s a five car pile-up about forty minutes from where you live. I’ve gotta run. I’ll see you tomorrow.”
When she hung up, I was triumphant. I looked at our old text conversations. I realized we had not been in communication with each other for over twelve months. Now was my opportunity to reconcile that gap of unintended avoidance. I knew it would be an undeserved opportunity.
3
I sat outside of the cafe the next morning at a black metal table. I had a view of rolling hills dotted with trees. A highway with multitudinous shrubberies sat on either side of it. I sipped a piccolo latte while waiting for her.
When she arrived and stepped out of her hatchback in the parking lot, her appearance floored me. She had not dressed up for our supposed date, but that did not make a difference. She had arrived from the gym and wore shorts and a top set. She donned a gray and green hoodie.
She sat across from me and reached for the menu.
“Can you go to the front and order me avocado toast?” Samantha asked. “I’ll also take a mocha with a few shots of espresso. Please.”
I did exactly that. When I returned with her items, she apologized for consuming her meal in less than two minutes.
“I hadn’t eaten since five PM yesterday,” she said between sips.
“I understand,” I said. “I doubt you ever have a consistent schedule anymore.”
“You’re right, but that’s why I have to enjoy my free time when I can.”
We settled into talking about what had happened since we last saw each other. I referenced my trying to learn another language (French) with the hopes of moving to Europe or Canada.
After fifteen minutes of small talk, I asked her about work, but I did so with caution. It started with me wondering about what the call she was on when we were on the phone was about.
“A drunk driver blew a stop sign and hit two other vehicles,” she said. “It was ugly. A few people died. We’ll see if the man in silk pajamas gives him the proper sentence or a traffic citation.”
“You know, I’m curious about what happened to the Murphy’s, if they’re hurt or not.”
“You and everyone else,” she said. “We’ve been getting so many witness accounts, and so far they’ve all been bogus. All I know is what I saw when I got there.”
“I didn’t know you were one of the responders,” I said.
“Yeah. Something about the place was off from the moment I walked in. I found heavy items in placed they should not have been in. The toolbox was not in the garage but on the second story. A disassembled snowblower lay scattered everywhere in pieces. The oven door was on their bed. Frank Murphy was not the strongest guy in the world, either. For him to cause the kind of property damage I saw doesn’t make a lot of sense. At the risk of sounding crazy, inexplicable things happened when I was there.”
“Like what?”
“I was under the impression that something was playing a trick on me. Electrical outlets sparked a few times out of nowhere. The ceiling fan would go from still to spinning when I looked up at it. Books would fall off of the shelves. A volume on black magic, of all things, almost hit the top of my head when I walked on by. Another book about fairies collapsed with it.”
“So the home intruder set up a bunch of weird diversions,” I said. “I’ve heard of that before. These killers or kidnappers want the victims to think there was more than one of them. It’s so their account’s disputed in court.”
I’ll tell you right now,” she said, “we didn’t find any outside DNA.”
“So it’s a case of family annihilation,” I said as I took a long swig of my beverage. “I don’t know if you can substantiate the facts, but a few people have said that Emily had a big life insurance policy. Frank knew about. He may have been using steroids and having an affair, and that could have contributed to-“
It occurred to me that she eyed me with suspicion, as though I was digging too deep. I could also tell she regretted letting information about the forensic results slip.
She stood up and stared at me with a flash of anger in her eyes.
“I thought you wanted to piece something back together with me,” she said. “I didn’t know you wanted to play armchair investigator like every true crime fan. You know, your parents were kind. I wish you’d follow their example. I’ll let you get the bill.”
She walked back to her vehicle and I knew it would be a while before we conversed again.
Later that night, I stared out my window at the Murphy home. I saw a star shoot across the sky, and it almost seemed ready to plummet into the side of their house.
4
The next evening, I took a walk around the suburb. I spotted a thin line of dried red fluid along a path which led into the woods.
I was attempting to get in some movement to get my mind off of the events of the day before. Negativity and self-deprecation were all-consuming. I felt the need for a long saunter to try and release some of the meandering and pessimistic energy I accrued.
When I saw the carmine ribbon along the dark soil, a sense of worry filled me. I was not that far removed from a cul-de-sac with palatial manors a block away. There was no way I could speculate on me being the first to see it.
Could it be a hint where they are? I thought.
The notion seemed absurd, a reach.
I had read in the local newspaper that there was an uptick in bobcat sightings due to recent wildfires. The animals relocated during prior summers. I reasoned it could have been a house pet which became a victim after it got snatched away into the overgrowth.
I followed it, and the uneven road of red stretched on past many bushes and over logs. A shrill chirping in the background became louder. I moved between two conifers with petrified wood and found myself in a part of the forest I had never been in.
There were so many branches that it blacked out the falling sun. Ahead of me was a clearing. A swarm of gnats and mosquitos descended upon it. The sea of insects soared together in chaotic unison as a wave among the sedges and lichen.
I looked towards the right of the meadow and saw a ramshackle tree house. I trailed the red line towards it. I peered in through one of the windows and saw a statue of a woman with wings. I knew she was not an angel. There was no halo, nor were her organs of flight feathery, but rather they were thin and bat-like.
I entered the place knowing the danger I was putting myself in. I had tracked mud in and was oblivious to the incriminating actions I partook in. I was trespassing and risking stumbling into whoever may have owned the land. My curiosity got the better of me and caused me to keep moving forward.
The room was sparse but decorated. The walls had carvings of men and women, also with wings. Their bodies held yogic-like positions as they reached out to one another mid-air.
A piece of parchment with a few words sat in the corner. I picked it up and read it:
‘Humans are the greatest living beings to play tricks on. Especially when they go through a time of drought and extreme cold.’
I sat it down where I found it, unsure of what to make of it.
I touched the central figure’s neck. The chiseling was not only cold, but below freezing, as though I had submerged my hand in a polar pool.
The noise of some kind of bird attempting to escape a confined space reverberated below me.
Something brushed against my leg. I looked down and saw an army of glow bugs float up between the cracks, and they circled around me. They were like dragon flies. At the time I had labeled them as such, but in reality their shapes were far too humanoid.
I walked back home. I went to bed and slept. I was still perturbed at the wine-colored avenue and cabin.
I awoke in the middle of the night after something tapped at my walls from the outside. I peered out and saw the Murphy home, and observed how the blinds over their casements were wide open. A hive of mites filled every inch of the interior.
5
I found the decomposing body of a chipmunk stuffed into the tailpipe of my vehicle the next day.
This horrified me, because the deliberation of the act was too evident to ignore. While I did have a surveillance camera on my porch, the coverage of my vehicle was non-existent. I calmed myself down by thinking it was likely a tempestuous child. I retrieved a pair of medical gloves and disposed of the creature before going on with the errand. The rotting body had a horrible smell. It was like an onion left out in humidity for days, and my stomach turned as I sealed it off in the garbage with the lid.
The next morning, I looked in my closet. Some of my favorite shirts had disintegrated. Holes and patches of destroyed fabric littered them. I found it odd, and even searched on-line for possible answers before I decided it had to be a moth infestation. I sprayed lavender. Information on a website statEd that was a cure-all, but the problem persisted. It bothered me that I had not seen a single aphid, but I pushed that concern away.
A few days afterward, when I had tossed my disheveled pieces of attire, the power in my house went out. This was not such an unusual occurrence during the heavy winter months. For it to occur in the summer was strange.
It was a rolling blackout. Once my house had electricity again, I noticed how someone moved items around.
Something turned my kitchen table on its side and stuffed into a part of the kitchen I would have never placed it in.
I grabbed a butcher knife and did a sweep of the premises, and I did not find anything. There were no footprints or signs of anything else tampered with. When I got to the second story, birds nested along the tree tops, and the repugnant odor of fish attacked me.
My allergies became insufferable over the next month. Nothing purchased over the counter which helped it.
6
I went to the beach on an overcast day. After roughly half a mile of walking, I saw an illustration someone had drawn in the sand with a stick. It was of a being with airfoils.
A light precipitation had fallen earlier. As I trailed along the former part of the sand, a glint in the corner of my eye caught my attention. I looked out at the water and saw what appeared to be a light blue outline of wings beneath the surface.
A phosphorescent wall of creatures surrounded me.
As the days march on, I know I am stalked by something I cannot rebel against, let alone have any agency or autonomy over. My pillowcases have shredded, the pipes in my basement have burst, and someone left me a gift at my front door. When I opened it, I saw mice scurry away. It was a book, and it was one about the history of fairies.
I picked it up and had to blow the dust off of it. Someone had stolen it from a musty subterranean chamber and brought it here.
I theorized that it was Samantha, passive aggressive with her disappointment in me. Yet I flip through its pages and find it all too familiar. I cannot help but wonder if this is a sign of something far more dangerous.
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I live in a suburb surrounded by forest. My house is in a row of other properties built next to a tree line. The neighborhood was always quiet. The sounds of crickets, birds, and sight of black bears were routine on most summer days.
The scenic area was something I was always grateful for. I lived completely alone since the death of my parents. An accidental fire took both of their lives. Once I collected my inheritance, I relocated to a much more peaceful region. I had always fantasized about moving there.
I tried to start a relationship with Samantha. I had gone to High School with her sixteen years before. She had gone on to become a respected Detective. My attempt at something long lasting with her failed. She was too career oriented. I was reeling from grief. Focusing on building something meaningful with her was a pipe dream.
Things around my community changed once the Murphy family went missing.
The first sign that something was off on that Wednesday was how their blinds had closed. Their silver Chevy Chrysler remained parked in the driveway.
A tennis instructor at the country club noticed the wife of that house did not show up for the program. He called their number to make sure everything was alright. When no one responded, he notified the authorities. Rumors abounded immediately among the home owners association about an alleged affair. The gossip only furthered when the married couple and their three kids were not found in the abode.
I watched from my balcony as the patrolmen roped the place off with caution tape. The domicile was a three story building with brick chimney’s and a few peaked roofs in the style of English towers. They were beige, light blue and crimson.
On the morning of the Murphy’s desertion of society, the architecture became a hollow image. It was one that was once filled with activity and life.
The law did what they could. Any success they may have had in the investigation was secret. A few months passed by and they removed the caution tape.
I followed the on-line police logs. The weather was pristine and clear the day they vanished. The fact that there were no witnesses to what direction they may have gone disturbed me.
I had heard how the man, Frank Murphy, had a bit of a temper and always had a bourbon in hand. I had heard mutual friends describe him as an alcoholic in denial of his servitude to liquor. He was an indignant individual who knew no true repercussions for his behavior. He always had bail money from a software company he founded and sold a long time ago.
I was never close to that family, but I peered out at their vacant house far more than I ever had. I was in need of an answer. What could have happened?
2
I called Samantha one evening as I sat on my bed, wondering how she would respond to my reaching out. We were never argumentative or on bad terms. I still worried about her reaction, and hoped it would not be a dismissive one.
I heard her say hello. Her voice still impressed me. I had almost forgotten how silky her tone was. I knew it could change to a much firmer pitch when she was interviewing a suspect.
“Hi, Sam. I’d like to know if you’d be free tomorrow for a cup of coffee. We can go to that place, The Bean Field, off Pond road. It’s been a while and I know you have a lot to tell me about what’s new in your life.”
There was a pause on the other end, and for a second a bout of anxiety hit me. I judged my own words as robotic, stilted, and sure to push her away. I reasoned she was summoning an excuse to get out of having to interact with me. How dare I presume she would even entertain the notion of having a meeting.
“That sounds great,” she said. “Tomorrow is my day off, luckily for you. I’m in the middle of an incident right now. It’s a five car pile-up about forty minutes from where you live. I’ve gotta run. I’ll see you tomorrow.”
When she hung up, I was triumphant. I looked at our old text conversations. I realized we had not been in communication with each other for over twelve months. Now was my opportunity to reconcile that gap of unintended avoidance. I knew it would be an undeserved opportunity.
3
I sat outside of the cafe the next morning at a black metal table. I had a view of rolling hills dotted with trees. A highway with multitudinous shrubberies sat on either side of it. I sipped a piccolo latte while waiting for her.
When she arrived and stepped out of her hatchback in the parking lot, her appearance floored me. She had not dressed up for our supposed date, but that did not make a difference. She had arrived from the gym and wore shorts and a top set. She donned a gray and green hoodie.
She sat across from me and reached for the menu.
“Can you go to the front and order me avocado toast?” Samantha asked. “I’ll also take a mocha with a few shots of espresso. Please.”
I did exactly that. When I returned with her items, she apologized for consuming her meal in less than two minutes.
“I hadn’t eaten since five PM yesterday,” she said between sips.
“I understand,” I said. “I doubt you ever have a consistent schedule anymore.”
“You’re right, but that’s why I have to enjoy my free time when I can.”
We settled into talking about what had happened since we last saw each other. I referenced my trying to learn another language (French) with the hopes of moving to Europe or Canada.
After fifteen minutes of small talk, I asked her about work, but I did so with caution. It started with me wondering about what the call she was on when we were on the phone was about.
“A drunk driver blew a stop sign and hit two other vehicles,” she said. “It was ugly. A few people died. We’ll see if the man in silk pajamas gives him the proper sentence or a traffic citation.”
“You know, I’m curious about what happened to the Murphy’s, if they’re hurt or not.”
“You and everyone else,” she said. “We’ve been getting so many witness accounts, and so far they’ve all been bogus. All I know is what I saw when I got there.”
“I didn’t know you were one of the responders,” I said.
“Yeah. Something about the place was off from the moment I walked in. I found heavy items in placed they should not have been in. The toolbox was not in the garage but on the second story. A disassembled snowblower lay scattered everywhere in pieces. The oven door was on their bed. Frank Murphy was not the strongest guy in the world, either. For him to cause the kind of property damage I saw doesn’t make a lot of sense. At the risk of sounding crazy, inexplicable things happened when I was there.”
“Like what?”
“I was under the impression that something was playing a trick on me. Electrical outlets sparked a few times out of nowhere. The ceiling fan would go from still to spinning when I looked up at it. Books would fall off of the shelves. A volume on black magic, of all things, almost hit the top of my head when I walked on by. Another book about fairies collapsed with it.”
“So the home intruder set up a bunch of weird diversions,” I said. “I’ve heard of that before. These killers or kidnappers want the victims to think there was more than one of them. It’s so their account’s disputed in court.”
I’ll tell you right now,” she said, “we didn’t find any outside DNA.”
“So it’s a case of family annihilation,” I said as I took a long swig of my beverage. “I don’t know if you can substantiate the facts, but a few people have said that Emily had a big life insurance policy. Frank knew about. He may have been using steroids and having an affair, and that could have contributed to-“
It occurred to me that she eyed me with suspicion, as though I was digging too deep. I could also tell she regretted letting information about the forensic results slip.
She stood up and stared at me with a flash of anger in her eyes.
“I thought you wanted to piece something back together with me,” she said. “I didn’t know you wanted to play armchair investigator like every true crime fan. You know, your parents were kind. I wish you’d follow their example. I’ll let you get the bill.”
She walked back to her vehicle and I knew it would be a while before we conversed again.
Later that night, I stared out my window at the Murphy home. I saw a star shoot across the sky, and it almost seemed ready to plummet into the side of their house.
4
The next evening, I took a walk around the suburb. I spotted a thin line of dried red fluid along a path which led into the woods.
I was attempting to get in some movement to get my mind off of the events of the day before. Negativity and self-deprecation were all-consuming. I felt the need for a long saunter to try and release some of the meandering and pessimistic energy I accrued.
When I saw the carmine ribbon along the dark soil, a sense of worry filled me. I was not that far removed from a cul-de-sac with palatial manors a block away. There was no way I could speculate on me being the first to see it.
Could it be a hint where they are? I thought.
The notion seemed absurd, a reach.
I had read in the local newspaper that there was an uptick in bobcat sightings due to recent wildfires. The animals relocated during prior summers. I reasoned it could have been a house pet which became a victim after it got snatched away into the overgrowth.
I followed it, and the uneven road of red stretched on past many bushes and over logs. A shrill chirping in the background became louder. I moved between two conifers with petrified wood and found myself in a part of the forest I had never been in.
There were so many branches that it blacked out the falling sun. Ahead of me was a clearing. A swarm of gnats and mosquitos descended upon it. The sea of insects soared together in chaotic unison as a wave among the sedges and lichen.
I looked towards the right of the meadow and saw a ramshackle tree house. I trailed the red line towards it. I peered in through one of the windows and saw a statue of a woman with wings. I knew she was not an angel. There was no halo, nor were her organs of flight feathery, but rather they were thin and bat-like.
I entered the place knowing the danger I was putting myself in. I had tracked mud in and was oblivious to the incriminating actions I partook in. I was trespassing and risking stumbling into whoever may have owned the land. My curiosity got the better of me and caused me to keep moving forward.
The room was sparse but decorated. The walls had carvings of men and women, also with wings. Their bodies held yogic-like positions as they reached out to one another mid-air.
A piece of parchment with a few words sat in the corner. I picked it up and read it:
‘Humans are the greatest living beings to play tricks on. Especially when they go through a time of drought and extreme cold.’
I sat it down where I found it, unsure of what to make of it.
I touched the central figure’s neck. The chiseling was not only cold, but below freezing, as though I had submerged my hand in a polar pool.
The noise of some kind of bird attempting to escape a confined space reverberated below me.
Something brushed against my leg. I looked down and saw an army of glow bugs float up between the cracks, and they circled around me. They were like dragon flies. At the time I had labeled them as such, but in reality their shapes were far too humanoid.
I walked back home. I went to bed and slept. I was still perturbed at the wine-colored avenue and cabin.
I awoke in the middle of the night after something tapped at my walls from the outside. I peered out and saw the Murphy home, and observed how the blinds over their casements were wide open. A hive of mites filled every inch of the interior.
5
I found the decomposing body of a chipmunk stuffed into the tailpipe of my vehicle the next day.
This horrified me, because the deliberation of the act was too evident to ignore. While I did have a surveillance camera on my porch, the coverage of my vehicle was non-existent. I calmed myself down by thinking it was likely a tempestuous child. I retrieved a pair of medical gloves and disposed of the creature before going on with the errand. The rotting body had a horrible smell. It was like an onion left out in humidity for days, and my stomach turned as I sealed it off in the garbage with the lid.
The next morning, I looked in my closet. Some of my favorite shirts had disintegrated. Holes and patches of destroyed fabric littered them. I found it odd, and even searched on-line for possible answers before I decided it had to be a moth infestation. I sprayed lavender. Information on a website statEd that was a cure-all, but the problem persisted. It bothered me that I had not seen a single aphid, but I pushed that concern away.
A few days afterward, when I had tossed my disheveled pieces of attire, the power in my house went out. This was not such an unusual occurrence during the heavy winter months. For it to occur in the summer was strange.
It was a rolling blackout. Once my house had electricity again, I noticed how someone moved items around.
Something turned my kitchen table on its side and stuffed into a part of the kitchen I would have never placed it in.
I grabbed a butcher knife and did a sweep of the premises, and I did not find anything. There were no footprints or signs of anything else tampered with. When I got to the second story, birds nested along the tree tops, and the repugnant odor of fish attacked me.
My allergies became insufferable over the next month. Nothing purchased over the counter which helped it.
6
I went to the beach on an overcast day. After roughly half a mile of walking, I saw an illustration someone had drawn in the sand with a stick. It was of a being with airfoils.
A light precipitation had fallen earlier. As I trailed along the former part of the sand, a glint in the corner of my eye caught my attention. I looked out at the water and saw what appeared to be a light blue outline of wings beneath the surface.
A phosphorescent wall of creatures surrounded me.
As the days march on, I know I am stalked by something I cannot rebel against, let alone have any agency or autonomy over. My pillowcases have shredded, the pipes in my basement have burst, and someone left me a gift at my front door. When I opened it, I saw mice scurry away. It was a book, and it was one about the history of fairies.
I picked it up and had to blow the dust off of it. Someone had stolen it from a musty subterranean chamber and brought it here.
I theorized that it was Samantha, passive aggressive with her disappointment in me. Yet I flip through its pages and find it all too familiar. I cannot help but wonder if this is a sign of something far more dangerous.
2023.05.28 13:55 Colt_Leasure The family next door disappeared. The answer to their vanishing is in the woods.
I live in a suburb surrounded by forest. My house is in a row of other properties built next to a tree line. The neighborhood was always quiet. The sounds of crickets, birds, and sight of black bears were routine on most summer days.
The scenic area was something I was always grateful for. I lived completely alone since the death of my parents. An accidental fire took both of their lives. Once I collected my inheritance, I relocated to a much more peaceful region. I had always fantasized about moving there.
I tried to start a relationship with Samantha. I had gone to High School with her sixteen years before. She had gone on to become a respected Detective. My attempt at something long lasting with her failed. She was too career oriented. I was reeling from grief. Focusing on building something meaningful with her was a pipe dream.
Things around my community changed once the Murphy family went missing.
The first sign that something was off on that Wednesday was how their blinds had closed. Their silver Chevy Chrysler remained parked in the driveway.
A tennis instructor at the country club noticed the wife of that house did not show up for the program. He called their number to make sure everything was alright. When no one responded, he notified the authorities. Rumors abounded immediately among the home owners association about an alleged affair. The gossip only furthered when the married couple and their three kids were not found in the abode.
I watched from my balcony as the patrolmen roped the place off with caution tape. The domicile was a three story building with brick chimney’s and a few peaked roofs in the style of English towers. They were beige, light blue and crimson.
On the morning of the Murphy’s desertion of society, the architecture became a hollow image. It was one that was once filled with activity and life.
The law did what they could. Any success they may have had in the investigation was secret. A few months passed by and they removed the caution tape.
I followed the on-line police logs. The weather was pristine and clear the day they vanished. The fact that there were no witnesses to what direction they may have gone disturbed me.
I had heard how the man, Frank Murphy, had a bit of a temper and always had a bourbon in hand. I had heard mutual friends describe him as an alcoholic in denial of his servitude to liquor. He was an indignant individual who knew no true repercussions for his behavior. He always had bail money from a software company he founded and sold a long time ago.
I was never close to that family, but I peered out at their vacant house far more than I ever had. I was in need of an answer. What could have happened?
*
I called Samantha one evening as I sat on my bed, wondering how she would respond to my reaching out. We were never argumentative or on bad terms. I still worried about her reaction, and hoped it would not be a dismissive one.
I heard her say hello. Her voice still impressed me. I had almost forgotten how silky her tone was. I knew it could change to a much firmer pitch when she was interviewing a suspect.
“Hi, Sam. I’d like to know if you’d be free tomorrow for a cup of coffee. We can go to that place, The Bean Field, off Pond road. It’s been a while and I know you have a lot to tell me about what’s new in your life.”
There was a pause on the other end, and for a second a bout of anxiety hit me. I judged my own words as robotic, stilted, and sure to push her away. I reasoned she was summoning an excuse to get out of having to interact with me. How dare I presume she would even entertain the notion of having a meeting.
“That sounds great,” she said. “Tomorrow is my day off, luckily for you. I’m in the middle of an incident right now. It’s a five car pile-up about forty minutes from where you live. I’ve gotta run. I’ll see you tomorrow.”
When she hung up, I was triumphant. I looked at our old text conversations. I realized we had not been in communication with each other for over twelve months. Now was my opportunity to reconcile that gap of unintended avoidance. I knew it would be an undeserved opportunity.
*
I sat outside of the cafe the next morning at a black metal table. I had a view of rolling hills dotted with trees. A highway with multitudinous shrubberies sat on either side of it. I sipped a piccolo latte while waiting for her.
When she arrived and stepped out of her hatchback in the parking lot, her appearance floored me. She had not dressed up for our supposed date, but that did not make a difference. She had arrived from the gym and wore shorts and a top set. She donned a gray and green hoodie.
She sat across from me and reached for the menu.
“Can you go to the front and order me avocado toast?” Samantha asked. “I’ll also take a mocha with a few shots of espresso. Please.”
I did exactly that. When I returned with her items, she apologized for consuming her meal in less than two minutes.
“I hadn’t eaten since five PM yesterday,” she said between sips.
“I understand,” I said. “I doubt you ever have a consistent schedule anymore.”
“You’re right, but that’s why I have to enjoy my free time when I can.”
We settled into talking about what had happened since we last saw each other. I referenced my trying to learn another language (French) with the hopes of moving to Europe or Canada.
After fifteen minutes of small talk, I asked her about work, but I did so with caution. It started with me wondering about what the call she was on when we were on the phone was about.
“A drunk driver blew a stop sign and hit two other vehicles,” she said. “It was ugly. A few people died. We’ll see if the man in silk pajamas gives him the proper sentence or a traffic citation.”
“You know, I’m curious about what happened to the Murphy’s, if they’re hurt or not.”
“You and everyone else,” she said. “We’ve been getting so many witness accounts, and so far they’ve all been bogus. All I know is what I saw when I got there.”
“I didn’t know you were one of the responders,” I said.
“Yeah. Something about the place was off from the moment I walked in. I found heavy items in placed they should not have been in. The toolbox was not in the garage but on the second story. A disassembled snowblower lay scattered everywhere in pieces. The oven door was on their bed. Frank Murphy was not the strongest guy in the world, either. For him to cause the kind of property damage I saw doesn’t make a lot of sense. At the risk of sounding crazy, inexplicable things happened when I was there.”
“Like what?”
“I was under the impression that something was playing a trick on me. Electrical outlets sparked a few times out of nowhere. The ceiling fan would go from still to spinning when I looked up at it. Books would fall off of the shelves. A volume on black magic, of all things, almost hit the top of my head when I walked on by. Another book about fairies collapsed with it.”
“So the home intruder set up a bunch of weird diversions,” I said. “I’ve heard of that before. These killers or kidnappers want the victims to think there was more than one of them. It’s so their account’s disputed in court.”
I’ll tell you right now,” she said, “we didn’t find any outside DNA.”
“So it’s a case of family annihilation,” I said as I took a long swig of my beverage. “I don’t know if you can substantiate the facts, but a few people have said that Emily had a big life insurance policy. Frank knew about. He may have been using steroids and having an affair, and that could have contributed to-“
It occurred to me that she eyed me with suspicion, as though I was digging too deep. I could also tell she regretted letting information about the forensic results slip.
She stood up and stared at me with a flash of anger in her eyes.
“I thought you wanted to piece something back together with me,” she said. “I didn’t know you wanted to play armchair investigator like every true crime fan. You know, your parents were kind. I wish you’d follow their example. I’ll let you get the bill.”
She walked back to her vehicle and I knew it would be a while before we conversed again.
Later that night, I stared out my window at the Murphy home. I saw a star shoot across the sky, and it almost seemed ready to plummet into the side of their house.
*
The next evening, I took a walk around the suburb. I spotted a thin line of dried red fluid along a path which led into the woods.
I was attempting to get in some movement to get my mind off of the events of the day before. Negativity and self-deprecation were all-consuming. I felt the need for a long saunter to try and release some of the meandering and pessimistic energy I accrued.
When I saw the carmine ribbon along the dark soil, a sense of worry filled me. I was not that far removed from a cul-de-sac with palatial manors a block away. There was no way I could speculate on me being the first to see it.
Could it be a hint where they are? I thought.
The notion seemed absurd, a reach.
I had read in the local newspaper that there was an uptick in bobcat sightings due to recent wildfires. The animals relocated during prior summers. I reasoned it could have been a house pet which became a victim after it got snatched away into the overgrowth.
I followed it, and the uneven road of red stretched on past many bushes and over logs. A shrill chirping in the background became louder. I moved between two conifers with petrified wood and found myself in a part of the forest I had never been in.
There were so many branches that it blacked out the falling sun. Ahead of me was a clearing. A swarm of gnats and mosquitos descended upon it. The sea of insects soared together in chaotic unison as a wave among the sedges and lichen.
I looked towards the right of the meadow and saw a ramshackle tree house. I trailed the red line towards it. I peered in through one of the windows and saw a statue of a woman with wings. I knew she was not an angel. There was no halo, nor were her organs of flight feathery, but rather they were thin and bat-like.
I entered the place knowing the danger I was putting myself in. I had tracked mud in and was oblivious to the incriminating actions I partook in. I was trespassing and risking stumbling into whoever may have owned the land. My curiosity got the better of me and caused me to keep moving forward.
The room was sparse but decorated. The walls had carvings of men and women, also with wings. Their bodies held yogic-like positions as they reached out to one another mid-air.
A piece of parchment with a few words sat in the corner. I picked it up and read it:
‘Humans are the greatest living beings to play tricks on. Especially when they go through a time of drought and extreme cold.’
I sat it down where I found it, unsure of what to make of it.
I touched the central figure’s neck. The chiseling was not only cold, but below freezing, as though I had submerged my hand in a polar pool.
The noise of some kind of bird attempting to escape a confined space reverberated below me.
Something brushed against my leg. I looked down and saw an army of glow bugs float up between the cracks, and they circled around me. They were like dragon flies. At the time I had labeled them as such, but in reality their shapes were far too humanoid.
I walked back home. I went to bed and slept. I was still perturbed at the wine-colored avenue and cabin.
I awoke in the middle of the night after something tapped at my walls from the outside. I peered out and saw the Murphy home, and observed how the blinds over their casements were wide open. A hive of mites filled every inch of the interior.
*
I found the decomposing body of a chipmunk stuffed into the tailpipe of my vehicle the next day.
This horrified me, because the deliberation of the act was too evident to ignore. While I did have a surveillance camera on my porch, the coverage of my vehicle was non-existent. I calmed myself down by thinking it was likely a tempestuous child. I retrieved a pair of medical gloves and disposed of the creature before going on with the errand. The rotting body had a horrible smell. It was like an onion left out in humidity for days, and my stomach turned as I sealed it off in the garbage with the lid.
The next morning, I looked in my closet. Some of my favorite shirts had disintegrated. Holes and patches of destroyed fabric littered them. I found it odd, and even searched on-line for possible answers before I decided it had to be a moth infestation. I sprayed lavender. Information on a website statEd that was a cure-all, but the problem persisted. It bothered me that I had not seen a single aphid, but I pushed that concern away.
A few days afterward, when I had tossed my disheveled pieces of attire, the power in my house went out. This was not such an unusual occurrence during the heavy winter months. For it to occur in the summer was strange.
It was a rolling blackout. Once my house had electricity again, I noticed how someone moved items around.
Something turned my kitchen table on its side and stuffed into a part of the kitchen I would have never placed it in.
I grabbed a butcher knife and did a sweep of the premises, and I did not find anything. There were no footprints or signs of anything else tampered with. When I got to the second story, birds nested along the tree tops, and the repugnant odor of fish attacked me.
My allergies became insufferable over the next month. Nothing purchased over the counter which helped it.
*
I went to the beach on an overcast day. After roughly half a mile of walking, I saw an illustration someone had drawn in the sand with a stick. It was of a being with airfoils.
A light precipitation had fallen earlier. As I trailed along the former part of the sand, a glint in the corner of my eye caught my attention. I looked out at the water and saw what appeared to be a light blue outline of wings beneath the surface.
A phosphorescent wall of creatures surrounded me.
As the days march on, I know I am stalked by something I cannot rebel against, let alone have any agency or autonomy over. My pillowcases have shredded, the pipes in my basement have burst, and someone left me a gift at my front door. When I opened it, I saw mice scurry away. It was a book, and it was one about the history of fairies.
I picked it up and had to blow the dust off of it. Someone had stolen it from a musty subterranean chamber and brought it here.
I theorized that it was Samantha, passive aggressive with her disappointment in me. Yet I flip through its pages and find it all too familiar. I cannot help but wonder if this is a sign of something far more dangerous.
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The scenic area was something I was always grateful for. I lived completely alone since the death of my parents. An accidental fire took both of their lives. Once I collected my inheritance, I relocated to a much more peaceful region. I had always fantasized about moving there.
I tried to start a relationship with Samantha. I had gone to High School with her sixteen years before. She had gone on to become a respected Detective. My attempt at something long lasting with her failed. She was too career oriented. I was reeling from grief. Focusing on building something meaningful with her was a pipe dream.
Things around my community changed once the Murphy family went missing.
The first sign that something was off on that Wednesday was how their blinds had closed. Their silver Chevy Chrysler remained parked in the driveway.
A tennis instructor at the country club noticed the wife of that house did not show up for the program. He called their number to make sure everything was alright. When no one responded, he notified the authorities. Rumors abounded immediately among the home owners association about an alleged affair. The gossip only furthered when the married couple and their three kids were not found in the abode.
I watched from my balcony as the patrolmen roped the place off with caution tape. The domicile was a three story building with brick chimney’s and a few peaked roofs in the style of English towers. They were beige, light blue and crimson.
On the morning of the Murphy’s desertion of society, the architecture became a hollow image. It was one that was once filled with activity and life.
The law did what they could. Any success they may have had in the investigation was secret. A few months passed by and they removed the caution tape.
I followed the on-line police logs. The weather was pristine and clear the day they vanished. The fact that there were no witnesses to what direction they may have gone disturbed me.
I had heard how the man, Frank Murphy, had a bit of a temper and always had a bourbon in hand. I had heard mutual friends describe him as an alcoholic in denial of his servitude to liquor. He was an indignant individual who knew no true repercussions for his behavior. He always had bail money from a software company he founded and sold a long time ago.
I was never close to that family, but I peered out at their vacant house far more than I ever had. I was in need of an answer. What could have happened?
*
I called Samantha one evening as I sat on my bed, wondering how she would respond to my reaching out. We were never argumentative or on bad terms. I still worried about her reaction, and hoped it would not be a dismissive one.
I heard her say hello. Her voice still impressed me. I had almost forgotten how silky her tone was. I knew it could change to a much firmer pitch when she was interviewing a suspect.
“Hi, Sam. I’d like to know if you’d be free tomorrow for a cup of coffee. We can go to that place, The Bean Field, off Pond road. It’s been a while and I know you have a lot to tell me about what’s new in your life.”
There was a pause on the other end, and for a second a bout of anxiety hit me. I judged my own words as robotic, stilted, and sure to push her away. I reasoned she was summoning an excuse to get out of having to interact with me. How dare I presume she would even entertain the notion of having a meeting.
“That sounds great,” she said. “Tomorrow is my day off, luckily for you. I’m in the middle of an incident right now. It’s a five car pile-up about forty minutes from where you live. I’ve gotta run. I’ll see you tomorrow.”
When she hung up, I was triumphant. I looked at our old text conversations. I realized we had not been in communication with each other for over twelve months. Now was my opportunity to reconcile that gap of unintended avoidance. I knew it would be an undeserved opportunity.
*
I sat outside of the cafe the next morning at a black metal table. I had a view of rolling hills dotted with trees. A highway with multitudinous shrubberies sat on either side of it. I sipped a piccolo latte while waiting for her.
When she arrived and stepped out of her hatchback in the parking lot, her appearance floored me. She had not dressed up for our supposed date, but that did not make a difference. She had arrived from the gym and wore shorts and a top set. She donned a gray and green hoodie.
She sat across from me and reached for the menu.
“Can you go to the front and order me avocado toast?” Samantha asked. “I’ll also take a mocha with a few shots of espresso. Please.”
I did exactly that. When I returned with her items, she apologized for consuming her meal in less than two minutes.
“I hadn’t eaten since five PM yesterday,” she said between sips.
“I understand,” I said. “I doubt you ever have a consistent schedule anymore.”
“You’re right, but that’s why I have to enjoy my free time when I can.”
We settled into talking about what had happened since we last saw each other. I referenced my trying to learn another language (French) with the hopes of moving to Europe or Canada.
After fifteen minutes of small talk, I asked her about work, but I did so with caution. It started with me wondering about what the call she was on when we were on the phone was about.
“A drunk driver blew a stop sign and hit two other vehicles,” she said. “It was ugly. A few people died. We’ll see if the man in silk pajamas gives him the proper sentence or a traffic citation.”
“You know, I’m curious about what happened to the Murphy’s, if they’re hurt or not.”
“You and everyone else,” she said. “We’ve been getting so many witness accounts, and so far they’ve all been bogus. All I know is what I saw when I got there.”
“I didn’t know you were one of the responders,” I said.
“Yeah. Something about the place was off from the moment I walked in. I found heavy items in placed they should not have been in. The toolbox was not in the garage but on the second story. A disassembled snowblower lay scattered everywhere in pieces. The oven door was on their bed. Frank Murphy was not the strongest guy in the world, either. For him to cause the kind of property damage I saw doesn’t make a lot of sense. At the risk of sounding crazy, inexplicable things happened when I was there.”
“Like what?”
“I was under the impression that something was playing a trick on me. Electrical outlets sparked a few times out of nowhere. The ceiling fan would go from still to spinning when I looked up at it. Books would fall off of the shelves. A volume on black magic, of all things, almost hit the top of my head when I walked on by. Another book about fairies collapsed with it.”
“So the home intruder set up a bunch of weird diversions,” I said. “I’ve heard of that before. These killers or kidnappers want the victims to think there was more than one of them. It’s so their account’s disputed in court.”
I’ll tell you right now,” she said, “we didn’t find any outside DNA.”
“So it’s a case of family annihilation,” I said as I took a long swig of my beverage. “I don’t know if you can substantiate the facts, but a few people have said that Emily had a big life insurance policy. Frank knew about. He may have been using steroids and having an affair, and that could have contributed to-“
It occurred to me that she eyed me with suspicion, as though I was digging too deep. I could also tell she regretted letting information about the forensic results slip.
She stood up and stared at me with a flash of anger in her eyes.
“I thought you wanted to piece something back together with me,” she said. “I didn’t know you wanted to play armchair investigator like every true crime fan. You know, your parents were kind. I wish you’d follow their example. I’ll let you get the bill.”
She walked back to her vehicle and I knew it would be a while before we conversed again.
Later that night, I stared out my window at the Murphy home. I saw a star shoot across the sky, and it almost seemed ready to plummet into the side of their house.
*
The next evening, I took a walk around the suburb. I spotted a thin line of dried red fluid along a path which led into the woods.
I was attempting to get in some movement to get my mind off of the events of the day before. Negativity and self-deprecation were all-consuming. I felt the need for a long saunter to try and release some of the meandering and pessimistic energy I accrued.
When I saw the carmine ribbon along the dark soil, a sense of worry filled me. I was not that far removed from a cul-de-sac with palatial manors a block away. There was no way I could speculate on me being the first to see it.
Could it be a hint where they are? I thought.
The notion seemed absurd, a reach.
I had read in the local newspaper that there was an uptick in bobcat sightings due to recent wildfires. The animals relocated during prior summers. I reasoned it could have been a house pet which became a victim after it got snatched away into the overgrowth.
I followed it, and the uneven road of red stretched on past many bushes and over logs. A shrill chirping in the background became louder. I moved between two conifers with petrified wood and found myself in a part of the forest I had never been in.
There were so many branches that it blacked out the falling sun. Ahead of me was a clearing. A swarm of gnats and mosquitos descended upon it. The sea of insects soared together in chaotic unison as a wave among the sedges and lichen.
I looked towards the right of the meadow and saw a ramshackle tree house. I trailed the red line towards it. I peered in through one of the windows and saw a statue of a woman with wings. I knew she was not an angel. There was no halo, nor were her organs of flight feathery, but rather they were thin and bat-like.
I entered the place knowing the danger I was putting myself in. I had tracked mud in and was oblivious to the incriminating actions I partook in. I was trespassing and risking stumbling into whoever may have owned the land. My curiosity got the better of me and caused me to keep moving forward.
The room was sparse but decorated. The walls had carvings of men and women, also with wings. Their bodies held yogic-like positions as they reached out to one another mid-air.
A piece of parchment with a few words sat in the corner. I picked it up and read it:
‘Humans are the greatest living beings to play tricks on. Especially when they go through a time of drought and extreme cold.’
I sat it down where I found it, unsure of what to make of it.
I touched the central figure’s neck. The chiseling was not only cold, but below freezing, as though I had submerged my hand in a polar pool.
The noise of some kind of bird attempting to escape a confined space reverberated below me.
Something brushed against my leg. I looked down and saw an army of glow bugs float up between the cracks, and they circled around me. They were like dragon flies. At the time I had labeled them as such, but in reality their shapes were far too humanoid.
I walked back home. I went to bed and slept. I was still perturbed at the wine-colored avenue and cabin.
I awoke in the middle of the night after something tapped at my walls from the outside. I peered out and saw the Murphy home, and observed how the blinds over their casements were wide open. A hive of mites filled every inch of the interior.
*
I found the decomposing body of a chipmunk stuffed into the tailpipe of my vehicle the next day.
This horrified me, because the deliberation of the act was too evident to ignore. While I did have a surveillance camera on my porch, the coverage of my vehicle was non-existent. I calmed myself down by thinking it was likely a tempestuous child. I retrieved a pair of medical gloves and disposed of the creature before going on with the errand. The rotting body had a horrible smell. It was like an onion left out in humidity for days, and my stomach turned as I sealed it off in the garbage with the lid.
The next morning, I looked in my closet. Some of my favorite shirts had disintegrated. Holes and patches of destroyed fabric littered them. I found it odd, and even searched on-line for possible answers before I decided it had to be a moth infestation. I sprayed lavender. Information on a website statEd that was a cure-all, but the problem persisted. It bothered me that I had not seen a single aphid, but I pushed that concern away.
A few days afterward, when I had tossed my disheveled pieces of attire, the power in my house went out. This was not such an unusual occurrence during the heavy winter months. For it to occur in the summer was strange.
It was a rolling blackout. Once my house had electricity again, I noticed how someone moved items around.
Something turned my kitchen table on its side and stuffed into a part of the kitchen I would have never placed it in.
I grabbed a butcher knife and did a sweep of the premises, and I did not find anything. There were no footprints or signs of anything else tampered with. When I got to the second story, birds nested along the tree tops, and the repugnant odor of fish attacked me.
My allergies became insufferable over the next month. Nothing purchased over the counter which helped it.
*
I went to the beach on an overcast day. After roughly half a mile of walking, I saw an illustration someone had drawn in the sand with a stick. It was of a being with airfoils.
A light precipitation had fallen earlier. As I trailed along the former part of the sand, a glint in the corner of my eye caught my attention. I looked out at the water and saw what appeared to be a light blue outline of wings beneath the surface.
A phosphorescent wall of creatures surrounded me.
As the days march on, I know I am stalked by something I cannot rebel against, let alone have any agency or autonomy over. My pillowcases have shredded, the pipes in my basement have burst, and someone left me a gift at my front door. When I opened it, I saw mice scurry away. It was a book, and it was one about the history of fairies.
I picked it up and had to blow the dust off of it. Someone had stolen it from a musty subterranean chamber and brought it here.
I theorized that it was Samantha, passive aggressive with her disappointment in me. Yet I flip through its pages and find it all too familiar. I cannot help but wonder if this is a sign of something far more dangerous.
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 | 1971 - The Jackson 5 play at the Spectrum (now closed - 2009) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. submitted by FelicitySmoak_ to MichaelJackson [link] [comments] 1988 - Michael's duet with Stevie Wonder , "Get It", from Stevie's album Characters peaks at #80 on the Hot 100 Chart while it was at #6 on the R&B chart 1989 - Michael was one of the few winners present at the Black Radio Exclusive awards show at the Universal Amphitheater in Los Angeles. He was honored as the "Triple Crown Winner for Outstanding Achievement in Pop, Rock and Soul." The elegantly laminated plaque has a black and gold edging, with purple printing on a faux-marble background, with a stylized photo image of Michael in his trademark black fedora. 1997 - His 2nd day in Poland starts with a stop at the presidential palace where Michael is received by the first lady. In his quest for a residence in Poland, he then visits the luxury Hotel Bristol. Price for the hotel ended up being too high. He then went to the Warsaw City Hall where he signed a “preliminary letter of intent” to develop a 'Michael Jackson’s Family Entertainment Park', in the Polish capital. https://preview.redd.it/l8aax0vbmf2b1.jpg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2058be4c166fe6a5d16dc17142e7910fac7aad1f “My dream is to appeal to the child that lives in the heart of every man and woman on this planet and to create something in Poland that is so unique and so unusual that it cannot be experienced in any other place", he saidThe letter mentioned no price, but Jackson’s business manager, Tarak Ben Ammar, said in an interview that estimates of Jackson’s contribution range between $100 million and $300 million--modest sums by Western theme park standards. Poland would add an unknown amount. https://preview.redd.it/v3vax6femf2b1.jpg?width=636&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fe01e404092b93a587184acbb64809e82e8675fe https://preview.redd.it/svjneycfmf2b1.jpg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e9994183672ab7fe0eb2496407b91cafc3196922 " I would also like to tell a great truth, I have traveled all over the world six times and have been everywhere, but nowhere I liked it more than in Poland. A visit to Poland is the fulfillment of my childhood dreams...." He shops at the Kidiland toy store, reportedly in the amount of $670,000. He then goes to the children's hospital, with his arms loaded with gifts. https://preview.redd.it/kok5pazgmf2b1.jpg?width=639&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3ebb70051f68409f937c0775426c55ff67f9009c https://preview.redd.it/ncl93ephmf2b1.jpg?width=594&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=31621e03ff28ea84d04b050dcb0d9e0a1a403c49 Next he takes a helicopter to Lubiaz, in order to see Cistercian Abbey of Lubiaz, wich he also planned to purchase. Accompanied by Professor Marek Kwiatkowski, who guided him during his visit, Michael spends 45 minutes marveling at the Baroque architecture and the relics. He'll even try a little "heehee" in the middle of the Hall des Princes to test the acoustics! Michael, who wanted to settle in Poland, already saw himself owning this old building, despite the millions of dollars in restoration to be expected. https://preview.redd.it/ih1lgr0jmf2b1.jpg?width=389&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4d38bf32bbf497853881a2ee5ee22587d7672d2b In the evening, he flies to Bremen, Germany where in three days he will begin the 2nd leg of his HIStory Tour. https://preview.redd.it/2ea4068kmf2b1.jpg?width=547&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3cb5c1e7f75c3f9226c6c3fa9752b601cec7b5ca https://preview.redd.it/di920gqnmf2b1.jpg?width=736&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=72307480617262d831871b2f5b9e0d55a927a11a The plans to build the amusement park at a nearby military airport won approval from state officials in February 1998. Michael asks for sketches to be drawn up for the proposed theme parks, however, following the project’s approval and a huge hiatus, the army owning the airport does not agree to make it available for the park. Two grounds pointed out by the government will also be denied due to local protests. The Polish government abandons this project altogether and nothing will come out of it 2004 - Santa Barbara County Superior Court Judge Rodney Melville has ordered a trial-setting conference hearing today. Thomas Mesereau, Brian Oxman & Joe Jackson go to the courthouse; Michael's appearance isn't required. They argue for a reduction in his $3-million bail and seek an order to force prosecutors to move faster in sharing evidence. In accusing the prosecution of moving too slowly in giving the defense access to the evidence, as required by law, Mesereau said Michael's right to a fair trial was “jeopardized by the undue delay of discovery.” “The investigation of this case involves dozens of, if not over 100 witnesses, voluminous documents and expert examination on a variety of topics,” Jackson’s lawyers wrote. “The defense needs ample time to conduct follow-up witness interviews, locate and interview rebuttal witnesses and conduct its own forensic examinations, among other things.” Prosecutors have responded that they have turned over vast amounts of evidence already and are processing the information they have as quickly as possible. They also are strongly resisting an attempt by Mesereau to substantially reduce Jackson’s bail on grounds that it is much higher than the bail for other defendants facing similar charges. The bail-reduction request notes that Jackson has no prior record, arrests or convictions & that he has fully complied with all conditions of his release on bail, including attending court when ordered. “Mr. Jackson’s ties to this community are substantial,” the defense motion states. “The record reveals that Mr. Jackson is not a flight risk or a danger to the community. It is also apparent that Mr. Jackson intends to confront and vigorously defend rather than evade the allegations in this case.” Though Mesereau noted that Santa Barbara County’s bail schedule calls for bail of about $135,000 for the conspiracy and molestation charges in the grand jury complaint, prosecutors oppose the request on grounds that Jackson is a flight risk and that his wealth should be a factor in retaining high bail. Melville said early in the proceedings that he hoped a trial could begin before the end of this year, but legal experts and many criminal lawyers predicted that would be impossible. September 13 is set as the date for the trial to begin On another legal front, Janet Arvizo filed a claim against county child protection officials accusing them of moving too slowly in investigating leaks to the media that were helpful to Jackson’s defense. Before a psychiatrist who had examined Gavin told Santa Barbara County officials that the child had been molested, Welfare officials had interviewed the family after Living With Michael Jackson aired in early 2003 A memo written by authorities after Jackson’s arrest said the family had denied any sexual abuse. The memo was subsequently released on a website. Attorney Larry R. Feldman, representing the Arvizos, said he filed the claim, a necessary step before a lawsuit, to force county officials to speedily conclude their investigation to ensure that such a breach of confidentiality “will never occur again to another innocent child.” 2006 - Michael visited a Tokyo orphanage and told a group of 140 excited children "I love you" in Japanese. Michael's van was swarmed by 100+ fans as he arrived. Inside the Seibi Gakuen children's home, he watched a performance of traditional music and dance by the children before speaking briefly on stage. He later shook hands and signed autographs for the children. https://preview.redd.it/5lt7jdhqmf2b1.jpg?width=767&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7d3a34ad3850b3460555a46dee82abca40bdbb9a Michael's children and Grace visited with the children on this tour of the Japanese orphanage. https://preview.redd.it/f9q2mu3tmf2b1.jpg?width=218&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a3110b0dca7829696b7bbdb23ff3a6afc2557bbf "I look forward to seeing old friends and saying hello to my huge fan base in Japan who, like my other fans around the world, have for so many years consistently shown their love and support to me and my family."- MJ"Everyone couldn't believe such a big international star was visiting us," said Kiyoko Mito, headmistress of the Christian-run school. "The children only believed me after seeing the news yesterday that Michael Jackson was actually in Japan," she said 2009 - Having not heard from AEG regarding his salary, Conrad Murray sent another email to AEG & receives a response from Tim Wooley https://preview.redd.it/53qvtjwumf2b1.png?width=513&format=png&auto=webp&s=c048d2d7ca288f12a6a423237ced8234dba40b05 https://preview.redd.it/tsc7mzuvmf2b1.png?width=513&format=png&auto=webp&s=521de2b6de9a122d1ae45ba25caf39a5b7fb76a2 2013 - Jackson v AEG Trial Day 18 Katherine, Janet, Rebbie and Randy Jackson are in court. Only one of the siblings was allowed in the courtroom as they are potential witnesses. Janet accompanied Katherine during morning session while Rebbie was with her during the afternoon session. Paul Gongaware Testimony Jackson direct Paul Gongaware is one of the defendants in the case. He's an adverse witness called by the plaintiffs. Gongaware is Co-CEO of Concerts West, part of AEG Live. Gongaware has toured with Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin and is currently on tour with The Rolling Stones. He worked for Jerry Weintraub in the 80s He produced Prince's tour in 2004. He has not promoted/produced tours since. Gongaware has not talked to Prince after the tour Gongaware was a CPA licensed in NY and Washington. He said he believes he's still licensed but hasn't checked status since there's no need Gongaware testified that landing Jackson, whom he felt was the biggest artist of his era, was huge for AEG. In a 2008 email to AEG Live President and Chief Executive Randy Phillips, Gongaware described how the company should approach Jackson and his manager about a possible comeback tour: We need to start at the fundamentals. How we do it. The difference between [Live Nation] and us is huge. We are artist-based, they are Wall Street-driven. We are smart people. We are completely honest and transparent with everything we do. That's how [founder] Phil [Anschutz] wants itGongaware said he worked on an Elvis Presley tour. Panish asked if Elvis died of drug overdose, and Gongaware said "Yes". Gongaware replied to a condolences' email on July 5, 2009: I was working on the Elvis tour when he died, so I kind of knew what to expect. Still quite a shock "So you knew what to expect when Michael Jackson passed away, is that right, sir?", Brian Panish asked.Despite working as a tour promoter for 37 years -- including for Led Zeppelin, the Grateful Dead and many others -- Gongaware testified that the only artist he ever knew that was using drugs on tour was Rick James Panish asked about working for Jackson 5, Gongaware said had no interaction with Michael. Gongaware was a logistics manager on the Dangerous tour in 92-93. Panish said Michael made $100 million and donated it to charity. Gongaware said he didn't know When Gongaware met Jackson was with Colonel Parker (Elvis' manager) in Las Vegas. Michael had wanted to meet the Colonel Gongaware explained the difference between being tour manager and managing the tour. He talked about Michael's History tour Panish: "You knew that Michael had been to rehab during the dangerous tour?"Gongaware said he never knew MJ was involved with drugs until after the end of the Dangerous tour. Gongaware told LAPD he was aware of Jackson's previous use of pills/painkillers but did not want to get involved. Gongaware had known for years that Michael Jackson was taking painkillers but wasn't aware he was abusing them until MJ abruptly canceled his Dangerous world tour in the early 1990s to enter rehab. Gongaware said he knew of "two occasions" when Michael used painkillers between shows, but he claimed he didn't grasp the scope of the Michael's sickness until the taped 1993 announcement. "I would dispute knowing that he had a problem. I wasn't aware that there were problems", Gongaware said Gongaware said he knew a doctor was medicating Jackson during the Dangerous tour but did not find out why the tour was eventually cut short. "Didn't have time,I was just dealing with what was in front of me", he said Panish said Dr. Finkelstein testified under oath that Gongaware knew Michael had problems with painkillers before the Dangerous tour ended. Panish: "Do you dispute that?" (Finkelstein testimony)Gongaware said Dr. Finkelstein is his doctor and friend and that they talk off and on, but he doesn't know specifics of the doctor's deposition. Dr. Finkelstein said he gave MJ painkillers after the concert in Bangkok following Michael's scalp surgery. In Gongaware's video deposition: "Did you ever ask Dr. Finkelstein if he treated Michael during the Dangerous tour?"Another part of Gongaware's video depo: He said yes, he "occasionally treated Michael Jackson on the Dangerous tour" Panish: "Were you always honest with Michael?"Panish elicited contradictory testimony asking over and over about Gongaware's memory, how long he spent with lawyers to discuss testimony. On the Bad Tour MJ sold out 10 stadiums at 75,000 tickets per night. Panish: "That's a pretty big number?""No one knows how many shows we can get with Mikey," said Gongaware. Panish asked about name "Mikey" - he said he used it occasionally Email on 2/27/09 from Gongaware to Phillips: We are holding all of the risk, if Michael won't approve it we go without his approval.We let Mikey know just what it will cost him in terms of him making money, and then we go with or without him in London. We cannot be forced into stopping this, which Michael will try to do because he is lazy and constantly changes his mind to fit his immediate wants.Gongaware said his use "Mikey" was affectionate, not disparaging, and that the 'lazy' crack amounted to "poor choice of words" but one that accurately reflected how Michael "really didn't like to rehearse. He didn't like to do these kinds of things." "People were aware at this point there would be a press conference. Michael wouldn't show up at the conference, it'd cost money," Gongaware said. "It wasn't much risk at all, we hadn't spent money," Gongaware said about that point of the tour. This was prior to news conference. Gongaware said the situation in London, where they constantly referred to Michael as "Wacko Jacko" would impact marketability to sell tickets "He doesn't want to do this kind of things, but it was important to show Michael to the world if he wanted to do a show," Gongaware explained Jurors were shown several e-mails from Gongaware that Jackson lawyers suggested were evidence that AEG Live deliberately misled Jackson about how much money he would make from his comeback concerts and how many days he would have to rest between shows. Gongaware wrote to his boss, AEG Live President Randy Phillips, that they should present gross ticket sales numbers to Jackson, not the percentage of the net profits, during contract talks. "Maybe gross is a better number to throw around if we use numbers with Mikey listening"Panish talked about an email Gongaware sent to his secretary suggesting that she design a concert calendar for Jackson using light tan colors for show dates, while drawing attention to his rest days Don't want the shows to stand out too much when Michael looks at it.Less contrast between work and off. Maybe off days in a contrasting soft color. Put 'OFF' in each off day after July 8, as well. Figure it out so it looks like he's not working so much. Panish: "Did you want to change the color of the schedule to show Michael would not be working so hard?"Gongaware said it would be obvious when Michael would be working and not and he wasn't trying to trick him. Email on 3/25/09 from Phillips to Gongaware: "We need to pull the plug now. I will explain" Panish: "Mr. Phillips wanted to pull the plug on the show, right sir?""Kenny wanted the pull because the way she (Faye) handled situations," Gongaware explained. "She tried to control access to Michael and Kenny didn't like that" Karen Faye expressed strong opinion that the tour as dangerous and impractical for MJ. Panish asked about a chain of emails where Gongaware said the pulling the plug refers to Ms. Faye. "I believe he was," Gongaware repeated. In another March 25, 2009, email, Ortega wrote Gongaware that it was Faye's "strong opinion that this is dangerous and impractical with consideration to Michael's health and ability to perform.". "I thought he was in good shape at the press conference, I was there," Gongaware said at the deposition. Gongaware was at O2 arena and Phillips was with Michael. "Michael was late, Randy [Phillips] was saying I'm trying to get him going, I'm trying to get him going".As to Dr. Conrad Murray, Gongaware said there was 1 rehearsal he said hello to him. "It was basically a hello, on the floor at the Forum. Mikey asked me to retain him. I never hired him"Panish played an interview of Phillips to SkyTV after Michael died: "The guy is willing 2 leave his practice for large sum of money, so we hired him""I was told Michael wanted him as his doctor for the show," Gongaware said. Gongaware said Michael did not have any illness that he knew of. Gongaware: "He had taken a physical, he passed the physical and from what I understand there was nothing wrong with him. Maybe some hay fever"Gongaware said he received an email from Bob Taylor that everything was fine and that Michael had passed the physical. Gongaware said he never saw the results of the tests and doesn't know who saw them. Panish showed video deposition of Gongaware and a declaration he signed about a month before giving the deposition. They contradict themselves.At first, Gongaware insisted he did no negotiating with Murray, but, confronted with emails and his previous testimony, he changed his position and said, "The only thing I did with Dr. Murray was negotiate a price." Gongaware said that neither he nor anyone at the AEG investigated Murray's background or credentials Panish: "First you said how much did you want?"(to Dr. Murray)Gongaware said Dr. Murray had been Michael's personal doctor for the past 3 years. He said he did not know how many times MJ had seen the doctor. "Michael insisted on him, recommended him, and that was good enough for me, it was not for me to tell him who his doctor should be" Gongaware said "The fact that he had been Michael Jackson's personal physician for three years was good enough for me," Gongaware said. He said that Murray initially asked for $5 million to travel to London with Jackson and tend to him during the tour. "I just told him it wasn't going to happen," he said, recalling that Jackson then suggested offering him $150,000 a month. "Michael Jackson insisted on it and recommended him and it was not for me to tell him no," said Gongaware. "I wanted to provide what was necessary for him to do his job...He wanted a doctor and I wanted him to be healthy." Even after the offer of $150,000, Murray wasn't satisfied. "He started saying he wanted more and I said, 'The offer is coming directly from the artist," Gongaware said. Minutes later, he said Murray accepted. "Did that seem desperate to you?" asked Panish."We agreed on what the compensation was going to be, but there were a lot of issues to be resolved," Gongaware said. Gongaware said he recalled meeting with Dr. Murray where he was told the doctor was going to take care of the medical licensing in London. Gongaware and Timm Wooley are longtime friends. They are currently working on The Rolling Stones tour. Gongaware said he negotiated the price for Dr. Murray, but didn't negotiate the contract. Gongaware explained that he didn't do the negotiation, he would normally refer that to Wooley. Dr. Finkelstein and Gongaware have been friends for 35-plus years. Gongaware said he never offered Dr. Finkelstein the job of being MJ's doctor and said the doctor would be mistaken if he testified otherwise. Gongaware told the jury he called Dr. Finkelstein to ask what a fair price for a tour doctor would be. Doctor told him it was $10,000/week. As to Dr. Finkelstein wanting to be the tour doctor, Gongaware said he didn't recall specifically, but knew he wanted it."After his death we may have talked, but I don't recall specifics," Gongaware said. Gongaware said he sees Dr. Finkelstein a few times a year, but the subject of Michael never came up. Panish asked Gongaware if Dr. Finkelstein wanted to know if Michael was clean or using drugs. Gongaware said he didn't recall the conversation Panish asked: "You could have told Dr. Murray at any time that his services were no longer needed, couldn't you?"Gongaware told nanny, Grace Rwamba, that her services would not be needed anymore because AEG was cutting down on Michael's expenses "I never read the contract, I was there when Michael signed it, but didn't see what was in it," Gongaware said, "Doctor Murray was 100% Michael's cost" Based on the contract, Gongaware said 95% of the production expenses were Michael's responsibility, 5% AEG. Panish: "Who decided there was a need for a written contract with Dr. Murray?"Gongaware said that if the tour went forward, Dr. Murray would've made $1.5 million for 10 months. Ortega would've made almost that. Gongaware said although AEG never did a background check on Murray, in his view they had "checked out" the doctor according to their standard practices. "When we check out someone, we either rely on if we know the person or if they're known in the industry or if they're recommended by the artist & in this case, Dr. Murray was recommended by the artist, in fact, the artist insisted" Panish pressed Gongaware: "You did nothing to verify anything about Dr. Murray, isn't that true, sir?"Panish asked Gongaware if he approved budgets for April-July including Dr. Murray as production expense. He said he didn't know which budgets he approved. "It's my job to get that show on the road," Gongaware said. Gongaware said he had to know how much the production had spent at any given time, but didn't have time to read the budget. Panish: "Do you think you're good at your job, sir?"Gongaware testified that he didn't pay attention to the tour budgets that he approved, even though he was the tour manager.Paul Gongaware said he didn't read through the budgets, instead trusting that the tour accountant knew what he was talking about. Gongaware testified that Dr. Murray's salary, although included in the company's budget for several months, wasn't something he saw as an actual payment that would be made. "If there's a potential for cost we put it in our budget so there are no surprises later", he said. Gongaware often pleaded poor memory of events. He said he may have met with Jackson as many as 10 times, but could remember only two of the meetings and only one when Murray was present Gongaware said he doesn't remember how many meetings he attended at Carolwood house. He didn't recall a meeting where a vase was broken. "There was a meeting where he signed the contract," Gongaware recalled, saying there were more but he doesn't remember specifics. At the meeting in early June, Gongaware said he was present along with Kenny, Randy, Frank DiLeo, Dr. Murray and Michael. "The meeting was about making sure Michael and Dr. Murray had everything they needed to care for Michael," Gongaware explained. "Yes, we did talk about health-related issues. It was more a general meeting about what Dr. Murray would need", Gongaware said. He had told the police the topic of the meeting was Jackson's overall health ( i.e., diet, stamina and his weight) He remembered that Jackson arrived late from a doctor's appointment and had slurred speech. Gongaware said Michael Jackson "was a bit off". "He was just coming back from visiting Dr. Klein. I believe he was under the influence of something. That was the only time I saw him like that", Gongaware said. Jackson had missed a rehearsal and was thought to be dancing at home. However they discovered he was only watching video. Doctor Murray was receptive to their concerns and indicated he would take care of the situation Court Transcript |
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2023.05.28 12:23 expateu Quality of service in Malta
This may be just me but I keep getting an impression that whatever service is offered to me in Malta is done so reluctantly. It feels like I receive a favor every time I order / buy something and I am the one expected to show gratitide not the other way around.
Is this just me or there is something to this? Perhaps this is just a cultural difference, my unrealistic expectations or some Maltese people don't like to serve foreigners? I've tried being more friendly, polite and smile more but to no avail.
A few examples:
P.S. I am a white European from the EU when it comes to my appearance and origin. I like Malta and do my best to look for positive things here despite such experiences. I've encountered some nice and kind people here too.
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Is this just me or there is something to this? Perhaps this is just a cultural difference, my unrealistic expectations or some Maltese people don't like to serve foreigners? I've tried being more friendly, polite and smile more but to no avail.
A few examples:
- Went to a small coffee shop at a nearby beach. Had a bad and painful sunburn on my forearms. While ordering a breakfast I asked a waitress if she could open one of the umbrellas / parasols by my table (it was closed). She said she would ask someone inside to come open it. After a while she brought my order but no one ever came to open the umbrella. Of course she could simply forget about it although there were just 2-3 other guests at that moment. My polite request got completely ignored for no apparent reason.
- At a few other coffee shops, waiters openly demonstrated (by their body language) that they didn't like bringing an order to my table. It felt like they were doing me a favor and I was supposed to thank them. Expressing gratitude didn't change their attitude either.
- On a few occasions, cashiers continued talking to their local Maltese customers before providing a service to me and made me wait until they finished.
- Was waiting for a bus in Valletta for approx. 20-30 minutes. Once I saw it coming, I waved my arm for the driver to notice me. He did notice and gradually stopped the bus. However, what happened next was quite unexpected to say the least. He deliberately stopped it far away from the bus stop so that I had to run in order to catch up with it. When I almost got to the front door, he unexpectedly took off and left me standing there like an idiot.
P.S. I am a white European from the EU when it comes to my appearance and origin. I like Malta and do my best to look for positive things here despite such experiences. I've encountered some nice and kind people here too.
2023.05.28 11:08 Tuxedo_Mark Is Central Perk redundant?
Other than in the early episodes, when it's a plot point that Rachel works there, the characters almost never do anything there that they can't do at Monica's or Joey's. They're sitting on a couch and chairs and talking. The only difference is they're drinking coffee instead of beer. Wouldn't it have been more cost-effective to have Rachel wait tables where Monica works (which could also be used for the rare occasions where they need to meet people that have no reason to drop by their apartments) and not pay a bunch of extras (who the friends almost never interact with) to hang out in the background and silently pretend to be talking?
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2023.05.28 10:47 Proletlariet 60s Spider-Man
"Whallopin' websnappers!"
Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can. Spins a web any size, catches thieves just like flies. Look out! Here comes the Spider-Man. Is he strong? Listen bud, he's got radioactive blood. Can he swing from a thread? Take a look overhead. Hey there, there goes the Spider-Man. In the chill of night, at the scene of a crime, like a streak of light, he arrives just in time. Spider-Man, Spider-Man, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. Wealth and fame he's ignored, action is his reward. To him, life is a great big bang-up, wherever there's a hang-up, you'll find the Spider-Man!
Strength
Striking
Reactions & Dodging
Durability
Blunt Force
General
Restraint Strength
Elasticity Strength
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Striking
- Accidentally snaps a street lamp in half with a punch.
- Able to send regular men flying and knock them out with individual strikes, even when performed with unideal leverage.
- Able to send Mysterio flying across the room with individual strikes.
- Sends a man flying through a set of doors and a pile of crates with a punch.
- Punches Kingpin across the room hard enough to damage machinery. Kingpin describes himself as 300 pounds of solid muscle.
- Shoulders open a locked door.
- Stomps a file cabinet hard enough to send a drawer flying.
- Busts through elevator doors.
- Kicks a steel hatch out of its framing.
- Flies through a frozen window.
- Swings straight through a boarded up window.
- Knocks a flying demon, almost twice the size of a regular person, out of the air and into the ground with a clashing swinging kick.
- Knocks an armored giant to the ground and knocks him out with a swinging kick.
- Lifts a manhole cover with one finger.
- Throws a man into Kingpin hard enough to send both into a wood wall hard enough to damage it.
- Stops and holds up a large ice pillar driving with enough force to shatter itself upon hitting the ground.
- Catches, lifts, and resets a marble collumn when its knocked over.
- Tears a metal chain off the wall.
- While chained to a wall, tears the chain by pulling.
- Busts out of a rope binding his arms.
- Runs while carrying a wooden table into a wall hard enough to heavily damage both.
- Bends open iron bars far enough to squeeze through.
- Buries the Lizard up to his waist with a shove while underwater.
- Tears apart a mechanical sea monster.
- Uses his webs to pull the legs out from under a seemingly stone giant.
- Lifts a toppled crane, though only seems confident in his ability to do so with a pulley system, rather than a deadlift.
- Holds back the Rhino charging with enough force to burst through a gas tanker (until he sneezes and is forced to let go).
- Tips over a massive stone statue with a leg press, struggles heavily to do so.
- Hangs onto and climbs along the side of an in-flight airplane.
- Swings around a pair of gold bricks like bolas.
- Swings a revolver into the wall hard enough to shatter it.
Reactions & Dodging
- Doc Ock can't tag him with his quick moving tentacle arms.
- Isn't hit by a volley of icicles despite being trapped in the corner.
- Dodges a runaway roller coaster at the last second.
- Leaps out of the way of an armored truck's guns before it can fire on him.
- Dodges(?) a flamethrower.
- Dodges a thrown spear.
- Dodges a thrown sword at the last second, arrows fired from a bow, knocks a gun aside before it can fire then dodges a bullet from it.
- Spots and then dodges a falling sandbag at the last second.
- Catches himself from falling immediately after passing through a hole and inches before hitting a turbine.
- Dodges, though inconsistently, attacks that are described as "sonic blasts" or "sonic beams".
- Dodges a beam from some kind of unspecified energy gun.
- Dodges around bolts of energy fired from a machine.
- Dodges Electro's electricity.
- Dodges lightning bolts thrown by a Martian storm god.
- Dodges "a laser gun"'s beam.
- Swings fast enough to avoid gunfire.
- Goes from the on the floor to a kneeling punch in the time it takes a person to reach a few inches, then hits his partner with a punch before he can aim his gun.
- Lifts a table to block a volley of darts after at least the first was fired.
- Shoots a web to rebound a thrown glass bottle in the time it takes to reach him.
- Outdraws (an artificial recreation of) Jesse James.
- Dashes around at high speeds.
- Able to consistently outrun, outswing, outclimb, and dodge the pounces of a giant cat.
- Catches up to and leaps onto the back of an escaping car.
- Swings fast enough to catch up to Kingpin's escaping helicopter.
- Kicks a special flute out of a man's hands, then catches up to it with a web swing before it hits the ground.
- Jumps several stories into the air on accident.
- Leaps to a rooftop several blocks away.
- Jumps to the top of a tall fort wall in a single bound.
Durability
Blunt Force
- Completely no-sells a punch from a biker.
- Spun around at high speeds for half a minute and hurled against a stone pillar.
- Gets back up from a hit that launches him through a second story wooden railing.
- Crash lands through a boxcar's roof and gets back up after a second.
- Isn't bothered by a multi-story fall.
- Get crushed under a thrown car, crumpling the crane cockpit he was in, is seemingly knocked out but quickly recovers and moves just as fine after.
- Gets thrown into iron bars hard enough to bend them, is able an eventual recovery.
- Can take a full charge from the Rhino whose charges can heavily damage a train.
- Gets hit by an explosion and falls at least twenty stories, the damage knocked him out and seemed to heavily injure him but he's still able to move around when conscious.
- Has a grenade thrown at him, and shortly after unburies himself from the rubble.
- Gets knocked back by an explosion that wrecks the room and quickly recovers.
- Able to recover from being hit by sonic blasts that are strong enough to crack a tree in half.
- Hardly seems fazed taking a point blank explosion from a bomb that the Vulture previously threatened to use to sink a naval battleship.
- Takes a zap from an electrified lance that knocked out two ordinary men and quickly recovers.
- Takes a bolt from Electro that simultaneously knocks iron bars out of the framing, and just after creates a large hole in the exterior wall of a prison.
- Is flash-frozen and comes away perfectly fine after thawing out by creatures from Pluto attempting to recreate their natural habitat.
- Gets pinned by a bolt that is threatened, numerous times, to carry him all the way to the moon, and does carry him across most of New York and is eventually able to escape.
General
- Unlike other variations of the character, this version doesn't need to press his fingers to his palm to fire webs.
- In addition to his normal sticky and pliable webbing, he consistently shows the ability to fire "tempered webbing" which keeps its shape and is referred to as "stronger than steel".
- Isn't damaged by burning hot coals.
Restraint Strength
- Sticks up a manhole cover to make it immovable by a normal human.
- Holds and lifts a struggling man in full plate armor.
- Disarms and restrains the executioner of Paris, who was strong enough to swing his axe hard enough to destroy a brick chimney.
- Sticks a briefcase to a rock to the point where Sandman couldn't budge it, just after Sandman pitched a diamond through a web net and wrecked a bulldozer.
- Briefly holds back a descending elevator.
- Acts as replacement train tracks across a complete hole in the bridge, holding up the train all on their own.
- Knocks the guns out of two policemen's hands.
- Uses a web to fire a box of pepper.
- Causes a control panel to explode with two hits.
- A ball of webbing knocks a man across the room.
- Knocks the Vulture across the room and webs him up in the process.
- Stops the Rhino's charge and forces him back. Previously, the Rhino wasn't stopped by rifle fire and a stationary armored truck.
Elasticity Strength
- Pulls Spider-Man, carrying a child, out of quicksand, that was pulling hard enough to bend a thick tree.
- Catches and holds a falling billboard sign.
- Trips the twenty foot tall Scorpion.
- Lets a car down gently for several stories.
- Plugs a cannon that causes it to backfire and explode when fired.
- Makes a slingshot that rebounds a wrecking ball hard enough to demolish the crane it was hanging from.
- Rebounds a small boulder being throw with enough force to chip at concrete.
- Stops and rebounds a speeding motorcycle.
- Stops a speeding car.
- Stops an armored car.
- Uses a single coiled string of web to catch the Rockefeller Center's bronze statue of Prometheus which weighs 8 tons.
- When using his webs to trap a hole that the Rhino plans to charge through, the brick building around the hole gives up before his webs do.
- Able to stop the flying momentum of a giant war bird made of solid gold before snapping.
- Coats his fists in webbing to protect from shattering glass.
- A shield of webbing is completely bulletproof.
- Slows and stops magically fired cannonballs.
- Blocks falling rocks from hitting him.
- Protects him from micro-missiles.
- Stops a dozen cars being thrown at him with a dome.
- Walls off half of a store with a single spray.
- Walls off the mouth of a cavern.
- Creates a band that covers the entire width of a street.
- Spreads a web across and over the Golden Gate Bridge.
- Spins a web between two skyscrapers to stop an escaping ship.
- Snags the tip of the Empire State Building from halfway across town and uses that to swing from midtown to the docks.
- Snags onto Skymaster's dirigible from around building height.
- Creates a web that covers an entire submarine.
- Able to easily maneuver through the New York skyline by swinging on strands of webbing.
- Uses his webbing to make a handheld slingshot and a trampoline.
- Creates a parachute with a blanket of webbing.
- Creates a pliable sail and a stiff rudder for a sabotaged ship in a storm.
- Hides inside a watertight ball of webbing to save himself from drowning.
- Shoots the webbing fluid into a keyhole, when the webbing expands it allows it to be unlocked.
- Reconnects a split wire, allowing electrical current.
- Helps mask the sound of shattering glass.
- Has enough control over his webs while shooting them to tie knots in his lines without touching them with his hands.
- Creates a lasso that flies across the room, grabs the gun out of an assailant's hands, and pulls it away.
- Flies up, loops around an overhead wire, comes back down, then ties itself off on an object he needs to lift.
- Snaps the head off a spear as its flying.
- Guides a football into the running arms of a man who claimed that "even if the football does lucky land in [his] arms [he doesn't] think [he] could catch it".
- Grabs a vase out of a man's hands and gently puts it back down, from a distance.
- Straps webs to his feet and spins a web incredibly fast behind him to skim across the surface of a swamp river.
- Wraps up a note with one string of web, then fires it off with another, in one squeeze.
- Creates four small net bags of webbing, two from each shooter.
- Spins his webbing like a drill to pull himself up out of hard wax and to the ceiling.
- Webs himself into a ball and rolls fast enough to bowl through several police officers, and near immediately after escapes from the webbing.
- Creates a serrated blade to free himself from bindings.
- Creates a functioning airboat that functions as well as the real thing.
- Able to cling to surfaces in order to easily maneuver New York's skyline.
- Has a Spider-Sense, but it doesn't often come in too helpful.
- Has some kind of spider hearing that allows him to make out a garbled message a scientest could not.
- Was able to resist a hypnotic ray that incapacitated to police officers thanks to "spider vision".
- Quickly susses out the true identity of the Lizard, looks over the remnants of Dr. Connor's work to confirm it, then creates an antidote to his lizard serum.
- Able to create an EMF tracker and alter his webbing to be resistant to electricity using the power of asbestos.
- Creates a formula he calls IBP which stands for Instant Banana Peel (functionally an oil slick coating).
- Creates a breathing mask and new webbing fluid to fight Doctor von Schlick. The mask allows him to breath and see while swimming through crude oil, and the webbing could stick to von Schlick even when his standard webbing couldn't.
- Develops anti-magnetic webbing to counteract Dr. Magneto's magnetizing ray despite Magneto's ray being able to magnetize any physical substance.
- Creates a "automatic bloodhound gadget" that is able to track a scrap of cloth back to its source.
- Reverse engineers a tracking device to lead him to the tracker.
- Tosses a spider tracker onto Electro without his immediate noticing, allowing him to track him across the city.
- Has a pocket heat ray that instantly bakes mud.
- Has a wrist-mounted flashlight to see through thick fog.
- His standard spider suit isn't affected by a chemical agent that dissolves the gas mask he was wearing over it.
- Isn't bothered by tear gas.
- Hears a weak call from help from a great distance away.
- Throws a pair of large gemstones into the mouth of a monster plant some distance away.
- Hides inside of a suitcase, then when discovered, escapes through a vent the size of a suitcase behind him without any of the soldiers watching him noticing.
- Is the only one in a large, crowded theater to even partially resist a combination of hypnotic gas and imagery.
- Able to resist the will-sapping effect of the Radiation Specialist's mind control radiation.
- Skilled at marble carving.
- Quickly picked up ventriloquism.
- Often benefits from bad animation.
2023.05.28 10:45 Proletlariet Xena - Main Body
Xena of Amphipolis, the Warrior Princess, Destroyer of Nations, Slayer of Gods
"It's not easy proving you're a different person"Opening
Bio: Xena was a simple farm girl living in the town of Amphipolis when the warlord Cortese invaded. Rallying the townsfolk, Xena led her people to victory against the warlord, at the cost of her brother's life. With her heart hardened by her loss, Xena began to conquer neighboring towns to serve as buffers around Amphipolis for the next warlord. Soon, her desire to protect her town twisted into an endless hunger to conquer, leading her to become a worshiper of Ares & a brutal, ruthless warlord. She continued on this path, making many friends & enemies, until she met her defeat at the hands of Hercules, who taught her that even she can atone for her sins by going out into the world & doing good. Now on the road to redemption, Xena travels the world with her friend & lover Gabrielle, righting the wrongs committed by her & others.
Fighting Style: When she was a warlord, Xena would go for the kill straight away by any means necessary, typically via a chakram throw or pressure points. Post-Reformation, Xena will generally open with a chakram throw to disarm a foe or hit their projectile out of the air, & from there will go for non-lethal options like close-range disarming, pressure points, or a simple punch to the face. However, Xena will not hesitate to kill an opponent if they refuse to accept defeat or if they pose a threat to her or those she cares about. When the Olympians threatened her daughter, she embarked on a quest to slaughter them all, which she succeeded in doing.
Physicals
Strength
"You're Xena. Unstoppable. Unbeatable."
Blades
Metal
Wood
- Cuts down a tunnel supportS5E14
- Cuts through three spearsS4E16
- Cuts through tree branches
- Cuts through wood bars
- Cuts through a wood cageTJ3
Flesh
- Decapitates a massive bone dragonDT2
- Decapitates a giant wormHP1999
- Decapitates hydras
- Stabs through a hydra's head from the insideX1
- Bisects AnubisX4
- Cuts apart zombiesTX0
Misc
- Hits a woman's sword so hard that it cuts off a statue's headS5E3
- Cuts through the top of a tunnel with an axeS4E11
Striking
Launching Foes/Objects
- Sends a satyr flying into a thick wooden beam hard enough to break itMO
- Kicks a large chunk of stone pillar awayOO3
- Tackles an alien into the ground hard enough to crack itXAnnual
- Dropkicks a woman through a door & the railing of a balconyS4E7
- Smacks Gabrielle into a stone wall hard enough to chip itDX1
- Launches men into shelves, breaking them
- Kicks a man onto a table hard enough to break itS1E4
- Kicks a man into a door hard enough to knock it out of its frameS1E2
- Launches people, impaling them on objects
- Knocks a man through a wood wall by slashing himS4E8
- Kicks a lizard man into a giant egg hard enough to break itS1E8
- Sends soldiers sliding on the ground & through woodS1E11
- Kicks a rock into the airS1E11
- Kicks her chakram hard enough to embed it in stoneS5E21
- Kicks a sword into a soldier hard enough to knock him outS1E1
- Kicks men into stacks of barrels & sacksS1E8
- Generally able to launch people through the air with her strikes
Other
- Knocks over Hyperion with a swing kickS1E7
- Knocks over Porphyrion with a flying kickMO
- Kicks over treesS6E6
- Matches a kick from Goliath, who broke a stone pillarS2E3
- Knocks out a man clad in the Armor of HephaestusS3E3
- Shatters large wood doors with a kickX2
- Breaks a reinforced steel padlock with a kickS3E20
- Breaks a stone tōrō with a kickS6E21
- Breaks open locked doors
- Kicks out two support beamsS2E9
- Kicks through shutters then breaks a chairS4E7
- Breaks open a wooden cageS5E3
- Breaks out of an ice coffin after waking up from a 25-year comaS5E20
- Breaks a stone block with a hammerS6E7
- Breaks a ladder by stomping on itS1E22
- Dives through a wooden wallS2E7
- Generally capable of knocking people out with single blows
Throwing
Chakram
- Knocks back CriusMO
- Destroys a boomerang made of the Metal of Hephaestus in a clash when it could cut through Metal of Hephaestus shieldsS3E3
- Kills a man wearing the Armor of HephaestusS3E3
- Destroys Hades' Helm of InvisibilityS5E19
- Cuts apart an animate statueOT3
- Shatters part of a golem's headTX2
- Cuts through a stone wall after being deflectedS3E4
- Cuts through treesS6E6
- Breaks a tree in halfX2
- Puts holes in stone pillarsS5E3
- Shatters chunks of stoneDT1
- Cuts through an axe, then several chains, before embedding in stoneS1E11
- Cuts chain
- Cuts through swords
- Cuts down a tree branchS4E20
- Cuts through a line of spearsS4E5
- Embeds into a stone wallS1E5
- Causes a tunnel to cave inS4E11
- Stabs into armor
People
- Throws an Amazon into a stone pillar hard enough to break itS6E11
- Throws a man into a stone pot hard enough to break itS4E13
- Flips a large man onto a staff hard enough to impale himX1
- Throws a soldier into a table, breaking itS1E11
- Throws a man through wood planksS6E17
- Throws a woman through the air with one armS3E22
- Throws a man into more men
- Swings & throws a bacchaeS2E4
Other
- Throws a hammer hard enough to stop a charging Minotaur that broke stoneOO3
- Throws two swords hard enough to embed in stoneS1E23
- Throws a spear hard enough to embed in stoneS3E16
- Embeds a staff in the stone ceilingTJ3
- Throws spears through armored men
- Throws a bucket at a soldier, knocking him back into a stallS2E22
- Throws a swordfish hard enough to stick a helmet to a treeS3E10
- Knocks out a man by throwing a sandbag with her legsS4E17
- Xena possesses Autolycus, making him strong enough to break a statue in half by throwing a grappling hook at itS2E13
Lifting
- Lifts Crius' foot to throw him off-balanceMO
- Supports part of a tower made of logsS6E11
- Uses a large rock as a ramVC3
- Flips a chariotHX7
- Grabs a charging lion & throws it downHX4
- Carries a stag on her backS4E1
- Catches women as they fall
- Lifts a boy in a cage using her whipS2E1
- Lifts an Amazon into a treeS1E10
- Climbs a cliff face with Gabrielle on her backS6E6
Pushing/Pulling
- Pulls back a coffin with Gabrielle in it against the mechanism moving it forwardS2E18
- Knocks over a horse by pulling down its riderS3E16
- Stops a piece of a bridge from falling awayS4E3
- Overpowers several menS6E17
- Pulls open a bear trapS5E4
- Pulls down a treeTX1
- With two other men, pushes aside a large rockS1E14
Other
- Stops a giant rolling boulder by stepping on itMO
- Flexes out of a thick metal tendril wrapped around her
- Rams a large rock into a stone platform, breaking itVC3
- Flings Gabrielle possessed by a demon off of her backS4E14
- Breaks the chains restraining herS1E6
- Breaks out of a cask she was hiding inS2E2
- Dives through some wooden barsS1E2
- Snaps a man's neckS4E5
- Pushes boulders down a hill with a leverS6E6
- Kills rats by biting then throwing them with her mouthS4E7
- Spits a diaper pin hard enough to kill a manS5E13
- Somehow sent a man through a door hard enough to shatter itTX0
- Said to have the strength of ten menS1E19
Durability
"You have amazing recuperative powers"
Blunt
Scaling
- Takes a hit from Porphyrion, who made a large crater in a cliffMO
- Takes multiple hits from Ares, who matched a blow from Porphyrion
- Takes a hit from a sphinx that charges through a house & a large stone wallDT3
- Takes hits from various gods
- Takes blows from Hercules while fighting himH12
- Hit by a hydra's tail that smashes stoneVC2
- Takes his from Grendel & Grinhilda, who are strong enough to punch over a tree & swat Xena through several trees
- Takes hits from the Destroyer, which can throw a large stone wheel through the airS4E3
- Hit by a mummy that breaks a statue by throwing it
- Takes telekinetic hits from Hope, whose TK broke stoneS3E22
- Takes hits from Bellerophon, the demigod son of Artemis that KO'd Varia
- Tanks a punch from Meleager, who can throw spears through three men & hard enough to break a wood pillar
- Takes a kick from a Roman soldier that broke a stone bench by slamming a woman on itS5E21
- Takes hits from Atyminius, who cratered stoneS1E6
- Takes hits from Mortal Callisto, who kicked a ladder in halfS1E22
- Takes hits from banshees, who broke open a barred doorS3E5
- Gabrielle hurts her hand punching XenaS1E6
Objective
- Hit by Hyperion kicking through a stone wallS1E7
- Hit by Hephaestus into a stone pillar hard enough to break itS5E19
- Slammed about with TK, breaking stone potsS4E13
- Slammed by a giant worm hard enough to break a stalagtiteHP1999
- Slammed through a table by EveS5E21
- Slammed against a cliff wall while being carried by a large flying beastS1E8
- Sent flying through a stall by Gabrielle possessed by a demonS4E14
- Kicked into a cart hard enough to break itS5E14
- Hit by Gabrielle with a wood pole hard enough to break itS1E20
- Jousts with Callisto hard enough to break the poles they usedS1E22
- Hit with a chair hard enough to break itS4E7
- Ok after getting caught in a rockslideH13
- Sent flying by the impact of a catapultS4E9
Piercing
- Uncut when Demon Callisto throws her chakram at her hard enough to snap it in half & break her spineS4E21
- Blocks chakram throws from copies of herself with her bracersOT1
- Not deeply pierced by an arrow from Artemis when Olympian bows can drive arrows through several steel shieldsS5E22
- Uncut when Hope throws her chakram at her with TKS3E22
- Takes a sword swing from a man Ares says broke a castle door with a kickX1
- Uncut by Joxer hitting her in the head with a sword
- Gets bit on the neck by a bacchae but the fangs don't break her skinS2E4
- Grabs a sword by the blade & pulls it from a man's handS1E11
Heat/Energy
- Gets hit by a combined blast from Hades, Athena, & Hephaestus, when a blast from Hades evaporated Posiedon's giant water body
- Takes blasts from Velasca, who destroyed stone structures & blasted Callisto hard enough to break a boulderS2E14
- Gets hit with a fireball by Goddess Callisto, who destroys a barn & a statue's head
- Takes blasts from Goddess Callisto, who broke a hole in a stone wall & incinerated a buzzard
- Gets blasted by Athena, who broke marble pillarsS5E22
- A clone seemingly takes a large explosion unharmedS6E16
- Ok after being hit by an alien grenade that smashes stoneXAnnual
Endurance
- Defeats the Berserker, a warrior enchanted by Alti, after being magically forced to relive some of her worst injuries, including broken legsS4E1
- Kills many samurai after being riddled with arrows before being ultimately killed (however, she wanted to die so she could go to the spirit realm & kill an evil spirit, which may have affected how hard she was trying to stay alive)S6E22
- Continues to fight after being shot with an arrow by ArtemisS5E22
- Gets up after being beaten by her former soldiers as part of "The Gauntlet"H12
Mental/Spiritual
- Powers through a telepathic assaultS4E13
- Resists hypnosisS4E14
- Stops a dragon god from stealing her soulTX0
- Resists the aroma of the lotusOT1
Other
- Heals from broken legs enough to fight on them in a matter of hoursS2E12
- Ok after the temple she's in collapsesS3E4
- Ok after falling from above the cloudsS6E7
Speed/Agility
"I've seen speeding arrows come right at you and you just catch them before they hit you. Nobody can do that"
Reaction/Dodging
Projectiles
- Catches two crossbow bolts in her hands & one in her teethS2E17
- Catches & deflects several arrows from a rain of them in thick smoke, though she eventually is hitS6E22
- Catches/dodges crossbow bolts
- Catches/dodges arrows
- Deflects arrows
- Catches a rocketS5E6
- Deflects & dodges blasts from Athena, Hades, & Deimos
- Dodges blasts from Goddess Callisto
- Dodges a blast from Callisto in the body of a hydraVC1
- Dodges blasts from LuciferS6E3
- Dodges blasts from VelascaS2E14
- Dodges & deflects weapons thrown by HopeS3E22
- Catches/dodges blowdarts
- Catches/dodges thrown knives
- Catches/dodges spears
- Catches axes/mace
- Catches a firebomb thrown through her windowS1E15
Melee
- Dodges & matches strikes with Draco, who can catch three arrows at onceS1E1
- Dodges strikes from Eve, who caught the chakramS5E21
- Dodges sword swings from Najara, who caught a crossbow boltS4E8
- Catches surprise strikes from Gabrielle
- Dodges a strike from a Dragon Tooth warrior's lash, which was able to swat a barrage of arrows out of the airDT1
- Dodges attacks from TitansMO
- Dodges whip strikesEX6
- Catches sword swings
Movement/Attacking
Combat
- Outspeeds Hercules, who caught an arrow from behind, in close combat
- Leaps forward to swat an arrow out of the airS4E6
- Whips an arrow out of the airS4E20
- Cuts crossbow bolts/arrows out of the air with her chakram
- Throws her chakrams to cut two rockets out of the airS5E6
- Juggles Najara into the air with her knees while climbing a vineS4E18
Other
- Moves from behind Amarice to in front of her while she turns her headS5E2
- Outruns exploding Greek FireS5E14
- Outruns a centurionEX5
- Catches up to a boat with a head startHX5
Agility
Combat
- Fights a group of Amazon elite in the treetopsS4E2
- Fights Najara while swinging on vinesS4E18
- Fights a skilled hunter while climbing a tower made of logsS6E11
- Fights Eve while swinging on bannersS5E21
- Takes down foes while running on a wall then bicycle kicks a soldierS1E5
- Bicycle kicks AresS3E1
- Runs on the chests of bandits in a circle several timesS1E7
- Runs on the heads of goons to take them outS4E10
- Defeats a group of soldiers while spinning between two polesS2E2
- Flips around on soldiers, defeating their comradesS1E22
- Flips onto a horse while being dragged behind then flips off with the riderS5E20
- Defeats men while flipping on a staffS4E21
- Recovers after being flipped by HerculesH12
- Flips to avoid a kick & springs off her hands to deliver oneS4E7
- Jumps such that she has time to kick several assassins in the faceS1E15
- Swings from a flagpole to take down some soldiersS1E4
- Takes down several assassins while swinging from a ropeS1E15
- Weaves around some golems with rope, causing them to tripTX2
- Flips from a prone position, knocking away swords pointed at herS4E4
- Does psycho crushers
- Swings from a vine off her horse to defeat pursuers, then swings back on the horseS6E17
- Builds up momentum to enhance the power of her strikeTJ1
Leaping
- Flips off of a tree to a ship off the shoreS2E21
- Leaps from the water in a moat to the top of a palace wallS3E6
- Shatters Samson's record of a 75 ft long jumpOO2
- Leaps across a gorgeS1E14
- Leaps out of a tank of waterS1E11
- Flips on top of a large wallS5E20
- Kicks off of a guard to jump onto a platformS4E7
- Jumps onto a buildingS4E14
- Leaps through the air after jumping off of a soldierS1E1
- Flips over a crowdS3E2
- Leaps off her horse onto a table, launching a man who then lands back onto the table, which launches her so that she flips off of the table back on to her horseS1E2
- Flips into the air from a prone positionS1E23
- Flips off of horseback then springs off of a treeS3E1
Traversing
- Jumps up falling rocksTJ3
- Beats Gabrielle in a race, despite her head startS3E1
- Flips up a tree
- Runs up the wall of a prison cell, bursting through the roofS1E22
- Kicks off a rock while being carried by a flying beast to flip onto the creature's backS1E8
- Flips across a sea of peopleS5E10
- Jumps off of enemies' spearsS6E17
- Quickly scales a cave wallS2E4
- Jumps to avoid a spike trap, then flips herself forward while holding herself up on the wallS1E8
- Leaps onto a pole sticking out of a wall, then over the wallS1E9
- Jumps from a tree onto a passing chariotS1E2
- A clone leaps from car to car on the roadS6E16
- Runs through a marketplace while navigating obstaclesS1E4
- Traverses a burning town by swinging on poles & laddersS6E21
- Runs across a marketplace on a clotheslineS1E17
- Crosses a broken bridge by walking on the ropesS1E19
- Swings on a rope then bounces off of an awningS6E21
- Swings on a vineMO
- Climbs a cliff face with Gabrielle on her back while it's rainingS6E6
- Climbs up a cliff wall with a child on her backS4E12
Misc
Combat Skill
"When she puts her mind to killing someone, they generally get killed"
General
- Her skills are so ingrained in her that she acts reflexively even after losing her memoryS6E9
- Maintains her skill while possessing Autolycus, using his body to fight off several AmazonsS2E13
- Gabrielle says she is skilled with every weapon & deadly in all forms of combatX1
Accuracy
Chakram Throws
- Ricochets her chakram across a city, saving a man from being run over & breaking the vial a woman was holdingS3E2
- Throws it from out of sight, cutting through a line of arrows then ricocheting to cut through a line of swords before returning to herS1E22
- Throws it such that it bounces around while she fights Ares then returns to kill the FuriesS6E1
- Deflects Discord's arrow such that it ricochets to cut down a lantern, then ricochets off the wall to knock the lantern awayS4E19
- Breaks several falling chunks of stoneDT1
- Bounces her chakram off of several objects then catches it to prove her identityS2E6
- Ricochets to continuously attack foes who dodged the initial throw
- Ricochets her chakram off of some rocks to try & hit HerculesH12
- Ricochets to come back around & attack an enemy that deflected itHX9
- Takes down groups with one throw
- Ricochets off of a pillar to kill a soldierS1E4
- Disarms a man, then ricochets to cut through two shacklesS1E9
- Throws it such that it cuts a hole in a boat, then turns around in midair to return to herS2E20
- Cuts through an axe, then ricochets to cut through several chainsS1E11
- Ricochets to cut through a line of spearsS4E5
- Appears to throw it at a mystic artifact, but actually makes it so that it ricochets, cutting the bonds of Ares' hostagesS2E10
- Ricochets to drop a chandelier on a group of satyrsMO
- Breaks a catapult shot before it can be firedS6E15
- Ricochets to throw a leverS3E20
- Splits an arrow such that the two halves kill enemy soldiersS5E13
- Cuts a spear that Caesar threw down the middle in mid-airS3E4
- Splits to knock two spears out of the airS5E22
- Diverts a thrown axeS4E11
- Hits a sphinx's eyeDT3
- Cuts off Gabrielle's bootS3E13
- Cuts a man's tendonHX6
- Causes rockslides
- Cuts down a large shield to block thrown weaponsS3E22
- Ricochets to cut down Gabrielle's noose & damage an execution platformS4E7
- Ricochets to cut down the hose of a water tower & spray approaching soldiersS1E22
- Ricochets to cut down Joxer
- Disarms a man such that his axe falls to cut Gabrielle's bondsS2E3
- Sets off a wagon of explosivesS6E22
- Ricochets to knock the jewelry out of men's handsS5E8
- Kills animals by bouncing the chakram off of a turtleS4E13
- Ricochets with a ribbon attached to tie up soldiersS2E9
- Ricochets to hit a gorgon while looking in a mirrorTX1
- Slits men's throats
- Splits & sets off a row of landmines before reunitingS5E7
- Cuts off a cyclops' beltS1E1
- Throws through a forest to hit a man riding a horseS1E24
- Throws it to kill an enemy Gabrielle is fighting while she is fighting a centaurS2E1
- Skims it off of the water to cut down the sail of a shipS2E21
- Throws it such that it spins in place to saw through a tree branchS1E9
- Throws it such that it blocks a sword swing & turns around in midair to return to herS1E2
- Throws it such that it turns around in mid air & returns to clip to her sideS1E20
- Xena possesses Autolycus, throwing the chakram to cut the strings of Amazon bowsS2E13
- Throws her chakram to create a diversion & catches it while she's blindS2E18
Whip
- Snags a thrown axe out of the air then throws it backS2E20
- Grabs a man around the neck then hoists him up on a tree branchS1E4
- Stops a man from attacking Gabrielle then pulls him to herS1E12
- Grabs an executioner's axe out of his handsS3E3
- Wraps up people's feet
- Grabs onto her chakram to pull herself out of quicksandS2E5
- Spins a log aroundS5E17
Knives
- Deflects a thrown chakram back at herS1E22
- Cuts down a sailS2E12
- Throws two at once to cut Gabrielle down from a crucifixS3E4
- Cuts the rope a man was using to choke GabrielleS3E19
- Hits a man's heartH13
Archery
- Shoots down several samurai in quick succession, even nocking & landing several arrows at onceS6E22
- Pins a man to the wall by firing several arrows using a harpS1E15
- Shoots a stag in the heartS4E1
Rope
- Lassos a stalagtiteS1E7
- Lassos a boy while standing on the ledge above himS1E19
- Uses a cord from her disguise to grab a guard while in a prison cellS3E9
Other
- Throws a rat using her mouth, knocking her chakram down a grate such that it lands on her chains, cutting themS4E7
- Splits a spear using her sword such that the two halves kill enemies next to herS2E1
- Grabs Athena's sword using a chain & throws itS5E19
- Throws a collar onto an AmazonS6E11
- Throws a frying pan to KO bandits by ricocheting off of themS2E15
- Throws an eel, ricocheting it off of a tree back into her handS3E10
- Ricochets a prop chakram off of several machinesS6E16
- Hooks a Minotaur's horn with a hammerOO3
- Throws her sword to cut the firing rope of a ballistaS2E1
- Throws three swords into a Roman's chestS4E20
- Kicks a hay cart into position to stop the fall of a flung manMO
Unarmed Combat
Pressure Points
- Typically used to cut off the flow of blood to the brain as an interrogation tactic
- Kills with pressure points
- Stops Joxer's heart then revives himS5E17
- Knocks out men
- Makes body parts numb
- Makes a man kick his comradeS1E22
- Makes a girl unable to talkS4E11
- Fixes Gabrielle after she has a pressure point used on herS1E17
- Stops a wound from bleedingS4E15
- Cures Gabrielle's seasicknessS2E21
- Triggers a pressure point with a kick to the throatS3E4
- Uses one on Talos, who's made of magic bronzeTX2
Vs Single Foes
- Defeats the Archangel MichaelS6E12
- Defeats Callisto, a warrior who spent her life training to kill XenaS1E22
- Holds a solid advantage against HerculesH12
- Defeats Jett, the King of AssassinsS3E8
- Defeats/disarms armed men
- Flips over a man, using that momentum to flip himS1E11
vs Groups
- Fends off a horde of bacchae (vampire-like creatures) then bests Bacchus in a quick fightS2E4
- Defeats several soldiers while holding a babyS1E4
- While trapped in the body of a child, defeats a group of soldiersS5E8
- Defeats a group of bounty hunters while afflicted with madness by the FuriesS3E1
- Fights off several Chin assassinsS3E6
- Defeats several samuraiS6E21
- Defeats a group of Amazons possessed by evil spiritsS4E2
- Punks some AmazonsTJ1
- Defeats a group of soldiers with Gabrielle & AutolycusS3E20
- Generally able to defeat groups of generic foes
- Defeats three men while swimmingHX5
- Takes down two soldiers at once with a double kickS1E4
- Disarms several spearmen at onceS6E17
Swordsmanship
- Fights off 3 evil versions of herself with the same strength & skill as herOT1
- Defeats Ares, God of War, while afflicted with madness by the FuriesS3E1
- Defeats Athena, Goddess of Wisdom & WarS5E22
- Defeats Mephistopheles, the King of HellS6E2
- Defeats Varia, the greatest Amazon warriorS6E14
- The archangel Michael says that Xena might've been a challenge for him even before she became an archangelS5E1
- Fights off a group of soldiers while blindS2E18
- Defeats several Chin soldiers while pregnantS5E6
- While trapped in the body of a child, defeats a warlordS5E8
- With Gabrielle, fends off the combined armies of the Temples of Apollo, Athena, & PoseidonS5E13
- Defeats The Deliverer, a warrior empowered by Dahak, the One God of EvilS3E4
- Gets the better of Caesar & Pompey in a three-way fightS4E5
- Defeats Marc AntonyS5E18
- Defeats DeiphobusS1E12
- Defeats a warlord on horsebackS4E4
- Kills an assassinS1E14
- Defeats the leader of a warrior tribeS2E20
- Defeats a scalphunterS4E11
- Defeats several of Indrajit's demonsS4E16
- Generally able to defeat groups of generic foes
- Diverts a soldier attacking her such that he will impale his comradeS1E4
- Disarms soldiers
Misc Weapons
- Fights off a contingent of 300-400 elite Persian soldiers in a booby-trapped houseS3E1
- Battles Draco with staves while balancing on scaffolding & walking on people's headsS1E1
- Defeats the Amazon Queen in a duel with kali sticksS1E10
- Beats up Najara with stiltsS4E8
- Beats a group of prison guards with a noose & then a manS4E7
- Defeats an armed captain with a candelabraS1E4
- Defeats some men with a fish on a stringS1E19
- Defeats men with wet rags
- Fends off bandits with a pot & panS2E15
- Defeats several warriors with a bowS2E20
- Disarms several soldiers with a wagon wheelS2E3
- Beats up three men with a benchS1E12
- Defeats two soldiers with socks full of marblesS2E9
- Kills a harpy with fire-breathingS1E16
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