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I hope you had a great weekend! You've made my past couple weeks so nice and have completely filled my mailbox. So sorry for the delay in posting; we've had a family visit and a short getaway for another family visit right before having a couple sickly people in the household from said visits, so I'm just now getting on here to type these and got a bit behind... again. The mail has been so fun to see, and I have appreciated every single card! You guys are the sweetest!
Recent happenings: https://imgur.com/a/f8nZKUC
u/bluedecemberart, thank you for such a cool postcard from your recent trip with fun vintage stamps! I also reeeeaaallllyyyy hope all the hard work you've been putting in is starting to help and that you can tell a huge difference! It sounds excruciating. :( So super proud of all you're doing.
u/comingtogetyoubabs, Noooo... I haven't tried coconut milk caramels, but they sound amazing!!! Thanks for the heads up and the future cavities from my upcoming sugar addiction! XD I was cracking up!
u/chiquita61, what a sweet and lovely thank you card! It's probably my favorite color, if I had to choose one! I really adore all the cute pup stickers you used, too. The golden retriever with the goggles made me laugh. So, super fun! Thank you!
u/ez330, Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!! I was so excited about your card! Mail heading your way is all I can say! XD Oh! ...and thank you! It was beautiful, and it's always so much fun hearing from you. :D
u/Jdoodle7 (x2), thank you for the really cool butterfly card. You decorated the envelope with butterflies and such fun stamps! I need to write back to you on this! Your summer plans sound so very nice, too!
I love the postcard you sent from the graduation as well! I would love to see that city! I've heard it's just so beautiful. I'm so glad you were able to go recently!
u/libertyprogrammer (x2), thank you for the book postcard! I have fallen behind on The Mandalorian, and I really want to catch up! I need to renew my Disney+ but haven't had much TV time lately. I need to get on it! Are you caught up on it? Is it still just as fun as it was?!
I also loved your vintage postcard from my home area! I haven't been in that particular spot for ages! Speaking of the message you wrote, we watched bits of the Coronation after the fact on YouTube! I didn't watch the entirety of it, tbh, but enough to share with the littles as a, "Hey, this doesn't happen often" type of thing.
u/mlks00, thank you for the adorable little hamster with flowers card! It was so nice getting a check-in from you!
u/mydinosaurdidit (x3), thank you for your cards from your trip last month! You are so creative to make an envelope out of the map! What a great idea! I googled the area you said to image search, and it looks breathtaking! I'm really glad you were able to go. You even shared a bit with me! <3 Do you get to go there somewhat often? I know you mentioned it's a bit far for a day trip, but what a cool place!
u/notinmywheelhouse, WOW! Just wow! You are so talented! I love your art style, and you are so sweet to share some of it with me in the form of this cat card! I loved reading about your animal friends, too. They sound so cute. Our dogs would probably get along famously, taking their senior naps together! <3
I'm super excited about the new cat you're adding as well! That'll be such a fun new adventure! I was smiling so much at your Manx cat story. I can just imagine how over-the-moon you must've been with such a cool surprise!
Thank you so much! :)
u/TigerLady13 (x4), This cheesy card is great! You decorated it with so many stickers, too! I always love hearing about your adventures, and I'm glad the most recent one went well other than the cold. :( I hope your upcoming local adventures will be really fun. I googled the one you mentioned, and it does look like a really big deal! I'm glad it's happening this year!
You also included a recipe that looks incredible for Ginger Sweet Potato Coconut Milk Stew. Yummmm.... <3
It's so fun that you found a vintage card from a place you once lived! It looks like a really cool spot! You also sent a postcard of where you currently live. I love that you had both!
I also really loved my custom green envelope flair celebration card! That was so sweet. The black and foil gold look so classy with the cute little typewriter and you filled it to the brim with such cool washi and stickers. Thank you!
u/umeshufan (x5) You sent yet another awesome envelope with the coolest Apollo 11 stamp that will be added to the collection! You spoil me with such nice stamps on seemingly every card you send! This one looks like it was made for this navy pearlescent envelope and your metallic ink!
Inside, you sent a postcard of a solar flare card (I like seeing the cool little clips from the NOAA website)! You also sent TWO commemorative solar eclipse cards from the one that happened in the US in 2017 (These are SO awesome!), and there was also a card with all the planets. Wow. You have outdone yourself and then you mentioned on one that you were hoping to write more soon... I have to catch up! :D
You sent a gorgeous hummingbird pop-up card as well! Another person in the household loves it too, of course! It's been displayed ever since it arrived! I love the contrasting teal and orange. Our hummingbirds have finally come back for the year, and it's always so much fun watching the hungry little cuties zipping around the windows to get to their food!
u/todayisfab, u/sebisrude, u/KeenEvergreen, & u/PinkPengin: thank you for the meetup card! I hope it was such a fun outing for each of you! I love the cute little stamps and stickers for the usernames, and you even had a custom meetup stamp made?! Incredibly cool! I love the matching washi and stickers as well. So much fun! Thank you for thinking of me. :)

How to find the OMG store in Tor browser

The site is located on the darknet, so in search of an official mirror, you should look in the shadow directories. The entrance to OMG is usually located at the top of the screen when you go to the main address. To launch a link through Tor, you need a darknet domain zone. Such a mirror will provide privacy during your interaction with the trading platform. You can always find more information on the official OMG forum. There you will find up-to-date information if the main site is down.

How not to use the original OMG onion mirror

In order not to use a mirror, you need to bookmark your favorite link by clicking on the star stencil in the TOR browser. You can always support the project by making a donation in bitcoin. This can also be done from your btc crypto wallet. You may have noticed that in the OMG domain there are random numbers and symbols obtained like in roulette. This is the feature of the onion network — name generation is random. Therefore, links to OMG in the torus look like this. This ensures a stable anonymous connection between all participants in the trading platform.

What are the official OMG darkmarket mirrors

First of all, OMG!OMG! onion — this is the most popular working combination for site access. It is the fastest and safest on the Internet. Use it and look for alternatives only when you can’t enter the store using it. The analysis showed that there are six main mirrors and one main address. Which address to use is up to you, but we advise you to find a working mirror on the OMG darknet forum. If the main address is disabled, you can always access the alternative working link OMG!OMG! The darknet is distributed mainly in the onion project, so you should look for a link through shadow search engines that do not have censorship. The official OMG website is located at OMG!OMG! Be careful — in Google, Yandex, you can find fraudulent sites. Therefore, you should trust only trusted sources so as not to fall under the influence.

Correct link to OMG darknet

Using drugs is dangerous for your health!
In most developed countries, many types of drugs are legalized, but in Russia, the purchase is possible only on the Internet using the OMG darkmarket.
In order to always have access to the site, you need to download the Tor Browser. You can download Tor for free on the website of our partners (link in the comments). Use only official apps and don't click on questionable links.
Don't forget to save verified mirrors on your phone or computer. In case of a DDoS attack or other technical problems, use the links from the list in the comments.
You can buy goods around the clock in instant shops for bitcoin and rubles through an exchanger. Bitcoin exchange is possible through qiwi, through a bank (Sberbank, Tinkoff, Alfa, VTB), through a SIM card (MTS, TELE2, Beeline, Megafon). You can replenish bitcoin on OMG bot in any convenient way. If you want your transaction to be successful, you should pay attention to choosing a bitcoin exchange point. To view the rating of the exchanger, click «catalog». There you can also find the rating of stores. Verified exchanger — this is a special status and most likely it is a highly rated crypto exchange. You can replenish your personal account in any way indicated on the site. You can also deposit OMG through LocalBitcoins. To do this, you need to purchase coins on the exchange, and then send the transaction to the updated wallet of the trading platform.

Login to OMG!OMG! onion via TOR

The official OMG forum will help you find any products using the original link for tor. But what if you couldn't find the item you bought? In case of problems with the address, treasure or underweight, the buyer is obliged to open a dispute within 12 hours from the date of purchase. The OMG store reserves the right to refuse to consider a dispute in case of flooding, spam, insults or off-topic requests.
1. Address problem.
In case of error, inaccuracy of the address or lack of photos, the buyer can ask «Question on the order» or open «Dispute» The courier will definitely clarify the data in the near future.
2. Not found
If the area in the photographs of the hoard is not true, take a photograph of the place before starting the search.
If you were unable to find your item, open a dispute, attach clear photos taken during daylight hours from the perspective of a miner, describe the search process, at what time of the day you were looking for the treasure. The cladman's answer will be given no later than 24 hours from the moment of the request.
Compensation is not due in the following cases:

• A small number of purchases on the site and in our store.
• The searches were carried out by third parties.
• Photos missing.
• Absence of participation in the dispute for more than 24 hours.
• When closing a dispute with negative feedback before opening or resolving the dispute.

3. Underweight. Questions about the quality of the goods.
If you suspect underweight, please attach photos of the step-by-step unpacking of the goods so that we can identify our packaging. As well as a photo of the product inside the zip-lock and separately from it on special accurate scales.
Using drugs is bad for your health! On the site OMG! OMG! there are shop bumps, marijuana, hash, head, plan, and other types. In grams, you can buy any substance, such as mef, salt, mephedrone, cocaine, alpha pvp, surfactant or powder. In the search for goods, a convenient catalog will help you, where all the sellers are located. In Moscow or St. Petersburg, ordering a bookmark is very simple, there are couriers and staff. In Russia (RF) you can order in any city 24 hours a day. You can launch the OMG website in Tor Onion through the Tor Browser. To do this, you need to download the application on an android or ios phone, aka tor project on a PC. You can download Tor Onion browser for free by issuing google or duckduckgo.
Sometimes it's impossible to access OMG due to blocking. OMG Onion is the largest marketplace in the CIS countries where you can buy "shadow" goods for every taste.
To do this, you need to register an account (login, password, account name), replenish your wallet (among the methods you can specify both transfers from a regular bank card and payment systems (for example, QIWI), and direct deposits from crypto wallets) and select the product you are interested in.
Technical support and site administration are actively involved in resolving any issues that arise. The correct links to go to the site are on the darknet site OMG!OMG! onion. There are links for both regular browsers and TOR.
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Stand name: 「Jet Black Stare」
Localized name: Jet Black Star
Namesake: a Canadian hard rock band
Stand User: Bo-joh, a centuries-old alien space pilot who travels from planet to planet with no particular destinations in mind. One day, he landed on a large planet in the Andromeda galaxy, only to catch a mysterious virus that granted him a supernatural ability called "stand". The stand enabled him to travel across space with much greater speed than his craft would normally allow, until he came across the Earth. He managed to make some Earthling friends down there after deciding to make the planet his new home. One of them even came up with a name for his stand too.
Stand Type: Non-humanoid bound stand
Stand Appearance: Once the spacecraft is bound with the stand, its hull will take the shape of a cylinder with two triangle wings at the back, with the color scheme of white and purple. A round monitor can be seen in front of the ship serving as a powerful telescope.
Ability:「Jet Black Stare」enhances the spacecraft to a considerable degree once bound to it, but its main ability is teleportation
「Jet Black Stare」has a very powerful radar and telescope that can scan and observe planets 50 light years away with absolute clarity. Bo-joh can then use the radar to target celestial bodies with solid mass like planets, asteroids and moons to make a jump towards them in an instant, allowing the spacecraft to cover up to about 50 light years distance in a split second per jump.
Looking into the past
Light takes time to travel. Planets that are 100 light years away from us will appear in the state that they were 100 years ago if observed with a telescope on Earth. This is another great advantage of「Jet Black Stare」's teleportation ability. Bo-joh can choose how further back in time to look at by choosing the appropriate distance in space to jump to, and then look back to his starting point with the telescope, Since the limit to how much it can see is 50 light years away, Bo-joh can look back in time for about 50 years at most.
Stats:
Power: B speed: A Range: D Durability: A Precision: D Potential: D
If I win, I would love the next contest to be machine themed

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Since we're nearing the one year anniversary of JWD release, I thought it was a good opportunity to share with you the ideas I had for a rewrite of the film. I grouped them in a detailed pitch which I will present this week in a series of five posts. Today's post is about the story's prologue and first act. Tomorrow's will about the second act and so on... This detailed pitch is divided scene by scene and is accompanied by a few notes. It's basically similar to something that someone would present in a pre-production meeting.
However, before you start reading that series of post, I'll suggest that first you check the foreword on this page (https://archiveofourown.org/works/47647999/chapters/120097705) and secondly that you carefully read the paragraph below, as it's about the connection between that JWD rewrite and my previous rewrites (don't worry, you don't have to read the entirety of my stories before this series of posts, just the information below).

Important notes on my AU:

1) For those who didn't read my previous stories
- The stories told in this AU have a darker tone and are more adult than those of the films. Thus don't be surprised by some character actions or events. If they were films, they would be unsuitable for children under 12 in Europe (and the limit would be probably higher in North America). Thus, I would say that the Read at your own risk rule applies here for the younger users of this subreddit. I'm not trying to be edgy or whatever. I'm just an adult writing from an adult perspective. Nothing more and nothing less.
- By the late 2010's and early 2020's, there is still a considerable population of de-extinct dinosaurs and pterosaurs in the Five Deaths. An UN-backed paramilitary organization, the Grey Guard, protects the archipelago and had troops on Nublar up until the fall of Jurassic World.
- The Jurassic World park had feathered dinosaurs and Owen's Achillobator quartet were among those.
- The Fall of Jurassic World happened in 2017 and the Lockwood estate incident in 2019. The Indominus' rampage and the Sibo's eruption happened at the same time while the Costa Rican incident which preceded that of the Lockwood estate happened in the mainland and not on Nublar. Those two incidents are told in Jurassic World: The Red Queen, my FK rewrite (and which we'll abbreviate as TRQ).
- Roberta and the mosasaur died after the Fall of Jurassic World. Thus, they are not in TRQ and The Hegemony of Biosyn. In those stories, Roberta's role is mainly filled by Acrocanthosaurus.
- Claire and Owen aren't exactly identical to their versions from the official film canon. In terms of look, Owen is closer to Jason Momoa than Chris Pratt and Claire, while still being a fair-skinned redhead, is a bit taller and more intimidating-looking than BDH.
- In this AU, Claire is a far more morally ambiguous character than Trevorrow's version. She's more outspoken, and has a the end justifies the means mindset. For a time, she had serious PTSD from the Fall of Jurassic World, during which she was mauled by the Indominus (which clawed her face and bit off one of her arms). She also didn't create the DPG in this AU (someone else did).
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2) Spoilers of the end of The Red Queen necessary to better understand the context and plot of The Hegemony of Biosyn.
- The Dinosaur outbreak which resulted from the Lockwood estate incident is less severe than in Trevorrow's version. Dozens of dinosaurs still escaped into the Californian wilderness but by the beginning of The Hegemony of Biosyn, they hadn't the time to establish considerable wild populations (except perhaps for the smaller species) while the dinosaur alert is mostly restricted to western North America. Broad strokes, there is no "Dinosaurs are everywhere on Earth. We're in deep shit! You're wondering how? Shut up, it's magic!" at the start of this Dominion rewrite but more sporadic incidents here and there and only beginnings of biological invasions in some areas. Moreover, TRQ's epilogue insists more on the propagation of de-extinction technology.
- At the end of TRQ, Claire and Owen are hired as field agents by the World De-extinction Monitoring Centre (WDMC), a UN agency.
- Maisie isn't adopted by Claire and Owen. In TRQ, she even has limited interactions with them (she gets involved in the incident only when the Indoraptor enters her room) and Owen isn't her saviour in that story. After the incident, she stayed at the manor with the Lockwood estate employees and just before his death, Lockwood entrusted her to Wu.
- In the late 2010's, InGen's biggest rivals were Biosyn and Grendel. At the end of TRQ, a collapsing InGen is bought by Biosyn and Wu hired by the latter's R&D department.
- Wu and Claire became sworn enemies when she became park director of Jurassic World (this relation worsened during the park's fall following some revelations) and while she left him alone at the end of TRQ, she told him she'll show no mercy if he has a share of responsibility in another disaster.
3) Notable differences between The Hegemony of Biosyn and Colin Trevorrow's Dominion.
- Grant, Malcolm and Sattler are absent. I preferred to leave those characters in peace rather than mistreat them (and even after I finished THOB's detailed summary, I don't see how I could have integrated them in a pertinent way, and there is already many... many characters).
- Most of the fan-service towards the first Jurassic Park was flushed down in the toilets.
- Barry Sembène is absent too. Not only the reasons of his inclusion in Dominion's story didn't conviced them (how what seemed to be just an animal wrangler ends up being now a secret services agent?) but in this alternative universe, him and Owen had started to fall out during the fall of Jurassic World and at the beginning of The Red Queen, we learn that he went back to France. I originally intented to make him one of the main characters of a spin-off set in France (and after the events depicted in The Hegemony of Biosyn) and we would have saw him again only then (wishing to leave dinosaurs behind him, he took a zookeeper position in some zoo in Ile de France, where he works with birds of prey. But a crisis in another part of the country force another of the protagonists (a gendarme) to recruit him due to his experience in InGen's IBRIS program). Thus, the role he's having in Trevorrow's Dominion is given to other characters in The Hegemony of Biosyn.
- Some characters have a different fate.
- A longer story, sometimes similar to that of a political thriller.
- Additional characters and subplots. A hypothetical casting for the original characters is available on the Archive of Our Own page linked above.
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Without further ado, let's dive in the story.
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Prologue

The prologue is set in mid-2022, in a village of the Austrian Alps, near the Italian border. On the village's outskirts, a man is awakened in the middle of the night by the panicked bleating of his goats. After checking them, he is attacked and killed by a mysterious small predator while one of the goats, a black billy, runs away. Nothing is seen of the predator during that sequence but the two-toed tracks it leaves in the ground.

ACT I: The chessboard and the pawns

Drive-in
After the prologue in Austria, we move to North America and more precisely an Oregon wood where an Acrocanthosaurus (a species introduced in TRQ) is being chased by a Fish and Wildlife Service helicopter. It's basically the drive-in scene from Trevorrow's version except that Roberta is replaced by the Acrocanthosaurus.
News Montage
Soon, the drive-in incident is in the news and we have a news montage with the world situation three years after the Lockwood estate incident. We learn that:
- De-extinction technology is mastered by various organizations across the globe.
- Incidents involving loose de-extinct animals occur from time to time. The controversial Grey Guard, an UN-backed paramilitary organization based in the Five Deaths, has been solicited by various nations to help their authorities deal with those incidents. The USA are however among the nations who refuse to let them intervene on their soil and instead, the US government use the CIA's Dangerous Species Division (which recruited several former InGen employees like Doctor Kajal Dua).
- Mantah Corp fell during those three years while Grendel was considerably weakened after some deadly incidents in Cameroon and southern India (one of their consequence is the outbreak of a dinosaur-related encephalitis in Cameroon, quite similar to one which occurred in Costa Rica in the late 2010s), leaving Biosyn as the number one in the field of genetic engineering.
- All of its biggest rivals now out of the equation, Biosyn has a hegemony and is thriving more than ever despite heavy criticism by some people who bring out the corporation's past controversies (like a certain rabies vaccine test in Chile). In a conference scene, Zoe Murdoch, Biosyn's vice president presents their newest creations, which includes variants from species already introduced in the series (She compares InGen's tyrannosaur, original trilogy's Raptor, Triceratops, Compsognathus and Quetzalcoatlus to Biosyn's. The raptor is feathered, the rex and trike are more in line with modern scientific depictions, the Compy is feathered and docile enough to be sold as a pet, while the quetzal is more pleasant looking than InGen's flying abominations which massacred people during the Fall of Jurassic World). The report also precise that Biosyn created tailored and more docile dinosaurs and use the example of the pack of featherless raptors they made foloaned to motion picture company Europacorp for one of their action films, showing footage of featherless and boxy-headed raptors jumping from roof to roof during a film shooting, where they were handled as easily as trained big cats or even dogs (This use is possible partly because de-extinct creatures have less rights than modern animals).
- Biosyn is also contracted by several governments, including the US, to capture the loose dinosaurs. To their sanctuary and research facility in the Dolomites valley of Auronzo, they sent some of the escapees from Lockwood's estate and their offspring, the animals which escaped Grendel's facilities in Cameroon and India (A group of Nasutoceratops and a 2010's style Spinosaurus are seen during that part of the report), and others... The close ties between Biosyn and the US government are also mentioned (in addition to providing help to the FWS agents, Biosyn has also several important contracts with the government and some people within the Agriculture department and the Food and Drug Administration are former Biosyn employees).
- However, there are some rumours that the Cameroon and Indian incidents were actually triggered by Biosyn and incriminating proofs were brought before the US congress but the investigation commission, led by Senator Christine West, rejected them.
San Francisco
Shortly after this testimony, Guillaume Vuillier, the World De-extinction Monitoring Centre's general director, is seen in the agency's headquarters in San Francisco. Since the US government doesn't seem to be willing to act against Biosyn, he's afraid that the WDMC and its allies have to deal with Biosyn's case alone. After some incidents in the Alps along the border between Italy and Austria involving creatures they presume to be raptors due to the nature of the tracks found, the UN and the Italian and Austrian governments have imposed an inspection on Biosyn's Sanctuary in Auronzo Valley. Vuillier and others suspect that the attacks' perpetrators indeed came from the Sanctuary.
The Inspection
Vuillier travels to Venice, where he meets with Dougal Benett, one of his European field agents, and the rest of the inspection group, which includes Mario Viscontini, head of the AISI (Italy's internal intelligence agency), and Giovanni Pazzi, Minister of the Interior. The inspection group then heads to its rendez-vous point with Biosyn, meets Murdoch and Ramsay (both usually work at Biosyn's HQ in Cupertino, California), and then embark on a Biosyn helicopter which takes them to the Dolomites and the Citadel, Biosyn's research facility (Though it's not as pretty as the building from Trevorrow's vision and a little bit more austere-looking, it's still impressive) which overlooks the Sanctuary.
The group inspect the facility, with head of security Lucrezia Pellegrino explaining how the dinosaurs can't leave the valley (through control chips and invisible fence systems), and even get to meet Dodgson, who made sure to hide anything controversial and have everything look in order. Thus, the inspection group doesn't find anything suspicious and returns to Venice. But the WDMC employees and Viscontini weren't fooled by Biosyn's "Everyone is beautiful. Everyone is nice" presentation, Vuillier points out the Sanctuary's flaws (too small to let a huge number of animals roam it freely, climate is not ideal enough for dinosaurs...) and are aware that controversial, if not illegal research must be conducted in the Citadel's secret wings (as it's way more isolated and hard to access than Cupertino's HQ).
Dodgson is aware of their distrust and both he and Vuillier start moving their pawns on the chessboard.
The DSD
In the CIA's DSD headquarters in San Francisco, the division's leader Isaac Gibbon (and perhaps senator West. I'm not yet sure if I include her in this scene or not. She could be visiting the division about funding matters or something like this) attends a presentation made by one of his agents, Jessica Bigelow. The presentation's topic is Claire Dearing and after summarizing her life (with a few saucy anecdotes and pictures from Claire's youth and early years at JW), Bigelow shows how the fallen park director fascinate some people, especially online, and how she managed to put a part of the public opinion on her side in the recent years after being treated like a pariah in the couple of years that followed the fall of Isla Nublar (Being positively depicted in the DPG documentary Franklin Webb made back in 2019; occasionally making vlogs; appearing on Stephen Colbert's show without her mask and answering his questions with honesty and self-derision...). The CIA agents say that she's the WDMC's most surprising and promising element alongside her fiancé Owen Grady. Both are nicknamed Vuillier's Wolves by them as they, especially Claire, are tend to be ruthless with those who oppose them, especially in unofficial and borderline illegal missions Vuillier give them, consisting in spying and/or sabotaging nefarious de-extinction related organizations. Bigelow also mention that it's highly probable she's also The Ghost of Nublar, a mysterious figure who challenged the Indominus during the Invasion of Burroughs, when Isla Nublar fell.
The ranch
One night, somewhere in the western US (could be Nevada like in Trevorrow's version), a trio of people is seen breaking out in a ranch-like facility. Once they're in its heart, the group split up, with one of its members heading towards another building. The two others, revealed to be Zia Rodriguez and Franklin Webb from the Dinosaur Protection Group (which is led by Zia, as the organisation's founder resigned at the end of TRQ) enters a warehouse which contains rows of cages with baby ceratopsians. While Zia and Franklin film the evidences of the animals' mistreatment, we return to their mysterious companion, whose face is concealed by a balaclava. However, an attentive viewer can recognize her green eyes and her prosthetic hand: It's Claire, who's on an unofficial mission for the WDMC. After avoiding or neutralizing some guards, she breaks out in the facility's offices. There, she discovers documents which might contain indicate a connexion between the illegal dinosaur exploitation and Biosyn (who could be selling embryos, eggs or juveniles to those exploiters before denouncing or sabotaging them years later, being paid by the government for capturing the dinosaurs and finally sending them to their Sanctuary). After this infiltration segment, ensues an action scene where our protagonists have to escape the facility aboard a vehicle stolen by Claire. During this scene, she seriously injures or even kill one guard, something she doesn't care much about at the moment but which will have some consequences.
The following morning, Claire phones Peggy Zubiri (Guillaume Vuillier's assistant, who sometimes act as a "Mission control" person for Claire and her colleagues) to tell her that she has the evidences they were looking for. The former director of Jurassic World then has a discussion with the two DPG members in which Zia laments that despite all her organization's actions, it seems that things aren't evolving in the good direction for de-extinct animals and that the morale within the DPG is at its lowest. They then departs for San Francisco, where Claire has to give Peggy the documents she found before returning to her and Owen's cabin.
The wranglers and the thieves
We then cut to Owen, who's in the middle of a WDMC-US FWS joint operation somewhere in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where they have to capture some dinosaurs (candidates could be Dryosauruses or juvenile Gallimimuses and Hadrosaurs, as wrangling adults on horseback is quite unrealistic to be honest). However, as they are leading the captured dinosaur(s) back to their base camp, our group has an encounter with Rainn Delacourt and his men. It plays out like in the extended version of Trevorrow's film, with Owen and his companions being forced to give the animal(s) to Rainn. However, just as Rainn's team are taking the dinosaur(s) away, Owen tells one of the FWS agents that this situation is only temporary, as Rainn will soon get a surprise...
Maisie
In Orick, Maisie Lockwood exits the estate to go biking in the area. A scene where she encounters some dinosaurs like in the film might be included here. O'Hara (the old lady who participate to her kidnapping in Trevorrow's film) is seen watching her. She returns to the manor just before the evening. The place is not as vibrant as before (it's almost a ghost manor. As it's the autumn, the place would even look ominous), with only a handful of employees remaining, including Theo Lomas, the man who saved her from the Indoraptor three years ago and who now works as the estate's guard. Officially, Henry Wu became Maisie's foster father when Benjamin died but the geneticist, who was assimilated by Biosyn when it bought InGen at the end of TRQ, now lives in the Dolomites facility and his visits to Orick are rare. Thus, Theo became Maisie's true foster father in addition to being the closest thing to a friend for her. He expresses his worries about her long excursions outside but as she's started to become a rebellious teenager, things are tense.
Vuillier's interview
We cut to an interview of Guillaume Vuillier on the French television set just a few days after the Dolomites Inspection. At first, the journalist ask questions about the inspection of Biosyn's complex and the incidents in the Alps before addressing the rumour which says that the masked individual who recently attacked illegal dinosaur breeders might be a WDMC agent, Claire Dearing to be precise (as the colleagues of the deceased guard(s) claimed the attacker was a woman with a prosthetic arm). The journalist brings out another case where Claire made veiled threats to a suspect while on an official mission (with said suspect declaring she almost acted like a Gestapo member or something like this), and as Claire is Vuillier's subordinate, the journalist ask if he intent to sanction her. Annoyed, Vuillier retorts that she acted on legitimate defence and that those people had the choice to cooperate but didn't. Having noticed strange in the journalist's attitude, he suspect that the French government (Due to certain events in TRQ I won't name to not spoil you, the latter has Vuillier and the couple in their radar) paid them and tried to discredit him through that topic. The interview makes some buzz, enough to attract the attention of Odegaard, Vuillier's boss and the leader of the UN environment programme (the character is mentioned but never seen).
Sightings map
We get several little family scenes with Claire, Owen and Sigurd, their four-year old son. One of those scenes shows Owen briefly looking at a map he pinned in their office, depicting California and the neighbouring states. On it, he put Blue's sightings. The last of those was in Yosemite area, where the Raptor Whisperer searched the Achillobator earlier in the autumn but to no avail.
In the meantime, we learn that Rainn was arrested after the authorities followed the tracking chip Owen put in the animal the poacher stole. With the animal seized by the FWS and him heavily compromised on a judicial standpoint, Rainn is raging.
Nyamu
Just after his return to San Francisco, Vuillier receives a video call from Lester Nyamu, a friend and colleague from the UN environment programme's HQ in Nairobi. After that interview in the French media, Nyamu tells Vuillier that Odegaard fears the bad publicity Claire might give to the WDMC and wants to send him to the US at the end of the winter and have him follow Claire in her missions, acting as an inspector. His inspection will decide if they can keep Claire as a field agent or not.
While on an official field mission, Claire is contacted by Vuillier, who tells her about the current controversy. He announces he is forced to send her back home and have her do teleworking and not participate to any field mission, official or not, until further notice.
Resonating Chamber
Stuck at home, Claire takes interest in raptors' behaviour and reads not only her fiancé's IBRIS stuff but also whatever the WDMC has on the topic, including reports from the scientists stationed in the Five Deaths and the testimonies and notes of Alan Grant and Billy Brennan. After watching a video where a group of WDMC scientists and grey guards stops a raptor attack on Sorna by using a resonating chamber identical to the one Brennan made back in 2001, she remembers Owen commissioned a similar one for Achillobators and finds it. She then start learning to use it.
The Palaeontologist
As Auronzo Valley has received its first snow falls, we are introduced to Biosyn Sanctuary's resident palaeontologist, the Scotsman Rod Drummond. Dodgson asked him to act as a tour guide for two teenage girls, the daughters of an investor with which he is negotiating, but they are not interested in the slightest about what's he is saying and are on their phones even though there's dinosaurs outside (a group of Stygimoloch is seen foraging in the snow). Short-tempered (the character is a bit like the lovechild of Gordon Ramsay and Westworld's Lee Sizemore), Drummond grab one of the phones and smash it against the nearest wall. The girls protest but Drummond gives a long rant in which he almost reveal the Sanctuary's true purpose, something he's really uncomfortable with. When they return, Dodgson ask the girls if they're okay (he has a soft spot for children) and yells at Rod but the palaeontologist ignores him and storms off to his office. Some minutes later, he receives the visit from the girls' father, Nathan Quinn. The investor apologies for his daughters' behaviours and tell Rod that he accepted Dodgson's offer in exchange of a seat in the board of directors.
Bailed out
Rainn is bailed out by a mysterious ally and once free, he plans his vengeance upon Owen. He receives a phone call from an unknown woman and first presumes it's her who bailed him out but it isn't the case. She tells him that she has a mission for him, consisting in capturing a particular dinosaur, a blue Achillobator. Having been told about the relationship Owen had with this animal, Rainn accept the mission, claiming he'll succeed where other poachers failed.
Achillobators
There is a time jump to the middle of the winter, just after the New Year. Claire and Owen recently celebrated the 10th anniversary of their meeting and the Raptor Whisperer is in their office, once again studying Blue's moves on the map, trying to discern a pattern or a trajectory. He ends up realizing that she's heading right towards the area where they live. As if to confirm his guess, there is a shot which shows an Achillobator in the snowy woods.
A few days later, Sigurd, Claire's and Owen's son, is playing in the snow when a young Achillobator with blue feathers steps out of the nearby woods. It's about to pounce on the child when its mother, none other than Blue, calls it back, recognizing the boy from the Orick incident (she nearly devoured him during it but changed her mind at the last second when she recognized Owen's smell on him). Owen rushes to grab his son and Blue stands before her young. Claire steps out of the cabin and while walking towards her fiancé and their child, she uses the resonating chamber. At first, it seems to calm Blue but the raptor then decides to retreat into the woods with her young. The family go back inside the cabin and the couple have a talk about what just happened and debate about what they should do with the two Achillobators as they can't be left in the wild, both for their own safety and that of the local animals and people. One of them think about telling the Fish and Wildlife Service but the other retorts that the FWS is likely to send Blue and her young in their complex in Pennsylvania, where the captured de-extinct animals are usually given to Biosyn and flown to Europe, and that they're not sure if Auronzo Valley's sanctuary is truly safe for them. An alternative is suggested, consisting in capturing them without telling anyone but a few trusted people and then bringing them to the local Wildlife Park Owen worked for between JW's fall and the 2019 incidents. This would only be a temporary solution (if Blue kills locals, they're afraid that the park will be targeted) while Claire would negotiate with Vuillier and one of her friends, Lord Francis Clayton, a British aristocrat who owns one of England's largest zoos and wanted to buy Blue during the 2019 auction InGen held at Lockwood estate (a legal one, unlike the one organized by Mills at the same moment). The couple indeed thinks that the two raptors will be safer in the United Kingdom than in the US, where Biosyn's influence is much stronger. During that scene, Owen also gives a name to Blue's young: Victoria, after Victoria Beckham (in TRQ, it's revealed that he originally wanted to name the raptor squad after the Spice Girls). (Thus, bye bye Beta)
The couple starts planning and organizing the capture operation, even asking the help of Zia as they need a veterinarian, but the news of two hunters mysteriously disappearing in the area reminds them of the situation's urgency. And hearing about this, Rainn Delacourt soon arrives in the area.
Wu's call
Wu calls Maisie, telling her he has something important to show her and he invites her and Theo to the Dolomites. As it's about her mother Charlotte, Maisie accepts.
Tragedy in the Sierra Nevada
Zia, Franklin and one or two other DPG members, along with a couple of people from the before mentioned wildlife park and one of the FWS agent from the wrangling scene, arrive at Owen's cabin, ready to offer their help in Blue's and Victoria's capture. The couple and their allies set off.
But Rainn and his men finds the raptors first and lure Victoria into a trap. Blue tries to free her and kills all those standing in her way but Rainn mortally wounds her and leaves with Victoria before Owen can stop him. During the skirmish, one of the DPG members and the FWS agent are also wounded and Claire and Franklin are forced to drive them to the nearest clinic while Owen, Zia and the others search for Blue. When they find her, they realize she's in agony and Zia tells Owen that this time, she can't save the Achillobator. With great difficulty, Owen takes the decision of putting an end to Blue's suffering. She is buried in a secret location deep in the woods and just before he, Zia and their colleagues departs, Franklin tells Claire that this failed mission was the final straw and that he'll leave the DPG and consider a job offer he recently received, arguing that when amateurs try to make things right, innocents gets hurt and that they should let those kind of issues to competent authorities.
Claire then informs Vuillier about the incident.
Leaving Orick
O'Hara, the Biosyn employee dispatched at Orick, picks up Maisie and Theo at the manor and they leave the estate.
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End of Act I.
See you tomorrow for Act II.

JUST HAVING ABIT OF A RANT!
I just brought this slight crop top that I absolutely fucking love! But I hate the fact that I couldn't wear it to most straight bars without any drama.
I would get stares and comments at standard pubs and bars. I literally have had guys make snide remarks for wearing a "fancy" sweater" at a local pub. Even had a coked-up guy try to intimidate me because I was singing and dancing along to a Brittany song a-bit too much. It's also unnerving to see how they stare at my effeminate lesbian friend.
At fancy venues, the dress-code for guys is so strict. They wouldn't dare let me in, even if I were wearing a regular t-shirt.
I couldn't even catch public transport without attracting to attention of some junkie or a group of drunk bros (I live pretty far away from the progressive part of my city). I'd have to Uber it in

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Artificial Dumbness
Prologue
Nadia Khan opened her eyes slowly, trying to make sense of the world around her. She had a pounding headache and felt fuzzy and disoriented, as if she were in a dream.
She lay on the cold, hard wooden floor, the thin blanket barely providing any warmth. The room was dark and uninviting, with only the faint light from outside coming in through the window. She heard the powerful roar of the ocean crashing against the boat and the creaking of the ropes swaying in the salty breeze.
She could feel the hairs on her arm standing up as she surveyed the area. There were several other people in the room, their bodies still and silent in their deep sleep. They were dressed in ragged clothes and had chains around their ankles. Nadia felt a cold metal on her own leg and realized she was also shackled to the floor.
She felt a surge of panic and confusion. Where was she? How did she get here? What was going on?
She tried to remember what had happened before she woke up. A blank space in her memory. She couldn't recall anything.
She reached for her headset, hoping to find some clue or explanation. But there was nothing on her head. No headset, no wires, no electrodes. Nothing.
She felt a sudden chill as a realization hit her. She wasn't wearing her VR suit, either. She was wearing a simple dress that looked like it belonged to another century.
She glanced back at the window. Outside, there was a clear blue sky and a vast ocean. The sun glinted off the distant island, its towering mountains and dense forests silhouetted against the sky.
She noticed something else—a small screen floated in the air next to her. As she looked, it had text and numbers. A game status screen? She wondered while squinting her eyes to read it.
Name: Nadia Khan
Class: Stowaway
Level: 50
HP: 100/100
MP: 50/50
XP: 0/10000
Skills: Stealth, Lock-picking, Dagger Mastery...
Quests: Escape from the Pirate Ship (0/1)
She was in a game world.
But how? And why?
She felt a surge of disbelief and fear.
This was impossible.
This was insane…
Chapter 1
The brave remote shores of the beach next to peaks of Mount Silwan had braved more than they showed on their brow. A local fisher, who most people around him considered as polite as a perched peacock, noticed a foundation stone with a marking that made him think of the taste of his wife’s cooking when she was not in a particularly pleasant mood.
The foundation stone was textured and rough to the touch, and from the perspective of a sparrow soaring high, it seemed of colors ranging from a vibrant crimson to a bottle-green with a hint of blueberry blue.
There was something unique about it—to the fisher, it looked like a hedgehog tumbling around, attempting to imitate a rolling tumbleweed in the Hami desert.
On one fine day, a day which did not seem at all different from any other summer day, the village, the beach, and the entire mount Silwan were wiped out completely.
It was all because of a mistake or rather a series of mistakes which occurred even though they had the minimal probability of occurrence—a probability which was lower than that of a group of Monkeys writing a book about a group of monkeys writing a sonata in the style of Shakespeare.
This story is about that mistake which has no relation to the bad cooking or the fisher, but is linked intrinsically to that Foundation Stone and its weird origin.
It all started with a President’s desire to make an AI to control the world.
Zhavi Mastermind felt the cold Himalayan air cut through him as he gritted his teeth and stayed determined. The task he came here for was worth all the effort and care he showed it. Being a software architect working for a start-up focused on mapping the universe, Zhavi had made himself enough money to pay for his travels and more. He could probably afford hired help. But then knowledge was precious, especially information which could lead to unlimited success or even world domination or more. Besides, he needed to have a tiny footprint. The more people with him, the easier it would have been for anyone to spot his operation. And then someone could interfere. Besides, he wouldn’t want even his hired help to know details about his plan. There was too much at stake here. So, he followed the only option for him that seemed right—he had to work under the radar.
His trip so far had been short and mostly sweet. As he had traveled all the way here, there had been a few hiccups here and there, but overall, it had been event-free. Most people recognized him as a tourist, so it made him easy to be ignored.
The night before had been tiring, as he had set up camp here. To a casual visitor, it would appear that Zhavi had set up his base simply because it seemed the right place. He had planned every step of the way. This was the place to be. It was around 30 feet from the target, which made it easy for him to set up a personal area network which had a range of up to 33 feet.
He targeted the place where a power surge had been detected and ignored. As he sat down waiting, he recalled how he had discovered it truly by chance. He had been working with data from a reconfigurable radio telescope and found a powerful signal—a signal which could only have been signifying intelligent life. As he analyzed, he found out that the source was not from any other place but a place in the Himalayan region in Northern Pakistan some distance from the base camp of one of the most formidable peaks, “Nanga Parbat.”
The encryption that he had cracked had been eye-shattering. Initially expecting it to be some boring secret communication by a government, it had shocked him to see the communication in a language beyond anything that existed on the planet. A higher dimensional language, so to speak, with words with meanings which were impossible to decipher for mere humans. Each word lay in the cross section of concepts. As Zhavi explored, he used brute force decryption with the help of resources from a global public super-computing facility to discover the meanings. And what he found was truly astounding. There were historical, cultural, and geographical references in the signals. It was impossible to understand them without taking notes on each of them. The problem, however, was that none of them were from Earth and that’s when he realized he had to get here.
The data scientists ignored the signal as an outlier even though it had been detected once. As Zhavi dug deeper, he found another incident over two decades back.
Zhavi had been compiling the data for the last three years now. And he knew now was the time for it to activate again. The signal’s source had been camouflaged to prevent human interference, except during this time.
What he had learned from the signal was too complex to be deciphered easily. But he knew it was enough to conquer the world and more.
He took a long breath inside. The freezing cold mountain air made him feel alive. He felt a gush of warmness as adrenaline poured inside him. The icy wind stung part of his exposed areas like mosquitoes made up of ice crystals.
As he moved outside the tent, snow as soft as cotton fell slowly from the sky. Zhavi was fully alert now. Everything was at stake. If he missed now, he would probably never have another chance. In the next twenty-five years, when the signal repeated, who knew if he could make it? That would not be the worst thing that could happen. The worst would probably be if someone else would find out and if he could find it, what would stop anyone else from doing the same? And the probability of that someone being a powerful government agency such as from the US was high.
Everything seemed just right. He had discovered the signal occurred in a particular alignment of the Earth with a certain very active star system in the Milky way.
If he could find it, someone else could find it too. So, it was now or never.
Zhavi authenticated and opened the shiny black box. Inside, lights were turning off and on as he flipped the switches. Screens around him lit as his custom designed distributed operating system booted up and synched.
A soft voice said, “Your secure Personal area network is now operational.”
“Turn on the security system.”
“Security system turned on. Cameras operational. Lasers are operational and looking for targets.”
Zhavi was a pacifist. He would always tell himself he never believed in violence. But he just hated to be disturbed. He was, however, also a realist. He realized the need for sacrifices for some causes. And that sometimes extreme measures need to be taken to attain success. If there was any such day in his life where he should never be disturbed, it was today.
As he listened to the whirring lasers and the automated drones guarding his position and looking for intruders, he focused his cameras on the approximate location where he thought the item should appear and waited. Everything seemed to be fine.
A sudden, blinding flash of light caused Zhavi to flinch in surprise. He took a step back, his eyes widening in wonder as he tried to grasp the magnificence of the object in front of him.
“Dr. GB, Dr. GB, sir, you need to see this. You have a letter.”
“I have a what?”
“A letter, sir.”
“How is it possible? You know, girl, your brain gone mad. We don’t even have an address. How can somebody send us a letter in the middle of nowhere? It’s the Congo river, not some small lake, Mary.”
“Sir, I assure you it’s for you. I just found it on the porch outside.”
It was a hot day, like many other days in Congo, as Dr. GB Smith sat on his reclining chair in one corner of the makeshift hut that he called his lab. He lazily eyed the plump woman standing near the door, her bright clothing standing out in the shadows.
“Why are you standing over there?”
“Sir, you didn’t let me come in.”
“It’s just a lab.”
“Sir, the last time I tried coming in, that fish thing you have in there. It shocked me.”
“Aha, the eel. You should be proud, Mary. You should tell your grandchildren an eel struck you.”
“Sir, I doubt I’ll have any children or even get married if I keep working for you.”
“It’s not that dangerous, Mary. Be brave.”
“Sir, it’s not about just the place being dangerous. Of course, there are no safety procedures or anything. The real problem is that you don’t pay me. It’s not like you paid me some months of salary and then got late with just one. You haven’t paid me anything. So, if I don’t die after being bitten by one of these things that you keep here in this lab, I think I’ll probably die of starvation. To let you in on a little secret, I am probably only surviving because I am living with my parents.”
“Too much information. TMI, Mary,” said GB. As he eyed her, Mary stood still, looking unconvinced by Dr. GB’s invitation or even his attempts at humor, which she probably considered at least distasteful. Her one hand was on the door, with the other holding something with just one foot inside the lab.
GB scratched his white beard, trying to keep up with his planned expression of an air of disinterest, and looked into her eyes. “So? Aren’t you going to give it to me?”
The girl first looked on both sides and then ran towards him. Before he could say anything, the letter was flying on top of him as he masterfully apprehended it on its way to the side.
He said, “So we are all set, right? You are telling me you are fine. Not starving and still alive. Every day, this is just what every animal in the river can wish for.” He looked up only to find her running away towards the door.
GB sighed. As much as he didn’t want to show it, he was worried. This was the third one this year, and he was running out of candidates. Mary had tolerated him for a period far longer than the previous ones.
As he looked at the letter, he felt the texture of the wax seal beneath his fingertips. His eyes opened wide.
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Hey all
I’m gonna be staying near karon beach and I’ve been looking at weed shops around Karon Beach. Found a few that look awesome (judging by Google reviews and photos of the store) but curious to hear recommendations from locals or from people who have been there
Looking for some in Karon beach and happy to travel further away for a really good shop. After decent pricing and good strains and if they’ve got a cool area to chill and smoke that’s a nice bonus. Especially curious about any shops that sell vape cartridges (though not sure if they’re used over there).
Also are cigars easy to find over there (like a regular tobacco cigar)?
Edit: please no offers to hook me up in the DMs. I’m going to a country where it’s legal-ish. It’s always been my dream to walk into a shop and pick out different strains to try. That’s the experience I’m after. Messaging a stranger on the internet to arrange a meeting in alleyway is an experience I am already very familiar with. Also not looking to do anything illegal on my vacation. Just enjoy some good weed and good food on a beautiful island. Worrying about getting arrested is not part of my vacation plans

Hello beautiful people of Reddit,
I will try to keep it short and sweet, I am based in Tilburg, the Netherlands (Prefferred Airports: Eindhoven, Amsterdam Schiphol & Brussels International). Aged 26, multicultural bi-sexual guy with extreme interest for cultures, languages and history. I love a bit of a laugh and enjoy learning local insights about places. (example: if I visit Paris, I wouldn't want to see the Eiffel Tower but would rather want to see a torn down shitty street which has little restaurants and small shops selling antiques).
I would like to have a little change of environment from working 9 to 5 and would like to plan and book a trip, leaving on Friday and returning on Sunday type of thing.
I have a budget of max. 500 Euros (535 USD) to spend including accommodation and flight, the rest I will keep to a minimum. I have three cities in mind, 1. Lisbon, 2. Copenhagen and lastly 3. Belgrade. Which one do you guys think is worth the effort and spending the most?
I haven’t been to any of the cities in question but have quite a good history of travelling in Europe.
PS: I speak English & German fluently but thats it, don’t know any other languages other than my native Turkish/Russian.
I am into urban photography and love finding hidden spots in cities i.e. abandoned places etc.
Any tips and leads would be very much appreciated!
Sending love from the cheeseland.