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2023.06.06 04:26 TheLagginWagon (Offer) 500ish codes idk (Request) Lists, Hunchback, Aristocats, Mario, Renfield, (will overtrade for new releases) , more lists. show me what you got!
Just hit 1463 in VUDU. Hit me with lists. Have like 8 June Universal Codes.
New titles: 007: Daniel Craig 1,2,3 Movie Collection HD VUDU Big Lebowski, The 4K iTunes Dictator, The (Unsure if Unrated) HD VUDU Dictator, The (Unsure if Unrated) HD iTunes Hot Fuzz HD MA Hot Fuzz 4K iTunes How to Be a Latin Lover HD iTunes In the Heights (WB EXPIRES 9/30) 4K MA King Kong (Theatrical) 4K MA Lion King 1½ HD MA Lion King 1½ HD Google-Play Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life HD VUDU Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life HD iTunes Mulan (Animated) 4K MA Mulan (Animated) HD GP Night at the Museum 3: Secret of the Tomb 4K-iTunes/HD-MA Playing with Fire 4K iTunes Playing with Fire HD VUDU Raya and the Last Dragon HD GP Shaun of the Dead HD MA Shaun of the Dead 4K iTunes The World's End 4K iTunes Think Like a Man SD MA Yesterday 4K MA
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New titles: 007: Daniel Craig 1,2,3 Movie Collection HD VUDU Big Lebowski, The 4K iTunes Dictator, The (Unsure if Unrated) HD VUDU Dictator, The (Unsure if Unrated) HD iTunes Hot Fuzz HD MA Hot Fuzz 4K iTunes How to Be a Latin Lover HD iTunes In the Heights (WB EXPIRES 9/30) 4K MA King Kong (Theatrical) 4K MA Lion King 1½ HD MA Lion King 1½ HD Google-Play Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life HD VUDU Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life HD iTunes Mulan (Animated) 4K MA Mulan (Animated) HD GP Night at the Museum 3: Secret of the Tomb 4K-iTunes/HD-MA Playing with Fire 4K iTunes Playing with Fire HD VUDU Raya and the Last Dragon HD GP Shaun of the Dead HD MA Shaun of the Dead 4K iTunes The World's End 4K iTunes Think Like a Man SD MA Yesterday 4K MA
| Def | Movie Title (all codes split, no points) | Retailer | MA? |
|---|---|---|---|
| HD | 007: Daniel Craig 1,2,3 Movie Collection | VUDU | No |
| HD | 13 Hours | iTunes | No |
| HD | 13 Hours | VUDU | No |
| HD | Aftermath | VUDU | No |
| HD | Age of Adaline | iTunes | No |
| 4K | Aladdin (Live Action) | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| HD | Aladdin (Live Action) | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Aladdin (Live Action) | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Alexander and the Bad Day | Google-Play | Yes |
| 4K | Alien: Covenant | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| 4K | Alien: Covenant | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| HD | All Eyez On Me | iTunes | No |
| HD | American Girl: Lea to the Rescue | iTunes | Yes |
| HD | American Made | MA | Yes |
| HD | Anchorman 2 | iTunes | No |
| HD | Anchorman 2 | iTunes | No |
| HD | Anchorman 2 | VUDU | No |
| 4K | Annihilation | iTunes | No |
| HD | Annihilation | VUDU | No |
| 4K | Assassin's Creed | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| 4K | Assassin's Creed | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| 4K | Assassin's Creed | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| HD | Assassination Nation | MA | Yes |
| HD | Atomic Blonde | MA | Yes |
| 4K | Avengers: Age of Ultron | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| HD | Avengers: Age of Ultron | Google-Play | Yes |
| 4K | Avengers: Endgame | MA | Yes |
| HD | Avengers: Endgame | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Avengers: Endgame | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Avengers: Endgame | Google-Play | Yes |
| 4K | Avengers: Infinity War | MA | Yes |
| HD | Avengers: Infinity War | Google-Play | Yes |
| 4K | Back to the Future Trilogy | iTunes | Yes |
| HD | Back to the Future Trilogy | MA | Yes |
| HD | Bad Moms | iTunes | Yes |
| HD | Baggage Claim | MA | Yes |
| HD | Barbie in Princess Power | MA | Yes |
| 4K | Baywatch | iTunes | No |
| 4K | Baywatch | iTunes | No |
| HD | Beauty And The Beast (Live Action) | Google-Play | Yes |
| 4K | Big Hero 6 | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| HD | Big Hero 6 | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Big Hero 6 | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Big Hero 6 | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Big Hero 6 (CANADA) | Google-Play | IDK |
| HD | Big Hero 6 (CANADA) (might be 4K iTunes?) | iTunes | IDK |
| 4K | Big Lebowski, The | iTunes | Yes |
| 4K | Black Panther | iTunes | Yes |
| 4K | Black Panther | iTunes | Yes |
| 4K | Black Panther | iTunes | Yes |
| HD | Black Panther | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Black Panther | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Black Panther | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Black Panther | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Black Panther | MA | Yes |
| HD | Black Panther | MA | Yes |
| HD | Black Panther | MA | Yes |
| HD | Black Panther | MA | Yes |
| HD | Black Widow | MA | Yes |
| HD | BOO! A Madea Halloween | iTunes/VUDU | No |
| 4K | Book Club | iTunes | No |
| HD | Boss Baby | MA | Yes |
| 4K | Bourne Legacy | iTunes | Yes |
| SD | Brave | iTunes | Yes |
| SD | Broken City | iTunes | Yes |
| 4K | Bumblebee | iTunes | No |
| 4K | Bumblebee | iTunes | No |
| HD | Captain Underpants | MA | Yes |
| HD | Captain Underpants (Australia) | Google-Play | IDK |
| HD | Cars 3 | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Chappie | MA | Yes |
| HD | Cinderella | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Coco | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Colombiana | MA | Yes |
| HD | Croods, The | MA | Yes |
| HD | Croods, The | MA | Yes |
| SD | Croods, The | iTunes | Yes |
| SD | Croods, The | iTunes | Yes |
| HD | Darkest Hour (2017) | MA | Yes |
| HD | Dead in Tombstone (Unrated) | MA | Yes |
| 4K | Deadpool | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| 4K | Deadpool | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| 4K | Deadpool | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| 4K | Deadpool | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| 4K | Deadpool | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| 4K | Deadpool | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| 4K | Deadpool | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| 4K | Deadpool | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| 4K | Deadpool | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| HD | Deadpool 2 | MA | Yes |
| HD | Deadpool 2 | MA | Yes |
| HD | Deliver Us From Evil (2014) | MA | Yes |
| HD | Den of Thieves | iTunes | No |
| SD | Despicable Me | iTunes | Yes |
| 4K | Despicable Me 3 | iTunes | Yes |
| 4K | Despicable Me 3 | iTunes | Yes |
| HD | Despicable Me 3 | MA | Yes |
| HD | Diary of a Wimpy Kid 3: Dog Days | MA | Yes |
| SD | Diary of a Wimpy Kid 3: Dog Days | iTunes | Yes |
| SD | Diary of a Wimpy Kid 3: Dog Days | iTunes | Yes |
| HD | Dictator, The (Unsure if Unrated) | VUDU | No |
| HD | Dictator, The (Unsure if Unrated) | iTunes | No |
| SD | Die Hard 5: A Good Day To Die Hard (Ext) | iTunes | Yes |
| HD | Disneynature: Bears | Google-Play | Yes |
| 4K | Divergent | iTunes | No |
| HD | Divergent | VUDU | No |
| 4K | Divergent: Allegiant | iTunes | No |
| HD | Divergent: Allegiant | VUDU | No |
| HD | Divergent: Insurgent | VUDU | No |
| HD | Django Unchained | VUDU | No |
| HD | Dr. Seuss' The Lorax | iTunes | Yes |
| HD | Dr. Seuss' The Lorax | MA | Yes |
| HD | Dracula Untold | MA | Yes |
| 4K | Dracula Untold | iTunes | Yes |
| HD | Edward Scissorhands | MA | Yes |
| HD | Edward Scissorhands | MA | Yes |
| 4K | Ender's Game | ITunes | No |
| 4K | Ender's Game | ITunes | No |
| 4K | Escape Plan | iTunes | No |
| 4K | Escape Plan | ITunes | No |
| HD | Escape Plan | VUDU | No |
| 4K | Expendables 3 (Theatrical) | iTunes | No |
| HD | Expendables 3 (Unrated) | iTunes | No |
| HD | Fault In Our Stars | MA | Yes |
| HD | Fifty Shades 1,2,3 (UR+Theatrical) 6 Titles | MA | Yes |
| HD | Fifty Shades 1(UR), 2(UR), 3(Theat.) | MA | Yes |
| 4K | Finding Dory | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| 4K | Finding Dory | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| 4K | Finding Dory | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| 4K | Finding Dory | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| 4K | Finding Dory | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| 4K | Finding Dory | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| 4K | Finding Dory | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| 4K | Finding Dory | iTunes | Yes |
| HD | Finding Dory | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Finding Dory | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Finding Dory | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Finding Dory | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Finding Dory | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Finding Dory | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Finding Dory | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Finding Dory | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Finding Dory | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Flight | iTunes | No |
| HD | Fox and the Hound 2 | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Frozen | MA | Yes |
| 4K | Frozen | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| HD | Frozen | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Frozen | Google-Play | Yes |
| 4K | Furious 7 | iTunes | Yes |
| HD | Gambler, The | iTunes | No |
| 4K | Ghost in the Shell (2017 Live Action) | iTunes | No |
| HD | Ghost Team One | iTunes | No |
| HD | Ghostbusters (2016) Theatrical+Extended | MA | Yes |
| HD | Ghostbusters (2016) Theatrical+Extended | MA | Yes |
| HD | Ghostbusters (2016) Theatrical+Extended | MA | Yes |
| HD | Ghostbusters & Ghostbusters 2 | MA | Yes |
| HD | Girls Trip | iTunes | Yes |
| HD | Good Dinosaur | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Grey, The | MA | Yes |
| HD | Grey, The | iTunes | Yes |
| HD | Grey, The | iTunes | Yes |
| HD | Guardians of the Galaxy | MA | Yes |
| 4K | Guardians of the Galaxy | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| 4K | Guardians of the Galaxy | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| HD | Guardians of the Galaxy | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Guardians of the Galaxy | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Guardians of the Galaxy | Google-Play | Yes |
| 4K | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| HD | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Guilt Trip, The | iTunes | No |
| HD | Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (Unrated) | iTunes | No |
| HD | Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (Unrated) | iTunes | No |
| HD | Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (Unrated) | VUDU | No |
| HD | Hardcore Henry | iTunes | Yes |
| HD | Hardcore Henry | iTunes | Yes |
| HD | Hateful Eight (DOESN'T PORT TO MA) | VUDU | No |
| HD | Hateful Eight, The | VUDU | No |
| HD | Heat, The | MA | Yes |
| HD | Heat, The | MA | Yes |
| HD | Heat, The | MA | Yes |
| SD | Heat, The | iTunes | Yes |
| SD | Heat, The | iTunes | Yes |
| SD | Heat, The | iTunes | Yes |
| HD | Heat, The | iTunes | Yes |
| HD | Hereditary | VUDU | No |
| HD | Hobbs & Shaw | MA | Yes |
| HD | Homefront | iTunes | Yes |
| HD | Hop | MA | Yes |
| HD | Hop | iTunes | Yes |
| 4K | Hot Fuzz | iTunes | Yes |
| HD | Hot Fuzz | MA | Yes |
| HD | How to Be a Latin Lover | iTunes | No |
| 4K | Hunger Games 1 | iTunes | No |
| HD | Hunger Games 1 | VUDU | No |
| 4K | Hunger Games 2: Catching Fire | iTunes | No |
| HD | Hunger Games 2: Catching Fire | VUDU | No |
| 4K | Hunger Games 3: Mockingjay Part 1 | iTunes | No |
| 4K | Hunger Games 3: Mockingjay Part 1 | VUDU | No |
| 4K | Hunger Games 4: Mockingjay Part 2 | iTunes | No |
| HD | Hunger Games 4: Mockingjay Part 2 | VUDU | No |
| SD | Ice Age Dawn of the Dinosaurs | iTunes | Yes |
| 4K | In the Heights (WB EXPIRES 9/30) | MA | Yes |
| HD | Incredibles 2 | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Inferno (2016) | MA | Yes |
| 4K | Inside Out | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| 4K | Inside Out | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| HD | Inside Out | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Inside Out | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Inside Out | Google-Play | Yes |
| 4K | Interstellar | iTunes | No |
| 4K | Interstellar | iTunes | No |
| 4K | Interstellar | iTunes | No |
| HD | Interstellar | VUDU | No |
| HD | Into the Woods | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Into the Woods | MA | Yes |
| HD | Into the Woods | MA | Yes |
| HD | Into the Woods | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Iron Man 3 | Google-Play | Yes |
| 4K | Jack Reacher | iTunes | No |
| 4K | Jack Reacher | iTunes | No |
| HD | Jack Reacher | VUDU | No |
| HD | Jackass 3 | VUDU | No |
| HD | Jarhead 2: Field of Fire (Not sure if theat. or UR) | iTunes | Yes |
| HD | Jason Bourne | MA | Yes |
| 4K | John Wick | iTunes | No |
| 4K | John Wick | iTunes | No |
| 4K | John Wick | VUDU | No |
| HD | John Wick | VUDU | No |
| 4K | John Wick (SD VUDU) | 4K-iTunes/SD-VUDU | No |
| 4K | John Wick: Chapter 2 | iTunes | No |
| 4K | John Wick: Chapter 2 | VUDU | No |
| 4K | John Wick: Chapter 3 | 4K-iTunes/HD-VUDU | No |
| HD | Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle | MA | Yes |
| HD | Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle | MA | Yes |
| HD | Jurassic Park | MA | Yes |
| HD | Jurassic Park | MA | Yes |
| 4K | Jurassic Park | iTunes | Yes |
| 4K | Jurassic Park | iTunes | Yes |
| 4K | Jurassic Park | ITunes | Yes |
| 4K | Jurassic Park 2: Lost World | iTunes | Yes |
| HD | Jurassic Park 2: Lost World | MA | Yes |
| 4K | Jurassic World | iTunes | Yes |
| HD | Jurassic World | MA | Yes |
| HD | Jurassic World | MA | Yes |
| HD | Jurassic World | MA | Yes |
| HD | Jurassic World | MA | Yes |
| HD | Jurassic World | MA | Yes |
| HD | Jurassic World | MA | Yes |
| HD | Jurassic World | MA | Yes |
| HD | Jurassic World | MA | Yes |
| HD | Jurassic World | MA | Yes |
| 4K | Jurassic World | iTunes | Yes |
| 4K | Jurassic World | iTunes | Yes |
| 4K | Jurassic World | iTunes | Yes |
| 4K | Jurassic World | iTunes | Yes |
| 4K | Jurassic World | iTunes | Yes |
| 4K | Jurassic World | iTunes | Yes |
| 4K | Jurassic World | iTunes | Yes |
| 4K | Jurassic World | iTunes | Yes |
| 4K | King Kong (2005) (Theatrical) | MA | Yes |
| 4K | Kingsman 1: The Secret Service | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| HD | Last Stand, The | iTunes | No |
| SD | Last Stand, The (may give HD?) | VUDU | No |
| 4K | Last Witch Hunter | iTunes | No |
| 4K | Legend of Hercules | iTunes | No |
| HD | Les Miserables | iTunes | Yes |
| HD | Lion King (1994) | Google-Play | Yes |
| 4K | Lion King (Live Action) | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| HD | Lion King (Live Action) | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Lion King (Live Action) | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Lion King 1½ | MA | Yes |
| HD | Lion King 1½ | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Little Mermaid | Google-Play | Yes |
| 4K | Logan | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| 4K | Logan | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| HD | Lone Survivor | MA | Yes |
| HD | Luca | Google-Play | Yes |
| 4K | Lucy | iTunes | Yes |
| 4K | Lucy | iTunes | Yes |
| 4K | Lucy | iTunes | Yes |
| HD | Lucy | MA | Yes |
| HD | Lucy | MA | Yes |
| HD | Lucy | MA | Yes |
| HD | Lucy | MA | Yes |
| SD | Machete | iTunes | Yes |
| SD | Machete | iTunes | Yes |
| SD | Machete | iTunes | Yes |
| SD | Machete | iTunes | Yes |
| HD | Maleficent | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Mamma Mia ! 2-Movie Collection | MA | Yes |
| HD | Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life | iTunes | No |
| HD | Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life | VUDU | No |
| HD | Minions | MA | Yes |
| HD | Minions | MA | Yes |
| HD | Minions | MA | Yes |
| HD | Minions | MA | Yes |
| 4K | Minions | iTunes | Yes |
| 4K | Minions | iTunes | Yes |
| 4K | Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| HD | Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| 4K | Mission Impossible: Fallout | iTunes | No |
| HD | Mission Impossible: Fallout | VUDU | No |
| 4K | Moana | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| 4K | Moana | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| HD | Moana | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Moana | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Moana | Google-Play | Yes |
| 4K | Monster Trucks | iTunes | No |
| 4K | Monster Trucks | iTunes | No |
| HD | Monster Trucks | VUDU | No |
| HD | Mr. Peabody and Sherman | MA | Yes |
| HD | Mr. Peabody and Sherman | MA | Yes |
| HD | Mr. Peabody and Sherman | MA | Yes |
| 4K | Mulan (Animated) | MA | Yes |
| HD | Mulan (Animated) | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Mulan (Live Action) | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Neighbors | iTunes | Yes |
| 4K/HD | Night at the Museum 1(HD),2(HD),3(4KiT) | MA/MA/4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| 4K | Night at the Museum 3: Secret of the Tomb | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| 4K | Night at the Museum 3: Secret of the Tomb | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| HD | Noah | iTunes | No |
| HD | Norm of the North | iTunes | No |
| HD | Norm of the North | iTunes | No |
| HD | Norm of the North | VUDU | No |
| 4K | Now You See Me | iTunes | No |
| 4K | Oblivion | iTunes | Yes |
| 4K | Oblivion | iTunes | Yes |
| 4K | Office Christmas Party | iTunes | No |
| HD | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | MA | Yes |
| HD | Open Road | MA | Yes |
| SD | Oranges, The | iTunes | Yes |
| HD | Other Woman, The | MA | Yes |
| HD | Overdrive | iTunes | No |
| 4K | Overlord | iTunes | No |
| HD | Overlord | VUDU | No |
| HD | Paranormal Activity 4 (Extended?) | iTunes | No |
| HD | Paranorman | iTunes | Yes** |
| HD | Paranorman | iTunes | Yes** |
| HD | Paranorman | iTunes | Yes** |
| SD | Parental Guidance | iTunes | Yes |
| SD | Parental Guidance | iTunes | Yes |
| 4K | Peanuts Movie | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| SD | Percy Jackson Sea of Monsters | iTunes | Yes |
| 4K | Pet Sematary (2019) | iTunes | No |
| 4K | Pet Sematary (2019) | iTunes | No |
| HD | Pete's Dragon | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Pirate Fairy | Google-Play | Yes |
| 4K | Pitch Perfect 1 | iTunes | Yes |
| HD | Pitch Perfect 1 | MA | Yes |
| HD | Pitch Perfect 1 | MA | Yes |
| HD | Pitch Perfect 1 | MA | Yes |
| HD | Pitch Perfect 2 | MA | Yes |
| HD | Pitch Perfect 2 | MA | Yes |
| HD | Pitch Perfect 2 | MA | Yes |
| 4K | Pitch Perfect 2 | iTunes | Yes |
| 4K | Pitch Perfect 2 | iTunes | Yes |
| 4K | Pitch Perfect 2 | iTunes | Yes |
| HD | Planes | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Planes | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Planes | MA | Yes |
| HD | Planes | MA | Yes |
| HD | Planes | MA | Yes |
| HD | Planes | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Planes | Google-Play | Yes |
| 4K | Playing with Fire | iTunes | No |
| 4K | Playing with Fire | iTunes | No |
| HD | Playing with Fire | VUDU | No |
| HD | Predator, The (2018) | MA | Yes |
| SD | Predators | iTunes | Yes |
| HD | Prometheus | MA | Yes |
| HD | Quantum of Solace | VUDU | No |
| 4K | Raya and the Last Dragon | MA | Yes |
| HD | Raya and the Last Dragon | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Raya and the Last Dragon | Google-Play | Yes |
| 4K | Red 2 | iTunes | No |
| 4K | Red 2 | iTunes | No |
| HD | Red 2 | VUDU | No |
| SD | Red 2 | VUDU | No |
| HD | Red Dawn | iTunes | No |
| HD | Resident Evil: Retribution | MA | Yes |
| HD | Resident Evil: Retribution | MA | Yes |
| HD | Riddick | iTunes | Yes |
| HD | Rio | MA | Yes |
| HD | Robocop (2014) | VUDU | No |
| HD | Robocop (2014) | VUDU | No |
| HD | Ron's Gone Wrong | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Russell Madness | MA | Yes |
| HD | Safe House | iTunes | Yes |
| 4K | Secret Life of Pets | iTunes | Yes |
| 4K | Secret Life of Pets | iTunes | Yes |
| 4K | Secret Life of Pets | iTunes | Yes |
| 4K | Secret Life of Pets | iTunes | Yes |
| HD | Secret Life of Pets | MA | Yes |
| HD | Secret Life of Pets | MA | Yes |
| HD | Secret Life of Pets | MA | Yes |
| HD | Secret Life of Pets | MA | Yes |
| 4K | Selma | iTunes | No |
| 4K | Serenity (2005) | iTunes | Yes |
| 4K | Serenity (2005) | MA | Yes |
| HD | Shack, The | iTunes | No |
| HD | Shack, The | iTunes | No |
| HD | Shang Chi | Google-Play | Yes |
| 4K | Shaun of the Dead | iTunes | Yes |
| HD | Shaun of the Dead | MA | Yes |
| 4K | Sicario | iTunes/VUDU | No |
| HD | Sing! | MA | Yes |
| HD | Skyfall | VUDU | No |
| HD | Skyfall | VUDU | No |
| HD | Skyfall | VUDU | No |
| SD | Skyfall | iTunes | No |
| HD | Smurfs 2, The | MA | Yes |
| 4K | Snake Eyes: GI Joe Origins | iTunes/VUDU | No |
| 4K | Snitch | iTunes | No |
| 4K | Spectre | 4K-iTunes/HD-VUDU | No |
| HD | Spider-Man (2002) | MA | Yes |
| HD | Spider-Man: Far From Home | MA | Yes |
| HD | Spider-Man: Homecoming | MA | Yes |
| HD | Spies in Disguise | MA | Yes |
| HD | Spies in Disguise | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water | iTunes | No |
| HD | Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water | VUDU | No |
| 4K | Star Trek: Beyond | iTunes | No |
| HD | Star Trek: Beyond | VUDU | No |
| 4K | Star Trek: Into Darkness | iTunes | No |
| HD | Star Trek: Into Darkness | VUDU | No |
| 4K | Star Wars: Force Awakens | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| 4K | Star Wars: Force Awakens | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| 4K | Star Wars: Force Awakens | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| HD | Star Wars: Force Awakens | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Star Wars: Force Awakens | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Star Wars: Force Awakens | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Star Wars: Force Awakens | Google-Play | Yes |
| 4K | Star Wars: Last Jedi | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| 4K | Star Wars: Rogue One | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| 4K | Star Wars: Rogue One | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| 4K | Star Wars: Rogue One | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| HD | Star Wars: Rogue One | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Star Wars: Rogue One | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Star Wars: Rogue One | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Star Wars: Rogue One | Google-Play | Yes |
| 4K | Star Wars: The Force Awakens | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| 4K | Star Wars: The Force Awakens | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| HD | Star Wars: The Force Awakens | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Star Wars: The Force Awakens | Google-Play | Yes |
| SD | Taken 2 | iTunes | Yes |
| 4K | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | iTunes/VUDU | No |
| 4K | The World's End | iTunes | Yes |
| HD | Thing, The (2011) | iTunes | Yes |
| HD | Think Like a Man | MA | Yes |
| SD | Think Like a Man | MA | Yes |
| HD | This is 40 | iTunes | Yes |
| 4K | Thor: Ragnarok | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| 4K | Thor: Ragnarok | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| HD | Thor: Ragnarok | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Thor: Ragnarok | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Thor: Ragnarok | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Toy Story 4 | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Trainwreck | iTunes | Yes |
| HD | Trolls | MA | Yes |
| HD | Trolls | MA | Yes |
| SD | Turbo | iTunes | Yes |
| HD | Unbroken | iTunes | Yes |
| 4K | Uncle Drew | 4K-iTunes/HD-VUDU | No |
| HD | Venom | MA | Yes |
| HD | Vow, The | MA | Yes |
| 4K | War for the Planet of the Apes | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| 4K | Warcraft | iTunes | Yes |
| 4K | Warcraft | iTunes | Yes |
| HD | Warcraft | MA | Yes |
| HD | Warcraft | MA | Yes |
| HD | Warcraft | MA | Yes |
| 4K | Warm Bodies | iTunes | No |
| 4K | Warm Bodies | iTunes | No |
| HD | Warm Bodies | VUDU | No |
| HD | Warm Bodies | VUDU | No |
| HD | Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo | Google-Play | Yes |
| HD | Wolf of Wall Street | VUDU | Yes |
| HD | Wolf of Wall Street | VUDU | Yes |
| SD | Wolverine, The | iTunes | Yes |
| SD | Wolverine, The | iTunes | Yes |
| SD | Wolverine, The | iTunes | Yes |
| SD | Wolverine, The | iTunes | Yes |
| HD | Wolverine, The (Extended Cut) | MA | Yes |
| HD | Wolverine, The (Extended Cut) | MA | Yes |
| HD | Woodlawn | iTunes | Yes |
| HD | X-Men 2 Pack: First Class & Days of Future Past | MA | Yes |
| 4K | X-Men: Apocalypse | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| 4K | X-Men: Apocalypse | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| 4K | X-Men: Days of Future Past | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| 4K | X-Men: Days of Future Past | 4K-iTunes/HD-MA | Yes |
| 4K | Yesterday | MA | Yes |
2023.06.06 04:25 dimochka23 No hot water indoors when outdoors water valve is open
My wife and I realized earlier today that when we turn on the water valve outside (connected to a hose to water the grass), we don't get hot water in the house until we turn it back off. If we turn the hot water on, the boiler does not sense a call to send hot water at all (does not show any errors). Can any of you propose what the problem might be and how we would go about fixing it? Not planning to DIY this, but would like to know what to expect.
A few items for context:
- home is 5.5 years old (we moved in 6 months ago), and therefore so is boiler
- city water
- boiler is Dunkirk DCC 150 tankless combi
- we have very hard water, and the previous owners didn't install a softener until a few months before the home was sold (there was some corrosion / rust / leaking which the inspector said to have been condensation, but very likely was more than that)
- our boiler stops sensing the call for hot water when the hot water faucet is only partially open; sometimes need to open it almost 100% to request hot water; we're not sure if it's our particular boiler issue or Dunkirk overall (last plumber said it's the brand)
- we had annual maintenance on the boiler a few months ago
Happy to answer other questions, send pictures, etc.
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A few items for context:
- home is 5.5 years old (we moved in 6 months ago), and therefore so is boiler
- city water
- boiler is Dunkirk DCC 150 tankless combi
- we have very hard water, and the previous owners didn't install a softener until a few months before the home was sold (there was some corrosion / rust / leaking which the inspector said to have been condensation, but very likely was more than that)
- our boiler stops sensing the call for hot water when the hot water faucet is only partially open; sometimes need to open it almost 100% to request hot water; we're not sure if it's our particular boiler issue or Dunkirk overall (last plumber said it's the brand)
- we had annual maintenance on the boiler a few months ago
Happy to answer other questions, send pictures, etc.
2023.06.06 04:12 CarAtunk817 Thoughts on 2023.
First of all. We were there in 21, and I think we were the only ones who had a good time. It was our first festival so maybe we don't know what a well run fest is.
Complaints.
Saturday the vibe was awesome. Sunday UK kids wanted to fight everyone to the front so they could GenZ and talk instead of watching the music. Why did you fight your way down to Limestone to face the other way to fight about football while music was on. Douche bags you're not that cool. Go home.
Acoustics near Limestone were off. Clearly had a lot of technical issues. Weird static, Guitars dropping out, sounded better at the entrance. Weird.
Overall. 9/10. Great success see y'all next year!!!
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- Zach killed it. I was looking for the post down about 180 days ago crying he was a headliner saying he didn't deserve it. I wonder if OP went this year. The energy on Saturday was all him, and he didn't disappoint. He also showed up on stage with two other artist on both days. I wonder if he thinks the same now? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--7tVUDMj3o
- Lines, water, food, bathrooms, and shade were all better. Even local medias biggest issue is ride shares/traffic/hotels. (Legit gripe, but also LEX isn't set up for that. RB literally added 1/5 of the total population to the city.) Would love to see better logistics if they continue at Red Mile.
- The Lineup was 100% my jam.
- Performance highlights.
- Marcus Mumford - Kansas City
- Nathaniel Ratliff - I'm on your side.
- Head and the Heart - Rivers and Roads (Bonus ZB duo too.)
- Weezer - My name is Jonas.
- Sierra Ferrel - Don't let me Down (Beatles cover)
- Nickle Creek - Light house tale
- Lol. Sheryl Crow dropping "This song is older then your mom"
- Zach - Oklahoma Smoke Show.
Complaints.
Saturday the vibe was awesome. Sunday UK kids wanted to fight everyone to the front so they could GenZ and talk instead of watching the music. Why did you fight your way down to Limestone to face the other way to fight about football while music was on. Douche bags you're not that cool. Go home.
Acoustics near Limestone were off. Clearly had a lot of technical issues. Weird static, Guitars dropping out, sounded better at the entrance. Weird.
Overall. 9/10. Great success see y'all next year!!!
2023.06.06 04:09 kmtwb I was tormented by a spirit during my first 2 years at University
In 2020, I moved over 6 hours away from my hometown in Southern Ontario to attend University up north. I moved into my down with my best friend from high school whom I had known for years. In this building, it is important to note that it has been around since the school was first built however it is frequently renovated and worked on because it more often than normal, catches fire (more details later).
So, to set the scene: it's 2020, mid-pandemic and I had just been discharged from the army. My best friend and I had applied for the same university major and had decided that if we got in that we would live together. Well, sure enough, we got in and the only dorm that could accommodate our room request (i.e. moving into the same apartment with separate bedrooms) was situated directly across from a hospice. and for those that don't know a hospice is a medical facility where people go when they are close to death to live out the end of their lives in as much comfort as possible. This hospice was the only view out of our small windows and was the only one in our area.
Now, as I mentioned earlier, the building frequently caught fire, but what was odd and worth mentioning about it, was that it only caught fire in apartment #5 on any given floor. My best friend and I lived on the 5th floor in the 5th apartment for 2 years even throughout the summer and fortunately, we never had a fire, but frequently found ourselves having to accommodate firefighters and other workers entering our rooms due to the smoke and water damage from various different fires from random floors directly above us. Along with my BFF, I had two other roommates who were very vocal about when they were home or not (we had a group chat), and for all these experiences they were never home. or even in the city for that matter. My BFF and I both got jobs working at a Lvl 1 Trauma Center as nightshift security and thus paranormal stuff didn't scare us as we frequently were forced to work in the morgue and even witness people die on a daily basis, with whole bunch of other things happening (maybe stories for another time).
The main experience that happened early on was when my BFF and I both awoke to hear someone going through our cupboards and garbage in the kitchen, which was right against my bedroom wall, thus making it super loud. it was about 1pm and because we were on night shift, it was our version of 1am. So, thinking my best friend had gotten up oddly early I went to talk to her, but when I opened my door there was no one. I woke her up quietly and we searched the entire apartment and hallways with whatever we could use as weapons. There was no one but everything was open, our fridge, the oven, drawers, and cabinets. As well, our garbage had been thrown across the room. All the breakers in our apartment had been switched off as well, which we didn't discover at first. It is important to mention that the only entry into our apartment, that being the front door, automatically locked when closed so it was most definitely locked 24/7. I called building security and no one had been seen on camera entering our dorm except for my BFF and me around 8am after we had gotten off work at the hospital. there was no explanation for who had done this but still, they took our statements and said they'd do patrols, they never found more information.
Over 3 months later, it was summer and my BFF and I had been 2 of 11 people left in the building over the summer, with the rest being mostly just international students who could afford to do quarantine protocols again in September as it took 2 weeks. We were the only ones on our floor but regularly heard stomping outside in the hall but neither of us never saw anyone through our peephole or even when we often heard knocks on the front door, however when we checked, no one every time. So aside from the knocking and stomping, super quiet summer except for one morning. I'll never forget it it shook us to the bone.
It was 10am and my roommate and I were asleep after work. I never locked my bedroom door as my bff loved to come in and hang all the time but for some reason, I locked it that entire week. and good thing too because I awoke to frantic and I mean FRANTIC knocking- no pounding on my bedroom door. I was obviously super disoriented as I had just finished a 12 hour shift a few hours earlier, but I saw two dark shadows under the door resembling feet. I figured my bff needed something and woke up but I called out before getting up because I was annoyed to be awake this early. The feet stayed unmoving but the knocking stopped. with a heavy sigh, I got up threw on a sweater and checked the time (it was around 10am), and went to open the door, with the shadows still there I assumed it was my bff. When I put my hand on the handle to unlock it, I heard a thud, and then, worried if my bff had fallen, I threw the door open to see my front door closing as if someone was just leaving. I ran over and saw a completely black figure turn the corner. I followed (my security guard instincts kicking in) but when I turned the corner, nothing. I went back and my roommate asked why I was knocking on the walls like that, she heard it from inside my room on an adjoining shared wall to both our bedrooms. we again called security but only I was seen chasing after nothing on the cameras. After my boyfriend, a firefighter started sleeping over frequently because were both spooked, the fires stopped, and most other things did too. We never had another incident on this level. We moved out after 2 years there and beyond hearing the usual bang, no other issues.
edit: also important detail I forgot to add is that we had an anti-break-in security stick against our front door while we slept, and they were conveniently moved into the living room or against the wall after these events. we also tested the stick to see if it actually worked and trust me even my firefighter boyfriend and his bff couldn't force their way in
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So, to set the scene: it's 2020, mid-pandemic and I had just been discharged from the army. My best friend and I had applied for the same university major and had decided that if we got in that we would live together. Well, sure enough, we got in and the only dorm that could accommodate our room request (i.e. moving into the same apartment with separate bedrooms) was situated directly across from a hospice. and for those that don't know a hospice is a medical facility where people go when they are close to death to live out the end of their lives in as much comfort as possible. This hospice was the only view out of our small windows and was the only one in our area.
Now, as I mentioned earlier, the building frequently caught fire, but what was odd and worth mentioning about it, was that it only caught fire in apartment #5 on any given floor. My best friend and I lived on the 5th floor in the 5th apartment for 2 years even throughout the summer and fortunately, we never had a fire, but frequently found ourselves having to accommodate firefighters and other workers entering our rooms due to the smoke and water damage from various different fires from random floors directly above us. Along with my BFF, I had two other roommates who were very vocal about when they were home or not (we had a group chat), and for all these experiences they were never home. or even in the city for that matter. My BFF and I both got jobs working at a Lvl 1 Trauma Center as nightshift security and thus paranormal stuff didn't scare us as we frequently were forced to work in the morgue and even witness people die on a daily basis, with whole bunch of other things happening (maybe stories for another time).
The main experience that happened early on was when my BFF and I both awoke to hear someone going through our cupboards and garbage in the kitchen, which was right against my bedroom wall, thus making it super loud. it was about 1pm and because we were on night shift, it was our version of 1am. So, thinking my best friend had gotten up oddly early I went to talk to her, but when I opened my door there was no one. I woke her up quietly and we searched the entire apartment and hallways with whatever we could use as weapons. There was no one but everything was open, our fridge, the oven, drawers, and cabinets. As well, our garbage had been thrown across the room. All the breakers in our apartment had been switched off as well, which we didn't discover at first. It is important to mention that the only entry into our apartment, that being the front door, automatically locked when closed so it was most definitely locked 24/7. I called building security and no one had been seen on camera entering our dorm except for my BFF and me around 8am after we had gotten off work at the hospital. there was no explanation for who had done this but still, they took our statements and said they'd do patrols, they never found more information.
Over 3 months later, it was summer and my BFF and I had been 2 of 11 people left in the building over the summer, with the rest being mostly just international students who could afford to do quarantine protocols again in September as it took 2 weeks. We were the only ones on our floor but regularly heard stomping outside in the hall but neither of us never saw anyone through our peephole or even when we often heard knocks on the front door, however when we checked, no one every time. So aside from the knocking and stomping, super quiet summer except for one morning. I'll never forget it it shook us to the bone.
It was 10am and my roommate and I were asleep after work. I never locked my bedroom door as my bff loved to come in and hang all the time but for some reason, I locked it that entire week. and good thing too because I awoke to frantic and I mean FRANTIC knocking- no pounding on my bedroom door. I was obviously super disoriented as I had just finished a 12 hour shift a few hours earlier, but I saw two dark shadows under the door resembling feet. I figured my bff needed something and woke up but I called out before getting up because I was annoyed to be awake this early. The feet stayed unmoving but the knocking stopped. with a heavy sigh, I got up threw on a sweater and checked the time (it was around 10am), and went to open the door, with the shadows still there I assumed it was my bff. When I put my hand on the handle to unlock it, I heard a thud, and then, worried if my bff had fallen, I threw the door open to see my front door closing as if someone was just leaving. I ran over and saw a completely black figure turn the corner. I followed (my security guard instincts kicking in) but when I turned the corner, nothing. I went back and my roommate asked why I was knocking on the walls like that, she heard it from inside my room on an adjoining shared wall to both our bedrooms. we again called security but only I was seen chasing after nothing on the cameras. After my boyfriend, a firefighter started sleeping over frequently because were both spooked, the fires stopped, and most other things did too. We never had another incident on this level. We moved out after 2 years there and beyond hearing the usual bang, no other issues.
edit: also important detail I forgot to add is that we had an anti-break-in security stick against our front door while we slept, and they were conveniently moved into the living room or against the wall after these events. we also tested the stick to see if it actually worked and trust me even my firefighter boyfriend and his bff couldn't force their way in
2023.06.06 04:06 Nomyad777 [PI] The Monster Kingdom (2/2)
Part 1
"When we Firmas were pushed north into the Pyrimian mountain valley after the death of their chain of command, they settled down and instead of focusing on expansion focused on necessities like food. With co-operation from the first goblins and other creative minds that joined the First Wave of the migration, they managed to grow food over the summer in first-iteration greenhouses. "My parents were part of the first wave. They were old for a couple, but joined the Firma clan in founding a government and keeping the area safe, as well as spreading word. The dragonic gods didn't like their behavior at all; cities burning is more entertainment for them, so they were the first to be Forsaken in this era, publicly, in the main square of the old Dragonic Capital. "However, that backfired, with more and more dragons tired of running around and fighting all the time, they decided to settle down in a place where nobody would bother them; now that they had this place given to them, and the Second Wave started. Basically the entirety of the dragonic clans and several other species amassed in this wave, and the Sapient Unification Government held. "My parents had an egg in one of the more northern caves, right on the coast. Then, the third wave arrived and everything went downhill from there. "The Unification Wars were fought between those who wanted one government to cover this region, and those who wanted governments segregated by species. This would have been fine if the secessionists didn't step in on people's behalves, without their consent; it took fifteen years of war for the war to end. Millions died and some species like the Snow Fox beastpeople almost went extinct. My parent were part of the death wave. "The war evolved so rapidly it was impossible for a commander to last more than two months. It started with sticks and stones and within a month there were arrow volleys. A year saw guns, two tanks, three battleships, four planes. Bombs, bigger bullets, bigger guns, bigger bombs. "In the last few months of the war, the first nuclear devices were used, creating miniature stars on the land with immense destructive potential unleashed. It ended with mutually assured destruction protocols being activated, and when all was said and done the land was a snow-fallen irradiated dustball. "It took years for the survivors to pick up the remnants of our short-lived civilization and restart it into the Terra Firma Sapience Union. All the time, my egg didn't hatch because I had no incubator, but didn't die thanks to my ice type. It was located close enough to a mana vein where I just... absorbed the entire vein. When the cave was found by explorers following maps for my parents den, all they found was my egg glowing brighter than Sunstones. "I was taken to an incubation facility in Cellyia, one of the bigger cities. There I hatched, and after more than one test I grew. My growth was still... affected by the time without an incubator, so my already slow growth stopped after fifty years instead of continuing to infinity. And then I took some magic courses, did my best to drain my mana reserves, and settled down here, well away from... the bustle of Cellyia. It never quite felt like a home, you know. It was a good place to grow up, don't get me wrong, but I like it here better. Remote, and in the same place my parents met for the first time. As much as I can tell, anyway; a number of records were destroyed in the Unification War. "When your heroes continued to come up here, I would be the one on first guard. Damming a river, I used water magic to break it. Trying to destroy some transit infrastructure, I would be the first one to either fake it, finish it off, or lure them away. When your latest one decided to head for Cellyia, it was out of my range for such activities. I shadowed the party on the way and let others take care of it. "I never thought that your 'heroes' would be heartless enough to burn what they were told and even acknowledged as a hospital with patients inside. A library and museum with most of our pre-unification works inside. An orphanage, a school... an entire neighborhood of ten thousand citizens' homes. What for? To try to kill just one of us. "We... couldn't take that kind of behavior. Cellyia might have not been the best place for someone with my personality to grow up, especially without parental figures, but that orphanage still had some good memories. An all-citizens vote was called, an all-citizens vote was passed, and we started a counter-offensive military campaign into your Civilization Nations. We've been waiting for you elves, leaders of the Civilized Nations, to advance your society; it's been seven hundred years, all the most you've done is grow your population and add an extra floor to your townhomes. "So we're going to do it for you. You ran our patience down, so we're going to change your society for you. Is it a repeat of the Unification War? I don't think so, given that you Civilized Nations never rescinded the declaration of war against us 'monsters' over two thousand years ago; one that you still follow through on to this day. "But that isn't the end of my story. "When the gods forsook us, they tried to pry away our magic, our land, and our lives. So we defended. Space radars monitor their movements on the mortal plane. There's so many more technical details I can go into. All I can tell you is, at one point, the old god of Dragonic Princess-kidnapping; yes, they were a god; they came and asked us to restart worshiping them. "That went over as well as you'd expect, and the next thing that happened... was that I absorbed her mana and powers. Technically, I am an undefined god, and... at this point, I'm afraid to get a definition. "What if it's something I don't like? Something evil, immoral... something my parents, the leaders of the Second Wave, wouldn't be proud of? What if... what if it kills me? Everyone hates me? I'd no longer be free... "So my solution was to hide. Here, in a mountain cave in the middle of nowhere. This is my life, all of it... and I don't know where to go from here." ----- "So... you're a god?" I asked. I couldn't think of another question to ask. "Yes and no." The cat replied. It did nothing to satisfy my fearful curiosity. How could one both be and not be a god? "Princess-kidnapping was a... niche god, rarely prayed to by still enough to be, you know, and actual deity. So her mana ran out first, and most of it dissipated back into the environment yada yada yada, but like the sponge my mana reserves are, I sucked more of it up than I should have; enough to had just a slight touch of divine control. On par with a low-level demigod. If I was omnipresent, I'd solve me problems with a snap of my claws, and then I wouldn't be hiding from my problems here." "If your powers came from a god, how are yours undefined?" My mind was seeking knowledge now. I was a mage, after all, and this was more than just the opportunity of a lifetime; it was the opportunity of a aeon. "Because I absorbed her essence from the environment before it had the chance to fully dissipate, but still late enough where it was no longer hers." Vixie shrugged "Or something like that, mana gets weird sometimes. All that matters now is my stockpile is slowly increasing its grow rate, which gets annoying pretty fast." "Annoying?" The cat laughed again. "Do you think this is all of my baseline reserve? Half of the reason I stay away from the rest of society is because the last time someone with multiple aura got involved with politics..." She trailed off, and then let another, this time impeccably cast illusion fall. The air around her was burnt crisp with the power of several mandatory auras in her current small size. Twelve tails flicked behind her back, eleven of them made of energy. Floating specs of light, some smaller while others the size of ice crystals surrounded the air around her. The six orbs on her back were joined by six more, and were attached to a ring. Her head had two halos, and her entire body was engraved with glowing lines. If she before radiated power, now she was made of it. The lights on the cave's ceiling flickered as more and more of the illusion fell away. Geometric shapes orbiting her body, a platform made of mana at her feet, lightning whizzing between all sorts of objects. Finally, it was gone, and the cat that stared at me with big, sad, glowing blue eyes had told me her deepest secret. As soon as it had started, the illusion repaired itself, and before me was one cat, a halo, six orbs, two crystals, and two mana tails. I did the second most instinctive thing when it came to seeing a cat. I pulled her in for a hug. There was a quickly quieted hiss as she squirmed a bit in my grip, trying to get more comfortable, before letting herself get stroked by me. Several images flashed before my eyes, and a tear came out of mine. We had gone to war against the less lucky sapients on our world, and were now paying the price. It felt like hours, but then my stomach growled, reminding me I hadn't eaten in literal days. Vixie shot out of my grip and led the way down into the cave. I followed, and soon enough I was eating some salted crackers with dried meat and cheese while Vixie moved around between other caves. "What are you doing?" I asked her between bites. "Packing," She replied. "Why?" "It's time I got out of here and, to follow the phrase, touched some grass." ----- It took three days for the elf, whose name was Nick, to recover enough to be able to make the journey to Cellyia. In those three days, I realized just how - and why - the Civilized Races looked at us the way they did. For starters, I'd forgotten just how many things ran on electricity, let alone other, more complicated mechanics. Pressurized water, instant hot water, even sinks, showers, and toilets were all completely unknown to the 'civilized races.' Ah, yes. Civilized without toilet paper. Bitter ramblings about the people who set off the chain reaction of events that killed my family aside, those were the second longest three days of my life; the first was my thirteenth birthday so I could get a personal HUD and social media. I was also a mess of thoughts. The elf had shown me, over the course of the three days - aside from the two-minute get-my-life-together moment - that I couldn't hide from my problems forever, or they would team up and try to hunt me. Hence my new, reluctant guest from the overflowing hospital they had oh-so-nicely delivered to my door. I had words for the medical staff. And I was also a mess of thoughts. Did I mention that one already. In all seriousness, Nick adapted to electronics pretty well. All I had to do was explain what it was, what it did, and file it under the name of science. It took an impressive four minutes of rambling about quantum mechanics before Vick realized that he was in way over his head asking how the 'magic rock that can half-think with bottled lightning' worked. He backed out when I yanked a textbook from my knowledge hoard and flipped through the pages to the start to explain how quantum superposition affected the set of particles it was entangled to. Fun. Finding out what toothbrushes were took some convincing, but soon the elf's teeth started to recover from lack of proper dental care. Food was easier than I expected, and Vick was pretty accepting of whatever I tossed on his plate. Except for artichokes, for some reason he hated those. Over the three days we bonded, and Nick got pretty used to life in my home. On the second day I moved him to the guest bedroom I had built but never maintained, but one wave of my paw and a splurge of magic later that was solved. "Why don't you use magic more often?" Nick asked. I explained that was much as I wanted to burn my reserves like they were a forest before a forest fire, the mental strain was tough without learning proper casting, which requires one to drain their reserves to practice wielding physical willpower. That meant that I was caught in an infinite loop of negativity, so I could only get away with a couple spells a day before the mental exhaustion metaphorically turned my brain to mush. On the morning of the fourth day, we left. Honestly, Nick could have left on the first day but I wanted him to be able to have the stamina to walk around for hours on end with me in Cellyia. Either way, as long as he kept by me it would be fine. There was a small population of elves, humans, and dwarves who had come up to the TFSU for one reason or another and never left, which meant that he wouldn't be too far out of place. My plan, instead of just flying into the Cellyia while steering clear of the airport, was to make it to the closest town, Lymian, and take a train from there north to Union Station. It would dump us a bit further downtown than I liked, but Cellyia was built in levels, and I could take the footpath level to wherever I needed. All said and done and one passenger seat clipped to my saddlebag harness on my dragon form, I opened the door to my cave. And was promptly blocked by a wall of snow. "Right," I half-grumbled. I enjoyed tunneling through snow, but spray would make the entrance cave wet and that wouldn't dry for another couple days, and until it did the sound of drips would echo throughout my home like nothing else. Either way, checking one last time that Nick was secure, I prepared my wings and powered forward. The snow and ice parted for me, and then melted and fixed itself back together behind me as I power-swam through the snow the same way I would through water. After ten seconds of this, I burst up from the snow-covered mountain the snowstorm had left behind and started to change my heading for Lymian. It would take thirty minutes of flying to get there, as I was flying lower and slower than usual to take care of my passenger, but we soon enough turned the next mountain and saw the town. The elf gasped as he took in the sights, while I kept my eye out for more activity. It had been fortified as a military base due to the war, but not by much; the town was useless from a defensive standpoint anyway. I spotted the next train arriving from its winding track around the next mountain, which also meant that I was a bit early. The citizens of Lymian were used to my presence, as I usually stopped by to pick up supplies and occasionally a bit of correspondence. So when I landed on top of a several story tall snow pile, nobody cared. I let Nick out, and then transformed into my cat form and slid down the snow pile to start to jogging towards the train station. That's when I remembered that unlike me, elves without snowshoes do not float on snow. Oops. ----- The sights were more than pretty, more than beautiful... If the gods had rejected these people, they might have just as well done it out of jealousy. After I'd been dropped off on top of a snow mound, I immediately flattened myself on my stomach to not fall through. I'd been in more than enough snowstorms and snow mounds to know how it would go if I didn't. The cat climbed the hill below me, reappearing as naturally as the snow fell. "Sorry," Vixie apologized. "Here, let me..." I felt the snow melt around me and we descended down to the ground. Vixie glowed brightly, literally; Even using as little magic as reshaping some snow was threatening to cascade out of her form. We moved to the train station without incident, where the massive 'train cars' were loaded full of passengers and cargo and then taken off towards the big city. Apparently this was the same one the hero burned, but the 'rebuilding and recovery efforts we going well; no critical infrastructure had been severely damaged.' Either way, the ride there was uneventful. Stepping out into Union Station was different. It was like I had entered a busy capital marketplace or square, with everyone rushing in another direction to another place. I trailed after Vixie, where even the oddity of an elf in these mountains was outshone by just how many different races there were; beastkin and kobolds and orcs and undead all filled the streets in, well, peace. "The city is built in layers," Vixie explained. "So while yes, residential and office towers here in the capital were set alight, underground public transit, personal transit, and cargo and fluid transit was all untouched, so we were able to circle around the hero and put out the fires to be replaced with smoke generators, and a couple holograms snatched from a nearby cargo transport." I had no idea what any of that meant, only that the city also had extensive underground bits. The towers soared over everything, and lights covered every spare centimeter of the city. Vixie led me down market stalls, across plazas, through parks and through building lobbies. Eventually, the babble increased, something I didn't think was possible. "Welcome to the commercial district," Vixie said after she had pulled me into a corner away from the masses of people and crowds moving around. "We're right near the harbor, and when we get there I'm going to show you the lighthouse and explain the city a bit better." I almost lost track of Vixie as we continued to move through the throngs of people going about their daily lives. I saw a couple boarded up shops, but most of them were either undamaged or didn't care about the scorch marks on their shops. Jewelry boutiques and grocery stores lived in tandem with furniture stores and a massive slab of too-smooth-to-be-natural stone of a rock type I had never seen before. It was covered in signs depicting some kind of diagram. Right around the corner was the waterfront, with a massive promenade running alongside it. Snow-covered trees lined the walkways, and soon enough Vixie and I came out of the crowd near a large, tall abandoned - though no unmaintained - building. "Right then," Vixie explained and started climbing. "Here's the old lighthouse, it's perfect for seeing the city. They never officially decommissioned it, so it's still legal to climb and properly maintained, but they never use it either." "What was the large thing they were building?" I asked, clambering onto the next ladder. "That? Oh, that was the space elevator." Vixie replied. "The ground part has been completed for three years now, we're just waiting for the rest of the nanotubes to make it into orbit and then run a kevlar cord up, follow it down with the space-grade heavy-duty nanotube cord, and then that's that." "Space?..." I was confused. "When the gods said that they were higher than mortals, you took that both figuratively and literally; they live above you and in a higher dimension. In this case, space is where they live in terms of height, but not number of dimensions. We're working on interdimensional travel, and interuniversal too, but those aren't replicatable on any sort of large scale yet." Vixie shrugged. "Either way, it's not like I care." "But you have it?" I pressed. "Dimensional travel." "Yes." She replied. "Well," I let out a short laughed. "The Civilized Nations are screwed over." "That's putting it lightly," She climbed on top of the last platform and showed me the city against the setting sun, lit up brighter than the night sky and more lively than the earth. It was beautiful. I sat there and watched the city glow with a power not even the gods had, side by side with not a dragon or monster, but a friend. END. A/N: Rushed this last bit of the arc, but school is ramping up at the end of the year so it was either fast story or incomplete story, and I chose fast story. Happy pride month, everyone, and I hope to see more of you when I have more time.
Original Prompt: [WP] For as long as all the races have known, Dragons have been seen as violent, destructive creatures. After an attack on your village, you black out and find yourself in the den of a dragon. It's rather annoyed that that is how they're seen, and wants to prove that isn't the case.
u/Lycan_Jedi thank you for the prompt!
Part 1
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"When we Firmas were pushed north into the Pyrimian mountain valley after the death of their chain of command, they settled down and instead of focusing on expansion focused on necessities like food. With co-operation from the first goblins and other creative minds that joined the First Wave of the migration, they managed to grow food over the summer in first-iteration greenhouses. "My parents were part of the first wave. They were old for a couple, but joined the Firma clan in founding a government and keeping the area safe, as well as spreading word. The dragonic gods didn't like their behavior at all; cities burning is more entertainment for them, so they were the first to be Forsaken in this era, publicly, in the main square of the old Dragonic Capital. "However, that backfired, with more and more dragons tired of running around and fighting all the time, they decided to settle down in a place where nobody would bother them; now that they had this place given to them, and the Second Wave started. Basically the entirety of the dragonic clans and several other species amassed in this wave, and the Sapient Unification Government held. "My parents had an egg in one of the more northern caves, right on the coast. Then, the third wave arrived and everything went downhill from there. "The Unification Wars were fought between those who wanted one government to cover this region, and those who wanted governments segregated by species. This would have been fine if the secessionists didn't step in on people's behalves, without their consent; it took fifteen years of war for the war to end. Millions died and some species like the Snow Fox beastpeople almost went extinct. My parent were part of the death wave. "The war evolved so rapidly it was impossible for a commander to last more than two months. It started with sticks and stones and within a month there were arrow volleys. A year saw guns, two tanks, three battleships, four planes. Bombs, bigger bullets, bigger guns, bigger bombs. "In the last few months of the war, the first nuclear devices were used, creating miniature stars on the land with immense destructive potential unleashed. It ended with mutually assured destruction protocols being activated, and when all was said and done the land was a snow-fallen irradiated dustball. "It took years for the survivors to pick up the remnants of our short-lived civilization and restart it into the Terra Firma Sapience Union. All the time, my egg didn't hatch because I had no incubator, but didn't die thanks to my ice type. It was located close enough to a mana vein where I just... absorbed the entire vein. When the cave was found by explorers following maps for my parents den, all they found was my egg glowing brighter than Sunstones. "I was taken to an incubation facility in Cellyia, one of the bigger cities. There I hatched, and after more than one test I grew. My growth was still... affected by the time without an incubator, so my already slow growth stopped after fifty years instead of continuing to infinity. And then I took some magic courses, did my best to drain my mana reserves, and settled down here, well away from... the bustle of Cellyia. It never quite felt like a home, you know. It was a good place to grow up, don't get me wrong, but I like it here better. Remote, and in the same place my parents met for the first time. As much as I can tell, anyway; a number of records were destroyed in the Unification War. "When your heroes continued to come up here, I would be the one on first guard. Damming a river, I used water magic to break it. Trying to destroy some transit infrastructure, I would be the first one to either fake it, finish it off, or lure them away. When your latest one decided to head for Cellyia, it was out of my range for such activities. I shadowed the party on the way and let others take care of it. "I never thought that your 'heroes' would be heartless enough to burn what they were told and even acknowledged as a hospital with patients inside. A library and museum with most of our pre-unification works inside. An orphanage, a school... an entire neighborhood of ten thousand citizens' homes. What for? To try to kill just one of us. "We... couldn't take that kind of behavior. Cellyia might have not been the best place for someone with my personality to grow up, especially without parental figures, but that orphanage still had some good memories. An all-citizens vote was called, an all-citizens vote was passed, and we started a counter-offensive military campaign into your Civilization Nations. We've been waiting for you elves, leaders of the Civilized Nations, to advance your society; it's been seven hundred years, all the most you've done is grow your population and add an extra floor to your townhomes. "So we're going to do it for you. You ran our patience down, so we're going to change your society for you. Is it a repeat of the Unification War? I don't think so, given that you Civilized Nations never rescinded the declaration of war against us 'monsters' over two thousand years ago; one that you still follow through on to this day. "But that isn't the end of my story. "When the gods forsook us, they tried to pry away our magic, our land, and our lives. So we defended. Space radars monitor their movements on the mortal plane. There's so many more technical details I can go into. All I can tell you is, at one point, the old god of Dragonic Princess-kidnapping; yes, they were a god; they came and asked us to restart worshiping them. "That went over as well as you'd expect, and the next thing that happened... was that I absorbed her mana and powers. Technically, I am an undefined god, and... at this point, I'm afraid to get a definition. "What if it's something I don't like? Something evil, immoral... something my parents, the leaders of the Second Wave, wouldn't be proud of? What if... what if it kills me? Everyone hates me? I'd no longer be free... "So my solution was to hide. Here, in a mountain cave in the middle of nowhere. This is my life, all of it... and I don't know where to go from here." ----- "So... you're a god?" I asked. I couldn't think of another question to ask. "Yes and no." The cat replied. It did nothing to satisfy my fearful curiosity. How could one both be and not be a god? "Princess-kidnapping was a... niche god, rarely prayed to by still enough to be, you know, and actual deity. So her mana ran out first, and most of it dissipated back into the environment yada yada yada, but like the sponge my mana reserves are, I sucked more of it up than I should have; enough to had just a slight touch of divine control. On par with a low-level demigod. If I was omnipresent, I'd solve me problems with a snap of my claws, and then I wouldn't be hiding from my problems here." "If your powers came from a god, how are yours undefined?" My mind was seeking knowledge now. I was a mage, after all, and this was more than just the opportunity of a lifetime; it was the opportunity of a aeon. "Because I absorbed her essence from the environment before it had the chance to fully dissipate, but still late enough where it was no longer hers." Vixie shrugged "Or something like that, mana gets weird sometimes. All that matters now is my stockpile is slowly increasing its grow rate, which gets annoying pretty fast." "Annoying?" The cat laughed again. "Do you think this is all of my baseline reserve? Half of the reason I stay away from the rest of society is because the last time someone with multiple aura got involved with politics..." She trailed off, and then let another, this time impeccably cast illusion fall. The air around her was burnt crisp with the power of several mandatory auras in her current small size. Twelve tails flicked behind her back, eleven of them made of energy. Floating specs of light, some smaller while others the size of ice crystals surrounded the air around her. The six orbs on her back were joined by six more, and were attached to a ring. Her head had two halos, and her entire body was engraved with glowing lines. If she before radiated power, now she was made of it. The lights on the cave's ceiling flickered as more and more of the illusion fell away. Geometric shapes orbiting her body, a platform made of mana at her feet, lightning whizzing between all sorts of objects. Finally, it was gone, and the cat that stared at me with big, sad, glowing blue eyes had told me her deepest secret. As soon as it had started, the illusion repaired itself, and before me was one cat, a halo, six orbs, two crystals, and two mana tails. I did the second most instinctive thing when it came to seeing a cat. I pulled her in for a hug. There was a quickly quieted hiss as she squirmed a bit in my grip, trying to get more comfortable, before letting herself get stroked by me. Several images flashed before my eyes, and a tear came out of mine. We had gone to war against the less lucky sapients on our world, and were now paying the price. It felt like hours, but then my stomach growled, reminding me I hadn't eaten in literal days. Vixie shot out of my grip and led the way down into the cave. I followed, and soon enough I was eating some salted crackers with dried meat and cheese while Vixie moved around between other caves. "What are you doing?" I asked her between bites. "Packing," She replied. "Why?" "It's time I got out of here and, to follow the phrase, touched some grass." ----- It took three days for the elf, whose name was Nick, to recover enough to be able to make the journey to Cellyia. In those three days, I realized just how - and why - the Civilized Races looked at us the way they did. For starters, I'd forgotten just how many things ran on electricity, let alone other, more complicated mechanics. Pressurized water, instant hot water, even sinks, showers, and toilets were all completely unknown to the 'civilized races.' Ah, yes. Civilized without toilet paper. Bitter ramblings about the people who set off the chain reaction of events that killed my family aside, those were the second longest three days of my life; the first was my thirteenth birthday so I could get a personal HUD and social media. I was also a mess of thoughts. The elf had shown me, over the course of the three days - aside from the two-minute get-my-life-together moment - that I couldn't hide from my problems forever, or they would team up and try to hunt me. Hence my new, reluctant guest from the overflowing hospital they had oh-so-nicely delivered to my door. I had words for the medical staff. And I was also a mess of thoughts. Did I mention that one already. In all seriousness, Nick adapted to electronics pretty well. All I had to do was explain what it was, what it did, and file it under the name of science. It took an impressive four minutes of rambling about quantum mechanics before Vick realized that he was in way over his head asking how the 'magic rock that can half-think with bottled lightning' worked. He backed out when I yanked a textbook from my knowledge hoard and flipped through the pages to the start to explain how quantum superposition affected the set of particles it was entangled to. Fun. Finding out what toothbrushes were took some convincing, but soon the elf's teeth started to recover from lack of proper dental care. Food was easier than I expected, and Vick was pretty accepting of whatever I tossed on his plate. Except for artichokes, for some reason he hated those. Over the three days we bonded, and Nick got pretty used to life in my home. On the second day I moved him to the guest bedroom I had built but never maintained, but one wave of my paw and a splurge of magic later that was solved. "Why don't you use magic more often?" Nick asked. I explained that was much as I wanted to burn my reserves like they were a forest before a forest fire, the mental strain was tough without learning proper casting, which requires one to drain their reserves to practice wielding physical willpower. That meant that I was caught in an infinite loop of negativity, so I could only get away with a couple spells a day before the mental exhaustion metaphorically turned my brain to mush. On the morning of the fourth day, we left. Honestly, Nick could have left on the first day but I wanted him to be able to have the stamina to walk around for hours on end with me in Cellyia. Either way, as long as he kept by me it would be fine. There was a small population of elves, humans, and dwarves who had come up to the TFSU for one reason or another and never left, which meant that he wouldn't be too far out of place. My plan, instead of just flying into the Cellyia while steering clear of the airport, was to make it to the closest town, Lymian, and take a train from there north to Union Station. It would dump us a bit further downtown than I liked, but Cellyia was built in levels, and I could take the footpath level to wherever I needed. All said and done and one passenger seat clipped to my saddlebag harness on my dragon form, I opened the door to my cave. And was promptly blocked by a wall of snow. "Right," I half-grumbled. I enjoyed tunneling through snow, but spray would make the entrance cave wet and that wouldn't dry for another couple days, and until it did the sound of drips would echo throughout my home like nothing else. Either way, checking one last time that Nick was secure, I prepared my wings and powered forward. The snow and ice parted for me, and then melted and fixed itself back together behind me as I power-swam through the snow the same way I would through water. After ten seconds of this, I burst up from the snow-covered mountain the snowstorm had left behind and started to change my heading for Lymian. It would take thirty minutes of flying to get there, as I was flying lower and slower than usual to take care of my passenger, but we soon enough turned the next mountain and saw the town. The elf gasped as he took in the sights, while I kept my eye out for more activity. It had been fortified as a military base due to the war, but not by much; the town was useless from a defensive standpoint anyway. I spotted the next train arriving from its winding track around the next mountain, which also meant that I was a bit early. The citizens of Lymian were used to my presence, as I usually stopped by to pick up supplies and occasionally a bit of correspondence. So when I landed on top of a several story tall snow pile, nobody cared. I let Nick out, and then transformed into my cat form and slid down the snow pile to start to jogging towards the train station. That's when I remembered that unlike me, elves without snowshoes do not float on snow. Oops. ----- The sights were more than pretty, more than beautiful... If the gods had rejected these people, they might have just as well done it out of jealousy. After I'd been dropped off on top of a snow mound, I immediately flattened myself on my stomach to not fall through. I'd been in more than enough snowstorms and snow mounds to know how it would go if I didn't. The cat climbed the hill below me, reappearing as naturally as the snow fell. "Sorry," Vixie apologized. "Here, let me..." I felt the snow melt around me and we descended down to the ground. Vixie glowed brightly, literally; Even using as little magic as reshaping some snow was threatening to cascade out of her form. We moved to the train station without incident, where the massive 'train cars' were loaded full of passengers and cargo and then taken off towards the big city. Apparently this was the same one the hero burned, but the 'rebuilding and recovery efforts we going well; no critical infrastructure had been severely damaged.' Either way, the ride there was uneventful. Stepping out into Union Station was different. It was like I had entered a busy capital marketplace or square, with everyone rushing in another direction to another place. I trailed after Vixie, where even the oddity of an elf in these mountains was outshone by just how many different races there were; beastkin and kobolds and orcs and undead all filled the streets in, well, peace. "The city is built in layers," Vixie explained. "So while yes, residential and office towers here in the capital were set alight, underground public transit, personal transit, and cargo and fluid transit was all untouched, so we were able to circle around the hero and put out the fires to be replaced with smoke generators, and a couple holograms snatched from a nearby cargo transport." I had no idea what any of that meant, only that the city also had extensive underground bits. The towers soared over everything, and lights covered every spare centimeter of the city. Vixie led me down market stalls, across plazas, through parks and through building lobbies. Eventually, the babble increased, something I didn't think was possible. "Welcome to the commercial district," Vixie said after she had pulled me into a corner away from the masses of people and crowds moving around. "We're right near the harbor, and when we get there I'm going to show you the lighthouse and explain the city a bit better." I almost lost track of Vixie as we continued to move through the throngs of people going about their daily lives. I saw a couple boarded up shops, but most of them were either undamaged or didn't care about the scorch marks on their shops. Jewelry boutiques and grocery stores lived in tandem with furniture stores and a massive slab of too-smooth-to-be-natural stone of a rock type I had never seen before. It was covered in signs depicting some kind of diagram. Right around the corner was the waterfront, with a massive promenade running alongside it. Snow-covered trees lined the walkways, and soon enough Vixie and I came out of the crowd near a large, tall abandoned - though no unmaintained - building. "Right then," Vixie explained and started climbing. "Here's the old lighthouse, it's perfect for seeing the city. They never officially decommissioned it, so it's still legal to climb and properly maintained, but they never use it either." "What was the large thing they were building?" I asked, clambering onto the next ladder. "That? Oh, that was the space elevator." Vixie replied. "The ground part has been completed for three years now, we're just waiting for the rest of the nanotubes to make it into orbit and then run a kevlar cord up, follow it down with the space-grade heavy-duty nanotube cord, and then that's that." "Space?..." I was confused. "When the gods said that they were higher than mortals, you took that both figuratively and literally; they live above you and in a higher dimension. In this case, space is where they live in terms of height, but not number of dimensions. We're working on interdimensional travel, and interuniversal too, but those aren't replicatable on any sort of large scale yet." Vixie shrugged. "Either way, it's not like I care." "But you have it?" I pressed. "Dimensional travel." "Yes." She replied. "Well," I let out a short laughed. "The Civilized Nations are screwed over." "That's putting it lightly," She climbed on top of the last platform and showed me the city against the setting sun, lit up brighter than the night sky and more lively than the earth. It was beautiful. I sat there and watched the city glow with a power not even the gods had, side by side with not a dragon or monster, but a friend. END. A/N: Rushed this last bit of the arc, but school is ramping up at the end of the year so it was either fast story or incomplete story, and I chose fast story. Happy pride month, everyone, and I hope to see more of you when I have more time.
Original Prompt: [WP] For as long as all the races have known, Dragons have been seen as violent, destructive creatures. After an attack on your village, you black out and find yourself in the den of a dragon. It's rather annoyed that that is how they're seen, and wants to prove that isn't the case.
u/Lycan_Jedi thank you for the prompt!
Part 1
2023.06.06 04:03 Nomyad777 [PI] The Monster Kingdom (1/2)
Part 2
If you travel far enough North on the map, well above where the Civilized Nations stop because no crops grow, you'll find a mountain range. Crossing this range leads to the Monster Kingdom, though for some reason they prefer the name 'TFSU.' Yes, they prefer. The literal forces of anarchy and chaos in the universe have a government. However, ignoring that whole thing, the Monster Kingdom is fine. No armies march on them, mostly because of supply and logistical issues. The Monsters never say how they grow their own food, but given that they don't trade and millions of kobolds worth of food don't go missing every day, it's safe to say they make their own. Now, that doesn't stop the Civilized Nations to send one hero a decade to 'keep them in check.' Four decades ago, the hero closed off a mountain pass, which was supposed to cause a massive flood. Four days later, it was cleared, and the only thing to show for it were the cities that glow like the sun at night. However, yesterday, the Hero returned having burnt one of the bigger cities down. It was empty of all monsters, but the act was the first real damage they had taken in seven hundred years, since their founding. For seven hundred years, the TFSU have taken the beating of seventy heroes and simply moved on. But now. Now, millions of kobolds make up heavy 'machinery' units that march in armored, self-moving caridges that spit fire and metal. Thousands of beastpeople make up scouting and light infantry ranks. The TFSU use hellish 'guns' that hit harder than a catapult from kilometers away, all in a single 'bullet' not the size of a human's thumb. Metal birds and dragonflies join dragons as they assault cities. We poke the very literal sleeping dragon in the eye. Yet the armies don't do much. They march for our capitals and leaders, but on the way our civilians live. Surendees live. People go about their daily lives without too much change. Of course, that fact didn't stop the front line from finally crashing over my small village, located so close to the pass for a while we thought they the monsters had bypassed us entirely. The Civilized Nations had decided to send an entire legion to prevent the Monsters from getting across a nearby canyon pass. We were hit with an air-based assault with only dragons and metal dragonflies, our balista uselessly demolished by pillars of metal and flame thrown out of the metal dragonflies. I blacked out when the legion managed to shoot enough arrows to take down one of the dragonflies. I remember it crashing down onto my house... and then nothing.
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The elf stirred as they woke up. I'd been raised in the Terra Firma Sapience Union, so I was... less than familiar with the clothing and lifestyle the Southerners used. The elf groaned again, before their eyes shot open and they looked around, quickly settling on my frame. "A-Are you going to kill me now?" They asked, their voice shaken with fear. I let out a laugh. "If I wanted you dead, you'd already be dead." I decided to transmorph into my secondary form - a cat - to help the conversation go better. In a land where humans lived to forty, elves only lived to a hundred, and that meant that even I was older than this elf, and they were no older than thirty. The elf, to their credit, quickly figured out I wasn't pulling any mindgames. I'd heard tales from my relatives before the Kobolds founded the TFSU. People, especially when panicked, usual acted with more than enough stupidity to make the situation worse. "Where am I?" The elf asked. Their tone told me that they were still suspicious, but it wasn't outright denial of the situation. "My home," I answered bluntly. "Your village tried to fight our ground forces when they moved in, so most of them are currently under house arrest." Still in my cat form, I created a portal into my storage cavern and reached my arm through, while summoning a lab coat around my shoulders and glasses. It was a trick I had only learned to do recently. "Let's see..." I found the clipboard and brought it out, flipping to the elft's page and taping the pen against the paper. "You suffered a collapsed lung, severe burns on the right side of your body, three broken ribs and two fractured ones, shattered three wrist bones, three breaks in your right upper arm and another two in your lower arm, and on the left side you have another fractured rib and three broken fingers. Your left leg was shattered and your left foot was completely torn up. Healing magic stabilized you and surgery did the rest. You've been comatose for the past three days, and was brought to my home yesterday due to a surge in hospital patients from the seige of Trembolorne. "In terms of organ damage, that was also severe. A busted kidney, I already mentioned a collapsed lung, and your entire digestive system was... well, pulverized would be putting it lightly. Also, unrelated to the incident with the helicopter, you had cancer in your liver and kidney. "In terms of medical treatment, you've been given an IV line for the past couple days and several painkillers, and you underwent four separate surgeries. We reconstructed your organs, welded your bones to metal plates, and used a genetic printer to replace your skin. You're lucky to have gotten time with the genetic printer in the first place, you know; those things are expensive, and I mean expensive to run. Though it's all billed on the government anyway, but that just means that they'll only run it if they have to." The elf sat up in bed looking at me as I just stood on two paws on the cave floor. "Right, sorry, you wouldn't understand most of that." I sheepishly scratched the back of my head with my right paw. "Um... put this way, you were crushed by debris and we basically reconstructed your body before you died. So not necromancy, though you did get close to needing more advanced magical treatment." "Oh," The elf replied. The cat thing seemed to have helped, because they were no longer stuttering with their single word response. "Um... do you want anything to drink?" I tried to kickstart a conversation. "Where am I?" The elf asked again. I was silent for a second. "My home? It's right on the edge of TFSU territory, one of the southernmost places you can be while still being with the recognized borders. I chose this place because I like to fly out in the summer over the flowers in the forest at the foot of the mountains. Your village is a couple hour dragon-flight time away." "Mmmhm." The elf commented halfheartedly. "OK, um... who are you?" "My dragonic name isn't something most can pronounce, so my public name is just Vixie Remminie." I answered. "What's yours?"
The elf's eyes narrowed. "Why do you want to know my name." I blinked. "Because... It's a name? I'm not a Fey, you know, it's not like I can tie ancient demons to your soul and call it a prank or something ridiculous like that. Besides, you asked for mine; now I get to ask for yours." "And who says you won't just burn my village to the ground and eat me right now!?!" The elf suddenly burst out. "You monsters ruin everything! You trespass on our land, take our resources, and kill our people! All we did was try to defend ourselv-" I cut him off, and poured just a bit of attention in giving myself an aura. Blue fire licked the bottom of my vision as I rebuttaled his point. "Don't forget, you stole the land from us. We were the ones living in the wild when you razed our forests and grew crops. We couldn't even purchase land to live on! So yes, we stole what we could to survive and those who didn't starved and died! And when all was said and done, you tried to kill us and turned it into a war, one where we had no choice but to kill you back. And when we found someplace to run, a spot to hide and do our own thing with our own land? You blistering idiots sent you 'courageous heroes' to try and kill us! What for? Nothing! Just your stupid, moronic fear making, forcing you to decide to 'kill the big thing over there!' We can't even have freaking farmland, we have to grow it all in hydroponic farms and harvest thousand-year-old vines out of caves because this is all we have!" I realized that my aura was burning fully and scorching the ground around me. I let out a long sigh, and it died down. Several memories flashed through my head, but I pushed them away. "Apologies, my parents are still a... sensitive topic for me. It would be best if we just stayed away from talking about the war until the hospital has room for more patients again." "Yeah?" The elf was still enraged. Even sitting down, they were still trying to construct an argument. "You parents who killed how many? Your family killed how many more? You dragons, you monsters are nothing more than one large grouping of murders that deserve to die! As the gods will!" The elf was spitting in rage, but I recognized his determination to hold onto his worldview. It was the one thing I needed to pry away before it got out of hand. "And you elves killed how many more?" I asked in a low voice. "Can you tell me the number of kobold dens exterminated in caves, the number of beastpeople sent to an early grave in slave camps? Because I can tell you ours. My father's was two, my mother's four, and my extended family including deceased relatives is one hundred and thirty seven. "You declared war against monsters, you child of an elf," I growled. "And death the reality of war. We know. The Unification Wars weren't fought with swords and honor. They were fought with artillery barrages and death. They were fought with miniature suns and political backstabbing, with tanks and guns and submarines and warships and all the more death. "You say the gods don't like us! That's put lightly. They forsook us! Abandoned us in our hour of need. So we learned to live without them. There are no gods we pray to anymore, elfling. Only each other, our creations, and the universe itself. They don't want us, we don't need them. It's more than they deserve." My aura was once again charring the floor and I had transformed back into my dragon form, but this time I refused to cool it down. "You call us creations of death, the primal forces of anarchy? We are you. You are us. We are sapient, we are all mortals, no matter our advantages. We are bound to this dimensional plane, forced to serve our betters, and live out our lives not with earnest but with trepredition for when it ends. We are all death incarnate, because we can all die. That is just the way it is. Besides, you've wondered about my kill count; tell me, can you tell me the gods'? Can you tell me how many souls they have cut from fate for their own entertainment? No? I can tell you." I growled, moving closer until the blue flames enveloping my body threatened to light the elf's cot on fire. "More people than are alive on this planet right now." I pulled back, bottling up my aura and reverting to my cat form. "We can talk all we want about death and destruction, and I won't lie and say you aren't victims of the war; pre-unification dragons we're exactly kind and merciful to those with treasure hoards. But perhaps, I implore you to consider that maybe we both are victims of the war, and maybe we can one day work together instead of fighting each other. "Maybe, one day, we can fight for our rights against the gods." I moved into my dragon form and darted deeper into my cave, moving so fast I could hear the howl of the wind against my ears. Only when I had reached my memorial wall for my parents did I stop and take a breath and think over my conversation with the elf. We had a long way to go, but I hoped I had put a little bit of sense into him. I hoped that the world could change.
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When the dragon cat thing sped away, I took a moment to survey my surroundings. Only now did the effects of my first question hit my formerly-groggy head. "My home." He said. Dragons live in caves. Oooooh. I'm screwed. However, there were no treasure hoards visible from my perspective; then again, while the Monsters were stupid, they still had brains to them, and carrying me into a treasure room would probably be something they'd be able to tell was a bad idea. Pops said never underestimate you foe, A voice in the back of my head said, and the dragon even launched in a full conversation with you. You're selling the dragon very, very shor- Shut up I growled internally to the treacherous voice in my head. The cave itself was... a cave. There was a metal slab on one end, it went deeper in the other, and that was that. In a 'corner' of the jagged room there were a number of red, glowing rods attached to some kind of giant mechanism three elfs wide and six deep, but the rods glowed against the cave's light- What light source? My eyes darted around looking for one. Only now was I aware of how unnatural each shadow was, how awkward each shining rock looked, how each stalagmite could hide an entire dragon, and that was before they started transfiguring into cats. How bright the ceiling- I looked up. The bright light burned my eyes, but I needed to know what fiendish magic was in play so I could counter it. But the light didn't flicker like fire - they were far too bright for that anyway - but they also didn't have the magical circles surrounding each spell. They were... lights. As if the universe simply willed brightness into existence. Each far-too-bright-hurts-to-look-ats was placed along a main hallway clear of stalagmites running from the metal slab deeper and around a corner where I couldn't see. The lights were only poised above this one hall, and they just... shone one the rest of the cave. Looking closer, I could see thin black lines, too thin to be mana feeds, running along the walls to both the glowing red rods and to the so-shiny-the-lit-up-the-cave. And... that was that. There was no massive pile of treasure in the hall, though I suspected the dragon kept their hoard deeper than... wherever I was. There was no pile of skull trophies or the banner of cities and armies slain, and I noted that while he had told me his parents', the dragon had never told me his own. Then again, the cat thing could be lying. Dragon transfigured into a cat. Probably has Circle Of Truth around his entire den. Nonsense, dragons can only do elemental magic. Evidently not. Would you just shut up already? No- I moved my attention back to the metal slab, cutting off whatever the voice in my head had to say about my current situation; it wasn't every day one just got kidnapped by a nation of monsters, after all. The slab was truly elegant. It was painted with the monster language, and then was painted with some kind of mural. I could barely make out a blue circle with green splotches on it surrounded by twelve rings in the bottom corner because most of the door was taken up by a ice-blue cat with lighter strips engulfed in blue fire. It was a mural of the dragon cat thing. That didn't stop it from being pretty, and someone had obviously put a lot of effort into it. The flames looked realistic from what I had seen minutes ago, and the cat's details were perfectly engraved. It was... acurrate. Yeah, because I think Vixie was just trying to tell you that they built their civilization for a reason, and it wasn't carnage. You don't know what you're talking about. We both know I do. How else to you think- Listen to me, you treasonous voice of a- No, you listen to me, you pathetic excuse for a brain. The dragon was able to hold and win an argument with you, fixed your wounds that would've been a dead write-off for any other hospital, and then you think SHE barely meets the threshold for sapient? THE ABSOLUTE MORON I'M ARGUING WITH IS THE ONE YOU BARELY MEETS IT!!! You moved to your frontier village because the world was changing, Lazerot the Sixth. Congrats, you were right. It did change. Now shut your OVERSIZED EGO up at being bested by a creature ten times older than you, and go appologies before they decide that saving your life wasn't worth it. I... I... OK- No. I'm in control now. Shut up. I....... yes, sir. Good. With new resolve, I stood up. My head throbbed, and the next thing I knew was my face hitting my cot again.
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When I heard the thud of something falling in the entrance cave, I carefully moved back into the entrance cave. The elf was face-down in their cot, unconscious again. It looked like they had tried to stand and just.... fallen over. I sighed and used a claw to nudge the elf back onto his pillow, and then covered him with a blanket. I watched him for a minute, and then returned to the deeper parts of my home. The TFSU was completely overloaded with the number of patients needing treatment. Apparently, the Southener's hospitals just... didn't do anything, so in addition to soldiers, there was a massive influx of civilians to our hospitals too. Of course, this meant that they were absolutely overloaded, and the Civilized Nations strategy of fighting to near-death and then surrendering wasn't helping. So, stable recovering civilians like the elf were just... shipped out. When shelters filled up because the Civilized Nations overpopulation crisis was too bad to do anything, people just had to take them into their homes. Long story short, the government was in way over their head attempting upgrade the standard of care in the Civilized Nations while occupying their territory. My job so close to the border was remote infrastructure maintenance, and my ability to change size while not dissolving made me an expert at it - and that was before my two hundred years of experience. And then I didn't need a vehicle to get on-site, and was fast. The alarm pinging me that one of the space radars was down again gave me an excuse to avoid the elf and do some work. I grabbed a pack of supplies, put on my shapeshift-compatible uniform, and wrote down a note on a piece of paper. On my out past the sleeping elf, I dropped it for him.
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When I awoke, I found myself tucked into some covers. It took all of seven seconds for reality to catch up with me. Right. I got into a heated argument with a dragon. I instinctively touched the part of my face that had been closest to the dragon's flame. I'd read about Auras in books, but never thought I'd get to see one. They were only ever found in the most powerful and competent individuals of a race in an entire plan of existence. I wondered which skill gave the dragon hers - Vixie, I reminded myself. Either way, given that Auras are technically illusions, I wasn't hurt. The flames didn't get close enough to hurt anyway, but that didn't stop me from checking. This time, I was much more careful when I stood up. I sat up first, then started to kick my legs back and forth. That's when I spotted a paper on the other side of my cot. I stood up without thinking, but managed to keep my consciousness this time and moved towards the note. It was handwritten and contained a lot of jargon that I wasn't familiar with. Space. Radar. False positive. Airtight opening mechanism. Heater. Beep. Pressure. Toilet. Running water. I could deduce some of it. A message had come in requesting the services of the local dragon to repair a thing that has an issue, and that she would return shortly. I could wander around as I pleased, besides eating food that wasn't open or contained in a clip bag. From the tone of the message, I could deduce what a 'toilet' was. The heaters would logically be things that produced heat, so all I had to do was look for those. I wasn't able to tell time, but I supposed at this point it didn't matter. I moved over deeper into the cave, and quickly heard the sound of a stream. It led directly into a forest of stalagmites. After clambering over those, the temperature started to increase, which was all I needed to know that I was getting a drink of water. I was only now catching up to the fact that I had been out for three days, and that meant that I was extremely thirsty. I wasn't sure how I wasn't dead of dehydration at this point. I found the stream next to the glowing metal rods, and with it a clear path to my location. Sighing slightly at the wasted effort on climbing through Rock Forest, I snatched an undersized cup off a rack built into a nearby jut in the cave wall and filled it, before entering the bliss of fresh water. Back in the village, we had some of the best and cleanest water in all the land thanks to snow melt, but this took that to a new level. Cold, crisp water melted in the sun only minutes ago. It was... pure. I spent the next couple minutes simply drinking and processing everything over in my mind. The gods might have willed the monster dead, but if even the monster gods had abandoned them and survived... then how come the Pantheon never told us? Religious issues aside, there were more practical issues regarding my own survival. How did I get out. There was a thud at the metal slab, and I moved back towards it, leaving my cup to dry on the rack I pulled it from. The engraving of the cat on the metal slab was- BEEEP! What was that sound? There was a hiss, and the slab started to peel away. A gust of frigid cold air washed over me as a mage Ice-Water hybrid Aura-capable dragon that I had argued with stared me down. I did the instinctive thing and let out the scream of a human three year old, squeezing my eyes shut and waiting for the final blow. When the end of my life didn't arrive, I reopened my eyes to find the sky-blue cat standing in the hole where the metal slab was supposed to be. Then there was another... sound, and the metal slab started to move back into position. The cat was surprised for a single moment before simply charging the door and jumping through, skidding to a halt right in front of me. Which meant that I got a closer look at her. Ocean-blue strips crossed an ice-blue body fur in a fifty-fifty ratio. Small crystals of ice twinkled, floating here her wings would be. One tail was accompanied by two more made of pure blue-white energy, and the cat even had a halo. Six orbs of blue-white light hovered in lazy circles around her back, and even in a diminutive form the size of a cat the being radiated the power of an aura-capable creature. "Oh, right, sorry," Vixie said, and all the ethirial energy disappeared. Now that I knew what I was looking for, however, I could just barely tell, using my power as a mage, that Vixie was using illusion magic to hide her true energy. "You don't need to hide your reserves," I said. "Though if you're shapeshifting into forms so small that you need to expose yours, then you should just burn yours instead. It's not worth the trouble of people bottling yours." Vixie gave some kind of half-shrug. "They're not reserves, no." She said, emphasizing the word. I looked at Vixie with a sharp look, and for a second I forgot I was talking to a dragon. "Then what are they?" "They're..." The cat blushed, something I wasn't even aware was possible. She let the illusion fall away, and the tails, crystals, orbs and halo returned. "They're my regenerative baseline minimum." I looked her up and down for a second, dumbstruck. She really is a creature of power, huh? "Um.... uh..." I stuttered. "Is... that where you get your aura from?" I asked. Vixie closed her eyes with an expression on her face, and this time green flame started to peel off her. "Part of it, yeah." To control an aura like that... two auras. Just how powerful is she? I was so deep in thought that I didn't realize that the expression on her face was pain. "I... uh... what happened?" I asked, shellshocked. "Why aren't you fighting in the war?" The worldwide-powerful dragon masquerading as a cat sighed. "I... haven't told anyone. It's... personal." "I..." Only now did it hit me that I was talking with a dragon, not another person. Not just a monster, but a... creature with emotions. "You don't have to tell me." I quickly backtracked. "No, no, it's a fair question. It..." The cat let out a chuckle, and it filled the cave with a beautiful sound. "I suppose it's kind of ironic... but it starts with a kobold and a god, back when the Firma kobold tribe decided to travel north to escape the civilized nations, shortly before the amassing of all creatures in these same northern mountains and the Unification War. "Back before the gods forsook us."
Original Prompt: [WP] For as long as all the races have known, Dragons have been seen as violent, destructive creatures. After an attack on your village, you black out and find yourself in the den of a dragon. It's rather annoyed that that is how they're seen, and wants to prove that isn't the case.
u/Lycan_Jedi thank you for the prompt!
Part 2
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If you travel far enough North on the map, well above where the Civilized Nations stop because no crops grow, you'll find a mountain range. Crossing this range leads to the Monster Kingdom, though for some reason they prefer the name 'TFSU.' Yes, they prefer. The literal forces of anarchy and chaos in the universe have a government. However, ignoring that whole thing, the Monster Kingdom is fine. No armies march on them, mostly because of supply and logistical issues. The Monsters never say how they grow their own food, but given that they don't trade and millions of kobolds worth of food don't go missing every day, it's safe to say they make their own. Now, that doesn't stop the Civilized Nations to send one hero a decade to 'keep them in check.' Four decades ago, the hero closed off a mountain pass, which was supposed to cause a massive flood. Four days later, it was cleared, and the only thing to show for it were the cities that glow like the sun at night. However, yesterday, the Hero returned having burnt one of the bigger cities down. It was empty of all monsters, but the act was the first real damage they had taken in seven hundred years, since their founding. For seven hundred years, the TFSU have taken the beating of seventy heroes and simply moved on. But now. Now, millions of kobolds make up heavy 'machinery' units that march in armored, self-moving caridges that spit fire and metal. Thousands of beastpeople make up scouting and light infantry ranks. The TFSU use hellish 'guns' that hit harder than a catapult from kilometers away, all in a single 'bullet' not the size of a human's thumb. Metal birds and dragonflies join dragons as they assault cities. We poke the very literal sleeping dragon in the eye. Yet the armies don't do much. They march for our capitals and leaders, but on the way our civilians live. Surendees live. People go about their daily lives without too much change. Of course, that fact didn't stop the front line from finally crashing over my small village, located so close to the pass for a while we thought they the monsters had bypassed us entirely. The Civilized Nations had decided to send an entire legion to prevent the Monsters from getting across a nearby canyon pass. We were hit with an air-based assault with only dragons and metal dragonflies, our balista uselessly demolished by pillars of metal and flame thrown out of the metal dragonflies. I blacked out when the legion managed to shoot enough arrows to take down one of the dragonflies. I remember it crashing down onto my house... and then nothing.
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The elf stirred as they woke up. I'd been raised in the Terra Firma Sapience Union, so I was... less than familiar with the clothing and lifestyle the Southerners used. The elf groaned again, before their eyes shot open and they looked around, quickly settling on my frame. "A-Are you going to kill me now?" They asked, their voice shaken with fear. I let out a laugh. "If I wanted you dead, you'd already be dead." I decided to transmorph into my secondary form - a cat - to help the conversation go better. In a land where humans lived to forty, elves only lived to a hundred, and that meant that even I was older than this elf, and they were no older than thirty. The elf, to their credit, quickly figured out I wasn't pulling any mindgames. I'd heard tales from my relatives before the Kobolds founded the TFSU. People, especially when panicked, usual acted with more than enough stupidity to make the situation worse. "Where am I?" The elf asked. Their tone told me that they were still suspicious, but it wasn't outright denial of the situation. "My home," I answered bluntly. "Your village tried to fight our ground forces when they moved in, so most of them are currently under house arrest." Still in my cat form, I created a portal into my storage cavern and reached my arm through, while summoning a lab coat around my shoulders and glasses. It was a trick I had only learned to do recently. "Let's see..." I found the clipboard and brought it out, flipping to the elft's page and taping the pen against the paper. "You suffered a collapsed lung, severe burns on the right side of your body, three broken ribs and two fractured ones, shattered three wrist bones, three breaks in your right upper arm and another two in your lower arm, and on the left side you have another fractured rib and three broken fingers. Your left leg was shattered and your left foot was completely torn up. Healing magic stabilized you and surgery did the rest. You've been comatose for the past three days, and was brought to my home yesterday due to a surge in hospital patients from the seige of Trembolorne. "In terms of organ damage, that was also severe. A busted kidney, I already mentioned a collapsed lung, and your entire digestive system was... well, pulverized would be putting it lightly. Also, unrelated to the incident with the helicopter, you had cancer in your liver and kidney. "In terms of medical treatment, you've been given an IV line for the past couple days and several painkillers, and you underwent four separate surgeries. We reconstructed your organs, welded your bones to metal plates, and used a genetic printer to replace your skin. You're lucky to have gotten time with the genetic printer in the first place, you know; those things are expensive, and I mean expensive to run. Though it's all billed on the government anyway, but that just means that they'll only run it if they have to." The elf sat up in bed looking at me as I just stood on two paws on the cave floor. "Right, sorry, you wouldn't understand most of that." I sheepishly scratched the back of my head with my right paw. "Um... put this way, you were crushed by debris and we basically reconstructed your body before you died. So not necromancy, though you did get close to needing more advanced magical treatment." "Oh," The elf replied. The cat thing seemed to have helped, because they were no longer stuttering with their single word response. "Um... do you want anything to drink?" I tried to kickstart a conversation. "Where am I?" The elf asked again. I was silent for a second. "My home? It's right on the edge of TFSU territory, one of the southernmost places you can be while still being with the recognized borders. I chose this place because I like to fly out in the summer over the flowers in the forest at the foot of the mountains. Your village is a couple hour dragon-flight time away." "Mmmhm." The elf commented halfheartedly. "OK, um... who are you?" "My dragonic name isn't something most can pronounce, so my public name is just Vixie Remminie." I answered. "What's yours?"
The elf's eyes narrowed. "Why do you want to know my name." I blinked. "Because... It's a name? I'm not a Fey, you know, it's not like I can tie ancient demons to your soul and call it a prank or something ridiculous like that. Besides, you asked for mine; now I get to ask for yours." "And who says you won't just burn my village to the ground and eat me right now!?!" The elf suddenly burst out. "You monsters ruin everything! You trespass on our land, take our resources, and kill our people! All we did was try to defend ourselv-" I cut him off, and poured just a bit of attention in giving myself an aura. Blue fire licked the bottom of my vision as I rebuttaled his point. "Don't forget, you stole the land from us. We were the ones living in the wild when you razed our forests and grew crops. We couldn't even purchase land to live on! So yes, we stole what we could to survive and those who didn't starved and died! And when all was said and done, you tried to kill us and turned it into a war, one where we had no choice but to kill you back. And when we found someplace to run, a spot to hide and do our own thing with our own land? You blistering idiots sent you 'courageous heroes' to try and kill us! What for? Nothing! Just your stupid, moronic fear making, forcing you to decide to 'kill the big thing over there!' We can't even have freaking farmland, we have to grow it all in hydroponic farms and harvest thousand-year-old vines out of caves because this is all we have!" I realized that my aura was burning fully and scorching the ground around me. I let out a long sigh, and it died down. Several memories flashed through my head, but I pushed them away. "Apologies, my parents are still a... sensitive topic for me. It would be best if we just stayed away from talking about the war until the hospital has room for more patients again." "Yeah?" The elf was still enraged. Even sitting down, they were still trying to construct an argument. "You parents who killed how many? Your family killed how many more? You dragons, you monsters are nothing more than one large grouping of murders that deserve to die! As the gods will!" The elf was spitting in rage, but I recognized his determination to hold onto his worldview. It was the one thing I needed to pry away before it got out of hand. "And you elves killed how many more?" I asked in a low voice. "Can you tell me the number of kobold dens exterminated in caves, the number of beastpeople sent to an early grave in slave camps? Because I can tell you ours. My father's was two, my mother's four, and my extended family including deceased relatives is one hundred and thirty seven. "You declared war against monsters, you child of an elf," I growled. "And death the reality of war. We know. The Unification Wars weren't fought with swords and honor. They were fought with artillery barrages and death. They were fought with miniature suns and political backstabbing, with tanks and guns and submarines and warships and all the more death. "You say the gods don't like us! That's put lightly. They forsook us! Abandoned us in our hour of need. So we learned to live without them. There are no gods we pray to anymore, elfling. Only each other, our creations, and the universe itself. They don't want us, we don't need them. It's more than they deserve." My aura was once again charring the floor and I had transformed back into my dragon form, but this time I refused to cool it down. "You call us creations of death, the primal forces of anarchy? We are you. You are us. We are sapient, we are all mortals, no matter our advantages. We are bound to this dimensional plane, forced to serve our betters, and live out our lives not with earnest but with trepredition for when it ends. We are all death incarnate, because we can all die. That is just the way it is. Besides, you've wondered about my kill count; tell me, can you tell me the gods'? Can you tell me how many souls they have cut from fate for their own entertainment? No? I can tell you." I growled, moving closer until the blue flames enveloping my body threatened to light the elf's cot on fire. "More people than are alive on this planet right now." I pulled back, bottling up my aura and reverting to my cat form. "We can talk all we want about death and destruction, and I won't lie and say you aren't victims of the war; pre-unification dragons we're exactly kind and merciful to those with treasure hoards. But perhaps, I implore you to consider that maybe we both are victims of the war, and maybe we can one day work together instead of fighting each other. "Maybe, one day, we can fight for our rights against the gods." I moved into my dragon form and darted deeper into my cave, moving so fast I could hear the howl of the wind against my ears. Only when I had reached my memorial wall for my parents did I stop and take a breath and think over my conversation with the elf. We had a long way to go, but I hoped I had put a little bit of sense into him. I hoped that the world could change.
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When the dragon cat thing sped away, I took a moment to survey my surroundings. Only now did the effects of my first question hit my formerly-groggy head. "My home." He said. Dragons live in caves. Oooooh. I'm screwed. However, there were no treasure hoards visible from my perspective; then again, while the Monsters were stupid, they still had brains to them, and carrying me into a treasure room would probably be something they'd be able to tell was a bad idea. Pops said never underestimate you foe, A voice in the back of my head said, and the dragon even launched in a full conversation with you. You're selling the dragon very, very shor- Shut up I growled internally to the treacherous voice in my head. The cave itself was... a cave. There was a metal slab on one end, it went deeper in the other, and that was that. In a 'corner' of the jagged room there were a number of red, glowing rods attached to some kind of giant mechanism three elfs wide and six deep, but the rods glowed against the cave's light- What light source? My eyes darted around looking for one. Only now was I aware of how unnatural each shadow was, how awkward each shining rock looked, how each stalagmite could hide an entire dragon, and that was before they started transfiguring into cats. How bright the ceiling- I looked up. The bright light burned my eyes, but I needed to know what fiendish magic was in play so I could counter it. But the light didn't flicker like fire - they were far too bright for that anyway - but they also didn't have the magical circles surrounding each spell. They were... lights. As if the universe simply willed brightness into existence. Each far-too-bright-hurts-to-look-ats was placed along a main hallway clear of stalagmites running from the metal slab deeper and around a corner where I couldn't see. The lights were only poised above this one hall, and they just... shone one the rest of the cave. Looking closer, I could see thin black lines, too thin to be mana feeds, running along the walls to both the glowing red rods and to the so-shiny-the-lit-up-the-cave. And... that was that. There was no massive pile of treasure in the hall, though I suspected the dragon kept their hoard deeper than... wherever I was. There was no pile of skull trophies or the banner of cities and armies slain, and I noted that while he had told me his parents', the dragon had never told me his own. Then again, the cat thing could be lying. Dragon transfigured into a cat. Probably has Circle Of Truth around his entire den. Nonsense, dragons can only do elemental magic. Evidently not. Would you just shut up already? No- I moved my attention back to the metal slab, cutting off whatever the voice in my head had to say about my current situation; it wasn't every day one just got kidnapped by a nation of monsters, after all. The slab was truly elegant. It was painted with the monster language, and then was painted with some kind of mural. I could barely make out a blue circle with green splotches on it surrounded by twelve rings in the bottom corner because most of the door was taken up by a ice-blue cat with lighter strips engulfed in blue fire. It was a mural of the dragon cat thing. That didn't stop it from being pretty, and someone had obviously put a lot of effort into it. The flames looked realistic from what I had seen minutes ago, and the cat's details were perfectly engraved. It was... acurrate. Yeah, because I think Vixie was just trying to tell you that they built their civilization for a reason, and it wasn't carnage. You don't know what you're talking about. We both know I do. How else to you think- Listen to me, you treasonous voice of a- No, you listen to me, you pathetic excuse for a brain. The dragon was able to hold and win an argument with you, fixed your wounds that would've been a dead write-off for any other hospital, and then you think SHE barely meets the threshold for sapient? THE ABSOLUTE MORON I'M ARGUING WITH IS THE ONE YOU BARELY MEETS IT!!! You moved to your frontier village because the world was changing, Lazerot the Sixth. Congrats, you were right. It did change. Now shut your OVERSIZED EGO up at being bested by a creature ten times older than you, and go appologies before they decide that saving your life wasn't worth it. I... I... OK- No. I'm in control now. Shut up. I....... yes, sir. Good. With new resolve, I stood up. My head throbbed, and the next thing I knew was my face hitting my cot again.
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When I heard the thud of something falling in the entrance cave, I carefully moved back into the entrance cave. The elf was face-down in their cot, unconscious again. It looked like they had tried to stand and just.... fallen over. I sighed and used a claw to nudge the elf back onto his pillow, and then covered him with a blanket. I watched him for a minute, and then returned to the deeper parts of my home. The TFSU was completely overloaded with the number of patients needing treatment. Apparently, the Southener's hospitals just... didn't do anything, so in addition to soldiers, there was a massive influx of civilians to our hospitals too. Of course, this meant that they were absolutely overloaded, and the Civilized Nations strategy of fighting to near-death and then surrendering wasn't helping. So, stable recovering civilians like the elf were just... shipped out. When shelters filled up because the Civilized Nations overpopulation crisis was too bad to do anything, people just had to take them into their homes. Long story short, the government was in way over their head attempting upgrade the standard of care in the Civilized Nations while occupying their territory. My job so close to the border was remote infrastructure maintenance, and my ability to change size while not dissolving made me an expert at it - and that was before my two hundred years of experience. And then I didn't need a vehicle to get on-site, and was fast. The alarm pinging me that one of the space radars was down again gave me an excuse to avoid the elf and do some work. I grabbed a pack of supplies, put on my shapeshift-compatible uniform, and wrote down a note on a piece of paper. On my out past the sleeping elf, I dropped it for him.
Space radar system needs repair, as it's returning a false positive. It's my job to repair all the infrastructure around here, so I need to go fix it. I'll be back soon. If you're hungry, my pantry is the first cave on the right. You can just eat anything that's easily open-able in there. If it has a lock or airtight opening mechanism (anything more than a clip, really) then don't eat it. If your thirsty, there's a stream in the entrance cave near the heaters. When the door mechanism beeps, step back. Sometimes pressure in the cave can get a bit wonky, and I don't want you to get hurt. Other than that, feel free to explore. I've locked all the doors to the rooms I don't want you to enter. For toilet necessities, the second cave on the left has a properly-sized toilet. And running water, but stuff I can explain later means don't drink it. See you soon! - Vixie.Satisfied, I left opened the door. There was a puff as the air from inside flowed out to the lower-pressure atmosphere. I could spot a snow squall to the north, and the pressure meant that it was probably coming my way. I moved out onto the ledge and closed the door behind me. At high altitudes this far north, the air was already near-zero and it was still five in the afternoon. I took just a second to confirm with the weather report that the snowstorm was in fact going to arrive on my doorledge using a smartwatch I had strapped around my wrist. When I found that the storm was coming, I opened my wings and flew. Being an Ice Dragon had its advantages, but being a Water-Ice Combined Dragon was much better. The frosty air curled around my wings as the freedom of ignoring gravity filled my brain. Ice and Water dragons both had large wings to deal with the cold air (and lower pressure leading to the requirement for more surface area to achieve the same amount of lift) and incompressable water physics (to let the wings act like a one-way fan blade as they move back and forth, increasing efficient). Dragons might be magestic creatures, but we were still bound to the physics of the mortal plane, after all. Being part of both, my wings were even bigger, making me one of the best high-altitude fliers on the planet. The ability to use both gills and lungs at said altitudes helped with oxygen also helped. Air Dragons were better at flying in normal air, but I liked to think of it like stats from a video game. Air Dragons min-maxed their stats for low-altitude, but I could go anywhere - even underwater - can keep my speed relatively high. I took full advantage of this on my way to the space radar, soaring well above the cloud ceiling and to the point where I could make out the curvature of the planet below me. The ocean spread out to my west, while more land was to my east. Snow covered the north as to the south was the telltale splotchy color of industrialism. My smartwatch beeped, as I crossed the normal altitude limit. I hadn't realized I'd gone so high; I had a radar to repair, after all. I dove down towards the surface, ignoring more beeps as I crossed half the way to the speed of sound. The wind howled angrily in my ears, but I flattened those (thank you, streamlined water genetics) and came out of my death dive right over the radar. The repair itself went relativity smoothly, though I couldn't find a broken component and chalked it up to more space anomalies. They weren't infrequent, and usually marked where the gods decided to look over the planet. For my radars, anyway. Further north, ignoring the north pole, almost no gods came out and wanted to deal with us. Our unspoken agreement was held that way. I flew straight back for my return journey. The storm was definitely closer, but fifteen minutes of flying later and I was entering the opening mechanism for my door. As it swung inwards, I heard the high-pitched scream of an elf.
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When I awoke, I found myself tucked into some covers. It took all of seven seconds for reality to catch up with me. Right. I got into a heated argument with a dragon. I instinctively touched the part of my face that had been closest to the dragon's flame. I'd read about Auras in books, but never thought I'd get to see one. They were only ever found in the most powerful and competent individuals of a race in an entire plan of existence. I wondered which skill gave the dragon hers - Vixie, I reminded myself. Either way, given that Auras are technically illusions, I wasn't hurt. The flames didn't get close enough to hurt anyway, but that didn't stop me from checking. This time, I was much more careful when I stood up. I sat up first, then started to kick my legs back and forth. That's when I spotted a paper on the other side of my cot. I stood up without thinking, but managed to keep my consciousness this time and moved towards the note. It was handwritten and contained a lot of jargon that I wasn't familiar with. Space. Radar. False positive. Airtight opening mechanism. Heater. Beep. Pressure. Toilet. Running water. I could deduce some of it. A message had come in requesting the services of the local dragon to repair a thing that has an issue, and that she would return shortly. I could wander around as I pleased, besides eating food that wasn't open or contained in a clip bag. From the tone of the message, I could deduce what a 'toilet' was. The heaters would logically be things that produced heat, so all I had to do was look for those. I wasn't able to tell time, but I supposed at this point it didn't matter. I moved over deeper into the cave, and quickly heard the sound of a stream. It led directly into a forest of stalagmites. After clambering over those, the temperature started to increase, which was all I needed to know that I was getting a drink of water. I was only now catching up to the fact that I had been out for three days, and that meant that I was extremely thirsty. I wasn't sure how I wasn't dead of dehydration at this point. I found the stream next to the glowing metal rods, and with it a clear path to my location. Sighing slightly at the wasted effort on climbing through Rock Forest, I snatched an undersized cup off a rack built into a nearby jut in the cave wall and filled it, before entering the bliss of fresh water. Back in the village, we had some of the best and cleanest water in all the land thanks to snow melt, but this took that to a new level. Cold, crisp water melted in the sun only minutes ago. It was... pure. I spent the next couple minutes simply drinking and processing everything over in my mind. The gods might have willed the monster dead, but if even the monster gods had abandoned them and survived... then how come the Pantheon never told us? Religious issues aside, there were more practical issues regarding my own survival. How did I get out. There was a thud at the metal slab, and I moved back towards it, leaving my cup to dry on the rack I pulled it from. The engraving of the cat on the metal slab was- BEEEP! What was that sound? There was a hiss, and the slab started to peel away. A gust of frigid cold air washed over me as a mage Ice-Water hybrid Aura-capable dragon that I had argued with stared me down. I did the instinctive thing and let out the scream of a human three year old, squeezing my eyes shut and waiting for the final blow. When the end of my life didn't arrive, I reopened my eyes to find the sky-blue cat standing in the hole where the metal slab was supposed to be. Then there was another... sound, and the metal slab started to move back into position. The cat was surprised for a single moment before simply charging the door and jumping through, skidding to a halt right in front of me. Which meant that I got a closer look at her. Ocean-blue strips crossed an ice-blue body fur in a fifty-fifty ratio. Small crystals of ice twinkled, floating here her wings would be. One tail was accompanied by two more made of pure blue-white energy, and the cat even had a halo. Six orbs of blue-white light hovered in lazy circles around her back, and even in a diminutive form the size of a cat the being radiated the power of an aura-capable creature. "Oh, right, sorry," Vixie said, and all the ethirial energy disappeared. Now that I knew what I was looking for, however, I could just barely tell, using my power as a mage, that Vixie was using illusion magic to hide her true energy. "You don't need to hide your reserves," I said. "Though if you're shapeshifting into forms so small that you need to expose yours, then you should just burn yours instead. It's not worth the trouble of people bottling yours." Vixie gave some kind of half-shrug. "They're not reserves, no." She said, emphasizing the word. I looked at Vixie with a sharp look, and for a second I forgot I was talking to a dragon. "Then what are they?" "They're..." The cat blushed, something I wasn't even aware was possible. She let the illusion fall away, and the tails, crystals, orbs and halo returned. "They're my regenerative baseline minimum." I looked her up and down for a second, dumbstruck. She really is a creature of power, huh? "Um.... uh..." I stuttered. "Is... that where you get your aura from?" I asked. Vixie closed her eyes with an expression on her face, and this time green flame started to peel off her. "Part of it, yeah." To control an aura like that... two auras. Just how powerful is she? I was so deep in thought that I didn't realize that the expression on her face was pain. "I... uh... what happened?" I asked, shellshocked. "Why aren't you fighting in the war?" The worldwide-powerful dragon masquerading as a cat sighed. "I... haven't told anyone. It's... personal." "I..." Only now did it hit me that I was talking with a dragon, not another person. Not just a monster, but a... creature with emotions. "You don't have to tell me." I quickly backtracked. "No, no, it's a fair question. It..." The cat let out a chuckle, and it filled the cave with a beautiful sound. "I suppose it's kind of ironic... but it starts with a kobold and a god, back when the Firma kobold tribe decided to travel north to escape the civilized nations, shortly before the amassing of all creatures in these same northern mountains and the Unification War. "Back before the gods forsook us."
Original Prompt: [WP] For as long as all the races have known, Dragons have been seen as violent, destructive creatures. After an attack on your village, you black out and find yourself in the den of a dragon. It's rather annoyed that that is how they're seen, and wants to prove that isn't the case.
u/Lycan_Jedi thank you for the prompt!
Part 2
2023.06.06 04:02 noquarter1000 This little quip on this site i was reading infj’s and patience made me laugh
“INFJs do not always posses the most patience, especially when it comes to mundane tasks. They will become frustrated waiting for water to boil, “
This is me to a T. I literally yell at my faucet because it takes too long to get hot water. Anyone else have 0 patience for stupid things like this? I also lose it when trying to do things like fixing stuff or the most evil of tasks, put ikea stuff together
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This is me to a T. I literally yell at my faucet because it takes too long to get hot water. Anyone else have 0 patience for stupid things like this? I also lose it when trying to do things like fixing stuff or the most evil of tasks, put ikea stuff together
2023.06.06 03:58 Blessthee Sink hole appeared in front yard
 | Noticed a sink hole that is beginning to appear right over the water lines in between my and my neighbour’s yard. The neighbour has had a hose on the ground pointed right at this spot and it watered the bush there for a couple of hours at least. I will be talking to them tomorrow. submitted by Blessthee to landscaping [link] [comments] Do we need to worry? Never experienced this before. Do we call the city or the plumber. Any advice would be much appreciated. |
2023.06.06 03:56 algebramclain Another fake Atari 2600 video game based on a play
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2023.06.06 03:52 kmtwb I was tormented by a spirit(?) my first 2 years of univerisity
In 2020, I moved over 6 hours away from my hometown in Southern Ontario to attend University up north. I moved into my down with my best friend from high school whom I had known for years. In this building, it is important to note that it has been around since the school was first built however it is frequently renovated and worked on because it more often than normal, catches fire (more details later).
So, to set the scene: it's 2020, mid-pandemic and I had just been discharged from the army. My best friend and I had applied for the same university major and had decided that if we got in that we would live together. Well, sure enough, we got in and the only dorm that could accommodate our room request (i.e. moving into the same apartment with separate bedrooms) was situated directly across from a hospice. and for those that don't know a hospice is a medical facility where people go when they are close to death to live out the end of their lives in as much comfort as possible. This hospice was the only view out of our small windows and was the only one in our area.
Now, as I mentioned earlier, the building frequently caught fire, but what was odd and worth mentioning about it, was that it only caught fire in apartment #5 on any given floor. My best friend and I lived on the 5th floor in the 5th apartment for 2 years even throughout the summer and fortunately, we never had a fire, but frequently found ourselves having to accommodate firefighters and other workers entering our rooms due to the smoke and water damage from various different fires from random floors directly above us. Along with my BFF, I had two other roommates who were very vocal about when they were home or not (we had a group chat), and for all these experiences they were never home. or even in the city for that matter. My BFF and I both got jobs working at a Lvl 1 Trauma Center as nightshift security and thus paranormal stuff didn't scare us as we frequently were forced to work in the morgue and even witness people die on a daily basis, with whole bunch of other things happening (maybe stories for another time).
The main experience that happened early on was when my BFF and I both awoke to hear someone going through our cupboards and garbage in the kitchen, which was right against my bedroom wall, thus making it super loud. it was about 1pm and because we were on night shift, it was our version of 1am. So, thinking my best friend had gotten up oddly early I went to talk to her, but when I opened my door there was no one. I woke her up quietly and we searched the entire apartment and hallways with whatever we could use as weapons. There was no one but everything was open, our fridge, the oven, drawers, and cabinets. As well, our garbage had been thrown across the room. All the breakers in our apartment had been switched off as well, which we didn't discover at first. It is important to mention that the only entry into our apartment, that being the front door, automatically locked when closed so it was most definitely locked 24/7. I called building security and no one had been seen on camera entering our dorm except for my BFF and me around 8am after we had gotten off work at the hospital. there was no explanation for who had done this but still, they took our statements and said they'd do patrols, they never found more information.
Over 3 months later, it was summer and my BFF and I had been 2 of 11 people left in the building over the summer, with the rest being mostly just international students who could afford to do quarantine protocols again in September as it took 2 weeks. We were the only ones on our floor but regularly heard stomping outside in the hall but neither of us never saw anyone through our peephole or even when we often heard knocks on the front door, however when we checked, no one every time. So aside from the knocking and stomping, super quiet summer except for one morning. I'll never forget it it shook us to the bone.
It was 10am and my roommate and I were asleep after work. I never locked my bedroom door as my bff loved to come in and hang all the time but for some reason, I locked it that entire week. and good thing too because I awoke to frantic and I mean FRANTIC knocking- no pounding on my bedroom door. I was obviously super disoriented as I had just finished a 12 hour shift a few hours earlier, but I saw two dark shadows under the door resembling feet. I figured my bff needed something and woke up but I called out before getting up because I was annoyed to be awake this early. The feet stayed unmoving but the knocking stopped. with a heavy sigh, I got up threw on a sweater and checked the time (it was around 10am), and went to open the door, with the shadows still there I assumed it was my bff. When I put my hand on the handle to unlock it, I heard a thud, and then, worried if my bff had fallen, I threw the door open to see my front door closing as if someone was just leaving. I ran over and saw a completely black figure turn the corner. I followed (my security guard instincts kicking in) but when I turned the corner, nothing. I went back and my roommate asked why I was knocking on the walls like that, she heard it from inside my room on an adjoining shared wall to both our bedrooms. we again called security but only I was seen chasing after nothing on the cameras. After my boyfriend, a firefighter started sleeping over frequently because were both spooked, the fires stopped, and most other things did too. We never had another incident on this level. We moved out after 2 years there and beyond hearing the usual bang, no other issues.
edit: also important detail I forgot to add is that we had an anti-break-in security stick against our front door while we slept, and they were conveniently moved into the living room or against the wall after these events. we also tested the stick to see if it actually worked and trust me even my firefighter boyfriend and his bff couldn't force their way in
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So, to set the scene: it's 2020, mid-pandemic and I had just been discharged from the army. My best friend and I had applied for the same university major and had decided that if we got in that we would live together. Well, sure enough, we got in and the only dorm that could accommodate our room request (i.e. moving into the same apartment with separate bedrooms) was situated directly across from a hospice. and for those that don't know a hospice is a medical facility where people go when they are close to death to live out the end of their lives in as much comfort as possible. This hospice was the only view out of our small windows and was the only one in our area.
Now, as I mentioned earlier, the building frequently caught fire, but what was odd and worth mentioning about it, was that it only caught fire in apartment #5 on any given floor. My best friend and I lived on the 5th floor in the 5th apartment for 2 years even throughout the summer and fortunately, we never had a fire, but frequently found ourselves having to accommodate firefighters and other workers entering our rooms due to the smoke and water damage from various different fires from random floors directly above us. Along with my BFF, I had two other roommates who were very vocal about when they were home or not (we had a group chat), and for all these experiences they were never home. or even in the city for that matter. My BFF and I both got jobs working at a Lvl 1 Trauma Center as nightshift security and thus paranormal stuff didn't scare us as we frequently were forced to work in the morgue and even witness people die on a daily basis, with whole bunch of other things happening (maybe stories for another time).
The main experience that happened early on was when my BFF and I both awoke to hear someone going through our cupboards and garbage in the kitchen, which was right against my bedroom wall, thus making it super loud. it was about 1pm and because we were on night shift, it was our version of 1am. So, thinking my best friend had gotten up oddly early I went to talk to her, but when I opened my door there was no one. I woke her up quietly and we searched the entire apartment and hallways with whatever we could use as weapons. There was no one but everything was open, our fridge, the oven, drawers, and cabinets. As well, our garbage had been thrown across the room. All the breakers in our apartment had been switched off as well, which we didn't discover at first. It is important to mention that the only entry into our apartment, that being the front door, automatically locked when closed so it was most definitely locked 24/7. I called building security and no one had been seen on camera entering our dorm except for my BFF and me around 8am after we had gotten off work at the hospital. there was no explanation for who had done this but still, they took our statements and said they'd do patrols, they never found more information.
Over 3 months later, it was summer and my BFF and I had been 2 of 11 people left in the building over the summer, with the rest being mostly just international students who could afford to do quarantine protocols again in September as it took 2 weeks. We were the only ones on our floor but regularly heard stomping outside in the hall but neither of us never saw anyone through our peephole or even when we often heard knocks on the front door, however when we checked, no one every time. So aside from the knocking and stomping, super quiet summer except for one morning. I'll never forget it it shook us to the bone.
It was 10am and my roommate and I were asleep after work. I never locked my bedroom door as my bff loved to come in and hang all the time but for some reason, I locked it that entire week. and good thing too because I awoke to frantic and I mean FRANTIC knocking- no pounding on my bedroom door. I was obviously super disoriented as I had just finished a 12 hour shift a few hours earlier, but I saw two dark shadows under the door resembling feet. I figured my bff needed something and woke up but I called out before getting up because I was annoyed to be awake this early. The feet stayed unmoving but the knocking stopped. with a heavy sigh, I got up threw on a sweater and checked the time (it was around 10am), and went to open the door, with the shadows still there I assumed it was my bff. When I put my hand on the handle to unlock it, I heard a thud, and then, worried if my bff had fallen, I threw the door open to see my front door closing as if someone was just leaving. I ran over and saw a completely black figure turn the corner. I followed (my security guard instincts kicking in) but when I turned the corner, nothing. I went back and my roommate asked why I was knocking on the walls like that, she heard it from inside my room on an adjoining shared wall to both our bedrooms. we again called security but only I was seen chasing after nothing on the cameras. After my boyfriend, a firefighter started sleeping over frequently because were both spooked, the fires stopped, and most other things did too. We never had another incident on this level. We moved out after 2 years there and beyond hearing the usual bang, no other issues.
edit: also important detail I forgot to add is that we had an anti-break-in security stick against our front door while we slept, and they were conveniently moved into the living room or against the wall after these events. we also tested the stick to see if it actually worked and trust me even my firefighter boyfriend and his bff couldn't force their way in
2023.06.06 03:46 XuejunMouldFactory Mineral Water Preform
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2023.06.06 03:37 Fair-Cookie City won't restrict business but will be asking residential to pivot
Dry stretch straining water systems
Systems in Grand Rapids don't see more than 75million gallon usage but we are already beginning to see 70 million readings on Grand Rapids systems. They've said no foreseen voluntarily restrictions will be requested, but they're not denying future requests will be made. There's no mention of how much of that usage we're seeing is commercial vs residential. Just taking a look at the amount of car washes ran independently and attached to retail is considerable. Also considering we have food plants in GR along with all the corporate restaurant chains is nauseating.
I was trying to find numbers on slotted development of new car washes in Grand Rapids this summer. Can anyone find those numbers from commissioner meetings? I recall hearing of at least 3-5 new openings in 2023.
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Systems in Grand Rapids don't see more than 75million gallon usage but we are already beginning to see 70 million readings on Grand Rapids systems. They've said no foreseen voluntarily restrictions will be requested, but they're not denying future requests will be made. There's no mention of how much of that usage we're seeing is commercial vs residential. Just taking a look at the amount of car washes ran independently and attached to retail is considerable. Also considering we have food plants in GR along with all the corporate restaurant chains is nauseating.
I was trying to find numbers on slotted development of new car washes in Grand Rapids this summer. Can anyone find those numbers from commissioner meetings? I recall hearing of at least 3-5 new openings in 2023.
2023.06.06 03:32 Frownycatgirl Is “coral driftwood” safe?
I just bought some pieces of driftwood off Amazon that was listed as Aquarium/reptile driftwood. It’s just us listed as “coral driftwood” so I’m not sure if that’s the type of wood it is? but either way I did soak it in hot water for a while but should I fully boil it to make sure?
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2023.06.06 03:27 EmperorJoker911 How my mother in law cooks chicken dinner when we visit
 | boiled chicken (no seasoning other than a pinch of salt in the water), added Campbell's cream of mushroom soup at the end... and microwaved extra chicken in case we want seconds... submitted by EmperorJoker911 to mildlyinfuriating [link] [comments] |
2023.06.06 03:21 Pixel_punkette82 Questions about getting water, and dumping trash and grey water.
So I was told to come here because, even though, I'm planning to live in a rv and not van, since I'm not staying in a park, this would be a better place to ask. I'm planing to be around the Daly City/Pacifica area of the Sf Bay Area. Would anyone happen to know I can get water to fill my tank, and to dump waste around there? Also any tips I should consider about the sf bay area and van/rv life I should consider?.
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2023.06.06 03:19 Iworkformycat27 90-Day Fiance: Love in Paradise, Mama Said Knock You Out
In Sharp Entertainment’s latest dra-ma, the only show with more trainwrecks than the Purge on the Isle of Sodor, 90-Day Fiance: Love in Paradise, we see our protagonists- doing uncoordinated activities, will they do coordinated ones next week or, will my opener once again outshine the entire paragraph? Kill that helicopter first, he’s a dick.
April and Valentin
April is going to cook at a poor person’s house, April is going to clean the poor person’s house- whether they like it or not, where did Valentin go? Is he cheating on her with this “personal training client”, who’s going to translate for April? And tell her she’s way overdressed for this?
Valentin’s mom is very impressed that April gave her cleaning supplies, that go on your hands? Is contact dermatitis an American delicacy, mind if we bleach these plantains? You must stare at the Plantains until they boil!
And April does, she literally has not peed on 8 hours, she has been sitting in her princess chair staring at knock-off bananas, for 8 hours, at least they’re not people. But now that the people are here, where is the bathroom?
April is very impressed with the bathroom setup, she has to dump a bucket of water down the toilet to, she lied, she can hold it. Valentin is annoyed at April for her snooty rich person, I don’t want to be poor in the Dominican Republic behavior. The nerve, how very dare, can he have some money?
Lidia and Scott
Lidia is hurt and embarrassed, she is crying, is this what Chantel felt like? She has to be strong, like Chantel, things happen for a reason, like Chantel, she has to put up with her man leaving her out of nowhere like- you get, Lidia feels bad. She needs emotional support, from family.
Scott is proudly working out in the world’s smallest hotel gym, preparing to end things on a good note with Lidia. Lidia tells Scott that he is a bastard man, who should have stayed home, Scott thinks this isn’t true, also this is all Lidia’s- kawkaw? What was that? It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s- Stone Cold Steve Austin’s theme music in Spanish!
Nicole is here, is she the first entrant in the Feminist Royal Scott Sucks Rumble? It’s the translator, she’s, she’s just standing, cancel the action figures, keep the T-Shirts, Dominican Shiny Charizard can be a thing a TikTok. Did we make a prototype of the Chantel action figure that say “Bitch Ass Slut Ass Whore” and has karate chopping Pedro action, Karen’s had so many hats.
Nicole literally rolled out of bed and came here, to destroy this man, you couldn’t learn Spanish! Be a good man! I was right! Nicole uses dragon breath on the liar, the bad man- who she met through her, Lidia deserves love, and Scott deserves Fire Spin.
Nicoles tells Scott that he is a sugar daddy, his ex is using him for money, and don’t you bring up Alejandro! You roided up Groundhog, who clearly doesn’t have any anger issues. This is why Nicole wore a shirt that blends in with the wall, she had to sneak up on him to get the truth!
Scott says that he’s being slandered, but if Nicole says someone is using you for money, is that a bear, it’s crouching down, it looks tense and there, there goes, the bear had Taco Bell, look, Scott is being used- how much Taco Bell did this bear have?
Juan and Jessica
Juan and Jessica take the children to the zoo, which one are they leaving there? The one that gets out of the snapping turtle enclosure, it’s, it’s a chase, do you have jaguars? Juan has a talk with the boys about the baby, they think it’s too soon, and that this was a trap, but hey, it’s cool now, why do those Spider Monkeys have spiders and why are they looking at us?
It is now Juan’s turn to face certain death, answer for his crimes, I mean, Jessica’s friend asks him about the cheating incident, which probably, or may not have, was I the cynical one? Am I not qualified to work for the FBI? Jessica’s friend is, she went through social medias! And- it probably did happen, I also have doubts, but not threats, the cows will moo and shit over your grave.
Valentine and Carlos
Gay Colombian Jesus is having a rough time, he had an entire life planned with Valentine, and Valentine, is clearly suffering more- he has to tell his mother that the wedding’s off. And she is, shocked? Carlos is clearly the bad guy, he, talked to a woman, he isn’t, who is the mature one? Wait, isn’t Valentine polyamorous? Is he a narcissist…
Look at that bear shitting in the woods, it is nature’s vegan toilet. Any raccoons out here? I want to pet one and try not to get rabies. Would it pose for the new subreddit logo? We are the unofficial…I do not have a problem.
I give this episode 3.9/5 stars, the highlight was, Nicole being a good guy? How- is that no, tell him to leave-
Archangel Gabriel: I am exorcising your Nespresso Machine!
Oh, thank you, isn’t that part of the charm though?
Archangel Gabriel: No.
Possessed Nespresso Machine: F*** the Police!
It says that every time I bring up matcha, anyway, Jessica’s friends gets a strong honorable mention for, threatening to murder Juan, it was very- the power of Christ isn’t working, try someone else, your eternal contract, if you damage it you’re getting me a new one!
And next week, there is damage, Ana’s true intentions are revealed, Everton blows off marriage, Jessica digs her pregnant “by accident” heel in and, we meet Michelle, that homewrecker! And- she actually seems really, maybe she’ll get a bad edit.
Is it making something, oh it’s piss, is it Italian piss, Italian piss is fancy, I hope that no one takes that out of context.
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April and Valentin
April is going to cook at a poor person’s house, April is going to clean the poor person’s house- whether they like it or not, where did Valentin go? Is he cheating on her with this “personal training client”, who’s going to translate for April? And tell her she’s way overdressed for this?
Valentin’s mom is very impressed that April gave her cleaning supplies, that go on your hands? Is contact dermatitis an American delicacy, mind if we bleach these plantains? You must stare at the Plantains until they boil!
And April does, she literally has not peed on 8 hours, she has been sitting in her princess chair staring at knock-off bananas, for 8 hours, at least they’re not people. But now that the people are here, where is the bathroom?
April is very impressed with the bathroom setup, she has to dump a bucket of water down the toilet to, she lied, she can hold it. Valentin is annoyed at April for her snooty rich person, I don’t want to be poor in the Dominican Republic behavior. The nerve, how very dare, can he have some money?
Lidia and Scott
Lidia is hurt and embarrassed, she is crying, is this what Chantel felt like? She has to be strong, like Chantel, things happen for a reason, like Chantel, she has to put up with her man leaving her out of nowhere like- you get, Lidia feels bad. She needs emotional support, from family.
Scott is proudly working out in the world’s smallest hotel gym, preparing to end things on a good note with Lidia. Lidia tells Scott that he is a bastard man, who should have stayed home, Scott thinks this isn’t true, also this is all Lidia’s- kawkaw? What was that? It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s- Stone Cold Steve Austin’s theme music in Spanish!
Nicole is here, is she the first entrant in the Feminist Royal Scott Sucks Rumble? It’s the translator, she’s, she’s just standing, cancel the action figures, keep the T-Shirts, Dominican Shiny Charizard can be a thing a TikTok. Did we make a prototype of the Chantel action figure that say “Bitch Ass Slut Ass Whore” and has karate chopping Pedro action, Karen’s had so many hats.
Nicole literally rolled out of bed and came here, to destroy this man, you couldn’t learn Spanish! Be a good man! I was right! Nicole uses dragon breath on the liar, the bad man- who she met through her, Lidia deserves love, and Scott deserves Fire Spin.
Nicoles tells Scott that he is a sugar daddy, his ex is using him for money, and don’t you bring up Alejandro! You roided up Groundhog, who clearly doesn’t have any anger issues. This is why Nicole wore a shirt that blends in with the wall, she had to sneak up on him to get the truth!
Scott says that he’s being slandered, but if Nicole says someone is using you for money, is that a bear, it’s crouching down, it looks tense and there, there goes, the bear had Taco Bell, look, Scott is being used- how much Taco Bell did this bear have?
Juan and Jessica
Juan and Jessica take the children to the zoo, which one are they leaving there? The one that gets out of the snapping turtle enclosure, it’s, it’s a chase, do you have jaguars? Juan has a talk with the boys about the baby, they think it’s too soon, and that this was a trap, but hey, it’s cool now, why do those Spider Monkeys have spiders and why are they looking at us?
It is now Juan’s turn to face certain death, answer for his crimes, I mean, Jessica’s friend asks him about the cheating incident, which probably, or may not have, was I the cynical one? Am I not qualified to work for the FBI? Jessica’s friend is, she went through social medias! And- it probably did happen, I also have doubts, but not threats, the cows will moo and shit over your grave.
Valentine and Carlos
Gay Colombian Jesus is having a rough time, he had an entire life planned with Valentine, and Valentine, is clearly suffering more- he has to tell his mother that the wedding’s off. And she is, shocked? Carlos is clearly the bad guy, he, talked to a woman, he isn’t, who is the mature one? Wait, isn’t Valentine polyamorous? Is he a narcissist…
Look at that bear shitting in the woods, it is nature’s vegan toilet. Any raccoons out here? I want to pet one and try not to get rabies. Would it pose for the new subreddit logo? We are the unofficial…I do not have a problem.
I give this episode 3.9/5 stars, the highlight was, Nicole being a good guy? How- is that no, tell him to leave-
Archangel Gabriel: I am exorcising your Nespresso Machine!
Oh, thank you, isn’t that part of the charm though?
Archangel Gabriel: No.
Possessed Nespresso Machine: F*** the Police!
It says that every time I bring up matcha, anyway, Jessica’s friends gets a strong honorable mention for, threatening to murder Juan, it was very- the power of Christ isn’t working, try someone else, your eternal contract, if you damage it you’re getting me a new one!
And next week, there is damage, Ana’s true intentions are revealed, Everton blows off marriage, Jessica digs her pregnant “by accident” heel in and, we meet Michelle, that homewrecker! And- she actually seems really, maybe she’ll get a bad edit.
Is it making something, oh it’s piss, is it Italian piss, Italian piss is fancy, I hope that no one takes that out of context.
2023.06.06 03:19 Pixel_punkette82 Questions about getting water, and dumping trash and grey water.
So I was told to come here because, even though, I'm planning to live in a rv and not van, since I'm not staying in a park, this would be a better place to ask. I'm planing to be around the Daly City/Pacifica area of the Sf Bay Area. Would anyone happen to know I can get water to fill my tank, and to dump waste around there? Also any tips I should consider about the sf bay area and van/rv life I should consider?.
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2023.06.06 03:15 KCRoyalsBot The Royals fell to the Marlins by a score of 9-6 - Mon, Jun 05 @ 05:40 PM CDT
Royals @ Marlins - Mon, Jun 05
Game Status: Final - Score: 9-6 Marlins
Links & Info
| Royals Batters | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | K | LOB | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pratto - 1B | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | .298 | .393 | .463 |
| 2 | Witt Jr. - DH | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .233 | .267 | .420 |
| 3 | Melendez - RF | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .220 | .307 | .375 |
| 4 | Perez, S - C | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | .282 | .316 | .512 |
| 5 | Massey - 2B | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | .230 | .282 | .329 |
| 6 | Garcia, M - SS | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | .261 | .330 | .380 |
| 7 | Lopez, N - 3B | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .230 | .352 | .324 |
| 8 | Olivares - LF | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .238 | .307 | .424 |
| 9 | Waters - CF | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | .231 | .259 | .346 |
| Totals | 34 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 12 |
| Royals |
|---|
| BATTING: 2B: Melendez (12, Garrett, B); Perez, S (13, Chargois). 3B: Olivares (3, Okert). HR: Pratto (4, 3rd inning off Garrett, B, 0 on, 0 out). TB: Melendez 3; Olivares 3; Perez, S 3; Pratto 5; Waters; Witt Jr. RBI: Garcia, M (13); Melendez 2 (25); Perez, S (34); Pratto (15); Waters (3). Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Garcia, M; Waters 2. SF: Garcia, M. GIDP: Witt Jr. Team RISP: 3-for-8. Team LOB: 5. |
| FIELDING: E: Perez, S (1, throw); Waters (2, fielding). DP: (Garcia, M-Massey-Pratto). |
| Marlins Batters | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | K | LOB | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arraez - 2B | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .399 | .450 | .495 |
| 2 | De La Cruz - LF | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .300 | .351 | .464 |
| 3 | Cooper - DH | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | .236 | .271 | .401 |
| 4 | Sánchez, J - RF | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .289 | .366 | .522 |
| 5 | Gurriel - 1B | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .283 | .342 | .428 |
| 6 | Fortes - C | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .250 | .302 | .333 |
| 7 | Wendle - SS | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .235 | .316 | .382 |
| 8 | Berti - 3B | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .272 | .321 | .349 |
| 9 | Davis, Jo - CF | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .297 | .381 | .514 |
| Totals | 35 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| Marlins |
|---|
| BATTING: 2B: Wendle (6, Mayers); Arraez (15, Mayers); Davis, Jo (3, Mayers). 3B: Berti (1, Mayers). HR: De La Cruz (8, 6th inning off Staumont, 1 on, 2 out). TB: Arraez 4; Berti 4; Davis, Jo 2; De La Cruz 4; Fortes 2; Wendle 3. RBI: Arraez 2 (29); Berti 2 (12); Davis, Jo 2 (6); De La Cruz 2 (28); Fortes (12). 2-out RBI: Arraez; Fortes; De La Cruz 2; Davis, Jo; Berti 2. GIDP: Cooper. Team RISP: 5-for-7. Team LOB: 3. |
| FIELDING: DP: (Arraez-Gurriel). |
| Royals Pitchers | IP | H | R | ER | BB | K | HR | P-S | ERA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hernández, C | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 23-19 | 4.45 |
| Mayers (L, 1-1) | 3.0 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 75-52 | 4.41 |
| Staumont | 1.0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 16-10 | 5.40 |
| Wittgren | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18-13 | 5.14 |
| Totals | 8.0 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| Marlins Pitchers | IP | H | R | ER | BB | K | HR | P-S | ERA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Garrett, B (W, 2-2) | 5.0 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 75-53 | 4.47 |
| Brazoban (H, 9) | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 26-12 | 3.52 |
| Nardi (H, 4) | 1.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 19-13 | 2.67 |
| Chargois | 1.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 14-9 | 3.00 |
| Okert | 0.1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11-8 | 2.41 |
| Floro (S, 7) | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2-1 | 4.21 |
| Totals | 9.0 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 1 |
| Game Info |
|---|
| WP: Mayers. |
| Pitch timer violations: Floro (pitcher). |
| Pitches-strikes: Hernández, C 23-19; Mayers 75-52; Staumont 16-10; Wittgren 18-13; Garrett, B 75-53; Brazoban 26-12; Nardi 19-13; Chargois 14-9; Okert 11-8; Floro 2-1. |
| Groundouts-flyouts: Hernández, C 1-1; Mayers 5-2; Staumont 2-0; Wittgren 6-0; Garrett, B 4-3; Brazoban 1-0; Nardi 1-1; Chargois 1-1; Okert 0-0; Floro 1-0. |
| Batters faced: Hernández, C 6; Mayers 19; Staumont 5; Wittgren 6; Garrett, B 21; Brazoban 5; Nardi 4; Chargois 4; Okert 3; Floro 1. |
| Inherited runners-scored: Nardi 3-0; Floro 1-0. |
| Umpires: HP: Roberto Ortiz. 1B: Chad Whitson. 2B: Rob Drake. 3B: Bill Miller. |
| Weather: 72 degrees, Roof Closed. |
| Wind: 0 mph, None. |
| First pitch: 6:42 PM. |
| T: 2:32. |
| Att: 7,232. |
| Venue: loanDepot park. |
| June 5, 2023 |
| Inning | Scoring Play | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Top 1 | MJ Melendez doubles (12) on a line drive to left fielder Bryan De La Cruz. Nick Pratto scores. | 1-0 KC |
| Top 1 | Salvador Perez singles on a ground ball to center fielder Jonathan Davis, deflected by shortstop Joey Wendle. MJ Melendez scores. | 2-0 KC |
| Top 3 | Nick Pratto homers (4) on a fly ball to right field. | 3-0 KC |
| Top 3 | MJ Melendez singles on a line drive to left fielder Bryan De La Cruz. Bobby Witt Jr. scores. | 4-0 KC |
| Bottom 3 | Marlins challenged (play at 1st), call on the field was overturned: Jonathan Davis grounds into a force out, shortstop Maikel Garcia to second baseman Michael Massey. Joey Wendle scores. Jon Berti out at 2nd. Jonathan Davis to 1st. | 4-1 KC |
| Bottom 3 | Luis Arraez doubles (15) on a ground ball to left fielder Edward Olivares. Jonathan Davis scores. | 4-2 KC |
| Bottom 4 | Jon Berti triples (1) on a line drive to right fielder MJ Melendez. Nick Fortes scores. Joey Wendle scores. | 4-4 |
| Bottom 4 | Jonathan Davis doubles (3) on a fly ball to right fielder MJ Melendez. Jon Berti scores. | 5-4 MIA |
| Bottom 4 | Luis Arraez singles on a ground ball to center fielder Drew Waters. Jonathan Davis scores. | 6-4 MIA |
| Bottom 5 | Nick Fortes singles on a ground ball to center fielder Drew Waters. Yuli Gurriel scores. | 7-4 MIA |
| Bottom 6 | Bryan De La Cruz homers (8) on a fly ball to center field. Luis Arraez scores. | 9-4 MIA |
| Top 8 | Maikel Garcia out on a sacrifice fly to center fielder Jonathan Davis. Salvador Perez scores. | 9-5 MIA |
| Top 9 | Drew Waters singles on a ground ball to left fielder Bryan De La Cruz. Edward Olivares scores. | 9-6 MIA |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | LOB | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Royals | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 5 | |
| Marlins | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 11 | 0 | 3 |
Decisions
- Winner: Braxton Garrett (2-2, 4.47)
- Loser: Mike Mayers (1-1, 4.41)
- Save: Dylan Floro (7, 4.21)
Division Scoreboard
DET 3 @ PHI 8 - FinalNext Royals Game: Tue, Jun 06, 05:40 PM CDT @ Marlins
Last Updated: 06/05/2023 09:10:54 PM CDT
2023.06.06 03:08 mablej Practical advice desperately needed about schizophrenic violent ex-partner.
This is a long background story, but I think that context is necessary. Thank you so much if you take the time to read.
It has been over for several months, and I've been staying at my parents' house. I am mostly moved out from our previously shared house, aside from my beloved huge book collection and record collection.
He almost killed me (strangulation) many times, lots of ER visits, lots of police asking me to tell the truth. Why did I lie? I don't know.
I'm a teacher, and got covid in March 2020. I met him the night my school had closed, a friend of a friend. We hooked up, stayed at my friend's that night, and the next day he had to go feed his cat. I went with him, and then lock down happened. Around the same time, I showed symptoms of covid. Badly. School had no masks, you couldnt buy hand sanitizer, 33 first graders. My dad is a doctor and came over a few times in a hazmat suit to take my vitals. I slept about 20 hours a day for 3 months. My parents thought I was dying. My o2 was 87-89, and my heart was damaged (160 hr, sleeping). I couldn't go home bc my dad was a first responder, and my partner actually took very nice care of me. We moved into an apartment together in August 2020.
Gradual signs of abuse, Spyware on my phone, cameras everywhere, and he was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2021. Of course, it just got worse, really just in the stereotypical ways. I was still quite weak and thankful and dependent and increasing emotionally attached.
After he threw me through a glass window door, I left. April 2023. I don't know if I can revisit all of the torture and abuse I endured leading up to this.. Peeing on my graded student final essays, contacting everyone I have ever known and harassing them, dumping bags of moldy garbage on my head while I was leaving for work, missing work because of black eyes and overnight ER visits, the constant pit in my stomach when my classroom phone rang because he'd harass me there, hiding my car keys when i was going to work. I lost 2 jobs because of him, but only had brief periods of unemployment. I barely spend any money, and I'm terrible at personal finance. I just always had enough because I almost always have a job and have 10k or more in savings (in my checking account, which becomes important further down).
The reason I included the covid bit is I guess to say that my brain really wasn't working. I wish more than anything that I told the hospital staff. The police were all men and I don't know, I didn't want to go to a trial or something, I don't even know, maybe I didn't want to uproot my life or start over or maybe I was scared of retaliation if nothing ended up happening or maybe I loved him and didn't want to ruin his life.
I just have a few questions.
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It has been over for several months, and I've been staying at my parents' house. I am mostly moved out from our previously shared house, aside from my beloved huge book collection and record collection.
He almost killed me (strangulation) many times, lots of ER visits, lots of police asking me to tell the truth. Why did I lie? I don't know.
I'm a teacher, and got covid in March 2020. I met him the night my school had closed, a friend of a friend. We hooked up, stayed at my friend's that night, and the next day he had to go feed his cat. I went with him, and then lock down happened. Around the same time, I showed symptoms of covid. Badly. School had no masks, you couldnt buy hand sanitizer, 33 first graders. My dad is a doctor and came over a few times in a hazmat suit to take my vitals. I slept about 20 hours a day for 3 months. My parents thought I was dying. My o2 was 87-89, and my heart was damaged (160 hr, sleeping). I couldn't go home bc my dad was a first responder, and my partner actually took very nice care of me. We moved into an apartment together in August 2020.
Gradual signs of abuse, Spyware on my phone, cameras everywhere, and he was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2021. Of course, it just got worse, really just in the stereotypical ways. I was still quite weak and thankful and dependent and increasing emotionally attached.
After he threw me through a glass window door, I left. April 2023. I don't know if I can revisit all of the torture and abuse I endured leading up to this.. Peeing on my graded student final essays, contacting everyone I have ever known and harassing them, dumping bags of moldy garbage on my head while I was leaving for work, missing work because of black eyes and overnight ER visits, the constant pit in my stomach when my classroom phone rang because he'd harass me there, hiding my car keys when i was going to work. I lost 2 jobs because of him, but only had brief periods of unemployment. I barely spend any money, and I'm terrible at personal finance. I just always had enough because I almost always have a job and have 10k or more in savings (in my checking account, which becomes important further down).
The reason I included the covid bit is I guess to say that my brain really wasn't working. I wish more than anything that I told the hospital staff. The police were all men and I don't know, I didn't want to go to a trial or something, I don't even know, maybe I didn't want to uproot my life or start over or maybe I was scared of retaliation if nothing ended up happening or maybe I loved him and didn't want to ruin his life.
I just have a few questions.
- He managed my finances, and said he had set up a savings account for me. I didn't look much into it because I, for some reason, trusted him. He had been sending almost all my money to himself with cashapp and buying himself doordash while I was working. About 20k over 3 years. He also paid the rent, but he insisted, and I was under the impression he was making 3x as much as a remote worker as a lead software developer. Is that money just gone? I don't know what information he has stored. How do I start over financially? What do I need to shut down or close? He is way more tech-savvy and collects bits of information and memorizes numbers and information easily.
- He is not taking his anti-psychotic meds and messages me a lot late at night, or calls hundreds of times, saying that he's going to burn my books and then hang himself if I don't bring him food or water (our city water has lead). He always says he is broke and going into DKA (T1 diabetic). And it would all be my fault. Could I be somehow held legally responsible for this, if he did die?
- Near the end, he began to show serious violent tendencies towards others. He has "blackouts" (not substance-induced). His eyes change. A friend was over, and the friend made a dumb sexual joke about me, as we were all just just goofing around. My partner got up, went to the kitchen, in a daze, got this huge sledgehammer, and began walking, like sleepwalking, towards our friend. I got him snapped out. Similar things on 2 other occasions. I truly truly truly think he is going to kill someone. Is there ANYTHING I can do? Like I'm watching him unravel and get worse over 3 years. I think it's too late to pursue charges from my injuries, at least that's the impression I was left with. I did eventually start gathering photographic and video evidence towards the end of the relationship.
- Least importantly, I really want my books and records back. Is there any way to force him to leave the house for 2 hours so my family and friends and I can grab the rest of my things?
2023.06.06 03:04 heisteric Customizing / Dyeing Covers
So, I have a vision for the type of cover I want for my A6. I really want an all black A6 cover. But hobonichi only sells an all dark navy (close to black, but I really want pure black) and a black cover with blue inside. Again, I really want all black outside and inside.
Hobo has an all black leather version, but it's more expensive and i prefer the polyester material or canvas material.
So my question is... has anyone tried to customize the color of their cover? Has anyone successfully dyed/painted their cover? If so, how and do you find it lasts?
The last thing I want is to have dye bleed onto my journals. I know Rit dyes need to be used in boiling water and dunking a cover in that feels like it could warp and ruin the shape.
Do i just suck it up and get the black/blue? Or should i wait in case hobo comes out with an all black cover?
Thank you.
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Hobo has an all black leather version, but it's more expensive and i prefer the polyester material or canvas material.
So my question is... has anyone tried to customize the color of their cover? Has anyone successfully dyed/painted their cover? If so, how and do you find it lasts?
The last thing I want is to have dye bleed onto my journals. I know Rit dyes need to be used in boiling water and dunking a cover in that feels like it could warp and ruin the shape.
Do i just suck it up and get the black/blue? Or should i wait in case hobo comes out with an all black cover?
Thank you.
2023.06.06 03:01 Peppe_Pancho Add depression soup to the game
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2023.06.06 03:01 ThriftStoreWhores You can only be prepared yourself. You can't convince others to be prepared or evacuate. My story about today:
I woke up to a major hiking trail a fourth of a mile away from me fully engulfed in flames. My city has 2 emergency service organizations that relay information and organize maps and evacuations. I immediately looked at their apps because I smelled smoke and the neighborhood was smoky. Thats how I found out about our trail fire. I contacted my parents who live just 15 houses from me about the current situation & not a single fuck was given. Their reply? "Oh, well. We were just on our way to the grocery store" It wasn't even 5 minutes later, I got 2 notifications stating 2 short streets over were on Level 2 evacuation and 12 homes were evacuated, 2 were on fire We were on Level 1. We have 3 levels here. It goes as the following: L1: GET READY, L2: GET SET, L3: GO!.
I call my parents to say "Hey, we're on Level 1 but just a few houses away, we're on Level 2! Get back home immediately because it looks like we'll be needing to leave quick!" Their reply? "We just got to Safeway & don't see anything. You need to calm down."
So they say to check in on your elderly and disabled neighbors at times like this? So I walk across the street to my 75 year old neighbor's house stating the same thing. I get another notification our level was raised to Level 2. I ask my neighbor if she needs help getting what she needs (and her big ass dog) into her vehicle and she told me "Don't be fucking ridiculous! No!".
I'm pissy at this point and walk to my paraplegic neighbors house who lives with his mom alone. I relayed the same damn story, showed them the same damn maps and levels, etc. His mom can't pick him up. Often they call me to lift him back in his chair or bed. I told him "Hey I'm going to need to lift you in your mom's van if this gets any worse. Do you want me to throw your things in your car?" I GOT THE SAME GODDAMN REPLY FROM HIS MOTHER'S MOUTH AS EVERYONE ELSE.
My shit had been in my truck in my driveway for hours at this point just waiting for level 3 to pop up. Long story short, it took 16 firetrucks from 2 different counties, 3 tankers and a DNR helicopter to put out this fire. Some are still there spraying water making damn sure at this moment.
One would think being almost evacuated last year and have been choking on wildfire smoke the past 8 years during this time, people would be prepared.
MORAL TO MY STORY: You cannot ask people to be prepared or active; even during emergency situations. You can only prepare yourself & help yourself. Oh, and also fuck thy neighbor. They won't care. I'm jaded now.
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I call my parents to say "Hey, we're on Level 1 but just a few houses away, we're on Level 2! Get back home immediately because it looks like we'll be needing to leave quick!" Their reply? "We just got to Safeway & don't see anything. You need to calm down."
So they say to check in on your elderly and disabled neighbors at times like this? So I walk across the street to my 75 year old neighbor's house stating the same thing. I get another notification our level was raised to Level 2. I ask my neighbor if she needs help getting what she needs (and her big ass dog) into her vehicle and she told me "Don't be fucking ridiculous! No!".
I'm pissy at this point and walk to my paraplegic neighbors house who lives with his mom alone. I relayed the same damn story, showed them the same damn maps and levels, etc. His mom can't pick him up. Often they call me to lift him back in his chair or bed. I told him "Hey I'm going to need to lift you in your mom's van if this gets any worse. Do you want me to throw your things in your car?" I GOT THE SAME GODDAMN REPLY FROM HIS MOTHER'S MOUTH AS EVERYONE ELSE.
My shit had been in my truck in my driveway for hours at this point just waiting for level 3 to pop up. Long story short, it took 16 firetrucks from 2 different counties, 3 tankers and a DNR helicopter to put out this fire. Some are still there spraying water making damn sure at this moment.
One would think being almost evacuated last year and have been choking on wildfire smoke the past 8 years during this time, people would be prepared.
MORAL TO MY STORY: You cannot ask people to be prepared or active; even during emergency situations. You can only prepare yourself & help yourself. Oh, and also fuck thy neighbor. They won't care. I'm jaded now.