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Edit: This story has undergone some edits to better fit the site requirements. The following story is a work of fiction.
All characters and places in this story are fully made up. Any resemblance to people or places is completely
coincidental, yada yada yada. Some intro is necessary before we begin the story.
First and foremost: This story is typed in notepad and then copy-pasted from the desktop directly to the site. I
will do my best to avoid spelling and grammatical errors, but the will be a few, so just don’t worry about them.
Secondly, this is a story told in many parts, and will have at least ten parts to it. It may be several days between
uploading of each part. Be patient. Also, I should mention that I'm not very good at writing conversations, so much of
the story will be written from the main characters thought point of view. Nextly, this story includes some themes of sex
that some may frown upon. If you do not like any of the tags, do not read this story. At this time I would like to remind
you that this story is 100% fiction and is in absolutely no way connected to real people or places, etc., etc.
Now we will introduce the characters seen in this story, some of their stats etc. They are arranged from top to
bottom in the order of which chapters they will appear in. I included this for all of you who like details out there.
James
Main Character
Age: 18
Length: 7 1/2 inches.
Description: The main character, get used to his point of view, cause that’s what you will be seeing a lot of shortly!
Peyton
Age: 18
Cup Size: 32C
Desc: Best friends with James's girlfriend, Kelly. Is also a cheerleader for the school cheer-squad.
Catherine
Age: 18
Cup Size: 34C
Desc: James's Lab partner, also one of James's many dream girls.
Bella
Age: 18
Cup Size: 34B
Desc: The only female football player on the schools senior A football team, of which James is the Quarterback.
McKenna
Age: 18
Cup Size: 34A
Desc: Although she doesn’t have much boob, McKenna has a butt that makes any guy around her age stare.
Ellen
Age: 18
Cup Size: 34C
Desc: Your classic girl next door. Is both the genius of James's class, and also his literal girl-next-door. They are
neighbors.
Bethany
Age: 18
Cup Size: 32D
Desc: A smoking hot student who has just moved to town.
Kelly
Age: 18
Cup Size: 32C
Desc: James's girlfriend, James and her have gone all the way before. Many times.
Gabby
Age: 19
Cup Size: 34DD
Desc: By far the girl with the biggest tits in the school, apart from some teachers, Gabby is the fantasy of almost every
boy in the High School.
Quinn
Age: 18
Cup Size: 32B
Desc: A beautiful teen with a sexy ass to boot. Enough Said.
Mason
Age: 18
Cup Size: 34B
Desc: Your other classic stereotype, Mason is the usual "rich girl" of the school.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, with ought further hesitation, I present to you, Chapter One!
May 8th, 2014
James's House
7:03 A.M.
I woke up to a drizzle of May rain on my window. A look at my clock told me that I had time to spare. The bus
doesn’t come to pick us up until 8:40, and school itself doesn’t begin until Nine A.M. Today was a Monday, and I hate
Mondays. Nothing good ever happens on Mondays... Well... Except for that one time... With Kelly, after school while my
parents were out... But that’s another story, for another time.
I finally managed to drag myself out of bed. With luck, I would have time for a nice shower and a good breakfast,
with enough time to play a quick game of TotalProFootball on my new Y-Cube gaming console that I got last Christmas from
my Uncle Clyde (He always gets the best presents).
I ran downstairs to the main floor bathroom, which has a shower-sauna type steam room. I guess I should also
mention that my family is fairly, if not very, well off. My father, Rick, was a high ranking employee of a chain of
hotels that had locations all over the country, and my mother, Lisa, worked as the Vice-C.E.O. of a P.R. Firm. Because of
this my family has been able to afford some of the more high-end type stuff, and I have my own roof, separate from my
younger brother, Chase, who is 13 and plays way to much Terraria, and my older sister, Claudette, who is 19 and is the
singer in a small high school band with some of her friends. She plans on attending Yale next year.
Once I got into the shower, I cranked the heat setting for the steam portion to a nice warm temp, and then turned
on the water and put the nozzle to the "rain" setting. I sat down on the in-shower bench, and grabbed my shampoo off of
the shelf. Once my hair was squeaky clean, I conditioned it and proceeded to soap up and rinse off. I was about 1/2 way
done using the soap when the shower turned ice-cold. Surprised, I suddenly screamed "Holy Shit, that’s freezing!" I could
hear my little brother across the hall in the kitchen laughing his punk-ass off. He had cranked the dual kitchen sink to
hot mode again, and doing that redirects the hot water to the kitchen, and sends cold water to the bathroom. He enjoys
messing with me every chance he gets. I rinsed off quickly and hopped out of the shower to towel off.
Once I was dry and wearing clothes, I walked out of the bathroom, across the hall, and into our large kitchen. My
brother was eating a bowl of cereal, and my sister was cooking herself an egg. I walked over to my brother and play-
punched him in the shoulder. I then got myself some toast and jam and ate my breakfast.
My mother walked into the kitchen, already ready for the day, even though her business didn’t open until nine and
was only a fifteen minute drive away. "Sorry kids, emergency in the marketing department this morning" She said. "I have
to leave right now, and won’t be back until late this evening." My sister then scoffed "What, some customer not happy
with the new commercial for that dog food company you guys made?" My mother disregarded her remark, and asked "You kids
can get ready for school fine, right?" We assured her we could, and I commented that I had football practice after
school, as there was a big game against the rival school in a week and a half. She said since she wouldn’t be home, she
had arranged for Chase to go to his friend Malcom’s house after school, and that Claudette was fine to go to the mall
with some friends if she wanted. After a quick goodbye, she was out the door.
We continued getting ready for school, and once all of the lunches where packed, headed outside to the bus stop
on the corner. There were five other kids there now, there was my best friend Roy, my neighbor Ellen, and three younger
kids who I don’t know all that well. As we waited for the bus, Chase was chatting with the younger kids about Terraria,
Claudette and Ellen were talking about some music by some guy named Beaver, and Roy and I were chatting about
TotalProFootball, as it is our favorite game. Roy is also on the football team, he is a linebacker.
Once we got on the bus, it was only a ten minute drive to the school. Our stop is the third to last stop, so we
don’t have to be on the bus for that long. The school we go to, South Central Academy, is a mixed grade school of K-12.
It is a little out of the city, on the outskirts, and as such, there is only about 200 students right now.
May 8th, 2014
South Central Academy
8:56 A.M.
"Hurry James! Class starts in four minutes!" Roy said to me, as he was grabbing his binder from his locker. Our
first class was English, and I hate it. Our teacher is one of those old lady teachers who praise Shakespeare as if they
new him. Sometimes, I think she might be old enough to have met him. Anyways, I managed to get into the classroom with
about ten seconds to spare before the bell sounded over the Intercom. We stood up for the national anthem, and afterwards
our teacher took attendance. Once everyone was accounted for, we began our assignment. We had to pair up into groups of
four and right a composition about why the English language has played an important role in historic events. I was paired
up with Roy, Alicia (Roy’s Girlfriend) and Kelly. Our teacher has a tendency to put friends together with ought meaning
to.
We managed to finish the paper and turn it in just before the end of class. Besides one other group, we were the
only ones who had finished yet. We continued on to our second class, math. We have double math on this particular day of
the week, and since math is boring, I'll spare you the details.
May 8th, 2014
South Central Academy Lunchroom
12:02 P.M.
Our school has a small lunchroom, but as it is so small scale, there is no cafeteria. We do have a soup and
sandwich vending machine, but there are limited selections, and the sandwiches are almost never fresh. There are about 30
tables in the lunchroom, one of which is usually occupied by Me, Kelly, Roy, Alicia, and some of the football team.
I had packed myself a lunch the consisted of a Steak Bun, an apple, and a protein bar. I needed to have lots of
energy for the football practice tonight. As I was about halfway done, I noticed Peyton, a cheerleader for the schools
senior cheer team, wink at me. I was sitting right beside a boy named Bob, though, and I happened to know Bob has a crush
on Peyton, so I disregarded the wink as being directed at Bob. I saw Peyton winking at Bob several more times throughout
lunch hour, although she was looking more in my direction, and Bob never noticed.
After lunch, we had Science class. The teacher instructed us that today we had to create a simple chemical in the
lab, and that we should find out lab partners and prepare a station for the experiment. My lab partner, Catherine, took
charge quick and assigned both of us jobs. Through ought the duration of the experiment, I couldn’t help but notice that
she was wearing a shirt with a bit of a V-Neck style. I snuck a couple of glances when she wasn’t looking, for later. I
know I can really only fantasise about her tits, since there’s no chance a girl like here would like a guy like me right?
Oh, but they just looked so round... creamy... soft... they were just so...
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I think I’m in love. Okay I hope its love but I will say for a damn fact there is a connection between Jenna and me. Not something as petty as likes and dislikes, we just get each other. The first two weeks of November we have been dating and people found out really quick that I not only existed but was the nice guy, no name pun intended. I make Jenna feel like a queen and she has me feeling like the happiest man alive. We eat lunch together every day, we go out to dinner at least twice a week and I’ve been to the studio where she does her modeling for her future career. I have been dressing nicer for her too. She’s always wearing some of the nicest clothes, attractive but mature so I’m wearing dress shirts and slacks. I even had mom take me in and style my hair. Now I look like a man who should be next to Jenna and people notice. I’m spoken to a little differently and asked constantly how we are doing; I don’t see why they ask me when Jenna is just as approachable as I am. Life is good here and we’re happy. I’ve only stolen a few kisses from her though but I blame Brandon for that. After he broke up with her and decided to screw around with women she’s keeping herself guarded till its right, I’m hoping for soon but no pressure. Most of the time we spend it working out her options and career after high school and at her prompting I am doing online college classes through the high school so we’ll have more time to work things out between us.
It is at the end of the second week that the family has another counseling session with Dr. Hill only it’s a lot different than I expected since we’re doing two sessions both involving me and another member of the family. We’re supposed to talk to each other about how we’re feeling and this first one is Beth and I. We’re both sitting on the same couch but at opposite ends as Dr. Hill decide to start in with the questions.
“So Guy, what were your first thoughts of Bethany,” Dr. Hill asks me and I think for a second.
“I thought she looked nice and she seemed happy,” I answer being honest.
“And when the incident occurred where she got Mark to attack you, what were your thoughts towards her then,” Dr. Hill continues with me ignoring Beth.
“I didn’t know what to think. I thought we were supposed to be a family but I was wrong,” I recall and wonder if the doctor is going to ask Beth anything.
“After the attack you isolated yourself from the rest of the family, did it ever occur to you to get any revenge,” Dr. Hill asks and I shake my head no,” Do you have any idea as to why you didn’t want to hurt her?”
“I don’t know,” I remark not liking the questions.
“Was it because of her brother,” she asks and I shake my head no,” There must have been a reason?”
“I don’t have one. She did what she wanted and I just backed off,” I am getting mad and I don’t like the questions.
“Do you hate Bethany,” Dr. Hill asks and I roll my eyes, more questions for me,” Guy please take this seriously, do you hate your sister Beth?”
“What does it matter, she fucking despises me,” I get the words out and that’s when Beth decides to add her two cents.
“I never said that,” Beth states and I turn my attention to her.
“You didn’t need to; everything you have ever done has come from your absolute hate for me. You had your brother attack me; you had people make fun of me at school and had yourself a good ole laugh at my expense and pain. Trust me I know exactly what you think of me,” I finish turning back to the doctor.
“Guy the question does matter and we’ll address Beth in a little while,” Dr. Hill says and I settle in for the inquisition.
Half an hour later I’ve explained how she hates my very existence, Beth not the doctor but I’m beginning to think the doctor isn’t a fan of me either. I’ve given details from my point of view as to things she’s done and said about me to others while the doctor takes her notes. It feels like forever since we started and finally Dr. Hill turns her attention to Beth and we both watch as her phone, the doctor’s, goes off. She answers and tries to explain she’s with a patient before telling the other party she’ll be on her way. I’ve sat through a half an hour of dumping out all my crap to Beth and Doctor Hill and she’s leaving. The doctor tells us that she’ll schedule us a time to continue and walks out of the sitting room. I watch her leave and now I’m very much done. I get up from the couch leaving Bethany where she is, she can rot for all I care, and head up to my room. Mom tries to stop me on the way but I’m not in the mood to stop and I’ve done enough talking. I get to my room and message Jenna letting her know I’m done and free is she wants to talk. I get no response and figure she’s taking care of something with her modeling and let her be. I must have been sitting for about ten minutes when there is a light knock on my door and before I can tell them to go away Beth steps in and closes the door behind her.
“I guess we don’t get to finish our session this week,” Beth’s only real words and it’s a bad joke.
“The sessions are bullshit,” I state and she doesn’t like my comment, I can tell by her expression.
“Not for me, I learned a lot today,” Beth says trying to, and I’m guessing here, actually talk to me.
“Well congratulations, what did you learn that was so special? That I’ve been and emotional wreck most of my life or that I make the world’s greatest whipping boy,” I ask her and she frowns at me, the non pouting kind.
“I learned you’re a hell of a lot better person than I am. I can’t understand how you never hated me and even after I ruined your birthday you just decided to ignore everyone and wait to move on with your life. I could never do that,” Beth states trying to reach me emotionally, bad idea.
“Because you’ve never had anyone taken from you, not anyone that matters,” I get the words out and Beth’s face goes from pleading to anger.
“You think so Guy? Well my birth Mom was taken from me when I was barely out of elementary school and I had to live without anyone till you and Mom came in to our home and we all became a family,” Beth says it and I can tell she’s mad, well get in line.
“No you lost your mother, what happened to her was an accident. It was a horrible tragic accident and when Mom and I came into this household,” I don’t think I’ll ever call them family at this point,” You made it your sole mission in life to take MY Mom from me and make her YOUR Mom. And you did and you smiled and laughed and the whole time you ruled the house, at least as far as us kids were concerned.”
“I didn’t take her,” Beth says and I am out of my chair and two feet from her in a flash.
“Doesn’t fucking tell me what you did or didn’t do? I was there and I lived it. You sat there and drowned me out of everything. YOUR mother took my father from me, the one person who actually loved me no matter what and when it was all said and done you just walked up and bat your eyes and she stopped being MY mother and started being YOUR mother. So now that we have that piece of history out of the way don’t you look at me and try to say you’ve had anything taken from you because to you everything is replaceable,” I’m hot and for once Beth doesn’t look so confident.
Hell with confidence she is hurt, I am still unbelievably pissed off as she backs away from me and opening the door rushes out of my room and past Mom who has by the look on her face heard everything I said. Mom could cry if I pushed the right buttons but I don’t know if it’s mercy or just emotional exhaustion that has me leave my door open and return to my computer chair. Mom takes a minute to herself before coming into my room and takes a seat in her chair she bought.
“I’ll always be your Mom Guy,” she says and I shrug.
“Yeah, not much I can do about you giving birth to me,” I state feeling a little drained.
“I know you have a hard time believing it but I do love you. I’ve loved you since I first held you and I never stopped,” Mom says and I sigh audibly,” I saw Dr. Hill leave early, she said something about an emergency?”
“I don’t know and I don’t care. All she did is ask me questions for a half hour and when I asked to turn it towards Beth for a bit she told me that it would happen later and then she leaves,” I recap the session for Mom.
“Well I am sorry about what happened between your father and I, the divorce and the custody fight. I didn’t think about what I did till years later,” Mom says and I cut her off.
“You knew exactly what you were doing, the one time in my childhood you were fully aware of what was happening. It was also the most sober I remember you being,” I state not feeling nice.
“I was sober, the lawyer I hired rode my ass for his paycheck and I hated nagging, even growing up,” Mom brings her childhood into the conversation,” I just couldn’t lose you. You were all I had and I just couldn’t go on without you.”
“Yeah, you needed me to wake you up for work and make sure the apartment didn’t burn down,” I may be lashing out but I feel like I deserve to.
“I was scared I’d never be accepted by Abby and Beth, that’s why I focused on them for so long. And I didn’t ever think I was neglecting you because I married Mark Sr. and made your life better. I always, ALWAYS, thought of you as being stronger than others. You did take care of me and I came to realize that too late and when I should have said or done things with you,” Mom says and I shrug.
“Well they’ll need you after I’m gone, Beth definitely will when she figures out that the world doesn’t revolve around her,” I state and Mom grimaces.
“She’s not a bad girl, needed to learn what sharing and family was earlier but not a bad girl,” Mom says to defend her and I laugh.
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2023.03.21 02:16 Inorai [Menagerie of Dreams] Chapter 2 - He's a Problem

[Menagerie of Dreams] Chapter 2 - He's a Problem
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The Story: When a seemingly-powerless human walks straight through the wards shielding her bestiary, Aloe finds herself with a mystery on her shop floor - and with her merciless kin eager to get their hands on him, they've got a deadline on solving it.
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Aloe took a step back, green eyes wide.
Behind her frozen facade, though, her thoughts raced at a hundred miles an hour. A human. Here.
That was a problem. A big one. It meant something had gone terribly wrong with all of the enchantments on the Dragon—and now, she had to move fast if she wanted to keep Secrecy intact.
The man took a shuffling step backward, going paler by the second. Sweat beaded on his forehead. “Shit,” she heard him whisper. The tension building in his voice was clear.
So when he turned, bolting for the door, she was ready. A trilling whistle exploded from her throat, her lips shaping the tone to a high, looping pitch. The door of the Dragon slammed shut. The deadbolt clacked home.
The human hit the wood a heartbeat later, wrestling with the latch. “Open,” Aloe heard him gasp. “Open, dammit!” His expression twisted even as he said it. Recognition, Aloe knew.
One last slam of his fist against the wall, and he spun, glaring at Aloe from beneath a mess of sandy brown hair. “What the hell is this?” he spat. “Just- Just let me go. I’ll call the cops.” As if remembering himself, he started patting at his coat, his bag dropping forgotten to the wooden floor.
Aloe had already put a hand to her belt, running her fingers across the blocky, wood-and-metal shape hanging at her hip. A kalimba. Not the most complex instrument ever devised, but simple was all she needed. She plucked one of the tines, letting the smooth, bell-like note ring through the shop. Centering herself, she started to play, fingers flying faster as she settled into a rhythm. Her magic rose, called up by the clean, pure melody.
“You’ve got to be shitting me,” she heard from across the room. Her brow furrowed. She’d already started her lullaby—there was no way anyone should be left standing still, much less a magic-less human.
But when she looked up, she found the human man scrolling through his phone, terror steadily replacing confusion on his face. “That’s not-”
“No service in here,” Aloe said softly. The man looked up at the sound of her voice, and she sighed inwardly at the frenzied look in his eyes. She dragged her fingers across the kalimba, letting another chord sail out. Nice and slow, Aloe. It’s no different from calming a scared gryphon. “It’s okay. Nothing is wrong. No one will hurt you.”
The words were laced with another enchantment—a sedating charm, this time—but once again, her magic seemed to vanish when it brushed his skin. He shook his head wildly, wordless, and returned to wrestling with the door. The phone fell from his fingers, forgotten.
Aloe’s heart started to pound. Daisy was there alongside her, hackles raised and a snarl on her lips. When a knurl got to growling they growled, and she could already see the impact it was having on their unwelcome guest. She dropped a hand to the hound’s head, still strumming the kalimba with her other.
“You’re safe,” she murmured, reaching deeper into her well of magic. “Breathe, friend. None will harm you here.” Her unease grew by the second, even as she wove a sleeping charm over the entire Dancing Dragon. She was old, yes, and her magic was powerful enough she didn’t fear often for her safety, but it was specialized. She had sleep, and she had dreams. If they didn’t work on this human, what else could she bring to bear here?
Carefully, agonizingly slow, she inched to the side, to where her field kit sat forgotten alongside the counter.
The tension in her eased as she felt the magic start to take hold, the whole room resonating with the steady peal of the tines. The sunbirds overhead came to rest on their beams. The sprites drifted back to their crystal orb, their light dimming. Even Daisy sank to the ground with a whine, laying her head on her neatly-crossed paws.
The human, however, whirled back around to face her, face wild. “Let me out!” he roared—and he broke into a mad dash back toward her, a wordless cry on his lips.
Aloe was faster. She snatched her hand crossbow from the top of the kit, leveling it at him. He was halfway across the shop floor when she pulled the trigger.
The dart notched against its string shot forward, lancing deep into the man’s shoulder. She had a frozen moment of fear as she saw it bite home. If this didn’t work, she didn’t have any other options—but the poison it was loaded with was made from a heavily diluted basilisk venom, brewed by a dear friend she trusted wholeheartedly. She’d seen the same darts take down a charging troll.
It’d work.
The man pressed onward another lumbering step, and Aloe danced back, her breath catching in her throat. It wasn’t working. She had to-
One more lurch, and she saw the man’s eyes roll back in his head. He dropped like a sack of potatoes, hitting the ground hard.
And with that, finally, the Dancing Dragon was quiet.
Aloe took a long, shuddering breath, pressing a hand to her chest. Her other hand shook as she laid her crossbow back atop her field bag. Her heart hammered away fast as a hummingbird’s, her blood rushing through her veins. “That was too close,” she whispered, eyes still fixed to the motionless form of the human. “What in Ora’s merciful embrace was that, Daisy?”
The knurl let out a whine in her sleep, rolling over to her side. Despite the panic of the moment, Aloe let out a shaky laugh, casting a derisive look toward the hound.
And as she collected herself, she started to circle the fallen man, her mind churning away. “What are you?” she whispered, crouching down beside him. Warning bells rang in her head, screaming for her to stay back, to get away. She ignored all of them, reaching out to grip the man gently by the chin.
Well, he looked human enough. Aloe grimaced, leaning in a bit closer. Dhumir were hardy folk, and they had a bit of magic resistance about them. Maybe this fellow had a few drops from one of their bloodlines to his name. He certainly didn’t have the delightfully solid bone structure of most of them, but neither could she place him as belonging to another of the light-touched races.
Releasing him, she stood with a groan. “What am I doing?” she mumbled, burying her face in both hands. The truth of the situation was obvious. He wasn’t a dhumir, or one of the diminutive gallafi, or an erelin like herself. No matter how hard she tried to find another alternative, there was only one answer. The same one she’d been staring down from the start.
He was human. And yet somehow, he’d blasted her wards to smithereens, shrugging off every last spell she threw at him.
“Lucky I still had my kit out,” she mumbled. Her hands raked through her hair, teasing at the strands that’d fallen from her knots and ties.
Underneath it all, she recognized that she was just wasting time. She’d laid the human flat, but considering her magic had had little effect on him, she couldn’t guarantee he’d be down for long—or that she could do it a second time.
Which meant that as little as she wanted to, she had another job to take care of before he woke up.
Heart leaden, she eased her phone from its pocket, staring down at the blank screen. She wouldn’t have service here any more than the human did. Cell phone towers hadn’t learned how to penetrate a seemspace yet, Mother be praised. But she still had options.
Her nostrils flared as she eyed the device like it’d leap from her hand and attack. Do it, you coward. Finally, she dragged a finger around the phone’s outer edge, clearing her throat. “Heed me,” she mumbled. No song required—it was just a sliver of Rote magic, like any light-touched child of Ora could perform. “Sing out across untold distances.”
The magic took hold—and as the phone started to glow in her hand, she raised it begrudgingly to her ear.
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Daisy whined, fixing a red-eyed, mournful look on her.
Aloe shook her head. “No.”
The knurl let out a low whuff, barely audible.
“I said no.” Aloe raised an eyebrow, turning her gaze more fully onto the beast. “I’m sorry I enspelled you. But you already had your dinner.”
Daisy’s flank heaved with a heavy sigh. She dropped back to the floor, laying her head on Aloe’s leg, grumbling all the while.
Aloe smiled to herself, thoughts a thousand miles away. Rat was still curled up on her shoulder, where he’d ridden out the whole boondagle. Her phone lay abandoned across the room. It’d bounced when she’d thrown it. It might even be broken. She’d regret it later, she was sure.
Right now it was all she could do to sit there, trying desperately to will away the sick feeling in her stomach.
The human hadn’t moved. That was the one blessing through all this. She’d pulled him into a more comfortable position after giving him a once-over, and fetched a pillow from her room over the shop. He’d snored away through all of it, totally unbothered.
“You’ll be fine,” she whispered, her gaze lingering on his face. He was young. Too damned young to be mixed up in something like this. “The district mages will get you sorted out, and you’ll toddle on your way none the wiser. You won’t even-”
Right on cue, she felt something prickle at the edge of her freshly-reapplied wards. Her skin prickled.
“Stay,” she said, laying a hand on Daisy’s shoulder. The knurl’s eyes snapped open—but she stayed where she was, lifting her head from Aloe’s leg and laying it back down on her paws. Aloe smiled, ruffling the hound’s yellow-green fur. “Good girl,” she murmured. “Just stay here.”
The fact Daisy was out in the open at all made her gut twist a little. Knurl weren’t exactly domesticated, generally. On the contrary, they were usually considered an aggressive breed. She knew what the prickling at her magic meant. Her visitors had arrived. The thought of them panicking and attacking her hound sent shivers of fear through her.
She stood, though, rocking a bit unsteadily on her feet. The tingle of magic against hers came again, more insistently, and she scowled. “Impatient bastards, as always,” she muttered, swiping a hand across her kalimba again. The Dancing Dragon filled with the clear notes, carrying her magic with them, and she felt her wards come open.
The others wasted no time. A blade of light lanced through the air at the front of the Dragon, tearing wide a breath later. A trio of figures piled out through the brilliantly-lit gap, emerging to gape, blinking, onto the Dragon’s shop floor.
Aloe grimaced at the sight of Willard among their number, his slicked-back hair recognizable even at a cursory glance. He’s Kyran’s advisor. You knew he would come. The other two mages she’d never seen before, but their gear was sturdy, padded out with thick leather and kevlar over their rough canvas uniforms, and that didn’t leave many options. So he sent his soldiers, too.
The pair of soldiers stiffened at the sight of Daisy lounging on the floor—then sprang apart, grabbing brass-and-elm wands from their belts. “That’s-”
That is one of my registered and approved familiars,” Aloe said, darting forward to place herself firmly between the soldiers and Daisy. Rat raised his head alongside hers, letting out a strident chatter. “This is my bestiary, gentlemen, not your damned shooting range. I have a license with the kingdom. If you harm anything here, I’ll-”
“Peace, Miss Aloisia,” Willard said, holding his hands up. He stepped past the two goons, offering her an easy, friendly smile. “No one intends a fight. It seems you’ve, ah…” His gaze dropped to the slumbering human. His eyebrow arched. “Run into a snag?”
“You could say that,” Aloe mumbled. She pressed her fingers to her temples for a moment, pressing gently. Calm down. Just do what you have to do, and they’ll leave. Pulling away, she stroked Rat’s head, taking a slow breath. “He waltzed straight in here.”
“And he saw?” Willard said, arching one eyebrow. He bent over with a groan, crouching beside the man, and started to probe for a pulse.
She was forced to nod. “I’m afraid so.”
“Haven’t you heard of wards?” one of the soldiers muttered under his breath. “Damned big shop like this, and you haven’t even-”
“I had wards,” Aloe snapped. She folded her arms, drawing herself up to her full height—however much good that did. She wasn’t exactly large, and Kyran’s troops both towered over her. “He walked straight through them, shredding the whole lot in the process.”
All three of her new guests stopped in their tracks. “Pardon?” Willard said. “You’re certain?”
“Absolutely sure of it,” Aloe said. “All of my lullabies bounced right off him, too. I had to stick him with basilisk poison to put him down.”
One of the soldiers snorted, a towering erelin with cobalt blue hair. Not a bloodline she recognized, that one. “A lullaby?” she heard him say, a derisive laugh under the words. His eyes swept up and down her form. “Will you sing somethin’ for us too, love? I wouldn’t mind seein’ you-”
“Watch your tongue, Jarlon,” Willard said, not looking up from his search of the downed man. “You’re biting off more than you can chew, and I won’t be the one to save you.”
The soldier stopped, surprise flashing across his face. He gave Aloe another look, then edged away.
“I don’t know what exactly he is,” Aloe said with a sigh, turning an admonishing look back on Willard. She pulled a bundle from her pocket—the man’s wallet. “I found this while disarming him.” Flipping it open, she showed them the ID within, labeling the man as one Rowen Cole. “It’s just basic human stuff. Nothing magical.”
“Very interesting indeed,” Willard murmured. He took the wallet from her, nodding along. “I’ve never seen a human who could do…well, anything like this.”
“Neither have I,” Aloe said. She pressed her lips tight together, starting to frown as one of the soldiers took the sleeping Rowen’s arm. “You’ll see to him, right? You won’t harm him?”
“He will be safe within Kyran’s territory,” Willard said smoothly, gesturing for the other soldier to join the first. “Worry not. We do have a protocol for such breaches, you know.”
Memory wipes and a toss back out onto the street. Aloe nodded, relieved. “Right. Good.” She’d feel more than a little bad if her duty to the kingdom’s precious Secrecy wound up getting the poor fellow killed. She hadn’t opened the Dragon to cause more bloodshed.
And as the two soldiers hoisted the human’s slumbering form up between them, Willard straightened, turning to Aloe. “Thank you for contacting us,” he said.
She shrugged, even as her skin crawled at the feel of him there in her shop. “Something like this needs to be dealt with promptly,” she said softly.
“Just so,” Willard said. He smiled, drawing back toward her. “Kyran was pleased to hear you’d contacted the district.” A moment of long hesitation, and his eyebrow quirked. “He speaks of you often, you know. I know he would be gladder still if you returned. If you’re ever of a mind to reconsider-”
“I made my decision clear,” Aloe said. The sentence was sharper than it needed to be, and she softened her expression not at all. Perhaps she’d be better served by demurring, here, but she’d told the bastard she wasn’t interested. It was time for him to respect that.
Willard waited a heartbeat longer, but sighed, nodding. “As you will,” he said. “Just know that door remains open, if your mind should change.”
It won’t. “Thanks,” she said, not an ounce of gratitude in the word. “Is there anything else I can help you with? I need to reopen my shop.”
“Yes, of course,” Willard said. “Thank you again, Miss Aloe.”
Her expression twitched. Her nickname, on his lips? She almost lost her cool then and there. It’d feel very good to finally tell the greased-up bastard where he could stick that presumption of his.
She nodded once instead, lips tight, and said not another word. The trio seemed to recognize they were on thin ice because for once they let the silence stand. Pulling their cargo a little higher, they trudged back toward their portal.
Aloe didn’t relax until they vanished through it, the magic sealing up as though it’d never been there at all. When the Dragon was dark again she sagged, suddenly more exhausted than ever. “Well, that’s about enough excitement for one day,” she mumbled.
Daisy lifted her head, letting out a low whine. Rat hopped down from her shoulder, trotting over to press his face against the hound’s, and earned a sloppy lick for his troubles.
She really should reopen the shop, like she’d told Willard. There were a lot of critters living inside the Dragon, and all of them liked to eat. She couldn’t afford to pass up the chance of a walk-by. At a minimum, she should just call Kanna, tell her about what’d happened, and keep her doors open.
But the odds of running into another Child of Ora out here randomly were low enough she couldn’t quite muster up the effort, and as much as she loved her friend, the thought of trying to rehash, just…everything, left her more tired than she already was. She turned away instead, trudging over to her field kit.
The dart she’d fired off had to be replaced and reloaded, of course. It wouldn’t do to leave herself unarmed in case something else went wrong. Then there were a whole mess of dens that needed to be mucked out. There were feathers and sheddings to be collected after that, nails to be trimmed and coats to be brushed.
She went through the motions, her head lost somewhere in the cloud of unease that still hung over her. It’d just all happened so quickly, started in a flash and ended with a bang. She had so many questions—and she’d let that bastard’s people tromp around in her shop.
That wouldn’t do either, so she mopped the place down for good measure, arms aching and eyes starting to go bleary. With every shove of the fibers, she drooped a little lower. The water splashed back and forth, roiling in its bucket like a miniature ocean. Her breath slipped from her chest, her eyes misting over. The waves crashed on, back and forth. The water was beneath her too, buoying her up with every breath. Back and forth, until-
Daisy barked.
Aloe jerked upright. Her eyes snapped open. Her chest ached, her lungs burning as she refilled them with sweet air.
Shaking her head, she started towards the Dragon’s shop closet, tucking the mop and bucket away. “That’s about enough of that,” she mumbled. Her eyes drifted back to her desk in the back, and the narrow drawer mounted beneath it.
It…was probably time. She really should call it a night.
With Daisy padding along at her side, she finished closing the front door up tight, wrapping her illusions snugly enough about the store that not even a light-touched would be able to spot it. The lantern, she pulled from the ceiling, blowing it out. The creatures quieted as the wick smouldered, recognizing the signs of their day ending. Rat ran circles around her feet, chirping in protest.
And with the shop darkened at last, she strode back to that desk. The drawer came open at a touch. Aloe stared down into it, eyes vacant as she scanned the rows of neatly-wedged vials.
There was no getting around it, though. Not tonight, with the stink of that bastard’s court still lingering in the Dragon and the ocean lapping at her mind. The dreams would have her tossing all night if she didn’t shut them up. Sighing, she pulled a vial out, popping the lid off. Down it went, swallowed in a single shot before she could taste the horrible bitterness of it.
Aloe felt it immediately, though. The heavy weight that settled across her shoulders, the cold numbness that spread through her veins. She grimaced. Daisy sidled over, ramming her head into Aloe’s leg, and she couldn’t help but chuckle. “I’m fine, dearest,” she murmured, giving the knurl’s head a rub. Stepping back, she held an arm out for Rat to jump onto. “Ready?”
Together they rounded the corner in the back of the Dragon, pushing through a set of swinging doors to the stairs beyond. Aloe waited, pausing a step at a time, as Daisy clambered up the stairs, whining. The sight and sound of it all made her sigh. The leg must be bothering her. She’d have to find an ampoule of salve for it soon.
By the time the two of them trudged down the hallway through the living quarters, the edges of her sight were starting to go fuzzy. She grimaced, rubbing at her eyes, and pushed through the door into her quarters. “Damn stuff works fast.”
As she flopped down on the mattress, though, vanishing into the well-worn covers, that same unease still lingered at the back of her mind. She stared up at the rafters. When Daisy crawled up alongside her, Rat taking up a position on her nightstand, she only gave the knurl a good rub.
But how had a human gotten into her shop in the first place?
That was the question that still burned at her, stuck in her craw. Who had that man been, and just….how?
“Rowan Cole,” Aloe whispered, and sighed. Kyran had him, now. That should relieve her, and yet…she’d met Kyran before. More often than not, being somewhere far, far away was preferable. A twinge of sympathy ran through her for the poor kid.
Well, he wouldn’t have to suffer it long. She allowed herself a tiny smile, eyes drooping closed. Her face sank into Daisy’s thick fur. The district’s mages worked fast. Rowen would be off and back to his business by the time morning came.
No reason at all to be worried.
Exhaling, Aloe curled up tighter against Daisy, succumbing to the waves.
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2023.03.20 23:26 Upstairs-Argument-92 Critique would be helpful, and also appreciated

This is just the intro, and the 1st chapter of the book I'm working on, I'm going for a adventure/supernatural kind of thing, I haven't asked many people to read what I have so far, so I was hoping I could get some help here, thank you, and enjoy what I think I'm gonna name Lineage of Sin


Introduction
A human can do many things, some good, some bad, but they cannot comprehend the world that was given to them by god, but the men and women we’ll be talking about are not of this world, nor were they created by god. Well, I can’t say they are just men and women, they are more than that, I suppose you could call them beings of sorts. Powerful beings, so powerful their very own birthplace couldn't contain them, the pits of hell itself.
Chapter 1: Friendly Reunion
A man is walking down the streets of New York City, he was someone you would notice if you walked past him, his outfit was slightly unusual, but he was well-dressed. He wore a big black coat with fur on his sleeves and on his collar, underneath he wore a white dress shirt over a gray vest and a black dress jacket, with black tailored pants with gray dress shoes, Unusual looking rings on each of his finger on his left hand, and a large black briefcase with a white inlay in his right, and long white hair that went past his shoulders. The man was walking to his favorite restaurant, five-star of course, he had a craving for meat. The man hardly had a care in the world, just thinking about whatever he desired, but while lost in thought he managed to notice something that didn’t belong. Something he was hoping to avoid during his stay in New York, he realized he was being followed. The man realized he probably won't be able to make his reservation on time, so he looked through the corner of his eyes to see who or what was following him. A man dressed in formal attire, as if he is a lawyer, or an important company's Ceo, but the man knew better, he knew he wasn’t some average joe you’d see on the street. The man looked around his surroundings, he walked towards an alley he spotted on his right, the strange man continued to chase after him down to the alley, but when he looked down the alley there was no one there. The stalker carefully, yet casually walked down the alley, the stalker was worried he would be discovered, so he wanted to end his business quickly, he walked down to the end of the alley, nothing but overfilled garbage cans. The alleyway was a deadend, so he assumed that he may have climbed out of the alley, but he doubted it since there wasn’t much time for the man to do so, he was starting to to believe that he actually climbed out of the alley, since he was nowhere in sight. He decided to turn back around to continue to search for the man he was tasked with stalking. As soon as he reached the entrance to the alley, he heard the sound of rocks, rocks falling on the ground. He turned around to face the man he was stalking, who was standing in a hole in the ground. “You were hiding underground? What are you, a mole?” The stalker mockingly said. “More demon than mole, really. You smell human, but I sense a strong flow of magic coming off you, are you a mage?” The man questioned the stalker, hoping he could find the reason why someone sent a magic user to follow him. He had few people in mind who would do this, but he knew none of them had a reason to do it, so he will have to question the stalker to answer the questions he needs to know. “I’m a Conjuration Mage, a fairly good one, if I do say so myself, and I’ve been charged with escorting you to my employer.” The man sighed, he scratched the back of his head a couple times, it appeared to be a nervous habit, which is very unbecoming for someone like him. “Well, I guess it can’t be helped, you should know the chances of you making it out alive are pretty low, nothing against you, of course, I just think maybe we can both agree that I’m far stronger than you, that is of course, if you know who I am.” the stalker tsked, he had loosened his tie, so that he may toss it onto the ground. “Do I know who you are? You are one of the seven deadly sins, Mammon, the sin of greed, correct?” The man known as Mammon softly cackled, almost like a maniac, but more subtle, more like the craziness is under control, yet slowly leaking out. “Yes, you know who I am, but I don’t know who you are, you told me you’re a mage, but that isn’t a identity, that is a affiliation, and besides, I can tell just by looking into your eyes, that you take no pride in being a mage, you desire more than that, you want to be stronger, you want to be the strongest mage of all, an archmage.” The stalkers eyes widened, he had never told anyone his one true desire, the last time an archmage was alive was nearly 3,000 years ago, but he had read books upon books on how to become an archmage, but it all pointed nowhere, he has been trying to become an archmage for almost 20 years, but has failed in every attempt, granted that even if you trained your entire life to become a archmage, the chances of you achieving it are incredibly low, it requires true talent to become an archmage, but there just aren’t any genius around anymore. “It appears you aren’t called the sin of greed for nothing, you know exactly what my heart desires, what I have yearned for all my life, and my name is Samuel, Samuel the Golem Tamer.” Mammon whistled, as if he was impressed. “If you specialize in golems, than all that training to become an archmage wasn’t all for nothing, the last time I saw a mage who was actually good at controlling golems was about a thousand years ago, controlling one golem is immensely difficult on its own, but judging the quantity of magic I sense from you,you can control at least three of them at once, but I’m guessing they’re size is smaller than a normal golem.” “It’s like you can read my mind, yes your right, I can summon up to three at a time, but the size of them isn't all that impressive, so that's why I’m just going to make one big one to subdue you, I’m not ignorant enough to underestimate someone like you, a sin I mean.” Samuel had studied more than your usual mage, he knew very well who the seven deadly sins are, Lucifer the proud, Satan the furious, Leviathan the jealous, Beelzebub the voracious, Belphegor the indolent, Asmodeus the lascivious, and finally Mammon the avaricious, that is the demon that stands before this human mage, and he is also one of the five founder demons of hell. At the beginning of creation,god first made heaven, and then the earth, and finally he decided to create hell, but what god did not expect was that he would not be the only creator that day, out of some unknown source hell itself created the five founder demons, Satan, Beelzebub, Asmodeus, Mammon, and Belphegor, one of the benefits the founder demons discovered is that when they gained the powers of hell, or dark magic, they gained the power of the five elements, Mammon is the soil of hell, or also known as the earth, meaning he has complete mastery of earth magic, which is how he helped humans discover and mine gold, that is also how he was hiding in the ground, but when god learned that his own creation would follow his example, he was impressed and decided to let them be, later on these demons would consist of the majority of the seven deadly sins, Lucifer and the Leviathan would later be exiled to hell, after Lucifer rebelled against hell, with the Leviathan aiding him, god left the seven of them alone, he believed that they would figure something out on their own, and they all fought to see who would reign over hell, Lucifer ended up being the winner by a small margin, but what should be mentioned is that Mammon and Satan, the sin of greed and wrath, did not participate in this bout, they thought it would be a waste of time, but if the two of them did join that fight, the winner might not have been Lucifer, It may have been one of the two who did not participate for the thrown of hell, but we will never know for sure, but regarding all that, the demon who is standing infront of this human mage, is more far powerful than he realized. Mammon had walked towards Samuel, his left hand in his pocket, his right holding on to his, what appeared to be a briefcase, while he was walking towards him, Samuel had recited an incantation, when he had finished a barrier appeared at the entrance to the alley, leaving no way to escape, Samuel had done this for two reasons, one was to hide themselves from normal humans, on the other side of the barrier is an illusion, showing no one standing in that alley, when regular humans learn that a mage and a demon clashing in a small alley, there tends to be a bit of a panic, the second reason was to shorten the moves Mammon could make, he could not retreat or try to hold a human as a hostage, of course Samuel didn’t know that Mammon wouldn't have done either of them, he wouldn’t want to waste time like that, he decided to let it be and just let him continue with the whole good samaritan thing, letting him think he was helping people. “Mammon, I told you I specialize with summoning golems, which I do, but what I did not tell you that these are the golems of the ancients, a elemental golem, but I took that old magic and added something else to it, the fusion of elements.” Mammon had ceased his advancement, so he decided to jump back a couple steps, with an excited, yet slightly nervous grin on his face. “I summon a golem made of water and lighting, with the earth as its base.” He gripped his wrist with his left hand, he raised it to the sky, then slammed it onto the ground, which formed a magic circle, and what came from it was a golem, made of rocks, infused with the power of water and lighting, a good way to subdue someone, a good shock could knock one out, so long as they aren’t human, if they weren’t they would surely die, but despite being a golem with more than one element, the size of it completely towered over a small building, to the point that it could hardly fit in the alley. “Your golem seems a bit cramped, since I’m nice I’ll help it out.” Mammon placed his hand on the ground, the space between the two buildings that made up the alley had expanded, he had shifted the earth under the buildings to expand the space of the alley. Samuel seemed surprised, it was the first time he’d seen the earth move buildings, so who could blame him? But he did not let that make him drop his guard, he knew who he was fighting, he knows that he could be killed, he commanded the golem to attack Mammon, the golem swung its arms around, splashing water in every direction, Mammon, however, stomped his foot on the ground, causing a pillar of earth to shield him from being splashed. Samuel had forced the golem to turn it up a notch, to where the golem was shooting a condensed ray of water at him, causing the pillar t quickly erode and collapse, while the water beam had managed to hit him, he seemed fine, his clothes were soaked, which appeared to make him lose his temper, he swung his arm over in front of his body, and like magic, his clothes were dried, after he fixed his outfit, the golem had launched an assault of lighting magic in his direction, even though he himself was not drenched in water, the ground was, and with water being a good conductor for electricity, shocked Mammon to a extreme extent, if it wasn’t a demon standing in the middle of that, any other being would have been vaporized. Samuel had canceled his spell, in which made the golem fall apart, leaving nothing but rocks soaked in water, with electrical sparks coming from it, Samuel who seemed tired from using a large quantity of magic, managed to limp himself over to Mammon, who was lying on the ground, completely motionless, Samuel had assumed that he was unconscious, only to discover after he knelt to the ground to confirm it, that Mammon was not unconscious, he was faking it to lure him closer and make drop his guard, and as Samuel tried to back away, Mammon plunged his hand into his stomach, and piercing it clean through, he pulled his arm out which was soaked in blood, when he then cleaned it the same way he dried his clothes after the golem had drenched him. As Samuel was about to collapse to the ground, left to bleed out, and die, Mammon had grabbed him by shoulders, setting him against the wall, where he then sat next to him, hoping he could chat with him slightly longer, before he will ask him who his so-called employer is, Samuel does not have long left in this world, as one would expect after a hole was left in there stomach, for humans at least, Mammon had placed a magic circle on his fatal wound, causing it to slow the bleeding, to keep him around slightly longer, he didn’t want him to die mid-conversation, that would just be rude. “H-how did y-you resist the electrical shock? I didn’t hold back against you, I put just about everything into that.” While gasping for air, he wanted to know what made him fail, what led to him with a hole in his gut, while talking to a demon. “I am one of the seven deadly sins, unlike normal demons, I can’t just possess someone so easily, there are two conditions if one of the sins wants to possess someone, one, they must permit them to possess, like how angels do it, and the second is that they have to be part human, a sin cannot possess someone if they are human, just part human at least.” “So? What is the guy you are possessing?” He asked out of pure curiosity. “His name was Victor, and he is a Homunculus, a human that has been altered with alchemy, and since his whole body has been altered with a fusion of science and magic, this body is magic proof, sure you can place a spell on this body, but you can't harm it with magic.” After he finished explaining himself, he reached into a pocket inside of his coat, he pulled out a box of matches and pulled out what appeared to be a joint. It's better than cigarettes, but it’s a bad habit nonetheless. When Samuel saw him smoking it he chuckled. “I wouldn’t have pegged you for a smoker, marijuana no less.” “Are you kidding me? This is by far my favorite of humanity's creations, the only thing I hate about this thing is that I didn’t discover it, I would have killed to take credit for this, but as soon as I smoked this I was head over heels for it.” Samuel and Mammon laughed, almost as if they were long time friends, but Mammon knew the spell he placed on him wouldn't last any longer, so he decided to stop beating around the bush and start being serious. “You said that you would escort me to your employer, but I don’t suppose you know who and where this employer is?” Samuel sighed. “I didn’t get a name, but I did get a location I was supposed to leave you at, and in return he would give me a journal, the journal of Solomon, who was an archmage, and I was sure that I might be able to become one with it, but I’ll never know now.” Mammon had looked at him perplexed, he then thought to himself and then realized who was the mysterious employer. He let go of his briefcase he was holding with his right hand, and rubbed the ring on his middle finger on his left hand, and suddenly a black portal appeared, he reached into it and pulled out a book, the portal closed after his hand was out and he tossed the book over to Samuel. “That is the journal of Solomon, I bet your employer would have just gave you a knock-off, and regrettably it doesn’t tell you how to become an archmage, it’s just filled with him complaining about his responsibilities, don’t get me wrong, he was an archmage, but he was also a manchild, I too thought it would contain some juicy information, but nothing.”Samuel flipped through the pages in the journal, and Mammon was right, nothing but useless garbage, he placed the journal on the ground and looked to Mammon. “Thanks for being honest.” After his final words, thanking the one who killed him, he drew his final breath, while facing the sky, which he had hoped to reach with his own strength, but all things must come to an end. Mammon stood up, turning around to face Samuel once more, he had almost regretted killing him, but what's done is done, he flicked the joint out of his hands and faced the shadows of the alley. “I’m curious to know how you knew where I was, I thought I was being careful, wouldn't you agree, Mephistopheles? From the shadows of the alley, a man emerged from the dark, a man who appeared to be somewhere in his mid 60’s, but his look was more than just intimidating, mid-length gray hair, wore formal attire, similar to the outfit Samuel wore. His facial expression and the glare from his eyes said that you do not want to engage with him. “I would, if you hadn’t killed him, if you didn’t I wouldn't have found you, sin of greed, Mammon.” “Well it’s his own fault, wait a moment, now that I think about it, why was a human mage, out of all the creatures on earth, following me?’’ “He was cheaper, and more ignorant than the other mages I spoke to, so I placed a tracking spell on him, in case he died, and it appears he did, as well as stall for time.’’ Mammon had been annoyed about what he said about Samul, but he stopped caring as his suspicions grew of Mephistopheles, he wanted to know why this dangerous demon had a mage follow him, and try to kidnap him. “Stall, for what, exactly?” The tension between the two of them was thicker than steel, so tense that no one would dare step between them. “Why her, of course.” Mammon had felt a sting on his neck, he knelt to the ground, he pulled what was jabbed into his neck out, two vials with red stains in them, it appeared to be blood, but it had such a draining effect on him. He turned around so that he may see who just stabbed him in the neck, a woman with long scarlet red hair, wearing plain clothes, such as a hoodie with jeans and an old pair of sneakers on. “My, oh my, didn’t know you have such a bland taste of fashion, my little lustful Asmodeus, by the way, the hell is this stuff? It’s giving me a headache.” “Bland? I’ll have you know I'm quite comfortable, maybe you should follow my lead and try to fit in, I would be able to tell it’s you just by your outfit, also that stuff I pumped into you, is the blood of a priest, turns out it’s very harmful to demons, the blood of a priest won't kill you, but it can at least knock out a demon on your level .” First of all, I’m comfortable and stylish as well, hell, second of all, what do you want? I highly doubt the two of you, out of all the demons in hell, would team up just because you missed me, s-something important g-going down? As he was trying to act calm and keep his composure in check, the blood finally hit him, and his vision became blurry, the only thing he could do was listen to Asmodeus. “Yes, something is going down, and we’re gonna need the help from the rest of the sins.”
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2023.03.20 22:16 Wayback2k [OC] Multiversal Manuscript - Volume 1 - Organizations (FREE)

Presenting a chapter from what will eventually be the full 1st Volume of the Multiversal Manuscript, a catalog of all sorts of new characters, places, and things drawn from all piles of notes and random writing I've done for my D&D games and setting work. While generally written for a Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder style setting, its contents can be setting agnostic and made to fit any world.
This chapter contains entries for 19 Organizations as well as sample NPCs for each. It also includes the 20 page Appendix of minor entries that are referenced by both the Organizations in this text and what will eventually be the full product. Consider them a sneak preview.
They are intended to serve varied roles in many settings, from allies to enemies and anything in between. These organizations and their members are meant to be both inspiration and foundation for more, providing hooks and conflicts that can be tailored to your own worlds.


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Slowly working my way through editing everything and in refining the Organizations the size of the overall project has gone gone up about 25 pages. Looking at working on either my Monsters or Gods chapters next.
There is also my more general Preview version I posted here about 4 months ago if it is of interest; it gives an idea of the full scope of the project and what the final think is headed towards, content wise.
Any comments or suggestions to edits on either doc is welcome!
Below are 3 examples from the set -
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Aggrieved, The

Covert - Grudge Bearing Dwarves
A clandestine organization of dwarves spread across the world. For a fee, they take on the grudges and hatreds of any dwarf or clan, storing them in massive iron tomes. They dispatch specialists to ensure that the targets of the grudges suffer or repay what is owed, be it in blood or gold. The group actively recruits dwarves who have nothing left to lose, such as exiles, criminals, lone survivors, or those who cannot fit into normal dwarven society. The Aggrieved provides them with purpose and an outlet for pent-up frustrations, especially against surface dwellers or their eternal foes in the depths of the world. While the group is something of an open secret in most dwarven communities, they are keen to keep their existence from outsiders. Chief among the grievances they are sought to satisfy is the reacquisition of ancient dwarven treasures that have been stolen and the punishment of those who currently possess them, even if they are many owners removed from the original thieves. Rumors persist of a Grudgebearer who has spent over a hundred years systematically tracking down every subsequent owner of a long-dead dwarven mountain lord’s treasure, leaving hundreds of dead in their wake. The Aggrieved also fulfills more indirect grievances, such as ensuring that a particular human noble family will forever see their fortunes ruined for cheating a clan elder in a trade deal in a prior generation, or that the elves will never expand past the mountains that once belonged to a now-fallen dwarven city for failing to come to their aid when needed. Additionally, a few of their members, more unstable and violent than the rest, are sent on Bitter Hunts to forever seek out and slay the sworn enemies of the dwarves until they wipe them all out or die in the process.
Kerganosk the Brazen: An Aggrieved hunter who has made it his mission to seek revenge against fire giants. He has become a legend among the giants, who fear him greatly. The dwarf is known for his scorched and pitted brass armor, which he refuses to take off until he has seen to the utter decimation of his enemies. Despite the fact that the greater dwarven kingdoms have publicly disavowed Kerganosk's crusade, they do nothing to stop him. In fact, many younger dwarves who are eager to earn a name for themselves or reject the withdrawn nature of their forebearers have joined his cause. These dwarves are cult-like in their devotion to Kerganosk and have expanded their hatred to include all giants, no matter where they may be. Although Kerganosk remains focused on his mission, he is more than willing to share his martial tactics and specialized weaponry with anyone who wishes to see the giants destroyed, even non-dwarves who show some talent. Together with his allies, he has been able to vex his enemies for years, often laying low for extended periods as they plan simultaneous strikes against multiple targets, or emerging suddenly for an overwhelming attack on a valuable target before quickly disappearing once again. Through bounty hunters and smaller allies. the giants have attempted to track down Kerganosk and his hidden lairs throughout the Underdelve. Thus far they have only found fleeting traces of his passing and no small number of cleverly hidden traps in the broken halls of dead dwarven fortresses that the Brazen and his followers rotate through.
Gallkag Brimrift: A grim dwarf who has claimed a stretch of mountains that were once settled as part of a collaborative effort between dwarves and humans to establish a long-lasting trade city. However, the short-lived humans and their tumultuous politicking soured the venture, leading to tensions that eventually flared into skirmishes, then war. In the end, the dwarves were forced to cut their losses and retreat back into the depths of the earth to their homeland. Gallkag, left for dead in the last days of the conflict, was "rescued" by the Aggrieved. After he recovered, he eagerly took it upon himself to make the humans of the region pay for their transgressions. He now ceaselessly stalks the mountain passes of his former home, waylaying any human travelers that have the misfortune of crossing paths with him and his pack of beasts. Operating out of the half-built trade city, Gallkag's territory is honeycombed with tunnels that only he knows about. Many have tried to ferret the vicious dwarf out, but his mastery of the landscape allows him to evade interlopers with ease, picking them off one by one or tricking them into the many hazards present.
Urist Dastordruk: An undercover liaison for agents of the Aggrieved in one of the largest aboveground cities of the realm. He owes an extensive debt of both coin and honor to the organization for avenging his extended family's death many years prior. Though few are sure what exactly he does as an occupation beyond being a perennial socialite, the dwarf has earned a reputation throughout the city and beyond for his uncanny knack for making friends across all strata of society and getting them connected. If he doesn't know someone or something, he certainly knows who does and can get in touch for a nominal fee, of course. However, Urist hates every second of it. Every handshake, every fake smile, and every cheering toast. He wants nothing more than to be back in the mountainhome of his kin and away from the petty, meaningless lives of all the small-minded people on the surface. To maintain his composure, Urist's handler in the Aggrieved has supplied him with a steady stream of alchemical concoctions that serve to both suppress his incredible hatred of those peoples tangentially responsible for the downfall of his family and enhance the charming facade of his public personality. Over time, the doses have had to become more and more potent to maintain their effect, and the dwarf has begun experiencing strange fugue states. When he emerges, Urist is often standing at the edge of a roof looking out over the city below or back in his home covered in blood that is not his. He is both terrified of what has been happening and hopeful that it might lead to an end of his torment, honor be damned. The Grudgebearer that owns his debt cares little for Urist's plight. While the dwarf has been exceedingly useful in feeding the organization information and the whereabouts of targets, the cost of maintaining his persona has begun to outweigh the benefits, especially if it possibly draws attention to the existence of the Aggrieved.

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Dustbringers' Market

Guild - Ghostly Wandering Merchants
Hailing from an abandoned marketplace in a long-dead city where the Veil between the realm of the living and the dead is nearly non-existent, several lingering dead have managed to leave the city and establish wandering markets in derelict sections of distant cities. They have achieved this through the use of mortal ‘handlers’, ragged humanoids who have forged a sort of pact with the dead of the city to serve as anchors for the ghostly merchants. Visitors to one of these markets, whether in its original city or one of its wandering offshoots, can trade their knowledge of the living world or more ephemeral wares such as memories and emotions in exchange for the long-forgotten knowledge of the dead city's people or whatever other secrets they've garnered from beyond the Land of the Dead. The Dustbringers have somehow managed to craft or acquire ghostly goods that provide boons to the living when it comes to dealing with or fighting the undead. Some are even willing to cut long-term deals and pacts with the living to acquire resources for their strange deathly economy.
Morof and Echessar: This pair is the most widely known members of the Dustbringers, accompanied by their ever-cloaked and silent human servant. They have come to reside in a city of the living, but the authorities take exception to their very existence, forcing them to stay on the move within the city walls. They set up their ghostly shop in different abandoned buildings or dark alleyways each night and simply wait. They are content to let the rumor mills bring customers to them, as they always seem to have something that entices prospective buyers, even with the strange prices they demand. The most common items they sell, if anything of theirs could be considered common, are lead coins stamped with a closed eye. Swallowing one of these coins renders the imbiber undetectable to the undead until it passes. Their usual fee for most purchases is measured in minutes of life per day, in perpetuity, from what remains of a customer’s natural lifespan. The portly Morof eagerly assures prospective customers that they won’t miss such a paltry sum of time. However, each night when the toll comes due and the disturbingly gaunt Echessar appears to collect, many feel they have chosen poorly as the shade’s icy hand reaches into them and pulls away threads of their soul. Such is the power of the Dustbringers’ deals that they are able to reach their customers wherever they may be on any plane. Should a client attempt to hide out elsewhere, the ghostly merchants are not above hiring others to retrieve them, so that they may collect what they are due, plus interest.
The Urn: One of the most powerful members of the Dustbringers, it has a cadre of lesser member shades of the guild bound to it by contracts etched upon large scrolls of thin lead sealed within ivory cases. These pacts seemingly predate the deaths of the Dustbringers’ mortal forms in centuries past and raise questions as to just how the demise of their city came about. The Urn itself is a massive vessel of cloudy black marble, weighing hundreds of pounds, with patterns traced in gold that subtly shift and flow. It has a brass cover at its top, with several fluted pipes emerging from it, curving upwards. Although it rarely moves, when it emerges from its vault-lair, it is carried on a great palanquin by a dozen mortal handlers. Through the deals it has struck with entities from the Land of the Dead, The Urn has extensive power over souls that have passed into that realm, summoning them forth for interrogation, torment, or to bind them back onto the mortal realm. It is even able to shape these recalled shades into physical objects with particular potency and protection against both the living and the dead. While The Urn allows its servant Dustbringers to conduct their deals in their own way, what it desires above all is vast quantities of physical wealth, such as gold and other valuable metals, along with gems of all kinds. Why The Urn would seek such extensive and mundane riches instead of the more ephemeral things like emotions or life force, which its kin typically traffic in, is a mystery. Some speculate that it aims to perform a ritual on behalf of a Power that it has contracted with, utilizing the symbolic connection and meaning of wealth to enact some drastic change to the mortal plane. Others believe that it is working towards building a powerful construct body through which it can personally enact its will. However, The Urn freely allows such conjecture, confident in its power to control other souls with minimal effort. The Urn does not manifest its ghostly form directly to interact with its servants or prospective clients. Instead, it emerges from the brass pipes at its apex as a sickly mist before occupying the body of one of its ragged mortal attendants. Even then, it rarely does so, instead relying on the fanatical devotion of its Dustbringer seneschals to negotiate on its behalf. It stirs to action only when it needs to call forth and shape a soul from beyond.
Zaunfe: Once a respected member of the Dustbringers, renowned for her ability to craft and transmute strong metaphysical sympathetic energy into physical objects and vice versa. However, fleeting traces of mortality constantly slipping through her spectral fingers began to torment her with fragmented memories of the life she once lived. Now, Zaunfe desires nothing less than to become mortal again. Despite not being formally expelled from the guild, it has been declared that none are to interact with her or allow her back into the city of their origin. If it became known just how many of their secrets she has been sharing in her pursuit of a new life, and the crimes she has committed against other shades, it is likely that they would actively hunt Zaunfe down and return her to the Land of the Dead by force if necessary. Unlike others in the guild, Zaunfe forms symbiotic pacts with the suffering mortals she comes across, giving them a longer lease on life than they might have had without her help. Unfortunately, she constantly leeches away her pact bonded associate's emotions and personality, mingling with hers until they are difficult to distinguish from one another. More than just keeping her partner alive, she is able to extend her spectral transmutation power through them, turning emotional connections into physical boons and weapons. With such objects, she reverts back to the mercantile nature at her core, wheeling and dealing with them to gain the allies and resources she requires. Given her knowledge of how the Land of the Dead and the mortal realm interact, she feverishly pursues leads on how to contact the Powers of that plane to forge whatever deal is necessary to be reborn. This pursuit for knowledge and those who possess it has proven exceedingly dangerous, and over the years she has led a number of her mortal partners to their own deaths. When untethered, Zaunfe is forced to rekindle and perpetuate her own essence through the consumption of powerful emotions, either elicited from nearby mortals or through the destruction of physical mementos that bear a great deal of sentimental value. In desperation, she has even consumed lost ghosts that she has encountered. These shades, often confused and trapped in the Veil of the mortal realm, are easy prey for one of their kind that possess full awareness and sentience. All of this consumption of emotion and personality has not come without a cost. Zaunfe now resembles little of the unique entity that she once was and is now an amalgamation of all the different beings she has fed upon in one way or another. While these conflicting impulses can sometimes drive her into fits of mania, what has remained a constant tethering influence to her soul is the overwhelming drive to attain life once again.
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Ruinous Dawn, The

Divine - Seekers of Deific Rebirth
A group of former heroes and remnants of a forgotten age of the multiverse. Their all-consuming desire for the rebirth of their divine patron has driven them to transcend mortality and resort to abhorrent methods to carry out their 'sacred' task, one that fervently believe will ultimately redeem the multiverse. Uzarial was one of the earliest celestial deities of the sun, life, and purification of evil, and their death in a catastrophic final conflict with an unknown Elder Entity is something the founders of the Ruinous Dawn have never truly accepted. Their goal is to resurrect Uzarial, seeing its return as the catalyst required to cleanse the wretched planes of what they consider to be pervading and all-consuming evil. Each member has vowed to use whatever means necessary in pursuit of the knowledge and power they need to breach the Vale of Dead Gods and usher forth Uzarial's return. Despite this, they believe that their actions constitute the ultimate good, a concept that exceeds the grasp of most mortal minds and is superior to the 'morality' of ordinary individuals. The current Gods of Light are viewed by the Dawn as either ineffective pretenders at best or complicit in the multiverse's defiled state through their inaction at worst. They aim to subsume all such false gods into the reborn Uzarial when the time comes, reclaiming their deific essence and putting it to proper use. The six elders of the Ruinous Dawn are scattered throughout the planes, each pursuing the 'Endeavor' in their own way. They meet every fifty years to pool their knowledge and make arrangements for the future. These summits often result in an ambitious act against perceived foes, as well as the setting in motion of complex plots towards their ultimate goal. Their schemes can range from the acquisition of required relics and artifacts to the realignment of several planes towards a configuration more suitable to their cosmic aims. Most founders of the Ruinous Dawn have long since ceased feeling remorse for their actions, no matter how questionable or amoral they may become. Those that do bear regret for all the lives they have spent seeking the God's return fully intend to suffer the judgement of their patron or scour themselves from existence as unworthy to reside in the paradise that will result. Several have attracted followers that share their cynical view of the planes and desire to resurrect Uzarial, or founded obscure faiths across the planes with the same intent. However, such allies are often seen as fleeting or expendable and are tested regularly, for the Ruinous Dawn is ever paranoid of infiltrators and those that would despoil their sacred Endeavor.
Alithrienne: Uzarial’s most devout mortal agent and an Exalted of demi-god like power, she took the celestial deity’s fall most severely and was a driving force towards the formation of the Dawn. Bearing a large portion of the fallen God’s power after their passing, she set about holding together what was left of their divine realm. Alithrienne fought to stave off planar usurpers and scavengers that sought to pick over its remains. If that was not enough, she was also forced to stave off other celestial entities and divine servitors that balked at a mortal claiming such a role. Despite considerable effort, even she and her allies were not able to prevent the gradual dissolution of Uzarial’s realm; infusions of celestial essence and sundered relics only delaying the inevitable. In a moment of despair and anguish, she plunged the God’s final relic, a great spear of pearlescent stone and golden light, through her own heart. She intended to give the last shreds of power in both herself and the weapon to the divine realm in a bid to halt its decay and ensconce it as a memorial within the Astral.
The inherent desperation of her act mixed with the unstable divine energies of the plane, the relics, and the Astral instead merged her soul with the last of Uzarial’s divine power. Alithrienne, the realm, and the great spear became one, an untethered demi-plane out of phase with the rest of the multiverse. Other members of the Dawn, still holding on to a semblance of their connection to the dead God, were able to locate it in this state and commune with the transcended Exalted. In her new form, she quite literally became the foundation of the Ruinous Dawn. While the further deterioration of Alithrienne’s realm has halted, it remains in a shattered state. It is composed of several dozen floating islands of broken marble-like rock covered in golden grass. Spires and temples of an opaque white glass are scattered across the islands, cracked, and crumbling but still held aloft even in pieces. The only structure that has remained whole is a grand temple of the same shimmering glass in the realm’s center, the seat of Alithrienne’s power and the meeting place for the rest of the Ruinous Dawn during their infrequent conclaves.
Nearly a true God herself, Alithrienne has been able to create minor servitors to watch over the realm, though they are little more than bird-like beings of light. The spear that was integral to her transcendence was once held in a reliquary of stained glass at the apex of the central cathedral. Still a greater relic in its own right, Alithrienne discovered that her consciousness and will reside in it as well. When wielded by a mortal, she would be able to freely traverse between the rest of the multiverse and her realm and assist the rest of the Dawn in its plot to resurrect Uzarial. Over the ages, Alithrienne, in her spear form, has been wielded by countless mortals; many willingly chose to bear her power and enact her will, but not all. When an accord could not be made with a bearer to serve, she would bring the full force of her semi-divine might down upon them. Such recusants are left as little more than puppets hollowed out by her terrible light; even if they were to be freed from Alithrienne spear, it would take a greater divine power to make them whole again. Through these wielders, legend and infamy has been carved across the multiverse by her actions, each a small part of the greater Endeavor. As the Ruinous Dawn’s plans grow ever closer to fruition, Alithrienne hopes deeply to serve as the cradle from which Uzarial may be reborn, even if she may be utterly consumed in the process.
talshir: A zealot in the service of Uzarial, he had spent his entire life operating in the shadows cast by the celestials’ divine light. Brought up from birth to eradicate enemies of the faith, Talshir remained steadfast in his crusade, even after the fall of his God. In fact, he saw the death of his deity as validation of his actions, as it demonstrated that anything was killable. However, Talshir's methods went beyond merely ending the lives of his adversaries, he went so far as to master the tools of his enemies, including forbidden mystical arts that would have marked him a heretic under normal circumstances. When he eventually joined the core founders of the Ruinous Dawn, Talshir discovered a newfound sense of purpose as part of the Endeavor. It was his destiny to be the left hand of the reborn God and usher in the demise of the hopelessly corrupt planes.
To achieve the longevity required for such a destiny, Talshir delved into the darkest secrets of soul magic and combined them with the knowledge of life provided to him by other members of the Dawn. Rather than consuming the souls of others, he chose to shatter his own soul into hundreds of fragments and scatter them throughout the multiverse. Although the results were unpredictable, the vast majority of his soul fragments were able to take root in mortal hosts. After Talshir's original body was placed in stasis in a hidden tomb, his will was able to manifest within those who bore his soul fragments, even across generations of their descendants. Spread across various planes, the Talshirs form a unified cult with a common purpose, and dozens of them are active on different mortal realms at any given time. While the personality of each Talshir may vary due to their diverse experiences, they are essentially simulacrum of the original, sharing his mind if not his physical body. The Prime Talshir is the singular host in which the full consciousness of the original Talshir is able to manifest, representing the Talshirs at the Ruinous Dawn's conclaves and issuing orders to the others. During the years between conclaves, the Prime Talshir takes it upon himself to visit each of the other Talshirs individually, in order to ensure their continued adherence to their mission. Any Talshir who has strayed too far from their task is dealt with in a manner that Talshir himself refers to as being 'returned to the source'. In such cases, a new incarnation is sent to take their place, even if it takes years for one to manifest.
Shepherd of Eternity: Once a grand paladin of an inter-planar order, sworn to Uzarial, their name has been deliberately purged from history. They made a glorious sacrifice in order to obtain the power necessary to bolster the martial forces of the Ruinous Dawn. By rending open their own soul, they established a direct conduit to the Plane of Life, a realm of positive energy from which all nascent souls originate. Using this raw creative energy, they have created a legion of homunculi to serve the Endeavor. Over the centuries, in order to sustain the portal within their body, this individual, having come to be known as the Shepherd, replaced most of their body with sanctified metals and sacred stones, effectively becoming a construct save for their heart and a few other organs.
Embracing their role as the forgemaster of the Dawn, the Shepherd is driven to perfect their creations to better serve the cause of their allies. While they often lament the necessity of forcing pure and untainted souls into new forms, the Shepherd sees it as a necessary act to preserve the planes in the long run, confident that Uzarial will purge them of any suffering they might experience once the rebirth of reality comes. Although most of their creations are humanoid in appearance, with stone-like opaline flesh and silver armaments, the Shepherd aspires to create artificial angels to serve as the ultimate shock troops in the eventual siege of the Vale of Dead Gods. However, they have thus far met with limited success, as their pseudo-angels of condensed soul-stuff prove to be highly volatile and prone to mutation, resulting in horrific forms with too many limbs and eyes. Nevertheless, even in their malformed state, these creations have proven useful against the enemies of the Dawn and those who have stumbled across their secret existence. Despite the accolades of their comrades, the Shepherd has grown increasingly despondent over their failure to create a true angel. They have begun to engage their private homunculi forces to delve into the primeval ruins of the First War between the Gods and Primordials in search of the secrets that led to the first angels' creation.


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2023.03.20 21:30 legendsofold (Puffs on some sweet not world tree leaf like a certain herbalist) What if Alyx is the original Silver Eye warrior?

There is a logic to my madness so hear me out.

Alyx somehow ended up in the ever after. Possibly with another individual. If we presume that Crwby is putting a lot of effort into the world building here, seems like the most logical 'portals' between the ever after and remnant is the pools of light and darkness. The vaults might work but considering the number of people even able to open them number from either 1 to 4 depending on the time Alyx comes from, that is incredibly unlikely.

so she possibly 'fell' through one of the pools.

To further expand on this. Let us presume, for some presumption of course, that the Grimm pools re in reality merely extensions to the pool of darkness itself. The grimm are coming from these pools... but that is a theory i won't expand on here, but that could mean a little girl running from a grimm attack, possibly with someone at hand, could accidentally come across such a pool and fall through.

Maybe its believed that those who fall into these pools are destroyed cause it seems like they cease to exist the moment they fall through. But maybe the reality is, they simply fall.

And fall and fall. Passing strange lights until they wake up in some weird ass hybrid of a doctor suess, wonderland, and Oz and getting mugged by a racoon.

Perhaps Alyx and possible co were somewhat affected by pool of darkness contact like salem was. It may have helped to amplify her negative traits, as the implication that the lying and cheating she did through the story might have been the child friendly version of what she did to survive. Perhaps if she had a companion they grew increasing distrustful and scared of what their friend was doing, especially as on the surface the realm wasn't acutally dangerous to them. If a little girl could survive a jabberwalker attack, that thing wasn't really trying to hurt them.

I can't begin to presume what hapepned during the events fully, but somehow Alyx and possibly affiliate made it to the tree and 'ascended', to the point where the emergered in some strange underground cavern in Mistral... the remnants of the Pool of Light, buried beneath the fallen portions of the moon from eons prior.

Perhaps they were close to home, perhaps they were far. The girl and possible affilaite felt a relief... And didn't realize when they emerged that their eyes had changed. Perhaps dyed black before, their eyes had turned Silver. Touched by both pools and by the nature of the ever after.

Over the years they discovered they've changed. They were stronger now, alarmingly so. Their aura was greater and perhaps if they had or ahdn't discovered their semblance, that was also amplified. More so was the day that Alyx was in the middle of a grim attack and felt concern for someone about to be mauled... and her Eyes light up, banishing the creature.

however, as years passed by, perhaps tragedy struck...Or perhaps, in a reality, Guilt swallowed her. Alyx could not forget her crimes in the ever after. Perhaps she was comitting similar crimes on remnant. She didn't change or grow and had put up this facade to the world, that eroded her from the inside out as she became guilt stricken, disugsted with herself. Until one day, she hid herself away.

For the rest of her life she spent defending a msall village from grimm. She found some solace in the occassional visits with a young boy who had became intrigued by the strange female warrior, who could smite grimm with a glance. And perhaps, do more than that. Maybe... she even wrote a book or two. Parables of her own life.... Ones that this young man found when he one day visited her home and found her abandoned billhook and her home destoyed by unknown means.

But either way, Alyx, and possible compatriot, had a family. lineage. that lineage would pass down throughout remnant.... but would go quiet as an old evil awoken and tried ot eliminate all she could find. The true secrets and nature of this power would be lost to history... .and perhpas, even tis dangers.
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2023.03.20 19:27 Then_Marionberry_259 MAR 20, 2023 MTB.V MOUNTAIN BOY ANNOUNCES PARTICIPATION IN THE CHANNELCHEK TAKEAWAY SERIES

MAR 20, 2023 MTB.V MOUNTAIN BOY ANNOUNCES PARTICIPATION IN THE CHANNELCHEK TAKEAWAY SERIES
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Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - March 20, 2023) - Mountain Boy Minerals Ltd. (TSXV: MTB) (OTCQB: MBYMF) (FSE: M9UA), today announced their participation in the Channelchek Takeaway Series from the PDAC 2023 Convention, to be broadcast Tuesday, March 21, starting at 9:45 ET.
The Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) is the leading voice of the mineral exploration and development community. Representing over 6,000 members around the world, PDAC's work centers on supporting a competitive, responsible, and sustainable mineral sector. Mark Reichman, Noble Capital Markets' senior equity analyst, attended the conference and sat down with various c-suite executives. For the Channelchek Takeaway Series, Mark is unpacking what he learned at the conference and talking to a selection of c-suite executives in the mineral exploration & mining space.
Mountain Boy President and Chief Executive Officer Lawrence Roulston provides a corporate overview, then takes questions from Mark Reichman.
The event will be broadcast starting at 9:45 am ET on Tuesday, March 21. Investors can virtually attend the Channelchek Takeaway Series at no cost. Registration details are available on Channelchek.
About Mountain Boy Minerals
Mountain Boy has six active projects spanning 670 square kilometres (67,587 hectares) in the prolific Golden Triangle of northern British Columbia. With the focus on the Telegraph project, discussions are now underway with entities leading to joint ventures and/or spinouts of other projects.
  1. The American Creek project is centered on the historic Mountain Boy silver mine and is just north of the past producing Red Cliff gold and copper mine (in which the Company holds an interest). The American Creek project is road accessible and 20 km from the deep-water port of Stewart.
  2. On the BA property, 182 drill holes have outlined a substantial zone of silver-lead-zinc mineralization located 4 km from the highway.
  3. Surprise Creek is interpreted to be hosted by the same prospective stratigraphy as the BA property and hosts multiple occurrences of silver, gold, and base metals.
  4. On the Theia project, work by Mountain Boy and previous explorers has outlined a silver bearing mineralized trend 500 metres long, highlighted by a 2020 grab sample that returned 39 kg per tonne silver (1,100 ounces per ton).
  5. Southmore is in the midst of some of the largest deposits in the Golden Triangle. It was explored in the 1980s through the early 1990s and was overlooked until Mountain Boy consolidated the property and confirmed the presence of gold and copper, with values up to 20% copper and 35 g/t gold.
  6. Recent field program on the Telegraph project has provided compelling evidence for the presence of a cluster of porphyrys. The 310 square kilometre Telegraph Project is located in the vicinity of several large Porphyries deposits including Galore Creek (Teck - Newmont), Schaft Creek (Teck - Copper Fox), Big Red (Libero Copper and Gold), Saddle and Saddle North (Newmont) and the operating Red Chris copper-gold mine (Newcrest - Imperial Metals).
The technical disclosure in this release has been read and approved by Andrew Wilkins, B.Sc., P.Geo., a qualified person as defined in National Instrument 43-101.
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2023.03.20 19:05 Jgrupe I was Hired as a Fire Lookout at Tower 14. I Hope You Can All Forgive Me for What I've Done...

I stumbled out from the cave, terrified. My legs didn't seem to work properly. Everything around me was wrong, the colors, the shadows, the shapes of the trees and the sounds of the singing birds sitting on their branches.
This world was not my own. And I needed to get out.
NOW.
Running as fast as I could through the forest, I remembered how I had come to be in this place. As a Park Ranger trainee, I’d been on a fire lookout assignment and had been sent to confront a few campers who had made a bonfire without a permit - in an off-limits area. But I had stumbled through a gateway to another world in the process, becoming lost in this place. Trapped in another dimension where humanoid creatures with gray skin and four arms hunted people in the purple-tinged darkness.
I fell flat on my face, landing hard after tripping over something.
A vine?
No. Whatever it was, it was thin and sharp and had hurt me badly. The piano wire or whatever it was had cut across my shins, and I felt the warmth of blood trickling from the skin.
The traps. I'd forgotten all about the traps David had set, all throughout this part of the forest, to keep him safe from the creatures in this terrifying world.
"Come back," I heard David yelling over my shoulder from the darkness. "It's not safe! You must come back!"
But I didn't listen. I scrambled back to my feet, and began to run. My only thought was to get to the archway. The place where I’d entered this world. The portal back to Earth had to be there. It HAD to be.
David’s voice could be heard receding into the distance behind me. I shuddered involuntarily, thinking about how I had seen him in the darkness of the cave, eating something like a rat or a mouse. Not only that, but his arms! His arms had been too many. There was an extra pair of hands working at the hairy flesh of the vermin he'd been eating. The bloody fur and the tearing sounds of him ripping chunks from the creature's body with his teeth were too much to think about.
At first I thought maybe he was lying to me from the beginning, and that he was from this place all along. Maybe he was born here and was trying to keep me trapped in this place. But the more I considered it, the more I realized that idea didn't sit right with me.
David was NOT a denizen of this terrible violet-tinted world. No, he was from Earth. The way he spoke, talking about Fire Tower 14, which he said he had worked at, proved that he was not from here. He was from Earth.
My mind began to work out what this meant and came to the conclusion that being in this world changed you over time. Being here, eating the foraged food and breathing the purple-tinged air. All of it was toxic to people from our world. And it caused side effects that were likely permanent.
I only hoped I hadn’t been here long enough for a change to occur in ME.
I shuddered at the thought of an extra pair of arms splitting open the flesh of my abdomen and reaching out, grabbing anything they could get their hands on. HUNGRY. Desperate for food. For blood and flesh and…
Fuck.
I needed to get out of this place.
Running through the woods more carefully now, I lifted my feet high off the ground to avoid tripwires, and hoped that I didn’t stumble into a spike-filled pit or some other deathtrap which David had planted.
Before being hired as a fire lookout, David had served in the British Military, in the SAS - a highly trained branch similar to the Special Forces in America. He was a deadly shot with a rifle, and I no longer had mine with me.
I picked up my pace, hearing the sound of him coming after me through the forest. He was injured, and that would slow him down, but he also knew this place far better than I did. He knew where the traps were located and how to avoid them. Whereas I was just hoping to be able to find my way back to the archway. The possibility of getting lost forever in the wilderness of this strange world occurred to me briefly, but I tried not to think about it.
Trying to remember the way we’d traveled through the forest, I stepped tentatively across the ground, no longer running, but slowly walking through the trees now. I was terrified of stepping on a spike or tumbling into a pit with spikes at the bottom, ready to impale me. David had told me more than once to NEVER go out alone, since he had placed traps everywhere in this area.
There was a noise close behind me and I looked back to see David was following me from a distance, gaining on me, and I picked up my pace and began to run again.
“Come back,” he called after me, his voice sounding different now - distorted and wrong. “It’s not safe!”
Breaking into a sprint, I hoped to lose him in the darkness. For a time, it seemed to work. He was slower due to his injuries (or his mutations) and was hobbling when I saw him again, trailing me from a distance now.
Confident that I’d managed to escape the section of forest where he was hiding his traps, I began to make my way towards the archway. There were certain landmarks David had shown me to find my way back to it, but none of them looked quite the same at night. In fact, nothing looked the same at night.
I was starting to worry that I'd become completely lost, when I finally saw the huge oak tree with its one low branch that pointed the way. Following David’s prior advice, I continued traveling that direction.
After a long period of walking, I realized the sun had begun to rise - looking purple and bloated and wrong as it always did in this world. But at least it gave another indication of which direction I should be walking towards. And it helped to light the way, making the landmarks more obvious as I came across each one.
Here was the babbling brook which I would follow for a little while. And there was the strange boulder that looked like a face.
I felt a pang of regret at leaving David behind, after he’d saved my life, showing me how to survive in this world. But then I shook my head and reconsidered.
No, I couldn’t go back to that cave.
Maybe he was eating rats now, but what if tomorrow he developed a taste for my flesh? What if I woke up to find him hunched over me, eating my leg or my foot?
No. Going back was not an option.
If David was still following me, there was no indication of it. I couldn’t hear him chasing me anymore and he wasn’t calling after me, maybe because he was worried about alerting the creatures to his presence.
The clearing where the archway had been was not far now. It was just another ten minutes or so of walking, and I was just hoping it would be there this time. If it wasn’t, I was completely unsure of what I would do. I’d been trying not to think about that part of things, since the idea of the portal not being there was too much to bear.
“Come back,” someone called out from the woods suddenly, startling me. It was David. At least, it sounded like him.
“It isn’t safe!” another voice called out from my right, sounding sped up, then slowed down, like a tape recorder running low on batteries.
Leaves crunched on the ground behind me and ahead of me. From all angles there were voices calling out in distorted tones.
“Come back!”
“It isn’t safe!”
“CROME BYACKK!”
“GRESTSN’T SAYFF!”
The more they said it the more the words didn’t sound like words anymore, but just strange, alien noises. They mingled together in an echoing cacophony of sounds.
My heart began to pound against my sternum like a jackhammer from the inside. My palms were sweating as I tried to lift my legs to run but realized they wouldn’t move.
It was at that moment that I observed the fact that I didn’t have my rifle, and it dawned on me for the first time that I’d left it back at the cave. With David.
And as that thought went through my mind the trees and shrubs all around me began to rustle and sway, moving aside to reveal the gray, four-armed figures who had been lying in wait.
If they know you like a particular spot, they’ll start to wait for you there. They’re adept hunters. And they know exactly the way to ambush someone. Trust me, I’ve seen it for myself, David had told me.
Yeah, I thought bitterly. He’d seen it firsthand with the rat in the cave. As he was turning into one of them - and he was becoming a pretty good hunter himself.
The pack of creatures closed in on me from all angles, and I sucked in a terrified breath, unable to scream or run or do anything at all.
It was hopeless.
Or so I thought.
The blast of the rifle was deafening in the stillness of the forest, and I winced at the sound of it, as it took the head off the creature closest to me, which was about to grab hold of me.
“RUN!” David screamed from the trees, and this time I could tell very clearly that it was his voice. But at the same time he looked different. He’d left his shirt back at the cave and the extra pair of arms on his abdomen were plainly visible now, and I could see they were holding the rifle. With four hands moving rapidly, David reloaded the gun in a fraction of the time, then had the sights up to his eye again and was ready to fire.
I did as he asked, trying to pry my eyes away from the horrifying image of what was happening. The creatures were abandoning me to go after the bigger threat, and I saw them stomping through the brush towards him as he fired the gun again, taking off the top of one of their skulls in a bloody spray. A chunk of gray brain matter landed on my cheek, and I brushed it off in disgust.
Getting to my feet, I began to run. But one of the creatures stopped me. The one David had just shot was still alive somehow, and grabbing onto my leg - digging its talon-like claws into the flesh of my ankle, gritting its teeth and staring at me with a brainless, evil hunger.
I screamed and howled in pain, turning around and using my other foot to stomp on the thing’s face. As it spit out broken teeth it smiled at me, squeezing and digging its nails in deeper, until I could feel blood pouring out and soaking the fabric of my sock.
“Come BACK!” it croaked in David’s voice.
Finally I stepped on the thing’s arm, wrenching my leg free from its grip. It was like the thing felt no pain at all as it was immediately trying to come after me again with its other good hands. It was like all it desired was to cause pain, but felt none of its own.
Trying not to think about that, I turned away and began to run, limping on my one injured leg, ignoring the pain as I broke into a sprint.
And just as I got out of sight from David I heard him cry out in anguish, his screams cut short as one of the creatures began to chew on his windpipe - and all that could be heard after that was a hushed gurgling sound far back in the distance, as he drowned on his own blood.
Somehow I knew without even seeing it happen.
David was dead.
But I had no time to mourn for him.
I rushed through the trees, trying to ignore the pain in my leg, hoping with every fiber of my being that the archway would be there. I spoke the words in my mind and out loud over and over again, like a mantra, as the clearing came closer and drew into focus.
“Please be there, please be there, please be there.”
And when I came out from the trees and into the clearing I almost couldn’t believe my eyes.
Was this a dream? A mirage? A fantasy that would disappear when I blinked my eyes and opened them again?
No.
It was there. It was actually there.
The archway was back.
And just in the nick of time.
Without a moment’s hesitation I ran through it, terrified that it would disappear before I got the chance to step through the threshold and back into my dimension.
Like a man terrified of elevators and worried the box will drop out at any second, I leapt through the archway and back into the glorious golden sunlight of our world.
I realized immediately what I had been missing, as the blue sky above could be seen through the trees and I noticed I was truly warm for the first time in days. As if I had been walking in shadow, and only now was stepping out into the sun.
As I began to walk back towards the road, I took a nervous look back over my shoulder at the archway.
And I froze when I saw the disturbing sight behind me was still there.
I could still see the purple sky on the other side, and that could mean only one thing.
The portal was still open.
Terrified of what that implied, I shuddered and continued walking, looking back every so often for creatures, and hoping that the archway would disappear - this time for good. But it didn’t.
As I left it behind in the trees and lost sight of it, my last glimpse showed that evil purple sky shining through from the other side - insidiously waiting for another hiker to stumble through. Or for something ELSE to emerge from the other side.
At least if I have to face another one of those creatures, it will be on my turf, I thought to myself with some slight reassurance. But I didn’t have a weapon. And I would need backup.
I wasn’t out of the woods yet.
After limping through the forest for ten or fifteen minutes, eventually I found the road. A part of me had been worried it wouldn’t be there. That this would be just another world that looked like ours - one of a million different potential places that the archway could take you to - and that I would find myself wandering through some unknown forest again, set upon by some new breed of ravenous creatures with a thirst for blood. But thankfully this did look like the road I had been on before. And I could even see the distinctive tread marks in the mud from what appeared to be a Jeep. Maybe from the day when Ross had dropped me off in this very spot.
I felt a twinge of anger at the thought of my supervisor, and decided I would let him have it the moment I saw him. He was supposed to be my backup. I was supposed to be learning from him. Instead, he’d let me go out on my own. And now look at what had happened.
Limping along the shoulder of the gravel road, eventually I saw the fire tower come into view up ahead. It came into focus gradually, emerging from the trees that hid it from my sight.
The Jeep was there, and I realized instantly what that meant.
Ross was up there. Not out looking for me like he should have been. If he’d been where he was supposed to be none of this would have happened.
I climbed the wooden steps leading up to the fire tower, getting more and more enraged as I got further up, and closer to the man who I now believed was responsible for all this. My aching leg was bloodied and I could feel it swelling and my pant leg tightening around it.
Finally I reached the top and threw open the door, to find Ross sitting at the table reading a book, drinking a cup of coffee. He looked surprised to see me, and shocked at the sight of me.
“Holy shit,” he almost screamed, knocking his coffee cup over. The brown liquid spilled all over the pages of his paperback. “You’re back!”
“That’s right, motherfucker,” I hissed, limping towards him. I could feel my face turning hot and red.
His eyes widened further.
“What’s wrong with your face? Are you… Are you okay? You’re turning… purple…”
I didn’t know what to say to that. I looked in the mirror to my left and saw that he was right. I didn’t look like myself at all. I looked like a monster made of rage at that moment, my face purple with anger.
Suddenly all of the fight left me and I realized how utterly exhausted I was. I heaved out a great sigh and crumpled to the floor of the fire tower cabin. I collapsed on the floor, unable to understand what was happening to me. I didn’t feel like myself at all.
And as I did that I felt something writhing beneath me. A squirming feeling in my abdomen, like fingers reaching out from inside, trying to poke and tear their way through the skin of my belly.
I screamed, pulling up my shirt and clutching my abdomen, feeling the skin for a bulging pair of hands, or a face, picturing the movie Alien.
But there was nothing. No indication of anything growing or mutating inside of me. Except a slight tingling there. Like fingers gently brushing up against my skin from the inside. Tickling me, very lightly.
“No,” I said aloud, still clutching myself tightly.
“Dude, what the fuck happened to you?” Ross asked, looking at me with grave concern. “You’ve been gone for two days. And now you come back screaming and grabbing at yourself. Your face just went purple as an eggplant, like you had anaphylactic shock for a few seconds, and now it’s back to normal again. Tell me, please. Because I am genuinely very fucking concerned. What the hell happened to you out there?”
I took a few seconds before answering. I honestly didn’t know what to say. Until the words began spilling out of me.
“The same thing that happened to David. That’s what happened to me.”
There was a delayed reaction as it took several seconds for him to register the name. But then he did and his jaw dropped.
“How… Where did you hear that name? How do you know about David?”
“I met him,” I said, and was about to continue, when I heard a sound from beneath the fire tower.
It sounded like someone coming up the stairs.
I shot up to my feet, my eyes darting around the room.
“Where’s the rifle? You need to get your rifle! Now!”
Ross didn’t know what to make of this at first, and was about to question me, but then the look on my face seemed to convince him. He ran over to the gun rack on the wall and pulled down his rifle. Checking to make sure it was loaded, he took the safety off.
“Is that David?” he asked.
I shook my head, no.
“What the hell did you get us into, exactly?” he asked nervously.
But before I could respond there was someone at the door. There was a sound of scratching. Long nails against the wood, scraping it. And there was a distorted gray face at the window, looking in at us.
“COME BACK,” it demanded.
Ross held the scope up to his eye and got ready to fire at the door.
Then the footsteps began to recede, going back down the stairs.
“What the fuck was that thing,” Ross asked, lowering his gun.
I tried to gather my thoughts, trying to figure out how to explain it all.
“Those things are deadly,” I said. “And they’re not from this world. They’re smart, and they’re almost impossible to kill. Right now they’re retreating. Gathering reinforcements. Assembling a hunting party.”
“How can you possibly know all this?”
I led him outside and pointed down at them below.
They were going back for more of their own kind, to bring them into our world. As I looked down from the lofty fire tower I could see them moving quickly into the forest. Some were going back towards the archway, but not all of them.
They were planning on staying here. Making this their new home. After all, there was an abundant food supply. And no real reason to leave.
I tried to sum up what had happened as well as I could in such a short time. It was difficult for him to believe - but the proof had been right in front of him. The monster had been right outside the fire tower. And we’d seen more of them below us. There was no way to fake that.
We needed to do something. Fast.
“Okay… Assuming you and I haven’t lost our minds and just hallucinated whatever the fuck those things were, I’ll take your word for all this. So, what are we going to do?” my supervisor asked reluctantly.
I considered this for a few long moments.
“How much gas do we have between the generator and the Jeep?” I asked.
His eyes went wide after he realized why I was asking.
For a while he didn’t answer. But then he nodded his head and waved for me to follow him.
“Enough,” he said, as I followed him down the stairs. “There’s enough.”
*
You might have heard about the wildfire on the news. It was a big one. There was speculation it was caused by hikers or careless campers - but the real reason why the blaze started was never truly discovered. No one would have guessed it was set by two rogue park rangers - and fire lookouts, no less.
The forest fire spread and took out a lot of homes, but everyone who lived in the area made it out alive. Thankfully no one died. I don’t know how I would have lived with myself if they had.
I was fired from the Park Ranger Service after what happened, as was Ross. With all the news coverage and social media outrage, someone had to be blamed for what happened. And we were the most viable scapegoats. Especially since we’d been seen fleeing the area long before the blaze was ever reported.
Our excuse was that the fire started near the road, and we had been down by the jeep when we noticed it. Believing our lives were in danger, we’d fled from the area before being able to radio in to report the wildfire.
Unfortunately, there’s no way of really knowing if we killed those things. Or if we destroyed the archway. Maybe it can’t even be destroyed. Maybe those things can’t be killed.
It’s been years since all of this happened. I’m terrified of the forest these days. I stay out of the woods, and away from nature entirely.
I live in a big city, far away from all that business. I work in a high rise and live in an apartment building. And when people ask if I want to go camping I say, “Hell no.”
People tell me I’m strange. They talk about me behind my back.
One thing that people find peculiar about me is that I never go swimming. I never take my shirt off. And I don’t date or try to find a girlfriend, despite people trying to set me up.
I don’t want anyone to see the changes that have been happening. The arms that have fully sprouted from my abdomen, and have a mind of their own.
I try to tie them down, to strap them down with duct tape so they can’t move. But they always manage to free themselves. They’re very crafty in that way. And they brought with them an unusual appetite.
I’ve found myself craving the most disturbing things.
Things that crawl and skitter in the subways and in the sewers. Things I have to chase and kill and rip flesh from bones with my bare teeth.
It scares me to think about what I’m becoming, and part of me will always be terrified. A voice in my mind screaming that this is wrong, and I need to get help.
But another part of me is getting used to it.
A primordial, alien part of me, is starting to very much enjoy the HUNT.
JG
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2023.03.20 17:29 Rough-Resident-4915 Anomaly Reference Packet: Cosmic Horror Alert Levels

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2023.03.20 17:05 MjolnirPants Jerry and the Apocalypse: Part 52

Part 51
At sunset on the third day, we set up camp on a tall ridge overlooking the city. As the sun was still low in the sky, I looked out over the glittering ruins. We had appeared right around the center of it, and it was about a day's walk from there to the edges in any direction.
We were west of the city. To the east, the skyline got lower and lower and the buildings further apart until it turned into a rotting, sprawling suburb. To the north, it ended at a large lake whose wooded far shore was visible about thirty miles distant. The water around the docks was speckled with the rusted remains of sunken ships, parts protruding above the surface. At the southern edge, the mess of tall skyscrapers gave way to a band of low, sprawling industrial buildings that wedged up to a cliff face.
Forty miles in diameter, or thereabouts. A forty mile diameter mass of towering skyscrapers, crumbling and rotting away. Glass still occupied many of the windows, glittering like stars as they reflected the setting sun behind us.
The narrowest point was half again as wide as the longest distance through New York City. And that wasn't counting the suburbs or industrial sector. And it was much taller. The tallest building still standing was, according to the marks on my rangefingers, about twenty-five hundred feet tall. And I suspected that it wasn't the tallest building originally. The piles of rubble around the bases of some of the runners-up were significant. And there were a lot of runners-up.
I did some math in my head. Assuming twenty-five percent more population density, owing to the taller buildings, taking into consideration the size of it, there had to be upwards of forty million people living there. A little larger than Tokyo, I thought. Plus another two or three million in the suburbs. Which was impressive, to be sure. What was more impressive was the similarly-sized cities, peeking above the mountains to the south, behind the low, wooded hills on the other side of the lake, and behind us. I hadn't gotten a good look at the city behind us, but it seemed to be about twice the size of this one.
Just within eyesight of the hill I stood on, peering around, I could see the former homes of somewhere around two hundred million people. Half the population of the US. That was the impressive part.
Footsteps behind me announced Avarisa's approach.
"Camp's set," she said. "What are you looking for?"
I shook my head slowly. "Nothing in particular. Just surveying the area. How many people lived here?"
"Um," she said, rubbing her chin. "In this world, I think seventeen billion, just before the war. Kvenland had a total population of six billion. Norumland had eight billion, but it was much larger."
"So most of the population lived in only two nations?" Avarisa nodded. "There were seventy three nations in total, but Kvenland and Norumland dominated this world."
"And they're all dead," I said.
"Not all of them," Avarisa said. "I read about several trips other gods had taken here. There's a few thousands transplants, mostly from Earth, but also survivors of some of the other worlds. They're on the other side of this planet, though. There's another populated region, about seven hundred miles to the south. There's maybe three hundred thousand, scattered over an area of about two hundred and fifty thousand square miles. Then some scattered pockets, a few hundred to a few thousand all over the place. About two or three million."
"That's a lot of dead people," I said. "Dead in a war that wasn't even theirs to fight." Avarisa looked like she might want to object to that, but she didn't say anything.
I heard more footsteps. I glanced back, expecting Kathy, but instead, I saw Spectre approaching. She was in a physical body, not the usual apparition. With a real body, she actually had some color in her cheeks and some life in her eyes. It made her look younger, around Aaina's age.
"Kathy wants to know if you want beef ravioli or chicken and pasta in vodka sauce."
"Ravioli," both Avarisa and I said at the same time. She met my eyes and smiled briefly. The raviolis were the best of the camp foods we'd brought.
Instead of heading back with her answer, she walked up to stand next to us. Her torn, rotted dress fluttered in the breeze, the stained white fabric a stark contrast to the jet black hair that flowed around above it.
"It's about a day's walk from where we came through to any edge of the city," she said. "So Ixy should be around the edge, right?"
"That's assuming he's in this world," Avarisa said. "There's hundreds of portals in the city proper that lead to other worlds, if you have the magic to open them."
"He's got to be in the Sixteenth World," I said.
"Why do you say that?" Avarisa asked.
"Because that's how this works," I said. "We're here on information from Fulla. She gives her secrets out as clues that we have to follow to get the answers we really want. And when you look at her, magically, while she's doing this, you can see that the way she puts her messages together is very similar to the way an oracle's visions congeal. Which means that it's a probabilistic clue with a narrative structure."
"I don't get it," Spectre said.
Avarisa did. She answered for me. "Most of the portals are to the Sixteenth World. And the Sixteenth World is a giant mystery, which is right up Fulla's alley."
I made a so-so gesture. She was right, but for one of the wrong reasons. Magical thinking was so very different from the rational, critical thought I'd spent so much time and effort developing in school, but it was quite useful at times. And though it still felt a little weird to engage in it, I'd learned to turn it on at times. Avarisa was, like Sarisa, a very rational thinker.
"You're right about the number of portals, but wrong about it being up Fulla's alley," I said.
She gave me a skeptical look. "It's not that Fulla likes mysteries, but that it's a mystery that I only learned about as a result of following her clues."
"Ahhh," she said. "Narrative. As opposed to thematic, which was what I said." I nodded. "And you're sure it's the one, and not both," she continued, making me look at her with a raised eyebrow.
"Themes matter, Jerry," she said with a self-satisfied smirk. I shrugged. "Fair enough," I said. She was probably right, which was something I should bear in mind.
I looked back at the city in front of us, then pulled out the map we'd found. It was on a plastic-like material, thin and foldable like paper. Avarisa had been the one to find it, and after playing with it a while, she'd figured it out. It was tech, not a simple printout. Pinching the creases flattened them out, then squeezing the outermost of four small circles at the bottom left made the light-grey sheet fill with a diagram of the city below. I squeezed the third circle, then handed the sheet to Avarisa.
"Mark all the portals you know about that lead to the Sixteenth World," I said. She took it, and began to press the tip of her finger to different spots, marking them with a red dot.
"I don't know all of them, but like you said, it's almost certainly going to be one of the ones I do know."
I waited for her to mark about a dozen spots, then draw a circle around one near the far end of the city.
"I think this is the most likely one," she said.
"Why is that?" I asked.
"It leads to a place where..." She trailed off, her face flashing through a pained expression and back to a neutral mask.
"What's wrong?" I asked. I tried to fill my voice with the usual levels of concern it would have when asking that question in response to that look, but like everything else I've said in the past few weeks, it came out cold and harsh. I couldn't even work myself into being upset about that, so I just waited for her to answer.
"Sarisa... I told you that she gave me memories of our time together, until you met Inanna," she said, speaking slowly as if this was a grave admission.
"I made it sound like those were the only memories I had, but she... She gave me others, including one in which I accompanied Tientus to the Sixteenth World, mere days after what calamity befell it. This portal leads to the place where we first appeared on that trip."
I nodded and looked at the map. "That will be more than a day's walk. We should probably fly. I don't want to camp in those ruins again."
The previous night, we'd camped in the city, as we had the night before. Only this time, we were attacked. A pack of unusual, canine animals had come sniffing around, likely drawn by the scent of our dinner. Magical alarms woke Kathy and I as they entered our small camp, and when we emerged from the tent to investigate, the animals attacked. We were forced to kill three of them before the others fled.
Of course, that wasn't what made the choice for us. Instead, as the seven or eight remaining animals fled into the night, we'd heard a roar, followed by more of the same yelping and growling we'd heard as we fought them off. It didn't last long. The ensuing crunching sound was very reminiscent of Ixy, but when I'd put in the buttplug and flown off to check, I'd found a rancor, instead.
Yes, like the rancor from Star Wars. The resemblance was shocking. a bipedal animal with short, stubby legs, a powerful upper body, long arms with clawed hands and an enormous, forward-thrusting head with massive, fanged jaws. The only way in which it differed was the brown-and-gray coat of fur the thing wore. The coat was thick and full, reminding me of a bear's fur. It also blended in with the surroundings quite well.
I returned and we shifted our camp to the base of a large satellite dish on top of a thirty-story building that looked less likely to collapse than others nearby. This morning, I'd examined the dog-like creatures.
They reminded me of a thylacine. They had stripes on the back ends of their backs. Their rear legs had the same short thighs and long, thick calves as thylacines, and like the rancor, they had thickly muscled forelimbs and chests. During the brief fight, we had seen them open their jaws almost ninety degrees, a sight which is uniquely unsettling, even though they didn't pose much of a challenge to us. They had the same smooth, almost cat-like faces, narrow muzzles and distinctly dog-like noses as a thylacine, with subtle cranial ridges.
I'd seen videos of thylacines moving about, and read descriptions. One thing I recalled was that they were not particularly fast nor agile, a feature that clearly did not apply to the animals we'd fought off. They had moved lightning fast and struck like snakes, snapping bites and slinking away.
In any event, we had decided that since the ruins were the homes of several dangerous predator species, it would be best to to move outside of the city. With the map Avarisa had found, we could plan our forays better, in any event.
"I can't fly," Avarisa said. I turned to her, a look of disbelief on my face. "Kathy can fly, and she's about the least talented flyer of all of us."
"I'm going to tell her you said that," Spectre said with a little smile. I tried to smile back, really, I did. But my lips didn't twitch. "She knows. She's possessed of enough talent in other areas that she shouldn't be insecure about it."
Spectre's smile faded. She'd been trying for a little levity, which I appreciated, so I put an arm around her shoulders and kissed the top of her head.
"I've tried," Avarisa said. "I can't. I can levitate, but once I'm in the air, I can't seem to make myself move around. It feels like I should be able to, but I just can't. I think Sarisa did it. On purpose."
"I could check, with the right circle and tools, but I don't have the tools in hammerspace," I said. "But that can wait. I'll carry you when it's time to fly."
"Won't that slow you down?" she asked. I shrugged. "Not enough to matter. I'll most likely have to stay close to Kathy in any event. We should still be able to make it there before nightfall, tomorrow. We'll leave the camp here, unless we encounter more predators. If we do, we'll bring the camp and set it up on top of one of the buildings again.
Avarisa had assured us that there were no winged predators in this region that would pose any threat if they caught us unaware. I trusted her, because I'd seen the library she had been reading back at the gods' camp. It wasn't the Library of Souls, but it was nonetheless extensive. And I knew she read lightning fast. Like a speed reader, except she absorbed everything she read.
"Come on, I'm getting hungry," Spectre said. All three of us turned and walked down to the small copse, just off the peak of the hill, where we'd made camp. To my surprise, there was a second tent,a small pup tent, on the other side of the fire from the one we'd been sharing until this point. Kathy was busy heating up beef ravioli in a camp pot. She looked up as we approached.
"I found a pup tent buried in hammerspace. Might be a little less crowded in there with just two of you."
I nodded, taking one of the folding seats set around the fire. I produced a pair of plates, with utensils fitted into slots on their underside and handed one to Avarisa as she sat. Spectre made a circuit of the fire, then leaned down to speak quietly to Kathy.
"I'm going to go now," she said. Kathy smiled at her. "Will you tell Lya what we're up to?"
Spectre nodded. "Of course. I'll keep her company. She's working all week and coming home to an empty house."
"She'd appreciate that. I would, too," Kathy said. She kissed Spectre, to my surprise, not on the cheek, but on the lips, and the spirit vanished.
I didn't say anything about the kiss. Just because it surprised me didn't mean it interested me.
After a few minutes, Kathy doled out the food, producing her own plate at last. We ate quickly, washing it down with little plastic barrel-shaped containers of what tasted like watered-down koolaid. I kept several cases of them, pre-chilled, in hammerspace, mostly for my younger children, but.... I wanted them gone. Used up. So we drank them, three or four at a meal. It was tastier than water.
After we ate, the sun had fully set, so I cleaned up, scrubbing the plates with sand and then rinsing them in a stream at the base of the hill, and then we retired to our tents. Avarisa and I in mine, Kathy in her pup tent. I set my magical traps and alarms and then sat there for a bit, Avarisa laying on her side, next to me.
None of us had bathed since we got here. And though it was cold out, we'd been on our feet all day, every day. I could smell myself when I paid attention, and I could feel the grime and sweat built up under my clothes. I had a camp shower in hammerspace, and I sat there and considered whether it was worth retrieving, setting up, and heating up some water for.
"Would you like a shower?" I asked Avarisa after a few minutes. She lifted her head and eyed me.
"Fuck yeah," she said. "I feel like I've got a second skin, right now."
"You'll have to either share one with me, or we'll have to heat up two full pots of water over the fire. That'll take a while."
"We can share one, if you're okay with that," she said, her voice sounding a little strange.
"Okay," I said. I stood and unzipped the tent, stepping out.
"Kathy, I'm going to set up a camp shower, if you want to use it when I'm done," I said in a normal voice, knowing she could hear me through the thin material of her tent.
"Just leave it up, I'll use it in the morning," she said.
"Okay."
I retrieved it from hammerspace. It was a folding metal and fiberglass frame. It had a large bladder with a hook at the top to tie a rope through, to hoist it. There was a plastic plate that the bladder rested on, angled so as to make it easy to slide in and out of place. It had a hose at the bottom that connected to a shower head that could be used to spray yourself down, or hung just below the plastic plate. There was a tarp that wrapped around the whole thing for some privacy. The whole thing was packaged in a large pot.
I pulled the assembly out of the pot and began to set it up. It didn't take long at all. Once I had the frame assembled and wrapped in the tarp, the hard part begun. I carried the bladder down the hill to the small creek and filled it about 3/4 full of water. Using a bit of paracord through the hood, I hoisted it on my back and brought it back. I flung the free end of the paracord over a tree branch that looked capable of taking the weight, then grabbed the pot and headed back to the stream to fill it.
Lugging it back, I placed it on the cooking rack over the fire while Avarisa added some more fuel to build it back up. We then had to wait for the water to boil, which took about fifteen minutes. When that was done, we opened the bladder again, the mouth forming a large funnel, and poured in the boiling water. I tested it after we emptied the pot, and it was nice and warm.
"Okay, get undressed," I said as I hoisted the bladder up. It slipped up the plastic platform and I reached up to close the gate to hold it in place. I tied off the paracord (the gate alone wouldn't take the weight) and then quickly stripped as Avarisa stood next to the door, waiting for me. We had to move quickly, because the chilly air would cool the water quickly. The bag was not insulated, but rather a thick, black plastic so that one could use the sun to warm it over the course of a day.
I stepped in, producing two bars of soap from hammerspace and I opened the valve to spray both of us down with warm water. Once we were thoroughly wet, I closed it and handed Avarisa a bar. We soaped up quickly, the night chill getting to us.
Once we were thoroughly soapy, we ran the water to rinse again, then I sent the soap back and produced a combination shampoo and conditioner. We sudsed up our hair and rinsed off again. About two thirds of the water still remained in the bladder.
"Want to just enjoy the soak?" I asked. She nodded, so I left the valve open. She pressed against me, both of us sharing in the cascade of water. I watched the top of her head, and when she put her hands on my hips and looked up, I met her eyes.
"This is nice," she said.
"Yeah," I responded.
Flashes of memories swept through me. Aaina, when we first brought her home, afraid to be alone, needing me or Inanna in the shower with her. Sara and Junior, joining me for my showers once they were steady on their feet because it was just easier to bathe them that way, when time mattered. Normally, we let them play in the bath, but I'd scrubbed them down a few times in the shower.
And of course, those memories all gave way to the countless showers I'd shared with Inanna. It may come as a surprise, but most of the time, we simply helped each other get clean, and then got out. We had fooled around in the shower many times, of course, but that wasn't the norm. The falling water could be a distraction, whereas the possibility of getting clean and then fooling around as soon as we got out was almost always there.
Without even thinking about it, I put my hands on Avarisa's hips and pulled her into me. She didn't hesitate or resist, stepped forward and running her hands up my sides. I bent down and kissed her, and she quickly moved a hand to the back of my head, pulling me in, clinging to me.
We kissed for a long moment. It wasn't until I grew chilly and realized that the water had given out that I drew back. She rested one hand on my shoulder while the other slipped around to my front, to grab me.
"Are you sure?" she asked quietly. I shook my head. "Don't make me question myself," I said. "I just want to stop thinking."
She nodded, then met my eyes.
"I just finished my period," she said. "Yesterday was the last day. Tamp down on your fertility, Jerry, and I can all but guarantee you that I won't get pregnant."
I nodded. I lifted her up in my arms and carried her to the tent.
The next morning, I was woken by Kathy holding my pants, which I'd left draped over one of the folding chairs last night, peeking through the flaps of the tent. "Seriously?" she asked.
I blinked away the blurriness and focused on her. It took me a second to recognize what I was seeing, and another to put the pieces together in my mind.
"Shit," I muttered. "Sorry."
"It's your own clothes that have ants in them," Kathy said. "And hers."
I pulled Avarisa's arm off of me gently and slipped out of the sleeping bag. "I'll get it," I said.
"Good, I'm going to refill the shower. I already got a pot boiling. You two can start breakfast while I'm showering."
She handed me the pants and pulled her head out of the opening. Checking them, I could see that there were, indeed, tiny ants crawling all over them. I sighed and summoned clothes from hammerspace, then retrieved my stuff from the pockets and transferred it over. I walked out and picked up all the clothes we'd left out.
The ants had gotten into all of them.
I brought them down to the creek, passing Kathy as she walked back with the bladder three quarters full of water. She shook her head slowly, not saying anything as we met and then parted. I rinsed all the clothes out, letting the little ants get swept away in the current. When I returned to string up a paracord clothesline and hang them to dry, I could see Avarisa's silhouette in the morning glow, moving around inside the tent. I climbed in.
"I left my clothes out there," she said.
"Here," I said. I pulled a t-shirt, a hoodie sweater and a pair of pants from hammerspace. "These should fit. I don't have any underwear, though."
"I normally don't wear a bra," she said as she pulled the clothes on. "Going commando will be a new one, though..."
She finished dressing and we both went out to make breakfast. Kathy was in the shower, singing quietly as she scrubbed off. I got a good scramble going, eggs, cheese, bacon and potatoes, along with fried naan bread. When Kathy was finished, she toweled off and immediately sat down, not bothering to get dressed. We ate quickly, and I let Kathy get a larger portion than the rest of us, because she seemed to need it.
When we were done, Kathy summoned clothes and I made a harness out of paracord.
"We're going to fly to the first portal, it's more than a day's walk," I told Kathy. She stared at me for a second.
"Shit, Jerry, you'd better stay close to me and help me with the landings," she said. I nodded. I intended to do just that. When I had the harness ready, I had Avarisa put on her armor, and then I secured her back to my chest, adding a few lines of paracord from her plate carrier that passed between her legs to be sure. I had her pad them out with one of the still-damp towels, which she giggled and protested over the chill about. I asked her to imagine her body weight all on the paracord lines between her legs, though, and her protests ended. The giggles continued for a few minutes, though.
Thus secured, we layered more magic over top the camp to ward off any curious animals and took off. Kathy wobbled a lot during the flight, but she managed to keep up with me just fine. It took about two hours to reach the spot. I took Kathy's arms, reaching around Avarisa to do so, and we settled down on the ground in front of what looked like a high-end clothing store.
The clothes on the mannequins had all rotted away, and green mold coated the glass windows, making the insides dim. The doors were locked, so I smashed the glass out of one of the windows and we stepped in.
Avarisa led us to a wall, where I pulled down some shelves. Once clear, I touched the keys in my pockets mentally and a section of the wall shimmered. It seemed to fade from view, showing a desolate cityscape not too different from the one we were in. We all stepped through.
"Welcome to the Sixteenth World," Avarisa said, her voice a little choked. I wondered what memories Sarisa had given her that caused this.
We were in a much smaller city than before. Only four skyscrapers stood, each one immaculate except for the layer of dust dulling the windows. Lower buildings surrounded them, all looking to be made of concrete. The last city had brick and even a few wooden structures, but this place all seemed to be made of the same, light gray concrete. Streets, sidewalks and buildings alike.
Piles of rust stood here and there, the remains of vehicles left exposed to the elements for hundreds or thousands of years. And bodies.
In the last place, the bodies had been skeletons, mostly partial bodies, many with signs of being worried by the local fauna. Here, they were mummies.
I could see dozens of them, including at least one in every pile of rust. Desiccated corpses, clad in sun-bleached fibers that still kept their shape. I recognized T-shirts and button-down shirts, sundresses and skirts, pants and shorts. Avarisa wandered off, towards a smaller, one story building with a line of bushes in front. I followed her gaze to see a curious site.
Most of the vegetation was brown, but intact. Leaves still clung to tree and bush limbs, grass still lay across the ground. But where she was moving, there was a circle of... I'm not sure how to describe it.
The bushes in front of the building simply melted away as they approached the circle. Bushy brown limbs gave way to bare limbs, which gave way to shattered, sparse limbs, which gave way entirely. The grass grew sparse, and then faded out into dark, rich soil.
Right at the center of the circle lay two small skeletons.
Scraps of rough fabric still clung to their limbs. They were both small, young children, I thought. And they had no flesh left on them. Unlike every other corpse, these had been subjected to the process of decay.
"What happened?" I asked.
Avarisa knelt at the edge of the circle, staring at the remains in the middle. When she spoke, her voice cracked with grief.
"When Tientus first learned of what happened here, she grabbed two children. She brought them here, as guinea pigs, to see if whatever happened affected them. They hadn't done anything to displease her, they were just... The first humans she saw when she went looking, I think. She brought them here. Nothing happened, so I took them and was going to bring them home, but..."
She sobbed once, her shoulders hitching.
"She stopped me. Made me leave them, because she didn't want to wait the thirty seconds it would take me to bring them home. They died so that she wouldn't be inconvenienced in even the mildest way.
"These two children, whose names are long lost, they're the inspiration for the war. Because of them, I began creating the spell to strip a god's divinity. Because of them, I reached out to Astoram, who had always been at odds with the other elder gods, and secured his aid."
Kathy and I stood behind her, looking at the two small skeletons and listening to her words. When Avarisa stopped talking, we remained in place, thinking about the death and destruction that had resulted from the casual murder of two children.
"This is pretty heavy," Kathy said after a while. I nodded.
"Yes, it is," I said.
We must have stood there, reflecting on the bodies for ten minutes, when a sound came to us from the distance. All three of our heads came up and turned in the direction it had come from.
"Was that..." Kathy said. I nodded.
"Ixy's roar," I said.
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2023.03.20 15:23 Delicious_Reveal3608 Tamil Nadu Budget 2023-24 Announcement

Notwithstanding the several massive welfare schemes that are being implemented during the last two years, owing to the unprecedented and difficult reforms undertaken, we have reduced the annual revenue deficit of around Rs.62,000 crore which we inherited on assuming office, to around Rs.30,000 crore in the Revised Estimates of the current year. It is noteworthy that this is approximately Rs.5,000 crore lower than the level of the pre-COVID year of 2019-20. In accordance with the mandate of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of achieving Zero-revenue deficit, the State will adopt a smooth glide path without compromising on our welfare initiatives and developmental priorities
The main reason for the fiscal stress faced by the Government at the time of assuming office was the fall in tax revenue in the previous years. The State‟s own tax revenues which were at a healthy 8 per cent of the Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) during 2006-11 have witnessed a precipitous fall in the last 10 years and reached 5.58 per cent in 2020-21. This is much lower when compared to other large States such as Maharashtra and Karnataka. Though the Tax-GSDP ratio has increased to 6.11 per cent in the current year due to the efforts of this Government in the last two years, concerted action is needed to raise it further to find financial resources for welfare schemes.
The Hon‟ble Chief Minister adroitly handled the second wave of Covid, major floods in Chennai and severe financial stress. In spite of these constraints, he was able to fulfill the promises to the people and has several achievements to his credit. He has urged us to strive to fulfill the expectations of the people in the coming years and I have prepared this budget keeping these instructions in mind. With these introductory remarks, let me now proceed to sector-wise view of the Budget 2023-24.
To honour the legacy of Tamil martyrs Thiruvalargal Thalamuthu and Natarajan, who sacrificed their lives to protect Tamil in the struggle against Hindi imposition, a memorial will be established at Chennai.
In order to propagate the ideals of Annal Ambedkar, the father of the Indian Constitution and the architect of a progressive and egalitarian India, the Government will provide a grant of Rs.5 crore to translate his works into Tamil language.
To give an impetus to the growth of Tamil as a global language by promoting its usage in the technology sector, an „International Conference on Tamil Computing‟ will be held with the participation of renowned experts from across the world. This will greatly encourage development of software in Tamil language.
With a view to celebrating the glory of Tamils who have conquered many lands overseas, efforts will be taken to promote and support sea cruises that will connect places of significance in Tamil culture. These cruises will showcase the rich history, literature, art, culture, handicrafts and cuisine of Tamil people and will spread the State‟s glory across the seven seas.
The Government has been providing free bus pass to elderly Tamil scholars in recognition of their invaluable contribution to our language. In the coming year, the Government will extend this benefit to 591 more Tamil scholars.
To enable the younger generation to imbibe and appreciate our celebrated art heritage, the Government will expand the widely popular Chennai Sangamam cultural programme to 8 major cities in the coming year. It will provide a platform to nurture folk art and artists and celebrate the shared cultural ethos of the Tamil people. An amount of Rs.11 crore is provided in this Budget for this purpose.
To preserve folk arts and to ensure that these traditions continue to flourish in the future, 25 part time folk art training centres will be set up across the State.
The Cholas are one of the greatest dynasties who conquered seas and the lands beyond, and ruled vast stretches of India and South East Asia for many centuries. Tamil art, music, architecture, sculpture, crafts and dance reached their pinnacle during the Chola period and their glory spread far and wide. To highlight the contribution of the Cholas who ruled the world, and to preserve artefacts and relics of that age, a “Grand Chola Museum‟ will be set up in Thanjavur.
The Hon‟ble Chief Minister intervened on humanitarian grounds to send essential commodities to help the people affected by the severe economic crisis in Sri Lanka. After securing the consent of the Union Government, 40,000 MT of rice, 500 MT of milk powder and 102 MT of medical supplies, worth Rs.197 crore have been sent in three ships.
We have been continually requesting the Union Government to grant Indian citizenship to Sri Lankan Tamils residing in India. Pending this request, this Government had announced that 7,469 houses will be constructed in the rehabilitation camps for Sri Lankan Tamils, with the objective of providing safe and quality accommodation. In the first phase, 3,510 houses were taken up for construction at a cost of Rs.176 crore and the works are underway. In the second phase, the Government will sanction Rs.223 crore towards construction of the remaining 3,959 houses in the coming financial year.
Recognizing the valour and supreme sacrifice made by security forces in guarding our nation, the ex-gratia that is being offered by the State Government to the next of kin of armed forces personnel hailing from Tamil Nadu who are killed in wa war-like operations will be doubled from Rs.20 lakh to Rs.40 lakh. Further, the monetary grants that are offered to gallantry awards/distinguished service medal winners in armed forces hailing from Tamil Nadu will be enhanced four times.
Ensuring quality education and medical facilities to all is the fundamental objective of this Government. It is in pursuance of this goal that the Government is implementing pioneering schemes like Makkalai Thedi Maruthuvam and Innuyir Kappom, besides taking several initiatives to strengthen the public health infrastructure in the State. The Government is implementing the novel Makkalai Thedi Maruthuvam scheme, where non-communicable diseases are identified and addressed at an early stage. This Government which is deeply concerned about the welfare of workers, who are the bedrock of our economy, will launch a new initiative to address the issue of non-communicable diseases among workers in factories and in unorganised sectors like construction. The Makkalai Thedi Maruthuvam scheme will be expanded to 711 factories covering 8.35 lakh workers in the first phase. Health checkup camps will be held in these factories with specific emphasis on non-communicable diseases like high blood pressure and diabetes. Migrant labourers will also benefit under this scheme.
Under the Chief Minister‟s Comprehensive Health Insurance Scheme, insurance coverage of Rs.5 lakh is being given per year per family. During the current year, so far, 11.82 lakh patients have availed treatment worth Rs.993 crore, which is the highest since the inception of the scheme.
The 1,000 bedded Kalaignar Memorial Multi Super Speciality Hospital in the premises of King Institute of Preventive Medicine and Research Centre, Guindy will be inaugurated this year. New speciality hospital buildings are being constructed in three Government medical college hospitals at Madurai, Coimbatore and Kilpauk at a total cost of Rs.1,020 crore and they will be put to use shortly
New buildings will be constructed at a cost of Rs.110 crore in the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Hospital, which caters to the medical needs of people in Tiruchirappalli and its surrounding districts. In order to fulfil the medical needs of people in North Chennai, a new multi-speciality block, nurses training school and hostel will be constructed in Stanley Hospital at a cost of Rs.147 crore.
The first Government Siddha Medical College in the State was established in Palayamkottai in 1964. At present, there are 100 undergraduate and 60 post-graduate students in this institute. Further, treatment is also being provided to nearly 1,000 patients on a daily basis. The Government will undertake works to improve the infrastructure of the college and hospital at a cost of Rs.40 crore. Rs.18,661 crore has been allotted towards Health and Family Welfare Department in the Budget.
Due to the various initiatives launched by this Government in the last two years, the student enrolment in Government schools has increased significantly. Therefore, the Government had launched the „Perasiriyar Anbazhagan School Development Scheme‟ to modernize and upgrade physical infrastructure at an outlay of Rs.7,000 crore over a period of five yeaRs.During the current year, works to the tune of Rs.2,000 crore have been taken up. In the upcoming financial year, the Government will construct classrooms, laboratories and toilets at a cost of Rs.1,500 crore.
The „Ennum Ezhuthum‟ Programme aims at achieving Universal Foundational Literacy and Numeracy for students in classes 1 – 3 by 2025. Owing to the positive response received, this programme will be expanded to classes 4 and 5 with an outlay of Rs.110 crore in the upcoming financial year.
The goal of social justice can be fulfilled only when knowledge is made widespread and accessible to people in the remotest of places. With this objective, moving beyond Chennai, book fairs were conducted in all districts and five literature festivals were successfully conducted during the current year. This great initiative will continue next year also, at a cost Rs.10 crore. The Government successfully organized the first edition of the Chennai International Book Fair in January 2023 with participation from 24 countries. An unprecedented number of 355 MoUs were signed between publishers from Tamil Nadu and various countries paving way for knowledge and copyright exchange. This international book fair will also be conducted next year.
Educational institutions play a vital role in establishing social justice, equality and equity in all walks of life. Therefore, the Government has been taking multiple initiatives in the last two years to improve the quality of education through schemes such as Ennum Ezhuthum, Schools of Excellence, Hi-tech Labs, Model Schools, and Perasiriyar Anbazhagan School Development Scheme. It is essential that the benefits of these programmes reach all students. Requests have been received to operate and maintain Adi Dravidar Welfare Schools through the School Education department in the State High-Level Vigilance and Monitoring Committee meetings held under the chairmanship of the Hon'ble Chief Minister on 19.8.21 and 12.4.22. To achieve the goal of social justice in the field of education, to improve the quality of schools functioning under various departments and to ensure that all students are provided quality education, all schools functioning under various departments like Adi-Dravidar and Tribal Welfare, Backward Class, Most Backward Class & Denotified Communities, Hindu Religious & Charitable Endowments and Forest will be brought under the School Education department. It will be ensured that the service conditions and benefits of teachers and staff presently working in these schools are protected.
The Government is using data based governance to remove various shortcomings in the implementation of schemes. In order to reduce the unnecessary delay in the disbursement of scholarships by various departments and to ensure that scholarship amount reaches eligible students in a timely manner, directly to their bank accounts, an integrated scholarship portal will be created.
An iconic eight-storeyed library in two lakh square feet, with all modern amenties is being constructed in Madurai, the seat of Tamil Sangam. This library will cater to all sections of the society including children, students, researchers, youth who are preparing for competitive exams, homemakers, senior citizens and the differently abled. The library will feature special facilities including children‟s section with colourful books, separate area with internet facility for those writing competitive exams, braille books for the visually impaired, air conditioned meeting halls, art gallery to exhibit the cultural heritage of Southern Tamil Nadu and an exquisite repository of the writings and speeches of Muthamizharignar Kalaignar.
In the first phase, this library will house 3.50 lakh books in Tamil and English relating to various subjects like literature, culture, science, engineering, law and medicine. This modern temple of knowledge in Southern Tamil Nadu will be named Kalaignar Centenary Library to mark the commencement of centenary celebrations of Muthamizharignar Kalaignar, in recognition of his immense contribution to the Tamil society. This library will welcome its first readers in June this year. Rs.40,299 crore has been allocated towards School Education Department in the Budget.
The Government is cognizant of the fact that human resource is the greatest wealth of the State and has been investing heavily in its development. We recognise that a highly skilled workforce is a unique competitive advantage to attract investments into the State. Therefore, to create a workforce suited for the rapidly changing industrial ecosystems, a scheme is underway to transform 71 Government ITIs to Centres of Excellence at a cost of Rs.2,877 crore. The works will be completed and students will be enrolled in new courses in the coming academic year itself.
In the next phase, the Government will launch a programme in the coming year to transform and modernize the Government Polytechnic colleges into „Centres of Excellence‟ in accordance with the Industry 4.0 standards in collaboration with industry partners. The programme will focus on infrastructure modernization, industry relevant course content creation, capacity building of faculty members and employment opportunities for the students. 54 Government polytechnics will be upgraded as „Centres of Excellence‟ at a total cost of Rs.2,783 crore under this scheme.
The Government proposes to establish a world class skill centre named “Tamil Nadu World Innovation and Skill Training Hub” (TN-WISH) at Ambattur at a cost of Rs.120 crore with the objective of providing skill training to trainers in ITIs and polytechnics and to create a highly skilled workforce. The hub will provide training in advanced technologies such as Mechatronics, Internet of Things, Advanced Automobile Technology, Precision Engineering and Advanced Welding.
The Hon‟ble Chief Minister had launched the visionary programme “Naan Mudhalvan” last year to train 10 lakh students and youth in industry relevant skills and thus generate job opportunities for them. This programme is being implemented in all engineering and arts and science colleges in collaboration with industry partneRs.Academic curriculum has been revised to include industry relevant courses to improve employability of students. Currently, about 12.7 lakh students from engineering and arts and science colleges are being trained under this programme. 12,582 engineering faculty and 7,797 arts & science faculty have also been trained. Rs.50 crore has been provided for this scheme in the budget.
To scale up skill training infrastructure in a massive way, factories will be used as Skill Development Centres. Industries will be incentivized to provide on-the-job-training to youth in factories. In this Budget, an amount of Rs.25 crore has been allocated for this „Factory Skill Schools‟ programme. A state-of-the-art Skill Development Centre will be established, at an estimated cost of Rs.80 crore, in SIPCOT Industrial Park, Shoolagiri in Krishnagiri district, which is emerging as the third largest industrial cluster in the State.
The Perunthalaivar Kamarajar College Development Scheme was launched last year with an outlay of Rs.1,000 crore for improving infrastructure and basic amenities in Government colleges over a period of five yeaRs.In the current year, works such as construction of new classrooms and additional laboratories have been taken up in 26 Government polytechnic colleges and 55 Government arts and science colleges. These works will be carried out in the coming financial year also at an estimated cost of Rs.200 crore.
It is seen that the number of students from Tamil Nadu clearing the Civil Services Examinations has been on the decline in the last few years. With the objective of reversing this trend, Tamil Nadu Skill Development Corporation (TNSDC) will implement a scheme in co-ordination with Anna Staff Administrative College to help civil services aspirants to access better coaching facilities and materials. Every year 1,000 civil services aspirants will be short listed through a screening test. Each aspirant will be provided Rs.7,500 per month for 10 months to prepare for the preliminary examination. Those students who clear the preliminary examination will be provided a lumpsum amount of Rs.25,000. For this programme, an amount of Rs.10 crore has been allocated to TNSDC in the Budget Estimates 2023-24. In aggregate, an allocation of Rs.6,967 crore has been made to the Higher Education Department in this Budget.
With the realization that tomorrow‟s society is the responsibility of today‟s youth, this Government is committed to making the youth strong and vibrant. With the successful conduct of International Chess Olympiad in Chennai and the competitions for Chief Minister‟s Trophy being held across the State, the sports sector has been given a new impetus. As the next step, the Government through the Chennai Metropolitan Development Agency will set up a state-of-the-art Global Sports City in Chennai which will promote the development of sports and emerge as a favoured destination for leading sports events. For this purpose, a detailed project report will be prepared by engaging international experts.
The Government will undertake a comprehensive renovation of the iconic Jawaharlal Nehru Outdoor Stadium, Chennai and equip it with modern sports facilities at an estimated cost of Rs.25 crore.
This Government, which is founded on the principles of social justice and equitable growth, attaches highest priority to the development of Adi-Dravidars and Tribals. With the objective of increasing the Gross Enrolment Ratio of Adi Dravidar and Tribal students in higher education and providing them safe and quality accommodation, four new hostels will be constructed with modern facilities in Madurai, Coimbatore, Tiruchirappalli and Nilgiris at an estimated total cost of Rs.100 crore. These hostels will be maintained and managed by engaging professional agencies.
It has been a long pending demand to enact a legislation to ensure effective implementation of the Scheduled Castes and Tribal Sub Plan. Heeding to this request, the Government will bring a new legislation to ensure adequate allocation of funds and effective implementation of the Scheduled Castes and Tribal Sub Plans. The draft bill will be introduced in the next session of the Assembly after due consultation with stakeholdeRs.
The practice of manual cleaning of sewers and septic tanks is a blot on humanity. In order to completely prevent deaths due to manual cleaning of sewers and septic tanks, a new scheme has been recently launched by this Government. By transforming sanitary workers into entrepreneurs and facilitating them to procure modern machinery, this scheme will enable them to undertake these works in a safe manner and generate income. In this scheme, priority will be given to families of sanitary workers who died during manual cleaning and to persons currently engaged in sanitary work, on the basis of their willingness. In the first phase, the scheme will be implemented in the Chennai Metropolitan area. Based on this pilot exercise, the scheme will be expanded to the entire State.
It is seen that the share of persons from Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe communities who avail various entrepreneurship promotion subsidies from the Government is very low. In order to promote economic development of SC/ST entrepreneurs, a new scheme called „Annal Ambedkar Business Champions Scheme‟ will be launched in the coming financial year. The new scheme will provide 35 per cent capital subsidy and offer 6 per cent interest subvention for loans to procure machineries and equipment. A sum of Rs.100 crore is allocated for this scheme in the Budget Estimates 2023-24.
To revive the Welfare Board for Puthirai Vannars, Rs.10 crore will be provided to undertake livelihood development and welfare activities.
A new scheme named „Iyothee Thass Pandithar Habitation Development Scheme‟ will be launched to ensure basic amenities in Adi Dravidar habitations in both urban and rural areas and to bring about comprehensive socio-economic development. The scheme will be implemented at a cost of Rs.1,000 crore over a period of 5 years.
A sum of Rs.3,513 crore has been allocated to the Adi Dravidar and Tribal Welfare Department in this Budget.
It is well known that it was Muthamizharignar Kalaignar who coined the term „Differently Abled‟. Given the importance of this department, it is directly looked after and works are closely monitored by the Hon‟ble Chief Minister. RIGHTS project is being implemented at a cost of Rs.1,763 crore with financial assistance from World Bank. The main objective of this project is to create an inclusive society by promoting accessibility through creation of barrier-free structures and employment opportunities through vocational training. The project will be implemented in 15 districts in 2023-24. At the divisional level, 39 One Stop social care service centres will be established to provide services including disability assessment, certification and early intervention. Further, 150 neighbourhood centres manned by volunteers will be set up to provide treatment at home and assistance in availing benefits under various welfare schemes.
For the benefit of the 6.84 lakh differently abled persons across the State, the Hon‟ble Chief Minister has already issued orders to increase the pension from Rs.1,000 to Rs.1,500 and the maintenance allowance from Rs.1,500 to Rs.2,000 for severely affected persons with disabilities. Towards this, a sum of Rs.1,444 crore has been allotted in the Budget.
The State Government is providing guarantee and interest subsidy for the development of enterprises of differently abled persons. Through these initiatives, Tamil Nadu has facilitated loan assistance to 11,155 differently abled persons to the tune of Rs.50 crore through National Handicapped Finance Development Corporation this year, placing Tamil Nadu in the first place in the Country.
The Government is developing a comprehensive database of differently abled persons to ensure effective delivery of benefits under Government schemes. In the first phase, a database of 9,08,000 persons who are benefitting from various welfare schemes has been created.
The Government has been taking various steps to improve the functioning of Backward Class and Most Backward Class hostels by upgrading infrastructure, and providing nutritious food. In the last two years, works for the construction of 9 hostels at a cost of Rs.36.25 crore are being implemented. Further, based on the requirements of students, fifteen school hostels have been upgraded as college hostels.
In the Budget Estimates, a sum of Rs.252 crore has been allocated towards Pre-Matric and Post-Matric scholarship schemes. An amount of Rs.305 crore has been earmarked towards distribution of bicycles to students. A sum of Rs.1,580 crore has been allocated to the Backward Class, Most Backward Class, Denotified Communities and Minorities Department.
Following the ancient Tamil tradition, many leaders of the Tamil society have introduced pioneering schemes to eradicate poverty and promote the educational development of students. In 1920, Sir Pitti Theagarayar, the then chairman of the Chennai Municipal Corporation introduced mid-day meal programme in Chennai for the first time in the Country. During Perunthalaivar Kamarajar‟s tenure as the Chief Minister, the mid-day meal scheme was expanded at the state level, marking a transformational change in the history of education in Tamil Nadu. This was followed by further efforts to eliminate hunger including the Nutritious Meal Programme by Puratchi Thalaivar MGR and the scheme to provide eggs along with nutritious meals by Muthamizharignar Kalaignar.
At this juncture, it has come to light that some children studying in Government schools are suffering from stunted growth and malnutrition. Recognizing that students may be unable to concentrate on studies as they come hungry to schools without eating breakfast, the Hon‟ble Chief Minister launched the „Chief Minister‟s Breakfast Scheme‟ last year, which is the landmark scheme of this Dravidian Model Government founded on social justice. This historic scheme was inaugurated on September 15, the birth anniversary of Perarignar Anna.
The Chief Minister‟s Breakfast Scheme is being implemented in 1937 Government Primary Schools and it is benefitting 1,48,315 students studying from Class I to Class V. Out of the 1,543 Elementary schools,where the scheme was implemented in the first phase, the attendance of students has increased in 1,319 schools. The attendance has increased by 10per cent in 624 schools, 20per cent in 462 schools and 30per cent in 193 schools. In Tiruppathur, Perambalur, Ariyalur and Tiruvarur districts, attendance of students has increased in all the schools where the Breakfast scheme was implemented. To translate the noble vision of the Hon‟ble Chief Minister that we will make any sacrifice to ensure that no child remains hungry while learning and to make learning joyful and education universal, the Chief Minister‟s Breakfast Scheme will be expanded to cover all the 30,122 Government primary schools in the State from the coming academic year. Rs.500 crore is allotted for this scheme in this Budget which will benefit 18 lakh students studying from Class I to Class V.
Educated women are essential for a prosperous and self-sufficient society. Well aware of this, Muthamizharignar Kalaignar introduced the Moovalur Ramamirtham Ammaiyar Marriage Assistance Scheme in 1989 to promote women's education. Realizing that many girls from poor families in Tamil Nadu are unable to continue higher education after completing 12th standard, this Government has redesigned the scheme as Moovalur Ramamirtham Ammaiyar Pudhumai Penn Scheme, under which all girl students studying from 6th to 12th standard in Government schools are provided Rs.1000 rupees per month for their higher education. At present, 2.20 lakh girl students are benefitting under this scheme every month. Compared to the year 2021-22, 29 per cent more girls have entered colleges this year, which is an addition of 20,477 girl students. The fact that the many girls who did not pursue higher education after completing their schooling have now enrolled in colleges is a testimony to the success of this scheme.
The self-help group movement, that was pioneered by Muthamizharignar Kalaignar in the country in 1989 at Dharmapuri, has today blossomed into a massive people‟s movement. This Government is undertaking several measures for capacity building and livelihood development of women self-help groups. In the current year, so far, women self-help groups have received bank loans of around Rs.24,712 crore. In the coming financial year, a target of Rs 30,000 crore has been set for credit linkage to SHGs.
Women entrepreneurs continue to face difficulties in accessing adequate, timely credit and marketing of products. To address these challenges, the Government will establish an exclusive „Start-up Mission‟ for women. This mission will facilitate women entrepreneurs in all aspects of their business.
Since 2021-22, a total of 213 godowns have been constructed with a storage capacity of 2.86 lakh MT at a combined cost of Rs.238 crore to augment storage capacity and minimize losses. Further, 12 godowns with a storage capacity of 28,000 MT are being constructed at a total cost of Rs.54 crore.
To meet the liabilities of the important poll promises fulfilled by this Government, a sum of Rs.2,393 crore for the waiver of agricultural loans, a sum of Rs.1,000 crore for the waiver of jewel loans and a sum of Rs.600 crore for waiving self-help group loans, totalling an amount of Rs.3,993 crore has been allotted in the Budget.
The Government will frame a comprehensive long-term plan to carry out structural reforms in Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation to improve efficiency in operations and fiscal sustainability. An amount of Rs.10,500 crore has been provided in this Budget towards Food Subsidy in the Public Distribution System. An allocation of Rs.16,262 crore has been made to the Co-operation, Food and Consumer Protection Department in this Budget. The Government is taking several efforts to restore and rejuvenate the water bodies. Under Tamil Nadu Irrigated Agriculture Modernisation Project, the Government has sanctioned rehabilitation works in 341 tanks, 67 anicuts and 11 canals at an estimated cost of Rs.462 crore. Further, repair, renovation and restoration works are being undertaken in 309 tanks at an estimated cost of Rs.258 crore.
Long term flood mitigation works are being undertaken at a cost of Rs.184 crore in the districts of Chennai, Tiruvallur, Kanchipuram and Cuddalore. Of these, 9 works have been completed and 2 works are in progress. In the current year, 12 flood mitigation works have been undertaken in Chennai, Kanchipuram, Chengalpattu and Thiruvallur districts at a total cost of Rs.434 crore.
The Tamil Nadu Animal Welfare Board, under the chairmanship of the Hon'ble Chief Minister, has been restructured to promote the welfare of animals in the State. In order to control the burgeoning street dog population, it is necessary to set up Animal Breeding Control Centres. To strengthen and improve the effectiveness of the Animal Welfare Board, an amount of Rs.10 crore has been provided in the Budget. This fund will be used to carry out animal breeding control activities, provide training to local Government employees and implement animal welfare activities.
This Government is empathetic to the welfare and special needs of fisher folk and has increased the special allowance during lean months to Rs.6,000 from Rs.5,000. An allocation of Rs.389 crore has been made to benefit 4.3 lakh beneficiaries for implementing the fishermen welfare schemes such as Lean period assistance, Ban period relief assistance and Savings cum Relief schemes.
Coral reefs provide shelter and food to fish and increase the probability of survival of fingerlings. To improve the livelihood of country craft fishermen, 217 units of artificial reefs will be established at a cost of Rs.79 crore in the 3 Palk Bay districts and 200 units will be set up at a cost of Rs.64 crore in other districts.
Due to increasing vagaries of climate change and pressure caused by the burgeoning population, the coastal ecosystem and the livelihood of coastal population are likely to be severely affected in the near future. The Government will implement the „Tamil Nadu Coastal Restoration Mission‟ with the objective of preventing sea erosion, reducing marine pollution and conserving marine biodiversity. The mission will be implemented with World Bank assistance at an estimated cost of Rs.2,000 crore in the next 5 years.
A contiguous stretch of protected forests is essential to protect endangered wildlife. The Government will notify a new wildlife sanctuary „Thanthai Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary‟, with an extent of 80,567 hectares in the forest areas of Anthiyur and Gobichettipalayam Taluks in Erode district to link the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve with Cauvery South Wildlife Sanctuary. This will be the 18th wildlife sanctuary in the State.
Tamil Nadu is located in the Central Asian Flyway and hosts a large number of migratory birds every year. In order to promote conservation of birds, encourage research in the field of ornithology and create awareness about the role of birds in nature, the Government shall set up an „International Bird Centre‟ at Marakkanam at an estimated cost of Rs.25 crore.
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2023.03.20 09:28 RealPokesatsu Episode 11 "Artificial Intelligence" Review

Synopsis: After being struck by lightning while holding a Sentient Data Log, Zeke has its information downloaded into his brain. This causes him to lead the team to find a Safe Zone; a place to maintain and restore Sentient data and information in case of emergency. The Sark attack, but are easily defeated. The team needs to used the Pod to find an Interzone in order to complete the search. When the Interzone portal opens, The Sark return. The team jumps in and finds a giant door with a Positron Door Lock. When Agura is about to lose to Zug, Zeke saves her at the cost of losing what's behind the door. After returning home, Zeke gives the warning "They are coming" before his brain resets back to normal.
Review: This is my personal favorite episode of Season 1. So much lore about The Sentients and how they maintain and resource information, and just pure geek energy out of Zeke. I love it. 5/5.
Notes:
• Zeke's truck was upgraded without a Sentient Chip being installed. This makes the Splitwire and Gear Slammer needing the Reverb and Buster Chips seem redundant.
• The Data Log automatically connects to a Stormshock to find a Safe Zone.
• Vlador's Quest (Zeke's TV show) is also watched by Sherman. Also, Stanford claims it's based on an original British show of the same name. Not sure if this is a Doctor Who or The Office jab.
• Interzone - A Zone within a Zone.
• "I like turtles" reference as Zeke's brain is resetting.
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2023.03.20 05:31 JumpyHumor1814 I gotta say, I love ChatGPT. It's so entertaining to generate things like this. Toradora x SAO

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2023.03.20 05:14 Determination7 An Outcast In Another World (Subtitle: Is 'Insanity' A Racial Trait?) [Fantasy, LitRPG] - Chapter 181 (Book 5 Chapter 7)

In the end, no one even fucking cared.
A large part of Rob wanted someone to rebuke him. That was how it should be, shouldn't it? He'd killed someone. Just...stabbed a man in the head, and for no good reason. It was different from the Elven guards who'd tried to kidnap him months ago, or the Dwarves protecting Titan's Fist. Unlike those incidents, this death held no purpose.
The Ranger may have struck first and threatened Rob's friends, but none of them were in any actual danger. He'd been a powerless, delusional man, lashing out however he could. Level 80 Rob killing him was equivalent to an Earth adult knifing a toddler throwing a tantrum.
And yet no one yelled. No one pointed fingers. To the Elatrans, Rob slaying the Ranger in cold blood was perfectly understandable. After all, if the man wanted to live, he should have kept his blades and threats to himself. Rob's friends regarded him the same as before, and the other coalition members weren't troubled by his actions.
If anything, they were relieved that he didn't take it further and attempt to squeeze concessions from the Elven camp. Most Leaders would have. By only punishing the failed assassin, Rob came across as excessively reasonable. Diplomacy's plan to improve his standing had worked like a charm.
Perhaps even more than if he hadn't killed the Ranger.
Realizing that made Rob feel...unclean.
Am I the weird one here? he thought, alone in his tent. I mean, it isn't like I actually feel \that* bad over killing the guy. It's just that I feel bad about not feeling bad, so I want someone else to make me feel bad.*
He paused. Okay, I'm clearly in the wrong headspace. Need something to help me process this. Hesitantly, he opened his log of system notifications. What does the almighty System – impartial arbiter that it totally is – think about me killing an unarmed dude in front of hundreds of people?
Leadership Level Increased! 8 → 9
Jesus Christ. Rob exhaled a long breath. You know what? Screw Elatra, this place is nuts. What would my folks back home have said? That was something he should start considering now, regardless of circumstances. Sooner or later, the dimension mages would finish developing their portal to Earth, and hypotheticals like these would quickly become an uncomfortable reality.
Rob thought of the three people from Earth whose opinions he gave a shit about: his dad, his mom, and Jason. His dad...would have been disappointed, but in that fatherly way that was underscored with deep concern. While he wouldn't hold back his criticism, his laser-precision guilt trips would be dealt solely to prevent Rob from hurting himself in the future. It was doubtful that his perception of his son would significantly change; he'd been ride-or-die since Rob's childhood.
His mom's reaction would have been far more overt. She had two responses to awful life events: pensive contemplation or open distress, and her baby boy executing a man was definitely severe enough to qualify for the latter. Like Rob's dad, she would've been intensely worried for him while simultaneously questioning his life choices. Also like Rob's dad, she wouldn't have truly judged him – not without being a hypocrite, anyway. If someone had threatened their family to her face, she would've skinned them alive.
And Jason...Jason probably would've raced Rob to murder the assassin first. He was the kind of guy who was willing to die and kill for his friends, and he made no bones about that. Unlike Rob's parents, Jason wouldn't have even pretended to judge him. I know you're not proud of it, he imagined Jason saying, but let's be real. Dude deserved it.
Rob played out various hypotheticals in his head. He envisioned his parents and Jason telling him what they believed about the person he'd become. And after instilling all of those images into his conscience, he found that he felt...exactly the same. Guilty, but only in a vague, nebulous sense. The kind of light remorse that would pass after a good night's sleep.
Huh. Rob drummed his fingers on his legs. I guess that's it, then? Doesn't seem quite right.
Before he could twist his mind into knots again, Elder Duran pushed open the tent flap and strolled inside. "Pardon my intrusion," the Elder said, with a genial smile. "There's no door to knock on, you see."
Rob grinned back. "That's for the best. If you'd knocked, I would've assumed you were another assassin."
Duran took a seat across from him. "Ah, yes. The assassin. Not your first, and likely not your last." He settled in and laced his fingers together. "Do you wish to discuss what happened?"
"Funny thing. If you'd asked me that five minutes ago, I would've said yes." Rob shrugged. "I'm tired of focusing on it, though. Elatra might be crazy, but when in Rome, you do as the Romans do."
"I have yet to hear of Rome." Duran leaned forward, his eyes sparkling with curiosity. "Is that a territory from Earth?"
Rob's grin softened. I missed this. "It's a decently big one, yeah. Used to be more important, but in its prime, Rome was a powerhouse. The culture was so prolific that it influenced pretty much all of western civilization to this day."
"An ancient society, you say? How was it destroyed? Was there a Cataclysm on Earth as well?"
Yes, but it was a really long time ago, and we haven't talked about the dinosaurs yet. "Rome is still around and kicking," Rob clarified. "Just less of a superpower. Before, it was as important as Elven territory. Now it's more like...I'll say two Gellin territories combined."
Elder Duran furrowed his brow. "What happened to cause this decline? How did Rome's Leaders allow it to fall from grace?"
"Way too many factors to list there. If I tried simplifying it, I'm pretty sure the spirits of underpaid sociology majors would reach across dimensions and strangle me. As for its 'Leaders' – one thing you have to understand about Earth is our shorter lifespans." Except me, if I decide to activate Ageless. "Rome didn't just have a few notable rulers. It had a bunch, and they dropped like flies."
"I see." Duran sank into momentary contemplation. "That does resemble what transpired within Human territory. Rob, I know you hold some manner of disdain for the long sovereignty of our Leaders, but from what I've witnessed, Humanity's rotating seat of short-lived rulers caused them no end of strife."
Rob raised an eyebrow. "You literally co-founded a group called The Deserters out of protest against Seneschal Sylpeiros."
Duran chuckled. "I suppose I did. Since when did I become such a rebellious sort of person, I wonder? Perhaps someone who I've recently met has infected me with their audacious nature."
His accusation was answered by a nonchalant whistle. "No idea what you're talking about."
"Naturally." The Elder began to smile, then froze, stifling a cough. "Apologies," he murmured, as he stabilized his breathing. "If we can revisit Rome – while I understand that it possessed many Leaders throughout its history, which was most notable? Did any single man or woman stand above the rest, a Leader among Leaders?"
Rob gave a halfhearted laugh that would've been a full one if he hadn't just seen Duran coughing. "Oh, now that's topical. Rome's most famous ruler is Julius Caesar, and wouldn't you know it, his biggest claim to fame in the modern era is being assassinated. He got the everloving shit stabbed out of him by his most trusted allies."
For a moment, Duran's eyes widened with surprise. "That – ah. No Levels."
"Yup! Earth people are essentially Level 1. All it takes is one lucky stab or well-aimed shot, and suddenly, a kingdom needs a new king."
Elder Duran frowned. "That seems even more unstable than Human territory."
"Eh, we've made it work." Rob gestured to him. "Your turn. Have there been any Leaders in Elatra's history that got shanked by their own Combat Class users? Cause it would be great if that happened to Queen Ragnavi and saved us the trouble."
"The Dragon Queen is...a unique case. Barring extenuating circumstances that would encroach upon the realm of miracles, her people lack the strength to overthrow a Level 94 Awakened Class user with doubled stats. Ragnavi's downfall must come from external forces uniting as one."
His eyes twinkled again. "On rare occasions, however, other Leaders have fallen prey to indolence and treachery. The scarcity of these occurrences only makes them that much more memorable. For example; every Elven child knows the tale of Torvan the Terrible."
Rob sat back, letting Elder Duran ramble about Leaders who ran afoul of traps set by pissed-off subordinates. It was a soothing experience, reminding him of simpler times. If those had ever existed in Elatra.
As a bonus, Duran's stories gave Rob the slightest bit of hope that the same would happen to Queen Ragnavi. There had to be more than a few Dragonkin who wanted her dead or disapproved of this war. If she got Caesar'd when she least expected it...
That would make his fucking year.
--
"Do you wish to kill me?" Ragnavi asked.
The Harpy kneeling before her went pale. He looked around the command center, seeking assistance from the other Dragonkin in attendance, and found nothing but cold indifference. The Harpy immediately started sputtering, questions and apologies mixing together into a nervous slurry of words. Ragnavi kept her expression impassive, betraying no hint of emotion – despite how thoroughly entertaining the sight was.
"N-no," he eventually managed to blurt out. "Of-of course not, great Queen. Why would you-"
"Stop." One syllable from her, and his yammering instantly ceased. "You don't question; you answer. That is all. Understand this well, and your head may yet remain attached."
The Harpy's taloned fingers reached up, subconsciously brushing against his neck. Terror was alight within his eyes, as if he'd finally realized that he'd entered a place where he should not be. Nodding fiercely, the Harpy knelt even deeper, his forehead practically brushing the floor.
"That is better." Ragnavi glanced sideways, ignoring the Corruption pain coursing through her. "Vurshath. What is the price that a man pays for insolence in my presence?"
"Death, my Queen," Vurshath answered, with fervor.
"Correct." Ragnavi suppressed an urge to sneer at the man's almost giddy expression. Whereas one word of threat sent the Harpy cowering for his life, one word of affirmation was all it took for Vurshath to start wagging his tail like a trained dog. A Level 31 mongrel, she thought, begging for scraps at my table.
It was abhorrent. She could never respect someone who defined their existence in relation to their superiors. Luckily for him, the man had his uses. Vurshath had swiftly proven that his fanaticism was genuine, displaying an enviable amount of passion and talent towards silencing dissenting opinions within her army. The man wasn't exaggerating when he'd promised that his entire family would willingly die for her. From his perspective, he was fulfilling a lifesworn vow – and if he could advance his ambition by cozying up to her at the same time, then so much the better.
Most importantly of all, whenever Ragnavi showed him favor, it incensed her other retainers. These were veteran Combat Class users who'd stood by her side for decades. They outstripped him in everything, from Level, to expertise, to social standing, to charisma. Which meant Ragnavi got to watch as Vurshath remained blissfully oblivious of the gazes piercing into the back of his head, like a mud-crawling slug being eyed by hungry snakes.
That on its own was worth keeping him around. For a month or so.
"Harpy," Ragnavi said, addressing her guest. She didn't know his name, nor would learn it. Why bother, when others would be in charge of engraving his tombstone? "You say that you have not come here to kill me. If this is true, answer as such."
"It is true," the Harpy mumbled, with an audible gulp.
"I see. Harpy, are you perhaps unaware that our territories are at war? Did you somehow miss the armies marching across your borders?"
Sweat dripped from his forehead and onto the floor. "I saw the armies. Came here to, to deliver a message."
Ragnavi spread her arms, the motion causing a jolt of Corruption pain to run through her. "Ah, so you are not an assassin, but a messenger! Why didn't you tell us so in the first place?"
Everyone in the room knew that he'd tried. The Harpy wisely stayed silent.
"By all means," Ragnavi continued, in a magnanimous tone. "Enlighten us. What is this message that you've risked your life to deliver?"
Gathering his resolve, the Harpy raised his head. "Oh great Queen. I beg..." He hesitated, then pressed on. "I implore you – slay King Elnaril."
Ragnavi tilted her head. "...Yes, that was always my intention. He declared war on Dragonkin territory."
"Then show him no mercy." The Harpy shuddered. "There are things you should know of."
She was tempted to punish the man for implying that she was ignorant of something, but he'd piqued her interest. "Go on."
"You were informed that Harpy territory has declared on Dragonkin territory. That much is true. Our armies are indeed marching, may Zephyria preserve their souls."
He clenched his fists. "But this is not what we desired! The Assemblage wished for nothing more than eternal peace between our lands. That is what we've been striving for these past eight years!"
Ragnavi grimaced, as if she'd smelt rotten eggs. The Harpy Assemblage was what happened when a Leader afforded too much power to their lessers. King Elnaril still held the final say, as far as she knew, but the Assemblage's influence would have functioned as a constant albatross around his neck. "Why do you sound so aggrieved that a Leader acted as he should?"
"Because he was barely a Leader until two weeks prior!"
Silence. Ragnavi set her gaze upon him, giving the Harpy her full and undivided attention. "Elaborate."
"King Elnaril had been losing his mental faculties for years," the Harpy despaired. "He was incapable of speaking, let alone ruling. Reduced to little more than a marionette for the Assemblage to direct as they chose."
"That's why he was so quiet during the gatherings of Leaders?" Ragnavi huffed. "I assumed he was merely portraying himself as aloof and brooding."
The Harpy let out a hollow laugh. "No. His sense of self was well and truly gone – or so we thought." He breathed deep, scraping together a semblance of composure. "Then, less than two weeks ago, an...incident struck Harpy territory. Elnaril manipulated the fallout from this incident, claiming that it was a result of mass poisonings conducted by Dragonkin saboteurs."
Mass poisonings? Ragnavi tapped her chin. That means deaths, many of them, unexplainable by standard acts of violence. "Why do you presume that Elnaril was lying?"
Wincing, the Harpy hesitated, realizing that was starting to reveal too much. "There's..."
Ragnavi extended her claws. The Harpy hung his head in defeat, then continued. "Ever since King Elnaril seized power once again...people in the capital have been...disappearing. At first it was only outspoken dissidents, but now anyone – from the lowest pauper to Assemblage members themselves – can vanish without a trace. There's no rhyme or reason to it."
He shut his eyes, face wracked with grief. "King Elnaril has disavowed any knowledge of the vanishings, but we know they are perpetrated by him and his ever-loyal guardsmen. Hundreds have already gone missing. People are scared to so much as leave their houses, lest they never return."
Ragnavi's mind whirled with half-formed theories. Culling dissidents at the onset of a war was one thing, but kidnapping citizens at random? She couldn't see the logic behind it. When a Leader takes actions that would turn public favor against them, they must seek to gain rewards that outstrips their losses. Yet a thousand sporadically-Leveled citizens weren't worth much, either on the marketplace or for EXP. "Why would Elnaril harm his own subjects?"
"I haven't the faintest idea," the Harpy replied, shaking his head. "That is part of why I sought you out, oh great Queen. As a Leader, you've had personal contact with King Elnaril, moreso than even most Harpies."
The phrase 'as a Leader' sparked an immediate flash of paranoia and Corruption pain. "Have other Harpies contacted other Leaders?" Ragnavi asked, in a tightly-controlled voice.
"I pray that someone has, but it is doubtful. After the mass poisonings, King Elnaril decreed – on pain of death – that no one is to leave Harpy territory except for his trusted guardsmen. It was only by Zephyria's grace that I managed to take flight and evade them."
Ragnavi forced herself to relax. While the Harpy might be unaware of other successful escape attempts, it seemed unlikely that Sylpeiros, Grant, and Cyraeneus knew of...all this. She'd observed their territories carefully when mobilizing her army, and none of them were stirring in the slightest. Even if they began preparing to march on this very day, it would be many weeks before they reached Harpy territory.
And thank Tylrud for that. It would have been simple for one of the other territories to intervene on a pretext of 'investigating Elnaril's crimes', only to target her armies instead. Thankfully, it seemed that she'd be able to slaughter Harpies to her heart's content – and without any meddling from opportunistic vultures.
Just a little longer. Stay idle for just a little while longer. I'll come to repay your negligence in full once I've achieved Level 99.
Suddenly, the Harpy stood up. "Great Dragon Queen..." He fixed his gaze forward, eyes shining with determination. "King Elnaril has taken my family. I know not if they yet live, or if this endeavor has been a fool's errand from the onset, but I shall hold onto hope until my dying breath. For the sake of my wife, my children, and all Harpies, I beseech you."
He bowed. "Slay King Elnaril. As soon as you possibly can."
While her retainers made noise over the Harpy's impudence, Ragnavi was silent. Your family. That's why you came here, braving the dangers of an opposing army. She hummed to herself. All for the sake of kin...now that is a motivation I can respect.
"Elnaril shall die," Ragnavi promised. "Even if he begs for mercy, I will show none. You have my word."
The Harpy's face shone with unbridled joy. "Oh, thank you, great Que-"
There was a flicker of motion, and his head fell to the ground.
His headless body followed a moment later.
Ragnavi retracted her claws, nodding at the Harpy's unmoving corpse. The life was already fading from his eyes. A quick and painless death, as he'd earned.
Her retainers stared at her, mild surprise evident on their faces. Only Vurshath seemed entirely unperturbed. Ragnavi favored him with a small nod; he understood how the world worked.
Respect was respect, but EXP was EXP.
--
It was a quiet night in the Elven camp.
Not that they were lacking for conversation topics, oh no. Despite the gossip buzzing in their thoughts, the Elves kept to themselves, unwilling to speak. Shame, embarrassment, and disbelief hung over them like a thickened fog, clouding their minds and sealing their mouths. It was an atmosphere that showed no signs of dissipating anytime soon.
Especially not with Seneschal Sylpeiros standing by the edge of their camp, staring at them like a disappointed father at unruly children. Thirty minutes. He resisted the urge to hurl his lance against the ground. We couldn't make it an HOUR without threatening the alliance that I fought a fucking Blight to secure.
Out of everyone in the Elven camp, no one was feeling more ashamed, embarrassed and in disbelief than the Elven Seneschal himself. He'd known full well that some of his soldiers wanted to kill the Human, of course. That was expected. Combat Class users often wanted to kill the Leaders of opposing races even when there wasn't bad blood involved. Glory and EXP were always tempting prospects.
Delusions of grandeur such as those always faded when put to the test. Facing a Leader in battle forced people to recognize the inherent gulf in power – more unscalable than the tallest mountain – and accept their inferiority with dignity. Then the Leader would applaud their efforts, forging mutual appreciation with soldiers of another race. That was how it had worked in the war of eight years past.
Not anymore, apparently. Nowadays, your finest Elven soldiers saw fit to backstab the opposing Leader in his fucking heart. During a friendly sparring session. Suggested by Sylpeiros. That was intended to reduce tensions within their alliance.
Wars had been started over much less.
Lothren was smiling on us today, Sylpeiros noted. How else did we attack a Leader, and face no direct repercussions for it? The assassin's death hardly counted as a repercussion. That imbecilic pile of refuse would've eventually tripped over his own boots and blamed it on Rob. Men such as those were like Firebombs waiting to explode at the worst possible moment; it was for the betterment of all that he'd died now.
In fact, his death had served an important purpose, as the Elves' desire for vengeance was fading fast. Many of them still hated Rob on principle, but they'd witnessed how effective acting on that revenge would be. One stab to the heart, one stab to the neck, and zero progress made. Wounds that were lethal to an ordinary man were nothing to the Human.
And in a more emotional sense, they'd seen what the assassin looked like. Ranting and raving, as if madness had completely overtaken his senses. His derangement was a stark contrast to Rob, who'd explicitly absolved the Elves before and after passing judgement on the sole person who'd wronged him.
None of Sylpeiros' soldiers wanted to appear crazier than a Human with Moderate Leveling High. They had more pride than that.
Time passed as Sylpeiros ruminated on the unmitigated disaster that this day could have become. Eventually, Kenzotul the saboteur approached, a hood tightly drawn over his head. "I am ready to give my report, Seneschal."
Sylpeiros glared at him like he'd grown a second head. "Since when have you been so formal? It's disconcerting."
"We are in public, my Seneschal. Certain formalities should be-"
"Lothren preserve, no one can hear us. Speak as you always do. At the moment, I crave the irritating sense of normalcy it would give."
Kenzotul frowned. "Are you that worried over what the Deserters might do?"
"No," Sylpeiros groaned. "I believe Rob when he stated that he desired no further retribution. While that's far preferable to the alternative, it would've almost been relieving if he'd attacked us then and there. At least then the scales would be balanced. As it stands, we owe him two or three concessions, whether he asks for them or not."
"Better we be subjected to political embarrassment than a slaughter."
"He wouldn't have slaughtered us," Sylpeiros said, offhandedly. "I've seen him fight. In spite of his impressive Skills, Rob is unused to battling Combat Class users of equal power. He is unlikely to defeat me."
Kenzotul locked eyes with him. "For now."
"...Yes." Sylpeiros sighed. "I wouldn't be surprised if we awoke next morning to discover that he gained another five Levels. Hunted monsters in his dreams, or some such bullshit."
In response, the saboteur chuckled. "Would you consider that a good development, or an ill one?"
"Too early to say." Sylpeiros narrowed his eyes. "And don't try to hide behind laughter. I know you've been feeling pensive ever since we teleported here. Does it have anything to do with that ridiculous hood you're wearing?"
"How kind of you to notice."
"Then answer my kindness with the truth. It can't be that you're anticipating a betrayal from our allies, as you'd have brought that to my attention right away. This is a personal matter."
Now it was Kenzotul's turn to sigh. "I don't want Rob to see me," he plainly stated.
"Why?" Sylpeiros asked. "He's the one who inspired you to strive for a bloodless future."
"Yes, after I asked him – in front of the entire Village – to execute me for my crimes committed during The Scouring." As he spoke, Kenzotul winced, like every word was a punch to the gut. "If he saw me...if he approached me...I don't even remotely know what I would say."
Sylpeiros nodded. "Understandable. If I were in your position, the shame would drive me to throw myself into the ocean and swim until the Great Leviathans ended my suffering."
Kenzotul's gaze sharpened. "And what of the shame of proposing a friendly spar that results in your soldier stabbing an allied Leader? I'd say that's worthy of hiding yourself in a pit for a week."
"Two weeks," Sylpeiros conceded. "We are fortunate that the Human is a naive fool who gives too much and takes too little."
At that, Kenzotul quieted. "I don't believe that to be true."
"You don't?"
"Whether he is a fool or not remains to be seen. But naive?" The saboteur shook his head. "I remember his eyes from The Village. Those were naive. Compared to then, the Rob I've seen wandering around camp is like a harsh stone weathered by an unending hurricane."
Sylpeiros thought back to the Human's mannerisms, recalling his laughter, jeers, and irreverent way of speaking. Then he thought further, recalling Rob's fervor in battle, his apoplectic rage at the Stonewarden's betrayal, and his willingness to tear through dozens of Dwarves in order to stop Titan's Fist.
"I suppose you may be right," he finally admitted. "The Human has been tempered by conflict. The same as any of us."
"Unfortunately, he has." Kenzotul tugged at his hood, looking away. "Honestly, I'd...hoped better for him."
Better? Sylpeiros swept his gaze across the Elven camp, and then across the Fiend, Deserters, Merfolk, and Gellin camps, all within walking distance. The Dwarves would be arriving tomorrow to round out their ranks. It was a wonder beyond wonders, multiple races joining as one, banding together under a common banner. This gathering of nations was almost unprecedented in the history of Elatra.
Almost unprecedented. It had happened before.
Once.
Sylpeiros did a quick headcount of his Combat Class users. When agreeing to follow the allied coalition into Harpy territory, he'd decided to take along only the best he could find among those who were immediately available. Soldiers who were strong, competent, and trustworthy. Eight years ago, even accounting for logistical limitations, that would have resulted in hundreds of men and women lining his ranks.
Now, there were sixty-two. Sixty-one, after today. So much for trustworthiness.
Better, Kenzotul says. Sylpeiros nearly burst out laughing at the word. He wasn't concerned with the world improving – that notion was a fanciful dream that had died when the Blight emerged. Agreeing to this alliance was already straining the limits of his idealism. Maybe future generations could pray for better, but him?
He'd settle for the second gathering of nations not ending as Cataclysmically as the first.

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2023.03.20 04:34 WorldOrphan Hall of Doors: Neon - Chapter 51

[SerSun] Serial Sunday: Keeper!
What stood at the terminus of the Rift was an actual door, not just an open portal. The door itself was of dark, imposing granite, as was the frame around it, carved with strange, twisting designs, suggestive of malformed creatures. Atop the lintel perched an abomination resembling a pterodactyl, but with eyes all over its fleshy wings. It screeched out a call that turned Ellie's blood to ice. This call was echoed by what seemed like every monster in the canyon. Then they all launched themselves at her.
Ellie let a massive ball of lightning explode around her, blowing the first row of attacking creatures backward. The smell of burnt hair and charred meat made her gag. But more were still coming. She raced for the door. A gorilla with four arms tried to bowl her down like a linebacker. A puff of wind pushed her backward out of its way. A creature like a shaggy-haired snake wrapped around her legs, tripping her. Another pulse of lightning loosened its hold, and she wriggled free. She turned the momentum of her fall into a roll, and came up on her feet again.
The door was only a few strides away when the flier with eyes on its wings dove at her and snagged her hair with its talons. It dragged her sideways across the cavern. She sent wind whipping through her hair to shake it loose. The thing squawked in rage, but she was already sprinting beyond its reach. Her hand grazed the doorknob. She hauled the door open. Blackness shimmered on the other side. Ellie held her breath and plunged through.
Ellie's feet slid on dew-slicked grass. A line of glittering sand, silver wire, and burning candles stretched across the field in front of her. Impossible, she thought.
Faces stared at her expectantly from the other side of the magical line. Gavin stood in the forefront, reaching out his hand to her. Above the field, held aloft by wild gusts of wind, her mother watched, a small smile on her face.
The ground shook, then split. Her sliver of earth slid backward as a yawning chasm opened. Gavin's hand receded. But this time would be different. This time she would make it. Ellie backed up a few steps, then ran toward the chasm. She begged the winds to gather behind her and push her forward as she leaped. Blackness fell away beneath her. She hurtled over it. A few more feet. A few more inches. Her fingers brushed Gavins. A spark of warmth passed between them.
The tips of her fingers curled around his. Then they slipped out again. It wasn't enough. She fell, fell away into the blackness between the worlds.
Slowly, Ellie became aware that she was no longer falling. She was surrounded by darkness and swirling silver mist, but the ground was solid beneath her. Her head swam as she sat up. Exhaustion pressed down on her like a weighted blanket. What she'd just seen, had it been a dream?
Muffled footsteps echoed through the darkness.
“Who's there?” she called out.
A man emerged from the mist. Silver eyes glittered in an angular face. His neatly trimmed beard and voluminous midnight robes made him look like a wizard out of a story book.
“What do you fear above all else?” he asked her. His stern gaze seemed to judge her and find her wanting before she even answered.
“That I've lost them forever.” The words tumbled from her mouth before she could stop them. “That I went to the wrong place, the wrong time, and cut myself off from them.”
The thousands of worlds were disconnected from each other in time. A person could step into a world and arrive only a few days after the original world had shattered. That same person could visit a second world and find that thousands of years had passed since the Shattering. But the flow of time in any world was exclusively one-way, and when someone set foot in a world, time locked around them. They could go as far into that world's future as they wanted, but never into its past. Ellie was terrified that she'd accidentally traveled into the distant future of the world Gavin and her mother had ended up in, and the flow of time had closed her way back to them permanently.
The man nodded, satisfied with her answer.
“Who are you?” she asked. “What is this place?”
“It's a transient realm. One side stays connected to the world with the Rift. The other moves from world to world, touching on each one. Drawing off energy. Drawing off fear.”
“And you?”
“I watch. I speak to the people who occasionally find their way in. Though usually they come in through the other door.”
"Why?"
"Your friend, the Keeper of the Hall of Doors, his realm is one of hope. But people need fear as much as they need hope. You understand that, don't you?
Ellie nodded.
"You face your greatest fear every time you open a portal. Are you ready to do it again?"
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2023.03.20 04:20 wietal Help! Multiple Doctors haven't found what's wrong with me!

29F, 5'7", 135lbs, white - below is a very detailed overview of my health. I am looking for anybody who can potentially lead me in which direction I should turn to next.
Current Medications: Trazodone 150mg 1x per night, Pregabalin 200mg 2x per day
Short Version: I've had the same chronic pain in my left upper abdominal quadrant for 3 years, since March 2020. The pain is primarily located anteriorly just underneath the rib cage in the mid-clavicular line. The pain seems to be gradual throughout the day, with it being pretty severe at night, depending on what I am doing or how I am sitting. The pain will occasionally radiate to the back, up towards the sternum, and down towards the pubis and the groin on the left side. The pain is mostly positional, meaning I can relieve it by standing up, walking around, or lying down because it is most severe when I am sitting, whether that be driving, on the couch, at a table, etc. There is nothing that takes my pain away other than adjusting positions, but mostly laying down. No pain medications relieve my pain. (a detailed list of things I've tried for pain will be at the bottom) I have had multiple imaging studies including a CTA of the abdomen/pelvis that showed possible Nutcracker syndrome with a 17 degree angle between the aorta and SMA with dilation of the left renal vein. I was evaluated by UW Madison for consideration of an autotransplant of my left kidney. However, after I underwent a venogram which showed equal pressures between the renal vein and IVC, Dr. Foley did not want to offer the surgery. I also have had irregular menstrual cycles since I began having periods. Within the last few years, I feel like I almost get the "period flu" or have more PMDD symptoms before I'm about to get it.
Long Version: This all started in March 2020, my office had just moved to working from home with the Coronavirus outbreak. I hadn't gotten a desk/office chair for home yet, so I started out by sitting on my couch with my laptop in my lap for a couple of weeks. After about 3 weeks in I started to notice a bad pain in my left side. It was like a pinching/burning pain and it seemed to come on slowly the more I sat in the same position. My immediate thought was that it was like a "side stitch" or a cramp from the way I was kind of slouching and not sitting upright in a chair. I quickly made sure to get a desk and chair to see if it helped resolve the pain. Unfortunately, it did not. The more the days went on, the worse the pain was getting and it only seemed to be when I was sitting for longer periods of time. I had to start getting up more frequently and walking around or switching positions. I went to a chiropractor which did not alter the pain in any sort of way. The same chiropractor also tried a few laser therapy sessions over the affected area as well, with no relief. The pain was gradually becoming a permanent thing, and it became painful to wear a bra due to the pressure it caused around my ribs/where the pain is. I was trying everything I could think of to relieve the pain. At first I tried ibuprofen, Tylenol, heat, ice, heating pad, icy hot, cbd muscle rub, cannabis, The pain continued on and I started talking to my then primary doctor, I had an x-ray done of my ribs 04/2020 - which showed normal. I then had a chest x-ray and chest CT done 05/2020 - also normal. The pain continued through that fall and into 2021. I had c*v*d for the first time 11/22/2020. In spring of 2021 I had c*v*d again in March, so almost right at 90 days since first infection. I then started to get more serious about finding out what was wrong because I started to have a new pain in my left collarbone. It seemed like the whole bone would ache and the more I moved my arms(I had started cosmetology school in the fall of 2020) the worse the pain got. Sometimes the lightest touch from my shirt, a tank top, my cosmetology apron, or even my seat belt resting on my collarbone would cause immense pain. This lasted about a couple weeks at first, then it would go away for weeks/months, then it would come back randomly. I went to the emergency room one day in 03/2021 because I was so tired of being in so much pain, and had more chest x-rays done, which came back clear and normal. The collarbone pain has not bothered me for about 6 months now, but I have also been pretty sedentary since then. Fast forward to 06/15/2022 after my third round of c*v*d the beginning part of June, I started having the following symptoms for a month straight. I was physically so unwell, I could barely get up from laying down most of the time and could not go outside due to not being able to tolerate the heat, until I finally asked my doctor to run more labs, which all came back normal: dizziness, night sweats, severe intolerance to heat, severe loss of appetite and nausea, and new body odor(previously never had an issue with body odor). Since then, I have had periodic episodes that last weeks with severe loss of appetite(cannabis is the only way I can eat most of the time), some mild nausea(never any vomiting), lethargy, feeling hopeless, very mild night sweats, hotter body temperature while sleeping. And then I'll have weeks where I feel fine except my usual pain. On 01/26/2023 I traveled to Punta Cana for my sisters wedding. I suffered through the pain of sitting for an extended period of time on the plane ride. While there, I virtually had no appetite my first night and the next morning/afternoon. And then my appetite came back and my pain went almost completely away for almost 4 days, until I went back home. I ate Taco Bell at the airport and had almost immediate pain from sitting on the plane again, and the pain has been present every day since.
01/25/2023 Urology consult: CHIEF COMPLAINT: left sided pain; concern for Nutcracker syndrome. Impression: 29 FEMALE with pain that has been difficult to identify a cause and treat. She does have a narrow angle between the SMA and aorta with slight dilation of the left renal vein. However, there is no pressure difference between the left renal vein and IVC indicating that while there may be slight anatomic abnormality, this doesn't necessarily indicatee Nutcracker syndrome which would be characterized by left flank pain due to elevated pressure in the left renal vein (and kidney) due to compression of the vein. Additionally, her pain is not classic kidney pain based on description (stabbing/burning and anterior). Additionally, she has several indicators for possible Ehlers-Danlos and her pain may have a myofascial componenent.
10/25/2022 I saw an Integrative Health Practitioner who ran some tests for celiac disease. deamidated gliadin abs, IgA - 4 deamidated gliadin abs, IgG - 1 T-transglutaminase (ttg) IgA <2 T-transglutaminase (ttg) IgG <2 endomysial antibody IgA: negative immunoglobulin A, qn, serum: 51 amylase: 73 lipase: 20
11/07/2022 GI Consult outside of the VA, Impression: "does not sound GI related in the slightest. I recommend trying Elavil. Also might not be a bad idea to go back and look for multiple sclerosis with a spinal MRI"
List of things I have tried, nothing on the list has successfully helped my pain
Below is a list of my imaging/diangnostic procedure history: - 4/25/2020 Seen for left chest wall pain. Left Rib xray: negative. - 5/1/2020 Chest CT w/o contrast: no abnormality in left anterior lower lateral rib/chest wall. Benign calcified left lower lobe granuloma adn left hilar lymph node consistent with prior granulomatous infection. - 5/13/2020 thoracic spine xray: minimal S shaped scoliosis of thoracolumbar spine. - 3/11/21 Seen at ER for collarbone and "left rib pain" Also fatigue, weakness, sensitivity to cold, weight loss. Labs normal. EKG normal. No significant abnl findings on exam. Notes state - Suspect underlying personality/mood disorder. Given ibuprofen and tramadol for pain. CXR 3-11-21: normal. - 7/8/21 CT - impression: Hepatic and left renal low density attenuation lesions suspicious for cyst. Ultrasound may be beneficial for further evaluation. - 09/07/2021 MRI Thoracic Spine WO Contrast, Impressions: small area of bright T1 & T2 signal suggest intraosseous hemangioma in the lower thoracic vertebra. Essentially unremarkable. - 4/28/22 Ultrasound Liver, Kidneys, Bladder: Liver measurement-18.56 cm with smooth contour however with coarse echotexture concern for hepatocellular disease. Previous CT study of the abdomen demonstrated 4.0 mm lesion of the liver not seen on today's ultrasound examination, likely too small to visualize. -05/04/2022 MRI ABDOMEN W/O & W CONTRAST: Impression:
  1. Incidental small hepatic segment 7 cyst corresponding with low density focus on CT 7/8/2021. No additional follow up imaging is needed for this finding.
  2. Findings compatible with small involuting cyst at left kidney corresponding with low density focus on CT 7/8/2021. No additional follow up imaging is needed for this finding.
  3. Narrowing of left renal vein between reduced angle at aorta and SMA. Please correlate for Nutcracker syndrome.
  4. Narrowing of duodenum between reduced angle at aorta and SMA. Please correlate for superior mesenteric artery syndrome. Vasculature: Patency at hepatic and portal venous system, superior mesenteric vein, splenic vein, IVC, renal veins. No significant collateral vessel formation. Redemonstration narrowing at left renal vein between aorta and SMA (narrow aortomesenteric angle). Otherwise, aorta and branching vessels unremarkable. -06/30/2022 CTA (AP) ABDOMEN/PELVIS W CONTRAST Impression:
  5. There is a reduced aortic to celiacomesentery angle resulting in narrowing of the left renal vein, however there are no CT findings to suggest left renal vein obstruction.
  6. Sclerosis at the right femoral head may reflect minimal osteonecrosis. -08/17/2022 MRI BRAIN W/WO CONTRAST - unremarkable -09/21/2022 Renal Artery Duplex Impression: Normal study, no evidence of hemodynamically significant stenosis in bilateral kidneys. Bilateral veins are patent -10/03/2022 Venogram Left Renal Vein Impressions: Left Renal - venous pressure 12mmHg segmental/distal, 11 mmHg in proximal, 11 mmHg inferior vena cava. Left External iliac - 6 mmHg in external iliac/distal, 5 mmHg in proximal. -11/04/2022 US ABDOMENT LTD - unremarkable, no gallstones, no gallbladder wall thickening, no free fluid -11/04/2022 US PELVIS NON OB TRANSVAGINAL Impressions: bicornuate uterus, small 0.9x0.8cm echogenic non shadowing focus in the right ovary, possible small dermoid, small complex left ovarian cyst measuring 1.8x1.3cm -11/10/2022 CT PELLVIS W CONTRAST Impressions: normal CT of pelvis. Right ovarian lesions not shown on CT 03/17/2023 Colonoscopy - unremarkable
Most recent lab results:
1/15/2023 WBC 8.51 RBC 4.20 HGB 11.7 HCT 37.6 MCV 89.5 MCH 30.7 MCHC 34.3 Platelets 303 sodium 138 potassium 3.6 chloride 101 CO2 20 Glucose 138 BUN 13 Creatine 0.86 Calcium 9.7 total protein 7.5 Albumin 5.0 Biliruben total 0.5 Alaline phosphatase 50 AST 16 ALT <5 Anion gap 17 BUN/Creatine Ratio 15.1 Osmolality Calculated 288 Globulin 2.5 A/G Ratio 2.0 Creatine Based eGFR >90
10/13/2022 CBC: WBC: 7.9 K/uL RBC: 4.53 M/uL HGB: 13.6 g/dL HCT: 41.4 % MCV: 91.4 fL MCH: 30.0 pg MCHC: 32.9 g/dL MPV: 12.3 fL RDW: 12.1 % PLT: 281 K/uL BMP: Sodium: 139 mmol/L Potassium: 4.2 mmol/L Chloride: 109 mmol/L CO2: 24.4 mmol/L Glucose: 84 mg/dL Urea Nitrogen: 13 mg/dL Creatinine: 0.72 mg/dL Calcium: 9.3 mg/dL
10/3/22 Creatinine: 0.81mg/dL e-GFR: 101 Prothrombin Time/INR 0.9
08/12/22 Serotonin: 113/ng/mL ACTH: 26.7pg/mL Aldosterone: 13.5 Cortisol AM: 11.5ug/mL Metanephrine: 0.13nmol/L Normetanephrine: 0.32nmol/L
07/18/22 TSH Reflex Free T4: 1.16 Vitamin D: 42.7ng/mL Vitamin B12: 452pg/mL Folate: 11.9ng/mL A1C: 4.6 Glucose: 85 Ferritin: 66 Iron: 92ug/dL TIBC: 297ug/dL Iron Saturation: 31% UIBC: 205 ug/dL Peripheral Blood Smear - no significant abnormalities Lyme disease IGG/IGM: Negative Normal EKG sinus rhythm
If anyone has suggestions, please do not hesitate to leave them below.
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2023.03.20 04:15 wietal Help! Multiple Doctors haven't found what's wrong!

29F, 5'7", 135lbs, white - below is a very detailed overview of my health. I am looking for anybody who can potentially lead me in which direction I should turn to next.
Current Medications: Trazodone 150mg 1x per night, Pregabalin 200mg 2x per day
Short Version: I've had the same chronic pain in my left upper abdominal quadrant for 3 years, since March 2020. The pain is primarily located anteriorly just underneath the rib cage in the mid-clavicular line. The pain seems to be gradual throughout the day, with it being pretty severe at night, depending on what I am doing or how I am sitting. The pain will occasionally radiate to the back, up towards the sternum, and down towards the pubis and the groin on the left side. The pain is mostly positional, meaning I can relieve it by standing up, walking around, or lying down because it is most severe when I am sitting, whether that be driving, on the couch, at a table, etc. There is nothing that takes my pain away other than adjusting positions, but mostly laying down. No pain medications relieve my pain. (a detailed list of things I've tried for pain will be at the bottom) I have had multiple imaging studies including a CTA of the abdomen/pelvis that showed possible Nutcracker syndrome with a 17 degree angle between the aorta and SMA with dilation of the left renal vein. I was evaluated by UW Madison for consideration of an autotransplant of my left kidney. However, after I underwent a venogram which showed equal pressures between the renal vein and IVC, Dr. Foley did not want to offer the surgery. I also have had irregular menstrual cycles since I began having periods. Within the last few years, I feel like I almost get the "period flu" or have more PMDD symptoms before I'm about to get it.
Long Version: This all started in March 2020, my office had just moved to working from home with the Coronavirus outbreak. I hadn't gotten a desk/office chair for home yet, so I started out by sitting on my couch with my laptop in my lap for a couple of weeks. After about 3 weeks in I started to notice a bad pain in my left side. It was like a pinching/burning pain and it seemed to come on slowly the more I sat in the same position. My immediate thought was that it was like a "side stitch" or a cramp from the way I was kind of slouching and not sitting upright in a chair. I quickly made sure to get a desk and chair to see if it helped resolve the pain. Unfortunately, it did not. The more the days went on, the worse the pain was getting and it only seemed to be when I was sitting for longer periods of time. I had to start getting up more frequently and walking around or switching positions. I went to a chiropractor which did not alter the pain in any sort of way. The same chiropractor also tried a few laser therapy sessions over the affected area as well, with no relief. The pain was gradually becoming a permanent thing, and it became painful to wear a bra due to the pressure it caused around my ribs/where the pain is. I was trying everything I could think of to relieve the pain. At first I tried ibuprofen, Tylenol, heat, ice, heating pad, icy hot, cbd muscle rub, cannabis, The pain continued on and I started talking to my then primary doctor, I had an x-ray done of my ribs 04/2020 - which showed normal. I then had a chest x-ray and chest CT done 05/2020 - also normal. The pain continued through that fall and into 2021. I had c*v*d for the first time 11/22/2020. In spring of 2021 I had c*v*d again in March, so almost right at 90 days since first infection. I then started to get more serious about finding out what was wrong because I started to have a new pain in my left collarbone. It seemed like the whole bone would ache and the more I moved my arms(I had started cosmetology school in the fall of 2020) the worse the pain got. Sometimes the lightest touch from my shirt, a tank top, my cosmetology apron, or even my seat belt resting on my collarbone would cause immense pain. This lasted about a couple weeks at first, then it would go away for weeks/months, then it would come back randomly. I went to the emergency room one day in 03/2021 because I was so tired of being in so much pain, and had more chest x-rays done, which came back clear and normal. The collarbone pain has not bothered me for about 6 months now, but I have also been pretty sedentary since then. Fast forward to 06/15/2022 after my third round of c*v*d the beginning part of June, I started having the following symptoms for a month straight. I was physically so unwell, I could barely get up from laying down most of the time and could not go outside due to not being able to tolerate the heat, until I finally asked my doctor to run more labs, which all came back normal: dizziness, night sweats, severe intolerance to heat, severe loss of appetite and nausea, and new body odor(previously never had an issue with body odor). Since then, I have had periodic episodes that last weeks with severe loss of appetite(cannabis is the only way I can eat most of the time), some mild nausea(never any vomiting), lethargy, feeling hopeless, very mild night sweats, hotter body temperature while sleeping. And then I'll have weeks where I feel fine except my usual pain. On 01/26/2023 I traveled to Punta Cana for my sisters wedding. I suffered through the pain of sitting for an extended period of time on the plane ride. While there, I virtually had no appetite my first night and the next morning/afternoon. And then my appetite came back and my pain went almost completely away for almost 4 days, until I went back home. I ate Taco Bell at the airport and had almost immediate pain from sitting on the plane again, and the pain has been present every day since.
01/25/2023 Urology consult: CHIEF COMPLAINT: left sided pain; concern for Nutcracker syndrome. Impression: 29 FEMALE with pain that has been difficult to identify a cause and treat. She does have a narrow angle between the SMA and aorta with slight dilation of the left renal vein. However, there is no pressure difference between the left renal vein and IVC indicating that while there may be slight anatomic abnormality, this doesn't necessarily indicatee Nutcracker syndrome which would be characterized by left flank pain due to elevated pressure in the left renal vein (and kidney) due to compression of the vein. Additionally, her pain is not classic kidney pain based on description (stabbing/burning and anterior). Additionally, she has several indicators for possible Ehlers-Danlos and her pain may have a myofascial componenent.
10/25/2022 I saw an Integrative Health Practitioner who ran some tests for celiac disease. deamidated gliadin abs, IgA - 4 deamidated gliadin abs, IgG - 1 T-transglutaminase (ttg) IgA <2 T-transglutaminase (ttg) IgG <2 endomysial antibody IgA: negative immunoglobulin A, qn, serum: 51 amylase: 73 lipase: 20
11/07/2022 GI Consult outside of the VA, Impression: "does not sound GI related in the slightest. I recommend trying Elavil. Also might not be a bad idea to go back and look for multiple sclerosis with a spinal MRI"
List of things I have tried, nothing on the list has successfully helped my pain
Below is a list of my imaging/diangnostic procedure history: - 4/25/2020 Seen for left chest wall pain. Left Rib xray: negative. - 5/1/2020 Chest CT w/o contrast: no abnormality in left anterior lower lateral rib/chest wall. Benign calcified left lower lobe granuloma adn left hilar lymph node consistent with prior granulomatous infection. - 5/13/2020 thoracic spine xray: minimal S shaped scoliosis of thoracolumbar spine. - 3/11/21 Seen at ER for collarbone and "left rib pain" Also fatigue, weakness, sensitivity to cold, weight loss. Labs normal. EKG normal. No significant abnl findings on exam. Notes state - Suspect underlying personality/mood disorder. Given ibuprofen and tramadol for pain. CXR 3-11-21: normal. - 7/8/21 CT - impression: Hepatic and left renal low density attenuation lesions suspicious for cyst. Ultrasound may be beneficial for further evaluation. - 09/07/2021 MRI Thoracic Spine WO Contrast, Impressions: small area of bright T1 & T2 signal suggest intraosseous hemangioma in the lower thoracic vertebra. Essentially unremarkable. - 4/28/22 Ultrasound Liver, Kidneys, Bladder: Liver measurement-18.56 cm with smooth contour however with coarse echotexture concern for hepatocellular disease. Previous CT study of the abdomen demonstrated 4.0 mm lesion of the liver not seen on today's ultrasound examination, likely too small to visualize. -05/04/2022 MRI ABDOMEN W/O & W CONTRAST: Impression:
  1. Incidental small hepatic segment 7 cyst corresponding with low density focus on CT 7/8/2021. No additional follow up imaging is needed for this finding.
  2. Findings compatible with small involuting cyst at left kidney corresponding with low density focus on CT 7/8/2021. No additional follow up imaging is needed for this finding.
  3. Narrowing of left renal vein between reduced angle at aorta and SMA. Please correlate for Nutcracker syndrome.
  4. Narrowing of duodenum between reduced angle at aorta and SMA. Please correlate for superior mesenteric artery syndrome. Vasculature: Patency at hepatic and portal venous system, superior mesenteric vein, splenic vein, IVC, renal veins. No significant collateral vessel formation. Redemonstration narrowing at left renal vein between aorta and SMA (narrow aortomesenteric angle). Otherwise, aorta and branching vessels unremarkable. -06/30/2022 CTA (AP) ABDOMEN/PELVIS W CONTRAST Impression:
  5. There is a reduced aortic to celiacomesentery angle resulting in narrowing of the left renal vein, however there are no CT findings to suggest left renal vein obstruction.
  6. Sclerosis at the right femoral head may reflect minimal osteonecrosis. -08/17/2022 MRI BRAIN W/WO CONTRAST - unremarkable -09/21/2022 Renal Artery Duplex Impression: Normal study, no evidence of hemodynamically significant stenosis in bilateral kidneys. Bilateral veins are patent -10/03/2022 Venogram Left Renal Vein Impressions: Left Renal - venous pressure 12mmHg segmental/distal, 11 mmHg in proximal, 11 mmHg inferior vena cava. Left External iliac - 6 mmHg in external iliac/distal, 5 mmHg in proximal. -11/04/2022 US ABDOMENT LTD - unremarkable, no gallstones, no gallbladder wall thickening, no free fluid -11/04/2022 US PELVIS NON OB TRANSVAGINAL Impressions: bicornuate uterus, small 0.9x0.8cm echogenic non shadowing focus in the right ovary, possible small dermoid, small complex left ovarian cyst measuring 1.8x1.3cm -11/10/2022 CT PELLVIS W CONTRAST Impressions: normal CT of pelvis. Right ovarian lesions not shown on CT 03/17/2023 Colonoscopy - unremarkable
Most recent lab results:
1/15/2023 WBC 8.51 RBC 4.20 HGB 11.7 HCT 37.6 MCV 89.5 MCH 30.7 MCHC 34.3 Platelets 303 sodium 138 potassium 3.6 chloride 101 CO2 20 Glucose 138 BUN 13 Creatine 0.86 Calcium 9.7 total protein 7.5 Albumin 5.0 Biliruben total 0.5 Alaline phosphatase 50 AST 16 ALT <5 Anion gap 17 BUN/Creatine Ratio 15.1 Osmolality Calculated 288 Globulin 2.5 A/G Ratio 2.0 Creatine Based eGFR >90
10/13/2022 CBC: WBC: 7.9 K/uL RBC: 4.53 M/uL HGB: 13.6 g/dL HCT: 41.4 % MCV: 91.4 fL MCH: 30.0 pg MCHC: 32.9 g/dL MPV: 12.3 fL RDW: 12.1 % PLT: 281 K/uL BMP: Sodium: 139 mmol/L Potassium: 4.2 mmol/L Chloride: 109 mmol/L CO2: 24.4 mmol/L Glucose: 84 mg/dL Urea Nitrogen: 13 mg/dL Creatinine: 0.72 mg/dL Calcium: 9.3 mg/dL
10/3/22 Creatinine: 0.81mg/dL e-GFR: 101 Prothrombin Time/INR 0.9
08/12/22 Serotonin: 113/ng/mL ACTH: 26.7pg/mL Aldosterone: 13.5 Cortisol AM: 11.5ug/mL Metanephrine: 0.13nmol/L Normetanephrine: 0.32nmol/L
07/18/22 TSH Reflex Free T4: 1.16 Vitamin D: 42.7ng/mL Vitamin B12: 452pg/mL Folate: 11.9ng/mL A1C: 4.6 Glucose: 85 Ferritin: 66 Iron: 92ug/dL TIBC: 297ug/dL Iron Saturation: 31% UIBC: 205 ug/dL Peripheral Blood Smear - no significant abnormalities Lyme disease IGG/IGM: Negative Normal EKG sinus rhythm
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2023.03.20 03:42 wietal Help! Multiple doctors haven't found what's wrong

Current Medications: Trazodone 150mg 1x per night, Pregabalin 200mg 2x per day
29F, 5'7", 135lbs, white - below is a very detailed overview of my health. I am looking for anybody who can potentially lead me in which direction I should turn to next.
Short Version: I've had the same chronic pain in my left upper abdominal quadrant for 3 years, since March 2020. The pain is primarily located anteriorly just underneath the rib cage in the mid-clavicular line. The pain seems to be gradual throughout the day, with it being pretty severe at night, depending on what I am doing or how I am sitting. The pain will occasionally radiate to the back, up towards the sternum, and down towards the pubis and the groin on the left side. The pain is mostly positional, meaning I can relieve it by standing up, walking around, or lying down because it is most severe when I am sitting, whether that be driving, on the couch, at a table, etc. There is nothing that takes my pain away other than adjusting positions, but mostly laying down. No pain medications relieve my pain. (a detailed list of things I've tried for pain will be at the bottom) I have had multiple imaging studies including a CTA of the abdomen/pelvis that showed possible Nutcracker syndrome with a 17 degree angle between the aorta and SMA with dilation of the left renal vein. I was evaluated by UW Madison for consideration of an autotransplant of my left kidney. However, after I underwent a venogram which showed equal pressures between the renal vein and IVC, Dr. Foley did not want to offer the surgery. I also have had irregular menstrual cycles since I began having periods. Within the last few years, I feel like I almost get the "period flu" or have more PMDD symptoms before I'm about to get it.
Long Version: This all started in March 2020, my office had just moved to working from home with the Coronavirus outbreak. I hadn't gotten a desk/office chair for home yet, so I started out by sitting on my couch with my laptop in my lap for a couple of weeks. After about 3 weeks in I started to notice a bad pain in my left side. It was like a pinching/burning pain and it seemed to come on slowly the more I sat in the same position. My immediate thought was that it was like a "side stitch" or a cramp from the way I was kind of slouching and not sitting upright in a chair. I quickly made sure to get a desk and chair to see if it helped resolve the pain. Unfortunately, it did not. The more the days went on, the worse the pain was getting and it only seemed to be when I was sitting for longer periods of time. I had to start getting up more frequently and walking around or switching positions. I went to a chiropractor which did not alter the pain in any sort of way. The same chiropractor also tried a few laser therapy sessions over the affected area as well, with no relief. The pain was gradually becoming a permanent thing, and it became painful to wear a bra due to the pressure it caused around my ribs/where the pain is. I was trying everything I could think of to relieve the pain. At first I tried ibuprofen, Tylenol, heat, ice, heating pad, icy hot, cbd muscle rub, cannabis, The pain continued on and I started talking to my then primary doctor, I had an x-ray done of my ribs 04/2020 - which showed normal. I then had a chest x-ray and chest CT done 05/2020 - also normal. The pain continued through that fall and into 2021. I had c*v*d for the first time 11/22/2020. In spring of 2021 I had c*v*d again in March, so almost right at 90 days since first infection. I then started to get more serious about finding out what was wrong because I started to have a new pain in my left collarbone. It seemed like the whole bone would ache and the more I moved my arms(I had started cosmetology school in the fall of 2020) the worse the pain got. Sometimes the lightest touch from my shirt, a tank top, my cosmetology apron, or even my seat belt resting on my collarbone would cause immense pain. This lasted about a couple weeks at first, then it would go away for weeks/months, then it would come back randomly. I went to the emergency room one day in 03/2021 because I was so tired of being in so much pain, and had more chest x-rays done, which came back clear and normal. The collarbone pain has not bothered me for about 6 months now, but I have also been pretty sedentary since then. Fast forward to 06/15/2022 after my third round of c*v*d the beginning part of June, I started having the following symptoms for a month straight. I was physically so unwell, I could barely get up from laying down most of the time and could not go outside due to not being able to tolerate the heat, until I finally asked my doctor to run more labs, which all came back normal: dizziness, night sweats, severe intolerance to heat, severe loss of appetite and nausea, and new body odor(previously never had an issue with body odor). Since then, I have had periodic episodes that last weeks with severe loss of appetite(cannabis is the only way I can eat most of the time), some mild nausea(never any vomiting), lethargy, feeling hopeless, very mild night sweats, hotter body temperature while sleeping. And then I'll have weeks where I feel fine except my usual pain. On 01/26/2023 I traveled to Punta Cana for my sisters wedding. I suffered through the pain of sitting for an extended period of time on the plane ride. While there, I virtually had no appetite my first night and the next morning/afternoon. And then my appetite came back and my pain went almost completely away for almost 4 days, until I went back home. I ate Taco Bell at the airport and had almost immediate pain from sitting on the plane again, and the pain has been present every day since.
01/25/2023 Urology consult: CHIEF COMPLAINT: left sided pain; concern for Nutcracker syndrome. Impression: 29 FEMALE with pain that has been difficult to identify a cause and treat. She does have a narrow angle between the SMA and aorta with slight dilation of the left renal vein. However, there is no pressure difference between the left renal vein and IVC indicating that while there may be slight anatomic abnormality, this doesn't necessarily indicatee Nutcracker syndrome which would be characterized by left flank pain due to elevated pressure in the left renal vein (and kidney) due to compression of the vein. Additionally, her pain is not classic kidney pain based on description (stabbing/burning and anterior). Additionally, she has several indicators for possible Ehlers-Danlos and her pain may have a myofascial componenent.
10/25/2022 I saw an Integrative Health Practitioner who ran some tests for celiac disease. deamidated gliadin abs, IgA - 4 deamidated gliadin abs, IgG - 1 T-transglutaminase (ttg) IgA <2 T-transglutaminase (ttg) IgG <2 endomysial antibody IgA: negative immunoglobulin A, qn, serum: 51 amylase: 73 lipase: 20
11/07/2022 GI Consult outside of the VA, Impression: "does not sound GI related in the slightest. I recommend trying Elavil. Also might not be a bad idea to go back and look for multiple sclerosis with a spinal MRI"
List of things I have tried, nothing on the list has successfully helped my pain
Below is a list of my imaging/diangnostic procedure history: - 4/25/2020 Seen for left chest wall pain. Left Rib xray: negative. - 5/1/2020 Chest CT w/o contrast: no abnormality in left anterior lower lateral rib/chest wall. Benign calcified left lower lobe granuloma adn left hilar lymph node consistent with prior granulomatous infection. - 5/13/2020 thoracic spine xray: minimal S shaped scoliosis of thoracolumbar spine. - 3/11/21 Seen at ER for collarbone and "left rib pain" Also fatigue, weakness, sensitivity to cold, weight loss. Labs normal. EKG normal. No significant abnl findings on exam. Notes state - Suspect underlying personality/mood disorder. Given ibuprofen and tramadol for pain. CXR 3-11-21: normal. - 7/8/21 CT - impression: Hepatic and left renal low density attenuation lesions suspicious for cyst. Ultrasound may be beneficial for further evaluation. - 09/07/2021 MRI Thoracic Spine WO Contrast, Impressions: small area of bright T1 & T2 signal suggest intraosseous hemangioma in the lower thoracic vertebra. Essentially unremarkable. - 4/28/22 Ultrasound Liver, Kidneys, Bladder: Liver measurement-18.56 cm with smooth contour however with coarse echotexture concern for hepatocellular disease. Previous CT study of the abdomen demonstrated 4.0 mm lesion of the liver not seen on today's ultrasound examination, likely too small to visualize. -05/04/2022 MRI ABDOMEN W/O & W CONTRAST: Impression:
  1. Incidental small hepatic segment 7 cyst corresponding with low density focus on CT 7/8/2021. No additional follow up imaging is needed for this finding.
  2. Findings compatible with small involuting cyst at left kidney corresponding with low density focus on CT 7/8/2021. No additional follow up imaging is needed for this finding.
  3. Narrowing of left renal vein between reduced angle at aorta and SMA. Please correlate for Nutcracker syndrome.
  4. Narrowing of duodenum between reduced angle at aorta and SMA. Please correlate for superior mesenteric artery syndrome. Vasculature: Patency at hepatic and portal venous system, superior mesenteric vein, splenic vein, IVC, renal veins. No significant collateral vessel formation. Redemonstration narrowing at left renal vein between aorta and SMA (narrow aortomesenteric angle). Otherwise, aorta and branching vessels unremarkable. -06/30/2022 CTA (AP) ABDOMEN/PELVIS W CONTRAST Impression:
  5. There is a reduced aortic to celiacomesentery angle resulting in narrowing of the left renal vein, however there are no CT findings to suggest left renal vein obstruction.
  6. Sclerosis at the right femoral head may reflect minimal osteonecrosis.
-08/17/2022 MRI BRAIN W/WO CONTRAST - unremarkable -09/21/2022 Renal Artery Duplex Impression: Normal study, no evidence of hemodynamically significant stenosis in bilateral kidneys. Bilateral veins are patent -10/03/2022 Venogram Left Renal Vein Impressions: Left Renal - venous pressure 12mmHg segmental/distal, 11 mmHg in proximal, 11 mmHg inferior vena cava. Left External iliac - 6 mmHg in external iliac/distal, 5 mmHg in proximal. -11/04/2022 US ABDOMENT LTD - unremarkable, no gallstones, no gallbladder wall thickening, no free fluid -11/04/2022 US PELVIS NON OB TRANSVAGINAL Impressions: bicornuate uterus, small 0.9x0.8cm echogenic non shadowing focus in the right ovary, possible small dermoid, small complex left ovarian cyst measuring 1.8x1.3cm -11/10/2022 CT PELLVIS W CONTRAST Impressions: normal CT of pelvis. Right ovarian lesions not shown on CT 03/17/2023 Colonoscopy - unremarkable
Most recent lab results:
1/15/2023 WBC 8.51 RBC 4.20 HGB 11.7 HCT 37.6 MCV 89.5 MCH 30.7 MCHC 34.3 Platelets 303 sodium 138 potassium 3.6 chloride 101 CO2 20 Glucose 138 BUN 13 Creatine 0.86 Calcium 9.7 total protein 7.5 Albumin 5.0 Biliruben total 0.5 Alaline phosphatase 50 AST 16 ALT <5 Anion gap 17 BUN/Creatine Ratio 15.1 Osmolality Calculated 288 Globulin 2.5 A/G Ratio 2.0 Creatine Based eGFR >90
10/13/2022 CBC: WBC: 7.9 K/uL RBC: 4.53 M/uL HGB: 13.6 g/dL HCT: 41.4 % MCV: 91.4 fL MCH: 30.0 pg MCHC: 32.9 g/dL MPV: 12.3 fL RDW: 12.1 % PLT: 281 K/uL BMP: Sodium: 139 mmol/L Potassium: 4.2 mmol/L Chloride: 109 mmol/L CO2: 24.4 mmol/L Glucose: 84 mg/dL Urea Nitrogen: 13 mg/dL Creatinine: 0.72 mg/dL Calcium: 9.3 mg/dL
10/3/22 Creatinine: 0.81mg/dL e-GFR: 101 Prothrombin Time/INR 0.9
08/12/22 Serotonin: 113/ng/mL ACTH: 26.7pg/mL Aldosterone: 13.5 Cortisol AM: 11.5ug/mL Metanephrine: 0.13nmol/L Normetanephrine: 0.32nmol/L
07/18/22 TSH Reflex Free T4: 1.16 Vitamin D: 42.7ng/mL Vitamin B12: 452pg/mL Folate: 11.9ng/mL A1C: 4.6 Glucose: 85 Ferritin: 66 Iron: 92ug/dL TIBC: 297ug/dL Iron Saturation: 31% UIBC: 205 ug/dL Peripheral Blood Smear - no significant abnormalities Lyme disease IGG/IGM: Negative Normal EKG sinus rhythm
If anyone has suggestions, please do not hesitate to leave them below.
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2023.03.20 03:30 wietal Help! Multiple doctors & haven't found what's wrong

29 year old female - below is a very detailed overview of my health. I am looking for anybody who can potentially lead me in which direction I should turn to next.
Short Version: I've had the same chronic pain in my left upper abdominal quadrant for 3 years, since March 2020. The pain is primarily located anteriorly just underneath the rib cage in the mid-clavicular line. The pain seems to be gradual throughout the day, with it being pretty severe at night, depending on what I am doing or how I am sitting. The pain will occasionally radiate to the back, up towards the sternum, and down towards the pubis and the groin on the left side. The pain is mostly positional, meaning I can relieve it by standing up, walking around, or lying down because it is most severe when I am sitting, whether that be driving, on the couch, at a table, etc. There is nothing that takes my pain away other than adjusting positions, but mostly laying down. No pain medications relieve my pain. (a detailed list of things I've tried for pain will be at the bottom) I have had multiple imaging studies including a CTA of the abdomen/pelvis that showed possible Nutcracker syndrome with a 17 degree angle between the aorta and SMA with dilation of the left renal vein. I was evaluated by UW Madison for consideration of an autotransplant of my left kidney. However, after I underwent a venogram which showed equal pressures between the renal vein and IVC, Dr. Foley did not want to offer the surgery. I also have had irregular menstrual cycles since I began having periods. Within the last few years, I feel like I almost get the "period flu" or have more PMDD symptoms before I'm about to get it.
Long Version: This all started in March 2020, my office had just moved to working from home with the Coronavirus outbreak. I hadn't gotten a desk/office chair for home yet, so I started out by sitting on my couch with my laptop in my lap for a couple of weeks. After about 3 weeks in I started to notice a bad pain in my left side. It was like a pinching/burning pain and it seemed to come on slowly the more I sat in the same position. My immediate thought was that it was like a "side stitch" or a cramp from the way I was kind of slouching and not sitting upright in a chair. I quickly made sure to get a desk and chair to see if it helped resolve the pain. Unfortunately, it did not. The more the days went on, the worse the pain was getting and it only seemed to be when I was sitting for longer periods of time. I had to start getting up more frequently and walking around or switching positions. I went to a chiropractor which did not alter the pain in any sort of way. The same chiropractor also tried a few laser therapy sessions over the affected area as well, with no relief. The pain was gradually becoming a permanent thing, and it became painful to wear a bra due to the pressure it caused around my ribs/where the pain is. I was trying everything I could think of to relieve the pain. At first I tried ibuprofen, Tylenol, heat, ice, heating pad, icy hot, cbd muscle rub, cannabis, The pain continued on and I started talking to my then primary doctor, I had an x-ray done of my ribs 04/2020 - which showed normal. I then had a chest x-ray and chest CT done 05/2020 - also normal. The pain continued through that fall and into 2021. I had c*v*d for the first time 11/22/2020. In spring of 2021 I had c*v*d again in March, so almost right at 90 days since first infection. I then started to get more serious about finding out what was wrong because I started to have a new pain in my left collarbone. It seemed like the whole bone would ache and the more I moved my arms(I had started cosmetology school in the fall of 2020) the worse the pain got. Sometimes the lightest touch from my shirt, a tank top, my cosmetology apron, or even my seat belt resting on my collarbone would cause immense pain. This lasted about a couple weeks at first, then it would go away for weeks/months, then it would come back randomly. I went to the emergency room one day in 03/2021 because I was so tired of being in so much pain, and had more chest x-rays done, which came back clear and normal. The collarbone pain has not bothered me for about 6 months now, but I have also been pretty sedentary since then. Fast forward to 06/15/2022 after my third round of c*v*d the beginning part of June, I started having the following symptoms for a month straight. I was physically so unwell, I could barely get up from laying down most of the time and could not go outside due to not being able to tolerate the heat, until I finally asked my doctor to run more labs, which all came back normal: dizziness, night sweats, severe intolerance to heat, severe loss of appetite and nausea, and new body odor(previously never had an issue with body odor). Since then, I have had periodic episodes that last weeks with severe loss of appetite(cannabis is the only way I can eat most of the time), some mild nausea(never any vomiting), lethargy, feeling hopeless, very mild night sweats, hotter body temperature while sleeping. And then I'll have weeks where I feel fine except my usual pain. On 01/26/2023 I traveled to Punta Cana for my sisters wedding. I suffered through the pain of sitting for an extended period of time on the plane ride. While there, I virtually had no appetite my first night and the next morning/afternoon. And then my appetite came back and my pain went almost completely away for almost 4 days, until I went back home. I ate Taco Bell at the airport and had almost immediate pain from sitting on the plane again, and the pain has been present every day since.
01/25/2023 Urology consult: CHIEF COMPLAINT: left sided pain; concern for Nutcracker syndrome. Impression: 29 FEMALE with pain that has been difficult to identify a cause and treat. She does have a narrow angle between the SMA and aorta with slight dilation of the left renal vein. However, there is no pressure difference between the left renal vein and IVC indicating that while there may be slight anatomic abnormality, this doesn't necessarily indicatee Nutcracker syndrome which would be characterized by left flank pain due to elevated pressure in the left renal vein (and kidney) due to compression of the vein. Additionally, her pain is not classic kidney pain based on description (stabbing/burning and anterior). Additionally, she has several indicators for possible Ehlers-Danlos and her pain may have a myofascial componenent.
10/25/2022 I saw an Integrative Health Practitioner who ran some tests for celiac disease. deamidated gliadin abs, IgA - 4 deamidated gliadin abs, IgG - 1 T-transglutaminase (ttg) IgA <2 T-transglutaminase (ttg) IgG <2 endomysial antibody IgA: negative immunoglobulin A, qn, serum: 51 amylase: 73 lipase: 20
11/07/2022 GI Consult outside of the VA, Impression: "does not sound GI related in the slightest. I recommend trying Elavil. Also might not be a bad idea to go back and look for multiple sclerosis with a spinal MRI"
List of things I have tried, nothing on the list has successfully helped my pain
Below is a list of my imaging/diangnostic procedure history: - 4/25/2020 Seen for left chest wall pain. Left Rib xray: negative. - 5/1/2020 Chest CT w/o contrast: no abnormality in left anterior lower lateral rib/chest wall. Benign calcified left lower lobe granuloma adn left hilar lymph node consistent with prior granulomatous infection. - 5/13/2020 thoracic spine xray: minimal S shaped scoliosis of thoracolumbar spine. - 3/11/21 Seen at ER for collarbone and "left rib pain" Also fatigue, weakness, sensitivity to cold, weight loss. Labs normal. EKG normal. No significant abnl findings on exam. Notes state - Suspect underlying personality/mood disorder. Given ibuprofen and tramadol for pain. CXR 3-11-21: normal. - 7/8/21 CT - impression: Hepatic and left renal low density attenuation lesions suspicious for cyst. Ultrasound may be beneficial for further evaluation. - 09/07/2021 MRI Thoracic Spine WO Contrast, Impressions: small area of bright T1 & T2 signal suggest intraosseous hemangioma in the lower thoracic vertebra. Essentially unremarkable. - 4/28/22 Ultrasound Liver, Kidneys, Bladder: Liver measurement-18.56 cm with smooth contour however with coarse echotexture concern for hepatocellular disease. Previous CT study of the abdomen demonstrated 4.0 mm lesion of the liver not seen on today's ultrasound examination, likely too small to visualize. -05/04/2022 MRI ABDOMEN W/O & W CONTRAST: Impression:
  1. Incidental small hepatic segment 7 cyst corresponding with low density focus on CT 7/8/2021. No additional follow up imaging is needed for this finding.
  2. Findings compatible with small involuting cyst at left kidney corresponding with low density focus on CT 7/8/2021. No additional follow up imaging is needed for this finding.
  3. Narrowing of left renal vein between reduced angle at aorta and SMA. Please correlate for Nutcracker syndrome.
  4. Narrowing of duodenum between reduced angle at aorta and SMA. Please correlate for superior mesenteric artery syndrome. Vasculature: Patency at hepatic and portal venous system, superior mesenteric vein, splenic vein, IVC, renal veins. No significant collateral vessel formation. Redemonstration narrowing at left renal vein between aorta and SMA (narrow aortomesenteric angle). Otherwise, aorta and branching vessels unremarkable. -06/30/2022 CTA (AP) ABDOMEN/PELVIS W CONTRAST Impression:
  5. There is a reduced aortic to celiacomesentery angle resulting in narrowing of the left renal vein, however there are no CT findings to suggest left renal vein obstruction.
  6. Sclerosis at the right femoral head may reflect minimal osteonecrosis. -08/17/2022 MRI BRAIN W/WO CONTRAST - unremarkable -09/21/2022 Renal Artery Duplex Impression: Normal study, no evidence of hemodynamically significant stenosis in bilateral kidneys. Bilateral veins are patent -10/03/2022 Venogram Left Renal Vein Impressions: Left Renal - venous pressure 12mmHg segmental/distal, 11 mmHg in proximal, 11 mmHg inferior vena cava. Left External iliac - 6 mmHg in external iliac/distal, 5 mmHg in proximal. -11/04/2022 US ABDOMENT LTD - unremarkable, no gallstones, no gallbladder wall thickening, no free fluid -11/04/2022 US PELVIS NON OB TRANSVAGINAL Impressions: bicornuate uterus, small 0.9x0.8cm echogenic non shadowing focus in the right ovary, possible small dermoid, small complex left ovarian cyst measuring 1.8x1.3cm -11/10/2022 CT PELLVIS W CONTRAST Impressions: normal CT of pelvis. Right ovarian lesions not shown on CT 03/17/2023 Colonoscopy - unremarkable
Most recent lab results:
1/15/2023 WBC 8.51 RBC 4.20 HGB 11.7 HCT 37.6 MCV 89.5 MCH 30.7 MCHC 34.3 Platelets 303 sodium 138 potassium 3.6 chloride 101 CO2 20 Glucose 138 BUN 13 Creatine 0.86 Calcium 9.7 total protein 7.5 Albumin 5.0 Biliruben total 0.5 Alaline phosphatase 50 AST 16 ALT <5 Anion gap 17 BUN/Creatine Ratio 15.1 Osmolality Calculated 288 Globulin 2.5 A/G Ratio 2.0 Creatine Based eGFR >90
10/13/2022 CBC: WBC: 7.9 K/uL RBC: 4.53 M/uL HGB: 13.6 g/dL HCT: 41.4 % MCV: 91.4 fL MCH: 30.0 pg MCHC: 32.9 g/dL MPV: 12.3 fL RDW: 12.1 % PLT: 281 K/uL BMP: Sodium: 139 mmol/L Potassium: 4.2 mmol/L Chloride: 109 mmol/L CO2: 24.4 mmol/L Glucose: 84 mg/dL Urea Nitrogen: 13 mg/dL Creatinine: 0.72 mg/dL Calcium: 9.3 mg/dL
10/3/22 Creatinine: 0.81mg/dL e-GFR: 101 Prothrombin Time/INR 0.9
08/12/22 Serotonin: 113/ng/mL ACTH: 26.7pg/mL Aldosterone: 13.5 Cortisol AM: 11.5ug/mL Metanephrine: 0.13nmol/L Normetanephrine: 0.32nmol/L
07/18/22 TSH Reflex Free T4: 1.16 Vitamin D: 42.7ng/mL Vitamin B12: 452pg/mL Folate: 11.9ng/mL A1C: 4.6 Glucose: 85 Ferritin: 66 Iron: 92ug/dL TIBC: 297ug/dL Iron Saturation: 31% UIBC: 205 ug/dL Peripheral Blood Smear - no significant abnormalities Lyme disease IGG/IGM: Negative Normal EKG sinus rhythm
If anyone has suggestions, please do not hesitate to leave them below.
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2023.03.20 02:43 Knalxz My Lightfall Redo

Pre-Campaign
Ikora get's a message from Eris that details that she, Drifter, Elsie and several allied forces have found Scorn, House Salvation and Vex on Venus raiding Ishtar Collective structures for intel but they've suddenly retreated. Fearing that they've found what they wanted, she tells Ikora to prepare as we see Ikora is aboard the HELM with pretty much every other named character but those in the new season or unable to move like Failsafe (lol bet you forget she existed) and Petra who is still fighting the good fight on TDC. Ikora warns Zavala who then gazes at the Traveler. It surges with energy and zips away into the distance. Confused they track where it went and finally get a reading of it in orbit above Neptune. With haste Zavala orders the allied forces to follow it but it stopped by Mara when the HELMs sensors pick up a massive Cabal fleet approaching Earth. Zavala makes the hard choice and orders the allied forces to defend the City telling everyone that he's put his faith in the Traveler and believes it will defend itself even without us, big space battle begins as we cut to mission one.
Mission 1:
Cait, Osiris, Saint-14 along with several honor guards and our Guardian are aboard the Typhon Imperator and we watch as Calus emerges as a new Disciple. Calus throws endless praise to us and straight up showers us with glimmer as he laughs, believing we came aboard his ship to join him as he quickly finds out that isn't the case. Cait explains that this is her last-ditch effort to turn Calus away from The Witness and to join us against the Darkness. Calus and Cait argue for a moment until he asks us if we agree with her and with a nod we see Calus take a step back. He complains about how much he's given us both just for us to constantly stab him in the back and lashes out starting combat when Cait draws on her father firing first but her attack is blocked by a Tormentor who evacuates Calus.
We battle aboard Calus' ship seeking to disable it, as we hear over the inner comm that he proclaims that their forces on Venus have found the Veil and for his crew to prepare for lightspeed. We eventually disable the ship and send it flying out of lightspeed above Neptune. As it's going down, we fire from escape pods to see The Traveler above the world, standing alone against the Black Fleet. It gives all that it has in the fight but is disabled by The Witness, we lose our light once more as we crash on Neomuna.
Mission 2:
Stranded from The Travelers shard and now stuck on a foreign planet we hijack a nearby Cabal Interceptor and try to regroup with our forces. Driving across the beaches of the planet we see various escape pods landing all across the world, spotting gunfire and move to aid our allies only to meet up with Nimbus and Rohan fighting off the disorganized Cabal. We explain to them why we're there and they tell us they've already found Osiris and Cait and take us to Neomuna. As we ride to the city, we see long twisting vines of Strand leads to it's core and they explain that's The Veil's power. Our Ghost of course feels akin to the Veil and asks us to be taken to it and surely enough, like the Travelers shard, we can tap into it's power, but instead of getting our powers back we suddenly surge with Strand not our old might. Cabal forces suddenly attack us in our confusion with Strand, apparently having tracked us, they attack the City so we rush to defend it's people with our new powers, allowing them to get into the CloudArk safely. Soon we setup transmission and we hear about the chaos above Earth and that Guardians are once again without light with only those with Stasis having powers and being able to revive themselves. (while gameplay we can keep the light, in terms of canon, no Guardians or even the Lucent Hive no longer have light.)
Mission 3
We watch a feed of the Witness and a nearly destroyed Black Fleet in orbit as he seems to be the last man standing against The Traveler's attack. Whatever the Witness is doing, he's suppressing the Light granting his Cabal forces a massive advantage against our people back at the City. With most of the Black Fleet destroyed or being used to suppress the Traveler we make a plan to assault The Witness as Cait calls for support from any of her remaining ships to aid us. As we do so Calus arrives with his army and lays siege to the city. The people of Neomuna take over turrets around the City aiding us whenever they can and we both sides stall, with us unable to get to The Traveler but Calus' forces unable to punch through the city. Osiris takes this time to learn as much as he can about Strand, Neomuna and The Veil but he constantly is blocked by the Cloud Striders who roadblock Osiris at every turn about the importance of the Veil. Frustrated with the people of Neomuna not only hiding away for 2,000 years but refusing to elaborate about The Veil or Strand and Osiris storms off with Saint 14 going to keep him safe.
Mission 4:
We spot a burning comet falling down to the City and discover the Cabal tired of the siege have just yeeted a meteor at Neomuna. As it's about to crash down it suddenly pauses in it's place, as the Witness feed up with Calus' failures and his dumbass plan to yeet a fucking asteroid at the city and possibly destroying the Veil is reigned in super hard and basically forced to take to the frontlines himself by the Witness as his forces are further backed by Scorn to help deal with the siege. The Cloud Striders pull out their ultimate weapon, they agitate a nearby Vex network in the face of such a threat and unleash a Vex army on the Cabal. The Vex and Cabal battle out in the streets as we hunt down Calus and his most elite forces as they push hard to the Veil. As we arrive, Rohan and Nimbus are fighting him but both eventually get swatted away. As we march up Calus summons Tormentors on us and rushes to the Veil. We defeat his allies and follow him and as he gazes up to The Veil. At a loss for words Calus doesn't see a way out of the situation where one of us doesn't die. Not wanting to fight us, The Witness pressures Calus with an overwhelming darkness that scares him into an unwanted attack on us. Above, an agitated Witness spots Cait's fleet arrives in orbit forcing him to break away from the Traveler to defend himself, granting light back to our forces and us while also turning the tide back on Earth. We fight Calus but with his Darkness upgrades he's too powerful for us until a light restored Saint-14 emerges and fights the emperor with us defeating Calus and bringing him to a knee. Calus now mortally wounded laments his situation but in his last effort he sacrifices himself with a gust of green magic as the room becomes darker then night as the howling of a million souls screams in our ears as we see three green eyes energy from the shadows and they slowly creep into a single infernal being. The shadows form a fist that slams the ground knocking us and Saint-14 away from the Veil as hive magics swirl then twist into a portal and from it emerges Xivu Arath. She casts unknown spells linking to The Witness, who was DBZ fighting the Cabal fleet in orbit and he watches as a beam of Veil energy merges into the Traveler. Wasting no time The Witness abandons the fight and rushes to The Traveler using the black fleet itself to shield him from the Cabal's barrage. The Traveler once against resists him but with all his might The Witness rips open a portal and rushes in as his fleet is in ruins behind him. Waking up to see Xivu leeching power from the Veil and summoning more Hive on Nepture Saint-14 activates his sentinel shield and tackles her back into the portal. Lost in some twisted hive realm, Saint-14 then looks to XIvu Arath and tells her "Neptune isn't yours to conquer" (Jk) as he's lost in the hive portal Saint appears on the other end with Xivu and kills the Wizard controlling the portal shutting it for good. Xivu curses at Saint as she and her army swarm the Titan who stands his ground one last time against his foes.
Mission 5:
We tell Osiris about the events and of Saint fending off Xivu, knowing for his lovers fate, Osiris turns his pain into finally figuring out Strand. The Cabal Fleet comes down to Neptune and help us gain control over the City pushing back The Vex and The Shadow legion in what becomes a 3 way war. We engage in the war and discover Nezarec's influence plaguing the people as he seems to of taken command of The Shadow Legion. Osiris learns more of Strand and wonders what the Witness did to the Traveler because we still have the Light but the Traveler seems to be even more inert then it was before. We sense that our light is no longer coming from The Traveler but from one of the ships of the Black Fleet. So we make a plan to board the vessel to discover what is happening.
Mission 6:
With support from the allied Cabal we board the ruined Black Fleet and fight off hordes of Nightmares and we soon discover Nezarec is being revived somewhere on the vessel and he's feeding on whatever is granting us light to bring himself back to life. We and the Cabal push to Nezarec but are unable to stop him from feeding on the light so Osiris tells us to pull back and give him time to discover a way to bring down Nezarec for good.
Mission 7:
Osiris with help from the Psions of our allied Cabal, the people of Neomuna and his faint memories from Savathun devises a crazy plan to find a way to discover how to defeat Nezarec. We hijack a Vex network, fighting our way through their infinite halls with him and Osiris has us travel back in time to the collapse. We see cities burning, ships fleeing in all directions and a battle raging just outside the walls of the cosmodrome. We aid as many people as we can in this time broken loop until we finally land at the point where Savathun backstabs Nezarec. Returning with the proper knowledge to defeat him, we prepare to take to fight to Nezarec.
Final Mission:
Various nightmares form across Neomuna, attacking the city as Nezarec taunts us from aboard the ship. A single massive nightmare forms above Neomuna, as it reveals itself, many Vex, to the confusion of others within their ranks bow to the image. The Cabal, Scorn and what little Hive from the portal cheer at the sight of the manifestation as The Black Heart lingers above Neomuna. Vex, Hive, Cabal and Scorn assault us at every point in the City as the Nightmare of the Black Heart seems unlike any before, as it's power latches onto The Veil and the Traveler above. Surrounded by all of our greatest foes, Nimbus nearly falls in combat, only being saved by Rohan giving his life, Osiris does what he can using Vex tech and Strand but is forced to retreat before being overwhelmed. Our Cabal allies are being crushed by the empowered foes and Cait herself is shotdown, going MIA during the battle. Our Guardian stands alone before the horde as another Hive portal opens in the sky above us. Hive Tomb ships teleport in all around us as we prepare for Xivu Arath to fall from the sky as the roars of hive are heard from the other side, but only a sentinel shield flies from the portal as it ricochets around killing all it touches. Our Ghost in shock calls out to Saint-14 but nothing responds as the Tomb ships fire on the gathering hordes of our foes as The Lucent Hive fall from the portal. Coming to defend the Traveler they fight off the hordes of our enemies as we see the Black Heart being taken down by a strike force of 6 Lucent Hive (yes) depowering our foes and causing the Vex to once against turn against the Cabal and Scorn. Immaru arrives and scolds us for not being able to protect the Traveler like Savathun said and looks up to the ruined Black Fleet in orbit, asking where the Witness has gone. No one can answer him so he and his forces push ahead as our Guardian lies on the ground needing rest. The last thing we see before we pass out is The Nightmare of the Black Heart being destroyed and Osiris rushing to help us.
Post Campaign-
Osiris informs us that The Lucent Hive has discovered that Nezarec is feeding off a tree of Silver Wings aboard the Black Fleet, as it seems the Traveler grew one in it's last struggle against the Witness allowing us to retain our light. He tells us to prepare a strike force to finally kill Nezarec and that Earth is still being attacked by The Shadow Legion. An uneasy truce is made with The Lucent Hive on the spot between Osiris and Immaru as Asher Mir sends us a message from the vex network Adam Fenix style screaming back at us "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?" as his voice fades he we can hear him talk about a magically hero fighting in the collapse that matches our description.
That's all I got k bye.
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2023.03.20 01:01 Emeraldskull41 Hey all, I've been working on a new magic system for the past few years, and was wondering peoples thoughts on it: Note this is just the barebone concept, but it plays into the religion and story

In the main setting, there is a realm called the Spirit Isles, a singular island of varying biomes surrounded by a lake-like ocean with an unscalable Ice-Wall surrounding it. So in the Spirit Isles there is the existence of creatures called Brightwisps, Spirit-Like beings that take the form of animals that glow a bright, bioluminescent blue. The Spirits are represented by the 15 Elements: Thunder, Fire, Earth, Metal, Ice, Phantom, Water, Spirit, Nature, Wind, Sun, Moon, Light, Shadow and Mind. Each Brightwisp is able to use a specific elemental spell, where they take on a specific animal form: E.g A Komodo Dragon Brightwisp is able to utilize the Magma Spell, which means they can heat earth into Lava and control its flow. This means other Komodo Spirits can only utilize this spell, nor can any other spirit which takes the form of another animal. Spirit's are so connected to nature and the health of the ecosystem, that its desercration, or harming them and other Spirits, will anger them to the point they transform into Golwisps, or Cursed Spirits. These are demonic and monstrous version of their Spirit forms, and undergo an uncontrollable rage. During this form they will grow large crystaline structures across their ghostly form, called Spirit Cores, either destroying these can temporarily calm a Spirit, but a better way is to fix the grievance that angered them originally. The only way to harm a Spirit is via a special metal called Soul Forge, or magical radiation produced by using Spells. Brightwisps can interact with the physical world however so they please, phasing through objects or interacting with them, except for Soulforge.
A special group of people called Flashborns can bond and absorb a Spirit via a small gem in the palm of their hand called Willsparks. Flashborns are created where a person from another of the 17 realms, a network of different worlds, Earth included, are transported to the Spirit Isles, where in the process their Soul is fused with a special type of Brightwisp called a Soulbeast. Soulbeasts act as a physical reflection of a persons soul, where they are a Spirit that can leave and return to their host's body at any time, but cannot interact with the physical world in any way, and vice versa. Soulbeasts do not contain any spells. Upon fusing with a Soulbeast, the receiver's memories are fully erased, leaving on their first name, and thus develop a Willspark in their right palm. For a Flashborn..to be born, they must fall through a Spirit Burrow. Brightwisps are capable of creating small Portals, invisible to the material universe, and unable to be travelled through on starting end. The burrow connects to one of the other 17 realms, where upon arrival the Brightwisp will be completely invisible in the foreign dimension but for an extremely short period of time, the burrow will begin to close, and in that time any unforutnate soul called wander through, unaware the burrow is in front of the due to it being invisible too, and fall through to begin their transformation into a Flashborn. They will then emerge in the Spirit Realm in a flash of blue light, with no Identity and a new Spirit Animal companion. However the Willspark can be transferred through blood, but it only lasts 2 generations at most from the orginal Flashborn.
The process of bonding is when a Spirit is absorbed by someone through their Willspark, this can be done through gaining the trust of a Brightwisp, via challenging it to a battle and gaining its respect, curing its Golwisp transformation or other acts. The user then can utilize the spell of that particular Brightwisp, only 3 Brightwisps can be bonded with at a time, but time must be taken to train and learn the Spell. If a user is killed then the Brightwisps will leave the body, or expelled from the their host via the users own will. A Brightwisp cannot escape a host through their own will. Even after gaining trust and bonding, a Brightwisp has no loyalty to their host, even after expulsion they will retain no familiar connection. Forced bonding, a taboo technique where the Brightwisp is absorbed without gaining its trust exists. Spells do take energy to use, where more powerful and complex ones can be quite draining.
This is just the basic blurb, so I was wondering if I can get any tips, criticisms or things that I should change for the magic system to make it better. Thanks :)
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2023.03.19 21:42 Ok_Presentation9867 Mark Bajerski on You Tube - What You See Is NOT What You Get...

Many of you probably have heard of Mark Bajerski, a healer on You Tube. The heading of this post seems like I am some kind of hater, one of those people picking on this person for nothing. This might seem to be the case at first. But in actuality, it is about telling the truth (based on facts) about a complicated human (or maybe a confused individual with skewed thinking ) whose actions are NOT congruent with who they portray themselves to be. I am not picking on Mark for nothing, but holding him accountable for actions that he does have control over.
Even I always thought he was a very sweet, kind, honest (dog and crystal loving) man, innocent at heart who really believes in compassion and helping people. I do believe he has these positive sides to his personality.
But the reality that we have to inevitably face is that humans are complicated and multifaceted.. We can't always go on appearances and how they make us feel. I have met a lot of people who really seem sweet, harmless, charming etc. But their actions suggest someone completely the opposite of what they appear to be.
QUESTION: How would you feel if you had demons who invaded you, through no fault of your own, abused you every day and no one helped you for years?
I have been talking to a friend of mine who described a very different and disappointing side of Mark Bajerski. They also initially felt that he was a kind, caring healer.
Thinking he is a respectable authority figure in healing, including exorcism removals, this friend of mine messaged him on Facebook chat asking him for help on the very unpleasant topic of demonic invasion, a real experience in their lives.
This person just wanted referrals to get help from other healers who can address demonic problems, in the way that he describes in his videos.
In Mark's videos, he has been open about the topic of removing dark ghosts, demons etc. My friend has been suffering literally for years with numerous lightworkers literally turning their backs on their situation. And when they wrote to his organization, Pure Energy Healing Academy, the group did not issue a response.
My friend's situation is HORRIBLE and they need help badly. Their case is not a medical condition, in case you are wondering. These demonic things need to be removed as the root cause. And this person's suffering would stop. They hear voices all the time (from these things) saying all kinds of vile disgusting phrases on a daily basis with these things constantly trying to come up with new ones. This person gets so annoyed, irritated and angry that it leads to self-harm behaviors, trying to direct their aggression at these things who will NOT shut up. This is how bad these types of invasions can get.
My friend had been following Mark's channel since about 2014-ish. My friend appreciated his candor and willingness to talk about subjects that many healers avoid.
When explaining his healing approach in his videos, Mark says that everything is energy and he works by changing the energy. My friend thought that Mark and the PE healers he trains could see/ sense the specific energetic anatomy and structures behind their situation (e.g. emotional cords, open portals etc.) and create changes.
Mark is the actual founder of Pure Energy healing academy. He teaches people how to heal like him and even invites his audience to sign up on his site (within his YT descriptions).
Yet, when my friend asked him how to find a healer at PE who can do exorcist healings, like himself, he told my friend in the FB chat that he doesn't talk to the PE organization? He then offered a generic page that anyone can access on his site. But what is the point when these people will continue to ignore emails on the topic of removing demons?
When asked if Pure Energy Healing sessions would work remotely. Mark then basically ghosted the conversation.
My friend did not think he would do this, turning his back on the conversation, after hearing about the seriousness of the situation. (Mark was not told about the self-aggression/harm. My friend was afraid this would be too much for him. And so many lightworkers had ghosted the situation after hearing about this) But I am just letting you all know. If any of you can provide referrals for help, please send a message or a comment below) .All that was expected, at the very least, was a simple answer and appropriate closure. And it would have been nice if Mark showed some willingness to help, through (brief) information on where to go, if not PE Academy.
I certainly would have done so.
Instead of simply saying that PE cannot help, or that he had no referrals, and then closing the conversation in a kind manner, Mark just walked away. There is no reason for this behavior. Basic politeness and common courtesy does not cost anything.
My friend expressed their upset with his behavior by confronting him on that FB chat. The next day he posted a video, skewing the truth of what happened in these interactions acting like he is the victim, treated like an emotional punching bag.
GHOSTING IS NOT OK
Ghosting is cruel. It is the wrong thing to do, and it also hurts people. There are countless articles on this topic.
(2) Why is ghosting considered cruel and even abusive? - Quora
Why Ghosting Can Be Considered a Form of Emotional Abuse (themighty.com)
Professionals in psychology acknowledge that ghosting is a form of abuse. And yet, many lightworkers (and others) have come to adopt this practice as normal behavior that we have to just accept?
In addition to being hurtful, it is just plain COWARDLY. What is so hard about closing the conversation on a good / or neutral note in a few words. THAT IS ALL. So, this is TOO MUCH to ask for?
Lightworker healers technically do work in the emotional wellness space. I am disgusted that many of them are not up to speed with fundamental knowledge in psychology, make up their own assumptions (ghosting and positive toxicity is OK and the way to go) and inadvertently end up doing more damage than good with ill-thought-out conclusions, just wanting to be right and to feel important,
They act like everyone needs to listen to THEM and that they have the right to do whatever they want. And when confronted with questions they feel are challenging or threatening...they run away, after demanding that they be looked up to like gurus who have all the answers we need in life.
The majority of lightworkers speak of love and light as a guiding principle. But many of them do not walk their talk. Believing in love, light and compassion is incongruent with ghosting behavior which is ultimately an act of cruelty.
The idea of healers inflicting more emotional wounds/ trust issues on a person's life is ridiculous, but it does happen when they choose irresponsible choices of action.
Ghosting: What It Is, Why It Hurts, and What You Can Do About It (psycom.net)
So many healers think it perfectly ok to ghost emails and correspondences when they feel like it, even if someone is suffering.
Jeffrey Allen is another example. My friend also contacted him about their problem because he too observes energy in order to help change things in physical reality. And he too ghosted the conversation. The topic was just unpleasant, definitely not in the sweet, bubbly realm of today's lightworkerism. He just felt that it was ok to just ignore my friend and walk away. I will also say shame on you, as well, to Jeffrey Allen.
The practice of ghosting (and avoiding what you need to address as the right thing to do) has become a common practice within the collective consciousness of lightworkers to the point where people like Mark Bajerski and Jeffrey Allen think it is a perfectly acceptable practice as messengers of love and light.
Even John Amaral who did a public exorcism on Julianne Hough was polite enough to tell my friend that he is not taking these types of removal sessions.
FACEBOOK CHAT - SUBJECT OF MARK'S EMOTIONAL PUNCHING BAG VIDEO
After many weeks trying to find other healers, my friend went back to their FB messenger conversation with Mark. They decided to express their disappointment (with his ghosting behavior) They basically asked the reasonable question, "Why did you not provide a response? You act like one person on You Tube. But your sense of integrity is awful in reality"
My friend was tremendously upset with Mark's behavior because they thought more of him. He does not seem like some smarmy fraudster, but an honest, well-meaning person.
I will admit, that their last statement on integrity may have sounded harsh and probably made Mark angry. Certainly, no one would have like to be on the receiving end of this message. But overall, these were truthful and reasonable statements. (see more towards the end)
A healer of integrity who knows how to remove demons would not turn their back on someone in need of this type of help. My friend did express a sense of urgency to Mark about the situation, thinking these demonic beings might invade other people they know.
The daily torment of these things for more than a couple years is too much for this person or anyone to handle. Mark as an empath and healer who preaches on the value of compassion, couldn't even get a sense of this, even after being explicitly told.
And to just walk away, justifying their shitty, entitled actions towards the victim (of demonic invasion, I mind add), and then blaming them openly to the public (see section below on Mark's video rant) is just plain disgusting and unsettling.
I am sure if any of you put yourself in this situation (needing help for a serious and potentially dangerous situation) you would probably have wanted to do the same. Certainly, if Mark, himself, was invaded by demons, couldn't treat himself and suffered daily, he too would have reacted out of justifiable anger as well, especially if he tried to get help and healers turned their backs on him, leaving him to continue to suffer.
Again, we are talking about the simple expectation of receiving basic human courtesy, if not more. Is this asking for too much?
PUBLISHING AN IRRESPONSIBLE RANT VIDEO - OMISSION OF THE WHOLE STORY
After receiving my friend's (not-so-pleasant) comment on that FB messenger thread, Mark, of course, did not respond or bring closure to the conversation.
Instead of confronting their last statement to express his frustration, he decided to publish a rant video to his followers, complaining that he was treated unjustly like an emotional punching bag. In the video he does not describe the whole story of what happened and omits important details.
He made it seem like my friend was just making rude demands on him as someone who is pushy, inconsiderate and wanted to get their way, someone who just wanted to abuse him because they are simply full of hate and anger.
He then explains in the video that he maintains that he has the absolute right to NOT do anything. He can choose to do anything he wants. And who is this angry, dumb person demanding of him otherwise?
Mark completely leaves out the bigger context. There is an ENTIRE OTHER SIDE TO THIS STORY. And if you actually understand the whole picture, not the biased version narrated by Mark, you would be furious that this man had the nerve to create this video.
It's like he completely dismissed and ignored everything she told him about why she contacted him (as described earlier). The emotional punching bag video was a total shock, the way it was narrated...like listening to a text-book narcissist distorting the history and facts of what happened in their favor and blaming the victim for getting angry with their actions. This pattern is such a familiar one with the narcs and it is strange to see it show up with a person like Mark.
If not narcissism, then definitely, his weird conclusions are a function of biased, skewed, crooked logic and thinking.
The bottom line is that someone who is direly suffering reached out to him for help. Being treated with some compassion and dignity is not too much to ask.
In my mind Mark's conduct is NOT moral. It is almost narcissistic to not feel a thing about someone in this position and believing they are 1000% justified to discard them simply because they FELT LIKE IT.
Once again, at the very least, my friend just wanted a simple yes/no reply on the feasibility of remote energy work for their situation. Is it true that energy is just energy and that even in their particular case, they do not have to be physically present?
Healing sessions are not cheap and my friend already spent a lot of money on other people's remote sessions which did not work at all. Money does not grow on trees for most of us. We have to work hard for it and save for emergencies etc. And spending money on healing sessions that fail is a total waste of a person's funds, when it could have been put to use in other areas like basic life necessities.
It would have been nice if Mark could have provided some brief information on where to look for help, or just provided polite closure, saying that he does not have any resources that could help the person.
I can't say this enough, but I absolutely cannot believe that Mark Bajerski, of all people justifies his ghosting behavior in his public video about this situation blaming my friend as demanding. No licensed mental wellness professional would agree with Mark's choice of actions.
If you are someone who believes in caring and compassion and makes videos promoting these messages of love and kindness, how appropriate are these cold, unempathetic actions?
If I were in Mark's shoes on FB, even I would have said, "I am so sorry that you are having to go through this. But we do not specialize in cases like yours. I hope you are able to get the help you need." This would have been the decent thing to do.
Seriously, if I was the negligent one who walked away from the FB chat conversation. I would have remained calm. I probably would not have liked being called out on my integrity. But I would realize that it was my fault that I received this backlash. Also, between the ego-based choice of making a video to feel validated and important versus investing that video-making-time and energy into actually helping the person, I personally would have chosen the later. But this just me.
If Mark was truly solid in himself (honest about his strengths, faults and weaknesses) and his belief in who he is (and who he portrays himself to be) my friend's comment would not have struck such a nerve, causing him to run to his You Tube audience attempting to achieve a sense of support and justification.
This man looks like a sweet, charming person, very likeable. But, come to think of it, also many narcissists come across like this. Then they do weird toxic things through their actions. It's strange and paradoxical, but a part of life.
Maybe Mark was just hurt and misread my friend's retort, and focused too much on his emotions. Even if this was the case, he could have spoken directly to this person, instead of deciding to continue avoiding the conversation and venting directly to his You Tube audience.
Out of all the numerous healers my friend talked to, only two or three people showed enough integrity to say something along these lines. The majority of lightworkers just run away. One lady was not able to help, but listened to my friend, and issued a heart-felt apology that she would not be able to help. Why is decent behavior so rare these days?
LIGHTWORKERS - DEALING WITH THE REALITY OF LIGHT AND DARK: Rethinking GOODNESS and What the Light Means
Here on the lightworkers subreddit, I realize that many people do not like to talk about dark topics like demons. And this is probably why the PE Healing Academy didn't issue a response.
And maybe their attitude is the reason why Mark couldn't point my friend in the right direction to get help, why he tried to cover for the by saying that he doesn't talk to them (even though it is his company), why he refused to speak on their behalf about the possibility of getting a remote exorcism session...probably because he knew that NO one there would want to help my friend and would rather regard them as some grossly infested human to simply avoid.
In other words, Just let this person drown....It's ok, no one will know. We will be alright if we just ignore their plea and continue to live in our happy, beautiful bubble of fake light and positivity.
As humans, we need to come to terms with the fact that we live in a world of duality. Both sides (light and dark) are part of this reality.
Think about all the professions in the world who have to deal with sorrowful, hurtful, or dangerous/ unpleasant situations, and people who have lived through immense trauma ( to where it shows on their face and body language).
Yet many of us who are supposed to be upholders of the light often dismiss this side of reality as "low vibrational" and something to avoid at all costs.
Think about what the police, ER nurses and doctors, firefighters, psychologists, psychiatrists (and more) have to deal with daily.
Is it fair to keep telling ourselves that we have to avoid and run away from negative situations so that we can prevent negativity from entering our lives?
This untruth has been turned into a doctrine that we blindly believe in at face value.
REALITY CHECK: Dealing with these situations properly is NOT the same is being in vibration with the negativity. You allow yourself to be in vibration with negative situations when you become obsessed with these realities and internalize them. It becomes your reality when you don't know of anything else by not allowing yourself to take a break with positive activities, positive situations and positive interactions with healthy people.
Police, doctors etc., have to do their jobs to the best of their abilities, avoid internalizing the sadness and unpleasantness of these situations and go home to their families and children, doing their best to create better lives for themselves and their loved ones.
The description for this group acknowledges that the dark is a part of our collective experience on Earth. Raising our light/vibration surely is important. But we have to rethink what this means.
In my opinion, you have to be brave as a lightworker...to help those in need...to address the unpleasant to help heal these situations and be able to access positive strength and happiness so that you can share it with others, as best as possible. Think about a brave, noble policeman or firefighter or emergency room doctor. This is what they have to do.
The light is not just the stuff that makes people feel good in the name of positivity. Light is also about a commitment to GOODNESS, TRUTH and MORAL VALUES.
Why is it ok within today's collective lightworker consciousness to forego these principles? We cannot bring light on earth if we don't align our thoughts and actions with the right course of action.
What would happen if we lived in a world devoid of truth and morality? This would not be a safe place for sure. We can't just keep talking about "love and light" blindly like a mantra.
Talk is cheap. We have to actually DO RIGHT by our fellow human beings as best as we can.
Pretending that the unpleasant side of reality does not exist and believing it should be avoided does more harm than good.
MARK'S RECENT VIDEOS ABOUT THE BIBLE AND CHRISTIANITY
Additionally, Mark also seems to be reading into private aspects of my friend's life and making content about these themes, without their consent. I am sure that this statement does sound weird and unlikely. If I am wrong, then I am wrong and will accept this. But consider the facts (below)
My friend identifies with a new breed of lightworkers/ spiritualists who have strong metaphysical/ past life connections to Christianity and the Bible. These individuals do not like religious dogma. They are also able to combine other practices and beliefs to forge their own unique path.
Even though traditional religious groups are willing to help remove/ cast out demons, my friend does not want to be blamed for doing New-Age activities as the reason for having the problem they are facing.
There are many examples of lightworkers combining Christianity with other beliefs. This includes influencers l like Truth Seekah, Valerie Love and Indigo Moon. They understand from past life experiences how to combine Christianity with New Age practices.
They do not take every word in the Bible seriously. Certainly, there are many misinterpretations and contradictions. And you do have to use discretion. The decision to walk this path is a personal choice.
If you read the Bible (not with your mind) but with your spirit aligned with right action you feel shifts in the body. Also a lot of problems, issues and dangerous situations that used to happen routinely melt away. It's also a lot easier to overcome bad emotional habits.
Your life feels safer and more protected, not perfect, but a lot better. The Bible may not always work perfectly and sometimes goes by timing in the person's life. But it can help with improvements, making changes a little more seamless, if you put in the right effort in the external world. Everyone's experience will be different. And this is totally fine.
Admittedly, the Bible has many passages that people do not like (violence, cruelty and more). But reading the Bible does not mean condoning these actions or going against compassion. Much of the Bible was written by humans prone to making mistakes. And there are many errors. You have to use discretion when making interpretations and drawing conclusions. The Bible can be helpful if you can tap into the metaphysical energy behind the words, instead of focusing entirely on the surface words. But if you can't then this is ok. Not everyone will experience the same thing.
I am not writing this to endorse the Bible in a lightworkers forum. But the main point is someone's personal belief system being attacked by someone who has no right to be looking or judging my friend's personal and spiritual space.
In all honesty, Mark's take on the Bible is focused on the surface words. Mark doesn't quite understand that positive metaphysical experiences are possible. Again, everyone's experience will differ and outcomes will depend on timing, effort and other factors.
I am not forcing the Bible on Mark or anyone here. It is completely a personal choice. But his comments in his video are really short sided.
The Bible can be a help to some people. I can see why Mark might not like this book, or oppressive religions. It has good aspects and bad ones too. All of life is a mix of light and dark, good and bad. This is one of the strangest paradoxes of life.
But bashing the Bible, instead of looking at it with a more open mind, could prevent certain people from getting help they could benefit from. The key is a balanced perspective.
A PSYCHIC PEEPER? NOT 100% SURE, BUT VERY LIKELY
When my friend first subscribed to Mark's channel a long time ago, it seemed like he was making videos about themes in their life, on a regular basis. Mark is, after all, a psychic and a Tarot card reader and would have the ability to read on their personality, how they live, their spirituality etc.. But why is he creating content about them by invading their privacy? Are we being paranoid in thinking this?
Put yourself in their position. You would probably think the same about this chain of events.
Before the release of Mark's emotional punching bag video, my friend did not want to think that Mark was doing any of this. They thought, maybe there are common-life themes occurring across many people...and this was all just a bunch of coincidences.
But it always seemed kind of weird that he is posting these videos that correlated with this person's life experiences. The timing of these videos also supports this assumption. But it didn't seem like Mark would be the type of person do such a thing until now.
The sneaking suspicions about the psychic peeping and then invasively (and non-consensually) publishing video postings about this person's life themes now seem to be confirmed with the emotional punching bag video.
The next day Mark then published his video about the darkness of the Bible (discussed above). We noticed that he previously published a similar Bible bashing video in last few months. By the way these topics were never openly discussed with Mark on FB.
There are too many occurrences of these synchronous videos. And We NO LONGER believe these are mere coincidences...Why is he misusing his psychic gifts, probing into my friend's spiritual path, like it is wrong to pick up the Bible? It is their choice. Mark is clearly angry, judgmental and is taking things too far, hoping to garner a sense of sympathy and support from the public.
Maybe I am missing something, but based on factual evidence, this is a reasonable conclusion. We are not talking about one or two videos. It's about one video, after another video, after another video etc. since about 2014/2015 then a rant video directly related to that FB chat, then a negative video about the Bible? There is some kind of strange past life karma between my friend and Mark.
Again, put yourself in the shoes of the other side of Mark's rant story being told online in this post. Any normal person would agree that none of this is OK.
DON'T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU HEAR IN MARK'S RANT VIDEOS
Mark also publishes videos about constantly being bullied and picked on by dark, angry people and also You Tube and the system.
I don't know the exact details of why people were bullying him. Maybe he was innocent in these cases and the other parties were really just jerks. Or maybe not.
The case of the emotional punching bag video and the dark side of the Bible video is different. Mark had control over his actions and sense of accountability.
This leads me to think that there might be other sides to the stories that he publishes about being targeted by other people's negativity. Could it be that he acted irresponsibly in these situations as well and provoked the anger of other people?
IS YOU TUBE PART OF THE DARK SYSTEM OR JUST ENFORCING THEIR CONTENT POSTING POLICIES?
On multiple videos, Mark is upset that the dark evil system is working against him by taking down his videos. He expresses dismay that he wanted to disclose information that the public needs to hear. And the Satanic puppet masters of this reality want to withhold vital information that people could benefit from.
After learning about my friend's experience, it seems like Mark may not be telling the complete truth.
For example, in one video he alludes to alternative health/diet approaches (e.g. something like eating only natural foods or something).
He doesn't go into the exact details on what he published that was taken down. But it is a plausible assumption that he may have simply violated You Tube's content policy. He might have been making medical claims that could be construed as dangerous (due to lack of research and solid proof). In other words, it may be beneficial for just some people and could be dangerous for others. And maybe, in reality You Tube banned him from posting this information.
In this country, all health claims have to be backed by medical research. Or your content and labeling will most likely be taken down. We just have to live with this reality.
YouTube says that they don't allow content that encourages dangerous or illegal activities that risk serious physical harm or death.
They publish a list of examples. But they also say that other topics could also be considered to be violations as well.
Harmful or dangerous content policies - YouTube Help (google.com)
You Tube also notifies the party when their videos are removed. Mark was probably given their reason, and then decides to go online to say that he is being targeted by the dark, evil corporate world for telling the truth that people need to hear.
All of this is just a guess. To be fair, I could be missing something as well, since I do not have all the facts.
But based on all these experiences, Mark's video statements cannot be considered entirely credible. You really have to question what he says.
FUTURE RANTS AND SEQUELS TO THE EMOTIONAL PUNCHING BAG EXPERIENCE?
I do expect that Mark will publish more outrageous, untruthful videos as a backlash to what happened on FB....This is not clearly a man who commits himself to the absolute truth and the right thing to do in every situation.
Most likely, he will continue to act out of frustration wanting to feel supported by the public by providing misleading facts and leaving out crucial details....
And if he does decide to post future rants about this individual, it just goes to show that he has NO willingness to understand the other side of what transpired....
He may also continue to misuse his psychic abilities to pry into their life, only to issue public criticisms and erroneous judgements about decisions and choices my friend made, or (private) life circumstances they have had to go through.
I am just making guesses, once again. But I can't dismiss the long string of conspicuous videos, since about 2014/2015, culminating in the emotional punching bag and two bible bashing videos. Who is to say that he will just stop? If indeed, Mark is a psychic peeper and has been using my friend's life as a source of content ideas to get more attention and support from the public (while issuing to them as few-as-possible words on an important life issue, then ghosting them), then definitely shame on this man! He probably double deserves the FB messenger feedback about his awful sense of integrity.
It would be great if he did stop, but Mark is a tricky person to understand. What you see is not always what you get.
We always thought that Mark was the type of person who just resides within his world of peace, love, organic foods, crystals and sage.
And in one of his other videos about drag queens talking to classroom kids, he talks about being in a gay club (or something), and being pushed against some guy's chest. This was really unexpected, coming from a lightworker healer. He is not the person we thought him to be.
Please use your judgement and analyze the facts of what he is presenting. Piece together the details and see if the whole picture makes sense or is lacking crucial information. We have to do a better job of thinking for ourselves, not just going off of feeling, which was a mistake in this case, to think that Mark is the kind caring healer who is about doing the right thing.
This not only goes for this healer, but everyone you come across. Many times, not everything is what it seems on the surface.
This whole experience with Mark Bajerski's character and commitment to truth has been a scary eye-opener and a MAJOR lesson to judge people more so on their choice of actions, not by how charming and sweet they seem.
Needless to say, we will both be unsubscribing from Mark's channel.
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