29 [NB4r] #online Looking for a long term connection
2024.11.26 22:11 Allergicto-Sugar 29 [NB4r] #online Looking for a long term connection
No creeps or immature people no ghosters no rude people just sweet. No societal issues drilling, super drama-free but some people still don't get it so l made a massive, 3-page long outline. I will stay loyal for 20+ years (I'm low maintenance but can be higher) and it's a type of connection that works for anyone it's in specifics. Intrigued? A part from that 3-page outline which you only have to read once for 20+ year anonymous friendship: "My hobbies that I don't wanna drill into too much as we then talk include: reading (non-fiction, or classics), movies (meaningful ones), songs (all over the place & proud to enjoy without drama), skiing, swimming, working out, yoga, finance, coding, hacking, shooting, hiking, animals, l love cats and planning to hopefully send pictures, dieting, coffeeing, adrenalining, connecting, war facts, planes, historical facts in general are great, I love real estate and everything luxury, everything modern minus the drama, aesthetics, models, exotic cars, private communities, etc."
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2024.11.26 22:11 CatSpilledSpicedTea "We listen and we don't judge" trend prompted my (24f) husband (38m) to reveal a cruel two year long "prank". How can I learn to start trusting him again?
My husband saw TikTok videos this week about couples saying "we listen and we don't judge", then revealing something bad or funny they do behind their partner's back. He pressured me to participate because he said he had something very funny to admit, but I had to go first to justify his.
When it was his turn, he told me he removed(?) things from my computer to make it very slow and almost unusable... Two years ago. In 2022, my computer suddenly started running like garbage and I could never figure out what was wrong. I primarily used it for school and playing online games with my siblings because I don't live close to them anymore. Now I can hardly browse the Internet, let alone play games on it. I couldnt afford a new computer because only I am working right now. He told me it would take him only a minute or two to fix whatever it is he did, but he just never wanted to.
When I asked him why he would do that, he said it's because I should spend all my time with him and he didn't like that I would play games a few times a week. My feelings are very hurt right now, and I'm having a hard time believing anything he says now. How can I get my mind off this and stop distrusting him? We have been married for 6 years and I'm so stressed about what other things he might have done to manipulate me. How do people generally get over betrayals of trust like this?
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2024.11.26 22:11 Hachiman-Hikigaya What is this?
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2024.11.26 22:11 ExpressTrifle8577 Completely new player two questions
1.Can I link my steam and mobile if so how? 2. Idk what I’m doing what do I do after clearing solo like how I learn deckbuilding and strategies thank you!
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2024.11.26 22:11 Square_Heart350 Fodrasz
 | Sziasztok! Valaki tud esetleg jo fodraszt ajanlani a varosban akihez bizalommal fordulhatok ezzel a frizuraval? Barna az alap hajszinem, es tudom az anyag mennyisegtol is fugg az ar de jelenleg nincs folos 60k-m a hajamra, igy orulnek ha nem csak a Dudas lenne az opcio (kb a hatam kozepeig ero, dus hajam van) Koszi az otleteket elore is:) submitted by Square_Heart350 to pecsCity [link] [comments] |
2024.11.26 22:11 Late_Tap_4619 [For Hire] Recruiter/Recruiting Manager
I have four years of experience on the agency side, with one year in management. Recruited for finance, manufacturing, engineering and customer service
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2024.11.26 22:11 askinjustam Zimone, Mystert Unraveler deck help
Heya, I bought the Jump Scare precon and upgraded it with a quite a few cards. I'm a little happy with the deck, but while going through my collection I found 3 cards that might work very well in it, but I don't really know what could I swap to use them. Akroma's Memorial feels just overall really good to cheat, but I also have other deck that might want it (Winter reanimate precon). Omniscience feels powerful if I can cheat it early. Beast within I accidentally removed from the deck while upgrading it and I kinda think I'll need it back lmao. Anyway, here's the decklist: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/ZEcQRpT-Q0CAAxOwQeaOgA
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2024.11.26 22:11 thefrickenAJP8 First timer FOOD!
Random question but this is my first bloodstock is next year , can't wait!! Just a question about food vendors, at festivals I always see , burgers ,pizza, kebabs, chips etc but never jacket potatoes!?!? Does BLOODSTOCK have jacket potatoes for sale?
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2024.11.26 22:11 kabyking Need pdf or castle nim
I’m making a website for myself to track all my manhwa I’m reading and alerting me when a new chapter comes out(so like myanimelist for manhwa 😭). I need a pdf of castle nim with transparent background can you guys help me out🥺🙏
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2024.11.26 22:11 TetraNeuron This Single Frame of Citlali's Ult...
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2024.11.26 22:11 Lanzen_Jars A job for a deathworlder [Chapter 195]
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Chapter 195 – Pull the pin and watch it blow
Earlier...
Sky tilted her head slightly as she tightly strapped the belts that held the various bags she carried on her person to her body. She stared into the mirror, looking herself up and down. It felt a bit odd to see herself like that again – to see the small bags clinging to her shoulders, sides and thighs. However, at the same time, it also filled her with a sense of familiar comfort.
It had been quite a while since she had fully equipped herself like this. After she had been pulled into all of this back on the G.E.S., her new employers turned captors then turned employers again hadn't exactly been all too keen on having her wear these usual trademark features of her species. In part that was because of their whole 'Wraaah, wraaah, deathworlders, whraaah!' attitude and all that, though on the other hand there was also the practical element of not allowing her to carry too much stuff around that she could use to cause a little chaos with.
At first, that had made it all the more surprising to her that the old Captain flatface had suddenly approached her with the offer of getting her new bags – since her old ones would be way too small for her at this point. After all, she was still pretty half-grown when she had gotten those.
Though then things began to make a bit more sense to her when he informed her that he had gotten Alexander's blessing and was planning on sending her on some actual runs again. For that, it was probably not the worst idea to allow her to carry some of her actual gear around.
Of course she had been worried about accepting what seemed suspiciously like a gift at first, although she had accepted the idea that the new bags would instead be a form of provided equipment for the tasks he wanted her to do.
Either way, she liked these new things. They were simple but stylish, with a sturdy canvas exterior that had a single flap which was closed by a metal clasp and a nice leather belt that mirrored the ones she used to strap them to her body.
Ironically, they hadn't gotten these things imported from her own homeworld. Instead, they were human-made, though she wasn't going to complain about that detail, despite the irony. Apparently those small hands could sew some really nice bags.
Admittedly, she had almost felt a little worried when the Captain had handed her her released gear and she had sat down to actually fill the bags up for the first time in at least a few months. After all, she was probably out of practice – not just in using all these things, but in general. She hadn't been doing a whole lot of runnin' since her last growth spurt, and she had also spent a long while in a hospital bed.
But hey, she had always known that she was going to have to get back to work sooner or later. Good a time as any.
Although...
“I coul'ave sworn I 'ad nine bags...“ she mumbled as she ran her eyes over the symmetrically strapped appearance of her body, counting out one to eight as her gaze zipped from bag to bag. Of course 'could have sworn' was understating it. She knew for a fact she had not only bought but also packed nine bags. She was rusty, but she wasn't that rusty.
She began to turn her head from side to side, wondering where in the void she had accidentally set the ninth one down before promptly forgetting about it. Didn't she put all of them in a pile after she had gotten done packing them?
Her many-flapped ears suddenly twitched in a wave-like motion as the gentle sound of something large approaching her briefly interrupted her search. Figuring it wouldn't look good to seem so mussy right before her first real job in ages, she briefly put the search off and instead turned to look at the approaching Captain.
“I'm almost rea'y,“ she said, maybe a bit too hastily, since she figured that the man was coming to ask her if she was ready to go by now. “I just need a moment to-“
Her attempt at a quick excuse ran straight into a wall as the approaching primate lifted one of his massive hangs, allowing her missing ninth bag to loosely dangle from one of his meaty fingers by its leather strap.
“Looking for this?“ the Captain asked her with mild amusement, lifting up one of his eyebrows as his dark eyes looked at her – though Sky could tell that none of his amusement actually reached any of his important facial features.
“Damn...“ the young woman briefly mumbled in a moment of quiet self-scolding before she reached out to take the last bag off the man's finger. “Where'd ya find it?“
Uton huffed at bit as he lowered his hand once she had taken the item off him and proceeded to strap it around her midsection.
“It was on the seating area, right next to one of the pillows of a similar color,“ he replied and raised his tone slightly. “I would've missed it if the buckle hadn't twinkled so alluringly towards me.“
Sky's ears twitched a bit more for a moment. She knew the Captain's way of speaking by now, and she knew that sort of “disarming-teasing“. Usually, it was accompanied by a gentle and amused tone of voice that she always interpreted to be meant to be reassuring – to tell whoever he was speaking to that he wasn't actually trying to chastise them.
However, she couldn't help but feel like he sounded a little odd that time. He didn't quite reach that level of amusement and instead, his voice sounded almost a little tired right now. Like it couldn't quite pull itself up to reach the same heights as it usually did.
Well, it wasn't all that surprising, she supposed. After all, the whole being on the run and hiding away thing had been getting to him for quite a while. Still, she couldn't help but be just a little put off by the way he came just short of actually sounding or looking amused while he teased her.
“You mon'eys and your shiny things,“ she mumbled in a halfhearted attempt of teasing back while briefly fiddling with the strap of the last bag to make sure everything would hold properly.
Uton's dark, tired eyes scanned her up and down in a scrutinizing manner as he, too, took her being in full gear once again in.
“Remember, these people have no qualms about defending themselves at any sign of danger,“ he warned her in a deep command that once again sounded more tired than actually worried to her. “Don't do anything that would give them the idea that you pose a threat to them.”
Sky briefly stretched herself before taking a few steps in place and shaking her legs out, clacking her hooves against the tiled floor as she brought them back down. Reaching up, she placed her hands right on the nubby remains of her removed antlers and then slowly ran them down along her long face, following the natural pattern of her fur until gliding her fingers off the tip of her nose along with a long exhale.
“Don't wo'y,” she said in a tone that was both a little annoyedly-dismissive and a little reassuring. “I'm not loo'ing to get sho' today.”
Getting too closely acquainted with the kind of cartridges those guns of theirs were shooting was definitely not on her to-do list. She was dedicated to her work – especially after getting a payment as nice as these bags in advance – but not that dedicated.
If things got to the point where she felt like dropping everything and just standing down was her best option to get away in one piece, she was definitely going to take it.
After all, payment for work wasn't worth much if you died for it. Can't wear these nice bags wherever she'd end up. And this cause of his wasn't exactly one she was willing to die for.
“I'll be careful,” she assured one more time after her last once-over in the mirror showed her that everything was in order. With that, she turned to try and move towards their agreed-on exit that would hopefully allow her to slip out unnoticed before things would get too well protected. However, she was stopped in her tracks as the primate reached out and grabbed her upper arm with one of his large hands.
With her ears twitching yet again in mild surprise – and a hint of nervousness at his odd behavior – Sky turned her head slightly so the eye on the proper side of her head could look down at the man on all fours – or threes right now.
Uton sighed.
“Just a moment,” he said, before letting go of her arm again. Sky nodded and turned fully towards him while the man slowly pushed himself into a bipedal stance. Standing at his full height, it was suddenly him who had to look down at her as his face turned serious.
He moved his arms behind his back, his tail curling up into a spiral as he basically stood at attention.
“Although I have led people through both peace and war, this may just be one of the most dangerous tasks that I have ever sent anyone on,” she said loudly, his tone as serious as death. “I know that you may not care. But still, it is important to me. I wanted to assure you that you are no less brave than any of the soldiers I have commanded in my career. And I want you to know that you, no matter what you may be told, deserve the same level of respect as them.”
With that, he raised his right arm into the simmiareskis' version of a salute, meaning that he raised his upper arm to be aligned perfectly straight with his shoulder while bending the arm itself to bring his closed fist right back to that shoulder – all while keeping the other arm behind his back.
Sky blinked in confusion as she watched it all unfold. She was a bit baffled by the sudden display, however the utmost serious expression on Captain Uton's face held her back from making any comment about it right away.
Despite all her feelings that his earlier tones and expressions had been put on, this one seemed to be about as genuine as could be. Perhaps that had actually been the reason for his earlier weirdness. Did the old man actually feel bad about any lack of respect she had gotten?
Well, he did have one girl run off on him, so maybe he wanted to make up for whatever he felt he had done wrong with her now. It wasn't really working, but for once, Sky felt like it would probably be best if she didn't rub that in the man's face.
“Roight,” she said with a nod and somewhat halfheartedly returned a salute back to him. Since the ketzhir didn't really have a unified gesture of specifically military respect like that, she simply copied the one he was using. “I'll- uh- Thank you.”
She quickly let her arm drop again and waited a moment. She didn't want to be grabbed to stop her again, so she took a moment to see if he had any more to say.
Uton allowed his arm to drop as well and then nodded, which Sky took as his sign that she could go. Although, as she actually turned, she briefly saw in her periphery that his hand once again twitched up. She immediately tensed a bit as she expected the renewed contact, however his movement remained at that brief twitching of his hand that time. Whatever he wanted to do, he had apparently thought better of it as he instead watched her leave quietly.
–
Now...
“Oi! Don't leave me 'angin' 'ere!”
Shida stood frozen in place as she heard the familiar voice echo through her mind, briefly wondering if she had just imagined it. But no. It was way too clear for that. She slowly turned her head and began to scan over the crowd.
A large part of her was immediately wondering if this was a trick again. If there was just someone with a loudspeaker somewhere in the crowd, loudly playing the nonsense of the freaky language-model in an attempt to freak her out or possibly even try to lure her away.
In fact, she almost hoped it was.
However, those 'hopes' were quickly dashed as her eyes expertly followed the directions of her ears, leading her gaze right onto an unmistakable sight.
As her eyes fell onto the brown doe-eyes and the white-spotted fur, her body wanted to automatically turn to move in her direction. However, after it lifted up for the first step, her foot didn't even have the time to fully set down again before her upper arm was harshly seized by a firm grasp, that quickly transformed into an entire arm wrapping around hers to pull her back and hold her in place.
Her skin was tough enough that it didn't exactly hurt, but Shida very much felt the pressure of it as Koko displayed just how much awareness over her suspended subordinate's movement she was keeping.
With her mind needing a moment to catch up to reality, Shida briefly looked at Koko in utter confusion as to what the Commander was doing – though she very quickly found herself again and momentarily stopped all attempts to pull away from the constricting grasp.
Meanwhile, the soldiers forming the living barrier between them and the crowd had sprung into action, lifting and leveling their weapons towards the suddenly approaching ketzhir, blocking her from getting any further after she had successfully pushed her way through the crowd all the way up to the separation.
Sky lifted her open hands, showing that she was holding nothing and posed no active threat.
“I'm not 'ere to cause trouble,” she assured immediately, very briefly staring down the barrels with a hint of visible nervousness. Her gaze twitched up and back; up to the roof where something or someone had just been hit by two precise shots out of human rifles. Clearly, she wasn't eager to share that fate.
Tearing her gaze away from the roof, she looked over the soldiers blocking her way and right at Shida. At this point, she was obviously garnering some mixed looks from the rest of the crowd – many of whom quickly scrambled to step away from her to avoid the weapons pointed in her direction, leaving the ketzhir girl in a bit of a personal bubble of space.
“Can we talk?” she asked, moving her head in such a way that one of her eyes could look directly into Shida's.
Shida's mouth went dry as she heard the question, her thoughts running through endless possibilities within the first second as her mind tried to answer that incredibly pressing question that immediately formed the center of her awareness.
“Oh Goodness, what happened now?”
“No,” a firm voice suddenly said right next to her before the feline even had the time to open her mouth.
Sky flinched slightly at Koko's statement that was spoken with so much finality that you could almost taste it.
Shida's gaze also quickly dashed over to the Commander, and she looked at her with a mixture of understanding but also pleading.
“Koko,” she began to ask quietly, leaning her head in a bit to try and subtly reason with her friend. “Can we-”
“No,” Koko replied just as firmly as the first time and raised her hand to gesture to the soldiers. “Arrest her,” she ordered in an imperious tone that left absolutely no room for discussion – even though it was unlikely that the soldiers were going to argue in the first place. “She on a galaxy-wide search list with an arrest warrant. She is one of the people who were broken out of the detention-center on Nedstaniot-Station.”
She clearly only said that last part out loud for the benefits of the many cameras that were still pointed in their direction, obviously feeling like it was better to not leave it to the reporters to reveal that information to the masses at home.
Sky looked a little shocked at the immediate arrest-order, looking down at the now encroaching humans telling her to behave calmly with a mild sense of danger before moving her gaze back towards Shida.
“Oi...,” she said as she once again sought eye contact with the feline. “You tol' me I could come to ya if I 'ad problems with the ol' man.”
Everything within Shida tightly constricted at those words as she watched how the first soldier asked Sky to lower her arm so that he could start to restrain her.
A feeling like pins and needles ran over her entire skin, and she looked at Koko with a hint of desperation.
“Koko, can we just-” she tried once again. And once again, she was quite quickly shut down.
“I am not discussing this right now, Shida,” Koko said, now in a more quiet tone that matched Shida's own half-whisper. Although the statement was still very firm, Shida could detect a very faint hint of lament just behind her words. “Now stand down.”
Shida's jaws clenched a bit and her lips pressed tightly together. She knew Koko had very good reasons for the order. In fact, a big part of her knew that Koko was absolutely in the right – and in any questioning or debate she would not have disputed that fact.
“I, uh, I really need to tell ya somethin',” Sky spoke up again. She tried to keep her voice steady, though it was still filling with mild distress as her arms were seized and restrained behind her back.
With an intense sting somewhere in the back of her mind, Shida once again began to walk to the girl, straining against Koko's hold as she moved with purpose.
Koko's grip on her arm tightened as she attempted to pull her back.
“What are you doing!?” the Commander asked in a hushed hiss that sounded like she was beseeching the feline to stop without actually saying it.
“I want to hear what she has to say,” Shida replied and pulled a bit harder, which caused Koko to have to stem her feet into the ground to actually stop her from proceeding. “It will just be a second. They don't even have to take the cuffs off.”
Sky was right. Shida had told her she could come to her. And if something had actually happened with Uton, she would have to make sure that the girl was alright. A feeling of responsibility sat deep in her gut.
She had allowed him to get away once again. If he had done something now, that would be on her. She had to hear it.
Koko's eyes widened slightly and she gave Shida's arm a decisive yank.
“I gave you an order- ah!” she began to say in that same hushed tone, though before she had fully finished the sentence, Shida had pulled herself free from her tight hold with a single movement, nearly taking the Commander off her feet in the process.
Koko was deceptively strong for her stature, but in a contest of raw strength, Shida still had her easily outmatched.
“Well, I'm suspended anyway,” she gave back in a moment of spite that bubbled up from deep within her. She regretted it almost immediately afterwards, however she bit her cheek and kept pushing forwards, hoping she could apologize for it later.
She moved her gaze back up to Sky as she resolved to quickly move over to her, seeing that the humans were now beginning to take the bags around her thighs off of her to check them.
She tried to seek eye contact with the girl once more, wanting to look at her reassuringly as she approached – though that attempt was quite harshly interrupted as she suddenly felt every muscle in her body tense up, forcing her to freeze where she stood.
Just a small feeling of pressure sent electricity throughout her entire body in an instant, starting in the middle of her tail and spreading out from there like a wave of restraining tension that put her into a complete lock down for a brief moment.
After about a second of her brain turning into “Error: 'Movement' not found”, the secondary part of her 'tail-reflex' fired up as her tense muscles shot her body around, her fingers flexing to extend her claws while her arm shot up to just swing at whatever had grabbed her.
The whole movement proceeded within less than a breath, though for Shida's immediately stress-riddled brain, that was enough to to see Koko standing behind her with an unhappy but determined expression, having one hand firmly clasped around her tail while she raised her other arm defensively to react to the incoming swipe.
It seemed like time froze for a moment as their gazes met. Shida could see deeply into Koko's jade-green eyes. In them, she could see the resolve behind the Commander's action, but she could also see that she was anything but happy about it – how uncomfortable it made her. As her eyes made contact with what must have been quite an instinctively wrathful gaze of the feline, it seemed like Koko clearly knew that she was crossing a line here – but that she was also determined to not let that stop her from doing what she felt was important right now.
Bringing all of her willpower into an act of so much effort that it actively hurt her muscles to do so, Shida forced her movement into a dead stop, halting her swipe in mid-air before it had the chance to get anywhere close to endangering the Commander despite her raised guard.
The stop was so sudden that a bit of a jerk went through Shida's body as the remaining momentum had to go somewhere, and she grunted slightly at the feeling of her fibers creaking under the pressure.
Koko looked at her for barely half a second after she stopped her attack, before swiftly letting go of her tail and jolting forwards instead, wrapping her arms firmly around Shida's body in a tight embrace that was very clearly meant to not be quite so easily shaken, both physically and emotionally.
Shida stood frozen with the Commander clinging to her for a bit longer. Both because she was still suffering the aftereffects from fighting against her body's automatic responses and because she needed a bit of time to fully process everything that was going on.
Her brain was stuck in a deadlock. She didn't know if she should be angry, try to pull away again, just stand there and surrender, or...maybe hug her back.
Before she was forced to reach a decision, it was taken out of her hands when one of the soldiers in the process of arresting Sky suddenly released a mild sound of surprise before quickly and loudly shouting,
“Everyone back! Back off!”
Their brains kicking into action simultaneously, Shida and Koko synchronously shot around to see what was going, quickly seeing three of the soldiers wave their arms to try and herd the crowds to make some space while another one – presumably the one who had just yelled – very carefully lowered one of the bags they had taken off Sky to the ground.
Once he had it sat down, he also took a few steps back before reaching down to his hip for his side-arm.
Aiming it, he glanced around for a moment, making sure that everyone around had made some adequate distance with a tense expression on his face which very clearly showed that he didn't want to waste a second too much waiting.
Before she knew it, Shida also felt herself being pulled back. She didn't resist that time, walking backwards while keeping her eyes on the bag and the soldier, only briefly glancing over to Sky, who was being led away by the restraints on her arms.
Once he finally felt that he had enough of a safety range around him, he loudly yelled,
“Firing! Cover your ears!”
With that, he pulled the trigger of his handgun, filling the open space with the deafening sound of the shot while hitting the bag right in the middle, causing it to jump and roll from the force of the impact under the sound of metallic crackling.
A collective flinch went though the crowd as everyone scrambled to quickly protect their hearing – except for poor Sky, whose hands were still bound, which meant she had to take the full brunt of the shots' explosions.
The human, not seeming quite satisfied with just the first shot, fired three more large holes into the bag before he took his finger off the trigger and lifted his gun away from it. At this point, it had covered quite the distance from jumping and rolling at the bullets' impacts. In the process, a number of wires, scraps of metal and small shards of polymer had leaked out of the resulting holes, littering the ground with the sad remains of the bag's innards.
“Report, Private!” both Koko and the nearby Admiral Krieger announced almost simultaneously as soon as they had taken their hands off their ears and shaken off whatever ringing filled their hearing despite them.
The Private released a de-tensing exhale while he lowered his weapon back to his hip.
“It was one of those weapons Ma'ams,” he dutifully reported while a leftover bead of sweat ran down his face. “I'm sorry that we can't recover it. I didn't want to risk it being activated.”
“Good thinking, Soldier,” the Admiral immediately quelled the man's worries about possibly having destroyed something he wasn't meant to, though she still quickly hurried over to the bag it see if there wasn't anything they could still save. “We're lucky no one pulled the trigger as soon as you were in risk of discovering it.”
As she approached the scrap on the ground, Shida could see how the Admiral briefly glanced towards the girl that had previously carried the bag in an appraising expression.
Sky had a very pained and even slightly dizzy look on her face as she recovered from the sounds of the gunshots, the many flaps of her ears gently shifting in an undulating motion, presumably to soothe themselves.
However, the more she came back to her senses and caught up to what had been happening aware, the more her expression turned into disturbance as she, too, stared down at the perforated bag on the ground. Briefly, her gaze shot from it down to her own body, seemingly focusing on her mid-section before returning to the clutter of scrap across the floor.
“Weapon..?” she asked. Her voice had a sound of mild disbelief at first, however soon after a shudder began to visibly spread through her body. “Wha-...wha' kind o'..?”
The soldiers wasted no time, quickly checking the bags remaining strapped to her body, though it seemed like they didn't find anything else that would warrant such immediate alarm.
Within Shida, a roller-coaster of emotion was at full speed as she, too, tried to parse everything that had occurred. Things quickly flicked from shock to disgust to anger to concern to wrath.
However, although she knew Sky was probably a good liar, not a single atom of her doubted the girl's honesty as she tried to ask that last question.
“She didn't know...” Shida more exhaled than actually said, and suddenly she felt her knees buckle underneath her as everything just seemed to become so heavy. “She almost...”
Luckily, Koko was still right there to catch her before she could actually lose her balance. With her grip firmly around the feline – and a lot of very concerned and disturbed gazes on her as everyone around them also fully realized what was going on – the Commander kept pulling Shida away from the scene with gentle force.
“We are going,” Koko announced, not just to Shida, but everyone. This time, her tone really didn't allow for any discussions. “Right now.”
And for once, Shida was actually glad that she had been suspended.
–
Blinking slightly as he looked at the screen showing the live-feed of the area in front of the Council building right in front of him, Uton only very slowly released his thumb from the miniature Orderguard's ignition button.
The hand he was holding it in as well as his slowly lifting finger trembled heavily as he stared at the screen with a gaze filled with horror and a complete lack of understanding.
“Well, I have to admit, I did NOT think you would actually sack up and do it,” a familiar voice that brought nothing but agitation spoke out of a nearby speaker, causing ripples of rage to crawl along underneath the primate's skin as he still tried to understand why he saw what he did.
“Why didn't it-?” he began to ask under his breath, though apparently, 'Brother” Abbott did not even have the patience to wait for him to finish his disbelieving inquiry as he immediately scoffed,
“Oh, that trigger was never linked to that guard. Just because I didn't expect you to do it doesn't mean I wanted to take the risk of the seemingly impossible happening.”
Uton's gaze went wide as his already quivering hand clenched around the trigger between his fingers so hard that his joints were beginning to hurt.
“You gave me a rigged Orderguard!?” he bellowed out in a deep roar, staring at the speaker the voice was coming from in pure hate, only wishing that he could somehow get that damned deathworlder between his fingers instead.
“What? No,” Abbott replied dismissively, a clear sound of smug amusement in his voice. “I gave you a rigged trigger. The Orderguard was fine and I could have activated it at any point.”
Uton was still seething, his breath moving in and out between his bared teeth in long hisses as his entire body shook in tension and anger.
“Then why didn't you!?” he asked, managing to just about restrain his voice from yelling that would've likely been heard by anyone walking even remotely close to his hideout.
“Uh...” Abbott still replied with that same smug tone, entirely nonchalant about the Captain's anger. “Because that would've been dumb. I mean, hello? None of the targets were even in range. Hard to sell the actual death of their soldiers as anything but an attack. This way? Everyone's going to ask why no one has pulled the trigger.”
Uton's entire body was still heaving with every breath as his full coat of fur stood up like it was under an electric field.
“You set me u-” he began to say in a cold, wrathful tone, although once again, Abbott didn't seem at all interested in letting him finish his sentence.
“Whoops. More important stuff coming up,” he announced with a hand-waving tone of voice that didn't even acknowledge Uton's accusation. “Sit tight, there's a lot of activity around the house. Wouldn't want you to get caught now that I can trust you with real weapons.”
And without another word the connection was cut.
Uton stood there, barely managing to restrain himself from uselessly yelling at the dead connection. He shook in anger as he breathed heavily. He almost turned lightheaded from the irregular breathing and the harsh pounding of his heart.
His hand was still clenched around the useless trigger. It was a testament to its engineering that he didn't crush it in his grasp.
His eyes shot down to it. To the button that he had pressed. As his anger very slowly ebbed away while he just stood there, the moment began to replay in his mind. Over and over, he saw himself looking at the screen. Seeing the moment that the human was about to discover the hidden weapon. The look of uncertainty on Sky's face. And himself...pressing the button.
He saw it. His finger. The brief moment of pressure. The gentle feeling of a click against his skin. His finger. The pressure. Clicking. His finger. Pressure. Clicking. Finger. Press. Click.
Sky's face.
He crashed down onto his knees and elbows, the strength to hold himself up leaving him as his eyes went wide and he stared down at the ground.
“I'm glad you never had children,” it echoed through his mind, over and over, the sound bouncing back and forth within his skull, slowly increasing in intensity, doubling and tripling as if to taunt him.
His jaws trembled as he looked down at the trigger still in his hand.
His eyes were wide as they could be as he stared down at the weapon, his gaze quivering and unsteady as he could do nothing but fixate on that damned, rigged, useless symbol of destruction.
With his arm still trembling heavily, he slowly lifted the fist that he was holding the trigger with.
Despite the trembling, he slowly lifted his thumb in a very deliberate motion and...
Click
Obviously, nothing happened as he pressed the button down again. Slowly, he lifted his thumb off it again and...
Click
Nothing again.
Click
Click
ClickClick
ClickClickClick
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2024.11.26 22:11 TheRealLazyasscanoe DM Tips - Assigning AC (Simply Shorts) #dndworldbuilding #RPGTips #fantasy #math #
A quick thing to help balance encounters
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2024.11.26 22:11 Capital_Drawer7543 AIO
This is something cool. 😎
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2024.11.26 22:11 9x19pewpew Why doesn’t the explorer page load?
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2024.11.26 22:11 Minute_Restaurant373 Tremenda duda
Gente he deseado tener mi pc y aló largo de mi vida he visto q soy un fonking pobre, podrá ser posible comprar mi pc revendero cosas, por ej compro una ram y la vendo en un mayor precio hasta conseguir dinero y comprar otra cosa así sucesivamente, será posible alcanzar para comprarme mi pc? Creo q este método lo utiliza la gente para montar su negocio
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2024.11.26 22:11 Darkhoogetraps Who is the lord of all rapcels
Please be advised the mention of mumblers or zoomer types will result in being removed from the friends of hooge list with no opportunity for future reconciliation.
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2024.11.26 22:11 CrashCarSuperstar Don't know where to ask... star projector question.
Long story short, kid wants a star projector for Christmas. I do what I always do and start researching, discover the cheap ones are garbage. Was looking at the SEGA Homestar Flux, but CS seems to be bad, and the discs are $30 a pop. Dark Skys DS-1 seems to have similar issues and is twice the price, albeit better image.
Once I get up to the DS1 price, I just start wondering if I could get a portable projector and find some nice images that can be displayed. Then she could use the projector for other stuff too. Does anyone have experience with this or know where to ask? Thank you.
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2024.11.26 22:11 Knives4XMas Idea for variable (player controlled) resolution system
Hello there, I'm working on a d20 roll under system for my dark fantasy setting. The core is basically player facing Whitehack/Errant, with blackjack resolution (roll equal/under your attribute but over the challenge rating [CR]).
I'd like to introduce a more narrative/granular bend on some tests, and I can't quite decide if it makes sense to add it to the game.
I came up with the following resolution system.
- The GM sets the scene.
- PC declares Intent and Task - What they want to achieve, how they set out to do so.
- The GM sets Risk and Reward, the player can negotiate (trade one for the other).
- The player can now decide to
- Roll 1d20 between the CR and their attribute score - Vanilla for combat checks for example.
- Ask the GM for a complication, reducing the CR to 0 and gaining another d20 on the roll.
- If both dice score equal/under the attribute the PC succeeds. Depending on the Risk the Complication might be removed/delayed or have its impact reduced.
- If only one die scores under the attribute the PC succeeds but the Complication materializes.
- If both dice fail the PC fails potentially due to the Complication
This is all very in the works and has not been tested, I'm trying to get some feedback on something that just occurred to me. Let me know what you think, as always thanks in advance!
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2024.11.26 22:11 Stereogravy Just did my first restore of a 1960s Montblanc
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2024.11.26 22:11 martiandude- How do you feel about a voiced protagonist for Bioshock 4?
I really could go both ways for whatever effect they would go with. I think the biggest strength throughout the whole series was the immersive and brilliant world, and a voiced character would enhance the experience since they would be actually reacting to it. But on the other hand, it would take you out of the effect of you yourself experiencing it as though you were there. What's your opinion?
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2024.11.26 22:11 Secure_Dare_2064 23f broke and horny 😈
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2024.11.26 22:11 Mental-Visit-3610 My character keeps having this weird accent, is this possible or an error?
it's a specific voice, i think the person who made it edited it? i'm not sure, but now he literally won't stop talking with this accent that really throws me off (the voice does not have an accent) can anyone tell me if it's a glitch or do other people's voices suddenly get a random accent? 💀
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2024.11.26 22:11 UpgradedSiera6666 Maximum range of selected Russian in service & possible under-development ground launched ballistic and cruise missiles in Europe.
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2024.11.26 22:11 Free_Philly Finally hit Platinum starting from Iron 4 afer...
...first getting to Gold 1 98 LP today and went down to 10 LP again and later today hitting Gold 1 99 LP.
After that, I hit a safe Top 4 with 1 HP more than 5th to finally hit Platinum. What a rollercoaster of emotions :')
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2024.11.26 22:11 Im-Not-NormMcdonald Where can I buy lilac color roses in Los Angeles?
A boutique. Hoping by Thursday and would be great if near east hollywood. Thanks ! ?
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