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2023.06.11 03:34 penmaster3000 Garou Mark of the Wolves - Story Info
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Just because you're hungry doesn't mean you're really hungry.
Fighting not to starve, and by continuing to seek, it will only make sense.
-Kain R. Heinlein
Once upon a time, there were men who risked everything in battle...
"One burns with revenge, while the other harbors ambitions..." Justice didn't matter to them. However, he put his beliefs into his fist and fought...and settled himself.
It's an old story now... Ten years had passed since then.
Ever since the invitation arrived, the boy had been lost.
・・・・・・・・King of Fighters.
A martial arts festival that brings together martial artists from all over the world. However, it has not been held since the organizer, Geese Howard, died mysteriously.
・・・・・・・・Why is that?
The boy read the letter again.
"Maximum Mayhem King of Fighters"
Notice of holding
We have decided to hold "King of Fighters" for the first time in 10 years. I would like you, the former winner, to participate as the defending champion.
Also, I would like to ask you to bring Mr. Howard with you. I've heard rumors of Rock's strength, so if you participate, there's no doubt that you'll have a blast.
In addition, if you win, we will prepare a large amount of prize money more than the previous time.
In addition, there is a special winning product from our family head who is the organizer.
that is········
"Maximum Mayhem King of Fighters"
About Rock's mother... I'll just say that for now.
I will tell you all the details when I win.
I look forward to hearing from you.
-Heinlein family butler, Arnold Sebastian
When the boy finished reading the letter, he closed his eyes again. And after a few seconds, he opened his eyes with a determined look, and he said to the man who was getting ready to go.
"Okay......I've decided."
"Yes, what are you going to do?"
The boy got up from his chair and answered.
"Oh, two tickets to Second South, Terry."
"These two had an immeasurable deep bond..."
Going back, 19 years ago. When Kain was still in the slums, he had a man he could call his best friend.
The man's name is Abel
Ever since they met each other as orphans they have come to understand each other.
One day, Kain and Abel witnessed a boy of the same age being lynched.
It was clear from their words and deeds that the attackers were a group of thugs who were famous for their viciousness in the slums.
Even so, the boy continued to be beaten without resistance. He knew if he resists, they would beat more... He had no choice but to endure.
However, the sound of creaking flesh echoed through the city dozens of times, and when the thugs finally left, the boy had already died...
After several hours·····. Kain and Abel generously buried the boy on a hill overlooking the sea.
The two of them were looking out at the sea. After a while, Kain turned to Abel.
"...I...don't like it. To rot in a place like this without fighting...I don't like it!"
"Kain... you?"
"Someday I'll get out of here. And I'll take everything! Then come with me! Abel!"
Abel was silent for a moment, but he soon turned to Kain as if he had made up his mind.
"...Okay, I understand. I don't want to die here either. If you want to push forward, I will push forward too. ”
“That’s right! We won’t die in a place like this!... I can't stand to die! ”
Kain clenched his fist... and further strengthened his resolve.
"I want power... power to have it all... and for that, I need your help, Abel!"
"... OK, Kain. I'll help you. If you're on the front, I'll be on the back..."
The evening sun casts its shadows on the ground. The two shadows were tight, holding hands.
Grant
Grant's true identity is Kain's best friend since childhood, Abel Cameron.
The ambition he dreamed of with Kain when he was a child... In order to embody true freedom in the Second South, he volunteered to assist Kain behind the scenes. Despite his dangerous backroom job, Abel's work was always flawless and helped strengthen Kain's power within the organization.
However, at one point, he was betrayed by an organization executive who was jealous of Kain's early promotion and received a bullet in his chest.
He managed to survive and had no problems with his motor function, but it hit so close to his heart that it could not be extracted. And the bullet is definitely approaching his heart, and it is said that when it reaches it will be Abel's end.
A room in an old apartment on the outskirts of Southtown.
A seven-year-old boy, Rock, lives a modest life with his mother.
His life wasn't very rich, but it was a happy day surrounded by his mother's love.
He know his father, but he never wanted to meet me.
"Don't cause trouble for that person." Was his mother's wish.
However, Rock's desire to meet his father someday grows stronger.
One day, his mother falls ill with a mysterious illness.
Rock took care of her, but it was too much for a child to handle.
He hears her calling his father's name in a whimper.
Thinking about his ideas, Rock decided to ask Geese for help.
Rock headed to Geese Tower alone.
And he finally met his father for the first time.
Rock immediately tells him about his mother's condition, and he begs for help.
However, Geese did not listen to his wish and sent Rock back.
That night... his mother quietly took her last breath...
Since then, he has come to hate Geese.
"Rock's State of Mind after the Death of Geese"
Time passes, and it's been a year since Rock came to Terry.
Terry finally settled with Geese.
However, it also meant the death of his father.
Ever since his mother's death, Rock has held a grudge against his father but now has mixed feelings.
It may have been the sentiment of losing his last relative.
But Rock didn't care why.
Unable to think of anything else, Rock challenges Terry to a street fight.
Without saying a word, Terry accepted and the two fought all day and night.
And that night...
Naturally, there was no way he could beat Terry, so he was beaten up and lay motionless, looking at the moon.
The moon and myself. He could faintly hear his heart beating.
It was strange that he felt life even in his powerless and small self.
And he was thinking... Wondering where he's headed...
And a few years later...
Rock was on an aimless journey with Terry.
It was also a journey of self-discovery that he desperately thought about.
Geese Howard's progeny was picked up by Terry.
He lost his mother to an illness when he was young, and holds a grudge against his father, Geese, for not helping her.
However, contrary to his feelings, he has inherited his father's natural fighting senses. He was unmatched even as a child, eventually taking up street fighting as a living.
He had absorbed many things from living with Terry. From learning martial arts to the ways of life.
He is currently traveling aimlessly with Terry, honing his skills at the various fighting tournaments he visits. His growth over the last few years has been remarkable, and rumor has it he's already on par with Terry.
This time he decides to join the "King of Fighters" in search of the truth about his late mother.
"Come on, Terry, let's get started!"
Terry Bogard has settled his long battle with Geese Howard.
After a fateful encounter with Rock the boy of fate, Terry left the now peaceful Southtown and set out on a journey without a destination. On this journey, Terry teaches Rock everything he's learned so far and gives direction to his wavering mind.
Terry receives an invitation to the fighting tournament "King of Fighters", which will be held for the first time in 10 years. What is the purpose of the tournament now that Geese is gone? Suspicious, Terry returns to the stage to solve the mystery.
"My fists don't rust! Take care!"
The eldest son of Taekwondo master Kim Kaphwan.
While Jae-Hoon is serious like his father, Dong Hwan is lazy and tends to skip the dojo. Each time he neglects his training wonders off he is scolded by his father.
However, his fighting sense is endowed with natural talent, and he uses a variety of techniques that are unique and varied. Some say that his strength surpasses that of his father in his prime. His younger brother Jae-hoon is also worried... If only he could come to training.
Though Dong Hwan seems to like doing whatever he pleases, he's actually a gentler man than most people. This time, he heard that Jae-hoon would follow in his father's footsteps and participate in the "King of Fighters", so he decided to participate in the same way in order to help him.
"Well, I'm a curious person too... but, I don't know what I'm gonna do!"
Second son of Taekwondo master Kim Kaphwan.
Even among the students at the dojo that Kaphwan taught, he is the most hard-working. Above all, he has a strong desire to improve and likes practicing more than eating. The way he practiced was enough to make his older brother, Dong Hwan, say, "I'm full just by looking at him."
However, at the end of that effort, he finally mastered his father's secret technique, "Phoenix Kick".
In addition, he was able to carry on his father's ideal of "spreading taekwondo to people around the world". And in order to put it into practice, he decided to participate in the "King of Fighters" this time.
He loves justice even more than his father and does not tolerate evil.
"Watch me, Dad! Now, I'm going to once again prove how great taekwondo is!"
A girl who continues her journey with her friend, Itokatsu.
She is searching for her father and brother, who went missing at the time of her mother's death. Though she behaves cheerfully and usually never shows weakness in public, she sometimes gets depressed.
The incident six years ago was the cause of such a trip. At that time, Hotaru was with her kind family. A strict father, a kind mother, and an older brother who protects her more than anyone else. Hotaru felt that he was a happy family even though he had strict training.
It all came crashing down with a sudden tyranny. When Hotaru rushes to her after noticing something strange, her father and brother are nowhere to be seen, only the cold corpse of her mother lying in the dojo.
From the time she lost her family, Hotaru's journey began.
This time she heard rumors of a man who looked like her brother at the "King of Fighters" fighting tournament, and she decided to participate.
"I might be able to meet my brother here... I have to do my best!"
A solitary lone wolf who follows his own path.
He seeks power to overthrow his father who caused his mother's death. He is training all over the world to acquire the ultimate martial arts. He is absolutely confident and doesn't shy away from anyone.
Much of his background is unknown, but he does not appear to be of Chinese nationality.
"...this little fish!"
The Byrne family; one of the world's leading conglomerates. Jenny was their only daughter.
In her carefree life, she always came to think the same thing.
That the purpose of life... Is doing something that only you can do that no one else can. Why was I given life, and why is she here?
In order to come to that conclusion, Jenny thought... If you can't find it while waiting, go find it yourself. If you can't find it, create it yourself. If you do it anyway, it will be thrilling and exciting! I want to surprise the world with flashy things!
That was the moment when the thief group "Lilian Knights" was born.
The purpose of this time is to go to the most mysterious fighting tournament "King of Fighters" and receive a huge prize.
"For me, it's a tournament!"
A student at Kyokugen-ryu Dojo Brazil Branch.
When he was just starting out, he heard rumors about Kyokugen-ryu and went to challenge the dojo in Southtown, but was defeated by the dojo's owner, Ryo Sakazaki. In that battle, he learned the strength and depth of Kyokugen-ryu, abandoned his previous martial arts, shaved his head, and entered Kyokugen-ryu.
After that, he continued his efforts and steadily raised his skills, and finally grew up to be appointed as a substitute teacher.
His karate was wild and full of agility, making use of the unique springing of his body. He made Ryo Sakazaki, the current leader of the Kyokugen-ryu, say, "Even if he's the king of beasts, he'll turn into a cat in front of him."
Among his disciples, now that Ryo has retired from the front line, he is rumored to be the strongest Kyokugen-ryu, or in other words, the strongest fighter in the world.
"Khushnood has mastered Kyokugen... you should try it on Chimi!"
A lively boy currently training in the Shiranui style deep in the mountains.
From an early age, he has trained in the Shiranui style. His master was a foreigner, but his technique was solid, and Hokutomaru respected such a master and immediately worked on his training.
However, when Hokutomaru reaches the age of 14, he will enter puberty. Various questions and worries come out in the training that continues every day.
Is he really good at his ninjutsu? How strong is his power?
And then, the outside world... What is going on in the world that I don't know...?
Once you start thinking about it, the thought becomes stronger and stronger.
Then one night, Hokutomaru finally decides to go down the mountain. The world he saw for the first time... What he jumped into was a poster for the "King of Fighters" event.
"Let's try my ninjutsu to see if it works in the city!"
"It's a boring day......"
He wanted to take risks.
It's already been 20 years since he was born into this world. The only thing he learned after spending most of his life in a dangerous slum... It is the conclusion that "it is only when you are next to death that you can always feel alive." He couldn't think of a way to keep his identity in the peaceful days.
The only thing that can satisfy his hunger is a serious street fight. The tension of fighting in a concrete ring... If you can beat it, it's not enough.
Alive or dead...? It was his favorite moment. To those who know nothing about that way of life, it may seem self-deprecating. But he thoroughly enjoys the insane danger.
This time, he hears that the strongest and worst demon of destruction will participate in "King of Fighters", and he feels excitement like never before and participates in the battle against this unprecedented enemy.
"...this moment...this moment is the only time I'm alive..."
Tizoc: a man who has maintained an undefeated record since his debut and climbed to the top at once. Once upon a time, he was a hero to children all over the country.
However, he loses to a mysterious man who suddenly appears.
For a moment, he loses self-confidence and completely loses sight of himself. But with the encouragement of the children and his fans, he regains himself.
From that day on, he began rigorous special training to regain everything.
And two years later………while being hit by a waterfall, he discovers the only weak spot in the stream. This is the catalyst for creating his strongest new special move "Big Fall Griffon".
With this new power, he returned to the stage of "King of Fighters".
"Children, I was revived by your cheers! Come on, let's go undefeated!"
"You're Uncle Kevin, aren't you? Take revenge on Papa...!"
That was last week. He had a close friend, but someone assassinated him. Even if he seeks revenge, he does not know who the culprit is.
When such days were piled up, the child appeared.
"But Bowes, I feel the same way, but I don't know who it is."
"I know who."
"What? For real?"
"Yeah, and my name is Markye, not Bowes."
"OK, let's go, buddy!"
Kevin immediately began to identify the route to Second South.
"My fist is the admiration of destruction...the one who sneers at God's scorn and worships power..."
Wherever he appears, it is said that there will always be conflict. In fact, there are countless cities that have turned into ghost towns. At some point, people feared Grant as a symbol of destruction.
It is said that the power that he obtained by selling his soul to the devil has the destructive power to overwhelm even the best fighters.
His motives are unknown, but while he prefers fighting above all else, he seems to have an extreme dislike of the weak.
It is rumored that the "King of Fighters" that will be held this time is actually controlled by Grant from the shadows.
"Come quickly... strong man... I am Grant, a martyr of battle..."
A clever man who wants to get everything in the free city, "Second South". His only purpose is... It is the complete independence of the Second South. And he is trying to create a slum of the whole district, a true law of the law.
The source of his ambitions is based on his childhood experiences. His hometown was in the worst part of the shantytown. He had no parents and was forced to live hand-to-hand with his only immediate relative, his sister.
A city where only power is everything. The only food you can get is the chips you get in street fights. Cain fought with a small body and came out alive.
That's when he realized. He is a protected human and a non-protected human. Humans who fight and pave their own way, and humans who are incorporated into the system and swept away. In this world, which one is facing the issue of "living" with sincerity...?
His position at birth is irrelevant. He wanted to create a truly free world.
When he was 8 years old, he got the chance to put that idea into practice. The appearance of Kain during a street fight caught the eye of Don Papas of the family (secret society) who happened to be passing by.
Kain, who was bought for his beauty and strength above all, was picked up by Don Papas and became a member of the family.
A dozen years later... Using his gifted talent as a weapon, he created his own power within the organization, overthrew Don Papas, and became the boss of the family. And now... at last, he has begun to put his long-standing idea into practice...
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Just because you're hungry doesn't mean you're really hungry.
Fighting not to starve, and by continuing to seek, it will only make sense.
-Kain R. Heinlein
Once upon a time, there were men who risked everything in battle...
"One burns with revenge, while the other harbors ambitions..." Justice didn't matter to them. However, he put his beliefs into his fist and fought...and settled himself.
It's an old story now... Ten years had passed since then.
Ever since the invitation arrived, the boy had been lost.
・・・・・・・・King of Fighters.
A martial arts festival that brings together martial artists from all over the world. However, it has not been held since the organizer, Geese Howard, died mysteriously.
・・・・・・・・Why is that?
The boy read the letter again.
"Maximum Mayhem King of Fighters"
Notice of holding
We have decided to hold "King of Fighters" for the first time in 10 years. I would like you, the former winner, to participate as the defending champion.
Also, I would like to ask you to bring Mr. Howard with you. I've heard rumors of Rock's strength, so if you participate, there's no doubt that you'll have a blast.
In addition, if you win, we will prepare a large amount of prize money more than the previous time.
In addition, there is a special winning product from our family head who is the organizer.
that is········
"Maximum Mayhem King of Fighters"
About Rock's mother... I'll just say that for now.
I will tell you all the details when I win.
I look forward to hearing from you.
-Heinlein family butler, Arnold Sebastian
When the boy finished reading the letter, he closed his eyes again. And after a few seconds, he opened his eyes with a determined look, and he said to the man who was getting ready to go.
"Okay......I've decided."
"Yes, what are you going to do?"
The boy got up from his chair and answered.
"Oh, two tickets to Second South, Terry."
Backstory 01
Kain and Grant..."These two had an immeasurable deep bond..."
Going back, 19 years ago. When Kain was still in the slums, he had a man he could call his best friend.
The man's name is Abel
Ever since they met each other as orphans they have come to understand each other.
One day, Kain and Abel witnessed a boy of the same age being lynched.
It was clear from their words and deeds that the attackers were a group of thugs who were famous for their viciousness in the slums.
Even so, the boy continued to be beaten without resistance. He knew if he resists, they would beat more... He had no choice but to endure.
However, the sound of creaking flesh echoed through the city dozens of times, and when the thugs finally left, the boy had already died...
After several hours·····. Kain and Abel generously buried the boy on a hill overlooking the sea.
The two of them were looking out at the sea. After a while, Kain turned to Abel.
"...I...don't like it. To rot in a place like this without fighting...I don't like it!"
"Kain... you?"
"Someday I'll get out of here. And I'll take everything! Then come with me! Abel!"
Abel was silent for a moment, but he soon turned to Kain as if he had made up his mind.
"...Okay, I understand. I don't want to die here either. If you want to push forward, I will push forward too. ”
“That’s right! We won’t die in a place like this!... I can't stand to die! ”
Kain clenched his fist... and further strengthened his resolve.
"I want power... power to have it all... and for that, I need your help, Abel!"
"... OK, Kain. I'll help you. If you're on the front, I'll be on the back..."
The evening sun casts its shadows on the ground. The two shadows were tight, holding hands.
Grant
Grant's true identity is Kain's best friend since childhood, Abel Cameron.
The ambition he dreamed of with Kain when he was a child... In order to embody true freedom in the Second South, he volunteered to assist Kain behind the scenes. Despite his dangerous backroom job, Abel's work was always flawless and helped strengthen Kain's power within the organization.
However, at one point, he was betrayed by an organization executive who was jealous of Kain's early promotion and received a bullet in his chest.
He managed to survive and had no problems with his motor function, but it hit so close to his heart that it could not be extracted. And the bullet is definitely approaching his heart, and it is said that when it reaches it will be Abel's end.
Backstory 02
"Relationship between Geese and Rock"A room in an old apartment on the outskirts of Southtown.
A seven-year-old boy, Rock, lives a modest life with his mother.
His life wasn't very rich, but it was a happy day surrounded by his mother's love.
He know his father, but he never wanted to meet me.
"Don't cause trouble for that person." Was his mother's wish.
However, Rock's desire to meet his father someday grows stronger.
One day, his mother falls ill with a mysterious illness.
Rock took care of her, but it was too much for a child to handle.
He hears her calling his father's name in a whimper.
Thinking about his ideas, Rock decided to ask Geese for help.
Rock headed to Geese Tower alone.
And he finally met his father for the first time.
Rock immediately tells him about his mother's condition, and he begs for help.
However, Geese did not listen to his wish and sent Rock back.
That night... his mother quietly took her last breath...
Since then, he has come to hate Geese.
"Rock's State of Mind after the Death of Geese"
Time passes, and it's been a year since Rock came to Terry.
Terry finally settled with Geese.
However, it also meant the death of his father.
Ever since his mother's death, Rock has held a grudge against his father but now has mixed feelings.
It may have been the sentiment of losing his last relative.
But Rock didn't care why.
Unable to think of anything else, Rock challenges Terry to a street fight.
Without saying a word, Terry accepted and the two fought all day and night.
And that night...
Naturally, there was no way he could beat Terry, so he was beaten up and lay motionless, looking at the moon.
The moon and myself. He could faintly hear his heart beating.
It was strange that he felt life even in his powerless and small self.
And he was thinking... Wondering where he's headed...
And a few years later...
Rock was on an aimless journey with Terry.
It was also a journey of self-discovery that he desperately thought about.
Rock Howard
| Profile | |
|---|---|
| Age: | 17 |
| Height: | 178 cm |
| Weight: | 70 kg |
| Birthday: | June 24 |
| Blood Type: | B |
| Nationality: | America |
| Fighting Style: | Kobu-justu + Martial Arts |
| Hobbies: | Touring, playing the base (he can perfectly copy any song he hears once) |
| Specialty: | Cooking (since making food for fast-food-loving Terry, he became a pro at it) |
| Most Important: | The hat that Terry gave him, his bike (Honda) |
| Most Unpleasant: | Women (growing up with a bunch of men, he's become a little shy) |
| Likes: | Driver Gloves |
| Dislikes: | People who boast all the time |
| Favorite Food: | Jumbalaya (but he doesn't like the sausages) |
| Favorite Music: | Hard Rock |
| Favorite Sport: | Street Basket (3 on 3) |
He lost his mother to an illness when he was young, and holds a grudge against his father, Geese, for not helping her.
However, contrary to his feelings, he has inherited his father's natural fighting senses. He was unmatched even as a child, eventually taking up street fighting as a living.
He had absorbed many things from living with Terry. From learning martial arts to the ways of life.
He is currently traveling aimlessly with Terry, honing his skills at the various fighting tournaments he visits. His growth over the last few years has been remarkable, and rumor has it he's already on par with Terry.
This time he decides to join the "King of Fighters" in search of the truth about his late mother.
"Come on, Terry, let's get started!"
Terry Bogard
| Profile | |
|---|---|
| Age: | 35 |
| Height: | 182 cm |
| Weight: | 81 kg |
| Birthday: | March 15 |
| Blood Type: | O |
| Nationality: | America |
| Fighting Style: | Martial Arts |
| Hobbies: | Wall Paint |
| Specialty: | Making 50 3-point shots in a row |
| Most Important: | Ukee, his monkey (ran away from home) |
| Most Unpleasant: | Cigacigarettes |
| Likes: | Vintage Jeans |
| Dislikes: | Slugs |
| Favorite Food: | Rock's Special Club Sandwiches (he overate recently and is a little chubby) |
| Favorite Music: | Country |
| Favorite Sport: | Basketball |
After a fateful encounter with Rock the boy of fate, Terry left the now peaceful Southtown and set out on a journey without a destination. On this journey, Terry teaches Rock everything he's learned so far and gives direction to his wavering mind.
Terry receives an invitation to the fighting tournament "King of Fighters", which will be held for the first time in 10 years. What is the purpose of the tournament now that Geese is gone? Suspicious, Terry returns to the stage to solve the mystery.
"My fists don't rust! Take care!"
Kim Dong Hwan
| Profile | |
|---|---|
| Age: | 20 |
| Height: | 181 cm |
| Weight: | 78 kg |
| Birthday: | June 13 |
| Blood Type: | O |
| Nationality: | South Korea |
| Fighting Style: | Taekwondo |
| Hobbies: | Hitting on girls |
| Specialty: | Gluttony (his record is 60 plates of clams) |
| Most Important: | His girlfriends |
| Most Unpleasant: | His father (although he does respect him) |
| Likes: | High-cut Sneakers |
| Dislikes: | Rats |
| Favorite Food: | Korean Barbeque |
| Favorite Music: | J-Pop |
| Favorite Sport: | Winter Sports (especially Snow Boarding) |
While Jae-Hoon is serious like his father, Dong Hwan is lazy and tends to skip the dojo. Each time he neglects his training wonders off he is scolded by his father.
However, his fighting sense is endowed with natural talent, and he uses a variety of techniques that are unique and varied. Some say that his strength surpasses that of his father in his prime. His younger brother Jae-hoon is also worried... If only he could come to training.
Though Dong Hwan seems to like doing whatever he pleases, he's actually a gentler man than most people. This time, he heard that Jae-hoon would follow in his father's footsteps and participate in the "King of Fighters", so he decided to participate in the same way in order to help him.
"Well, I'm a curious person too... but, I don't know what I'm gonna do!"
Kim Jae Hoon
| Profile | |
|---|---|
| Age: | 19 |
| Height: | 177 cm |
| Weight: | 72 kg |
| Birthday: | December 29 |
| Blood Type: | A |
| Nationality: | South Korea |
| Fighting Style: | Taekwondo |
| Hobbies: | Study Taekwondo's history |
| Specialty: | Reciting Pi to the 27th decimal place |
| Most Important: | His family |
| Most Unpleasant: | Really sweet candy |
| Likes: | Small animals (rabbits, hamsters, parrots, etc.) |
| Dislikes: | Evil people |
| Favorite Food: | Really hot Chi ge |
| Favorite Music: | Techno |
| Favorite Sport: | Mat exercises |
Even among the students at the dojo that Kaphwan taught, he is the most hard-working. Above all, he has a strong desire to improve and likes practicing more than eating. The way he practiced was enough to make his older brother, Dong Hwan, say, "I'm full just by looking at him."
However, at the end of that effort, he finally mastered his father's secret technique, "Phoenix Kick".
In addition, he was able to carry on his father's ideal of "spreading taekwondo to people around the world". And in order to put it into practice, he decided to participate in the "King of Fighters" this time.
He loves justice even more than his father and does not tolerate evil.
"Watch me, Dad! Now, I'm going to once again prove how great taekwondo is!"
Hotaru Futaba
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|---|---|
| Age: | 16 |
| Height: | 156 cm |
| Weight: | 42 kg |
| Measurements: | B78 / W54 / H80 |
| Birthday: | May 11 |
| Blood Type: | A |
| Nationality: | Japan |
| Fighting Style: | Chinese Kenpo "Juu-kei" (Internal Kung Fu) (Taijiquan, Baguazhang, etc) |
| Hobbies: | Cute ribbon collection |
| Specialty: | She can make any animal out of snow |
| Most Important: | Itokatsu, her ferrot |
| Most Unpleasant: | Strong alcoholic beverages |
| Likes: | Dangling-style Linear Coasters |
| Dislikes: | Earthquakes |
| Favorite Food: | Chocolate Ice Cream Banana Parfet |
| Favorite Music: | Pop |
| Favorite Sport: | High jump |
She is searching for her father and brother, who went missing at the time of her mother's death. Though she behaves cheerfully and usually never shows weakness in public, she sometimes gets depressed.
The incident six years ago was the cause of such a trip. At that time, Hotaru was with her kind family. A strict father, a kind mother, and an older brother who protects her more than anyone else. Hotaru felt that he was a happy family even though he had strict training.
It all came crashing down with a sudden tyranny. When Hotaru rushes to her after noticing something strange, her father and brother are nowhere to be seen, only the cold corpse of her mother lying in the dojo.
From the time she lost her family, Hotaru's journey began.
This time she heard rumors of a man who looked like her brother at the "King of Fighters" fighting tournament, and she decided to participate.
"I might be able to meet my brother here... I have to do my best!"
Gato
| Profile | |
|---|---|
| Age: | 26 |
| Height: | 180 cm |
| Weight: | 82 kg |
| Birthday: | May 27 |
| Blood Type: | A |
| Nationality: | Unknown |
| Fighting Style: | Chinese Kenpo "Gou-kei" (External Kung Fu) (Bajiquan, Xinyi Liuhe, etc) |
| Hobbies: | Calligraphy |
| Specialty: | He can hold his breath underwater for 10 minutes |
| Most Important: | Mother's necklace momento |
| Most Unpleasant: | Paying attention |
| Likes: | Anything grand, dynamite, beautiful |
| Dislikes: | Anyone who humbles himself |
| Favorite Food: | Tomyankun |
| Favorite Music: | Homey |
| Favorite Sport: | Swimming |
He seeks power to overthrow his father who caused his mother's death. He is training all over the world to acquire the ultimate martial arts. He is absolutely confident and doesn't shy away from anyone.
Much of his background is unknown, but he does not appear to be of Chinese nationality.
"...this little fish!"
B. Jenet
| Profile | |
|---|---|
| Age: | 19 |
| Height: | 167 cm |
| Weight: | 49 kg |
| Measurements: | B 86 / W 57 / H 89 |
| Birthday: | January 23 |
| Blood Type: | AB |
| Nationality: | England |
| Fighting Style: | LK Arts |
| Hobbies: | Nail Art, invading territorial waters |
| Specialty: | Her "internal clock" is never off by more than one minute |
| Most Important: | Her "Lilien Knights" companions, and the newest weapons of the "Lilien Knights". |
| Most Unpleasant: | Mornings |
| Likes: | The silence and stillness of 1000 meters deep in the sea. |
| Dislikes: | Diesel ships (because they stink) |
| Favorite Food: | Sirloin Steak (she saves them valuably in the galley) |
| Favorite Music: | Euro Beat |
| Favorite Sport: | Tennis, Equestrian |
In her carefree life, she always came to think the same thing.
That the purpose of life... Is doing something that only you can do that no one else can. Why was I given life, and why is she here?
In order to come to that conclusion, Jenny thought... If you can't find it while waiting, go find it yourself. If you can't find it, create it yourself. If you do it anyway, it will be thrilling and exciting! I want to surprise the world with flashy things!
That was the moment when the thief group "Lilian Knights" was born.
The purpose of this time is to go to the most mysterious fighting tournament "King of Fighters" and receive a huge prize.
"For me, it's a tournament!"
Khushnood Butt (Marco Rodriguez)
| Profile | |
|---|---|
| Age: | 40 |
| Height: | 183 cm |
| Weight: | 91 kg |
| Birthday: | September 4 |
| Blood Type: | A |
| Nationality: | Brazil |
| Fighting Style: | Kyokugen-style Karate |
| Hobbies: | Reading picture books (Cries reading Disney stories) |
| Specialty: | Sewing, tailoring. |
| Most Important: | His black belt, his Kyokugen signboard |
| Most Unpleasant: | Sake |
| Likes: | His hut for training |
| Dislikes: | Cockroaches |
| Favorite Food: | Chicken curry, rakkyou, grilled (roasted) chicken |
| Favorite Music: | Samba (it boils his blood) |
| Favorite Sport: | Shotput |
When he was just starting out, he heard rumors about Kyokugen-ryu and went to challenge the dojo in Southtown, but was defeated by the dojo's owner, Ryo Sakazaki. In that battle, he learned the strength and depth of Kyokugen-ryu, abandoned his previous martial arts, shaved his head, and entered Kyokugen-ryu.
After that, he continued his efforts and steadily raised his skills, and finally grew up to be appointed as a substitute teacher.
His karate was wild and full of agility, making use of the unique springing of his body. He made Ryo Sakazaki, the current leader of the Kyokugen-ryu, say, "Even if he's the king of beasts, he'll turn into a cat in front of him."
Among his disciples, now that Ryo has retired from the front line, he is rumored to be the strongest Kyokugen-ryu, or in other words, the strongest fighter in the world.
"Khushnood has mastered Kyokugen... you should try it on Chimi!"
Hokutomaru
| Profile | |
|---|---|
| Age: | 14 |
| Height: | 154 cm |
| Weight: | 40 kg |
| Birthday: | October 7 |
| Blood Type: | O |
| Nationality: | Japan |
| Fighting Style: | Koppou and Shiranui-style Ninjustu |
| Hobbies: | Going to the hot springs in the mountains with monkeys |
| Specialty: | He can climb the tallest tree in the mountains in 16.3 seconds (now attempting to break the record) |
| Most Important: | His master and all the Shiranui-ryuu people |
| Most Unpleasant: | Big Sis Shiranui |
| Likes: | Hot springs |
| Dislikes: | Hairy caterpillars |
| Favorite Food: | Shabon Nabe |
| Favorite Music: | Japanese Kotone (Big Sis Shiranui plays it for him) |
| Favorite Sport: | Athletics |
From an early age, he has trained in the Shiranui style. His master was a foreigner, but his technique was solid, and Hokutomaru respected such a master and immediately worked on his training.
However, when Hokutomaru reaches the age of 14, he will enter puberty. Various questions and worries come out in the training that continues every day.
Is he really good at his ninjutsu? How strong is his power?
And then, the outside world... What is going on in the world that I don't know...?
Once you start thinking about it, the thought becomes stronger and stronger.
Then one night, Hokutomaru finally decides to go down the mountain. The world he saw for the first time... What he jumped into was a poster for the "King of Fighters" event.
"Let's try my ninjutsu to see if it works in the city!"
Freeman
| Profile | |
|---|---|
| Age: | 24 |
| Height: | 185 cm |
| Weight: | 80 kg |
| Birthday: | November 21 |
| Blood Type: | Not Clear |
| Nationality: | England |
| Fighting Style: | Self-taught martial art "Shame" |
| Hobbies: | Popping bubble wrap |
| Specialty: | As long as his head can fit, he can slip through anything |
| Most Important: | Drill necklace (He likes it) |
| Most Unpleasant: | Flowers with a lot of pollen |
| Likes: | The edge of needles and blades |
| Dislikes: | The middle of a big crowd |
| Favorite Food: | Fish & chips |
| Favorite Music: | Heavy Metal |
| Favorite Sport: | Nothing Special |
He wanted to take risks.
It's already been 20 years since he was born into this world. The only thing he learned after spending most of his life in a dangerous slum... It is the conclusion that "it is only when you are next to death that you can always feel alive." He couldn't think of a way to keep his identity in the peaceful days.
The only thing that can satisfy his hunger is a serious street fight. The tension of fighting in a concrete ring... If you can beat it, it's not enough.
Alive or dead...? It was his favorite moment. To those who know nothing about that way of life, it may seem self-deprecating. But he thoroughly enjoys the insane danger.
This time, he hears that the strongest and worst demon of destruction will participate in "King of Fighters", and he feels excitement like never before and participates in the battle against this unprecedented enemy.
"...this moment...this moment is the only time I'm alive..."
Tizoc (Griffon Mask)
| Profile | |
|---|---|
| Age: | 27 |
| Height: | 215 cm |
| Weight: | 118 kg |
| Birthday: | April 25 |
| Blood Type: | O |
| Nationality: | Mexico |
| Fighting Style: | Pro Wrestling |
| Hobbies: | N/A |
| Specialty: | He can hold 5 average men on his bridge |
| Most Important: | His Griffon mask |
| Most Unpleasant: | Magazine interviews |
| Likes: | The Smile of children |
| Dislikes: | Illegal moves, and the wrestlers who use them nonchalantly |
| Favorite Food: | "I eat anything a lot!" (quote from Tizoc) |
| Favorite Music: | "The Theme of Griffon" (His entrance song in wrestling) |
| Favorite Sport: | Triathlon |
However, he loses to a mysterious man who suddenly appears.
For a moment, he loses self-confidence and completely loses sight of himself. But with the encouragement of the children and his fans, he regains himself.
From that day on, he began rigorous special training to regain everything.
And two years later………while being hit by a waterfall, he discovers the only weak spot in the stream. This is the catalyst for creating his strongest new special move "Big Fall Griffon".
With this new power, he returned to the stage of "King of Fighters".
"Children, I was revived by your cheers! Come on, let's go undefeated!"
Kevin Rian
| Profile | |
|---|---|
| Age: | 37 |
| Height: | 187 cm |
| Weight: | 89 kg |
| Birthday: | December 17 |
| Blood Type: | B |
| Nationality: | America |
| Fighting Style: | SWAT Mercenary Techniques |
| Hobbies: | Collects goods from a certain Sci-Fi movie (all 6 in the series, apparently saw it for the first time) |
| Specialty: | Survival |
| Most Important: | His best friend (Marky) |
| Most Unpleasant: | Medicine (He won't drink even if he catches a cold) |
| Likes: | Loose clothes |
| Dislikes: | Tight clothes |
| Favorite Food: | Spare Ribs |
| Favorite Music: | Jazz |
| Favorite Sport: | Darts |
That was last week. He had a close friend, but someone assassinated him. Even if he seeks revenge, he does not know who the culprit is.
When such days were piled up, the child appeared.
"But Bowes, I feel the same way, but I don't know who it is."
"I know who."
"What? For real?"
"Yeah, and my name is Markye, not Bowes."
"OK, let's go, buddy!"
Kevin immediately began to identify the route to Second South.
Grant
| Profile | |
|---|---|
| Age: | Unknown |
| Height: | 201 cm |
| Weight: | 105 kg |
| Birthday: | January 8 |
| Blood Type: | A |
| Nationality: | America |
| Fighting Style: | Ankoku Karate |
| Hobbies: | Making Pottery |
| Specialty: | Suppresses any emotion |
| Most Important: | A picture of him, Kain, and Marie from long ago |
| Most Unpleasant: | Highly humid locations |
| Likes: | His Ethnic Mask |
| Dislikes: | Begging for Life |
| Favorite Food: | Beef Stew |
| Favorite Music: | Doesn't listen to music |
| Favorite Sport: | Weightlifting |
Wherever he appears, it is said that there will always be conflict. In fact, there are countless cities that have turned into ghost towns. At some point, people feared Grant as a symbol of destruction.
It is said that the power that he obtained by selling his soul to the devil has the destructive power to overwhelm even the best fighters.
His motives are unknown, but while he prefers fighting above all else, he seems to have an extreme dislike of the weak.
It is rumored that the "King of Fighters" that will be held this time is actually controlled by Grant from the shadows.
"Come quickly... strong man... I am Grant, a martyr of battle..."
Kain R. Heinlein
| Profile | |
|---|---|
| Age: | 26 |
| Height: | 183 cm |
| Weight: | 76 kg |
| Birthday: | February 16 |
| Blood Type: | B |
| Nationality: | America |
| Fighting Style: | Dark Void Fist |
| Hobbies: | Reading |
| Specialty: | Can see emotions through the eyes |
| Most Important: | All the people that surround him |
| Most Unpleasant: | Information |
| Likes: | Starry night skies |
| Dislikes: | Inertia |
| Favorite Food: | Apple Pie |
| Favorite Music: | Classic music |
| Favorite Sport: | None in particular (but, can do anything) |
The source of his ambitions is based on his childhood experiences. His hometown was in the worst part of the shantytown. He had no parents and was forced to live hand-to-hand with his only immediate relative, his sister.
A city where only power is everything. The only food you can get is the chips you get in street fights. Cain fought with a small body and came out alive.
That's when he realized. He is a protected human and a non-protected human. Humans who fight and pave their own way, and humans who are incorporated into the system and swept away. In this world, which one is facing the issue of "living" with sincerity...?
His position at birth is irrelevant. He wanted to create a truly free world.
When he was 8 years old, he got the chance to put that idea into practice. The appearance of Kain during a street fight caught the eye of Don Papas of the family (secret society) who happened to be passing by.
Kain, who was bought for his beauty and strength above all, was picked up by Don Papas and became a member of the family.
A dozen years later... Using his gifted talent as a weapon, he created his own power within the organization, overthrew Don Papas, and became the boss of the family. And now... at last, he has begun to put his long-standing idea into practice...
2023.06.11 01:43 Draculasaurus13 I found a tape with no windows and a massive sticker
 | It’s a guide to planning a Disney World vacation for it’s 25th anniversary so it’s probably from 1995/1996. The cassette is embossed with a tiny “Full-Image” trademark, which I’m guessing refers to the place where you can glue an enormous sticker. submitted by Draculasaurus13 to VHS [link] [comments] |
2023.06.10 23:22 fulminic UFO lore and recent revelations seem to be largely based on a 1998 story from UFO mag. It covers crash retrieval programs, various alien types, "biological robots," and project Zodiac. Puthoff and Kitt Green have referenced this story. Here's a text extract.
Edit; title better should have said "aligned with" instead of "based on"
Deep Files: Trans-"X"Communiqué: Letter to a UFO Recruit by Greg Halifax
What you're about to read is largely unverified. But that doesn't mean it's not true. It's the type of UFO information that would typically be deeply buried, then carefully studied and compartmentalized by a small faction within the intelligence community, as suits any sensitive black operation. As such, straightforward corroboration is difficult at best. But UFO Magazine has the advantage of more than a decade's worth of collected bits of information and broad-based facts on which to construct some fair extrapolations. Drawn from a range of sources, the following incident reflects upon one of the blackest of American covert operations that deal directly with the UFO phenomenon.
Recruitment and Background
They recruited him when he was fresh from a not-too-harrowing assignment in the Middle East. This was one area of the globe, at least, where the CIA had little trouble justifying its existence. Having some military background, Sedge Masters wasn't too surprised when he was called back for another briefing about the new foreign technology assignment overseen from Wright Patterson Air Force Base. What he'd heard at the first briefing didn't exactly fire his professional instincts. The task sounded less than challenging. He was assured that more information would be coming his way, and that much of it would change his mind about the degree of intrigue his new assignment would hold.
Induction into the Program
Clearances intact, Masters arrived on the base in short order. He was issued a security badge and escorted by an airman to an unmarked building. Once inside, he was escorted by the airman into a room where his security badge was taken from him and a different one given to him in its place. A different airman with a uniform that Masters had not seen before, armed with an M-16 and a sidearm, escorted him into a private room. That man left, and in less than two minutes, another armed and uniformed man entered. He said nothing: Masters was used to this routine. When the soldier had positioned himself in front of the door, Masters turned around to a table on which lay a thick packet of papers. One more glance at the impassive soldier, and Masters began to read.
Introduction Letter
The letter on top carried a number on the first page, but no date or letterhead. "Dear Mr. Masters," it began, "Consider this a deeper introduction to your present assignment. As you were told in last week's special briefing, you were selected for the program less for your wide intelligence background and technical skills than for the results of your psychological profile, both the one you took when you first joined the agency and the one administered earlier this year..."
Pre-WWII Sightings and Post-War Investigations
During the years preceding World War II, informal contacts made by Americans touring in Europe - tasked to do so by then-attorney William Donovan (who was later the head of the OSS in World War II) - revealed that there had been a number of sightings of unusual aerial phenomena and craft over European skies, particularly in the vicinity of German military facilities. The rush of events focused the attention of the military and the OSS on other matters of more pressing concern, although it had been resolved to look into these reports again at the war's conclusion.
The Roswell Incident
Before there could be a full assessment of the implications of these events, in July 1947, two crafts were recovered from the desert near the Roswell Army Air Corps bomber base. One of the crafts was a deltoid wing "lifting body" which had suffered a rupture to the crew compartment and some impact distortion, but which was otherwise intact. The other craft had completely disintegrated either before or upon impact.
Hypotheses and Discoveries
Although there were working hypotheses that these crafts were either (1) secret Soviet surveillance craft designed to spy upon the many advanced technical and military facilities in that region, (2) crafts from some "other dimension" the details of which were and remain unspecified by the proponents of this hypothesis, or (3) crafts from our own future exploring the past through an unknown temporal travel mechanism, it soon became clear that these crafts were from some planet or solar system other than our own, as they were occupied by two kinds of beings which clearly were not of earthly origin.
Extraterrestrial Evidence
The occupants of the deltoid craft were largely intact after the crash. When the special recovery team established for this purpose located the crash, two of the occupants of the deltoid craft were still alive, although one was badly injured and would later die upon being taken to the Roswell Air Corps base. The other survivor was alive and remained so for almost 30 days after the crash. It was able to walk and seemed to understand that it was a captive among intelligent beings like itself. All efforts at communication with the survivor were inconclusive and largely unsuccessful. The three other occupants were dead when the recovery team found them. The general appearance of these creatures was as reported in the recently published, somewhat fanciful 'investigative' books on the subject which have received a certain amount of popular acceptance and which resulted in the recent 50th-anniversary celebration of this event. (Popular attention to this event remains strong.)
Second Craft and Biological Robots
The occupants of the second craft were not found for several more days, as their bodies had been ejected in what appeared to be safety pods similar in purpose to those later employed in such high-performance aircraft as the B-58 Hustler and XB-70 supersonic bombers. These creatures were longer in dimension than the ones of the deltoid craft, and their bodies were dispersed over a much wider area due to the disintegration of their craft. All were dead when found, with their bodies much deteriorated from prolonged exposure to the elements and some having been partially eaten by coyotes and other creatures, all of the latter of which were found dead near the alien corpses.
Analysis of the animal remains and the alien bodies led to the conclusion that the animals died from poisoning caused by ingestion of chemicals in the alien flesh. It appeared that the second group of aliens could not survive if exposed to the Earth's atmosphere. The need to remove all evidence of the event from the two crash sites limited the amount of crash reconstruction which could be accomplished by the recovery team, with the consequence that it has never been made clear what exactly caused the crash.
Cover-Up and Suppression
Unfortunately, the large number of civilian and military personnel who witnessed physical evidence at the crash sites and back at the Roswell base created a significant security hazard which was dealt with by intimidation and bribery of the witnesses to the extent that those means proved effective. Until unofficial investigators, journalists, writers, and others began renewing investigation of the subject in the early 1980s, these techniques were largely successful in keeping the truth of the Roswell event from the public, as well as its ominous implications.
Alien Autopsies and 'Biological Robots'
The autopsies on the bodies of the creatures showed that they were of very light build and clearly not from this planet. The simplicity of their brain structures and non-communication in the face of stalwart efforts by researchers led investigators at the time to conclude that they were not the original designers and builders of the craft involved in the incident. Rather, it seemed that they were 'biological robots,' designed and bred for the purpose of undertaking such dangerous missions as flying through the atmosphere of an alien world. The survivor finally died when its body accumulated toxic waste products from its metabolism. There were no apparent excretory system or sexual organs. Consistent with this 'biological robot' hypothesis was the complete absence of any galley or food stores aboard the craft. Of course, the possibility of there being a 'mother ship' from which these craft came was also considered, as was the less likely possibility that these small craft could themselves attain transluminal speeds.
The Alien Technology
The propulsion system of the craft, of obvious priority interest to our group, was indeterminate for long after its recovery. While still subject to the laws of physics (as we imperfectly understand them), the craft's workings went far beyond our technological grasp at that time. Unfamiliar, nearly magical technology was displayed, devices that we now know as integrated circuits, fiber optics, supertenuous fibers and metals, and an unfathomable power source and drive mechanism, as well as other technology which it is not necessary to discuss in this document.
Implications and The Zodiac
The military implications of the presence of these craft in our atmosphere and the possibility that they may have established friendly communications with our Cold War enemies were obvious and unsettling. The discovery of these craft led to an equally unsettling reexamination of the European intelligence reports referred to above, as well as the postwar investigation by Gen. Jimmy Doolittle of the "ghost rockets" of Norway (see appendix C, attached, top secret report of Gen. James Doolittle). The President was made aware of these developments and ordered the formation of a special group of prominent scientists, Cabinet, military and intelligence officers.
The popular literature bandies about the name of "Majestic 12" or "MJ-12" for this special, secret task force formed by the President. Other names by which it has been identified in the public mind through disinformation programs are "Project Saucer" and "Aquarius." While it is possible that any one or more of these was the name of the group at one time, for most of its existence the code name for the group and the extensive program which it spawned has been and still is "Zodiac," with each of its operational subdivisions known by the name of a different zodiacal sign, including Aquarius.
The Decline of Government Involvement in Zodiac
As the years passed, the operational involvement of high government officials in Zodiac waned to a certain degree, especially with the conclusion of the Eisenhower Administration, although most presidents were still kept informed of key overview facts as they came to light. However, it fell to the Agency's supervisors of Zodiac to determine who else in the government should have access to this very closely-held and highly compartmentalized information, to the point that, like the heads of military intelligence before World War II, they sometimes decided not to share information with certain presidents, including Nixon and Ford.
All other presidents were kept reasonably well-informed, including Jimmy Carter, who went back on his pledge to reveal all of the information the government had on UFOs once he was elected president.
Agency Control and Alien Craft Recovery
As of the early 1980s, the Agency exercised complete control over Zodiac, with the cooperation of the rest of the intelligence community and the military branches, particularly the Air Force and the Navy. From 1947 to the early 1980s, Zodiac recovered eleven other alien craft in various states of disrepair, from a diminutive single-seat flying wing to a rather large craft that had to be trucked into Wright Patterson by dead of night.
Extraterrestrial Beings and Technological Discoveries
Besides the technology, the beings found with these craft are central to the Program's investigations. There seem to be at least four types of occupants, the two described above, as well as humanoids that appear to be almost human and Nordic in appearance, and small, strong, hairy ones.
An Unsettling Incident and New Assignment
Details of the following incident should be carefully considered and recalled, as they will be useful to you during the first phases of your assignment. By the late '60s, Zodiac had been able to recruit members of an elite recovery team.
Within the last 48 hours, the team was dispatched to a remote site in the Midwest where a craft and bodies were collected and ferried to the appropriate locations, seemingly without incident. This time, it’s become clear to our debriefing teams at Wright Patterson that the first members questioned could not account for an hour and a half's worth of time spent at the site.
You have been selected to be part of a newly forming debriefing team whose task will be the correlation and analysis of these events. Your assignment is to find out why even the most senior members of the team shared in this memory gap, and to find out what happened during that hour and a half.
Instructions for the Report
Your report is to be in writing and is to have one original and no copies. It is to be hand-delivered by you to me. It is to bear the security stamps "TOP SECRET," "ZODIAC" and "EYES ONLY." You will let no one see your report but me and you will not share its contents with those with whom you are working at Wright Patterson without my authorization.
Very Truly Yours, Col. David H., USAF
Masters read it through again. When he looked up, an Air Force captain had entered the room. "Are you finished with the letter?" he asked in a flat tone. "I'm done with it," Masters sighed, and for the first time in his professional career heard his own voice waver with what sounded like nervousness. He handed the letter to the captain, who took it without comment, counting the pages.
The captain took out a cigarette lighter and lit the corners of the pages, gingerly dropping them into a red "burn barrel," stirring the ashes with a metal rod. After the papers had been reduced to small wisps of white ash, the captain took another piece of paper out of his briefcase, signed it, and presented it to the airman, who also signed it. The airman then presented it to Masters, who signed the sworn declaration of witnessing the destruction of the document.
Here's the deep dive article by Dolan that also includes the full scan of the UFO mag article. It connects dots between the recent revelations, the Davis/Wilson notes etc.
ChatGPT helped convert the barely readable pdf-to-text conversion to something readable, but preserving the content, only added headers and formating. I was out of tokens so I couldn't convert the other chapters, they're very interesting as well. All chapters are in the provided link.
Just to be clear, not making claims or drawing conclusions just wanted to share this before 3rd part Reddit apps will be killed at 30 June. Yeah fuck you, spez
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Deep Files: Trans-"X"Communiqué: Letter to a UFO Recruit by Greg Halifax
What you're about to read is largely unverified. But that doesn't mean it's not true. It's the type of UFO information that would typically be deeply buried, then carefully studied and compartmentalized by a small faction within the intelligence community, as suits any sensitive black operation. As such, straightforward corroboration is difficult at best. But UFO Magazine has the advantage of more than a decade's worth of collected bits of information and broad-based facts on which to construct some fair extrapolations. Drawn from a range of sources, the following incident reflects upon one of the blackest of American covert operations that deal directly with the UFO phenomenon.
Recruitment and Background
They recruited him when he was fresh from a not-too-harrowing assignment in the Middle East. This was one area of the globe, at least, where the CIA had little trouble justifying its existence. Having some military background, Sedge Masters wasn't too surprised when he was called back for another briefing about the new foreign technology assignment overseen from Wright Patterson Air Force Base. What he'd heard at the first briefing didn't exactly fire his professional instincts. The task sounded less than challenging. He was assured that more information would be coming his way, and that much of it would change his mind about the degree of intrigue his new assignment would hold.
Induction into the Program
Clearances intact, Masters arrived on the base in short order. He was issued a security badge and escorted by an airman to an unmarked building. Once inside, he was escorted by the airman into a room where his security badge was taken from him and a different one given to him in its place. A different airman with a uniform that Masters had not seen before, armed with an M-16 and a sidearm, escorted him into a private room. That man left, and in less than two minutes, another armed and uniformed man entered. He said nothing: Masters was used to this routine. When the soldier had positioned himself in front of the door, Masters turned around to a table on which lay a thick packet of papers. One more glance at the impassive soldier, and Masters began to read.
Introduction Letter
The letter on top carried a number on the first page, but no date or letterhead. "Dear Mr. Masters," it began, "Consider this a deeper introduction to your present assignment. As you were told in last week's special briefing, you were selected for the program less for your wide intelligence background and technical skills than for the results of your psychological profile, both the one you took when you first joined the agency and the one administered earlier this year..."
Pre-WWII Sightings and Post-War Investigations
During the years preceding World War II, informal contacts made by Americans touring in Europe - tasked to do so by then-attorney William Donovan (who was later the head of the OSS in World War II) - revealed that there had been a number of sightings of unusual aerial phenomena and craft over European skies, particularly in the vicinity of German military facilities. The rush of events focused the attention of the military and the OSS on other matters of more pressing concern, although it had been resolved to look into these reports again at the war's conclusion.
The Roswell Incident
Before there could be a full assessment of the implications of these events, in July 1947, two crafts were recovered from the desert near the Roswell Army Air Corps bomber base. One of the crafts was a deltoid wing "lifting body" which had suffered a rupture to the crew compartment and some impact distortion, but which was otherwise intact. The other craft had completely disintegrated either before or upon impact.
Hypotheses and Discoveries
Although there were working hypotheses that these crafts were either (1) secret Soviet surveillance craft designed to spy upon the many advanced technical and military facilities in that region, (2) crafts from some "other dimension" the details of which were and remain unspecified by the proponents of this hypothesis, or (3) crafts from our own future exploring the past through an unknown temporal travel mechanism, it soon became clear that these crafts were from some planet or solar system other than our own, as they were occupied by two kinds of beings which clearly were not of earthly origin.
Extraterrestrial Evidence
The occupants of the deltoid craft were largely intact after the crash. When the special recovery team established for this purpose located the crash, two of the occupants of the deltoid craft were still alive, although one was badly injured and would later die upon being taken to the Roswell Air Corps base. The other survivor was alive and remained so for almost 30 days after the crash. It was able to walk and seemed to understand that it was a captive among intelligent beings like itself. All efforts at communication with the survivor were inconclusive and largely unsuccessful. The three other occupants were dead when the recovery team found them. The general appearance of these creatures was as reported in the recently published, somewhat fanciful 'investigative' books on the subject which have received a certain amount of popular acceptance and which resulted in the recent 50th-anniversary celebration of this event. (Popular attention to this event remains strong.)
Second Craft and Biological Robots
The occupants of the second craft were not found for several more days, as their bodies had been ejected in what appeared to be safety pods similar in purpose to those later employed in such high-performance aircraft as the B-58 Hustler and XB-70 supersonic bombers. These creatures were longer in dimension than the ones of the deltoid craft, and their bodies were dispersed over a much wider area due to the disintegration of their craft. All were dead when found, with their bodies much deteriorated from prolonged exposure to the elements and some having been partially eaten by coyotes and other creatures, all of the latter of which were found dead near the alien corpses.
Analysis of the animal remains and the alien bodies led to the conclusion that the animals died from poisoning caused by ingestion of chemicals in the alien flesh. It appeared that the second group of aliens could not survive if exposed to the Earth's atmosphere. The need to remove all evidence of the event from the two crash sites limited the amount of crash reconstruction which could be accomplished by the recovery team, with the consequence that it has never been made clear what exactly caused the crash.
Cover-Up and Suppression
Unfortunately, the large number of civilian and military personnel who witnessed physical evidence at the crash sites and back at the Roswell base created a significant security hazard which was dealt with by intimidation and bribery of the witnesses to the extent that those means proved effective. Until unofficial investigators, journalists, writers, and others began renewing investigation of the subject in the early 1980s, these techniques were largely successful in keeping the truth of the Roswell event from the public, as well as its ominous implications.
Alien Autopsies and 'Biological Robots'
The autopsies on the bodies of the creatures showed that they were of very light build and clearly not from this planet. The simplicity of their brain structures and non-communication in the face of stalwart efforts by researchers led investigators at the time to conclude that they were not the original designers and builders of the craft involved in the incident. Rather, it seemed that they were 'biological robots,' designed and bred for the purpose of undertaking such dangerous missions as flying through the atmosphere of an alien world. The survivor finally died when its body accumulated toxic waste products from its metabolism. There were no apparent excretory system or sexual organs. Consistent with this 'biological robot' hypothesis was the complete absence of any galley or food stores aboard the craft. Of course, the possibility of there being a 'mother ship' from which these craft came was also considered, as was the less likely possibility that these small craft could themselves attain transluminal speeds.
The Alien Technology
The propulsion system of the craft, of obvious priority interest to our group, was indeterminate for long after its recovery. While still subject to the laws of physics (as we imperfectly understand them), the craft's workings went far beyond our technological grasp at that time. Unfamiliar, nearly magical technology was displayed, devices that we now know as integrated circuits, fiber optics, supertenuous fibers and metals, and an unfathomable power source and drive mechanism, as well as other technology which it is not necessary to discuss in this document.
Implications and The Zodiac
The military implications of the presence of these craft in our atmosphere and the possibility that they may have established friendly communications with our Cold War enemies were obvious and unsettling. The discovery of these craft led to an equally unsettling reexamination of the European intelligence reports referred to above, as well as the postwar investigation by Gen. Jimmy Doolittle of the "ghost rockets" of Norway (see appendix C, attached, top secret report of Gen. James Doolittle). The President was made aware of these developments and ordered the formation of a special group of prominent scientists, Cabinet, military and intelligence officers.
The popular literature bandies about the name of "Majestic 12" or "MJ-12" for this special, secret task force formed by the President. Other names by which it has been identified in the public mind through disinformation programs are "Project Saucer" and "Aquarius." While it is possible that any one or more of these was the name of the group at one time, for most of its existence the code name for the group and the extensive program which it spawned has been and still is "Zodiac," with each of its operational subdivisions known by the name of a different zodiacal sign, including Aquarius.
The Decline of Government Involvement in Zodiac
As the years passed, the operational involvement of high government officials in Zodiac waned to a certain degree, especially with the conclusion of the Eisenhower Administration, although most presidents were still kept informed of key overview facts as they came to light. However, it fell to the Agency's supervisors of Zodiac to determine who else in the government should have access to this very closely-held and highly compartmentalized information, to the point that, like the heads of military intelligence before World War II, they sometimes decided not to share information with certain presidents, including Nixon and Ford.
All other presidents were kept reasonably well-informed, including Jimmy Carter, who went back on his pledge to reveal all of the information the government had on UFOs once he was elected president.
Agency Control and Alien Craft Recovery
As of the early 1980s, the Agency exercised complete control over Zodiac, with the cooperation of the rest of the intelligence community and the military branches, particularly the Air Force and the Navy. From 1947 to the early 1980s, Zodiac recovered eleven other alien craft in various states of disrepair, from a diminutive single-seat flying wing to a rather large craft that had to be trucked into Wright Patterson by dead of night.
Extraterrestrial Beings and Technological Discoveries
Besides the technology, the beings found with these craft are central to the Program's investigations. There seem to be at least four types of occupants, the two described above, as well as humanoids that appear to be almost human and Nordic in appearance, and small, strong, hairy ones.
An Unsettling Incident and New Assignment
Details of the following incident should be carefully considered and recalled, as they will be useful to you during the first phases of your assignment. By the late '60s, Zodiac had been able to recruit members of an elite recovery team.
Within the last 48 hours, the team was dispatched to a remote site in the Midwest where a craft and bodies were collected and ferried to the appropriate locations, seemingly without incident. This time, it’s become clear to our debriefing teams at Wright Patterson that the first members questioned could not account for an hour and a half's worth of time spent at the site.
You have been selected to be part of a newly forming debriefing team whose task will be the correlation and analysis of these events. Your assignment is to find out why even the most senior members of the team shared in this memory gap, and to find out what happened during that hour and a half.
Instructions for the Report
Your report is to be in writing and is to have one original and no copies. It is to be hand-delivered by you to me. It is to bear the security stamps "TOP SECRET," "ZODIAC" and "EYES ONLY." You will let no one see your report but me and you will not share its contents with those with whom you are working at Wright Patterson without my authorization.
Very Truly Yours, Col. David H., USAF
Masters read it through again. When he looked up, an Air Force captain had entered the room. "Are you finished with the letter?" he asked in a flat tone. "I'm done with it," Masters sighed, and for the first time in his professional career heard his own voice waver with what sounded like nervousness. He handed the letter to the captain, who took it without comment, counting the pages.
The captain took out a cigarette lighter and lit the corners of the pages, gingerly dropping them into a red "burn barrel," stirring the ashes with a metal rod. After the papers had been reduced to small wisps of white ash, the captain took another piece of paper out of his briefcase, signed it, and presented it to the airman, who also signed it. The airman then presented it to Masters, who signed the sworn declaration of witnessing the destruction of the document.
ChatGPT helped convert the barely readable pdf-to-text conversion to something readable, but preserving the content, only added headers and formating. I was out of tokens so I couldn't convert the other chapters, they're very interesting as well. All chapters are in the provided link.
Just to be clear, not making claims or drawing conclusions just wanted to share this before 3rd part Reddit apps will be killed at 30 June. Yeah fuck you, spez
2023.06.10 23:22 MydnightSilver [WTS] - [WTT]: Gold, platinum, poured silver, slabbed silver, boxed & collectibles, and a little bit of junk. New items & lower prices! Free 90% bonus gift & free monthly giveaway contest!
Hi Folks!
Up for grabs today
☆ Everything is tested on a Sigma Pro
☆ All orders get a free 90% silver bonus and get entered to win a free (shipping too) 1oz SilverTowne bar, factory sealed! Drawing monthly, winner announced first post of each month, 1 ticket per item purchased.
☆ Trading: I'm looking for gold or platinum 1/10ths, mostly. I also really like SilverTowne casino / poker chips, and 90% junk. If it's not on my list, I might still be interested just hit me up :)
☆ Contains 0.2509oz of platinum surrounded by a ring of 0.2509oz gold - Asking $975 with free shipping!
Closeup and Reverse
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2022 Platinum Kook - BU w/capsule - $155 (low mintage)
Closeupand Reverse
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2020 Gold Maplegram - $90
Closeup and Reverse
Closeup and Reverse
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2021 Palau - Inca Sun God with COA & display box - $160
Closeup and Reverse
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2022 Niue - My First Treasures - My First Diamond - Only 1,000 minted! - Box, COA, packaging included - only asking $80
Closeup and Reverse
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2017 Zombucks Walker Proof - with matching box and packaging. Small tears on top flap of outer packaging - $105
Closeup and Reverse
~
2021 PAMP Fender 351 Heavy guitar pick - limited edition, 10G sterling, absolute mint condition - $85
Closeup and Reverse
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1992 Columbus Quincentennial - 1oz Proof with box & COA - $45
Closeup and Reverse
Closeup and Reverse
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2015 Palau - World of Wonders: Abbey of St. Gaul - Colorized, ER - PF69 Ultra Cam - $135
Closeup and Reverse
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2014 Niue Disney .5oz - Season's Greetings - Colorized - PF69 Ultra Cameo - $90
Closeup and Reverse
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Palau - Undated Good Luck Casino Set - Green - MS69 - $75
Closeup and Reverse
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2022 Niue - Hogwarts: Dumbledore's Office - MS70 Antiqued - Comes with packaging too - $150
Closeup and Reverse
~
2021-S ASE - MS70 T1 FS EI - $77
2021-P MS69 T1 FS EI - $45
Closeup and Reverse
● Take both silver eagles for only $120!
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2019 Britannia - Reverse Struck Thru Error - MS69 - $185
Closeup and Reverse
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1/4 Onza PF70 UC - $47
1/4 Double Eagle PF70 UC - $47
1/2 Maple RP70 DCAM (#15 of 259) - $65
Fractional slabs and Reverse
● Take all 3 for $155, shipped!
~
Australian MS70 DCAM Kooks - 2013-P + 2016-P - $50 each
Closeup and Reverse
● Take both and get free shipping!
● Get $5 off any pour with purchase of any other item!
Closeup
● Take both buttons for $50
~
Maple Pick 2 Lots! - 2x 1989 + 1x 1993 + 3x 2015 + 1x 2014 + 1x 2022 - pick any 2 for $70 - pick any 4 for $135 - BIN all for $270 and get free shipping. All with airtites.
Old style closeup (note the small burnish spot on one) - Old style leafs - New style closeup - New style leafs
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2022 Allegories - Germania & Polonia, with the convex airtite - Comes with COA too! - $39, only 2 left available!
Closeup and Reverse
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2022 KOMSCO Phoenix - $49
Closeup and Reverse
~
2022 Niue Hawksbill Sea Turtle - $40
Closeup and Reverse
~
2006 Cook Islands - 9/11 Freedom Tower - Proof - $44
Closeup and Reverse
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2oz 2017 Pheli Mint - Temptation of the Succubus - $86
Closeup and Reverse
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2013 Poland Mint - Magic Calendar, October - Swarovski crystal - $55
Closeup and Reverse
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2015 ASE - BU - $37 with airtite
Closeup and Reverse
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LOT: 2X Great Lakes Mint 1oz bars from 1973 - Rare - $110
Closeup and Reverse
Closeup and Reverse
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LOT: $10fv 40% Kennedy halves - 8.2x = $82 (2.958 ASW)
Closeup
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1935 50% Fiji Florin - $12 or add to any order for only $9!
Closeup and Reverse
Shipping is $5 tracked, $10 Priority. I pack items like they're being airdropped into an active war zone and hand deliver fast (same day when possible) to the counter, but insurance is available. Once delivered to USPS, out of my hands. Willing to middleman at buyer's expense.
Everything is priced below comps, let me know if I'm overpriced on anything 😎
submitted by MydnightSilver to CoinSales [link] [comments]
Up for grabs today
☆ Everything is tested on a Sigma Pro
☆ All orders get a free 90% silver bonus and get entered to win a free (shipping too) 1oz SilverTowne bar, factory sealed! Drawing monthly, winner announced first post of each month, 1 ticket per item purchased.
☆ Trading: I'm looking for gold or platinum 1/10ths, mostly. I also really like SilverTowne casino / poker chips, and 90% junk. If it's not on my list, I might still be interested just hit me up :)
GOLD & PLATINUM
2000-W Bi-metallic Library of Congress - Proof - with all OGP including outer sleeve - This Proof gold & platinum coin is the first gold and platinum bi-metallic coin issued by the US Mint.☆ Contains 0.2509oz of platinum surrounded by a ring of 0.2509oz gold - Asking $975 with free shipping!
Closeup and Reverse
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2022 Platinum Kook - BU w/capsule - $155 (low mintage)
Closeupand Reverse
~
2020 Gold Maplegram - $90
Closeup and Reverse
BOXED & PACKAGED
2021 Niue - My First Treasures - My First Capital - Only 1000 minted! - Box, COA, packaging - $95Closeup and Reverse
~
2021 Palau - Inca Sun God with COA & display box - $160
Closeup and Reverse
~
2022 Niue - My First Treasures - My First Diamond - Only 1,000 minted! - Box, COA, packaging included - only asking $80
Closeup and Reverse
~
2017 Zombucks Walker Proof - with matching box and packaging. Small tears on top flap of outer packaging - $105
Closeup and Reverse
~
2021 PAMP Fender 351 Heavy guitar pick - limited edition, 10G sterling, absolute mint condition - $85
Closeup and Reverse
~
1992 Columbus Quincentennial - 1oz Proof with box & COA - $45
Closeup and Reverse
GRADED SLABS
2022 Cook Islands - Iron Maiden, Fear of the Dark - PF70 Ultra Cameo with box & COA - $140Closeup and Reverse
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2015 Palau - World of Wonders: Abbey of St. Gaul - Colorized, ER - PF69 Ultra Cam - $135
Closeup and Reverse
~
2014 Niue Disney .5oz - Season's Greetings - Colorized - PF69 Ultra Cameo - $90
Closeup and Reverse
~
Palau - Undated Good Luck Casino Set - Green - MS69 - $75
Closeup and Reverse
~
2022 Niue - Hogwarts: Dumbledore's Office - MS70 Antiqued - Comes with packaging too - $150
Closeup and Reverse
~
2021-S ASE - MS70 T1 FS EI - $77
2021-P MS69 T1 FS EI - $45
Closeup and Reverse
● Take both silver eagles for only $120!
~
2019 Britannia - Reverse Struck Thru Error - MS69 - $185
Closeup and Reverse
~
1/4 Onza PF70 UC - $47
1/4 Double Eagle PF70 UC - $47
1/2 Maple RP70 DCAM (#15 of 259) - $65
Fractional slabs and Reverse
● Take all 3 for $155, shipped!
~
Australian MS70 DCAM Kooks - 2013-P + 2016-P - $50 each
Closeup and Reverse
● Take both and get free shipping!
FINE SILVER
Hand pours - RCM .9999 shot - Bravo's Coin - End the Fed (new stamp) ripple bar @ 6.4oz ($200) - End The Fed @ 4.9oz ($155) - End the Fed @ 2.8oz ($85) - FTF button @ 23g ($25) - Fuck the Fed button @ 27g ($29) -- Weights rounded down, these are fat... scale pics by request.● Get $5 off any pour with purchase of any other item!
Closeup
● Take both buttons for $50
~
Maple Pick 2 Lots! - 2x 1989 + 1x 1993 + 3x 2015 + 1x 2014 + 1x 2022 - pick any 2 for $70 - pick any 4 for $135 - BIN all for $270 and get free shipping. All with airtites.
Old style closeup (note the small burnish spot on one) - Old style leafs - New style closeup - New style leafs
~
2022 Allegories - Germania & Polonia, with the convex airtite - Comes with COA too! - $39, only 2 left available!
Closeup and Reverse
~
2022 KOMSCO Phoenix - $49
Closeup and Reverse
~
2022 Niue Hawksbill Sea Turtle - $40
Closeup and Reverse
~
2006 Cook Islands - 9/11 Freedom Tower - Proof - $44
Closeup and Reverse
~
2oz 2017 Pheli Mint - Temptation of the Succubus - $86
Closeup and Reverse
~
2013 Poland Mint - Magic Calendar, October - Swarovski crystal - $55
Closeup and Reverse
~
2015 ASE - BU - $37 with airtite
Closeup and Reverse
~
LOT: 2X Great Lakes Mint 1oz bars from 1973 - Rare - $110
Closeup and Reverse
JUNK SILVER
1889-O Morgan - Pretty great shape - $39Closeup and Reverse
~
LOT: $10fv 40% Kennedy halves - 8.2x = $82 (2.958 ASW)
Closeup
~
1935 50% Fiji Florin - $12 or add to any order for only $9!
Closeup and Reverse
Payments & Shipping
In order of preference: Zelle, CashApp, Venmo FF, PayPal FF, Google Pay, or BTC.Shipping is $5 tracked, $10 Priority. I pack items like they're being airdropped into an active war zone and hand deliver fast (same day when possible) to the counter, but insurance is available. Once delivered to USPS, out of my hands. Willing to middleman at buyer's expense.
Everything is priced below comps, let me know if I'm overpriced on anything 😎
DM preferred but can do chat... make sure to leave a comment so I get notified on mobile.
Thanks for looking & have a fantastic day!2023.06.10 23:21 MydnightSilver [WTS] - [WTT]: Gold, platinum, poured silver, slabbed silver, boxed & collectibles, and a little bit of junk. New items & lower prices! Free 90% bonus gift & free monthly giveaway contest!
Hi Folks!
Up for grabs today
☆ Everything is tested on a Sigma Pro
☆ All orders get a free 90% silver bonus and get entered to win a free (shipping too) 1oz SilverTowne bar, factory sealed! Drawing monthly, winner announced first post of each month, 1 ticket per item purchased.
☆ Trading: I'm looking for gold or platinum 1/10ths, mostly. I also really like SilverTowne casino / poker chips, and 90% junk. If it's not on my list, I might still be interested just hit me up :)
☆ Contains 0.2509oz of platinum surrounded by a ring of 0.2509oz gold - Asking $975 with free shipping!
Closeup and Reverse
~
2022 Platinum Kook - BU w/capsule - $155 (low mintage)
Closeupand Reverse
~
2020 Gold Maplegram - $90
Closeup and Reverse
Closeup and Reverse
~
2021 Palau - Inca Sun God with COA & display box - $160
Closeup and Reverse
~
2022 Niue - My First Treasures - My First Diamond - Only 1,000 minted! - Box, COA, packaging included - only asking $80
Closeup and Reverse
~
2017 Zombucks Walker Proof - with matching box and packaging. Small tears on top flap of outer packaging - $105
Closeup and Reverse
~
2021 PAMP Fender 351 Heavy guitar pick - limited edition, 10G sterling, absolute mint condition - $85
Closeup and Reverse
~
1992 Columbus Quincentennial - 1oz Proof with box & COA - $45
Closeup and Reverse
Closeup and Reverse
~
2015 Palau - World of Wonders: Abbey of St. Gaul - Colorized, ER - PF69 Ultra Cam - $135
Closeup and Reverse
~
2014 Niue Disney .5oz - Season's Greetings - Colorized - PF69 Ultra Cameo - $90
Closeup and Reverse
~
Palau - Undated Good Luck Casino Set - Green - MS69 - $75
Closeup and Reverse
~
2022 Niue - Hogwarts: Dumbledore's Office - MS70 Antiqued - Comes with packaging too - $150
Closeup and Reverse
~
2021-S ASE - MS70 T1 FS EI - $77
2021-P MS69 T1 FS EI - $45
Closeup and Reverse
● Take both silver eagles for only $120!
~
2019 Britannia - Reverse Struck Thru Error - MS69 - $185
Closeup and Reverse
~
1/4 Onza PF70 UC - $47
1/4 Double Eagle PF70 UC - $47
1/2 Maple RP70 DCAM (#15 of 259) - $65
Fractional slabs and Reverse
● Take all 3 for $155, shipped!
~
Australian MS70 DCAM Kooks - 2013-P + 2016-P - $50 each
Closeup and Reverse
● Take both and get free shipping!
● Get $5 off any pour with purchase of any other item!
Closeup
● Take both buttons for $50
~
Maple Pick 2 Lots! - 2x 1989 + 1x 1993 + 3x 2015 + 1x 2014 + 1x 2022 - pick any 2 for $70 - pick any 4 for $135 - BIN all for $270 and get free shipping. All with airtites.
Old style closeup (note the small burnish spot on one) - Old style leafs - New style closeup - New style leafs
~
2022 Allegories - Germania & Polonia, with the convex airtite - Comes with COA too! - $39, only 2 left available!
Closeup and Reverse
~
2022 KOMSCO Phoenix - $49
Closeup and Reverse
~
2022 Niue Hawksbill Sea Turtle - $40
Closeup and Reverse
~
2006 Cook Islands - 9/11 Freedom Tower - Proof - $44
Closeup and Reverse
~
2oz 2017 Pheli Mint - Temptation of the Succubus - $86
Closeup and Reverse
~
2013 Poland Mint - Magic Calendar, October - Swarovski crystal - $55
Closeup and Reverse
~
2015 ASE - BU - $37 with airtite
Closeup and Reverse
~
LOT: 2X Great Lakes Mint 1oz bars from 1973 - Rare - $110
Closeup and Reverse
Closeup and Reverse
~
LOT: $10fv 40% Kennedy halves - 8.2x = $82 (2.958 ASW)
Closeup
~
1935 50% Fiji Florin - $12 or add to any order for only $9!
Closeup and Reverse
Shipping is $5 tracked, $10 Priority. I pack items like they're being airdropped into an active war zone and hand deliver fast (same day when possible) to the counter, but insurance is available. Once delivered to USPS, out of my hands. Willing to middleman at buyer's expense.
Everything is priced below comps, let me know if I'm overpriced on anything.
submitted by MydnightSilver to Pmsforsale [link] [comments]
Up for grabs today
☆ Everything is tested on a Sigma Pro
☆ All orders get a free 90% silver bonus and get entered to win a free (shipping too) 1oz SilverTowne bar, factory sealed! Drawing monthly, winner announced first post of each month, 1 ticket per item purchased.
☆ Trading: I'm looking for gold or platinum 1/10ths, mostly. I also really like SilverTowne casino / poker chips, and 90% junk. If it's not on my list, I might still be interested just hit me up :)
GOLD & PLATINUM
2000-W Bi-metallic Library of Congress - Proof - with all OGP including outer sleeve - This Proof gold & platinum coin is the first gold and platinum bi-metallic coin issued by the US Mint.☆ Contains 0.2509oz of platinum surrounded by a ring of 0.2509oz gold - Asking $975 with free shipping!
Closeup and Reverse
~
2022 Platinum Kook - BU w/capsule - $155 (low mintage)
Closeupand Reverse
~
2020 Gold Maplegram - $90
Closeup and Reverse
BOXED & PACKAGED
2021 Niue - My First Treasures - My First Capital - Only 1000 minted! - Box, COA, packaging - $95Closeup and Reverse
~
2021 Palau - Inca Sun God with COA & display box - $160
Closeup and Reverse
~
2022 Niue - My First Treasures - My First Diamond - Only 1,000 minted! - Box, COA, packaging included - only asking $80
Closeup and Reverse
~
2017 Zombucks Walker Proof - with matching box and packaging. Small tears on top flap of outer packaging - $105
Closeup and Reverse
~
2021 PAMP Fender 351 Heavy guitar pick - limited edition, 10G sterling, absolute mint condition - $85
Closeup and Reverse
~
1992 Columbus Quincentennial - 1oz Proof with box & COA - $45
Closeup and Reverse
GRADED SLABS
2022 Cook Islands - Iron Maiden, Fear of the Dark - PF70 Ultra Cameo with box & COA - $140Closeup and Reverse
~
2015 Palau - World of Wonders: Abbey of St. Gaul - Colorized, ER - PF69 Ultra Cam - $135
Closeup and Reverse
~
2014 Niue Disney .5oz - Season's Greetings - Colorized - PF69 Ultra Cameo - $90
Closeup and Reverse
~
Palau - Undated Good Luck Casino Set - Green - MS69 - $75
Closeup and Reverse
~
2022 Niue - Hogwarts: Dumbledore's Office - MS70 Antiqued - Comes with packaging too - $150
Closeup and Reverse
~
2021-S ASE - MS70 T1 FS EI - $77
2021-P MS69 T1 FS EI - $45
Closeup and Reverse
● Take both silver eagles for only $120!
~
2019 Britannia - Reverse Struck Thru Error - MS69 - $185
Closeup and Reverse
~
1/4 Onza PF70 UC - $47
1/4 Double Eagle PF70 UC - $47
1/2 Maple RP70 DCAM (#15 of 259) - $65
Fractional slabs and Reverse
● Take all 3 for $155, shipped!
~
Australian MS70 DCAM Kooks - 2013-P + 2016-P - $50 each
Closeup and Reverse
● Take both and get free shipping!
FINE SILVER
Hand pours - RCM .9999 shot - Bravo's Coin - End the Fed (new stamp) ripple bar @ 6.4oz ($200) - End The Fed @ 4.9oz ($155) - End the Fed @ 2.8oz ($85) - FTF button @ 23g ($25) - Fuck the Fed button @ 27g ($29) -- Weights rounded down, these are fat... scale pics by request.● Get $5 off any pour with purchase of any other item!
Closeup
● Take both buttons for $50
~
Maple Pick 2 Lots! - 2x 1989 + 1x 1993 + 3x 2015 + 1x 2014 + 1x 2022 - pick any 2 for $70 - pick any 4 for $135 - BIN all for $270 and get free shipping. All with airtites.
Old style closeup (note the small burnish spot on one) - Old style leafs - New style closeup - New style leafs
~
2022 Allegories - Germania & Polonia, with the convex airtite - Comes with COA too! - $39, only 2 left available!
Closeup and Reverse
~
2022 KOMSCO Phoenix - $49
Closeup and Reverse
~
2022 Niue Hawksbill Sea Turtle - $40
Closeup and Reverse
~
2006 Cook Islands - 9/11 Freedom Tower - Proof - $44
Closeup and Reverse
~
2oz 2017 Pheli Mint - Temptation of the Succubus - $86
Closeup and Reverse
~
2013 Poland Mint - Magic Calendar, October - Swarovski crystal - $55
Closeup and Reverse
~
2015 ASE - BU - $37 with airtite
Closeup and Reverse
~
LOT: 2X Great Lakes Mint 1oz bars from 1973 - Rare - $110
Closeup and Reverse
JUNK SILVER
1889-O Morgan - Pretty great shape - $39Closeup and Reverse
~
LOT: $10fv 40% Kennedy halves - 8.2x = $82 (2.958 ASW)
Closeup
~
1935 50% Fiji Florin - $12 or add to any order for only $9!
Closeup and Reverse
Payments & Shipping
In order of preference: Zelle, CashApp, Venmo FF, PayPal FF, Google Pay, or BTC.Shipping is $5 tracked, $10 Priority. I pack items like they're being airdropped into an active war zone and hand deliver fast (same day when possible) to the counter, but insurance is available. Once delivered to USPS, out of my hands. Willing to middleman at buyer's expense.
Everything is priced below comps, let me know if I'm overpriced on anything.
DM preferred but can do chat... make sure to leave a comment so I get notified on mobile.
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Welcome to The Gathering: Evolution
The Gathering is a unique RPG Minecraft experience, designed from the ground up by a dedicated developer. Inspired by the MUDs of old, The Gathering’s extensive set of features are all managed under a single cohesive interface and backend (called the Legends system), improving on the often-seen assortment of commonly used plugins.
Embark on epic quests, discover secret locations, gain attunement to end-game areas, battle powerful world bosses. All without the typical spam, gaudy interface, and disjointed feel of a large multi-plugin server. This is a cohesive experience from top to bottom, following the vision of a very enthusiastic developer, and demonstrating years of channeled inspiration.
Vast, Deep, Simple, Elegant, and Growing.
The Gathering aims to enhance basic minecraft gameplay with a full suite of RPG-focused features and tools:
Hostile monsters are generated with health/damage scaling based on their level. The further you get from the server spawn village, the greater the level of danger.
We've made this for you. We hope you come join us.
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Welcome to The Gathering: Evolution
The Gathering is a unique RPG Minecraft experience, designed from the ground up by a dedicated developer. Inspired by the MUDs of old, The Gathering’s extensive set of features are all managed under a single cohesive interface and backend (called the Legends system), improving on the often-seen assortment of commonly used plugins.
Embark on epic quests, discover secret locations, gain attunement to end-game areas, battle powerful world bosses. All without the typical spam, gaudy interface, and disjointed feel of a large multi-plugin server. This is a cohesive experience from top to bottom, following the vision of a very enthusiastic developer, and demonstrating years of channeled inspiration.
Vast, Deep, Simple, Elegant, and Growing.
The Gathering aims to enhance basic minecraft gameplay with a full suite of RPG-focused features and tools:
- Select from 8 unique breeds with their own skill progression and lore. Become a follower of one of the powerful Deities that shape reality.
- Gain experience by killing monsters, mining, building, crafting, and just playing Minecraft.
- Level up to unlock new skills and abilities. Progress high enough to unlock breed hybrids, raising the level cap and adding a second breed’s skills to your toolbox.
- Bind your skills to items, and deck out your action bar with utility and lethality.
- Commune with your breed’s Diety through prayer and sacrifice. Earn their favor and bounty. Roleplay.
- Establish a home, using the custom Village system. Claim plots of land for protection, and allow friends and allies to share your space. Fly inside your claimed village plots.
- Engage in all manner of role-playing, with proximity communication (/say, /yell, /whisper) and express yourself with emotes. Become a part of the lore.
- Earn coin by slaying monsters. Set up your own item shops to trade goods and equipment with other players.
- Embark on epic quests with exciting finales and unique rewards.
Hostile monsters are generated with health/damage scaling based on their level. The further you get from the server spawn village, the greater the level of danger.
We've made this for you. We hope you come join us.
2023.06.10 22:31 Metaphoresy The Gathering [SMP] {Unique} {RPG} {Quests} {Magic} {Roleplay}
Server IP: GatheringMC.com
Discord: https://discord.gg/msBdnnmPcg
Welcome to The Gathering: Evolution
Trailer
The Gathering is a unique RPG Minecraft experience, designed from the ground up by a dedicated developer. Inspired by the MUDs of old, The Gathering’s extensive set of features are all managed under a single cohesive interface and backend (called the Legends system), improving on the often-seen assortment of commonly used plugins.
Embark on epic quests, discover secret locations, gain attunement to end-game areas, battle powerful world bosses. All without the typical spam, gaudy interface, and disjointed feel of a large multi-plugin server. This is a cohesive experience from top to bottom, following the vision of a very enthusiastic developer, and demonstrating years of channeled inspiration.
Vast, Deep, Simple, Elegant, and Growing.
The Gathering aims to enhance basic minecraft gameplay with a full suite of RPG-focused features and tools:
Preview
Hostile monsters are generated with health/damage scaling based on their level. The further you get from the server spawn village, the greater the level of danger.
We've made this for you. We hope you come join us.
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Discord: https://discord.gg/msBdnnmPcg
Welcome to The Gathering: Evolution
Trailer
The Gathering is a unique RPG Minecraft experience, designed from the ground up by a dedicated developer. Inspired by the MUDs of old, The Gathering’s extensive set of features are all managed under a single cohesive interface and backend (called the Legends system), improving on the often-seen assortment of commonly used plugins.
Embark on epic quests, discover secret locations, gain attunement to end-game areas, battle powerful world bosses. All without the typical spam, gaudy interface, and disjointed feel of a large multi-plugin server. This is a cohesive experience from top to bottom, following the vision of a very enthusiastic developer, and demonstrating years of channeled inspiration.
Vast, Deep, Simple, Elegant, and Growing.
The Gathering aims to enhance basic minecraft gameplay with a full suite of RPG-focused features and tools:
- Select from 8 unique breeds with their own skill progression and lore. Become a follower of one of the powerful Deities that shape reality.
- Gain experience by killing monsters, mining, building, crafting, and just playing Minecraft.
- Level up to unlock new skills and abilities. Progress high enough to unlock breed hybrids, raising the level cap and adding a second breed’s skills to your toolbox.
- Bind your skills to items, and deck out your action bar with utility and lethality.
- Commune with your breed’s Diety through prayer and sacrifice. Earn their favor and bounty. Roleplay.
- Establish a home, using the custom Village system. Claim plots of land for protection, and allow friends and allies to share your space. Fly inside your claimed village plots.
- Engage in all manner of role-playing, with proximity communication (/say, /yell, /whisper) and express yourself with emotes. Become a part of the lore.
- Earn coin by slaying monsters. Set up your own item shops to trade goods and equipment with other players.
- Embark on epic quests with exciting finales and unique rewards.
Preview
Hostile monsters are generated with health/damage scaling based on their level. The further you get from the server spawn village, the greater the level of danger.
We've made this for you. We hope you come join us.
2023.06.10 21:30 Janius [H] Celeste, Grime, Luck be a Landlord, Aground, Nomad Survival, Ghostwire: Tokyo, Ghostrunner [W] Chernobylite, Bug Fables, Monster Crown, Vambrace, Offers
IGS Rep
My barter.vg page
Games that I want most currently: *Bug Fables, Oaken, Chernobylite, Vanaris Tactics, Before your Eyes, Monster Crown, Miasma Chronicles *
My full wishlist is below, but I will consider other games that I don't know about/aren't on the list. I really like to play Roguelites, RPGs, Strategy, Card games, and certain sims.
I also have some games on the EA Store, if you're interested just ask.
Tradeable:
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My barter.vg page
Games that I want most currently: *Bug Fables, Oaken, Chernobylite, Vanaris Tactics, Before your Eyes, Monster Crown, Miasma Chronicles *
My full wishlist is below, but I will consider other games that I don't know about/aren't on the list. I really like to play Roguelites, RPGs, Strategy, Card games, and certain sims.
I also have some games on the EA Store, if you're interested just ask.
Tradeable:
- 112 Operator
- 911 Operator
- A Blind Legend
- Agent in Depth
- Aground
- Alchemist's Castle
- Anomaly Warzone Earth
- Autonauts
- Backbone
- Beasts of Maravilla Island
- Book of Demons
- Boyfriend Dungeon
- Builder Simulator
- Calico
- Celeste
- Chivalry: Medieval Warfare
- Cook, Serve, Delicious!
- Cosmic Express
- Crysis 2 Maximum Edition
- Curse of the Dead Gods
- Curse: The Eye of Isis
- Dead Age
- Death Squared
- Detached: Non-VR Edition
- Dicey Dungeons
- Dishonored
- DOOM 64
- Doughlings: Arcade
- Doughlings: Invasion
- Dustforce
- Edge
- Eternal Threads
- Evan's Remains
- Farming Simulator 17
- Field of Glory II
- Firegirl: Hack 'n Splash Rescue
- Five Dates
- Frick, Inc.
- Get In The Car, Loser!
- Ghostrunner
- Ghostwire: Tokyo
- Golden Light
- GRIME
- Growing Up
- Guilty Gear X2 #Reload
- Guns & Fishes
- Harmony's Odyssey
- Honey, I Joined a Cult
- Izmir: An Independence Simulator
- Just King
- Kingdom Two Crowns
- Lighthouse Keeper
- Luck be a Landlord
- Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For-
- Lust from Beyond: M Edition
- Mail Mole
- Medal of Honor(TM) Single Player
- MegaRace 1
- MegaRace 2
- Meow Express
- MirrorMoon EP
- Monaco
- Nomad Survival
- Non-Stop Raiders
- Orbital Racer
- Osmos
- Out of Space
- PAYDAY 2
- Perfect
- Pill Baby
- Pixross
- Planet TD
- Porcunipine
- Project Chemistry
- Quadrata
- Re:Call
- Rebel Galaxy
- Remnants of Naezith
- Safety First!
- Slime-san
- Songbringer
- Soul Axiom Rebooted
- Soul Searching
- Soulblight
- Soulflow
- Space Crew: Legendary Edition
- Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition
- Stacking
- StarCrossed
- Steel Rats
- Stick Fight: The Game
- stikir
- STONE
- Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones
- Super Lesbian Animal RPG
- Survivalist
- SWINE HD Remaster
- System Shock 2
- System Shock: Enhanced Edition
- Teacup
- The Amazing American Circus
- The Enchanted Cave 2
- The Forest Cathedral
- The Inner World
- The Wild Eight
- Ticket to Ride
- Turbo Golf Racing
- Turok
- Voyage: Journey to the Moon
- Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War
- White Day: A Labyrinth Named School
- World of Goo
- Worms Rumble
- Wounded - The Beginning
- 🧠 OUT OF THE BOX
- Absinthia
- AETHERIS
- Aethermancer
- Age of Wonders 4
- Alchemia: Creatio Ex Nihilo
- Angkara: The Horde
- Arcadian Atlas
- Archmage Rises
- ARIA CHRONICLE Amazon
- ARIA CHRONICLE Invoker
- ARIA CHRONICLE NECROKNIGHT
- Ash of Gods: The Way
- Astrea
- Backpack Hero
- Baldur's Gate 3
- Before Your Eyes
- Beloved Rapture
- Braid
- BRAVELY DEFAULT II
- Bravery and Greed
- Brutal Orchestra
- Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling
- Capes
- Card Shark
- Cassette Beasts
- Castle Of Alchemists
- Castle of the Underdogs : Episode 1
- Cataclismo
- Chernobylite Enhanced Edition
- Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game
- Crimson Tactics: The Rise of The White Banner
- Curious Expedition 2
- Cygnus
- Dark Quest 3
- Dead Cells
- Demiurges
- Demonschool
- Depersonalization
- Devil's Deck 恶魔秘境
- Dice & Dungeons
- Dice Hero: The Unoriginal Story
- Die in the Dungeon
- Diplomacy is Not an Option
- Disgaea 6 Complete
- Draft of Darkness
- Dreadful River
- Dream Tactics
- Dreamscaper
- Dungeon Alchemist
- Dungeon Drafters
- Dungeons of Aether
- Dungeons of Voidria
- Eden's Last Sunrise
- Epic Battle Fantasy 5
- Fabledom
- Farthest Frontier
- FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE
- For The King II
- For The Warp
- Fortune-499
- Full Circle
- God Of Weapons
- Golfinite
- Grand Arms: March of the Red Dragon
- Gunfire Reborn - Visitors of Spirit Realm
- Hades II
- HELLCARD
- Hero’s Hour - Rogue Realms
- Hex of the Lich
- Hexrogue
- Himeko Sutori
- Hogwarts Legacy
- Horizon's Gate
- I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
- Ignited Steel
- Immortal Tactics: War of the Eternals
- IMMORTALITY
- Infested Fortress
- Infinite Mana
- Intergalactic Pawn Shop
- Jagged Alliance 3
- Keylocker Turn Based Cyberpunk Action
- Kingdoms of the Dump
- Knock on the Coffin Lid
- Labyrinth of Refrain: Coven of Dusk
- Lakeburg Legacies
- LakeSide
- Lost In Fantaland
- Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales
- MatchR
- Mercenaries Rebirth
- Miasma Chronicles
- Monster Roadtrip Hitchhiker Pack - Oz & Amira
- Netherguild
- News Tower
- Night Book
- Night Trap - 25th Anniversary Edition
- Nightmare Reaper
- Nordic Ashes
- Oaken
- OCTOPATH TRAVELER II
- Pacific Drive
- Perfect Round Disc Golf
- Phantom Brigade
- Quartet
- Ravage Road
- Ravenswatch
- REMORE: INFESTED KINGDOM
- Ring of Fire: Search for a Killer
- Rising Lords
- Rogue Dungeon
- Rogue Legacy 2
- Roll Player
- SacriFire
- SaGa Frontier Remastered
- Sea of Stars
- Shadows of Forbidden Gods
- Shadows Over Loathing
- Shattered Heaven
- Shores Unknown
- Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate
- Showgunners
- Sigil of the Magi
- Sky Oceans: Wings for Hire
- Slaves of Magic
- SOULVARS
- Spelldrifter
- Spire of Glory
- Spiritlink Tactics
- STAR OCEAN THE DIVINE FORCE
- SteamWorld Build
- Stones Keeper
- Suikoden I&II HD Remaster Gate Rune and Dunan Unification Wars
- Super Fantasy Kingdom
- TaleSpire
- Tape to Tape
- Ten Dates
- Ten Thousand Coins: The Golden Merchant
- Terra Nil
- TerraScape
- The DioField Chronicle
- The Dragoness: Command of the Flame
- The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk - Back To The Futon
- The Last Starship
- The Oregon Trail
- The Pale Beyond
- The Simulacrum
- The Thaumaturge
- The Wandering Village
- Tiny Bookshop
- Together in Battle
- Tower Tactics: Liberation
- Towers Deck
- TRIANGLE STRATEGY
- Twilight Wars
- Tyrant's Blessing
- Unboxing the Cryptic Killer
- Untamed Tactics
- Vagrus - The Riven Realms
- VALKYRIE ELYSIUM
- Vampire Survivors: Legacy of the Moonspell
- Vampire Survivors: Tides of the Foscari
- Vanaris Tactics
- Vestaria Saga I: War of the Scions
- Vestaria Saga II: The Sacred Sword of Silvanister
- Void Marauders
- Voor de kroon
- Wandering Sword
- Whisker Squadron
- Whisper Mountain Outbreak
- Witchbrook
- Writer's Block
- Yaengard
- Zelter
- ＲＰＧタイム！～ライトの伝説～
2023.06.10 21:15 Born-Beach Something twisted crawled out from the edge of the universe. We are not alone.
PART 1
The moment Gray touches my head, static ripples across my skull. I froth at the mouth. Choke. For a little while, I think I’m probably dying, but then I lose all sense of awareness. I’m falling. I’m breaching the atmosphere of my mind and crashing into a dimension outside of myself, outside of everything.
Images flash. They’re like a film reel, playing across my consciousness from every direction. They’re everywhere. Inescapable. It’s as if I’m inhabiting them, as though they were moments in time and everything from sight, sound and smell are collapsing in on one another like a dying star.
Gray calls this ‘disorienting.’
But then, just when I tell myself I want out— that I can’t take it anymore because my disembodied ghost is about to explode… It slows. The whole process hits the brakes. The visual hurricane calms from a category 5 to a 3, and then settles into a 1.
Whew-ie!
Moments float to the surface. Others sink out of sight.
Like a sponge, my mind starts absorbing information– everything from quantum physics to the lyrical discography of Shania Twain. Knowledge becomes trivial. As soon as I want to know something, I reach out and take it.
It’s exhilarating.
But then, something catches my attention. It’s a series of shimmering lights in my lake of thought, gleaming jewels that seem to be drawing me toward them. Somehow, I know that these are why I’ve come here. These are what Gray meant for me to find, the so-called truth that would justify all of the abductions, all of the murders.
So I reach out.
Information bombards me. It carpet-bombs my mind, and in the overwhelming chaos of it all, the entire history of the cosmos is laid bare before me.
I see it. I see everything.
Gray and Teal? Not monsters. An alien species called the Vytar. Their technology eclipses humanity’s, and they’ve existed for billions of years. They’ve done remarkable things in that time, everything from mastering hyperlight travel to creating edible spray cheese. They’ve even charted the entirety of the cosmos.
What I’m saying is they've been busy.
But my revelations don’t stop there. No, they keep coming.
Tragedy.
I see tragedy.
I see it in the Vytar’s search for answers. In their quest to uncover every nook and cranny of the universe, they come across two devastating discoveries. Firstly, they learn that they are alone in the cosmos. Secondly, they discover their species is going extinct.
How?
It happens like this.
Near the edge of space, a Vytar ship discovers life. But it isn’t intelligent. Far from it. This life is microbial, viral, and it infects the explorers. They toss themselves into quarantine. They’re observed, and a shocking discovery is made– this virus?
Not so bad.
In fact, maybe it’s just what they've been looking for.
Soon, Vytarians across the cosmos are lining up to be infected with the virus. Within a century, their entire species are carriers. It jumps between them like the common cold, but they don’t mind. Not at all. Why? Easy. This virus comes with a satisfaction guarantee: biological immortality.
Now there’s a deal.
The trouble is, these Vytar don’t work like humans do. They don’t have sex and make babies and then sleep and then wake up and do it again. No, these Vytar lay eggs. And only certain members of their species lay eggs. And what’s more? They only lay eggs during a specific molting period at the end of their life cycles.
See what I’m getting at?
Biological immortality or laying eggs. Pick one. You can’t have both if you’re the Vytar. But by the time they figure this out, this virus has infected every last colony of their civilization. Unable to reproduce, their population enters freefall. It develops what’s known as an existential crisis, and if there’s one thing civil society hates, it’s dealing with an existential crisis.
Tempers flare.
Emotions run hot.
This brings us to the crux of the Vytarian dilemma. War.
And lots of it.
Worlds erupt into conflict. Galaxies become battlefields, and whole solar systems are laid to ash. If you thought nuclear weapons were bad, then consider what happens when a moon is kicked out of orbit into the surface of a planet. The bloodshed is immeasurable. As the fighting escalates, the stars themselves become weapons. The Vytar discover that if you can just push one toward instability…. Well, boom.
There goes the neighborhood.
These Vytar? Nothing if not creative.
But it’s just this penchant for outside the box problem solving that massacres their species into the low billions. Over a single millenia, the Vytar are swept from an inter-galactic species, to one inhabiting a single world on the edge of space.
Having met their downfall at the hands of their technology, the surviving Vytar turn toward spiritualism. Cults form. Different sects have different beliefs, but one eventually consumes the rest: The Way of the Chosen. The Way promises an end to Vytarian pain.
No more existential crisis.
No more killing.
All the Vytar need to do is open their hearts and minds to a simple three step program:
The Vytarians flock to it in droves because it offers what they need– a sense of purpose, and a break from the emotional turmoil that’s consumed them for decades. In a matter of years, The Way becomes the dominant socio-political force across the Vytarian homeworld, bringing the last of the warring factions together.
It’s a beautiful thing.
But what’s the phrase?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Yeah, that’s it.
Not everybody is a fan of how The Chosen conduct business. But The Chosen make it easy for them– all who disavow their belief system are exiled. It’s for the good of the Vytarians, they say. And maybe they’re right. After all, these are a species of aliens that have seen just what disagreements can lead to.
Fire. Fury. Mass graves and floating corpses in the vacuum of space.
No thank you.
That’s a risk they won’t take.
One of these exiled Vytarians is a scientist. He has no name in the shared memory save for ‘The Heretic,’ and he is both the architect of humanity and the genesis of our greatest threat. In his assessment, the Vytarian extinction is an inevitability. He perceives their current peace as fragile, held up by a corrupt theocracy whose foundations could crumble any moment. Once they do, boom. Back to war. Back to genocide.
It won’t be pretty.
Worse still, when the last of the Vytar perish, so too will the last form of complex intelligence. Their species won’t just die– it’ll be forgotten. The universe will become a barren void, an unconscious minefield of drifting cadavers.
That will be their legacy.
But the Heretic, he’s a mover-and-a-shaker. He’s the sort of individual who likes to solve problems, not create them, and so when he thinks of the Vytarian extinction, when he acknowledges it as a slow-motion inevitability, he isn’t giving up. No, he has a plan. It’s not a great plan, mind you. It’s not even a plan with a high-likelihood of success, and nor, for that matter, is it a plan that’s strictly legal.
But it is a plan.
It goes like this: if the Vytarians are dying out, then something must replace them. There must be intelligent life to take their place, to give warmth to this cold cosmos, and remember their legacy. Since no other intelligent life exists in all the universe, that leaves him a single option.
He’ll just have to make some.
And this Heretic? This mover-and-shaker?
Well, he succeeds.
And really, that’s where this nightmare begins.
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The helicopter touches down in a clearing that shouldn’t exist.
I step out to find a forest that’s broken, smoldering, one that’s cleaved in two with a cloud of cinders in its wake. This isn’t how I remember this place. Not at all. I remember a wooden bridge over a lazy creek, and tall trees that–
“Mitchell!”
Somebody’s calling my name. Running toward me.
My boss.
Lisa’s got her phone pressed to one ear and her other hand is frantically waving at me. All around us are government personnel, fellow men-in-black types looking equal parts panicked and terrified. Nice to know I’m not alone.
“Mitchell,” Lisa says, breathless. “Finally! Follow me.”
We take a stroll down the newest gully in America. Pieces of splintered metal scatter the ground, and here and there I see techs in hazmat suits brushing dust from the debris. Above us, the moon is being shrouded by a gigantic tarp. They’re extending it across the entire crash-site, likely hoping they can get it up before foreign satellites move into position and stick their noses into our business.
“Looks like a warzone out here,” I say, loosening my tie. Is it hot out, or is my anxiety just turning my body into a furnace? Tough to say.
Either way, Lisa’s not paying attention.
“Understood, sir. I’ll keep you posted with any and all updates as soon as we have them.” She hangs up her phone and turns to me. “Sorry, did you say something, Mitchell? Tonight’s been a nightmare.”
I can imagine.
As we make our way toward the UAP, Lisa tells me the government’s been hounding her for details.
What exactly did we shoot down?
Are we going to war?
She says we’ve probably got three hours until the media wakes up, and then we’ll need to start beating the journalists back with sticks. “This is a fucking disaster,” she tells me, and she reaches into her jacket and grabs a flask. “Whisky?”
I shake my head. “Haven’t touched the stuff for years.”
“Suit yourself.”
Bottom’s up.
She wipes her mouth and shoves the flask back into her jacket, taking the sort of breath you take when you’ve hit your limit. “I should’ve kept on as an accountant,” she says. “I’d still be in bed right now.”
The closer we get to the UAP, the easier it is to see through the haze of smoke. The craft is no longer just a smudge in the distance. Now I can make out its general shape. Its general size. It looks big enough to pass for a stadium, and round enough to sell the illusion.
“A flying saucer,” Lisa says, shaking her head. “You’d think these aliens never heard of a bad cliche.”
We get to the edge of the perimeter and flash our badges. Three soldiers let us through.
“Listen,” Lisa tells me, putting a hand on my shoulder. “Before we go inside this thing, I want you to take a few deep breaths, okay? We’ve had a couple incidents already.”
“Incidents?” I ask.
“Sure. One guy pissed his pants. Another was taking photos of this… corpse in a vat, and he throws up all over the inside– of the vat, not the corpse. Whatever. Point is, he completely fucked the lab team trying to get a sample.” She runs a hand through her hair. Chuckles darkly. “Luckily, there are about a dozen other corpses where that came from, but still. The smell was awful.”
Vats. Corpses. My stomach does a front flip and I almost take a page out of the photographer’s playbook. “So this is the real deal,” I mutter, pretending this whole thing doesn’t feel uncomfortably familiar. “Aliens actually exist, huh?”
“Just wait,” Lisa says, stepping into the dark of the ship. “This next part is gonna blow your mind.”
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The Heretic creates life in his image, using Earth as his petri dish.
His first lifeforms are what you’d call prototypes. Rough drafts. They’re giant reptiles, dinosaurs, and a scattershot of various traits and biology. They’re a means to discover what works and what doesn’t on the path to evolving complex intelligence. He studies them closely. Then he studies them some more.
But what’s the phrase?
Nothing lasts forever.
Yeah, that’s it.
We’ve covered that the Vytarian are an advanced species. We know that they’re no strangers to space, and we’re well aware that their wars wiped out 99% of their population. But what we haven’t covered, is that some toys are still left-over from those wars.
And The Chosen? They possess almost all of them.
One of these is a fleet of surveillance drones, the sort that drift through the cosmos and ping headquarters if they see something suspect. One of these happens to drift by Earth. Can you guess what happens next?
Images of the Heretic’s well, heresy, are transmitted to The Chosen. Minutes later, he gets a collect call from 40 billion light years away.
What is this, the Chosen High Council asks.
Blasphemer, they condemn.
But the Heretic isn’t shocked by this. He knows that according to The Way, the creation of new lifeforms is the exclusive domain of their deity, The Distant One. He knows that what he’s done is criminal. That maybe it’s also considered an affront against all of existence, and that it’s maybe grounds for execution and inviting the wrath of god upon all Vytarians.
Relax, he tells them.
It’s you or us, they say.
I can explain, he tells them.
Don’t bother, they say.
The line goes dead. The Heretic figures he’s got about a handful of weeks before The Chosen arrive to dish out their justice, so he flees to a neighboring star system. While there, he realizes The Chosen were never aiming for him– only his life’s work. A meteor is propelled into the surface of the earth, and the moment it impacts the planet becomes fire. Six trillion lifeforms scream in momentary agony before turning to ash.
The Heretic weeps.
_________________________________________________________________________
Years pass.
Then centuries.
These turn to millenia, and millenia become eons, and the Heretic decides to risk returning to earth. He wants to find closure for the loss of his creation. He wants to pay his respects. But when he arrives, his sorrow becomes hope. Life, it seems, has survived.
More than that, it has thrived.
Yet this life isn’t the same that he set out to create. No, this life is the biological progeny of tiny balls of fur he created to feed his prototypes. They’re what you and I might call mammals. Except some of these mammals are impressive– they have large brains, opposable thumbs, and what’s more, they look a bit like you and I.
They’re humans. Among the first.
The Heretic is fascinated by these humans. He recognizes they possess complex intelligence, sentience, and a strong sense of adaptability. He observes them as they form social groups, watches as they create the ghosts of language.
Yes, he thinks. This is it. These lifeforms will inherit the universe, and in doing so, immortalize the Vytar in their memories.
But a problem remains. The Chosen.
If they discover the earth is teeming with life, then they’ll circle back and finish the job. This time, they won’t pull punches. The planet will become an asteroid field, and all of its life will be red mist upon the floating rocks.
But what to do?
How to keep humanity alive, to shield it from the overwhelming might of the Vytarian military? It seemed impossible. Equations run through the Heretic’s mind, scenarios infest his thoughts and in not a single one can he fathom succeeding. He has but one spacecraft. No weapons to speak of.
And it occurs to him.
Humans are hardy creatures– adaptable. Given time, they will evolve to reach parity with the Vytarians. Then, their superior numbers could compensate for any gaps in technology. But such a plan hinges upon them getting up to speed, ascending to an evolutionary singularity in which their gains become exponential. He cannot afford to wait millions of years when The Chosen could discover him any day.
No, he’ll need to interfere. Spike the gene pool. Rig the results. He’ll need to give humanity more than a push, he’ll need to throw it down the damn stairs if they have any hope of surviving.
But there’s a way.
Yes, there’s always a way.
He devises a solution called Project Runaway.
It starts by creating a new lifeform. It’s aesthetically identical to a human male, but it’s born from the genetic harvest of thousands of his peers. Each strand of his DNA will be carefully selected for, prioritizing the potential for runaway evolution. Then, these strands will be spliced with Vytarian genes. Not much, but enough to access fragments of the shared memory– the Collective Recall. This will allow the man to gain intuitive understanding of billions of years worth of wisdom. It’ll permit him to think faster. Adapt more quickly.
Then, as this man spreads his genes through the population, his progeny will inherit his DNA. They’ll evolve quicker. Think faster. This is how it works.
This is how humanity inherits the universe.
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“Watch your step,” Lisa says, stepping into the UAP.
I follow her inside. For a moment, I’m blinded by the glare of industrial work-lamps. Then my senses are assaulted by a cacophony of sound and movement. We’ve entered a hive of activity. Crowds of people buzz around us, some in biohazard suits, others in military camo.
Where we are is a large circular chamber, one surrounded by dark corridors leading to other locations of the ship. Right now, teams are taping those entrances up with plastic wrap. Other teams are setting up perimeters, hanging pieces of paper above archways labeled A through Z.
“You alright, Mitchell?”
“What?”
“Are you alright?” Lisa says, and she’s got her arms folded. She’s looking at me like she thinks I’m about to become her newest headache, maybe piss myself all over the deck.
“I’m fine,” I tell her, forcing a smile. “It’s just a lot to take in, you know? Never been in an alien spaceship before.”
“Sure,” she says, lifting an eyebrow. “Join the club. We’re heading down corridor D to find somebody named Major Luca– I was talking to her a few seconds before you showed up. She said she’s got something to show me. Something big.”
“Spare me the suspense, Lis. What are we after?”
“From the sounds of it? Bodies.”
“Bodies?” I say. “Like those corpses you mentioned, the ones in vats?”
“Not quite. According to Luca, these bodies aren’t exactly… Well, they’re not human. Probably.” She punches my arm, gives me a cheeky smirk. “Relax, Mitchell. The Major confirmed they’re already dead– nothing to be scared of. Let’s go.”
She leads us down the corridor labeled D, and every step I take is worse than the last.
My heart is flying. It’s pounding a million beats a minute. I put on my best poker face, nodding along as Lisa briefs me on the UAP, but internally I’m having a breakdown. It’s taking everything I have not to hyperventilate. The further we get into the spacecraft, the more I’m wondering how much of my dreams were dreams.
The more I wonder if all I am is just some clone with a badge.
“What did the bodies look like?” I ask, clearing my throat. “Did these aliens have scales, and tails…and sort of look like lizards?”
Lisa laughs. “No idea. Luca didn’t give me much of a description, but I’d bet money they were little green men. It’d go with the whole flying saucer motif, don’t you think?”
“Yeah,” I swallow. “Suppose it would.”
She chatters on. This, that, something else. Apparently they’ve got an ironclad alibi to deal with the journalists, something banal enough to keep them far away from the crash site. But I’m too deep in my own thoughts to register what is. I’m too deep remembering all the awful aspects of the dream that wasn’t supposed to be real. I’m remembering him.
The Runaway.
And the more I remember, the more I wish I could forget.
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The first time the Runway opens his eyes, he’s twenty years old.
He’s laying naked in the jungle, the sun scorching his skin with ultraviolet rays. He sits up. He has no instructions. No guidance. This world is entirely new to him, utterly foreign and in his stomach flutters the first ghosts of adrenaline.
From the outer ring of Saturn, the Heretic watches.
The Runaway rises to his feet. He takes his first shaking, trembling step and stumbles into the grass. He groans. Pain. A new sensation. He gets back up, tries again. It’s harder than it looks, walking when you’ve never done it before, but eventually he gets the picture. For him, it gets easier by the second.
After only an hour, he’s running through the ferns. Climbing trees. And his stomach is screaming.
Food.
He must find food.
But what to eat?
By his third hour alive, the Runaway has learned to forage. By his sixth, he’s consumed enough poisonous berries to floor an elephant, and is writhing on the ground. The poison burns his stomach. It makes his tongue swell and his skin glisten with sweat, but as the seconds become minutes, the agony fades to pain fades to healing.
His body is adapting. His digestive systems are hardening themselves against the poison, and soon, the Runaway rises back to his feet.
Evolution has begun.
As the sun sets, the Runaway collects wild game from crude traps. He has begun subconsciously tapping into the Collective Recall, intuitively teaching himself to skin animals, to make fires, to cook flesh for taste and health.
He is learning.
As the week comes to a close, the Runaway is surrounded. A pack of wolves has been hounding him for days, and now they’ve come to deal with this trespasser upon their territory. They circle him. Their teeth gnash, saliva leaking from their jaws. In their throats is a growl, a threat of death, but the Runaway has learned to handle his fear. Now, it serves him.
His muscles tense. His hands flex in and out of fists, and his eyes follow the beasts as they pad the ground. The large one, he thinks. The large wolf will engage, and the rest will follow. But he doesn’t give it time– he dashes forward, faster than even the wolves can react, and he brings his fist down upon the skull of the largest. The animal is stunned. Dazed. He follows up by grabbing its jaws, and pulling with all of his might.
The other wolves flee. They yelp and they scream as their champion falls to the dirt, dead.
The Runaway dresses himself in its hide.
At the end of the month, the Runaway has evolved to the point he barely needs to eat. Twenty calories a day serve him all that he needs. A handful of berries, and he can operate at peak mental and physical capability. By the close of his second month, he no longer needs to breathe. He fishes hundreds of meters below the surface, fighting off sharks for choice morsels swimming in the deep.
On the anniversary of his birth, the Heretic observes that the Runaway no longer ages. His DNA suffers no damage each time it splits. He has become biologically immortal.
After five years, he transcends humanity. The Runaway is now capable of perceiving individual atoms, and by the sixth year of his life, he can manipulate them. Matter becomes his plaything. The laws of physics become little more than suggestions, and so if he wants to fly, then he does. If he wants to reach into the minds of living creatures, he does that too.
The Runaway has become the most powerful lifeform to ever live. But the Heretic is not concerned.
No, he sees what his creation is. He sees that this anomaly, this Runaway is kind. Empathetic. With each passing year his interest in violence wanes. Before long, the Runaway cuts himself off from humanity altogether, unable to stomach their wonton savagery and thirst for blood. Some have taken to worshiping him. Others, reviling.
To him, they are all the same. Misguided, fearful, and ruled by instincts he has learned to see beyond. These humans may as well be a separate species.
To find respite from this chaos, he meditates. Sometimes he does this at the bottom of the sea. Other times he does this atop high, wind-swept peaks. Anywhere his senses are sufficiently assailed to block out the madness of the world around him.
And it’s while meditating on one of these peaks that the Runaway begins looking to the stars. He wonders if there may be more out there.
Is it possible, he thinks aloud, that there are others like me?
Could I find a companion of my own?
And it’s while he’s pondering these thoughts, while he’s gazing into the deepness of space, that he finds something looking back at him. A lizard. Housed within a strange capsule, floating in the outer rings of a celestial body we know as Saturn.
It is the first time he and his maker lock eyes.
Weeks later, the Runaway’s breached the atmosphere of Earth. A month after that, he’s traversed the solar system and made it to the Heretic’s ship. He’s tapping on the hull. The Heretic welcomes him inside.
“Hello,” the Heretic says, in the ancient tongue of man.
The Runaway peers at him. “Hello…” he says slowly, but it is not in the ancient tongue of man. It is in the low bass of Vytarian. “Your language is… strange… but I believe I can master it. Who are you? Why have you been watching… me?”
The Heretic doesn’t see the point of mincing words. He comes clean about everything– after all, the Runaway is capable of looking into his thoughts. What’s the use of playing coy? He starts with the extinction of the Vytarian people, and ends with humanity’s role as inheritors of the universe, and the Runaway’s role in leading them there.
“Have you any questions?” the Heretic asks.
“Many,” the Runaway tells him. “Above all, why do you fear me?”
“I don’t,” the Heretic says.
“You do. I see it reflected in your thoughts.”
“The fear you see reflected in my thoughts,” the Heretic begins, speaking with careful deliberation, “... it does not belong to me. You are viewing fragments of the Collective Recall, a shared knowledge passed down by my people. You are viewing the beliefs of those of us who remain from the Old War– followers of the Way of the Chosen.”
“These followers,” The Runaway says, his expression twisting with shock and horror. “They think of me as a monster– an abomination!”
“Not exactly,” the Heretic tells him. “Strictly, they do not think of you at all. In order to protect my work, I cut myself off from the Collective sometime ago, so all you’re seeing are faint echoes of their dogma. To them, my work is blasphemy. But yes… I believe that should they learn of you, your vast capabilities would indeed frighten them. They would think you a monster.”
“And to you?” The Runaway asks. “What am I to you?”
The Heretic reaches toward the Runaway, claps his shoulder. He smiles in the human way. “I am a barren lifeform, ravaged by a virus that has stolen the hope of my people. I am unable to achieve my biological imperative. Reproduction is beyond me. You ask me what you are to me? You are my legacy.” He slowly, awkwardly performs the human ritual of embrace, wrapping his arms around the Runaway.
You are my son.
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I take a breath. It’s brief. Gasping. Gray is standing in front of me, his pupils pulsing, and I’m suddenly aware that his name isn’t Gray it’s Wor. He’s 70 million years old. Not only that, but so is his friend– and his name isn’t Teal, but Kez. They’re both devotees of the Way of the Chosen.
“Did you see?” Wor asks, and he’s no longer using his digital translator. After the thought transference it seems I can understand the Vytarian language, make sense of the various vibrations that previously just seemed like low bass.
“Yes,” I say, leaning forward. “But not everything.” I look up at Wor, and hit him with an accusatory glare. “There’s more to this story, isn’t there? What aren’t you telling me?”
Kez twists his neck to look at us. His pupils are blowing up and shrinking in quick succession– a reaction I now understand to mean I’m pissed. “You have seen enough, human. Prepare for genetic deconstruction and we will be done with this.”
“No!” I exclaim, and I’m surprised to hear my voice rumbling throughout the ship. It’s thunderous. I clear my throat. “No,” I say, and this time my voice is appropriately subdued. Vytarian is apparently a powerful language. “If you want me to jump into a vat and turn into… corpse chili or whatever, then you have to show me it’s worth it.”
The Vytar exchange glances. Wor’s pupils shrink– he’s nervous. Concerned. “To show you more may invite excess unease,” he says. “It was my hope that a brief glance at the history, the origin of everything could provide necessary closure to commence the harvest of your DNA.”
“Look,” I say. “I’ve seen a lot. I know that whatever genetic material you’re grabbing off people is a lot more useful if we’re agreeable. It’s like hunting an animal. Kill it scared, and the meat is tough. It’s a chemical thing– I get that, and I’m telling you that if you show me the rest, I’ll let you do what you need. I’ll play my part.”
“Invalid request,” Kez says. “Such knowledge is beyond your capacity to bear.”
I frown. “It’s him, isn’t it? The Runaway. It’s obvious he’s the source of your fear and this so-called mission to save humanity. Yeah. I might not have all the details, but just looking at your reactions– it’s gotta be. More than that, I can guess you haven’t had much luck dealing with him either.”
Wor and Kez don’t speak a word. Their expressions say everything I need to know.
“The way I figure it,” I continue, getting to my feet and taking a deep breath. “Is that I’m a human too. On some level, I’m like The Runaway, just less… well, terrifying. But maybe there’s something in those visions, something in the Runaway’s actions or his behaviors that only a human could make sense of. Ever think of that? I mean, what if I can help you catch something you’re missing? Isn’t that chance worth taking?”
The Vytar are quiet. They stare at one another for a long while, and their pupils explode in waves of emotion. Kez turns away. He lets out a gruff warble and throws up his arms, cursing Wor and me both.
“What’s his problem?” I ask.
Wor steps forward. He gingerly looks back to his companion, but Kez’s back is turned, hunched over the console in clear disagreement.
“Kez does not wish to harm your mind,” Wor says quietly. “Your story of your sister… this expiring human you call Hope, well, it has moved him. He fears that if I show you the rest of The Runaway’s story it will cause your mind to fracture, shattering your consciousness in such a way that it may not be repaired. There will be no perfect clone. Your sister will find no solace in her dying moments.”
I look at Kez, watch him tap at the console’s controls and I can’t help but feel guilty for judging him so harshly. At the end of the day, he was just looking out for my sister.
But, on the other hand, he also wants to turn me into DNA soup.
“This feels important,” I say to Wor, balling my hands into fists. “If this is really about the fate of humanity, the fate of everything– well, I think Hope would want me to do anything I could to help.” I plaster a weak smile onto my face, trying to hype myself up with fake confidence. “Besides, I can’t imagine it’s that bad, is it?”
Wor places his hands on my temples. Closes his eyes. “You’re right,” he tells me. “You cannot begin to imagine how bad it is.”
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The moment Gray touches my head, static ripples across my skull. I froth at the mouth. Choke. For a little while, I think I’m probably dying, but then I lose all sense of awareness. I’m falling. I’m breaching the atmosphere of my mind and crashing into a dimension outside of myself, outside of everything.
Images flash. They’re like a film reel, playing across my consciousness from every direction. They’re everywhere. Inescapable. It’s as if I’m inhabiting them, as though they were moments in time and everything from sight, sound and smell are collapsing in on one another like a dying star.
Gray calls this ‘disorienting.’
But then, just when I tell myself I want out— that I can’t take it anymore because my disembodied ghost is about to explode… It slows. The whole process hits the brakes. The visual hurricane calms from a category 5 to a 3, and then settles into a 1.
Whew-ie!
Moments float to the surface. Others sink out of sight.
Like a sponge, my mind starts absorbing information– everything from quantum physics to the lyrical discography of Shania Twain. Knowledge becomes trivial. As soon as I want to know something, I reach out and take it.
It’s exhilarating.
But then, something catches my attention. It’s a series of shimmering lights in my lake of thought, gleaming jewels that seem to be drawing me toward them. Somehow, I know that these are why I’ve come here. These are what Gray meant for me to find, the so-called truth that would justify all of the abductions, all of the murders.
So I reach out.
Information bombards me. It carpet-bombs my mind, and in the overwhelming chaos of it all, the entire history of the cosmos is laid bare before me.
I see it. I see everything.
Gray and Teal? Not monsters. An alien species called the Vytar. Their technology eclipses humanity’s, and they’ve existed for billions of years. They’ve done remarkable things in that time, everything from mastering hyperlight travel to creating edible spray cheese. They’ve even charted the entirety of the cosmos.
What I’m saying is they've been busy.
But my revelations don’t stop there. No, they keep coming.
Tragedy.
I see tragedy.
I see it in the Vytar’s search for answers. In their quest to uncover every nook and cranny of the universe, they come across two devastating discoveries. Firstly, they learn that they are alone in the cosmos. Secondly, they discover their species is going extinct.
How?
It happens like this.
Near the edge of space, a Vytar ship discovers life. But it isn’t intelligent. Far from it. This life is microbial, viral, and it infects the explorers. They toss themselves into quarantine. They’re observed, and a shocking discovery is made– this virus?
Not so bad.
In fact, maybe it’s just what they've been looking for.
Soon, Vytarians across the cosmos are lining up to be infected with the virus. Within a century, their entire species are carriers. It jumps between them like the common cold, but they don’t mind. Not at all. Why? Easy. This virus comes with a satisfaction guarantee: biological immortality.
Now there’s a deal.
The trouble is, these Vytar don’t work like humans do. They don’t have sex and make babies and then sleep and then wake up and do it again. No, these Vytar lay eggs. And only certain members of their species lay eggs. And what’s more? They only lay eggs during a specific molting period at the end of their life cycles.
See what I’m getting at?
Biological immortality or laying eggs. Pick one. You can’t have both if you’re the Vytar. But by the time they figure this out, this virus has infected every last colony of their civilization. Unable to reproduce, their population enters freefall. It develops what’s known as an existential crisis, and if there’s one thing civil society hates, it’s dealing with an existential crisis.
Tempers flare.
Emotions run hot.
This brings us to the crux of the Vytarian dilemma. War.
And lots of it.
Worlds erupt into conflict. Galaxies become battlefields, and whole solar systems are laid to ash. If you thought nuclear weapons were bad, then consider what happens when a moon is kicked out of orbit into the surface of a planet. The bloodshed is immeasurable. As the fighting escalates, the stars themselves become weapons. The Vytar discover that if you can just push one toward instability…. Well, boom.
There goes the neighborhood.
These Vytar? Nothing if not creative.
But it’s just this penchant for outside the box problem solving that massacres their species into the low billions. Over a single millenia, the Vytar are swept from an inter-galactic species, to one inhabiting a single world on the edge of space.
Having met their downfall at the hands of their technology, the surviving Vytar turn toward spiritualism. Cults form. Different sects have different beliefs, but one eventually consumes the rest: The Way of the Chosen. The Way promises an end to Vytarian pain.
No more existential crisis.
No more killing.
All the Vytar need to do is open their hearts and minds to a simple three step program:
- Show a little pride. We’re the only intelligent life in the universe, so start acting like it!
- Persevere. Immortality is our final test. Keep your chin up!
- Ascend. Just make it to the heat death of the universe, and you’ll be granted salvation!
The Vytarians flock to it in droves because it offers what they need– a sense of purpose, and a break from the emotional turmoil that’s consumed them for decades. In a matter of years, The Way becomes the dominant socio-political force across the Vytarian homeworld, bringing the last of the warring factions together.
It’s a beautiful thing.
But what’s the phrase?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Yeah, that’s it.
Not everybody is a fan of how The Chosen conduct business. But The Chosen make it easy for them– all who disavow their belief system are exiled. It’s for the good of the Vytarians, they say. And maybe they’re right. After all, these are a species of aliens that have seen just what disagreements can lead to.
Fire. Fury. Mass graves and floating corpses in the vacuum of space.
No thank you.
That’s a risk they won’t take.
One of these exiled Vytarians is a scientist. He has no name in the shared memory save for ‘The Heretic,’ and he is both the architect of humanity and the genesis of our greatest threat. In his assessment, the Vytarian extinction is an inevitability. He perceives their current peace as fragile, held up by a corrupt theocracy whose foundations could crumble any moment. Once they do, boom. Back to war. Back to genocide.
It won’t be pretty.
Worse still, when the last of the Vytar perish, so too will the last form of complex intelligence. Their species won’t just die– it’ll be forgotten. The universe will become a barren void, an unconscious minefield of drifting cadavers.
That will be their legacy.
But the Heretic, he’s a mover-and-a-shaker. He’s the sort of individual who likes to solve problems, not create them, and so when he thinks of the Vytarian extinction, when he acknowledges it as a slow-motion inevitability, he isn’t giving up. No, he has a plan. It’s not a great plan, mind you. It’s not even a plan with a high-likelihood of success, and nor, for that matter, is it a plan that’s strictly legal.
But it is a plan.
It goes like this: if the Vytarians are dying out, then something must replace them. There must be intelligent life to take their place, to give warmth to this cold cosmos, and remember their legacy. Since no other intelligent life exists in all the universe, that leaves him a single option.
He’ll just have to make some.
And this Heretic? This mover-and-shaker?
Well, he succeeds.
And really, that’s where this nightmare begins.
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The helicopter touches down in a clearing that shouldn’t exist.
I step out to find a forest that’s broken, smoldering, one that’s cleaved in two with a cloud of cinders in its wake. This isn’t how I remember this place. Not at all. I remember a wooden bridge over a lazy creek, and tall trees that–
“Mitchell!”
Somebody’s calling my name. Running toward me.
My boss.
Lisa’s got her phone pressed to one ear and her other hand is frantically waving at me. All around us are government personnel, fellow men-in-black types looking equal parts panicked and terrified. Nice to know I’m not alone.
“Mitchell,” Lisa says, breathless. “Finally! Follow me.”
We take a stroll down the newest gully in America. Pieces of splintered metal scatter the ground, and here and there I see techs in hazmat suits brushing dust from the debris. Above us, the moon is being shrouded by a gigantic tarp. They’re extending it across the entire crash-site, likely hoping they can get it up before foreign satellites move into position and stick their noses into our business.
“Looks like a warzone out here,” I say, loosening my tie. Is it hot out, or is my anxiety just turning my body into a furnace? Tough to say.
Either way, Lisa’s not paying attention.
“Understood, sir. I’ll keep you posted with any and all updates as soon as we have them.” She hangs up her phone and turns to me. “Sorry, did you say something, Mitchell? Tonight’s been a nightmare.”
I can imagine.
As we make our way toward the UAP, Lisa tells me the government’s been hounding her for details.
What exactly did we shoot down?
Are we going to war?
She says we’ve probably got three hours until the media wakes up, and then we’ll need to start beating the journalists back with sticks. “This is a fucking disaster,” she tells me, and she reaches into her jacket and grabs a flask. “Whisky?”
I shake my head. “Haven’t touched the stuff for years.”
“Suit yourself.”
Bottom’s up.
She wipes her mouth and shoves the flask back into her jacket, taking the sort of breath you take when you’ve hit your limit. “I should’ve kept on as an accountant,” she says. “I’d still be in bed right now.”
The closer we get to the UAP, the easier it is to see through the haze of smoke. The craft is no longer just a smudge in the distance. Now I can make out its general shape. Its general size. It looks big enough to pass for a stadium, and round enough to sell the illusion.
“A flying saucer,” Lisa says, shaking her head. “You’d think these aliens never heard of a bad cliche.”
We get to the edge of the perimeter and flash our badges. Three soldiers let us through.
“Listen,” Lisa tells me, putting a hand on my shoulder. “Before we go inside this thing, I want you to take a few deep breaths, okay? We’ve had a couple incidents already.”
“Incidents?” I ask.
“Sure. One guy pissed his pants. Another was taking photos of this… corpse in a vat, and he throws up all over the inside– of the vat, not the corpse. Whatever. Point is, he completely fucked the lab team trying to get a sample.” She runs a hand through her hair. Chuckles darkly. “Luckily, there are about a dozen other corpses where that came from, but still. The smell was awful.”
Vats. Corpses. My stomach does a front flip and I almost take a page out of the photographer’s playbook. “So this is the real deal,” I mutter, pretending this whole thing doesn’t feel uncomfortably familiar. “Aliens actually exist, huh?”
“Just wait,” Lisa says, stepping into the dark of the ship. “This next part is gonna blow your mind.”
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The Heretic creates life in his image, using Earth as his petri dish.
His first lifeforms are what you’d call prototypes. Rough drafts. They’re giant reptiles, dinosaurs, and a scattershot of various traits and biology. They’re a means to discover what works and what doesn’t on the path to evolving complex intelligence. He studies them closely. Then he studies them some more.
But what’s the phrase?
Nothing lasts forever.
Yeah, that’s it.
We’ve covered that the Vytarian are an advanced species. We know that they’re no strangers to space, and we’re well aware that their wars wiped out 99% of their population. But what we haven’t covered, is that some toys are still left-over from those wars.
And The Chosen? They possess almost all of them.
One of these is a fleet of surveillance drones, the sort that drift through the cosmos and ping headquarters if they see something suspect. One of these happens to drift by Earth. Can you guess what happens next?
Images of the Heretic’s well, heresy, are transmitted to The Chosen. Minutes later, he gets a collect call from 40 billion light years away.
What is this, the Chosen High Council asks.
Blasphemer, they condemn.
But the Heretic isn’t shocked by this. He knows that according to The Way, the creation of new lifeforms is the exclusive domain of their deity, The Distant One. He knows that what he’s done is criminal. That maybe it’s also considered an affront against all of existence, and that it’s maybe grounds for execution and inviting the wrath of god upon all Vytarians.
Relax, he tells them.
It’s you or us, they say.
I can explain, he tells them.
Don’t bother, they say.
The line goes dead. The Heretic figures he’s got about a handful of weeks before The Chosen arrive to dish out their justice, so he flees to a neighboring star system. While there, he realizes The Chosen were never aiming for him– only his life’s work. A meteor is propelled into the surface of the earth, and the moment it impacts the planet becomes fire. Six trillion lifeforms scream in momentary agony before turning to ash.
The Heretic weeps.
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Years pass.
Then centuries.
These turn to millenia, and millenia become eons, and the Heretic decides to risk returning to earth. He wants to find closure for the loss of his creation. He wants to pay his respects. But when he arrives, his sorrow becomes hope. Life, it seems, has survived.
More than that, it has thrived.
Yet this life isn’t the same that he set out to create. No, this life is the biological progeny of tiny balls of fur he created to feed his prototypes. They’re what you and I might call mammals. Except some of these mammals are impressive– they have large brains, opposable thumbs, and what’s more, they look a bit like you and I.
They’re humans. Among the first.
The Heretic is fascinated by these humans. He recognizes they possess complex intelligence, sentience, and a strong sense of adaptability. He observes them as they form social groups, watches as they create the ghosts of language.
Yes, he thinks. This is it. These lifeforms will inherit the universe, and in doing so, immortalize the Vytar in their memories.
But a problem remains. The Chosen.
If they discover the earth is teeming with life, then they’ll circle back and finish the job. This time, they won’t pull punches. The planet will become an asteroid field, and all of its life will be red mist upon the floating rocks.
But what to do?
How to keep humanity alive, to shield it from the overwhelming might of the Vytarian military? It seemed impossible. Equations run through the Heretic’s mind, scenarios infest his thoughts and in not a single one can he fathom succeeding. He has but one spacecraft. No weapons to speak of.
And it occurs to him.
Humans are hardy creatures– adaptable. Given time, they will evolve to reach parity with the Vytarians. Then, their superior numbers could compensate for any gaps in technology. But such a plan hinges upon them getting up to speed, ascending to an evolutionary singularity in which their gains become exponential. He cannot afford to wait millions of years when The Chosen could discover him any day.
No, he’ll need to interfere. Spike the gene pool. Rig the results. He’ll need to give humanity more than a push, he’ll need to throw it down the damn stairs if they have any hope of surviving.
But there’s a way.
Yes, there’s always a way.
He devises a solution called Project Runaway.
It starts by creating a new lifeform. It’s aesthetically identical to a human male, but it’s born from the genetic harvest of thousands of his peers. Each strand of his DNA will be carefully selected for, prioritizing the potential for runaway evolution. Then, these strands will be spliced with Vytarian genes. Not much, but enough to access fragments of the shared memory– the Collective Recall. This will allow the man to gain intuitive understanding of billions of years worth of wisdom. It’ll permit him to think faster. Adapt more quickly.
Then, as this man spreads his genes through the population, his progeny will inherit his DNA. They’ll evolve quicker. Think faster. This is how it works.
This is how humanity inherits the universe.
_________________________________________________________________________
“Watch your step,” Lisa says, stepping into the UAP.
I follow her inside. For a moment, I’m blinded by the glare of industrial work-lamps. Then my senses are assaulted by a cacophony of sound and movement. We’ve entered a hive of activity. Crowds of people buzz around us, some in biohazard suits, others in military camo.
Where we are is a large circular chamber, one surrounded by dark corridors leading to other locations of the ship. Right now, teams are taping those entrances up with plastic wrap. Other teams are setting up perimeters, hanging pieces of paper above archways labeled A through Z.
“You alright, Mitchell?”
“What?”
“Are you alright?” Lisa says, and she’s got her arms folded. She’s looking at me like she thinks I’m about to become her newest headache, maybe piss myself all over the deck.
“I’m fine,” I tell her, forcing a smile. “It’s just a lot to take in, you know? Never been in an alien spaceship before.”
“Sure,” she says, lifting an eyebrow. “Join the club. We’re heading down corridor D to find somebody named Major Luca– I was talking to her a few seconds before you showed up. She said she’s got something to show me. Something big.”
“Spare me the suspense, Lis. What are we after?”
“From the sounds of it? Bodies.”
“Bodies?” I say. “Like those corpses you mentioned, the ones in vats?”
“Not quite. According to Luca, these bodies aren’t exactly… Well, they’re not human. Probably.” She punches my arm, gives me a cheeky smirk. “Relax, Mitchell. The Major confirmed they’re already dead– nothing to be scared of. Let’s go.”
She leads us down the corridor labeled D, and every step I take is worse than the last.
My heart is flying. It’s pounding a million beats a minute. I put on my best poker face, nodding along as Lisa briefs me on the UAP, but internally I’m having a breakdown. It’s taking everything I have not to hyperventilate. The further we get into the spacecraft, the more I’m wondering how much of my dreams were dreams.
The more I wonder if all I am is just some clone with a badge.
“What did the bodies look like?” I ask, clearing my throat. “Did these aliens have scales, and tails…and sort of look like lizards?”
Lisa laughs. “No idea. Luca didn’t give me much of a description, but I’d bet money they were little green men. It’d go with the whole flying saucer motif, don’t you think?”
“Yeah,” I swallow. “Suppose it would.”
She chatters on. This, that, something else. Apparently they’ve got an ironclad alibi to deal with the journalists, something banal enough to keep them far away from the crash site. But I’m too deep in my own thoughts to register what is. I’m too deep remembering all the awful aspects of the dream that wasn’t supposed to be real. I’m remembering him.
The Runaway.
And the more I remember, the more I wish I could forget.
____________________________________________________
The first time the Runway opens his eyes, he’s twenty years old.
He’s laying naked in the jungle, the sun scorching his skin with ultraviolet rays. He sits up. He has no instructions. No guidance. This world is entirely new to him, utterly foreign and in his stomach flutters the first ghosts of adrenaline.
From the outer ring of Saturn, the Heretic watches.
The Runaway rises to his feet. He takes his first shaking, trembling step and stumbles into the grass. He groans. Pain. A new sensation. He gets back up, tries again. It’s harder than it looks, walking when you’ve never done it before, but eventually he gets the picture. For him, it gets easier by the second.
After only an hour, he’s running through the ferns. Climbing trees. And his stomach is screaming.
Food.
He must find food.
But what to eat?
By his third hour alive, the Runaway has learned to forage. By his sixth, he’s consumed enough poisonous berries to floor an elephant, and is writhing on the ground. The poison burns his stomach. It makes his tongue swell and his skin glisten with sweat, but as the seconds become minutes, the agony fades to pain fades to healing.
His body is adapting. His digestive systems are hardening themselves against the poison, and soon, the Runaway rises back to his feet.
Evolution has begun.
As the sun sets, the Runaway collects wild game from crude traps. He has begun subconsciously tapping into the Collective Recall, intuitively teaching himself to skin animals, to make fires, to cook flesh for taste and health.
He is learning.
As the week comes to a close, the Runaway is surrounded. A pack of wolves has been hounding him for days, and now they’ve come to deal with this trespasser upon their territory. They circle him. Their teeth gnash, saliva leaking from their jaws. In their throats is a growl, a threat of death, but the Runaway has learned to handle his fear. Now, it serves him.
His muscles tense. His hands flex in and out of fists, and his eyes follow the beasts as they pad the ground. The large one, he thinks. The large wolf will engage, and the rest will follow. But he doesn’t give it time– he dashes forward, faster than even the wolves can react, and he brings his fist down upon the skull of the largest. The animal is stunned. Dazed. He follows up by grabbing its jaws, and pulling with all of his might.
The other wolves flee. They yelp and they scream as their champion falls to the dirt, dead.
The Runaway dresses himself in its hide.
At the end of the month, the Runaway has evolved to the point he barely needs to eat. Twenty calories a day serve him all that he needs. A handful of berries, and he can operate at peak mental and physical capability. By the close of his second month, he no longer needs to breathe. He fishes hundreds of meters below the surface, fighting off sharks for choice morsels swimming in the deep.
On the anniversary of his birth, the Heretic observes that the Runaway no longer ages. His DNA suffers no damage each time it splits. He has become biologically immortal.
After five years, he transcends humanity. The Runaway is now capable of perceiving individual atoms, and by the sixth year of his life, he can manipulate them. Matter becomes his plaything. The laws of physics become little more than suggestions, and so if he wants to fly, then he does. If he wants to reach into the minds of living creatures, he does that too.
The Runaway has become the most powerful lifeform to ever live. But the Heretic is not concerned.
No, he sees what his creation is. He sees that this anomaly, this Runaway is kind. Empathetic. With each passing year his interest in violence wanes. Before long, the Runaway cuts himself off from humanity altogether, unable to stomach their wonton savagery and thirst for blood. Some have taken to worshiping him. Others, reviling.
To him, they are all the same. Misguided, fearful, and ruled by instincts he has learned to see beyond. These humans may as well be a separate species.
To find respite from this chaos, he meditates. Sometimes he does this at the bottom of the sea. Other times he does this atop high, wind-swept peaks. Anywhere his senses are sufficiently assailed to block out the madness of the world around him.
And it’s while meditating on one of these peaks that the Runaway begins looking to the stars. He wonders if there may be more out there.
Is it possible, he thinks aloud, that there are others like me?
Could I find a companion of my own?
And it’s while he’s pondering these thoughts, while he’s gazing into the deepness of space, that he finds something looking back at him. A lizard. Housed within a strange capsule, floating in the outer rings of a celestial body we know as Saturn.
It is the first time he and his maker lock eyes.
Weeks later, the Runaway’s breached the atmosphere of Earth. A month after that, he’s traversed the solar system and made it to the Heretic’s ship. He’s tapping on the hull. The Heretic welcomes him inside.
“Hello,” the Heretic says, in the ancient tongue of man.
The Runaway peers at him. “Hello…” he says slowly, but it is not in the ancient tongue of man. It is in the low bass of Vytarian. “Your language is… strange… but I believe I can master it. Who are you? Why have you been watching… me?”
The Heretic doesn’t see the point of mincing words. He comes clean about everything– after all, the Runaway is capable of looking into his thoughts. What’s the use of playing coy? He starts with the extinction of the Vytarian people, and ends with humanity’s role as inheritors of the universe, and the Runaway’s role in leading them there.
“Have you any questions?” the Heretic asks.
“Many,” the Runaway tells him. “Above all, why do you fear me?”
“I don’t,” the Heretic says.
“You do. I see it reflected in your thoughts.”
“The fear you see reflected in my thoughts,” the Heretic begins, speaking with careful deliberation, “... it does not belong to me. You are viewing fragments of the Collective Recall, a shared knowledge passed down by my people. You are viewing the beliefs of those of us who remain from the Old War– followers of the Way of the Chosen.”
“These followers,” The Runaway says, his expression twisting with shock and horror. “They think of me as a monster– an abomination!”
“Not exactly,” the Heretic tells him. “Strictly, they do not think of you at all. In order to protect my work, I cut myself off from the Collective sometime ago, so all you’re seeing are faint echoes of their dogma. To them, my work is blasphemy. But yes… I believe that should they learn of you, your vast capabilities would indeed frighten them. They would think you a monster.”
“And to you?” The Runaway asks. “What am I to you?”
The Heretic reaches toward the Runaway, claps his shoulder. He smiles in the human way. “I am a barren lifeform, ravaged by a virus that has stolen the hope of my people. I am unable to achieve my biological imperative. Reproduction is beyond me. You ask me what you are to me? You are my legacy.” He slowly, awkwardly performs the human ritual of embrace, wrapping his arms around the Runaway.
You are my son.
_________________________________________________________________________
I take a breath. It’s brief. Gasping. Gray is standing in front of me, his pupils pulsing, and I’m suddenly aware that his name isn’t Gray it’s Wor. He’s 70 million years old. Not only that, but so is his friend– and his name isn’t Teal, but Kez. They’re both devotees of the Way of the Chosen.
“Did you see?” Wor asks, and he’s no longer using his digital translator. After the thought transference it seems I can understand the Vytarian language, make sense of the various vibrations that previously just seemed like low bass.
“Yes,” I say, leaning forward. “But not everything.” I look up at Wor, and hit him with an accusatory glare. “There’s more to this story, isn’t there? What aren’t you telling me?”
Kez twists his neck to look at us. His pupils are blowing up and shrinking in quick succession– a reaction I now understand to mean I’m pissed. “You have seen enough, human. Prepare for genetic deconstruction and we will be done with this.”
“No!” I exclaim, and I’m surprised to hear my voice rumbling throughout the ship. It’s thunderous. I clear my throat. “No,” I say, and this time my voice is appropriately subdued. Vytarian is apparently a powerful language. “If you want me to jump into a vat and turn into… corpse chili or whatever, then you have to show me it’s worth it.”
The Vytar exchange glances. Wor’s pupils shrink– he’s nervous. Concerned. “To show you more may invite excess unease,” he says. “It was my hope that a brief glance at the history, the origin of everything could provide necessary closure to commence the harvest of your DNA.”
“Look,” I say. “I’ve seen a lot. I know that whatever genetic material you’re grabbing off people is a lot more useful if we’re agreeable. It’s like hunting an animal. Kill it scared, and the meat is tough. It’s a chemical thing– I get that, and I’m telling you that if you show me the rest, I’ll let you do what you need. I’ll play my part.”
“Invalid request,” Kez says. “Such knowledge is beyond your capacity to bear.”
I frown. “It’s him, isn’t it? The Runaway. It’s obvious he’s the source of your fear and this so-called mission to save humanity. Yeah. I might not have all the details, but just looking at your reactions– it’s gotta be. More than that, I can guess you haven’t had much luck dealing with him either.”
Wor and Kez don’t speak a word. Their expressions say everything I need to know.
“The way I figure it,” I continue, getting to my feet and taking a deep breath. “Is that I’m a human too. On some level, I’m like The Runaway, just less… well, terrifying. But maybe there’s something in those visions, something in the Runaway’s actions or his behaviors that only a human could make sense of. Ever think of that? I mean, what if I can help you catch something you’re missing? Isn’t that chance worth taking?”
The Vytar are quiet. They stare at one another for a long while, and their pupils explode in waves of emotion. Kez turns away. He lets out a gruff warble and throws up his arms, cursing Wor and me both.
“What’s his problem?” I ask.
Wor steps forward. He gingerly looks back to his companion, but Kez’s back is turned, hunched over the console in clear disagreement.
“Kez does not wish to harm your mind,” Wor says quietly. “Your story of your sister… this expiring human you call Hope, well, it has moved him. He fears that if I show you the rest of The Runaway’s story it will cause your mind to fracture, shattering your consciousness in such a way that it may not be repaired. There will be no perfect clone. Your sister will find no solace in her dying moments.”
I look at Kez, watch him tap at the console’s controls and I can’t help but feel guilty for judging him so harshly. At the end of the day, he was just looking out for my sister.
But, on the other hand, he also wants to turn me into DNA soup.
“This feels important,” I say to Wor, balling my hands into fists. “If this is really about the fate of humanity, the fate of everything– well, I think Hope would want me to do anything I could to help.” I plaster a weak smile onto my face, trying to hype myself up with fake confidence. “Besides, I can’t imagine it’s that bad, is it?”
Wor places his hands on my temples. Closes his eyes. “You’re right,” he tells me. “You cannot begin to imagine how bad it is.”
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2023.06.10 19:12 EntrepreneurGold316 UFC 289 : Watch Nunes vs. Aldana Fight Online
UFC 289 : Watch Nunes vs. Aldana Fight Online
THE WORLD’S BEST pound-for-pound women’s UFC fighter is back in the ring this weekend as Amanda Nunes defends her bantamweight title against Irene Aldana in UFC 289. And to make things even more exciting, the event’s co-main sees former UFC Lightweight Champion Charles Oliveira up against Beneil Dariush.
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When is UFC 289? Date, Time, Location UFC 289 is happening today, Saturday, June 10 at the Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia.
The main card featuring Nunes vs. Aldana and Oliveira vs. Dariush is scheduled to begin at 10 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. PT. Before the main card, we’ll get prelims at 8 p.m. ET and early prelims at 7 p.m. ET. Both the prelims and early prelims are available to watch on ESPN+ without a PPV purchase.
UFC 289: Nunes vs. Aldana Fight Card Main Card Amanda Nunes (C) vs. Irene Aldana — Women’s bantamweight Charles Oliveira vs. Beneil Dariush — Lightweight Mike Malott vs. Adam Fugitt — Welterweight Dan Ige vs. Nate Landwehr — Lightweight Marc-Andre Barriault vs. Eryk Anders — Middleweight
Prelims Matt Schnell vs. David Dvorak — Flyweight Khalil Rountree Jr. vs. Nate Daukaus — Light heavyweight Nassourdine Imavov vs. Chris Curtis — Middleweight Hakeem Dawodu vs. Lucas Almeida — Featherweight
Early Prelims Aiemann Zahabi vs. Aoriqileng — Bantamweight Kyle Nelson vs. Blake Bilder — Featherweight Diana Belbita vs. Maria Oliveira — Women’s strawweight Miranda Maverick vs. Jasmine Jasudavicius — Women’s flyweight
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THE WORLD’S BEST pound-for-pound women’s UFC fighter is back in the ring this weekend as Amanda Nunes defends her bantamweight title against Irene Aldana in UFC 289. And to make things even more exciting, the event’s co-main sees former UFC Lightweight Champion Charles Oliveira up against Beneil Dariush.
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When is UFC 289? Date, Time, Location UFC 289 is happening today, Saturday, June 10 at the Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia.
The main card featuring Nunes vs. Aldana and Oliveira vs. Dariush is scheduled to begin at 10 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. PT. Before the main card, we’ll get prelims at 8 p.m. ET and early prelims at 7 p.m. ET. Both the prelims and early prelims are available to watch on ESPN+ without a PPV purchase.
UFC 289: Nunes vs. Aldana Fight Card Main Card Amanda Nunes (C) vs. Irene Aldana — Women’s bantamweight Charles Oliveira vs. Beneil Dariush — Lightweight Mike Malott vs. Adam Fugitt — Welterweight Dan Ige vs. Nate Landwehr — Lightweight Marc-Andre Barriault vs. Eryk Anders — Middleweight
Prelims Matt Schnell vs. David Dvorak — Flyweight Khalil Rountree Jr. vs. Nate Daukaus — Light heavyweight Nassourdine Imavov vs. Chris Curtis — Middleweight Hakeem Dawodu vs. Lucas Almeida — Featherweight
Early Prelims Aiemann Zahabi vs. Aoriqileng — Bantamweight Kyle Nelson vs. Blake Bilder — Featherweight Diana Belbita vs. Maria Oliveira — Women’s strawweight Miranda Maverick vs. Jasmine Jasudavicius — Women’s flyweight
2023.06.10 19:11 EntrepreneurGold316 UFC 289 : Watch Nunes vs. Aldana Fight Online
UFC 289 : Watch Nunes vs. Aldana Fight Online
THE WORLD’S BEST pound-for-pound women’s UFC fighter is back in the ring this weekend as Amanda Nunes defends her bantamweight title against Irene Aldana in UFC 289. And to make things even more exciting, the event’s co-main sees former UFC Lightweight Champion Charles Oliveira up against Beneil Dariush.
Quick Answer: You can watch UFC 289 online by purchasing the PPV livestream through ESPN+. Or, if you have a VPN, you can stream the event on BT Sport without paying the PPV fee.
How to Watch UFC 289: Nunes vs. Aldana Online The only way to watch UFC 289 online in the U.S. (without a VPN) is to purchase the event’s PPV livestream on ESPN+. If you already have an ESPN+ subscription, head here to purchase the PPV stream for $79.99.
If you don’t have an ESPN+ subscription, sign up here to purchase the UFC 289 PPV. ESPN+ subscriptions normally cost $9.99 a month or $99.99 a year if you pay annually, but you can save on the membership price by bundling the UFC 289 PPV with an annual ESPN+ subscription. This UFC 289 PPV + ESPN+ annual plan bundle costs just $124.98, saving you $55 compared to getting both separately.
Another way to get a discount on the ESPN+ subscription cost is to sign up for the Disney Bundle. This bundle deal gets you subscriptions to ESPN+, Disney+, and Hulu — all for just $12.99 a month.
Watch UFC 289 With a VPN Without ESPN+ Want to watch UFC numbered events for cheaper? Consider getting a virtual private network (VPN) to watch BT Sport’s U.K. livestreams of UFC events.
BT Sport broadcasts most UFC events in the U.K., and you don’t need to buy a PPV to watch them. All you need is a subscription to BT Sport, which costs just £29.99 (about $38), and you’ll be able to livestream UFC 289.
BT Sport is normally geo-blocked in the U.S., but you can still access the streaming service with a VPN. These services virtually re-locate your streaming device, letting you access web content in any region. We recommend ExpressVPN, which is very secure and offers fast streaming of content from other regions (including the U.K.). It costs $12.95 a month and comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.
After you’ve signed up for ExpressVPN, set your location to the U.K., sign up for BT Sport, and livestream UFC 289 without ESPN+.
When is UFC 289? Date, Time, Location UFC 289 is happening today, Saturday, June 10 at the Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia.
The main card featuring Nunes vs. Aldana and Oliveira vs. Dariush is scheduled to begin at 10 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. PT. Before the main card, we’ll get prelims at 8 p.m. ET and early prelims at 7 p.m. ET. Both the prelims and early prelims are available to watch on ESPN+ without a PPV purchase.
UFC 289: Nunes vs. Aldana Fight Card Main Card Amanda Nunes (C) vs. Irene Aldana — Women’s bantamweight Charles Oliveira vs. Beneil Dariush — Lightweight Mike Malott vs. Adam Fugitt — Welterweight Dan Ige vs. Nate Landwehr — Lightweight Marc-Andre Barriault vs. Eryk Anders — Middleweight
Prelims Matt Schnell vs. David Dvorak — Flyweight Khalil Rountree Jr. vs. Nate Daukaus — Light heavyweight Nassourdine Imavov vs. Chris Curtis — Middleweight Hakeem Dawodu vs. Lucas Almeida — Featherweight
Early Prelims Aiemann Zahabi vs. Aoriqileng — Bantamweight Kyle Nelson vs. Blake Bilder — Featherweight Diana Belbita vs. Maria Oliveira — Women’s strawweight Miranda Maverick vs. Jasmine Jasudavicius — Women’s flyweight
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THE WORLD’S BEST pound-for-pound women’s UFC fighter is back in the ring this weekend as Amanda Nunes defends her bantamweight title against Irene Aldana in UFC 289. And to make things even more exciting, the event’s co-main sees former UFC Lightweight Champion Charles Oliveira up against Beneil Dariush.
Watch Nunes vs Aldana Live Stream
Watch Nunes vs Aldana Live Stream
Looking to stream UFC 289 live? Read on. Below is a complete guide on all the ways to watch Nunes vs. Aldana online, including a hack that lets you stream UFC 289 without ESPN+.Quick Answer: You can watch UFC 289 online by purchasing the PPV livestream through ESPN+. Or, if you have a VPN, you can stream the event on BT Sport without paying the PPV fee.
How to Watch UFC 289: Nunes vs. Aldana Online The only way to watch UFC 289 online in the U.S. (without a VPN) is to purchase the event’s PPV livestream on ESPN+. If you already have an ESPN+ subscription, head here to purchase the PPV stream for $79.99.
If you don’t have an ESPN+ subscription, sign up here to purchase the UFC 289 PPV. ESPN+ subscriptions normally cost $9.99 a month or $99.99 a year if you pay annually, but you can save on the membership price by bundling the UFC 289 PPV with an annual ESPN+ subscription. This UFC 289 PPV + ESPN+ annual plan bundle costs just $124.98, saving you $55 compared to getting both separately.
Another way to get a discount on the ESPN+ subscription cost is to sign up for the Disney Bundle. This bundle deal gets you subscriptions to ESPN+, Disney+, and Hulu — all for just $12.99 a month.
Watch UFC 289 With a VPN Without ESPN+ Want to watch UFC numbered events for cheaper? Consider getting a virtual private network (VPN) to watch BT Sport’s U.K. livestreams of UFC events.
BT Sport broadcasts most UFC events in the U.K., and you don’t need to buy a PPV to watch them. All you need is a subscription to BT Sport, which costs just £29.99 (about $38), and you’ll be able to livestream UFC 289.
BT Sport is normally geo-blocked in the U.S., but you can still access the streaming service with a VPN. These services virtually re-locate your streaming device, letting you access web content in any region. We recommend ExpressVPN, which is very secure and offers fast streaming of content from other regions (including the U.K.). It costs $12.95 a month and comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.
After you’ve signed up for ExpressVPN, set your location to the U.K., sign up for BT Sport, and livestream UFC 289 without ESPN+.
When is UFC 289? Date, Time, Location UFC 289 is happening today, Saturday, June 10 at the Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia.
The main card featuring Nunes vs. Aldana and Oliveira vs. Dariush is scheduled to begin at 10 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. PT. Before the main card, we’ll get prelims at 8 p.m. ET and early prelims at 7 p.m. ET. Both the prelims and early prelims are available to watch on ESPN+ without a PPV purchase.
UFC 289: Nunes vs. Aldana Fight Card Main Card Amanda Nunes (C) vs. Irene Aldana — Women’s bantamweight Charles Oliveira vs. Beneil Dariush — Lightweight Mike Malott vs. Adam Fugitt — Welterweight Dan Ige vs. Nate Landwehr — Lightweight Marc-Andre Barriault vs. Eryk Anders — Middleweight
Prelims Matt Schnell vs. David Dvorak — Flyweight Khalil Rountree Jr. vs. Nate Daukaus — Light heavyweight Nassourdine Imavov vs. Chris Curtis — Middleweight Hakeem Dawodu vs. Lucas Almeida — Featherweight
Early Prelims Aiemann Zahabi vs. Aoriqileng — Bantamweight Kyle Nelson vs. Blake Bilder — Featherweight Diana Belbita vs. Maria Oliveira — Women’s strawweight Miranda Maverick vs. Jasmine Jasudavicius — Women’s flyweight
2023.06.10 19:11 EntrepreneurGold316 UFC 289 : Watch Nunes vs. Aldana Fight Online
UFC 289 : Watch Nunes vs. Aldana Fight Online
THE WORLD’S BEST pound-for-pound women’s UFC fighter is back in the ring this weekend as Amanda Nunes defends her bantamweight title against Irene Aldana in UFC 289. And to make things even more exciting, the event’s co-main sees former UFC Lightweight Champion Charles Oliveira up against Beneil Dariush.
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When is UFC 289? Date, Time, Location UFC 289 is happening today, Saturday, June 10 at the Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia.
The main card featuring Nunes vs. Aldana and Oliveira vs. Dariush is scheduled to begin at 10 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. PT. Before the main card, we’ll get prelims at 8 p.m. ET and early prelims at 7 p.m. ET. Both the prelims and early prelims are available to watch on ESPN+ without a PPV purchase.
UFC 289: Nunes vs. Aldana Fight Card Main Card Amanda Nunes (C) vs. Irene Aldana — Women’s bantamweight Charles Oliveira vs. Beneil Dariush — Lightweight Mike Malott vs. Adam Fugitt — Welterweight Dan Ige vs. Nate Landwehr — Lightweight Marc-Andre Barriault vs. Eryk Anders — Middleweight
Prelims Matt Schnell vs. David Dvorak — Flyweight Khalil Rountree Jr. vs. Nate Daukaus — Light heavyweight Nassourdine Imavov vs. Chris Curtis — Middleweight Hakeem Dawodu vs. Lucas Almeida — Featherweight
Early Prelims Aiemann Zahabi vs. Aoriqileng — Bantamweight Kyle Nelson vs. Blake Bilder — Featherweight Diana Belbita vs. Maria Oliveira — Women’s strawweight Miranda Maverick vs. Jasmine Jasudavicius — Women’s flyweight
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THE WORLD’S BEST pound-for-pound women’s UFC fighter is back in the ring this weekend as Amanda Nunes defends her bantamweight title against Irene Aldana in UFC 289. And to make things even more exciting, the event’s co-main sees former UFC Lightweight Champion Charles Oliveira up against Beneil Dariush.
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Looking to stream UFC 289 live? Read on. Below is a complete guide on all the ways to watch Nunes vs. Aldana online, including a hack that lets you stream UFC 289 without ESPN+.Quick Answer: You can watch UFC 289 online by purchasing the PPV livestream through ESPN+. Or, if you have a VPN, you can stream the event on BT Sport without paying the PPV fee.
How to Watch UFC 289: Nunes vs. Aldana Online The only way to watch UFC 289 online in the U.S. (without a VPN) is to purchase the event’s PPV livestream on ESPN+. If you already have an ESPN+ subscription, head here to purchase the PPV stream for $79.99.
If you don’t have an ESPN+ subscription, sign up here to purchase the UFC 289 PPV. ESPN+ subscriptions normally cost $9.99 a month or $99.99 a year if you pay annually, but you can save on the membership price by bundling the UFC 289 PPV with an annual ESPN+ subscription. This UFC 289 PPV + ESPN+ annual plan bundle costs just $124.98, saving you $55 compared to getting both separately.
Another way to get a discount on the ESPN+ subscription cost is to sign up for the Disney Bundle. This bundle deal gets you subscriptions to ESPN+, Disney+, and Hulu — all for just $12.99 a month.
Watch UFC 289 With a VPN Without ESPN+ Want to watch UFC numbered events for cheaper? Consider getting a virtual private network (VPN) to watch BT Sport’s U.K. livestreams of UFC events.
BT Sport broadcasts most UFC events in the U.K., and you don’t need to buy a PPV to watch them. All you need is a subscription to BT Sport, which costs just £29.99 (about $38), and you’ll be able to livestream UFC 289.
BT Sport is normally geo-blocked in the U.S., but you can still access the streaming service with a VPN. These services virtually re-locate your streaming device, letting you access web content in any region. We recommend ExpressVPN, which is very secure and offers fast streaming of content from other regions (including the U.K.). It costs $12.95 a month and comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.
After you’ve signed up for ExpressVPN, set your location to the U.K., sign up for BT Sport, and livestream UFC 289 without ESPN+.
When is UFC 289? Date, Time, Location UFC 289 is happening today, Saturday, June 10 at the Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia.
The main card featuring Nunes vs. Aldana and Oliveira vs. Dariush is scheduled to begin at 10 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. PT. Before the main card, we’ll get prelims at 8 p.m. ET and early prelims at 7 p.m. ET. Both the prelims and early prelims are available to watch on ESPN+ without a PPV purchase.
UFC 289: Nunes vs. Aldana Fight Card Main Card Amanda Nunes (C) vs. Irene Aldana — Women’s bantamweight Charles Oliveira vs. Beneil Dariush — Lightweight Mike Malott vs. Adam Fugitt — Welterweight Dan Ige vs. Nate Landwehr — Lightweight Marc-Andre Barriault vs. Eryk Anders — Middleweight
Prelims Matt Schnell vs. David Dvorak — Flyweight Khalil Rountree Jr. vs. Nate Daukaus — Light heavyweight Nassourdine Imavov vs. Chris Curtis — Middleweight Hakeem Dawodu vs. Lucas Almeida — Featherweight
Early Prelims Aiemann Zahabi vs. Aoriqileng — Bantamweight Kyle Nelson vs. Blake Bilder — Featherweight Diana Belbita vs. Maria Oliveira — Women’s strawweight Miranda Maverick vs. Jasmine Jasudavicius — Women’s flyweight
2023.06.10 18:55 ZarthanFire Trip Report - 15 Days in Osaka, Himeji, Nara, Kyoto, Kanazawa, Tokyo, and Fujiyoshida!
This subreddit has been an amazing resource for my solo trip prep over the last few months so now it's my turn to give back. I did not have a set budget in mind since I save diligently for my trips. I am fairly well-traveled, a late 30s, solo traveler. This was my first time in Japan and my goals were a mixture of eating, exploring history, enjoying some theme parks, and enjoying experiences that only Japan could offer.
Total USD Spend: 17 days (2 travel days) came out to about $4200 USD total: * Flight: $1050 * Accommodations: $1400 * Food and Snacks: $1000 * Transportation (IC card, buses, trains): $250 * Theme Park & Novelty Experiences: $400 * Misc (souvenirs, shopping): $200 I typically budget out about $5K USD for my trips and Japan was definitely on the higher side of the budget, but again, I splurged on some fantastic restaurants, premiere entry at Universal Studios Osaka, along with numerous day trips. As others have mentioned here, I also averaged between 25K-30K steps a day. I’m in decent shape but walking 10-15 miles everyday definitely took its toll and my body shut down for a day.
Day 0: Landed in Osaka in the late afternoon and ended up wandering Dotonbori for a few hours since my hotel was located a block away. Ended up eating some very mediocre ramen at a stand in Dotonbori which was pretty disappointing, but the carbs were enough to knock me out. Day 1: Woke up early to walk around Dontobori at 5am and then headed out to few unique temples, including Namba Yasaka Jinja. Hopped onto the subway to enter Ueno Sky Tower, and overall, it was meh, I didn’t stay long just taking a few pictures and walked around Ueno for a few hours before heading to the Pokemon Cafe in Shinsaibashi. As others have noted, the food was very mediocre, but it was a fun experience nonetheless. Spent the rest of the evening getting drinks in Dotonbori before calling it a night.
Day 2: A full day at Universal Studios Japan to experience Super Nintendo World. I splurged on the express passes that gave me full access to a bunch of rides. SNW is pretty fucking awesome and I had a blast riding the Yoshi and Mario Kart rides, all the while taking taking in the atmosphere. The premiere pass also gave me access to a few additional rides including Harry Potter, Doraemon VR, and Jurassic Park. Had a late dinner at Kyushu Ramen getting their famous chashu ramen and it did not disappoint.
Day 3: Spent most of the day exploring Kuromon Ichiba Market, the local malls, and Dotonbori trying some street food. Went back to my hotel room and just relaxed for the rest of the day since jet lag was still bothering me. Watched some sumo matches on random Japanese tv before calling it a night.
Day 4: Took a day trip to Himeji to see the Himeji Castle. What a fantastic piece of history! I spent hours just taking in the sites and the nearby garden also highly recommended. Afterward, I had my first taste of Kobe beef in the form of a beef bowl at Kushiyaki Kobe Beef. Fantastic little hole-in-the-wall place with some really nice people working the counter. Took the train from Himeji directly to Nara where I was planning to stay the night. Day 5: Spent the entire day playing with the thousands of deer and checking out some local temples, including Todai-ji. I didn't do anything in Nara that hadn't been mentioned enough times here, but as others have said, a day trip or one day is more than enough time in the area. Took a late train to Kyoto. Day 6: Woke up in the early morning to beat the crowds to enjoy Fushimi Inari. Hiked the entire loop (about 2-3 hours) with only a fraction of the crowds, enjoyed some macha soft serve at the peak of the hill, and took my time going back down right rwhen the army of tourists and tour groups arrived. Grabbed an overly expensive Kobe beef stick from one of the food stalls by the temple gates and then spent an hour at a cute coffee shop called Rickshaw Cafe just people watching before grabbing an early dinner at Ramen Sen-no-Kaze. The food was solid, but it took 90 minutes to get a table. Not worth it and in hindsight I would have left.
Day 7: Woke up early again to check out the highly overrated Arashimyama bamboo forest. It was pretty underwhelming, but I did get a few nice photos before the crowds arrived. Strolled through the park and really enjoyed walking along the Katsura River seeing the catfish waiting to be fed and seeing the fishing boats tied up. A very tranquil place. After the nice long stroll, I walked back-and-forth the Togetsukyo Bridge and Kimono Forest (meh). The highlight of the morning was really Tenryu-Ji and the amazing zen garden. After a few hours taking in the peacefulness and silence, took the city bus to Kinkaku-ji, and the crowds were in full swing. Still totally worth seeing in person although it didn’t last very long. Day 8: A full day experiencing the Philosopher’s Path on a gorgeous sunny day. Too sunny since I got some pretty bad sunburns! I visited too many amazing temples, including Kiyomizo-dera, along with old Gion, although I thought the area was bit overhyped. I preferred the smaller, more peaceful temples away from the mass of tourists. Some of my favorites during my day exploring old Kyoto included Eikan-do, a more secluded temple up in the hills, Nanzen-Ji, with its beautiful aqueduct, and just walking the streets aimlessly for a few hours. Went to Nishiki Market and ate some amazing oysters at Daiyasu. If you love oysters, this is the spot to try it! Spent too much money on oysters and decided to go cheap and ate at Kura Sushi. The food was mediocre by Japanese standards, but blows away the quality and cost of the Kura Sushi restaurants in my hometown of Los Angeles.
Day 9: Took an early morning train to Kanazawa. Enjoyed my first ekiben while taking in the sights from the comfort of the Thunderbird Limited Express. Spent the rest of the day visiting the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art (meh) and Kenrou-ken, probably the most beautiful garden in the Kanda province. Wrapped up the day by visiting the D.T Suzuki Museum and wow, the tranquil pool area was amazing. Do yourself a favor and stand on the corner and just stare at the water. You’ll feel like the entire world is moving along on a plane and you’re the one that is frozen in place. It was pretty trippy. Ate well at Mori More Sushi Omicho and stopped by the Pokemon Center to pick up the exclusive Pikachu Kimono figure only available in the Kanazawa store.
Day 10: Torrential rain the entire day but I powered throughit with my trusty umbrella. Enjoyed breakfast and snacks at the Omicho Market, enjoying a tuna-don at one of the stalls, fresh uni, and more oysters. Not cheap but fresh! Walked around the Higashi Chaya District, doing a bit of window shopping and ate some gold leaf macha soft serve at Kaikaro, spending more time people watching. Walked around the Kanazawa Castle Park in all its empty glory as well as the Oyama Shrine. The castle was pretty underwhelming esp. after seeing Himeji so I probably would have skipped it in hindsight. Wrapped up the day visiting the Naga-machi District, probably my favorite part of Kanazawa. Had more sushi at Sushi Rekireki Omicho, an enjoyable omakase.
Day 11: Took the Shinkansen to Tokyo eating the most expensive ekiban I could find, and spent the rest of the entire day in Asakusa in Tokyo. Walked around Senso-ji, had a few beers in Hoppy Street, and finally tried Ichiran. Called it an early day since I would be doing DisneySea in the early morning.
Day 12: Took the express bus from Tokyo Skytree to DisneySea. Thanks to the early forecast of rain, the park was barely 50% full? The longest wait for most rides was under 20 minutes so I was lucky enough to ride everything at least once. My meals consisted of a bunch of unique Dsney parki food: gyoza hot dogs, alien mochi, Mike watermelon bread, etc. Stayed until the fireworks and went straight back to the hotel and crashed. That was a 40K step day!
Day 13: Visited Akihabara, spending way too much money on crane games, browsing retro games, and looking at figures. Headed to Shibuya to eat breakfast for lunch at A Happy Pancake (meh). Went to the Nintendo Store in the PARCO mall, only to be disappointed to find out that all of the Nintendo World store t-shirts were sold out. Actually everything semi-interesting was sold out. Went up to Shibuya Sky to watch the sunset, spending a few hours just watching the day slowly turn into night. Did the Scramble a few times and then headed to Shinjuku where I’d be located for the last few days.
Day 14: Another torrential rainstorm sadly ruined my plans of visiting Shinjuku Gyoen, Meiji Jingo, and Harajuku. Maybe next time. I was hoping to buy Tokyo Giants tickets but they were all sold out so I ended up going to the Tokyo National Museum. I won’t lie, I was pretty bored, and in hindsight I wish I went to the neighboring National Museum of Nature and Science instead. After strolling Ueno Park in the rain, I was craving tonkatsu and googled Tonkatsu Yamabe. Good decision as it was the best tonkatsu I had in Tokyo. Went to a nearby Taito Game Station wasting more money on crane games before heading back to Shinjuku. The area is insane and in hindsight, I would probably pick somewhere like Shibuya or Ueno, somewhere slightly more chill. Day 15: One of my favorite days in Tokyo! Teamlabs Planets lives up to the hype but ONLY if you can get first admission at 9am. It was glorious to be among the first people in the exhibits as I could take in experience the way it was intended. There were only a few people in each room giving each space such a great, peaceful, and chill vibe. Headed to Ginza to the Michelin-rated Sushi Toyama, where I had a chance to finally experience bluefin toro (worth it!). Probably the most expensive lunch ever but it was quite the experience. A sunny and beautiful day, I bought a bunch of souvenirs and clothes (a 12-story Uniqlo with its own coffee shop, Muji Ginza, Ginza Six), checked out my favorite Toy Story in Japan, Hakuhinkan Toy Park, intricate stationary stores like Itoya, and went to a very popular Ginza Starbucks to people watch. Spent the evening in Shinjuku exploring Golden Gai getting swarmed by Nigerian dudes. Wanted to try a hole-in-wall ramen spot in the area but the line was stupid long so I ended up just going to Kyushu Ramen and was satisfied enough. A good day.
Day 16: With the break in clouds the day before, I decided to call an audible and set up a last minute day trip to Mount Fuji. Took an express bus from Shinjuku to Fushiyoshida and got dropped off in front of Chureito Pagoda. It was cloudy for most of the day, but for the last several hours I saw Mount Fuji in all its glory. It was a gray day but no complaints — it was nice to cross another bucket list item from the list.
Wow, this was much longer than I anticipated. Well if you got this far, feel free to ask any questions! In the meantime, I'll be planning my next trip to Japan soon!
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Total USD Spend: 17 days (2 travel days) came out to about $4200 USD total: * Flight: $1050 * Accommodations: $1400 * Food and Snacks: $1000 * Transportation (IC card, buses, trains): $250 * Theme Park & Novelty Experiences: $400 * Misc (souvenirs, shopping): $200 I typically budget out about $5K USD for my trips and Japan was definitely on the higher side of the budget, but again, I splurged on some fantastic restaurants, premiere entry at Universal Studios Osaka, along with numerous day trips. As others have mentioned here, I also averaged between 25K-30K steps a day. I’m in decent shape but walking 10-15 miles everyday definitely took its toll and my body shut down for a day.
Day 0: Landed in Osaka in the late afternoon and ended up wandering Dotonbori for a few hours since my hotel was located a block away. Ended up eating some very mediocre ramen at a stand in Dotonbori which was pretty disappointing, but the carbs were enough to knock me out. Day 1: Woke up early to walk around Dontobori at 5am and then headed out to few unique temples, including Namba Yasaka Jinja. Hopped onto the subway to enter Ueno Sky Tower, and overall, it was meh, I didn’t stay long just taking a few pictures and walked around Ueno for a few hours before heading to the Pokemon Cafe in Shinsaibashi. As others have noted, the food was very mediocre, but it was a fun experience nonetheless. Spent the rest of the evening getting drinks in Dotonbori before calling it a night.
Day 2: A full day at Universal Studios Japan to experience Super Nintendo World. I splurged on the express passes that gave me full access to a bunch of rides. SNW is pretty fucking awesome and I had a blast riding the Yoshi and Mario Kart rides, all the while taking taking in the atmosphere. The premiere pass also gave me access to a few additional rides including Harry Potter, Doraemon VR, and Jurassic Park. Had a late dinner at Kyushu Ramen getting their famous chashu ramen and it did not disappoint.
Day 3: Spent most of the day exploring Kuromon Ichiba Market, the local malls, and Dotonbori trying some street food. Went back to my hotel room and just relaxed for the rest of the day since jet lag was still bothering me. Watched some sumo matches on random Japanese tv before calling it a night.
Day 4: Took a day trip to Himeji to see the Himeji Castle. What a fantastic piece of history! I spent hours just taking in the sites and the nearby garden also highly recommended. Afterward, I had my first taste of Kobe beef in the form of a beef bowl at Kushiyaki Kobe Beef. Fantastic little hole-in-the-wall place with some really nice people working the counter. Took the train from Himeji directly to Nara where I was planning to stay the night. Day 5: Spent the entire day playing with the thousands of deer and checking out some local temples, including Todai-ji. I didn't do anything in Nara that hadn't been mentioned enough times here, but as others have said, a day trip or one day is more than enough time in the area. Took a late train to Kyoto. Day 6: Woke up in the early morning to beat the crowds to enjoy Fushimi Inari. Hiked the entire loop (about 2-3 hours) with only a fraction of the crowds, enjoyed some macha soft serve at the peak of the hill, and took my time going back down right rwhen the army of tourists and tour groups arrived. Grabbed an overly expensive Kobe beef stick from one of the food stalls by the temple gates and then spent an hour at a cute coffee shop called Rickshaw Cafe just people watching before grabbing an early dinner at Ramen Sen-no-Kaze. The food was solid, but it took 90 minutes to get a table. Not worth it and in hindsight I would have left.
Day 7: Woke up early again to check out the highly overrated Arashimyama bamboo forest. It was pretty underwhelming, but I did get a few nice photos before the crowds arrived. Strolled through the park and really enjoyed walking along the Katsura River seeing the catfish waiting to be fed and seeing the fishing boats tied up. A very tranquil place. After the nice long stroll, I walked back-and-forth the Togetsukyo Bridge and Kimono Forest (meh). The highlight of the morning was really Tenryu-Ji and the amazing zen garden. After a few hours taking in the peacefulness and silence, took the city bus to Kinkaku-ji, and the crowds were in full swing. Still totally worth seeing in person although it didn’t last very long. Day 8: A full day experiencing the Philosopher’s Path on a gorgeous sunny day. Too sunny since I got some pretty bad sunburns! I visited too many amazing temples, including Kiyomizo-dera, along with old Gion, although I thought the area was bit overhyped. I preferred the smaller, more peaceful temples away from the mass of tourists. Some of my favorites during my day exploring old Kyoto included Eikan-do, a more secluded temple up in the hills, Nanzen-Ji, with its beautiful aqueduct, and just walking the streets aimlessly for a few hours. Went to Nishiki Market and ate some amazing oysters at Daiyasu. If you love oysters, this is the spot to try it! Spent too much money on oysters and decided to go cheap and ate at Kura Sushi. The food was mediocre by Japanese standards, but blows away the quality and cost of the Kura Sushi restaurants in my hometown of Los Angeles.
Day 9: Took an early morning train to Kanazawa. Enjoyed my first ekiben while taking in the sights from the comfort of the Thunderbird Limited Express. Spent the rest of the day visiting the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art (meh) and Kenrou-ken, probably the most beautiful garden in the Kanda province. Wrapped up the day by visiting the D.T Suzuki Museum and wow, the tranquil pool area was amazing. Do yourself a favor and stand on the corner and just stare at the water. You’ll feel like the entire world is moving along on a plane and you’re the one that is frozen in place. It was pretty trippy. Ate well at Mori More Sushi Omicho and stopped by the Pokemon Center to pick up the exclusive Pikachu Kimono figure only available in the Kanazawa store.
Day 10: Torrential rain the entire day but I powered throughit with my trusty umbrella. Enjoyed breakfast and snacks at the Omicho Market, enjoying a tuna-don at one of the stalls, fresh uni, and more oysters. Not cheap but fresh! Walked around the Higashi Chaya District, doing a bit of window shopping and ate some gold leaf macha soft serve at Kaikaro, spending more time people watching. Walked around the Kanazawa Castle Park in all its empty glory as well as the Oyama Shrine. The castle was pretty underwhelming esp. after seeing Himeji so I probably would have skipped it in hindsight. Wrapped up the day visiting the Naga-machi District, probably my favorite part of Kanazawa. Had more sushi at Sushi Rekireki Omicho, an enjoyable omakase.
Day 11: Took the Shinkansen to Tokyo eating the most expensive ekiban I could find, and spent the rest of the entire day in Asakusa in Tokyo. Walked around Senso-ji, had a few beers in Hoppy Street, and finally tried Ichiran. Called it an early day since I would be doing DisneySea in the early morning.
Day 12: Took the express bus from Tokyo Skytree to DisneySea. Thanks to the early forecast of rain, the park was barely 50% full? The longest wait for most rides was under 20 minutes so I was lucky enough to ride everything at least once. My meals consisted of a bunch of unique Dsney parki food: gyoza hot dogs, alien mochi, Mike watermelon bread, etc. Stayed until the fireworks and went straight back to the hotel and crashed. That was a 40K step day!
Day 13: Visited Akihabara, spending way too much money on crane games, browsing retro games, and looking at figures. Headed to Shibuya to eat breakfast for lunch at A Happy Pancake (meh). Went to the Nintendo Store in the PARCO mall, only to be disappointed to find out that all of the Nintendo World store t-shirts were sold out. Actually everything semi-interesting was sold out. Went up to Shibuya Sky to watch the sunset, spending a few hours just watching the day slowly turn into night. Did the Scramble a few times and then headed to Shinjuku where I’d be located for the last few days.
Day 14: Another torrential rainstorm sadly ruined my plans of visiting Shinjuku Gyoen, Meiji Jingo, and Harajuku. Maybe next time. I was hoping to buy Tokyo Giants tickets but they were all sold out so I ended up going to the Tokyo National Museum. I won’t lie, I was pretty bored, and in hindsight I wish I went to the neighboring National Museum of Nature and Science instead. After strolling Ueno Park in the rain, I was craving tonkatsu and googled Tonkatsu Yamabe. Good decision as it was the best tonkatsu I had in Tokyo. Went to a nearby Taito Game Station wasting more money on crane games before heading back to Shinjuku. The area is insane and in hindsight, I would probably pick somewhere like Shibuya or Ueno, somewhere slightly more chill. Day 15: One of my favorite days in Tokyo! Teamlabs Planets lives up to the hype but ONLY if you can get first admission at 9am. It was glorious to be among the first people in the exhibits as I could take in experience the way it was intended. There were only a few people in each room giving each space such a great, peaceful, and chill vibe. Headed to Ginza to the Michelin-rated Sushi Toyama, where I had a chance to finally experience bluefin toro (worth it!). Probably the most expensive lunch ever but it was quite the experience. A sunny and beautiful day, I bought a bunch of souvenirs and clothes (a 12-story Uniqlo with its own coffee shop, Muji Ginza, Ginza Six), checked out my favorite Toy Story in Japan, Hakuhinkan Toy Park, intricate stationary stores like Itoya, and went to a very popular Ginza Starbucks to people watch. Spent the evening in Shinjuku exploring Golden Gai getting swarmed by Nigerian dudes. Wanted to try a hole-in-wall ramen spot in the area but the line was stupid long so I ended up just going to Kyushu Ramen and was satisfied enough. A good day.
Day 16: With the break in clouds the day before, I decided to call an audible and set up a last minute day trip to Mount Fuji. Took an express bus from Shinjuku to Fushiyoshida and got dropped off in front of Chureito Pagoda. It was cloudy for most of the day, but for the last several hours I saw Mount Fuji in all its glory. It was a gray day but no complaints — it was nice to cross another bucket list item from the list.
Wow, this was much longer than I anticipated. Well if you got this far, feel free to ask any questions! In the meantime, I'll be planning my next trip to Japan soon!
2023.06.10 18:36 RedrickRSI ANNOUNCEMENT: UPDATE B11.7 will be released on the night of June 11th to 12th.
Captains! Update B11.7 will be released on the night of June 11th to 12th.
Game Availability
We have made contact with new providers to increase the client's availability to all corners of the world. We hope that there will no longer be any "Update failed" errors. However, if you had errors updating - you again will have to download the archive with the new launcher.
Globalisation
Times displayed in the game, including attack windows for PBs, will be displayed either in the server's time zone or local time zone, depending on the choice located in the settings. We also expanded the choice of currencies for purchasing coins, and expanded the amount of countries for payment processing.
Bounty Board
We were greatly inspired by events organised by the community which revolved around hunting for rewards. And we have decided to add an experimental "Bounty board", which can be opened through the tavern.
The Bounty board is a place where you can place a bounty on a specific player, or on an entire guild. For now this is a test in which coins are the only currency: the client sets the price, and the bounty hunter receives coins minus the comission fee. Sinking allies will not be counted.
Other Changes
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Game Availability
We have made contact with new providers to increase the client's availability to all corners of the world. We hope that there will no longer be any "Update failed" errors. However, if you had errors updating - you again will have to download the archive with the new launcher.
Globalisation
Times displayed in the game, including attack windows for PBs, will be displayed either in the server's time zone or local time zone, depending on the choice located in the settings. We also expanded the choice of currencies for purchasing coins, and expanded the amount of countries for payment processing.
Bounty Board
We were greatly inspired by events organised by the community which revolved around hunting for rewards. And we have decided to add an experimental "Bounty board", which can be opened through the tavern.
The Bounty board is a place where you can place a bounty on a specific player, or on an entire guild. For now this is a test in which coins are the only currency: the client sets the price, and the bounty hunter receives coins minus the comission fee. Sinking allies will not be counted.
Other Changes
- Tenders are coming back to the game;
- Rewards will be increased for sinking players with black marks. We have also made changes to better protect the new players;
- Updated rewards in chests: duplicate ships will be able to be dropped if all are collected; random bow figureheads and designs will now be dropped, and not be predetermined; added random designs, ship paint schemes, sail cloths;
- updated existing item positions (for example, removed powder) and added new ones;
- Small changes and improvements to ship models and textures.
- Fixed many minor bugs to make the gameplay process more comfortable, including: interface, localisation, graphical, upgrades, boarding and the gameplay process.
- Important fix: After (empire) port reset, protection would not apply and declared wars would not disappear;
- If you have two or more identical ships, they will have different auto-replenishment lists;
- The skill "Donor" would not work on players;
- Fixed PB statistics calculation errors and duplication in the list;
- Peace flags were not able to be picked even with the peace treaty, when there were active marks;
- The restriction on exiting ports near a lighthouse was active during the battle window at 24-hour ports;
- Bots would crash into towers;
- In all villages and settlements the goods on sale were identical;
- Ships passing behind with transparent sails made the ships in front invisible;
- Players in the blacklist will no longer be able to send friend requests.
2023.06.10 15:56 SunflowerSerpent Magic Band+ Fab 50 Statues Tips
I saw so many people not know how to use their magic band+ properly when it came to the statues around the parks so I’ve decided to make this post. I know most people on the subreddit know how to use it, but hopefully this will help someone.
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- You need to make sure all magic bands are paired to your My Disney Experience account. You can do this by linking your reservation to the My Disney Experience app and then adding the magic bands to your account. Make sure your Bluetooth on your phone is on and it’s connected to the Bluetooth too.
- Make sure your magic bands are fully charged. If they aren’t charged you will be able to get into the park, hotel room, any lightning lanes, etc. If they aren’t charged you can’t interact with the statues. The best time to charge your magic bands I’ve found are when you are eating, on transportation, at one of the shows, or while you sleep. Basically any time you aren’t going to use them for a while. There’s a special charger that comes with your magic band, but if you lose it you can get a replacement online or in the Disney World stores.
- You wave at the statues like you’re saying hello. Don’t wave your wrist with your hand down or try to tap the band to the 50th statue. It might take a few seconds for it to activate. If it’s still not working there’s a setting for magic bands in the My Disney Experience app where you can raise sensitivity. You’ll feel a vibration when you’re close to a statue and then another vibration when you got the statue to activate.
2023.06.10 09:48 Howlarmoon Everything you should do before the game closes
This is just a guide so if you don’t want to do any of this that’s ok!
Take pictures of your dragons
Five new quests were added that allow you to take pictures of you and your dragon in iconic locations!
School (front) -HeadmasterSchool (Lab) -HeadmasterSunset (front) -The Botanist Note: this seems to be one time only. May be bugSunset (back) -The BotanistHidden world -Skulder Note: seems to be one time only
More may be added, since the last 3 were added today by the looks of things
Unexpected gift
A new quest was added, giving you a swordstealer egg, one instant hatch token and one age up token. Talk to the headmaster to accept the quest
Finish off expansions
With the 95% off sale on everything, now’s a good time to finish the expansions! Whether you want to finish them In chronological order or random, finish the story before the game ends
UPDATE 1:
Seasonal Dragon tactics levels (Dreadfall, Thawfest, ect) are available. I think it includes every limited time seasonal level? If you missed out on a seasonal level… you have a chance to play it now :D
UPDATE 2:
Claim your gifts!
The Devs are giving us quite the generous gift and letting us go wild! Contents are Light fury, Toothless, 2 light fury eggs, and tenth anniversary statue. I still haven’t gotten the gift on my end which is why I haven’t put this up until now
According to comments expansions are all free now. Still haven’t gotten it on my end
This list will be updated over time as I find new things, but if I missed anything please let me know.
I have never played a game like school of dragons. In fact, without school of dragons I would’ve never gotten into HTTYD. It’s unfortunate that all good things must come to an end, but I will never forget my time with this game and it will always have a special place in my heart. Thank you to the devs for working hard until the very end.
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Take pictures of your dragons
Five new quests were added that allow you to take pictures of you and your dragon in iconic locations!
School (front) -HeadmasterSchool (Lab) -HeadmasterSunset (front) -The Botanist Note: this seems to be one time only. May be bugSunset (back) -The BotanistHidden world -Skulder Note: seems to be one time only
More may be added, since the last 3 were added today by the looks of things
Unexpected gift
A new quest was added, giving you a swordstealer egg, one instant hatch token and one age up token. Talk to the headmaster to accept the quest
Finish off expansions
With the 95% off sale on everything, now’s a good time to finish the expansions! Whether you want to finish them In chronological order or random, finish the story before the game ends
UPDATE 1:
Seasonal Dragon tactics levels (Dreadfall, Thawfest, ect) are available. I think it includes every limited time seasonal level? If you missed out on a seasonal level… you have a chance to play it now :D
UPDATE 2:
Claim your gifts!
The Devs are giving us quite the generous gift and letting us go wild! Contents are Light fury, Toothless, 2 light fury eggs, and tenth anniversary statue. I still haven’t gotten the gift on my end which is why I haven’t put this up until now
According to comments expansions are all free now. Still haven’t gotten it on my end
This list will be updated over time as I find new things, but if I missed anything please let me know.
I have never played a game like school of dragons. In fact, without school of dragons I would’ve never gotten into HTTYD. It’s unfortunate that all good things must come to an end, but I will never forget my time with this game and it will always have a special place in my heart. Thank you to the devs for working hard until the very end.
2023.06.10 09:40 axedlens Entity Project Dialogues: Second Half Summary By @EntityFinance
 | Before the Entity Builders Forum shakes up the Web3 ecosystem this Saturday, let’s take a moment to recap the second half of Entity’s Project Dialogues series. Discover some of the most interesting insights from Web3 builders in DeFi, GameFi and beyond! submitted by axedlens to elrondnetwork [link] [comments] Entity Project Dialogues: Second Half Summary Finishing up strongThe Project Dialogues Twitter Spaces are all about giving the community exclusive info about building on MultiversX and the future of the blockchain world.On March 30, we recapped the first 9 dialogues from this exciting live interview series. Over the past few months, 9 more innovative projects have joined Entity to discuss their takeaways from founding startups in DeFi, GameFi, Web3 payments, decentralized real estate, and more. The Builders Forum on June 10 will celebrate all of these blockchain pioneers- plus some top builders from outside MultiversX. In the meantime, read on for a comprehensive overview of the most recent dialogues with some of the best quotes, insights, and alpha! A GameFi beast awakensVampire Wars is on a mission to push Web3 mass adoption by building a decentralized world of bloodthirsty vampires.A GameFi beast awakens Entity was joined by Catalin Rimaru, founder and CEO of Dark Skies Studios and Vampire Wars, for a thrilling journey into the future of this project and the overall blockchain world. Powered by MultiversX and Mapbox location technology, this game turns the entire planet into an action-packed vampiric hunting ground. “We chose entertainment, and I think that having access to high-dopamine experiences will be part of the metaverse and keeping people there.” — Catalin Rimaru • Vampire WarsThe conversation touched on Catalin’s inspirations for the game, how the project will keep expanding in the long term, and how his team plans to limit bots and cheating during their mainnet release. Putting the ‘Fi’ in GameFi, Entity and Vampire Wars also dived into the game’s in-game economy and the tokenomics of the $DARX currency. Leveling up Web3 paymentsFor CoinDrip CEO Razvan Statescu, it’s always time to build.Leveling up Web3 payments On April 12, Razvan joined Entity for a deep dive into the CoinDrip automated Web3 payments platform. Powered by Giants Labs, one of the primary use case for this protocol is token vesting. CoinDrip is a game-changer in this category, since it can slowly allocate private sale or team tokens over time instead of creating extra volatility with a few big unlocks. “Especially for Web3 companies and DAOs, transparency is usually very important. The community wants way more insights into what’s going on.” — Razvan Statescu • CoinDripHowever, this is only the beginning for CoinDrip’s potential applications. Razvan opened up to Entity about some of the project’s future plans, such as working with ZoidPay to bridge the gap between crypto and fiat. As a serial entrepreneur, Razvan also explained the inspiration behind some of his other projects in the ecosystem such as Giants Village and xDevHub. Building a new world of decentralized gamingHistory, fantasy and mind-blowing graphics collide with Age of Zalmoxis!Building a new world of decentralized gaming Powered by Wenmoon Studios, Age of Zalmoxis is an immersive MMORPG under development on MultiversX with hyper-realistic Unreal Engine technology. Project co-founder Marius Urbaniak stopped by the Entity Project Dialogues to share his take on Web3 gaming and what it’s like to be a blockchain founder. “The historical accuracy that we achieve with the Institute of Archeology gives a lot of weight to the project.” — Marius Urbaniak • Age of ZalmoxisIn addition to discussing the business and tokenomics roadmap for Age of Zalmoxis, Marius also explained how the game works with expert archaeologists to bring the real history of Romania to life. He also discussed the importance of community for building a successful Web3 project and laid out how Zalmoxis will use features like guilds to connect gamers and investors. Streamlining DeFi for mass adoptionDeFi Summer means more powerful tools for MultiversX investors, but how can everyday users make the most out of these advanced features?Streamlining DeFi for mass adoption With next-level vaults that make DeFi accessible to everyone, Autoscale is here to help. On April 26 Quentin Diebold of Autoscale joined Entity to discuss recent milestones for this protocol and where it is heading next. “We are putting our efforts into the user experience. It’s really our main goal to make everyone, even old guys with no knowledge in DeFi, use our products with low difficulty.” — Quentin Diebold • AutoscaleCurrently live on MultiversX devnet, Autoscale’s yield optimizer tools allow investors to earn yields without having to constantly maintain their position or compound their earnings. Quentin also talked about his optimism for the future of the MultiversX DeFi ecosystem, and how Autoscale can integrate and support other protocols like AshSwap, Hatom, OneDex, and more. The future of gaming is nowWith stunning open-world graphics and a strong community, Cyberpunk City is definitely a top GameFi project to watch.The future of gaming is now In Project Dialogue #14, Cyberpunk City’s Jack Melar joined Entity for a voyage into the future of Web3. Jack laid out the competitive advantages for Cyberpunk and how this project blends the best of gaming, blockchain and the metaverse into one highly engaging experience. “We are building on Unreal Engine, so it’s like a proper game and a proper metaverse at the same time.” — Jack Melar • Cyberpunk CityJack talked about how Cyberpunk City has cultivated a strong community so far, with a range of ecosystem partnerships and two NFT collections currently in the top five in weekly $EGLD volume (CityNFT and CitizenNFT). This interview also highlighted the intersection between AI and gaming, and how Cyberpunk aims to use artificial intelligence to create dynamic new game mechanics. Reinventing the world of paymentsAre you ready for xMoney?Reinventing the world of payments The Web3 payment heavyweights at xMoney (formerly Utrust) stopped by the Entity Project Dialogues for a glimpse into their mission to supercharge the decentralized financial ecosystem. In this inspiring discussion, CPO Martinho Aragão explained the future trajectory of Utrust as they prepared to transform into xMoney along with the fiat payment experts at Twispay. “I could see us having cards connected to different networks, and when you go to the ATM you can choose which network to use.” — Martinho Aragão • xMoneyThe conversation covered pain points such as dealing with volatility as well as future opportunities such as developing decentralized credit card systems. Adoption is a core focus for Martinho and his colleagues, and he confirmed this is an area where the project is pushing very hard. With the widespread release of xMoney cards expected in the near future, the future of money may be closer than you think. Kickstarting Web3 real estateReal estate is a multi-trillion dollar market, and the team at Blok seeks to supercharge this industry into the Web3 era.Kickstarting Web3 real estate The builders at Blok are hard at work creating next-level tokenized real estate assets- right here on MultiversX. Entity had a lively conversation with this promising French Web3 project, discussing Blok’s plans to catalyze blockchain adoption through decentralizing the real estate world. “Adding US dollars (to stablecoins) is nice, but in the future maybe you will want to trade something that is not backed by a fiat currency but directly by something physical.” — Philippe Martin • BLOKPhilippe Martin, CTO of Blok, discussed the value proposition of the project as a more direct and democratic way to invest in property. He also explained that the project has careful plans to overcome various hurdles in regards to compliance, liquidity, and decentralized decision making. With a minimum investment stake of just €50, Blok could make real estate more accessible than ever before. More power for DeFi SummerIt’s always a build market for the team at JewelSwap.More power for DeFi Summer Co-founder Viktor Vostrikov joined Entity to explain how this innovative DeFi project has already shipped a range of useful features that help the MultiversX community get the most out of their tokens and NFTs. Powered by Combased and Epunks, JewelSwap combines the best of both the DeFi and NFT worlds with lending, leveraged pools and more. “JewelSwap actually helps every NFT collection, since you can tell your community ‘look, there’s another utility’.” — Viktor Vostrikov • JewelSwapBy depositing your NFTs as collateral, JewelSwap users can immediately access liquidity to use in other investment strategies. But JewelSwap is far from being a one-trick pony, as they also offer mortgaged NFT purchases, high-powered farms for AshSwap and OneDex, supercharged token staking, and more. This insightful dialogue covered key topics such as security and analytics- plus a special preview of future synergies and tools. The crypto liquidity revolution has arrivedLast but not least, ZoidPay stopped by for a high-energy discussion of the Web3 payments landscape!The crypto liquidity revolution has arrived While Eduard Oneci was not able to join as planned, Business Development Executive Denis Onica stepped in and did an admirable job explaining the project’s recent milestones and future roadmap for this hardcore project. The discussion covered the upcoming ZoidPay Super App, the shopping revolution of the ZoidVerse, and the cross-chain firepower of their ZoidCore suite. “Rather than building separate bridges for each blockchain, we actually want to integrate all of those bridges in a single interface.” — Denis Onica • ZoidPayDenis explained that while the road to a seamless Web3 payment world is not easy, the potential benefits and growth opportunities are extremely vast. With a range of exciting products in development, stay tuned as ZoidPay could be a major catalyst for MultiversX mass adoption. Time to connect and innovateWant to learn more about these relentless Web3 builders? Good news- they will all be featured at the upcoming Entity Builders Forum on June 10!Time to connect and innovate This exciting online blockchain conference will feature panel discussions on Web3 Innovation, DeFi and GameFi featuring many of the founders from the Project Dialogues Series. There will also be special presentations from MultiversX leaders like Beniamin Mincu, exciting announcements from Entity, and next-level giveaways such as the Builders Forum Lottery! Let’s turn up the hypePlus, all 18 startups from the Entity Project Dialogues series have the chance to win an exclusive prize package for supporting the event. In the Battle of Hype, users must complete an Empower campaign where they complete a few social media tasks and select their favorite ecosystem project.At the end of the event, the project with the most completed campaigns will receive the following rewards:
To join the Battle, simply sign up for the Builders Forum and await further instructions during the event on June 10. And for all the details about the Battle of Hype, Lottery and Builders Forum, head over to the official Builders Forum GitBook. Don’t miss a thingIn the meantime, feel free to tune in again and catch all the details from these 18 dedicated Web3 startups:
Enhancing the MultiversX EcosystemEntity x MultiversXEntity is a Launchpad and suite of cutting-edge tools for Web3 builders and investors. Entity is focused on catalyzing growth in key areas such as DeFi, GameFi, NFTs and real-world blockchain applications. MultiversX is a highly scalable, secure and decentralized blockchain network created to enable radically new applications, for users, businesses, society, and the new metaverse frontier. Source: Entity Finance / Medium / Entity Project Dialogues: Second Half Summary |
2023.06.10 06:37 Imaginary-Zebra-3589 New Aniara fan fiction short story - The Lost Voices of Aniara: A Space Saga
Introduction
The short story you are about to read was created/inspired/based on a variety of sources related to or about Aniara. Aniara rock opera (Seventh Wonder) - The Great Escape, the Aniara wikipedia page, the Aniara film, poem etc. So if you read something and it sounds familiar, it's probably because it comes from or is based on, one of those sources. I have also tried to incorporate some of the thoughts and ideas expressed here on aniara, so some of you may see that reflected. I have not read everything that has to do with the Aniara universe, but I have found many of the resources listed on aniara very helpful in creating this short story. Thank you for those. I have also included a couple alternate endings.
Also, this story belongs to everyone, so everyone should feel free to to fill in the blanks, add to, subtract, or change any part of the story, in anyway they see fit.
I dedicate this short story to all the fans of Aniara, this story is for you and of course the late Harry Martinson.
Like many people who watched the film 'Aniara', I was mesmerized/traumatized by it. It really had a profound effect on me. So much so that I decided to write this fan fiction short story. I am not a writer. The short story that you are about to read is my (very) amateurish tribute to the film. I apologize in advance for all of the grammaspelling and other errors. Despite the (many) flaws of this short work, I hope that you can see what I was attempting to do. Anyway without further or do, I present to you:
The Lost Voices of Aniara: A Space Saga
WE CROWN THE SKIES WITH OUR TIARA, THE LIFE AND FATE OF ANIARA
Note: The following represents the most complete (so far) chronicle of events that happened onboard the Aniara.
Year 18 - Song of Melancholy - My name is Benjamin Jenkins, but everyone calls me "Benny", I am proud to announce that I am the new "Captain" of the mighty space "cruise ship" Aniara. Of course, my title could just as easily be the Admiral of Mars or the Conquer of the Universe, or some other ridiculous sounding grandiose title. Sometimes you must laugh in the face of despair otherwise you will go insane. It's all just for fun of course. I was given the title "Captain" by the crew because I was able to restore the communications transmitter. At least I think I was able to retore it? The lights show green for transmitting, so yeah I bet it works, and besides, all of this is being recorded for posterity and it will be placed in a time/memorial capsule. After that the capsule will be sent in the (general) direction of Mars/Home, where hopefully someone finds it. I'm also the Senior Maintenance Tech in charge of repairing/prolonging various ship systems, etc. There are now only a few remaining livable areas of the ship so it's not as much work as one might imagine. And to think 18 years ago, I was just an ordinary passenger, how far through the ranks I've come! As the "Captain" I will now recount the entire history of the Aniara, the various events, the everyday happenings, from the awe inspiring and amazing, to the boring and mundane, great triumphs and crushing defeats, all the feelings of happiness and joy that come with new life and all of the sorrows and despair that come from (too) many deaths and (too) many hardships. All of our great accomplishments, setbacks and everything in between will be laid bare before the entire universe to witness. Our love, our hate, our dreams, our wants and desires, disappointments, anger and fear but above all our HOPE. Our precious HOPE, the only thing we have left, which has kept us alive for so long. Our HOPE that this message will be received, that someone, somewhere will know our story and our struggle, our HOPE that Mars will be successfully terraformed into the paradise that we all know it can be and our HOPE that Earth will be restored to the paradise that it once was. It's all here, it's all being recorded for the future. I will start our saga from the very beginning of our trip all those years ago...
Hour 1 - Routine Voyage - Well, this is it! Soon I and many others will make a new home on Mars... of course if we hadn't ruined the first one...
Week 3 - Without a Map/A Slight Detour - Today the Captain made an announcement that there would be a slight detour in our trip. In order to avoid a collision with space debris, (which would have destroyed the ship) we had to veer off course. Some of the debris hit the nuclear reactor (a very rare event), which forced the crew to eject all of the ship's fuel. The Captain told everyone that we will be able to resume our trip to Mars once the ship passes a celestial body, which should (probably) happen in about two years. Everyone is (understandably) disgruntled by this unfortunate news. As for me I have no one waiting for me on Mars so it's not as bad.
Year 2 - Wait and See - After several long months of trying out all of the various amusements and other distractions, I was starting to get bored, so I spoke with one of the senior crew members and asked if I could volunteer to do something, anything. Also a job would help keep my mind off our current situation.
Today, my request to work was approved and now I'm part of the crew. My job is to do general maintenance tasks around the ship. I also help take care of the algae, which are used to supply the ship with oxygen and food. It's not a very challenging task, in fact I find it very tedious, but the algae are crucial for the ship's survival, so it gives me a sense of purpose and on top of that I also earn extra points.
Eventually, because of my (part time) job in maintenance, I would come to know every nook and cranny of the Aniara. On one particular day I noticed a slight problem (Electrostatic Diffusion Impaction or EDI) with the ship's air filtration mechanism. I was quick to inform my supervisor about the issue and together we fixed it immediately. If I hadn't spotted the problem, it could have gotten much worse and that would have been catastrophic for the crew and passengers. Afterwards my supervisor bought me a shot of (rationed) Dutch brandy. Other than that, nothing of note has really happened. Everyone is basically in a holding pattern.
One last thing. I've heard a disturbing rumor that there is no celestial body for us to turn around at... If this is true then, that would mean... But for now all we can do now is wait and see...
Year 3 - The Yurg/The Passing of Mima - A memorial was set up to honor the end of Mima. So much joy had she given us. On the wall among the thousands of drawings, pictures, and sad goodbye letters was a poem that went like this:
We sit and stare at all the marvels that she brings us.
Mima lead the way.
Shine your light!
Be the beacon of hope at night.
Perfect grace in the barren house of space.
Shine your light!
Blind us when reality bites.
We so need the magic she does.
Many rumors are going around about what happened to Mima. People say that the Mimarobe (MR) was the one that ended up causing Mima to die. As for me, personally, I don't believe it. The Mimarobe just didn't seem like the type. A few times after I got off from work, when I walked to the end of the long line of people waiting to see Mima, the Mimarobe would come out and say "Ok, everyone that's it that's enough for today, you have to leave now, sorry." My own personal opinion is that she was just trying to give Mima a break, so even though I was of course disappointed, I completely understood. Sometimes we all just need a break. Sometimes things just get to you and you start to feel overwhelmed. I understood the feeling. Mima was like us in that way. Anyway, Rightly or wrongly the Mimarobe was locked up in the ships brig, her and another woman, I think she was one of the pilots,Isabella\, I think was her name but I might be wrong. Oh well, our lives must go on, much sadder of course, but that's life, I guess. ****Isagel, the pilots name was Isagel, her and the Mimarobe would later become a couple.
Year 4 - The Cults - Strange things have started happening. Various cults have sprung up all over the ship with bizarre and strange names. One of these (that I am a member of) is called the ゴールデンサンライト・フォーエバー・クラブ - Gōrudensanraito Fōeba Kurabu - which roughly means the Golden Sunlight Forever Club. Some of these phony cults are/were created as a disguise to have outrageous sex orgies. The cult that I am part of is one of these. (HELL YEAH!). The other cults are very boring, stare out the window and worship the stars or something like that, types. (Glad I'm not a member of those!).
Year 5 - The Calculation - A few weeks ago I met someone special (Carmen) at one of the "worship" services. I've seen her before a few times, but this is the first time that we "connected" and it was amazing. I'm glad that she accepts my physical imperfections (burns scars). Now we are a couple and have left the cult.
Fantastic news! The Captain has announced that an Emergency Refuel Rescue Probe is on its way! The news of the rescue probe has had an electrifying effect on the crew and passengers. Everyone is so excited that no one even cares that we will have to wait just over a year for it to get to us. People are starting to clean and pick up trash again, and the sex clubs and other cults are starting to go away (in anticipation of a return to proper civilization). Now we have hope again! Thank GOD!
Year 6 - The Spear - The rescue probe is almost here. (Only one week away!) I also have even more great news! Mygirlfriend fiancée is pregnant!, now I will be a Father just like I always wanted! I have spoken to Captain Chefone and he has agreed that he will marry us on the day that the Aniara turns around and heads (finally) back to Mars/our new HOME! Even though it will take us several more years to get back, it will have been worth it to me. I am grateful for the "slight detour" we had to endure, because it allowed me to meet the love of my life! Now with our precious child on the way, I am truly happy. PURE JOY - beyond all words...
Something is wrong... After an entire year of training and preparation, the crew has successfully grappled the refuel probe and brought it on board. Everyone expected that within a few days, (a week at most) that we would turn around, but it's been three weeks and nothing. Every day the passengers ask the crew what's going on? When will we turn around? and every day we get the same answer: "Soon, everything is going according to plan, just be patient." People are starting to doubt and lose hope. I even walked right up to Captain Chefone but he knew what I was going to ask and he brushed me aside very angrily saying "Not now, I'm busy!". Now I don't know what to think. One minute I have a future and the next nothing. How can this be? I don't understand! WHY?
Catastrophe! After work I went straight to my quarters to sleep, it had been an exhausting day. Just after I fell asleep, I was awakened by a rumbling. Then, over the speaker came the announcement: Return immediately to your cabins and fasten your seat belts! Since I was already in bed, and had no idea what was going on, I quickly fastened my belt. When it was all over [missing] passengers and crew left. I was told that it happened because of something called "bow shock", which [missing] kind of like a shock wave. The bow shock had badly damaged many systems. [missing] so now I've been "promoted" to Senior Maintenance Tech. Repairs must [missing] don't have any more spare parts for [missing] so many are dead...
Today the Mimarobe completed her beam-screen project. So now when you look outside you can see beautiful waterfalls and green fields etc. I try not to look at it too much. For me its just too painful...
Year 7 - The Fall of Heaven - Today marks the one year anniversary of the arrival of the so-called "Emergency Refuel Rescue Probe". What a very official and grand sounding name for a giant stupid looking dart or as some call it "The Spear". I've even heard some people refer to it as the "Devil's Javelin", but whatever you call it, it's of no use to us. The Astronomer had once told me before she died "supposedly" from a heart attack, (rumors say she was murdered by the captain, I don't doubt it) that all the work and tests they had done on the probe were useless and that even the hardest drills were simply ground into dust without even making so much as a scratch on the probe. Despite a literal barrage of tests and every possible experiment known, even using our most advanced lasers, they had achieved NOTHING! That was the moment I realized that we would never make it home. I even visted "The Spear" once, it was years after all the experiments had ended. There was a time when the area was heavily guarded by the crew and only authorized personnel were allowed in. Of course when I went to see it nobody was around, nobody cared, everyone had given up on it long ago. I saw all of the black marks from what must have been hundreds, if not thousands of desperate attempts to get inside it, or just to figure out what the damn thing was supposed to be. On the floor all around it were small heaps of black and silver metalic dust, remnants of our strongest and hardest drills, remnants of our hope. Our best and brightest couldn't even figure out what it was made of, let alone figure out how to use it to take us home.
I beat my hands against it over and over and I cried out my pain and anger at it. "You were supposed to save us!" "You were supposed to take us home!" You Damn! stupid thing, help us! save us!" But of course it was all useless my cries went unanswered, all I did was injure my hands and hurt my soul, assuming I even have one. After that I (I'm ashamed to admit it)... in complete and total desperation... I got down on my hands and knees in front of it and begged it to save us. "Oh, great magic spear, please save us and I will do anything, anything..."
After I had exhausted and humiliated myself I got up and went back to my quarters broken and alone. All hope was lost before my visit with "the spear" and afterwords it didn't even exist, not even as a word, as though there had never even been such a thing or concept as "hope".
I had been struck by the spear, just like everyone else, head on. My now ex-fiancée and I have split up. Things just weren't the same after the procedure. I don't blame her at all for our break-up, after talking about it, we agreed that if there was now no chance for us to make it home then... what was the point? I went with her when she had the procedure done. But before we went I secretly met with the doctor who would perform the operation and told her what I wanted done after. She told me that I was sick... that it was "disgusting", and what did I plan on doing with "it". I told her that it shouldn't matter, none of this matters, then I pulled out an EFR (emergency food ration). EFRs could remain edible for an indefinite period of time. (In theory they could last for hundreds of years.) Here I said, "one now and one when I get what I want". The doctor was stunned, I knew what she was going to say and I interrupted her and said,"Unlike everyone else I saved my emergency rations." "I only have the two left (I was lying) so don't try to extort me for more." After years of eating only algae, EFRs were (almost) more valuable than oxygen. Of course the doctor agreed and I got what I wanted. It might sound crazy but I had a plan. Fate had taken my family away, but I was prepared to defy even the gods themselves. I was determined that I would have my FAMILY! No matter what! Nothing and no one, no force of nature, no power in all the universe would take that from me. NO! NEVER!
I asked me a question, no reply.
I dreamt me a life and live a lie.
Dream me a nightmare...
I traveled the stars but passed them by.
For trapped on Aniara, here was I.
...always been leaving.
Year 8 - [missing]
Year 9 - The Daily Grind - I have now returned to reality. I have stopped all of the sick and sad mind games that I have being torturing myself with. I once created a "plan" to do the impossible, but no more, no more. Everyday now seems like an endless pointless, struggle. Sometimes [missing] and hours. Some of my co-workers stopped [missing] for now that's all any of us can do...
Year 10 - The Jubilee - Tonight at the Light-Year Hall, those of us that are still left are going to "celebrate" the 10th anniversary of our 3 week voyage to Mars or as I like to call it the "never ending space adventure" Ha!
Captain Chefone gave the Mimarobe a medal for her creation of the beam-screen device. I sat in the front row and couldn't help but notice that one of the Captains wrists was bandaged, probably from another suicide attempt...
Year 11 - Hope Restored - My ex-fiancée is dead. She commited suicide like so many others before. I was hard at work trying to revive the algae (they had been neglected for some time) when my assistant rushed in and told me the news. "They were about to send her body into space, you have to hurry if you want to see her". I immediately and literally dropped everything I was doing. The algae pack I had been working on fell and splashed on the floor as I ran out the door as fast as I could. As luck would have it, I made it just in time to see her, and I even had time to cut a lock of her hair. I then kissed her one last time and said "Goodbye my love... but, goodbye is not forever."
Then that was it, off she went into the empty, endless, void. She was gone I told myself, but not dead. I squeezed the lock of hair in my hand and vowed that I would bring her back to life, somehow, someway, I would make things right, we would live the life we were supposed to have. I would make it happen. It would happen. Suddenly, I felt a force deep inside me rushing to the surface. It had been years but I knew what it was, It had returned to me, a feeling of exuberation, of joy and the certainty of knowing that everything would be okay. I now resurrected my "plan" and now I had a reason to live again, I had a purpose, and now I had......HOPE! And this time I was determined that I would never lose hope again. NEVER!
Year 12 - Return of the Cults - Some of the old cults have started making a come back... However this time they are no longer sex/fun cults, because after so many years of eating just algae, almost everyone has lost their sex drive/ability to reproduce... I think because the type algae on board was genetically modified to produce the maximum amount of oxygen possible, so it was never intended to be used as a permanent main source of nutrition. If we had access to more than just the one type, things might be different...
Year 13 - Foward, Foward into the cold empty night! We ride! - Captain Chefone is dead. Suicide. I knew he had been on the brink the past few years so it's not much of a surprise. I would often hear him say to himself "We should have been home by now." Of course he was right, we should have, but instead here we are stuck on this eternal "voyage of the damned".
A week after Captain Chefone died, I found myself walking by his quarters. I had the sudden impulse to go inside. I don't know what it was (probably just morbid curiosity), but I think I just wanted to find some answers...
I was surprised to find that his quarters were just as much of a mess as mine. (And everyone else's.) I think because he was the Captain, I expected a lot more. (He was only human.) After looking around the room, I went over to his desk and inside I found the Aniara's Offical Ships Log, but the electronic notepad was damaged beyond repair (on purpose). However, underneath it was a small paper notebook. "Ah, I said out loud, now this should be interesting." When I opened the notebook I was immediately disappointed. Most of the pages were torn out and those few that remained had been harshly scribbled over.
On one of the few pages not missing or completely marked over was written this: Today, we almost lost the entire ship, were it not for my quick and decisive actions as Captain. [illegible] an incredibly rare occurrence [illegible] critically damaged our main nuclear reactor. [illegible] only seconds [illegible] forcing me to [illegible] off course [illegible] have power for some time. This evening I will break the news to the passengers in such a way that will cause the least amount of panic and at the same time not destroy their hope. If they knew the real situation, it would only cause unnecessary chaos. In this way, I will maintain order and keep the passengers safe. Fear and [illegible] as Captain of Aniara [illegible] that is now my primary job. [illegible] now like aShepherd Father and the passengers my sheep children. In many ways we are very lucky, [illegible] this trip, Aniara's sister ship crashed into Jupiter heading towards the Orion belt colony. Everyone on onboard was killed.
On another page was written this: The rescue refuel probe is here. [illegible] turned out to be [illegible] not what I expected. I have [illegible] for clarification, [illegible] Mars [illegible] -----cation. Testing will continue. I still remain confident that [illegible] the project called "[illegible] ---elin" can still be used in someway to turn the ship around and resume course.
The last two pages were so scribbled over that I could barely make out any words let alone a full sentence. I did however, notice what looked like the word "Devil" written over and over. Very strange. I left the Captain's quarters with more questions than answers...
Year 14 - [missing]
Year 15 - The Light Show Ends - Today the projection device created by MR, (Everyone still calls her the 'Mimarobe' as a sign of respect.) had to be shut down to conserve power. The Mimarobe often expressed to me her regret at not being more forceful with Captain Chefone in explaining the problem with Mima. She told me that if she could back in time she would say to the Captain:
"Just imagine what it will be like if Mima isn't here... do you understand how hellish the situation will become? My life is dedicated to this program and I'M TELLING YOU, IT WILL BURN OUT AND DIE! Imagine if people can temporarily go back to earth by turning on a light switch, now imagine if the bulb blows up, and there's no replacement..." "I know how important Mima is and you don't get it!"
The beam-screen seemed like a great idea at the time to keep everyone's spirits up, but in many ways it may have done more harm than good. People lost their minds staring all the time at something they knew they would never have...
Year 16 - [missing]
Year 17 - [missing]
Year 18 - The Time/Memorial Capsule - The Mimarobe was the one that came up with the idea for a time/memorial capsule. She (like all of us) has suffered greatly, but from time to time she would show a small spark of her old self. The idea, while slow to catch on, would eventually give those of us still left a renewed sense of purpose. (People now had a reason to get out of bed.) But, it was I who would take the idea and transform it into something greater. Our first attempt at creating the capsule was successful (it was little more than a metal box) but at the same time, as the Mimarobe pointed out it looked too much like a large coffin. I agreed. We could do better. We had to do better. But we had to be careful [missing] effecting power systems. I asked the Mimarobe if she could sketch a better design. After two days the Mimarobe presented me with a new design, it was beautiful, but simple, yet elegant. Above the sketch was were the words, "Heart of Aniara." The name was perfect. We would fill the "Heart of Aniara", with our art and our poetry, with our hopes, dreams and wedding rings. We would pour into it our stories, our struggles, our trials and tribulations, we would fill it with the tear drops from our very souls.
The "Heart of Aniara" is almost complete. It has taken an entire [missing] solid effort to build and everyone took turns polishing it, so now it shines like the golden sun. We also wrote [missing] and painted two large red hearts on the sides. It [missing] long and on the inside are different [missing] created using metal partitions. [missing] was instrumental in its consruction...
Year 19 - A Slight Delay - Disaster! Several Power systems, including all emergency back up systems across the ship have begun failing for some unknown reason. [missing] working around the clock to figure out what is wrong... I don't know how much longer we can hold on...
We finally found the [missing] will work for the time being, but [missing] restored power [missing] will do for now...
Year 20 - The Heart of Aniara - At last the time has come for our send off. Everything is ready. As the "Captain" of Aniara it is my great honor to commision this new vessel "Heart of Aniara". Behind me I heard someone whisper "vessel?". I continued, "It is my firm belief that the "Heart of Aniara" will make it back home to Mars and everyone will know our stories..."
A moment before send off, I told everyone to wait. Theres one more thing left. I then slid open a hatch on the side and told everyone that I hated to do this to them, but I was going to Mars with my family. The Mimarobe approached me with a half smile on her face and said in a very serious tone "Good Luck, Captain Benny", "tell everyone on Mars hi for us and that we wish we were there." I smiled and promised that I would. Then to my suprise all the others came up to me, with some shaking my hand and congratulating me, asking me to say hi to their family and friends as well. I then ducked down into the newly christened "Heart of Aniara." Then the hatch was sealed. A small rechargable electric candle that I brought with me, provided the only light. Knowing that we would be leaving in a moment I opened a small box, took Carmen (lock of ex-fiancée's hair) and Sarah Ann (small jar with dead fetus) and held them together in my left hand against my chest. I could feel my heart beating with a mixture of fear and excitement. I took out a small children's book with my right hand and began reading it from the beginning. It was my daughter's favorite. It was called "The Duck and the Noodle." "Daddy are we there yet?" I laughed as tears ran down my face and said "Yes, my little princess noodle were almost there."
The Memorial Capsule lauched into space with a loud whoosh...
(Mimarobe, MR) - When everyone had just got through waving goodbye and were getting ready to leave, the view screen turned on and with it a pre-recorded message from Captain Benny. "To celebrate this great day, I have arranged for you a "Grand Feast", then he paused. A few people exchanged questioning looks. Then the Captain spoke again. "You see", he said with a smile, "Unlike all of you, I saved my emergency rations. You will find them hidden inside the mattress in my quarters, enjoy!" "Also, you will find two bottles of wine, yes! real wine!" Before the video even finished several people had started shuffling as fast as the could to Captain Benny's quarters. The Captain wasn't lying, it appeared that he had indeed saved almost all of his emergency rations for some special occasion(s).
What a feast it was! To make it fair for everyone we took all of the rations and put them together to create a kind of giant stew. Each of us not only savored each precious spoonful, we cherished it as though it was a long lost loved one. It is not an exaggeration to say that each bite was chewed one hundred times or more and then held in the mouth for ten minutes or longer, swishing the pulpy liquid around and around. I even saw one person spit the food back into their bowl and then put it back into their mouth, over and over again. That seemed a little bit unusual to me, but everyone should enjoy their last real meal the way they want. As for the wine their was enough for everyone to have a shot glass filled to the brim. We talked about the "Great Feast" for months afterword...
Year 21 - [missing]
Year 22 - The Living Dead - (Mimarobe, MR) We've had to abandon almost the entire ship to conserve power, but basically were stillgood alive... I still dream about Isagel and our son from time to time...
Year 23 - [missing]
Year 24 - The Sarcophagus - A few remaining survivors, including the Mimarobe, sit cross-legged in a dimly lit room. One of the few survivors speaks in a rhapsodic manner about the divine power of sunlight on Earth.
The Aniara slowly descends into final darkness...
Note: Years 25 through 5,981,406 are missing.
Year 5,981,407 - Lyra Constellation - The Aniara, derelict, frozen and devoid of human life - reaches the Lyra constellation and approaches a planet as verdant and welcoming as Earth was formerly. It quickly passes by continuing on into the endless void of space...
Date Unknown - The Warm Embrace - Ages come, Ages gone, Aniara soon embraced, engulfed by warmth and shine, newest born crimson light, Aniara far from home, aflame, not even ashes remain.
Epilogue: Year 100 - The Triumph of Hope - Despite the faliure of many valiant rescue attempts, including all attempts at communication, we remain confident that those onboard the Aniara knew that they were not forgotten. It is difficult to imagine (the speaker momentarily shuttered), the impossible challenges they endured. The story of their lives will remain in the collective hearts of humanity for all time. It is our hope that we will do right by them, now and in the future. We vow to never repeat the mistakes of the past... and that is why today, on the one hundredth anniversary since the Aniara was lost, we reach across time and space to bring their souls back home, home to this sacred place... We hereby consecrate this new park as the "Aniara Memorial Park and Museum Complex." As you walk through these doors, one of the first things you will notice is the "Heart of Aniara" on display. Along the walls are the names and pictures of the passengers and crew, their artwork, poetry, and most importantly, the stories of their lives, their hopes, dreams and wedding rings...
Aniara Memorial Plaque: We ourselves are the sorrow, we are also the joy, everything human is rooted in humanity, and no human being can escape humanity, not her hatred and her self-degradation, nor the joy she spreads, nor the love she forms.
Date [redacted] - Project "Devil's Javelin" - Status report #[redacted] - As of today's date we are aware of a total of four "spear-like objects" [redacted] and has contextualized that there are many more as yet discovered. Because of [redacted] we now know they are made of [redacted] and probably come from [redacted] the first was found on Earth 86 years ago, at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. The second one was discovered by the crew of the Aniara [redacted] years ago. The third was found here on Mars, near [redacted] and moved to its present secure location. The fourth and newest one was found when [redacted] the far side of the Moon. [redacted] buried inside the [redacted] impact crater. We have yet to discover the purpose of these "spear-like objects."
After [redacted] to prevent another type of incident. [redacted] have been able to gain access to the inside of the one here on Mars. [redacted] only after [redacted] and the entire team. [redacted] using the most advanced technology and research methods. Dr. [redacted] found [redacted] which is impossible and should not exist. However, we must now come to grips with the horror that this new revelation about humanity has [redacted] general public must never find out...
THE END?
Alternate ending 1
Year 5,981,407 - The Sarcophagus World Destroyer - As the ship Aniara descended towards the lush and green planet, the crew rejoiced. Or at least they would have if they hadn't all been dead. After thousands of millennia wandering through space, they had found a planet that was almost identical to Earth.
The planet's gravity was very strong, and the ship had become trapped in the planet's gravitational pull and started hurtling towards the surface.
The Aniara crashed into the planet with a deafening roar, causing massive destruction and sending out shockwaves that rippled across the surface.
As the dust settled, it became clear that the landing had been catastrophic. Plant and animal life had been completely obliterated, and the once green planet was now a barren wasteland. Soon not a single living thing was left to witness the horror and the devastation that had been caused.
Another beautiful, thriving, planet, a blue and green jewel, once teeming with life has been turned into a lifeless barren wasteland...
Alternate ending 2
Year 5,981,407 - The Second Chance Sarcophagus - As the ship Aniara descended towards the lush and green planet, the crew rejoiced. Or at least they would have if they hadn't all been dead. After thousands of millennia wandering through space, they had found a planet that was almost identical to Earth.
The planet's gravity was very strong, and the ship had become trapped in the planet's gravitational pull and started hurtling towards the surface.
One one-trillionth of a second after the Aniara crashed into the planet the mysterious spear-like probe on board finally awakened. A God-Like Power. In that one one-trillionth of a second the Aniara was scanned by the powerful probe and the events and lives of the crew had become known to it. At the same time, both the ship and the planet were saved by a force field of immense power. The ship was now resting safely on the surface of the lush, green planet. The probe had determined that the primitive life forms on board were worthy of a second chance at life and it was able to resurrect the entire crew and all the passengers from microscopic DNA that had been left. The Aniara was perfectly restored and even the Mima had been brought back. The crew and passengers awoke to find themselves in a veritable Garden of Eden, a paradise. Maybe this time things would go better and the mistakes from the past would not be repeated...
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The short story you are about to read was created/inspired/based on a variety of sources related to or about Aniara. Aniara rock opera (Seventh Wonder) - The Great Escape, the Aniara wikipedia page, the Aniara film, poem etc. So if you read something and it sounds familiar, it's probably because it comes from or is based on, one of those sources. I have also tried to incorporate some of the thoughts and ideas expressed here on aniara, so some of you may see that reflected. I have not read everything that has to do with the Aniara universe, but I have found many of the resources listed on aniara very helpful in creating this short story. Thank you for those. I have also included a couple alternate endings.
Also, this story belongs to everyone, so everyone should feel free to to fill in the blanks, add to, subtract, or change any part of the story, in anyway they see fit.
I dedicate this short story to all the fans of Aniara, this story is for you and of course the late Harry Martinson.
Like many people who watched the film 'Aniara', I was mesmerized/traumatized by it. It really had a profound effect on me. So much so that I decided to write this fan fiction short story. I am not a writer. The short story that you are about to read is my (very) amateurish tribute to the film. I apologize in advance for all of the grammaspelling and other errors. Despite the (many) flaws of this short work, I hope that you can see what I was attempting to do. Anyway without further or do, I present to you:
The Lost Voices of Aniara: A Space Saga
WE CROWN THE SKIES WITH OUR TIARA, THE LIFE AND FATE OF ANIARA
Note: The following represents the most complete (so far) chronicle of events that happened onboard the Aniara.
Year 18 - Song of Melancholy - My name is Benjamin Jenkins, but everyone calls me "Benny", I am proud to announce that I am the new "Captain" of the mighty space "cruise ship" Aniara. Of course, my title could just as easily be the Admiral of Mars or the Conquer of the Universe, or some other ridiculous sounding grandiose title. Sometimes you must laugh in the face of despair otherwise you will go insane. It's all just for fun of course. I was given the title "Captain" by the crew because I was able to restore the communications transmitter. At least I think I was able to retore it? The lights show green for transmitting, so yeah I bet it works, and besides, all of this is being recorded for posterity and it will be placed in a time/memorial capsule. After that the capsule will be sent in the (general) direction of Mars/Home, where hopefully someone finds it. I'm also the Senior Maintenance Tech in charge of repairing/prolonging various ship systems, etc. There are now only a few remaining livable areas of the ship so it's not as much work as one might imagine. And to think 18 years ago, I was just an ordinary passenger, how far through the ranks I've come! As the "Captain" I will now recount the entire history of the Aniara, the various events, the everyday happenings, from the awe inspiring and amazing, to the boring and mundane, great triumphs and crushing defeats, all the feelings of happiness and joy that come with new life and all of the sorrows and despair that come from (too) many deaths and (too) many hardships. All of our great accomplishments, setbacks and everything in between will be laid bare before the entire universe to witness. Our love, our hate, our dreams, our wants and desires, disappointments, anger and fear but above all our HOPE. Our precious HOPE, the only thing we have left, which has kept us alive for so long. Our HOPE that this message will be received, that someone, somewhere will know our story and our struggle, our HOPE that Mars will be successfully terraformed into the paradise that we all know it can be and our HOPE that Earth will be restored to the paradise that it once was. It's all here, it's all being recorded for the future. I will start our saga from the very beginning of our trip all those years ago...
Hour 1 - Routine Voyage - Well, this is it! Soon I and many others will make a new home on Mars... of course if we hadn't ruined the first one...
Week 3 - Without a Map/A Slight Detour - Today the Captain made an announcement that there would be a slight detour in our trip. In order to avoid a collision with space debris, (which would have destroyed the ship) we had to veer off course. Some of the debris hit the nuclear reactor (a very rare event), which forced the crew to eject all of the ship's fuel. The Captain told everyone that we will be able to resume our trip to Mars once the ship passes a celestial body, which should (probably) happen in about two years. Everyone is (understandably) disgruntled by this unfortunate news. As for me I have no one waiting for me on Mars so it's not as bad.
Year 2 - Wait and See - After several long months of trying out all of the various amusements and other distractions, I was starting to get bored, so I spoke with one of the senior crew members and asked if I could volunteer to do something, anything. Also a job would help keep my mind off our current situation.
Today, my request to work was approved and now I'm part of the crew. My job is to do general maintenance tasks around the ship. I also help take care of the algae, which are used to supply the ship with oxygen and food. It's not a very challenging task, in fact I find it very tedious, but the algae are crucial for the ship's survival, so it gives me a sense of purpose and on top of that I also earn extra points.
Eventually, because of my (part time) job in maintenance, I would come to know every nook and cranny of the Aniara. On one particular day I noticed a slight problem (Electrostatic Diffusion Impaction or EDI) with the ship's air filtration mechanism. I was quick to inform my supervisor about the issue and together we fixed it immediately. If I hadn't spotted the problem, it could have gotten much worse and that would have been catastrophic for the crew and passengers. Afterwards my supervisor bought me a shot of (rationed) Dutch brandy. Other than that, nothing of note has really happened. Everyone is basically in a holding pattern.
One last thing. I've heard a disturbing rumor that there is no celestial body for us to turn around at... If this is true then, that would mean... But for now all we can do now is wait and see...
Year 3 - The Yurg/The Passing of Mima - A memorial was set up to honor the end of Mima. So much joy had she given us. On the wall among the thousands of drawings, pictures, and sad goodbye letters was a poem that went like this:
We sit and stare at all the marvels that she brings us.
Mima lead the way.
Shine your light!
Be the beacon of hope at night.
Perfect grace in the barren house of space.
Shine your light!
Blind us when reality bites.
We so need the magic she does.
Many rumors are going around about what happened to Mima. People say that the Mimarobe (MR) was the one that ended up causing Mima to die. As for me, personally, I don't believe it. The Mimarobe just didn't seem like the type. A few times after I got off from work, when I walked to the end of the long line of people waiting to see Mima, the Mimarobe would come out and say "Ok, everyone that's it that's enough for today, you have to leave now, sorry." My own personal opinion is that she was just trying to give Mima a break, so even though I was of course disappointed, I completely understood. Sometimes we all just need a break. Sometimes things just get to you and you start to feel overwhelmed. I understood the feeling. Mima was like us in that way. Anyway, Rightly or wrongly the Mimarobe was locked up in the ships brig, her and another woman, I think she was one of the pilots,
Year 4 - The Cults - Strange things have started happening. Various cults have sprung up all over the ship with bizarre and strange names. One of these (that I am a member of) is called the ゴールデンサンライト・フォーエバー・クラブ - Gōrudensanraito Fōeba Kurabu - which roughly means the Golden Sunlight Forever Club. Some of these phony cults are/were created as a disguise to have outrageous sex orgies. The cult that I am part of is one of these. (HELL YEAH!). The other cults are very boring, stare out the window and worship the stars or something like that, types. (Glad I'm not a member of those!).
Year 5 - The Calculation - A few weeks ago I met someone special (Carmen) at one of the "worship" services. I've seen her before a few times, but this is the first time that we "connected" and it was amazing. I'm glad that she accepts my physical imperfections (burns scars). Now we are a couple and have left the cult.
Fantastic news! The Captain has announced that an Emergency Refuel Rescue Probe is on its way! The news of the rescue probe has had an electrifying effect on the crew and passengers. Everyone is so excited that no one even cares that we will have to wait just over a year for it to get to us. People are starting to clean and pick up trash again, and the sex clubs and other cults are starting to go away (in anticipation of a return to proper civilization). Now we have hope again! Thank GOD!
Year 6 - The Spear - The rescue probe is almost here. (Only one week away!) I also have even more great news! My
Something is wrong... After an entire year of training and preparation, the crew has successfully grappled the refuel probe and brought it on board. Everyone expected that within a few days, (a week at most) that we would turn around, but it's been three weeks and nothing. Every day the passengers ask the crew what's going on? When will we turn around? and every day we get the same answer: "Soon, everything is going according to plan, just be patient." People are starting to doubt and lose hope. I even walked right up to Captain Chefone but he knew what I was going to ask and he brushed me aside very angrily saying "Not now, I'm busy!". Now I don't know what to think. One minute I have a future and the next nothing. How can this be? I don't understand! WHY?
Catastrophe! After work I went straight to my quarters to sleep, it had been an exhausting day. Just after I fell asleep, I was awakened by a rumbling. Then, over the speaker came the announcement: Return immediately to your cabins and fasten your seat belts! Since I was already in bed, and had no idea what was going on, I quickly fastened my belt. When it was all over [missing] passengers and crew left. I was told that it happened because of something called "bow shock", which [missing] kind of like a shock wave. The bow shock had badly damaged many systems. [missing] so now I've been "promoted" to Senior Maintenance Tech. Repairs must [missing] don't have any more spare parts for [missing] so many are dead...
Today the Mimarobe completed her beam-screen project. So now when you look outside you can see beautiful waterfalls and green fields etc. I try not to look at it too much. For me its just too painful...
Year 7 - The Fall of Heaven - Today marks the one year anniversary of the arrival of the so-called "Emergency Refuel Rescue Probe". What a very official and grand sounding name for a giant stupid looking dart or as some call it "The Spear". I've even heard some people refer to it as the "Devil's Javelin", but whatever you call it, it's of no use to us. The Astronomer had once told me before she died "supposedly" from a heart attack, (rumors say she was murdered by the captain, I don't doubt it) that all the work and tests they had done on the probe were useless and that even the hardest drills were simply ground into dust without even making so much as a scratch on the probe. Despite a literal barrage of tests and every possible experiment known, even using our most advanced lasers, they had achieved NOTHING! That was the moment I realized that we would never make it home. I even visted "The Spear" once, it was years after all the experiments had ended. There was a time when the area was heavily guarded by the crew and only authorized personnel were allowed in. Of course when I went to see it nobody was around, nobody cared, everyone had given up on it long ago. I saw all of the black marks from what must have been hundreds, if not thousands of desperate attempts to get inside it, or just to figure out what the damn thing was supposed to be. On the floor all around it were small heaps of black and silver metalic dust, remnants of our strongest and hardest drills, remnants of our hope. Our best and brightest couldn't even figure out what it was made of, let alone figure out how to use it to take us home.
I beat my hands against it over and over and I cried out my pain and anger at it. "You were supposed to save us!" "You were supposed to take us home!" You Damn! stupid thing, help us! save us!" But of course it was all useless my cries went unanswered, all I did was injure my hands and hurt my soul, assuming I even have one. After that I (I'm ashamed to admit it)... in complete and total desperation... I got down on my hands and knees in front of it and begged it to save us. "Oh, great magic spear, please save us and I will do anything, anything..."
After I had exhausted and humiliated myself I got up and went back to my quarters broken and alone. All hope was lost before my visit with "the spear" and afterwords it didn't even exist, not even as a word, as though there had never even been such a thing or concept as "hope".
I had been struck by the spear, just like everyone else, head on. My now ex-fiancée and I have split up. Things just weren't the same after the procedure. I don't blame her at all for our break-up, after talking about it, we agreed that if there was now no chance for us to make it home then... what was the point? I went with her when she had the procedure done. But before we went I secretly met with the doctor who would perform the operation and told her what I wanted done after. She told me that I was sick... that it was "disgusting", and what did I plan on doing with "it". I told her that it shouldn't matter, none of this matters, then I pulled out an EFR (emergency food ration). EFRs could remain edible for an indefinite period of time. (In theory they could last for hundreds of years.) Here I said, "one now and one when I get what I want". The doctor was stunned, I knew what she was going to say and I interrupted her and said,"Unlike everyone else I saved my emergency rations." "I only have the two left (I was lying) so don't try to extort me for more." After years of eating only algae, EFRs were (almost) more valuable than oxygen. Of course the doctor agreed and I got what I wanted. It might sound crazy but I had a plan. Fate had taken my family away, but I was prepared to defy even the gods themselves. I was determined that I would have my FAMILY! No matter what! Nothing and no one, no force of nature, no power in all the universe would take that from me. NO! NEVER!
I asked me a question, no reply.
I dreamt me a life and live a lie.
Dream me a nightmare...
I traveled the stars but passed them by.
For trapped on Aniara, here was I.
...always been leaving.
Year 8 - [missing]
Year 9 - The Daily Grind - I have now returned to reality. I have stopped all of the sick and sad mind games that I have being torturing myself with. I once created a "plan" to do the impossible, but no more, no more. Everyday now seems like an endless pointless, struggle. Sometimes [missing] and hours. Some of my co-workers stopped [missing] for now that's all any of us can do...
Year 10 - The Jubilee - Tonight at the Light-Year Hall, those of us that are still left are going to "celebrate" the 10th anniversary of our 3 week voyage to Mars or as I like to call it the "never ending space adventure" Ha!
Captain Chefone gave the Mimarobe a medal for her creation of the beam-screen device. I sat in the front row and couldn't help but notice that one of the Captains wrists was bandaged, probably from another suicide attempt...
Year 11 - Hope Restored - My ex-fiancée is dead. She commited suicide like so many others before. I was hard at work trying to revive the algae (they had been neglected for some time) when my assistant rushed in and told me the news. "They were about to send her body into space, you have to hurry if you want to see her". I immediately and literally dropped everything I was doing. The algae pack I had been working on fell and splashed on the floor as I ran out the door as fast as I could. As luck would have it, I made it just in time to see her, and I even had time to cut a lock of her hair. I then kissed her one last time and said "Goodbye my love... but, goodbye is not forever."
Then that was it, off she went into the empty, endless, void. She was gone I told myself, but not dead. I squeezed the lock of hair in my hand and vowed that I would bring her back to life, somehow, someway, I would make things right, we would live the life we were supposed to have. I would make it happen. It would happen. Suddenly, I felt a force deep inside me rushing to the surface. It had been years but I knew what it was, It had returned to me, a feeling of exuberation, of joy and the certainty of knowing that everything would be okay. I now resurrected my "plan" and now I had a reason to live again, I had a purpose, and now I had......HOPE! And this time I was determined that I would never lose hope again. NEVER!
Year 12 - Return of the Cults - Some of the old cults have started making a come back... However this time they are no longer sex/fun cults, because after so many years of eating just algae, almost everyone has lost their sex drive/ability to reproduce... I think because the type algae on board was genetically modified to produce the maximum amount of oxygen possible, so it was never intended to be used as a permanent main source of nutrition. If we had access to more than just the one type, things might be different...
Year 13 - Foward, Foward into the cold empty night! We ride! - Captain Chefone is dead. Suicide. I knew he had been on the brink the past few years so it's not much of a surprise. I would often hear him say to himself "We should have been home by now." Of course he was right, we should have, but instead here we are stuck on this eternal "voyage of the damned".
A week after Captain Chefone died, I found myself walking by his quarters. I had the sudden impulse to go inside. I don't know what it was (probably just morbid curiosity), but I think I just wanted to find some answers...
I was surprised to find that his quarters were just as much of a mess as mine. (And everyone else's.) I think because he was the Captain, I expected a lot more. (He was only human.) After looking around the room, I went over to his desk and inside I found the Aniara's Offical Ships Log, but the electronic notepad was damaged beyond repair (on purpose). However, underneath it was a small paper notebook. "Ah, I said out loud, now this should be interesting." When I opened the notebook I was immediately disappointed. Most of the pages were torn out and those few that remained had been harshly scribbled over.
On one of the few pages not missing or completely marked over was written this: Today, we almost lost the entire ship, were it not for my quick and decisive actions as Captain. [illegible] an incredibly rare occurrence [illegible] critically damaged our main nuclear reactor. [illegible] only seconds [illegible] forcing me to [illegible] off course [illegible] have power for some time. This evening I will break the news to the passengers in such a way that will cause the least amount of panic and at the same time not destroy their hope. If they knew the real situation, it would only cause unnecessary chaos. In this way, I will maintain order and keep the passengers safe. Fear and [illegible] as Captain of Aniara [illegible] that is now my primary job. [illegible] now like a
On another page was written this: The rescue refuel probe is here. [illegible] turned out to be [illegible] not what I expected. I have [illegible] for clarification, [illegible] Mars [illegible] -----cation. Testing will continue. I still remain confident that [illegible] the project called "[illegible] ---elin" can still be used in someway to turn the ship around and resume course.
The last two pages were so scribbled over that I could barely make out any words let alone a full sentence. I did however, notice what looked like the word "Devil" written over and over. Very strange. I left the Captain's quarters with more questions than answers...
Year 14 - [missing]
Year 15 - The Light Show Ends - Today the projection device created by MR, (Everyone still calls her the 'Mimarobe' as a sign of respect.) had to be shut down to conserve power. The Mimarobe often expressed to me her regret at not being more forceful with Captain Chefone in explaining the problem with Mima. She told me that if she could back in time she would say to the Captain:
"Just imagine what it will be like if Mima isn't here... do you understand how hellish the situation will become? My life is dedicated to this program and I'M TELLING YOU, IT WILL BURN OUT AND DIE! Imagine if people can temporarily go back to earth by turning on a light switch, now imagine if the bulb blows up, and there's no replacement..." "I know how important Mima is and you don't get it!"
The beam-screen seemed like a great idea at the time to keep everyone's spirits up, but in many ways it may have done more harm than good. People lost their minds staring all the time at something they knew they would never have...
Year 16 - [missing]
Year 17 - [missing]
Year 18 - The Time/Memorial Capsule - The Mimarobe was the one that came up with the idea for a time/memorial capsule. She (like all of us) has suffered greatly, but from time to time she would show a small spark of her old self. The idea, while slow to catch on, would eventually give those of us still left a renewed sense of purpose. (People now had a reason to get out of bed.) But, it was I who would take the idea and transform it into something greater. Our first attempt at creating the capsule was successful (it was little more than a metal box) but at the same time, as the Mimarobe pointed out it looked too much like a large coffin. I agreed. We could do better. We had to do better. But we had to be careful [missing] effecting power systems. I asked the Mimarobe if she could sketch a better design. After two days the Mimarobe presented me with a new design, it was beautiful, but simple, yet elegant. Above the sketch was were the words, "Heart of Aniara." The name was perfect. We would fill the "Heart of Aniara", with our art and our poetry, with our hopes, dreams and wedding rings. We would pour into it our stories, our struggles, our trials and tribulations, we would fill it with the tear drops from our very souls.
The "Heart of Aniara" is almost complete. It has taken an entire [missing] solid effort to build and everyone took turns polishing it, so now it shines like the golden sun. We also wrote [missing] and painted two large red hearts on the sides. It [missing] long and on the inside are different [missing] created using metal partitions. [missing] was instrumental in its consruction...
Year 19 - A Slight Delay - Disaster! Several Power systems, including all emergency back up systems across the ship have begun failing for some unknown reason. [missing] working around the clock to figure out what is wrong... I don't know how much longer we can hold on...
We finally found the [missing] will work for the time being, but [missing] restored power [missing] will do for now...
Year 20 - The Heart of Aniara - At last the time has come for our send off. Everything is ready. As the "Captain" of Aniara it is my great honor to commision this new vessel "Heart of Aniara". Behind me I heard someone whisper "vessel?". I continued, "It is my firm belief that the "Heart of Aniara" will make it back home to Mars and everyone will know our stories..."
A moment before send off, I told everyone to wait. Theres one more thing left. I then slid open a hatch on the side and told everyone that I hated to do this to them, but I was going to Mars with my family. The Mimarobe approached me with a half smile on her face and said in a very serious tone "Good Luck, Captain Benny", "tell everyone on Mars hi for us and that we wish we were there." I smiled and promised that I would. Then to my suprise all the others came up to me, with some shaking my hand and congratulating me, asking me to say hi to their family and friends as well. I then ducked down into the newly christened "Heart of Aniara." Then the hatch was sealed. A small rechargable electric candle that I brought with me, provided the only light. Knowing that we would be leaving in a moment I opened a small box, took Carmen (lock of ex-fiancée's hair) and Sarah Ann (small jar with dead fetus) and held them together in my left hand against my chest. I could feel my heart beating with a mixture of fear and excitement. I took out a small children's book with my right hand and began reading it from the beginning. It was my daughter's favorite. It was called "The Duck and the Noodle." "Daddy are we there yet?" I laughed as tears ran down my face and said "Yes, my little princess noodle were almost there."
The Memorial Capsule lauched into space with a loud whoosh...
(Mimarobe, MR) - When everyone had just got through waving goodbye and were getting ready to leave, the view screen turned on and with it a pre-recorded message from Captain Benny. "To celebrate this great day, I have arranged for you a "Grand Feast", then he paused. A few people exchanged questioning looks. Then the Captain spoke again. "You see", he said with a smile, "Unlike all of you, I saved my emergency rations. You will find them hidden inside the mattress in my quarters, enjoy!" "Also, you will find two bottles of wine, yes! real wine!" Before the video even finished several people had started shuffling as fast as the could to Captain Benny's quarters. The Captain wasn't lying, it appeared that he had indeed saved almost all of his emergency rations for some special occasion(s).
What a feast it was! To make it fair for everyone we took all of the rations and put them together to create a kind of giant stew. Each of us not only savored each precious spoonful, we cherished it as though it was a long lost loved one. It is not an exaggeration to say that each bite was chewed one hundred times or more and then held in the mouth for ten minutes or longer, swishing the pulpy liquid around and around. I even saw one person spit the food back into their bowl and then put it back into their mouth, over and over again. That seemed a little bit unusual to me, but everyone should enjoy their last real meal the way they want. As for the wine their was enough for everyone to have a shot glass filled to the brim. We talked about the "Great Feast" for months afterword...
Year 21 - [missing]
Year 22 - The Living Dead - (Mimarobe, MR) We've had to abandon almost the entire ship to conserve power, but basically were still
Year 23 - [missing]
Year 24 - The Sarcophagus - A few remaining survivors, including the Mimarobe, sit cross-legged in a dimly lit room. One of the few survivors speaks in a rhapsodic manner about the divine power of sunlight on Earth.
The Aniara slowly descends into final darkness...
Note: Years 25 through 5,981,406 are missing.
Year 5,981,407 - Lyra Constellation - The Aniara, derelict, frozen and devoid of human life - reaches the Lyra constellation and approaches a planet as verdant and welcoming as Earth was formerly. It quickly passes by continuing on into the endless void of space...
Date Unknown - The Warm Embrace - Ages come, Ages gone, Aniara soon embraced, engulfed by warmth and shine, newest born crimson light, Aniara far from home, aflame, not even ashes remain.
Epilogue: Year 100 - The Triumph of Hope - Despite the faliure of many valiant rescue attempts, including all attempts at communication, we remain confident that those onboard the Aniara knew that they were not forgotten. It is difficult to imagine (the speaker momentarily shuttered), the impossible challenges they endured. The story of their lives will remain in the collective hearts of humanity for all time. It is our hope that we will do right by them, now and in the future. We vow to never repeat the mistakes of the past... and that is why today, on the one hundredth anniversary since the Aniara was lost, we reach across time and space to bring their souls back home, home to this sacred place... We hereby consecrate this new park as the "Aniara Memorial Park and Museum Complex." As you walk through these doors, one of the first things you will notice is the "Heart of Aniara" on display. Along the walls are the names and pictures of the passengers and crew, their artwork, poetry, and most importantly, the stories of their lives, their hopes, dreams and wedding rings...
Aniara Memorial Plaque: We ourselves are the sorrow, we are also the joy, everything human is rooted in humanity, and no human being can escape humanity, not her hatred and her self-degradation, nor the joy she spreads, nor the love she forms.
Date [redacted] - Project "Devil's Javelin" - Status report #[redacted] - As of today's date we are aware of a total of four "spear-like objects" [redacted] and has contextualized that there are many more as yet discovered. Because of [redacted] we now know they are made of [redacted] and probably come from [redacted] the first was found on Earth 86 years ago, at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. The second one was discovered by the crew of the Aniara [redacted] years ago. The third was found here on Mars, near [redacted] and moved to its present secure location. The fourth and newest one was found when [redacted] the far side of the Moon. [redacted] buried inside the [redacted] impact crater. We have yet to discover the purpose of these "spear-like objects."
After [redacted] to prevent another type of incident. [redacted] have been able to gain access to the inside of the one here on Mars. [redacted] only after [redacted] and the entire team. [redacted] using the most advanced technology and research methods. Dr. [redacted] found [redacted] which is impossible and should not exist. However, we must now come to grips with the horror that this new revelation about humanity has [redacted] general public must never find out...
THE END?
Alternate ending 1
Year 5,981,407 - The Sarcophagus World Destroyer - As the ship Aniara descended towards the lush and green planet, the crew rejoiced. Or at least they would have if they hadn't all been dead. After thousands of millennia wandering through space, they had found a planet that was almost identical to Earth.
The planet's gravity was very strong, and the ship had become trapped in the planet's gravitational pull and started hurtling towards the surface.
The Aniara crashed into the planet with a deafening roar, causing massive destruction and sending out shockwaves that rippled across the surface.
As the dust settled, it became clear that the landing had been catastrophic. Plant and animal life had been completely obliterated, and the once green planet was now a barren wasteland. Soon not a single living thing was left to witness the horror and the devastation that had been caused.
Another beautiful, thriving, planet, a blue and green jewel, once teeming with life has been turned into a lifeless barren wasteland...
Alternate ending 2
Year 5,981,407 - The Second Chance Sarcophagus - As the ship Aniara descended towards the lush and green planet, the crew rejoiced. Or at least they would have if they hadn't all been dead. After thousands of millennia wandering through space, they had found a planet that was almost identical to Earth.
The planet's gravity was very strong, and the ship had become trapped in the planet's gravitational pull and started hurtling towards the surface.
One one-trillionth of a second after the Aniara crashed into the planet the mysterious spear-like probe on board finally awakened. A God-Like Power. In that one one-trillionth of a second the Aniara was scanned by the powerful probe and the events and lives of the crew had become known to it. At the same time, both the ship and the planet were saved by a force field of immense power. The ship was now resting safely on the surface of the lush, green planet. The probe had determined that the primitive life forms on board were worthy of a second chance at life and it was able to resurrect the entire crew and all the passengers from microscopic DNA that had been left. The Aniara was perfectly restored and even the Mima had been brought back. The crew and passengers awoke to find themselves in a veritable Garden of Eden, a paradise. Maybe this time things would go better and the mistakes from the past would not be repeated...
2023.06.10 06:12 Able_Assistance_3715 Star Lake event pin (Ferris Wheel)
Does anyone know why it's a Ferris Wheel? I googled "Ferris Wheel Pittsburgh" and found - "An early model of the Ferris Wheel built by George Ferris, taken in an unknown location. The first Ferris Wheel was designed by George W. Ferris, a bridge-builder from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He built it for the 1893 World's Fair held in Chicago to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Columbus's landing in America."
I figured that was the connection to it bein a ferris wheel but wasn't sure ⚡️🎡⚡️
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2023.06.10 04:51 docXfamas [H] June Choice and other bundled games [W] Paypal, TF2 keys
Note:
MY REP Wishlist
Gems
TF2 keys/ Csgo Cases
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- All keys are primarily from US/NA region
- My list maybe slightly outdated so I apologize in advance if some of the games mentioned are already traded/Sold.
- I accept XBOX keys as well.
- I accept PayPal only via goods and services so all transactions will include fees.
- My Wishlist, I am mostly uninterested in other games.
HAVE
JUNE 2023 games- Curse of the Dead Gods
- Ghostwire: Tokyo
- Remnant: From the Ashes - Complete Edition
- Eternal Threads
- GRIME
- Honey, I Joined a Cult
- Meeple Station
- Turbo Golf Racing
- Generation Zero® x 2
- Midnight Ghost Hunt x 2
- Northgard x 2
- Borderlands 3: Super Deluxe Edition x 2
- Destiny 2: Beyond Light
- Gloria Victis x 2
- PULSAR: Lost Colony x 2
- Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery x 2
- Bendy and the Dark Revival x 3
- Builder Simulator x 2
- Operation Tango x 2
- Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition x 2
- The Invisible Hand x 2
- Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters x 4
- Windjammers 2 x 3
- Aliens: Fireteam Elite x 5
- DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT x 4
- Founders' Fortune x 1
- Life is Strange 2 Complete Season (incl. Mascot Bundle DLC) x 5
- Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp x 2
- Revita x 2
- Rollerdrome NA region x 4
- The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante x 2
- BIOMUTANT x 2
- Demon Turf x 2
- Edge Of Eternity x 3
- Golden Light x 3
- Hero's Hour (NA Region) x 4
- Jurassic World Evolution 2 x 2
- Monster Crown x 3
- Rogue Lords x 3
- A Little Golf Journey x 2
- Arcade Paradise - Arcade Paradise EP x 2
- Chivalry: Medieval Warfare x 2
- Eternal Threads x 2
- Field of Glory II x 2
- Hue x 2
- Ice Age: Scrat's Nutty Adventure
- Indivisible x 2
- Murder by Numbers
- Perfect x 2
- PlateUp!
- Rescue Party: Live! x 2
- Rise of the Slime x 2
- Songbringer
- Soul Axiom Rebooted x 2
- Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition x 2
- Steel Rats x 2
- STONE x 2
- Strange Brigade x 2
- Teacup
- The Last Campfire x 2
- Turbo Golf Racing x 2
- Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War x 2
- White Day: A Labyrinth Named School x 2
- Sifu Deluxe Edition Upgrade Bundle x 2
- Fallout + Fallout 76
- Five Dates x 2
- Fobia - St. Dinfna Hotel x 3
- Othercide
- Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition x 2
- ScourgeBringer x 2
- Shady Part of Me x 2
- SCUM x 2
- Starsand x 2
- State of Decay 2 x 2
- SurrounDead x 2
- The Long Dark: Survival Edition x 2
- Volcanoids
- DOOM Eternal
- Hokko Life
- Greedfall
- Wasteland 3
- Blade Assault
- Super Magbot
- TOEM
- Where the Water Tastes Like Wine
- A Fisherman's Tale
- Car Mechanic Simulator VR
- Cook-Out
- I Expect You To Die
- Sairento VR
- Shooty Fruity
- SUPERHOT VR
- The Curious Tale of the Stolen Pets
- The Wizards - Dark Times
- Until You Fall
- Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot: The First Cases
- The Smurfs - Mission Vileaf
- Anna's Quest
- AtmaSphere
- BATTLETECH
- Cardaclysm
- Dead Age 2: The Zombie Survival RPG
- Derange
- DISTRAINT 2 x 2
- Driftland: The Magic Revival
- Enclave (Gold)
- Everreach: Project Eden
- Fantasy Blacksmith
- Golf Club Wasteland
- Heal
- INDUSTRIA
- Interplanetary: Enhanced Edition
- Jack Orlando: Director's Cut
- Journey of a Roach
- Last Inua
- LEAVES - The Journey
- LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham
- LEGO Marvel Super Heroes
- LEGO® MARVEL's Avengers
- LEGO® The Hobbit™
- Main Assembly
- Majesty 2 Collection
- My Big Sister
- Noosphere
- OUTBUDDIES DX
- Paw Paw Paw
- Pesterquest
- Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville (ORIGIN KEY)
- PUBG: Battlegrounds – Golden G-Coin Box
- Red Wings: Aces of the Sky
- Seed Hunter x 2
- Ship Simulator Extremes
- Shooting Stars!
- Smart Factory Tycoon
- Space Cows
- Stars End
- Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse
- The Deed II
- The LEGO Movie - Videogame
- The LEGO NINJAGO Movie Video Game
- The Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia
- The Town of Light
- Truck Racer
- Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus
- Wildfire
- Worms Clan Wars
- Zanzarah: The Hidden Portal
- The House of Da Vinci (ROW)
- Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning FATE Edition
- Raji: An Ancient Epic
- Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun - Aiko's Choice
- UnMetal
- Roboquest x 2
- Morbid: The Seven Acolytes
- Eldest Souls
- Hidden & Dangerous 2: Courage Under Fire x 3
- Hidden & Dangerous: Action Pack x 3
- X-COM: Complete Pack x 3
- CivCity: Rome x 3
- Duke Nukem Forever collection x 4
- Railroad Tycoon 2: Platinum x 3
- Railroad Tycoon 3 x 3
- Sid Meier's Railroads! x 3
- The Golf Club 2019 Featuring PGA TOUR x 3
- WWE 2K BATTLEGROUNDS + Ultimate Brawlers Pass x 4
- BioShock: The Collection (EU region) x 2
- BioShock: The Collection (NA region) x 2
- Borderlands 3: Super Deluxe Edition
- PGA Tour 2K21 x 3
- Sid Meier's Civilization VI x 2
- XCOM: ULTIMATE COLLECTION x 4
- 11-11 Memories Retold x 2
- 112 operator
- 198x
- 8 doors
- 911 Operator x 2
- A Case Of Distrust
- A plague tale: innocence x 2
- Aegis Defenders x 3
- Ageless x 3
- Agents Of Mayhem
- Alien Spidy
- American Fugitive x 2
- Amnesia: rebirth x 3
- Amnesia: The Dark Descent + Amnesia: A Machine for pigs
- Anna's Quest
- As Far As The Eye
- Ashampoo Photo Optimizer 7
- Automachef x 3
- Bartlow's Dread Machine
- Beholder 2
- Between the stars x 4
- Beyond the wire x 2
- Bionic Commando x 2
- Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
- Book of Demons x 3
- Boomerang Fu
- Boreal Blade x 3
- Boundless
- Broken Age x 2
- Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
- Butcher
- Capitalism 2
- Car Mechanic Simulator 2018
- Carnival Games VR
- Civilization III x 2
- Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3
- Crazy Machines 3
- CROSSBOW: Bloodnight x 2
- Crown Trick
- Cursed Castilla (Maldita Castilla Ex)
- Cyber Hook x 2
- Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft - The Eldritch Box DLC x 2
- Dangerous Worlds x 2
- Dark Future: Blood Red States
- Darksburg x 2
- Dead In Vinland x 2
- Dear Esther: Landmark Edition
- Deathloop x 3
- Deleveled x 2
- Desert Child
- Desolate x 2
- Desperado 3
- DiRT Rally 2.0 - H2 RWD Double Pack
- DiRT Rally 2.0 - Opel Manta 400
- Dirt Rally 2.0 - Porsche 911 RGT Rally Spec
- Disjunction - gog
- Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen x 3
- Drake Hollow x 2
- Draw Slasher x 2
- Drawful 2
- Drawful 2
- Driftland: The Magic Revival x 3
- Ducati - 90th Anniversary
- Due Process x 3
- EarthX
- Ember
- Encodya - GOG x 2
- Endless Space 2 x 2
- Endzone - A World apart
- Enslaved™: Odyssey To The West™ Premium Edition
- Evergarden x 2
- Evoland Legendary Edition x 2
- Expeditions: Viking
- Fable Anniversary
- Family Man x 3
- Farmer's dynasty x 2
- Fear Effect Sedna
- Field of Glory: Empires
- Fling to the Finish
- Forager
- Frog Detective 2: The Case Of The Invisible Wizard x 3
- Fun With Ragdolls: The Game x 2
- Fury Unleashed x 5
- GameGuru x 2
- GameMaker Studio 2 Creator 12 Months x 2
- Garage: bad trip
- Gas Station Simulator x 2
- Gauntlet
- Genesis Alpha One Deluxe Edition x 3
- Ghost Of A Tale
- Gnog
- Go Home Dinosaurs x 2
- Graveyard Keeper
- Greak: Memories Of Azur
- GRIP: Combat Racing Artifex DLC x 3
- Guts and glory
- Hellpoint x 2
- Hexologic
- Hiveswap friendsim x 2
- Hiveswap: Act 1
- Hot Wheels Unleashed x 2
- Hotshot Racing x 3
- Ikenfell x 2
- Immortal Planet
- Imperator: Rome Deluxe Edition x 2
- In sound mind x 2
- Indivisible x 3
- Inmost
- Iris And The Giant
- Iron Danger
- Jurassic World Evolution x 2
- Katana zero
- Kerbal Space Program
- Kingdom Two Crowns
- Kingdom: New Lands x 2
- Kyle is Famous: Complete Edition
- Lacuna - A Sci-fi Noir Adventure
- Lawn mowing simulator
- Levelhead x 2
- Liberated GOG x 2
- Lostwinds
- Lovecraft's Untold Stories x 3
- Lust for Darkness x 2
- Lust from Beyond: M Edition x 2
- Maneater
- Memoria + Soundtrack
- Metro Exodus
- Midnight protocol x 2
- Milky Way Prince - The Vampire Star x 2
- Mo:astray
- Monaco
- Monster Hunter: World
- Moon Hunters
- Mordhau
- Morkredd x 3
- Motorcycle Mechanic Simulator 2021
- Moving Out
- Music Maker EDM Edition x 2
- Nebuchadnezzar
- Necromunda: Hired Gun
- NecroWorm x 2
- Neoverse x 3
- Neverout x 2
- Nex Machina
- Nickelodeon all-star brawl
- Nickelodeon Brawl
- Niffelheim x 2
- Nowhere Prophet x 3
- Orbital Racer x 2
- Out of Reach: Treasure Royale x 2
- Out Of Space
- Outward + The Soroboreans And Outward Soundtrack x 3
- Partisans 1941 x 2
- Path Of Giants
- Pathfinder Second Edition Core Rulebook and Starfinder Core Rulebook x 2
- Pathfinder: Kingmaker Enhanced Plus Edition
- Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Royal Ascension
- Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Wild Cards
- Pathway
- Paw paw paw x 3
- PC Building Simulator x 2
- Peaky Blinders: Mastermind x 2
- Pesterquest x 3
- Phantom Doctrine x 2
- Pikuniku
- Pine
- Pixplode x 2
- Police stories
- Popup Dungeon
- Post Void
- Prison Architect + Aficionado (Dlc)
- Pumpkin Jack x 2
- Purrfect Date
- Quantum Break x 2
- RAD x 4
- Railway Empire
- Red solstice 2: survivors
- Relicta x 3
- Remnants of Naezith
- Remothered: Broken Porcelain x 2
- Resident Evil 4 (2005)
- Resident Evil 5 Gold Edition
- Resident Evil HD REMASTER x 3
- Resident Evil Revelations x 4
- Resident Evil Revelations 2 - Episode 1: Penal Colony x 3
- Retimed x 3
- Ring of pain x 4
- Rise Of Industry x 3
- Roarr! Jurassic Edition x 2
- Rover Mechanic Simulator x 3
- RPG Maker VX
- Rustler x 4
- Saturday Morning RPG
- Say No! More
- Shing! x 2
- Shining Resonance Refrain x 2
- Shoppe Keep 2
- Simple Rockets 2
- Simplerockets 2 x 2
- Simulacra + Simulacra 2
- Size Matters x 3
- Skullgirls 2nd Encore
- Slinger VR x 2
- Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts x 2
- Soulblight x 2
- Spec Ops: The Line
- Speed Brawl x 2
- Splasher
- Starbound
- Stealth 2: A Game Of Clones
- Still There x 3
- Stories Untold
- Street Fighter V x 2
- Strider x 2
- Struggling x 2
- Stubbs The Zombie In Rebel Without A Pulse
- Super Meat Boy x 2
- Supraland x 2
- SYSTEM SHOCK: ENHANCED EDITION x 2
- Tabletop Playground x 3
- Telefrag VR x 2
- The Amazing American Circus x 2
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2023.06.10 02:59 OnePowerHour 100% RW Guide (Universally Loved and others)
A few people (two) asked for help with the Universally Loved achievement, and I thought I'd just make a post here for everyone to access. There's probably already other guides, but I'll just drop mines here in case it's more useful to others.
Keep in mind it's organized chronologically, so don't move on from morning to afternoon without completing EVERYTHING necessary (minus the optional stuff if you don't want to do it).
And obviously, spoilers for the entire REAL WORLD section.
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REAL WORLD Guide
PROLOGUE (after 1st STAB)
THREE DAYS LEFT
MORNING
TWO DAYS LEFT
MORNING
AFTERNOON
ONE DAY LEFT
MORNING
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Keep in mind it's organized chronologically, so don't move on from morning to afternoon without completing EVERYTHING necessary (minus the optional stuff if you don't want to do it).
And obviously, spoilers for the entire REAL WORLD section.
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REAL WORLD Guide
PROLOGUE (after 1st STAB)
- Attempt to confirm naming yourself OMOCAT (you can reload save file if you’d like) (achievement)
- Grab FIRST AID KIT from hallway and BANDAGE from dining room drawer
- Open door for HELLMARI, then she will appear in MOM’S room if WTF ≥ 6
THREE DAYS LEFT
MORNING
- Brush teeth (every morning for achievement)
- High five KEL every instance you get (achievement)
- Encourage MINCY at FARWAY PARK
- Feed ORANGE CAT at monkey bars at FARAWAY PARK and get TRASH
- COIN located in front of FARAWAY PLAZA; there is no DOLLAR spawned from throwing this one into the fountain, so this is optional
- Talk to GRUFF GUY with leak; go to his house and watch his attempt
- Help ALL-AMERICAN GUY find his TV REMOTE (under the couch)
- Talk to the ARTIST and agree with all her advice
- PART TIME JOBS to do
- Pizza delivery, save before starting the job
- Quit the job, then do the job again (achievement)
- Deliver all the pizzas on the first try to get a perfect score. Reload your save if you mess up
- Get OTHERWORLDLY CD
- Fly swatting
- Organizing tools
- Pizza delivery, save before starting the job
- Pick up tutoring posters at OTHERMART, then tutor BRENT and JOY
- BRENT (Math answers)
- 1. 204
- 2. 32
- 3. -2
- JOY (English answers)
- 1. On
- 2. Adverb
- 3. “I think eggplant is the better tasting soft vegetable.”
- BRENT (Math answers)
- Buy PET ROCK (costs $10)
- Beat JACKSON and get MERRY CD
- Talk to SEAN and KAREN in FIX-IT
- Pick up YELLOW BUN GRANNY’S prescription
- Get KIM’S MOM’S SHEARS
- Get SEASHELL #1 at garden area of FIX-IT
- Beat all PET ROCKS opponents
- Beat CREEPY GUY for FEDORA - optional if you want to collect it
- Beat SHOPKEEP for NOSTALGIC CD
- Beat AYEE (the fish stall lady at OTHERMART) for “YOU ROCK” CAP [tedious]
- Lose the battle to KIM and VANCE outside OTHERMART
- Beat SHOPKEEP’S high score of 6000 at arcade machine and get COOL GLASSES (costs $1 if you win on the first try)
- Donate $10 to SMELLY HOBO for GOLD WATCH or "GOLD" WATCH, the sell it to SHOPKEEP at HOBBEEZ
- Donate $30 to GUITAR GUY
- Buy x1 HERO SANDWICH ($5) - optional, if you want to use it later for a special fight)
- Buy x5 APPLE JUICE and ORANGE JUICE ($20 total) and get RED HEADBAND and ORANGE HEADBAND - optional if you want to collect the headbands
- Buy x5 CDS (DYNAMIC, CELESTIAL, LIVELY, CHILL, and BRUTAL) at HOBBEEZ ($50 total)
- Buy 1x MEAT and 6x FISH ($67 total)
- Encourage MINCY at OTHERMART
- Feed ORANGE CAT at roof of BASIL’S HOUSE and get TRASH
- COIN is located at yard of CLUMSY GUY’S house after sermon; after throwing COIN in fountain, DOLLAR spawns at MIKHAEL’S HOUSE
- Help CLUMSY GUY get WEDDING RING out of sink
- Help WRINKLY FOREHEAD choose a gift for his son at HOBBEEZ
- Get SEASHELL #2
- Donate x15 TRASH
TWO DAYS LEFT
MORNING
- Brush teeth
- Encourage MINCY at candy store in OTHERMART
- Feed ORANGE CAT at roof of SUNNY’s house
- COIN is at CHURCH; DOLLAR spawns at KIM’S HOUSE
- Talk to GRUFF GUY with leak; go to his house and watch his attempt
- Get SEASHELL #3 from hole in wall
- Give CRIS all 3 SEASHELLS to get SEASHELL NECKLACE
- Get SEASHELL #3 from hole in wall
- Find ARTIST’S dog by KEL’S HOUSE and speak to dog (achievement)
- Do all PART TIME JOBS again
- Pizza delivery
- Fly swatting
- Organizing tools
- Finish BRENT’S and JOY’S worksheets
- BRENT (Math answers)
- 1. 25
- 2. 4, -4
- 3. 7.103 (or 7.461 for older versions)
- JOY (English answer)
- 1. Re
- 2. wt.
- 3. Crawl
- BRENT (Math answers)
- Get PEPPER SPRAY from KEL’S MOM'S purse. Use it to defeat the HOOLIGANS later
- Interact with BEE HIVE; you don't have to win the battle
- Talk to BEBE’S MOM, then get the lamp from FIX-IT
- Reconcile WRINKLY FOREHEAD and his son
- Talk to CLUMSY GUY’S wife’s at GINO’S PIZZERIA
- Talk to CLUMSY GUY at candy shop
- Buy all 13 CHARMS in HOBBEEZ ($39) - optional unless you want to collect everything
- Before leaving BASIL’S house, save so you can reject KEL’S high five, then reload and high five KEL (achievement)
AFTERNOON
- Save before leaving BASIL’S HOUSE, then choose not to high-five KEL, then reload the save and high five KEL (achievements)
- Encourage MINCY at garden area at back of FIX-IT
- Feed ORANGE CAT at tree outside OTHERMART and get ARCADE PIECE
- COIN spawns at WRINKLY FOREHEAD’S house; DOLLAR spawns between cars in front of FARAWAY PLAZA
- HELP ALL-AMERICAN GUY find his TV REMOTE (in the bathroom)
- Take KEL’S $20 from his wardrove (achievement)
- Play hide-and-seek with DAPHNE and BOWEN at MIKHAEL'S HOUSE
- Get SEASHELL #4 north of HANGOUT SPOT - optional if you want to collect it
- Fix arcade game at GINO’S PIZZA
- Get 500+ points in SPROUT MOLE EATER and get SEASHELL #5 - optional if you want to collect it
- Go to CLUMSY GUY’S house
- Donate remaining CDs
- Donate x7 TRASH
- Donate all remaining MONEY to OLD HOBO (he will double it and give it back the next day if you need the MONEY)
ONE DAY LEFT
MORNING
- Brush teeth
- Encourage MINCY at CHURCH
- Feed ORANGE CAT at HANGOUT SPOT behind FARAWAY PARK
- Get SEASHELL #6 - optional if you want to collect it
- COIN at THICK EYEBROWS’ house; DOLLAR on fence in front of CHURCH
- Have AUBREY fix GRUFF GUY’S leak and get GHOULISH CD
- Help ALL-AMERICAN GUY find the TV REMOTE one last time (it's in the PIE in the kitchen)
- Send ANGEL back to ARTIST’S house
- PART TIME JOBS
- Pizza delivery
- Fly swatting
- Organizing tools
- Get FLOWER CLIP from CHARLIE - optional, if you want to collect it
- Give GUITAR GUY packed lunch from JOY’S father to get SECRET CD
- Give FLOWERS to MARI (achievement)
- Have a picnic with MARI
- Go to SEAN and KAREN’S house and help them cook
- Go to the HANGOUT SPOT, explore the RECYCULTIST'S HQ, and do the RECYCLEPATH
- Give KEL ORANGE JOE and he'll be HAPPY! - optional
- Give HERO the HERO SANDWICH and he'll be HAPPY! - optional
- Win and get COOL BOTTLECAP (you only get the item if you win, but you get the achievement regardless)
- Donate x6 TRASH
- Get ETHEREAL CD
- Encourage MINCY at FARAWAY PARK (you get a sketch of SUNNY and KEL)
- Feed ORANGE CAT at MARI’S GRAVE and get TRANQUIL CD
- COIN besides blue picnic blanket at FARAWAY PARK; DOLLAR at GRUFF GUY’S HOUSE
- Have a picnic at HANGOUT SPOT (achievement)
- Go to SEAN and KAREN’s housewarming party
- Donate remaining CDs