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A Scale of Vengance 4
2023.06.07 01:56 Tremere1974 A Scale of Vengance 4
Hello! Thanks for reading so far, and thanks again to u/MelasD for creating the universe the story is set in.
A Scale of Vengance, Chapter 4.
Nele Stood outside the wall of the fortress city, it’s weak King had sent the majority of his military to fight us, and had failed, much to her delight. Landing her forces had gone unopposed, with only the city remaining to be conquered. It had been left to her to recover the priceless Egg that was held within the city. The Void demanded it, she could feel it pressing her onwards, urging greater speed, more ruthlessness, etc.
Her [Inquisitor] skill made her someone whom secrets were fun things to rip out of people’s souls, and those who had defected from the city only thought that they had something to hide. But this latest person, she had a memory of something disturbing to her. As she delved into the defector’s mind, the screams of pain were nothing to her as she ruthlessly pulled the memory of a Palanquin followed by the Princess…on Foot! Like a damm commoner!
The King was still there, in the city, her “diplomats” had wounded him in their parley, the fool even tried to surrender the city. Of course I had asked for the Egg as a sign of trust that he intended to live up to his word. Not that I had planned on not enslaving or slaughtering who I pleased mind you once I got the Egg in hand, but the fool had blanched, and broke off talks, so my assassin/envoys had gotten a poisoned dagger into him before being killed themselves. Good on them. They were worth every penny we spent on them.
The defector’s mind broke as I poured the Void’s essence into it, but the details I had were adding up to a disturbing whole. One that would have me groveling for my life in front of the [Hero King] much as the defector had been minutes ago, and likely with similar results.
“I want this wall down, NOW!” Nele shouted at her Subordinate, her rage and sense of panic threatening to overwhelm her, while the Void itself as always pushed her onwards, urging speed, urging her to find the one thing that made her even try to capture the city instead of laying it to waste.
The hooded officer fired the spellauncher, a magical siege weapon designed to break things like the spell shielding the walls of the city. As it and others like it fired into the spell protecting the city, she could feel the rot as the Void blessed spell ate away at the sickening purity of the city’s defenses. However, It would not fail in the time it took her to eat her lunch, so she turned her back on the black streams of Void’s power eating into the blue dome surrounding the city, She smiled, imagining some poor priest’s eyes bleeding as he prayed to a God that would never answer. She liked that idea, even as the Void whispered as always of late “faster,faster!” into her soul.
***===***
On board the good ship Andromite, The Lady Benning touched the Black Egg, feeling its cool scales, and for a moment thought there was nothing to it. When she was suddenly wreathed in blackness like a tarp had fallen over not just her, but her senses she tried to pull back, but it was too late. Unconsciousness took her to a place that was unfamiliar to her, waking up in an odd cavern where she heard mumbles and roars. She looked up to see a striking though odd pair of dragons, each with two heads, all four of them looking at her. She reached for her sword, only to find herself unarmed. Slowly she returned to facing the Dragons, both hardly waist high, more like large wolves than beings who could level a city.
“Hello?” She said, and received aserries of roar-barks in return.
She levered herself up to a standing position, trying to get her feet under her. The two Dragons were communicating, it was clear before the one with scales made an outraged noise and stood between her and its companion, growling.
‘Um, Talio, is that you?” I said, and the Black Dragon flinched, causing the other Dragon to breathe flame in what had to be a belly laugh. If this dragon wasn’t Talio, it sure looked embarrassed about something as the other dragon continued to spew flame and mirth.
“Answer the question” I said,with an even voice, one that I had used for years with Talio as his tutor while laying my palm on its shoulder. The dragonette sighed, looking back at me and nodded in the affirmative.
“Well, that answers that, though not why you both have two heads each.” I said, pointing at Talio’s companion. I was unprepared for the amount of communication that passed between both dragonettes as four heads tried to talk/roar at the same time. I held up my hands to moderate between them.
“It’s complicated, but there’s no Void or anything eating at you?” That got a definite response, with both dragonettes nodding in the affirmative before starting to chat among themselves once again.
“That’s good news, I couldn’t feel anything of the Void when I touched your egg, or just now when I touched you, we just don’t know why it turned Black, it scared us.” This brought on another round of chatting with the Blue and Orange Dragonette walking forward and opening its maw towards a rock, and causing it to melt, then refreeze near instantly forming a puddle shaped rock covered in hoarfrost.
As I looked at the obviously cold and formerly melted rock, Talio’s tail tapped me on the shoulder, then nudged me aside before it focused and with a Roar, the Rock went back to its former shape before the Blue and Orange dragonette had melted it in the first place.
“You did that?” I asked, not seeing a lot of difference, but they were trying to show me something important, and as one of Talio's heads nodded, his foreclaw drew a Sun-dial’s face on the ground as the other head concentrated. I looked at it not getting what Talio was trying to say as the other dragonette was talking to it.
Talio drew an exaggerated picture of the sun in the dirt, which I recognized, then did a small roar while erasing the sun with it’s paw, then drawing it lower in the sky.
“You can move the Sun?” The other Dragonette thought this funny, and was trying to restrain itself while commenting in low growls and barks. Talio just pointed at the sundial and looked exasperated just as two more dragonettes popped in much like I must have earlier, one frantically berating Talio, but as Talio concentrated, rearing upright on his hand paws and placing his paws on me I recognized the dragonette “Carana!” I shouted as the world faded around me.
I awoke, back in the familiar hold of the Andromite, but things had vastly changed with shouts and violence around me as sailors and even some men were struggling, and shouting curses. But this time, when I reached for Reliant, he was there, the spirit within the blade thirsting for the unrighteous.
I let out a roar, wielding Reliant and Lady Kara stood beside me, one arm dripping blood while holding a short sword with the other.
“Drop your weapons! I don’t give a rats ass whose side you think you are on, drop them now!” This statement had the immediate effect I wished as the sailors had seen my handiwork before embarking, though conflict still raged on outside the room.
Kara panted “Mutiny, as I foresaw, too bad I didn’t foresee your disappearance.”
“Let’s get this mess in order, and hang the bitches who instigated this.” I growled.
***===***
The Black Dragonette had come up with a devious plan, one that the Temperature Dragonette had eagerly acquiesced to. “Since we have unlimited access to our powers, let me slow time down here, or even reverse it, so we can fully bond with our Guardian Spirits!” Talio had said, and try as he might, the Temperature Dragonette could find no flaws in this.
Even flexing his powers to this extent gained experience, and at first, there was little effect, but as they concentrated, Talio felt a connection with his Draconian self, feeding it energy until there was some resistance, then repeating it as they used their Time Distortion power. As Talio was practicing, he felt time like a wiggily serpent, hard to grasp onto and hold and it was during one of his introspective sessions with the Black Dragon that he and the Others were quite surprised by the addition of one Human into the mix.
The Temperature Dragon asked “Did you do this?” as we both looked down at a much larger than normal sized Lady Benning from my perspective.
“Not that I know of” I said before Cinder sniffed deeply of her
“She smells of our magic, so somehow, yes.” She answered the Temperature dragon.
“She’s Lady Benning, the Swordsmaster, and my tutor.” I said “I know her well, but don’t know why she’s here.” I said as the human stirred, starting to awake as she put a hand to her temples. When the Temperature dragon nudged her with a forepaw, Benning went for her sword rolling to her left, away from us, finding that her sword had not materialized with her. I backed off a couple of steps, still finding it odd to use 4 legged locomotion.
When all of us stood there for a second, each a bit scared as with her size she probably could do us some damage, but fortunately she could read the room, even one occupied by two dragonettes.
“Hello?” I understood her perfectly, thank goodness.
“Hello Lady Benning! It’s me Talio!”I said, forgetting that I was unable to speak common anymore.
Cinder flashed me the memory of not being able to talk to others, while also tinging it with annoyance. The Temperature Dragon however, stepped forwards, curious.
“This is what females of your species looks like?” He said openly gawking, as I stepped forwards, intercepting him from doing whatever he planned, when he sniffed me. “You were a mate to her?” he said, not sounding too innocent at all.
“What? Me? No!” I interjected. Probably louder than I should have.
“Our scent says otherwise, you like her, even if it’s unrequited.” Cinder said unhelpfully.
“And you’re now a female dragon, what a love story!” The Temperature dragonette barked, before laughing at my expense yet again.
“You are so going to get the Hiccups again!” I said growling, standing between Benning and the mirthful dragon both as defense, for my honor, and to avoid Benning from being hit by flame on accident.
“Um, Talio, is that you?” Benning said, and I looked back, unused to seeing the Swordsmaster being uncertain about anything. There were stories where women show their tender sides to a man they adored, protecting them and providing for them, but as a Royal, all I ever looked forward to was a Royal Marriage and being used as a political pawn and a Stud, and then raising kids that probably weren’t even mine. Needless to say, seeing that I had romantic feelings for a person that I was close to was unsettling, to say the least.
The moment was somewhat ruined by the Temperature Dragon, who once again had laughed themselves into hicups, and was laying on their back, kicking their paws into the air in assumed hilarity. So much for any prejudices of Dragons being majestic and serious creatures. I thought, rolling my eyes.
“Answer the Question!” She said, causing me thanks to years of instruction to assume a sitting position, back upright, and nodding in an exaggerated fashion while Cinder said to the Temperature Dragon “You ought to be ashamed!” and stuck her tongue out at him.
From then on, we chatted, or at least tried to. She trying to understand my gestures, and I while being able to read, nobody had sat down to teach the [Swordsmaster] how to. So it came down to drawing pictures, and demonstrating what I could do, being a one of a kind sort of dragon. I think I more or less got the point across, and even the Temperature Dragon was being helpful, when Carana and a White Dragonette appeared, presumably fulfilling her prophecy that she would indeed find a companion/meal in that specified time. What I was not prepared for was the immediate panic the now male dragonette got into.
The Fate Dragonette known as Carana on my world immediately started jumping up and down “Send her back, NOW!!” He roared the last.
I, knowing Carana’s powers immediately questioned Cinder.
Cinder whispered into my mind, as she took control of our body, which I complied, focusing on all that I knew of Benning, from her sense of humor, or how her breasts looked, or now as Cinder placed our paw on her heart, feeling her heart under my paw.
Benning disappeared similar to how Carana and the new dragonette had appeared. Cinder purred into my mind.
I sat stunned, while our world needed someone with the Victory Dragon’s powers, I was glad that I had not been tempted to pick..her. The Fate Dragonette was looking at me funny. “If you only knew how close you came to being thrown into the ocean right then. Don’t make me regret not going back there to avenge my city.” He said before greeting the Temperature Dragon.
I greeted the Victory Dragonette, a feisty female dragonette whose gold color made her dazzle, even in this dimly lit area. “Hello, I’m Talio.” I said, and the Dragonette bowed in return, a slow wave traveling down her neck which I recognized, though I hadn’t seen it before, the memory being one of Cinder’s.
“I’m Vera, the Victory Dragon, and I don’t think I like you much, Time Dragon Talio. She said, leaving me to wonder exactly what I said to set it off.
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A Scale of Vengance, Chapter 4.
Nele Stood outside the wall of the fortress city, it’s weak King had sent the majority of his military to fight us, and had failed, much to her delight. Landing her forces had gone unopposed, with only the city remaining to be conquered. It had been left to her to recover the priceless Egg that was held within the city. The Void demanded it, she could feel it pressing her onwards, urging greater speed, more ruthlessness, etc.
Her [Inquisitor] skill made her someone whom secrets were fun things to rip out of people’s souls, and those who had defected from the city only thought that they had something to hide. But this latest person, she had a memory of something disturbing to her. As she delved into the defector’s mind, the screams of pain were nothing to her as she ruthlessly pulled the memory of a Palanquin followed by the Princess…on Foot! Like a damm commoner!
The King was still there, in the city, her “diplomats” had wounded him in their parley, the fool even tried to surrender the city. Of course I had asked for the Egg as a sign of trust that he intended to live up to his word. Not that I had planned on not enslaving or slaughtering who I pleased mind you once I got the Egg in hand, but the fool had blanched, and broke off talks, so my assassin/envoys had gotten a poisoned dagger into him before being killed themselves. Good on them. They were worth every penny we spent on them.
The defector’s mind broke as I poured the Void’s essence into it, but the details I had were adding up to a disturbing whole. One that would have me groveling for my life in front of the [Hero King] much as the defector had been minutes ago, and likely with similar results.
“I want this wall down, NOW!” Nele shouted at her Subordinate, her rage and sense of panic threatening to overwhelm her, while the Void itself as always pushed her onwards, urging speed, urging her to find the one thing that made her even try to capture the city instead of laying it to waste.
The hooded officer fired the spellauncher, a magical siege weapon designed to break things like the spell shielding the walls of the city. As it and others like it fired into the spell protecting the city, she could feel the rot as the Void blessed spell ate away at the sickening purity of the city’s defenses. However, It would not fail in the time it took her to eat her lunch, so she turned her back on the black streams of Void’s power eating into the blue dome surrounding the city, She smiled, imagining some poor priest’s eyes bleeding as he prayed to a God that would never answer. She liked that idea, even as the Void whispered as always of late “faster,faster!” into her soul.
***===***
On board the good ship Andromite, The Lady Benning touched the Black Egg, feeling its cool scales, and for a moment thought there was nothing to it. When she was suddenly wreathed in blackness like a tarp had fallen over not just her, but her senses she tried to pull back, but it was too late. Unconsciousness took her to a place that was unfamiliar to her, waking up in an odd cavern where she heard mumbles and roars. She looked up to see a striking though odd pair of dragons, each with two heads, all four of them looking at her. She reached for her sword, only to find herself unarmed. Slowly she returned to facing the Dragons, both hardly waist high, more like large wolves than beings who could level a city.
“Hello?” She said, and received aserries of roar-barks in return.
She levered herself up to a standing position, trying to get her feet under her. The two Dragons were communicating, it was clear before the one with scales made an outraged noise and stood between her and its companion, growling.
‘Um, Talio, is that you?” I said, and the Black Dragon flinched, causing the other Dragon to breathe flame in what had to be a belly laugh. If this dragon wasn’t Talio, it sure looked embarrassed about something as the other dragon continued to spew flame and mirth.
“Answer the question” I said,with an even voice, one that I had used for years with Talio as his tutor while laying my palm on its shoulder. The dragonette sighed, looking back at me and nodded in the affirmative.
“Well, that answers that, though not why you both have two heads each.” I said, pointing at Talio’s companion. I was unprepared for the amount of communication that passed between both dragonettes as four heads tried to talk/roar at the same time. I held up my hands to moderate between them.
“It’s complicated, but there’s no Void or anything eating at you?” That got a definite response, with both dragonettes nodding in the affirmative before starting to chat among themselves once again.
“That’s good news, I couldn’t feel anything of the Void when I touched your egg, or just now when I touched you, we just don’t know why it turned Black, it scared us.” This brought on another round of chatting with the Blue and Orange Dragonette walking forward and opening its maw towards a rock, and causing it to melt, then refreeze near instantly forming a puddle shaped rock covered in hoarfrost.
As I looked at the obviously cold and formerly melted rock, Talio’s tail tapped me on the shoulder, then nudged me aside before it focused and with a Roar, the Rock went back to its former shape before the Blue and Orange dragonette had melted it in the first place.
“You did that?” I asked, not seeing a lot of difference, but they were trying to show me something important, and as one of Talio's heads nodded, his foreclaw drew a Sun-dial’s face on the ground as the other head concentrated. I looked at it not getting what Talio was trying to say as the other dragonette was talking to it.
Talio drew an exaggerated picture of the sun in the dirt, which I recognized, then did a small roar while erasing the sun with it’s paw, then drawing it lower in the sky.
“You can move the Sun?” The other Dragonette thought this funny, and was trying to restrain itself while commenting in low growls and barks. Talio just pointed at the sundial and looked exasperated just as two more dragonettes popped in much like I must have earlier, one frantically berating Talio, but as Talio concentrated, rearing upright on his hand paws and placing his paws on me I recognized the dragonette “Carana!” I shouted as the world faded around me.
I awoke, back in the familiar hold of the Andromite, but things had vastly changed with shouts and violence around me as sailors and even some men were struggling, and shouting curses. But this time, when I reached for Reliant, he was there, the spirit within the blade thirsting for the unrighteous.
I let out a roar, wielding Reliant and Lady Kara stood beside me, one arm dripping blood while holding a short sword with the other.
“Drop your weapons! I don’t give a rats ass whose side you think you are on, drop them now!” This statement had the immediate effect I wished as the sailors had seen my handiwork before embarking, though conflict still raged on outside the room.
Kara panted “Mutiny, as I foresaw, too bad I didn’t foresee your disappearance.”
“Let’s get this mess in order, and hang the bitches who instigated this.” I growled.
***===***
The Black Dragonette had come up with a devious plan, one that the Temperature Dragonette had eagerly acquiesced to. “Since we have unlimited access to our powers, let me slow time down here, or even reverse it, so we can fully bond with our Guardian Spirits!” Talio had said, and try as he might, the Temperature Dragonette could find no flaws in this.
Even flexing his powers to this extent gained experience, and at first, there was little effect, but as they concentrated, Talio felt a connection with his Draconian self, feeding it energy until there was some resistance, then repeating it as they used their Time Distortion power. As Talio was practicing, he felt time like a wiggily serpent, hard to grasp onto and hold and it was during one of his introspective sessions with the Black Dragon that he and the Others were quite surprised by the addition of one Human into the mix.
The Temperature Dragon asked “Did you do this?” as we both looked down at a much larger than normal sized Lady Benning from my perspective.
“Not that I know of” I said before Cinder sniffed deeply of her
“She smells of our magic, so somehow, yes.” She answered the Temperature dragon.
“She’s Lady Benning, the Swordsmaster, and my tutor.” I said “I know her well, but don’t know why she’s here.” I said as the human stirred, starting to awake as she put a hand to her temples. When the Temperature dragon nudged her with a forepaw, Benning went for her sword rolling to her left, away from us, finding that her sword had not materialized with her. I backed off a couple of steps, still finding it odd to use 4 legged locomotion.
When all of us stood there for a second, each a bit scared as with her size she probably could do us some damage, but fortunately she could read the room, even one occupied by two dragonettes.
“Hello?” I understood her perfectly, thank goodness.
“Hello Lady Benning! It’s me Talio!”I said, forgetting that I was unable to speak common anymore.
Cinder flashed me the memory of not being able to talk to others, while also tinging it with annoyance. The Temperature Dragon however, stepped forwards, curious.
“This is what females of your species looks like?” He said openly gawking, as I stepped forwards, intercepting him from doing whatever he planned, when he sniffed me. “You were a mate to her?” he said, not sounding too innocent at all.
“What? Me? No!” I interjected. Probably louder than I should have.
“Our scent says otherwise, you like her, even if it’s unrequited.” Cinder said unhelpfully.
“And you’re now a female dragon, what a love story!” The Temperature dragonette barked, before laughing at my expense yet again.
“You are so going to get the Hiccups again!” I said growling, standing between Benning and the mirthful dragon both as defense, for my honor, and to avoid Benning from being hit by flame on accident.
“Um, Talio, is that you?” Benning said, and I looked back, unused to seeing the Swordsmaster being uncertain about anything. There were stories where women show their tender sides to a man they adored, protecting them and providing for them, but as a Royal, all I ever looked forward to was a Royal Marriage and being used as a political pawn and a Stud, and then raising kids that probably weren’t even mine. Needless to say, seeing that I had romantic feelings for a person that I was close to was unsettling, to say the least.
The moment was somewhat ruined by the Temperature Dragon, who once again had laughed themselves into hicups, and was laying on their back, kicking their paws into the air in assumed hilarity. So much for any prejudices of Dragons being majestic and serious creatures. I thought, rolling my eyes.
“Answer the Question!” She said, causing me thanks to years of instruction to assume a sitting position, back upright, and nodding in an exaggerated fashion while Cinder said to the Temperature Dragon “You ought to be ashamed!” and stuck her tongue out at him.
From then on, we chatted, or at least tried to. She trying to understand my gestures, and I while being able to read, nobody had sat down to teach the [Swordsmaster] how to. So it came down to drawing pictures, and demonstrating what I could do, being a one of a kind sort of dragon. I think I more or less got the point across, and even the Temperature Dragon was being helpful, when Carana and a White Dragonette appeared, presumably fulfilling her prophecy that she would indeed find a companion/meal in that specified time. What I was not prepared for was the immediate panic the now male dragonette got into.
The Fate Dragonette known as Carana on my world immediately started jumping up and down “Send her back, NOW!!” He roared the last.
I, knowing Carana’s powers immediately questioned Cinder.
Benning disappeared similar to how Carana and the new dragonette had appeared.
I sat stunned, while our world needed someone with the Victory Dragon’s powers, I was glad that I had not been tempted to pick..her. The Fate Dragonette was looking at me funny. “If you only knew how close you came to being thrown into the ocean right then. Don’t make me regret not going back there to avenge my city.” He said before greeting the Temperature Dragon.
I greeted the Victory Dragonette, a feisty female dragonette whose gold color made her dazzle, even in this dimly lit area. “Hello, I’m Talio.” I said, and the Dragonette bowed in return, a slow wave traveling down her neck which I recognized, though I hadn’t seen it before, the memory being one of Cinder’s.
“I’m Vera, the Victory Dragon, and I don’t think I like you much, Time Dragon Talio. She said, leaving me to wonder exactly what I said to set it off.
2023.06.07 01:54 bearcheese Modern Mysticism: Mormonism as the Occult
There is a ghost in my house.
My parents welcomed this spirit into our home and my parents teach us that we must make our home and our bodies pure hosts for the spirit to possess. We are told that the spirit is watching us every minute of the day, influencing us, and testing us.
Here are some ritual steps my parents have taken to bring this powerful spirit into our lives:
So every seven days we all meet for a renewal ritual:
Only elders and young men (who have started their maturity process) can perform the rituals. The ritual is two parts, with both centered around the demi-god (son of the chief god) who had died for us:
This ritual will rebirth us and cleanse us each time we do it. We leave the gathering with the spirit inside us again, and take the Spirit back to our homes.
I need to keep the ghost happy when it is inside my home and let it enter my body whenever it wants to. Dad says if I let the ghost inside me more and more, it might get easier to do good things, because I learn to let it make me do the right things and act like in ways it wants me to.
I was told that I'm in real danger if I don’t have the ghost inside me, and if I don’t listen to it, because then I’ll probably miss the ghost telling me something important. Mom said that if that happens, then I’ll probably get hit or fall and die, especially if I’m not acting really good on the ritual renewal day - that's a really bad day to not listen!
And I don't listen a lot, sadly. Oftentimes it's because I’m playing a game or laughing at jokes when I should be listening. So I try to be good about that, especially on ritual day.
How we act on ritual day makes such a difference for the other days. It's a powerful day for the spirit, so we need to be extra welcoming that day for it to possess us while the powers and energies are right.
But I am worried that I can’t really hear the spirit speak to me, so I must be a bad person.
I hope the ghost likes me. I do try hard. I’ll keep trying to make my body pure.
Mom says I should always do a chant, and that will help. I’ll keep trying.
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My parents welcomed this spirit into our home and my parents teach us that we must make our home and our bodies pure hosts for the spirit to possess. We are told that the spirit is watching us every minute of the day, influencing us, and testing us.
Here are some ritual steps my parents have taken to bring this powerful spirit into our lives:
Rebirthing Ritual
- At 8yo each of my parents had a rebirthing/purifying ceremony to cleanse their tainted body so they could be possessed by the spirit.
- Once cleansed, an elder of our tribe touched their heads and commanded them to receive the spirit into their bodies.
- Each of us children completed the same rituals at 8yo.
Repurifying Ritual
However, we displease this ghost daily - which makes it leave our bodies, and even leave the home when it's mad. My parents say it hurts us inside when it is forced to leave - we feel really awful when we lose its power and presence.So every seven days we all meet for a renewal ritual:
- An elder (always a man) leads the gathering and calls upon people to participate.
- We perform three chants (one at the beginning, middle, and end) to call the ghost to come back, to be near us, and inside us.
- A member of the tribe will pray to the chief god (at the beginning and end of the gathering) for our forgiveness and for the spirit to be with us: to be with us both at the gathering and to follow us home.
- The repurifying/renewing ritual is the main reason we gather. It happens in the middle.
- After the repurifying ritual, some of the group will teach us how to stop angering the spirit, and they tell us that the spirit is real.
- Women can chant, pray, and teach. but not lead gatherings or lead the purifying rituals.
Only elders and young men (who have started their maturity process) can perform the rituals. The ritual is two parts, with both centered around the demi-god (son of the chief god) who had died for us:
- The elders will call upon the chief god to transform pieces of bread into the flesh of the demi-god. Young priests pass him around and we eat the flesh of the god.
- Then the elders again call upon the chief god - in name of his demi-god son - to transform water (or wine) into the blood of his son. We drink his blood.
This ritual will rebirth us and cleanse us each time we do it. We leave the gathering with the spirit inside us again, and take the Spirit back to our homes.
Sanctifying our Dwelling and Ourselves
Keeping the ghost happy in our homes is extremely important. Here are some ways my parents make our home a place for the spirit to always dwell:- My father blessed our home - by the power of the chief god and demi-god - as a place for the spirit to dwell.
- We have to be very careful not to say, act, eat, drink, watch, or laugh at anything that offends the spirit. If we do, it will leave and cause us pain as it leaves.
- One of the worst things to do (to make the ghost upset) is to really like other guys or girls a lot, and touch them. The elders (or my parents) sometimes take me aside to make sure I'm not doing anything bad with others - and they tell me what those bad things are if I'm confused.
- We also have to try very hard to listen to the ghost. If you don't listen, then you are bad and it will leave you, and probably leave the home.
- Every morning, every night, and at most meals we pray (individually and together) for the spirit to stay, and to speak to us.
- We read the sacred texts together and by ourselves to learn how to stop offending the ghost.
- If you didn’t feel the spirit coming or going - or you can’t hear it talk to you - then you are not being good, and you probably don’t have a pure heart.
- You have to believe the Spirit is real and there to help, or it will probably leave.
- My parents regularly go to the temple of our god and perform purifying and commitment rituals for dead people - this shows the spirit that they are good followers, and then spirit is more likely to follow them back to our home.
I need to keep the ghost happy when it is inside my home and let it enter my body whenever it wants to. Dad says if I let the ghost inside me more and more, it might get easier to do good things, because I learn to let it make me do the right things and act like in ways it wants me to.
I was told that I'm in real danger if I don’t have the ghost inside me, and if I don’t listen to it, because then I’ll probably miss the ghost telling me something important. Mom said that if that happens, then I’ll probably get hit or fall and die, especially if I’m not acting really good on the ritual renewal day - that's a really bad day to not listen!
And I don't listen a lot, sadly. Oftentimes it's because I’m playing a game or laughing at jokes when I should be listening. So I try to be good about that, especially on ritual day.
How we act on ritual day makes such a difference for the other days. It's a powerful day for the spirit, so we need to be extra welcoming that day for it to possess us while the powers and energies are right.
But I am worried that I can’t really hear the spirit speak to me, so I must be a bad person.
I hope the ghost likes me. I do try hard. I’ll keep trying to make my body pure.
Mom says I should always do a chant, and that will help. I’ll keep trying.
2023.06.07 01:53 tripper74 Not Interested in Dating
TLDR: I don’t understand dating nor am I interested in it at all and I’m wondering if any other autistic people feel the same.
Hi! I'm 25f, not officially diagnosed but I largely suspect that I am autistic, and I'm working on getting an assessment soon. Anyway, something I have found about myself and I'm not sure if it's attributed to autism or something else is that I am not interested at all in dating. I know some autistic people are, but I personally am not. It's starting to really upset my parents and cause tension with them. They ask me, "don't you want to get married one day and have kids? If so, you need to start dating first." And my answer to that isn't exactly "no”; it's not that I'm one of those people who certainly DOESN'T want to get married or DOESN'T want kids, but it's more like when you ask a 5 year old what they want to be when they grow up and they say "a veterinarian" – they want it someday, but it's not like they're anywhere near ready for it right now and couldn’t possibly do it yet.
I feel like a child in many ways, and this is one of them. Yeah I'm 25 (admittedly I do look a lot younger and a lot of people think I’m a teen) but whereas girls my age were interested in dating 11 years ago when we were 14, I still haven't gotten that urge. I can admire that someone is cute but I never had the urge to date or have a boyfriend and I thought it would show up when I’m older but it still hasn’t. I know I am straight because I know I am attracted to men, but again, in the way that a child has a crush on a boy. It’s not that I never want to get married, but it’s that I don't have any interest in learning how to play that social dating game. The thought of putting yourself on display to be judged sounds incredibly weird and artificial to me, especially since I'm awful with small talk and have really niche interests and personality and I'm very picky with who I like (even as friends). I am honestly perfectly happy the way I am and don’t mind a single bit about being single, if it weren’t for the fact that I’m 25 and my family is worried that if I don’t start dating soon, then when will I ever start?
So my parents are heavily pressuring me to start "dating around". This sounds like absolute hell to me. Not to mention I have feelings for someone already, but even if I didn't, the dating scene sounds like HELL. They have forced-sent me to multiple "young adult social mingles" for my culture and I have left EVERY SINGLE ONE sobbing in tears because I felt awful during them (likely a meltdown due to sensory overload and social masking exhaustion). Not to mention that people there treat me like a poor child to be pitied because I clearly feel so anxious, so it’s not even productive at all to “meet a guy”. I suppose they're doing tough love and trying to push me to get me used to it, but I don't think it works that way in this case.
If I have to date (which I don't even care to do yet, but when I do), I'd rather meet online first, and even better, I'd rather do a dating app that isn't based on pictures because I don't want people to just judge me by a picture and mindlessly swipe. My parents don’t understand what I mean by that because I admittedly am conventionally pretty, and they think that the only people on those apps would only be there because they’re “ugly”. But that’s not my point; my point is, how am I supposed to judge someone based on their looks when I know nothing about them? And I don’t want anyone to judge me based on my looks without knowing me either. It feels so shallow and weird and artificial.
And then going on a date, small talk is the DEATH of me. My parents say “just ask them about work” and I’m like, okay and??? Where does that get me??? I don’t care about their job, so why do I have to ask about it? And the thought of going out specifically to be judged if they like you or not sounds awful. My RSD is so soooooo bad and causes shutdowns for me. This is why I prefer to be friends first and then organically grow into something else.
Also, on a side note, I'm not at all interested in kissing because I have horrible sensory sensitivities and saliva is a sensory nightmare for me. I've never had my first kiss and that's totally fine with me. Other forms of intimacy are fine – I'm even way more comfortable talking about literal sex than I am for kissing. I just have never wanted to press my LIPS against someone else's. Ew.
I’m not really looking for advice, I’m just genuinely wondering if any of you feel the same. Is dating incredibly confusing for you too? Do you have any desire to do it?
P.S. There has been one guy I have had a close relationship with and experienced mutual romantic feelings, but the difference is we started as friends first. That makes all the difference to me – we didn't meet on a dating app or go on multiple screening dates with people with the intention of finding a mate. We just met online as friends and eventually developed romantic feelings. Perfect, you say? Well no because 1. we are online and haven't met irl yet and 2. my parents also strongly disapprove of this because he didn’t go to college…yeah. So we aren't bf/gf.
Disclaimer: Not looking for a “you’re asexual!” response. I know I can feel attraction, as demonstrated by me and that guy. My point is, I didn’t meet him through “dating”; he was already my friend and it happened naturally. I’m not talking about attraction or lack thereof; I'm referring to the social confusion of traditional dating.
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Hi! I'm 25f, not officially diagnosed but I largely suspect that I am autistic, and I'm working on getting an assessment soon. Anyway, something I have found about myself and I'm not sure if it's attributed to autism or something else is that I am not interested at all in dating. I know some autistic people are, but I personally am not. It's starting to really upset my parents and cause tension with them. They ask me, "don't you want to get married one day and have kids? If so, you need to start dating first." And my answer to that isn't exactly "no”; it's not that I'm one of those people who certainly DOESN'T want to get married or DOESN'T want kids, but it's more like when you ask a 5 year old what they want to be when they grow up and they say "a veterinarian" – they want it someday, but it's not like they're anywhere near ready for it right now and couldn’t possibly do it yet.
I feel like a child in many ways, and this is one of them. Yeah I'm 25 (admittedly I do look a lot younger and a lot of people think I’m a teen) but whereas girls my age were interested in dating 11 years ago when we were 14, I still haven't gotten that urge. I can admire that someone is cute but I never had the urge to date or have a boyfriend and I thought it would show up when I’m older but it still hasn’t. I know I am straight because I know I am attracted to men, but again, in the way that a child has a crush on a boy. It’s not that I never want to get married, but it’s that I don't have any interest in learning how to play that social dating game. The thought of putting yourself on display to be judged sounds incredibly weird and artificial to me, especially since I'm awful with small talk and have really niche interests and personality and I'm very picky with who I like (even as friends). I am honestly perfectly happy the way I am and don’t mind a single bit about being single, if it weren’t for the fact that I’m 25 and my family is worried that if I don’t start dating soon, then when will I ever start?
So my parents are heavily pressuring me to start "dating around". This sounds like absolute hell to me. Not to mention I have feelings for someone already, but even if I didn't, the dating scene sounds like HELL. They have forced-sent me to multiple "young adult social mingles" for my culture and I have left EVERY SINGLE ONE sobbing in tears because I felt awful during them (likely a meltdown due to sensory overload and social masking exhaustion). Not to mention that people there treat me like a poor child to be pitied because I clearly feel so anxious, so it’s not even productive at all to “meet a guy”. I suppose they're doing tough love and trying to push me to get me used to it, but I don't think it works that way in this case.
If I have to date (which I don't even care to do yet, but when I do), I'd rather meet online first, and even better, I'd rather do a dating app that isn't based on pictures because I don't want people to just judge me by a picture and mindlessly swipe. My parents don’t understand what I mean by that because I admittedly am conventionally pretty, and they think that the only people on those apps would only be there because they’re “ugly”. But that’s not my point; my point is, how am I supposed to judge someone based on their looks when I know nothing about them? And I don’t want anyone to judge me based on my looks without knowing me either. It feels so shallow and weird and artificial.
And then going on a date, small talk is the DEATH of me. My parents say “just ask them about work” and I’m like, okay and??? Where does that get me??? I don’t care about their job, so why do I have to ask about it? And the thought of going out specifically to be judged if they like you or not sounds awful. My RSD is so soooooo bad and causes shutdowns for me. This is why I prefer to be friends first and then organically grow into something else.
Also, on a side note, I'm not at all interested in kissing because I have horrible sensory sensitivities and saliva is a sensory nightmare for me. I've never had my first kiss and that's totally fine with me. Other forms of intimacy are fine – I'm even way more comfortable talking about literal sex than I am for kissing. I just have never wanted to press my LIPS against someone else's. Ew.
I’m not really looking for advice, I’m just genuinely wondering if any of you feel the same. Is dating incredibly confusing for you too? Do you have any desire to do it?
P.S. There has been one guy I have had a close relationship with and experienced mutual romantic feelings, but the difference is we started as friends first. That makes all the difference to me – we didn't meet on a dating app or go on multiple screening dates with people with the intention of finding a mate. We just met online as friends and eventually developed romantic feelings. Perfect, you say? Well no because 1. we are online and haven't met irl yet and 2. my parents also strongly disapprove of this because he didn’t go to college…yeah. So we aren't bf/gf.
Disclaimer: Not looking for a “you’re asexual!” response. I know I can feel attraction, as demonstrated by me and that guy. My point is, I didn’t meet him through “dating”; he was already my friend and it happened naturally. I’m not talking about attraction or lack thereof; I'm referring to the social confusion of traditional dating.
2023.06.07 01:53 Silently_Salty Lingering Symptoms
Hello all, I'm (M24) new to this. Recently I've been feeling very poor, swimmy head, headaches, nausea, diarrhea, exhaustion, weakness, etc. So I went to the doctor, doctor did a CT scan and blood work, along with a hypotension test. After everything was finished the doctor told me I had low blood pressure. Gave me medicine, told me to change my diet, eat salty food, and exercise. That was about a week ago now, im nearly through my medicine, I've been exercising, eating better and salty foods. But I still feel like shit and I'm almost out of meds. I've read in a lot of places symptoms shouldn't linger this long (it's been nearly 2 weeks now). And I'm not sure why I still feel so terrible.
Health wise I'm not terribly unhealthy. I live abroad and im a teacher so it's caused me to get really lazy and I probably haven't eaten as well as I should have lately.
But like I said I'm not sure why I'm still feeling like this when normally symptoms don't linger for much more than a few hours.
Anyone have a similar experience? This is my first time ever with something like this.
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Health wise I'm not terribly unhealthy. I live abroad and im a teacher so it's caused me to get really lazy and I probably haven't eaten as well as I should have lately.
But like I said I'm not sure why I'm still feeling like this when normally symptoms don't linger for much more than a few hours.
Anyone have a similar experience? This is my first time ever with something like this.
2023.06.07 01:52 jnkangel Finder actually clean up correctly
Could someone help me. I've been utterly annoyed with finder and I am at a loss of how to do what I want.
The one big annoyance I have with finder is that it doesn't default to a grid. Alright, fixed that, default is now to grid to all folder.
But my second annoyance that clean up within finder doesn't actually fill the grid. It snaps icon to their nearing grid box, leaving massive gaps all over the place. Does anyone know how to actually make it go right and down filling the grid boxes in sequence?
I have to do snap to grid > sort by name or something to even get it
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The one big annoyance I have with finder is that it doesn't default to a grid. Alright, fixed that, default is now to grid to all folder.
But my second annoyance that clean up within finder doesn't actually fill the grid. It snaps icon to their nearing grid box, leaving massive gaps all over the place. Does anyone know how to actually make it go right and down filling the grid boxes in sequence?
I have to do snap to grid > sort by name or something to even get it
2023.06.07 01:51 Moldynred .40 caliber casings found near crime scene by IMPD Detectives?
(3) The Delphi Murders - ***SURPRISE*** Interview With Julie Melvin - YouTube
This link takes you to the Crime Knight channel. Not someone I usually listen to. But I make exceptions whenever I see/hear anyone interviewing Julie Melvin. I consider her early videos mandatory viewing on this case, since I believe she was the first one to actually go to the MHB and attempt to film the scene. No one's view on this case is beyond dispute imo. I dont take LE's statements at face value so why would I take anyone else's statements at face value? But I give JM more credibility than most other CCs on YT. Here is a link to her channel.
(3) Julie Melvin - YouTube
So, back to Crime Knight. He has Julie Melvin on, so I have to listen, and beginning at around the 45 min mark she begins talking about speaking with an IMPD Detective in 2017 who helped search the crime scene. He reported they found shell casings in the area. .40 caliber casings. Obviously in a rural setting people like to shoot. I do, too. So people on a secluded property shooting is not that big of a deal. But it makes me wonder if the round they supposedly linked to RA's gun could have been ejected from someone else's gun? She also reports one of the local residents had a Sig Sauer which was taken away for six months apparently to be examined. Now, it's possible RA if he really is BG accidentally ejected a round at the scene for whatever reason. But I dont think too many people would theorize he fired off some rounds there lol. So how did spent .40 caliber shell casings wind up at or near the scene?
She also describes how the SE of MHB was used as a party hangout by kids in the area. And the cameras residents put up to keep an eye on things were routinely vandalized and destroyed once the partiers spotted them. One resident (Mr. Mears) was beaten up and hospitalized in an encounter. So, there was a lot going on in that area it pre-murders, it seems.
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This link takes you to the Crime Knight channel. Not someone I usually listen to. But I make exceptions whenever I see/hear anyone interviewing Julie Melvin. I consider her early videos mandatory viewing on this case, since I believe she was the first one to actually go to the MHB and attempt to film the scene. No one's view on this case is beyond dispute imo. I dont take LE's statements at face value so why would I take anyone else's statements at face value? But I give JM more credibility than most other CCs on YT. Here is a link to her channel.
(3) Julie Melvin - YouTube
So, back to Crime Knight. He has Julie Melvin on, so I have to listen, and beginning at around the 45 min mark she begins talking about speaking with an IMPD Detective in 2017 who helped search the crime scene. He reported they found shell casings in the area. .40 caliber casings. Obviously in a rural setting people like to shoot. I do, too. So people on a secluded property shooting is not that big of a deal. But it makes me wonder if the round they supposedly linked to RA's gun could have been ejected from someone else's gun? She also reports one of the local residents had a Sig Sauer which was taken away for six months apparently to be examined. Now, it's possible RA if he really is BG accidentally ejected a round at the scene for whatever reason. But I dont think too many people would theorize he fired off some rounds there lol. So how did spent .40 caliber shell casings wind up at or near the scene?
She also describes how the SE of MHB was used as a party hangout by kids in the area. And the cameras residents put up to keep an eye on things were routinely vandalized and destroyed once the partiers spotted them. One resident (Mr. Mears) was beaten up and hospitalized in an encounter. So, there was a lot going on in that area it pre-murders, it seems.
2023.06.07 01:51 1Dzach SWAT situation near Daffan?
My bf just called me and said theres a shitton of police + swat with guns drawn near High Point Preserve. What's goin on 👀
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2023.06.07 01:51 MacMaizer Entitled Friend wants me to feel sorry for her after she cheated
Hey everyone! I hope this fits here, it'll be a longer one and I hope it fits here.
This happened a couple of years ago and it needs a bit of backstory because everything was really wild. Cast
Me, me obviously N., Entitled person R., Entitled person's ex K., Entitled person's brothers ex P., Entitled person's brother And EP, entitled person's parents M., Abusive Ex
I need to go back to 2008/9ish when my family moved from the home I grew up in into a smaller flat near to my grandparents. It was my last year of school and I was the new one. You can imagine how that was, I was bullied relentless but there was a small glimmer of hope. During the second half of the year a new girl was coming to my class and a couple of girls already knew her and seemed to hate her. So yes, I hope they would lay of their focus on me but on her so I had my peace.
Yeah that didn't happen. It got worse because she joined in the bullying of me. Used a compass from our math classes to constantly stab my right thigh since she was sitting next to me. For years I didn't have any feeling in my upper thigh because of that. I also was always 2nd or 3rd best in my class which was great for me because I wanted to move on and get a better education (which I have now but took me a longer route that it would have before). This is not taking place in the US btw. So, after she came in my grades plummeted and I didnt make top of my classes. She did. And I had to make other arrangements to get into university
Now we skip around 5 years.
One day I got a Facebook notification with N's friend request, I hate to say it even while she was bullying me she was kinda cute and had a crush on her for the first time when she was new and wasn't a total bitch.
We chatted a bit and she wanted to meet up, she completely forgot about everything she has put me through which. We talked a bit and she invited me home, if you all think we had sex, I'm sorry but no. Her boyfriend came later home we ate diner and that was that, we 3 somehow became really close friends and when I was really sick they were there for me and got me my medicine and brought me with them so I can sleep at their place. This became a habit, I stayed there over the weekends. It was completely surreal for me to be this thick with my school bully, she didn't really change as well. But we came to talk about stuff from her past and her abusive Ex. (Tl;Dr he was an actual psychopath, tried to beat me up several times, broke into her old flat hid in a cupboard with a knife and wanted to kill both of them, she talked him down and than he left as far as I know) We went gambling on multiple occasions, went to an old construction side trailer who was remodeled to be a bar. All in all great times!
Well until she finished school and went to university, her bf at that time helped her with a flat and she got 2 roommates. One of the roommates always picked her up and on the way to the flat had sex with her in his car, this went on for months until the third roommate told N's boyfriend R. R was devastated and texted me and K. We both drove to him and talked with him, played a bit videogames and it was fun. R. drove me home while K. went to her bf who was N's little brother P. who lived with them, can't remember why but he did.
So after I was home I texted N, that i wasn't cool with her cheating on R because he was a great guy and I'm really disappointed in her but I would be there for here if she needed to talk. (At this point I was just trying to be nice)
She blocked me and a week later R. drove to her and they got back together. Did I mention that this was not the first time she did it? Oh and also before all that K. knew about it since N. confided in her while they were having a couples night out and I was the only single so I wasn't there but from what they told me K did beat N a bit and they both got thrown out of the club they were in.
And now to the end and the actual titles thanks for sticking with me.
When R. and N. got back together they came to visit me, of course N. wasn't happy with me so my best friend then told me I was a worthless friend and scum for not being there for her and pity her since she had such a horrible time. R. was still in the car and did not speak to me ever again.
We got into a fight, which ended up me cussing her out of my life and dorm room. My neighbors heard everything and came out, I was the only non Russian guy on the floor so they were concerned of me being loud since I was the voice of reason on our floor most of the time.
My neighbors just said "Fuck that cunt, go to sleep and masturbate tomorrow is a new day"
I really tought it would be the end of it but no, it wasn't.
Her parents, who loved me, ignored me when we saw each other (lived in the same small city after I graduated and moved away) and N left R after 3 (!) Weeks of being back together. She went back to her abusive Ex. Thats right the psychopath who hid in her cupboard was back together with her but only for like a month. I know this because we had in my city a special Sunday late night sale night at the local mall (where I'm from usually the shops close at 8pm and are completely closed on Sundays and holidays).
There I was with a couple other friends (who were equally entitled and evil for a lack of a better word, which does not speak for me and my ability to find good friends for me) and we bumped into her and her parents and she did move on to ANOTHER guy entirely.
P. broke up with K. because N. manipulated P.
And last i heard was that she did try to go back to R.'s old friend group with the new guy but let's say the girls of the group burned a bra which seemed to be from her (I didn't really get that tbh) in front of her and all of them wanted to beat them senseless if they don't leave.
Last i heard from R is that he moved and was in a happy new relationship, he still ignored me after my many attempts to get in touch.
I was friends with K for like 2 more years but that also went into the extreme shitter and involved the other friend group. So if you want I'll give you another post, because this shit (after a couple of years) still bothers me and lingers on my mind.
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This happened a couple of years ago and it needs a bit of backstory because everything was really wild. Cast
Me, me obviously N., Entitled person R., Entitled person's ex K., Entitled person's brothers ex P., Entitled person's brother And EP, entitled person's parents M., Abusive Ex
I need to go back to 2008/9ish when my family moved from the home I grew up in into a smaller flat near to my grandparents. It was my last year of school and I was the new one. You can imagine how that was, I was bullied relentless but there was a small glimmer of hope. During the second half of the year a new girl was coming to my class and a couple of girls already knew her and seemed to hate her. So yes, I hope they would lay of their focus on me but on her so I had my peace.
Yeah that didn't happen. It got worse because she joined in the bullying of me. Used a compass from our math classes to constantly stab my right thigh since she was sitting next to me. For years I didn't have any feeling in my upper thigh because of that. I also was always 2nd or 3rd best in my class which was great for me because I wanted to move on and get a better education (which I have now but took me a longer route that it would have before). This is not taking place in the US btw. So, after she came in my grades plummeted and I didnt make top of my classes. She did. And I had to make other arrangements to get into university
Now we skip around 5 years.
One day I got a Facebook notification with N's friend request, I hate to say it even while she was bullying me she was kinda cute and had a crush on her for the first time when she was new and wasn't a total bitch.
We chatted a bit and she wanted to meet up, she completely forgot about everything she has put me through which. We talked a bit and she invited me home, if you all think we had sex, I'm sorry but no. Her boyfriend came later home we ate diner and that was that, we 3 somehow became really close friends and when I was really sick they were there for me and got me my medicine and brought me with them so I can sleep at their place. This became a habit, I stayed there over the weekends. It was completely surreal for me to be this thick with my school bully, she didn't really change as well. But we came to talk about stuff from her past and her abusive Ex. (Tl;Dr he was an actual psychopath, tried to beat me up several times, broke into her old flat hid in a cupboard with a knife and wanted to kill both of them, she talked him down and than he left as far as I know) We went gambling on multiple occasions, went to an old construction side trailer who was remodeled to be a bar. All in all great times!
Well until she finished school and went to university, her bf at that time helped her with a flat and she got 2 roommates. One of the roommates always picked her up and on the way to the flat had sex with her in his car, this went on for months until the third roommate told N's boyfriend R. R was devastated and texted me and K. We both drove to him and talked with him, played a bit videogames and it was fun. R. drove me home while K. went to her bf who was N's little brother P. who lived with them, can't remember why but he did.
So after I was home I texted N, that i wasn't cool with her cheating on R because he was a great guy and I'm really disappointed in her but I would be there for here if she needed to talk. (At this point I was just trying to be nice)
She blocked me and a week later R. drove to her and they got back together. Did I mention that this was not the first time she did it? Oh and also before all that K. knew about it since N. confided in her while they were having a couples night out and I was the only single so I wasn't there but from what they told me K did beat N a bit and they both got thrown out of the club they were in.
And now to the end and the actual titles thanks for sticking with me.
When R. and N. got back together they came to visit me, of course N. wasn't happy with me so my best friend then told me I was a worthless friend and scum for not being there for her and pity her since she had such a horrible time. R. was still in the car and did not speak to me ever again.
We got into a fight, which ended up me cussing her out of my life and dorm room. My neighbors heard everything and came out, I was the only non Russian guy on the floor so they were concerned of me being loud since I was the voice of reason on our floor most of the time.
My neighbors just said "Fuck that cunt, go to sleep and masturbate tomorrow is a new day"
I really tought it would be the end of it but no, it wasn't.
Her parents, who loved me, ignored me when we saw each other (lived in the same small city after I graduated and moved away) and N left R after 3 (!) Weeks of being back together. She went back to her abusive Ex. Thats right the psychopath who hid in her cupboard was back together with her but only for like a month. I know this because we had in my city a special Sunday late night sale night at the local mall (where I'm from usually the shops close at 8pm and are completely closed on Sundays and holidays).
There I was with a couple other friends (who were equally entitled and evil for a lack of a better word, which does not speak for me and my ability to find good friends for me) and we bumped into her and her parents and she did move on to ANOTHER guy entirely.
P. broke up with K. because N. manipulated P.
And last i heard was that she did try to go back to R.'s old friend group with the new guy but let's say the girls of the group burned a bra which seemed to be from her (I didn't really get that tbh) in front of her and all of them wanted to beat them senseless if they don't leave.
Last i heard from R is that he moved and was in a happy new relationship, he still ignored me after my many attempts to get in touch.
I was friends with K for like 2 more years but that also went into the extreme shitter and involved the other friend group. So if you want I'll give you another post, because this shit (after a couple of years) still bothers me and lingers on my mind.
2023.06.07 01:51 dopeymcdopes Help with neighbor girl(s)
I have a 3.5yo son. He’s high spirited, super fun and passionate, and such a loving kid. He’s also quite emotional and somewhat introverted as a Covid baby. He is slow to make a new friend but once he does it makes him so happy and he really clings to that person.
We just moved and several doors down there is a group of 7-8 year old girls that play almost every day. One of them is on the spectrum (per her relative she lives with) and has taken a liking to my son. He goes to daycare, but she comes over in the middle of the day to ask if he can play later and justify why he should. She follows our car into our driveway to stop him before he gets inside. She comes to our door at dinner right after we tell her we are eating to ask if he can play. She comes again a lot of evenings bedtime because it’s light and she gets to stay out because she’s older.
It’s wildly disruptive for my son and for our routine. Her parents are never outside and are not typically “neighborly”. She plays a lot on her own outside, riding her bike in the street, racing her Krazy kart into the street without care for cars, etc. I wouldn’t feel safe letting my son participate and I obviously would be out with him but don’t want to feel responsible for her too since her parents aren’t out. When I say no she is disrespectful, mocks me to her friends out loud so I can hear, and calls me sassy. I am not taking it personally because she’s 7 and also on the spectrum but it is not helping her case.
I’m not sure how to address this. Am I just being an inflexible neighbor? We have several other friends my sons age on the street that we have a mutual understanding of “garage open, come on up, garage down, no thank you” and we don’t knock on our doors unannounced.
I feel like I’m being negative and short to this little girl by constantly saying no he can’t play but I simply don’t think it’s appropriate given the safety concerns as well as the age gap and the fact my son can’t actually play with them.
I don’t want to feel like a prisoner in my own home but dealing with the near constant barrage of requests and upsetting her and my son by saying no multiple times a day makes it almost not worth going outside.
Am I stuck? Any suggestions on how to handle this?
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We just moved and several doors down there is a group of 7-8 year old girls that play almost every day. One of them is on the spectrum (per her relative she lives with) and has taken a liking to my son. He goes to daycare, but she comes over in the middle of the day to ask if he can play later and justify why he should. She follows our car into our driveway to stop him before he gets inside. She comes to our door at dinner right after we tell her we are eating to ask if he can play. She comes again a lot of evenings bedtime because it’s light and she gets to stay out because she’s older.
It’s wildly disruptive for my son and for our routine. Her parents are never outside and are not typically “neighborly”. She plays a lot on her own outside, riding her bike in the street, racing her Krazy kart into the street without care for cars, etc. I wouldn’t feel safe letting my son participate and I obviously would be out with him but don’t want to feel responsible for her too since her parents aren’t out. When I say no she is disrespectful, mocks me to her friends out loud so I can hear, and calls me sassy. I am not taking it personally because she’s 7 and also on the spectrum but it is not helping her case.
I’m not sure how to address this. Am I just being an inflexible neighbor? We have several other friends my sons age on the street that we have a mutual understanding of “garage open, come on up, garage down, no thank you” and we don’t knock on our doors unannounced.
I feel like I’m being negative and short to this little girl by constantly saying no he can’t play but I simply don’t think it’s appropriate given the safety concerns as well as the age gap and the fact my son can’t actually play with them.
I don’t want to feel like a prisoner in my own home but dealing with the near constant barrage of requests and upsetting her and my son by saying no multiple times a day makes it almost not worth going outside.
Am I stuck? Any suggestions on how to handle this?
2023.06.07 01:50 tripper74 Not Interested in Dating
TLDR: I don’t understand dating nor am I interested in it at all and I’m wondering if any other autistic females feel the same.
Hi! I'm 25f, not officially diagnosed but I largely suspect that I am autistic, and I'm working on getting an assessment soon. Anyway, something I have found about myself and I'm not sure if it's attributed to autism or something else is that I am not interested at all in dating. I know some autistic people are, but I personally am not. It's starting to really upset my parents and cause tension with them. They ask me, "don't you want to get married one day and have kids? If so, you need to start dating first." And my answer to that isn't exactly "no”; it's not that I'm one of those people who certainly DOESN'T want to get married or DOESN'T want kids, but it's more like when you ask a 5 year old what they want to be when they grow up and they say "a veterinarian" – they want it someday, but it's not like they're anywhere near ready for it right now and couldn’t possibly do it yet.
I feel like a child in many ways, and this is one of them. Yeah I'm 25 (admittedly I do look a lot younger and a lot of people think I’m a teen) but whereas girls my age were interested in dating 11 years ago when we were 14, I still haven't gotten that urge. I can admire that someone is cute but I never had the urge to date or have a boyfriend and I thought it would show up when I’m older but it still hasn’t. I know I am straight because I know I am attracted to men, but again, in the way that a child has a crush on a boy. It’s not that I never want to get married, but it’s that I don't have any interest in learning how to play that social dating game. The thought of putting yourself on display to be judged sounds incredibly weird and artificial to me, especially since I'm awful with small talk and have really niche interests and personality and I'm very picky with who I like (even as friends). I am honestly perfectly happy the way I am and don’t mind a single bit about being single, if it weren’t for the fact that I’m 25 and my family is worried that if I don’t start dating soon, then when will I ever start?
So my parents are heavily pressuring me to start "dating around". This sounds like absolute hell to me. Not to mention I have feelings for someone already, but even if I didn't, the dating scene sounds like HELL. They have forced-sent me to multiple "young adult social mingles" for my culture and I have left EVERY SINGLE ONE sobbing in tears because I felt awful during them (likely a meltdown due to sensory overload and social masking exhaustion). Not to mention that people there treat me like a poor child to be pitied because I clearly feel so anxious, so it’s not even productive at all to “meet a guy”. I suppose they're doing tough love and trying to push me to get me used to it, but I don't think it works that way in this case.
If I have to date (which I don't even care to do yet, but when I do), I'd rather meet online first, and even better, I'd rather do a dating app that isn't based on pictures because I don't want people to just judge me by a picture and mindlessly swipe. My parents don’t understand what I mean by that because I admittedly am conventionally pretty, and they think that the only people on those apps would only be there because they’re “ugly”. But that’s not my point; my point is, how am I supposed to judge someone based on their looks when I know nothing about them? And I don’t want anyone to judge me based on my looks without knowing me either. It feels so shallow and weird and artificial.
And then going on a date, small talk is the DEATH of me. My parents say “just ask them about work” and I’m like, okay and??? Where does that get me??? I don’t care about their job, so why do I have to ask about it? And the thought of going out specifically to be judged if they like you or not sounds awful. My RSD is so soooooo bad and causes shutdowns for me. This is why I prefer to be friends first and then organically grow into something else.
Also, on a side note, I'm not at all interested in kissing because I have horrible sensory sensitivities and saliva is a sensory nightmare for me. I've never had my first kiss and that's totally fine with me. Other forms of intimacy are fine – I'm even way more comfortable talking about literal sex than I am for kissing. I just have never wanted to press my LIPS against someone else's. Ew.
I’m not really looking for advice, I’m just genuinely wondering if any of you feel the same. Is dating incredibly confusing for you too? Do you have any desire to do it?
P.S. There has been one guy I have had a close relationship with and experienced mutual romantic feelings, but the difference is we started as friends first. That makes all the difference to me – we didn't meet on a dating app or go on multiple screening dates with people with the intention of finding a mate. We just met online as friends and eventually developed romantic feelings. Perfect, you say? Well no because 1. we are online and haven't met irl yet and 2. my parents also strongly disapprove of this because he didn’t go to college…yeah. So we aren't bf/gf.
Disclaimer: Not looking for a “you’re asexual!” response. I know I can feel attraction, as demonstrated by me and that guy. My point is, I didn’t meet him through “dating”; he was already my friend and it happened naturally. I’m not talking about attraction or lack thereof; I'm referring to the social confusion of traditional dating.
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Hi! I'm 25f, not officially diagnosed but I largely suspect that I am autistic, and I'm working on getting an assessment soon. Anyway, something I have found about myself and I'm not sure if it's attributed to autism or something else is that I am not interested at all in dating. I know some autistic people are, but I personally am not. It's starting to really upset my parents and cause tension with them. They ask me, "don't you want to get married one day and have kids? If so, you need to start dating first." And my answer to that isn't exactly "no”; it's not that I'm one of those people who certainly DOESN'T want to get married or DOESN'T want kids, but it's more like when you ask a 5 year old what they want to be when they grow up and they say "a veterinarian" – they want it someday, but it's not like they're anywhere near ready for it right now and couldn’t possibly do it yet.
I feel like a child in many ways, and this is one of them. Yeah I'm 25 (admittedly I do look a lot younger and a lot of people think I’m a teen) but whereas girls my age were interested in dating 11 years ago when we were 14, I still haven't gotten that urge. I can admire that someone is cute but I never had the urge to date or have a boyfriend and I thought it would show up when I’m older but it still hasn’t. I know I am straight because I know I am attracted to men, but again, in the way that a child has a crush on a boy. It’s not that I never want to get married, but it’s that I don't have any interest in learning how to play that social dating game. The thought of putting yourself on display to be judged sounds incredibly weird and artificial to me, especially since I'm awful with small talk and have really niche interests and personality and I'm very picky with who I like (even as friends). I am honestly perfectly happy the way I am and don’t mind a single bit about being single, if it weren’t for the fact that I’m 25 and my family is worried that if I don’t start dating soon, then when will I ever start?
So my parents are heavily pressuring me to start "dating around". This sounds like absolute hell to me. Not to mention I have feelings for someone already, but even if I didn't, the dating scene sounds like HELL. They have forced-sent me to multiple "young adult social mingles" for my culture and I have left EVERY SINGLE ONE sobbing in tears because I felt awful during them (likely a meltdown due to sensory overload and social masking exhaustion). Not to mention that people there treat me like a poor child to be pitied because I clearly feel so anxious, so it’s not even productive at all to “meet a guy”. I suppose they're doing tough love and trying to push me to get me used to it, but I don't think it works that way in this case.
If I have to date (which I don't even care to do yet, but when I do), I'd rather meet online first, and even better, I'd rather do a dating app that isn't based on pictures because I don't want people to just judge me by a picture and mindlessly swipe. My parents don’t understand what I mean by that because I admittedly am conventionally pretty, and they think that the only people on those apps would only be there because they’re “ugly”. But that’s not my point; my point is, how am I supposed to judge someone based on their looks when I know nothing about them? And I don’t want anyone to judge me based on my looks without knowing me either. It feels so shallow and weird and artificial.
And then going on a date, small talk is the DEATH of me. My parents say “just ask them about work” and I’m like, okay and??? Where does that get me??? I don’t care about their job, so why do I have to ask about it? And the thought of going out specifically to be judged if they like you or not sounds awful. My RSD is so soooooo bad and causes shutdowns for me. This is why I prefer to be friends first and then organically grow into something else.
Also, on a side note, I'm not at all interested in kissing because I have horrible sensory sensitivities and saliva is a sensory nightmare for me. I've never had my first kiss and that's totally fine with me. Other forms of intimacy are fine – I'm even way more comfortable talking about literal sex than I am for kissing. I just have never wanted to press my LIPS against someone else's. Ew.
I’m not really looking for advice, I’m just genuinely wondering if any of you feel the same. Is dating incredibly confusing for you too? Do you have any desire to do it?
P.S. There has been one guy I have had a close relationship with and experienced mutual romantic feelings, but the difference is we started as friends first. That makes all the difference to me – we didn't meet on a dating app or go on multiple screening dates with people with the intention of finding a mate. We just met online as friends and eventually developed romantic feelings. Perfect, you say? Well no because 1. we are online and haven't met irl yet and 2. my parents also strongly disapprove of this because he didn’t go to college…yeah. So we aren't bf/gf.
Disclaimer: Not looking for a “you’re asexual!” response. I know I can feel attraction, as demonstrated by me and that guy. My point is, I didn’t meet him through “dating”; he was already my friend and it happened naturally. I’m not talking about attraction or lack thereof; I'm referring to the social confusion of traditional dating.
2023.06.07 01:49 Admirable-Remove-931 my brother is an absolute failure.
i am currently writing this listening to my mother bawl her eyes out in her room. my brother (16m) and i (19 m) have never really had a good relationship. he has always been aggressive and inconsiderate. we would often get into physical fights when we were younger, causing him to run to the kitchen, grab dangerous utensils , and chase me around the house, threatening my life. now that we have grown up a little bit more, we’ve learned to just ignore each other. however, my brother still has aggressive tendencies. he is also very lazy and refuses to get a job. he prefers sitting in his room and playing video games all day. every summer he must attend summer school in order to make up all of the classes he has failed. whilst in school, he gets into fights and bullies the kids younger than him. he has caused my mother so much burden and money. my older brother and i both have jobs, apartments near our college campuses, friends to hang out with, cars which we were able to buy ourselves, better grades in school, and had colleges lined up instantly. my brother on the other hand has no car (which means he often tries to steal mine when i’m home), very few friends that also get into trouble, horrible grades, no job experience (not that anyone would ever want to hire him), and just a very negative future overall. he is also extremely rude to my mother, who always bails him out of trouble. i have never seen him do one admirable act. my mother has tried her hardest to help him out by spending the little money we had for therapy, but nothing worked. she has also tried buying him cars, but with little to no money, she can’t do it all on her home. i feel terrible for my mother, as no one should ever have to go what he puts her through, and i feel as though she is slowly starting to give up. i’ve tried to help her out, but there is no getting through that thick skull of my brothers.
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It features an ensemble cast that includes Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Wilde, Gemma Chan, KiKi Layne, Nick Kroll, and Chris Pine. In the film, a young wife living in a 2250s company town begins to believe there is a sinister secret being kept from her by the man who runs it.
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2023.06.07 01:47 MrSal7 What The Hell Happened To Dogfighting?
I have over 1,000 hours in the Xbox version and been around after the change in 4.0 where weapons were changed to be more effective depending on shielded or non-shielded targets and NEVER had a problem.
My problem now is that I had moved over to the PSVR2 version and started a new game.
Even staying on fights from lower level missions from the space stations, I can not for the live of me destroy ANY ships. I’ve even upgraded my ship with various upgrades for all my tech.
But the problems that I’m seeing now, not seen in my over 1,000 hours on the Xbox is 1) that ships now “Mario Kart rubber band” around me, allowing them to effectively stay behind me regardless of auto or manual maneuvering. 2) Ships that are not constantly being shot have their shields recharged in, no hyperbole, about 3 seconds.
So coupled with the “rubber banding” and the near instant shield regen, I CANNOT destroy any shielded ship because they just hide behind with.
Also something newly introduced I’m seeing, is that you can no longer run away from ships. They indefinitely chase you wherever, when I would regularly just run from fights I just didn’t want to deal with on the Xbox.
I had no joke, fought a group of 3 ships for over 15 minutes without downing any of them, and tried to run away for over 5 minutes without losing them.
My experience with dogfighting on the Xbox vs PSVR2 are 100% night and day experiences.
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My problem now is that I had moved over to the PSVR2 version and started a new game.
Even staying on fights from lower level missions from the space stations, I can not for the live of me destroy ANY ships. I’ve even upgraded my ship with various upgrades for all my tech.
But the problems that I’m seeing now, not seen in my over 1,000 hours on the Xbox is 1) that ships now “Mario Kart rubber band” around me, allowing them to effectively stay behind me regardless of auto or manual maneuvering. 2) Ships that are not constantly being shot have their shields recharged in, no hyperbole, about 3 seconds.
So coupled with the “rubber banding” and the near instant shield regen, I CANNOT destroy any shielded ship because they just hide behind with.
Also something newly introduced I’m seeing, is that you can no longer run away from ships. They indefinitely chase you wherever, when I would regularly just run from fights I just didn’t want to deal with on the Xbox.
I had no joke, fought a group of 3 ships for over 15 minutes without downing any of them, and tried to run away for over 5 minutes without losing them.
My experience with dogfighting on the Xbox vs PSVR2 are 100% night and day experiences.
2023.06.07 01:46 ZengANiu23 Something is very different with this season's matchmaking-are there way more bots in the system?
I ended the last season barely above 60. OK, I lied-I ended exactly on 60 and it took some last minute grinding to get back above 60.
We are still on Day 1 and I am now at 86 and my season pass is at 8 (implying that I didn't really play a ton of games either).
I'm not a bad player, but neither am I an excellent player. I have never gone anywhere near 80 in just a day. In fact, the last reset has been my lowest.
I am getting too many 4 or 8 cubes wins. I play a Galactus deck and I get snaps even when I already Spiderman-ed them. I have had guys who stayed despite them knowing their highest power card is or 8 or 12 (they were playing move) and they still stayed, knowing I am likely to have a Death or a Knull..or both ready to smash upon them. I have had guys who didn't even guard their Dino and simply let me Shang Chi them while they added a Sentinel. I'm suspecting these are bots.
Anyone else find it weird? Yeah sure, the ascend has been smooth and for the first time ever, I am not stuck at any hurdle. I went from 30 to currently 86 without even feeling a tinge of difficulty, much less frustration. This shouldn't be the case. I'm don't suffer from masochism but still, it shouldn't be this smooth.
One possible explanation is that the infinite players remained in infinite, hence creating an easier pool. But still, it shouldn't be this easy. Like the examples I gave, there are players who are literally giving me cubes.
Something is wrong.
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We are still on Day 1 and I am now at 86 and my season pass is at 8 (implying that I didn't really play a ton of games either).
I'm not a bad player, but neither am I an excellent player. I have never gone anywhere near 80 in just a day. In fact, the last reset has been my lowest.
I am getting too many 4 or 8 cubes wins. I play a Galactus deck and I get snaps even when I already Spiderman-ed them. I have had guys who stayed despite them knowing their highest power card is or 8 or 12 (they were playing move) and they still stayed, knowing I am likely to have a Death or a Knull..or both ready to smash upon them. I have had guys who didn't even guard their Dino and simply let me Shang Chi them while they added a Sentinel. I'm suspecting these are bots.
Anyone else find it weird? Yeah sure, the ascend has been smooth and for the first time ever, I am not stuck at any hurdle. I went from 30 to currently 86 without even feeling a tinge of difficulty, much less frustration. This shouldn't be the case. I'm don't suffer from masochism but still, it shouldn't be this smooth.
One possible explanation is that the infinite players remained in infinite, hence creating an easier pool. But still, it shouldn't be this easy. Like the examples I gave, there are players who are literally giving me cubes.
Something is wrong.
2023.06.07 01:46 throwawayABC0- Painful urination from leaking semen or discharge?
I am 25 year old white male, non-smoker, don't do drugs or take vitamins/medication, except for Adderall for ADHD. Recently I have been experiencing pain when urinating. More specifically, it's usually when the urination is about to end, as well as the last remaining drops feeling like pebbles, which sometimes follows up with mild burn or brief pains in that area. Usually the lasting pain feels like leftover urine in my penis and it feels like trapped pebbles.
The day before yesterday, I decided to masturbate hoping it was because of semen buildup since it felt like over a week since I last did it. And I came a lot, very thick and white clumps. I can't confirm if it's always been this way, since I usually finish into a condom, glove, etc. It didn't hurt though, despite mild pains after urinating or that trapped urine pain feeling in my penis from earlier that day.
Yesterday, the pain was probably at its worst, the after pain was fluctuating from my urethra to the tip. It wasn't super painful, it just makes me antsy because this area is delicate to me. But it made me realize this pain was something I used to have when I was younger. Back then, I would masturbate and then urinate immediately after, which was always regretfully painful, but apparently this isn't abnormal. I found that waiting after 15 mins to urinate after ejaculating prevented me from experiencing this pain ever again. So it made me suspect I'm somehow ejaculating unknowingly then urinating.
Throughout the entire night, I felt like I was leaking urine, because after urinating it felt like there was something trapped in my urethra. At first the pain near the tip made me assume my penis was being pinched in my pants, but now I'm positive it's my pants applying pressure to the head when there is something trapped inside. Also every time I got up or sat down I can feel something being pushed out.
It was until today, where I sat down on the toilet and felt something being pushed out again from my penis. So I push/clench it out with just my penis and I saw a thick white ball form out of my tip and hanging. I urinated immediately after.
I don't know if this is discharge or semen. I suspected more of the latter due to what I mentioned earlier, but also my orgasms when masturbating lately have been acting weird. Usually after my orgasm, it prevents me from thrusting anymore because it gets too sensitive, and any further sensations would just be unpleasant so I stop, and I lose that horny feeling.
Lately, when I do orgasm, my penis becomes sensitive very briefly, but then it feels like my orgasm is restarting and making me want to keep going. And the sensitivity and orgasmic feeling keeps fluctuating. Like it feels there's still cum to push out and it feels like I am pushing some out, so it feels good and feels sensitive, they keep flip flopping. Strangely enough, I can keep going, but what's stopping me is that I still lose that horny feeling. I just don't wanna mentally keep going. I don't know how to explain it, I'm just no longer horny yet it feels good to keep going, I just have this urgency to drain what I can feel what is leftover semen in my penis.
I don't think I masturbate a lot, it's usually once a week, at most 2, on occasions I can do without it for more than a week.
When I'm showering, if I get an itch sometimes where the pubic area is, I would scratch it on impulse, and when I do it feels like I am leaking semen because it feels so good. It's not itchy there all the time and especially not when it's shaved.
Lately I've been noticing faint pains on the left side of my testicles, this used to be a concern of mine, I had multiple doctors tell me it wasn't serious and they found nothing when they did a scan.
I don't know what's happening to my body lately. It wasn't a concern of mine until I started feeling pain when urinating (about a week now). What's happening?
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The day before yesterday, I decided to masturbate hoping it was because of semen buildup since it felt like over a week since I last did it. And I came a lot, very thick and white clumps. I can't confirm if it's always been this way, since I usually finish into a condom, glove, etc. It didn't hurt though, despite mild pains after urinating or that trapped urine pain feeling in my penis from earlier that day.
Yesterday, the pain was probably at its worst, the after pain was fluctuating from my urethra to the tip. It wasn't super painful, it just makes me antsy because this area is delicate to me. But it made me realize this pain was something I used to have when I was younger. Back then, I would masturbate and then urinate immediately after, which was always regretfully painful, but apparently this isn't abnormal. I found that waiting after 15 mins to urinate after ejaculating prevented me from experiencing this pain ever again. So it made me suspect I'm somehow ejaculating unknowingly then urinating.
Throughout the entire night, I felt like I was leaking urine, because after urinating it felt like there was something trapped in my urethra. At first the pain near the tip made me assume my penis was being pinched in my pants, but now I'm positive it's my pants applying pressure to the head when there is something trapped inside. Also every time I got up or sat down I can feel something being pushed out.
It was until today, where I sat down on the toilet and felt something being pushed out again from my penis. So I push/clench it out with just my penis and I saw a thick white ball form out of my tip and hanging. I urinated immediately after.
I don't know if this is discharge or semen. I suspected more of the latter due to what I mentioned earlier, but also my orgasms when masturbating lately have been acting weird. Usually after my orgasm, it prevents me from thrusting anymore because it gets too sensitive, and any further sensations would just be unpleasant so I stop, and I lose that horny feeling.
Lately, when I do orgasm, my penis becomes sensitive very briefly, but then it feels like my orgasm is restarting and making me want to keep going. And the sensitivity and orgasmic feeling keeps fluctuating. Like it feels there's still cum to push out and it feels like I am pushing some out, so it feels good and feels sensitive, they keep flip flopping. Strangely enough, I can keep going, but what's stopping me is that I still lose that horny feeling. I just don't wanna mentally keep going. I don't know how to explain it, I'm just no longer horny yet it feels good to keep going, I just have this urgency to drain what I can feel what is leftover semen in my penis.
I don't think I masturbate a lot, it's usually once a week, at most 2, on occasions I can do without it for more than a week.
When I'm showering, if I get an itch sometimes where the pubic area is, I would scratch it on impulse, and when I do it feels like I am leaking semen because it feels so good. It's not itchy there all the time and especially not when it's shaved.
Lately I've been noticing faint pains on the left side of my testicles, this used to be a concern of mine, I had multiple doctors tell me it wasn't serious and they found nothing when they did a scan.
I don't know what's happening to my body lately. It wasn't a concern of mine until I started feeling pain when urinating (about a week now). What's happening?
2023.06.07 01:45 horriblethinker How would you handle a boss who doesn't understand your work issues?
I accepted this position as an assistant auditor for my state 3 months ago. Lots of things need to be remembered and you have to be able to work on your own without asking a lot of questions. I thought I'd do okay but I feel like I'm failing. Let me explain why. It might be long but I need to explain why I have an issue.
Twelve years ago I had brain surgery. Two large parts were removed and it took away nearly everything I had learned. I had short and long term memory issues, speech, mobility, sensory issues. I was granted disability and was told by doctors I'd never be able to work or live alone again. I saw that as a challenge.
Fast forward eight years. I went to college starting in the lowest levels of classes. Elementary algebra, pre- English. I had only taken accounting because someone told me I would never be able to do it. I graduated with my MBA last August. I had worked for 3 years in Accounts Payable and it just didn't challenge me enough. I had always wanted to do Auditing so when the position opened up I jumped in and landed it. I was told 5 minutes after my interview that I was hired. I was excited. It's been twelve years since my surgery and I'm proud at where I am in life.
It's been 3 months and I've been trying hard but there is a lot to remember and research. I was told that it would take at least a year for me to be able to do much without needing help so it's expected to have questions. I just ask too many. There are 2 people who explain things to me and they are nice and I get it. My main person to help me is not great at explaining and I just get more confused.
When I get confused, my brain does not work well. That's when I start struggling with memory and say the wrong things. I can't think very well and I fail. And then I hear from my manager, "I've already told you this 2 or 3 times! I don't know what else to do with you."
Those are just words but I'm hearing this with every conversation now and my anxiety is through the roof making things worse. She's a nice person but not good at explaining things. I'm supposed to ask her when she's available before asking anyone else, so I can't just skip her. I understand I'm the one struggling in this situation but I'm doing well when the others help me. I don't want to quit but I'm about there. I know I will like this when I can figure out how to handle this situation without saying the wrong thing.
What would you do? Should I just give up? There is a lot to remember and I still struggle in that area. Nothing is ever the same in Auditing so nothing is ever the same. I really like doing the work when I learn it.
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Twelve years ago I had brain surgery. Two large parts were removed and it took away nearly everything I had learned. I had short and long term memory issues, speech, mobility, sensory issues. I was granted disability and was told by doctors I'd never be able to work or live alone again. I saw that as a challenge.
Fast forward eight years. I went to college starting in the lowest levels of classes. Elementary algebra, pre- English. I had only taken accounting because someone told me I would never be able to do it. I graduated with my MBA last August. I had worked for 3 years in Accounts Payable and it just didn't challenge me enough. I had always wanted to do Auditing so when the position opened up I jumped in and landed it. I was told 5 minutes after my interview that I was hired. I was excited. It's been twelve years since my surgery and I'm proud at where I am in life.
It's been 3 months and I've been trying hard but there is a lot to remember and research. I was told that it would take at least a year for me to be able to do much without needing help so it's expected to have questions. I just ask too many. There are 2 people who explain things to me and they are nice and I get it. My main person to help me is not great at explaining and I just get more confused.
When I get confused, my brain does not work well. That's when I start struggling with memory and say the wrong things. I can't think very well and I fail. And then I hear from my manager, "I've already told you this 2 or 3 times! I don't know what else to do with you."
Those are just words but I'm hearing this with every conversation now and my anxiety is through the roof making things worse. She's a nice person but not good at explaining things. I'm supposed to ask her when she's available before asking anyone else, so I can't just skip her. I understand I'm the one struggling in this situation but I'm doing well when the others help me. I don't want to quit but I'm about there. I know I will like this when I can figure out how to handle this situation without saying the wrong thing.
What would you do? Should I just give up? There is a lot to remember and I still struggle in that area. Nothing is ever the same in Auditing so nothing is ever the same. I really like doing the work when I learn it.
2023.06.07 01:45 _I_need_tree_fiddy_ New coworker is a genius
She knows everything. It’s amazing. She somehow knows how I have to track employees for a state training I’m running without reading the state’s rules in it. She knows there’s “ZERO humidity” (her words) if you live near a lot of trees so she doesn’t need AC on at night. She knows the best way to run my training even though she JUST started. When asked about the weather in the summer here she even knew about that!…even though she’s only lived here for a few weeks and moved from many states over. She even knew about my necklace and answered for me when someone asked me what it meant.
How did I get so lucky to work with such a genius? Her IQ must be off the charts.
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How did I get so lucky to work with such a genius? Her IQ must be off the charts.
2023.06.07 01:44 Sleepy1793 I feel abandoned by my best friend after my fiancé went to prison
I have known my best friend for 15 years, since we were in high school. We have been through so much together, horrible times and amazing times, we were roommates for several years, and even after we both moved to opposite ends of the country, we remained extremely close. Texting daily, talking on the phone weekly, playing video games together, they even flew out to visit me after I moved in with my then boyfriend so they could meet. They have always been so kind and supportive and such a wonderful friend. I love them with my whole heart.
A little over a year ago, my fiancé was sent to prison. I won’t go into the details, but if his appeal is unsuccessful then there is over a decade of time we are facing. I was, of course, absolutely devastated when he went away. I completely lost it and was hospitalized twice for SI in the first few months. I had to take a leave from work and was so heavily medicated that I barely remember the early days. But what I do remember is telling my best friend how much I needed them to reach out to me and check on me and stay connected because I felt so horribly alone. My family also lives across the country and I only had one or two friends near me who knew the full scope of what I was going through (I’ve never had a large group of friends).
My best friend assured me that they would support me through this and how much they loved me. But almost immediately after that conversation, they started to withdraw. Weeks would go by without a word from them while I was spiraling deeper and deeper into depression. I used to be a very frequent social media user but after everything happened I deactivated almost all of my accounts and only use fb now to scroll through videos, never posting anything. Somehow my best friend didn’t notice or seem concerned that I was isolating myself so much. Weeks of no contact turned into months between texts. They never called me like they used to. Meanwhile they continued to post about their life like normal.
It’s not like I expected them to drop everything and suffer with me just because I was (and still am) suffering. But where was the support and contact that I needed? Where was the best friend I always thought I could count on?
I am traumatized from this whole experience. I am barely functioning. I take my meds and go to work and then collapse in bed until the next day. I live for my visits with my fiancé every 2 weeks. I’m waiting to do another round of TMS treatments. I am in survival mode. I feel so broken.
I tell myself they must be going through something that they haven’t told me as a way of justifying their behavior. But I still feel so let down and abandoned and honestly angry. In my darkest moment, they left me alone. I don’t know if I can forgive them for it.
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A little over a year ago, my fiancé was sent to prison. I won’t go into the details, but if his appeal is unsuccessful then there is over a decade of time we are facing. I was, of course, absolutely devastated when he went away. I completely lost it and was hospitalized twice for SI in the first few months. I had to take a leave from work and was so heavily medicated that I barely remember the early days. But what I do remember is telling my best friend how much I needed them to reach out to me and check on me and stay connected because I felt so horribly alone. My family also lives across the country and I only had one or two friends near me who knew the full scope of what I was going through (I’ve never had a large group of friends).
My best friend assured me that they would support me through this and how much they loved me. But almost immediately after that conversation, they started to withdraw. Weeks would go by without a word from them while I was spiraling deeper and deeper into depression. I used to be a very frequent social media user but after everything happened I deactivated almost all of my accounts and only use fb now to scroll through videos, never posting anything. Somehow my best friend didn’t notice or seem concerned that I was isolating myself so much. Weeks of no contact turned into months between texts. They never called me like they used to. Meanwhile they continued to post about their life like normal.
It’s not like I expected them to drop everything and suffer with me just because I was (and still am) suffering. But where was the support and contact that I needed? Where was the best friend I always thought I could count on?
I am traumatized from this whole experience. I am barely functioning. I take my meds and go to work and then collapse in bed until the next day. I live for my visits with my fiancé every 2 weeks. I’m waiting to do another round of TMS treatments. I am in survival mode. I feel so broken.
I tell myself they must be going through something that they haven’t told me as a way of justifying their behavior. But I still feel so let down and abandoned and honestly angry. In my darkest moment, they left me alone. I don’t know if I can forgive them for it.
2023.06.07 01:43 123polizeikommt Hiking as a beginner
I want to get in to Hiking. I would appreciate some good beginner hiking locations (ostschweiz)and some tips for me. Also is there any good hiking spots near or in Kanton Thurgau?
For me it’s important that its not dangerous trail,it should be demanding physical wise but not dangerous.
Is there any tips on how not to get lost?
Thanks alot guys!
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For me it’s important that its not dangerous trail,it should be demanding physical wise but not dangerous.
Is there any tips on how not to get lost?
Thanks alot guys!
2023.06.07 01:43 Inorai [Remnants of Magic] Legion - 55.1
![[Remnants of Magic] Legion - 55.1](https://b.thumbs.redditmedia.com/eFUlSO8xlQ2gTaQ-RLFgweaXRM5a6XsiJMEiNmclLLs.jpg "[Remnants of Magic] Legion - 55.1") | https://preview.redd.it/7ogddtvkhh4b1.jpg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9810dd4774c67984d11ae9a5139a11571dfd2b56 submitted by Inorai to redditserials [link] [comments] The room had already been quiet, but with Aedan’s words still hanging over the group, we might as well have been carved from stone. Alongside me, I saw Mason shrink back ever so slightly, his face bone-white. Recluse nodded, though, still watching Aedan. “Let’s hear it,” he said, his voice low. Aedan’s shoulders rose as he took a deep breath. His hands clasped tight around each other, clinging for stability. And then he sat up straighter, locking eyes with Recluse. “There’s a war brewing,” he said, and shook his head. “No. It’s not brewing. There’s a war going on right now.” “The Rekindler,” Recluse said. “Oh, I’ve been watching. The Legion’s got herself a handful, looks like.” “It’s because of me,” Aedan said, more softly. His shoulders slumped. “I…Madis has been hunting me for a few centuries now. I thought I could stay ahead of him. And…I could, but..” He didn’t turn and look, as such, but I saw him shift the faintest degree toward me. “I made some mistakes,” he said. “I screwed up, and…it slowed me down. It got Madis even more interested.” “Seems like, yep,” Recluse said, still as nonchalant as he’d been since we stepped into his house. “We want to bring this to a stop,” Aedan said, locking eyes with the man again. “I do not want to get caught up in the middle of some European fuckwit’s war. I just want them to leave me the fuck alone.” The corners of his lips twitched. “I get the feeling you understand that much.” “Might have a clue,” Recluse said. “Don’t take this the wrong way, though, Wanderer, but I’ve yet to see how this is my problem.” “Right,” Aedan mumbled. He shook his head, ruffling his hair with one hand. I saw him take another deep breath. “We want him gone. And the sooner he’s out of here, the sooner everyone can stop running around like chickens with their heads cut off, killing each other. It’s good for everyone. You included.” “That’s all the way over on the east coast,” Recluse said, holding up a hand as if pushing back on an invisible wall. “It’s still nice and quiet over here.” His eyebrow quirked. “That Echo lout might be a giant pain in my ass, but they run a tight ship.” “Y-Yeah, but-” “Besides,” Recluse said. He sprawled back against his couch, spreading his arms against the soft fabric. The blue and green flickers of magic from out the window cast odd shadows across his face, making me feel even uneasier than I already did. “Isn’t like I can do much, eh? I’m closer to you than the Legion bitch.” His eyebrow twitched. “It’s just me ‘round these parts, I’m afraid. No army to speak of. Not sure exactly what you’re asking of me.” “We don’t need you to fight,” I said, the words slipping out before I could stop myself. The affront building deep inside Recluse’s eyes had sent a shiver down my spine, screaming for me to get in front of this train before it went off the rails. “We’re already imposing enough on your night, sir. We wouldn’t come and ask a stranger to fight our battles for us.” Recluse’s gaze drifted over to me. I froze. My skin crawled as he gave me a long, hard look, searching me from head to toe. He nodded, just a little. “Well, at least you know that much,” he said, giving an almighty sniff. “Kids these days expect too much. Always asking the impossible, pounding on my door with their hands out.” “He’s a pain in my butt,” Aedan said. A laugh rippled beneath the words. “But…this crew has been pretty good. Not nearly as bad as the usual bunch.” When Recluse turned back to him, he shook his head, sitting forward to brace his elbows against his knees. “Jon is right. We don’t need your help that directly. I’m not quite that forward.” His chin lifted. “We need information, and it’s looking like only you have what we need.” “If you’re okay with helping us, we just have a few questions.” I blinked. It was Amber speaking, now, even if her arms and legs were stiff, one foot bouncing against the carpet. Her hazel eyes lingered on Recluse, unblinking. “That’s all. We can get right out of your hair. No more trouble.” “And then, hopefully, we can get Madis out of town,” I said. “No trouble for a good long while.” Recluse looked over, slow and deliberate. He fixed that same assessing look on Amber—but this time, his lips curled into a scowl. “Nothing else from you,” he said. Amber stiffened, paling. “I-” “You’ve got the same blood on you as the rest,” Recluse said. “I don’t want to hear another word out of you. This is a civilized household.” I reached out, putting a hand on Amber’s knee. Already, I could see her paling, glancing my way. She shut her mouth, though, wrapping an arm around her midsection. Recluse sighed, turning back to Aedan. “Say your piece,” he said. “I’m tired. Shit or get off the pot, son.” Inwardly, my thoughts mused about Recluse calling him ‘son’ when both of them were a thousand years old. Or more. Sure, he looked like a man in his 40s or 50s, and Aedan looked like he couldn’t be more than a year or two over 20, but how much did that really matter here? Aedan was squirming, though, readying himself, so I turned myself back to him, putting the treacherous little whispers from my mind. “It’s a bit complicated,” Aedan said at last. “But the short version is that Madis is hiding. He’s got himself holed up somewhere in his territory, and we need to figure out where.” He spread his hands, gesturing into the open air. “We have a lead on a demi who fought with him once before. Successfully, we hope. We’re trying to track him down, but the trail’s gone cold.” “Again, don’t see how I can help with that,” Recluse said. His eyebrow quirked. “I make it a matter of pride to not associate with the stained masses, you know. Did you think ‘Recluse’ was just for show?” “I know,” Aedan said. “I…I know. But…” He licked his lips, shifting uncomfortably. “We have one last lead on the bastard. It seems whatever their magic is, it’s tied to the ley lines somehow. The old ones, that is.” His gaze dropped to the carpet, his eyes going misty. “A couple of finders spotted their fight, and the hallmarks they talked about are pretty clear. It all bubbled up about-” “Three years ago.” Aedan stopped. All around the room, eyes rose. Recluse sat, no longer looking so casual. His knees were spread, hands wrapped around each other in his lap. His gaze was downcast. “So you know of it,” Aedan said slowly. For a long while, the room was quiet. There was no sound, even when we should’ve at least heard the cars from outside. It was like we’d been scooped out of the world, wrapped up tight in our own little cocoon. I just counted the seconds, waiting. Aedan didn’t seem to want to push the point, which meant I damn sure wasn’t going to do it either. My heart beat in my chest. We’d found something—now, I was sure of it. Recluse knew something. Only now I wasn’t so sure if it was the prize we’d been hoping for. Finally, when the silence was starting to become intolerable, Recluse groaned. He braced hands on his knees, standing slowly. And then he trudged to the side, to stand before one blackened window, the streams of magic lighting the dark planes of his face. “I don’t bring folks here much,” he said, staring out into the nothingness outside. “I like my peace and quiet, yes, but it’s more than that. There aren’t many who understand what I am. What this place is.” “This place?” Aedan said. His brows pulled together. “You mean-” “This house,” Recluse said. He reached out again, laying a hand against an armchair. His fingers curled against the fabric, oddly protective. Possessive. “This is my home. The place in the world that’s mine. But it’s more than that. It’s the heart of me, all the hopes and dreams I had, wrapped up in one tidy package.” A realization shot through me like lightning. “This place is your relic,” I whispered. “The whole house. Isn’t it?” Recluse chuckled. His fingers tightened against the chair. The floor shook beneath my feet. I jumped, stifling a yelp. A tiny cry from alongside me said that Mason hadn’t been so fast. And around me, I watched the house start to shift. The walls grated against each other, expanding and contracting as the room changed shape. A staircase appeared from behind a corner, then vanished as a hallway swallowed it whole. A kitchen peeked out from behind a column, tantalizingly warm and welcoming. The paint darkened, its luster fading to smooth, time-worn stone and timber. As quickly as it started, it stopped. The house went still. The walls drifted back to their usual places, their suburban normalcy returning in sheets of white drywall. “Well spotted,” Recluse said, glancing my way. He gave a quick, curt nod, but his eyes turned back outward. “When the end began, I gave this homestead everything I had. Everything I could muster up, I poured into these four walls.” His other hand pressed against the drywall, almost tenderly. “A place where my kin could be safe, no matter what came next. A place we could live out our lives, cradled in the magic we loved so dearly.” He shook his head, ducking his chin low. His hand loosened against the wall. “Time rolled on,” he said, voice quiet. “It worked, but not how I planned.” “I’m sorry to hear that,” Aedan said. I glanced back to him, and froze. His foot was tapping rapid-fire against the floor, his eyes impatient. Oh, no. “But I don’t see how-” “Shut the hell up and let a man talk,” Recluse said, grinning down at him. “You barged into my house before the sun even had a chance to rise, Wanderer. Take what you get.” Aedan flushed, but shut up, hunching lower in his seat. “This was our farm,” Recluse said. He twisted, gesturing out the halfway-normal window toward the orchard outside. “And orchards have roots. When I worked my spell, I did it a little too well. Bound it a little too snugly—to me, but also to the rivers those roots drew from.” “The ley lines,” I whispered. “Indeed,” Recluse said. He sucked in a breath, his shoulders rising as he bobbed in place. “And that’s why your Legion bitch sent you here. That’s the connection you’re hunting after so dearly.” “I don’t understand,” Aedan said. “I- The ley lines are-” “Dry,” Recluse said. “Yep. Dead as a bone. But this house?” He rapped a knuckle against the wall. “It remembers. The magic is gone, but the currents remain. And it pulls us onward like a leaf on the river’s surface, riding the ghost of what was.” What? I eased myself to my feet. “Jon,” I heard Amber hiss alongside me, but…well, you couldn’t just dangle something like that in front of me and not expect me to want a closer look. Slowly, a good bit more fearful than before, I approached one of the darkened windows. The glimmers of magic were more pointed when I stood near it, like a nebula of blue beyond the glass. “Where are we?” I whispered? “Right now?” Recluse said with a snort. “Dunno. Somewhere in Asia.” “What?” I heard Cailyn squeak. I was right there with her. That had not been the answer I’d intended or expected. I’d figured I’d get a some other mystery dimension or deep in the bottomless well of dry magic or something like that. Not that. But when I stood there, staring out into the not-black…I shivered, drawing away. It wasn’t just a void. There was something there, an afterimage. A mountain, and green fields, and- “Nope,” I gasped, hurling myself away from the window. “What the hell is that?” Recluse’s booming laugh echoed through the room. “Not to your fancy, boy?” “What the hell is this house?” I managed. Amber’s hands closed around my arm, pulling me back to the couch. I let her, dropping to the safely-comfortable cushion. Recluse just kept chuckling, shaking his head. “Never gets old,” he chortled. “Told you, didn’t I? We’re ridin’ the old ley lines.” “I didn’t think you meant it literally,” I said, wiping my palms against my jeans. For some reason, they’d gotten all sweaty. “It’s just me and the magic, out here,” Recluse said. He glanced over his shoulder to Aedan, and the amusement slowly drained from his face, leaving him somber. “So I thought at first, back when this magic was new.” The mood in the room shifted. I sat back, trying not to let my brewing fear show on my face. Aedan looked a bit grey about the edges, but he sat motionless, staring at his opposite. “So you know something,” he said. Recluse sat there for a long moment, as though letting the words ferment around us. Then he nodded, long and slow—and he looked over, staring out through the void-black window. “It didn’t take long for me to realize I wasn’t alone.” |
2023.06.07 01:42 Fabulous-Letter-5649 Engineer retires, and is replaced with a Human. (Pt 4)
Pt 1 If you haven't read it.
Pt 2 If you haven't read it.
Pt 3 If you haven't read it.
Hope you enjoy Pt 4 and happy reading!
*Flick* "Aligning descent profile for re-entry." I had made all the final preparations
*Flick* "Prepare for comms black out in 10" William began the countdown.
"9"
"8"
"7"
"6"
"5- when you get back I absolutely *have* to show you this really old movie, interstellar, its a classic" Will interjected.
"4-Oh my stars we're about to enter the atmosphere of Ix-5 at 7km/s and all you can think about is showing me some old movie when we get back?!"
"3- Fine."
"2"
The plasma had begun to lick around the edges of the heat shield and up onto the windows.
"1"
The comms began to make a static hissing sound.
"Just breathe." Will muttered to himself.
The whole shuttle began to shake violently.
"PASSING MAX-Q" Will had to shout to be heard over all the rattling.
Just like that, it began to quiet down, the fiery inferno of re-entry plasma died down and we began our coast down to find a suitable landing spot. Comms had also returned.
*Click* "I'd just like to let everyone know that we made it through re-entry just fine." Will had radioed back to the ship.
The sound of faint cheers from bridge could be heard.
"Engaging cloaking device" *Flick*
A loud hum could be heard as the cloaking device not only prevented us from being seen by eyes, but also seen by any radar, sonar, or other means of detection spun to life.
"So where should we land?"
"Oh just a few more kilometers to shore, then I'll just find a nice, secluded spot and we'll spend the next couple of days getting to know the locals!" I responded gleefully, as this was my first time with a civilization that didn't just learn how to farm.
After carefully gliding down we landed in a patch of grass-like vegetation. Will pointed out all the leaves were all black, to which I responded by telling him that the vegetation had to adapt to capture more of the light spectrum than the vegetation on Earth, because of the dimmer, red dwarf this planet orbited.
We had set up the basics, communications equipment, synthesizers, and a variety of other scientific tools.
"Hey, remember when you said you wanted to see an example of human food! Because I do!" Will exclaimed giddily.
After plugging in a drive and pressing a few buttons, the machine whirred to action, printing out a most unusual dish.
"So keep in mind this is just one dish out of... out of well I don't really know how many different kinds of dishes we have, all you need to know is that it's a very large number... But here's too hoping you enjoy it!"
What came out were this white, almost sphere like but more so a squat raindrop shaped... things. Will called them "Dumplings", and they smelled delicious, though he had dipped them in this brown liquid he called "Soy Sauce" that I really did not care for as far as smell goes.
I carefully picked one of these dumplings and bit into it.
"Oh my" I said, albeit muffled by the food.
"It's good isn't it! I told you!" Will grinned.
"That's quite the... texture. I don't really know how to process this. It's so soft and yet firm. Nutrient packs are so much easier, they don't make a mess and they're just so efficient, I mean, you could probably play around with the recipe, make them tastier. Right?"
"You just don't get it do you." Will said, shaking his head.
"Oh well, more for me." He grabbed at my half eaten dumpling.
"Hey! That's mine!"
"So you DO like it then!"
"No, just, ugh, leave me and my dumpling alone, I've already had my Nutrient Pack for the day I'm going to hibernate now."
Will rolled his eyes at my response.
"Fine." He said in that same begrudging manner as before.
I walked on over to the hibernation chamber, a circular area just big enough for me with a warm, gentle breeze flowing over. As I was going inside I heard Will behind me closing up the door after bringing everything inside.
"Wait... you were going to tell me about.... sleep..." I muttered out.
"Oh yes so hold one, could you just fully wake up for a little bit so I can explain, so your species, and for that matter every other alien species I've met, sleeps one hemisphere or one part of their brain at a time, but humans sleep the whole brain all at once."
"What's that like?" I replied, still in the grip of hibernation.
"So for starters we are like, FULLY unconscious the whole time, we can be woken up but we have a very, VERY limited understanding of what's going on around us. We also go limp so we don't move around accidentally, we still do. It's not perfect but it works enough to where I can say, "yeah we go limp"."
"But aren't you... what happens... if... someone ambushes you at night?"
"In all likelihood unless we happen to be right next to a weapon or something good enough, we die."
"Oh my. How... how did this not drive your species extinct?"
"I'm left wondering that same question too Tomō."
This might be the first time I've heard about a human ever being truly defenseless. Will had disappeared off into another room to change, returning in only a pair of shorts. Which left me examining his exposed torso. Human skin is wrapped quite tightly around the internal structure, and there seems to be very little, if any, loose skin, it also seemed to only be composed of one layer, most others I've meet without loose skin have special layers that can break off. Perhaps humans might be less sturdy than I had come to expect. No no that can't possibly be true I thought to myself, or as much as I could with half a brain working.
The morning was punctured by this infernal clattering from Will's bed, his arm swung up and smashed down on a small table next to him, causing the sound to stop.
"What was that?! Did someone find us?!"
"No... it was just my [Yawns] Alarm, we need to be startled to wake up and that [Will yawned again] was the startling noise."
Will climbed out of bed, shuffled over to another table (Those humans have a lot of tables) grabbed a fresh change of clothes and made his way over to the bathroom to change.
That's when I heard it, a loud SHHHHH sound from the bathroom, I made my way over to the locked door and shouted:
"EVERYTHING OKAY IN THERE WILL?"
"YEAH, JUST TAKING A SHOWER."
"A WHAT?"
"SHOWER"
"WHAT'S THAT?"
"I DON'T CARE FOR THIS CONVERSATION RIGHT NOW."
"OH OKAY."
I shuffled back over to my hibernation chamber, pulling the divider closed I took in a bath of UV sterilizing light and changed out of yesterday's uniform, and into todays, which on scout missions is always a set of cloths made to imitate the look of whatever cloths are common on whatever world we're scouting. In this case it was a brown turtleneck sweater, some black pants, 6 pairs of gloves as the basic orbital scan of their unencrypted communications revealed they obsess over cleanliness, often sporting multiple pairs of gloves for specific tasks, kept in separate pockets, land lastly, a sort of shawl like piece of fabric, apparently used to protect yourself from the midday dust and wind storms.
The disguise of our more... alien features was provided by some makeup, changing our skin to a sort of pale grey. We also made use of some printed prosthetic noses, wigs, and ears, which made our faces impossible to distinguish from the local inhabitants.
Once I had finished applying all my disguises, I exited my chamber and walked over to where Will was, standing by the synthesizer watching it print up a breakfast.
Will, who hadn't even donned the appropriate clothing at this point (he was wearing a simple outfit of black shorts and a grey t-shirt), was oddly enough, sopping wet. His hair had turned a jet black color due to its saturation of water, releasing its store down his face and his neck, resulting in the back of his shirt, and the front collar turning a visibly darker shade and sticking to his body, at this point I also noticed that his skin was covered in beads of moisture glinting in the sun.
"Why are you so wet?" I asked him.
"It has to do with a shower, I get myself under this sort of, simulated rainfall, only the temperature is nice and hot, and use soap, not the same kind you use to clean your hands, but the function is still the same, I then put some stuff in my hair which gets rid of oily build up, the water rinses everything off, but by the end I'm soaking wet, I will need to dry off properly though before I put on all the disguises."
As he grabbed his tray with his hands, still damp from the shower, and the skin around his fingers was all shriveled up.
"Your fingers look like mine now! See!" I asked, moving right up next to him to better show him my fingers.
"It just increases the surface area so I can grip things better underwater, only happens if they get wet."
"Why wouldn't they be like that all the time?"
"Once again I'm left wondering that question myself."
"So what's on the menu for "break-fast"?" I asked
"Well for starters, it's just one word, breakfast, and secondly, I'm having two slices of buttered toast, an egg, and a black tea. Standard human breakfast, though Coffee is more popular."
"Black tea...?" I had heard of Coffee before and its danger to other species, and was hoping that this tea drink lacked any of this substance known as Caffeine.
"Yeah just a little caffeine to wake me up."
"CAFFEINE?! That's... that's a.... that's a Class IV chemical weapon! They banned that centuries ago! How?! What?! Oh my... Oh my..." I began to hyperventilate.
"Relax! There's only what... 50 milligrams in a cup."
"FIFTY?! FIFTY!?! ONLY FIFTY?!? THAT'S TEN TIMES THE DEADLY DOSE! WHAT ARE YOUR THINKING!" I shrieked, though deep down I did take note of how that was less than that of Coffee.
"Shhh, you'll risk us getting caught, calm down, don't worry I'll have the cup disposed of properly, I've done this every day and so far, no one's gotten hurt." Will said in his standard, nonchalant attitude that has become so typical of him, a tone which did not seem anywhere near appropriate for the situation.
"SO FAR?!" I was not heeding his instructions to calm down, it's typically very hard to do so when faced with something that could lead to a violent death.
"Look, look, it's totally harmless for us humans, besides, the Federation strictly manages our recreational use of substances highly dangerous to other species, such as but not limited too: Caffeine, Capsaicin, and Cocoa. I make one wrong move and my ass is sent to jail."
I was shocked, frozen with shock, at least I wasn't screaming but I felt like I couldn't move a muscle. Capsaicin was last used by the Rx'lac to murder billions, Cocoa I hadn't heard of before so it must have been something unique to Earth, but it terrified me still. In my frozen state I waited for the cup he drank from to be destroyed, and at this moment I began to regain my motor functions.
After rigorously drying himself off with a towel and this awfully loud machine he pointed at his hair, Will began to
"Now, could you help me apply the makeup?"
Human hands, while much sturdier than what most of us use, in the case of Captain Reloxyn, she has 6 tentacles which can vary their diameter, and in the case of Zorxians like myself, we have the two hands attached to their respective arm much like a human, but the geometry of the fingers themselves are different, each finger is made up of 3 fluid filled sacs, attached one after another in segments, each sack is attached to the previous with a variety of muscles, which gives each joint the ability to make movements with a full 120 degree range of motion, in any direction. While this makes them far more fragile, due to the lack of skeletal structure, this makes us quite dextrous.
But yet, I noticed that Will's right hand, arm, and ankle were already painted, which puzzled me, if he could paint his right side, then why couldn't he paint his left?
"Do you really need my help? You did just fine painting the right side of your body."
"Tomō, do you really know so little about humans?"
"You know you're the first human I've met!"
"Humans tend to have what's called a dominant hand, what it means is that there's one hand I am really good at using, and another that I'm not so great at using, I *could* train myself to use both hands equally well, but I never really had a need, and even when it would've come in handy, there's always been someone else who can help me. Like you!"
"Aww, thanks!" I responded.
"In my case, my dominant hand is my left one, fairly uncommon. Only about 10% of people are like that, the rest are right handed, and a very small number are born with both hands being of equal capability."
"But you really should get on it with the whole training your right hand. There won't always be someone to help you."
"And yet there always has." Will responded jokingly.
"We ready?" I asked.
"Just have to get some things ready, hold on, if this society is so obsessed with cleanliness, how come they don't wear face masks? I doubt they've gotten to a point where they've already eradicated all diseases. That should take them at least another century."
"Oh, this is the really cool thing about this planet! So basically, airborne diseases never evolved! They just... don't exist here!"
"Absolutely fascinating." Will responded.
"Everything we need is now in the bag." He pointed to the black bag slung over his shoulder made from the local flora.
"And we should be ready to go!" Will enthusiastically marched over to the shuttle door, opening it at saying;
"After you!" With a look of pride on his face, odd, if anyone should be proud, it should be me, after all, this mission is already off to a good start considering he's a rookie.
The red light of Ix bathed the planet in this warm glow, Ix was rare for a red-dwarf system, as most habitable planets are tidally locked, but we marched through the woods, noting observations of the local ecosystem that we stopped periodically to jot down in our notepad.
About halfway through the forest Will stopped suddenly, turning back to face me.
"You forgot to tell me what bridge came up with for our secret identities? Oh stars, saying it like that makes me feel like some kind of super-spy!"
"Oh yes, I must have gotten distracted..." I reached for my communicator.
"Okay, so we're two hikers, you named Po'ol and I named Gra'aul, and we just finished up a nice long hike and so we're off back to Hl'Ix, population 12.8 million, and about a 2 hour train ride. Oh by the way, I have to share the language file hold on... yup that should do it! Congratulations you are now fluent in Ix!"
A requirement of working for any Federation job was the implantation of a language chip which allowed the user to become fluent in all 608 languages and, what they called "Significant Dialects" spoken in the Federation, though for people working on exploration vessels like me and Will, we had access to a file sharing system so we could download new languages for the planets we visited after the central computer processed them.
"Thanks!" Will responded from a meter or so ahead of me.
We continued our march down to the road, where we walked parallel to it as cars zipped by. Eventually the forest we had landed in cleared way for farmland, which after about 5 kilometers or so more walking, started to turn to houses with expansive yards, which gradually became smaller and smaller as we neared the center of town.
"You getting tired yet?" Will asked me, we had decided it was best for him to walk behind me, so we could make sure we stayed together.
"Yeah, but just a bit longer until we make it into... whatever the name of this town is."
"Alright."
We continued to make our way into the town, named Urup and with a population of about 3 thousand. When we got there it was almost devoid of any activity, and the wind had started to pick up, which carried in dust. Thankfully we anticipated this, having donned contact lenses to keep debris out of our eyes, and using the shawl to cover up our mouth and nose. At this point will stopped to pull out a small, and very thin, weather sheet, which he released into the wind. This device would record the weather conditions as it gets carried by the wind. Just after doing this, he turned to me and said,
"Weather at time of release: Temperature: 10 degrees Celsius. Wind speed: 56 Kph, rising. Feels like: 5.2 Degrees Celsius, falling. It wasn't able to get a good reading on dust concentration because it's rising too fast so that should tell you everything you need to know."
The wind nearly blew Will's shawl off, but he grabbed it just in time, and me, being too focused on Will, had let my own shawl blow away in the wind, and while Will had tried to reach for it, the wind carried it away far too quickly for him to get it in time, only missing his fingers by a handful of centimeters. I quickly covered my mouth with my sweater, though this did leave part of my midsection exposed to the elements, a suboptimal position to be in during a dust storm of this magnitude.
"Dammit! Almost had the blasted thing!" Will shouted, the rush of the wind was beginning to drown out our voices.
He put his hand in one of the many pockets on his pants, that's something everyone can appreciate about Ix fashion, anything below 10 pockets is simply unacceptable. Anyways, Will pulled out a small pair of scissors, and quickly removed his shawl.
"What are you doing you can't remove your shawl in these conditions!" I shouted back at him.
"I'll be quick, don't worry!" Will responded as he cut his cloth in two.
"Here!" He said handing me the now removed half of his shawl, and quickly covering his face with the remaining half.
We continued on, though this time much slower than before, as we didn't want to loose our balance and be toppled by the wind. Never before had I ever had to deal with wind this intense, no wonder they assigned the human.
"Squat down! Boundary layer winds should be slower!" He shouted to me while bending down to waddle his way across the street to the hotel.
Squatting down only provided minimal relief, as I suppose one would have to crawl to truly take advantage of this effect. Slowly but surely we made our way across the road, over to the hotel. Opening the first set of doors we were met with a powerful blast of air, which prevented any dust from getting in. Only until after the doors had closed, and our clothes were sufficiently purged of any particulates that had somehow lodged their way into the remarkably dense fabrics. Eventually though, the blast died down, and the second doors opened automatically.
The doors opened to reveal an interior with a largely brown, beige, and black color pattern. The whole lobby was lit with a quite warm color tone, with the lightbulbs occasionally flickering and all the windows had been sealed off behind steel plates. Eventually Will turned his head to face a desk spanning quite a large distance, located just in front of a large board with all the room numbers located next to a light.
We could vaguely hear someone talking to another person, emanating from behind a door marked "Employees Only", Will glanced at me, pulling my attention to his gloves, which he began to swap out for a new pair. I quickly followed suit. Eventually, just moments after I finished putting on a new pair of gloves, one of the people from behind the door exited.
"Why on Ix would there ever be customers walking in during the middle of the storm! We issued the alert 2 hours ago!" The woman said to the man who stayed in the room as the door closed behind her.
Turning around to face the two of us, and walking over to the main part of the check in desk, she began to speak to us.
"Hi my name us Za'ul!" She said, showing us her name tag.
"Now what can I do for the two of you! Must've been miserable trapped out there in the storm!"
Will began to approach the desk, seeing this I decided to sit down and catch my breath, the 10 kilometer walk had exhausted me, it was remarkable to see Will barley fazed by it.
"Hi my name is Po'ol and this is my hiking buddy Gra'aul, we just finished up the most beautiful of hikes through that nearby forest, so we're on our way back to Hl'ix! I was wondering if you could get us a room please and thank you ma'am." He said in a sort of folksy manner, not too dissimilar from the way Za'ul spoke.
"Alright you want one bed or two?" She responded.
"-Two please." He said, almost cutting Za'ul off.
"All right! You want first floor or second floor?"
"Oh second floor would be lovely."
"Well here's your key and have a lovely stay!"
Will walked over to me.
"Got us a key for room 203, here's your key" Will had switched from his folksy mannerisms to a soft whisper, but I just let the key hit me, I was far to tired to catch it.
"Well I see our hike took quite a bit out of you, so just come up when your ready, I got the bags don't worry."
I nodded my head in silent agreement, I was exhausted, but I knew I should probably go upstairs to the room with him.
"Hold on.." I said, slowly lifting myself up onto my feet and carefully making my way over to the elevator.
Standing in the cramped elevator I noticed Will suddenly had this terrible and persistent oder.
"You okay?" I asked him
"Yeah... why do you ask?"
"It's just... you smell kind of... bad."
"Oh!" He chuckled with that same old chuckle I had heard a million times before.
"Yeah, uh, I'm sure after I explained to you what a shower was you were probably perplexed as to why we don't do the standard UV bath, but basically humans smell bad after a long day, or after a long enough, or intense enough period of physical exertion. Showering gets rid of the smell. I did notice the Ix had only a single layer of skin, and hopefully this means they too have the scent issues that humans have, and thus also make use of showering."
"I see. Can you take another shower when we get to the hotel?"
"Tomō! That's... don't say that to other humans okay, you can be direct with me like that but... a lot of other humans will not take that kindly. Just letting you know that."
ding
The elevator had made its way up to the second floor.
"Let's see, 203... 203... here it is!"
Will unlocked the door and opened it.
"Oh thank the stars they have actual beds and it wasn't just a translational error!" He cried out in relief.
Will ran over to the bathroom.
"And they have showers too! Just Wonderful! Don't worry a shower should adequately clean you too."
"Oh I brought my own portable UV sterilizer, I'll be fine."
"You just relax down I'll take care of the report back to bridge."
I made my way over to the beds and just collapsed into it. Hibernating while laying down was not ideal, but at this point I'd do anything not to be on my feet anymore. Eventually I decided that I didn't care for lying face down, and instead rolled over to face Will, just to make sure he didn't botch the report.
Eventually once he finished his report, he walked over to the rooms corners and placed the sound barriers, which would cancel out our voices making sure nobody heard us. Which he, well, I was supposed to do first thing upon entering, though I was far to tired, and Will must've only just noticed. You know, when he first got here he really just annoyed me to no end, but now, he's really settled in and has gotten really into the hang of things, and sure, he's weird, but you know what, he's a human, he's not weird, just... different.
I think I'm going to leave it off here, I know I promised some action but this is just where the story lead me, and it was already getting long. Part 5 will be out tomorrow. Hope you enjoyed reading!
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Pt 2 If you haven't read it.
Pt 3 If you haven't read it.
Hope you enjoy Pt 4 and happy reading!
*Flick* "Aligning descent profile for re-entry." I had made all the final preparations
*Flick* "Prepare for comms black out in 10" William began the countdown.
"9"
"8"
"7"
"6"
"5- when you get back I absolutely *have* to show you this really old movie, interstellar, its a classic" Will interjected.
"4-Oh my stars we're about to enter the atmosphere of Ix-5 at 7km/s and all you can think about is showing me some old movie when we get back?!"
"3- Fine."
"2"
The plasma had begun to lick around the edges of the heat shield and up onto the windows.
"1"
The comms began to make a static hissing sound.
"Just breathe." Will muttered to himself.
The whole shuttle began to shake violently.
"PASSING MAX-Q" Will had to shout to be heard over all the rattling.
Just like that, it began to quiet down, the fiery inferno of re-entry plasma died down and we began our coast down to find a suitable landing spot. Comms had also returned.
*Click* "I'd just like to let everyone know that we made it through re-entry just fine." Will had radioed back to the ship.
The sound of faint cheers from bridge could be heard.
"Engaging cloaking device" *Flick*
A loud hum could be heard as the cloaking device not only prevented us from being seen by eyes, but also seen by any radar, sonar, or other means of detection spun to life.
"So where should we land?"
"Oh just a few more kilometers to shore, then I'll just find a nice, secluded spot and we'll spend the next couple of days getting to know the locals!" I responded gleefully, as this was my first time with a civilization that didn't just learn how to farm.
After carefully gliding down we landed in a patch of grass-like vegetation. Will pointed out all the leaves were all black, to which I responded by telling him that the vegetation had to adapt to capture more of the light spectrum than the vegetation on Earth, because of the dimmer, red dwarf this planet orbited.
We had set up the basics, communications equipment, synthesizers, and a variety of other scientific tools.
"Hey, remember when you said you wanted to see an example of human food! Because I do!" Will exclaimed giddily.
After plugging in a drive and pressing a few buttons, the machine whirred to action, printing out a most unusual dish.
"So keep in mind this is just one dish out of... out of well I don't really know how many different kinds of dishes we have, all you need to know is that it's a very large number... But here's too hoping you enjoy it!"
What came out were this white, almost sphere like but more so a squat raindrop shaped... things. Will called them "Dumplings", and they smelled delicious, though he had dipped them in this brown liquid he called "Soy Sauce" that I really did not care for as far as smell goes.
I carefully picked one of these dumplings and bit into it.
"Oh my" I said, albeit muffled by the food.
"It's good isn't it! I told you!" Will grinned.
"That's quite the... texture. I don't really know how to process this. It's so soft and yet firm. Nutrient packs are so much easier, they don't make a mess and they're just so efficient, I mean, you could probably play around with the recipe, make them tastier. Right?"
"You just don't get it do you." Will said, shaking his head.
"Oh well, more for me." He grabbed at my half eaten dumpling.
"Hey! That's mine!"
"So you DO like it then!"
"No, just, ugh, leave me and my dumpling alone, I've already had my Nutrient Pack for the day I'm going to hibernate now."
Will rolled his eyes at my response.
"Fine." He said in that same begrudging manner as before.
I walked on over to the hibernation chamber, a circular area just big enough for me with a warm, gentle breeze flowing over. As I was going inside I heard Will behind me closing up the door after bringing everything inside.
"Wait... you were going to tell me about.... sleep..." I muttered out.
"Oh yes so hold one, could you just fully wake up for a little bit so I can explain, so your species, and for that matter every other alien species I've met, sleeps one hemisphere or one part of their brain at a time, but humans sleep the whole brain all at once."
"What's that like?" I replied, still in the grip of hibernation.
"So for starters we are like, FULLY unconscious the whole time, we can be woken up but we have a very, VERY limited understanding of what's going on around us. We also go limp so we don't move around accidentally, we still do. It's not perfect but it works enough to where I can say, "yeah we go limp"."
"But aren't you... what happens... if... someone ambushes you at night?"
"In all likelihood unless we happen to be right next to a weapon or something good enough, we die."
"Oh my. How... how did this not drive your species extinct?"
"I'm left wondering that same question too Tomō."
This might be the first time I've heard about a human ever being truly defenseless. Will had disappeared off into another room to change, returning in only a pair of shorts. Which left me examining his exposed torso. Human skin is wrapped quite tightly around the internal structure, and there seems to be very little, if any, loose skin, it also seemed to only be composed of one layer, most others I've meet without loose skin have special layers that can break off. Perhaps humans might be less sturdy than I had come to expect. No no that can't possibly be true I thought to myself, or as much as I could with half a brain working.
The morning was punctured by this infernal clattering from Will's bed, his arm swung up and smashed down on a small table next to him, causing the sound to stop.
"What was that?! Did someone find us?!"
"No... it was just my [Yawns] Alarm, we need to be startled to wake up and that [Will yawned again] was the startling noise."
Will climbed out of bed, shuffled over to another table (Those humans have a lot of tables) grabbed a fresh change of clothes and made his way over to the bathroom to change.
That's when I heard it, a loud SHHHHH sound from the bathroom, I made my way over to the locked door and shouted:
"EVERYTHING OKAY IN THERE WILL?"
"YEAH, JUST TAKING A SHOWER."
"A WHAT?"
"SHOWER"
"WHAT'S THAT?"
"I DON'T CARE FOR THIS CONVERSATION RIGHT NOW."
"OH OKAY."
I shuffled back over to my hibernation chamber, pulling the divider closed I took in a bath of UV sterilizing light and changed out of yesterday's uniform, and into todays, which on scout missions is always a set of cloths made to imitate the look of whatever cloths are common on whatever world we're scouting. In this case it was a brown turtleneck sweater, some black pants, 6 pairs of gloves as the basic orbital scan of their unencrypted communications revealed they obsess over cleanliness, often sporting multiple pairs of gloves for specific tasks, kept in separate pockets, land lastly, a sort of shawl like piece of fabric, apparently used to protect yourself from the midday dust and wind storms.
The disguise of our more... alien features was provided by some makeup, changing our skin to a sort of pale grey. We also made use of some printed prosthetic noses, wigs, and ears, which made our faces impossible to distinguish from the local inhabitants.
Once I had finished applying all my disguises, I exited my chamber and walked over to where Will was, standing by the synthesizer watching it print up a breakfast.
Will, who hadn't even donned the appropriate clothing at this point (he was wearing a simple outfit of black shorts and a grey t-shirt), was oddly enough, sopping wet. His hair had turned a jet black color due to its saturation of water, releasing its store down his face and his neck, resulting in the back of his shirt, and the front collar turning a visibly darker shade and sticking to his body, at this point I also noticed that his skin was covered in beads of moisture glinting in the sun.
"Why are you so wet?" I asked him.
"It has to do with a shower, I get myself under this sort of, simulated rainfall, only the temperature is nice and hot, and use soap, not the same kind you use to clean your hands, but the function is still the same, I then put some stuff in my hair which gets rid of oily build up, the water rinses everything off, but by the end I'm soaking wet, I will need to dry off properly though before I put on all the disguises."
As he grabbed his tray with his hands, still damp from the shower, and the skin around his fingers was all shriveled up.
"Your fingers look like mine now! See!" I asked, moving right up next to him to better show him my fingers.
"It just increases the surface area so I can grip things better underwater, only happens if they get wet."
"Why wouldn't they be like that all the time?"
"Once again I'm left wondering that question myself."
"So what's on the menu for "break-fast"?" I asked
"Well for starters, it's just one word, breakfast, and secondly, I'm having two slices of buttered toast, an egg, and a black tea. Standard human breakfast, though Coffee is more popular."
"Black tea...?" I had heard of Coffee before and its danger to other species, and was hoping that this tea drink lacked any of this substance known as Caffeine.
"Yeah just a little caffeine to wake me up."
"CAFFEINE?! That's... that's a.... that's a Class IV chemical weapon! They banned that centuries ago! How?! What?! Oh my... Oh my..." I began to hyperventilate.
"Relax! There's only what... 50 milligrams in a cup."
"FIFTY?! FIFTY!?! ONLY FIFTY?!? THAT'S TEN TIMES THE DEADLY DOSE! WHAT ARE YOUR THINKING!" I shrieked, though deep down I did take note of how that was less than that of Coffee.
"Shhh, you'll risk us getting caught, calm down, don't worry I'll have the cup disposed of properly, I've done this every day and so far, no one's gotten hurt." Will said in his standard, nonchalant attitude that has become so typical of him, a tone which did not seem anywhere near appropriate for the situation.
"SO FAR?!" I was not heeding his instructions to calm down, it's typically very hard to do so when faced with something that could lead to a violent death.
"Look, look, it's totally harmless for us humans, besides, the Federation strictly manages our recreational use of substances highly dangerous to other species, such as but not limited too: Caffeine, Capsaicin, and Cocoa. I make one wrong move and my ass is sent to jail."
I was shocked, frozen with shock, at least I wasn't screaming but I felt like I couldn't move a muscle. Capsaicin was last used by the Rx'lac to murder billions, Cocoa I hadn't heard of before so it must have been something unique to Earth, but it terrified me still. In my frozen state I waited for the cup he drank from to be destroyed, and at this moment I began to regain my motor functions.
After rigorously drying himself off with a towel and this awfully loud machine he pointed at his hair, Will began to
"Now, could you help me apply the makeup?"
Human hands, while much sturdier than what most of us use, in the case of Captain Reloxyn, she has 6 tentacles which can vary their diameter, and in the case of Zorxians like myself, we have the two hands attached to their respective arm much like a human, but the geometry of the fingers themselves are different, each finger is made up of 3 fluid filled sacs, attached one after another in segments, each sack is attached to the previous with a variety of muscles, which gives each joint the ability to make movements with a full 120 degree range of motion, in any direction. While this makes them far more fragile, due to the lack of skeletal structure, this makes us quite dextrous.
But yet, I noticed that Will's right hand, arm, and ankle were already painted, which puzzled me, if he could paint his right side, then why couldn't he paint his left?
"Do you really need my help? You did just fine painting the right side of your body."
"Tomō, do you really know so little about humans?"
"You know you're the first human I've met!"
"Humans tend to have what's called a dominant hand, what it means is that there's one hand I am really good at using, and another that I'm not so great at using, I *could* train myself to use both hands equally well, but I never really had a need, and even when it would've come in handy, there's always been someone else who can help me. Like you!"
"Aww, thanks!" I responded.
"In my case, my dominant hand is my left one, fairly uncommon. Only about 10% of people are like that, the rest are right handed, and a very small number are born with both hands being of equal capability."
"But you really should get on it with the whole training your right hand. There won't always be someone to help you."
"And yet there always has." Will responded jokingly.
"We ready?" I asked.
"Just have to get some things ready, hold on, if this society is so obsessed with cleanliness, how come they don't wear face masks? I doubt they've gotten to a point where they've already eradicated all diseases. That should take them at least another century."
"Oh, this is the really cool thing about this planet! So basically, airborne diseases never evolved! They just... don't exist here!"
"Absolutely fascinating." Will responded.
"Everything we need is now in the bag." He pointed to the black bag slung over his shoulder made from the local flora.
"And we should be ready to go!" Will enthusiastically marched over to the shuttle door, opening it at saying;
"After you!" With a look of pride on his face, odd, if anyone should be proud, it should be me, after all, this mission is already off to a good start considering he's a rookie.
The red light of Ix bathed the planet in this warm glow, Ix was rare for a red-dwarf system, as most habitable planets are tidally locked, but we marched through the woods, noting observations of the local ecosystem that we stopped periodically to jot down in our notepad.
About halfway through the forest Will stopped suddenly, turning back to face me.
"You forgot to tell me what bridge came up with for our secret identities? Oh stars, saying it like that makes me feel like some kind of super-spy!"
"Oh yes, I must have gotten distracted..." I reached for my communicator.
"Okay, so we're two hikers, you named Po'ol and I named Gra'aul, and we just finished up a nice long hike and so we're off back to Hl'Ix, population 12.8 million, and about a 2 hour train ride. Oh by the way, I have to share the language file hold on... yup that should do it! Congratulations you are now fluent in Ix!"
A requirement of working for any Federation job was the implantation of a language chip which allowed the user to become fluent in all 608 languages and, what they called "Significant Dialects" spoken in the Federation, though for people working on exploration vessels like me and Will, we had access to a file sharing system so we could download new languages for the planets we visited after the central computer processed them.
"Thanks!" Will responded from a meter or so ahead of me.
We continued our march down to the road, where we walked parallel to it as cars zipped by. Eventually the forest we had landed in cleared way for farmland, which after about 5 kilometers or so more walking, started to turn to houses with expansive yards, which gradually became smaller and smaller as we neared the center of town.
"You getting tired yet?" Will asked me, we had decided it was best for him to walk behind me, so we could make sure we stayed together.
"Yeah, but just a bit longer until we make it into... whatever the name of this town is."
"Alright."
We continued to make our way into the town, named Urup and with a population of about 3 thousand. When we got there it was almost devoid of any activity, and the wind had started to pick up, which carried in dust. Thankfully we anticipated this, having donned contact lenses to keep debris out of our eyes, and using the shawl to cover up our mouth and nose. At this point will stopped to pull out a small, and very thin, weather sheet, which he released into the wind. This device would record the weather conditions as it gets carried by the wind. Just after doing this, he turned to me and said,
"Weather at time of release: Temperature: 10 degrees Celsius. Wind speed: 56 Kph, rising. Feels like: 5.2 Degrees Celsius, falling. It wasn't able to get a good reading on dust concentration because it's rising too fast so that should tell you everything you need to know."
The wind nearly blew Will's shawl off, but he grabbed it just in time, and me, being too focused on Will, had let my own shawl blow away in the wind, and while Will had tried to reach for it, the wind carried it away far too quickly for him to get it in time, only missing his fingers by a handful of centimeters. I quickly covered my mouth with my sweater, though this did leave part of my midsection exposed to the elements, a suboptimal position to be in during a dust storm of this magnitude.
"Dammit! Almost had the blasted thing!" Will shouted, the rush of the wind was beginning to drown out our voices.
He put his hand in one of the many pockets on his pants, that's something everyone can appreciate about Ix fashion, anything below 10 pockets is simply unacceptable. Anyways, Will pulled out a small pair of scissors, and quickly removed his shawl.
"What are you doing you can't remove your shawl in these conditions!" I shouted back at him.
"I'll be quick, don't worry!" Will responded as he cut his cloth in two.
"Here!" He said handing me the now removed half of his shawl, and quickly covering his face with the remaining half.
We continued on, though this time much slower than before, as we didn't want to loose our balance and be toppled by the wind. Never before had I ever had to deal with wind this intense, no wonder they assigned the human.
"Squat down! Boundary layer winds should be slower!" He shouted to me while bending down to waddle his way across the street to the hotel.
Squatting down only provided minimal relief, as I suppose one would have to crawl to truly take advantage of this effect. Slowly but surely we made our way across the road, over to the hotel. Opening the first set of doors we were met with a powerful blast of air, which prevented any dust from getting in. Only until after the doors had closed, and our clothes were sufficiently purged of any particulates that had somehow lodged their way into the remarkably dense fabrics. Eventually though, the blast died down, and the second doors opened automatically.
The doors opened to reveal an interior with a largely brown, beige, and black color pattern. The whole lobby was lit with a quite warm color tone, with the lightbulbs occasionally flickering and all the windows had been sealed off behind steel plates. Eventually Will turned his head to face a desk spanning quite a large distance, located just in front of a large board with all the room numbers located next to a light.
We could vaguely hear someone talking to another person, emanating from behind a door marked "Employees Only", Will glanced at me, pulling my attention to his gloves, which he began to swap out for a new pair. I quickly followed suit. Eventually, just moments after I finished putting on a new pair of gloves, one of the people from behind the door exited.
"Why on Ix would there ever be customers walking in during the middle of the storm! We issued the alert 2 hours ago!" The woman said to the man who stayed in the room as the door closed behind her.
Turning around to face the two of us, and walking over to the main part of the check in desk, she began to speak to us.
"Hi my name us Za'ul!" She said, showing us her name tag.
"Now what can I do for the two of you! Must've been miserable trapped out there in the storm!"
Will began to approach the desk, seeing this I decided to sit down and catch my breath, the 10 kilometer walk had exhausted me, it was remarkable to see Will barley fazed by it.
"Hi my name is Po'ol and this is my hiking buddy Gra'aul, we just finished up the most beautiful of hikes through that nearby forest, so we're on our way back to Hl'ix! I was wondering if you could get us a room please and thank you ma'am." He said in a sort of folksy manner, not too dissimilar from the way Za'ul spoke.
"Alright you want one bed or two?" She responded.
"-Two please." He said, almost cutting Za'ul off.
"All right! You want first floor or second floor?"
"Oh second floor would be lovely."
"Well here's your key and have a lovely stay!"
Will walked over to me.
"Got us a key for room 203, here's your key" Will had switched from his folksy mannerisms to a soft whisper, but I just let the key hit me, I was far to tired to catch it.
"Well I see our hike took quite a bit out of you, so just come up when your ready, I got the bags don't worry."
I nodded my head in silent agreement, I was exhausted, but I knew I should probably go upstairs to the room with him.
"Hold on.." I said, slowly lifting myself up onto my feet and carefully making my way over to the elevator.
Standing in the cramped elevator I noticed Will suddenly had this terrible and persistent oder.
"You okay?" I asked him
"Yeah... why do you ask?"
"It's just... you smell kind of... bad."
"Oh!" He chuckled with that same old chuckle I had heard a million times before.
"Yeah, uh, I'm sure after I explained to you what a shower was you were probably perplexed as to why we don't do the standard UV bath, but basically humans smell bad after a long day, or after a long enough, or intense enough period of physical exertion. Showering gets rid of the smell. I did notice the Ix had only a single layer of skin, and hopefully this means they too have the scent issues that humans have, and thus also make use of showering."
"I see. Can you take another shower when we get to the hotel?"
"Tomō! That's... don't say that to other humans okay, you can be direct with me like that but... a lot of other humans will not take that kindly. Just letting you know that."
ding
The elevator had made its way up to the second floor.
"Let's see, 203... 203... here it is!"
Will unlocked the door and opened it.
"Oh thank the stars they have actual beds and it wasn't just a translational error!" He cried out in relief.
Will ran over to the bathroom.
"And they have showers too! Just Wonderful! Don't worry a shower should adequately clean you too."
"Oh I brought my own portable UV sterilizer, I'll be fine."
"You just relax down I'll take care of the report back to bridge."
I made my way over to the beds and just collapsed into it. Hibernating while laying down was not ideal, but at this point I'd do anything not to be on my feet anymore. Eventually I decided that I didn't care for lying face down, and instead rolled over to face Will, just to make sure he didn't botch the report.
Eventually once he finished his report, he walked over to the rooms corners and placed the sound barriers, which would cancel out our voices making sure nobody heard us. Which he, well, I was supposed to do first thing upon entering, though I was far to tired, and Will must've only just noticed. You know, when he first got here he really just annoyed me to no end, but now, he's really settled in and has gotten really into the hang of things, and sure, he's weird, but you know what, he's a human, he's not weird, just... different.
I think I'm going to leave it off here, I know I promised some action but this is just where the story lead me, and it was already getting long. Part 5 will be out tomorrow. Hope you enjoyed reading!