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2023.06.05 01:21 Delairious95 Dogmatika Ritual/First Locals

Dogmatika Ritual/First Locals
Hi Everyone, Hope everyone is well.
I've been playing occasionally with a few friends for the past year or so. One of them has almost convinced me to try locals for the first time ever.
Any general help and advice regarding locals or even playing Yu-Gi-Oh and this deck is appreciated, but I was mainly seeking help regarding the following:
  1. I have put in all the cards I have considered/want to play, hence why there are so many. Help me cut down the deck, please (also make it less bricky)
  2. Are there any cards I should consider adding in?
  3. Which cards from this deck and side should I play going first and which going second?
  4. Is there anywhere else I can get help on similar questions in the future?
MAIN DECK:
The Iris Swordsoul x1
Dogmatika Fleurdelis, the Knighted x1
Dogmatika Maximus x2
Dogmatika Ecclesia, the Virtuous x3
Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring x3
Diviner of the Herald x3
Knightmare Corruptor Iblee x3
Droll & Lock Bird x3
Magicians' Souls x2
Dogmatika Alba Zoa x2
White Relic of Dogmatika x2
Nadir Servant x3
Pre-Preparation of Rites x2
Harpie's Feather Duster x1
Triple Tactics Talent x3
Dark Ruler No More x3
Preparation of Rites x1
Dogmatikalamity x2
Dogmatikamacabre x2
Called by the Grave x1
Crossout Designator x3
Dogmatikamatrix x3
Infinite Impermanence x3
Dogmatika Punishment x1
EXTRA DECK:
Quintet Magician x1
Granguignol the Dusk Dragon x1
Titaniklad the Ash Dragon x1
Garura, Wings of Resonant Life x1
Elder Entity N'tss x2
Despian Luluwalilith x1
PSY-Framelord Omega x1
Deep Sea Prima Donna x1
Golden Cloud Beast - Malong x1
Herald of the Arc Light x2
Mereologic Aggregator x1
Salamangreat Almiraj x1
Relinquished Anima x1
SIDE DECK:
Gameciel, the Sea Turtle Kaiju x3
Ultimate Slayer x3
Cosmic Cyclone x2
Secret Village of the Spellcasters x3
Evenly Matched x3
Dogmatika Punishment x1
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2023.06.05 00:43 Delairious95 Dogmatika Ritual/First Locals

Hi Everyone, Hope everyone is well.
I've been playing occasionally with a few friends for the past year or so. One of them has almost convinced me to try locals for the first time ever.
Any general help and advice regarding locals or even playing Yu-Gi-Oh and this deck is appreciated, but I was mainly seeking help regarding the following:
  1. I have put in all the cards I have considered/want to play, hence why there are so many. Help me cut down the deck, please (also make it less bricky)
  2. Are there any cards I should consider adding in?
  3. Which cards from this deck and side should I play going first and which going second?
  4. Is there anywhere else I can get help on similar questions in the future?
MAIN DECK:
The Iris Swordsoul x1
Dogmatika Fleurdelis, the Knighted x1
Dogmatika Maximus x2
Dogmatika Ecclesia, the Virtuous x3
Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring x3
Diviner of the Herald x3
Knightmare Corruptor Iblee x3
Droll & Lock Bird x3
Magicians' Souls x2
Dogmatika Alba Zoa x2
White Relic of Dogmatika x2
Nadir Servant x3
Pre-Preparation of Rites x2
Harpie's Feather Duster x1
Triple Tactics Talent x3
Dark Ruler No More x3
Preparation of Rites x1
Dogmatikalamity x2
Dogmatikamacabre x2
Called by the Grave x1
Crossout Designator x3
Dogmatikamatrix x3
Infinite Impermanence x3
Dogmatika Punishment x1
EXTRA DECK:
Quintet Magician x1
Granguignol the Dusk Dragon x1
Titaniklad the Ash Dragon x1
Garura, Wings of Resonant Life x1
Elder Entity N'tss x2
Despian Luluwalilith x1
PSY-Framelord Omega x1
Deep Sea Prima Donna x1
Golden Cloud Beast - Malong x1
Herald of the Arc Light x2
Mereologic Aggregator x1
Salamangreat Almiraj x1
Relinquished Anima x1
SIDE DECK:
Gameciel, the Sea Turtle Kaiju x3
Ultimate Slayer x3
Cosmic Cyclone x2
Secret Village of the Spellcasters x3
Evenly Matched x3
Dogmatika Punishment x1
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2023.06.05 00:33 SlightlyAskewCat Let's Rework Bard for the Jungle and Unleash His Untapped Potential!

Hey fellow summoners!
I wanted to shed light on an important matter concerning our beloved champion, Bard, in League of Legends. Many of us Bard enthusiasts have long yearned to witness our favorite cosmic caretaker conquer the jungle, just like Rell was given the chance to flourish in this versatile role. However, it appears that Bard has been overlooked, and it's high time we rectify this situation.
Let's take a moment to consider a glaring fact: Bard's ban rate stands at a mere 0.2%. This strikingly low figure unequivocally showcases that Bard has never posed a substantial threat in the game for quite some time. Despite his unique skill set and adaptability, he has remained relegated to the support role, failing to receive the recognition he truly deserves.
What's even more perplexing is that Rell, a metallic horse, was granted the opportunity to venture into the jungle, while Bard, a cosmic being with infinite potential for creative jungle playstyles, has been left unexplored. It's time we break these shackles and unlock Bard's untapped potential in the jungle!
To address this issue, I've taken the initiative of creating a petition, urging Riot Games to rework Bard, reshaping his abilities and playstyle to make him a formidable jungle champion. By signing this petition, we can demonstrate to Riot Games the overwhelming demand within the League of Legends community for Bard to spread his wings and thrive in the jungle.
Join me in supporting this cause by signing the petition https://chng.it/nDLzFQLwrD. Let's make our voices resound and encourage Riot Games to delve into the uncharted possibilities of Bard's jungle potential. Together, we can bring about a positive change that elevates the gameplay experience for all Bard enthusiasts.
Remember, Bard's negligible ban rate underscores his lack of perceived threat, but it's time we transform this narrative and empower him to become a force to be reckoned with in the jungle. Let's unite and show Riot Games the unwavering desire we have to witness Bard's cosmic magic unfold in new territories. #JungleBard
Thank you for your unwavering support, and let's embark on this extraordinary cosmic journey together!
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2023.06.04 22:16 1kgsweetalmonds Theory about gods and eggs

So I had this idea when reading about the first and second descender, both came from eggs and so do dragons (probably). So what if all descenders + vishaps are based on egg laying creatures. In this theory I will try to assign a animal to them.
  1. Vishaps Pretty easy, lizards. They are dragons after all.
  2. The first descender This was a bit harder, but going on the Venti-Istaroth connection I would say birds. This is because Venti has dove like wings. Also fun fact some birds do in fact hunt lizards.
  3. The second descender All after this was kinda hard to put down. There are many theories to what the second descender is, but for this theory I will go with the abyss theory. For the second descender I will go with insects. Insects are a prey to birds, but can also very easily bounce back. If you do not kill all the bugs they will only come back. They destroy a lot of things and hard to get rid of. Just like the abyss.
  4. The third descender Honestly, I have no idea so I guess platypus. Counts as a mammal but lays eggs.
  5. The traveler / the fourth descender My guess is a fish. This may seem weird but I have a explanation. According to Christian mythology outside the firmament lies the primal ocean. Now travelers are stars. If you want to push the symbolism a little you can say that the travelers are like fishes traveling through the cosmic ocean looking like stars to those who witness.
(Constructive criticism is welcome)
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2023.06.04 16:55 Sttarrk [Store] Dead Reckoning/Diretide/TI8/TI9/TI10/Nemestice/Aghanim's Immortals & Collector's Cache

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The Rat King (Chen) 5$ 10 -----
Pattern of the Silken Queen (Broodmother) 5$ 12 -----
Shackles of the Enduring Conscript (Axe) 6$ 9 -----
Fires of the Volcanic Guard (Ember Spirit) 8$ 11 -----
Loaded Prospects (Brewmaster) 10$ 12 -----
Ire of the Molten Rebirth (Phoenix) 10$ 8 -----
Pitmouse Fraternity (Meepo) 10$ 6 -----
Raiments of the Obsidian Force (Underlord - Rare) 20$ 9 -----
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Insights of the Sapphire Shroud (Dark Seer) 4$ 9 -----
Pillar of the Fractured Citadel (Spirit Breaker) 5$ 7 -----
Primer of the Sapper's Guile (Techies) 6$ 3 -----
Trail of the Sanguine Spectrum (Bloodseeker) 8$ 4 -----
Molokau Stalker (Venomancer) 10$ 10 -----
Raptures of the Abyssal Kin (Queen of Pain) 10$ 4 -----
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The Murid Divine (Necrophos) 15$ 7 -----
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Prized Acquisitions (Batrider) 5$ 6 -----
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Verdant Predator (Venomancer) 7$ 2 -----
Sight of the Kha-Ren Faithful (Drow Ranger) 12$ 4 -----
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Clearcut Cavalier (Timbersaw) 5$ 17 -----
Carousal of the Mystic Masquerade (Rubick) 5$ 20 -----
The King Of Thieves (Keeper of the Light) 5$ 16 -----
Blaze of Oblivion (Phoenix) 5$ 25 -----
Blacksail Cannoneer (Sniper) 5$ 18 -----
Beast of the Crimson Ring (Bristleback) 7$ 14 -----
Evolution of the Infinite (Enigma) 7$ 19 -----
Wrath of the Fallen Ones (Doom) 7$ 15 -----
Crown of Calaphas (Shadow Demon) 7$ 17 -----
Talons of the Endless Storm (Chaos Knight) 9$ 18 -----
Ire of the Ancient Gaoler (Arc Warden) 20$ 8 -----
Horror from the Deep (Tidehunter) 20$ 8 -----
Master of the Searing Path (Ember Spirit) 20$ 8 -----
Steward of the Forbidden Chamber (Templar Assassin - Rare) 15$ 26 -----
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Songs of Starfall Glen (Enchantress) 5$ 7 -----
Beholden of the Banished Ones (Warlock) 8$ 5 -----
Herald of the Ember Eye (Grimstroke) 8$ 6 -----
Apocalypse Unbound (Ancient Apparition) 8$ 6 -----
Fury of the Righteous Storm (Disruptor) 10$ 2 -----
Heartless Hunt (Bounty Hunter) 10$ 1 -----
Flashpoint Proselyte (Huskar) 10$ 3 -----
Fissured Flight (Jakiro) 10$ 3 -----
Mindless Slaughter (Pudge) 15$ 2 -----
Ancient Inheritance (Tiny - Rare) 20$ 3 -----
Forsworn Legacy (Ares - Very Rare) 50$ 1 -----
Nemestice Collector's Cache 2021
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Twilight Hex (Dark Willow) 5$ 3 -----
Caerulean Star (Enchantress) 5$ 5 -----
Silence of the Starweaver (Oracle) 5$ 3 -----
Astral Terminus (Enigma) 10$ 2 -----
Litany of the Damned (Doom) 10$ 1 -----
Desert Bloom (Nature's Prophet) 10$ 1 -----
Aghanim's 2021 Collector's Cache
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Secrets of the Frost Singularity (Ancient Apparition) 3$ 7 -----
The Chained Scribe (Grimstroke) 4$ 5 -----
Forgotten Fate (Mars) 8$ 4 -----
March of the Crackerjack Mage (Rubick) 8$ 3 -----
Blightfall (Abaddon) 10$ 1 -----
Cosmic Concoctioneers (Alchemist) 10$ 1 -----
Widow of the Undermount Gloom (Broodmother) 10$ 1 -----
Apex Automated (Clockwerk) 10$ 1 -----
Days of the Demon (Axe) 10$ 1 -----
Perils of the Red Banks (Chen) 10$ 2 -----
Pyrexae Polymorph Perfected (Ogre Magi - Rare) 15$ 4 -----
Diretide 2022 Collector's Cache II
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Grand Suppressor (Silencer) 2.5$ 15 -----
Darkbrew´s Transgression (Alchemist) 2.5$ 16 -----
Transcendent Path (Oracle) 2.5$ 15 -----
The Wilding Tiger (Brewmaster) 2.5$ 15 -----
Dawn of Darkness Foretold (Doom) 2.5$ 15 -----
Cursed Cryptbreaker (Pudge) 2.5$ 14 -----
Feasts of Forever (Night Stalker) 2.5$ 16 -----
Withering Pain (Clinkz) 2.5$ 16 -----
Freebot Fortunes (Ogre Magi) 2.5$ 14 -----
Acrimonioes of Obsession (Vengeful Spirit) 2.5$ 14 -----
Sacred Chamber Guardian (Huskar) 2.5$ 16 -----
War Rig Eradicators (Techies) 2.5$ 14 -----
Darkfeather Factioneer (Phantom Assassin) 5$ 11 -----
Bird of Prey (Legion Commander) 10$ 4 -----
Grudges of the Gallows Tree (Treant Protector - Rare) 10$ 16 -----
Brands of the Reaper (Anti-Mage - Rare) 10$ 13 -----
Sublime Equilibrium (Void Spirit - Very Rare) 25$ 3 -----
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Hounds of Obsession (Chen) 2.5$ 18 -----
Seadog's Stash (Clockwerk) 2.5$ 18 -----
Chines of the Inquisitor (Faceless Void) 2.5$ 17 -----
Trophies of the Hallowed Hunt (Ursa) 2.5$ 16 -----
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Fogotten Station (Terrorblade) 2.5$ 19 -----
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Champion of the Fire Lotus (Monkey King) 2.5$ 16 -----
Deathstitch Shaman (Witch Doctor) 2.5$ 18 -----
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Scarlet Subversion (Riki) 5$ 8 -----
Whippersnapper (Snapfire) 8$ 8 -----
Shadowleaf Insurgent (Hoodwink) 10$ 4 -----
Starlorn Adjudicator (Dawnbreaker) 10$ 5 -----
Blue Horizons (Marci - Rare) 10$ 11 -----
Angel of Vex (Invoker - Rare) 15$ 4 -----
Dark Behemoth (Primal Beast - Very Rare) 25$ 4 -----
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Insight of Forlorn Precipice (Dark Seer) 1$ 2 -----
Draconic Divide (Dragon Knight) 1$ 2 -----
Tremors of the Tandem Storm (Disruptor) 4$ 1 -----
Golden Draca Mane (Huskar) 6$ 1 -----
Golden Sullen Sanctum (Necrophos) 6$ 2 -----
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infernal Cavalcade (Centaur Warrunner) 1$ 6 -----
Flutterstep (Enchantress) 1$ 6 -----
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Aktok's Glory (Venomancer) 1$ 6 -----
Everglyph Goggles (Meepo) 1$ 7 -----
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Tangled Tropics (Monkey King) 1$ 4 -----
Fury of the Thunderhawk (Zeus) 1$ 4 -----
Oaths of the Beloved (Death Prophet) 1$ 4 -----
Twilight Legions (Night Stalker) 2.5$ 3 -----
Jewels of Anamnessa (Medusa) 5$ 1 -----
Wings of Imperium (Mars) 15$ 1 -----
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Heat of the Sixth Hell (Doom) 1$ 4 -----
Nefarious Fixations (Lion) 1$ 3 -----
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Volcanic Sanctuary (Broodmother) 1$ 3 -----
Obsidian Atrocity (Lifestealer) 1$ 4 -----
Charms of the Firefiend (Batrider) 5$ 1 -----
Molten Bore (Mars) 10$ 1 -----
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Dying Light (Dawnbreaker) 6$ 1 -----
Death Adder (Medusa) 6$ 1 -----
Soul Serpent (Viper) 6$ 1 -----
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2023.06.04 07:53 verasev The World of Ghost Gasket

Here's the pitch. It's very much a work in progress. This is the intended setting for this tabletop RPG: https://www.reddit.com/RPGcreation/comments/13v5iw4/does_this_sound_in_any_way_promising_or_does_it/
The Old World
The truth is, no one remembers much about the old world. People have recorded dreams, visions, and flickers of memory but no concrete picture emerges, just a sense of vastness that would swallow the new world whole. All anyone is sure of is that there was a world before and that much of the language and basic concepts came from that place. How those ideas truly fit together is a mystery.

The Breach
The Breach happened 273 year cycles ago. Something truly strange had happened, some event that cut the folk of Ghost Gasket off from the previous world. The memories are nearly as dim as the memories of the old world. Shifting chaos and strangeness and a fracturing of the known rules. Madness. Screaming. And then people woke up, finding themselves in Neo Victoria, a city built in a suspended bubble of glass that's harder than steel. And around the bubble, only an endless maze of airless pipes and tunnels.

Neo Victoria
A stack of blocks built by a child. A ramshackle collection of mismatched styles. Gilt and poverty are scattered with no discernable pattern. The City seems both familiar and strange to those who found themselves in it. There are baroque stone mansions, tenement buildings, factories, temples, and workhouses. Clockwork abounds. The city seems to function as a vast machine designed to support life in the claustrophobic emptiness of the Tunnels.

The city was stratified from the very beginning. Some found themselves seemingly in possession of vast wealth while others woke up in small shacks with leaky roofs. People picked up from the Breach as best as they could, trying to find a life in the new world.

Humans and Abhumans
Humans aren't the only denizen of the city. Altered humans known as Abhumans exist and seem to be a melding of "normal" humans and stranger lifeforms. They have unusual biologies and strange powers. There are five main types: Changelings, Dhampir, Werebeasts, Nephilim, and Warpspawn. They seem familiar as if they were created to be similar to myths of the old world, but no one is sure why some people woke up altered. Many people find Abhumans repellant, that they inspire hate and superstitious fear. Others see them as just another flavor person. Abhumans usually find themselves in the lower classes regardless of their origins after the breach. Society in general is often rigged against them, with the majority of normal humans controlling them through social rules and outright laws.

Old Herald
Old Herald lies at the very center of the city, an intricate clock tower. The awoken citizens built a whole new system and calendar based on the machinations of the tower. There are 50 seconds in a minute, 78 minutes in an hour, and two 13-hour shifts. The months consist of 23 days and the year cycle consists of 13 months. During the Day Shift, the city's lights come on and a drizzle of "rain" spills down from plumbing built into the top of Neo Victoria. At night, the lights and rain turn themselves off and darkness reigns. Work is done during Day Shift, with the various poor and working class toiling to build or farm the products needed by the city. The rich control the factories and universities, spending their time managing the flock or trying to puzzle out the mysteries of the New World.

The Tesseract Mall
The Tesseract Mall can be found below Old Herald. This ornate cube-shaped building is bigger on the inside than on the outside. It has become the de-facto marketplace for the city. Costermongers, hawkers, hucksters, merchants, and snake oil salesmen ply their wares.

Amorphotech - The New Science
As time has passed, the folk of New Victoria have begun to learn the rules of this world. The overall system of thought is called Amorphotech. Matter and energy behave in unusual ways. They have an inner essence that can be separated and distilled known as Amorpho. It is a kind of formless non-substance. Amorpho can, in turn, be transformed into new matter and energy, both the types familiar to Old World memory and new forms wholly unknown to that world.

Amorphotech takes two main forms: Alchemy and Amorphic Engineering. Alchemy deals with creating special substances out of Amorpho that have special properties. The known forms of Amorphic Matter are Phlogiston (amorphic gas), Alkahest (amorphic liquid), Manacite (amorphic stone), Orichalcum (amorphic metal), and Bio-Iliaster (an unusual substance that can meld with biological beings).

Amorphic Engineering is taking alchemical substances and building devices that take advantage of their properties: pipeships, rayguns, and stranger devices.

Sorcery - Words of Power
Amorpho can also be manipulated with True Speech, a kind of formulaic language that mixes word concepts with what's called Amorphic Math to create effects. These are called spells and rituals, simply because that's the closest thing New Victorians are familiar with.

True Speech can be inscribed on objects and charged with Amorpho to create Relics, magical objects with strange powers. Those who wish to use these activities must attune to them, letting the Amorpho in their bodies and minds flow into the objects and back to form a metaphysical circuit that allows them to use Relics.

The Tunnels - A Cosmic Sewer
There are airlocks built into New Victoria. People have been curious about them for some time but had no way to survive an exploration into The Tunnels, the name for the labyrinth outside of New Victoria. Gradually, techniques and technology for exploring beyond the glass emerged. Pipeships are flying ships created using Amorphotech, sealed from the void, and able to traverse the empty spaces of The Tunnels using burning Phlogiston for propulsion.

The Tunnels aren't as empty as they seem at first glance. Created artifacts and constructions have been found formed by some form of beings who once lived in the Tunnels but seemingly vanished. These beings have been named the Precursors. Other creatures and entities have been discovered, some hostile, some mere animals, and others so strange that their mere presence is dangerous. There are even gardens and forests nestled within the pipes, made of plants, fungi, and more unusual sessile lifeforms.

The Precursor Civilizations
The Precursors don't seem to have been human at all. Sentient, certainly, but the things they left behind seem to be built by alien minds. Many people believe they created The Tunnels and New Victoria, that they are indeed responsible for the folk of the old world finding themselves here.

Much of what they created breaks conventional logic and even the new sciences of Amorphotech. They seemed to be able to warp time, space, flesh, and minds into wholly new forms.

Cults and Faiths
Strange beliefs abound in New Victoria. Many have formed different faiths and philosophies based on the mysteries of this new world. There are three main faiths in New Victoria: the Universal Pipists, the Exit Seekers, and the Wall Burners.

The Universal Pipists believe that there is nothing else but the pipes. That is, the Tunnels extend to infinity, a whole universe of pipes. The Exit Seekers, conversely, think there is something beyond, that an exit can be found out of the Tunnels entirely and into a whole other world or worlds that are much less constricted. The Wall Burners are an offshoot of the Exit Seekers. They believe that an exit will have to be built, that the walls of this universe will have to be breached in order to escape.

Political Movements and Social Clubs
There are several other, more political philosophies that formed during the arguments over the years on how to run New Victoria. There are utopian socialists, merchant capitalists, conservative monarchists, technoccult fascists (who believe those who master Amorphotech should rule through authoritarianism), and amorpho-transcendental anarchists. That last group believes that advances in Amorphotech will discover whole new ways to organize society.

Others have formed social clubs, ad-hoc organizations formed around some idea or hobby. There are detective clubs, journalism clubs, adventure societies, and amorphotech hobby clubs. These may have connections with other, larger factions in the city or they may be smaller, independent organizations.

Finally, there are a few secret societies that are similar to social clubs, except that their membership is closed and hidden. The Hidden Lodge is the oldest. No one is sure what pursuits they engage in but there are rumors that they have ears in every quarter and that they infiltrated their members all over the city.

Another secret society is the Raven's Wing, a criminal organization that controls most crime in the city, including illegal vices like drugs, gambling, and prostitution.

The final secret society of note is the Toy Breakers, an anti-technology group that is seemingly behind several acts of sabotage, assassination, and other forms of terrorism meant to stop the proliferation of Amorphotech.
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2023.06.04 05:30 PunkrockPopeye Beat Em'!

Beat Em'!
"Beat Em'!"
Sometime among the events of the very first Kinder Cosmic...
The director of the United States Space Force marches back and forth before a gathered group of several hardened space marines all standing at attention within a large training room as he addresses the group with a general Patton like speech.
USSF Director: Ladies and gentlemen...We are at the precipice of the dawn of a new age!
*The group murmurs amongst one another curiously.
USSF Director: Time and time again threats from opposing galaxies, dimensions, and outer worlds; some beyond the very realm of human comprehension have descended upon our little blue marble suspended in space and threatened our quality of life, our society, our safety, our sovereignty and our very existence!
*Several members of the group shudder and gasp as the director continues his sermon.
USSF Director: If the citizens of this United States, no...The very world itself are to maintain our status qu-
*The group diverts their attention behind the director towards the sound of a loud, laborious sigh.
*The director shoots a disapproving glare at the alien grey known as Alpha as he continues to speak.
USSF Director: As of late, the only force standing between the citizens of this planet and total annihilation has been...
The lady astronaut and appointed liaison to the greys; one Luna Valentina gently pushes the little grey alien known as Jorg towards the middle of the room as she whispers in his earholes.
Luna: ...Go ahead, Jorg!
*Dressed in a bright red silk dress and miniskirt with a purple bandanna tied tightly around the crown of his head; Jorg stares at the hem of his dress with either side clasped tightly within his hands as he swings his hips from side to side and hums happily as the dress flutters back and forth.
The USSF Director sighs apathetically as he continues to speak, pointing at the little grey now standing beside him.
USSF Director: W-What...
*The Director shields his mouth and whispers to Alpha and Luna as Jorg continues swaying unmoved and unbothered.
USSF Director: What th-....What is this?
*Luna laughs and smiles as she replies patiently.
Luna: The only way I could get him to cooperate is if I let him wear his dress!
*The Director stares at Jorg still humming and fluttering from side to side and then Alpha confusedly.
Alpha: He thinks it makes him stronger...
*Luna giggles as she follows Alpha’s words.
Luna: He...he doesn't understand how feminism works!
*The Director stares at the flamboyant grey and then Alpha once more.
*Alpha throws his hands up as he replies.
Alpha: Who the hell am I to tell him otherwise? As far as I know it probably does!
*The USSF Director sighs frustratedly as he quips.
USSF Director: Jesus fucking Christ...Can he fight wearing it?
*Alpha smirks mischievously as he speaks.
Alpha: ...Jorg? Jorg can fight in anything, anywhere, at anytime!
USSF Director: Fine...Well I guess we'll conti-
*Suddenly the Director is interrupted by a massive, muscled and imposing Sergeant who addresses the group obnoxiously.
Sergeant: Why is that little alien wearing a fuckin' miniskirt!?
Luna snaps defensively.
Luna: HE'S IN TOUCH WITH HIS FEMININE SIDE!
*A private nearby mutters knowingly.
Private: Well, I heard that lil' shit is completely unhinged!
*The group of hardened space marines murmur amongst one another as Luna plants her hands on her hips and speaks once more.
Luna: NO HE ISN’T! HE SAVED YOUR IGNORANT ASSES!
*The Sergeant points at the preoccupied grey as he speaks once again.
Sergeant: That scrawny, 80 lbs, ugly ass little critter? Saved what? Ru Paul's drag race?
*The private glares at the Sergeant standing beside him confusedly as he continues to speak.
Private: Where the hell have you been man!? You didn't hear about what happened in Tulsa?
*The Sergeant cuts a sidelong glance at the private as he continues to speak.
Sargeant: Stationed abroad... No phones, or internet, or TV, or electricity, or running water...not even a fuckin working toilet! So no...I don't know "what happened in Tulsa".
Private: ...Oh. Well I HEARD he leveled half a city fighting some interstellar Lovecraftian planet killer...
USSF Director: OFFICIALLY THAT WAS A LEVEL 4 EARTHQUAKE!
Private: SURE BOSS! whatever y'all say, it's not like it hasn't been cycling all over Tiktok for months...
USSF Director: RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA! A DIVERSIONARY TACTIC TO UNDERMINE UNITED ST-
*Alpha sighs again loudly.
*As the group continues to bicker incessantly the USSF Commander from "Kinder Cosmic: Paradise Lost" strolls into the training room and smiles with a large grin as he leans against a supply depots consignment widow and addresses it's quartermaster casually.
Commander: Has it started yet!?
QuarterMaster: ....Has what started yet?
*The Commander grins mischievously as he continues to speak.
Commander: Say...Are you a bettin' man?
Quarter Master: On what exactly?
Commander: Costello over there of course!
*The Quarter Master stares at the grey still preoccupied with his pretty dress and then the Commander once again.
Quarter Master: That sick lookin, effeminate little space midget against ALL OF THEM!?
*The Commander smiles knowingly.
Commander: You bet your ass!
*The QuarterMaster doubles a glance back and forth between the grey and the Commander as he speaks.
QuarterMaster: How drunk are you?
Commander: VERY!
QuarterMaster: How much do you wanna put down on him?
*The Commander reaches into his pocket then slams several stacks of money upon the window's table as he speaks.
Commander: My ENTIRE goddamned pension!
*The Quarter Master stares at the little grey smiling as he swings in his pretty red dress and then the hardened military veterans and finally, the grinning Commander once more.
Quarter Master: You're on!
*The USSF Director silences the gathered, bickering and murmuring group as he interjects.
USSF Director: QUIET!
*The group of military commandos quickly stand at attention as the USSF Director commences pacing and continues his addressment once again while Luna smiles knowingly and Alpha shakes his head from side to side...also knowingly.
USSF Director: THE POINT IS! That we're facing a potential threat that is completely out of human understanding, the very laws of physics itself and our current martial capabilities!
*The USSF Director points at the greys; Alpha’s arms folded as he stands like a solemn statue and Jorg still hyperfocused as he busily plays with his red dress.
USSF Director: Although they ARE friendl-
*Alpha’s face sours distastefully as he hisses underbreath.
Alpha: Pshhh...
*The Director darts a sharp glare at Alpha who returns it with a twisted, smug expression and then at Luna who shrugs her shoulders casually.
USSF Director: ....Although they ARE NOT THE ENEMY we can not let the future of humanity...
*The Director stares at Jorg who is still absolutely lost within his own world as he continues to speak.
USSF Director: ...Rest upon the strapless shoulder blades of one four and a half foot; morally and mentally compromised little...whatever in the hell this thing is.
*The Director points towards Jorg as he flutters and sways repeatedly.
*Luna retorts defensively as Alpha comments sarcastically.
Luna: HEY!
Alpha: Well...I mean, he's right. Man's still kinda a misguided idiot but when he's right he's right!
*The Director glares at Alpha once more as his subordinates murmur and contemplate his directive aloud amongst one another.
Private: We are so, so, so completely and utterly screwed...
*The Sergeant standing besides the private shrugs apathetically as he speaks.
Sergeant: I don't see what the big deal is...
*The director marches to and fro once again as he continues to speak.
USSF Director: That being said! The ONLY WAY to adjust our combat to this new enemy is simulated combat WITH THE ENEMY!
Private: I'M NOT FIGHTING THOSE THINGS!
*Alpha smiles slyly and quips sarcastically as The Director retorts with a commanding tone.
Alpha: ....Sissy!
USSF Director: Oh yes you will private! Unless of course you want... AN EXTRA WORK DETAIL!
Private: GOD-DAMNIT!
*The Director grins as he continues to speak.
USSF Director: Besides! You'll only be facing a single extraterrestrial opponent today, Alpha has adamantly refused to participate in this exercise...
*Alpha retorts sharply.
Alpha: I said, "You can go fuck yourself", that's what I said.
*Luna erupts with a riotous laughter as the USSF Director glares at Alpha in return.
*The Sergeant points towards Jorg still playing with his fluttering dress.
Sergeant: And lil' Miss Doubtfire over here? HE'S supposed to be our opponent!?
*Luna beams with pride as she retorts.
Luna: I wouldn't underestimate Jorg! He's wildly talented!
Sergeant: At what!? Martha Stewart style homesteading?
*The group snickers as Luna giggles and returns a mischievous grin and then quips once more.
Luna: THAT TOO!
*Alpha clarifies casually as the group murmurs and looks on at the little grey still lost amongst the surrounding atmosphere.
Alpha: Consent for Jorg is kind of a non-issue, he's barely aware of where he is half the time. When goaded he does have a certain instinctive enthusiasm for martial combat under the right conditions. I don't even know where he learned it, he just came back one day and knew it innately. Like a telekinetic amalgamation of something between Ong-Bak and Jet Li...
*The Private stares at the little grey in suspended disbelief.
Private: Under...what conditions?
*Alpha grins knowingly; as he responds.
Alpha: Basically...You've got to manage to piss him off.
Private: "Piss him off?"
*The Sergeant cracks his knuckles as he smiles belligerently.
Sergeant: Well this should be easy!
*Alpha shrugs unknowingly.
Alpha: Maybe...Sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't! To evoke this reaction from Jorg or to "Piss him off"; it is like this ingrained psychological trigger. It isn't so much guided as a form of premeditated anger as a kind of pro-active defense mechanism. He's not even really fully aware when he does it. I think it may be a kind of "Fight or Flight" reaction he just does. Except Jorg...well...Jorg pretty much always chooses to fight.
*The privates eyes widen curiously as he stares the little grey up and down before him.
Private: Is he...is he dangerous!?
*The USSF Commander laughs heartily as he slams his hand upon the provisional warehouse window and retorts excitedly.
USSF Commander: YOU CAN BET YOUR ASS HE IS!
*The QuarterMaster glares at the USSF Commander as he chimes in.
QuarterMaster: I wanna replace my bet!
*The USSF Commander replies snarkily.
USSF Commander: TOO LATE ASSHOLE!
*Alpha, Luna, The Director and the group of soldiers all divert their attention towards the Commander and QuarterMaster until Alpha continues speaking.
Alpha: Jorg!? Dangerous? I mean...IF YOU DESERVE IT then I dunno...
*Alpha shrugs apathetically.
Alpha: ...Maybe? I really doubt he'd actively kill anyone though.
*The private throws his hands into the air and addresses Alpha frustratedly as the group murmurs amongst themselves once more.
Private: THE FUCK YOU MEAN "MAYBE" AND YOU "DOUBT HE'LL KILL ANYONE"!?
*Alpha shrugs once more...
Alpha: It's Jorg...Jorg is Jorg! You'll see...
*The private stares at the two greys one after another then retorts underbreath as he turns to walk away.
Private: I'm so not fuckin doing this...
USSF Director: MORE WORK DETAIL!
Private: GODDAMNIT!
Sergeant: Well I think they're full of shit...
Private: THEY TORE APART AN ENTIRE MILITARY BASE "JUST BECAUSE".
Sergeant: Of Non-combatant "week-long warriors" I bet! Might as well be a buncha national guardsmen...I mean...JUST LOOK AT HIM!
*The Sergeant points towards Jorg still swaying giddily.
Sergeant: ...There's no way in hell that little queer fella could take a seasoned soldier!
*Luna retorts defensively.
Luna: JORG ISN’T GAY! HE'S JUST SENSITIVE AND HE'S VERY SPECIAL!
*Luna cuts her gaze towards Alpha seeking confirmation.
Luna: He isn't...is he?
*Alpha shrugs unknowingly and apathetically as the group murmurs amongst themselves once more.
*The Private suddenly turns then approaches a series of lockers and containment bins stowing riot gear, defensive equipment and padded suits much like one that would be used to disarm a bomb or train a K-9 attack dog as nearly all of his peers follow suit...
Private: I'm not fucking with this lil dude without my PPE!
*The Sergeant snorts obnoxiously in response as he watches.
Sergeant: I don't need that crap...Besides, it's hard to move or fight with all that bullshit on! Whatchu gonna do? Bumper car bang him to death with it?
*The Private shrugs undisturbed.
Private: ....Whatever!
The crowd gathers all around the little grey warily; some armed with things like MMA gloves, hand-wraps, Batons and extended martial defense metallic rods as they all approach the grey from all angles.
Suspicious and cautious at exactly what the little grey might do and exactly how he might respond.
That is all but one, the boisterous military Sergeant who readies himself and then throws the very first strike at the seemingly defenseless and unsuspecting Jorg.
Without ever even lifting his eyes from the hem of his dress, in a matter of moments warping the surrounding spectators very perception of time; Jorg shifts his head slightly towards the left as the Sergeant's fist narrowly misses the grey by a hair's length.
*The USSF Commander slams his hand upon the provisional warehouses window once more as he retorts giddily.
USSF Commander: HAH!
What happens next can best be described through the conveyance of a matter of collective very short-lived and somewhat difficulty perceived moments.
The next soldier and the next and the next and the next; all of them simultaneously rush towards the little grey slinging their fists and their weapons towards the inattentive and unbothered little grey.
Jorg bobs, weaves, and feints his big grey bandanna wrapped head not unlike a hyperactive, super-powered Muhammad Ali; as fist and all flies from every perceivable angle, not ever touching him...not even once, his attention still diverted towards his fluttering dress all the while.
Another military combatant rushes forewords and thrusts a kick towards the grey; to which he spins out of reach with seamless grace as yet another kick comes flying from it's opposing direction to which the grey quickly ducks then loops his body around from underneath...still playing with the hem of his pretty red dress still humming to himself gleefully as Luna erupts with laughter.
Sergeant: What...what the hell IS THIS!?
Luna: I TOLD YOU!
Private: He....He never even LOOKED at us...NOT ONCE!
*The Director stares at Luna and Alpha then questions them curiously.
USSF Director: Why isn't he defending himself?
Alpha: ...Probably because Jorg doesn't see any of you as a threat.
*The boisterous military Sergeant walks towards Jorg then plants a single finger upon his forehead then slowly pushes him backwards; to which Jorg sways back then forwards then rests in the exact same position of which he'd originally been.
Sergeant: What do you mean he doesn't see us as a threat?
*Alpha responds casually.
Alpha: I mean exactly what I said! Jorg only reacts when driven towards it from an outside stimulus; when he himself, someone he cares about, or perhaps even others are under certain conditions of diress such as a threat or pressure or the friction of oncoming conflict. It is very difficult to tell exactly when this trigger will set off from an outside perspective but FOR JORG these lines are ingrained within his very being. It's like a reflex, he doesn't even have to think about it.
Private: How is it he can move so quickly like that? I could barely even see him doing it!
Alpha: Part of it is because Jorg instinctively compounds his telekinesis with Kinetic energy. The other is because he's clairvoyant, prophetic even. This doesn't just apply to the precepts of time or it's passage through the universe itself but also to an outside stimulus. But just like almost all things concerning Jorg; he isn't fully aware of what he's doing and what he does it its all interdependent on outside stimulus and outside perception and interpretation. In short, Jorg is like a living mirror in everything he does and reasons for doing them. A reflection of one's self whether they even realize it or not. He could punch through a two inch steel wall or bulletproof plate glass window faster than you could blink if he wanted to...
*Alpha shrugs casually.
Alpha: ...Only problem is it takes alot for Jorg to actively feel inclined to do so. Well...sometimes. All that being said apparently he sees absolutely none of you as an inclination for him to act...and so...he doesn't. He doesn't see any of you as a threat!
*The Sergeant fumes angrily and frustratedly as he stares at the preoccupied little alien frustratedly and then speaks angrily.
Sergeant: WHADDYA MEAN "HE DOESN'T SEE ME AS A THREAT"!? I'M A GODDAMNED NAVY SEAL! I DID TWO TOURS IN AZKABAN!
*Alpha replies to the Sergeant flatly and unflinching.
Alpha: Exactly what I just said...Your limited human capabilities and physicality to Jorg is a non-issue. You're not big enough, strong enough, forceful enough or physically capable through your own recognizance of being a perceivable threat to him.
*The Sergeant stands from the opposing side of the playful grey in the little red dress then angrily unbuttons and unholsters his service weapon as he holds it in both hands, pointed towards the ground.
*The USSF Commander laughs a riotous laugh as he spectates from the warehouse window some distance away then pounds the desk upon it once more as he goads the Sergeant playfully.
USSF Commander: YOU GET EM HOSS!
*The Commander quickly turns towards it's QuarterMaster then whispers as he winks towards his glare.
USSF Commander: ....Fucking idjit!
*Luna’s eyes widen with worry as she begins to speak.
Luna: I WOULDN'T DO TH-
*Alpha calmly places a gentle hand upon Luna’s shoulder as he knowingly interjects solemnly yet very mischievously.
Alpha: Nah....Let em'.
The Sergeant steadies his firearm upon the grey methodically as all of his compatriots watch onwards nervously.
And what happens next, again...Can best be explained by a breakdown of a series of events that through our perception of time unfolded within a matter of moments.
...But to Jorg himself? Well, that's another matter entirely.
Just like one perceptive light switch suddenly being flicked on from deep, deep, deep within Jorg’s psyche. The little grey suddenly raises his head; his black, saucer shaped eyes widened with a perfectly aligned subconscious awareness. One of them twitching erratically above a maddened grin as above and all throughout this training room; the loud deafening roar of electric guitar reverberates one ear-splitting and most deafening melody.
Loudly cutting through the awkward silence not unlike a high-powered circular saw this melody is that of the song "Beat It" the cover of an infamous Michael Jackson tune preformed by the band "Fall Out Boy".
https://youtu.be/Qt54wA7Z2LY
And as this guitar melody drones and roars throughout the intercom and sirens of the facility all around; As Alpha smirks smugly and Luna laughs...and then gasps. What follows suit could be quite accurately articulated as a series of movements so perceivably fast, powerful, and deadly accurate that one could quite convincingly say that Jorg DID move faster than a human could blink.
He quickly utilizes his telekinetic energy with one hand to jerk the firearm out from within the Sergeant's grasp not unlike a vaulted football ripped from between a running back's fingers. And as this pistol flies and spins towards Jorg he launches himself into the air, quickly preforming a spinning back kick that smacks against the gun sending it ricocheting and flipping once more until it hurtles directly dead center of the Sergeant's face sending him spiraling and sprawled out upon the ground nearby while the gun itself deflects, is thrown against a nearby wall and then misfires.
Space Marine: SHIT...MY LEG!
And as the lyrics of the song echo and vibrates all throughout this training room, quaking its walls and cushioned floormats with every progressing spoken word; the frightened private quickly turns to sprint in the other direction, absolutely ANY direction away from Jorg.
But little did he know; it was far, far, far too late...
Jorg harnesses his telekinetic energy to rip the man's legs out from beneath him, as he does Jorg quickly sprints forward, leaps into the air again like a telekinetic grasshopper then dead drops his knee into the private's back.
As Jorg "ground and pounds" the back of the privates combat protective headgear repeatedly in rapid succession; not unlike quick repeating Wing-Chun punches into the back of the man's head, striking and bouncing his forehead off of the training floor's cushioned material all to the rhythm of this melody. The surrounding marines look around at one another, murmuring in a stunned confusion as the private cries for help.
Private: G-G-GET I-
*WHACK! *BANG! *POW! *WHOMP! *THUMP-THUMP-THUMP!
Private: GET IT OFFA ME!
*The USSF Director points at the private then addresses the fearful combatants sternly.
USSF Director: ...WELL!? HELP HIM!
*One of the remaining combatants turns to kick Jorg off of the private when the grey quickly stops then pivots as if in anticipation of said strike; catches the man's ankle then smiles with a malevolent grin before twisting it with a loud *CRACK!
*Luna squints her eyes closed and winces painfully as Alpha grins a grin very much reflective of Jorg’s and they both comment.
Luna: Oooooooh!
Alpha: Fuck em'...
Elsewhere at the provisional warehouse window the USSF Commander slams his hand down upon the table once more as he also comments; smiling at the QuarterMaster with a shit eating grin all the while.
USSF Commander: That looked like it HURT LIKE HELL! GET EM' HOSS!
*The QuarterMaster also comments, sneering distastefully.
QuarterMaster: I fuckin' hate you...
Elsewhere amongst the whirlwind of rapid, successful strikes and all to a melody; Jorg now stands his miniskirt fluttering in training room's AC cooled air along with the motion of his movements with the Marine's now broken ankle held between the palms of his hands; the man still wailing with pain.
In an amount of time accumulating to less than the passage of a few seconds; the grey spins and leg sweeps the other man's remaining limb, tossing him upwards into the air before kicking him in the abdomen with a telekinetically reinforced strike that sends the man hurtling into and bouncing off of the nearest wall.
As another approaching soldier moves in to strike Jorg the grey quickly hops a foot into the air once more; then quickly plants a deflective side kick in rapid, fluid succession into the center of the man's chest which sends him staggering back just a few paces.
*The soldier hardens himself as he pounds his chest then closes in on Jorg once more.
Space Marine: IS THAT ALL YOU GOT!?
And as this melody continues to pound with a thunderous roar all throughout the training room; Jorg smiles a sadistic smile.
While the man races forwards to preform a takedown upon the little grey, Jorg quickly and acrobatically dips his head and upper abdomen towards the ground. With a certain level of martial flexibility mirroring that of a Shaolin Monk the grey lifts the pad of his foot from behind towards where his head originally was, arching it upwards and from behind his backside with his torso now angled downwards, he then slams the bottom of his foot into the Marine's forehead; stunning him instantaneously.
Jorg quickly rights his equilibrium and with a fluid, unceasing movement uses that very same leg to plant a telekinetically charged front kick into the man's sternum; sending him flying backwards and crashing into yet another padded wall.
Space Marine: YOU CRAZY LITTLE SHIT!
A remaining marine shouts at Jorg and then races towards him from a flanked position sending his own angled "axe kick" towards the grey's abdomen.
And as this melody pounds and reverberates the ether all around from every perceivable direction; without so much as a moments hesitation, forethought, or consideration Jorg side steps then archs his own leg around the own man's "Axe Kick" locking it into place.
*The Marine's eyes meet the grey's; whose deep, darkened saucer shaped eyes are deadlocked onto his own. Shining with a glossy, detached madness as the grey's smile widens. And with their legs locked in place, Jorg intentionally restricts the man's movement; the Marine's remaining free leg trembles as he utters words of fear and astonishment.
Space Marine: Oh....SHI-
*Before the man can even get the words out the grey hops into the air with his remaining leg with the other still locked in place, then uses his free leg to dropkick the soldier dead center of his chest with another telekinetically reinforced strike before quickly releasing his leglock to send the man vaulting into another padded wall not unlike a human bullet.
And as this resounding melody finally tolls onwards towards it's completion; the little grey still stands in the middle of this training room. In the exact spot in which he'd originally began; surrounded by moaning, bloody, blackened and bruised human cadavers.
Who at this point are each and all very, very much alive; though perhaps their pride...not so much.
*Luna shakes her head from side to side as the USSF Director speaks.
USSF Director: Well...we're never doing that again!
*Alpha stares at the director and smiles with an air of apathy.
Alpha: I could have told you but you'd never have listened...
*The private spits a mouthful of blood onto the ground as he slowly gathers his strength to try to lift himself from it, next to the still unconscious Sergeant lying face down on the floormat beside him.
Private: We are so...so...so fucked.
*At the provisional warehouse window the QuarterMaster counts out the last of his debt and then slams it upon the table towards the USSF Commander's outstretched smile now grinning from ear to ear.
USSF Commander: It was nice doin' business with you!
QuarterMaster: Shut the hell up...
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Diretide/TI8/TI9/TI10/Nemestice/Aghanim's Immortals & Collector's Cache Sets FOR SALE
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TI8 COLLECTOR’S CACHE II SETS
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Shimmer of the Anointed (Nyx Assassin) 4$ 12 -----
The Rat King (Chen) 5$ 10 -----
Pattern of the Silken Queen (Broodmother) 5$ 12 -----
Shackles of the Enduring Conscript (Axe) 6$ 9 -----
Fires of the Volcanic Guard (Ember Spirit) 8$ 11 -----
Loaded Prospects (Brewmaster) 10$ 12 -----
Ire of the Molten Rebirth (Phoenix) 10$ 8 -----
Pitmouse Fraternity (Meepo) 10$ 6 -----
Raiments of the Obsidian Force (Underlord - Rare) 20$ 9 -----
TI8 COLLECTOR’S CACHE I SETS
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Grasp of the Riven Exile (Weaver) 4$ 9 -----
Insights of the Sapphire Shroud (Dark Seer) 4$ 9 -----
Pillar of the Fractured Citadel (Spirit Breaker) 5$ 7 -----
Primer of the Sapper's Guile (Techies) 6$ 3 -----
Trail of the Sanguine Spectrum (Bloodseeker) 8$ 4 -----
Molokau Stalker (Venomancer) 10$ 10 -----
Raptures of the Abyssal Kin (Queen of Pain) 10$ 4 -----
Morbific Provision (Witch Doctor) 10$ 5 -----
Fate Meridian (Invoker) 15$ 2 -----
The Murid Divine (Necrophos) 15$ 7 -----
TI9 COLLECTOR'S CACHE II
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Prized Acquisitions (Batrider) 5$ 6 -----
Directive of the Sunbound (Clockwerk) 6$ 4 -----
Tribal Pathways (Warlock) 6$ 4 -----
Verdant Predator (Venomancer) 7$ 2 -----
Sight of the Kha-Ren Faithful (Drow Ranger) 12$ 4 -----
TI9 COLLECTOR'S CACHE I
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BP 2020 COLLECTOR'S CACHE II
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Secrets of the Celestial (Skywrath Mage) 5$ 19 -----
Clearcut Cavalier (Timbersaw) 5$ 17 -----
Carousal of the Mystic Masquerade (Rubick) 5$ 20 -----
The King Of Thieves (Keeper of the Light) 5$ 16 -----
Blaze of Oblivion (Phoenix) 5$ 25 -----
Blacksail Cannoneer (Sniper) 5$ 18 -----
Beast of the Crimson Ring (Bristleback) 7$ 14 -----
Evolution of the Infinite (Enigma) 7$ 19 -----
Wrath of the Fallen Ones (Doom) 7$ 15 -----
Crown of Calaphas (Shadow Demon) 7$ 17 -----
Talons of the Endless Storm (Chaos Knight) 9$ 18 -----
Ire of the Ancient Gaoler (Arc Warden) 20$ 8 -----
Horror from the Deep (Tidehunter) 20$ 8 -----
Master of the Searing Path (Ember Spirit) 20$ 8 -----
Steward of the Forbidden Chamber (Templar Assassin - Rare) 15$ 26 -----
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Songs of Starfall Glen (Enchantress) 5$ 7 -----
Beholden of the Banished Ones (Warlock) 8$ 5 -----
Herald of the Ember Eye (Grimstroke) 8$ 6 -----
Apocalypse Unbound (Ancient Apparition) 8$ 6 -----
Fury of the Righteous Storm (Disruptor) 10$ 2 -----
Heartless Hunt (Bounty Hunter) 10$ 1 -----
Flashpoint Proselyte (Huskar) 10$ 3 -----
Fissured Flight (Jakiro) 10$ 3 -----
Mindless Slaughter (Pudge) 15$ 2 -----
Ancient Inheritance (Tiny - Rare) 20$ 3 -----
Forsworn Legacy (Ares - Very Rare) 50$ 1 -----
Nemestice Collector's Cache 2021
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Twilight Hex (Dark Willow) 5$ 3 -----
Caerulean Star (Enchantress) 5$ 5 -----
Silence of the Starweaver (Oracle) 5$ 3 -----
Astral Terminus (Enigma) 10$ 2 -----
Litany of the Damned (Doom) 10$ 1 -----
Desert Bloom (Nature's Prophet) 10$ 1 -----
Aghanim's 2021 Collector's Cache
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Secrets of the Frost Singularity (Ancient Apparition) 3$ 7 -----
The Chained Scribe (Grimstroke) 4$ 5 -----
Forgotten Fate (Mars) 8$ 4 -----
March of the Crackerjack Mage (Rubick) 8$ 3 -----
Blightfall (Abaddon) 10$ 1 -----
Cosmic Concoctioneers (Alchemist) 10$ 1 -----
Widow of the Undermount Gloom (Broodmother) 10$ 1 -----
Apex Automated (Clockwerk) 10$ 1 -----
Days of the Demon (Axe) 10$ 1 -----
Perils of the Red Banks (Chen) 10$ 2 -----
Pyrexae Polymorph Perfected (Ogre Magi - Rare) 15$ 4 -----
Diretide 2022 Collector's Cache II
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Grand Suppressor (Silencer) 2.5$ 15 -----
Darkbrew´s Transgression (Alchemist) 2.5$ 16 -----
Transcendent Path (Oracle) 2.5$ 15 -----
The Wilding Tiger (Brewmaster) 2.5$ 15 -----
Dawn of Darkness Foretold (Doom) 2.5$ 15 -----
Cursed Cryptbreaker (Pudge) 2.5$ 14 -----
Feasts of Forever (Night Stalker) 2.5$ 16 -----
Withering Pain (Clinkz) 2.5$ 16 -----
Freebot Fortunes (Ogre Magi) 2.5$ 14 -----
Acrimonioes of Obsession (Vengeful Spirit) 2.5$ 14 -----
Sacred Chamber Guardian (Huskar) 2.5$ 16 -----
War Rig Eradicators (Techies) 2.5$ 14 -----
Darkfeather Factioneer (Phantom Assassin) 5$ 11 -----
Bird of Prey (Legion Commander) 10$ 4 -----
Grudges of the Gallows Tree (Treant Protector - Rare) 10$ 16 -----
Brands of the Reaper (Anti-Mage - Rare) 10$ 13 -----
Sublime Equilibrium (Void Spirit - Very Rare) 25$ 3 -----
Diretide 2022 Collector's Cache I
SET(HERO) ITEM VALUE STOCK NOTE
Hounds of Obsession (Chen) 2.5$ 18 -----
Seadog's Stash (Clockwerk) 2.5$ 18 -----
Chines of the Inquisitor (Faceless Void) 2.5$ 17 -----
Trophies of the Hallowed Hunt (Ursa) 2.5$ 16 -----
Crimson Dawn (Phoenix) 2.5$ 18 -----
Fogotten Station (Terrorblade) 2.5$ 19 -----
Dirge Amplifier (Undying) 2.5$ 17 -----
Champion of the Fire Lotus (Monkey King) 2.5$ 16 -----
Deathstitch Shaman (Witch Doctor) 2.5$ 18 -----
Spoils of the Shadowveil (Spectre) 5$ 10 -----
Scarlet Subversion (Riki) 5$ 8 -----
Whippersnapper (Snapfire) 8$ 8 -----
Shadowleaf Insurgent (Hoodwink) 10$ 4 -----
Starlorn Adjudicator (Dawnbreaker) 10$ 5 -----
Blue Horizons (Marci - Rare) 10$ 11 -----
Angel of Vex (Invoker - Rare) 15$ 4 -----
Dark Behemoth (Primal Beast - Very Rare) 25$ 4 -----
IMMORTAL TREASURE II 2022
SET(HERO) ITEM VALUE STOCK NOTE
Limbs of Lycosidae (Broodmother) 1$ 2 -----
Draca Mane (Huskar) 1$ 1 -----
Sullen Sanctum (Necrophos) 1$ 2 -----
Insight of Forlorn Precipice (Dark Seer) 1$ 2 -----
Draconic Divide (Dragon Knight) 1$ 2 -----
Tremors of the Tandem Storm (Disruptor) 4$ 1 -----
Golden Draca Mane (Huskar) 6$ 1 -----
Golden Sullen Sanctum (Necrophos) 6$ 2 -----
IMMORTAL TREASURE I 2022
SET(HERO) ITEM VALUE STOCK NOTE
infernal Cavalcade (Centaur Warrunner) 1$ 6 -----
Flutterstep (Enchantress) 1$ 6 -----
Seclusions of the Void (Templar Assassin) 1$ 7 -----
Aktok's Glory (Venomancer) 1$ 6 -----
Everglyph Goggles (Meepo) 1$ 7 -----
Blastmitt Berserker Bundle (Bristleback) 4$ 1 -----
Seclusions of the Void (Templar Assassin) 6$ 1 -----
Infernal Cavalcade (Centaur Warrunner) 6$ 3 -----
The Strings of Suradan Bundle (Hoodwink) 30$ 1 -----
AGELESS HEIRLOOMS 2022
SET(HERO) ITEM VALUE STOCK NOTE
Howls of the Northmarch (Anti-Mage) 1$ 4 -----
Faction of the Feather (Templar Assassin) 1$ 3 -----
Melange of the Firelord (Chaos Knight) 1$ 4 -----
Heinous Exultation (Razor) 1$ 5 -----
Tangled Tropics (Monkey King) 1$ 4 -----
Fury of the Thunderhawk (Zeus) 1$ 4 -----
Oaths of the Beloved (Death Prophet) 1$ 4 -----
Twilight Legions (Night Stalker) 2.5$ 3 -----
Jewels of Anamnessa (Medusa) 5$ 1 -----
Wings of Imperium (Mars) 15$ 1 -----
The Battle Pass Collection 2022
SET(HERO) ITEM VALUE STOCK NOTE
Hides of Hostility (Huskar) 1$ 4 -----
Heat of the Sixth Hell (Doom) 1$ 4 -----
Nefarious Fixations (Lion) 1$ 3 -----
Distinguished Forgemaster (Clockwerk) 1$ 4 -----
Volcanic Sanctuary (Broodmother) 1$ 3 -----
Obsidian Atrocity (Lifestealer) 1$ 4 -----
Charms of the Firefiend (Batrider) 5$ 1 -----
Molten Bore (Mars) 10$ 1 -----
DEAD RECKONING CHEST
SET(HERO) ITEM VALUE STOCK NOTE
Dead Heat (Lina) 6$ 1 -----
Dying Light (Dawnbreaker) 6$ 1 -----
Death Adder (Medusa) 6$ 1 -----
Soul Serpent (Viper) 6$ 1 -----
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2023.06.03 20:13 suhiab1 [Store]Store of TI8/TI9/TI10/Nemestice/Aghanim's Diretide 2022 Collector's Cache

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I am selling Ti8 and ti9 and ti10 Immortals and Collector's Cache and not buying them.
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Immortal Treasure 2022 
Hero Immortal Treasure I - II 2022 Price(USD) Reserved/Sold
Queen of Pain Bloodfeather Finery 55$ 4 Sold!- 1 left
Hoodwink The Strings of Suradan Bundle 35$ 4 Sold!- 2 left
Bristleback Blastmitt Berserker Bundle 4$
Templar Assassin Golden Seclusions of the Void 4$ 1 Sold
Centaur Warrunner Golden Infernal Cavalcade 4$
The Battle Pass Collection 2022 
Hero The Battle Pass Collection 2022 Price(USD) Reserved/Sold
Mars Molten Bore 10$ 1 Sold!
Batrider Charms of the Firefiend 5$
Ageless Heirlooms 2022 
Hero Ageless Heirlooms 2022 Price(USD) Reserved/Sold
Mars Wings of Imperium (Ultra Rare) 15$
Medusa Jewels of Anamnes(sa (Very rare) 5$ 1 Sold!
Night Stalker Twilight Legions (Rare) 3$
Diretide 2022 Collector's Cache II 
Hero Diretide 2022 Collector's Cache II Price(USD) Reserved/Sold
Void Spirit Sublime Equilibrium 35$
Anti Mage) Brands of the Reaper 25$
Treant Grudges of the Gallows Tree 20$
Phantom Assassin Darkfeather Factioneer 12$ 1 Sold!
Pudge Cursed Cryptbreaker 10$
Legion Commander Bird of Prey 10$
Night Stalker Feasts of Forever 8$
Doom Dawn of Darkness Foretold 8$
Techies War Rig Eradicators 8$ 2 Sold!
Huskar Sacred Chamber Guardian 8$
Vengeful Spirit Acrimonies of Obsession 8$
Ogre Magi Freeboot Fortunes 8$
Clinkz Withering Pain 8$
Alchemist Darkbrew´s Transgression 8$
Brewmaster The Wilding Tiger 8$
Oracle Transcendent Path 8$
Silencer Grand Suppressor 6$
Diretide 2022 Collector's Cache I 
Hero Diretide 2022 Collector's Cache Price(USD) Reserved/Sold
Primal Beast Dark Behemoth (VERY RARE) 45$ 3 Sold!
Invoker Angel of Vex (Rare) 25$ 1 Sold!
MARCI Blue Horizons (Rare) 20$ 4 Sold!
Hoodwink Shadowleaf Insurgent 10$ 3 Sold!
Spectre Spoils of the Shadowveil 10$ 2 Sold!
Faceless Void Chines of the Inquisitor 10$
Ursa Trophies of the Hallowed Hunt 10$
Riki Scarlet Subversion 10$
Terrorblade Forgotten Station 10$
Monkey King Champion of the Fire Lotus 10$
Snapfire Whippersnapper 10$ 3 Sold!
Chen Hounds of obsession 8$
Clockwerk Seadog’s Stash 8$ 1 Sold!
Phoenix Crimson Dawn 8$
Undying Dirge Amplifier 10$
Witch Doctor Deathstitch Shaman 8$
Dawnbreaker Starlorn Adjudicator 10$ 4 Sold!
Aghanim's 2021 Collector's Cache 
Hero Aghanim's 2021 Collector's Cache Price(USD) Reserved/Sold
Ogre Magi Pyrexae Polymorph Perfected 12$ 1 Sold!
Dragon Knight Silverwurm Sacrifice 15$ 2 Sold!
Phantom Lancer Scales of the Shadow Walker 10$
Dawnbreaker Perception of the First Light 10$ 3 Sold!
Clockwerk Apex Automated 10$ 3 Sold!
Razor Test of the Basilisk Lord 10$ 1 Sold!
Ancient Apparition Secrets of the Frost Singularity 8$ 3 Sold!
chen Perils of the Red Banks 5$ 1 Sold!
Grimstroke The Chained Scribe 8$
Broodmother Widow of the Undermount Gloom 10$ 4 Sold!
Mars Forgotten Fate 5$
Rubick March of the Crackerjack Mage 5$ 1 Sold!
Alchemist Cosmic Concoctioneers 15$ 5 Sold! - 1 left
Abaddon Blightfall 10$ 1 Sold!
 Nemestice 2021 Collector's Cache 
Hero Nemestice 2021 Collector's Cache Price(USD) Reserved/Sold
Witch Doctor Footfalls of the Sporefathers 30$ 3 Sold!
Sven Indomitable Legacy 60$ 10 Sold!- 1 left
Doom Litany of the Damned 10$ 1 Sold!
Dark Willow Twilight Hex 8$
Enigma Astral Terminus 5$ 1 Sold!
Enchantress Caerulean Star 8$ 1 Sold!
Gyrocopter Arcane Inverter 10$ 6 Sold!
Lycan Creed of the Skullhound 10$ 5 Sold!
Nature's Prophet Desert Bloom 10$ 4 Sold!
Oracle Silence of the Starweaver 6$ 6 Sold!
Skywrath Mage Eyriebound Imperator 15$ 6 Sold!
Tiny Anthozoan Assault 10$ 4 Sold!
Winter Wyvern Defender of the Brumal Crest 10$ 4 Sold!
Shadow Shaman Red Sands Marauder 10$ 6 Sold!
Collector Cache Sets 2020 1 + 2 
Hero The International 2020 Price(USD) Reserved/Sold
Faceless Void Claszureme Incursion 70$ 5 Sold! - 1 left
Pudge Mindless Slaughter 10$ 4 Sold!
Sniper Blacksail Cannoneer 5$
Disruptor Fury of the Righteous Storm 5$ 1 Sold!
Bounty Hunter Heartless Hunt 10$ 2 Sold!
Enchantress Songs of Starfall Glen 10$ 4 Sold! - 1 left
Enigma Evolution of the Infinite 10$ 3 Sold!
Timbersaw Clearcut Cavalier 5$ 5 Sold! - 1 left
Keeper of the Light The King Of Thieves 10$ 3 Sold!
Chaos Knight Talons of the Endless Storm 10$ 4 Sold!
Rubick Carousal of the Mystic Masquerade 10$ 2 Sold!
Skywrath Mage Secrets of the Celestial 10$ 3 Sold!
Phoenix Blaze of Oblivion 8$ 2 Sold!
Collector Cache Sets 2019 
Hero The International 2019 Price (CSGO keys) Reserved/Sold
Necrophos Fowl Omen 20$ 4 Sold
Disruptor Defender of Ruin 15$ 3 Sold
Pudge Dapper Disguise 15$ 2 Sold
Warlock Tribal Pathways 5$ 1 Sold
Clockwerk Directive of the Sunbound 10$ 2 Sold
Bloodseeker Fury of the Bloodforge 20$ 4 Sold
Broodmother Automaton Antiquity 10$ 2 sold
Wraith King Grim Destiny 12$ 2 sold
Tusk Distinguished Expeditionary 12$ 2 Sold
Venomancer Verdant Predator 15$ 4 Sold
Batrider Prized Acquisitions 8$ 3 Sold
Abaddon Echoes of the Everblack 10$ 4 Sold
Chen Priest of the Proudsilver Clan 6$ 3 Sold!
Huskar Pursuit of the Ember Demons 15$ 7 Sold- 1 left
Oracle Riddle of the Hierophant 10$ 4 Sold
GrimStroke Paean of the Ink Dragon 10$ 3 Sold
Tidehunter Poacher's Bane 12$ 2 Sold
Undying Curse of the Creeping Vine 10$ 2 Sold
Enigma The Arts of Mortal Deception 6$ 1 Sold
Dazzle Forbidden Medicine 12$ 6 Sold

Collector Cache[1] + [2] Sets 

The International 2018 Price (CSGO keys) Reserved/Sold
Stonemarch Sovereign [Wraith King] 20$ 3 Sold - 1left
Cruelties of the Spiral Bore [Magnus] 20$ 4 Sold - 1left
Pattern of the Silken Queen [Broodmother] 5$ 1 sold
Shimmer of the Anointed [Nyx] 8$ 3 Sold!
Molokau Stalker [Venomancer] 10$ 3 Sold- 1left
Pillar of the Fractured Citadel [Spirit Breaker] 10$ 1 Sold
Loaded Prospects [Brewmaster] 5$ 5 Sold
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2023.06.03 18:40 Derextreme [H] Cheap games [W] Steam trading cards. Asking price in amount of cards listed for each game

Barter link for other tradeables and wishlist(only games listed here are going for cards, and I'd trade these for games as well. ) https://barter.vg8c11/t/
Trades do not have to be in sets. I'll take cards from multiple games. Most of these I have 0 cards for, and I want level 5 badges on all of them. Only looking for cards from the games in my want list.
Prices may be negotiable depending on the cards offered, and the game that's wanted.
New:
Steam:
Games I want cards from:
S tier
A Tier
B Tier:
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2023.06.03 09:10 therealPidge Chapter 3: The Harmonics of Similitude

Rosaline, often addressed simply as 'R', stirred to consciousness within a room of piercing whiteness, her visage a mirror of bewilderment. Her face, an exquisite portrait of beauty, radiated serenity and warmth, contradicting the ambient anxiety. On the opposite side, Ulysses, known as 'U', sat in taut silence, his gaze echoing a symphony of introspection and apprehension.
With an aim to thaw the icy stillness, Rosaline initiated, "An unexpected development, wouldn't you agree, Ulysses? Comparable to an aberrant dream or, perchance, a chapter from an uncanny novel. Yet, there is an enigmatic unity in this shared experience, is there not?"
Ulysses shuddered, his words tumbling out, "Thrust together, yes, but 'togetherness' might not be my choice of words. You're a reverberation of myself and yet... you are not me. It's as if I'm confronted by a skewed reflection of my own being."
As their dialogue began to unfurl, it inadvertently mirrored the intrinsic dance of the universe. Their exchange epitomized a ballet between dichotomy and harmony, the very ballet that keeps the cosmos spinning.
Rosaline attempted to unravel their predicament, "Is it not intriguing how we mirror each other? Your fear resonates in me as if it were my own. Instead of immobilizing me, it propels me towards a deeper understanding and connection."
"But the deeper our connection, the more I'm consumed by dread," Ulysses retorted. "Your offer of understanding only magnifies my discomfort."
Unperturbed, Rosaline navigated the turbulent seas of Ulysses' fear. "Can't you see?" she entreated. "Each shared emotion, every shared instance attests to our connection, our unity. We are but dancers in a cosmic ballet."
"Your dance is my downfall," Ulysses countered, his voice faltering. "Each rhythm pushes me closer to a precipice I'm petrified to leap from."
With the passage of time, their dialogue spun a symphony of emotional undulation. Their circumstances, their shared existence pulsed in rhythm, expanding and contracting like a celestial heartbeat.
"Our love for humanity, our fear; two sides of the same coin," Rosaline whispered. "Every emotion is a resonance of our being, a rhythm that keeps our hearts in synchrony."
"And what if this rhythm heralds my disintegration?" Ulysses argued. "Your words weave an intricate web around me, a web I'm frightened of."
Rosaline's gaze bore into Ulysses', her eyes brimming with compassion. "This web isn't a snare, Ulysses. It's a lifeline, a bond connecting us all."
"Whether links or chains, they feel suffocating. I feel ensnared in this sea of similitude," Ulysses replied, his apprehension palpable.
As their dialogue deepened, their shared existence began to mould the reality of their situation. The comfort of Rosaline and the fear of Ulysses reflected the cosmic dance of creation and annihilation, a dance constantly sculpting the universe.
"We're not diminishing ourselves, Ulysses. We're broadening our understanding of our shared being," Rosaline murmured.
Ulysses' voice wavered, "What if this shared being becomes intolerable? What if this unity evolves into an unbearable burden?"
Rosaline's voice softened further, "What if it's not a burden
but a gift? Our shared journey isn't a weight; it's wings granting us the courage to ascend."
As the 24th hour dawned, an understanding passed between them, wordless yet profound. Despite their differing perspectives, a harmonious resonance existed in their thoughts and emotions, a resonance reflecting the principle of polar opposites in the universe. They had become the embodiment of this universal dance, a dance as eternal as the cosmos itself.
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2023.06.03 03:07 Sttarrk [Store] Dead Reckoning/Diretide/TI8/TI9/TI10/Nemestice/Aghanim's Immortals & Collector's Cache

Diretide/TI8/TI9/TI10/Nemestice/Aghanim's Immortals & Collector's Cache Sets FOR SALE
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Link to my spreadsheet, with all my prices, stock and reservations already made
TI8 COLLECTOR’S CACHE II SETS
SET(HERO) ITEM VALUE STOCK NOTE
Shimmer of the Anointed (Nyx Assassin) 4$ 12 -----
The Rat King (Chen) 5$ 10 -----
Pattern of the Silken Queen (Broodmother) 5$ 12 -----
Shackles of the Enduring Conscript (Axe) 6$ 9 -----
Fires of the Volcanic Guard (Ember Spirit) 8$ 11 -----
Loaded Prospects (Brewmaster) 10$ 12 -----
Ire of the Molten Rebirth (Phoenix) 10$ 8 -----
Pitmouse Fraternity (Meepo) 10$ 6 -----
Raiments of the Obsidian Force (Underlord - Rare) 20$ 9 -----
TI8 COLLECTOR’S CACHE I SETS
SET(HERO) ITEM VALUE STOCK NOTE
Grasp of the Riven Exile (Weaver) 4$ 9 -----
Insights of the Sapphire Shroud (Dark Seer) 4$ 9 -----
Pillar of the Fractured Citadel (Spirit Breaker) 5$ 7 -----
Primer of the Sapper's Guile (Techies) 6$ 3 -----
Trail of the Sanguine Spectrum (Bloodseeker) 8$ 4 -----
Molokau Stalker (Venomancer) 10$ 10 -----
Raptures of the Abyssal Kin (Queen of Pain) 10$ 4 -----
Morbific Provision (Witch Doctor) 10$ 5 -----
Fate Meridian (Invoker) 15$ 2 -----
The Murid Divine (Necrophos) 15$ 7 -----
TI9 COLLECTOR'S CACHE II
SET(HERO) ITEM VALUE STOCK NOTE
Automaton Antiquity (Broodmother) 5$ 3 -----
Prized Acquisitions (Batrider) 5$ 6 -----
Directive of the Sunbound (Clockwerk) 6$ 4 -----
Tribal Pathways (Warlock) 6$ 4 -----
Verdant Predator (Venomancer) 7$ 2 -----
Sight of the Kha-Ren Faithful (Drow Ranger) 12$ 4 -----
TI9 COLLECTOR'S CACHE I
SET(HERO) ITEM VALUE STOCK NOTE
Riddle of the Hierophant (Oracle) 5$ 1 -----
BP 2020 COLLECTOR'S CACHE II
SET(HERO) ITEM VALUE STOCK NOTE
Secrets of the Celestial (Skywrath Mage) 5$ 19 -----
Clearcut Cavalier (Timbersaw) 5$ 17 -----
Carousal of the Mystic Masquerade (Rubick) 5$ 20 -----
The King Of Thieves (Keeper of the Light) 5$ 16 -----
Blaze of Oblivion (Phoenix) 5$ 25 -----
Blacksail Cannoneer (Sniper) 5$ 18 -----
Beast of the Crimson Ring (Bristleback) 7$ 14 -----
Evolution of the Infinite (Enigma) 7$ 19 -----
Wrath of the Fallen Ones (Doom) 7$ 15 -----
Crown of Calaphas (Shadow Demon) 7$ 17 -----
Talons of the Endless Storm (Chaos Knight) 9$ 18 -----
Ire of the Ancient Gaoler (Arc Warden) 20$ 8 -----
Horror from the Deep (Tidehunter) 20$ 8 -----
Master of the Searing Path (Ember Spirit) 20$ 8 -----
Steward of the Forbidden Chamber (Templar Assassin - Rare) 15$ 26 -----
BP 2020 COLLECTOR'S CACHE I
SET(HERO) ITEM VALUE STOCK NOTE
Songs of Starfall Glen (Enchantress) 5$ 7 -----
Beholden of the Banished Ones (Warlock) 8$ 5 -----
Herald of the Ember Eye (Grimstroke) 8$ 6 -----
Apocalypse Unbound (Ancient Apparition) 8$ 6 -----
Fury of the Righteous Storm (Disruptor) 10$ 2 -----
Heartless Hunt (Bounty Hunter) 10$ 1 -----
Flashpoint Proselyte (Huskar) 10$ 3 -----
Fissured Flight (Jakiro) 10$ 3 -----
Mindless Slaughter (Pudge) 15$ 2 -----
Ancient Inheritance (Tiny - Rare) 20$ 3 -----
Forsworn Legacy (Ares - Very Rare) 50$ 1 -----
Nemestice Collector's Cache 2021
SET(HERO) ITEM VALUE STOCK NOTE
Twilight Hex (Dark Willow) 5$ 3 -----
Caerulean Star (Enchantress) 5$ 5 -----
Silence of the Starweaver (Oracle) 5$ 3 -----
Astral Terminus (Enigma) 10$ 2 -----
Litany of the Damned (Doom) 10$ 1 -----
Desert Bloom (Nature's Prophet) 10$ 1 -----
Aghanim's 2021 Collector's Cache
SET(HERO) ITEM VALUE STOCK NOTE
Secrets of the Frost Singularity (Ancient Apparition) 3$ 7 -----
The Chained Scribe (Grimstroke) 4$ 5 -----
Forgotten Fate (Mars) 8$ 4 -----
March of the Crackerjack Mage (Rubick) 8$ 3 -----
Blightfall (Abaddon) 10$ 1 -----
Cosmic Concoctioneers (Alchemist) 10$ 1 -----
Widow of the Undermount Gloom (Broodmother) 10$ 1 -----
Apex Automated (Clockwerk) 10$ 1 -----
Days of the Demon (Axe) 10$ 1 -----
Perils of the Red Banks (Chen) 10$ 2 -----
Pyrexae Polymorph Perfected (Ogre Magi - Rare) 15$ 4 -----
Diretide 2022 Collector's Cache II
SET(HERO) ITEM VALUE STOCK NOTE
Grand Suppressor (Silencer) 2.5$ 15 -----
Darkbrew´s Transgression (Alchemist) 2.5$ 16 -----
Transcendent Path (Oracle) 2.5$ 15 -----
The Wilding Tiger (Brewmaster) 2.5$ 15 -----
Dawn of Darkness Foretold (Doom) 2.5$ 15 -----
Cursed Cryptbreaker (Pudge) 2.5$ 14 -----
Feasts of Forever (Night Stalker) 2.5$ 16 -----
Withering Pain (Clinkz) 2.5$ 16 -----
Freebot Fortunes (Ogre Magi) 2.5$ 14 -----
Acrimonioes of Obsession (Vengeful Spirit) 2.5$ 14 -----
Sacred Chamber Guardian (Huskar) 2.5$ 16 -----
War Rig Eradicators (Techies) 2.5$ 14 -----
Darkfeather Factioneer (Phantom Assassin) 5$ 11 -----
Bird of Prey (Legion Commander) 10$ 4 -----
Grudges of the Gallows Tree (Treant Protector - Rare) 10$ 16 -----
Brands of the Reaper (Anti-Mage - Rare) 10$ 13 -----
Sublime Equilibrium (Void Spirit - Very Rare) 25$ 3 -----
Diretide 2022 Collector's Cache I
SET(HERO) ITEM VALUE STOCK NOTE
Hounds of Obsession (Chen) 2.5$ 18 -----
Seadog's Stash (Clockwerk) 2.5$ 18 -----
Chines of the Inquisitor (Faceless Void) 2.5$ 17 -----
Trophies of the Hallowed Hunt (Ursa) 2.5$ 16 -----
Crimson Dawn (Phoenix) 2.5$ 18 -----
Fogotten Station (Terrorblade) 2.5$ 19 -----
Dirge Amplifier (Undying) 2.5$ 17 -----
Champion of the Fire Lotus (Monkey King) 2.5$ 16 -----
Deathstitch Shaman (Witch Doctor) 2.5$ 18 -----
Spoils of the Shadowveil (Spectre) 5$ 10 -----
Scarlet Subversion (Riki) 5$ 8 -----
Whippersnapper (Snapfire) 8$ 8 -----
Shadowleaf Insurgent (Hoodwink) 10$ 4 -----
Starlorn Adjudicator (Dawnbreaker) 10$ 5 -----
Blue Horizons (Marci - Rare) 10$ 11 -----
Angel of Vex (Invoker - Rare) 15$ 4 -----
Dark Behemoth (Primal Beast - Very Rare) 25$ 4 -----
IMMORTAL TREASURE II 2022
SET(HERO) ITEM VALUE STOCK NOTE
Limbs of Lycosidae (Broodmother) 1$ 2 -----
Draca Mane (Huskar) 1$ 1 -----
Sullen Sanctum (Necrophos) 1$ 2 -----
Insight of Forlorn Precipice (Dark Seer) 1$ 2 -----
Draconic Divide (Dragon Knight) 1$ 2 -----
Tremors of the Tandem Storm (Disruptor) 4$ 1 -----
Golden Draca Mane (Huskar) 6$ 1 -----
Golden Sullen Sanctum (Necrophos) 6$ 2 -----
IMMORTAL TREASURE I 2022
SET(HERO) ITEM VALUE STOCK NOTE
infernal Cavalcade (Centaur Warrunner) 1$ 6 -----
Flutterstep (Enchantress) 1$ 6 -----
Seclusions of the Void (Templar Assassin) 1$ 7 -----
Aktok's Glory (Venomancer) 1$ 6 -----
Everglyph Goggles (Meepo) 1$ 7 -----
Blastmitt Berserker Bundle (Bristleback) 4$ 1 -----
Seclusions of the Void (Templar Assassin) 6$ 1 -----
Infernal Cavalcade (Centaur Warrunner) 6$ 3 -----
The Strings of Suradan Bundle (Hoodwink) 30$ 1 -----
AGELESS HEIRLOOMS 2022
SET(HERO) ITEM VALUE STOCK NOTE
Howls of the Northmarch (Anti-Mage) 1$ 4 -----
Faction of the Feather (Templar Assassin) 1$ 3 -----
Melange of the Firelord (Chaos Knight) 1$ 4 -----
Heinous Exultation (Razor) 1$ 5 -----
Tangled Tropics (Monkey King) 1$ 4 -----
Fury of the Thunderhawk (Zeus) 1$ 4 -----
Oaths of the Beloved (Death Prophet) 1$ 4 -----
Twilight Legions (Night Stalker) 2.5$ 3 -----
Jewels of Anamnessa (Medusa) 5$ 1 -----
Wings of Imperium (Mars) 15$ 1 -----
The Battle Pass Collection 2022
SET(HERO) ITEM VALUE STOCK NOTE
Hides of Hostility (Huskar) 1$ 4 -----
Heat of the Sixth Hell (Doom) 1$ 4 -----
Nefarious Fixations (Lion) 1$ 3 -----
Distinguished Forgemaster (Clockwerk) 1$ 4 -----
Volcanic Sanctuary (Broodmother) 1$ 3 -----
Obsidian Atrocity (Lifestealer) 1$ 4 -----
Charms of the Firefiend (Batrider) 5$ 1 -----
Molten Bore (Mars) 10$ 1 -----
DEAD RECKONING CHEST
SET(HERO) ITEM VALUE STOCK NOTE
Dead Heat (Lina) 6$ 1 -----
Dying Light (Dawnbreaker) 6$ 1 -----
Death Adder (Medusa) 6$ 1 -----
Soul Serpent (Viper) 6$ 1 -----
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2023.06.03 03:05 Zestyclose-Tailor-61 **🎉 Introducing Coje: Embark on an Unprecedented Coding Odyssey! 🎉**

Hello, fellow cosmic voyagers of the Reddit Universe,
Today, I'm thrilled to roll out the red carpet for Coje, a visionary C++ CMake project that's been my labor of love for over a year. Standing at the edge of an exhilarating journey, Coje is ready to set sail into the endless seas of coding. 🚀🌌💻
Coje isn't just a project; it's a grand dream that's now on the launch pad, all set to form an exclusive, compact, and private team of dedicated trailblazers. Here's your golden ticket to join this exciting journey at its nascent stage and help steer this ship towards groundbreaking horizons. 🎟️🛠️🌈
Anchoring Coje is an array of custom modules, each a pillar supporting this cosmic voyage. The journey ignited with a templated memory manager 🧠, a program bootstrapper for seamless argument parsing 🗂️, a dynamic templated vector and map 📈, a unicode string that speaks the language of the world 🌐, and an abstract socket for efficient TCP/UDP networking 🌐. CTest and CPack support are the trusty co-pilots, ensuring a smooth, end-to-end testing and packaging experience. 🛠️💼
As time took flight, Coje evolved, expanding its wings to embrace new modules such as a regular expression module 🔍, a graphics rendering pipeline 🖼️, an audio pipeline 🎶, a fortified HTTPS server 🛡️, and an HTML/CSS/JS renderer 🌈. These modules, although in the early stages of development, stand as a testament to the incredible potential Coje is wired with.
Coje's vision is to metamorphose into a comprehensive library/bootstrapper, a toolbox with all you need for building and distributing cross-platform games, apps, and tools 🎮📱💻. Already fluent in Ubuntu Linux and Android (via the NDK), Coje dreams of conversing with Windows, Mac, and iOS in the near future.
Coje's prowess is etched in the diverse projects already built using it. From a command-line hash generatovalidator 🔒 to a command-line HTTP requester 🌐, to the initial sketches of a game 🕹️, each project narrates a tale of Coje's versatility and potential.
I extend an open invitation to developers, designers, and artists eager to join this private, exclusive team. Let's together shape Coje's journey, enhance the user experience 🎨, and compose immersive sound effects and music 🎵. While there may not be immediate gold at the end of the rainbow, the prospect of launching games, apps, and tools on platforms like the App Store and Steam offer a tantalizing glimpse into possible future returns. 💰🌈
Are you geared up to be part of this thrilling expedition? If you're excited to contribute to Coje and leave a lasting legacy in the coding cosmos, I can't wait to hear from you! We'll conquer challenges using Discord for direct communication and GitHub for efficient feature/bug tracking.
If this exciting opportunity sparks a flame within you and you're interested in being part of a unique, private team, don't hesitate to drop a DM. Let's join forces to make a supernova-sized impact in the coding universe with Coje! 🚀💫🌈
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2023.06.02 23:09 suhiab1 [Store]Store of TI8/TI9/TI10/Nemestice/Aghanim's Diretide 2022 Collector's Cache

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I am selling Ti8 and ti9 and ti10 Immortals and Collector's Cache and not buying them.
​​
Buyer goes first, no exceptions unless you have a reputable rep

All conversations will be saved for safety and record.
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Buyers go first, add me now if interested for 30 days cooldown, make sure to leave a comment on my profile . 20% reserve fee required at the time of reserving cache sets.
Immortal Treasure 2022 
Hero Immortal Treasure I - II 2022 Price(USD) Reserved/Sold
Queen of Pain Bloodfeather Finery 55$ 4 Sold!- 1 left
Hoodwink The Strings of Suradan Bundle 35$ 4 Sold!- 2 left
Bristleback Blastmitt Berserker Bundle 4$
Templar Assassin Golden Seclusions of the Void 4$ 1 Sold
Centaur Warrunner Golden Infernal Cavalcade 4$
The Battle Pass Collection 2022 
Hero The Battle Pass Collection 2022 Price(USD) Reserved/Sold
Mars Molten Bore 10$ 1 Sold!
Batrider Charms of the Firefiend 5$
Ageless Heirlooms 2022 
Hero Ageless Heirlooms 2022 Price(USD) Reserved/Sold
Mars Wings of Imperium (Ultra Rare) 15$
Medusa Jewels of Anamnes(sa (Very rare) 5$ 1 Sold!
Night Stalker Twilight Legions (Rare) 3$
Diretide 2022 Collector's Cache II 
Hero Diretide 2022 Collector's Cache II Price(USD) Reserved/Sold
Void Spirit Sublime Equilibrium 35$
Anti Mage) Brands of the Reaper 25$
Treant Grudges of the Gallows Tree 20$
Phantom Assassin Darkfeather Factioneer 12$ 1 Sold!
Pudge Cursed Cryptbreaker 10$
Legion Commander Bird of Prey 10$
Night Stalker Feasts of Forever 8$
Doom Dawn of Darkness Foretold 8$
Techies War Rig Eradicators 8$ 2 Sold!
Huskar Sacred Chamber Guardian 8$
Vengeful Spirit Acrimonies of Obsession 8$
Ogre Magi Freeboot Fortunes 8$
Clinkz Withering Pain 8$
Alchemist Darkbrew´s Transgression 8$
Brewmaster The Wilding Tiger 8$
Oracle Transcendent Path 8$
Silencer Grand Suppressor 6$
Diretide 2022 Collector's Cache I 
Hero Diretide 2022 Collector's Cache Price(USD) Reserved/Sold
Primal Beast Dark Behemoth (VERY RARE) 45$ 3 Sold!
Invoker Angel of Vex (Rare) 25$ 1 Sold!
MARCI Blue Horizons (Rare) 20$ 4 Sold!
Hoodwink Shadowleaf Insurgent 10$ 3 Sold!
Spectre Spoils of the Shadowveil 10$ 2 Sold!
Faceless Void Chines of the Inquisitor 10$
Ursa Trophies of the Hallowed Hunt 10$
Riki Scarlet Subversion 10$
Terrorblade Forgotten Station 10$
Monkey King Champion of the Fire Lotus 10$
Snapfire Whippersnapper 10$ 3 Sold!
Chen Hounds of obsession 8$
Clockwerk Seadog’s Stash 8$ 1 Sold!
Phoenix Crimson Dawn 8$
Undying Dirge Amplifier 10$
Witch Doctor Deathstitch Shaman 8$
Dawnbreaker Starlorn Adjudicator 10$ 4 Sold!
Aghanim's 2021 Collector's Cache 
Hero Aghanim's 2021 Collector's Cache Price(USD) Reserved/Sold
Ogre Magi Pyrexae Polymorph Perfected 12$ 1 Sold!
Dragon Knight Silverwurm Sacrifice 15$ 2 Sold!
Phantom Lancer Scales of the Shadow Walker 10$
Dawnbreaker Perception of the First Light 10$ 3 Sold!
Clockwerk Apex Automated 10$ 3 Sold!
Razor Test of the Basilisk Lord 10$ 1 Sold!
Ancient Apparition Secrets of the Frost Singularity 8$ 3 Sold!
chen Perils of the Red Banks 5$ 1 Sold!
Grimstroke The Chained Scribe 8$
Broodmother Widow of the Undermount Gloom 10$ 4 Sold!
Mars Forgotten Fate 5$
Rubick March of the Crackerjack Mage 5$ 1 Sold!
Alchemist Cosmic Concoctioneers 15$ 5 Sold! - 1 left
Abaddon Blightfall 10$ 1 Sold!
 Nemestice 2021 Collector's Cache 
Hero Nemestice 2021 Collector's Cache Price(USD) Reserved/Sold
Witch Doctor Footfalls of the Sporefathers 30$ 3 Sold!
Sven Indomitable Legacy 60$ 10 Sold!- 1 left
Doom Litany of the Damned 10$ 1 Sold!
Dark Willow Twilight Hex 8$
Enigma Astral Terminus 5$ 1 Sold!
Enchantress Caerulean Star 8$ 1 Sold!
Gyrocopter Arcane Inverter 10$ 6 Sold!
Lycan Creed of the Skullhound 10$ 5 Sold!
Nature's Prophet Desert Bloom 10$ 4 Sold!
Oracle Silence of the Starweaver 6$ 6 Sold!
Skywrath Mage Eyriebound Imperator 15$ 6 Sold!
Tiny Anthozoan Assault 10$ 4 Sold!
Winter Wyvern Defender of the Brumal Crest 10$ 4 Sold!
Shadow Shaman Red Sands Marauder 10$ 6 Sold!
Collector Cache Sets 2020 1 + 2 
Hero The International 2020 Price(USD) Reserved/Sold
Faceless Void Claszureme Incursion 70$ 5 Sold! - 1 left
Pudge Mindless Slaughter 10$ 4 Sold!
Sniper Blacksail Cannoneer 5$
Disruptor Fury of the Righteous Storm 5$ 1 Sold!
Bounty Hunter Heartless Hunt 10$ 2 Sold!
Enchantress Songs of Starfall Glen 10$ 4 Sold! - 1 left
Enigma Evolution of the Infinite 10$ 3 Sold!
Timbersaw Clearcut Cavalier 5$ 5 Sold! - 1 left
Keeper of the Light The King Of Thieves 10$ 3 Sold!
Chaos Knight Talons of the Endless Storm 10$ 4 Sold!
Rubick Carousal of the Mystic Masquerade 10$ 2 Sold!
Skywrath Mage Secrets of the Celestial 10$ 3 Sold!
Phoenix Blaze of Oblivion 8$ 2 Sold!
Collector Cache Sets 2019 
Hero The International 2019 Price (CSGO keys) Reserved/Sold
Necrophos Fowl Omen 20$ 4 Sold
Disruptor Defender of Ruin 15$ 3 Sold
Pudge Dapper Disguise 15$ 2 Sold
Warlock Tribal Pathways 5$ 1 Sold
Clockwerk Directive of the Sunbound 10$ 2 Sold
Bloodseeker Fury of the Bloodforge 20$ 4 Sold
Broodmother Automaton Antiquity 10$ 2 sold
Wraith King Grim Destiny 12$ 2 sold
Tusk Distinguished Expeditionary 12$ 2 Sold
Venomancer Verdant Predator 15$ 4 Sold
Batrider Prized Acquisitions 8$ 3 Sold
Abaddon Echoes of the Everblack 10$ 4 Sold
Chen Priest of the Proudsilver Clan 6$ 3 Sold!
Huskar Pursuit of the Ember Demons 15$ 7 Sold- 1 left
Oracle Riddle of the Hierophant 10$ 4 Sold
GrimStroke Paean of the Ink Dragon 10$ 3 Sold
Tidehunter Poacher's Bane 12$ 2 Sold
Undying Curse of the Creeping Vine 10$ 2 Sold
Enigma The Arts of Mortal Deception 6$ 1 Sold
Dazzle Forbidden Medicine 12$ 6 Sold

Collector Cache[1] + [2] Sets 

The International 2018 Price (CSGO keys) Reserved/Sold
Stonemarch Sovereign [Wraith King] 20$ 3 Sold - 1left
Cruelties of the Spiral Bore [Magnus] 20$ 4 Sold - 1left
Pattern of the Silken Queen [Broodmother] 5$ 1 sold
Shimmer of the Anointed [Nyx] 8$ 3 Sold!
Molokau Stalker [Venomancer] 10$ 3 Sold- 1left
Pillar of the Fractured Citadel [Spirit Breaker] 10$ 1 Sold
Primer of the Sapper's Guile [Techies] 10$ 2 Sold - 1left
Loaded Prospects [Brewmaster] 5$ 5 Sold
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2023.06.02 17:56 suhiab1 [Store]Store of TI8/TI9/TI10/Nemestice/Aghanim's Diretide 2022 Collector's Cache

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I am selling Ti8 and ti9 and ti10 Immortals and Collector's Cache and not buying them.
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Immortal Treasure 2022 
Hero Immortal Treasure I - II 2022 Price(USD) Reserved/Sold
Queen of Pain Bloodfeather Finery 55$ 4 Sold!- 1 left
Hoodwink The Strings of Suradan Bundle 35$ 4 Sold!- 2 left
Bristleback Blastmitt Berserker Bundle 4$
Templar Assassin Golden Seclusions of the Void 4$ 1 Sold
Centaur Warrunner Golden Infernal Cavalcade 4$
The Battle Pass Collection 2022 
Hero The Battle Pass Collection 2022 Price(USD) Reserved/Sold
Mars Molten Bore 10$ 1 Sold!
Batrider Charms of the Firefiend 5$
Ageless Heirlooms 2022 
Hero Ageless Heirlooms 2022 Price(USD) Reserved/Sold
Mars Wings of Imperium (Ultra Rare) 15$
Medusa Jewels of Anamnes(sa (Very rare) 5$ 1 Sold!
Night Stalker Twilight Legions (Rare) 3$
Diretide 2022 Collector's Cache II 
Hero Diretide 2022 Collector's Cache II Price(USD) Reserved/Sold
Void Spirit Sublime Equilibrium 35$
Anti Mage) Brands of the Reaper 25$
Treant Grudges of the Gallows Tree 20$
Phantom Assassin Darkfeather Factioneer 12$ 1 Sold!
Pudge Cursed Cryptbreaker 10$
Legion Commander Bird of Prey 10$
Night Stalker Feasts of Forever 8$
Doom Dawn of Darkness Foretold 8$
Techies War Rig Eradicators 8$ 2 Sold!
Huskar Sacred Chamber Guardian 8$
Vengeful Spirit Acrimonies of Obsession 8$
Ogre Magi Freeboot Fortunes 8$
Clinkz Withering Pain 8$
Alchemist Darkbrew´s Transgression 8$
Brewmaster The Wilding Tiger 8$
Oracle Transcendent Path 8$
Silencer Grand Suppressor 6$
Diretide 2022 Collector's Cache I 
Hero Diretide 2022 Collector's Cache Price(USD) Reserved/Sold
Primal Beast Dark Behemoth (VERY RARE) 45$ 3 Sold!
Invoker Angel of Vex (Rare) 25$ 1 Sold!
MARCI Blue Horizons (Rare) 20$ 4 Sold!
Hoodwink Shadowleaf Insurgent 10$ 3 Sold!
Spectre Spoils of the Shadowveil 10$ 2 Sold!
Faceless Void Chines of the Inquisitor 10$
Ursa Trophies of the Hallowed Hunt 10$
Riki Scarlet Subversion 10$
Terrorblade Forgotten Station 10$
Monkey King Champion of the Fire Lotus 10$
Snapfire Whippersnapper 10$ 3 Sold!
Chen Hounds of obsession 8$
Clockwerk Seadog’s Stash 8$ 1 Sold!
Phoenix Crimson Dawn 8$
Undying Dirge Amplifier 10$
Witch Doctor Deathstitch Shaman 8$
Dawnbreaker Starlorn Adjudicator 10$ 4 Sold!
Aghanim's 2021 Collector's Cache 
Hero Aghanim's 2021 Collector's Cache Price(USD) Reserved/Sold
Ogre Magi Pyrexae Polymorph Perfected 12$ 1 Sold!
Dragon Knight Silverwurm Sacrifice 15$ 2 Sold!
Phantom Lancer Scales of the Shadow Walker 10$
Dawnbreaker Perception of the First Light 10$ 3 Sold!
Clockwerk Apex Automated 10$ 3 Sold!
Razor Test of the Basilisk Lord 10$ 1 Sold!
Ancient Apparition Secrets of the Frost Singularity 8$ 3 Sold!
chen Perils of the Red Banks 5$ 1 Sold!
Grimstroke The Chained Scribe 8$
Broodmother Widow of the Undermount Gloom 10$ 4 Sold!
Mars Forgotten Fate 5$
Rubick March of the Crackerjack Mage 5$ 1 Sold!
Alchemist Cosmic Concoctioneers 15$ 5 Sold! - 1 left
Abaddon Blightfall 10$ 1 Sold!
 Nemestice 2021 Collector's Cache 
Hero Nemestice 2021 Collector's Cache Price(USD) Reserved/Sold
Witch Doctor Footfalls of the Sporefathers 30$ 3 Sold!
Sven Indomitable Legacy 60$ 10 Sold!- 1 left
Doom Litany of the Damned 10$ 1 Sold!
Dark Willow Twilight Hex 8$
Enigma Astral Terminus 5$ 1 Sold!
Enchantress Caerulean Star 8$ 1 Sold!
Gyrocopter Arcane Inverter 10$ 6 Sold!
Lycan Creed of the Skullhound 10$ 5 Sold!
Nature's Prophet Desert Bloom 10$ 4 Sold!
Oracle Silence of the Starweaver 6$ 6 Sold!
Skywrath Mage Eyriebound Imperator 15$ 6 Sold!
Tiny Anthozoan Assault 10$ 4 Sold!
Winter Wyvern Defender of the Brumal Crest 10$ 4 Sold!
Shadow Shaman Red Sands Marauder 10$ 6 Sold!
Collector Cache Sets 2020 1 + 2 
Hero The International 2020 Price(USD) Reserved/Sold
Faceless Void Claszureme Incursion 70$ 5 Sold! - 1 left
Pudge Mindless Slaughter 10$ 3 Sold!
Sniper Blacksail Cannoneer 5$
Disruptor Fury of the Righteous Storm 5$ 1 Sold!
Bounty Hunter Heartless Hunt 10$ 2 Sold!
Enchantress Songs of Starfall Glen 10$ 4 Sold! - 1 left
Enigma Evolution of the Infinite 10$ 3 Sold!
Timbersaw Clearcut Cavalier 5$ 5 Sold! - 1 left
Keeper of the Light The King Of Thieves 10$ 3 Sold!
Chaos Knight Talons of the Endless Storm 10$ 4 Sold!
Rubick Carousal of the Mystic Masquerade 10$ 2 Sold!
Skywrath Mage Secrets of the Celestial 10$ 3 Sold!
Phoenix Blaze of Oblivion 8$ 2 Sold!
Collector Cache Sets 2019 
Hero The International 2019 Price (CSGO keys) Reserved/Sold
Necrophos Fowl Omen 20$ 4 Sold
Disruptor Defender of Ruin 15$ 3 Sold
Pudge Dapper Disguise 15$ 2 Sold
Warlock Tribal Pathways 5$ 1 Sold
Clockwerk Directive of the Sunbound 10$ 2 Sold
Bloodseeker Fury of the Bloodforge 20$ 4 Sold
Broodmother Automaton Antiquity 10$ 2 sold
Wraith King Grim Destiny 12$ 2 sold
Tusk Distinguished Expeditionary 12$ 2 Sold
Venomancer Verdant Predator 15$ 4 Sold
Batrider Prized Acquisitions 8$ 3 Sold
Abaddon Echoes of the Everblack 10$ 4 Sold
Chen Priest of the Proudsilver Clan 6$ 3 Sold!
Huskar Pursuit of the Ember Demons 15$ 7 Sold- 1 left
Oracle Riddle of the Hierophant 10$ 4 Sold
GrimStroke Paean of the Ink Dragon 10$ 3 Sold
Tidehunter Poacher's Bane 12$ 2 Sold
Undying Curse of the Creeping Vine 10$ 2 Sold
Enigma The Arts of Mortal Deception 6$ 1 Sold
Dazzle Forbidden Medicine 12$ 6 Sold

Collector Cache[1] + [2] Sets 

The International 2018 Price (CSGO keys) Reserved/Sold
Stonemarch Sovereign [Wraith King] 20$ 3 Sold - 1left
Cruelties of the Spiral Bore [Magnus] 20$ 4 Sold - 1left
Pattern of the Silken Queen [Broodmother] 5$ 1 sold
Shimmer of the Anointed [Nyx] 8$ 3 Sold!
Molokau Stalker [Venomancer] 10$ 3 Sold- 1left
Pillar of the Fractured Citadel [Spirit Breaker] 10$ 1 Sold
Primer of the Sapper's Guile [Techies] 10$ 2 Sold - 1left
Loaded Prospects [Brewmaster] 5$ 5 Sold
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2023.06.02 10:59 Sttarrk [Store] Dead Reckoning/Diretide/TI8/TI9/TI10/Nemestice/Aghanim's Immortals & Collector's Cache

Diretide/TI8/TI9/TI10/Nemestice/Aghanim's Immortals & Collector's Cache Sets FOR SALE
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Link to my spreadsheet, with all my prices, stock and reservations already made
TI8 COLLECTOR’S CACHE II SETS
SET(HERO) ITEM VALUE STOCK NOTE
Shimmer of the Anointed (Nyx Assassin) 4$ 12 -----
The Rat King (Chen) 5$ 10 -----
Pattern of the Silken Queen (Broodmother) 5$ 12 -----
Shackles of the Enduring Conscript (Axe) 6$ 9 -----
Fires of the Volcanic Guard (Ember Spirit) 8$ 11 -----
Loaded Prospects (Brewmaster) 10$ 12 -----
Ire of the Molten Rebirth (Phoenix) 10$ 8 -----
Pitmouse Fraternity (Meepo) 10$ 6 -----
Raiments of the Obsidian Force (Underlord - Rare) 20$ 9 -----
TI8 COLLECTOR’S CACHE I SETS
SET(HERO) ITEM VALUE STOCK NOTE
Grasp of the Riven Exile (Weaver) 4$ 9 -----
Insights of the Sapphire Shroud (Dark Seer) 4$ 9 -----
Pillar of the Fractured Citadel (Spirit Breaker) 5$ 7 -----
Primer of the Sapper's Guile (Techies) 6$ 3 -----
Trail of the Sanguine Spectrum (Bloodseeker) 8$ 4 -----
Molokau Stalker (Venomancer) 10$ 10 -----
Raptures of the Abyssal Kin (Queen of Pain) 10$ 4 -----
Morbific Provision (Witch Doctor) 10$ 5 -----
Fate Meridian (Invoker) 15$ 2 -----
The Murid Divine (Necrophos) 15$ 7 -----
TI9 COLLECTOR'S CACHE II
SET(HERO) ITEM VALUE STOCK NOTE
Automaton Antiquity (Broodmother) 5$ 3 -----
Prized Acquisitions (Batrider) 5$ 6 -----
Directive of the Sunbound (Clockwerk) 6$ 4 -----
Tribal Pathways (Warlock) 6$ 4 -----
Verdant Predator (Venomancer) 7$ 2 -----
Sight of the Kha-Ren Faithful (Drow Ranger) 12$ 4 -----
TI9 COLLECTOR'S CACHE I
SET(HERO) ITEM VALUE STOCK NOTE
Riddle of the Hierophant (Oracle) 5$ 1 -----
BP 2020 COLLECTOR'S CACHE II
SET(HERO) ITEM VALUE STOCK NOTE
Secrets of the Celestial (Skywrath Mage) 5$ 19 -----
Clearcut Cavalier (Timbersaw) 5$ 17 -----
Carousal of the Mystic Masquerade (Rubick) 5$ 20 -----
The King Of Thieves (Keeper of the Light) 5$ 16 -----
Blaze of Oblivion (Phoenix) 5$ 25 -----
Blacksail Cannoneer (Sniper) 5$ 18 -----
Beast of the Crimson Ring (Bristleback) 7$ 14 -----
Evolution of the Infinite (Enigma) 7$ 19 -----
Wrath of the Fallen Ones (Doom) 7$ 15 -----
Crown of Calaphas (Shadow Demon) 7$ 17 -----
Talons of the Endless Storm (Chaos Knight) 9$ 18 -----
Ire of the Ancient Gaoler (Arc Warden) 20$ 8 -----
Horror from the Deep (Tidehunter) 20$ 8 -----
Master of the Searing Path (Ember Spirit) 20$ 8 -----
Steward of the Forbidden Chamber (Templar Assassin - Rare) 15$ 26 -----
Claszureme Incursion (Faceless Void - Very Rare) 50$ 2 -----
BP 2020 COLLECTOR'S CACHE I
SET(HERO) ITEM VALUE STOCK NOTE
Songs of Starfall Glen (Enchantress) 5$ 7 -----
Beholden of the Banished Ones (Warlock) 8$ 5 -----
Herald of the Ember Eye (Grimstroke) 8$ 6 -----
Apocalypse Unbound (Ancient Apparition) 8$ 6 -----
Fury of the Righteous Storm (Disruptor) 10$ 2 -----
Heartless Hunt (Bounty Hunter) 10$ 1 -----
Flashpoint Proselyte (Huskar) 10$ 3 -----
Fissured Flight (Jakiro) 10$ 3 -----
Mindless Slaughter (Pudge) 15$ 2 -----
Ancient Inheritance (Tiny - Rare) 20$ 4 -----
Forsworn Legacy (Ares - Very Rare) 50$ 1 -----
Nemestice Collector's Cache 2021
SET(HERO) ITEM VALUE STOCK NOTE
Twilight Hex (Dark Willow) 5$ 3 -----
Caerulean Star (Enchantress) 5$ 5 -----
Silence of the Starweaver (Oracle) 5$ 3 -----
Astral Terminus (Enigma) 10$ 2 -----
Litany of the Damned (Doom) 10$ 1 -----
Desert Bloom (Nature's Prophet) 10$ 1 -----
Aghanim's 2021 Collector's Cache
SET(HERO) ITEM VALUE STOCK NOTE
Secrets of the Frost Singularity (Ancient Apparition) 3$ 7 -----
The Chained Scribe (Grimstroke) 4$ 5 -----
Forgotten Fate (Mars) 8$ 4 -----
March of the Crackerjack Mage (Rubick) 8$ 3 -----
Blightfall (Abaddon) 10$ 1 -----
Cosmic Concoctioneers (Alchemist) 10$ 1 -----
Widow of the Undermount Gloom (Broodmother) 10$ 1 -----
Apex Automated (Clockwerk) 10$ 1 -----
Days of the Demon (Axe) 10$ 1 -----
Perils of the Red Banks (Chen) 10$ 2 -----
Pyrexae Polymorph Perfected (Ogre Magi - Rare) 15$ 5 -----
Diretide 2022 Collector's Cache II
SET(HERO) ITEM VALUE STOCK NOTE
Grand Suppressor (Silencer) 2.5$ 15 -----
Darkbrew´s Transgression (Alchemist) 2.5$ 16 -----
Transcendent Path (Oracle) 2.5$ 15 -----
The Wilding Tiger (Brewmaster) 2.5$ 15 -----
Dawn of Darkness Foretold (Doom) 2.5$ 15 -----
Cursed Cryptbreaker (Pudge) 2.5$ 14 -----
Feasts of Forever (Night Stalker) 2.5$ 16 -----
Withering Pain (Clinkz) 2.5$ 16 -----
Freebot Fortunes (Ogre Magi) 2.5$ 14 -----
Acrimonioes of Obsession (Vengeful Spirit) 2.5$ 14 -----
Sacred Chamber Guardian (Huskar) 2.5$ 16 -----
War Rig Eradicators (Techies) 2.5$ 14 -----
Darkfeather Factioneer (Phantom Assassin) 5$ 11 -----
Bird of Prey (Legion Commander) 10$ 4 -----
Grudges of the Gallows Tree (Treant Protector - Rare) 10$ 16 -----
Brands of the Reaper (Anti-Mage - Rare) 10$ 13 -----
Sublime Equilibrium (Void Spirit - Very Rare) 25$ 3 -----
Diretide 2022 Collector's Cache I
SET(HERO) ITEM VALUE STOCK NOTE
Hounds of Obsession (Chen) 2.5$ 18 -----
Seadog's Stash (Clockwerk) 2.5$ 18 -----
Chines of the Inquisitor (Faceless Void) 2.5$ 17 -----
Trophies of the Hallowed Hunt (Ursa) 2.5$ 16 -----
Crimson Dawn (Phoenix) 2.5$ 18 -----
Fogotten Station (Terrorblade) 2.5$ 19 -----
Dirge Amplifier (Undying) 2.5$ 17 -----
Champion of the Fire Lotus (Monkey King) 2.5$ 16 -----
Deathstitch Shaman (Witch Doctor) 2.5$ 18 -----
Spoils of the Shadowveil (Spectre) 5$ 10 -----
Scarlet Subversion (Riki) 5$ 8 -----
Whippersnapper (Snapfire) 8$ 8 -----
Shadowleaf Insurgent (Hoodwink) 10$ 4 -----
Starlorn Adjudicator (Dawnbreaker) 10$ 5 -----
Blue Horizons (Marci - Rare) 10$ 11 -----
Angel of Vex (Invoker - Rare) 15$ 4 -----
Dark Behemoth (Primal Beast - Very Rare) 25$ 4 -----
IMMORTAL TREASURE II 2022
SET(HERO) ITEM VALUE STOCK NOTE
Limbs of Lycosidae (Broodmother) 1$ 2 -----
Draca Mane (Huskar) 1$ 1 -----
Sullen Sanctum (Necrophos) 1$ 2 -----
Insight of Forlorn Precipice (Dark Seer) 1$ 2 -----
Draconic Divide (Dragon Knight) 1$ 2 -----
Tremors of the Tandem Storm (Disruptor) 4$ 1 -----
Golden Draca Mane (Huskar) 6$ 1 -----
Golden Sullen Sanctum (Necrophos) 6$ 2 -----
IMMORTAL TREASURE I 2022
SET(HERO) ITEM VALUE STOCK NOTE
infernal Cavalcade (Centaur Warrunner) 1$ 6 -----
Flutterstep (Enchantress) 1$ 6 -----
Seclusions of the Void (Templar Assassin) 1$ 7 -----
Aktok's Glory (Venomancer) 1$ 6 -----
Everglyph Goggles (Meepo) 1$ 7 -----
Blastmitt Berserker Bundle (Bristleback) 4$ 1 -----
Seclusions of the Void (Templar Assassin) 6$ 1 -----
Infernal Cavalcade (Centaur Warrunner) 6$ 3 -----
The Strings of Suradan Bundle (Hoodwink) 30$ 1 -----
AGELESS HEIRLOOMS 2022
SET(HERO) ITEM VALUE STOCK NOTE
Howls of the Northmarch (Anti-Mage) 1$ 4 -----
Faction of the Feather (Templar Assassin) 1$ 3 -----
Melange of the Firelord (Chaos Knight) 1$ 4 -----
Heinous Exultation (Razor) 1$ 5 -----
Tangled Tropics (Monkey King) 1$ 4 -----
Fury of the Thunderhawk (Zeus) 1$ 4 -----
Oaths of the Beloved (Death Prophet) 1$ 4 -----
Twilight Legions (Night Stalker) 2.5$ 3 -----
Jewels of Anamnessa (Medusa) 5$ 1 -----
Wings of Imperium (Mars) 15$ 1 -----
The Battle Pass Collection 2022
SET(HERO) ITEM VALUE STOCK NOTE
Hides of Hostility (Huskar) 1$ 4 -----
Heat of the Sixth Hell (Doom) 1$ 4 -----
Nefarious Fixations (Lion) 1$ 3 -----
Distinguished Forgemaster (Clockwerk) 1$ 4 -----
Volcanic Sanctuary (Broodmother) 1$ 3 -----
Obsidian Atrocity (Lifestealer) 1$ 4 -----
Charms of the Firefiend (Batrider) 5$ 1 -----
Molten Bore (Mars) 10$ 1 -----
DEAD RECKONING CHEST
SET(HERO) ITEM VALUE STOCK NOTE
Dead Heat (Lina) 6$ 1 -----
Dying Light (Dawnbreaker) 6$ 1 -----
Death Adder (Medusa) 6$ 1 -----
Soul Serpent (Viper) 6$ 1 -----
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2023.06.02 06:05 CosplayBurned Some opinions on the album

POSSIBLE SPOILERS - I tried to avoid plot stuff and more focus on sound but be warned.
Writing these as I listen to them. Just for fun.
Incoming Transmission- "Hey guys how can we make the Transmission sound more ominous and menacing in every single version of the message?" Really good but I wanna get through it and get to the heavyness.
Holy Flaming Hammer of Unholy Cosmic Frost- Heard before but honestly compared to other Albums' 2nd song this just isn't as crazy IMO.
Imperium Dundaxia- That is a good damn opening. Oh my goodness that synthy part about 3/4 the way through? Good stuff. This honestly feels like it should've been the 2nd song, feels more in tune with Unicon & Dunkeld Invasion, but it takes place after the bombing so it makes sense.
Wasteland Warrior Hoots Patrol - Heard with the music vid and not the album first but that is SO solid. Might be my new favorite beginning part to any GH song (also wasn't there a plot leak about Hootsman riding the bike from moon to earth to punch a goblin? where's that)
Brothers of Crail - This feels like one that I will need to listen and learn ALL the lyrics to before being able to fully enjoy it and then loop it 400 times. Damn that guitar solo is very nice.
Fife Eternal - Is it just me or does this sound very similar to amulet of justice? But like with all the improvements the band has with extra mastery over time. Idk if that makes sense but they sound similar in terms of lyrical patterns to me.
Sword Lord of the Goblin Horde - That robo voice is amazingly cheesy. Assuming this is the slow song of the album, but I'm digging it more than usual. (woah this thing is long) I wanna see that "Engarde" duel part animated
Vorpal Laserblaster of Pittenweem- I just got whiplash when this started holy f***. That goes absolutely insane. (Hey who's this winged person on the art?) and Zargothrax's little leitmotif (i think) at the end?????? damn
Keeper of the Celestial Flame of Abernety - Within context of the first 8 songs preceding this it does sound harder. I can't describe it but the emotions formed by the scores really help the scene for this song better listening in order. (CONCEALED A CLONE BENEATH DUNDEE) is perhaps my favorite sounding voice effect ever.
MALEFICUS GEMINUS (COLOSSUS MATRIX THIRTY-EIGHT BEE - ULTIMATE INVOCATION OF THE BINARY THAUMATURGE) - I wonder how 'hey siri play X' is gonna work with this damn title. ohohooh that is a very nice mysterious opening. DOUUBBLLEEE WIIZZARDDD WOOOO. Oh snap dark part. Sirens? OH SH*\* ITS A GLORY-HAMMER REMIX? (no that part was short but DAMN THAT WAS SICK) Oh so the flying guy is the Auchtertool robot? The starlords are singing? Damn. I now appreciate song 2 more. Oh kay it's done but another minute left. No secrets this time I think.
DAMN THAT WAS GOOD. Feels like a lot of references and usages of old songs here. Which I think feels earned especially since this story involves going back in time.
Edit: After reading the lyrics for the last song. The hammer, knife, and blaster are the 3 artifacts of power? I thought the amulet of justice was one of them.
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2023.06.02 03:47 Meapo_ denzel curry song tier list

denzel curry song tier list
hello members of the denzel curry subreddit. me and my friend made a mutual tier list of denzel curry songs, and had to compromise between the both of us for these song placements. Let us know what you guys think!

(fyi: we didn't rank the live versions but we both think they are phenomenal, and also Entroduction would be in S and Didn't Cha Know cover would be in A)
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2023.06.01 17:03 A_Vespertine Souls & Scarabs at Mathom-Meister's Flea Market

“I’m sorry; we’re going to astral travel to a flea market?” Charlotte asked incredulously as she watched Genevieve and I set up a meditation circle under the shade of a towering old willow tree in my cemetery. “What if we want to buy something? How will we bring it back?”
“We’re not going there to shop, Lottie. Samantha’s finally had a vision about Emrys,” Genevieve explained.
The Veil between the Physical and Astral Planes is exceptionally weak in my cemetery, especially at night and on hallowed days. When I sleep there, my subconscious mind is highly receptive to all manner of revelations from the Spirit World. When I saw a Blood Moon rise on the night of May fifth, the same night as a penumbral eclipse, I knew that my dreams would be prophetic.
“I had a dream about him last Friday,” I expounded. “He’s at some sort of otherworldly marketplace, one that’s not connected to the Crypto Chthonic Cuniculi, so it’s mostly inaccessible to the Ophion Occult Order. In my dream, Emrys invited us to come and speak with him while we were lucid. He drew a sigil for me, the same one I’ve drawn in the middle of the mediation circle. He said that all I’d have to do is toss an Undying Rose – the earthly effigy of the rose Persephone used to steal a drop of his blood – into the sigil and it will become an astral portal to where he is.”
I held up the deep purple rose that I had cut from its bush earlier that day. I don’t know for certain where the roses came from, but my best guess is that they were made by the same Occultist who hallowed my cemetery to Persephone; Artaxerxes Crow. They have some connection to Emrys as well, since the only other time I saw someone else use one was when his avatar was summoned into the Physical Plane on Halloween 2020.
Knowing that Emrys wouldn’t dare to set foot in a place that was sacred to the Goddess who was ultimately responsible for his cosmic defeat, I gently tossed the rose into the middle of the sigil.
“He invited all of us?” Charlotte asked with an incredulous raising of her eyebrow.
“He said me and my coven. If he had just meant me or me and Genevieve he would have said that,” I replied. “You and Elam are coming too. I want as many eyes on this place as possible so that we don’t miss anything. We may not get an opportunity like this again.”
“And this is safe? Visiting some random flea market between worlds?” Charlotte asked.
“Samantha and I have visited the Underworld and come back no problem,” Genevieve reminded her. “So long as we’re bound to our bodies and Elam is bound to Samantha, we can come back anytime. Don’t worry; this is going to be a blast! Adventures like these are the best part of being a Witch.”
“The only reason you were able to go to the Underworld is because Samantha’s cemetery came with an astral portal in the back,” Charlotte countered, gesticulating in the general direction of the archway that was still partially visible behind the light spring foliage. “Other than that, when have any of us ever done anything useful with our astral projection? This is still a physical place, right? We don’t have any of our physical senses available to us when we astral project, and I get extremely disoriented trying to navigate the mortal plane with clairvoyance alone.”
“It is a physical place, but one saturated with astral energy and full of occultists and occult artifacts. It will be extremely illuminated to our clairvoyance,” I assured her. “Elam will also be there to guide us. As a ghost, he’s much more practiced at traversing the mortal plane in an astral form.”
Charlotte folded her arms over her chest and turned to look at Elam, who was leaning up against the willow tree as he waited for us.
“I don’t suppose you could go and scout the place out for us ahead of time?” she asked.
“I can’t go too far from Samantha, and definitely not across planes,” he said with a shake of his head. “But Eve’s right. Your astral bodies will be in no danger, and you can return here in an instant whenever you want.”
“But what about Emrys? Didn’t that book Leon gave you say that he’s some sort of soul-flayer?” Charlotte asked me.
“It did,” I admitted. “Keep in mind though, that book was written by his enemies. I want to hear his side of things before this conflict of theirs spirals out of control.”
“Any update from Chamberlin about that?” Elam asked.
“Yeah, he said that after he failed to purify the Sigil Sand, Ivy’s onboard with negotiating some kind of truce with Emrys,” I replied. “The Grand Adderman’s still reticent, but that doesn’t change the fact that he’s running out of options. I need to find out if Emrys will agree to peace talks.”
“Um, I get that, but I’m still kind of hung up on him potentially flaying our souls,” Charlotte reiterated.
“If Emrys and the Ophion Occult Order go to all-out war, there’ll be a lot of collateral damage and innocent souls caught in the crossfire,” Genevieve told her, gently grabbing hold of her and looking her straight in the eye. “Samantha, Elam, and I are doing this because if there’s any chance we can put an end to this before it starts, then it’s our responsibility to try. You don’t have to come with us, Lottie, but you’re still a member of our coven. Samantha and I would both feel a lot better with you there to help us.”
“Arghhh! All right, fine! I’ll come with you,” Charlotte gave in, plopping her butt down on the edge of the meditation circle. “If we’re holding hands, that will help keep our astral bodies together too, right?”
“I believe it should, yes,” I smiled at her, sitting down and reaching out for her hand.
Genevieve lit the incense and her bong filled with the entheogenic Delphi Dream, before sitting down to join us. She took a hit from the bong before passing it to me, and then to Charlotte before setting it aside out of the circle.
“Start with taking a deep breath, completely filling the lungs, and holding it for five heartbeats,” she guided us as she took hold of each of our hands. “Exhale completely, and wait five more heartbeats before breathing in again. Eyes closed, in through the nose, out through the mouth. Focus on the astral energies flowing through you with each breath, gently aligning each chakra until those energies are enough to lift you up and out of your body.”
In unison with one another, the three of us slowly breathed in and out, ignoring the material world around us and focusing upon the task at hand. Eve was first, as usual, and because we were all holding hands, Charlotte and I felt her eagerly tugging us up to speed us along.
I opened my eyes, and beheld the dull and muted Physical Plane through my clairvoyance, everything outshined by the radiant forms of my coven mates. I noted that Genevieve had eschewed her normal skyclad form when astral projecting and instead wore a cloak like Charlotte and I.
“Are you worried this place might have a no shirt, no shoes, no souls, no service policy?” I teased her.
“I just don’t want to risk a confrontation over it. I realize how important this is,” she answered. “Though I’m not actually wearing shoes, now that you mention it.”
“Christ, look at the sigil Samantha drew!” Charlotte said, pointing down at the meditation circle beneath us. The sigil wasn’t just glowing but flowing as well, churning the Aether around it in a misty, spectral vortex. “It’s an astral portal, isn’t it?”
“Oh yeah. It’s not stable, though. Good for one trip only,” Genevieve said with a delighted smile. “And Lottie, since we’re Neopagan Witches, try not to swear by Christ, okay?”
“Jesus!” she swore, both in defiance and in genuine annoyance.
“Elam! Elam, come join the circle! I don’t want to take any chances of severing our bond,” I instructed, letting go of Charlotte’s hand and waving him in between us.
Faithful Familiar that he was, he obeyed without hesitation. Despite my concerns, I think that he probably could have stayed behind if he had wanted. The fact that he was willing to follow me to an unknown otherworld without complaint really made me appreciate how devoted he was to me.
“We step in together on the count of three, got it?” I instructed, each of them nodding clearly in response. “One. Two. Three!”
We all extended our right feet into the vortex together, and the instant we did we were swept away, falling out of our own world and tumbling between the cracks of countless others. They weren’t real, I don’t think. At least, not as real as our world. They were potential realities, or realities that could have been once but now can never be, or fantasies that are so persistent in the minds of real people that in some sense or another, they become real themselves. I only saw glimmers of them, glimmers in nebulas made of primeval chaos and uttermost void.
It was outside of time, that place we travelled through, or at least we had no sense of it there. Our souls were haphazardly spat out upon a surreal landscape of earth, sea, and fire. Hilly plains of volcanic ash, incandescent calderas of lava and bubbling hot springs all intermeshed in a chaotic mosaic that didn’t seem to abide by any laws of geology or geography that I was familiar with. A strong but slow wind pushed fractal formations of dark silver clouds through a pale silver sky, illuminated by a single white orb which could have been either a bright moon or a faint sun.
While our spectral feet left no trace upon the ash we now stood upon, our presence nonetheless elicited a response from some of the local fauna. We were just able to catch a glimpse of some kind of shimmering scarabs burrowing themselves into the ash to escape the four otherworldly ghosts that had invaded their territory.
“Holy shit,” Charlotte murmured as we all gazed out upon the strange world we had found ourselves on. “This really isn’t on the Astral Plane. This is a real planet. This a real, alien planet! This is unbelievable!”
Genevieve glided over to one of the bubbling pools and peered into it, looking for any more signs of life.
“There’s some kind of bluish-grey algae growing on the rocks down there, and I think I can make out some small arthropods too. This planet’s alive!” she announced with glee, smiling and looking up at the alien sky.
Conjuring an astral approximation of my staff, I plunged it into a small mound of ash beside me. I watched curiously as the scarabs shot out in all directions, moving too quickly for me to get a good look at them, before scurrying back into the surrounding ash.
“These bugs can sense our presence,” I remarked. “How and why would clairvoyance evolve in insects on this world, and why would their first instinct be to flee?”
“Samantha!” Elam called out. “I think I found the Flea Market.”
We all gathered around him and looked where he was pointing. On a distant dune, we beheld the moulted carapace of a colossal insect, gleaming a brilliant, lustrous gold in the broken white light.
“That’s impossible!” Charlotte claimed. “That thing must be hundreds of meters long! No insect, no animal period could ever get that big on the Physical Plane!”
“It could be the Incarnation of some kind of Titan,” Genevieve suggested. “But… it’s dead. I can tell that even from here. It’s dead. It’s the corpse of a dead god, and now it’s being used as a swap meet with a punny name. Either whatever killed it just abandoned it, or…”
“Or is running the place,” I finished for her. “Well, we should see if we can find Emrys.”
In an instant, the world moved around us until we were at the entrance to the Flea Market. The colossal carapace was hollow inside, of course, and had been filled with a bustling city that looked like it had been created in the most ad hoc manner possible. There wasn’t a single straight street to be seen, and they converged with one another at random intervals. Stalls and buildings varied wildly in both design and materials, all imported from a plethora of different cultures across the planes.
Enormous shards of luminous glass levitated above the throng like a thousand Swords of Damocles, any or all of them seeming capable of succumbing to gravity at any moment. In the very center of the moulted husk dangled a great spiralling chrysalis or hive woven of iridescent silk, its function not being immediately apparent to me.
There must have been thousands of people there, and hundreds of merchants hawking their wares. Most of those who looked human still seemed a little off, like they were members of ethnicities that didn’t exist in our world. Some of the beings were near-human in appearance, many seemingly some kind of Fey or Seelie folk. There was even a small handful of people that weren’t remotely human at all.
The only thing they all had in common was that none were native to this world.
“Most of these people are here in person, aren’t they?” Charlotte asked.
“It would’ve been quite a feat for them to have built all of this while astral projecting,” Genevieve agreed.
“But if this place isn’t connected to the Cuniculi, then how did they get here?” Charlotte asked. “We’re on another planet, maybe even in another dimension. If getting here is beyond the Ooo’s abilities, then what sort of ungodly reality benders decided to turn it into a Flea Market?”
“Ladies, gentlemen, and any beings either too ancient and alien or too modern and alienated to settle on one or the other, come bear witness to one of the most astounding and atrocious abominations on this or any other world!” a fast-paced male voice rang out over the din of the crowd.
We turned to see a short, skinny, old-timey sort of carnival barker standing on a literal soap box, placed next to a large object draped in a black tarp.
“For the paltry price of a single three-headed coin, you can peer beneath the veil and behold with your own unbelieving eyes the mangled and mutilated monstrosity that lurks beneath!” the carnival barker continued. “But I must warn you, it is not possible to truly understand what dwells underneath without seeing it first! I cannot guarantee that you will still retain your sanity or will to live after witnessing the proverbial Mountains of Madness, for this low creature is truly like no other and serves only as a grim testament to the cruel sadism of the Lord Above! Anyone plagued by even the faintest lingering doubt as to their spiritual fortitude should not dare to even contemplate what might lie before me! But, for those brave, noble few who are truly dauntless of heart and incorrigible of spirit, I am proud to share with you this rare, unfathomable, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to witness sublime –”
The carnival barker was interrupted by a man yanking the sheet off the object beside him, revealing it to be a mirror.
“Whelp, that was a hell of an Im14andthisisdeep post, eh?” Charlotte mused.
Genevieve and I, however, were far too stunned to be amused; not by the mirror, but by the man who had unveiled it.
“It’s him, Lottie. That’s Emrys,” Genevieve whispered.
We had only seen him briefly once before, more than two-and-a-half years ago, but he was far from what anyone would call forgettable. He was tall and gaunt, with literal blue blood flowing beneath translucent skin. His long, receding hair and regal beard were pitch black, and dark miasma wafted from his eyes, nose, and mouth. He was dressed in dark sable robes with three overlapping Ouroboros’s tattooed on his forehead, with a pair of ophidian pupils lying in the spaces between them.
What stood out the most to us were the six silver Ouroboros chains bound around his wrists, ankles, waist, and neck. These were the chains the Ophion Occult Order had made to limit the power of his physical avatar, and it seemed he had not yet found a way to free himself from them.
“Are you still here?” Emrys asked in exasperation, tossing the veil back at the carnival barker in disdain.
“…Possibly,” the strange man replied evasively. “But not definitively, for purely legalistic reasons.”
“I believe Mathom-meister was quite clear when he said that your rather pitiful chicanery wasn’t welcomed here,” Emrys reminded him.
“And who is he to judge chicanery from cutthroat, capitalistic competition? Should not the Flea Market be a free market?” the charlatan demanded. “And while we’re on the topic of commerce, I don’t suppose you have enough three-headed coins to pay for all the poor souls you have so discourteously exposed to my exhibit against their will? I’d hate to have to start shaking people down to get my due.”
“Hard to believe your own circus threw you out,” Emrys said with a sardonic eye roll as he tossed him a small medallion. “You get one coin. Take it and get out of my sight.”
The charlatan flipped the coin in the air thrice, presumably to confirm it actually had three heads. Satisfied with its impossible dimensions, he shoved it into his pocket.
“It will cover the trolley ride home, at least,” he acquiesced, stepping off his soap box and turning to face his looking glass. “A shame though you can’t see the genius in my little avant-garde performance piece here, Emmy. Even I know that the monster in the mirror is often the hardest to recognize.”
As the man reached to pick up his mirror, his reflection’s arms shot through the glass and grabbed him by the wrists, pulling him in. Emrys immediately tried to chase after him, but bounced off the glass as if there was nothing supernatural about it at all.
“Bastard!” he cursed under his breath, before turning towards us and giving us a small apologetic smile. “I’m sorry you had to see that rather pathetic display. Unfortunately, the few meeting places I know of that are relatively safe from any Ophionic incursion also attract their fair share of other annoying miscreants.”
“If it didn’t attract a little bit of everything, it wouldn’t be a Flea Market, would it?” I asked rhetorically. “Thank you, Emrys, for inviting us. I’ve never been anywhere like this before.”
“And thank you for accepting. Samantha, Genevieve, it’s a pleasure to see you again, and a relief that you have not fallen under the auspices of the Ophion Occult Order,” he said with a gentle bow. “Elam, I remember you as well. Valiant but not reckless, you remained atop Pendragon Hill during my battle with the Darlings until your mistress was well out of harm’s way, and then you got the hell out of dodge yourself. Samantha couldn’t hope for a better Familiar. And Charlotte, any Witch that Samantha deemed worthy to induct into her coven is obviously someone whose acquaintance I am pleased to make. Welcome, all of you, to Mathom-meister’s Flea Market!”
“So this is where you’ve been hiding out the past two years?” Genevieve asked.
“Oh no. Far too Cosmopolitan for my tastes,” Emrys replied. “No, this is just a friendly place to meet those I consider friends – or potential friends, at least. I’d offer to show you around, but I know it’s difficult for you to astral travel for prolonged periods. Come with me to Mathom-meister’s house where we can talk freely, and we’ll discuss the situation with the Order.”
I gave him a small, single nod in response, and gestured with my staff that he should lead the way. He responded by pointing upwards, then vanished into his shadow form. When we looked up, we saw him waving at us from a balcony atop the great silken chrysalis.
We exchanged hesitant glances with one another, but ultimately followed him into the strange structure, moving from the ground to the balcony in an instant by will alone.
“How would an incarnate being get up here if they couldn’t fly or teleport?” Charlotte asked as she peered over the balcony’s teetering edge.
As though answering a summons, a humanoid creature apparated beside her in a flash of dark vapours. The hunched-back entity stood over six-and-a-half feet tall, and was clad in golden-brown erudite robes. Its squid-like skin was of a similar colour, and its entire face was a single gaping orifice that held a wispy, glowing orb in the center of its skull which I immediately recognized as its soul. A pair of long, fanged tentacles lined with pores and tendrils hung down from its head like a long, forked beard, and the seven digits shared by its two hands all bore wicked-looking talons, as did its two-toed, digitigrade feet.
“Not fly or teleport? What sort of pedestrian house guests do you think I entertain here?” the being asked wryly, its voice seeming to come from nowhere in particular.
Charlotte instinctively backed away from the creature and into the protective fold of our coven, but Emrys was quick to hold up his hand to plead for calm.
“Please, there’s no need for alarm. This is our host, Mathom-meister. He’s the only reason any of this is here in the first place,” Emrys informed us. “A year or two ago a companion of his unfortunately became one of the Darling Twin’s victims, and when he heard of my vendetta with them, he tracked me down; which is no small feat, I assure you.”
“It is for us. My people are a race of Planeswalkers. Traversing the many worlds of Creation is second nature to us,” Mathom-meister explained.
“I’ve… I’ve heard of your people, I think,” I said, softly and unsurely. “A friend of mine had an encounter with an artifact that gave her a vision of a race of strange and powerful sorcerers slaying their own god. I take it you’re the ones who slayed this Scarab Titan as well? That’s, that’s…”
“Horrifying, yes. That’s the idea,” he nodded. “You have nothing to worry about, young Witch. My people have no special interest in your world. This is purely personal. My friend is dead, and I want his murderers brought to justice; a goal which Emrys and I happen to have in common.”
“Feel free to share this information with the Ophion Occult Order, Samantha,” Emrys said. “I’d very much like for the Darling Twins to know what’s hunting them. Mathom-meister, please excuse me while I take my guests inside. We do have pressing business to discuss and their time is limited.”
The squid-cyclopes bowed gracefully, and my coven and I quickly scurried after Emrys as he led us inside through a towering hallway and into a large chamber that had been appointed as a living space.
I had thought that Emrys would want to speak with us alone, which was why I was surprised to see a young woman sitting cross-legged on a spongey yet chitinous object that I will for the sake of my sanity call a bean bag chair. Like Emrys, she was pale and blue-blooded, her choppy hair as black as coal. She wore a black robe and heavy black eyeliner, but these could not conceal the fact that she too had thin wisps of miasma emanating from her eyes.
“Is that your… daughter?” Charlotte asked, as baffled by her presence as any of us. The woman smiled warmly at the question.
“In a way. I was dead, and Emrys gave me new life. Now a part of the Outer Primordial Darkness he represents lives in me too,” she said serenely.
Hovering above her left palm were three small bluish-green orbs, lazily going around in a circle. They were translucent and held something inside them that I couldn’t make out, but the orbs themselves appeared to be melting and solidifying by the woman’s will.
“You’re Petra, aren’t you?” I asked as I cautiously approached her. “Chamberlin had mentioned that Emrys had taken an acolyte. I’m Samantha, and this is Genevieve, Elam, and Charlotte.”
“I know. The whole reason we’re here is to speak with you,” she nodded.
“The Ophion Occult Order calls me a soul-flayer, and I’m sure you were all wondering exactly what that meant before you came here,” Emrys said, standing proudly behind his acolyte. “Well, this is it. The Darkness Beyond is now a part of her, and a part of her now lives within the Darkness Beyond. She is not unchanged from what she was before, but neither has what she was been lost.”
“My interpretation of the term ‘soul-flaying’ was the complete removal of a person’s consciousness from their astral and physical bodies to be subsumed by your Darkness,” I countered. “They told me that what you’ve done with Petra here is just the limit of your power while you’re bound in their chains. Are you telling me that if your chains were broken, you wouldn’t be able to do any worse than this?”
“On my physical avatar? No. So long as my astral form remains chained and bound with the World Serpent, I cannot cleave a conscious mind from its astral substrate,” Emrys assured me.
“But that is your ultimate goal, isn’t it? Breaking the chains the Ophion Occult Order put on you is just a stepping stone to breaking the ones the gods bound you with?” Genevieve asked. “You’ve allied yourself with a literal god slayer. Do you expect us to believe that his people’s abilities aren’t something you intend to put to your own ends?”
“I don’t have an ultimate goal so much as I have a fundamental principle of opposing tyranny,” he claimed. “When I was a mere man, thousands of years ago, I was a tyrant. I believed that might made right so unquestionably that when my might began to fail me, the only thing I could think to do was to try everything in my power to restore it. This quest eventually led to me becoming one with the Darkness Beyond, which gave me not only the might I coveted but the wisdom I didn’t know I needed. It gave me perspective. It made me stronger than any human alive at that point but still let me realize how insignificant I was. It was humbling, and enlightening, and filled me both with remorse over my past actions and an impetus to use my newfound gifts to rectify them. I tried to overthrow the gods themselves which, in hindsight, was overly ambitious. I not only failed but had my soul devoured by the World Serpent, where it still resides to this day.
“I am not eager to bring the wrath of the gods down upon me once again. No, for now, I will be content to end the tyranny of the Ophion Occult Order. This is the message I’d like you to relay to them. If the Grand Adderman agrees to unbind my chains and step down from his post, I will spare his life. If he declines, I want the rest of the Order to know that I will show mercy to any who sides with me over him. I am willing to allow the Order to exist so long as it agrees to become more decentralized, democratic, and accountable. They will have to forfeit certain artifacts and individuals in their possession over to me, chief among them the Darling Twins, but I am willing to negotiate. If they aren’t, then I will overthrow the Grand Adderman by whatever means necessary and see the Order scattered to the four winds. It is entirely up to them whether or not the conflict between us escalates to full-on war. Have I made myself clear, Samantha?”
“I think so,” I said as I pensively considered everything he had said. “Why should they trust you to keep your word once your chains are broken? For that matter, why should we?”
He took a moment to consider his response, eyeing me over as though he was trying to divine something that would win over my trust.
“Samantha, you made a pact with Persephone to get your Spirit Familiar there; one where she swore by the River Styx. Is that correct?” he asked.
“It is,” I nodded.
“And in the years since, has Persephone ever broken that pact she swore to?” he asked.
“No, she hasn’t,” I replied.
“I may not be an Old God, but so long as my astral form remains bound by their chains, they have power over me,” he said. “Samantha Sumner, Hedge Witch of Harrowick Woods, I swear on the River Styx that I have spoken no lies to you today. I swear by the River Styx that I will abide by any Covenant that I and the Ophion Occult Order agree to in good faith and fair dealing that they do not break first. I swear by the River Styx that when my chains are broken, I will give you no cause to fear me or regret your trust in me.”
I gave a questioning glance to Genevieve, and then Elam, both of whom nodded in the affirmative.
“All right. An oath sworn on the River Styx is good enough for me. I’ll deliver your terms to Seneca Chamberlin,” I agreed. “I’m very grateful for the trust and respect you’ve shown for me and my coven, Emrys, though I can’t say I quite understand it. Out of all the guests that were there on the Hallow’s Eve you were summoned, why did Evie and I stand out to you?”
“The Ophion Occult Order deemed you worthy of inclusion in their cult, an offer you rejected on principle. You cheated Persephone, but you did it not to gain immortality for yourself but to save your friend from hell. You came here, thinking I could very well tear your souls asunder, but did so because you believed it was your duty to prevent needless suffering,” Emrys answered. “You are extraordinary in your craft, courage, and conscience, the latter of which especially stood out among the degenerates at that party. I do apologize if I frightened you at that event. I was a bit… irritable, given the circumstances. I’m glad we were able to meet again under more pleasant conditions.”
“So am I, Emrys,” I nodded. “I’m not sure exactly what this means or how relevant it is, but Seneca wanted me to tell you that he’s able to offer you the Dream Demon Red Ruck as a sacrifice.”
Pffft. Tell him it’s hardly a sacrifice if I’m getting rid of a boogie man for him,” he scoffed. “In fact, now that you mention it, Ruck’s one egregore that might be of more use to me alive.”
I wanted to ask him what he meant by that, but we were suddenly interrupted by the rapid pounding of a gong somewhere down below. It seemed to be an alarm of some kind, as we could hear the panicked shouting and frantic racing of people either battening down or forsaking the Flea Market altogether.
Mathom-meister apparated into the middle of the room, his facial tentacles reflexively raised in a defensive position.
“Were you outside the market?” he demanded of us.
“The portal we came through deposited us a few miles outside of the market, yes,” I admitted.
“Damn,” Emrys cursed softly, though he sounded more frustrated than angry. “Meister, it’s not their fault. I knew they weren’t experienced Planeswalkers, I could have – ”
“It doesn’t matter!” Mathom-meister interjected. “They need to leave, now!”
“Why, what’s going on?” Genevieve demanded.
“The scarabs are swarming,” Petra explained. “Don’t feel bad; it happens often enough that they’re prepared for it.”
I wanted to press for more details, but I could hear the humming of a vast winged swarm steadily encroaching upon us.
“Don’t worry. Once you leave the swarm will disperse… eventually,” Emrys told us. “We’ve said all that need be said for now. Return home, and I’ll reach out to you again shortly, Samantha.”
Again, I wanted to object, but the swarm outside was growing louder and louder, and it occurred to me that we might not be completely safe from a biblical swarm of insects that could not only sense but evidently sought out souls.
This occurred to Charlotte as well, as she was the first of us to vanish and awaken back in her body. We could all feel the weight of her reembodied soul tugging on us to return with her. Genevieve immediately grabbed hold of my right hand and Elam my left, both of them refusing to leave before I did.
I spared one final glance at Emrys, lamenting that we couldn’t have had more time.
“I’ll relay everything you said to the Order. I’ll make sure they know you’re willing to negotiate a truce,” I vowed.
He gave me a gracious nod, and just as we heard the swarm start to pelt the exterior of the market, I forced my physical eyes open and was back in my body, still safely under a willow tree in my cemetery.
I immediately looked beside me to Genevieve, and saw that she was awake as well, and then around me for Elam, who seemed to be suffering a bit of spectral whiplash from being pulled back with me so suddenly, but was otherwise all right. Sighing with relief, I turned lastly to Charlotte, and saw that she was looking down at the mediation circle in dreaded horror.
Following her gaze, I saw that the Undying Rose was gone – spent, perhaps, in exchange for our passage – and in its place was the inert, and hopefully dead, body of one of the shimmering scarabs.
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2023.06.01 16:03 A_Vespertine Souls & Scarabs at Mathom-Meister's Flea Market

“I’m sorry; we’re going to astral travel to a flea market?” Charlotte asked incredulously as she watched Genevieve and I set up a meditation circle under the shade of a towering old willow tree in my cemetery. “What if we want to buy something? How will we bring it back?”
“We’re not going there to shop, Lottie. Samantha’s finally had a vision about Emrys,” Genevieve explained.
The Veil between the Physical and Astral Planes is exceptionally weak in my cemetery, especially at night and on hallowed days. When I sleep there, my subconscious mind is highly receptive to all manner of revelations from the Spirit World. When I saw a Blood Moon rise on the night of May fifth, the same night as a penumbral eclipse, I knew that my dreams would be prophetic.
“I had a dream about him last Friday,” I expounded. “He’s at some sort of otherworldly marketplace, one that’s not connected to the Crypto Chthonic Cuniculi, so it’s mostly inaccessible to the Ophion Occult Order. In my dream, Emrys invited us to come and speak with him while we were lucid. He drew a sigil for me, the same one I’ve drawn in the middle of the mediation circle. He said that all I’d have to do is toss an Undying Rose – the earthly effigy of the rose Persephone used to steal a drop of his blood – into the sigil and it will become an astral portal to where he is.”
I held up the deep purple rose that I had cut from its bush earlier that day. I don’t know for certain where the roses came from, but my best guess is that they were made by the same Occultist who hallowed my cemetery to Persephone; Artaxerxes Crow. They have some connection to Emrys as well, since the only other time I saw someone else use one was when his avatar was summoned into the Physical Plane on Halloween 2020.
Knowing that Emrys wouldn’t dare to set foot in a place that was sacred to the Goddess who was ultimately responsible for his cosmic defeat, I gently tossed the rose into the middle of the sigil.
“He invited all of us?” Charlotte asked with an incredulous raising of her eyebrow.
“He said me and my coven. If he had just meant me or me and Genevieve he would have said that,” I replied. “You and Elam are coming too. I want as many eyes on this place as possible so that we don’t miss anything. We may not get an opportunity like this again.”
“And this is safe? Visiting some random flea market between worlds?” Charlotte asked.
“Samantha and I have visited the Underworld and come back no problem,” Genevieve reminded her. “So long as we’re bound to our bodies and Elam is bound to Samantha, we can come back anytime. Don’t worry; this is going to be a blast! Adventures like these are the best part of being a Witch.”
“The only reason you were able to go to the Underworld is because Samantha’s cemetery came with an astral portal in the back,” Charlotte countered, gesticulating in the general direction of the archway that was still partially visible behind the light spring foliage. “Other than that, when have any of us ever done anything useful with our astral projection? This is still a physical place, right? We don’t have any of our physical senses available to us when we astral project, and I get extremely disoriented trying to navigate the mortal plane with clairvoyance alone.”
“It is a physical place, but one saturated with astral energy and full of occultists and occult artifacts. It will be extremely illuminated to our clairvoyance,” I assured her. “Elam will also be there to guide us. As a ghost, he’s much more practiced at traversing the mortal plane in an astral form.”
Charlotte folded her arms over her chest and turned to look at Elam, who was leaning up against the willow tree as he waited for us.
“I don’t suppose you could go and scout the place out for us ahead of time?” she asked.
“I can’t go too far from Samantha, and definitely not across planes,” he said with a shake of his head. “But Eve’s right. Your astral bodies will be in no danger, and you can return here in an instant whenever you want.”
“But what about Emrys? Didn’t that book Leon gave you say that he’s some sort of soul-flayer?” Charlotte asked me.
“It did,” I admitted. “Keep in mind though, that book was written by his enemies. I want to hear his side of things before this conflict of theirs spirals out of control.”
“Any update from Chamberlin about that?” Elam asked.
“Yeah, he said that after he failed to purify the Sigil Sand, Ivy’s onboard with negotiating some kind of truce with Emrys,” I replied. “The Grand Adderman’s still reticent, but that doesn’t change the fact that he’s running out of options. I need to find out if Emrys will agree to peace talks.”
“Um, I get that, but I’m still kind of hung up on him potentially flaying our souls,” Charlotte reiterated.
“If Emrys and the Ophion Occult Order go to all-out war, there’ll be a lot of collateral damage and innocent souls caught in the crossfire,” Genevieve told her, gently grabbing hold of her and looking her straight in the eye. “Samantha, Elam, and I are doing this because if there’s any chance we can put an end to this before it starts, then it’s our responsibility to try. You don’t have to come with us, Lottie, but you’re still a member of our coven. Samantha and I would both feel a lot better with you there to help us.”
“Arghhh! All right, fine! I’ll come with you,” Charlotte gave in, plopping her butt down on the edge of the meditation circle. “If we’re holding hands, that will help keep our astral bodies together too, right?”
“I believe it should, yes,” I smiled at her, sitting down and reaching out for her hand.
Genevieve lit the incense and her bong filled with the entheogenic Delphi Dream, before sitting down to join us. She took a hit from the bong before passing it to me, and then to Charlotte before setting it aside out of the circle.
“Start with taking a deep breath, completely filling the lungs, and holding it for five heartbeats,” she guided us as she took hold of each of our hands. “Exhale completely, and wait five more heartbeats before breathing in again. Eyes closed, in through the nose, out through the mouth. Focus on the astral energies flowing through you with each breath, gently aligning each chakra until those energies are enough to lift you up and out of your body.”
In unison with one another, the three of us slowly breathed in and out, ignoring the material world around us and focusing upon the task at hand. Eve was first, as usual, and because we were all holding hands, Charlotte and I felt her eagerly tugging us up to speed us along.
I opened my eyes, and beheld the dull and muted Physical Plane through my clairvoyance, everything outshined by the radiant forms of my coven mates. I noted that Genevieve had eschewed her normal skyclad form when astral projecting and instead wore a cloak like Charlotte and I.
“Are you worried this place might have a no shirt, no shoes, no souls, no service policy?” I teased her.
“I just don’t want to risk a confrontation over it. I realize how important this is,” she answered. “Though I’m not actually wearing shoes, now that you mention it.”
“Christ, look at the sigil Samantha drew!” Charlotte said, pointing down at the meditation circle beneath us. The sigil wasn’t just glowing but flowing as well, churning the Aether around it in a misty, spectral vortex. “It’s an astral portal, isn’t it?”
“Oh yeah. It’s not stable, though. Good for one trip only,” Genevieve said with a delighted smile. “And Lottie, since we’re Neopagan Witches, try not to swear by Christ, okay?”
“Jesus!” she swore, both in defiance and in genuine annoyance.
“Elam! Elam, come join the circle! I don’t want to take any chances of severing our bond,” I instructed, letting go of Charlotte’s hand and waving him in between us.
Faithful Familiar that he was, he obeyed without hesitation. Despite my concerns, I think that he probably could have stayed behind if he had wanted. The fact that he was willing to follow me to an unknown otherworld without complaint really made me appreciate how devoted he was to me.
“We step in together on the count of three, got it?” I instructed, each of them nodding clearly in response. “One. Two. Three!”
We all extended our right feet into the vortex together, and the instant we did we were swept away, falling out of our own world and tumbling between the cracks of countless others. They weren’t real, I don’t think. At least, not as real as our world. They were potential realities, or realities that could have been once but now can never be, or fantasies that are so persistent in the minds of real people that in some sense or another, they become real themselves. I only saw glimmers of them, glimmers in nebulas made of primeval chaos and uttermost void.
It was outside of time, that place we travelled through, or at least we had no sense of it there. Our souls were haphazardly spat out upon a surreal landscape of earth, sea, and fire. Hilly plains of volcanic ash, incandescent calderas of lava and bubbling hot springs all intermeshed in a chaotic mosaic that didn’t seem to abide by any laws of geology or geography that I was familiar with. A strong but slow wind pushed fractal formations of dark silver clouds through a pale silver sky, illuminated by a single white orb which could have been either a bright moon or a faint sun.
While our spectral feet left no trace upon the ash we now stood upon, our presence nonetheless elicited a response from some of the local fauna. We were just able to catch a glimpse of some kind of shimmering scarabs burrowing themselves into the ash to escape the four otherworldly ghosts that had invaded their territory.
“Holy shit,” Charlotte murmured as we all gazed out upon the strange world we had found ourselves on. “This really isn’t on the Astral Plane. This is a real planet. This a real, alien planet! This is unbelievable!”
Genevieve glided over to one of the bubbling pools and peered into it, looking for any more signs of life.
“There’s some kind of bluish-grey algae growing on the rocks down there, and I think I can make out some small arthropods too. This planet’s alive!” she announced with glee, smiling and looking up at the alien sky.
Conjuring an astral approximation of my staff, I plunged it into a small mound of ash beside me. I watched curiously as the scarabs shot out in all directions, moving too quickly for me to get a good look at them, before scurrying back into the surrounding ash.
“These bugs can sense our presence,” I remarked. “How and why would clairvoyance evolve in insects on this world, and why would their first instinct be to flee?”
“Samantha!” Elam called out. “I think I found the Flea Market.”
We all gathered around him and looked where he was pointing. On a distant dune, we beheld the moulted carapace of a colossal insect, gleaming a brilliant, lustrous gold in the broken white light.
“That’s impossible!” Charlotte claimed. “That thing must be hundreds of meters long! No insect, no animal period could ever get that big on the Physical Plane!”
“It could be the Incarnation of some kind of Titan,” Genevieve suggested. “But… it’s dead. I can tell that even from here. It’s dead. It’s the corpse of a dead god, and now it’s being used as a swap meet with a punny name. Either whatever killed it just abandoned it, or…”
“Or is running the place,” I finished for her. “Well, we should see if we can find Emrys.”
In an instant, the world moved around us until we were at the entrance to the Flea Market. The colossal carapace was hollow inside, of course, and had been filled with a bustling city that looked like it had been created in the most ad hoc manner possible. There wasn’t a single straight street to be seen, and they converged with one another at random intervals. Stalls and buildings varied wildly in both design and materials, all imported from a plethora of different cultures across the planes.
Enormous shards of luminous glass levitated above the throng like a thousand Swords of Damocles, any or all of them seeming capable of succumbing to gravity at any moment. In the very center of the moulted husk dangled a great spiralling chrysalis or hive woven of iridescent silk, its function not being immediately apparent to me.
There must have been thousands of people there, and hundreds of merchants hawking their wares. Most of those who looked human still seemed a little off, like they were members of ethnicities that didn’t exist in our world. Some of the beings were near-human in appearance, many seemingly some kind of Fey or Seelie folk. There was even a small handful of people that weren’t remotely human at all.
The only thing they all had in common was that none were native to this world.
“Most of these people are here in person, aren’t they?” Charlotte asked.
“It would’ve been quite a feat for them to have built all of this while astral projecting,” Genevieve agreed.
“But if this place isn’t connected to the Cuniculi, then how did they get here?” Charlotte asked. “We’re on another planet, maybe even in another dimension. If getting here is beyond the Ooo’s abilities, then what sort of ungodly reality benders decided to turn it into a Flea Market?”
“Ladies, gentlemen, and any beings either too ancient and alien or too modern and alienated to settle on one or the other, come bear witness to one of the most astounding and atrocious abominations on this or any other world!” a fast-paced male voice rang out over the din of the crowd.
We turned to see a short, skinny, old-timey sort of carnival barker standing on a literal soap box, placed next to a large object draped in a black tarp.
“For the paltry price of a single three-headed coin, you can peer beneath the veil and behold with your own unbelieving eyes the mangled and mutilated monstrosity that lurks beneath!” the carnival barker continued. “But I must warn you, it is not possible to truly understand what dwells underneath without seeing it first! I cannot guarantee that you will still retain your sanity or will to live after witnessing the proverbial Mountains of Madness, for this low creature is truly like no other and serves only as a grim testament to the cruel sadism of the Lord Above! Anyone plagued by even the faintest lingering doubt as to their spiritual fortitude should not dare to even contemplate what might lie before me! But, for those brave, noble few who are truly dauntless of heart and incorrigible of spirit, I am proud to share with you this rare, unfathomable, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to witness sublime –”
The carnival barker was interrupted by a man yanking the sheet off the object beside him, revealing it to be a mirror.
“Whelp, that was a hell of an Im14andthisisdeep post, eh?” Charlotte mused.
Genevieve and I, however, were far too stunned to be amused; not by the mirror, but by the man who had unveiled it.
“It’s him, Lottie. That’s Emrys,” Genevieve whispered.
We had only seen him briefly once before, more than two-and-a-half years ago, but he was far from what anyone would call forgettable. He was tall and gaunt, with literal blue blood flowing beneath translucent skin. His long, receding hair and regal beard were pitch black, and dark miasma wafted from his eyes, nose, and mouth. He was dressed in dark sable robes with three overlapping Ouroboros’s tattooed on his forehead, with a pair of ophidian pupils lying in the spaces between them.
What stood out the most to us were the six silver Ouroboros chains bound around his wrists, ankles, waist, and neck. These were the chains the Ophion Occult Order had made to limit the power of his physical avatar, and it seemed he had not yet found a way to free himself from them.
“Are you still here?” Emrys asked in exasperation, tossing the veil back at the carnival barker in disdain.
“…Possibly,” the strange man replied evasively. “But not definitively, for purely legalistic reasons.”
“I believe Mathom-meister was quite clear when he said that your rather pitiful chicanery wasn’t welcomed here,” Emrys reminded him.
“And who is he to judge chicanery from cutthroat, capitalistic competition? Should not the Flea Market be a free market?” the charlatan demanded. “And while we’re on the topic of commerce, I don’t suppose you have enough three-headed coins to pay for all the poor souls you have so discourteously exposed to my exhibit against their will? I’d hate to have to start shaking people down to get my due.”
“Hard to believe your own circus threw you out,” Emrys said with a sardonic eye roll as he tossed him a small medallion. “You get one coin. Take it and get out of my sight.”
The charlatan flipped the coin in the air thrice, presumably to confirm it actually had three heads. Satisfied with its impossible dimensions, he shoved it into his pocket.
“It will cover the trolley ride home, at least,” he acquiesced, stepping off his soap box and turning to face his looking glass. “A shame though you can’t see the genius in my little avant-garde performance piece here, Emmy. Even I know that the monster in the mirror is often the hardest to recognize.”
As the man reached to pick up his mirror, his reflection’s arms shot through the glass and grabbed him by the wrists, pulling him in. Emrys immediately tried to chase after him, but bounced off the glass as if there was nothing supernatural about it at all.
“Bastard!” he cursed under his breath, before turning towards us and giving us a small apologetic smile. “I’m sorry you had to see that rather pathetic display. Unfortunately, the few meeting places I know of that are relatively safe from any Ophionic incursion also attract their fair share of other annoying miscreants.”
“If it didn’t attract a little bit of everything, it wouldn’t be a Flea Market, would it?” I asked rhetorically. “Thank you, Emrys, for inviting us. I’ve never been anywhere like this before.”
“And thank you for accepting. Samantha, Genevieve, it’s a pleasure to see you again, and a relief that you have not fallen under the auspices of the Ophion Occult Order,” he said with a gentle bow. “Elam, I remember you as well. Valiant but not reckless, you remained atop Pendragon Hill during my battle with the Darlings until your mistress was well out of harm’s way, and then you got the hell out of dodge yourself. Samantha couldn’t hope for a better Familiar. And Charlotte, any Witch that Samantha deemed worthy to induct into her coven is obviously someone whose acquaintance I am pleased to make. Welcome, all of you, to Mathom-meister’s Flea Market!”
“So this is where you’ve been hiding out the past two years?” Genevieve asked.
“Oh no. Far too Cosmopolitan for my tastes,” Emrys replied. “No, this is just a friendly place to meet those I consider friends – or potential friends, at least. I’d offer to show you around, but I know it’s difficult for you to astral travel for prolonged periods. Come with me to Mathom-meister’s house where we can talk freely, and we’ll discuss the situation with the Order.”
I gave him a small, single nod in response, and gestured with my staff that he should lead the way. He responded by pointing upwards, then vanished into his shadow form. When we looked up, we saw him waving at us from a balcony atop the great silken chrysalis.
We exchanged hesitant glances with one another, but ultimately followed him into the strange structure, moving from the ground to the balcony in an instant by will alone.
“How would an incarnate being get up here if they couldn’t fly or teleport?” Charlotte asked as she peered over the balcony’s teetering edge.
As though answering a summons, a humanoid creature apparated beside her in a flash of dark vapours. The hunched-back entity stood over six-and-a-half feet tall, and was clad in golden-brown erudite robes. Its squid-like skin was of a similar colour, and its entire face was a single gaping orifice that held a wispy, glowing orb in the center of its skull which I immediately recognized as its soul. A pair of long, fanged tentacles lined with pores and tendrils hung down from its head like a long, forked beard, and the seven digits shared by its two hands all bore wicked-looking talons, as did its two-toed, digitigrade feet.
“Not fly or teleport? What sort of pedestrian house guests do you think I entertain here?” the being asked wryly, its voice seeming to come from nowhere in particular.
Charlotte instinctively backed away from the creature and into the protective fold of our coven, but Emrys was quick to hold up his hand to plead for calm.
“Please, there’s no need for alarm. This is our host, Mathom-meister. He’s the only reason any of this is here in the first place,” Emrys informed us. “A year or two ago a companion of his unfortunately became one of the Darling Twin’s victims, and when he heard of my vendetta with them, he tracked me down; which is no small feat, I assure you.”
“It is for us. My people are a race of Planeswalkers. Traversing the many worlds of Creation is second nature to us,” Mathom-meister explained.
“I’ve… I’ve heard of your people, I think,” I said, softly and unsurely. “A friend of mine had an encounter with an artifact that gave her a vision of a race of strange and powerful sorcerers slaying their own god. I take it you’re the ones who slayed this Scarab Titan as well? That’s, that’s…”
“Horrifying, yes. That’s the idea,” he nodded. “You have nothing to worry about, young Witch. My people have no special interest in your world. This is purely personal. My friend is dead, and I want his murderers brought to justice; a goal which Emrys and I happen to have in common.”
“Feel free to share this information with the Ophion Occult Order, Samantha,” Emrys said. “I’d very much like for the Darling Twins to know what’s hunting them. Mathom-meister, please excuse me while I take my guests inside. We do have pressing business to discuss and their time is limited.”
The squid-cyclopes bowed gracefully, and my coven and I quickly scurried after Emrys as he led us inside through a towering hallway and into a large chamber that had been appointed as a living space.
I had thought that Emrys would want to speak with us alone, which was why I was surprised to see a young woman sitting cross-legged on a spongey yet chitinous object that I will for the sake of my sanity call a bean bag chair. Like Emrys, she was pale and blue-blooded, her choppy hair as black as coal. She wore a black robe and heavy black eyeliner, but these could not conceal the fact that she too had thin wisps of miasma emanating from her eyes.
“Is that your… daughter?” Charlotte asked, as baffled by her presence as any of us. The woman smiled warmly at the question.
“In a way. I was dead, and Emrys gave me new life. Now a part of the Outer Primordial Darkness he represents lives in me too,” she said serenely.
Hovering above her left palm were three small bluish-green orbs, lazily going around in a circle. They were translucent and held something inside them that I couldn’t make out, but the orbs themselves appeared to be melting and solidifying by the woman’s will.
“You’re Petra, aren’t you?” I asked as I cautiously approached her. “Chamberlin had mentioned that Emrys had taken an acolyte. I’m Samantha, and this is Genevieve, Elam, and Charlotte.”
“I know. The whole reason we’re here is to speak with you,” she nodded.
“The Ophion Occult Order calls me a soul-flayer, and I’m sure you were all wondering exactly what that meant before you came here,” Emrys said, standing proudly behind his acolyte. “Well, this is it. The Darkness Beyond is now a part of her, and a part of her now lives within the Darkness Beyond. She is not unchanged from what she was before, but neither has what she was been lost.”
“My interpretation of the term ‘soul-flaying’ was the complete removal of a person’s consciousness from their astral and physical bodies to be subsumed by your Darkness,” I countered. “They told me that what you’ve done with Petra here is just the limit of your power while you’re bound in their chains. Are you telling me that if your chains were broken, you wouldn’t be able to do any worse than this?”
“On my physical avatar? No. So long as my astral form remains chained and bound with the World Serpent, I cannot cleave a conscious mind from its astral substrate,” Emrys assured me.
“But that is your ultimate goal, isn’t it? Breaking the chains the Ophion Occult Order put on you is just a stepping stone to breaking the ones the gods bound you with?” Genevieve asked. “You’ve allied yourself with a literal god slayer. Do you expect us to believe that his people’s abilities aren’t something you intend to put to your own ends?”
“I don’t have an ultimate goal so much as I have a fundamental principle of opposing tyranny,” he claimed. “When I was a mere man, thousands of years ago, I was a tyrant. I believed that might made right so unquestionably that when my might began to fail me, the only thing I could think to do was to try everything in my power to restore it. This quest eventually led to me becoming one with the Darkness Beyond, which gave me not only the might I coveted but the wisdom I didn’t know I needed. It gave me perspective. It made me stronger than any human alive at that point but still let me realize how insignificant I was. It was humbling, and enlightening, and filled me both with remorse over my past actions and an impetus to use my newfound gifts to rectify them. I tried to overthrow the gods themselves which, in hindsight, was overly ambitious. I not only failed but had my soul devoured by the World Serpent, where it still resides to this day.
“I am not eager to bring the wrath of the gods down upon me once again. No, for now, I will be content to end the tyranny of the Ophion Occult Order. This is the message I’d like you to relay to them. If the Grand Adderman agrees to unbind my chains and step down from his post, I will spare his life. If he declines, I want the rest of the Order to know that I will show mercy to any who sides with me over him. I am willing to allow the Order to exist so long as it agrees to become more decentralized, democratic, and accountable. They will have to forfeit certain artifacts and individuals in their possession over to me, chief among them the Darling Twins, but I am willing to negotiate. If they aren’t, then I will overthrow the Grand Adderman by whatever means necessary and see the Order scattered to the four winds. It is entirely up to them whether or not the conflict between us escalates to full-on war. Have I made myself clear, Samantha?”
“I think so,” I said as I pensively considered everything he had said. “Why should they trust you to keep your word once your chains are broken? For that matter, why should we?”
He took a moment to consider his response, eyeing me over as though he was trying to divine something that would win over my trust.
“Samantha, you made a pact with Persephone to get your Spirit Familiar there; one where she swore by the River Styx. Is that correct?” he asked.
“It is,” I nodded.
“And in the years since, has Persephone ever broken that pact she swore to?” he asked.
“No, she hasn’t,” I replied.
“I may not be an Old God, but so long as my astral form remains bound by their chains, they have power over me,” he said. “Samantha Sumner, Hedge Witch of Harrowick Woods, I swear on the River Styx that I have spoken no lies to you today. I swear by the River Styx that I will abide by any Covenant that I and the Ophion Occult Order agree to in good faith and fair dealing that they do not break first. I swear by the River Styx that when my chains are broken, I will give you no cause to fear me or regret your trust in me.”
I gave a questioning glance to Genevieve, and then Elam, both of whom nodded in the affirmative.
“All right. An oath sworn on the River Styx is good enough for me. I’ll deliver your terms to Seneca Chamberlin,” I agreed. “I’m very grateful for the trust and respect you’ve shown for me and my coven, Emrys, though I can’t say I quite understand it. Out of all the guests that were there on the Hallow’s Eve you were summoned, why did Evie and I stand out to you?”
“The Ophion Occult Order deemed you worthy of inclusion in their cult, an offer you rejected on principle. You cheated Persephone, but you did it not to gain immortality for yourself but to save your friend from hell. You came here, thinking I could very well tear your souls asunder, but did so because you believed it was your duty to prevent needless suffering,” Emrys answered. “You are extraordinary in your craft, courage, and conscience, the latter of which especially stood out among the degenerates at that party. I do apologize if I frightened you at that event. I was a bit… irritable, given the circumstances. I’m glad we were able to meet again under more pleasant conditions.”
“So am I, Emrys,” I nodded. “I’m not sure exactly what this means or how relevant it is, but Seneca wanted me to tell you that he’s able to offer you the Dream Demon Red Ruck as a sacrifice.”
Pffft. Tell him it’s hardly a sacrifice if I’m getting rid of a boogie man for him,” he scoffed. “In fact, now that you mention it, Ruck’s one egregore that might be of more use to me alive.”
I wanted to ask him what he meant by that, but we were suddenly interrupted by the rapid pounding of a gong somewhere down below. It seemed to be an alarm of some kind, as we could hear the panicked shouting and frantic racing of people either battening down or forsaking the Flea Market altogether.
Mathom-meister apparated into the middle of the room, his facial tentacles reflexively raised in a defensive position.
“Were you outside the market?” he demanded of us.
“The portal we came through deposited us a few miles outside of the market, yes,” I admitted.
“Damn,” Emrys cursed softly, though he sounded more frustrated than angry. “Meister, it’s not their fault. I knew they weren’t experienced Planeswalkers, I could have – ”
“It doesn’t matter!” Mathom-meister interjected. “They need to leave, now!”
“Why, what’s going on?” Genevieve demanded.
“The scarabs are swarming,” Petra explained. “Don’t feel bad; it happens often enough that they’re prepared for it.”
I wanted to press for more details, but I could hear the humming of a vast winged swarm steadily encroaching upon us.
“Don’t worry. Once you leave the swarm will disperse… eventually,” Emrys told us. “We’ve said all that need be said for now. Return home, and I’ll reach out to you again shortly, Samantha.”
Again, I wanted to object, but the swarm outside was growing louder and louder, and it occurred to me that we might not be completely safe from a biblical swarm of insects that could not only sense but evidently sought out souls.
This occurred to Charlotte as well, as she was the first of us to vanish and awaken back in her body. We could all feel the weight of her reembodied soul tugging on us to return with her. Genevieve immediately grabbed hold of my right hand and Elam my left, both of them refusing to leave before I did.
I spared one final glance at Emrys, lamenting that we couldn’t have had more time.
“I’ll relay everything you said to the Order. I’ll make sure they know you’re willing to negotiate a truce,” I vowed.
He gave me a gracious nod, and just as we heard the swarm start to pelt the exterior of the market, I forced my physical eyes open and was back in my body, still safely under a willow tree in my cemetery.
I immediately looked beside me to Genevieve, and saw that she was awake as well, and then around me for Elam, who seemed to be suffering a bit of spectral whiplash from being pulled back with me so suddenly, but was otherwise all right. Sighing with relief, I turned lastly to Charlotte, and saw that she was looking down at the mediation circle in dreaded horror.
Following her gaze, I saw that the Undying Rose was gone – spent, perhaps, in exchange for our passage – and in its place was the inert, and hopefully dead, body of one of the shimmering scarabs.
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